Chapter 17: The Laoxian Lake Monster
The next day, we saw a man standing anxiously at the intersection of Spirit Wind Valley in the distance. It was Brother Niu who was drunk last night.
Brother Niu's name is Niu Jianguo, and he is a rich cow man in Niujia Village.
As soon as he saw me, he shook hands desperately and apologized, saying, "I had a lot of entertainment yesterday, and I was so drunk that I ran to Master Zhong and talked nonsense. ”
I smiled and said I don't remember anything about it so long ago. Niu Jianguo laughed and said, "Okay, Master Zhong is not very old, and his strength is not small. ”
Because the jade mirror couldn't stay, I asked him to hang out elsewhere last night, and went directly to Laoxian Lake at dawn, but we still didn't see him after we arrived.
Laoxian Lake is very large, the lake water is clear and blue, and the surrounding mountains are glowing with a layer of cold blue light. It is indeed worthy of the word "immortal". However, who would have thought that such a godlike place would hide a murderous motive?
I asked Niu Jianguo what special things happened to this lake fifty years ago. Niu Jianguo said: "God, Master Zhong, how did you know that something special happened here fifty years ago?" ”
I said, "Isn't that obvious?" You said that the frequent drowning of people in Laoxian Lake has only happened in the past 50 years. It is not difficult to deduce that something must have happened here 50 years ago, causing a large number of water monkeys to appear in the lake at once. ”
Niu Jianguo sighed and said that it was all to blame on the village committee of Niujia Village. As we all know, there is a leader in our country who is particularly fond of winter swimming and is good at it. It's his own personal hobby, and it's not a big deal. The worst thing is that there are some people at the bottom who are bent on patting the leaders on the back, thinking that the leader's hobby should be the hobby of the whole people. Therefore, even coaxed and deceived the common people to follow suit.
The Niujia Village Committee was such an irresponsible group of people. They held a winter swimming competition, and regardless of whether the villagers' physique could stand it or not, they even coaxed and deceived the villagers to participate. But people in those days were also easily agitated. Not only Niujia Village, but also men, women and children from Qili and Eight Villages came to participate.
You must know that winter swimming is a sport that must be adhered to all year round. If a winter swimmer only starts swimming in winter, he will not survive the cold weather and water temperature.
As a result, twenty or thirty people died in Laoxian Lake that year.
I nodded and said, "That's how those water monkeys came about." ”
At this time, Niu Jianguo suddenly pointed to the water surface and said tremblingly: "Ghost! Ghost! Ghost! ”
Hu Zhou and I looked at it and saw a Taoist priest with a wide robe and big sleeves coming from the water.
Hu Zhouzhou complained dissatisfiedly: "You idiot old way, you appear outside in broad daylight and want to scare people to death?" "Yujing said that I am not afraid that you will not see me?
Niu Jianguo looked incredulous when he saw that we were chatting with a "ghost" as if nothing had happened. I said don't be afraid, he's with us.
I asked Yujing why she came so late. Hu Zhouzhou said that he still needs to ask Master, this idiot must have lost his way again.
Yujing was embarrassed, and said with little confidence that he had just gone too far.
Yujing said that he went to the small plum village in front of him and accidentally found a strange cave in that village. He could feel the demonic aura in the cave from afar. Hu Zhouzhou said that we don't have a clue about what is going on here, so how can we have time to take care of any caves.
Unexpectedly, Niu Jianguo's pupils trembled violently a few times when he heard Yujing's words, and said that before the cannibalistic tragedy in Laoxian Lake, another thing had happened. And that incident happened to be related to a cave called Wushen Cave in Xiaolizi Village!
Niu Jianguo took us to the southernmost part of Laoxian Lake, and we saw that there was a thin stream of water flowing into Laoxian Lake upstream. The scary thing is that the flowing water is as red as blood!
Niu Jianguo said that this "river of blood" flowed out of the Wushen Cave.
The groundwater from the cave would not have flowed here. But a few weeks ago, for some reason, the underground river in the cave began to overflow. At first, the "river of blood" rushed like a flood, but now it is much better, and the "river of blood" has become such a small trickle that it should soon stop.
Niu Jianguo said mysteriously: "This god cave is very evil. The people in their little plum village all said that there were goblins living in the cave, and the goblins had been eating people for many years, and the groundwater was stained red with blood! Master Zhong, do you think it could be that the goblins in the Wushen Cave were washed up by the blood river to our Laoxian Lake? ”
I said it couldn't be. How many people have to die to form such a "river of blood"! Even if there were man-eating goblins in the cave, not so many people would run into the cave to let it eat.
I sniffed the water and found that although it smelled fishy, it was not bloody, but rusty. I remember that on the day of the 5.12 earthquake in 08, there was a cave called Laolongdong in Sichuan that also flowed out of the so-called "blood water". The "blood water" stunned the original turquoise colorful lake into a pool of blood. At that time, many people said that it was the dragon apparition that shed blood and tears, warning people that disaster was about to befall them.
However, after a professor went into the cave for sampling and testing, he found that it was just an earthquake that shook up the iron oxide that had been precipitated at the bottom of the underground river, turning the originally turquoise underground river water into blood red.
I think that's the case with the Cave of the Gods. There is an iron mine near the Wushen Cave, and the underground river water flows through the iron ore to bring out the iron ions.
The problem is that the iron oxide in the underground river of the Old Dragon Cave was shaken by the earthquake, but there was no earthquake in the area of the Wushen Cave, how did these "blood water" form?
Also, why did the underground river in the cave suddenly overflow? It's not the rainy season again.
The area of Laoxian Lake is too large, and it is too dangerous to rush into the water to find the "water monster". Now that there is enough reason to suspect that the "water monster" is from the Wushen Cave, the best plan is to go to the Wushen Cave first.
We walked along the red water stream all the way, and after walking for about four or five hours, we reached the foot of the high mountain where the cave was located. We were all too tired, and Hu Zhouzhou leaned heavily under a tree, complaining that what the hell is this place, there is not even a better road, and no cars can drive in, so we can only walk.
As we were talking, we suddenly heard a strange movement overhead, and something fell from the tree and happened to fall into Hu Zhouzhou's arms under the tree. Hu Zhouzhou was so frightened that he roared and threw the thing out.
What fell from the tree was a highly rotten human head!
Niu Jianguo and I were also scared to death, how could there be a human head on the tree? I forcibly composed, and when I looked closely, I noticed that the leaves and branches of the tree had tiny red particles. This indicates that the red underground river once rushed through the trees.
In other words, this human head rushed out of the cave of the gods! What's going on? Could it be that there are really man-eating goblins in the cave?
Jade Mirror was the most anxious, and he didn't wait for us, and quickly flew towards the entrance of the cave.