The eyewitness called Ma Wei, who was in his early twenties, and he was still a little afraid to tell Shi Keqi what happened: four days ago in the evening, there was a little daughter-in-law in the village and several women in the same village, washing clothes in the waterhole, because his children came to play with him, he had a stomach and fell on his heels, and when she was all right, the others were gone, and she and the child were left.

A monkey-shaped monster covered in scale armor suddenly jumped out of the pool, and dragged the mother and son into the water one by one, because his house was built on the edge of the pool, and he was on the window on the second floor when the accident occurred, and he could see more clearly, the monster was very similar to the legendary water monkey.

After the accident, the people closest to the waterhole did not dare to stay at home at night, so they all went to relatives' houses to spend the night, and only came back during the day.

Ma Liang asked a few detailed questions, and then said: "I want to ask you, her mother and mother have not seen anyone alive or dead, it is better if the body can be found, people need to be buried when they die, and if they can't find it, they will take the head of the monster." The next action arrangement, please take the dragon hero's horse head as a foresight. "No one has any objections for the time being.

Long Daxia said in the tone of the leader of this line: "It's not a big problem, just leave it to us, now someone will take us to the waterhole to check the terrain." ”

Ma Liang needed to stay in the village to appease the people, and did not go to the waterhole with a few people, but only sent horses as guides to lead the way.

The location of the large waterhole of about dozens of acres is a gourd mouth, there are mountains on three sides, it is the extension of the Luoxiao Mountain Range, only there is no mountain in the east, a river water diverts in from a few miles away in the east, pours into the waterhole, and then flows out slowly after turning. The waterhole is turquoise and unfathomable, and it is said that the best people in the water here have not explored it.

There are several rows of large bluestones on the side of the pond, and the stones stick to the land while sticking into the shallow water, and at a glance you know that it is the place where the villagers do their laundry. After the accident, no one dared to approach the pool, let alone go into the water, and the villagers preferred to go to the small ditch stream for laundry.

"In other words, this monster has not appeared before, and it is only now. Long Daxia asked Ma Wei, Shi Keqi rolled his eyes, and said nonsense in his heart.

"yes, never. "Mawei Station is far from the waterhole.

"The monster only appears once, that is, the water monkey you are talking about, the time is evening, it is likely that the monster only adapts to the night or in places with low light. ”

Well, the monster lives in the water and has never appeared before, so the monster is likely to come in along the river, and if there is no food, it may leave, but I don't know if it eats fish and shrimp.

It should be able to eat, and people can't eat it often, there are a lot of creatures in the deep pool, and the location of the pool is excellent, the monster should still be there, maybe it will be used as a den. Shi Keqi also thought about it.

"At present, we need to explore the route where the monster dragged people into the water, who is it, the horse or something, come here. Long Daxia pointed to the local people who were able to pass through the water among the four people.

"My name is Ma Qun. He reported his name as a person invited by the Ma family, and he understood his duty. Although he was a little unhappy with Long Daxia's tone, he still obeyed the order, the other party was a hero, and he couldn't be provoked if he couldn't beat him.

Long Daxia blinked his eyes and said, "Brother Shi, you come over too, let's go into the water together." Long Daxia remembered his surname, but he didn't use an honorific title like a mage, anyway, he thought that this kid had no ability, and he was here to mix up some money and run away, so he unceremoniously ordered.

"There will be no water under it. Hard Bangbang's refusal, just kidding, Shi Keqi is very self-aware of his few dog planings, not to mention attitudes and the like, even if he begs him, he will not go into the water.

"Then what will you do? ”

"I told the steward that I would eat, sleep, and raise pigs, and since you asked, I'll repeat it. "The horse steward in Shi Keqi's mouth is Ma Liang.

"Then stay and don't get in the way of our work. ”

"Boy, you'd better be honest, save us from telling the horse steward that you are not only incompetent, but also mischievous, in this case, your reward may not be guaranteed, and you may also get into a lawsuit as a liar, the Ma family is not an ordinary family. Master Liu, who rarely spoke, stood on Long Daxia's side as soon as he spoke, which meant that the two were friends.

Shi Keqi was silent, lowered his eyebrows and took many steps back, after so many things, he became precocious, and he would not make a big move because of a little disrespectful words, there are fools who are willing to take the lead, what is there to be angry about. From another point of view, although Long Daxia's words are ugly, as a member of the demon elimination team, they must have real skills to gain a foothold.

Shi Keqi watched them find a long rope, one end tied to the waist of the horses, tied in a dead knot, and the other end tied to a large willow tree on the shore, for fear that he would have an accident and could pull it back.

After the three of them lowered their heads and whispered a few words, Ma Qun's face was a little abnormal, although the remuneration given by the Ma family was very high, and they promised a generous pension in case of an accident, but they still kept beating drums in their hearts, for the sake of possible encounters with monsters.

It's just taking people's money, and the family is in urgent need of money, so they have to serve others. Holding the aquatic plants in his hand to block his ears, he walked into the pool step by step, and when he reached Shui Qi's chest, he exhaled all the air in his chest, inhaled a big breath, and slowly dived down.

The water rippled, spreading in circles and circles, and the rope kept getting shorter. Long Daxia put the rope, and Master Liu raised the staff and put on a summoning pose, not knowing what spell he practiced before releasing the spell. Monsters may only move at dusk, but there is no guarantee that they will not move during the day, so put on an attack posture first to prevent the monster from jumping ashore in case it is frightened.

The horses first searched for the shallow water where the monster dragged people into the water, and they changed their heads a few times in the middle, and the air for ventilation did not speak, and it seemed that he had found nothing, but he was also very water-based, and he could support nearly half an hour or so every dive.

Half an hour later, the horses went ashore to drink a few sips of water, rested for a short time, and re-entered the water, this time expanding the search to deep water, and the rope he was tying was almost to his head. The rope suddenly taut and trembled, shaking like something was pulling hard. Long Daxia was busy retrieving the rope, and the rope was slowly pulled straight, but except for pulling back the length of the rope for a few feet, he could no longer pull a single bit.

Shi Keqi ran to join the rope, and the dragon hero glared at him, but didn't say anything. Master Liu also put down his staff and joined the rope tug-of-war competition, and the rope became tighter and tighter. The dragon hero was horrified, he had used all his strength to not shake the slightest thing in the water, what was this?

With a "buzz", the rope broke in two, and the dragon hero in the tug-of-war group did not move at all, his feet fell into the hard soil on the shore, and there was a trace of white gas on the top of his head; Master Liu had already let go of his hand in advance when the rope was about to break, and stood calmly; only Shi Keqi stumbled backwards and almost fell.

Long Daxia was not in the mood to laugh at him at this time, and his luck was guarded against the waterhole, and Master Liu also had words in his mouth.

Twenty feet away, there was a sudden sound on the surface of the water, a splash rose, and a head popped up. As soon as Master Liu's staff was drawn, a stone the size of a sea bowl appeared out of thin air and smashed towards the splash, uh, a few feet off, and Master Liu's old face turned red. It turned out to be a mage who summoned earth and stone, and Shi Keqi secretly thought.

Someone yelled "It's me, it's me, stop." ”

The old people on the shore immediately blushed, and it turned out to be the voice of the horses. Because the rope was broken, they had a preconceived idea that the herd might be killed by monsters, and that the next thing that would appear in the water would be monsters.

The horses swam over and went ashore, and Long Daxia shouted with a black face: "Don't dive well, what the hell are you doing!"

He was so frightened that he shrank his body, made a half circle smaller, and explained in a low voice: "The rope was entangled in the boulder in the lake, and he couldn't break free, and he was untying the rope around his waist." ”

Everyone suddenly turned out to be tug-of-war with the boulder, no wonder it would not move. After a false alarm, the physical strength of the horses was also consumed, and the remaining few people were not in good water, so Long Daxia decided to go back to eat something and rest and come back in the evening.

The countryside is breezy at night, and the waterhole is cool. There were two torches on a wooden stake on the edge of the pond about a zhang away from the water, a sheep was tied to the stake, Long Daxia and Master Liu were ambushed in the darkness a few zhang away, Shi Keqi was standing a little farther away, and the horses were standing dozens of zhang away, fighting had nothing to do with him, his task was to go into the water to investigate the situation.

Of course, if he wants to go into the water at night, it is better to kill him, and only if he is brave or stupid and idiotic can he go to the deep water at night and fall in love with possible water monsters.

After a few quarters of an hour, the sheep still bleated twice from time to time, and there was no situation, and Shi Keqi yawned. This is the method that the dragon hero came up with, they are only good at land combat, and it is very good to be able to not drown in the water, so they use sheep to lure monsters ashore.

I have to say that this is a super simple method, and children can come up with candy in their mouths, but the simple method can sometimes solve some problems.

Originally, Long Daxia didn't want Shi Keqi to participate this night, and when he had dinner, he also sarcastically said a few words about eating dry rice and the like, if he made this request before the meal, he really didn't come, how comfortable it was to sleep, it was not better than feeding mosquitoes by the water.

He pretended not to care on the surface, but after all, he was still a young man, he was always despised, and the anger in his heart had been accumulating.

Regardless of being angry, the horizontal and vertical legs are on his body, and he just follows him, and Long Daxia has nothing to do with him, no matter how horizontal Long Daxia is, he can't beat him away. Everyone is invited by the Ma family, as long as the Ma family doesn't speak, as long as it is in Majia Village, he will go wherever he likes.

A night bird flew by, a fish leaped out of the water, the barking of a village dog could be heard in the distance, and for another quarter of an hour the monster still did not appear.

Shi Keqi yawned again, this time the voice was a little louder, Long Daxia glared at him after hearing it, and then whispered to Master Liu, but did not deliberately lower his voice, and words like "rice bucket" faintly came from the night wind.

The calm pool water suddenly changed at this time, like an explosive thrown into the water, the water splashed suddenly, a column of water rose several feet, and water droplets splashed.