Chapter 9: Encounter with the Immortals

Zhou Chu was unconscious, I don't know how much time has passed, but when he woke up a little, his body couldn't move, and there was no light in front of him.

In the darkness, I suddenly heard a voice floating from a very far away place, Zhou Chu tried to hear this voice clearly but it was too small to be clear, not long ago, the voice was closer, although it was still not clear but could vaguely hear like a grandfather's voice, and after a while, the voice was finally closer, as if it was next to Zhou Chu, and it was really grandpa's voice!

"Chu'er, grandpa is leaving, you have to take care of yourself in the future......" grandpa sighed and repeated again.

Hearing this, Zhou Chu's heart was extremely desolate, he wanted to ask but couldn't ask, he couldn't cry if he wanted to cry, his grandfather seemed to walk away behind Zhou Chu, and his voice gradually became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared.

"No, grandpa, I won't let you go......" Zhou Chu finally roared, and then opened his eyes suddenly, and Zhou Chu slowly sat up in the mire.

The violent rainstorm just now was much smaller, and Zhou Chu only felt that the pain in his heart was unbearable as if he had been cut by a knife, it was the pain like a knife when he lost his loved ones, and an ominous omen rolled up in his heart again, and tears couldn't help but roll down.

No, it won't!

Zhou Chu wiped the rain and tears off his face, stood up again, and continued to run towards Baishui Lake.

The rain in the sky became lighter and the wind gradually slowed down, and when I ran to the shore of Whitewater Lake at the beginning of the week, the wind and rain all stopped.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, the world has completely changed its appearance, no wind and no rain, silence, the surface of the white water lake is like a piece of exquisite glass, the white fog spreads from all around the lake, and after a while, the whole lake surface is surrounded by the thick fog, Zhou Chu turned his head and looked towards the village, the entire Linshui village is also all hidden in the thick white fog, only the peaks of the Diancang Mountain looming, this world is like a fairy world, but it makes people a little scared and frightened.

The sound of such a violent rainstorm just now suddenly turned into an audible silence at this time, which made Zhou Chu a little foggy for a while, and a rapid and loud voice buzzed in his ears, he couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands, and after a while, he got used to it a little, and the white fog on the water surface couldn't see anything clearly, Zhou Chu had to go to the shore, put his hands in front of his mouth and opened his horn, and shouted towards the center of the lake:

"Grandpa, grandpa...... Where are you?"

The shouts drifted across the lake, through the thick fog, and hit the opposite hill before returning, as if someone on the other side of the lake was also shouting for grandpa.

"Grandpa, where are you, you can say a word......"

Zhou Chu shouted several times, but there was no sound except his own echo, Zhou Chu's heart was suddenly startled, and suddenly thought that he was already dead? Because the world in front of him was too strange, he had never seen such a strange and strange scene, the whole world was filled with endless white mist, except for his own breathing, he couldn't hear any other sound, it seemed that he should really be dead just now, thinking of this, Zhou Chu couldn't help but be sad, his feet were soft, and he sat on a big stone by the lake and was stunned.

Zhou Chu is not afraid of death, or he has no concept of death, and children of his age do not think about their own death.

But thinking that he fell into the mud and choked to death because he ran too fast, Zhou Chuxin felt really funny and regretful, and then began to remember his grandfather, he didn't know whether his grandfather was dead or alive, he died first, grandpa loved himself so much, if he knew, he would be distressed and sad, and besides, he died so young, who will give grandpa a pension in the future?

Thinking of this, Zhou Chu felt a wave of sadness welling up in his heart, and he couldn't help but cover his face with his hands and cry.

Zhou Chu's coarse linen trousers were torn when he fell in the village, and he immediately felt a burning pain as salty tears rolled down his fingers onto the wound on his knee.

No, how can you still feel pain when you're dead, didn't grandpa say that when you die, you don't feel anything? Am I not dead?

Thinking of this, Zhou Chuxin stood up suddenly, because the pain in his body was too fast, he couldn't support it and almost fell, but it made him very happy.

He saw that he was covered in mud, so he squatted down and picked up the lake water with both hands to wash off the mud on his face and arms, feeling much refreshed, and after cleaning up, he walked slowly along the edge of the lake, shouting "Grandpa" in the direction of the center of the lake as he walked. ”

After walking for a while, I suddenly heard the sound of gurgling water, which was all too familiar, the sound of a fishing boat sliding on the water!

Zhou Chu stood and listened carefully, yes, it was the sound of rowing!

Now the villagers don't dare to go into the water to fish, it must be the grandfather who accompanied the Taoist to come to subdue the demon to go into the water to start the boat, Zhou Chuchu was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted in the direction of the voice: "Grandpa, is it you? I'm Chu'er, how are you?"

Shouted a few times but still no one responded, just hesitating, a gust of wind blew from the valley behind the village, blowing away a lot of thick white fog on the lake, the thick fog dispersed, a fishing boat gradually revealed on the water, the fishing boat slowly slid in the center of the lake, you can see a skinny old man with his hands behind his back to Zhou Chu standing motionless on the bow of the boat, another gust of wind blew, the fog faded a lot, Zhou Chu finally saw clearly, the one who stood on the bow with his hands behind his back was the grandfather!

Seeing his grandfather made Zhou Chu very happy, and he couldn't help shouting at his grandfather a few more times, but his grandfather didn't seem to hear it at all, and he didn't look back or answer.

Zhou Chuchu was confused and angry, blaming his grandfather for ignoring him, but after thinking about it, it must be too far away, the wind is strong, and grandpa's ears are not good, he must not have heard, and Zhou Chu can't care so much and is ready to take the initiative to find grandpa.

Zhou Chu's water nature can only be regarded as middle and lower among his peers in the village, and he is naturally not as good as Sun Yuandao and others, but the children who have grown up on fishing boats since they were young still have this ability. Zhou Chu took off his two shoes and put them on the shore, and then jumped into the water with a puff and swam towards the grandfather's fishing boat in the center of the lake.

Struggled to swim towards the fishing boat for a long time and looked up, the fishing boat that my grandfather was riding was still very far away from him, and was puzzled, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be a hand under the water that grabbed his ankle fiercely, the strength of this hand was very large, Zhou Chu kicked and shook a few times and failed to shake it off, but was grabbed more and more tightly, and pulled Zhou Chu down with the same iron cable, and soon pulled Zhou Chu down the water.

A thought flashed through Zhou Chu's mind - "Water Ghost!"

The horror of the fruit made Zhou Chu shiver, and then he burst out of brute force, he pushed hard out of the water, looked up at the center of the lake, grandpa and the fishing boat were gone, there was only a vast white mist on the water, sure enough, it was a water ghost, Zhou Chu heard grandpa talk about the water ghosts harming people, they were good at creating illusions to confuse those who passed by the water's edge, and then tricked them into the water, and then killed them in the water as their own substitute ghosts, and everything he saw just now was an illusion created by the water ghosts.

The water ghost under his feet exerted his strength again, Zhou Chu was caught down and floated up two or three times in a row, but his strength gradually weakened, maybe it was the talent of the fisherman's child, or maybe it was the huge panic that would inspire people's potential bravery, Zhou Chu's mind quickly remembered the underwater survival knowledge that his grandfather had taught him before, and at the moment before being pulled into the water by the water ghost again, Zhou Chu opened his mouth wide and tried his best to take a big breath.

Although there is a quiet above the lake, but there is an undercurrent surging under the surface of the water, Zhou Chu's body continues to sink under the pull of the water ghost's claws, Zhou Chu closed his eyes and tried his best to calm himself first, and then began to silently recite the underwater water closure tips that his grandfather often taught, read a few words, and sure enough, he felt better, Zhou Chu opened his eyes and looked at his feet, only to see a pitch-black beast claw tightly grasping his ankle, the water ghost was directly below Zhou Chu, so he couldn't see its appearance clearly.

Suddenly, in the water, a large piece of fluorescence lit up, like fireflies in the woods at night in summer, Zhou Chu didn't know what they emitted light, only felt that the undercurrent accelerated, and those fluorescents rushed towards him, and only when he got closer did he see clearly that it was the eyes of a dark and strange water ghost!

These water ghosts were pitch black, like pieces of torn black rags rippling with the waves, making a poisonous snake-like cry, Zhou Chu was so frightened and afraid that his soul was scattered, and he couldn't care to see them clearly. Zhou Chu knew that he was in the catastrophe and his heart was discouraged, once the water was deflated, it was useless, Zhou Chu's mouth and nose choked into a few mouthfuls of cold water, the suffocation of lack of oxygen and the fear of being killed by the water ghost made Zhou Chu completely confused, his body struggled wildly, and after a while, he had no strength, and his body was like a cotton ball and was dragged down by the water ghost below, and the white light on the water surface became more and more faint......

At the beginning of Zhou, his consciousness began to blur, and many pictures appeared in front of him: there were scenes of fishing with his grandfather, scenes of playing in the mountains with his friends in the village, and finally he saw Sun Yuandao and Ying'er sitting side by side under the eaves of the ancestral hall with him......

These pictures were shattered one by one, Zhou Chu knew that he was really going to die this time, there was no light in front of him, only pitch black, those water ghosts pounced, Zhou Chu felt that his clothes were torn and torn, suddenly, a green light flashed in the dark, although the light was very weak, but it was extraordinarily bright in this underwater darkness, Zhou Chu instinctively opened his eyes, looked down, this light turned out to be from his chest, those dark water ghosts seemed to be a little afraid of this bright green light, and the beast claw that grabbed his ankle was also released......

A white light fell from the sky, like a blazing sun, and the pain of Zhou Chu's eyes being stabbed was unbearable, and he finally couldn't resist and died......

I don't know how much time has passed, Zhou Chu feels that he has woken up again, but he can't see any light in front of him, his body can't move, his mouth can't make a sound, and he looks like he just fell in the mud, he can only lie quietly and stare at the darkness in front of him, feeling surrounded by endless darkness, neither panicking nor rejoicing, as if he is quietly waiting for death to come......

I don't know how much time has passed, Zhou Chu suddenly felt his mouth move slightly, and then a cool and sweet thing flowed into his mouth like spring water, this spring water slowly flowed into his stomach along the esophagus, this spring water seemed to carry a kind of energy, and soon Zhou Chu felt relaxed, there was a bright feeling in front of him, and he heard some sounds in his ears......

"Fourth Senior Brother, why are you so bold today, you actually took out the third-level medicine of Xuemei Soul Rejuvenation Pill and gave it to a village boy so easily, so that I was impressed by you......" It was a young woman's voice that spoke, sweet and crisp, like Ying'er's voice, but it could be heard that she was much older than Ying'er.

"Don't underestimate your fourth senior brother, I'm not a stingy disciple like the second senior brother, I don't look down on ...... from my heart" This is a young man with a very hearty voice.

"Hmph, watch me say this to the second senior brother, and see how he cleans you up. ”

"Oh, junior sister, if I'm wrong, you can spare me, I don't dare to mess with the second senior brother......"

"Look at how scared you look, it's okay if you don't let me say it, at least you have to give me a second-level medicine to ......"

"You can just say what elixir you want, as long as I have it, as long as you want ......."

......

Zhou Chu couldn't move, but he knew in his heart that they must have saved him, so he was very anxious to see who the life-saving benefactor was, and struggled twice, the sudden brightness in front of him gradually brightened, his body shook a few times, and he heard a "whoosh" sound in his ears......

After Zhou Chu spit out the last mouthful of water in his stomach, he looked up and saw two young men in white robes in front of him, looking like immortals, could it be that he was saved by the gods?

"It's okay now, it looks like I can't die. The man who called himself Fourth Senior Brother laughed.

"Fourth Senior Brother, since you want to save people today, let's save them to the end, you can send another Baicao Chendan to this child, it will be regarded as a hush money for me. ”