Volume 1 The Way of the Beast Chapter 96 The Fish Leaps into the Dragon Gate
Lin Yong in reincarnation is still the carp that survives in the Yellow River.
After a long period of cultivation, Lin Yong's stretched fish scales have begun to grow back gradually, but fortunately, under the cold river water, there is less bacterial growth, otherwise if the wound is infected, Lin Yong can only wait obediently to die.
Since the causal knot is to jump over the dragon gate against the current, Lin Yong will never delay a little time.
Even a few years ago, Lin Yong had already tried his best to cross the Chen Mountain Pass. After a few days of going upstream, crossing the Golden Causeway, Xiaolangdi, Sanmenxia, and Tongguan, Lin Yong estimated that just tonight, he would be able to see Yumendu!
This migration against the current is not an ordinary hardship. It is often said that if you sail against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. These words are now placed on the body of the fish, and they need to be magnified tenfold!
Once, Lin Yong only took a nap in the turbulent river, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already been washed by the river to the edge of the river beach ten kilometers away.
So as long as Lin Yong was free, he stayed in the reincarnation and hurried, walked three steps, took two steps back, and finally arrived here. Fortunately, at the end of the winter, the drainage is very low and the river is relatively stable. If it is in the summer with abundant rainfall, Lin Yong wants to migrate, it is difficult to reach the sky.
In this long journey, what touched Lin Yong the most was the water of the Yellow River.
I have heard two verses: The spring water of the Long Causeway is green and long, and it flows into the Zhanghe River.
Xiaoyue temporarily flew into the high trees, and the Autumn River was separated by several peaks to the west.
Spring is indeed coming, but what about the green water? There are trees, but they are all half-cut bald stakes, where are the tall trees!
Looking at the sparse and desolate scene on both sides of the river, swallowing the turbid and dirty lake, Lin Yong felt a deep silence for some reason.
If China really has a mother, then he is now in the Yellow River, in his mother's arms! And if you want to use one word to describe her mother's kindness, then Lin Yong can only use four words-
Foul-smelling sores.
The Yellow River takes away 1.6 billion tons of sediment from the high slopes of the loess every year! This is a huge burden, but when Lin Yong walked through the sediment, he not only saw the sediment, but also ......
Cans, plastic tapes, snack packaging, used batteries!
The Yellow River is the source of life for the people, and when has it become a garbage dump for the people......
If you want to say that a person really has any feelings for a river? That may be a very few, more, just as a Chinese respect for the ancestral river. But this kind of respect almost exists in people's mouths, not in people's hearts, when he really threw the garbage into the Yellow River, did he flash a trace of hesitation?
The scary thing is this, even the hesitation, it seems so extravagant......
Lin Yong continued upstream with a heavy heart, he was not an immortal, and he had no ability to change all this, but what he was puzzled about was, what did the real immortal do?
In the end, Lin Yong figured it out and saw the miracle of reincarnation, Lin Yong understood that there are indeed immortals in this world, but they don't pay attention to it, and there seems to be only one way to think about it.
That is to be a god yourself.
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When Lin Yong arrived at Yumendu, the sky was already bright, even in winter, the rolling river was still pouring out its own tragedy with the attitude of thousands of troops, destroying the withering and decaying, and unstoppable.
The reason why the dragon gate is called the dragon gate. Not because of other ......
But because it's narrow!
The riverbed of the Yellow River was originally extremely wide, and at its widest point, it even reached more than 10 kilometers!
And at this Longmen Pass, it is only less than forty meters wide!
It is conceivable what kind of scene it is here, it is simply 10,000 people squeezing the single-plank bridge together, pushing one wave after another, and I don't want to be squeezed into a surging situation!
According to legend, this place is the ancient Yu water control center, so it is named Yumendu. Li Bai once sighed: The Yellow River came west to break Kunlun, roaring thousands of miles to touch the dragon gate.
What a word 'decision'! What a roaring thousand miles! This is exactly what it says.
Lin Yong wandered downstream of the relatively stable lake downstream of Yumendu, slightly revealing his head and looking at the Longmen in the distance, where two bridges sat side by side.
A road, a rail, called Yumendu Twin Bridges.
My goal was to cross the middle of the two bridges. The rushing waves were rolling around Lin Yong, and even here, he could still feel the turbulence of the river. If she doesn't pay attention, she will be driven out of her territory by this dragon gate water.
After Lin Yong watched for a while, he didn't dare to step forward easily in the turbulent water again, so he decisively chose to leave Longmen first and had a good meal in a piece of water and grass by the river beach. After that, he hid in the aquatic plants and fell asleep.
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The next day, Lin Yong still didn't move! The choice was to watch by the water in Longmen and recuperate.
It wasn't until the third day that Lin Yong had fully cultivated to his best state and was ready to start charging towards the Dragon Gate!
With the revival of the land in spring, the flow of water in the Yellow River is increasing day by day, especially because of the end of the last winter rain on the Loess Plateau, the water volume of this Dayu Longmen has doubled sharply.
It's a real delay, and it's hard to score three points!
Can't wait any longer, Lin Yong got out of the aquatic weeds and resolutely swam towards the dragon gate.
When he was half a kilometer away from Longmen, Lin Yong began to find that his progress had become difficult. The water flow around him increased suddenly, and under the same swimming frequency, he could have advanced ten meters, but now he could only advance three meters, just like being on a treadmill with free speed, no matter how Lin Yong moved forward, the difficulty would only get bigger and bigger.
Hang on!
Lin Yong silently told himself in his heart that this was only the periphery, and the difficulties were still to come.
When he was two hundred meters away from the Dragon Gate, the riverbanks on both sides began to gradually compress, and at this moment, Lin Yong realized that the biggest difficulty he had to face was no longer the flow of water.
What made Lin Yong most difficult was the mud and sand in the water!
The dusky river water enters the mouth through the mouth of the fish, and then filters oxygen out from the fish's gills, which is a very simple process! But at this time, it is strongly hindered by the fine sediment in the river! Lin Yong obviously felt that as the water flow became faster, every mouthful of river water he inhaled was mixed with a large amount of sand and gravel, which was forcibly squeezed and attached to the gills, and it was difficult to filter the oxygen at all! The sediment had completely covered his gills, and he couldn't breathe in a mouthful of air!
When Lin Yong felt suffocated, he began to panic.
Just like humans can't breathe in a sandstorm, how do you breathe when it's full of sand?
Since I can't use my cheeks, I'll free up the water to breathe!
Lin Yong finally knew why there were carps jumping over the dragon gate, to a certain extent, not because of crowding, but because of the loss of gills function. Lin Yong jumped up, made a flip in the crest of the jumping wave, quickly took a deep breath, and dived into the water again.
In this way, Lin Yong could barely advance ten meters every time he flipped, and after more than a dozen flips, he finally reached the most turbulent area at the Dragon Gate.
The last fifty meters!
The two banks of the river suddenly approached here, squeezing the mighty Yellow River into a small gap, and then gushing out, Lin Yong faced the turbulent rapids, swinging his tail like a child, and the fragile fins were directly gone.
Puff la la la -
Lin Yong jumped up and fell again, jumped up and fell again! Each leap seemed to advance a little, and each time he fell, he was almost half swept back.
The water flow was like a thick hose being squeezed into an embroidery needle, and the water shot out from the embroidery needle, more like the torrent of the fire water gun crashing from the front, and there was no center of gravity for a foothold, Lin Yong could only swim desperately and swim to death!!
But what made Lin Yong most struggling was the sand! Ten points of the Yellow River water, seven points of sediment! The most terrible thing was these damn sand! The stone particles contained in the sand originally settled to the bottom of the river, but after being squeezed and washed by the dragon gate, they were all mixed in the river water, hitting out like bullets, Lin Yong only felt a sharp pain all over his body, and the stones were sharper than knives!
He didn't know how many times he had been hit in the eyes, and the whole world was blurry, blood-red, and his body was crisscrossed with thin bloody cuts.
There is no way back for me. There are still twenty meters left!
Lin Yong no longer paid attention to his eyes, but relied on his body's senses to swim and leap, he couldn't care so much, where the water was fast, he would rush in which direction!!
The wind is howling...... Horses are barking!
The whole world is angry, roaring, tearing and colliding!
Just rising and falling one at a time, Lin Yong used all his strength to numbly repeat this action, like an ascetic monk, putting aside the five senses and only caring about moving forward.
I don't know how long it took, but the surging and fierce momentum in front of me finally began to ease and turned into a powerful suction force behind him.
Boom –
Lin Yong suddenly felt that his body was light, and he was almost dragged back.
I'm coming...... I'm here!!
Lin Yong's scales were washed to pieces by the Yellow River, and he tried his best to see the world behind the Dragon Gate with his eyes, but he couldn't see anything but red. He wanted to cry, even if there was blood in his eyes......
Did it yourself!
Exhausted, Lin Yong's consciousness began to gradually blur, and he only remembered that after swimming forward for another kilometer, he was no longer able to move, and he only felt a commotion and his body was cold, and he seemed to have been fished up by fishermen.
Due to drinking too much sediment water, Lin Yong is now even full of sediment in his alveoli, and it is difficult to breathe. Only then did I realize that my life seemed to have come to an end.
But he wasn't upset about it.
People say that in mythology, after the carp jumps over the dragon gate, it will leap into a dragon, travel all over the world, and leap into the sky.
It seems that myths are just myths.
Am I a dragon?
Lin Yong smiled in his heart, I don't want to become a dragon! Because what I want is much more than a 'dragon'......