Chapter 17: The City
Because Zhang Fan turned a blind eye, Xiao Yan and the four of them were originally militants, and they felt uncomfortable, unhappy, and stuffy when they didn't fight for a day. Cultivating martial arts Xiaoyan has reached the place of going mad, and now it is natural to say that they are martial idiots. Practicing martial arts, fighting, desperately adding firewood, swimming hard, catching strange pets everywhere, going to school and reading and watching girls, reading poetry and books and the Five Classics, studying ancient bone characters, and comprehending the essence of martial arts secrets...... Time was in a hurry, and soon another half a year passed.
In the early morning, a female corpse floated on the Lijiang Wharf, which attracted residents of Dengzhou Island to watch and talk about it. It is initially understood that the female corpse is surnamed Tang named Lanzhi, a family living on the mountain, biological father Tang Chaoming, biological mother Li Ning, and no other brothers and sisters, it is obviously an only daughter, but now it is a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, Tang Chaoming and Li Ning are heartbroken, and they are in pain, and the tragic cry infected the onlookers, so that everyone stepped forward many times to comfort the two old men.
Xiao Yan and the four of them are early birds, and the crowd of onlookers naturally has their figures, usually even if someone else kills a snake, or even if someone dies a chicken at home, they will smell the wind and come to join in the fun. Not to mention the death of a young girl now, it's no wonder they didn't come.
Tang Lanzhi's death was very strange, it didn't look like it was man-made, it didn't look like it was drowned. From the age of nine, the inhabitants of the island must learn to swim, which is the custom of living on the island, and they must understand the nature of the water to prevent drowning, so drowning is excluded.
There was a lot of sadness on her body, as if she had been bitten by something, especially her hands and feet, crotch, throat and head, and some of the flesh seemed to have been eaten by something. The most important thing is her eyes, both of which have been lost, and they only look like a fuzzy and disgusting flesh.
Xiao Yan has read a lot of books and knows that there are many things that can cause such a situation, but many creatures have been overthrown by them, because this is in death, it is impossible for a fish, even a ferocious piranha cannot bite like this, if there is really a piranha, it is estimated that there will be no corpse left.
What's more, they can't be fed in the river, and her hands, feet, head, throat, crotch, and eyes all seem to be purposefully attacked, and it is impossible for people to do it, no one will be so frustrated, and a lot of things have been excluded, and the four of them have not figured out what kind of monster it is.
It wasn't until now that Xiao Yan realized that maybe the world was much more dangerous than he imagined, and suddenly he remembered what Zhang Fan said yesterday afternoon, and now he remembered it and realized that it was a reminder, "These days, don't go into the water." Zhang Fan was very serious at the time, and Huo Sheng also asked, "Why?"
Zhang Fan smiled: "You'll know in a few days." ”
Xiao Yan and the four of them glanced at each other, seemed to think of a piece, and decided to go up the mountain to ask their master Zhang Fan for clarification.
Another point, Xiao Yan noticed the vegetable basket next to him, and thought that Tang Lanzhi should go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables in the morning, and then take them to the dock to wash them...... But she couldn't fall for no reason, and if she accidentally fell into the water, it can be understood that she would definitely swim ashore, but unfortunately she died.
So is it possible to speculate that if she didn't fall into the water, she was dragged into the water by an unknown monster and then bit the other party's flesh, but why did she still float up, what the hell did she do?
shouted at the entrance of the stone chamber in the pine forest, the rock was not pushed away, and Zhang Fan did not come out to meet Xiao Yan and the four as usual. The gravity of this rock mountain is more than 1,000 catties, and the combined efforts of Xiao Yan and the four of them can't make it retreat by three points, so they give up, and at the same time learn that Zhang Fan is not in the stone room.
"Where is the master? It can't be that he secretly went to see his old friend!"
Zhang Fan didn't show up in the afternoon, and in the evening I heard that three chickens raised by a family were lost, and I don't know if they were lost or bitten to death by poisonous snakes in the mountains, in short, the day was not very peaceful.
For Zhang Fan, Xiao Yan is also a little curious, whenever there is a festival, Zhang Fan will mysteriously disappear for a period of time, and then appear silently.
This is something that Xiao Yan and the four people wanted to ask but never dared to ask, except for Zhang Fan's name, the only thing that Xiao Yan and the four people learned was the name on the spiritual throne I heard that it was the ancestor who founded the Dao Sect, and they didn't know anything about Zhang Fan. I don't know what he has experienced, I don't know if he has relatives alive in the world, the four of them don't know anything, and Zhang Fan will never mention it.
Breaking the casserole and asking in the end Xiao Yan naturally can't do it, his life principle is not to do what should not be done, don't wait for what should not wait, don't think about what should not be thought, when the time is right, Zhang Fan will spit out the truth, and it is not wise to ask now.
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In the early morning of the next day, a scream came from the Waijiang Wharf, which again attracted the crowd of onlookers.
Those who can walk on the island are gathered at the Waijiang Wharf, and the four of them saw the most terrifying picture they were born with, five monsters are like monkeys but not monkeys, and the knowledgeable old man told that this is a water monkey, but now their bodies are pierced by the bamboo slips, like a string of mutton, five bamboo slips that are only one meter long are wearing a water monkey, and the surrounding water has a faint smell of blood, and most of the blood in their bodies seems to be drained, apparently they died last night.
And there is a bamboo pole near the shore, the bamboo pole is almost straight out against the water, and its roots are deeply inserted into the soil, it is obvious that someone deliberately fixed the position of the bamboo pole, and then used the dead chickens at the tail of the bamboo to lure the snake out of the hole.
Water monkeys, commonly known as "water ghosts" in folklore, are also called "water lion ghosts", and in Japan they are called "kappa", and their names vary from place to place. They usually live in the water, but sometimes they come ashore. The water monkey has a huge and mysterious power, which can dig under the water and shuttle through different ponds and rivers, catch the person who has fallen into the water and drag him to the bottom, and cover the victim's seven orifices with silt, causing him to suffocate to death. Where there is water, almost everyone who has been warned by their parents about water monkeys as children.
However, this is obviously the first time it has happened on the island, and the basic characteristics of this monster are the whole body: about 60 cm to 1 meter tall, weighing only about 45 kg, it is a thin body, it looks like a child between 3 and 10 years old, and it looks like a human and an ape. The body smells foul and has mucus that is not easy to catch, and in some places the water monkeys are said to be covered in hair.
Hands and feet: The arms can move flexibly from side to side, and the hands and feet look like a human, but they are particularly slender and can be used for paddling, but only have four fingers.
Head: Hair is scattered, there is a disc-shaped depression in the center of the head, when filled with water, the power is incomparable, and the mana will disappear when the water is poured out, some say his head is red, others say dark blue.
Eyes: The eyes are round, glowing, and sharp.
Approximate nose: The nose protrudes like a dog and has a keen sense of smell.
Mouth: Looks like a human beak, some look like a bird's beak, and has four fangs on each side of the mouth, tearing food quite quickly.
Turtle shell: A carapace like a turtle's back is carried on its back.
How much strength does it take to be able to use the sharp hole under the bamboo slip to pierce the body of the water monkey to death? And without alarming the other water monkeys, according to this situation, there is only one possible explanation, that is, someone pierced the body of five water monkeys at the same time, but there is only one person on the island who can do this, and this person is Zhang Fan.
It seems that he still has to go up the mountain to find Zhang Fan and ask the ins and outs of the matter. Xiao Yan and the four of them knew that this time they had to go.
A few days later, Xiao Yan and the four found Zhang Fan, but the answer they got was not satisfactory. Zhang Fan smiled and just told Xiao Yan to them, "The world is very big, and at the same time, some places are very mysterious, enough to exceed your imagination." ”
Xiao Yan was speechless, and thought to herself: "I'm tired, and I'm playing dumb riddles with us again!"
After getting the result of asking non-answers, Huosheng and the others were also very helpless, so they didn't ask if they didn't answer positively! How can they say that Zhang Fan is also their master, and they can't let Xiao Yan pick up an axe and put it on Zhang Fan's neck, and then force him to ask: "Hehe, old man, are you talking about it......?"
Of course, these can only be imagined, not taken seriously.
In the pine forest, Xiao Yan stood in a row, listening carefully to Zhang Fan's words in the sun.
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