"Childe, did you find anything?" On the way back, Lu Yi asked.

"Hehe, Lu Yi, how did you learn the same way as the adults in the court? You should have seen it, and you want to ask me, do you want to give me some hints and let me say it myself? Tang Ping asked with a smile.

"Green Yi doesn't dare."

"That's it!" Tang Ping shook his head: "I can see it all, how can you not find out if you are as careful as a hair?" ”

You must know that Lu Yi was transferred to Tang Ping's side from a place like the Secret Spy Division at the beginning.

Tang Ping began to analyze: "At the beginning of the shrine, I lost two pieces of wood, and found that the wood had been leaning against the river all the way down the river. I think that the stone fragment carved with the statue of the god has formed an undercurrent in the river, and the boats by the river will follow the undercurrent all the way to the shore. ”

"As for the fork in the road, I haven't seen anything yet."

"If you can't see it on the river, the secret is probably under the river." Lu Yi said with a slight smile.

"Hehe, I think so too, I'll find out when I go to explore in the evening." Tang Ping said with a smile: "There is also the skin color of that wizard, who said that he lives on the mountain, but the vegetation on the mountain is not dense. ”

"Although it is far north here, there is a lot of sunshine, and we have been here for a few days with a big sun, if he really lives in the mountains, he should not be the kind of skin color that has not seen the sun for a long time."

"So Childe thinks that this wizard probably lives not in the mountains, but in the mountains, because the small river that forks at the fork eventually joins the undercurrent into the mountain."

"Yes!" Tang Ping nodded: "Didn't Meizi say that the old people in the village said it in the past?" There are too many forks in it, and only the girl who went to see the river god knew where to go after entering, so I thought you could go deep into the tiger's den to explore. ”

"But don't worry, I'll ask a few of them to put on wetsuits and go in with you when the time comes."

Lu Yi covered her mouth and smiled: "Childe is afraid that he has forgotten how Lao Cui Lao Du was beaten down by me." ”

A few people went back to Miko's house, and Xiaoluo had already prepared a lot of delicious food, just waiting for them to go back.

However, the eldest brother of the mountain back came up and asked, "How is it?" ”

"Don't worry, when the time comes, Midori will replace Miko as an offering." Tang Ping patted him on the shoulder.

"No, you're fine, are you?" The big brother king of the mountain back finally couldn't help it.

If you investigate the matter of the river god, why did it become to worship your own people?

No matter how stupid he is, he thinks this kind of behavior is ...... Sick!

"Then I asked you to negotiate with the river god, and you yourself are unwilling, what can I do?" Tang Ping spread his hands, and then said to Xiao Luo: "It's still delicious that our Xiao Luo makes, I can smell it from afar." ”

Xiao Luo grinned and brought the prepared food to Tang Ping.

Because the village was basically empty, after eating, Tang Ping and the others casually found a few empty houses to rest.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the lights in Tang Ping's room suddenly turned on, and then Lao Cui Lao Du and Xue Rengui quietly walked out of their respective rooms.

Several people came to the fork of the river again, Lao Cui jumped into the water, and after a while, he came up again and said: "Just like Gongzi thought, there is a mechanism below, although I don't know how it is operated, but those boats must have arrived here because the mechanism below changed direction." ”

"Also, the mechanism is very delicately built, and it's almost all copper, so it's neither damaged nor rusty in the water."

Lao Cui also drew the size and shape of the mechanism.

Tang Ping scratched his head and said: "I remember that along the way, I also saw people selling children and daughters, a girl is no less than a few dozen yuan, and no more than a hundred yuan. To build such an ingenious copper mechanism, I am afraid that I can buy hundreds of girls. ”

"So why would they want to do this?" Lao Cui was a little puzzled

"Or maybe their purpose isn't these girls!" Tang Ping looked at the mountain next to him: "How to wait until the day after tomorrow to know, let's go back and rest first." ”

The next day, Tang Ping and the others also stayed in the village and did not go anywhere else.

However, the remaining villagers, when they heard that there were outsiders who were willing to be offered to the river god in place of Miko, sent something to thank them.

Tang Ping accepted the things and gave them to Meizi, he was not interested in this kind of hypocritical thank-you gift.

On the morning of the third day, there was a lot of fog, and the wizard came to the entrance of the village as promised.

"The day of worship has come." After the wizard finished speaking, he walked out first.

Miko looked at Tang Ping and them, especially Midori.

Lu Yi patted her and signaled not to worry, and then walked out with Tang Ping and them.

When I came to the shrine by the river, a small boat appeared, and the wizard lit incense and candles in front of the shrine, and then danced and did a set of rituals before holding a bowl of water and saying to Lu Yi: "Drink this bowl of runic water, lie down on that boat, and it will naturally guide you to the place of the river god." ”

"Good!" Lu Yi did not object, took the bowl and put it to his mouth and drank it slowly, and then lay down on the small boat as the wizard said, and closed his eyes.

The wizard smiled secretly with some excitement, then loosened the boat's cable by the river, and began to perform the ritual again.

"Uncle Pei, I'm in trouble." Today, the people around him were all sent out, and there was an old man Pei by his side.

Old man Pei yawned and said, "I said it earlier, I was annoyed by his noise." ”

After saying that, he took a step forward, and struck the wizard's back with the wooden stick he picked up, knocking him unconscious.

Miko and the villagers were shocked, what happened when the wizard was knocked unconscious before this ritual was completed?

"Chubby, you and Xiaoluo are still watching him from the back of the mountain." Tang Ping used the tie belt that had been prepared a long time ago to tie up the wizard master pLAY, and then chased Pei Min in the direction of the boat.

"Lao Cui, pay attention, Lu Yi is about to arrive."

"Don't worry, Childe!" Lao Cui and the others had already put on the diving suit and scuba that Tang Ping had brought back, and they were ambushed at the undercurrent that entered the mountain.

In less than a moment, the boat where Lu Yi was asleep floated to the undercurrent.

Lao Cui and the others leaned under the water and found that there was a long pole sticking out of the rudder at the bottom of the boat, and there was a hook underneath.

Lao Cui looked at it and understood that the mechanism he saw underwater yesterday was that when the boat passed, this hook would lean up, and then the force of the current would pull the mechanism, and the rudder direction would also change.

In the end, the phenomenon of the boat turning inexplicably was formed.

It's easy to say, but the villagers are only amazed at this phenomenon, and no one dares to take a look under the boat dedicated to the river god.

Lao Cui and the others hung on the boat with the hooks in their hands and followed the boat into the mountains.