Chapter 23: The Siphon Effect

The cloud suddenly stopped moving, and the fat man didn't notice it for a while, and when he retreated, he twisted his buttocks, and squeezed the cloud away.

Yun Cai sat down on the ground, recovered from his fright, and quickly covered his ankle and let out an "oops".

The fat man saw that this was terrible, and asked with concern, "Sister Yuncai, where is the injury, let the fat brother help you take a look."

Yun frowned and shook his head, "It's okay, I just accidentally twisted it."

"This sprain can be big or small, come on, let the fat brother see if it's serious." The fat man said anxiously.

Yun Cai couldn't help it, so she had to move her hand, she was just unguarded and was squeezed down, her ankle did twist, slightly red and swollen.

The fat man hurriedly ran to the lake with a towel, soaked the towel, and immediately ran back and folded it on Yuncai's injured ankle, comforting her: "Sister Yuncai, don't worry, apply an ice towel, and after you finish some medicine, just rest more, it won't affect your walking tomorrow."

After speaking, he raised his voice and asked Zhang Qixun, who was standing by the lake, "Muyu, have you brought medicine to reduce swelling and relieve pain?"

Zhang Qixun didn't expect that he just warned with his eyes, and scared the little girl like that, and couldn't help but reflect on whether he was a little too much, and when he heard the fat man ask, he pointed out the backpack where the medical bag was placed.

The little brother's senses have always been keen, and when he saw this, he glanced at Zhang Jixun lightly, "There's no need."

Zhang Qixun shrugged helplessly, "It's not that the fat man is too obsessed with that girl, I just hope the result is not too bad."

The little brother means that he knows that there is something wrong with the cloud, and there is a suspicion of deliberately approaching him, since the target of the person behind the cloud is him, then he might as well use this to take the opportunity to fish people out and see what the guy behind him wants to do.

But for the sake of the fat man, Zhang Qixun still wants to give Yun Cai a chance, and it depends on her kindness and the fat man's dedication that do not match.

When the little brother heard this, he was silent for two seconds, "Who do you think it will be?"

Zhang Qi didn't think about it and said, "Collapse your shoulders."

The little brother raised his eyelids and looked at him with an inquiring look in his eyes.

Zhang Qi said: "That guy's target is definitely you, and Yun Cai has a better chance of doing things for him, otherwise Agui wouldn't be so blatant to cover for him, as for the reason, I guess it should be related to the youngest son of Agui's family who is obsessed."

"I also inquired from the neighbors around me, Agui's family does have a young son, who is about thirteen or fourteen years old this year, but the neighbors only saw him when the child was a child, and when he grew up, he heard that he was not in good health and never showed up again."

"If the slumping of shoulders is to coerce Agui's youngest son, it is more likely that Agui's family will serve him." Zhang Qi searched.

As soon as the little brother frowned, Zhang Qixun knew what he meant, so he said, "Don't worry, if they react and stop the loss in time, things won't get to a bad point."

"But we still have to cheer up, the goal of slumping shoulders has not been achieved, and it will definitely happen again." A trace of coldness flashed on Zhang Qixun's face, and it was up to him when the clouds would reach him.

The little brother nodded, looked at the dark lake in the moonlight, and did not speak again.

On the other side, the fat man looked at the red circles under the clouds, and was very distressed, racking his brains to think of all kinds of jokes to amuse her.

"Sister Cloud, do you know what kind of battle is to kill one enemy and lose three thousand yourself?"

Wu Xiaoxie is also afraid that the fat man will make colored jokes to the little girl, the little girl has never seen the outside world, and her thoughts are still very simple, the fat man, a guy full of waste, feels polluted when he says it, and he hurriedly condemns it with his eyes.

The fat man waved his hand, "Don't worry, it's definitely a serious question, Sister Yuncai, guess what."

Cloud thought for a moment, "Dig out the ant's nest."

The fat man shook his head, "No, no, no, guess again, naïve, you can guess together."

Wu Xiaoxie didn't bother to use his brain, so he guessed one casually, "The battle of pistols and machine guns."

"No, no, no." The fat man was triumphant, "Guess again, you have to fit this answer into your life."

Wu Xiaoxie kicked him angrily, urging him to hurry up and announce the answer, so as not to hang people's appetites.

The fat man snorted, and the expression of the old man's IQ crushed Er, "Okay, for the sake of Sister Yuncai's face, the fat man, I will reluctantly tell you these ordinary people, listen well, the battle of killing the enemy with a self-loss of 3,000 is the battle of the elephant and the banana."

Wu Xiaoxie was stunned for a moment, and then became furious, "What the hell is your answer, you can explain how three thousand bananas can beat an elephant."

The fat man chirped and disdained him, "You still don't believe that you have a bad IQ, the mystery of this question is really only someone with a talent like me can come up with it."

Wu Xiaoxie glared at him, "Don't talk nonsense, if you don't say that you are ugly today, I will let Muyu beat you."

Yun Cai also said coquettishly: "Fat brother, say it quickly, it's really urgent."

The fat man had sold enough, so he said, "Actually, the answer is very simple, that is, the elephant was strangled to death by 3,000 bananas."

Several people burst into laughter, and the clouds forgot about their foot injuries, and they almost couldn't breathe with laughter.

The fat man said happily: "I'm happy, the fat man still has a lot of brain twists, such as ......."

Yun Cai looked at the fat man's eyebrows dancing in a daze, even with gestures, and his body movements were deliberately funny and exaggerated, she knew that the fat man was simply to make her happy and divert her attention.

In fact, she didn't have a good impression of this faceless and skinless person who claimed to be her fat brother at first, although she hadn't seen anything particularly novel, but she wasn't really stupid, she knew exactly what the fat man had in mind about her, just watching him run before and after his saddle, and I thought it was funny.

More purpose, or to stand next to the fat man, to observe the cold guy up close, she doesn't know what the terrible person wants her to pay attention to the little brother's purpose, just follow his orders to report in detail, in fact, she doesn't even know what that person's face looks like.

It's just obvious that her hiding skills are not in place, that beautiful brother has already warned her, her behavior has long been exposed, she thinks, she should also think about what to do next, in order to protect herself and her family, she knows very well in her heart that seeking skin with the tiger is not a long-term solution after all.

Perhaps, Yun Cai looked at the fat man quietly, maybe she could use the fat brother's hand to solve that person.

It's not that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, the fat brother and they are the opposite of that person, and she saw everything that happened outside the stilt building that day, that weird guy couldn't beat the cold face brother and the beautiful brother at all.

Maybe by cooperating with them, her family can completely get out of control, and she can see that the beautiful brother who makes her a little scared cares about the other three people very much, and the four of them have a good relationship, so with the fat brother protecting her, I believe that others will not do anything to her.

After thinking about it in his heart, Yun Cai had already made up his mind, so he would discuss it with his father later.

"Clouds?" The fat man stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, "What do you think about so fascinating, is it that the fat brother's handsome and heroic posture fascinates you?"

The clouds sneered, but this time they were happy from the bottom of their hearts, "Fat brother, you are really narcissistic."

She thought that the fat brother was really good to her, if ......

Wu Xiaoxie drank more rice wine, lay on his back on the lake beach, half-squinted his eyes, and at this moment, he was already drowsy in a daze, and he didn't even know when Zhang Qixun and the two walked back, and Agui on the side had already fallen to the ground and snored.

Zhang Qixun took out a thin blanket from the tent and covered Wu Xiaoxie's body, in case he sweated from the strength of the wine, and then blew a cool breeze and caught a cold.

The fat man and Yun Cai were next to each other, and they also knew what they were whispering, but Zhang Qixun noticed that Yun Cai's eyes looked at him cautiously several times, and his expression stopped talking, as if he had something to say.

Zhang Qixun thought about it, and guessed that the cloud might have figured out the stakes and planned to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, which is a good phenomenon, and the fat man's efforts were not in vain.

The little brother still looked up at the few stars scattered in the night sky,

The rounder and brighter the moon, the fewer stars you can see at night.

The air fell silent for a moment, except for the occasional call or two of unknown animals in the woods not far behind them.

Zhang Qixun supported his chin with one hand, sat by the fire, his eyes were empty, his eyelids drooped slightly, at first glance he thought he was asleep, but in fact he was just in a daze.

In this way, I don't know how long later, the dog tied to the tent suddenly barked briefly.

Zhang Qixun immediately came back to his senses, looked behind him, and found that these dogs actually stood up, straightened up, and looked in the same direction with their heads in unison.

The little brother next to him also noticed something, stood up, looked in the direction of the lake, and his face was solemn.

The fat man also felt something strange, and asked Yun Cai to quickly wake up Ah Gui, and he also quickly woke up Wu Xiaoxie, made a shushing gesture, signaled everyone to silence, and listened carefully.

The wind brought a "popping" sound from the direction of the lake, as if someone was slapping the soles of their feet on the water, wading from the lake to the shallows.

The black light is blinding, and this sound is really a bit oozing.

The fat man gestured to a few people, took out a flashlight, and made a gesture to see what was going on.

Ah Gui slept for a while, and his misty eyes were also awake, seeing this, he hurriedly waved his hand to signal them to be calm and sit down, "It's okay, I heard the sound like a beast licking water."

"What kind of beast, it seems to be quite big when you hear this movement." The fat man asked softly.

Ah Gui shook his head, indicating that he couldn't hear it, thought about it, took out the shotgun from the tent, asked the fat man to stay still, and touched the lake, Yun Cai held a short shotgun in one hand and followed with a flashlight in the other.

The fat man saw that this was not good, and he was busy saying that he would also follow to take a look.

Seeing this, the remaining few people also quietly followed with knives.

Approaching the lake, I turned on the lights and looked around for the traces of the beast, but found that the sound of "licking water" came from all directions.

"It's the sound of the tide." The little brother said lightly.

A few people looked at each other, such a small lake, how can the tide rise and fall?

Looking up at the moon, the originally semi-circular jade disk was mostly covered by clouds drifting from nowhere, hazy, as if shrouded in fog.

The group continued to walk towards the waterline, and sure enough, they saw that the water of the lake was fluctuating rhythmically, like small waves crashing on the beach, and the sound of animals licking the water was made by the waves crashing on the stones at the bottom of the shore.

Looking at the soles of my feet again, I found that the water level had dropped a lot, and the rocky beaches were all wet.

The fat man bent his hand into an arch bridge shape, put it on his forehead and looked into the distance, and wondered, "What's going on? Is there a leak at the bottom of the lake?"

After a little thought, Wu Xiaoxie understood what was going on, and explained, "This should be a geographical phenomenon, called the siphon effect."

The fat man still didn't understand, "Siphon what, siphon the second pot head?"

"It does seem that this lake is connected to an underground river, and there may be a larger lake connected to it, which is affected by tides or air pressure, and the lake here is linked." Wu Xiaoxie popularized science in detail.

"For example, small lakes and large lakes are magnets, and if the siphon effect is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon, then the moon is also a big magnet, and the large lake must be subjected to a large suction force, so there is a pressure difference between the large and small lakes, and the water in the small lake will be pumped into the large lake, so the water level of the small lake in front of us is lowered."

Wu Xiaoye looked up at the sky as he spoke, and suddenly realized something, "I understand!"

The fat man had just broken the siphon effect with the magnetic force of the moon, "Oh, it's like a flush toilet, so there are eyes at the bottom of the lake before the water is sucked away, by the way, what do you understand?"

Zhang Qixun said softly, "No wonder we can't find anything, you see that the water level has dropped here, it is more than ten meters, and if there is a siphon tide here every night, those things back then may have been sucked to the center of the lake, let's look for it on the shore and shallows, it is purely in vain."

Wu Xiaoxie nodded, affirming his statement, "No wonder the shallows near the shoal, there is nothing else except stones, it turns out that they have all been sucked away."

Yun Cai listened silently on the side, and couldn't help asking, "What are the bosses looking for?"

The fat man mysteriously "shh

Yun was still a little unwilling, and she wanted to increase the weight of working with these people, "Is the thing you are looking for at the bottom of the lake? The lake is very deep, no matter how good the water is, people can't dive to the bottom, and the bottom is very dangerous, you should find some professional salvage personnel, they have professional equipment."

The fat man smiled and raised his eyebrows, "The little girl knows a lot."

Yun Cai pursed his lips and smiled, "In fact, there were people here who came to salvage things a few years ago, and I have seen them wearing clothes that are as smooth as fish skin, and they are carrying steel cylinders."

What the clouds revealed, Zhang Qixun didn't expect.

Then he gave the fat man a look, and the fat man understood, came to Yun Cai's side, said a few good words, and then asked, "Sister Yun Cai, do you see what they are fishing?"

Yun Cai shook his head, "There are people watching, and I just glanced at them from a distance, but some of them look a little different from us."

The fat man asked, "What's the difference?"

"Most of those people have very white skin, oh no, there are a few of them as black as coal, and they have a lot of tents by the lake, and the people guarding the side are all carrying guns, and they look a little scary." Cloud recalled.

Wu Xiaoxie frowned slightly, how does this description sound a little like a foreigner?

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