Chapter Eighty-Five: Kappa

Song Zisu pushed He Chaoqun: "Not bad!" I didn't expect you to be quite popular, nerd! ”

Seeing that everyone was so interested, He Chaoqun looked at the team leader, and simply became a popular science teacher, and told everyone the story endlessly.

One hot day, the stone monkeys and a group of monkeys escaped the heat and played under the pine trees. After playing for a while, I went to bathe in the mountain stream. The spring water gushes out of the mountain stream, splashing in all directions like round melons rushing to it.

As the saying goes, people have words, and beasts have beasts. A group of monkeys are saying, "I don't know where this spring water comes from, let's be idle today, follow the spring water up to find the source, and have the right to play!" After some discussion, a group of monkeys climbed up the mountain stream, until they reached the halfway point of the mountain, and saw the source, but a waterfall rushed down.

The monkeys clapped their hands and praised: "Good water!" Good water! It turns out that this place is far under the foot of the mountain, and it is pouring into the sea! A monkey said: "Which one has the ability, go in and find a source to come out, as long as you can do it, we will worship him as the king!" After calling three times, the stone monkey saw that there was no response, so he jumped out by himself and said loudly: "I'll go in!" I'm in! ”

The stone monkey squatted with his eyes closed, jumped into the waterfall. Passing through the mist and landing on a bridge, he steadied himself and looked closely, and it turned out to be an iron bridge. The water under the bridge rushes through the stone holes, hanging upside down from top to bottom, just covering the iron plate bridge.

He walked across the iron bridge, and inside was a stone cave. It seems that someone lived here not long ago, with stone tables and stone benches, stone basins and bowls, beds and stoves. After looking at it for a long time, he jumped over the iron plate bridge again, looked left and right, and found a stone tablet in the middle, which was engraved with a line of regular characters:

Huaguo Mountain blessed land, water curtain cave cave.

"Here is one of our four famous novels, "Journey to the West", about the description of Sun Wukong entering the Water Curtain Cave!

According to legend, after this Monkey King entered the Water Curtain Cave, he found that this cave was blessed, and since then, the monkeys of Huaguo Mountain no longer need to sleep among the mountains and forests, but have a place to shelter from the wind and rain! ”

After the story was over, everyone also followed the team to the entrance.

"Let's go inside! Finally, you can enjoy the water curtain cave in the book! ”

Song Zisu happily ran in, but as soon as he came in, Bai Ye felt something different!

"Tianya, be careful!" Bai Ye walked to Mo Tianya's side and said in a low voice.

Xiu Zhu also felt the abnormality, glanced at Bai Ye, and then walked to He Chaoqun's side.

Mo Tianya left the team and went around for a while, while Bai Ye followed Song Zisu.

In fact, if the task is carried out again, it is impossible for Song Zisu not to find out about such a situation, but maybe it is because he came out to travel, Song Zisu relaxed his vigilance, and Bai Ye had to work with Xiuzhu, one left and one right to protect the three of them.

After following the stroll for a while, Mo Tianya returned to Bai Ye and said, "There is a problem in the water, but now there are many people, so it is not good to act rashly." ”

Bai Ye nodded, and could only remain vigilant.

After shopping for a while, Song Zisu said, "I'm so tired! Let's go grab a bite to eat! ”

He Chaoqun also wanted to find a hotel, so Song Zisu went directly to a homestay.

"Xiao Su, we came by car, we can go back to the hotel in a while, there is no need to book a homestay!" He Chaoqun didn't understand why Song Zisu wanted to book a homestay, and Song Zisu just stuck out his tongue mischievously and didn't explain.

After eating, Song Zisu said to Bai Ye and the others: "Xiaoye, Xiuzhu, Tianya, you come out with me." ”

Song Zisu handed over a few people to his room, closed the door and said, "Today in the Water Curtain Cave, you also feel that something is wrong, right?" ”

Bai Ye and Mo Tianya looked at each other, their eyes were full of surprise, they couldn't imagine that this eldest lady, who was still a carefree tourist during the day, would be so thoughtful.

Song Zisu smiled and said, "You really learned it for nothing when I followed the master!" As soon as I entered, I found out, but there were so many tourists at the time, I pretended not to know, but you are not afraid of being seen by the other party, and you don't say anything about it, you want to be a thief! If I hadn't called you out when I was hungry, I'm afraid I'd have all been exposed! ”

Song Zisu took out the gossip mirror and said, "We'll go to meet that thing tonight, when I'm in the Water Curtain Cave today, I probably know what it is!" ”

"What!" Bai Ye, Xiu Zhu and Mo Tianya asked in unison.

"Kappa!"

The kappa is a legendary creature in the folklore of the Sakura Kingdom, with the beak of a bird, the limbs of a frog, the body of a monkey, and the shell of a turtle. Legend has it that his weakness is the dish on his head, and if he tricks the kappa into bending over and the water in the dish on his head runs out, he will lose his energy.

"Isn't this something from the Sakura Country? How did it end up here? ”

Song Zisu shook his head: "I don't know about this, but this thing appeared here, but nothing happened to the tragedy, don't you think it's too coincidental that we have this thing as soon as we appear?" ”

Bai Ye was already in a cold sweat at this time: "If they are really involved, then this game of chess is too big!" Tianya, how much do you know about Kappa? Tell us that you don't get too lost at night. ”

"According to folk rumors, the kappa is thin, about 60 centimeters to 1 meter tall, weighs about 45 kilograms, and has a foul smell and mucus on its body, which is difficult to catch. It is said that in some places kappa have long hair all over their bodies. The kappa has a recessed disc-shaped area in the center of its head, and it is full of vitality when there is water, but when it is empty, it will be weak. There are different theories about the color of the head, some say it is red, and some say it is dark blue. He has round eyes that glow and his eyes are sharp. The nose is prominent, with a keen sense of smell; There are four fangs on the upper and lower sides of the mouth. Slender limbs. The arm has a strong ability to regenerate, and it will regenerate if it is severed. Each hand has only four fingers, and the fingers are webbed from one finger to the other. There is a carapace on the back. There are three anuses on the buttocks.

Because they are amphibian monsters, kappa like to live in caves near the river, their skin is very sticky and slippery, and they are adapted to living in this humid environment, kappa can change the color of their skin according to their surroundings like a chameleon, but most of the time they stay green all over their body. Kappa love pranks, they often fool humans, but occasionally help people do good deeds, but kappa are still very dangerous, they sometimes attack horses drinking by the water and children playing by the river, kappa will suddenly appear to kill them and eat their entrails, which shows the danger of water tigers. But the kappa is very afraid of cows, which reminds me of the Chinese legend that Wang Bajing and turtle spirits are also afraid of cows, especially the bronze ox that is reminiscent of the Yiheyuan, and the fear of cows is probably a common disease of turtles. In addition, kappa also has a special habit of eating cucumbers, and it is because of this habit that many small restaurants in Sakura Country call cucumbers kappa. ”