Chapter 42: The Water Monkey

Fortunately, everyone was equipped with headlamps, and for a moment the stars at the bottom of the river were bright and dark, as if they were in the starry sky of water, and there were even pieces of bubbles rising and floating.

Sixty or seventy people were surrounded by three layers and three outer layers, and there was an open space about five meters in diameter in the center of the crowd, which was also where the rope went vertically.

A broken stone tablet lies flat at the bottom of the river, or because it has been washed by the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river for a long time, only faintly visible traces of seal carving, and it is no longer possible to distinguish the so-called words on it.

Cao Tian took out a fluorescent oil pen, the kind that can be scribbled in water, and he painted it according to the shallow groove on the stele.

After the painting, with a wave of Cao Tian's hand, everyone's headlamps were extinguished in an instant, and the bottom of the river was shrouded in darkness again, but coincidentally, the remnants of the monument painted by the highlighter faintly emitted a golden light.

Wei! It was a seal script of the Wei character, although the bottom was missing, but it was still recognizable.

Gollum ......! When this word was presented, Cao Tian was extremely excited, although he couldn't speak, but just by his strings of rising bubbles, it could be seen that Cao Tian's mood was very excited at this time.

Cao Bang, and the Wei character on the remnant tablet in front of me at this time, I vaguely seem to have guessed the person buried in this water tomb, Cao Cao, a hero in the Three Kingdoms period!

Could it be that Cao Tian is Cao Cao's descendant? I finally understand why this Cao Tian was able to respond to all calls, it turned out that he came for Cao Cao's tomb.

It is said that Cao Cao is the ancestor of the thief, directly under the Faqiu Zhonglang general, the mountain mover, the gold captain and the four positions of the unloading wrestler, specializing in stealing the property in the tomb to expand the military salary, at that time, there was a Han tomb ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Therefore, whether it is the Bai family of the northern faction or the Lou family of the southern faction, they are all derived from this, of course, including the neutrality of Liu Baye.

As the saying goes, all the thieves in the world are in Cao, and all the people are rushing to this water tomb for thousands of years.

It's just that according to legend, in order not to be disturbed after death, Cao Cao has seventy-two doubtful graves, and this is one of them.

This is indeed quite exciting, but I wonder if this place will also be just an empty tomb and doubtful grave?

It took more than ten minutes to come down, and all the people put their minds on the broken stone tablet, until the first sister appeared in front of everyone, and everyone remembered that there seemed to be one less person in this crowd, and that person was Xiao Hong, who was called Mr. Xiao, the water dragon.

The other end of the rope was hung on Xiao Hong's waist by a lock, but now the lock and Xiao Hong himself had disappeared, leaving only a piece of broken rope to hang on the protrusion of the remnant monument, and a torrent surged, and the residual rope drifted away with the current.

Seeing this scene, my heart was fierce, and I had a bad premonition in my heart, saying that Xiao Hong should have an accident, right?

"Master......!" I don't know if I was too close to my sister or if she was too excited, but I faintly heard her screams.

It doesn't matter to hang high, except for Liu Baye and a few of us who are looking for Xiao Hong's traces everywhere, the rest of the people all look indifferent, they are still staring at the remnant of the monument.

However, a few people searched for a long time, but they didn't even see Xiao Hong's shadow, which made me wonder if Xiao Hong suffered some accident, or was washed away by the river along the surging stream?

Xiao Hong is known as the water dragon, that water is like walking on the ground, although the water flow here is not quiet, but it will not easily sweep a person away, not to mention that the person is still Xiao Hong, so the former is more conclusive.

If you want to see people alive and die to see corpses, if you can't find Xiao Hong, we won't give up, Liu Baye, Erbao, and me and a sister are four people, with a stone tablet as the center, and they wander in four directions to find it.

Slowly, I was 100 meters away from the crowd, and when I turned my head, I could still see the light of dozens of headlamps condensed together, but the place where I was extremely dim, and the area illuminated by the lonely headlamps was only one meter in front of me.

Sou......! A figure flashed in front of my eyes, startling me staggering back, I didn't feel a trace of surprise because of this, because the figure was not Xiao Hong, although it quickly only swam in front of my eyes for a moment, but I vaguely saw a pair of dark green eyes, which did not belong to human beings.

The wetsuit was equipped with a sharp knife, and I instinctively pulled it out casually, and watched vigilantly by the miserable light of the headlamp.

Suddenly, there was a faint bright red as far as my eyes could see, and although it was bleak, it was also so dazzling in the miserable white light of the headlamp.

I hurriedly turned around, looking for the bright red, and saw a blurry figure at the edge of the headlamp, and squatted quietly a few meters away from me.

I couldn't see it clearly, but I could make out its shape, which was the size of an eight or nine-year-old child, and a pair of glowing eyes were staring straight at me.

I always thought that the huge alligator gar that was blown to pieces by Cao Tian with explosives was the culprit of cannibalism in this river, but now it seems that it is just one of them.

This made me suddenly realize that the disappearance of bright red may be caused by the humanoid water monster in front of me.

I clenched my knife and stared warily at those dark eyes, I didn't take the initiative to attack, but instead of attacking.

If I were on land, I would not care what kind of ferocious beast it was, for I was very confident in my speed, but now that I was in the water, my own speed was no longer one hundredth of my usual speed due to the resistance of the water, and I could not maneuver with it at all, so I had to stay where I was and wait for the rest of my life.

The figure seemed to be extremely patient, and I didn't move it, not knowing whether it was afraid of the sharp knife in my hand or the glimmer of light above my head.

Time passed minute by minute, more than ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye, the previous smooth breathing became not so smooth at this moment, I looked down at the oxygen value on the ventilator, and found that the oxygen was seriously insufficient, and the oxygen in the five compartments was now less than half a compartment left, according to the calculation of time, I only had less than five minutes at most, and once the oxygen was exhausted, I could only suffocate to death.

I don't know if I was waiting for such an opportunity, but while I was checking the oxygen, the figure rushed straight at me like a torpedo.

The figure was fast, and in an instant, it rushed in front of my eyes, and it pounced on me with a mouth full of fangs and sharp teeth.

At that moment, I finally saw the appearance of the figure clearly, it was a humanoid monster, the whole body was pitch black, the face was ugly, the dark green was like two small light bulbs, under the eyes was a raised beak, and the sharp claws and fingers were connected to the fascia like duck webs, and the whole body was sticky and slippery under the touch, like a big catfish.

I was really surprised to see such a dignified face, this figure and this appearance, it is somewhat similar to the strange sea monkey I saw in the East China Sea, and it is also very similar to the legendary kappa, of course, the kappa is just the name of the small day, our name is called the river ape, that is, the freshwater monkey, referred to as the water monkey.

If I was a slow turtle in the water, then the monkey was a very fast rabbit, and before I could react, I was thrown to the bottom of the tamped river.

A big sharp mouth went straight to my head and bit off, making me powerless to fight back. Click......!

I thought that the water monkey was the first to bite my head and live my throat, but what I didn't expect was that its first bite actually bit the headlamp above my head, so that my eyes instantly lost their light, as if they were in nothingness, only a pair of dark green eyes were still stagnant in front of my eyes.

Water monkeys live in the dark and dim water, and according to legend, anyone who has seen a water monkey is in the silence of the night, which means that the water monkey likes darkness rather than light, which is why it will attack the headlamp first.