Chapter Twenty-Four: The River of Blood

Walking west from Shangyuan's house, in just half a day, they had already come to a turbulent river.

Because only Jin Toad and the Snake King have been to this place, when they were on the road, Jin Toad's predecessors had already told everyone about the general situation of the river.

The name of this river is the blood river, which is the homonym of the crab word, and the crab people live in the river. Because the crab people can't live off the water, and the crab people walk sideways on weekdays, other tribes feel that the crab people are arrogant and difficult to deal with. As a result, the crab people almost never communicate with the outside world. Of course, no one has ever seen the crab king.

When Jin Toad went out to wander through this place, he saw that the river was quiet, so he went down to the river and wanted to swim over by himself, but he didn't know that there were thousands of crabs living at the bottom of the river.

So this reckless move almost caused a catastrophe. At that time, after the Crab Clan patrol found that the golden toad was in the water, they immediately reported it to their superiors.

The crab clan thought that the toad clan was going to attack them and wanted to compete with them for territory. So, he immediately arrested Jin Toad.

At that time, Jin Toad was young and vigorous, and he crossed the river well, but he was tied up by a group of crabs. At that time, he was very angry, and he kept insulting the crabs on the way to escort him to see the crab king.

Fortunately, the leader of the crab clan at that time was enlightened, and he was a fledgling kid, so he was not pursued. It's just that Jin Toad didn't even see the face of the crab king, so he was told by the crab king's subordinates that he could leave.

However, when he left, he noticed that the crab people seemed to be very busy.

He crossed the river and headed west, and when he came back he took a different road and did not pass from there.

At that time, Jin Toad was still a young and vigorous young man, but now he is an old man who has gone through vicissitudes. Thinking about it, I can't help but sigh, although we are in the Misty Valley, but the golden toad has not been here for hundreds of years, I don't know what the situation is in the river, whether the old crab king is still alive.

The crowd stood by the river, not knowing what to do. The river is not very deep, and both the golden toad and the snake king are good at water, so crossing the river is not a problem. The elephant is tall and not afraid of water, so he can walk through such a shallow river. As for the others, it's good for the elephants to carry them over.

It's just that if their group will walk through other people's territory with such a swagger, let alone the crab king, they will feel sorry for themselves when they think about it.

However, if you borrow the way from the crab king, you will have to spend a lot of time, and I am afraid that it will be a waste of time. For them now, time is still precious.

Senior Jin Toad thought for a while and said to everyone: "Anyway, no matter what, we will alarm the crab king in the end, so it's better for us to visit directly."

Everyone also thought it was good, although the water tribe was not as fierce and warlike as other beast tribes, but the crab tribe was still a clan after all, so it was reasonable that they should all pay a visit instead of sneaking across the river.

After making up his mind, Senior Jin Toad was going to go to the river.

"Senior, and slow". The elephant stopped the golden toad.

"Oh, is there anything else you have to do"?

"Seniors, juniors have nothing to do, it's just ...... The younger generation looked at the river, there was no trace of the crab tribe, wondering if they were not nearby, if they had to go to the distance to find them, I was afraid that it would be a waste of time, it was better to cross the river directly."

Listening to the elephant's words, Jin Toad smiled, and instead of explaining, he said to him: "Silly boy, you can watch carefully for a while, and see how I found the crab clan."

With that, the golden toad jumped into the river. The golden toad swam less than two meters in the river when he saw a place of sediment at the bottom of the river moving. The sand rose up, and a dark green, square, hard-shelled creature slowly emerged from underneath.

The hard-shelled creature had a pair of eyes on the front and two pairs of sharp crab teeth on the sides. A pair of chelicerae at the very tip of the crab, the surface of which is covered with hairs; After chelerae there are 4 pairs of footsteps, flattened and long; The abdominal limb has degenerated.

I saw that although the dark green creature was large, it was not bulky at all. He quickly crawled near the senior of the golden toad and said something to the senior of the golden toad.

After the golden toad senior talked to him for a few words, he quickly dived to the bottom of the water, paddling something on the mud and sand, and after a while, several crabs came out from under the mud and sand.

The crab that came out first explained a few words to them, and then they got into the mud and sand. After he left, the crabs stood in a row, observing Shangyuan's movements.

Seeing that the crab had burrowed into the mud and sand, the golden toad senior swam back to the shore. He said to the elephant, "Silly boy, do you see"?

"I saw it, but I didn't understand it very well." Elephant replied honestly.

"Oh, where do you still not understand". Senior Jin Toad asked in surprise.

"I saw them come out of the sand and end up back in the sand, but I didn't understand what they were doing in the sand. ”

Hearing this, the senior of Jin Toad laughed. He looked at Shangyuan and the earthworm and asked, "Do you know why?"

At the beginning, Shangyuan didn't quite understand why there was no trace of the crab clan in the territory of the crab clan.

But after the first crab came out, Shangyuan understood. It turned out that this river crab was a burrowing animal. The surface of the river looks very flat, but the mud and sand must be covered with strange rocks and ravines.

I'm afraid that these crabs in charge of guarding are hiding behind a certain rock. The one who came out earlier was supposed to be a small boss. Now go and report to the top, these few left behind should be the soldiers guarding them.

Shang Yuan thought so, so he said all these thoughts of his own.

"Well, that's good," Senior Jin Chan nodded.

I told them just now that we were passing by here to borrow from them, and now he is going to report to the crab king.

After a while, the crab came out of the bottom of the river again. He quickly came to the shore and said to Jin Toad: "Our king wants to invite Jin Toad's predecessors to go and talk about it, as for the others, because they are despised, they are small and simple, so we have to ask you to rest here, but rest assured, we will prepare good food for everyone to enjoy."

In fact, everyone knows that they don't need him to explain, although they don't know what the structure of this river bottom is, but their huge bodies will definitely not be able to enter. Instead of arguing with him about hospitality, it is better to sit down and eat some good food and wine.

So everyone didn't say much, but just told Jin Toad's seniors to be more careful, and the group stopped by the river.

Senior Jin Toad followed them to the bottom of the water.