Chapter Forty-Nine: Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals
One white and one black, one "human" and one dog, two figures jumped into the river from the bottomless boat. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Puff ......"
"Puff ......"
Two splashes splashed on the surface of the slowly flowing river, and several ripples rippled with them, and it turned out that shadows would react when they met water.
Sure enough, the Monkey Cat was right, the river couldn't help them, the two of them breathed freely underwater, as if walking on the ground, except that they felt lighter, there was no difference from when they were on the boat.
They went down to the bottom of the river, and through the clear water they could see the stars surging in the dark sky, and strangely enough, when they looked underwater in the bottomless boat, they didn't think the river was deep, and when their feet touched the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river, they realized that the road was too long.
Zhu Bagou was the first to ask, "Which direction are we going?"
Sun Wumao replied: "My body should still be downstream in the place where I fell, but Sha Wuyu and that black giant tail are going upstream, let's do according to the plan, first look for Sha Wuyu and go upstream!"
"Good!"
The "man" and the dog shook off their footsteps and marched side by side towards the river, their feet clattering on the soft sand and stones, and occasionally a few disturbed crabs lifted the stones and popped up to inquire about the situation.
The groups of fish that were originally leisurely in the water were first startled by these two unidentified uninvited guests and fled in all directions, and then saw that there was no danger, so they gathered together again and circled back and forth over the heads of Sun Wu Cat and Pig Eight Dog.
When he was on the bottomless boat, although Sun Wumao said that he was a shadow, he had no heart and no meat, and he was not afraid of the fish coming to bite him, but when he really met the fish in a narrow way, he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, he was only guessing based on what Zhu Bagou had seen and heard in the mirror for the past two days, and Zhu Bagou, he was a tendon, and when he saw Sun Wumao swearing, he completely believed his words, and he had no fear in his heart, and strode forward. Maybe this is the nature of cats and dogs, cats are naturally cautious, dogs are naturally bold.
As they marched towards the river, they surveyed their surroundings, except for the river wall not far to the right, and the remaining three directions were endless rivers.
They had to walk against the river wall so that they wouldn't get lost in the wrong direction. Those schools of fish, hovering a few times above their heads, suddenly leaned over and rushed straight towards Sun Wu Cat and Pig Eight Dogs. The school of fish was too large, overwhelmingly swarmed up, completely engulfing the two of them, Sun Wumao had the courage not to dodge, covering his face with his two arms, and the pig dog was not afraid, and his big mouth was bitten one by one.
Sure enough, Sun Wu Cat guessed it again, but the group of fish just passed through their bodies, without feeling, and no one really could help these two shadows, which made Sun Wu Cat's courage bigger, and he felt a little proud in his heart.
Unbeknownst to them, many crabs were poking their heads out from behind them, lifting the rocks and looking the two uninvited guests up and down timidly.
Those crabs burrowed out of the sand, about the size of a palm, the whole body was reddish-brown, and gathered sideways from behind the Monkey Cat and Pig Eight Dogs, in a circle, about hundreds, one of the crabs with a body several circles was standing in the middle of the team, waving a claw upward, as if directing the crab group, until they formed a column, and then under the leadership of the big crab, they walked sideways and swaggered towards the river.
The group of crabs completely ignored the Monkey Cat and Pig Eight Dogs in front of them, and swaggered past their feet, both of them were taken aback, stopped and lowered their heads to carefully study this group of "intestinal children".
"When did so many crabs come out, why didn't you see them just now?"
Sun Wumao also looked puzzled, and looked back along the team, but he was far away.
Zhu Bagou continued to puzzle: "Could it be that he came out from under this river, saw us coming, and reported to the damn thousand-year-old dragon catfish?"
"It's not enough to report a message, how can you use so many crabs, maybe there is something else, let them lead the way, let's follow them first!"
Don't look at the team of crabs walking sideways, the speed is not slow, after a while there is no trace of the leading crab, Sun Wu cat and pig eight dog trotted all the way behind the team, looking forward to getting some clues about the sand fish at the bottom of the endless river.
A crab at the back of the line suddenly stopped, squinted at the Monkey Cat and Pig Eight Dog behind him, and then accelerated to catch up with the team, raised his claws and touched the claws of the crab in front of it, and the one in front of it touched the one in front of it, and so on.
Sun Wu Cat and Zhu Bagou noticed this move of the crab team, and glanced at each other, but they didn't understand what they meant.
Leave it alone, keep following up! After following another journey, they vaguely noticed that a new team had emerged in front of them, and they were not walking against the bottom of the river, but swimming head-on from the water, pulling into a horizontal row, bowing down, and swimming in one flick after another.
When the team got closer, Sun Wumao and Zhu Bagou realized that it was a row of blue shrimp soldiers, almost a dozen of them, each of which was the size of an arm.
They gradually swam to the top of the heads of the Monkey Cat and the Pig Eight Dogs, and then formed a circle and looked down at them, and the situation did not seem to be too good. Sun Wu Cat and Pig Eight Dog also raised their heads and looked up at them, thinking that the shape of these shrimp soldiers was very interesting, and it could also be called a blue landscape in the water.
Suddenly, the defenseless Sun Wu cat and Zhu Bagou suddenly felt that they were covered by a big net, and the dozen or so shrimp soldiers flicked upwards together, and Sun Wu Cat and Zhu Bagou were tightly bound and couldn't move, but they didn't see where the net came from.
It's an invisible web.
"What's the situation?Monkey Cat, didn't you say that the shadow has no heart and no flesh, and no one can help us?, why is it covered by an invisible net?"
Sun Wumao also tried his best to support his arms, trying to break free from this invisible net, and replied: "I'm sorry Zhu Bagou, I wasn't sure at the time! I guessed it based on what you have seen with your own eyes in the past few days! The first two have guessed correctly, who would have thought that they still have a net! They can actually cover the shadow! It's really strange!"
"It's over, it's over, now you and I can't even have a shadow left, but you're miserable by your stupid cat!"
No matter how much the two of them struggled, they could only let those shrimp soldiers drag the invisible net all the way upstream.
Those shrimp soldiers are moving in the bullets, not moving at an even speed, jumping, stopping, jumping, stopping, they are about to toss and vomit to Sun Wu Cat and Pig Eight Dogs. After a long journey, a steep underwater mountain appeared in front of me, and the mountain range was black, long, long, like a behemoth lying at the bottom of the water, with no end in sight.
Sun Wu Cat and Zhu Bagou were dragged all the way by those shrimp soldiers, and after walking for a long time, they finally rounded the mountain range and walked to the mouth of a golden cave, it turned out that the front of this mountain range was facing upstream. The group of crabs that had been followed by them before would take the lead, quickly split into two teams, and stood on both sides of the cave entrance.
Standing in the distance and watching, the entrance of the cave is high and wide, more than 100 people can be accommodated side by side in the horizontal, there is little difference between the vertical and the horizontal, the golden light outside the cave is bright, and the black inside the cave is bottomless. Two peaks that looked like dragon's horns rose abruptly above the entrance of the cave, towering to the left and right, and on either side of the entrance were four thick aquatic plants, each as thick as a human body, swaying back and forth with the flow of the river.
The team of shrimp soldiers dragged Sun Wu Cat and Pig Eight Dog to the cave, Sun Wu Cat carefully observed, there are four white stone pillars in this hole, two up and down, the root is thick, the top is thin, and there is a big red door in the innermost, and when it is dragged to the big red door, the door will automatically open upward, making a loud noise, and large clusters of bubbles will emerge from the door to the outside.
They stopped, and the two shrimp soldiers rushed through the door first, thinking that they were going to report it.
After a while, the big red door opened again with a bang, and the two shrimp soldiers poked their heads out and signaled that they could enter.
After entering the door, Sun Wu Cat and Zhu Bagou were dragged through a narrow passage by the shrimp soldiers, and did not stop until they reached a spacious place, which was like a palace, not very big, but resplendent with gold, and there were many large and small mussels hanging on the wall, which were scattered, and they occasionally opened their mouths to reveal the pearls in their mouths, black and white, dazzling.
"Oh ha, the shrimp soldier crab is approaching to listen to the order!"
"In!"
"Hurry up and invite these two distinguished guests from afar to take a seat!
"Yes!"
There was a hearty laughter from the hall, a shrimp soldier and a crab general got the order, turned around and said hello, and eight shrimp soldiers and eight crab generals came, each carrying a chariot and eight chariots, and those shrimp soldiers dragged the Monkey cat and the pig and the eight dogs with the net to the chariot, and then removed the invisible net that was tightly bound to them.
Sun Wumao and Zhu Bagou looked at each other incredibly, and they were stunned, thinking about what kind of routine this was, barbarously robbing them, and treating them politely, this kind of strange hospitality is really the first time to see it.
"Oh ha, I don't know that the two Dharma Protectors came from afar, and they missed the distance, and I hope that Sun Dharma Protector and Pig Dharma Protector are not strange, not strange!"
With hearty laughter, a person walked out after hitting the golden chair in the temple.