Fortunately, everyone was equipped with a headlamp. For a moment, the stars on the dark river bottom were so bright that it was like being in the starry sky of water, and there were even pieces of bubbles rising and floating.
Sixty or seventy people surrounded them on three levels inside and three outside. There was an open space about five meters in diameter in the center of the crowd, where the rope descended vertically.
A broken stone tablet lies flat on the bottom of the river, or because it has been washed away by the sand and gravel on the river bottom for a long time, only faint traces of seal carvings can be seen, and it is no longer possible to distinguish the words on it.
Cao Tian took out a fluorescent oil pen with him, the kind that can be scribbled in water, and he drew according to the shallow grooves on the ruined monument.
After the painting, with Cao Tian's wave of his hand, everyone's headlights were extinguished in an instant, and the river bottom was once again shrouded in darkness. However, coincidentally, the remains of the stele that had been painted with fluorescent pens faintly exuded Roads of golden light.
Wei! It was the character Wei in seal script. Although the lower part was incomplete, it could still be recognized.
Gululu...! When this word was presented, Cao Tian seemed extremely excited. Although he could not speak, it could be seen from his string of rising bubbles that Cao Tian was very excited at this time.
Cao Gang, and the word "Wei" on the ruined monument in front of me. I seemed to have vaguely guessed the person buried in this water tomb, Cao Cao, a tycoon during the Three Kingdoms period!
Could it be said that Cao Tian is a descendant of Cao Cao? I finally understood why Cao Tian could respond to everything at once. It turned out that he was here for Cao Cao’s tomb.
It is said that Cao Cao is the founder of the thieves. He was directly subordinate to Youfaqiu Zhonglang General, Banshan Taoist, Touching Gold Colonel and Xiling Warrior. He specialized in stealing property from tombs to expand military pay. At that time, there were ten Han tombs. The theory that the room is empty.
Therefore, whether it is the Bai family of the northern sect or the Lou family of the southern sect, they are all inherited from this, including of course the neutral Liu Baye.
As the saying goes, all the robbers in the world started with Cao Cao. Going back thousands of years, everyone in this family came to this water tomb.
It's just said that in order not to be disturbed after his death, Cao Cao had seventy-two doubtful tombs. Could this be one of them?
This is indeed very exciting, but I wonder if this place is just an empty tomb?
It had been more than ten minutes since they came down, and everyone was focused on the broken stone tablet. It wasn't until the first sister appeared in front of everyone that everyone remembered that there seemed to be one missing person in the crowd. , and that person is Xiao Hong, known as Mr. Shuilong Xiao.
The other end of the rope was hung by a lock on Xiao Hong's waist, but now the lock and Xiao Hong herself have disappeared, leaving only a piece of broken rope hanging on the protrusion of the broken monument. There, a torrent surged, and the remaining rope drifted away with the current.
Seeing this scene, my heart suddenly tightened, and I had a bad feeling in my heart. I thought something might have happened to Xiao Hong, right?
"Master...!" I don't know whether it was because I was too close to the first sister or because she was too excited, but I actually faintly heard her scream.
The matter was of no concern. Except Liu Baye and a few of us who were looking for Xiao Hong everywhere, everyone else looked indifferent. They were still staring straight at that place. Remnant monument.
However, after several people searched for a long time, they couldn't even see the shadow of Xiao Hong. This made me think that Xiao Hong might have suffered some accident, or was washed away by the river along the current?
Xiao Hong is known as the water dragon, and entering the water is like walking on flat ground. Although the current here is not calm, it will not sweep a person away easily, not to mention that the person is Xiao Hong, so the former is more conclusive.
We want to see people alive and dead, and we won’t give up if we can’t find Xiao Hong. Liu Baye, Erbao, and myself and Sister Yi all wandered in four directions with a stone monument as the center. Search.
Slowly, I was already a hundred meters away from the crowd. When I turned around, I could still see the light of dozens of headlamps condensed together. However, the place where I was was extremely dark, and the solitary headlamps could not reach me. The area is only one meter in front of you.
Whoosh...! A figure flashed past my eyes, making me stagger back. I didn't feel the slightest surprise because the figure was not Xiao Hong. Although it swam past my eyes in just an instant, But I vaguely saw a pair of green eyes, which were not human.
The diving suit was equipped with a sharp knife. I instinctively took out the sharp knife and watched the surroundings vigilantly by the dim light of the headlight.
Suddenly, a faint bright red appeared wherever I looked. Although it was pale, it was so dazzling under the pale light of the headlight.
I hurriedly turned around, looking for the bright red, and saw a blurry figure on the edge of the headlight, squatting quietly a few meters away from me.
Although I couldn't see his appearance clearly, I could vaguely see his figure. It was a figure the size of an eight or nine-year-old child, with a pair of glowing eyes staring straight at me.
I always thought that the giant crocodile gar that Cao Tian used to blow up to pieces with explosives was the main culprit of cannibalism in the river, but now it seems that it is just one of them.
This suddenly made it clear to me that the disappearance of Bright Red might be caused by the human-shaped water monster in front of me.
I gripped the sharp knife tightly and stared at those dark eyes with vigilance. I did not take the initiative to attack, but instead used defense instead of attack.
If I were on land, I wouldn't care what ferocious beast it was, because I was extremely confident in my speed, but now that I was in the water, my own speed could no longer reach 100% of its usual speed due to the resistance of the water. First, there is no way to deal with it. We can only stay where we are and wait for work.
That figure seemed extremely patient. It didn't move even if I didn't move it. I don't know if it was afraid of the sharp knife in my hand or the glimmer of light above my head.
Time passed by minute by second, and more than ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye. The smooth breathing before became less smooth at this moment. I lowered my head and glanced at the oxygen value on the ventilator, and found that the oxygen level was already serious. Not enough. The five bars of oxygen now have less than half a bar left. According to time calculation, I only have less than five minutes at most. Once the oxygen is exhausted, I will suffocate and die.
I don't know if I was waiting for such an opportunity, but while I was checking the oxygen, the figure rushed straight towards me like a torpedo.
The figure was very fast, and it rushed to my eyes in just an instant. It opened a mouth full of fangs and bit me.
At that moment, I finally saw the figure clearly. It was a humanoid monster with a dark body and an ugly face. Under the green eyes like two small light bulbs, there was a protruding beak and sharp claws. The transparent fascia like duck webs is connected between the fingers, and the whole body is slimy and slippery when touched, like a big catfish.
I was really surprised to see such a face. This figure and appearance were somewhat similar to the strange sea monkey I saw in the East China Sea. It was also very similar to the legendary kappa. Of course, the kappa was only a child. It's just a name. Our name is called river monkey, which is also a freshwater monkey, or water monkey for short.
If I was a slow-moving turtle in the water, then this water monkey was like a very fast rabbit. Before I could make any reaction, I was thrown directly to the solid bottom of the river.
A sharp mouth went straight to my head and bit it down, leaving me unable to fight back. Click...!
I thought that the water monkey was the first bite to crush my head and throat. But what I didn’t expect was that its first bite actually shattered the headlamp above my head, so that I lost sight of it in an instant. It was bright, as if I was in a void, except for a pair of green eyes that were still stagnant in front of me.
Water monkeys live in the dark bottom of the water. According to legend, anyone who has seen water monkeys has done so late at night. This means that water monkeys like darkness rather than light, which is why the water monkeys are the first to attack. It's because of the headlights.
