We moved cautiously to the side of the gunfire. The position where the sea breeze tree was rolled into the river bottom suddenly attracted everyone's attention, because it was not like a simple wash of the river water, but it seemed like a huge creature scratched here, leaving this place behind. Huge paw print marks.
If something jumping out of the river hadn't attracted our attention, the river would have completely washed away the traces after a while.
The fat man saw the huge paw prints, and his little finger was hooked on something unknown in his hand. Suddenly he shuddered and the thing fell into the water.
Seeing Long Wu and I staring at him, the fat man quickly explained: "It's just a small piece of compressed biscuit. I wanted to take a few bites just now, but the traces of the monster are really off-putting!"
The fat man said that he had indeed shot something just now. It seemed to be a half-human and half-fish thing, but since he didn't see it clearly, he couldn't guarantee whether he was dazzled by it or not.
But the scratching marks of this huge creature really made us sleepless and uneasy. We took a few steps back unconsciously, and various horrific images flashed in our minds.
What people fear most is the unknown.
If a child cannot finish his summer homework, he is afraid that the teacher will find him out.
The Antarctic expedition team saw the tip of the iceberg and did not know whether there was a huge glacier underneath. This was a kind of fear.
I dreamed of swimming in the sea, and suddenly a group of fin-like creatures came out of the water and attacked me. I didn’t know whether these were shark fins. This was terrifying!
In this situation, we were facing the tree-ploughing marks left by a huge creature about three meters wide. As I stepped back, I thought that turtles are one kind of creatures that live in water and can grow claws!
But what kind of turtle can dig out a three-meter-wide defective pit with its claws at will? I don’t think even the prime minister of the turtle in the East China Sea Dragon Palace has this ability.
The tortoise's claws must be three meters wide. According to proportions, the tortoise's body must be as big as a two-story western-style building. What has to be said is that this mark is probably caused by one of the "toes" in the claw.
Take the crocodile, for example. There are five toes on the crocodile claws, but four-toed ones are also very common. These four-toed animals actually mean that there are no real four-toed animals in the world. All the ones that look like four-toed ones have degeneration. The fifth toe at the back is just that they are stuck together and it is not easy to distinguish.
Crocodiles have four limbs, two in front and two in back, each with five toes and webbed feet between the toes. This is the key to their ability to swim quickly in the water.
The second toe is generally the longest among them. If this three-meter-wide toe was just the second toe that was opened at will, then I don’t dare to continue to imagine the next scene.
At this moment, blisters suddenly appeared where the fat man compressed the biscuits into the water. Long Wu reacted very quickly and rushed there first, shining his flashlight straight into the water.
The fat man and I just took a few steps back. The fat man's legs and feet were not flexible. Before I could exert any force, the fat man and I completely lost our balance and were knocked upside down by the butter-like rocks under our feet.
The back and forth between us just now was like two monks carrying water to eat. The fat man was the bucket in the middle, but the water carrier suddenly moved out of the way, and the pole head was empty. Naturally, I lost the ability to control my balance.
The fat man angrily yelled at the third child, saying that this was a crazy monkey who saw the peach and didn't care about his head, back, and buttocks at all. This caused him to fall so hard that his butt was split into eight pieces by the stones!
I can only comfort the fat man casually, please sit here for a while and I will go up and take a look.
When the fat man saw me crawling to my feet and looking for Long Wu, he became anxious. He didn't care about his painful buttocks and crawled on all fours towards me.
I originally wanted to turn back and grab the Colt. If there was a big guy in the water, the small pistol would be of limited use. But when I turned around, I saw that the fat man had already burrowed into my heel like a loach. He moved forward. He continued to climb and asked me: "Let's go!"
Fatty and I have no idea what the monsters swimming in the water are, but Long Wu has already reacted. His flashlight has been shining on an area, and the black gold mountain blade in his hand is ready to disembowel him at any time. preparation.
This guy in the water can make Long Wu so nervous, as if he is facing a powerful enemy! Although I don’t know what it looks like, I know without even thinking about it that it’s definitely not easy to mess with!
The fat man and I finally arrived at the shore. Three flashlight lights converged into one spot, but disappointingly, nothing was found. I turned the light to one side, but still found nothing except the rushing river water.
At this time, we still didn’t know how deep the river was. Even if we adjusted the power of our flashlight to the maximum, the river was still pitch black.
Generally, rivers have a certain degree of visibility. Even in deep lakes and shallow seas, people must be able to see at least one meter into it.
I wanted to distinguish the situation here from the rocks at the bottom of the river, but this fast river seemed to swallow light. No matter how many flashlights shined into it, it would be sucked clean without any feedback.
So we can only hope that these aquatic creatures can jump out of the water and let us see their appearance clearly, so that we can deduce a little bit of information.
It's a pity that the flares have been used up, otherwise if one were to be used in this terrain environment, it would be a majestic and heart-stirring scene!
At that time, I was still consciously or unconsciously recalling the recorded chapters of Longquan Ancient Tomb in "The Universe in the Tomb", but no matter what I thought, Cheng Daoren had absolutely no record of this rapid underground river.
That kind of melancholy and helplessness suddenly swept through my heart. The reason why Fatty came to me in the first place was because of this book "The Universe in the Tomb". Until now, this book seems to have only helped us in the beginning of finding the way.
Although after thousands of years, the vicissitudes of life can be accepted, but based on the current facts, it seems that we have been arriving in an area that no one in Cheng Dao has ever reached.
At this moment, Long Wu suddenly said: "You should have come a little later, I saw it!"
The fat man said: "Did you make a mistake? Shouldn't we have come earlier? Otherwise, you wouldn't be the only one to see it. Third brother, please tell me, what is in the water? Zheluo Salmon? This thing It can grow to a very large size, and its scales are small and dense. It’s just the smell of the sea water that just didn’t make me think that way.”
Long Wu shook his head and said word by word: "It's a shark!"
After saying that, Long Wu retracted his knife and said to us: "I think we should hide for a while. Since it ran away, it will gather more companions. Let's not get close to the shore for the time being!"
The shark is a real thing.
Strictly speaking, it should be called: South China Sea Shark.
Fatty Mermaids are much more familiar with them than I am. Those who have crossed the sea have not only heard of them, they have probably seen them.
When he heard that it was a shark, the fat man's expression immediately changed. He said, "It's really that thing! In fact, I had already seen something about it at that time, but I didn't dare to say it. After all, this kind of thing is too much. Evil!"
The shark is also recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: it has four legs, and its sound is like a baby crying, a combination of a mermaid and a fish.
But the kind of shark we are talking about is different from the one described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. This kind of shark is actually an extremely rare marine creature.
It is a kind of fish itself, and a mistake was made when evolving amphibians, and this mistake has continued.
Their upper bodies evolved from where the fins were originally to two unformed arms, with only the arms and palms looking extremely deformed and without separate fingers.
Their upper bodies are dry, with almost no flesh and blood, and only the fins on their lower bodies are full of vitality, so it looks like a skinny skeleton with a fish tail!
I don't know much about the sharks. I have only read about them in a few ancient books, and I have never seen them with my own eyes.
So I immediately asked Long Wu if the shark I saw just now was the kind I mentioned.
I got a positive answer from Long Wu, which was exactly the same as my description.
However, generally the places where sharks are found are formed by the gathering of spiritual treasures, heaven and earth, and are the areas where elves are located.
This elf means that there is some kind of large creature nearby that has become an elf!
In ancient times, there was a saying about the Dragon King. In fact, whales in the sea were often mistaken for the Dragon King.
But what I saw in that ancient book was that the reason why there were sharks in that area was because a giant whale that had become a climate turned into a kun!
After becoming a Kun, you can skyrocket to 90,000 miles. After Kun left, those sharks gathered together to suck the missing spiritual energy source. In other words, the place where the sharks hang out proves that there are large climate creatures nearby!
I think that the three-meter-wide giant claw mark is definitely the master of this place!
We temporarily left the shore and groped along the boundary farthest from the river bank. The fat man and I talked to each other as we walked.
The fat man said: "Although the mermaids are scary, they are also treasures. The legendary mermaid oil is all on their fat tails. In ancient times, this stuff was more expensive than gold. Only the royal family can get a drop of it. Because of this After special processing, a drop of fish oil can burn for dozens of days! Just like leaving a flashlight to charge, it is definitely the best treasure specially gifted by nature to the royal family. Put enough fish oil in an ever-burning lamp to burn it for hundreds of years."
I have heard a little bit of what the fat man said, but since a drop of grease can burn for dozens of days, I always feel that it is a bit exaggerated. Because it is impossible to imagine the occurrence of that kind of scene.
Imagine putting a drop of liquid the size of a soybean in front of you and burning it. A normal person would think that it would be a miracle if it could burn for 10 seconds.
We groped our way upstream. This choice was to avoid the sharks as much as possible. It was no longer possible to tell the north, south, east, and west here. Because there was no reference object recorded in "The Universe in the Tomb", we took a compass. There is no need, so I can only rely on my feelings to continue completing the adventure and the task of finding the antidote to Longquan.
The river becomes more rapid as we go up, and shows no signs of slowing down, which means we are still a long way from the upper reaches.
And along the way, it was obvious that the river continued to widen, and the road under our feet became narrower and narrower.
The road became narrower and there were fewer and fewer sea breeze trees. We had to take out all the sea breeze fruits in the fat man's bag and drank one each. Then we took a few more sea breeze fruits nearby and prepared them for each person to prevent further damage. If you walk forward, the sea breeze tree will disappear completely.
