The huge thing that emerged from the lake as if frightened was a four-legged snake.
Yes, it must now be described as a giant.
More than a year ago, when Shu Guan brought the four-horned snake to Shanjiguan, the four-legged snake at that time was about half a foot long and could easily lie on Shu Guan's shoulder. If your aesthetics are more peculiar, , you may even think this little guy is quite cute.
Then more than a year passed, and now the four-legged snake's body has grown to about four meters long, as thick as a big bucket, weighing five to six hundred kilograms, and its body is covered with sharp and hard scales. If the bloody mouth were opened, it could easily swallow an adult man in one gulp.
Even people with weird aesthetics will no longer find today's four-legged snakes cute, only scary.
Shu Guan really didn't know where the four-legged snake's flesh came from.
Normally, I would only watch him eat mosquitoes and flies. Later, under the force of his senior brother, he also learned to eat bananas.
How on earth did this guy grow taller without adequate protein intake?
This matter has always puzzled Shu Guan, and even others in Shan Ji Guan were also confused.
They had already seen that this four-legged snake was not a mortal thing, and they specifically asked where Shuguan found this thing.
Shuguan's answer was that he brought it from the village.
So the senior brothers and sisters who knew the mystery of Taoyuan Valley suddenly realized it and no longer thought it was strange.
It's just that in this year, the four-legged snake has only grown in size, but its brain has not improved much. It is almost the same as when he came to Shanxi Kuan a year ago.
You have to count spiritual wisdom, this guy seems to have a bit of it, because in Shanjing Guan, the four-legged snake listens to the words of senior brother Da the most, followed by Li Zhixia, and then it is Shu Guan's turn.
In this regard, this guy is very knowledgeable.
But other than that, this four-legged snake doesn't seem that smart anymore. If you really want to tell it something, this guy is ignorant and no different from ordinary beasts.
Sixth senior brother Sang Liren once tried very hard to teach it to speak human language, but after two months of hard work, he finally exhausted all Le's patience and gave up.
Of course, the sixth senior brother who did this seemed to be a little out of his mind.
And Li Zhixia once commented on the four-legged snake with regret.
"If it could have been born a thousand years earlier, it would have become a demon."
"If I were born ten thousand years earlier, I might be able to transform into a dragon!"
The end of every reptile's evolution is always to become a dragon.
It is said that before the Seventh Yuan Hui, this sentence was as full of undoubted meaning as Shu Guan's sentence in his previous life, "The end of the world is the iron ridge."
…Maybe it just degenerated…
When Li Zhixia commented on the four-legged snake in this way, Shu Guan so murmured in his heart.
After understanding the extraordinary nature of the old lame man, coupled with the strange dream and the exaggerated growth rate of the four-legged snake, Shu Guan had some guesses about the origin of the four-legged snake.
Of course, Shu Guan didn't know whether his guess was accurate, just like his guess about the identity of the senior brother and the crown, it seemed like he was overthinking it.
The four-legged snake held the crown on its head and rushed up the cliff. Its four feet have now grown sharp toenails like eagle claws, which can easily dig into the rocks of the cliff. In addition, with its strong limbs He climbed up the vertical cliff with ease, climbed under the pine tree where the elder brother was hanging upside down, and put his ugly and huge head close to the elder brother like a peach.
On the top of the four-legged snake's head, there is a big bulging bag, and the crown is now placed on the big bag.
The senior brother glanced at the Four-legged Snake, his eyes still confused. He took the crown from the Four-legged Snake's head, and then said something to the Four-legged Snake seriously.
"Unappetizing."
Then he threw the crown into the small lake below.
Shu Guan sighed, turned around, and walked back from the cliff with his body level.
On the way back to Banbianlou, he met Fifth Senior Brother An Zichun, who had just finished his task of guarding the mountain gate today.
Shu Guan said hello.
An Zichun seemed to be thinking about something. He raised his head when he heard the sound, and then with a change of expression, he asked Shu Guan this question.
"Seventh Junior Brother, are you okay tomorrow?"
"Nothing."
Shu Guan thought for a while and said.
There seems to be no clue to continue the search for the "Swallow", so he seems to be very free for the next period of time.
"Then you and I will guard the mountain gate for a day tomorrow."
An Zichun said.
"OK."
Shu Guan nodded readily and did not ask An Zichun what he was going to do.
Speaking of which, I had asked my fifth senior brother to take over my duties a lot of times before, and I always had to pay him back several times.
Then Shu Guan was about to continue walking towards the half-story building, but An Zichun called him to stop him, and said thoughtfully:
"Seventh Junior Brother, do you still remember what happened last time when the bride of Dahong Rice Shop disappeared?"
Shu Guan was startled for a moment, then smiled and said:
"of course I remember."
More than a year ago, the disappearance of the bride in Dahong Rice Shop was the first time he had to deal with a supernatural incident after becoming a disciple of Shansi Kuan. How could he forget it.
I just don’t know why the fifth senior brother suddenly mentioned this matter.
"That person seems to be back."
Then An Zichun said this again.
This time Shu Guan looked at An Zichun in confusion. He didn't understand what An Zichun was saying.
"That person is back"?
Who is back?
"The person who gave the moon bottle to Wang Xie is back."
Then An Zichun explained.
Shu Guan recalled it for a moment, then let out a sigh, and finally understood what An Zichun meant just now.
The thing is like this. More than a year ago, when they were dealing with the disappearance of the bride at Dahong Rice Shop, they discovered the strange celadon moon bottle. It was given to Wang Xie, the young owner of Dahong Rice Shop. It is said that That person was Wang Xie's classmate when he was studying abroad in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
There are two possibilities for this matter. One is that the classmate himself did not know the weirdness of the celadon moon bottle and just gave it to Wang Xie as an ordinary piece of porcelain.
Another possibility is that the classmate knows.
If it was the second possibility, then this matter would be very interesting, and in this case, even if they found the bride and rescued the bride from the bottle world, this matter would still not be considered over.
Then they must ask clearly why the classmate deliberately gave Wang Xie such a strange bottle that was suspected of being a magic weapon, and where the classmate got the bottle.
Because that celadon moon-holding bottle is really weird, and it doesn’t look like a particularly powerful magic weapon. But the problem is that there is an artifact with such a high level of intelligence in the bottle, and there is also a small world. It is difficult to use ordinary magic weapons. Use the method of classifying magic weapons to evaluate the celadon moon bottle.
Even now, even Li Zhixia still hasn't figured out the foundation and mystery of the celadon moon bottle.
To be cautious at that time, they also went to find Wang Xie's classmate later that day.
That classmate was not a native of Jingcheng. After returning from studying abroad, with Wang Xie's help and introduction, he found a job in a bank in Jingcheng and rented a house by himself.
When An Zichun and Shu Guan went there that day, they were told by the landlord that the classmate was said to have gone on vacation a few days ago.
After An Zichun divined the whereabouts of that classmate, he discovered that the person was indeed not in Jingcheng at that time, but somewhere thousands of miles away.
So the two had to return with regret.
However, An Zichun drew a talisman in that classmate's room. As long as that classmate came back, he would know it. This way, he would not have to check frequently to see if the classmate had returned from vacation.
Unexpectedly, there was no news about that classmate after that. It seemed that the person never came back for a year.
An Zichun and Shu Guan had already realized that something was wrong. No one could take such a long vacation, and no bank would give such a long vacation to its employees.
It seemed that there was something really wrong with that classmate and he should have simply escaped.
It's a pity that although I realized that there was something wrong with that classmate, since no one could be found, it seemed that the matter could only be left alone.
However, just last night, the talisman An Zichun left behind suddenly came into being!
"The talisman I left doesn't mean that whenever someone enters that room, it will alert them."
"At that time, I drew the breath of the things that the person left in the house into the talisman, so only when the person comes back, the talisman will make me feel."
"And last night, after Brother Wei sensed that the man was back, he immediately went to check it out."
"Senior brother, have you met Wang Xie's classmate?"
"No, according to what the landlord said, that person originally paid rent for two years, and the landlord was a kind man. Although the person didn't come back for more than a year, the landlord kept the room until the time was up. And last night The man came back suddenly, but after only taking a few things, he left in a hurry."
"Senior brother, you didn't predict that person's whereabouts?"
"I guess, this time the whereabouts of that person have actually been covered up, but I can be more sure that there must be something wrong with Wang Xie's classmate. And the landlord also told me last night that the person will be there tomorrow morning Come back and pack other things, and I won’t rent a house with him from now on, so I’m going to go there early tomorrow morning to guard my brother.”
"Is there someone helping him cover up the secret? Of course there is a practitioner standing behind that person. Fifth senior brother, how about I go with you tomorrow?"
"Haha, thank you Seventh Junior Brother for your kindness, but no need. I just met Third Senior Sister at the foot of the cliff, and I have already asked her to accompany me."
Since Third Senior Sister Rui Jianqiao is accompanying him, unless he meets a strong person in the Fetal Movement Realm, there will naturally be no problem with safety.
Moreover, the place where classmate Wang Xie rented was at the mouth of the river, not too far from their Shan Si Guan, so Shu Guan no longer persisted.
"Then senior brother, be more careful tomorrow."
Finally, Shu Guan said this to An Zichun, and then the two of them said goodbye and returned to their rooms.
