Gongsun Yao often fell asleep and woke up due to pain. He often felt stunned when he woke up, and he could not see the light of day under the ground. He did not know how many days passed like this.
On this day, Gongsun Yao woke up from a nightmare. He dreamed that a small table was full of heads, all of which were his family members. On the other side were many swordsmen and servants of the Gongsun family kneeling. Li Mi raised his sword with a smile. , cut off grandpa’s head with one knife.
When Gongsun Yao woke up with a start, his face was filled with tears again. He sat up and didn't bother to wipe it away. He just felt that all his thoughts were lost and the breath he breathed into his chest was cold.
He glanced over and saw Wei Jing standing in the shallow water with his trousers rolled up, holding eight hands, and what was pulled out from the end of the eight hands was a fork.
Wei Jing stared at his feet intently, then suddenly grunted, leaned forward and stabbed, but nothing was hit. Water splashed all over his face, and he was so angry that he cursed secretly.
Qianli was drinking water and making a snoring sound.
Wei Jing wiped his face, pushed Qianli, and cursed angrily: "Stupid horse, don't make a sound, you will scare away the fish."
Wei Jing changed places and walked slowly, watching a few fish swimming slowly under his feet, but every time he tried to stab, he couldn't stab him. He got angry and stabbed hard. He fell to the ground and was soaked. After struggling a few times, he couldn't stand up. When he got up, it turned out that in the past few days, he had spent a lot of time taking care of Gongsun Yao, who was sometimes sleeping and sometimes crying. He rarely rested. He often looked at the pool on the big rock for fear of crocodiles.
When he found a fish in the water, he caught it with his eight hands for a long time, but couldn't catch anything.
Wei Jing finally struggled to get up, only to feel that his legs were weak and he was so hungry that he felt dizzy and wanted to sit down again after groaning several times.
Gongsun Yao, who came slowly, pressed against Wei Jing's back, grabbed his hand, patted his back, and said with a smile: "Brother Wei, support me and let's catch fish together..."
Wei Jing nodded, put Gongsun Yao's left arm on his shoulder, and walked towards the shallow water.
Gongsun Yao concentrated his attention on the water and stabbed a black fish in the middle.
The fish was about the size of an arm, and the two cheered for a while. Gongsun Yao wanted to stab a few more fish, but he was weak at the moment and could no longer stab him.
Wei Jing got impatient, so he snatched back the eight hands and slaughtered the fish. Although he had tools to make a fire, he had no firewood. The two of them were very hungry and didn't care about the smell of the fish, so they swallowed the fish alive.
"Alas, the most pitiful thing is your horse. It has no grass to eat..." Wei Jing picked his teeth with a fish bone and looked at Qianli and said.
Gongsun Yao looked at the shoal at the far end of the pool, but it was deep and dark and could not be seen clearly, so he said: "In two days, when I regain my strength, I can swim over there. Maybe there will be a road there..."
"No, no... there are crocodiles in the water, it's hard to deal with..." Wei Jing waved his hand and said.
Gongsun Yao smiled bitterly and replied: "That is also an impossible solution. I can swim a thousand miles away, and it can carry you across the pond..."
"What...you can swim..." Wei Jing looked at Qianli and saw that he was the only one who couldn't swim. He seemed a little embarrassed and said, "Tsk, tsk, if it hadn't been so cold these days, I would have learned it while studying here... ⋯”
Two days later, the two of them split up to catch fish. Gongsun Yao took the eight-handed fish and stabbed some fish, while Wei Jing cut several thousand-mile bristles and connected them into long lines. They used fish bones as hooks and raw fish meat scraps as bait for fishing.
The two of them ate a total of eight fish that day and felt very satisfied. When Wei Jing was thinking about how to improve his fishing methods next time, Gongsun Yao patted Qianli's neck and said, "Brother Wei, we can't delay any longer. Qianli won't eat anymore." If you don’t have these things, you won’t be able to swim.”
"That's right..." Wei Jing was still very afraid of the dark pool.
"That's good." Gongsun Yao handed the eight hands back to Wei Jing, pointed to the beach in the distance and said, "I'll go to that beach to have a look first. If there's a way out, I'll come to pick you and Qianli up."
"No, let's go together!" Wei Jing breathed out, stretched his body, then climbed on Qianli's back, patted Qianli's neck and said: "Oh my god, my god, although I often scold you, but I'm actually joking with you, you must carry me across the water well, and I will treat you to delicious grass."
Gongsun Yao led Qian Li and walked toward the water. In the first few steps, the bodies of each person and the horse gradually dived. Wei Jing was originally lying on Qian Li's back, holding his legs tightly. The next step, Gongsun Yao and Thousands of miles suddenly sank, and the dark water suddenly reached Wei Jing's neck, making him scream and scream in fear. It turns out that there is a deep pool just a few steps away from the shallow beach, and the soles of my feet can no longer touch the ground.
Qianli also kicked a few times in panic. Gongsun Yao stuck his head out, spit out the water from his mouth, and put his arms around Qianli's neck to comfort him.
After all, Qianli is the best horse among ten thousand. He neighed a few times and quickly regained his composure. Although he had not eaten for several days and was weak, he still swam with all his strength.
Wei Jing grasped the reins tightly with one hand and held the eight hands tightly with the other. He was soaked in the water from the waist down. He felt cold and panicked. The small beach in front of him was still some distance away, and the big stone pillars in the underground cave echoed with rumbling sounds. The sound of water, because of the darkness, is even more eerie and eerie now than it was at sea.
He turned around and saw two bright beads appearing thousands of miles away.
"Ah, the crocodile is out!" Wei Jing shouted, pointing at the other end.
Gongsun Yao turned around and saw nothing, so he said, "Brother Wei, you must have seen it wrong."
"It's true, those bright eyes are its eyes!" Wei Jing was so panicked that his whole body trembled. He turned his head and looked behind him, only to see the dark water swaying behind him. He just wanted to get ashore quickly, and from time to time he turned to look at the small beach in front of him. The shore was still far away, and he was so anxious that he urged Gongsun Yao: "Hurry up... If you don't get ashore, you will be eaten!"
"Brother Wei, don't rush him, Qianli has no strength..." Gongsun Yao held Qianli's neck with one hand and swam as hard as he could.
Wei Jing only felt that his body in the water was sinking a little more. He stretched out his hand to touch Qianli, and sure enough he felt that it was weaker. He gritted his teeth and turned over into the water. He grabbed the reins and kicked in the water to reduce Qianli's burden.
After a lot of tossing, the two men and one horse finally reached the shore, but that shore was not a shoal, but a slightly steep rock slope. There was an arm's length height difference between the rock slope and the water surface. Gongsun Yao grabbed the rock slope and stretched it with both arms. After turning over to the shore, Wei Jing also turned over, but Qianli could not get up.
The two of them pulled the reins and dragged the animal's feet for a long time, finally dragging Qianli halfway.
Suddenly there was a roar from thousands of miles away, and the body sank violently, and the drag force almost pulled both of them into the water.
Before the two of them knew what happened, they saw the waves on the shore surging, and Qianli, who had sunk into the water, resurfaced, screamed twice, and was then dragged into the water again.
An extremely huge crocodile turned over and came out of the water with a thousand-mile mouth in its mouth, rolling around in the pool. The scene was like a mountain and river shaking, the pool water was splashed into the air, and fell like a heavy rain.
"Qianli——" Gongsun Yao screamed, ready to jump into the water to save the horse. Wei Jing hugged him tightly, pulled him back, and shouted, "Run away, it's a crocodile!"
Wei Jing opened his eyes wide and stared at the waves in the water. He saw that although only half of the giant crocodile was exposed from the water, it was much larger than the twenty-foot giant crocodile he and Fan Jun had seen last time. Wei Jing could not believe that there was such a thing in the world. With such a monster, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't let Gongsun Yao go into the water.
I saw the water surface churning again, Qianli's body already bent and twisted.
"Let go! Let me save it!" Gongsun Yao cried and shouted while pushing Wei Jing's head.
"You can't beat it!" Wei Jing yelled, still pulling Gongsun Yao back desperately: "Don't you want to avenge your grandfather? Think of your grandfather! Think of my cousin! My cousin prays to heaven to protect you, I want you to be safe——"
Gongsun Yao saw that the water was still surging and churning, but the crocodile and Qianli were no longer visible. He knelt down in despair and cried bitterly.
"Poor Qianli..." Wei Jing wiped away his tears while pulling Gongsun Yao and dragging him deeper into the beach.
Wei Jing looked around and felt that the beach here was darker than the previous one, but it seemed much wider.
I leaned against the cliff and turned around, even more twists and turns, connecting high and low slopes, which seemed to lead to other places.
The two of them walked forward in this way, sometimes having to wade through water. The rocky ground underneath was high and low, and the water sometimes reached their knees, and sometimes it reached their abdomen.
