Li Miao felt that her mouth was dry, her hands and feet were cold, and her head was a little dizzy.
Oh my god, he met the river god!
This is the profession of corpse fishermen - a legend that has been spread since ancient times among all people who make a living on the water.
All things are animistic, and the heaven and earth are natural. In addition to humans, there will also be some other animistic things.
Therefore, mountains have mountain gods, and rivers have river gods.
Of course, these so-called "gods" are definitely different from those illusory mythical gods that may not exist at all...
In essence, they still belong to the category of animals. It's just that by chance, part of his spiritual intelligence was opened and he gained power beyond common sense.
Or to put it another way, it is...a demon!
It's just that because it is so powerful, it is the most powerful creature in a certain area. Thus he became the so-called "god".
For example, the river god of Sichuan River is mentioned by the corpse fishermen.
In fact, it is the most powerful being in the water in each river basin.
Lianghe Town is under the jurisdiction of Fubei County. It has the largest population and the most prosperous economy among the 20 towns under the jurisdiction of Fubei County.
The Chuanjiang River flows through the north of Lianghe Town, then turns around and reaches the west side of the town, and then goes all the way south to the county seat.
The entire Fubei County has a population of nearly one million and an area of 2,000 square kilometers. The Sichuan River system that meanders through the county is about 150 kilometers long.
The "river god" in this 150-kilometer Sichuan River Basin is said to be a huge strange fish!
When Li Miao was a child, he heard his master tell some legends about the Fubei River God.
There are good ones and there are bad ones.
Some rescued children or women and children who fell into the water, and some inexplicably crashed boats in the river.
After all, the so-called River God, if we put aside the awe and fear of ordinary people and look at it purely from the perspective of a Taoist practitioner - is a powerful monster that is both good and evil! It is also a wild and untamed animal.
But no matter what, the river god possesses very powerful and incredible power. Anyone who lives on the water must be in awe of it and cannot easily provoke it.
When Li Miao was eight years old, his parents died and he became an orphan.
It was his master who adopted him, raised him, and taught him how to fish out corpses so that he could earn a living.
In fact, it is difficult for most of the professional professions in the folk tradition, such as corpse collectors and coffin bearers, which have close contact with Yin people, to marry and have children.
So many people adopt a child and also teach it as an apprentice.
He is both a master and apprentice, as well as an adoptive father and son.
This kind of relationship is the most reliable.
After Li Miao grew up, his master passed away unexpectedly, so he took over the mantle and became a body fisherman from the Chuanjiang River near Lianghe Town.
It's just that for so many years, he has never really seen the "Lord River God" that his master talked about when he was a child - so much so that Li Miao felt that it was just a false rumor.
After all, Master also said that the body of the River God is probably close to twenty meters long.
Li Miao is also a modern person and can also watch TV.
Especially in the 1990s, there were actually many popular science education channels on TV. On the contrary, the culture of studying, advocating, and promoting science is stronger than it is now.
So Li Miao has also watched things like "Animal World" and "Science and Education Channel".
It is said above that the size of freshwater fish cannot exceed eight meters in length.
This is the conclusion reached by a biological calculation method called the Herrickhoff limit.
Li Miao also feels that maybe this time, the scientists are right...
but!
Just today.
At this moment, he finally saw it!
This is the river god in the Chuanjiang River Basin in Fubei County.
The behemoth swimming in the cold deep water was still emitting a dark red light. The strong evil spirit hit Li Miao's face from a long distance in the water, making Li Miao's heart beat wildly and her blood pressure rise.
Although there is no way to clearly see the specific appearance and length of "Lord River God", just by looking at it from a distance, you can tell that its length is definitely not less than fifteen meters!
It might even... really reach the legendary twenty meters.
Too huge.
How does such a big creature keep living in the Sichuan River without being discovered?
Li Miao couldn't imagine it.
It can only be attributed to the fact that as a "river god" he must have many wonderful means and abilities.
At the same time, he was even more curious and shocked - what on earth was that mysterious treasure?
Not only did it attract all the fish, shrimps, turtles, crabs and floating corpses in the nearby water, but even the river god seemed to covet it!
But Li Miao knew that he could not stay any longer.
The group of floating corpses just fell to death, which was no longer something he could handle. Now that the River God is here, if you stay here any longer, are you planning to become the River God’s food?
So Li Miao made a prompt decision and immediately swam upstream at the fastest speed while pulling the rope three times regularly. After feeling the pull of Lao Cao and me, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As he quickly rose towards the water, Li Miao lowered his head and glanced down.
The huge black shadow emitting a faint red light has completely arrived at the place where the floating corpses gathered just now...
Li Miao finished speaking.
Lao Cao and I were in shock and didn't recover for a long time.
"River God? Does it really exist..."
I still said this sentence subconsciously.
But as soon as I said it, I felt a little stupid.
Li Miao had already seen it just now!
That huge figure exuding a strong demonic aura... is indeed very similar to the "River God" in the ancient legends of corpse fishermen.
Lao Cao took a few puffs of his cigarette, smashed his mouth, and said.
"I have indeed heard my master and master talk about the river gods in the Chuanjiang River Basin in Fubei County. Before liberation, some ordinary people also saw them in the river outside Zhenbei. But in recent years I haven’t heard much about it in ten years. I thought it had died of old age.”
Regarding the "River God" matter, Lao Cao seemed much calmer than Li Miao and I.
After all, ginger is still hot with age!
Be well-informed and have more experience.
Li Miao didn't expect that Lao Cao actually knew about this matter?
He was a little surprised: "I thought people who make a living on the water would know this. I didn't expect you, Cao Coffin Maker, to know this too? Do you know anything else?"
Lao Cao shook his head: "Actually, I am older than you, so I have heard more. We are not ordinary people, let me say something disrespectful. The so-called river god is a river that has lived for many, many years and opened A big fish that possesses spiritual intelligence and supernatural powers."
Well……
These words are indeed very direct, and the essence is pointed out at once.
Lao Cao looked at me again: "About the river god, Xiao Wu, if you go back at the weekend, you can ask your master. Fairy Girl must know far more than me."
oh oh!
I nodded vigorously.
This is the benefit of having a good master!
If there's anything you don't understand, just go back and ask.
Of course, I don’t want to involve Master in these matters.
I could vaguely feel that such a powerful master as Master has been living in Wujia Village for many years. Being so low-key, he definitely doesn’t want to show too many tricks to the outside world!
That is to say, after he accepted me as his apprentice, he took on a limited number of jobs in the villages and countryside in the surrounding mountains - the main purpose was to give me experience.
So, what difficulties did I encounter in Two Rivers Town? They just ask the master and want her to help clarify my doubts and provide guidance. Don't bother her to actually take action!
This is also something that I, as a disciple, should consider for my master.
Li Miao reminded me and Lao Cao with a wry smile.
"I feel that the current situation is a bit beyond our imagination and control. I originally just helped to fish out a corpse, but I didn't expect to fish out a living corpse... and now it is also involved in the corpse ghost in the river. And Lord River God.”
He thought it was a little too magical.
I smiled and said, Brother Li, it’s okay for you, you were just doing your job. Lao Cao and I suddenly got involved.
Li Miao quickly said sorry...
Lao Cao shook his head: "It's okay, you didn't mean it. It's just that it seems that we won't be able to figure out what happened to the child corpse Xiao Sheng in a short time."
He also frowned, looking worried.
I also feel that this matter seems to be getting more and more mysterious!
As I was thinking about it, I was analyzing the whole story...
"Now it is basically certain that Xiao Sheng, the child corpse, was stimulated by some external force at the bottom of the river, which caused him to be dead but with three souls and seven souls remaining in his body, just like a living person."
"So, what happened to Xiao Sheng might just be an accident. After drowning, he drifted along the river to the east bank. He sank to the bottom of the river and came into contact with the mysterious treasure."
"Then, Brother Li was asked by his parents to fish Xiao Sheng out of the river. Then he found that he was already a living corpse."
"Then we came to the river to find out what affected him. Then Brother Li saw a dense gathering of water spirits and corpses, including the river god who came last."
"Then, there are actually only three important things left regarding this matter."
As I said this, I raised three fingers.
"First, what should Xiao Sheng do now?"
"Second, should we continue to find out what the mysterious treasure is? If we want to find out, how?"
"The third question is whether the river god just took away the rare treasure."
Those are three things to think about right now.
Bang bang bang!
Lao Cao applauded and smiled: "Xiao Wu's logical thinking is very rigorous. He is only in the first year of junior high school, and he has such a clear idea. His future is bright."
Li Miao also nodded in agreement, saying that he was young and promising. It made me feel a little embarrassed.
Then, we discussed it.
Regarding the child corpse Xiao Sheng, there is currently no better way. There is no way to transcend it, nor can we directly eliminate it... I guess we can only maintain the original state, and use the method of suppressing corpses to temporarily "raise" it in the cellar of the Xiao family.
Li Miao checks it every day, then gives it some food and waits to see what happens.
As for the mysterious treasures at the bottom of the river, we must continue to investigate!
Although we are in this business mainly to make money, there are not so many so-called noble sentiments.
But everything happens for a reason! And people are curious too.
It's okay if you don't know about such a big thing. But now that we have been hit by it, it is definitely impossible to just let it go. So I have to keep checking. But how to check it, you have to go back and think about it carefully.
As for whether the River God took that thing away?
We discussed it and decided that there shouldn't be one.
Obviously, Xiao Sheng drowned and died ten days ago.
If the rare treasure had only appeared in the past few days, Xiao Sheng's body would have been soaked to death long ago, and it would not have turned into a zombie.
Therefore, it is very likely that not long after he drowned, his body floated along the river and sank on the east bank, where he came into contact with the rare treasure. Mutations have occurred!
In this case, the ghosts and corpses all over the river, including the river god, must have been discovered a long time ago.
Li Miao himself also thought about it again. During this period, the number of floats encountered on the river near Lianghe Town at night was indeed less, which can prove the correctness of this conjecture.
If it had been so long, he would still be able to see this scene when he went into the water tonight. This means that whether it is the little monsters in the water, dead floating corpses, or even the river god.
None of them have the ability to take that thing away!
For a long time, that thing should stay at the bottom of the river.
I smiled bitterly and said, "Why does this thing become more and more scary the more I think about it? The presence of the River God is enough to shock me. What does it have to be that the River God can't take away?"
The three of us were silent.
After a while, Lao Cao said: "Perhaps, it's not necessarily that the River God can't take it away. Is there a possibility that... the River God is still unwilling to take it away?"
yes!
I reacted suddenly.
Patting his thigh, he exclaimed: "Is it possible that it's like the golden thread Youtan we took from the graveyard on the other side of the bridge?"
Li Miao was stunned and asked curiously: "Golden Thread Youtan, what is that?"
Now he and we can be regarded as grasshoppers on the same rope, so I felt that there was no need to hide it from him, so I told the story about Jinxian Youtan.
After hearing this, Li Miao frowned and was a little surprised: "So, a very powerful evil cultivator has appeared around Lianghe Town recently? Cao Coffin, you, Brother Wu, and Master Yuan Fei, the three of you will fight him together." Didn’t you take advantage?”
yes!
Lao Cao smiled bitterly and nodded: "That evil cultivator is indeed very powerful, and his methods are weird. And now he is hiding in a dark place, so it is difficult to find out. It feels like it is always a hidden danger. But now we are talking about the mysterious things at the bottom of the river, those The floating corpse was dead and the river god came to see it for so many days but didn't take it away. I thought maybe the time to take it away wasn't ripe yet."
Generally speaking, natural treasures require a fixed period of time to be nurtured.
If you take it away before the time is right, its effectiveness will be greatly reduced!
For example, the golden thread Youtan that we picked was taken away.
It was getting late now and all three of us were a little tired.
So I went back to Xiao's house first and talked about the matter with Xiao Mao and his wife. Let Li Miao come and make some arrangements.
The couple naturally agreed without any objection and kept thanking us.
By this time, it was already half past two in the morning.
Lao Cao and I are going back, and there are no more motorcycles to ride on.
I can only walk back slowly, looking at the stars and chatting leisurely along the way, which is not bad...
