In heavy rain.
Yao Nan's car stopped at the door of the coffin shop.
After bidding farewell to their family, I opened the door, got out of the car, and walked directly into the coffin shop.
Lao Cao and Wang Hu were chatting.
When he saw me coming back, he immediately said with a smile.
"Look, Xiaohu, I told Xiao Wu that we don't need to worry. Someone must have sent him back, right? It seems like his little lover sent him back."
Wang Hu kept nodding.
"The boss still sees clearly. I was just worried that Brother Wu would be soaked when he came back from the heavy rain."
I glared at Lao Cao and pretended to be angry.
"Hey, you disrespectful old Cao, I'm only fourteen years old, this is puppy love. I will be reprimanded by the school teacher! What's more, Yao Nan and I are just good friends."
Fourteen?
Lao Cao smiled lewdly.
He took a puff of dry cigarette and blew out the smoke ring.
"If you look at the old society before liberation, many people had children when they were fourteen years old. Times have really changed, and the changes have been huge."
Wang Hu also nodded.
"The boss is right, it is indeed like this."
I:"……"
"I'm too lazy to tell you two! They are all disrespectful guys. It's raining heavily and you don't want to bring me an umbrella. You just want to tease me, right?"
I shrugged helplessly.
To be honest, I really don't have any thoughts about Yao Nan.
Although she is indeed very beautiful and I do admire her very much!
I moved a small wooden stool from the side and sat down, and I chatted casually with Lao Cao and Wang Hu...
At this time, it was dark as ink outside the house, and the rainstorm was roaring.
We sat around listening to the rain and talking about supernatural and mysterious things.
It's really interesting.
Especially since there is indeed a ghost present!
I said jokingly.
"Old Cao, in the ancient story of Luojiao Slope that has been circulated in Lianghe Town, the python that failed to walk through the water was trying to walk through the water in this weather, right?"
This story was originally told to me by him, so of course it was very clear.
"Yes! It's just that even my master couldn't tell the truth from the false story about Luojiaopo. It is said that when my master was young, he almost turned Luojiaopo upside down. Nothing was found."
Lao Cao's tone was filled with memories.
In his lineage, the master adopted orphans and then trained them as disciples and sons.
So Lao Cao's master is actually his adoptive father. As for Lao Cao's master, he has the same relationship as Lao Cao's master.
It stands to reason that if the story of "Luojiao Slope" is true, then even if the imperial court at that time took away the corpse of the huge python demon that failed to turn into a dragon, it also issued a hush-hush order to the townspeople.
But there will always be some scales or bone fragments left, right?
There is no trace at all, not even a powerful coffin bearer like Master Cao can be found. It is indeed strange!
I looked at the thick rain curtain outside the house and started talking again.
"Today's heavy rain is rare in a century, right? As far as the area near Lianghe Town is concerned, it is probably even heavier than it was more than two years ago."
I was talking about more than two years ago, in 1998.
In the summer of that year, heavy rains continued to fall in most parts of the country for a long time.
The entire Yangtze River Basin, including the Songhua River, Nenjiang River, etc., suffered severe floods in almost the entire basin...
The small river outside our Wujia Village turned into a ferocious rolling river. The width of the river has changed from the usual ten meters to one or two hundred meters wide - almost approaching the entrance of the village.
At that time, the old village chief also organized the young and middle-aged adults in the village to carry sandbags to the river and place them to block water to prevent the river from overflowing into the rice fields.
However, it ultimately failed...
Floods destroyed rice fields, causing many families to lose their harvests. As a result, the folks in the village did not have a very good life that year.
So I was very impressed.
Lao Cao sighed.
"I think so too. I'm afraid that in terms of rainfall in some areas, it will be more than 1998 in the past half day. It seems that many people will be affected again."
I thought for a while and continued.
"Old Cao, you said that if what happened at Luojiao Po is true. Then there is another violent storm that has never happened in a century. Is it possible...another giant python that has been practicing for hundreds of years is about to take advantage of the situation and turn into water? Got a dragon?"
As soon as these words came out, Lao Cao's expression changed slightly. Then he laughed and cursed again.
"Xiao Wu, you crow mouth, don't talk nonsense! If there really is a giant python that wants to turn into a dragon at this time, it will not be a good thing..."
I scratched my head.
"That's true. Today's Lianghe Town is not what it was hundreds of years ago. It is densely populated, and there are continuous villages outside the town. Even where there are no people, there are greenhouses, vegetable gardens, orchards, and farms."
"This heavy rain is already scary. If a giant python turns into a dragon, the losses will be even greater."
The moment I finished speaking, my whole body suddenly shook!
The Qi in the Dantian suddenly felt like it was boiling and boiling automatically, uncontrollably.
Not only that, the Jiangyuan Palace acupuncture point near my heart suddenly vibrated, and a tiny trace of turbid air stored in it seemed to pass through my body and have some kind of connection with the earth under my feet.
"not good!!!"
I exclaimed and hurriedly sat cross-legged to meditate, with my five hearts pointing toward the sky.
Forcibly suppress the abnormal movements in the body, and at the same time seal the acupoints as much as possible, converge the breath, and cut off the connection with the earth's energy.
On New Year's Eve half a year ago, after I took the turbid energy into my body, I gradually felt the huge benefits it brought.
Not only magic techniques such as the Talisman Master's Immortal Yin Paper, but also martial arts. There has been great progress.
As for the disadvantage that it is easy to be mistaken for the mountains and rivers by the energy of the earth veins, I have never encountered it...
After all, even in a remote place like Wujiacun, the strength of the earth's energy is not very strong.
But I never expected that in a place like Lianghe Town tonight, the energy of the earth would suddenly go riot!
It was almost a huge increase in multiples, which caused me to be hooked by this power that existed deep in the earth even under normal conditions.
If we use scientific physics or geographical terms to describe it, it may be that the geomagnetic field has suddenly changed dramatically!
Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and immediately blocked the meridians and acupoints to suppress the energy in my body. Only when you enter the meditative state with your five hearts pointing toward the sky can you avoid being violently dragged underground.
At this time, I feel like an ordinary person. You can't use Qi and cast spells easily!
Of course, boxing and kicking skills are still unaffected.
So if you insist on saying that you are exactly the same as "ordinary people", that doesn't count.
All this happened so suddenly that neither Lao Cao nor Wang Hu could react.
"Xiao Wu, what's going on? You..."
Lao Cao looked at me with a worried expression on his face.
I shook my head and said.
"It's a bit strange. The energy of the earth veins nearby suddenly surged to an extremely high level. And it was very irregular. There was something very, very..."
I thought for a while before I found an appropriate adjective - frantic!
"That's right, the energy of the earth's veins became a little crazy just now. So it directly connected with a trace of turbid energy in my body, and tried to connect me like a mountain. I had to be pulled into the ground."
"Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough, otherwise I don't know if there would be any trouble."
Although the incident was a bit thrilling, my tone was quite calm when I told it.
I also told Lao Cao about how my master taught me to capture the wisp of clear and turbid energy when the old and new changes between heaven and earth on New Year’s Eve.
He knows my situation.
So at this time, Lao Cao's expression became solemn and his tone became a little serious.
"The energy of the earth's veins is a force of the earth itself, which exists in all the soil and rock formations in the world. It is also one of the most stable natural forces. It will not change unless it is caused by extremely special circumstances or something. "
"Especially since this afternoon, it has been raining heavily all night, and the water spirit energy permeating the sky and the earth is so strong. The energy of the earth veins should be suppressed and stabilized. "
"unless……"
His expression became a little unnatural.
"Unless there is something very powerful. When the water essence air is everywhere and the concentration is high, it becomes even more powerful. On the contrary, it can trigger the underground earth vein energy to explode by itself and become crazy. "
"And this kind of ability, as far as I know, should only be possessed by... the dragon type that transformed from the big snake in the mountain! In other words, Xiao Wu, your crow's mouth is unfortunately right."
"There is a high possibility that within the area of Lianghe Town, which is tens of kilometers away...there is really a giant python that is about to turn into a dragon."
