Immediately, I could see a black shadow just below my body. From the outline, it looked like a person. This discovery made my heart beat faster. We have been guessing what it is. Some people say it is a water ghost.
, but I don’t believe it. Now that I see the appearance of the humanoid, I have to believe it.
It's a pity that the surrounding light is too dark, so I can't see its specific appearance, but I think it must be very scary.
The fat man had already swam to my side, holding the dagger in his hand and stabbing directly into the shadow. This time he hit the target, the thing suddenly twisted its body, and the hand holding my foot quickly let go.
I was already prepared and took the opportunity to put the rope on the thing's head, and then jumped out of the water. "Okay, pull."
On the shore, the old lame man and Xiaowu and Xiaoliu were waiting attentively. When they heard my cry, they hurriedly pulled the rope. Soon there were huge waves in the water, and the thing struggled desperately in the water. It was so powerful that it
It's really amazing to be able to hold a stalemate with the three of them.
"Quick, help them." The fat man and I climbed ashore quickly, and then each of us, five of us, pulled the rope together.
The five of us tried our best together, and even a cow could easily pull it over. Although the inexplicable ghost was powerful, there was nothing we could do, and it was quickly dragged out of the water by us.
When we saw its full appearance, we were still shocked. When we were underwater, I thought it was a person. When it got dark, we discovered that it was not at all because it had a long tail.
It can reach up to two meters, which is longer and larger than its entire body. But what is surprising is that its body is human-shaped, with sound limbs. From the waist and back, it looks like a human, but its whole body is
It is covered with scales, like crocodile skin. But its face is very weird, with a long pointed mouth and light green eyes, which have nothing to do with humans.
"Damn it, what the hell is this? Could it be that it's been behind this all along?"
No one could tell what it was, but it wasn't a good thing anyway. The fat man walked over carefully with a dagger, and the thing lay motionless on the ground. It looked ferocious and terrifying, but it didn't seem to have that energy anymore.
The thing didn't move until the fat man walked up to it. He took a dagger and poked it in the head, but there was still no movement at all. "Is it dead?" the fat man muttered as he stabbed the monster hard with his dagger.
He poked the body, but the result was the same. No matter what he did, the monster showed no reaction at all.
It was strange. We all couldn't help but got curious and got closer. The final result was that this strange thing was really dead. There was a rope around its neck, but it definitely did not die of suffocation. After watching it for a long time, I
The real cause of its death is not yet known.
At this time, I saw the old lame man next to me looking thoughtful on his face, and couldn't help but ask: "Old Yan, do you know what is going on?"
"If my guess is correct, this thing should be a 'water ghost'."
"Water ghost? Haha, lame, don't be joking. Look at how it looks like a water ghost. It's simply a mutated giant crocodile. At best, it looks a bit like a human. Maybe it's a hybrid between some disgusting guy and a crocodile.
, it has nothing to do with water ghosts!"
"No, the 'ghost' I'm talking about is not the 'ghost' you imagined. It is a living thing, not the water ghost that a person turns into after drowning."
"Creature? It seems that I have never heard of such a creature." I looked at him doubtfully.
"No, yes, there is such a thing. No one knows their living habits, no one knows their living conditions, and few even know what they look like, but they do exist, and they are unknown.
Because they never leave the water, and once they leave the water, they will die quickly. The outside air is like poison, which will make their blood coagulate quickly. If you don’t believe it, you can cut it open
A wound, you will know it when the time comes."
I didn't believe it, and neither did the fat man. I took out my dagger and opened a wound on the monster's body, but not a drop of blood flowed down. Just like what the old cripple said, the blood in its body had already solidified.
This time I believed it, and everyone else seemed to believe it too. I originally thought that the so-called water ghosts were the evil spirits that people turn into after death, but I didn’t expect that they were based on this kind of creature, which is the real "water ghost".
"Water Ghost".
But soon we couldn't be happy anymore, because we thought about the original intention of catching the water ghost. If the water ghost is just a scary-looking creature, it really doesn't have the ability to use any tricks to deceive us. But why did we
But you can’t get out of this place?
Now we are stumped again. Ghosts are not scary, and deceptions are even less scary, but not being able to find the reason is the scariest thing.
"Eh? Did we forget the most important thing?" The fat man who was messing with the water ghost seemed to suddenly think of something. He stood up and kept looking at the other side of the river, and then looked back and forth.
.
Knowing him very well, I knew what he must have been thinking about and asked him hurriedly. The fat man pointed to the stone gate on the other side of the river where we entered and said: "I don't think this is the place where we came in at the beginning. Don't forget, there is
There is no stone door, but a stone cave like a mirror. We fell from the stone cave, but there is no stone cave here."
After hearing what he said, I remembered that if we had never moved out of this area, at least the cave would not have disappeared. But now what is behind us is the stone gate, and the cave has long since disappeared.
Gone.
"Fat man, you mean that we are actually moving forward and are not trapped in this place, right?"
"I just have this suspicion. I don't know whether it is true or not."
I smiled and said to him that it is actually very simple to prove this problem. There are so many of us, we can divide it into two waves, and one wave will go in first. The passage is only ten minutes away. If we don’t meet up after ten minutes,
That would explain the problem.
"Yes, haha, this is a good idea." We acted decisively, and Fatty and I walked into the stone gate together. When the passage came to the end, we saw the familiar place again, and after passing through the stone passage
, we didn’t see the old cripple and the others. It was already obvious. In fact, we had been moving forward. We were just repeating the scenery we saw, just like wearing candied haws with nowhere to go, and the journey was already deep.