My first reaction was that there was a huge fish swimming in the lake, and we happened to hit it.
Looking at Chujiu's unnatural expression, I guessed that the giant beast in the lake was not a big fish.
Just when I was stunned, a roar came from the jungle across the lake. I couldn't tell what kind of wild beast it was, but I just felt my ears buzzing.
Chujiu moved a few steps to the roadside with Xiaoyu on his back. It was obvious that he wanted to get as far away from the lake as possible.
I followed Chujiu and walked along the road paved with bluestones towards the village.
I saw the water wave in the lake circling a few times not far from us. For a moment, I wondered if I was dazzled. In the center of the water splashing several meters high, I could vaguely see a half-meter-long wave.
The body is thick and covered with black scales.
I stretched out my hand and rubbed my eyes in disbelief. Then I looked at the lake and it became calm. It seemed that the waves I just saw were just my imagination.
"Chujiu, you, ah!"
Just as we were about to ask Chujiu, the lake surface a few meters away from us suddenly exploded, and the splashing water was like a downpour, drenching the three of us in an instant.
The moment I turned around, I couldn't help but scream and collapsed on the ground. My eyes happened to see Chujiu's extremely trembling legs.
I instinctively took a few steps back. It wasn't until my body was leaning against the stone wall that my mind realized what had just happened.
Then I shivered and called Chujiu beside me twice. At this time, I instinctively regarded Chujiu as my only support, but Chujiu froze on the spot without making any move.
Dragon! A black dragon! A black dragon whose head was only two meters away from me and Chujiu, staring straight at us.
I was convinced that what I saw in front of me was a black dragon. On the day of the New Year Festival in Chujiu Village, I saw the dragon, the patron saint of their village, and now what I saw was a real dragon, because the black dragon in front of me had horns on its head.
"If the water is not deep, there will be dragons." It turns out that there really are dragons in this world.
I couldn't control my thoughts at this moment, and I couldn't help but think wildly. I thought of a lot of things in an instant. The book records that there are gods in the water, crocodile heads, lizard legs, eagle claws, snake tails, antlers, fish scales, beards at the corners of the mouth, and forehead.
There are beads underneath, and it's completely on point.
In just a moment, I also thought that it wouldn't hurt us.
Although I didn't dare to look directly into its eyes, I could still see clearly from the corner of my eye. Its front paws were resting on the edge of the lake casually, its black body with shiny scales was immersed in the water, and its tail was swaying left and right on the water more than ten meters away.
After the fear in my heart passed, I became relaxed. To be more precise, it should be that when faced with an existence that I was completely invincible, my mentality became calm and resigned to death.
"Hoo~"
Chujiu suddenly let out a long breath, clasped his hands, and saluted the black dragon as a disciple.
Heilong nodded his head slightly, but his eyes were still staring at Chujiu. At this time, I could clearly see that what Heilong was staring at was Xiaoyu on Chujiu's back.
There was a burst of urgent footsteps coming from far away, and Grandma Jian Shu rushed towards us. When she stood beside us, she turned around and looked around a few times.
Grandma Jian Shu didn't say anything to us. She took out a palm-sized black scale from the cloth bag she carried with her and held it in her hand.
I only saw Grandma Jian Shu's lips moving slightly, but I couldn't hear any sound coming out. On the other hand, Heilong turned his head and looked at Grandma Jian Shu, nodded from time to time, then glanced at Xiaoyu on Chujiu's back, and retreated into the lake.
Missing figure.
"Fortunately, no one else saw you. You guys came much earlier than I thought. I thought you wouldn't arrive until tomorrow night at the earliest."
Grandma Jian Shu accompanied us to the village and told us on the way that she woke up after hearing the cry of the guardian beast in her sleep. She found that the King Gu insect was making an uneasy cry and at the same time sensed that something had happened in the lake.
I ran over quickly and unexpectedly saw this scene.
It turns out that the black dragon is not the guardian beast of Fengwang Village as I thought. In the words of Grandma Jian Shu, the black dragon already existed before Fengwang Village was established.
According to records, for thousands of years, whenever several nearby villages encountered disaster, the black dragon would appear. It would be more appropriate to say that the black dragon is the patron saint of this mountain range.
It has been nearly two hundred years since the Black Dragon last appeared. Grandma Jian Shu communicated with the Black Dragon through the tokens left by the previous generation of Gu girls and learned that the reason for his appearance this time was because he felt a familiar aura.
"A familiar scent?"
I looked at Xiao Yu in confusion. Grandma Jian Shu nodded slightly and said she would wait until the baby girl was revived.
"Grandma, my sister's name is Xiaoyu."
Chu Jiu briefly introduced Xiao Yu to Grandma Jian Shu. When she heard that Xiao Yu was my girlfriend, Grandma Jian Shu sighed with a complicated expression. I saw helplessness, sadness, regret and a hint of joy.
Grandma Jian Shu said a lot of things. It turned out that no one in the entire village except Grandma Jian Shu knew that there were gods in the lake.
"Guo Guo, that is Grandma Jian Shu's house."
Chujiu pointed to a stilted building near the lake in the village and told me that Grandma Jian Shu could see the lake from her house.
Fengwang Village is indeed much larger than Tuhai Village. There is a main road paved with stones in the village. All the houses are built on both sides of the main road, which looks very much like the antique shops seen in Ciqikou, a tourist attraction.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, carry Xiaoyu to the rightmost room upstairs."
When we arrived at Grandma Jian Shu's house, Grandma Jian Shu asked us to go directly upstairs to wait for her while she went to prepare some things.
The rightmost room upstairs is a large bedroom. Unlike my uncle's room, Grandma Jian Shu's room does not have a bamboo bed, but a futon-like mattress on the wooden floor.
After placing Xiaoyu on the mattress, Chujiu stretched out, his bones making a crackling sound.
"On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, are you tired?"
Chujiu smiled and shook his head. Instead, he asked me if I had any strange feelings when the black dragon appeared.
I told Chujiu that there was a moment when I was so scared that I lost control of myself and felt nothing else. Chujiu looked at me doubtfully and said that he felt a pressure in his head at that time, and then for a while, he had no consciousness.
Yes, I have no idea what happened.
"Chujiu, did you hear anything?"
In fact, my question was unnecessary. When I asked this question, Chujiu's eyes were already staring at the small bamboo basket hanging on the roof.
There was a subtle sound coming from the bamboo basket hanging on the roof, which sounded like the flapping of wings.
"Grandma Jian Shu told me before that the King Gu insect usually sleeps in that bamboo house."
Just after finishing speaking on the ninth day of the lunar month, a seven-color butterfly as big as a fingernail floated out from the top of the bamboo basket. Wherever the seven-color butterfly flew, it would leave a seven-color halo, which would flicker for a moment before dissipating.
I have imagined many aspects of the Gu King Insect, but I never thought it looked like this.