Hearing the cry of the old village chief above me, I immediately realized that the danger had not passed yet. Although I finally rescued Lin Qianyi from the villagers, it was not the time to be happy now. Not to mention those desperate moments.
The villagers are unwilling to give up. Just how to avoid the huge monster around us and get ashore safely is a difficult problem at the moment.
But at this time, Lin Qianyi suddenly patted me on the shoulder, pointed to the altar, and said in a slight voice: "Sijiu, look at that..."
I raised my head and saw that the old village chief was standing on the edge of the altar, shouting orders to the villagers in the audience. However, I did not hear the villagers' responses from under the altar, but instead,
The villagers howled in fear.
"Village, village chief!?"
"Why are you just standing there? Why don't you hurry up and chase me!"
The old village chief didn't notice at all, but I understood why the villagers were so scared, because at this moment, the water monster actually moved its mouth to the old village chief's head.
It wasn't until a drop of yellow-brown liquid dripped from the monster's mouth onto his head that the old village chief reacted. He raised his head and his voice trembled: "Water, Lord Water God?"
puff!
The old village chief's exclamation suddenly stopped because of the monster's actions.
The monster's mouth suddenly dropped, and bit the upper body of the old village chief into its mouth in one bite. Amidst the creepy sucking sound, the old village chief's body didn't even have a chance to struggle, and was engulfed by the worm-like creature.
The strange mouth sucked it in.
There was a deathly silence around the altar. The villagers stared in disbelief as their old village chief completely disappeared in front of them.
Finally, someone murmured: "Why? Doesn't Lord Water God not eat men?"
"No, no, Lord Water God is angry! According to legend, Lord Water God only eats people randomly when he is angry!"
As if to confirm their words, not long after the monster ate the old village chief, it stretched out its mouth again and took another guard into its mouth. At the same time, the monster's body began to move towards the altar.
Move as if you are going ashore.
The huge body hit the altar, which immediately overwhelmed the altar and began to gradually collapse. It was only then that everyone came to their senses and fled around the altar crying.
On the hot spring side, the monster's movements also caused the spring water to surge like ocean waves. I hugged Lin Qianyi tightly, fearing that something might happen to her, and then used all my strength to swim towards the shore of the hot spring.
past.
Just when we were halfway through the swim, bubbles suddenly began to appear in the spring water, as if something was about to float.
Although we were in a hot spring, my heart suddenly froze when I saw the water bubbles. Could it be that there was something else besides the monster in this hot spring?
However, after a few seconds, I did not see any monsters. Instead, I saw large crystal-clear balls starting to emerge from the spring water. More and more of these balls floated, gradually covering the water in front of us.
Fully covered.
Lin Qianyi on my back asked me: "Sijiu, what is that?"
I shook my head to express that I didn't know, and then I took courage and slowly approached one of the spheres, reaching out and touching its surface.
"Sister Lin, she is soft."
The touch of this ball was just like the rubber balls I played with when I was a child. The surface was smooth and elastic. I couldn't tell what it was. Seeing that it didn't seem dangerous, I got closer to the balls again.
And when the two of us got completely close to these spheres, I suddenly discovered that at the core of these translucent spheres, a mass of something like egg yolk could be seen.
Seeing this, I immediately realized what these things were.
"Sister Lin, these things seem to be the eggs of that monster!"
"What? There are so many?"
I felt that Lin Qianyi's body on my back suddenly became quite stiff, and I immediately comforted her and said, "Don't be nervous, these are probably unfertilized eggs and will not hatch into little monsters."
Lin Qianyi asked curiously: "How did you know?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "That's my guess. No matter how you look at it, there is only one monster here. If it could produce fertilized eggs, this cave would already be full of monsters."
Lin Qianyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I hope your guess is right..."
But at this time, I had one sentence in my heart that I didn't say. In fact, after seeing these eggs that looked like monsters, I guessed a little bit about the purpose of the villagers' sacrifice to the monsters. If nothing else, Awu
The elixir you once told me about should be these monster eggs around me now.
He once told me that the purpose of the villagers offering sacrifices to the Water God was to obtain the elixir given to them by the Water God. But now it seems that the Water God the villagers call is just a monster who doesn’t know what it is.
Naturally, it is impossible for a monster to really understand human speech and give rewards to the villagers like humans. If this is the case, then the rewards that the villagers say the water god gives them after receiving the sacrifices should mean that this monster is eating
Things left behind in the hot springs after getting married.
When we jumped into the hot spring just now, we could not see these round eggs in the water, but after the old village chief was eaten, these round eggs immediately popped out, and judging from the size of the round eggs, they seemed to be
It just fits into the large water tank prepared by the villagers next to the altar. From this point of view, it is very likely that these round eggs are the so-called elixir.
But after all, these things were just my guesses, so I had no intention of telling Lin Qianyi at the moment. After confirming that these balls posed no threat to us, I continued to swim towards the shore with Lin Qianyi.
At this time, the altar was already in chaos. The monsters who were angered by the unexplained explosion had completely spread their anger on the heads of the villagers. Although many people escaped from the altar in time,
However, many villagers were injured when the altar was destroyed by the monster. Those villagers who were injured and fell to the ground had no time to even run away and call for help. They were swallowed up by the furious monster one by one, leaving no one behind.
In the belly.
It wasn't until the entire altar was completely destroyed and no villagers could be seen on the shore that the monster began to retreat gradually.
I saw that the monster seemed to want to return to the hot spring, so I couldn't help but speed up. I thought that if the monster got back into the hot spring and we hadn't gone ashore yet, it would be terrible. Facing that kind of monster, even if it was my hand
There was a gun inside, and it was impossible to save his and Qian Yi's lives.
So, I paddled desperately, trying to take Lin Qianyi ashore quickly, but I forgot that I had not rested all night.
Since escaping from the village during the day yesterday, I have hardly had any rest. I first fled from the village back to the town, and then immediately returned from the town.
During this period, not only did I not rest, I didn't even eat much. The fact that I can persist until now is entirely supported by the idea of rescuing Lin Qianyi. But at this time, even if I can persist mentally, I can't.
But my body could no longer hold up. When I saw that I was very close to the shore, all my strength was almost completely exhausted.
Feeling that my movements had slowed down, Lin Qianyi said in panic: "Sijiu, what's wrong with you? Are you injured somewhere?"
I gritted my teeth and had no extra energy to answer. I just covered my head and paddled mechanically. With my last bit of persistence, before I ran out of strength, I finally swam to the shore with Lin Qianyi.
Then he used his last bit of strength to push her onto the water bank.
After finally finishing all this, I no longer had the strength to go ashore. But when I was about to sink into the water, a big hand suddenly stretched out from the shore, grabbed me, and pulled me up.
The skin on that hand was rough and rough. It was obviously not Lin Qianyi's. I was shocked and thought that the person who caught me was a villager. I immediately put my hand on my waist and pulled out the pistol.
Regardless of whether the pistol could still be used after being soaked in water for so long, he pointed the muzzle at the owner of that hand and pulled the trigger.