Chapter 237: Water Ghouls (Part I)
Xu Tianchuan's words made Xing Chang and Jiao San, who didn't know what to do, react instantly.
Jiao San, in particular, immediately drew his knife directly, put the black gold ancient knife on Master Ma's neck, and scolded angrily: "His grandmother's, did you deliberately bring us here?" ”
That's right, this Mrs. Ma deliberately brought everyone over.
In fact, Xu Tianchuan has long found out that something is wrong, first of all, this place is eerie and treacherous, and it is impossible for villagers to come here to worship the river god.
Just now Mrs. Ma said that the river god would protect the safety of the sacrificers, which is even more funny and absurd.
But I really found out that something was wrong with this Mrs. Ma, or yesterday, Mrs. Ma deliberately said the location of this sacrificial cave, and when he asked to come in, he agreed without hesitation.
As for the purpose, it should be very simple, Mrs. Ma just wants to sacrifice everyone to the river god.
The reason why Xu Tianchuan has not been debunked and followed him here was that he originally thought that he would directly take himself to find the ghost god, which would save him time and effort.
But unexpectedly, just brought it here, and his fox tail was exposed.
If Xu Tianchuan guessed correctly, when Mrs. Ma stayed alone in the paper temple yesterday afternoon, he should have seen the devil swimming to the waterhole, maybe it was the hemp rope that Mrs. Ma helped untie, because when everyone rushed over, there were still ripples on the water, proving that the devil had just broken free of the hemp rope for a long time.
Mrs. Ma also guessed the purpose of everyone's coming here early in the morning, and pretended not to know anything, so he brought everyone here.
"Haha...... You mortals dare to be disrespectful to the river gods! Just wait for the wrath of the river god! ”
Facing Jiao San's black gold ancient knife around his neck, not only did Master Ma not have the slightest fear, but laughed out loud and vicious.
Before Jiao San could draw the knife, Mrs. Ma, who was laughing evilly, suddenly leaned back, 'poof', and plunged into the water, splashing a splash.
"Grandma's ......"
By the time Jiao San reacted, Mrs. Ma had already dived without a shadow, the speed of the dive was very fast, and the surrounding darkness was shrouded, and there were only three pillars of light illuminated by the miner's lamp, and he could not completely see the surrounding water surface.
Jiao San held the black gold ancient knife tightly and was annoyed in his heart, he knew that he would directly kill him decisively, and he would not let him escape with his life.
The surface of the water splashed in circles, and the wooden boat under his feet swayed back and forth with the ripples on the water.
Because he had known that there was something wrong with Mrs. Ma, Xu Tianchuan had been calculating the distance in his heart, this position was about thirty meters deep from the entrance of the cave, and it was a straight road, and there was no detour in the middle.
If you make a U-turn and return the same way now, there should be no problem in theory.
But that's just in theory.
Xu Tianchuan had a very strong premonition in his heart, Master Ma knew in advance that there was a stone tablet here, since the purpose was to bring his group here, it was definitely not just to take everyone to see the stone tablet in front of him!
"Shopkeeper Xu, there must be some danger around here!"
Xing Chang clenched the stainless steel fan in his hand and looked around, his expression solemn and very vigilant.
It seems that Xingchang is the same as he thinks, and things are definitely not so simple.
"Then you can't turn around and go back, right?"
Jiao San frowned and said.
Xu Tianchuan narrowed his eyes: "Of course it's impossible, if you turn around and go back, then what are we doing here?" The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth! ”
"Keep going, there should be a lot of depth in this cave!"
Even with Xu Tianchuan's night vision, in the depths of the cave, there is still no end in sight, and the space inside expands wider and larger on both sides, feeling that the interior of the entire Fengling is hollow, it is a natural karst cave, and there are more stalactites in front, and the clear water surface is calm and treacherous.
"San'er, you go paddle."
Xu Tianchuan looked at Jiao San and said lightly.
"Hmm"
Jiao San immediately nodded, put the black gold ancient knife in his hand in the cabin, sat down and paddled with both hands, while fine-tuning the bow of the boat, intending to bypass the huge stone tablet in front of him.
Rumble......
That is, Jiao San had just turned the bow of the boat, and suddenly there was an undercurrent under the wooden boat, and then there seemed to be something underwater, which hit the bottom of the wooden boat heavily, with a boom, and almost didn't overturn the wooden boat.
"Be careful!"
Xu Tianchuan and Xing Chang, who were originally standing on the wooden boat, hurriedly bent down, grabbed the board of the boat with both hands, and stabilized their bodies, and Jiao San, who was paddling, almost fell into the water.
"There's something underwater!"
Xing Chang also roared, and immediately shone the miner's lamp in his hand towards the surface of the water with an undercurrent.
Because the water surface is very clear, it can shine very deeply in strong light.
That is, at the moment when Xing Chang shines the beam of light on the surface of the water, he vaguely sees a black shadow underwater, like a figure, but he dives to the bottom of the water in an instant, and the vision is not very clear, and it is even likely to be an illusion of sight, after all, this place is too dark, and it is in the water, and many things may be reflected on the water surface.
"Shopkeeper Xu...... Did you just see ...... Something? ”
Jiao San's eyes widened, because it was only a vague moment, so he wasn't too sure what he had just seen.
"I seem to have seen a black figure dive underwater......"
Xing Chang followed suit.
If two people see it at the same time, it means that they are basically right.
Xu Tianchuan also felt like a figure.
"Could it be that Mrs. Ma is pretending to be a ghost under the water?"
Xu Tianchuan frowned slightly.
But this is unlikely.
"Ignore it for now, be vigilant and take precautions, and keep moving forward!"
Xu Tianchuan turned his head and said coldly at Jiao San.
This is different from the land on the water, where the whole body of water can be in danger at any time, the main thing is that there are caves on both sides of the water, and there are no shores.
This is equivalent to the lives of three people are almost carried on this small wooden boat, once overboard, if there is really any water monster underwater, even if it is good in the water, it is impossible to have any strength to resist in the water.
Besides, the wooden boat doesn't look very sturdy.
Jiao San nodded, trying to calm his heart, even if there was really any danger, there was still Shopkeeper Xu on top......
Whoa......
Jiao San had just rowed the oars twice, and the wooden boat had gone forward less than a meter away, and there was a sudden sound of rushing water behind him, but the sound was not on the side, but in the distance behind him.
Even if the sound came from a distance, the three of them couldn't help but look back vigilantly, and at the same time, they also turned the miner's lamp in their hands backwards, following the sound of the water coming from the water.
I saw that on the water surface about five or six meters behind me, a large area of red blood appeared, and a corpse was floating in the middle of the blood water, being fiercely eaten by a large black shadow, thus splashing a large splash, like boiling water.
"It's Mrs. Ma!"
Jiao San held the miner's lamp in his hand, his eyes widened and he exclaimed.
Judging from the clothes worn by the corpse in the water, it was indeed Mrs. Ma who had just jumped into the water.
In the few minutes before and after, he only dived a distance of five or six meters.
As for the black shadows who fiercely snatched the corpse of Mrs. Ma, because the splash was too big, and they were still grabbing food on the surface of the water, they couldn't see it very clearly, but they could see these black shadows like the five-fingered claws of bitter bark, and they also had sharp nails, so they shouldn't be piranhas.
In less than half a minute, Mrs. Ma's body was completely torn and decomposed by the black shadows in the water, and there was not even a stomach left, the scarlet blood water was black, and it quickly spread out with ripples on the water surface, but only Mrs. Ma's head was left, floating on the water surface stained red by blood, and his pale hair had already been dyed red by blood, which looked miserable!
"What the hell is this?"
Jiao San and Xing Chang gasped, trying to see what the dark shadow under the water was.
"This thing doesn't eat heads?"
Xu Tianchuan watched Mrs. Ma's head floating on the water, with a pair of eyes closed, and his expression was quite peaceful, without any fear of resistance, which showed that Mrs. Ma may have expected in advance that after diving, it would be this kind of end.
But before everyone had time to fully see the black shadows underwater, after snatching and eating Mrs. Ma's corpse, these black shadows instantly dived into the bottom of the water, stirred up undercurrents under the water, and gurgled a few blisters up.
"Uncle, what do you think this thing looks like?"
Xing Chang used the miner's lamp to observe the water back and forth, and asked Xu Tianchuan.
Syllable!
That is, as soon as Xing Chang's words fell, suddenly there was a splash of water under his feet again, and a black palm suddenly stretched out from the splash, and directly grabbed the crook of Xing Chang's legs, and the speed was very fast.
This black palm is exactly what Xu Tianchuan saw just now, like a five-fingered claw like dry tree bark, and the black sharp nails have been pinched into the muscles of Xing Chang's legs, trying to drag Xing Chang into the water, and under the huge force, he even tilted the wooden boat to one side seriously.
"Ah......h
Xing Chang screamed violently.
Xu Tianchuan also reacted very quickly, first reaching out to hold Xing Chang to prevent him from being dragged into the water.
Xu Tianchuan's sword could clearly hear the sound of bones being chopped off.
The head of this ghost thing and the claw that was grabbing the crook of Xing Chang's leg were cut off at the same time by Xu Tianchuan's sword, and the body that was about to climb onto the wooden boat fell back into the water.