Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Water Figurines

Hao Dali splashed the water with his hands, and the calm water suddenly became choppy. The river around him turned red, probably because he was injured when he fell into the water.A few bluish-black things floated up in the water, all in the shape of human beings, with many aquatic plants wrapped around their bodies. At first glance, they looked no different from old corpses.Huang Qianshan also thought it was a corpse, but he quickly calmed down. It is impossible for a corpse soaked in the water to maintain its human shape. If it was a corpse, it would have been soaked or swollen. "Dead!" Cai Minmin cried out in horror.

"It's not a dead person." Lao Yue corrected, and then she shouted, "Dali, come up quickly." After Hao Dali floated up from the water, he didn't go ashore immediately, because his luggage had been taken off before he fell into the water, and now they all floated downstream.Hao Dali wanted to retrieve the lost luggage, but Lao Yue loudly stopped him, and Gu Changtian also complied with stretching out his hand to pull Hao Dali to the shore.Hao Dali went ashore wet all over, his trousers were torn, and there were several torn bloodstains on his calf.Liang Xiaoyu accidentally knocked down Hao Dali, and she was panicked at the moment, and she kept apologizing after Hao Dali got ashore.

"Don't apologize yet, hurry up and get the things back." Hao Dali felt his calf hurt after he landed, he didn't care about Liang Xiaoyu, he just wanted to get his luggage back. "Don't go, there is a snake on the backpack!" Lao Yue whispered. "There are also in the water, what's the matter?" Cai Minmin is very afraid of snakes, she said with a pale face, "I ran out of the secret passage just now, and the snakes stopped chasing us, why now..." "Quickly pick up a few strong branches, and if you see snakes coming, drive them away. I'll get Hao Dali's bag back." Huang Qianshan said to everyone.

"I'll go with you." Lao Yue followed closely behind. "Ah Yue, be careful." Gu Changtian also wanted to follow, but Hao Dali's leg was injured, so he couldn't leave an injured patient and two women behind. At this time, many green-scaled snakes sprang out from the mountain wall, and they all swam down from the mountain wall at the same time, and some were even more crazy, jumping off the branches directly.Huang Qianshan held a wooden stick in his hand and hit the snake when he saw it. Strange to say, the snake didn't attack him, but just desperately wanted to swim into the water.However, Huang Qianshan turned his head and glanced at Hao Dali and the others, only to see many small green-scaled snakes flying towards them, as if they wanted to treat those few people as dinner.Lao Yue also noticed something abnormal, she wanted to get back the backpack as soon as possible, there were realgar and other medicines in it, if they were lost, there would be a lot of trouble entering the mountain.

The water is full of small snakes with green scales, some of which came out of the cracks in the mountains, and some of them came out of the bottom of the water.Huang Qianshan was taken aback. He didn't expect that there were many small snakes with green scales lying in the bottom of the water. If a person fell, he would be bitten to death by the snakes.Hao Dali fell into the water just now, and he surfaced after a few seconds, his calf was also scratched.Huang Qianshan felt very strange, he didn't know what was on the bottom of the water, why it took so long to surface, and what happened when Hao Dali fell into the water?What is the humanoid thing floating in the water?

Can't bear to think about it, there are more and more small snakes with green scales in the water, some of them passed by the foot of Huang Qianshan, but Huang Qianshan didn't pay attention at all.Lao Yue hurriedly retrieved the backpack floating on the water, but the stick in his hand was too short to reach the backpack.The lower reaches of the mountain river gradually widened, and the current became more and more urgent. The sandy soil and rocky land on both sides of the river were also flooded, and there was no bank not far away, and the river directly completely occupied the mountain stream.

When Huang Qianshan saw the situation downstream, he immediately cursed his mother's back, why did the river change so quickly, if the backpack flowed downstream, there would be no way to get it back.Before he had time to think about it, Huang Qianshan fell into the water, waving the stick in his hand to drive away the little green-scaled snake, who knew that as soon as he took a step, he fell into the deep water.It turned out that the water on the shore was already very deep, as if someone dug it deep deliberately, making people mistakenly think that the water on the shore was very shallow.

Seeing Huang Qianshan fall into the water, Lao Yue shouted anxiously for Huang Qianshan to come up quickly, and stretched out the stick in her hand to help drive away the green-scaled snake.It was only after Huang Qianshan fell into the water that he realized why it took several seconds for Hao Dali to come up. It turned out that there were many metal nets at the bottom of the water, and his legs got stuck in the nets as soon as he fell.Huang Qianshan struggled desperately, his leg was scratched by the metal net, and after getting out of the metal net, several black shadows also floated up.

"Come up!" Lao Yue yelled nervously, while helping to drive away the green-scaled snake in the water. Huang Qianshan saw the floating backpack in front of him, so he swam down a few meters, but he felt a sharp pain in his calf, which must have been bitten by a green-scaled snake.Huang Qianshan thought to himself, since he was bitten anyway, he must retrieve the bag, otherwise his life would be useless.The backpack was quickly grabbed by Huang Qianshan, and he hurried to the shore.The things floating on the bottom of the water came towards us, only now did Huang Qianshan see clearly that they were those blue-black human figures with a few swimming green-scaled snakes wrapped around them.Huang Qianshan hurriedly pushed these things away. He grabbed these humanoid objects hard, and it felt like bitten sugarcane, with a feeling of slag. It was not a corpse at all, but a figurine of a human figure in the water!

Huang Qianshan dragged his backpack and climbed back to the shore. Lao Yue hurriedly asked him if he felt unwell. Huang Qianshan felt a little numb in his calf, but he just shook his head, indicating that he was fine.Lao Yue said what was going on, and that the medicine must be applied immediately. She hurriedly opened the backpack that Huang Qianshan had picked up, but both of them were dumbfounded when they opened it. There was no medicine in Hao Dali's backpack, it was stuffed with food, Lao Yue searched again in disbelief, but it was all in vain.Huang Qianshan started to feel cold after being bitten by the green-scaled snake, Lao Yue carried the backpack and walked back with Huang Qianshan, but this time more green-scaled snakes came out.Some of the snakes in the river swam up to the bank and attacked Huang Qianshan and Lao Yue one after another.

"Unexpectedly, I haven't got the money yet, so my life is here. Ms. Lao, please transfer the remuneration to my old mother's account, I have no luck." Huang Qianshan gritted his teeth and started talking nonsense. "It's so easy to die, show some manliness." Lao Yue was calm and not panicked. "Look, the snakes ignored us just now, and now they are all coming to add insult to injury. I think the snakes are also a powerful group." Huang Qianshan smiled wryly. Lao Yue glanced at the river suspiciously, and said: "No, I think there is something strange in the water. Just now the green snake stopped attacking people, but when it fell into the water vigorously, the snake ran out again. It's the same when you fall into the water, won't it Is it related to the figurines in the water?" Huang Qianshan said dejectedly: "You don't care if he has any problems, go to Gu Changtian's side first, it's not good to be alone and have no support. If I knew Hao Dali was carrying food, I wouldn't pick up his bag if I was killed." Lao Yue and Huang Qianshan rushed back all the way, but the green-scaled snakes in the water and the mountains seemed to be interested in Huang Qianshan, and they all surrounded him.Lao Yue took off his coat decisively, lit the coat, and then swung it around, forcing the green-scaled snake back.Gu Changtian saw Lao Yue doing this, so they also took out the burnable things, lit them and threw them around, so as to prevent the little green-scaled snake from attacking.Huang Qianshan and Lao Yue managed to escape back, Hao Dali didn't know anything about the medicine in the backpack turned into snacks, and he didn't know why it happened. "Dali, is it because you are slanderous that you have replaced all the medicines with food?" Cai Minmin asked. "Why would Dali do this? Don't blame him." Liang Xiaoyu pleaded for Hao Dali. "You have the nerve to say that the last time I asked you to look at your luggage at the station, you lost everything." Cai Minmin repeated the old story. "Stop arguing, Mr. Huang was bitten by a snake, what should we do, now there are snakes all over the way, how do we go back?" Lao Yue asked in difficulty. Huang Qianshan said with a wry smile: "Don't worry, all living beings are born and restrained by each other. I just noticed that there are a lot of snakeberries growing under the mountain stream, and the green-scaled snakes are hiding in them. These may be the antidote." Everyone heard what Huang Qianshan said, looked at the mountain stream and river, and found a lot of dark red snakeberries.The stems and leaves of snakeberry and strawberry are similar, but the fruit of snakeberry is smaller.Snakeberry contains slight poison, which can treat the bites of venomous snakes and insects. Generally, there are such small plants in places where poisonous snakes haunt, so it is called snakeberry.When snakeberries are in full bloom, it is the season when snakes come out of their holes. There are often white foams on their stems and leaves, which are said to be the spittle spit out by snakes. Do not touch them casually, because snake venom exists in their saliva. "I'll get it back for you!" Without saying a word, Hao Dali stepped out of the fire circle and pulled back a handful of snakeberries. The little green-scaled snake almost bit him. "Is this useful?" Liang Xiaoyu asked nervously. Cai Minmin glared at Liang Xiaoyu, and said, "Have you talked enough, why are you so timid?" Gu Changtian took the snakeberry and squeezed out the light red juice to drip on Huang Qianshan's calf. It was miraculous to say that the juice from the snakeberry dripped on the wound had a refreshing feeling, and Huang Qianshan felt much more comfortable.Lao Yue picked up the dead wood that fell on the bank and threw it into the fire, but there were more and more green-scaled snakes on the bank, and the danger factor after walking out of the fire circle was also increasing. After Gu Changtian waited for Huang Qianshan to stabilize, he asked, "Dali, what happened to your medicine?" Hao Dali was stunned for a moment. He scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't know. What I stuffed in this morning was the medicine I bought yesterday." "Forget it, now is not the time to ask questions, first think about how to get out of here." Lao Yue said to them. "What's the matter with those water figurines, why are these things buried under the water?" Gu Changtian asked suspiciously. Huang Qianshan heard the words, and asked Hao Dali: "By the way, Dali, just now you fell into the water, did you get stuck in the metal net, and then the figurines in the water popped out?" "Yes." Hao Dali replied blankly. "I think this is the organ buried by the ancient Guo State in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the tomb of the ancient Guo State is in the mountain, and these are all arranged by them." Lao Yue guessed. Lao Yue said that the ancient Guo State was feudalized by the princes in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the two younger brothers of King Wen of Zhou were named Kings of the State of Guo. Xiguo occupies what is now Shaanxi.In the late Western Zhou Dynasty and the early years of King Xuan, the Western Guo moved to the east, forming the so-called Southern and Northern Guo.It is recorded in "Historical Records" that after the West Guo moved to the East, a small Guo remained in place, which was destroyed by the State of Qin in 687 BC. This little ancient Guo State was very rampant, and the monarch was fatuous and cruel. He often fell into the snakes and let them be swallowed by the snakes for fun.The country is also good at making human figurines, some of which can not melt in water and even attract bees and butterflies.These figurines are made of special materials, and the paint is also special. When painted on bronze, it can also prevent the corrosion of the river water, which is much better than paint.This craft is only mastered by the royal family, so this craft disappeared thousands of years ago. Huang Qianshan rubbed his numb legs and gradually regained consciousness. He asked, "According to what you said, who buried these human figurines in the Grasshopper Kingdom? Are they the little snakes they attracted?" Lao Yue nodded and said: "It should be like this. If my guess is correct, the entire mountain and river are buried with human figurines, and there must be something in the figurines that attracts snakes. Over time, the things in the figurines have slowly dispersed. In the water, so as long as you touch the water, you will be attacked by snakes." "You're right, we all came out just now, the green snakes obviously stopped chasing, but after Hao Dali fell into the water, they came out to attack people again." Cai Minmin woke up. Lao Yue let out a breath and said: "The things on the figurines are probably like biological pheromones, which can make snakes crazy or gluttonous. There are so many snakes here, and it is estimated that people from the ancient Guo State raised them here. There are so many snakes." "So, there must be treasures in the mountains, otherwise the ancients would not have made so many tricks here. I don't know if those people moved the mountains to dig up the treasures." Cai Minmin was very excited. "After talking for a long time, I shouldn't have jumped into the water to pick up the bag, which made me flirtatious." Huang Qianshan said depressingly. "You two change your clothes first, otherwise the smell on your body will be too strong, and the snake will follow you." Lao Yue said cautiously. "Then turn your heads away. I'm really embarrassed that so many girls are watching." Huang Qianshan struggled to stand up. Although his legs hurt a little, the snake venom had already receded. Hao Dali took off his clothes and threw them into the river. Seeing that Lao Yue's coat was gone, Gu Changtian immediately put his own coat on her body.Huang Qianshan muttered while changing his clothes, why did the medicine disappear, who changed it, and who wrote the threatening letter?They encountered so many dangers when they first entered the mountain. God knows what awaits them after entering the mountain.Huang Qianshan thought to himself that if he successfully translated the last part of the manuscript, he would have to open his mouth to Lao Yueshizi. Unfortunately, he still had no clue about the final content of the manuscript and could not translate it at all. The green-scaled snake receded gradually, but some of them were still staring at Huang Qianshan and the others. Liang Xiaoyu had already thought of deserting. She timidly asked: "There are a lot of snakes here, and there must be snakes in the mountain crevasses upstream. We don't have realgar potion, how can we get through?" ?” Huang Qianshan sighed, Liang Xiaoyu was right, if there was no realgar potion to drive away the insects and snakes, they would really be in a dilemma, even if they wanted to be deserters.Everyone is discussing countermeasures, and you can't do anything about it.Huang Qianshan looked at the mountain walls on both sides irritably, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "I have a solution!"