Chapter 146 Chapter 30 Water Monkey

The ancient underground city was turned into ruins, but we were the only ones running for our lives in the middle, and we didn't see anyone else. If there were people who died of mold, they would never be able to fake their corpses and knock on the city gate.The sound of knocking on the door was endless, and there was more than one person who heard the sound, but people are much weaker than Di Jinlong, even if there are many people knocking on this golden wooden door, it will not shake. "Do you want to open the door?" I saw an urgent knock on the door, maybe it was other survivors.

"No, it can't be opened!" My father stopped immediately. "Why?" I was amazed at my father's cruelty. If he didn't let people in at this time, if the golden dragons went crazy, the people outside would definitely die. "They're not people! Don't let them in!" replied the father sharply. It sounds strange to me, this city gate is almost as thick as the city wall, unless you have the ability to see through, otherwise it is impossible to know whether there is a person or a ghost behind the gate before the gate is opened.I wanted to ask Xiao Guang for her opinion, but who knew that she was still staring at her father, Fan Li was noncommittal, it seemed that he also felt that the person behind the door was not human.Xu Shaode nestled in a dark corner, trying not to look at the golden light. Wei Long agreed with his father's point of view and didn't want to open the door again. He said that there must be no more people alive in the underground ancient city, and it must be ghosts.

When we escaped before, we pushed the door for a long time without opening it. Finally, the big civet barked a few times and opened it. It can be seen that the father may be hiding from people, but why did the big civet open the door when he barked?I wanted to ask my father why he blocked the golden wooden door face to face, but we never opened the door when we knocked, but I was worried that this question would bring a bad reputation to my father, so I kept it in my heart and didn't say it.However, the knocking on the door did not stop, the sound became louder and louder, but no one spoke, which made me think that my father was right. If it was really human, then they would not only knock on the door, but also yell. It is impossible for a group of people to be all dumb.

I wondered why I couldn't ask my father why he didn't open the door, so I asked what was outside, but just as I was about to open my mouth, a lot of water vapor spewed out from the golden ball of light, surrounding people in bursts.This water vapor is very cold, as if the whole person was thrown into the refrigerator, if it wasn't for the golden light rising and emitting in warm colors, I would think it was not water vapor but air-conditioning.The gust of steam lasted for a while, and we all rubbed our bodies with our hands, because the steam sucked away all our body heat.Because the golden light is too dazzling, we can't see what's in the golden light, why there is such cold water vapor coming out.

The water vapor mixed with the golden light came out, but there was also a warm air current mixed in intermittently. This vapor was very thick. If anyone wore glasses, the lenses would definitely be covered with fog.I thought that this might be the source of the poisonous rain, and I was worried that the water vapor contained toxins, but through the golden light shining from the corner of the mine vein, I saw red, yellow and white crystals above the ancient underground city, which were similar to salt flowers but not salt flowers. Attached to the top of the underground ancient city is arsenic trioxide, also known as arsenic or arsenic. It is slightly soluble in water, soluble in acid, and easily soluble in alkali.Impure arsenic often has red or reddish-yellow massive crystals or granules, which contain a small amount of arsenic sulfide, commonly known as red arsenic.The backward production technology in ancient times resulted in a small amount of sulfur and sulfide in the arsenic. The sulfur contained in the arsenic would react chemically when in contact with silver, forming a layer of black "silver sulfide" on the surface of the silver needles.The cold water vapor here meets above the underground ancient city, dissolving the arsenic, so the rain is highly poisonous.Could it be that Xiaoguang's silver ring turned black because of the arsenic ores on the top of his head? The water vapor is non-toxic, and the source of the poison is those arsenic stones.

"What the hell is that light? Is there another way out?" I don't think it's an option to stay any longer, I have to get out from here immediately. "There is a tunnel in that light." My father didn't hesitate, and he replied as soon as I finished speaking, as if he knew what I was going to ask. "How do you know it's a tunnel? How can it have such a strong light?" I covered my eyes with my hands, and I almost became blind after seeing too much of the golden light. "I'll explain this to you later. Now we have to lock this door, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted." After finishing speaking, the father went to make sure that the golden wooden door was firmly blocked.

"But...Dad, are you really not going to open the door? If it is really another survivor, if we do this...will it..." I dare not finish my sentence, but human life is at stake, and I can't protect my family from harming everyone. "Listen to your father. Don't open the door. Who knows what's behind the door." Wei Long didn't want to open the door either. He always felt that there was something more terrifying behind the door. To convince my father, I am afraid I must first convince him. "You said, should you open the door?" Seeing that no one supported me, I threw the topic to Xiaoguang.

"It's right to listen to him, don't open it." Xiaoguang didn't support me abnormally this time, and Fan Li didn't comment. When we were arguing, a faint fragrance lingered around me. I thought I had smelled it wrong, but the smell became stronger and stronger.Although we had just eaten, we had consumed too much energy along the way, and the food had already been completely digested. At this moment, when I smelled the tempting aroma, my stomach twitched, and I had to swallow my saliva.There are only six of us here, and no one brought out food, and even if they did, it didn't smell so good.I always feel that this smell is very familiar, as if I have smelled it somewhere, but the door is constantly being knocked, and I am suddenly focused again, and I no longer think about the problem of hunger.

"It's so fragrant, have you smelled... so fragrant." Wei Long said drooling, "Did someone bring something delicious?" "At this time, I'm still thinking about food. I'm afraid someone farted?" I said so, but I also felt strange in my heart, where did such a fragrant smell come from. The golden wooden door is still knocking. I don't think there is a ground golden dragon behind the door. They don't need to be so polite. If they hit the door directly, they will definitely fly into the sky.Seeing that no one supported me to open the door, I decided not to ask any more questions, but the sound of knocking on the door was still heard. If there was someone alive outside, wouldn’t that be a desperate attempt? Does this have anything to do with Fan Li and the others’ decision to leave Yuan Yuanyuan behind? of any difference.I still can't let go of Yuan Yuanyuan's death. If I persuade her to leave and we help her find a husband, she can wait outside the coal well without killing two people.The knock on the door became more and more urgent. Although the golden wooden door was very thick, the tremors spread to us behind the door, and our hearts were beating faster and faster.

Xu Shaode hasn't made a statement yet, I want to ask him whether he can open it or not, but I think he cherishes his life more than Wei Long, and I know he doesn't agree to open the golden wooden door again without asking.I saw him crouching in the corner all the time, leaning against the golden wooden door, not daring to face the bright side, and I became suspicious again, maybe Xu Shaode also had some ulterior secret.His green blood, photophobia, and the sudden appearance of three-headed shadows are all very unusual. If it wasn't for the special circumstances, I would definitely have to ask.I wanted to pull Xu Shaode over from the dark corner, but he seemed frightened, before I touched him, he suddenly bounced away from the golden wooden door.

"What's wrong?" I asked curiously. However, Xu Shaode was speechless, and after a while, he pointed to the golden wooden door and said, "There are... behind the door... there are many people!" Just now my father said that the people behind are not human, but Xu Shaode said that there are people behind the golden wooden door, and there are many people.Although the golden wooden door was solid, there was still a small crack. Xu Shaode stood in a dark corner with his face pressed against the golden wooden door. The gap was right in front of his eyes, so he must not be talking nonsense when he said that he saw someone behind the door.I have always wanted to be sure who the person knocking on the door is. If it is really a person behind the door, then there is no need to argue, just open the door. Nervously, I leaned forward and squinted my eyes to see what was outside the door, and I was able to scare Xu Shaode like this. Who would have thought that when I got used to the darkness behind the golden wooden door, I would react the same as Xu Shaode, and I was so frightened that I immediately played. to a few meters away. There are indeed people behind the golden wooden door, and they are a group of people, but these people are all children, without exception.What was even more frightening was that I finally knew where the scent was coming from. It turned out that the group of children were holding a rosy child, and the smell came from the child they were holding.We once found a broken river room in the underground ancient city. Almost every house has such a room, but it is not a kitchen.In the broken river room there was a big steaming pot, a child was steamed in the pot, and then the child in the pot suddenly disappeared, and we blamed Weilong for eating it up all at once.I didn't expect that the children in the pot were not eaten, but were taken away by these children. The children hugged the steamed children. I was so scared that my legs went limp when I saw this scene. "My mother, there are children behind the door...they are holding..." I also stuttered, unable to speak in full. "Let me take a look." Weilong felt curious, and went up to take a look without listening to my persuasion, but he backed away in fright just like me. Xiao Guang and Fan Li were also taken aback when they saw it. They didn’t expect it to be this group of children who knocked on the door. We did see a group of children when we climbed down from the salt well, but then they ran away. I thought it was a hallucination.But having said that, we have seen children in coal wells more than once, and even after returning from Meili Snow Mountain, I often dreamed about children. After returning from Dalian, my dreams became clear. In the dream, I actually killed a child. , snatched a yellow longevity card. "Dad, there are children behind the door... children, do we want to open the door?" I couldn't make up my mind, it would be fine if it was an old man or an adult, but after I came back from Yunnan, I was afraid of children for some reason. At this moment, I very much agree with others He opened the door, but he was too embarrassed to say so, so he pretended to ask his father. "Of course it can't be opened. Those children are not human at all. They are water monkeys, and they have been trained!" The father said solemnly. We had different reactions after hearing this. Xu Shaode didn't often walk around in the south, so he didn't know what the water monkey was.In China's Lingnan, Guangdong and Guangxi areas, especially in areas where vernacular dialects are spoken, people usually call monkeys "monkeys".According to legend, in the rivers, lakes and reservoirs, there is a supernatural life-threatening creature called the water monkey, or "water monkey".In midsummer, when a person with good water skills drowns, and when the body is salvaged, there is a bloody hole in the sole of the foot, and the old people say, "the water monkey has started to play tricks again." I remember that when I was a child, I listened to the contractors on the construction site chatting, and the chatting went from fishing to some reservoirs around Nanning, Guangxi, where people drowned every year, and all the dead were able to swim.The contractor bragged mysteriously that it was the water ghost who did it, and every year he would take over a few dead ghosts, so there were often water ghosts pulling people in the big reservoir and the river.Because the contractor is not from Guangdong and Guangxi, so he doesn’t know the water horse. A teacher firmly believes in science, so he argues with him, saying that it should be a big fish in the reservoir. It is estimated that there are tens of pounds of Egyptian pond horn fish or big catfish in the reservoir. , mistook swimmers, especially children, for swimming ducks, and suddenly jumped up and bit them away. But the workers next to him disagreed with the contractor and the teacher, saying that it was not a fish or a ghost, but a monkey.He said that when he was swimming in a large reservoir in Wuming more than ten years ago, he was grabbed by an unknown thing and dragged his foot into the deep water. He was struggling so hard that his foot was pulled into the water by something. At a place where the water layer was not too deep, he hugged tightly to the protruding rocks of the cliffs in the water so as not to be pulled down further.He didn't let go of the thing until some older fellow villagers dived to look for him, but he was miserable enough, he was frightened and choked on water for a long time and was sick for a long time.He clearly felt that there was a limb like a human hand tightly grasping his right foot, and the scratches on the foot gradually disappeared after more than 2 years! At that time, I was both excited and scared. The worker said that if you go swimming in reservoirs and ponds that have not been drained for decades or even hundreds of years, or in very deep rivers with sparsely populated water and clear water, don’t swim too far, and don’t leave. Crowds, swim in the designated swimming area. The more people swimming, the better. There are few people in remote places and few people come to the noisy and disturbed waters. It is very easy for the monkeys to succeed, especially when you hear the locals or administrators say Reservoirs and rivers where people drown every year should be more cautious. After listening to this chat, a few days later a long-term wet reservoir in Luocheng County was released. After the water dried up, I really saw the water monkey. Unfortunately, I was still a child. The elders did not let us go to the scene to see what the water monkey grows. Sample.Water monkeys are said to live amphibiously on land and water. They look like a 4-year-old child, but there is a pit on their head. If there is water in that pit, they are capable of dragging land animals into the water even if they leave the water. "My mother, there are such things. I think they all look like children." Xu Shaode still turned his back to the golden light ball, but he was so frightened that he didn't dare to continue standing against the golden wooden door. He rubbed his temples, and then Said, "I heard you say that, why do you think it seems to be a kappa in Japan, is it called a kappa?" "Of course it's true. Kappa actually comes from China." I replied. For the Chinese, the kappa is like a water ghost. According to the records in the ancient book "You Ming Lu", this creature is called a water insect, also known as a chute boy. It has a naked human body with different lengths and sizes. Basin, if you receive water three to five feet, you have to be brave if you get water, but you will have no courage if you lose water. Therefore, there is a saying in Japan to describe a catastrophe, which is called Kappa's death.After research by Japanese folklorists, the creature should be the Japanese kappa. In fact, the dish they said is the same as the pit on the head of the water monkey. Japan is an island country with many monkeys. It can be inferred that Kappa may be a kind of aquatic ape. Generally, apes are not close to water, but there is a monkey in Japan that likes to soak in hot springs. This shows that apes are possible. Live by water.The water monkey is very special, it has hair in autumn and winter, and is hairless in spring and summer, so besides the name water monkey, it has another identity, that is, the monster in Chinese legend - mandrill.In Japan, Kappa will turn into Sando, a hairy monster after entering the mountain in autumn. However, after entering the mountain, not only the name has changed, but also the shape of the body has changed.Because they will go down the mountain in spring, start their life in the water again, and then return to become kappa, so the mountain boy is considered to be a monster that only exists from autumn to spring. In the field of folk culture research, there is such a saying: Shantong, that is, the Chinese mandrill, is an evil spirit of disease and fire. In 334 BC, the Yue Kingdom was destroyed, and the mandrill moved eastward and landed on the west coast of Kyushu, Japan. "Kyushu Mountain Boy".I thought that mandrills moved eastward to Japan after the Yue Kingdom was destroyed, and I wondered why the mandrills migrated after the Yue Kingdom was destroyed. The underground ancient city is inextricably linked with the Yue Kingdom. I am afraid that this group of water monkeys may be the newcomers. Not good, could it be that this ancient underground city is not for people to live in, but for water monkeys? "This door really can't be opened, you just shouted to open the door, what if they come in and drag us into the water and drown?" Xu Shaode said with lingering fear. "I thought there was someone there." I felt that I had almost hurt everyone, and I felt guilty, but I also wondered why the water horse boiled his companion, and now he knocked on the door with the boiled companion in his arms. Take the corpses of their companions and offer them to us to eat. "There is only one black water river in the ancient underground city. The river is neither wide nor deep, so it shouldn't be able to accommodate so many water monkeys?" Xiaoguang was careful, and immediately thought that water monkeys need water to survive. "Is there a source of water in Jinguang?" Fan Li glanced at Jinguang and turned his head again, and said, "There must be a lot of water in there with so much water vapor coming out." "That's right, there is a tunnel behind the light—" my father said to me seriously, "I won't hide it from you now, your grandpa must have told you about the past of the Jin family, and now you need to know all about it The answer to the mystery can only be known after entering the tunnel behind the golden light." "You admit that grandpa is right?" I thought my father would deny it, but I didn't expect him to admit it so readily. "What he said is right, we must block the group of water monkeys, they must not follow in, otherwise..." Father paused for a while, and then said, "Don't be afraid, in fact, you have been here many times .”