Chapter 70 Chapter 70: The Water Monkey

"Let's go, I'll send you here, and I'll go find grandpa, he will definitely be able to help me lift this curse, I won't die, I will definitely not die!" Wei Ning cheered up, and the dementor bell in his hand Shake, paper money spilled all over the floor. The night wind blew, and inadvertently blew away Lin Lingsu's black hat.Lin Lingsu's originally stiff face suddenly twitched slightly, but it was impossible for Wei Ning, who was walking in front, to see it. The night was getting darker and darker, and the villages, woods, potholes, and ditches seemed to have all fallen into a mysterious silence, only Wei Ning's insidious bell was ringing.

"The yin people make excuses, and the yang people avoid it!" Wei Ning rang a series of crisp bells, and paper money was sprinkled all over the road. Because driving corpses is too frightening, in order to avoid shocking the world, people usually choose some remote places to walk, so the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk, and the thorns are densely covered.After walking for more than an hour, Wei Ning felt a little thirsty, but when he touched the water bottle in his arms, it was already empty. "I forgot to add water at the corpse inn just now." Wei Ning thought to himself.He looked left and right, and saw a crescent moon still lingering desperately on the edge of the dark forest. A river surrounded the mountain, and the river water glowed silver from time to time, without a trace of wind.

"You wait here for me. I'll fetch water and I'll be here soon." Wei Ning said to Lin Lingsu, of course he knew that Lin Lingsu couldn't hear it. Wei Ning walked to the river, combed his messy hair under the moonlight, then filled a pot of water with the kettle, turned around to leave, suddenly something seemed to hold his feet, Wei Ning pulled hard , but the thing seemed to be getting stronger and stronger, pulling Wei Ning directly into the water.Wei Ning looked back, and saw the head of a three or four-year-old child floating out of the water. The hair was disheveled, and there was a disc-shaped depression in the center of the head. The eyes were shining, but the mouth was like a crow's mouth. fangs.

"Water monkey!" Wei Ning's heart sank suddenly, and he blurted out the monster's name. It turns out that in western Hunan, there are often water ghosts called water monkeys, also known as "outcropped ghosts". They often like to move around shallow water bays, and they specially drag children playing by the water and women who wash clothes into the water and drown them.Although the water monkeys are short in stature, they are extremely powerful, and their targets are women and children. Therefore, adults strictly forbid children to play by the water, just because they are afraid of encountering such monsters.

There are different legends about the origin of the water monkey. Some say it was transformed from a drowned water ghost who went to the water to find a substitute, and some say it is an unknown creature. The water splashed rapidly, revealing several hands one after another, and a few more water monkeys appeared, holding Wei Ning and dragging them into the water.Wei Ning was dragged down by several water monkeys, no matter how hard he struggled, but the water monkeys were extremely powerful—it was said that a water monkey could pull a cow into the water—and pulled Wei Ning into the water in a blink of an eye.

Several water monkeys, some grabbed Wei Ning's hand, some dragged Wei Ning's foot, some grabbed Wei Ning's hair, pinned Wei Ning in the water, and sank directly to the bottom of the river.Suddenly, river water and river mud began to pour into Wei Ning's mouth and nose, and a water monkey began to crawl to Wei Ning's chest, showing its white teeth, and bit down on Wei Ning's chest hard.Wei Ning's hands and feet were firmly pressed down by the water monkey, and he couldn't move at all, let alone fight back. Seeing that Wei Ning was about to die in the water monkey's mouth, he became their delicious meal.

At the critical moment, Wei Ning took a deep breath, closed his lips tightly, and bit his teeth hard on the tip of his tongue. Just when the water monkey was about to bite his heart, "Zha!" Wei Ning shouted loudly. A mouthful of Zhenyang blood saliva went directly into the water monkey's left eye. The water monkey grunted in pain and ran away. Wei Ning secretly cried out what a pity, if it was on the shore, without the resistance of the water, Wei Ning's blood saliva could punch a hole through the head of this water monkey and take its life directly. This Zhenyang blood saliva is obtained by Wei Ning biting the tip of his tongue, mixed with innate energy, it is extremely powerful, and it is also Wei Ning's last life-saving trick. It will never be used until the critical moment of life, but This trick cannot be used frequently, once used once, it is impossible to use it again in a short time, not to mention that Wei Ning's own innate energy is not enough, it is this repeated biting of the tongue, which is riddled with holes. , Bite your tongue and kill yourself, the gain outweighs the loss.

Wei Ning fumbled in the water with one hand and touched a stone beside him.Since the water monkey just grabbed Wei Ning's arm, Wei Ning's wrist strength was still there, and with a swipe, it would be impossible for an ordinary person to hit him with a stone under such a high pressure at the bottom of the water, but Wei Ning was mixed into it. The Xiantian Yuan Qi he learned from the old man broke the water with a stone, and hit the water monkey holding Wei Ning's hand hard on the back of the head. The water monkey felt the pain, let go of Wei Ning's hand, and ran away.With one hand released, Wei Ning immediately picked out a big rock from the river, and hit the other water monkeys desperately. The water monkeys didn't expect Wei Ning to be so brave, they all swam away with a whimper.

Only then did Wei Ning surface, took a deep breath, and said to himself, "It's so dangerous. I almost capsized in the gutter and died at the hands of these water monkeys." Wei Ning climbed ashore, cleaned the mud from his mouth and nose, and straightened his wet clothes and hair. Only then did he remember that Lin Lingsu was still in the woods, and he hurried back.But back to where Lin Lingsu was just now, Lin Lingsu had disappeared. Wei Ning was annoyed for a while, blaming himself for not taking good care of Lin Lingsu. If Lin Lingsu had "three good things and two bad things", he would die a hundred times and he would not be able to atone for his sins.

Where did Lin Lingsu go?Even though he was still here just now, Lin Lingsu is a god of joy, so it's impossible for him to run away by himself? Could it be that like last time, he met a Wu mouse-like corpse thief again? Wei Ning took out the compass, followed the direction pointed by the compass, and hurried to find Lin Lingsu.Following the guidance of the compass, Wei Ning galloped all the way, but there seemed to be something wrong with the compass, the pointer kept shaking, and the closer it was to Lin Lingsu, the more violent the shaking became, and finally it exploded with a bang.

Wei Ning stopped, he had already come to the entrance of a cave, and there were bursts of faint blue smoke coming out of the cave.Wei Ning frowned, grabbed a handful of wind and put it in front of his nose. "It's so dark!" Could it be that Lin Lingsu is inside?