Between mountains and seas

The lake of Bishushanzhuang is a big deal.When I bought this piece of land, it was a large dry puddle, piled with rubbish and rotten soil. When it rained, some water would accumulate. When the weather was hot, it was very attractive to mosquitoes and flies. One can imagine what kind of smell it was.

The people of the Jin Mansion cleaned up the rubbish, and even expanded it.It was also because of their luck that they dug out the groundwater, and the puddle became a lake, which became the main scenery of Bishu Mountain Villa - Ningbi Lake.

The name is really vulgar, but the scenery is really good.

Going out from the small building where Shao Jingxing lives, there is a wooden plank road leading to the lake, all the way is running water from the lake, a clear and shallow canal, paved with white stones, with golden-red cunts inside. The long, small carps scurried back and forth in the ditch, and from time to time they even came up to the surface of the water to pick up the finely crushed petals that fell from the silk tree on both sides, which is also a touch of elegance.

When we arrived at the lake, the first thing that caught our eyes was a piece of water lilies, not the most common kind of purple, but red, white and yellow, not a particularly expensive variety, but it was not bad.

At this time, it has entered the flowering period of water lilies, and the lakeside is full of oval leaves, with various flowers raised or lowered, almost covering the water surface, only occasionally a fish can be seen through the gap Swim past, bring a circle of ripples.

"If it falls, how can it be heard?" Shao Jingxing took two steps on the wooden plank road.There are railings on the plank road. Of course, four or five-year-old children can bend over to get through, but the plank road is more than 30 centimeters away from the water. If the child falls into the water, there will be no sound at all.

"The child's mother was on the phone." Huo Qing walked along the lake, searching the water with his eyes.

Shao Jingxing followed him closely: "What are you looking at? Do you want to find a tool to fish it? I'll just say that my phone fell into the water..."

"Wait a minute." Huo Qing looked around, and finally stood still, "The child was standing in this position at that time."

Shao Jingxing asked stupidly: "How do you know?"

"Judging from the scenery in the photos sent over from the scene. And here—" Huo Qing pointed to his feet, "This piece of water lilies was damaged a lot because they went into the water to fish for people at that time." It was much sparser than the other places.

Shao Jingxing leaned over to look underwater.The water is not clear to the bottom, but it is only one meter deep. If there is a person lying underneath, how can I see it: "Otherwise, it really didn't fall into the water?" Or it may be that the child ran out mischievously and was abducted. ran away.

Huo Qing shook his head: "I checked the monitoring of Bishu Mountain Villa, and I didn't see the child leave Bishu Mountain Villa." It was also because of this that the child's family insisted that the child fell into the water.

"It's impossible for there to be piranhas in this lake, right?" Shao Jingxing looked at the wide lake, and said that he was a little hairy, "Probably not. They all raise crucian carp, carp, silver carp and so on..." It is also a gimmick to allow guests to cook with the fish they catch.

Huo Qing still shook his head.Certainly not piranhas.Piranhas eat people and still have bones left.Besides, do piranhas still need people from the special affairs department?

"Yes, what could it be, some strange beast?" Shao Jingxing felt that his back was even more hairy, "But, but I have also visited this lake when they built it, and nothing happened..." If there is something in the lake, Wouldn't it be more convenient to eat those construction workers earlier?

Huo Qing could answer this question: "It may not have been in this lake a long time ago. Have you forgotten the sparrow?" It also flew from other places.Maybe I just came here, so I only had time to do one case.

"Isn't that child..." Shao Jingxing shuddered.

Huo Qing didn't speak.If it really bumped into some kind of strange beast, the child would probably be in danger.But this topic is too heavy, and it's useless to talk about it, so he directly came to a conclusion: "It was evening when the accident happened, and we'll have a look at that time. Now let's go around and see if there are any changes."

Although Bishu Mountain Villa was not comparable to the real Mountain Resort, it was quite large in size. The two of them walked around for a while and missed their lunch, but they didn't find any suspicious traces of strange animals.

Shao Jingxing ordered two simple meals, and the two ate in their room.Shao Jingxing complained while eating: "Don't you have any detection equipment? Aren't those strange beasts mutated by the power of mountains and seas? Can't they be detected?"

At his request, Bishu Mountain Villa did not arrange a luxury suite for him. Of course, the room is also very big, but - there is only one bed.Yes, this is a deluxe double room.

But at this moment, Shao Jingxing didn't think about why Wu Chu arranged a big bed room at all.And Huo Qing didn't even think about this problem, so they sat on the bed and ate pizza face to face: "Although the power comes from the power of mountains and seas, it is no longer the power of mountains and seas, just like plants use sunlight through photosynthesis , but they do not have sunlight directly in their bodies."

"What about the cracks? Aren't cracks leaking the power of mountains and seas? This can always be detected, right?"

"If the concentration is enough, it's fine." Huo Qing paused, "But the power of mountains and seas seeping through the cracks will quickly dissipate and be absorbed by the surrounding creatures. If the cracks are small and don't exist continuously, it will be very difficult." It can be detected.” The main reason is that the instrument cannot detect it.There are people who are particularly sensitive to this, but the number is too small.

Shao Jingxing was depressed: "So it's so troublesome..." I thought that the people in the special affairs department only need to fight those monsters, but the daily work is so tedious, if it were him, he would have gone crazy, "It's really not easy for you."

Huo Qing glanced at him: "It's us."

No, don't count me in!Shao Jingxing shouted in his heart.But in the face of Huo Qing's serious eyes, he dared not say it out loud. He could only take a big bite of pizza silently, thinking that he would have to give him some advice when he saw Xia Yan in the future. This chef's pizza making skills are too bad. up!

The sun was setting and most people had gone to the restaurant to eat, only a few fishing fans were still lingering in the water.Huo Qing led Shao Jingxing to the place where the child fell into the water again, but everything still looked the same as before, and there was no abnormality to be found.

"It's a good thing..." Shao Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief.It would be best if he said that this matter has nothing to do with the world of mountains and seas.After all, even if the child is abducted by human traffickers, it is better than falling into the world of mountains and seas to face those monsters.

Huo Qing was silent for a moment, and agreed with him—there was no abnormality, which means that there are no barrier cracks here, which is indeed a good thing.As for the child, leave it to the police.

"Then let's go fishing?" Once he relaxed, Shao Jingxing suddenly had other thoughts, "Actually, night fishing is also fine. The fish in their lake—"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a scream, and a small boat that was already approaching the lake shook violently. The girl who had just stood up on the boat was offering her hand to her boyfriend who got ashore first, but suddenly screamed Shouting and falling into the water.

"Hooked snake!" Huo Qing's pupils shrank, and he jumped up abruptly. He stomped his feet on the railing of the wooden plank road, and unexpectedly jumped seven or eight meters, and plunged headfirst into the water.

"Huo Qing!" Shao Jingxing stared straight at him.He didn't know what Huo Qing saw, and he didn't know what that "dog snake" was. He just saw the cold light in Huo Qing's hand when he entered the water, and he had obviously drawn his knife, so it must be very dangerous.

At this moment, the girl who fell into the water was clinging to the side of the boat, and the whole boat tilted to the side. It was obvious that the force that pulled her into the water was not small.Her boyfriend doesn't know how to swim at all, he only knows how to scream on the bank, calling his girlfriend to ask her to reach out.

Stretch!Look at that girl, she can't grasp it with both hands, as long as she dares to let go of one hand, she will be dragged down immediately!

Shao Jingxing couldn't help shouting: "Don't let go!" Listening to your troublesome boyfriend, his life is about to die!

While shouting, Shao Jingxing also ran over there.Unexpectedly, he had just run two steps, when suddenly his ankle tightened, his whole body lost his balance, and he fell to the ground with a plop.Immediately afterwards, there was a strong force on his ankle, pulling him straight into the water and sliding over!

I wipe wipe wipe!What a joke!

Shao Jingxing roared crazily in his heart, turned his head desperately to look, and found that what seemed to be two snake tails wrapped around his feet, the fingers were thick and thin, and the color was dark and inconspicuous.

It's over, this is probably the dog snake Huo Qing was talking about!Shao Jingxing's face turned pale - isn't this just an artificial lake, how could there be so many snakes hiding there!No, judging by its strength, it should be a python!

Shao Jingxing was most afraid of snakes.These cool, slippery, cold-blooded animals come and go silently, attacking as fast as lightning.Ever since he was bitten by a cauliflower snake while climbing a mountain when he was a child—although the snake was not poisonous, it also left him with a psychological shadow—he has a physical fear of these things, and he dare not even look at the animal world. What about snakes?

In his opinion, pythons are especially terrifying.If a venomous snake is bitten, there is still a chance to use serum to save lives, but if it is entangled by a python, it will never relax if the prey is not dead!And now, judging from the force of pulling around his ankle, it must be a boa constrictor, not a poisonous snake that wins with its venom.Moreover, there are still two!How unlucky is he to be targeted by two pythons at the same time?

This series of thoughts flashed through Shao Jingxing's mind, and while he was desperately trying to find something to grab him, he let go of his voice and shouted: "Huo Qing! Save—" Before he could say "Fate", the strength on his feet suddenly Enhanced, pulling him into the water in one fell swoop.

Gudong!Shao Jingxing took a sip of the cold lake water, struggling to reach the bottom of the lake.The water here is still shallow, as long as he can stand up, he can show his head!

but none!Stretching left and right, Shao Jingxing's feet couldn't touch the bottom of the lake. Instead, he felt that his body was being pulled down quickly.

This is impossible!The water is less than one meter deep, and he should have touched the bottom of the lake as soon as he fell into the water!Shao Jingxing tried his best to open his eyes and look down, but found that the water below was so dark that he couldn't see the bottom, and there were no water lilies, fish and shrimp. The snake tail protrudes from the deeper water.

The oxygen in the lungs quickly runs out.Shao Jingxing struggled desperately, but the flames in his hands were extinguished by the water pressure a few times.And the pull on the ankle was utterly irresistible, pulling him down, down, down...

Are you really going to die?Shao Jingxing felt that he was about to lose his breath.But he knew very well that even if he opened his mouth, he couldn't breathe air, he would just keep drinking water until he suffocated...

Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the dark field of vision, and the snake tail on Shao Jingxing's ankle suddenly let go, and a person came up from under his feet, grabbed his hand and put it in his arms, and two cool things covered his lips .

It's Huo Qing!Shao Jingxing's head was already a ball due to lack of oxygen, but the thought was very clear - the person who cut off the snake's tail and gave him relief must be Huo Qing!

The water is cold.Huo Qing's lips were also about the same temperature as the water, not hot.Just like him, he is always so indifferent, without even a smile.

But the hand he held on to him was so strong, powerful and reliable, just like him, no matter how dangerous it was, he would always be by your side, so that you would not be alone and helpless...

Shao Jingxing was thinking wildly in his head, but his whole body was like an octopus clinging to Huo Qing's body to suck in air desperately—he was about to suffocate him to death!I don't know what's going on with the water. It seems to be very deep. Maybe it's still far away from surfacing. It's hard to say whether he can persist...

Facts have proved that his idea is extremely wise - or rather, he is extremely self-aware, because seeing that the top of his head is already bright, something is entangled in Shao Jingxing's ankle again.And this time there was more than one snake tail, more snake tails wrapped around his calf, dragging him down forcefully.

Not only him, but even Huo Qing was entangled in his legs.Shao Jingxing hugged Huo Qing so hard that he was so frightened that it was going to end!How many pythons are there under the water? There are at least 20 tails. Could it be that there is a snake nest under the water?

Huo Qing let go of his hand suddenly.Shao Jingxing's body sank, and he was dragged down before he could react.

What does this mean?Is Huo Qing ready to give up on him?Fortunately, he thought he was very reliable just now!

Shao Jingxing's body sank in the water.The feeling of suffocation came up again, and he could only look up with his eyes wide open.Watching Huo Qing cut off the tail wrapped around him with a knife, then turned over in the water, and chased him head-to-head...

wow-

"Ahem——Huff——" Shao Jingxing lay on the bank like a dead dog, with half of his body still soaking in the water, coughing water and sucking air into his lungs.Such a difficult movement caused him to tremble like an epileptic, his whole body shaking non-stop.

"Go ashore!" Huo Qing lifted him up with one hand, "This place is still within the attack range of the hooked snake!"

Shao Jingxing climbed ashore almost on all fours.Behind him was a narrow rocky beach dotted with reefs, which made his legs bruised.It was these rocks that saved their lives—Huo Qing threw an anchor claw to hook the reef, and then pulled them up to the rocky beach with a spider silk rope, so the two were not dragged into the deep water behind ...

"That's, what exactly is that?" Shao Jingxing finally caught his breath.My chest was burning with pain from the lack of oxygen, but my stomach was swollen from the water injection.He turned his head and looked back, only to see two thin snake tails quietly retracting from the middle of the reef, but they did not completely retract under the water, but stayed sinisterly in the shadow of the reef, as if ready to strike again at any time attack.

Even though he knew that the thing was far enough away and couldn't attack him, Shao Jingxing still felt a chill down his back.He finally saw it clearly just now under the water, these things are in groups of two, but the ends are joined together.I don't know how many tails there are under the icy deep pool, but there are only one tail after another, like countless aquatic plants, which can frighten people with dense phobia.

"It's a hooked snake." Huo Qing was not as embarrassed as Shao Jingxing, and he was still able to stand still, looking back at the black water pool, "It belongs to aquatic snakes. Its tail is forked and has a hook at the end. It sticks out the tail to catch prey on the shore, so It's called the Hooked Snake."

"Yuan, so it's a hook snake..." It's not a dog snake.No wonder, he said that this thing has nothing in common with a dog.

Huo Qing began to pull the rope in his hand: "You can see it when you pull it up."

"What?" Only then did Shao Jingxing realize that Huo Qing still had a spider silk rope in his hand, and the other end was submerged in the black pool.As he pulled, a dark cylinder was dragged out of the water, and the fine scales shone slightly in the sunlight.

This, this is really... Shao Jingxing was so admired that he almost threw himself to the ground.Look, it's like falling into the water. He was almost full of water, and Huo Qing caught a hooked snake up in his busy schedule!Why is there such a big gap between people?

When Huo Qing pulled the snake up, there were several ripples in the water, and several tails stretched out, as if trying to take back his companion's body.But since Huo Qing had landed, he wasn't afraid of them anymore. He just stretched out his tail, but was pierced by a short arrow, and retreated with blood on his face.The rest of the tails were frightened and disappeared.

"Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu" said that there is a hooked snake in Bonan Mountain, seven or eight feet long, with a fork at the end. The snake lives in the mountain stream, and people and cattle on the bank eat it with its tail hook." Huo Qing pulled the rope while He said lightly, "It should be a few sporadic ones that escaped from the world of mountains and seas. This kind of thing is just longer than ordinary snakes, and can breathe in water, and there is nothing special about it. It's just that the creatures on the shore were killed. Being dragged into the water is at a disadvantage, so it is more dangerous to be attacked by surprise. If you are on the shore, there is nothing to fear, especially if it is relatively small, it is better to deal with it."

He spoke so calmly, but Shao Jingxing looked at the 15-meter-long body and his mouth twitched: "This, this one is small?"

As far as he knows, the Amazon anaconda is the largest known snake, and it can grow up to more than ten meters, which is very scary.It is said that Indonesia once caught a 14.85-meter-long python, which is currently the largest python on record in the world.But the one in front of him - Huo Qing said it was small!

"The adult hook snake is more than 20 meters long." Huo Qing dragged the whole snake out of the water and threw it on the shore. "Besides, the hook snake is relatively thin, so it's not very powerful."

Shao Jingxing pointed to the purple bruises on his calf that had been strangled: "The snake hook isn't very strong?" It's not a big loss, his ankle was strangled like this, and it's still aching.If the power is bigger...

"If you change to Wei Snake or Shuan Ran of the same length, or something else," Huo Qing said flatly, "your leg is broken now."

Should he be glad that he only encountered a hooked snake?Shao Jingxing had nothing to say, so he could only talk about it from left to right: "Where is this?"

Huo Qing simply replied: "I'm not sure. But I must have entered the world of mountains and seas again."

Well, he fell in again...