Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 35
We looked at this thing in amazement, this is... what is this thing?

"Eyeball! This is an eyeball!" Gu Meidi cried out.

That's right!The exterior styling of this thing is truly an eye-catcher!
Questions are like countless white doves, whizzing past our minds, leaving feathers flying all over the sky.

eyeball? !
Why eyeballs again? !

There are eyeball patterns appearing from the beginning to the end of this adventure trip. What do these eyeballs represent?
Why was this bronze cast eyeball buried at the bottom of the ancient tower?

What exactly are the bronze eyeballs used for?

How many secrets are hidden in it?

Too many questions entangle us, we seem to be trapped in a fog, and we can't find a way out.

Professor Ye was holding the bronze eyeball, with an excited look on his face, he could only hear him muttering to himself: "Finally found you! Finally found you!"

I looked at Professor Ye suspiciously, and felt that Professor Ye's words were a bit weird, but I couldn't say exactly where the weirdness was.After thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with Professor Ye's words. Am I worrying too much?This kind of thought was like a passing moment, and it quickly flashed through my mind, and I didn't continue to think deeply.

At this time, Professor Ye had already put the bronze eyeballs into the backpack, and said to us happily: "Tuobagu, your performance is very good! In this way, we have another important clue. Well, we can now We're back the way we came!"

We packed our backpacks, walked on the plank road again, and walked all the way to the interlayer waterway of the ancient pagoda.

We changed the diving suit on the stone ladder. My shoulder was injured, and it was very inconvenient to change the diving suit. I had to ask Gu Meidi for help.Looking at my half-naked and strong body, Gu Meidi couldn't help but blushed.Don't look at her usual fearless appearance, once it involves men and women, she is as shy as a little girl.

Seeing Gu Meidi's cute and shy appearance, I couldn't help but want to tease her. When her finger touched my skin, I pretended to be in pain and shouted: "Oh! It hurts! It hurts!"

Gu Meidi quickly stopped, "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?"

I nodded, "Easy! Lighten up! Alas!"

I originally wanted to use this method to arouse Gu Meidi's tenderness and pity, but I didn't expect that the little girl Gu Meidi was so irritable that she raised her hand to press my wound and said impatiently: "Dignified man, man, blind What are you yelling about? I'll let you feel the pain once, and you won't feel the pain again!"

"Ah—" I opened my mouth wide, unable to make a sound from the pain, and cursed in my heart, "Xiao Nizi, you are so cruel!"

We put on oxygen masks and slowly sank into the water.

After a while, we came to the gate of the ancient pagoda, and we were a little apprehensive when we thought of the monster in the abyss.I don't know if that monster has left. If it is still wandering outside the ancient pagoda, wouldn't it be like a sheep getting caught by a tiger if we go out?After hesitating for a while, we found that there was not much oxygen in the oxygen tank. If we didn’t hurry up and surface, we were afraid that we would be suffocated in the water.Instead of being suffocated in the water, it is better to risk your life and fight, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.Thinking of this, we opened the gate of the ancient pagoda, got out quickly, and then swam towards the water without looking back.

Fortunately, that monster did not appear, and we naturally did not have a good meal as a monster.When the oxygen in the oxygen tank was almost exhausted, we managed to surface.We took off our oxygen masks and breathed in the moist air with great gulps.

The three of us, the master and the apprentice, looked at each other, with a smile showing the rest of our lives after the catastrophe.

Professor Ye gasped and said, "Hurry up and get on the boat, maybe when that monster will emerge from the abyss again!"

We nodded, looked around on the water, and our hearts suddenly sank, "It's broken! Where's the boat? Where did our iron boat go?"

The surface of the water was empty and dark, and there was nothing but the heads of the three of us.

I suddenly felt an unprecedented panic, how can we leave here without a ship?What's more frightening than this is that there is no boat, which means that grandpa probably had an accident. Could it be that grandpa and the iron boat were sucked into the underwater abyss just like the tragedy that happened before?
My heart trembled crazily, and I felt a deep sadness. Maybe when we entered the ancient pagoda and were lucky not to be swallowed by monsters, the grandfather on the water had already died, but we didn't know it.Thinking of this, I couldn't help but burst into tears.

Suddenly, a white light pierced the darkness, and a white halo enveloped us. An old and powerful voice floated from a distance, "Tuobagu, are you back?"

Hearing this old voice, the stone hanging in my heart fell instantly, and I happily responded loudly: "Grandpa! We are here! We are here!"

After a while, we heard the chug-chug sound of the engine, and the shadow of the iron boat gradually appeared in our sight.

Professor Ye and Gu Meidi climbed onto the deck first, and then they turned around and dragged me up.The three of us were like fish in a dry river, panting and lying on the deck, not wanting to move.Our nerves have been highly tense before, but now that we have returned safely, the tense nerves have relaxed, and we feel deeply sleepy and tired.

Grandpa came out from the cockpit, "Tuoba Gu, why are you so worthless, why were you crying just now?"

I scratched my head embarrassingly, "I thought Grandpa you...you..."

"You think I'm dead?" Grandpa laughed loudly, "Don't worry, your grandpa, I can't die! Didn't I say that my body is strong, how could I die so easily? But it was really dangerous just now , almost died!"

I was startled suddenly, "Almost died? Grandpa, what happened just now? Did you encounter that monster?"

Grandpa nodded, looked at the calm water and said thoughtfully: "That's not a monster, I think it looks like the legendary dragon!"

"Flood Dragon?!" We opened our mouths wide in surprise, "That monster is actually a Flood Dragon? No way, is there really a creature like Flood Dragon in the world?"

The dragon is the most mysterious creature in Chinese myths and legends. It wears scales, has beards and horns on its head, and has five claws.The legendary Jiaolong is actually not a dragon, but a combination of Jiaolong and dragon, but the appearance of Jiaolong is very similar to that of a dragon.Jiaolong usually hides in rivers and deep lakes, and is regarded as a symbol of evil and bad luck.

I suddenly remembered the monster that I saw at the bottom of the water. Now that I think about it, its appearance is indeed very similar to the legendary dragon. It not only has horns, but also claws. It is covered in scales and has a body like a snake.Thinking of this, I couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, my dear, it turned out that it was a dragon that chased us just now.

Grandpa said: "At first I didn't know what kind of monster it was. Maybe it was because of my bad luck. The monster didn't take the initiative to attack me, but circled around the iron boat. I could clearly see it through the circle of light from the searchlight. The outline of the black shadow was found to be very similar to the legendary dragon. At that time, I was holding a submachine gun in my hand, and cold sweat kept falling. I am very glad that I did not shoot rashly, and the dragon did not surface The surface of the water slowly sank after turning around a few times. For safety reasons, I dare not continue to park the boat in the middle of the pool, so I drove the iron boat outside and waited for you to come back!"

Gu Meidi hugged his shoulders and said: "Grandpa, let's get out of here quickly, hearing what you said, I feel panicky in my heart!"

The iron boat chugs out of the cave, and I look back at the water surface shrouded in cold smoke, my heart can't calm down for a long time.

On the way back, Grandpa told us a story about Jiaolong that he personally experienced.

"Thirty years ago, around the beginning of the 30s. It was a summer afternoon, and I had no work to fish for corpses, so I went out to fish with A Niu from the same village. Life at that time was relatively difficult. When it was time to fish for corpses, I went out with others to fish for a living."

"Our fishing boat was not far away, and a few thick dark clouds floated from nowhere in the sky, covering the bright sun. The shapes of those dark clouds were like monsters, constantly changing shapes, slowly Gathered together. The originally bright sky suddenly became gloomy, and the sky and the earth were dark."

(End of this chapter)