We made a gesture to each other, meaning that it didn't look easy down there, so we asked each other to be careful.

Then we carefully swam underwater, approaching the huge underwater whirlpool.

Just after swimming a certain distance, a very huge shadow suddenly appeared under the water, flashing past at an extremely fast speed, so fast that we didn't even see what it was. It was certain that the thing was a living thing.

We were startled by the sudden black shadow and immediately went into alert mode.

After returning from Cancong Tomb, I returned the pair of pistols to Liu Sa. Liu Sa said he would leave me one for self-defense, and he got Erpang another gun from somewhere.

In addition, there is also the old-fashioned shotgun used by hunters. Liu Sa contacted a Chinese hunter in Siberia and bought it from him. Although the range is not as powerful as a real gun, it is enough to deal with wild monsters and living corpses.

In order to cover up other people's eyes before going into the water, we didn't dare to go out with shotguns. We only had one pistol per person with us.

Now monsters suddenly appeared in the water. We were not stingy with bullets and drew our guns to shoot.

In fact, general pistols cannot be used underwater because the resistance in the water is too large and the hammer spring force is insufficient and the hammer cannot fire. If the hammer spring force is sufficient, the chamber may explode.

However, we experienced life and death once in Haiyan Dragon Palace, so we did not rule out the possibility of sneaking down to the Minjiang River to investigate before leaving. Therefore, Liu Sa contacted an arms dealer in a certain country to improve the guns in our hands.

Although it is not as good as a dedicated underwater shooting pistol, at least it will not explode.

As a reward for our first visit, the arms dealer gave us some bullets for underwater design. These bullets are different from ordinary gunpowder bullets. The caliber of the bullets is very thin, like embroidery needles, but because of its small size

, so it can ignore some underwater resistance better than gunpowder bullets, but it is definitely not as powerful as large-caliber pistol bullets.

We pulled the trigger, and the pinhole underwater bullet left the barrel of the gun. With a few muffled pops and puffs, we heard a deafening cow-like sound coming from the huge underwater vortex.

Immediately afterwards, the flow of water was no longer as smooth as before. With a huge vortex as the center, layers of underwater tornadoes rolled up under the river.

We secretly thought that if we were swept away by a tornado, we would probably be torn into pieces immediately.

So he quickly swam towards the water.

At this time, the water surface had begun to roll, and the villagers in Linjiang Village complained that they should not believe us and should send the girl down.

But Ah Hui followed my instructions and guarded the girl in the wedding dress. Ah Hui was so strong that he slapped a group of people. In the end, the villagers could only watch helplessly, and no one dared to step forward.

Seeing the river becoming more and more violent, the goddess began to kneel on the ground and pray.

The villagers in Linjiang Village knelt down and kowtowed, but what they were waiting for was not that the river had returned to calm, but that the three of us had emerged from the water.

I saw the three of us swimming out of the water and back to the shore.

The villagers in Linjiang Village seemed to have seen a ghost, shouting: "Help! The ghost is coming to ask for their lives!" and fled in all directions.

The goddess also tried to run away, but Er Fatty grabbed her.

She was so frightened that she knelt down and prayed: "Please, I'm an old woman with an old man and a young woman, just living together, don't kill me, don't kill me."

"You're already an old gaba, why are you so old? Tell me quickly, what's going on!" The fat man grabbed the goddess's hair and roared.

"Ouch! Ouch! Please forgive me, I'm just following the instructions of my ancestors!"

We looked at each other in confusion, thinking that this was no place to talk, so we escorted the goddess to the police station.

Under interrogation by the veteran police officer, the goddess confessed one by one.

It turns out that there is indeed a water monster in the river, but the monster in the water is not a carnivore, but an omnivore. Originally, it only needed to be fed with feed every day to calm it down.

But the ancestors of the goddess, the wizards from the Yiqu Kingdom, believed that there were demons making trouble in the river, and insisted on carrying out human sacrifices. In fact, they just put special feed on the sacrifices, and the underwater monsters wanted to eat feed instead of people.

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The reason why the wizards of Yiqu Kingdom did this was actually a deceptive method used to consolidate the power of the royal family of Yiqu Kingdom at that time.

Originally, Li Bing abolished this kind of human sacrifice activity when he was in charge of Dujiangyan, but the wizards from Yiqu State who stayed here later thought it was a good way to cheat money, so they continued to cheat.

"TMD, you guys are such bastards!" Er Pang was extremely angry.

I stopped the fat man who was about to rush over and beat someone, and asked the goddess: "Since you know there are monsters under the water, it means you have seen them. Tell me, did you put them there?"

"No, no!" the goddess hurriedly defended, "That water monster is very ferocious, and I heard about it from my ancestors. The secret recipes for raising monsters are also secret.

That monster has lived for thousands of years, and no one has ever seen what it looks like..."

I sneered: "Have you never seen it before, or do you not want people to see it? A scientific expedition team came here to investigate before, but the whole army was wiped out. Is it your fault?"

"Ah!" The goddess showed a surprised expression, "How do you know?"

"As you said, the secret recipe is secret. Those people were attacked underwater, so you must have put feed on them."

The goddess was suddenly surprised when she heard this. She looked me, Er Pang and Liu Sa up and down: "Why are you okay? I obviously..."

Liu Sa proudly opened her coat to reveal her diving suit: "Of course we have two layers of skin~"

A police officer came in and took the goddess into custody. She had done many evil things, and the only thing waiting for her was death.

But the problem now is how to deal with underwater monsters.

I talked privately with the old police officer about what we had seen. The reason why I told him was because my intuition told me that this person was the same type of person as us and that I could trust him.

When he heard me talk about Haiyan, the old police officer also showed trust.

"Actually, I also came out of a ravine. I have been fond of those weird things since I was a child, and I have also heard of sea eyes.

But I guess the situation in Minjiang is different from what you know."

"What's the difference?" I asked.

"When I was a child, I heard that a long time ago, Dayu used to control floods here and met a beautiful goddess in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River. Dayu gave the goddess a precious mirror, which connected to the eye of the sea.

As long as the goddess misses him, she can look into the eyes of the sea, where there are the palaces left by Dayu and his statues.

Later, a foreign demon occupied the Minjiang River. The goddess fought with the demon for several days and nights, and finally defeated the demon.

However, the precious mirror that Dayu gave to the goddess was accidentally broken into 108 pieces during the battle.

Because the treasure mirror is connected to the sea eye, the sea eye hidden in Shu was broken into 108 small sea eyes."

"108?! That's outrageous." Liu Sa shouted.

This number is indeed astonishing.

However, apart from the quantity, the story about Jiuzhaigou Haizi is also different from what I heard.

According to the version circulated among the people, it was a male god named Dago who gave the goddess the precious mirror, not Dayu.

And it has never been mentioned that the precious mirror is connected to the eye of the sea.

There are also some miscellaneous versions, and some even say that the 108 Haizi are the incarnations of the 108 generals from Water Margin, but these are all nonsense and nonsense.

But this alternative version of the story told by the old police officer seems to be more interesting to me than the original version.

After all, we did indeed discover the Temple of King Yu in Danjiang Haiyan, and there was indeed a statue of him there.

Only the fact that the sea eye is divided remains to be discussed.

The most likely thing is that there are 108 suspected sea eyes underwater, just like Cao Cao's 72 suspected tombs.

Only one of these is true.

But finding that sea eye will probably take a lot of manpower, material resources and time. What we lack most now is time.

What's more, our main goal at the moment is not to find the Eye of the Sea. After all, all clues point to the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, the former residence of the ancient Shu people.

If we simply hunt sea monsters, we do not need to go underwater. We can also lure monsters in the water to land.

"We will stay in the village for two days and finish solving the water monster issue before leaving."

"Okay. You can just stay at the Goddess's house. Her house is empty now anyway. You can search her house for some feed that can lure snakes out of their holes."

The old police officer took us to the goddess's house. As soon as we entered the door, the house looked like a wizard.

There is an ox bone pendant hanging on the door, and the door curtain is also made of various bones.

There is an offering table in the living room of the house. What is offered is not Buddha statues or Taoist gods, but ancestral tablets and grains.

In the rooms on both sides, one is a bedroom, and the other is filled with bamboo barrels one after another, containing herbs, spices and random medicinal materials.

We found the feed formula in it, and after configuring the feed, we confirmed from the prison goddess that there was no problem with the feed.

At this time, it was getting dusk, so we threw some of the feed into the river, and then scattered it all the way to the goddess's house.

If the old police officer said before that the disappearance of those who interrupted the sacrifice overnight was deliberately caused by the goddess, then it is very likely that the monster in the river is a nocturnal animal and will only walk on the road at night. We only need to wait until night.

We returned to the goddess's home for a short repair, and Ah Hui was squatting in the corner with a nervous look on his face.

Erpang wiped the shotgun in his hand.

Liu Sa, on the other hand, was lying on the bed humming a song.

And I was flipping through the information I downloaded before leaving on my phone. Along the way, I was reading information about Bashu, including anecdotes about each place, county annals, and all current archaeological information about Bashu.

Especially the ancient Shu culture. In fact, there are very few records of the ancient Shu culture in the existing ancient books. So far, the main domestic archaeological documents are basically concentrated in the north, and there is very little information about the south. They are basically based on ancient documents.

Speculation.

On the contrary, our journey along the way has proved in some form that many folklores are not all groundless. At least the creations of the ancients and our unknown technology are not necessarily worse than modern ones, but the ancients are not as high-sounding as modern people.

Explain obscure terms to appear scientific.

To put it bluntly, those who are short-sighted are actually those who know nothing about certain fields and prefer to pretend to understand.

I used to not be the kind of person who was very good at reading, but after a series of things happened, I fell in love with these quiet days. Reading through information made time flow faster, and it was getting dark before I knew it.

I heard a strong wind blowing outside, like a heavy rain.
Chapter completed!