Savage Secret

() then took a deep breath to calm down, carried Tian Yuan to the side of the fire with Lao Niu and Li Yongsheng, and told them a story: In ancient times, an ancient tribe lived in this cave. Survival, and through the observation of heaven and earth, mastered astronomy, witchcraft and other things closely related to people's lives, and even learned pottery crafts.They put the dead tribal personnel in clay pots and put them in the caves inside, guarded by special personnel and offered sacrifices regularly.

During a sacrifice, there was sudden lightning and thunder outside, and heavy rain poured down. The tribe chief asked everyone to stay in the cave and wait for the rain to stop before going out.Seeing the water level at the entrance of the cave rising little by little, everyone was terrified, and the tribe chief decided to go out in the rain without hesitation.

Just when they decided to leave, a landslide suddenly blocked the entrance of the cave.

Everyone was shocked, as if they felt that the end of the world was coming.However, the well-informed patriarch immediately stepped forward. He might pretend to communicate with the sky, and then tell everyone that the sky is doing this in the tone of a god, just to punish sin. Don’t panic, the god has told me that we will be out.When the clan's emotions gradually calmed down, the patriarch then used his power to order all the young and middle-aged men to go to battle, and they took turns digging day and night, hoping to dig out the mud and rocks blocking the entrance of the cave.

What they didn't expect was that when they were digging hard inside, the rain outside didn't stop, and the water level was already higher than the entrance of the cave.As more and more mud and rocks were dug away, the ability of the cave roof to withstand became worse and worse. Finally, one day, the flood broke through the roof of the cave and poured down with mud and stones. The people who dug the cave have not yet come. With a loud exclamation, it was buried under the rolling boulders and turbid waves forever.

Due to the excessive pressure, the flood came very quickly, destroying everything in front of it like a giant arrow. The unlucky ones were torn apart by the water arrows on the spot, and the lucky ones were thrown far away, and then were thrown away by the tribesmen. rescued.

Shouts of exclamation, screams, and the thunder of the flood rushing in came one after another in the cave, shaking everyone's heartstrings. They fled to high places with their families and children in an attempt to escape the catastrophe. The panic-stricken people It seems that he already knows his fate.Fortunately, the terrain of the cave is going upwards, and the top is higher than the bottom. Although the flood was large, it failed to submerge the entire cave, but blocked the entrance of the cave.

Finally, the water gradually calmed down and stopped rising. The people who survived the catastrophe felt reborn. Before they had time to cheer, they thought of another very serious problem: there was no food in the cave, and there was no other exit. It is necessary to dive out of the flooded hole.

So, after some prayers, the patriarch selected a brave man and gave him the title of warrior, letting him go to explore the road first.In the eyes of people expecting, the warrior went down into the water and swam towards the wall of the cave. When he reached the middle of the water, the warrior suddenly let out a scream and fell into the water, and then a huge splash appeared on the surface of the water.

People only saw a huge monster like a dragon and a fish swaying on the surface of the water for a while, and then sank to the bottom of the water and disappeared.

Faced with this situation, the patriarch had no choice but to show his authority again and order the two people to go into the water again. The two dared not disobey, but they were still dragged into the water by the monster.

In order to appease people's hearts, the patriarch ordered people to bring some stones, make a statue for him according to the monster at the bottom of the water, treat it as a god, sacrifice it with blood and the treasure of the clan, maybe the copper piece, hoping that it can be released. The tribe has a way of life.

However, he was disappointed!Those who entered the water were all eaten by the monster without exception.

Fear, hunger, utter despair!

Watching the clansmen die one by one, the patriarch is exhausted!After the last sacrifice to the ancestors and gods, the patriarch finally couldn't hold it anymore!After his death, he was placed in the cave inside by the living people, and people also put in his hands the magic staff of consonance, which represented his rights and attached to his soul!

When I said this, Li Yongsheng's eyes were straightened, and his body trembled involuntarily, but Lao Niu clapped his hands and laughed: "Tie Yan, you are so good at putting on a show, what you said is just hype, by the way, "Liao Zhai" is You wrote it!"

At this moment, I didn't want to scold Lao Niu any more, so I frowned and said to him, "You don't believe me? Then can you give me a better explanation?"

The old cow was still laughing: "I'm not as good at making up stories as you are, but as long as you can answer my three questions, I will believe you! First, what happened to those straw men in the cave with bats in their mouths?" ? Second, the entrance of the cave is buried in the water. How did the two ancient triangular rhinos get in? Third..." Old Newton paused, put away his smile and said seriously, "Is there anything at the bottom of the water!"

I lit a cigarette, thought for a while, and analyzed each item with Lao Niu: "The first question is easy to answer. The straw man with the bat in his mouth is obviously the object of witchcraft or curse. They may be traitors or enemies of the tribe. Of course, if the patriarch is a little more cruel, then he said that this is the most pious way to show respect to the gods or ancestors, and it is possible to trick the tribe to die by themselves!"

"As for the second point, when there is rain, there will be drought. When Dayu was in power, the world was flooded for ten years and nine times, and the sky was full of floods, and the ground was full of corpses! During Shang Tang's reign, there were seven droughts in eight years, and the fire was flying, and the red land was thousands of miles away. It will definitely be affected too. If there is an eight-year and seven-year drought, the water level will definitely drop a lot. The two ancient triangular rhinos discovered this place at that time and fell in love with it. Later, when the entrance of the cave was flooded again, the two The ancient three-cornered rhinoceros swam out to look for food, and came back after eating! The two ancient three-cornered rhinos were thousands of times larger than a human, and they were afraid of things under the water, so they naturally lived in peace. It is also possible that they passed through a After a fierce fight, when both sides were hurt, they found that no one could subdue the other, so they chose to live together peacefully for so many years."

When he said this, the disdain on Lao Niu's face was gone. Instead, he looked at me expectantly, waiting for me to answer his last question.

I also want Lao Niu to play the vanguard and go down to explore the water, and I don't want to whet his appetite, let alone embarrass him: "You asked me if there is anything under the water, but you already know it in your own mind. What we are in is Shennongjia is not a big lake or sea. The tides are formed by the gravitational force of the moon on the lake and sea. But the gravitational force of the moon on the small lake in front of us is very small? But there was no wind and waves on the water just now. It would be fine if the waves came from outside. It turned up from the bottom of the water, and the waves are huge, although they come and go quickly, they are also very strange!"

Hearing this, Lao Niu fell silent, bowed his head in silence, frowning, and Li Yongsheng asked me tremblingly: "Brother Tieyan, is what you said true?"

I said helplessly, "I can't tell if it's true or not, but we'll know if we try it!"

Lao Niu raised his head abruptly, and asked me in unison with Li Yongsheng: "How to try?"

I picked up a piece of meat from the leftover ancient triangular rhinoceros from the side with a Lazi Tibetan knife, and waved it in front of them: "Isn't that thing in the water eating meat? Let's go and chop off a few big pieces from the ancient triangular rhinoceros." , don’t you know if you throw it in the water?”

We did what we said, let Li Yongsheng take care of Tianyuan, and returned to the ancient triangular rhinoceros that was smashed to death. Everyone chopped a large piece of meat, and when we carried it back, we were exhausted and out of breath.

I was still worried that I would not be able to lure out the monsters from the bottom of the water, so I cut the meat into small pieces and threw them into the water. After a while, there was movement in the water, but they were all small fish.At this time, we threw big pieces into it. For a while, groups of fish competed for each other, waves splashed on the water surface, and silver scales flashed.

However, not long after, the group of fish suddenly disappeared, as if they had disappeared out of thin air. When we threw rhino meat into it again, there was no response from the water surface except for a "plop" when we threw it in.

Both Lao Niu and I guessed that the monster was coming, but it seemed that it didn't want us to see it, and it refused to surface at all.I simply asked the old cow to lift the largest remaining piece and threw it into the water vigorously.This time, the thing at the bottom of the water really moved, and the water surface trembled, and a white shadow flew quickly in the water, and immediately sank to the bottom of the water again.

The old cow looked at the huge ripples on the water, and said to me blankly: "Tie Yan, this is really a dragon, it is really alive!"

I only saw a white shadow. As for whether it was a dragon, a snake or a huge fish, I really dare not say, but listening to the old cow's tone, it seems that I have seen it clearly, so I asked him: "What are you talking about?" See, what does a dragon look like?"

The old cow said "ah", as if he didn't expect that I would ask this, he stretched out his hand and gestured to me: "Then, that dragon is white..."

Seeing that the old cow didn't know how to describe it, I asked: "It's white, I also saw it is white. Didn't you say it was a dragon? I was asking you if it had horns, height, weight, measurements, and Is it the same as the legendary dragon?"

The old cow was stunned for a moment, then "ah", he thought and said, "This dragon must have horns. How can it be called a dragon without horns? Not only does it have horns, but it also has a nose and eyes. Above the mouth, it looks very mighty..."

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and patted the old cow's shoulder and said, "What you said is all fucking nonsense. Pigs have noses and eyes, and the noses and eyes don't grow below the mouth, but pigs are not powerful at all. If you don't see it, say it." If you don’t see it, don’t talk nonsense there!”

Lao Niu was not only not guilty when I said this, but he said to me confidently: "You know that I didn't see it, and you came to ask me, what are you doing? Are you deliberately embarrassing me?"

"Obviously you said it was a dragon first, so I asked..."