Chapter 8 Flowers in the Water (II)
Who? Why?
These two questions were spinning wildly in Jiang Xian's mind, but before he could think about it, Zhao Yazhi's voice rang out beside him: "Team leader. Give me a hand. This guy is very calm."
"No need." Before Zhao Yazhi could reach out her hand, Jiang Xian carried the tall and strong Zhao Boli on his back and tilted his head towards the tools beside him: "You take the towel and the kettle, I'll carry him over."
Without waiting for Zhao Yazhi to answer, he carried Zhao Boli on his back and walked towards the lake.
"I never thought... a power leveler would sneak into the bronze league..." His eyes became darker, and he looked at everyone calmly. The other party was well hidden. He didn't intend to alert them.
He didn't want to seek justice for the others. He was not that passionate about the matter as they were just casual acquaintances. However, for the safety of the team, he could not take action, but he had to know who the other party was!
Is there any way to fish the other party out... He gently placed Zhao Boli on the edge of the lake and was about to stand up when suddenly, a loud splashing sound came from behind him, from the cave!
Extremely fast and loud!
Hearing this sound, Zhao Yazhi's hair stood on end. If he wasn't a policeman, he would have screamed by now. However, even so, he covered his mouth tightly, squatted down suddenly, and growled: "Bats!!!"
Bats return to their nest!
The sound was so fast that in an instant, the entire cave could only hear the sound of thousands of bats flapping their wings. Everyone looked at Jiang Xian at the same time. He gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Get in the water!"
Granted, it was five in the afternoon, not the time for them to be active yet. But... who knows if those spores would have any sequelae on the bats, like... making them more excited.
"Remember, lie gently in the water! Don't jump! And don't get close to areas with dense underwater flowers!"
When faced with secrets, no one knows what the next killer will be. It is better to be safe than sorry.
After saying this, he immediately squatted down, rolled over into the water, and the others followed suit, leaving only their heads above the water.
Zhao Yazhi also squatted down immediately. However, at the moment of squatting, a sharp pain came from his ankle. He groaned in pain and stood up immediately.
"Old Zhao!" Song Lianshi spoke in a panic, gritting his teeth and saying, "What are you doing?"
“Uh… Uh…” Zhao Yazhi’s teeth were chattering, and her facial features were distorted: “Fuck… my foot…”
Zhao Boli fainted before, which happened to knock him down. Then he ran at full speed for a long time. His sprained foot had not been rested, and the injury was not light to begin with. Coupled with the physical pressure he applied in a hurry just now, he couldn't squat down for a while!
At the entrance of the cave, a dark mass of bats had already appeared. The narrow entrance was too small for thousands of bats. At this moment, it felt like a dam had released a flood. The overwhelming black cloud rushed out of the cave. The people in the cave were sweating profusely, and every nerve was broken to the extreme.
"Temulun!" Jiang Xian shouted in a low voice. Temulun was the closest to Zhao Yazhi at the scene, and without saying a word, he grabbed Zhao Yazhi's other foot and pulled it hard.
Wow! Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but sit in the water. He didn't have time to feel the pain in his feet and immediately began to adjust his posture. However, at this moment, he suddenly felt...
A dull pain in the abdomen.
This is... someone kicked himself?
He fell to the ground with great force. The water was shallow here, and the dust raised from the water made the water turbid. He couldn't see who had done it, or even whether the other party had done it on purpose. His body just turned several times involuntarily with the force, and slid several meters into the depths of the lake.
He had to get back to the shore immediately... He remembered Jiang Xian's instructions. He quickly changed his posture and swam towards the shore.
However, at this moment... his eyes suddenly twitched, and his heart beat faster. He looked in astonishment to his left, more than ten meters away in the water.
Right there, those clusters of flowers blooming in the sun suddenly... collapsed.
The colorful petals collapsed in the water, twisting their bodies gently. The sunlight from the lake shone on them, and the interweaving of light and shadow was colorful and beautiful.
They swam around aimlessly for two circles, and then... they all headed in the direction of Zhao Yazhi!
You thief! Zhao Yazhi's mind went blank, and she tried to stand up without hesitation, exerting all her strength.
This is not a bush...
This is a living creature... I don’t know what kind of living creature it is!
However, just as he was about to stand up, he felt a sharp pain in his foot. The pain was much worse than his ankle, as if... something had penetrated his skin and was desperately sucking his flesh and blood!
"Gulp!" His eyes went dark, and he instinctively opened his mouth and cried out in pain. In an instant, the lake water suddenly poured in. He turned his head in horror and found that... his camouflage pants had been stained with more than a dozen "petals" without knowing when!
And dozens of meters behind him, several "bunches of flowers" had already disappeared without a trace!
At the same time, the "petal" not far from him seemed to have finally determined the target and raised its head. It rushed towards him like a sharp arrow!
It has no head.
Its head was a mouth... a mouth less than an inch in diameter. Inside the mouth... were densely packed, circles of teeth!
Puff... The speed was too fast to avoid. In an instant, a petal was tightly attached to his throat!
"Mmm...Mmm!" Zhao Yazhi was unable to make a sound, and his body twisted desperately in the water. He raised his hands in despair and slapped the water with all his strength. Perhaps he was calling for help, or perhaps he was reminding others... Leave here immediately! This lake is definitely not a good place!
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"What did you hear?" Jiang Xian suddenly looked up and asked.
The sound of thousands of bats flapping their wings is deafening. It is hard to imagine this scene without experiencing it yourself. It is even magnificent. Under this huge sound wave, other sounds are not very clear.
This question was asked to Temulun, who was next to him was Song Lianshi. However, the other party's five senses were no longer sharp, so Temulun was the only one who could ask.
"It seems... to be the sound of splashing water?" Temulun asked in confusion. Then, the two of them seemed to remember something at the same time and looked towards where Zhao Yazhi was.
no one!
At that moment, the two of them felt like they were in an ice cellar, with a bone-chilling chill rushing to their heads. They immediately looked back, and then... saw a scene that would be unforgettable for the rest of their lives.
That lake.
The lake water is clear and transparent, like emerald green.
The whole thing is boiling!
Blood spurted out, and in just a few seconds, Zhao Yazhi fell into the water. And right below him... countless... endless black shadows were madly gathering on his body!
"What is this..." Temulun, a burly man, said in a trembling voice, his face pale and his fingers trembling.
There were many things like loaches, each of which was a different color, and each one was a foot long. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands! With Zhao Yazhi as the center, they gathered from all directions and formed a colorful... "Flower!"
Zhao Yazhi was like a pistil, surrounded by colorful petals. The entire lake surface was hundreds of meters long, but a shadow tens of meters wide was formed in this corner. It was extremely gorgeous and spectacular, but it was also weird enough to make people shudder.
Countless "petals" swam quickly from all directions. In the center of the flower, Zhao Yazhi's body was still shaking violently for the first three seconds, and then it shrank rapidly. In less than 20 seconds, his camouflage uniform floated up. It seemed that only bones were left in his body, and it slowly floated to the bottom of the water.
All the blood and flesh were sucked away within three seconds!
"Let's go!" Jiang Xian did not hesitate, and used all his strength to stand up and rolled to the shore. Then came Temulun, and finally Song Lianshi. The three of them lay on the ground, looking at this living underground lake in shock.
Swish... Almost at the same time, the "petals" scattered and swam around. They dived downwards, their tails stuck into the cracks in the rocks, and their bodies swayed with the waves like water plants.
Like a flower in the water, dozens of meters underground, humbly begging for survival towards the sun. It was as if everything that just happened had never happened.
At this moment, all the bats also flew back into the shadows. The entire underground cave was dead silent. Only the turbid lake water was slowly clearing up, and there were three sober people with wildly beating hearts.
"Old Zhao..." After more than ten seconds, Song Lianshi came back to his senses. His eyes instantly turned red, his lips trembled, and he instinctively walked towards the lake.
" What do you want to do?" "Captain Song! Are you crazy?!"
The two voices sounded almost at the same time, and the two men moved in unison, suddenly grabbing Song Lianshi, pressing him under them, and holding him tightly.
“Let go!” Song Lianshi’s voice was a little hoarse. He struggled desperately and wanted to rush towards the lake like a madman: “Let me go! Let me go!!”
He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he managed to get away from the two 1.80-meter-tall men. Jiang Xian gritted his teeth, grabbed his neck and growled, "Calm down! The dead can't be resurrected! If you go now, you'll die!"
"Yes, Captain Song! It's not your fault! This is something no one could have imagined!" Temulun said anxiously.
However, Song Lianshi seemed to not be able to listen at all. Tears quietly fell from the corners of his eyes, and his lips were bitten with blood marks: "Let me through... Let me through!! I order you to let me through!!"
"At least... at least bring his relics back!"
Dong... Suddenly, there was a muffled sound, and Song Lianshi's body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground like a noodle. Jiang Xian and Temulun both breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat off their face, and sat down.
"You're pretty ruthless." Jiang Xian wiped the sweat off his face, as if he wanted to take out a cigarette. He turned sideways and said casually, "After more than ten years of friendship, you're really a bit more decisive."
Temulun seemed to be looking for a cigarette as well. He reached into his trouser pocket and sighed, "We can't let Captain Song really go... Who knows what that thing is."
The next second, the two men turned around almost at the same time, holding the pistols hanging on their waists in their hands!
No one was surprised, as if they had expected it. The two men stood up slowly like Western gunmen, maintaining their balance and full attention. The muzzles of their guns never deviated at all.
Jiang Xian looked at Temulun deeply: "Who are you?"
"Lurking? Lurking in a county public security bureau? That's not necessary. And you probably came up with the idea to take action only after you got here, but didn't find a good opportunity."
Temulun met Jiang Xian's gaze and suddenly smiled. He whispered, "Penglai fairyland is an overseas mountain, and there is a cave in the universe."
Jiang Xian narrowed his eyes. After a few seconds, he spoke calmly: "I only ask where the real person is, not the mountains and seas to look for the earthly immortal."
