Chapter 207 The Water Monkey in the Snow Mountain
I don't know how to respond, because I know that I have the most fatal problem, that is, I don't want to speculate on others with malicious intentions. When I saw the gong in the hand of the strange statue, I realized that Liu Qingshan concealed and deceived me in this matter, but I still excused him from the bottom of my heart. To put it bluntly, I will never believe how bad the hearts of others are, especially for a person who has been nice to me, I am even more unwilling to believe in his evil. Yuan Tiandao has said this problem many times, and I know it clearly, but I just can't change it.
"What did you see?" I hesitated for a long time and asked Zhao Wuji. In fact, what Zhao Wuji saw before was no longer important. He would immediately see the strange statue of the god and the gong held in the statue's hand.
"In that cave, I saw the broken shadow puppet. He said that the shadow puppet once blocked disasters for him and died for him, either elsewhere, but in that cave." Zhao Wuji said.
After he said this, I immediately had nothing to say, and I didn't even know how to defend myself. I even thought that the shadow play that Liu Qingshan showed to what we said at the entrance of the cave might not be for us, but for the shadow play that once died for him in the cave.
After Zhao Wuji finished speaking, he walked towards the hall, and I didn't stop him. When he saw the statue of the god, his eyes stayed on the gong for a long time. I felt a little guilty. If it weren't for my long-standing trust in Liu Qingshan, maybe neither Zhao Wuji nor Lao Hei would have had too much contact with Liu Qingshan.
"This god is the god of Bon religion. This is the statue of Xiangxiong's beautiful Japanese god. It is one of the most domineering gods in Bon religion's practice. Bon religion is the most primitive religion in Tibet. Later, after Tibetan Buddhism entered Tibet, it merged with Bon religion, which led to the overall system of Tibetan Buddhism. It seems that we are unconsciously entering the Gangdise Mountain in ancient Xiangxiong. Gangdise means the lord of all mountains, the axis of the earth, and the core of the earth. It seems that the Germans at that time really found this place through this legend." Zhao Wuji said.
"You even know this?" I said.
Although I already knew that Zao Wow-ki had done his homework before entering Tibet, I still didn't expect his homework to be so detailed.
Zhao Wuji smiled bitterly and said, "The tomb robbery industry focuses on looking, listening, asking and touching. The search for dragons and acupoints in Feng Shui is not good at any place, so many times everyone will inquire about local folk customs and legends. Often, many truths are hidden in the legends. So before coming, I specifically learned about this. To be honest, I actually speculated from the beginning that the place we were coming was the legendary Gangdes Mountain."
Just as Zhao Wuji finished speaking, a sneer suddenly came from the top of our heads. I still remember the strange man who opened the door and put the gecko man in. I couldn't help but look up. Sure enough, on the beam above our heads, the man with a strange face was hanging upside down. The terrifying strange face was staring at us. Its mouth was slightly open. I could see the rotten teeth of the mouth, which looked terrible and disgusting!
Zhao Wuji took out his gun and pointed it at the strange man who was hooked on the roof. The monster did not hide, but still looked at us with a strange smile on his face, as if he was fearless of everything. Zhao Wuji aimed it at it and only had two shots. His shooting skills were good. There was definitely no problem with that thing not dodging at all. But strangely, after Zhao Wuji fired, the monster hanging above our heads suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.
"Where did you go?" Zhao Wuji looked at me and said.
"I don't know." I frowned.
As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly saw Zhao Wuji's eyes changing when he looked at me. He suddenly raised his gun and pulled the trigger in the direction of my head. I was shocked and suddenly turned his head at this critical moment. Then I heard the sound of bullets whistling through my ears. Almost at the same time, a warm warm current suddenly exploded on my face. I reached out and touched it and found that there were red and white. I was in a daze at this time. I thought my brain was shot by Zhao Wuji, and I couldn't help but say angrily: "What are you doing?"
"That thing is lying on your back." Zhao Wuji said.
I looked back and saw that the strange face was only half-pulled. Its head was hanging weakly on my shoulders, staring at its round eyes, looking extremely ferocious. I quickly jumped a few times to shake the thing off my back, and then quickly cleaned the red and white on my face. At this time, Zhao Wuji had already squatted down. He fiddled with the body of this thing, and I also came over. This thing was too jumpy. Only when I died could I take a good look. The overall shape of this thing was probably the same as what I had seen before. The baby's body, its skin was very smooth, there was no hair on it, the surface looked blue and purple, and the skin was very thin, and the blood vessels could be seen below.
Its round head has no hair and looks very similar to human features, but it is more compact and ferocious than humans. It looks extremely ugly. The most important thing is that its limbs are covered with flippers like ducks, which look extremely weird.
Zhao Wuji looked up at me, and I looked at him too, and then Zhao Wuji said, "Baqian, do you see what this is?"
"I guessed some, but I'm not sure or believe it." I said.
"Tell me," said Zhao Wuji.
Then we looked at each other and almost at the same time, we said the name of a creature - the Water Monkey. There is a legend about the Water Monkey in various places. There is also a name called Water Ghost. In my grandfather's collection, there is a monster article that specifically introduces this creature. They live in seclusion underwater all year round and have a very long lifespan. They feed on water birds and fish on weekdays, and occasionally eat people. The appearance of the water monkey recorded in that ancient book is extremely similar to this thing.
"I can't understand why there are water monkeys on this Gangdise Mountain at an altitude of about 5,000 meters." Zhao Wuji said with a frown.
In fact, this is also the reason why I don’t believe my judgment. If we saw such a creature by the water now, I might be able to understand it, but this is in the depths of the Great Snow Mountain. At this moment, I suddenly remembered something, and I stood up and said to Zhao Wuji, "Come with me."
I took Zhao Wuji to the back of the statue, then pointed to the spring that had been emitting water and said to him: "If that thing was really a water monkey, this is the only place where you can see water. Do you think this thing came out from under this spring?"
Then I talked about my speculation about this prayer drum. The tidal effect caused water to gush out of the spring and activate the mechanism. Then the door appeared. But after I finished speaking, I felt that my speculation was a bit contradictory, which was that it felt very strange, but I couldn't say what was strange.
Zhao Wuji smiled bitterly and said, "Who can tell me about this thing? I always thought that this kind of water monkey lives deep in the Yellow River. Who would have thought of seeing this thing in a temple deep in the snow-capped mountains? What does it come here for? The Water Curtain Cave of Huaguo Mountain can no longer accommodate him, so it is strange to Buddhism?"
When I heard Zhao Wuji talk about the word "Yellow River", I suddenly shuddered. A past suddenly appeared in my mind. This past was told by Zhao Wuji. That time, he went to the edge of the Yellow River to perform a mission, where he met a woman pretending to be crazy and stupid, a strange old man, a transparent ancient coffin. The most important thing is that Yuan Tiandao saw a lost temple under the water of the Yellow River. In that temple, there was a gecko man, and a headless underwater corpse that could move under the water!
The story that Yuan Tiandao told me was quite tortuous and bizarre, and I remember it very clearly, and I quickly found common ground from this lost place and Yuan Tiandao's experience on the edge of the Yellow River.
The common gecko people, the common temple, and the common thing similar to the Yin soldiers (but the corpses walking under the Yellow River have no heads).
——According to the clues I know now, the gecko people are specialties of the snow mountain and are the products that are used to rebirth in this place.
So, why do geckos, a specialty of snow mountain, appear under the Yellow River, while the legendary water monkey of the Yellow River appears in the temple in the snow mountain. What is the connection between that temple and this temple?
The word "Yellow River" mentioned by Zhao Wuji inadvertently reminded me of this past event and discovered the connection, which made me overjoyed, because I could clearly feel that there seemed to be a line in the dark, connecting some of the fragments I knew before.
"Cousin, do you think the underground is connected? From the Yellow River to here, there is a connected underground river. This monkey got lost from the Yellow River. Then he swam here and became strange Buddhist sect?" I said.
"What are you thinking? Do you really think it was from Sun Wukong who went to the West to worship Buddha and pray for sutras?" Zhao Wuji gave me a blank look and said.
I was very excited at this moment. I couldn't wait to find Yuan Tiandao to share my discoveries with him. I asked, "Cousin, have you come here from another direction and see Yuan Tiandao?"
After I finished speaking, Zhao Wuji slapped his head and said, "Oh no!"
Chapter completed!