Chapter 5: half stone
That night, the yin wind in the village of the dead roared, there was a sound of rustling between heaven and earth, and a shrill scream could be heard from time to time in the night.
Sun Changming heard a thumping sound, as if something was constantly hitting the wall and door of the small broken house.
He bravely climbed under the window and slowly raised his head...
Snapped!
The mulberry paper-pasted window was smashed by a fist-sized shadow. The shadow fell into the room and turned around. It was a black beetle with white lines like a human face.
The beetle slammed up six mantis-like sharp knife feet. It was small but very irritable. It opened its mouth and screamed strangely, and suddenly found Sun Changming.
It was sluggish for a while, then quickly shrank its entire body, formed a ball, and rolled towards the door. It hit the door with a bang and bounced back, so I was in a hurry. After hitting it several times in a row, I banged a transparent hole on the door and ran out.
Sun Changming's face was inexplicable: it felt like... encountering a ghost around the corner, and both the person and the ghost were startled.
Inside and outside the village, densely packed with these kinds of insects, they flowed like a flood and went to the big mound behind the village...
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This night was extraordinarily long. After dawn, the village was crying loudly. The number of casualties caused by the strange insect swarm far exceeded those of the previous big monsters.
Sun Changming sighed secretly, and told his sister to pay attention to safety, so he packed up and went out.
I went to the tree hole first, cut up the rest of the weapons and fed them to the little loach.
This time, after the little loach was full, there was another warm current. Compared with before, it was a bit more intense, giving Sun Changming a feeling of being in a furnace.
The position under the lower abdomen seemed to be full. This warm current circled around the body and settled down on Sun Changming's left chest.
Sun Changming found that in this warm current, there was also a vague symbol, but it had not yet formed.
Sun Changming grabbed the little loach's tail and picked it up, teaching him, "Why wasn't there a warm current yesterday? You must have stolen it."
The little loach had a drooping beard and looked pitiful.
Sun Changming smiled and threw it into the river.
Just like yesterday, Sun Changming's soul was attached to the little loach and swam into the big river. First, he turned around aimlessly for two times, and then went straight to the place where the fierce fish was yesterday.
Today, the feeling of that foreign body in the throat is more obvious.
Sun Changming lurked in the mud to observe for a while, and after making sure there was no ambush, he emerged and swam over.
This place was near an underwater rock wall. Sun Changming plunged into the mud again. Without much effort, he found a hole in the rock wall, which was blocked by a stone the size of a washbasin.
The vicious fish was still on the stone, covering up a thick layer of sand.
But the stone and the hole are irregular in shape, and there is a gap in the middle, just enough for the little loach to get in.
The cave was not too deep. As soon as Sun Changming entered, he felt that it was much warmer here than outside. There is a semicircular stone tablet buried at the bottom of the cave, with some patterns carved on it, which cannot be seen clearly in the water.
The little loach took a bite and swam out.
You must hurry up, who knows if the tyrant and the fierce fish will suddenly come back?
But it got stuck at the entrance of the hole. The gap was too small for the stone card to pass.
The little loach turned around and slammed its tail heavily on the stone.
Sun Changming originally wanted to pull the stone away, just enough to swim out. As a result, I turned around and saw that the stone was covered with cracks!
It seems that the power is several times greater than when the fierce fish was smashed last time.
Sun Changming didn't dare to delay any longer, he got out of the widened gap and tried his best to swim towards the small river.
Suddenly, a turbulent stream of water came from behind. Sun Changming secretly said that it was not good. It was the overlord, the fierce fish, who came back and found that the treasure had been stolen.
The little loach swims fast, like a sharp sword traversing the water.
But the turbulent water flow behind him became stronger and stronger, and Sun Changming cursed inwardly. Could that thing still sense the location of the treasure?
Sun Changming made a decisive decision, approached the river bank, and then threw his body violently, and the half stone tablet flew out of the water and landed in the grass by the river far away.
The little loach surfaced, remembered the location, then dived into the water and sprinted for a while, before diving headlong into the silt at the bottom of the river.
The hegemon's vicious fish couldn't get on the shore, and was furious. It raged in this section of the river, tearing up seven or eight vicious creatures, and even bringing the nearby pearl diggers too scared to go into the water.
It wasn't until it was getting dark that the overlord and the fierce fish ran away in resentment.
The little loach got out and quickly swam back to the small river. Sun Changming took the little loach back into the gourd, secretly excited, but on the surface, disappointed with nothing, he returned to the village.
This night was surprisingly peaceful. Those big monsters didn't come. Sun Changming slept peacefully with his sister in his arms.
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The sun rose as usual, Sun Changming had breakfast and set off.
Counting the time, there are still four days before the survival tax. If I want my sister to eat meat, I must find another pearl in the next few days, no matter the size.
Sun Changming took out the pocket from the tree hole. Several weapons had been eaten up by the little loach. There were two tokens left, one with three flames engraved on it, and the word "Yuan" in seal script on the back, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com The other piece has complicated black moiré patterns on both sides, and only one corner is engraved with the word "nine".
Sun Changming cut it all up and threw it to the little loach.
The weight of the two tokens is far less than that of a weapon. The little loach was not full, and he was obsessed with Sun Changming and refused to go to work. Sun Changming had no choice but to say, "I'll find something else to eat later."
The little loach just gave up, but Sun Changming pinched its tail: "Don't run, where's my share?"
The little loach reluctantly sent a stream of heat, which was much weaker than yesterday's. After turning around in the body, it settled in his chest.
The symbol in the warm current is a bit clearer.
Sun Changming was very careful today and touched the edge of the big river.
Then I found myself worrying too much: Yesterday, the overlord vicious fish made a fuss so hard that all the pearl pickers were scared away, and today there is no one in this section of the water.
Sun Changming found the half of the stone tablet in the grass by the river. He didn't dare to look closely, so he put it in his arms and hurried away.
Then, he returned to the small river and controlled the little loach to swim from the small river into the big river.
Today's luck is good. At noon, Sun Changming found a pearl.
The mussel was pitch-black in its entirety, with pale yellow patterns on the edges. If you are an experienced pearl picker in the village, you may be desperate to see this kind of mussel. This kind of mussel is called "Golden Clam". It is very agile and the shell is very strong. It is difficult to crack with a big hammer.
The little loach rushed over, and the golden mussel immediately sensed, and quickly closed the mussel shell.
The little loach rushed forward, and with a skilled tail flick, cracked the clam shell with a snap, then twisted its body, slapped back and forth in the water a few times, and after a few snaps, the clam shell was completely shattered.
The little loach rushed in, ate the mussel in one bite, and came back with the pearl in his mouth.