To be honest, from what I can see with my spiritual eyes, the demonic aura on this monster is quite strong, and it must have been practicing Taoism for hundreds of years at least. If I have to compare, it seems that this thing probably lived about the same age as my godmother. But what puzzles me is why this guy shivered like a mouse when he saw a cat when he saw us. But this was better than a fight. At that moment, I pretended to be aloof, lit a cigarette and asked slowly: "Don't be afraid, what kind of thing is it, what bad things have you done, you deserve it!" "
The monster seemed even more frightened when he heard me speak, as if every word I spoke meant that it was one step closer to death. After listening to my question, the monster moved his mouth, and it took a long time before he made a sound, as if he was remembering how to speak human words: "Gulu...Gulu... Rao... "Spare your life!" I thought to myself that although this monster looks scary, it is very timid, so I smiled and said, "Okay, I'll spare your life for now."
The monster heaved a sigh of relief when I told him to save it from death, and gradually became less nervous. At this time, Chong Xi got impatient and slapped the table: "I'm asking you a question! Do you want us to say it a second time?" After being yelled at, the monster hit his head with a "thud" He fell to the ground and kept kowtowing towards Chong Xi. I waved my hand to Chongxi, telling him to be patient, and then said to the kneeling monster, "Okay, don't knock yourself to death. Just answer my question."
The monster seemed to be particularly afraid of me. He trembled when he heard my voice, and then said tremblingly: "Back then... my parents, brothers and sisters were all captured by you... Since I was born, my parents have always been my almighty supporter. When I heard my parents screaming in your gourd, I was extremely scared. It has been hundreds of years now..." It seems that this guy should It regards me as my father. Hundreds of years ago, this gourd was in the hands of my father. It seems that it does not know me but this gourd. I comforted and said, "We won't treat you like that. Let me tell you the whole story clearly from the beginning. Don't be afraid!" After hearing this, the strange man trembled and told his own experience and what he had seen and heard.
Since this monster stays underwater for a long time and basically does not communicate with people, its language skills are very poor. I have done some sorting here.
It is said that there was a dense forest not far to the north of this place, and deep in the dense forest was a puddle. There was a villa on the high ground in front of the dense forest, which was a girl's dressing room. The girl's name was Xiao Yanyan. At that time, this place belonged to the territory of Daliao. Xiao Yanyan was the beloved daughter of Xiao Siwen, a court servant. Later, by chance, Xiao Yanyan became the queen.
At this point, everyone may be a little unfamiliar with the name Xiao Yanyan, but if you talk about Queen Mother Xiao, everyone knows it. After the death of her husband, Xiao Yanyan's son became the emperor of Liao and became the queen mother. Her dressing room was also converted into a palace.
At that time, there was a kind of spirit called "Lin Mandrill" living in this dense forest. Lin Mandrill is nourished by the dragon's veins and is very active, vigorous, and has immortal energy. It is surrounded by water on three sides, connected to the remnants of Yanshan Mountain in the north, with many birds and animals in the forest, and almost an endless ocean in the south, so these forest mandrills are also deeply connected to water and can handle it with ease. In addition, this place is located on the border and has few residents. There are only a few thousand people in the entire Wu Ending territory. So this area is Lin Mandrill's paradise. Later, several dynasties changed, and until the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, this group of forest mandrills still survived and multiplied. Unexpectedly, during the Yongle period, a large number of immigrants moved in to open up wasteland, cultivate land, cut down trees and build houses. The large area of the forest here was cut down, and the forest disappeared, leaving only a lake beside the forest called Hou Lake. But at that time, the entire Wu End was still mostly water, with abundant fish and shrimps, so these mandrills could barely survive.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a group of Taoist priests came and fought with these forest mandrills. Speaking of this group of Taoist priests, their magic skills are not bad, but Lin Mandrill is well accustomed to water and usually hides under the water. The group of Taoist priests did not take much advantage, and both sides suffered losses. Unexpectedly, the backstage of this group of Taoist priests came later. It was a dragon. The Lin Mando tribe faced off with the dragon. However, they were too far apart. The dragon sucked the water with its mouth and drank up the water in an instant. Surprisingly, the water in the distance was still there, but it didn't flow like this. The surrounding water was like a copper wall. Several mandrills tried to throw themselves into the water nearby, but their brains were shattered and they died. In this way, the entire group of mandrills were captured alive.
The monster paused and said, "I was not yet an adult at that time. In human terms, I was only a teenager. The dragon asked us if we wanted to live or die. If we wanted to die, he would eat us right then and there. If we wanted to live, he would. Continue to survive here, but do things for them! The clan leader promised to live, and the dragon spit out the water it sucked, and we finally survived. Soon after, we received an order to go to the Yahong River in the Homecoming River, 60 miles away. Bridge crossing, cooperate with them to fight with a master, that master is naturally you. Our mission is to catch you by surprise, capsize your boat, pull you into the water and drown. At that time, your gourd was in the air, and the water in the river was The water was sucked into a large whirlpool, and everyone in the family was sucked in. I was young, and my brother and I were behind the team. We were thrown onto the anchor chain of a ship. We clung to the anchor chain and did not dare to let go. ! At that time, I watched my parents and brothers being sucked into the gourd, screaming incessantly, and I was so frightened that I didn’t even know if I was still alive... "
When I heard this, I finally understood that this monster was the Ni Lazi arranged by my godmother's sect back then! In other words, in the story my godmother told me, all the water ghosts were taken away by my father! Of course, this guy naturally slipped through the cracks.
I couldn't help but ask: "Then, why do people call you Niluazi?" Lin Xiao said tremblingly: "We don't eat people, but we absorb the essence of people who have fallen into the water. Every time we inhale, the Taoism will increase one level. Because we often used despicable means to lure people into the water, farmers working by the water in those days did not wear a lot of clothes like today. They were often bare-chested. We would grab a handful of mud and drag people down when they were not prepared. People who are not careful will think that someone is hiding in the dark and joking with them, so they will go to the water to wash themselves. We will take the opportunity to pull the person into the water, so there is mudlazi (pull here pronounced zhuāi, Jingdong dialect, Throwing means throwing something muddy - this is a nickname written by the author."
I lit a cigarette and motioned for it to continue.
Lin Mandarin continued: "At that time, we two brothers were trembling and very scared, for fear that you would turn your eyes and see us. Seeing that you did not look towards us, but caught a banshee on the boat and took it away. After completing the Daoxing and flying away on the sword, a stone fell to the ground in our hearts." Hearing Lin Mandrill say this, my heart suddenly thumped! The banshee that Lin Mandiao was talking about must be the godmother’s sister! But in the version my godmother told, her sister was killed by my father. Although I never believed this to be true, after hearing what Lin Xiao said, my heart still "thumped".
Immediately, I pretended to ask: "I heard that the banshee died later?" Lin Mandrill naturally knew everything about me, and said immediately: "Yes, he is dead. Not long after you left, the banshee died." I stared blankly at the north, not knowing what to pray for, and then suddenly pulled out the short knife and stabbed myself in the heart." I nodded, and the little white flower next to me said in a daze: "So that's it... ..." I turned around and shook her hand, indicating to her that I understood. Xiao Baihua nodded towards me, and then I turned to look at Lin Mandrill and said, "Okay, keep talking."
It continued: "Since then, we two brothers have been living in the returning river. The river is very long and floods all year round. People drown every year. The two of us are constantly attracting drowned people. The essence of life is a worry-free life. Until one year a few decades ago, the river did not release water, and our brothers could not inhale the essence. We were also greedy and panicked. One day, at a branch of the river downstream, On the small bridge, a group of wheelbarrows came pushing things. My brother was really greedy, so he went to shake the bridge piles. This was a trick he often played. When the bridge piles were shaken, the bridge deck shook, and the people on it were unprepared. It would fall off. But the queue was very long that time, and he didn't look carefully at who it was. When the people on the bridge were shaking, they exclaimed. An official at the end of the queue saw my brother and pulled it out of his waist. He took out a big pistol and shot him twice, and he killed my brother!"
When he said this, Lin Man finally couldn't hold it back anymore, covered his face and cried bitterly. Lin Feng and Chong Xi both frowned like me. It seemed that they also sympathized with Lin Mandrill's experience. The little white flower's hands moved, obviously wanting to come forward to comfort her. After all, she was a woman. But I held her down. I still don’t know if this guy has done anything harmful to nature, so I can’t sympathize with her too early.