Tang riddles

The water in Xiaodonghai is well-deservedly known for its clear water. During the water change period, water flows in from the north gate and flows out from the east and west gates. Although the surface of the lake is calm, the current below is very fast.

Shen Sui plunged into the water, and then his body was like the most nimble fish, swinging gracefully in the water and diving quickly.At the same time, she began to carefully observe the scene in the water.It was May, but the lake water was still slightly cold. Thanks to the protection of the diving suit, Shen Sui did not feel too much coldness.At the position where she dived, a huge valley was dug out below. shallow.There are few swimming fish and no dense aquatic plants around, but there are quite a few lake rocks rolling down, all round and delicate like pebbles, with pores on the surface, which should be the result of being washed and eroded by the water for a long time.

Swim further east and you will see the gate.It is indeed a gigantic waterway engineering facility, and it is hard to imagine how much manpower and material resources it took to complete it.What was displayed in front of Shen Sui was a circular drainage pipe with a diameter of nine feet. The mouth of the pipe was nailed to death by five rows of arm-thick iron bars. Behind the iron bars was a large gate made of fine iron. Halfway up, the water is flowing out at a relatively gentle speed from the opening in that half.

After swimming here, Shen Sui could feel a relatively strong suction force. She was involuntarily sucked towards the drain in the water, but she didn't resist, and let the suction force pull her over, swinging her body in the water , approaching with both feet facing the drain, at the moment of contact, both feet stepped on the iron bars, bent knees and kicked, and held the iron bars with both hands to stabilize the body.

She turned around and saw that there was nothing at the bottom of the water, she couldn't help but sighed in her heart, she was afraid that it was too late, and the last trace could not be found.She turned around and decided to take a closer look at the drain. She always felt that it was strange that Team Shi died in this position, and it shouldn't be a coincidence.

She checked the iron bars, and found that they were all tightly sealed, with a layer of dark green rust on them, and there was no sign of opening them.The gap between the horizontal and vertical iron bars is not enough for an adult to come over, even a child is reluctant.

After rubbing it for a while, but found nothing, Shen Sui could hold his breath to the end, so he had no choice but to float up.When she surfaced, it happened that Li Jinyue on the boat was looking at the surface of the water where she was floating. When she surfaced, Li Jinyue was startled.

Shen Sui gasped for breath, couldn't help teasing Li Jinyue and said:

"Princess, do you know what I just saw underwater?"

"What?" Li Jinyue asked nervously.

"I saw a big white rabbit looking in the mirror." Shen Sui blinked at her, then grabbed the side of the boat, stepped on the water with both feet, lifted his waist and abdomen, and turned onto the boat.

Li Jin didn't react at the beginning of the month. After a while, she pursed her mouth speechlessly and said:

"Can you guys stop entertaining me, I've been drowned by you, I have to go back and change my clothes."

Shen Sui smiled, didn't tease her anymore, and said:

"There is nothing underwater, and the clues and evidence may have been destroyed."

"What are you looking for?" Li Jinyue asked her, "When we sent people into the water to retrieve the corpse, we had already searched below, and there was nothing."

"I'm looking for something that you didn't know you were looking for at the beginning." Shen Sui said something rather roundabout, and then he was about to find a dry towel to wipe off the water on his body.Unexpectedly, as soon as she raised her hand, she noticed that the palm was completely black, with a layer of unknown powder sticking to it. She frowned, rubbed her fingers twice on the palm, and felt that it was not rust. He leaned forward and sniffed, there was a pungent smell.

Something flashed through her mind, and she froze immediately.

"What's wrong?" Li Jinyue asked her.

"No... nothing, it's just a little speculation, it's not worth mentioning for the time being." Shen Sui said, "But princess, do you know something like black fire/powder?"

"Black fire/medicine?" Li Jinyue didn't quite understand why Shen Sui mentioned this kind of thing, "I know, I have contacts in Anxi and Anbei Protectorate, and there are siege troops who specialize in researching stones in catapults." The bullet is filled with black fire/powder, and when it is ignited and thrown, it can cause an explosion and bring unexpected effects.”

When Li Jinyue was speaking, Shen Sui looked down at his bare soles, which were also completely dark.She showed Li Jinyue her palms and feet, and said:

"Drains below, black fire/powder remaining on the fence."

Li Jinyue was stunned and couldn't help asking, "How? Why?"

"Yeah, how could it be, why?" Shen Sui repeated Li Jinyue's question as if talking to himself.

"Bo Zhao?" Li Jinyue was at a loss, hoping she could explain something.

At this moment, Wang Zhongsi on another ship suddenly let out a cry:

"Hey! I... I seem to have caught something! Come and help! What a lot of strength!"

Shen Sui frowned and looked over, and saw that Wang Zhongsi was holding a bamboo pole in his hand, with a thread tied to its head for some unknown reason, the thread stretched straight under his eyes, and the bamboo pole was also bent by the force of the two ends, it seemed that there was something underwater The thread was tugged with great force.

"Princess, was General Wang fishing when I went into the water?" Shen Sui asked in a strange tone.

"Uh..." Li Jinyue was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing how to answer this question.

"Where did his bamboo pole and fishing line come from?" Shen Sui asked.

"I don't know either. He said he was bored waiting, so he asked the soldiers to row to the back of the reeds and turn around. When he came back, he said that he had picked up a bamboo pole in the reeds, tied a line and a hook, and put it on the hook. There is also a frog leg hanging, saying that some fisherman must have thrown it in the reeds carelessly. Then he directly used the bamboo pole and fishing line frog leg to catch fish." Li Jinyue explained.

Shen Sui was speechless, and once again turned his gaze to the sampan not far away.However, the situation on the sampan became more and more tense. The bamboo pole Wang Zhongsi held in his hand had been bent to an unbelievable degree. At this stage, two soldiers rowing boats also rushed to help, but the combined efforts of the three of them could not control the underwater thing.

After all, the bamboo pole in Wang Zhongsi's hand was just a simple fishing pole. There was no reel for retracting and releasing the fishing line, and the length of the line was limited. The underwater thing dragged them around in place, so that the whole sampan started to spin.

Then all of a sudden, the underwater thing suddenly jumped away to the west, dragging the whole sampan and rushing out like arrows.Wang Zhongsi cursed and cursed on the boat, but never gave up wrestling.

"Hey, it doesn't seem quite right..." Shen Sui said.

"Hurry up and chase after him." Li Jinyue ordered the two soldiers on her boat to immediately row after her.

The thing underwater was so powerful that it dragged the sampan and slid on the water surface, pulling out a long white wave. The sampan Shen Sui and Li Jinyue were on, paddling with two people, couldn't even catch up with the speed of that thing for a while.

Halfway through the chase, when the boat of Shen Sui and the others was four to five feet away from Wang Zhongsi's sampan, probably one of the three of Wang Zhongsi hadn't grasped the balance. Suddenly, the three of them were taken away by Juli. Down, amidst the exclamation, all three fell into the water, even turning over with the sampan.

Seeing this scene, Li Jinyue took a short breath, Shen Sui had already gathered up at this moment, put his feet together, kicked hard on the plank of the boat, his body jumped out of the fish, and plunged into the water with a beautiful posture.

"Bo Zhao! Be careful!" Seeing Shen Sui entering the water, Li Jinyue's heart raised her throat. She didn't know what the underwater thing was. She was afraid of water, and she was always worried about unknown creatures. After entering the water like this, she was really afraid that some monster under the water would kill her.

This is her weakness. Even though she has been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, what she fears is still extremely fearful.

Shen Sui entered the water, and the rumbling sound of the water drowned out all the hustle and bustle. She saw that the water was a little chaotic because Wang Zhongsi and the others fell into the water. At this moment, they are all struggling to go upstream, and Shen Sui didn't go into the water to save them, her purpose was on the underwater creature that dragged Wang Zhongsi more than ten feet away.

In the chaos, Shen Sui could only vaguely see a huge black figure dragging a bamboo pole not far from where Wang Zhongsi and the others fell into the water, wandering away quickly.Vaguely, Shen Sui saw the long tail and the thick hind limbs. At the end of the tail, there were circles of red stripes, all the way to the top of which there were sharp spikes.Shen Sui quickly paddled the waves to chase after her. She was diving underwater, and under intense exercise, it was inevitable that she would soon lack oxygen. She had to go up again to take a breath, and then plunged into the water again, looking for that black figure.There was also a bamboo pole hanging on that guy's body, and the target was very obvious.

Fortunately, that guy may not be very smart, his brain is not working well, he lost his position due to shock and pain, he didn't run far, he just swam around in this water area, and now he jumped back.

Shen Sui met the mysterious underwater creature immediately, and at a glance, she knew what it was.It was a pitch-black monitor lizard. I don't know what species it was, but it was unusually long, with stubby and strong limbs, especially a long tail, which was extremely strong.What's more dangerous is that this guy seems to be poisonous, and the spikes at the end are really terrifying.

As soon as the monitor lizard saw Shen Sui, it rushed towards her furiously, mistook her for the culprit who hurt him, and wanted to take revenge.Shen Sui didn't run away, because that was meaningless, she couldn't swim this monster.She pulled out the dagger stuck in the belt around her waist, and the white blade reflected a strange light underwater.

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Li Jinyue's sampan rowed to the position where the boat capsized, and Wang Zhongsi and the other two soldiers climbed onto the sampan that Li Jinyue came to pick them up, drenched and panting, the small sampan was suddenly overcrowded.They were in a panic, their helmets crooked, and they were speechless for a long time.

Li Jinyue raged at Wang Zhongsi angrily:

"Wang Zhongsi! You unscrupulous idiot! Let me tell you, if something happens to Shen Bozhao, I will definitely report to the Ming Sage and bring you to justice!"

"Subordinate... this subordinate should be damned..." Wang Zhongsi could only speak these words out of breath.He knew that although Shen Sui didn't directly save them from falling into the water, but at the moment she was underwater, it was like blocking the underwater monster for them and saving their lives.At this moment, he regretted that he shouldn't have messed with the bamboo pole to catch some kind of fish, just like what Li Jinyue scolded him, he was an idiot, if Shen Sizhi lost his life trying to save him, he would definitely live in guilt and guilt for the rest of his life among.

A group of people waited to sit on the sampan, staring anxiously at the surrounding water.However, the surrounding water was calm, and not even a wave broke out.Time passed by bit by bit, anxiety almost swallowed Li Jinyue, she really couldn't wait any longer.Just when he was about to order the soldiers to turn the sampan and go to the shore to seek reinforcements, he suddenly heard a "crash" on the water not far away, and a figure appeared on the water. It was Shen Sui. Swim to the shore.

Everyone hurriedly shouted and chased after him.Not long after, they met on the shore.They saw Shen Sui sitting on the bank panting, dripping water all over his body, and the diving suit on his body was also scratched several times.And that black water monster turned out to be a huge lizard, it was entangled by the string on the bamboo pole and couldn't move at the moment, Shen Sui's dagger was stuck in the back of its neck, cutting off its nerve artery, it was on the verge of death.

"Bo Zhao! Are you okay?" Li Jinyue rushed up and asked worriedly.

"I...I'm fine..." Shen Sui waved his hand.

"What... is this?" Li Jinyue asked, looking at the water monster lying on the side.

"It should be a four-legged snake, amphibious in water, this thing is highly poisonous, be careful."

"How can there be such a thing in this lake?"

"Someone should have put it in deliberately, through the underground drainage pipe. Although there are iron bars sealing the pipe gate, the gap is enough for such a slender monster to get in." Shen Sui said.

Li Jinyue was dumb, Shen Sui said:

"Go find someone to deal with this thing, we're going back."

"Okay." Li Jinyue hurriedly stood up, calling for the Imperial Army patrol in the distance to help.

At this time, no one noticed that Shen Sui secretly gritted his teeth and moved his right arm which had already started to tingle. Right at the opening of the diving suit on her right arm, on top of the naked/exposed skin, a small black dot appeared. point.

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