Paintings of Terror

When the two of them came out of the sea, they found that the water area was much narrower, and the luster of the Huoshaoyun reflected on the water surface was extraordinarily brilliant.

Qin Ci looked up at the sky: "Why do I feel like the sky is getting lower?"

Zhu Haowen: It's really not easy to have instant face-to-face conversations, and finally I don't have to get blisters anymore.

Qin Ci: "Is it my illusion? I feel that the sea of ​​fire above is getting closer to us, and even the temperature of the sea surface has become a little higher."

Zhu Haowen was almost completely floating on his back on the water, so he could see the top more clearly: "That's right, the sea of ​​fire is indeed approaching. Moreover, it seems that something is walking through the sea of ​​fire."

Just as they were talking, a sudden gust of hot wind hit their faces, and the two of them felt that a fire had reached the surface of the sea, so they hurriedly dived into the water to escape.

Through the water layer, the two saw a flame burning on the surface of the sea, which quickly extinguished slowly.

A huge fire dragon whizzed across the sea of ​​flames and sky. Under the instigation of its big wings, many flames descended one after another, floating on the sea surface waiting to be extinguished.

Qin Ci sprayed out a small bubble: "Isn't this a Chinese dragon? Why does it still have wings?"

Zhu Haowen blistered: "There are also dragons with wings in China, and Yinglong has wings."

Qin Ci bubbles: "What kind of dragon is Yinglong?"

Zhu Haowen's bubble: "I used to read "Shu Yi Ji" that said, 虺 500 years into a jiao, Jiao 500 years into a dragon, dragon [-] years into a horned dragon, and another thousand years into a dragon."

Qin Ci bubbled: "Then it seems that Yinglong is a very high-level dragon?"

Zhu Haowen bubbled: "Yes, there is a saying: How should Yinglong paint? What is the history of rivers and seas? It seems that Yinglong once helped Dayu control the water, and painted the ground into rivers with his tail, thus diverting the flow of the flood."

Qin Ci was a little confused: "This Yinglong is obviously covered in fire, just like the dragon in Harry Potter."

Zhu Haowen didn't have time to understand that Qin Ci still watched Harry Potter, so he said with bubbles: "Have you noticed that the fire on this dragon is intermittent, some places have it, some places don't; and, Although the dragon flapped its wings and dropped some flames, the large flames on the water surface were actually taken away by it."

At this time, the surface of the water became calmer, and the two floated to the surface again.

The dragon has long since disappeared, maybe it was just the weird cloud phenomenon that caused people to have some hallucinations.

All the fire on the water surface disappeared, and even a cluster of small flames could not be seen, but the fire clouds in the sky were still low, as if they might gather into a group at any time, and there would be a rain of fire.

The two of them couldn't tell the direction, let alone the way they came from.

Because the water area narrowed, the two could even see the shore.

"Let's go ashore, or continue swimming?" Qin Ci found that he was still swimming as fast as a fish.

"Swimming is faster than walking now." Zhu Haowen thinks swimming is a good way. Besides being fast, it can also cool down.

The waterway is getting narrower and narrower, and the sea can no longer be seen.

Qin Ci observed the trees on both sides of the bank: "The waterway here is as narrow as the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou."

But there is no beautiful scenery of the Slender West Lake here. There are pine forests on both sides, and the sound of pines making waves in the wind sounds like being in the sea.

There was a very tall pine tree in front of it, which grew near the shore, and there was a man sitting there under the tree.

Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen swam over quietly, and saw an old woman under the tree, mending an old dress.

"Could it be that this is the dragon girl that Monk Hai said?" Zhu Haowen couldn't believe it.

"The woman who is mending clothes completely fits Monk Hai's description of the dragon girl." Qin Ci had already swam to the shore.

The two went ashore one after another, and came under the big pine tree dripping wet.

The old woman was unaware of the approach of the two of them, and she was still concentrating on mending the clothes in her hands, as if Mount Taishan would not disturb her in the slightest.

If you look carefully, you will find that she is not using ordinary silver needles, but black pine needles, and the thread she uses is bright red thread with strong toughness, and what she is sewing is not ordinary clothes, but large pieces Large pieces of broken dragon scales.

"Old man," Qin Ci stepped forward and greeted lightly, "I'm sorry to bother you."

The old woman looked up at Qin Ci with some hesitation, and then at Zhu Haowen, her eyes were almost gray and white: "My eyes are not good, I didn't notice you two just now. It's nothing to disturb, this tree The shade of the pine tree is the greatest, and anyone can come here to enjoy the shade."

Qin Ci continued: "May I ask, are you a dragon girl?"

The old woman smiled: "Dragon Girl, that's what I called it when I was young, but now I'm an old woman, and I can only sit here and mend my son's clothes every day."

Zhu Haowen also asked: "Old man, we jumped from the sea of ​​fire. Monk Hai gave us a ride, but we were temporarily separated when we encountered danger on the way. He asked us to come to you."

The old woman looked at Zhu Haowen with gray eyes, "It's really rare for a person who dares to jump into the sea of ​​fire to be brave and courageous."

Zhu Haowen thought for a while, and then took out the box: "This box of ours has captured a lion in the sea. I would like to ask, where can I find the second lion?"

After hearing Zhu Haowen's words, the old woman suddenly burst out laughing, and she stopped laughing for a long time: "Take it in? It's obviously a matter of your choice, so why do you talk about taking it in?"

Qin Ci hurriedly said: "We don't understand what's going on here, and we hope the old man can give us some pointers."

The old woman sewed and said: "There is only one suanni in the sea in this world. Where can I find a second one for you? There is a god elephant hidden in the bottom of the temple, where there is a sunken Indian ship. There are several chests of treasure in the sunken ship, among them is a gold bottle, and the idol is hidden in it."

The two of them took down the old woman's words very carefully, and Zhu Haowen asked again: "According to your opinion, not all the patterns on this box are suanni? Do you need idols?"

The old woman's silence seemed to be a tacit consent.

"Old man, we thought we could find a few suanni before, but now that we have added gods, do we need anything else? How many kinds do we need?" Qin Ci couldn't help asking.

The old woman rubbed her eyes, she seemed a little out of energy: "Look over there, do you see that little hill?"

The two of them looked over there, and there was indeed a lonely mountain with pearls shining all over it, as if the mountain was not stones and trees, but was sprinkled with pearls.

The old woman said slowly: "Go to the foot of the mountain, use this red line to beat the root of the mountain, and loudly criticize: If the sea is not protected, where will the aquarium be?"

Zhu Haowen took a red thread handed over by the old woman with both hands. He only felt that the red thread was very thick and extraordinarily resilient.

The old woman stood up and patted the dirt on her body: "Okay, my old woman can only help you get here, and if I say any more, I will give away the secret."

Seeing that the old woman was about to leave, Qin Ci hurriedly asked: "Excuse me, can you tell us what kind of things we are looking for, and what are the names of these things?"

The old woman didn't even look at Qin Ci, she cleaned up those large dragon scales, shook her head and said, "These children don't even know the eight monsters... What kind of world is this?"

The old woman stopped talking to the two of them and limped away on crutches. The two of them wanted to come over to help them, but she insisted on rejecting them.

The old woman disappeared into the depths of the pine forest.

The two were still standing under the big pine tree, recalling what the old woman said just now, Qin Ci said: "I seem to have heard of the term 'Eight Monsters of the Sea' when I read the introduction materials of 'Sea Beast Grape Mirror', but I haven't studied it carefully. I remember that there is also a similar bronze mirror called "Seahorse Grape Mirror". It is said that the engraving on it is "Pegasus", and there is also a saying that it is a horse from overseas. Yes, but that's all I've got."

Zhu Haowen also seemed to have fallen into deep thought, and after listening to Qin Ci's words, he said for a long time: "I always feel that I have heard of the 'Eight Monsters of the Sea' somewhere, and if I remember correctly, it seems to be some fish, shrimp, crab, and clam. Something like that... I really can't remember where I saw it, and I don't have the habit of visiting museums. I went to an art gallery once in my life and gave it back..."

Qin Ci: "..."

Zhu Haowen seemed to have really thought of something: "It seems to be hot pot!"

"..."

"It's hot pot, that kind of copper hot pot!" Zhu Haowen fully opened his memory, "When I was young, there was an old mutton restaurant near our house, and they used that kind of special traditional copper hot pot that burns charcoal. There are some fish and mussels carved outside, and some monster-like things. I thought it was strange at the time, and I asked. I remember my grandfather told me that the copper pot was engraved with the eight monsters of the sea. The town is on fire."

"Suppress fire? Doesn't hot pot have to use fire? Why do you need to suppress fire?" Qin Ci was puzzled.

"It seems that these aquariums are used to restrain them, so as to avoid water leakage." Zhu Haowen used an old saying.

Qin Ci understands that running out of water means igniting fire.

Qin Ci asked: "Do you still remember what is on it? Are there any dragons? Are there any gods?"

Zhu Haowen: "I really don't remember clearly, but I remember that there were fish, turtles, clam shells, and some ferocious beasts."

It was only at this time that the two felt that "the books are not enough when they are used". In the past, Mu Yiran and Shao Ling were around to solve these traditional knowledge, but now they are stumped by two big men with not low education.

"What we can be sure of now is that this box is for holding the eight monsters of the sea, and Suan Ni is one of the eight monsters of the sea," Qin Ci could only try to analyze and conclude first, "according to the old man, there are also gods, and There are three kinds of that strange mountain, plus the fish, turtles and mussels you saw on the copper pot, it adds up to six kinds, let's look in this direction first."

Zhu Haowen nodded, and he could only do this at the moment: "That hill is not far away, and it's not close at all. Let's swim over it faster."

The two of them were still drenched just now, but their clothes were already half dried after a while, and the fire clouds in the sky seemed to be getting lower and lower.

Zhu Haowen handed the red thread to Qin Ci for collection, and asked, "Did you see where she got this red thread?"

Qin Ci also saw it, but couldn't see it clearly: "It seems to be from the position of the legs. Is there any sewing pocket there?"

"No, it's from her body, from her legs." Zhu Haowen said, "Including the red thread she used to mend clothes, they were all drawn from her body. If I guessed right, it should be hers." Part of the tendon."

Qin Ci was taken aback, thinking of the old woman walking with a limp: "If she is really a dragon girl, then this is a dragon tendon."

"Well, that's why it is so powerful that it can shake a mountain."

At this time, the two had jumped into the water and swam towards the hill with all their strength. When they got closer, they suddenly realized that what kind of hill was this? It was clearly a giant clam the size of a hill!The whole body is full of jewels, beautiful and magnificent!