After we came up, we didn't say a word.

Douyazai didn't bother the ground to feel cold. He stretched out his limbs and lay on the ground with his shirtlessness and breathed slightly.

Xiaoxuan sat aside, holding her head with her hands, and was silent.

I kept pressing my calf and got a little cramped.

Douyazai turned on the flashlight and shone it in the air. He said, "I learned to swim at the age of five, and I followed my uncle to fish at the age of ten. I have lived for more than twenty years. I have never seen those things before. What is that thing?"

Xiaoxuan looked up, her eyes said with anxiety: "There are always things in this world that we have never heard of or seen before. It may be water ghosts, those water ghosts guarding the treasures of the rebel army back then."

Douyazai sat up all of a sudden.

He looked at Xiaoxuan and wanted to say something, but finally didn't speak.

"I know what those are."

Everyone looked at me.

I recalled: "We just came to Qiandao Lake a few months ago. At that time, an elder sister who runs a farmhouse told me that she said there is something called Maogua in the lake, and the thing we see should be Maogua."

"Yunfeng, what is Mao watermelon? Is it a kind of aquatic plant? I don't look like a plant. Have you just seen it clearly?" Xiaoxuan asked me.

"It's too dark... I can't see clearly, but it's definitely not a kind of aquatic plant. Where can there be plants that bite people."

I lifted up my clothes, turned around and said, "I've been bitten, please help me see."

Douyazi held up the flashlight, he leaned closer to look at my back, frowned and said, "It's a little blood. Fengzi, it doesn't look like I'm bitten, there's no tooth marks. Why do I feel like I've been stabbed or pinched by something? It can't be poisonous, right? How do you feel? Do you have symptoms such as dizziness and nausea?"

I said, "I'm not disgusting. I was a little dizzy just now. Now it's okay. It shouldn't be poisonous. Xiaoxuan, you, have you been bitten?"

Xiaoxuan shook her head: "No, the diving suit is thick, I blocked it for a few seconds, thanks to the Echo Duck."

I nodded: "Yeah, it's the wisest choice to bring the duck with me this time, it saved us all."

Brother Yu walked to the pool, reached into his mouth, and whistled vigorously.

Douyazai said: "Brother Yu, the water is at least twenty or thirty meters deep. Don't blow it anymore. You can't hear it even if you blow it. If I don't speak well, don't mind. There are so many things that the duck probably has no hair left. We all thank it. After we go back, we can set a tablet for it."

Xiaoxuan said unhappily: "You can't say anything auspicious? The duck can hold its breath in the water for several hours. How long has it been? We are waiting, maybe it will come up by itself in a while."

Brother Yu looked at the black and green pool and said firmly, "Xiaoxuan is right. It will come up by itself in a while, and there will be no problem."

I lowered my head.

Douyazai's words are not nice, but that possibility is very high, because apart from those things at the bottom of the water, there is no unknown horror. Our exploration of the bottom of the water may be just a drop in the bucket. The Echo Duck is not a pet, it is our partner and a member of our team, but it just can't speak. If it really can't come back, I think the most uncomfortable one is Brother Yu.

"Bao Head, are you still thinking about those things?" I asked.

He raised his head and asked me: "Yunfeng, you have read a lot of new and old county annals and official history about Chun'an before, but you have not seen any descriptions of those things in the information."

"No."

I affirmed: "There is no description of this kind of thing on the data. Historical books and materials are dead. We cannot believe them all. In the 1990s, the county annals did not write that there were many dead people under Qiandao Lake. Because it rained heavily for three consecutive days, the flood discharge time was actually several days earlier than the time of publication. So in comparison, I would rather believe the words of the locals. The locals say that there are watermelons, that is, there are, let alone we all saw it with our own eyes."

Douyazai scratched his head hard and said, "Damn it! If we can catch one, we can dissect it and see what it looks like in that thing! If it is a new species, it will definitely be sold at a high price, and maybe there will be a bonus."

"Then why didn't you catch one just now?" Xiaoxuan asked.

"I just realized it!" Douyazai said loudly.

Xiaoxuan said again: "You can also catch it now. If you catch it and sell it for money, we won't stop you."

Douyazai smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, I don't dare."

We are definitely not the first to discover this thing. The name Mao Xigua is appropriate, which means that someone has seen this thing a long time ago, so it is named this name.

After discussing for a while, our views and opinions could not be unified. Xiaoxuan firmly believed that those things were the incarnations of the water ghosts who protected the treasures of the rebel army. For this reason, Xiaoxuan mentioned something to prove her point of view. She said that all of us had a malfunction at that time. This was not a coincidence, but was influenced by some mysterious force.

Brother Yu supported Xiaoxuan's view and did not easily draw conclusions. Douyazi said that the so-called watermelon may be some kind of moving water plants, just like a man-eating flower living in the water, a new species that has not been discovered. As for me... my opinion is different from him.

I guess, are there personal heads wrapped under those fluttering black hair? And the source of those heads is the headless corpses buried in the source of the sect. Think about it, those corpses were the rebels of that time, and the rebels had a Manichi background. Will these be related to Manichi?

I was thinking randomly when Xiaoxuan suddenly stood up. She held up the flashlight and shouted in horror: "There is something! Look! Those things are catching up!"

I quickly looked at it.

I saw a ball of "black hair" slowly rising from the water surface, approaching us quickly.

My heart was so scared that I kept beating wildly.

The next second, the Echo Duck's head surfaced.

It turned out that there was a large ball of that thing on the head of the Echo Duck, and in addition, it also had a golden rectangular object in its mouth.

Brother Yu was overjoyed in an instant and quickly called the duck over.

The Echo Duck ran over and threw the rectangular object he was holding onto the ground, then shook his head violently, but the ball of "black hair" wrapped around its neck and could not be shaken off no matter how hard it was.

Xiaoxuan reached out and pulled it off, and then quickly threw it to the ground.

The echo duck stretched its neck and quarreled a few times. It ran around Brother Yu happily, as if seeking credit. Brother Yu laughed when he saw this.

Brother Yu's laughter and duck's cries echoed in the cave, fading the fear in our hearts for a moment.

I squatted down and looked at the rectangular object that the duck was holding. It was shining with golden light, which turned out to be a ten-gold leaf from the Song Dynasty, with a thickness of half a centimeter!

Don’t think that half a centimeter thin. I have never seen such thick gold leaves in the Song Dynasty. Generally, the thickness of the gold leaves is only a few minutes. The gold leaves are very high. They are not something that ordinary people could have in the past, but maybe they are things from the Hangzhou Prefecture Interior.

Underwater, all the shining little things that cannot be noticed by the human eye will attract the attention of the echo duck, especially gold, silver and jewelry.

Then, I set my sights on the ball of things, which bit my back.
Chapter completed!