The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 455 Scales
What does a string of dumplings tied with a rope look like?Yang Yang had never thought about this question before, but now he started to think about it.Because now, he himself is one of the chained "dumplings".

The strength in his waist was so strong that Yang Yang felt that his waist was about to be strangled.After finally slowing down, his attention finally shifted from the surrounding rock walls to his teammates in front.Just as I was about to ask what happened, I realized that the people in front of me seemed to have stopped.

Yang Yang raised his eyebrows, thinking, why did he stop again after being so good?
At this time, he suddenly found that Dancing in the Rain stood up from the water.Yang Yang was startled at first, then found that the water flow near him had slowed down, he blinked his eyes, and swam forward with hands and feet.

"What's wrong?" Yang Yang swam to Ning Yuan and asked, "Why did you stop again?"

"Rain Dance said there is something ahead." Ning Yuan explained to him concisely: "He said he should go and see first."

After listening to his explanation, Yang Yang nodded, then looked up and looked around, they seemed to have come to a huge underground cave.

He reached out and pulled Ning Yuan's clothes, raised his head and shook his head, and said, "Look."

Following his gaze, Ning Yuan saw a huge stalactite.

Stalactites are deposits of calcium carbonate. Ning Yuan estimated that it would take hundreds of millions of years to grow stalactites like this.After he told this conclusion to Yang Yang, the latter sighed, "So long?"

"These underground rivers and karst caves generally existed a long time ago, when the earth was just formed." Ning Yuan said, looked around, and then said: "The section of the river we are at now is relatively flat. Therefore, the water flow is relatively slow, and it will not be certain later. Some underground rivers have a drop of several kilometers, and if you are not careful, you will be washed into the underground waterfall, and it will be difficult to get out."

After he finished speaking, he showed his white teeth, looked behind Yang Yang and said, "However, these are the research results of our humans, and the worldview of monsters is obviously not like this.".

Yuan Mu, who was watched by him, followed up with a smile, and said, "Actually, there is not much difference, but it's just a different way of saying it."

Just when the two were about to say something, there was the sound of water splashing in front of them. They turned their heads and saw Wu Zhongwu swimming towards them.He looked at Yuan Mu and said, "There is a shoal in front of us, and we don't know what it is any further. I was afraid that you would wait for a long time, so I didn't go to see it. But the witch said it happened to be the direction we were going."

By saying that, he intended to let them go ashore.Although Yang Yang can swim and his water skills are not bad, he doesn't really like to stay in the water all the time.Presuming that the other people had similar thoughts, they quickly swam in the direction pointed by Rain Dance.

The underground river became slower because of this shoal, and they didn't have much effort to swim. After a while, they boarded the shoal under the leadership of Yu Zhongwu.

"Stop and change your clothes to dry first." Yuan Mu was the last one to go ashore, he looked at the few people on the shore and said, "It's wet, a little uncomfortable."

He did not directly say why.Yang Yang and Ning Yuan are mortals, so they don't care, but they are afraid of catching a cold.You know, in this kind of place, if you really get sick, it will cause a lot of trouble.

"Alas--"

Several people did not express any objection when they heard what he said. They all stopped to pack their things and planned to take a rest, but they heard the Tengu suddenly barking.

You know, since they entered the cave, the Tengu haven't made much noise.Even in the original tunnel, with all the weird stuff going on, Roller is pretty quiet.But now, in this huge deserted cave, it suddenly screamed, which made several people feel very strange.

"Roll?" Ning Yuan raised his eyebrows, walked up to the Tengu, knelt down and touched its head, and asked in a low voice: "Roll, what's wrong with you? Did you find something?" He didn't forget, and finally When he started adopting Tengu, Yuan Mu told him that Tengu can ward off evil spirits.

Although monsters think that there is no distinction between good and evil, but for the human race, monsters have advantages and disadvantages.Evil aura is common to monster races, but it is different for human races.

And the Tengu, which can ward off evil spirits, suddenly made a sound, which seemed to be hinting at something, which made several people very concerned.

His voice was very gentle, Tengu shook its tail after hearing it, raised its head to look at him, then quickly got up and walked towards the depths of the shallows.

Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately got up and followed.

Unexpectedly, the tengu didn't run very far. It stopped at a bend in the shallows, and then stretched out its paws and started digging things in the shallows.If it were another dog, Ning Yuan might still feel that it was playing on a whim.But in this environment, Ning Yuan felt that there must be something under the sand.

Sure enough, after digging for a while, the Tengu stopped.While screaming, he kept opening his mouth to bite the things buried in the sand, and circled around the hole he dug.

Several people saw Tengu and Ning Yuan running out, and they planned to chase them.But seeing that they stopped not far away, they seemed to have no intention of leaving, so they let them go.Yang Yang raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be that Gun Gun is about to pee?".

As soon as he said that, the few people had no intention of chasing after him. Anyway, they would be back in a while.Instead of watching the man and the monster in a daze in the past, they might as well do something else.

When Ning Yuan left without his backpack, Yuan Mu opened his bag and took out the solid fuel and small stove inside.After igniting it quickly, he called several people over to dry the clothes.

Yang Yang took off his wet clothes, sat naked by the stove, and when he looked up, he found that Ning Yuan was walking here.So he smiled and said, "Gun Gun is back after solving his physical problems."

Because the Tengu is so small, and often pesters Ning Yuan and Michelle to act like a baby, Yang Yang often forgets that it is actually a monster.He can't be blamed for this, it's just that this monster is too petite and cute, and most of the monsters around him are in human form.

Even Hu Batian, who has the least mana, still has a human form.But Tiangou looks like a civet cat from beginning to end, Yang Yang really has no way to connect him with Yuan Mu and the others.

Hearing his words, Ning Yuan, who had already approached, raised his eyebrows, and threw a disc-shaped object in his hand to the side of the stove.Simply mentioned: "Just now Gun Gun and I were looking for this." He said, found a place to sit down, hugged the dog in his arms, and continued: "I looked, it looks like a fish scale."

In fact, Yang Yang saw it when Ning Yuan just threw the disc-shaped thing on the edge of the stove.If I remember correctly, they had seen similar things when they were in Shanghai before, except that they were sour eyes.He was taken aback at the time, but now it seems that it is not so scary.

Acid Yu's eyes are spherical with various lines inside.But this scale is gray-black, and under the light of the fire, there is still a little luster exposed.If it was before, Yang Yang would definitely say, how could there be such a big scale?But now Yang Yang didn't say anything, but thought of many possibilities in an instant.

For example, huge water monsters, and various monsters and so on.But these are just his own guesses, the specifics will have to be judged by Yuan Mu and the others.

Yuan Mu reached out to pick up the disc, looked at it, and handed it to Wu Zhongwu: "It looks like scales, but I don't know the details. Time seems to be very long, and I can't feel it anymore. I’m out of breath, I still have to ask Dancing in the Rain about the Shui Clan’s affairs.”

The latter looked at the thing in his hand carefully, then threw it aside casually, and said with a sneer, "It's not from the Dragon Clan."

Yang Yang raised his head and glanced at Yu Zhongwu in surprise, it's not from the Dragon Clan... Is this the end?Shouldn't we continue to say something?For example, tell them, what kind of scale is it? Such a large scale cannot be from any fish in the water, right?

Glancing at Dancing in the Rain, he turned his attention back to the scale, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that he had seen this scale before.But where exactly?Such a large scale cannot be seen often, if he has seen it, he will definitely have an impression.

Everyone paid no attention to Yang Yang's reaction.After they heard Wu Zhongwu's words, they all turned their eyes to him, wanting to know where this scale came from.

"This is a snake." Yu Zhongwu said without hesitation: "Judging from the color and smell of the scale, this scale has been shed for at least two or three hundred years. Moreover, this snake is not small. If we meet If you do, be careful."

As soon as his words fell, Yang Yang suddenly yelled: "I remembered! I have seen this scale before!" His words surprised everyone, and they all turned their eyes to him, waiting for him to continue to explain.

"This scale..." Yang Yang reached out to pick up the scale from the ground, put it on the edge of the fire for a closer look, and then said: "It is very similar to the marks on the stone walls when we just floated over from the underground river."

When he said this, everyone was stunned. After a while, Yuan Mu said, "You just saw scale marks on the stone wall? Are you sure?"

Yang Yang nodded, and said with certainty: "I'm sure, this scale is exactly the same as the marks I saw."

(End of this chapter)