I practice the Tao by blind practice

Chapter 26 Tortoiseshell and Compass

Returning to the shore from the pool, skimming to the bushes where his body was hiding, Chen Hai returned to his body.

After moving his body a bit, he stood up directly.

In the hazy moonlight, he searched the nearby ground for a while.

After finding a branch more than one meter long with a sharper end, he walked quickly to the pool.

The huge toad was dying, still turning its belly, floating in the pool near the shore.

Chen Hai noticed that the ups and downs of the toad's belly had increased significantly compared to before.

If you don't ask about it and let this thing float here, maybe in the middle of the night, it will dive into the pool again after regaining some vitality.

Eliminate evil, you have to do everything.

After the old gecko mother returned to her body, Chen Hai's out-of-body soul could no longer cause any harm to this thing.

However, with his own body, as long as he is more courageous, he shouldn't have much problem dealing with this thing.

At this moment, the branch he was holding in his hand was prepared for this toad.

Taking advantage of its illness and killing it, Chen Hai jumped directly into the pool with only a pair of underpants left.

Using the sharp end of the twig in his hand, he pushed open Toad's closed eyelids.

Then he stuck the branch in his hand into its head along its eyes.

At the beginning, the seemingly dying toad struggled frantically a few times.

However, following the ruthless Chen Hai, he put a branch inside its head and stirred it for a while, the toad finally stopped moving and slowly lost all breath.

"When the snake demon died, someone would buy the snake corpse for 1000 yuan!"

"But this toad has pimples all over its body. Just by looking at it, it can make people so sick that they can't eat for several days."

"This thing is so big, dragging him back, I think I'll be half dead from exhaustion!"

"It's not easy to explain to my parents, that's fine, the point is, no one is willing to buy this thing at all!"

Turning in circles in his mind, Chen Hai looked at the dead toad a few times, and he thought to himself.

After confirming that this thing was really dead, he didn't bother to take care of it anymore, and just let it float on the water pool.

As for tomorrow, how will other people react when they see this thing?
This is not within the scope of Chen Hai's consideration. Anyway, in his opinion, to do such a good deed, it is better not to leave his own name as much as possible.

After taking a short rest and recovering some strength, he slowly swam towards the water pool where the crack where the toad was hiding before was located.

The things hidden in the cracks at the bottom of the pool cannot be touched by the soul body, and Chen Hai can only take them into his hands if the body comes out.

That area is the deepest part of the pool.

The depth of the water is six to seven meters. It is still a little difficult for ordinary people to dive in this breath.

Not to mention, after swimming near that area, he not only dived down, but also found the compass and the broken tortoise shell in the cracks at the bottom of the pool.

Although Chen Hai already knew the specific location of those two things, but after the main body dived into the bottom of the pool, his vision was somewhat blurred.

Knowing the approximate location of those two things, he still needs to spend some effort to find them.

But fortunately, Chen Hai's water quality has always been good.

After all, in the age he lived in, children were quite wild, and they liked to play in the reservoir when they had nothing to do.

When he was six or seven years old, he had already learned to swim. When he was ten years old, he could already swim back and forth in a river 50 meters wide by himself.

Dive into the water, hold your breath, dare not say too much, persist for two or three minutes, there is still no problem.

Swimming to the approximate location of the crack, he took a few deep breaths, and then plunged into the pool with a sharp plunge.

In May, the weather was already very hot. Although it is night now, the pool water is much cooler than during the day.

But for Chen Hai, apart from feeling cool, he didn't feel anything else.

Diving into the crack at the bottom of the pool, he didn't dive into the crack with his whole body.

After all, the height of the crack is only twenty or thirty centimeters.

A person, even if his head can barely get into it, will definitely have a certain risk because he has no room to move.

Before, he observed that the location of the compass and the broken tortoise shell was not very deep into the crack.

As long as the position was chosen well, he would be able to grab those two things out of it by inserting his arm deep into the crack.

His arm groped around inside the crack, and for the first time, he was in vain.

He didn't find anything, and he couldn't hold his breath anymore, so he had to surface and take a breath.

The second time, he did touch something, but based on his feeling, he reckoned that what he groped was a skull.

Although he was brave, holding a piece of this thing in his hand in the middle of the night still made his scalp tingle.

After letting go quickly, he surfaced again.

For the third time, he was lucky and successfully grabbed the broken tortoise shell out of it.

Put this piece of tortoise shell back to the shore for the time being, and Chen Hai continued his grand plan of finding treasures.

In fact, in his eyes, the value of the two things in the crack, the compass, must be much greater than the broken tortoise shell he just took out.

Diving into the bottom of the pool, groping in the cracks, the compass was his main target, and the broken tortoise shell the size of a palm was just incidental.

Returning to the location where the crack was, Chen Hai continued to dive and explore.

After trying several times in a row, he finally felt that he had touched the compass.

Grasping this object in his hand, in order to hold it tighter, he used a little more strength in his hand.

The next moment, his whole heart went cold.

Because, he could clearly feel that the thing he was holding in his hand seemed to have been completely rotten, and it was broken into an unknown number of pieces.

Compass items are mostly made of wood.

Unless it is that kind of gloomy wood, otherwise, ordinary wood will indeed rot badly after being soaked in water for so many years.

Chen Hai was depressed in his heart. After swimming back to the shore again, in order to confirm that the compass in the crack at the bottom of the pool had really been completely destroyed, his soul left his body again, turned into the appearance of a leech, and sank into the pool.

In this state, he could clearly see that the compass that had been intact before was completely out of shape inside the crack.

Although the large pieces of the compass are only four or five pieces, the number of those small pieces is unknown.

He originally thought that after pulling this thing out of the water, he could sell it for a lot of money.

But now, the compass that was broken into such a piece, without even thinking about it, knew that it was definitely worthless.

Sullen, Chen Hai returned to the shore.

"The tortoise shell seems to be used as medicine, but this piece of tortoise shell is not even the size of a palm. Can this thing be sold?"

Looking at the broken tortoise shell next to the main body, he muttered dissatisfied.

(End of this chapter)