The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 146 The Water Monster

Xia Xiangxi had no idea that she could still see the bright sunshine.

Before she lost consciousness, she always believed that she had no chance of survival.

It seems that not only her, but also others are curious.

"I can't believe that this girl survived being eaten alive by that giant python." A middle-aged man's voice exclaimed.

"Even the wizard finds it unbelievable. He saw a piece of peerless jade swallowed by the snake's belly from the eyes of the sky, but he didn't expect to find such a beautiful girl when he opened it..."

Xia Xiangxi's body shook when he heard this, and a younger man's voice immediately shouted: "She's awake, she's awake..."

Xia Xiangxi never expected a miracle to happen like this.A group of wizards and villagers from Damingzhai who wanted to catch water monsters accidentally saw a giant snake that was full of food and could not crawl. When they easily killed the giant snake and cut open its belly, I saw Xia Xiangxi.

They also encountered a giant python devouring a living person before, but after killing the giant python, the people inside died long ago, and their bodies were melted and festered by the snake's gastric juice.But Xia Xiangxi was able to get out of the snake's belly completely, which is simply incredible.

When their sorcerer looked at the python's belly with his heavenly eyes, he thought that there was a piece of peerless jade hidden in it. They were all so excited to death, they had planned how to carve up that piece of jade. Unbelievable.

Since it was a girl, there was no way to divide it up. One of the boys said that she was a daughter-in-law bestowed on him by God.But when Xia Xiangxi woke up, the young man's face turned red, and he didn't dare to mention this anymore.

Xia Xiangxi's body was covered in sticky snake juice. No one was ashamed to help Xia Xiangxi clean it before, but now that she woke up, someone donated the clothes they carried with them.Let Xia Xiangxi go to the river to wash and change clothes.

Only then did Xia Xiangxi notice that she and the villagers were staying beside a small river.There are a few strong young men, shirtless, who are carefully skinning a giant green snake.

Xia Xiangxi only took one look and almost vomited.Only she knew that the giant snake had another person named "Yi Chu"!
When Xia Xiangxi went to the far river, he washed and changed his clothes.This group of people has already finished peeling the snake skin, and hung the long snake skin on a tree to dry.They are still discussing that this snake skin can also be worth a lot of money.Xia Xiangxi's heart trembled with unprecedented fear.Because the first thing she thought of when she saw the snakeskin was Ye Chu's transformation into a human being, and the snakeskin at this time gave her the feeling that it was as scary as human skin.

The pile of skinless snake meat was also being divided and cleaned up one by one.They say that the whole body of a snake is a treasure, and its internal organs and gallbladder are all medicinal materials.

Another person took a piece of snake meat and said with a smile to a middle-aged man: "This thing is a great tonic! Doesn't your wife always think that yours is not good enough? I will give you this baby. You can make up for it. And let your wife boast about her own man..." After speaking, he and the others burst into laughter.

Xia Xiangxi's face turned iron-like, and he hid aside and never dared to approach these people again.

After a while, someone took a piece of grilled snake meat and kindly gave it to Xia Xiangxi. When Xia Xiangxi saw the snake meat, he screamed in fear, and immediately vomited.

That person thought that Xia Xiangxi was afraid of eating snake meat, so he encouraged her by saying, "It ate you once, and you should take revenge. Only eat it!"

Xia Xiangxi kept waving his hands, and hid further away as if fleeing.When the man saw this, he shook his head and sighed, and went back to his companions.

"How could a girl have the guts to eat snake meat? What's more, she was overly frightened and hadn't recovered yet!" The companion thought that person's kindness was superfluous.Then someone gave Xia Xiangxi the deep-fried cakes they brought with them.

Only Xia Xiangxi dared to eat this kind of food made of glutinous rice.

After the group of people had eaten and drank enough, several people took the remaining snake meat and snake skin back to the village.The rest left five or six people to continue searching for the water monster.Another one was drawn out to be responsible for sending Xia Xiangxi back to Xiaomiao village.

At this time, those people also knew Xia Xiangxi's identity.Not many people knew her name, but when she mentioned that she lived in Xiaomiao Village, those people immediately guessed who she was.I heard that Ma Po accepted a Han girl as an apprentice.

The leading sorcerer is an old man in his 60s, leaning on a delicately carved wooden cane, with a thin body and torch-like eyes, showing power without anger.He said that he and Ma Po can be regarded as friendship, since Xia Xiangxi is Ma Po's apprentice, he can be regarded as his nephew, let Xia Xiangxi not be polite, if there is anything that needs them to do, just ask.

Xia Xiangxi really has a condition, but it's not asking them to do something for her, but asking her to follow them to find the water monster.

Xia Xiangxi listened to their narration, and the water monster they were looking for should be the one that ate Lingying's child and younger brother in Xiaomiao Village.That was the one she was looking for.

The German wizard agreed without much hesitation, and they were also willing to have an extra helper who knew witchcraft.

Afterwards, Xia Xiangxi also found out that the water monster was hurting people in Daming Village again.The person who hurt him, coincidentally, turned out to be the younger brother of Lingying's lover, Mandong.

Xia Xiangxi sensitively linked the incident of the water monster hurting people in Xiaomiao Village with the incident in Daming Village. She felt that the targets of the water monster seemed to be related to Lingying.In particular, she clearly remembered that the water monster had stared at Lingying before dragging Lingying's younger brother away, as if seeing an enemy.

It's a pity that Ling Ying died tragically at the hands of Human Skin Spirit, otherwise, some clues might be found from her.Or she offended the water monster, or there are other secrets, the goal of the water monster is to surround people who have a relationship with Ling Ying, that's for sure.

After knowing Xia Xiangxi's thoughts, the German wizard tried to call back Lingying's soul, but he was able to find Lingying's wandering soul, but he couldn't make her speak.Because Ling Ying's soul was already incomplete, she died a miserable death, she lost her mind after becoming a ghost, and became a mad ghost.

Water monsters live in water, so naturally they don't know anything about the world.Xia Xiangxi said to Wizard De: "We can make a fake Ling Ying and see if we can lure that water monster out?"

Wizard De stroked his beard, thinking that what Xia Xiangxi said was a solution.

A paper doll, coupled with the witchcraft of the German wizard, becomes a living Ling Ying.It's just more beautiful and charming than Lingying.

The paper ghost Lingying can't be exposed to water, and if it gets wet, it will reveal its original shape, so Xia Xiangxi has been following the paper ghost, monitoring it as it walks by the river.

However, I tried this trick at night, but failed to lure the water monster out.

Paper ghosts can't appear during the day, so Xia Xiangxi and the villagers made two groups. Xia Xiangxi and the two young men appeared at night with the paper ghost.

The German wizard and others patrolled the river during the day.

According to wizard De, after they discovered that the water monster was harmful to people, they chased it all the way to this area, and then they disappeared. Therefore, they had to search downstream for a while, and no longer considered going back to the Daming Village upstream.

There was nothing to be gained for two days in a row, not to mention that the German wizards had led people to search for several days before.

Some people say that the water monster is afraid and dare not come out to harm people anymore?

The German wizard shook his head and said, "It's hard to change your nature. It's a ghost that harms people, and you can't change it even if you transform it. Let alone a half-demon water monster?"

Some people also suggested whether to go into the water and look for it in the water.The water monster naturally takes water as its home, so they would not be able to see the water monster if they wandered around outside the water monster's house like this.It might be different if he went down to the old lair of the water monster.

Good advice, but who dares to go into the water?If you encounter a water monster in the water, you will definitely die.It's easy to say, but not so difficult to do.

During this period, those people who went back to the stockade came back, saying that the water monster appeared in the river near the stockade again.It was still the missing Mandong family. It was a nephew of Mandong. When it was hot, the child was greedy for coolness and disregarded his family's instructions, and went into the water.There were several other children who went into the water with that child.Mandong's nephew was still on the shallowest part of the river, practicing dog planing, while the other children swam to deeper places.However, the children in the deep water were all fine, but Mandong's nephew was dragged by the water monster again.

Fortunately, there was an adult leading the cattle to drink water by the river. He happened to see that scene, and desperately dragged Man Dong's nephew to the bank. The water monster was so powerful that it wrapped Man Dong's hair like steel wire Nephew, fortunately, a sorceress in their village was washing clothes by the river, and cast a stone spell in time to injure the water monster, and nephew Man Dong saved his life.

(End of this chapter)