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Chapter 137 Alligator Gar

Dragging his tired body, Chen Ziyang forced himself to open his heavy eyelids, and slowly looked around.It took him a while to get used to the darkness around him, and he was able to vaguely discern the outlines of the surrounding objects.

This slow platform is fixed on the bearing of the waterwheel, and it is integrated with the bearing of this huge waterwheel. Although it is far away from the waterfall and the water surface, the water on the waterfall hits the water tank on the waterwheel, and the water splashed out Part of the water vapor floated over, and Ren Ziyang felt very wet and uncomfortable after waking up.He wiped the water stains on his body, shook his stiff shoulder muscles and neck, and looked at the conditions of the people around him.

Except for myself, only two or three people were resting on the platform, while the others were lying on the side of the platform, looking at something in the direction of the pool, and whispering to each other at the same time. what.Chen Ziyang also slowly approached, stood on the edge of the platform and looked down.

On the bearings of this huge waterwheel, there are two thick pillars extending obliquely into the water at both ends, supporting the huge waterwheel in a figure-eight shape. These four pillars are deeply embedded in the water. I can't tell how long they are.Chen Ziyang stood aside and looked down for a long time, but he didn't see anything. He didn't know what attracted everyone.

So he patted Yang Lei on the shoulder and wanted to ask about the specific situation. When Yang Lei saw Chen Ziyang woke up, he whispered in his ear: "Be quiet, don't make any noise, you Take a closer look in the water below, there's something there."

Chen Ziyang finally got used to the dim light here, and he didn't know why these people didn't even turn on the flashlights, so he poked his head over again and looked carefully into the dark pool below, but let his eyes He was about to stare out, and he didn't see anything so attractive in the clear water, so he shook his head at Yang Lei.

Yang Lei saw what Chen Ziyang meant, so he made a face at him, and continued: "Why are you so stupid? You follow where my finger is." After Yang Lei finished speaking, he pointed at him. One direction, but his fingers were not fixed in one place, but slowly drew a circle in front of him.

Although the area Yang Lei painted with his finger is very small, if it is projected onto the water below, it will be a huge area. Chen Ziyang was so angry that he almost laughed out loud, and he didn't know what Yang Lei wanted to do for himself. What to see, such a big place, but you can see it yourself.Then he looked carefully at the place where Yang Lei's finger passed, and then opened his mouth in surprise.

The pool below is very dark, but it is water after all, which can reflect part of the light, and right in the center of this pool, there is a huge shadow, which is much darker than other waters. Chen Ziyang also saw it before. This shadow, but he did not expect that this huge shadow was what everyone was looking at. He never thought that there would be something so big in the water.

Following the direction Yang Lei pointed, he could clearly see the outline of the shadow in the water. This outline presents a long and narrow cigar shape. At first glance, it looks like there is a submarine in the water.The most important thing is that this shadow can actually move in the water. Although it moves relatively slowly, it is obvious that this black shadow is shaking slowly near the waterwheel.

"You were sleeping just now, and you didn't see it. This thing rolled over in the water before, and its whole body came out of the water. Fortunately, a few people nearby saw it. Otherwise, we would have rushed down like this. It might just be eaten by this thing." Seeing Chen Ziyang's surprised expression, Yang Lei knew that he had seen what he was pointing at, so he explained to him.

The outline of the entire slender black shadow looks somewhat similar to a crocodile at first glance. Chen Ziyang suddenly remembered that when he was in Li Yun's tomb, Shuai Shi said that they were attacked by a huge crocodile in the water. Could it be? Is there such an identical crocodile here?So Chen Ziyang went to Shuai Shishuai's ear and asked him what he knew.

"I also saw it just now. This thing should not be the huge crocodile we encountered, because this thing doesn't seem to have any scales like the armor on the crocodile. The crocodile in Li Yun's tomb before The armor on his body is so hard that even bullets hitting it can only produce sparks.

But this thing looks like a soft body, even if it has scales, it is not so obvious, so this thing should not be a crocodile.But this thing really looks like a crocodile.But it's really hard to judge, if you can take a closer look. "

"Don't tell me, this woman Xiao Na really has a little bit of luck. If she hadn't asked us to rest in this place before, we would have gone down the ladder to the pool, and that would have been more ominous. You After staring carefully for a while, someone who saw it just now said that this thing seems to be tied with an iron chain, but it has not turned over for a long time."

"Why don't you take a photo with a flashlight? It's easier to see that way."

"No, Xiao Na is worried that the light of our flashlight will startle this thing. It is very likely that the flares we fired before made this thing come up, because at the beginning, we didn't find such a big shadow in the water. It's quite possible that this thing came to the surface after we got here."

After thinking about what Yang Lei said, Chen Ziyang felt that what he said was not unreasonable. Just as a few people were talking, this giant in the water suddenly floated to the surface, turned around, and sank again. Although the whole process only lasted a few seconds, Chen Ziyang could see this thing clearly with the help of the faint light on the water surface.

Just as Yang Lei described, this underwater thing looks very much like a crocodile. On his head, there is also a short snout like a crocodile's mouth. There seem to be some sharp teeth protruding from the mouth, and even This thing also has a long tail, but the biggest difference between it and a crocodile is that it doesn't have scales like those scales on its body.

The scales on this fish seem to be similar to fish scales, only bigger.Chen Ziyang thought to himself, no wonder the piranhas above the waterfall didn't jump here to continue attacking them, so this is the territory of this thing.

Chen Ziyang saw that there were two thick black iron chains forming two iron hoops, firmly surrounding the waist of this huge creature twice, wrapping the creature tightly, it seems that these The iron chains have been tied to this creature for many years, because the two iron chains strangled the fish's body and deformed it. It should have been a round body, but it was dented by the two iron hoops. go in.

It is estimated that these two iron chains were tightly fixed to the creature's body when it was a little smaller, but as time went by, the creature's body continued to grow, and then Showing the current weird figure.

The body of this creature is clearly divided into three parts by two iron chains. The excess flesh around the chains almost hides the two iron hoops in the body of this creature. They cautioned that he might not have noticed that the object was still chained.

On these two iron chains, there is another thicker iron chain that connects the two chains together, and extends to the bottom of the crowd. Chen Ziyang looked in the direction of this iron chain, although Before he could see where the iron chain was tied, the other end of the iron chain had already disappeared into the dark water, but looking in this direction, Chen Ziyang reckoned that the iron chain should be Hitched to one of the pillars of this gigantic waterwheel.

"This thing looks a bit like an alligator gar." Hu Bo, who was lying on the side, whispered in the ears of several people when he saw this creature for the second time.

"What gar?" Yang Lei asked.

"Alligator gar."

"Alligator, what eel?" Umbrella Shishuai asked.

"Alligator gar."

"Alligator what?" Chen Ziyang asked.

"Get out of here, you three get out of here."

Chen Ziyang has heard of the alligator gar before. It is the largest of the seven species of gar in North America. The largest fish can grow to more than 7 meters long. It is a large and fierce fish. It mainly lives in pure fresh water, occasionally in brackish water, and likes to live alone.

The eggs of alligator gar are poisonous and green and often cling to weeds or gravel.The meat of this fish is edible, and it is the largest of the seven gar species in existence.

Alligator gar has a long cylindrical body, a protruding snout, a short snout like a crocodile, and two rows of dagger-like sharp teeth on the upper and lower jaws, so it got such a strange name.The body of the alligator gar is covered with a diamond-shaped glaze layer of hard phosphorus, like wearing a steel helmet and iron armor. The back is generally brown or olive, and the abdomen is lighter in color. The scales are diamond-shaped hard scales.

Just as Chen Ziyang was lying on the side of the table and continued to look down, he was called aside by Xiao Na.

"Mr. Chen, do you feel that there are many things wrong with this underground palace?"

"What's wrong, what's wrong, are you talking about that big fish in the water? This is the underground palace where treasures are hidden. It would be wrong if there is a smooth road for you to walk down. There are one or two guarding things Or something like an agency, it’s nothing more than normal.”

"That's not what I mean. Have you ever thought about why they are here, including the human-faced bat and the big fish under the water. If the previous passage mechanism is to prevent theft, I can I understand, if the existence of the bat colony is because the environment inside is suitable for the growth of bats, I can also understand.

But have you ever thought about why there is such a big bat and such a big fish living here.No matter which of these two huge creatures is placed outside, it is impossible. I don’t know if you have noticed the environment where the huge human-faced bat lives. Except for the passage we entered, There is simply no other exit.

The hidden stone door on the rock wall behind the bat space has always been sealed. The bat is so huge, how did it go out to hunt?It's impossible for it to go through the passage we walked through every time it goes out to hunt. In other words, that huge human-faced bat should have been trapped and died in that space all the time.

The same is true for the fish under our feet. The iron chain has been holding this fish firmly here. It is impossible for there to be so much food in the nearby water for it to live for so many years.Even if there was enough food for it to live in the first few years when it was tethered, but it has been more than 1000 years since the end of the ancient Bohai Kingdom. Could it be that this thing can live for 1000 years without eating any food? year?As for feeding, it is even more impossible.It can't be that someone has been feeding this huge creature for more than 1000 years. "

After listening to Xiao Na's words, Chen Ziyang was stunned, yes, if he didn't think there was anything unreasonable about these things before Xiao Na said it, after all, this is a treasure underground palace in the ancient country of Bohai Sea , there are some guardian monster-like things, which is also normal.

In the past two years, I have seen a lot of zombies, blood corpses, and other messy things. This was something I couldn't even imagine before.Although I used to get rid of the blood spirit with the old Taoist when I was young, after all, I had never even seen what the blood spirit looked like at that time, and even for a long time, I thought the old Taoist was just putting on a show.

Even before he descended into the tomb of the shallow water fish that transformed into a dragon, he was still wondering if there were such things as ghosts in this world.But the two consecutive underground adventures completely overturned my world view. The hundreds of years of zombies, two corpse demons, and countless blood corpses and ghosts all opened my eyes, so much so that I don’t even know what to do now. I feel that there is something wrong with the existence of these two huge creatures.

But after Xiao Na's reminder, Chen Ziyang reacted.That's right, these things are creatures, not those evil things. As long as they are creatures, they need to eat and drink, and cannot escape the rules of this world.But the existence of these two huge creatures is too unreasonable.

This alligator gar only lives in North America, why does it appear here?And it's such a big one.Judging from common sense, this alligator gar should have been raised here during the Bohai Kingdom period. It was not like now, when shipping was so developed, and creatures from all over the world could be seen.

Chen Ziyang guessed that during the Tang Dynasty, some people from some other country caught this huge fish and gave it to the Tang Dynasty as a rare object. Later, this thing was exiled to the ancient country of Bohai Sea. In the hands of the emperor, it was raised and served as the guardian of this underground palace. This can barely explain why this North American creature appears here.

But on the other hand, why did this creature grow so huge?At the same time, for more than 1000 years, how did this thing survive!

　Please collect, please recommend, thank you for your support.I happened to see a news today. When it came to this kind of fish, I accidentally used the name of the fish. This fish is really fierce.

　　


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