Chapter 91: The Legend of Wal-Mart

My doubts were naturally seen by Johnny.

He took the wine and said, “Don’t doubt it. That’s it. It hasn’t stopped at the place where Li and I sealed it. The fish will be our best guide. Understand? I’m going so slowly because I don’t want to miss a clue. I’m stopping at every place to ask if anything unusual has happened in the local area near the river! Li left behind a magic device that can sense the formation we laid down back then, but in reality, you have to know that this can only be done in a small area. We can only search for it in a large area.

Johnny looked very serious and then said to me, “Actually, my bait is very special. It’s not just any ordinary fishing bait. Only the most violent and bloody fish will like my bait. I promise.”

“In fact, the fish in this river are all pacifists, and you’ve been fishing for a week and haven’t caught anything.” I said helplessly, suddenly realizing that our journey was so vague. Relying on such a method, but can there be other methods? Underwater is not land, and we can’t search underwater all the time, can we?

“Jonny, I think you’ve been hiding out for too long. Legends are real. For example, there was a legend about the place we’re going next.” Suddenly, a voice interrupted my conversation with Jonny.

We turned around and saw Wal-Mart!

He was wearing a cute Snoopy pajamas and a funny Snoopy-patterned hat, and he was shouting excitedly.

This guy is wearing such a “reliable” sleeping outfit, not sleeping, but eavesdropping on my conversation with Johnny? I shook my head helplessly, but the hot-tempered Johnny suddenly put down his fishing rod and walked up to Wal-Mart: “Are you saying that I am ignorant? But if you don’t tell me something reliable, or if the legend of the next place we are going to reach has nothing to do with us, I can’t guarantee that you won’t get a big bump on your head.”

Faced with the angry Johnny, Wal-Mart involuntarily shrunk his neck, so that the tip of his sleeping cap suddenly rested on his face. He quickly removed it and said to Johnny with unusual sincerity, “I swear it’s true, and this legend is very likely related to us. I, Wal-Mart, have good sources of information.”

“Can you tell me more?” Uncle Johnny’s anger came and went quickly. Obviously, the sincerity on Walma’s face had touched the hot-tempered old man, who was actually a bit of a single-handed man.

“It’s like this. I’ve heard a folk legend before, about a young man, a young man with excellent swimming skills, swimming in a certain stretch of water. Of course, he wasn’t alone, there were actually a lot of people playing and swimming together! Then guess what happened?” Volma’s tone was very exaggerated, and with his expression, I found it funny and felt that this kid was really like a charlatan who was exaggerating.

And Mr. Johnny was looking forward to it with an innocent expression, like an innocent person who was about to be deceived.

“Then what?” Uncle Johnny kept urging.

“I’m thirsty, wait a minute.” In the meantime, Wal-Mart, like a monkey, jumped into the room where we were eating, then took a glass from that room and a large piece of ice from the refrigerator and put it in the glass. He walked up to me and said to me in a very logical way, “Chengyi, pour it.”

I looked at Wal-Ma, and I endured! In fact, I was also one of the innocent people who were looking forward to it, so I obediently poured a glass of whiskey for Wal-Ma.

Wal-Mart’s exaggerated loud voice and the sound of the glass jumping up and down naturally alerted everyone else. Under the chain reaction, everyone’s nap was disrupted and turned into a gathering on the deck to listen to Wal-Mart’s story.

At this moment, Wal-Mart was very pleased, like a party “socialite” surrounded by everyone.

He enjoyed this state of affairs, holding a glass in one hand and dancing with the other, repeating the story he had just told. Although he was still dressed as Snoopy, this did not affect his excellent performance at the moment.

“What the hell is going on? Could it be that you saw a beautiful naked woman bathing somewhere downstream?” Xiao Chengqian was impatient, and his urging was particularly urgent, but the content of the urging was “blood-spitting.”

Especially Uncle Johnny, couldn’t help but look at Xiao Chengqian and said, “How did you come up with such a magical idea?”

“Nonsense, isn’t that how martial arts novels are written?” Xiao Chengqian waved his hand and said very seriously.

“Martial arts novels, what a magical novel.” Mr. Johnny said with a look of admiration.

Really… we were all speechless. Suddenly, we felt that there was something unreliable about Uncle Johnny. Sure enough, the Li family attracted this type of person.

And Wal-Mart couldn’t help but shout twice, shouting, “Where is there a naked woman bathing downstream? There is no such sexy story. This is actually a terrifying legend.” Obviously, Wal-Mart was unwilling to be outshined by the naked woman.

“Then why don’t you say it?” Hui Gen’er shouted impatiently, and took a bite of the egg, which was always kept in the kitchen, because Hui Gen’er emphasized that he was poor and could not drink or eat meat. The kind-hearted Singh had always done this.

“Well, it’s actually not interesting at all. It’s just that a lot of people saw this young man with excellent swimming skills disappear all of a sudden! He disappeared all of a sudden, dragged into the water, without even struggling, and disappeared in front of everyone’s eyes.” At this point, Johnny finished his drink.

I couldn’t help but say to Lushan, “Could it be that the young swimmer had traveled through time?”

“Yes, it’s possible! For example, you could wake up and find yourself swimming in the Nile in Egypt, not far from the pharaoh’s parade.” Lushan said seriously.

“Well, there is a comic book that says something like that, but it’s for little girls.” I was also thinking seriously.

But Wal-Mart was not satisfied over there, yelling, “It’s not what you think. It disappeared without a trace. Many people testified that there was actually a splash of water, like something sinking quickly. I swear it’s true, because it was a tragedy. The guy’s lover was also swimming with him and saw her lover being silently dragged into the water like this! It was the creature in the water. The locals said it was the river god. Yes, the river god was unhappy because the sacrifices were not enough, so it ate people to express its dissatisfaction. In the end, the locals invited the priest to sacrifice to the river god again.

“That’s terrible. The river god is so cold-blooded.” Cheng Yuan couldn’t help but mutter.

I couldn’t help but say, “When something like this happened, didn’t the people at the time think of rescuing the person? Or searching underwater?”

“Of course they did, but the people who went to look for him said that the water was very calm. At least they didn’t find anything in the part of the river where the young man disappeared. It’s worth noting that some people said they didn’t dare to dive too deep, always feeling a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts, as if they were being watched. “Volma paused here and then frowned and said, “Don’t doubt this folk legend. When I heard it, I was very interested and deliberately asked someone to investigate it. I made sure it happened in the next place we were going to reach, near that town. Many people saw it with their own eyes, but many people dismissed it as an unreliable legend.

“Why are you so interested? Do you also think it’s a river god?” I couldn’t help but ask Walma.

“No, I thought there was a big snake or a dragon in the river. God knows how much I wanted to see a live dragon.” Volma shrugged.

Johnny was deep in thought at this point, frowning and sipping his drink in silence.

I had a thought, and said to Johnny, “Johnny, this can’t be the guy that you and my master sealed up, can it?”

“Obviously not. That guy is not that simple. But the legend that Volmar told is definitely worth considering. Can I think that the fish there is the problem?” Uncle Johnny is still obsessed with fish.

“Do you think fish can do that?” I couldn’t help but think it was too incredible.

“If the fish is contaminated with a certain scent, of course it can do it, and it’s not an exaggeration at all.” Suddenly, Johnny sighed and his eyes revealed deep worry.

I couldn’t help but fall silent, and suddenly I remembered the Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain. The exaggerated water monster was transformed into that shape by the fruit of purple plants. If…

This is indeed a matter of concern. At this time, Singh, who had not participated in our story meeting, suddenly ran down from the driver’s cab to the deck and said to Johnny, “Master, if the calculations are correct, we will arrive in XX Town in half an hour. Do we have to stop there as well?”

Johnny put down his glass and said in a firm and loud voice, “Yes, why not? The devil has already revealed its breath, so of course we are going to find out what it is all about.”