Chapter 23: Water Monster and Cave

This discovery made me very excited, and it meant that the lives of Xiao Chengqian and I were guaranteed!

I had been mindlessly floating up, and I hadn’t noticed any of this until I accidentally shone my flashlight. I saw that there were many large and small holes on the rock wall in front of us, probably more than a dozen.

The existence of these caves is not particularly unusual. After years of being underwater or for various reasons, the rock wall is not smooth, and it is normal to have pits on it that look like caves.

But the caves I saw under the light of my flashlight were different. I could tell at a glance that they were real caves. I couldn’t explain anything to Xiao Chengqian underwater, so I just pulled him toward a small cave with an entrance and paddled as hard as I could.

At first, Xiao Chengqian didn’t understand what I was doing. When he shone his flashlight, he was suddenly excited. I didn’t have to pull him anymore. He began to row frantically towards the cave.

Xiao Chengqian and I saw hope, but the sound of the water behind us was getting louder and louder. The situation between Xiao Chengqian and I was like the name of a foreign movie – Life and Death Express. Life and death were on the line, and all we were fighting for was time.

The cave was getting closer and closer, but we also felt the inexplicable pressure behind us. We didn’t dare to look back, even though the enormous pressure behind us made us feel that the monster was close at hand!

With a loud splash, I almost jumped into the water and leapt into the cave I had my eye on. The cave was only one person tall, and in my estimation, the monster definitely couldn’t get into this cave.

After entering the cave, a sense of security returned to my body. It was a feeling of lazy relaxation, but how could I dare to relax so easily? In this second, I entered the cave, but Xiao Chengqian had not yet entered.

I turned around with my flashlight and saw a scene that I will never forget in my life.

The first thing that came into my eyes was Xiao Chengqian, who was desperately paddling towards the cave. Less than 5 meters behind him, a huge face appeared. At this distance, I finally saw not two cold eyes, but a whole face!

It was a grayish-brown face, extremely large. If I had to describe it, I would say that it was larger than Xiao Chengqian’s entire body, and Xiao Chengqian was a man over 1.8 meters tall!

I can’t describe that face in detail, but I can say that the whole head shape is a bit like a turtle, but flatter than a turtle, and it looks a bit slippery.

Compared to this face, its eyes are not particularly large, and the lips are not like a turtle, but more like a fish mouth, with long whiskers on both sides of the mouth!

Because this guy was too big, all I could see was this big face, but what made me feel fear was not this big face, but the fact that it was now opening its mouth wide and about to bite Xiao Chengqian.

I don’t know what kind of existence this turtle-fish or fish-turtle is, but in my impression, except for a few fish, most of them, whether it is a turtle or a fish, their mouths are unlikely to have white teeth, but this guy has teeth, and unlike the sharp teeth of a shark, this guy’s teeth, the four upper and lower fangs are particularly prominent, especially the lower fangs, I said I looked at this guy and he had a bit of a ‘buck-toothed’ look!

But now is clearly not the time to think about this. I yelled, almost by instinct, and pulled Xiao Chengqian in!

I heard a sound that made my teeth ache, and then the hole shook, and the sudden rush of water pushed Xiao Chengqian and me several meters into the hole!

Xiao Chengqian looked at me in a state of shock, while I looked at the face that appeared at the entrance of the cave. The pair of emotionless, cold eyes were still staring at me and Xiao Chengqian.

The entire cave was only five or six meters in a straight line, and Xiao Chengqian and I were suddenly pushed to the “bottom” of the cave by the water current, and two crisp sounds of oxygen tanks hitting the rock wall could be heard.

Fortunately, there is always a buffer in the water, and due to the distance, the impact did not cause the oxygen tanks behind Xiao Chengqian and I to rupture!

Xiao Chengqian and I were able to escape from the tiger’s mouth. After we finally felt safe, we subconsciously began to breathe heavily, and the oxygen in the tank was rapidly decreasing. I realized that this was not right and quickly reminded Xiao Chengqian to adjust his breathing.

After all, the entire cave was still soaked in water, and we didn’t know how long we would be underwater. If we ran out of oxygen, we would be dead, unless someone with the true power of a Daoist immortal could stay underwater for a long time in a meditative state.

Xiao Chengqian also realized this problem and began to adjust his breathing with me to minimize oxygen consumption.

It was only after a minute that we calmed down from that state of shock and our hearts also calmed down.

At this moment, the monster did not leave. Under the light of the flashlight, the eyes were so obvious. It knew that it could not eat the two of us, but it still refused to leave. Should I praise it for being a patient monster?

Or, should I go out and beat it up? I thought without thinking, obviously after the initial fear, this face can no longer provoke me too much reaction!

I held up the flashlight and began to take a look at the cave. I realized that Xiao Chengqian and I were not at the bottom of the cave, but because the cave was tilted upward, the angle was a bit too large, so Xiao Chengqian and I bumped into it.

This discovery made Xiao Chengqian and I a little excited. After all, the way out was blocked by that monster, and the best outcome was that we still had a way out. Otherwise, if we spent time underwater, we would run out of oxygen and die with it!

Hopefully it’s not a dead end!

I am a man who says what he does, and with this in mind, I was about to start paddling towards the top of the cave, but Xiao Chengqian pulled me down!

I looked at Xiao Chengqian in surprise, but he pointed outside the cave and kept gesturing to me! I looked outside the cave and saw that the monster’s face had slowly started to retreat. Was it not going to hold out?

Could it be that Xiao Chengqian wanted to go out? I definitely would not approve of such a risky move, because who knows if the monster was really leaving or just cruising around nearby waiting for us?

I shook my head at Xiao Chengqian, who was very helpless. Then he gestured to me again with great difficulty. I finally understood that Xiao Chengqian was saying that we should go and see what this monster looked like!

When Xiao Chengqian said this, I was also a little interested. After all, the rumor of a water monster in the X pool has been circulating for so many years, and there have been countless eyewitnesses, but this guy has always come and gone without a trace, leaving no conclusive evidence. scientific evidence, and can only be explained by some scientific speculation. It is unreasonable that it does not exist, or that people are hallucinating. Now that Xiao Chengqian and I have really seen it, we simply feel that we owe it to ourselves to take a closer look at what this monster looks like.

With this in mind, we waited for the monster to move away a little, and then Xiao Chengqian and I began to carefully approach the cave entrance, holding each other’s hands and tightly grasping some rocks to move forward. Otherwise, if the monster went crazy and caused the water to push us out of the cave, who would we go to cry to?

However, at this point, I also felt that we were really lucky. After all, the water monster, which we had only seen once in a few years, or even a decade, had been encountered by Xiao Chengqian and me on our second visit. Shouldn’t we buy a lottery ticket?

The five or six meters of distance was quickly reached, and we carefully stood at the entrance. The monster was indeed just swimming nearby, and Xiao Chengqian and I finally saw the monster’s full appearance with the help of a flashlight, and we were stunned!

It turned out to be completely different from what we had imagined!

In my imagination, this creature should be similar to a dragon, or it should be a dinosaur or some other variant. Wasn’t there a fake picture of the famous Xihu water monster?

However, this X pool monster is not a creature that follows the rules at all. It is more like a creature that has evolved!