Chapter 288 – The Great Soft-Shelled Turtle

Update Time: 2013-05-07

Night falls, but along with it is also a piece of lightning, rumbling sound shook the world, that the water of the Yellow River is even more waves, in the dark night like a man-eating beast, even in the light of the lightning, can vaguely see some weird things, the residents of the ancient city are resting in their homes, but do not dare to rest excessively, God knows that this rain will come down will not be early to cause the Yellow River water flooding? Some children do not dare to sleep, for fear that there are some monsters.

In a relatively flat place on the bank of the Yellow River, listening to a large truck, the cargo container Zhang Ming looked at Qin Yang who was wearing the equipment and asked: ”Do you really plan to go down now? It’s a bit too dangerous. The water current is too fast.”

“The faster the current is the more it will wash away the underground sediment so that we can discover some buried treasures.” Qin Yang said, “According to the stone tablet Tian Zi, there is indeed a tripod here.”

“It’s been so many years, God knows where that tripod has been washed away to?” Zhang Ming said.

Qin Yang said, “Since the Nine Tripods is a national weapon, then the nuisance it has its overpowering features, I’ll go down and take a look.”

Zhang Ming persuasion is useless, can only ask Qin Yang with a good rope, after the last experience, this time the rope is very well prepared, about thousands of meters long, in the container is a huge electric carousel, can at any time Qin Yang from the Yellow River to fish out. Underwater bows, bombs, mines all equipped, just in case he also took a hard spear, there are black market bought lighting equipment, can ensure that he in the turbid yellow river water has enough safe visibility, of course this visibility is the premise is not the yellow river water big outbreak. Qin Yang jumped down from the car and walked to the bank, signaling to Zhang Ming, who was the one who untied the rope, allowing him to step into the Yellow River water.

As soon as he entered the water, he felt the friction of mud and sand, this diving suit has a very good protective effect, otherwise Qin Yang believes that going down for a while in the up nose and ears are all sand. Opened the lighting equipment, tried to look in the water, found that there is only less than two meters of visibility, is that this two meters are very muddy sand, in the yin and yang eye failure conditions small, it is very difficult for him.

“How is it?” Zhang Ming asked.

Qin Yang said, “Fortunately, I can see. Communication is also normal, let go of the rope, I’ll continue to go down and take a look.”

“Good.” Zhang Ming continued to relax the rope.

Qin Yang, on the other hand, swam hard towards the depths, he didn’t dare to land, all underwater is mud and sand, if you step into it, you will have to sink into it, and there is some kind of sharp weapon in the mud and sand, in case it pierces the diving suit, it will be a big trouble. Hold the spear on his back in the water, Qin Yang constantly stabbed into the mud and sand below, to see if he could touch any hard objects, at the same time, there is also an underwater display in his left hand, this is Zhao Xiaoqi rushed to make overnight can be on the metal, especially bronze alloy sensing instrument. Most of the tripods in the Nine States are bronze alloys, and having this instrument is also convenient for searching, but it’s also no different from looking for a needle in the bottom of the sea.

“Ding ding ding.”

The screen suddenly appeared a burst of flashing, in the radar pattern, a red dot is constantly flashing, Qin Yang busy is swimming over, after reaching the top of the red dot, hang the display on the body, at the same time both hands holding a spear to stab downwards, after feeling the hard objects, busy is to use the military shovel will be dug away from the mud and sand, because of the water current is slow and rapid, Qin Yang needs to stabilize his own body on the one hand, so the process is slightly slow, about half an hour to look at the bottom of the sea, but it is also convenient to have this instrument, but it is also like looking for a needle. About a half an hour, only to see a big not big not small bronze, but can not see clearly, hold in the hand found not heavy, just to be within the range of visibility, he was dumbfounded looking at a small pathetic bronze tripod.

It was like the size of a wine box, Qin Yang killed himself not quite believing that this was one of the nine tripods.

“Zhang Ming, pull me back.” Qin Yang said.

Zhang Ming was busy is activating the turntable, bit by bit, waving the steel cable, pulling Qin Yang out of the Yellow River, after returning to the cargo container, Zhang Ming almost laughed out loud when he saw the bronze tripod in his hand, “No way? This can’t be one of the nine tripods, right?”

“It can’t be.” Qin Yang rolled his eyes, “It’s a bit too small.”

Putting it under the light and looking at it himself, he found that there was some patina on the bronze tripod, which seemed to have a very long age, with auspicious clouds and unicorns carved on it, and there was nothing worthwhile to feel special about it, Zhang Ming observed for a while and said, “It should be from the post-Qin period, and it looks like it was built in the Han Dynasty to me. This can’t be the tripod recorded on the Heavenly Character Tablet, right?”

“Impossible, the Heavenly Character Generation went extinct during the First Emperor’s period.” Qin Yang denied, “It should have flowed into the Yellow River during the Han Dynasty, it should still be upstream and washed here. Grandma bear, I’m going down there to take a look.”

“That, I think, you can wait before going down.” Zhang Ming suddenly looked outside and whispered.

Qin Yang froze, turned around and looked back, he was startled, only to see a millstone-sized Wang Bao had followed behind at some point, about a meter in diameter, the Wang Bao shell looked very hard, the two eyes on the dark head looked like twinkling stars, the two men didn’t feel that this Wang Bao had come with good intentions.

“What a big royal eight.” Qin Yang said in surprise.

“It’s not a king’s eight, it’s a big soft-shelled turtle, which belongs to a more mysterious animal in the Yellow River’s strange events.” Zhang Ming said, “The Yellow River flooded more than fifteen hundred times in two and a half thousand years, flooding the ancient city of Kaifeng six times, tens of meters of mud and sand is more terrifying to many people than the tens of meters of ice in the Arctic Ocean, and there are countless strangenesses buried therein, the Iron Headed Dragon King, the big soft-shelled turtle and even the Jiaolong are extremely mysterious, and I’m afraid that this big soft-shelled turtle is so big that I’m afraid that it has lived for thousands of years. A softshell turtle is a giant turtle, a giant turtle that can turn over rivers, only then can it be called a softshell turtle.”

“Soft-shelled turtle? I’ve heard that it’s the pup of a python and a turtle, so it’s very big, do you think it could be the pup of the white python that I slaughtered?” Qin Yang said jokingly.

It seemed that the big soft-shelled turtle had a spirit, after hearing Qin Yang’s words, its mouth opened and closed, emitting a strange sound, looking at its whole body, it seemed to be very angry, and its ebony and glossy eyes also emitted a chilling aura.

“This thing is of no use just give it to him.” Zhang Ming said, “It’s probably because he’s coming for this small tripod.”

Qin Yang nodded his head, holding the tripod and placing it beside the big soft-shelled turtle, but it was not like the big soft-shelled turtle’s purpose, his body shook and knocked the bronze tripod out, his eyes were still staring at Qin Yang, the two of them to be exact.

“I feel as if it has the urge to eat us.” Zhang Ming said.

Qin Yang spat and said, “Bullshit, just this thing eating me? I’ll stew it and eat it first, it’s an absolute tonic.”

Was saying, that big softshell turtle suddenly rushed over, generally in their memories turtle or tortoise are dilly-dallying, but this big softshell turtle is obviously not so, very fast, directly crashed into Qin Yang, Qin Yang leaped from it, that big softshell turtle does not change the direction, on the contrary, it is rushing towards Zhang Ming, Zhang Ming yelled: “I wipe, by this thing bite at least to be Two pounds of meat, Old Qin, hurry up.” While Zhang Ming was talking and running, the big soft-shelled turtle was following him, its mouth opening and closing.

Qin Yang was furious, hands a grip, ghost god halberd appeared in the hand, longitudinal rushed forward, a flip in the air, ghost god halberd violently smashed down, that big soft-shelled turtle sensed the danger, was directly shrink into the shell, the halberd hit the ground, shocked the surrounding earth seems to be trembling, Qin Yang sneered, feet stomped the ground, hard up, a flip in the air, the ghost god halberd increased the force of a number of times, fiercely smash in the big soft-shelled turtle’s shell, a clanging sound, a clanging sound. The shell of the big soft-shelled turtle, a clanging sound, can even see the road out of some sparks, that muffled thunder-like sound scared Zhang Ming sat down on the ground, by the rain, the whole body is a mess.

Immediately after, Qin Yang pulled out a small bomb from his body, was about to throw in, Zhang Ming busy is up to stop him: “You want to kill it I do not stop, but at least leave a whole body right? This thing’s whole body is also a treasure.”

“Ah, that makes sense.” Qin Yang put away the bomb and walked forward, the Ghost God Halberd knocked on that big shell, the dang sound made people shiver when they heard it.

“That steel cable ties it up.” Qin Yang said, “If I can’t kill this thing I’ll go home and raise it, damn, spectacular.”

Zhang Ming rolled his eyes, and took out a huge iron net in the car, which was originally specially built to fish out the Nine Cauldrons, very solid, relying on Qin Yang’s ghostly halberd as a crowbar to pry the big soft-shelled turtle up by the gap, and put the iron net over the big soft-shelled turtle, that big soft-shelled turtle was still shrunk in its shell and didn’t move a bit, and didn’t know if it was because of the collision that gave it a dizzying effect just now.

“I also don’t know if it has any golden pills on it.” Qin Yang dragged his chin and said, “Go back and dissect it to see.”

“I don’t know if there’s any on it, but I think that there might be a golden dan on its old mother, and it’s also the guardian of the Nine Cauldrons.” Zhang Ming looked at the Yellow River side and froze.

“What do you mean?” Qin Yang was puzzled and turned to look, but he was dumbfounded.

Only to see a huge big softshell turtle with a diameter of four to five meters meters slowly crawled out from the Yellow River, what made Qin Yang dumbfounded was not its physique, but the huge tripod on its back.