When Anne asked this, Lin Shuo kept observing the old man's expression.

The old man's face was full of wrinkles, and his pair of squinting eyes were not big, but they were shining.

As soon as Anne's question was thrown out, the light in the old man's eyes seemed to be condensed.

He was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, "Hey, those outsiders are ignorant and have been punished."

"Foreigners? Are they from the same village as you?" Anne asked.

"This matter is so long." The old man sucked two sips of dry tobacco and said, "More than 70 years ago, the Japanese occupied the Northeast. My grandfather and the villagers fled here. Seeing that there were mountains and waters here, he settled down.

But when we first settled down, life was very difficult. A group of farmers had already returned the hunting skills to their ancestors, and they had finished their food again, and they couldn't stand the first winter.

Then every morning, everyone found that there were always dead animals by the river.

What are the roe deer, wild boar, and deer, and the meat is all fresh.

That winter, the village had about 30 people, and they lived on these things.

My grandfather was curious. One night, he didn't sleep and squatted by the river for a night. Finally, he saw the true identity of the Black Water Dragon King.

It turned out that it was the old man who delivered meat to our village one by one at night.

Later, my grandfather found out that it was not just our village, but also that they fled from the south. The thousands of people who made their homes within a radius of hundreds of miles were all helped by the elderly.

From then on, we all remembered the kindness of the Dragon Prince within a radius of hundreds of miles.

We have a saying here: as long as you see the Dragon Prince, it will remember it and will bless this person’s life.

Speaking of which, I was actually lucky. When I met when I was a child, I was on the mountain in my life, so nothing happened.

However, the Dragon Prince has a taboo. That is, things in the water cannot move. If anyone moves, the old man will be unhappy."

Speaking of this, the old man stopped, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

Anne looked at Lin Shuo and nodded slightly.

The mystery of the iron chain bridge on the river seemed to have been solved. The fish that no one moved was probably because of the Black Water Dragon King.

However, the two then thought of Jalinda, who was only five kilometers away, and the names of the people seemed to have no such taboo. They had seen many fishing boats.

It seems that once you leave the bank of Heilongjiang and enter the outer Xing'an Mountains, the rules will be different.

"You mean, the village next door was made like this by the Black Water Dragon King because it moved the things in the water?" Anne asked again soon.

"That's not it." The old man spitted the tea leaves in his mouth back into the cup and nodded, "This group of people has only moved here in the past two or three years. Most of them have been unsatisfied in China. They came here to work for a Russian forestry company and cut wood on nearby mountains.

They saw that we were good here, so they settled down on the other side of the river.

This group of people hate it!

We have warned them not to touch the things in the water. They must not believe it, fishing fish in the river one by one. Can the Dragon Prince agree to this?

It's almost a hundred years younger, and I've never heard of the Dragon Prince getting so angry.

In the past, if anyone had moved the things in the water, the Dragon King came to eat a few animals in the middle of the night, it would have been fine, and it would not hurt anyone.

This time, you have also seen this time. The whole village was crushed and people were gone.

Alas, you young people, listen to it, you guys, you have nothing to do in the mountains, you have to eat and drink for life, but you must have the idea of ​​fetching water.

Dragon Prince, I have a bad temper recently.”

Anne nodded repeatedly: "You don't have to worry about this. It's a lot for us from the city to slam the water a few times. Who can still move the things in the water?"

"That's good." The old man seemed a little tired and yawned, "Okay, tomorrow morning, there is still something big in our village to be busy with. You should also hurry up tomorrow and rest early."

"Old man, what's going on in the village tomorrow?"

"The Dragon King Envoy is coming to preside over the Dragon King Festival in the village." The old man said,

"Dragon King Messenger? Who is that?"

"It's the one who can pass the message to the Dragon Prince for us."

"Is there anyone like this?"

"Of course there is. The snake statue made at the entrance of our village is for praying for the Dragon King envoy. This matter is more important to us than the New Year." The old man said, "I may not care about you when I get busy tomorrow."

"It's okay, old man, you're busy with yours, don't worry about us."

"Okay, go to bed early."

...

That night, Lin Shuo and the other four slept in the old man's guest room.

It was said to be a guest room, but it was actually the house of the old man’s youngest son. If the old man wanted to keep a guest, he went to sleep in his second brother’s house.

Yang Tuo and Liu Qing, after finding out the news at other homes, came back. The four of them were crowded in a room, two women were sleeping on the bed, and Lin Shuo and Yang Tuo fought on the floor.

The four of them combined the news they found tonight and found that it was basically the same as what the old man said before.

"As a result, this Black Water Dragon King is the target of our trip?" Liu Qing said softly.

"It should be." Yang Tuo said, "but I didn't expect that this strange creature had such a good mass base in the local area. It seems that this hunting operation is unlikely to get the support of the locals."

"Do we still want to hunt it?" Liu Qing asked, "It sounds like this creature is more like the guardian of humanity."

"The local villagers within a radius of hundreds of miles are humans. Are the 182 loggers who have disappeared? " Yang Tuo said in a deep voice, "When will the fate of our human beings be dominated by an animal?"

Anne said at this time: "Dr. Yang makes sense. If it was really the Black Water Dragon King that caused the 182 lumberjacks to disappear, it should pay the corresponding price."

"But those 182 people are just missing," said Liu Qing. "There is no evidence that they are dead. Should we find out clearly?"

"This is right." Anne asked, "But where can I start?"

"I think the most urgent task at the moment is to find the so-called Black Water Dragon King." Yang Tuo said, "It is not easy to find people in this wilderness. It is always easier to find such a big guy."

"But let alone us, it will be extremely difficult for the locals to meet the Black Water Dragon King." Liu Qing said, "Didn't we inquire about Dr. Yang? Even they don't know where the Black Water Dragon King is."

"I heard from the old man here that tomorrow, the Dragon King messenger who can communicate with the Black Water Dragon King will come. This may be a clue." Anne said, "Mr. Lin, do you think there are really people in this world who can communicate with strange creatures like the Black Water Dragon King?"

"Since you know a little about the hunter circle, why should you ask questions clearly?" Lin Shuo said lightly.

Anne smiled: "Indeed, we heard that the Zhang family, among the six hunters, has secret skills to communicate with wild beasts. Moreover, the range of activities of the Zhang family is also near the three northeastern provinces. What do you mean is that the Zhang family may be related to this Dragon King envoy?"

"I didn't say that." Lin Shuo said in a deep voice, "The Zhang family is the most fierce among the six major families. In previous years, the number of people who died in their family was the most dead.

They will never have anything to do with the Black Water Dragon King. Once they are involved, either they die or the Black Water Dragon King dies, there is no third possibility."

Lin Shuo's words were loud and the room became quiet for a while.

After a while, Anne asked, "Then this matter must have nothing to do with the Zhang family. I will not hide it from Mr. Lin. We originally planned to invite this action, in addition to you, there is also the head of the contemporary Zhang family, Mr. Zhang Lianhai.

On the one hand, it is because the Zhang family is close to here. On the other hand, we heard that the Lin family and the Zhang family cooperate the most. If the two masters act together, it would be foolproof.

However, Mr. Zhang seemed to be missing, and we really couldn't find him."

When Anne mentioned Zhang Lianhai, Lin Shuo was silent.

On the night outside Xing'an Mountains, there was no light pollution in the city, and the house was pitch black.

In the darkness, a small ball of flame illuminated Lin Shuo's face. He scratched a match and lit a cigarette.

It was the old man's second son who handed Lin Shuo a guest cigarette during the day, and he kept clamped it in his ear and didn't smoke it.

The small flame quickly went out, and the brightness of the cigarette butts in the darkness flickered.

"Brother Zhang and Mrs. Zhang died six years ago on Kunlun Mountain." Lin Shuo took a few sips of cigarettes and said calmly.

"What?" Anne's tone sounded octave higher.

"I know you're messing with me," Lin Shuo said, "but it's nothing to say about this now. After all, people have been away for more than six years."

Anne was silent for a while, then said, "You said before that our goal this time is the strange creature on Kunlun Mountain back then?"

"Um."

"This Black Water Dragon King is really so powerful? Even your father and Mr. Zhang Lianhai join forces..."

"The Kunlun Mountain six years ago was not just a strange creature, it was not that simple." Lin Shuo interrupted Anne's words and then pulled back the topic that had been discussed far away. "It is true that the Zhang family has the ability to talk to wild beasts, but this skill is not their best skill.

In our hunter circle, this ability is not uncommon. Among the six masters, half of them know this. Outside the six masters, and even outside the hunter circle, there are people with similar abilities."

"At the same time, we do not rule out that this Dragon King envoy cannot communicate with the Black Water Dragon King." Yang Tuo interrupted at this time, "He may use some scams to use the relationship between the locals and the Black Water Dragon King to commit fraud and profit."

"Yeah." Anne replied, "It seems that we have to stay here for another day. Tomorrow, we will see this so-called Dragon King messenger together."
Chapter completed!