Chapter 52: The Mysterious Creature of Mountain Lake 3

  Li Mang has already sent the drowning child to the shore and started first aid. The drowning has been going on for several minutes, although the heart has not stopped beating, but it is also severely unconscious, and a lot of water has been drunk, and the entire abdomen is swollen.

  "Hmmph..."

  As he pressed down on his chest with force, a large amount of water was spat out, and the child's complexion gradually improved. With other rescue measures, the child finally recovered breathing smoothly, but his body was terribly weak, which still required more professional treatment to recover.

  "Hurry up and send the child to the hospital!" Li Meng ordered.

  "Thank you, thank you." The child's parents excitedly said two thank yous and hastily carried the child down the mountain without bothering with anything else.

  "Thank you, young man! If it wasn't for you saving Little Dragon's life, he would have been gone today!"

  "Right, I really should thank this young man properly."

  The child's family is busy taking him to the doctor, and villagers are coming forward to express their gratitude to Li Mang, with some even preparing red envelopes, which cannot disappoint the hero.

  "Thanks for the thought, but forget about the red envelope. I'm partnering with Yangzhou to open a mountain villa and will need everyone's help in the future!" Li Mang hastily stopped him.

  "This..."

  "Li Meng is not an outsider, so the red envelope is not needed." Xiangyang Zhou, who had just finished dressing, also hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him. He was clear that Li Meng didn't need these things, and besides, every penny of the villagers came from hard work.

  The villagers sent a bunch of good man cards to Li Meng and expressed that they would cooperate with the matter of Taoshan Manor as much as possible, and then dispersed in a hurry. As for this eerie Ghost Lake, they were unwilling to stay for another moment.

  "You two go back first, and then guard the middle of the mountain for me, don't let anyone come up." Li Meng said to Ge Xuelin and Xiao Yangzhou beside him, with a serious face.

  "Python, is there really something unclean down there?" Ge Xuelin raised an eyebrow and when he looked at the calm lake surface again, he suddenly felt a chill on his back.

  Xiao Yangzhou was also shocked to look at Li Mang, he was a native of Taohuaxiang Village, and he knew the evil spirit of Guihu. Now, Li Mang's words made him secretly surprised.

  "There is something, but it's not the water ghost you're talking about. I'm still not sure what it is." Li Mang shook his head, unable to say more. These two brothers are currently not people in the know, so it's better not to let them see the water monster.

  Although full of curiosity, seeing Li Meng like this, Xiao Yangzhou didn't ask much, only seriously asking: "Is it safe for you to stay here alone?"

  "Self-protection is no problem, you can rest assured." Li Mang was quite confident. Through the contact just now, he had roughly tested the strength of the water monster. Although its appearance was frightening, its actual strength was only average, seemingly a degenerated ancient creature.

  "If we can't wait for you to come back, should we call 120?" Ge Xuelin interrupted and asked.

  "...Just give me incense directly!" Li Meng rolled his eyes.

  "Do you want paper money?" Ge Xuelin asked again.

  "Do you want me to go to hell and become a poor devil?" Li Meng asked back.

  "Let's not talk about these inauspicious things, let's go back and change our clothes!" Xiao Yangzhou cut off the conversation with a bad temper, turned around and left first, Ge Xuelin also followed closely behind.

  Send everyone away, Li Mang didn't rush to get back in the water again. He was recalling the appearance of the water monster: tiger head, python body, snake tail, with four claws... For some reason, these images made him feel inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.

  "Tiger crocodile!"

  As a flash of insight came into his mind, Li Meng spoke out a figurative name, and he thought he had recalled why the appearance of the water monster was so familiar.

  In "Shan Hai Jing * Nan Ci San Jing", a strange beast is recorded, with the head of a tiger, the body of an alligator and the tail of a snake, named Tiger Alligator.

  Nanji Sanjing, the location recorded is the third column of mountains in Nan Shan Jing, and also the last column of Nan Shan Jing. Li Mang has currently broken through to the third mountain of the first column, so he hasn't seen the true body of Hu Gou yet, but looking at the appearance of this Gui Hu Shui Guai, it is indeed Hu Gou.

  As for why it was so weak, Li Mang didn't know the details either, but thinking about the changes in the Earth's environment, he could only speculate that the tiger crocodile's strength was degenerating.

  "Boom!"

  Li Mang dived into the lake again, now it was already dusk, with only a little sunlight left, and if he waited any longer, it would be dark, which would make things even more troublesome.

  Since he had been here once, Li Mang directly came to the destination, which was where Hu Jiao had dived down before. The shape of the nearby mud allowed Li Mang to identify it, but unfortunately, there was no sign of the master at this time.

  "Is it already under the mud?" Li Mang thought to himself, and immediately slightly furrowed his brow. This would undoubtedly make things even more difficult to deal with. Moreover, he was unclear about what the situation was like under the mud, which made things even harder.

  With a thought, Li Meng took out the Shan Hai Jing from his heart and opened the first page of the Nan Shan Jing map. He read it once and entered it. This book is not afraid of fire, let alone water.

  When he reappeared at the bottom of Guihu Lake, he was still holding a six or seven meter long Xiangfei bamboo, and after finding his position, he inserted it into the muddy water.

  Two meters.

  Four meters, five meters...

  What made Li Mang's heart tremble with fear was that it still hadn't reached the bottom, and normal lake sediment couldn't possibly be this deep. A depth of two meters was already terrifying.

  Li Mang could only continue to insert the bamboo pole with force downwards while stirring and swirling, unwilling to miss any clues.

  "Plop!" With a light hand, Li Mang suddenly felt that the bamboo pole had inserted into a space without silt, which was a different kind of feeling from before, and it was very obvious. Li Mang could already be certain that about six meters below, there was an underwater cave, probably where the tiger crocodile's lair was located.

  "Humming!"

  Suddenly, a large patch of huge water bubbles burst out from the mud below, and at the same time, the bamboo pole in his hand also made a rubbing sound, which was caused by something being touched. This made Li Mang's expression change, and he looked down cautiously with both eyes, waiting quietly.

  "Whoosh!"

  A dark shadow emerged from the muddy water and quickly rushed up to Li Mang's face, what else could it be if not the tiger crocodile that had fought with Li Mang before?

  At this time, the tiger python was extremely enraged, and its small eyes appeared to be bright red. It was the human in front of it who not only snatched food from its mouth but also injured it. Living in such an environment, the tiger python's courage was actually very small, so after waking up from dizziness, it did not seek revenge, but instead hid into the cave in fear.

  Unexpectedly, Li Meng is now using a bamboo pole to stir up its lair again. Although its strength has declined, it's still an ancient ferocious beast after all, and the tiger crocodile still retains some of its former aura.

  "Ahh!"

  A tiger crocodile let out a loud roar and burst forth from the water, its speed even faster than before. Li Mang's face also changed color slightly. Previously, the tiger crocodile had been holding onto a small child, which to some extent disrupted its ability to exert its strength. Moreover, previously it had been careless at first and was hit by one of Li Mang's fists on the forehead, causing it to fall into a disadvantage from the start.

  But at the same time, it also led to Li Mang underestimating its strength, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing. However, since things have come to this point, Li Mang has no other choice but to build up his strength and wait.

  Bang!

  "Pffft!"

  "Boom..."

  Although in the water, the battle was exceptionally fierce. Li Meng's attacks were mainly from his fists, while the tiger crocodile was more agile, with its sharp teeth, sharp claws, and long tail, all of which were its weapons. Although its strength was average, its defense and speed were astonishing, with its only weakness being its head. But this time it had learned to be clever and did not use its forehead to collide head-on with Li Meng.

  In this case, Li Meng unexpectedly fell into a disadvantage, and more fatally, unlike the tiger turtle that can live in water for a long time, he needs to hold his breath, which is his most fatal weakness. Just two or three minutes passed, he was no longer agile, his face turned red from lack of air, and he could only intentionally or unintentionally pull the tiger turtle towards the water surface.

  "Whoosh!"

  Li Mang finally managed to take a breath of air after breaking through the water's surface, but sadly, a long scaly tail immediately wrapped around his right foot and pulled him down with force. With a splash, Li Mang sank back into the water once again.

  Li Mang accidentally drank a mouthful of lake water, extremely angry, he arched his back to store energy in his waist, then suddenly thrust forward with all his might, finally turning his body around. At the same time, his other foot fiercely stomped on the lower body of the tiger - "Boom!"

  "Ahhh!!!"

  This kick was really not light, just because Li Meng's foot kicked the two eggs, and like humans, most living things are fatal in this position. The tiger python is covered with scales all over its body, but only the head and this part have no scales, and Li Meng's full-strength kick is not just egg pain.

  Humans have meridians, tigers and crocodiles are the same. Egg egg was seriously injured in the affected area, under the influence of the meridian, the whole body trembled, numbness and stiffness were evident.