Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 461 Ruby

  Lu Qianqian held the oar in one hand and pointed at the river bank not far from them.

  This is a vast plain. Looking around, there is no trace of human habitation. The light of the giant moon is sprinkled on the grass on the bank of the river, glowing with faint stars.

What Lu Qianqian was referring to was a clump of reed grass on the right side of the river bank.

   "There are... a few reeds." Meili narrowed his eyes and looked over.

   "No," Lu Qianqian said, waving the oars, and rowing hard, "There is something under the reeds."

  As soon as the boat approached, they all noticed the reflection of moonlight under the reeds.

   "It's reflecting light, like some kind of metal." Jasmine craned her neck.

  Lu Qianqian drew the boat near the river bank, leaned forward and grabbed it, and she grabbed the reflective thing into her hand.

  Three heads come together.

  Lu Qianqian spread out her palms.

  It is an oval ruby ​​inlaid on a metal backing.

   "It's so beautiful..." Meili reached out and poked the surface of the gem.

   "Why is this here?" Lu Qianqian asked.

   "It must have been the accessories that other girls were wearing when they passed by here." Jasmine replied.

  "Why did they fall on the shore?" Meili looked to the shore, "Are they on the shore here?"

   "What's in here?" Jasmine looked over the empty plain.

   "Nothing." Lu Qianqian answered simply.

  "Then shall we go ashore and see?" Meili suggested.

   "I think it can." Jasmine nodded.

  Lu Qianqian also defaulted, and moved his eyes to Xiaolan.

  The three of them looked at Xiaolan who had been silent for a long time.

   "Xiaolan, what are you looking at?"

   Xiaolan, who was staring in a daze, was called by them, and immediately recovered, pointed at the giant moon and asked, "Do you think that the moon seems to be getting bigger again?"

   Jasmine tilted her head to take a look at Ju Yue, then turned her head back, "Didn’t the villagers say that the moon will get bigger and bigger."

   "When the moon fills the sky and no girl is sacrificed, disaster will happen." Meili said again.

   "But I always feel..."

"Sh -" Lu Chien hand stopped in the mouth, interrupted their words, "Have you heard any sound?"

   Xiaolan raised his hand, "I heard it."

  The moon was entangled in the direction of the sky, and there were several low whining sounds.

   "What is this?" Jasmine unconsciously squeezed the oar in her hand.

  Far away, the sound again, the sound is far and wide, like the roar of thunder, but it is a little different.

   "Where does this sound come from?" Meili looked around nervously.

   Xiao Lan raised her hand silently, "From the direction of the moon, and this sound...seems to be slowly getting higher, together with the slightly bigger moon,"

   Meili swallowed and spit, "Or let's go ashore from there first. The reason why other girls dropped the pendant in that place means that she must have landed from there."

  At this time, their boat jolted abruptly, as if it had hit something at the bottom of the river. The four people on the boat were caught off guard and fell into the boat one after another.

"what happened?"

  "Is there anything under the boat?" Jasmine grabbed the edge of the boat and looked down.

  The river under the boat is the same as the night, I can’t see anything.

"No……"

  The words were not finished yet, the second wave of turbulence came again. After having some experience, the four of them grabbed the hull next to each other and looked at each other uneasily.

  Lu Qianqian’s oars were still stuck on the shore to fix the position of the boat. The bumps took them out of the mud on the riverbank, and their boat drifted down the stream again.

  Molly grabbed her oar and rowed under the boat a few times, shouting, "There is nothing under the boat."

   "Then this bump..."

   "Look at the back!" Xiaolan shouted sharply.

  Everyone looked back.

Upstream of the    stream, there was a wave of waves. The waves were big or small, and they just stirred up a turbulence after they hit the boat.

   "How come there are waves in such a small river?" Meili helped Lu Qianqian support the oars to resist the slap of the waves.

   "I see, that power won't let us stop," Xiaolan looked at Juyue, "The waves are going to push us where we should go."

  The frequency of the boat's turbulence increased, and the oars couldn't resist the power of the waves, and the crackling sound of the oars was transmitted to their ears along the handle of the oars.

   "Should we go ashore?" Meili asked through gritted teeth.

   "Of course we can't go ashore, there is nothing on the shore, nothing we want."

   "Then we..." Meili's hands holding the oars trembled, "Still still here?"

   "I think we can let go, we..."

Before Xiaolan's words fell, only a "chap" was heard. The oars in Lu Qianqian and Meili's hands were broken by the waist. At this moment, a big wave came, and the boat lost its support and turned to the lower stream. go with.

  The stream became more and more turbulent, and the screams of the four people spun and crossed on the boat. Their boat was like a speed racing car with broken brakes, turning around the stream, leading them to the depths of the river.

Xiaolan looked for a grasping point that could prevent him from being thrown off, and finally spotted the protrusion on the front side of the boat for anchoring. After Xiaolan's body was lifted by the scoop-like waves twice, by That force rushed directly to the protrusion.

   Then, she and Lu Qianqian collided with each other.

  "Do you want to catch here too?" Xiaolan shouted in the waves.

  Lu Qianqian sat up, "We each have one hand, and then grab each other!"

"it is good!"

  The two slid the slippery edge of the boat and grabbed the protrusion at the same time. However, with a cry, something was thrown out of Lu Qianqian's sleeve and it fell directly behind Xiaolan's feet.

  "It's that gem!" Lu Qianqian suddenly planned to loosen the protrusion, "Can't lose it!"

   "You hold on there! I'll pick it up!"

   Half of Xiaolan's body was splashed with water, she wiped her face, knelt on the ground tremblingly, and reached out to grab the ruby.

  At the moment when her fingertips touched the warm surface of the ruby, Xiaolan's world seemed to quiet down.

  The boat is still spinning frantically, the sound of water, waves, and screams, one after another.

  But in Xiaolan's ears, the volume of these voices seemed to be turned down.

   was replaced by a melodious singing.

  The singing voice is getting louder and louder, using a dialect they don’t understand, singing a song with a...some familiar melody.

  That's the song Lang Yuerong sang when she saw them off.

  But more importantly, the sound that is ringing in my ears is not Lang Yuerong’s voice.

  Who the **** is this?

  Although it is not Lang Yuerong’s voice, this voice is also inexplicably familiar.

who is it?

  "Xiaolan? Xiaolan!" The shouts of his companions awakened Xiaolan.

  When she returned to the terrible reality, Xiaolan's body was almost completely wet. She knelt on the boat, clutching the gem with both hands, and was on the verge of being lifted off the boat.

  (End of this chapter)