The golden head was about to appear, and I was still twenty meters away from the riverbank. I couldn't escape.
Moreover, when I saw that gold light, my chest felt like it was hit by a hammer. I felt dizzy, and my body went soft. I didn't have the strength to run away, so I fell on my butt on the dried corpse.
At this moment, I couldn't help but remember a joke I had heard before. It said that when you met a bear in the forest, it didn't matter if you ran faster than the bear. What mattered was that you ran faster than your companions.
Now that I thought about it, it was true. Yang Shilong and the others ran faster than me. That was why they ran away while I was left behind.
I closed my eyes and recalled the terrifying appearance of the golden head I had seen the last time. I didn't have any hope for what would happen next.
The golden light became thicker, and the last dried corpses on the riverbank flew up, including the corpse I was sitting on.
My body tilted, and I fell into the water.
The river was very cold. After I fell, I felt the cold water, and my dizzy mind became clear.
Even if the golden head was unimaginably terrifying, I didn't want to die. I wanted to live!
The resolute conviction in my mind suddenly returned. I did my utmost to stabilize my body. I didn't care about the consequences of carelessly activating the dao energy. I took out my magic compass and urged the spirit snake to appear to help me. At the same time, I took out the Mao She Talisman and prepared to receive the dao energy.
However, after doing all of that, I found that the snake spirit didn't respond to my call. It didn't appear, and the Dao energy around seemed to be isolated. I took out the talisman, but I couldn't receive the Dao energy. I couldn't activate the talisman.
Without the support of the Dao energy, I wasn't much better than an ordinary person. In this cold river, I couldn't even keep floating. My body kept sinking.
Eventually, I sank into the water. Instinctively, I opened my mouth to breathe, but I got swallowed by a mouthful of water. I almost suffocated.
I tried my best to grab the water, but I couldn't grab anything. My legs tried to move, but I couldn't float. Instead, I kept sinking.
I couldn't breathe. My vision turned dark, and I couldn't see anything. My consciousness was about to disappear.
At this moment, my feet seemed to touch the bottom of the river. I stood up straight.
Didn't they say that this river was one hundred meters deep?
Have I sunk to the bottom of the river?
Before I could react, my body was pushed upward by an irresistible force.
After a while, my head popped out of the water. I couldn't help but open my mouth to take a deep breath.
However, after taking a breath, he started coughing violently again and spat out mouthful after mouthful of water.
After I spat a few mouthfuls of water, I found that I had returned to the surface of the river.
What was going on?
Did the river dry up by itself?
While I was still surprised, I suddenly saw a thick golden light around me. Instinctively, I lowered my head and was dumbstruck.
It wasn't that the river had dried up, but the golden head at the bottom of the river had risen from under my feet and pushed me out of the river!
In other words, I'm standing on top of that golden head!
I was so scared that my scalp was about to explode. The golden head was so terrifying, and I was actually standing on it!
Originally, I thought that I had managed to escape from death's door. But now, it seems that I'm going to die even more miserably.
My face paled and I didn't dare to move. I didn't even dare to lower my head to look at the golden head. I was so scared that I was waiting for its revenge.
However, it was strange that even though I had waited for a long time, I didn't get the revenge that I had imagined. My surroundings were completely silent.
When I opened my eyes, I found that my body wasn't still. I was slowly drifting toward the riverbank. Moreover, the golden head's countless hairs had parted into two halves around me, leaving only a small space for me to stand on.
Why is the golden head drifting toward the riverbank?
Why isn't it hurting me?
Did it come out of the river to help me cross the river?
It wasn't a coincidence that it pushed me out of the river. Did it purposely save me?
As soon as this thought popped up in my head, I denied it immediately.
Are you kidding me? I just glanced at the golden head from a distance, and I couldn't bear its pressure. How strong is it? How could it come out of the river to help me cross the river?
Before I could figure it out, the golden head had brought me to the riverbank.
At first, I didn't dare to move. However, after waiting for a long time and seeing that nothing dangerous had happened, I cautiously tried to stand up.
After I stood up, I saw Yang Shilong and the other two standing not far from the riverbank. All of them wore a strange expression as they looked at me blankly.
I slowly lifted my legs and moved my body. The golden head was still standing there. It was as quiet as a boat.
At this moment, I finally calmed down. However, I didn't dare to move too much. I slowly took small steps and walked down from the golden head's head to the riverbank.
When Yang Shilong and the other two saw my movements from afar, their anxious expressions relaxed a little. Instead, they became curious. The three of them discussed for a while before slowly walking toward me.
When they came to me, I had already walked down from the golden head. I stood on the riverbank and turned to look at the golden head.
When I had seen it before, it was either from afar or standing on its head, so I couldn't tell how big it was. But now, I could clearly see that the head was as big as an excavator. However, its facial features were exactly the same as an ordinary person's. I could even see its expression in between its eyebrows.
However, the strange thing was that the facial features on the head looked like that of a child. Its eyes were pure and innocent, and the corners of its mouth were slightly lifted, giving it a flattering smile.
I suddenly had an unimaginable thought.
Although the golden head looked terrifying, it could be just a child. Every time it came out of the river, it was just to help people cross the river. However, because of its terrifying appearance and power, people were scared shitless and didn't give it a chance to cross the river.
Although I also thought that this thought was absurd, when I looked at its face from a close distance, the fear in my heart slowly disappeared. I didn't think that the head was terrifying anymore. Instead, I thought that it was cute.
With that thought in mind, I subconsciously extended my hand and touched the forehead of the golden head.
When it saw my action, its expression didn't change. It still wore a flattering smile, and it even moved its forehead closer to me. It looked very obedient.
I heaved a sigh of relief and gently stroked his forehead.
At this moment, Yang Shilong and the other two walked next to me. Fang Xing looked at my action and couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief, "Creation is so magical. Such a terrifying thing has a kind heart, and it even knows how to save people. It's so strange …"
As he said that, he imitated my action and extended his hand to touch the forehead of the golden head.
However, right at this moment, the expression on the golden head's face suddenly changed. Its eyes slightly arched, and the corners of its mouth that had been curled up suddenly dropped. The flattering smile on its face disappeared, and one of the strands of hair that was connected to the countless corpses on its head suddenly drooped down. Together with the corpses, it whizzed toward Fang Xing.
No one could react to the sudden change. When the strand of hair that was connected to the corpses was about to hit Fang Xing, his hand was still in mid-air.
However, in the next second, the thick strand of hair whizzed past, and Fang Xing's body was directly divided into two parts. The upper part was thrown into the river, while the lower part was still standing upright. After a while, it fell heavily on the ground.
Fang Xing's action seemed to have enraged the golden head. After killing Fang Xing, a few more strands of hair whizzed toward Yang Shilong and the other two.
Their reactions were much faster than Fang Xing's. After noticing the signs, they turned around and ran.
However, the speed at which the golden head's hair was swinging was much faster than theirs. In just a blink of an eye, it had reached them and reached them.
Fortunately, after running for a few steps, they were far away from the golden head. Its hair didn't hit them, but the dried corpse at the top of the hair hit their shoulders and sent them flying. They lay on the ground and struggled for a long time, but they couldn't get up.
The fear that had vanished from my face reappeared. In just one or two seconds, out of the three people that had traveled with me for a few days, one was dead and two were injured. This golden head was really scary. It wasn't as cute as I had imagined.