The more I thought about it, the more I felt uneasy, but the fox mother said that she wouldn't let me leave early. She kept reassuring me that the Demon Gate was scarier than I thought.

But I was never at ease. After three days, I ran back to the hotel in a hurry, but Si Ruo had already disappeared, and just left me two words at the front desk - don't read it.

I really don't know how Si Ruo could say these two words lightly, what is the difference between this and "I'm fine" and "don't worry"? Sometimes, this kind of "don't read" is the most fatal thing.

After I rushed back to the tofu shop in a daze, the news that the fox mother brought me back suddenly made me angry.

Lao He asked me to join the mission of exploring Dan Island in the name of Bloody Clothes Hall, but I was strongly rejected by the five veins. In the end, it was only after Lao He argued with the arguments that the five veins agreed to let us find our own way to enter Dan Island, and being able to enter Dan Island meant that the Blood Cloak Hall was qualified to participate in the mission, otherwise everything would not be discussed.

I was already holding back my anger, but now I completely broke out: "Mother Fox, are there any restrictions on this mission?"

The corner of the fox mother's mouth also showed a hint of coldness: "Let it go, no one can't touch it, and no one can't kill it, as long as you can grab the secret of the forbidden area, even if you poke out the big Lou Zi, Lao He and I will help you carry it." ”

"Just have your words. I'm going to run some errands, and I'll be back on the day I leave. I hurried out of the tofu shop with a few words, and rushed back before the whole team left.

By the time I came back, the bean donkey had already made himself up in the form of Zhang Dacheng. Although Zhang Dacheng was originally a white-clothed elder of the Elder Group of the Torture Palace, his seniority in the Torture Hall was not high, if you put aside the identity of the Bloody Clothes Hall, from the fox mother's side, he is a generation younger than me, and it is not an exaggeration to count him as a new disciple.

However, in terms of strength, Zhang Dacheng is also a leading figure among the younger generation, otherwise he would not have joined the white-clothed elder group at a young age. Bean Donkey disguised himself as Zhang Dacheng, which is tantamount to attracting the attention of others, no matter who wants to do it to us, the first person to ponder must be him. Still, Bean Donkey doesn't care about any of that.

Tao Xiyu was made up as an ugly girl by the bean donkey. He didn't know what to think, not to mention that he had a palm-sized birthmark on Tao Xiyu's face, and a layer of black hair was glued to the birthmark, which looked like a piece of pigskin had grown on his face from a distance.

Ye Xun couldn't help but ask the bean donkey: "Are you so bad at Tao Xiyu?"

I had to be convinced by the bean donkey's answer, he said: "In this way, I will be much calmer and will not delay things." ”

In normal times, I would have been able to spit it out: I have never seen you in such a strange way. But at that time, I was already extremely irritable, and I was not in the mood to fight with beans and donkeys.

I can't even find a clue where Dan Island is. According to Mama Fox, if we can't catch up with Dandao and the five veins within five days, we will be directly sentenced out, and even if we go, it will be useless.

The sea is vast, where do I go to find Dan Island?

Along the way, I was reminiscing about the location of Dan Island in my dreams. Our ship has been heading east since it went to sea, but when the ghost ship had an accident, I was in the cabin and didn't notice if the ship was turning.

More importantly, there will definitely be a difference between dreams and reality. The person of the Heart Demon Hall can control the dream realm, which means that he can omit a lot of processes, and in reality, it takes three days to walk, and it is likely that they will compress it into a few minutes.

It's not realistic to speculate on the exact location of Dan Island from the dream, and it's impossible for the Demon Gate to come out and contact me right now...... What should have been going extremely smoothly is now a clue.

I couldn't help but ask Ye Xun, "Ye Xun, where do you say Dan Island will be?"

Ye Xun said in a deep voice: "Dan Island can't be too far away from Penglai. With the navigation skills of the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu was already a great luck to reach Japan, and as for the claim that he went to South America, I have never believed it. According to my estimates, Dan Island will not be too far away from Penglai. ”

"That's right!" I suddenly came to my senses, "In ancient times, there was no concept of territorial waters, but now there is! If we extrapolate from the events in the dream, the two ships must not have left the territorial waters, otherwise they would have been easily intercepted by the coastal defense." ”

I was just happy for a while and wilted again - even if the ship didn't go out of the territorial waters, the sea near Penglai is not small, I can't go over and search inch by inch, right?

I was in a hurry, but the bean donkey said slowly: "I said Wang Huan, who is your master?"

I replied angrily, "What are you doing?"

"I want to see who taught you so badly. Bean Donkey muttered, "It's definitely not rice cereal, she has a lot of ideas!"

Without waiting for me to speak, the donkey said, "Nothing in this world will be completely wiped out, they are just waiting for someone to discover." If you can't find clues in one myth, you can go to ten myths to find clues, and maybe any seemingly unrelated myth has clues in it. ”

The bean donkey grabbed a handful of fried soybeans from his body and chewed them slowly, saying, "The legend of Penglai Immortal Mountain is not only in the immortal medicine. ”

I pondered for a long time: "In addition to the immortal medicine, how can there be any myths related to Penglai?"

"Eight immortals cross the sea, haven't you heard of it?" the bean donkey patted Tao Xiyu beside him, "Tell those two stupid melons." ”

Tao Xiyu said helplessly: "The legend of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea is well known, but there are two theories about why the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, one is to go to the Queen Mother to celebrate her birthday, and the other is to go to Penglai Immortal Island." It can be said that crossing the sea to find the fairy island is the last test for them to become immortals. ”

I frowned and said, "I've heard of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, so it has nothing to do with us looking for Penglai, right?"

"Something to do with it. Tao Xiyu took out a map from his backpack and spread it on the ground, "The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea is actually a prototype story, and their story originates from the eight prisoners of the Northern Song Dynasty. ”

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shamen Island was set up on Shamen Island, about 60 kilometers away from Dengzhou, to exile prisoners.

Salmon Island is a small space and a harsh environment, because the island is surrounded by the sea, and even if the prisoners escape from the prison, they cannot escape from the island. The exile on Salmon Island was even worse than the exile in Lingnan.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court only gave food to 300 people in the prison every year, but as the number of prisoners gradually increased, this food was no longer enough. So the prison guards came up with a solution: whenever the number of prisoners exceeded 300, the extra prisoners would be randomly selected and executed.

This method made the prisoners live in fear every day, but many did not escape the fate of being executed, and over the course of a few years, more than 700 people were executed. In such a situation, people gradually have the desire to survive, no longer resigned to fate, choose to save themselves, jump into the sea to escape, but most of them still end in failure. At one point, more than 50 prisoners, hearing that they were going to be executed, jumped into the sea.

In order to increase their chances of survival, some of them chose to hug the gourd, some hugged the plank, and desperately swam in the direction of Penglai. But many people were either swallowed up by the sea or captured by the officers and soldiers, and only eight people with high martial arts skills and strong bodies survived. They swam to land and hid in a cave, where they were discovered a few days later by local fishermen. When everyone knew that they had swam from Salmon Island, everyone thought they were not mortal.

Later, this story continued to evolve and was associated with the famous Eight Immortals of the Song Dynasty, and it became the well-known "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea".

Tao Xiyu pointed to the map and said: "You see, Shamen Island in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is now Miao Island in Shandong, is Penglai on this side. ”

I compared it with my hand on the map: "The distance from Temple Island to Penglai is not close, but it is ......"

I didn't know what to say for a while.

Tao Xiyu said: "Imagine what happened to the villagers when they met the prisoners who escaped from prison in the Northern Song Dynasty? No matter how much they were amazed, they would be sent to the official mansion, right? How could eight prisoners become immortals?"

Tao Xiyu paused for a moment and said, "The only explanation is that the eight prisoners escaped again after being exposed, and this time, they still fled into the sea. Only this time they were not captured by the officers and soldiers, but reappeared from the sea a few years later, which gave rise to the legend of the Eight Immortals. ”

I pondered for a moment and said, "You have a point. You mean to say that those eight prisoners strayed into Dan Island?"

"That's right!" Tao Xiyu took out a pen and circled on the map, "This is Penglai County in Dengzhou, here is Shamen Island, and this is Bohai Sea...... At that time, several prisoners were running for their lives and would not go to Salmon Island and the mainland, so they still chose to escape by boat. ”

"Walking in the direction of the Bohai Sea is tantamount to killing themselves, and they can only go in the direction of the Yellow Sea...... Across this sea is Japan, and there is their only way to survive. ”

When I heard Tao Xiyu say this, I couldn't help but ask, "With the eight of them, they can cross the ocean and cross Japan?"

Tao Xiyu said: "Since the Tang Dynasty, Japan has continuously sent envoys to China, and this sea area is not without ships. If they are lucky, they will be able to escape alive if they encounter ships traveling between the two countries. ”

Tao Xiyu drew a circle on the map with a pen: "I estimate that the location of Dan Island should be in this area." ”

I rubbed my brows and said, "You can paint a few tens of kilometers, right? How many days do we have to search?"

Tao Xiyu said: "If you want to go to sea, you have to use a boat, and if you have a boat, you have to register." Let the Snow Fox seniors find a way to investigate the ships that have gone to sea from these ports on the map recently, and they will probably be able to draw the specific location. ”

Ye Xun nodded and said, "That's right." I'm going to contact Mama Fox. ”