Volume 4 The Stormy Waves of the Ming Sea Chapter 347 Stranding in the Deep Sea
Boss Jin didn't follow Ding Sicheng and them to the sea before, but after all, he was on the Qianlong salvage ship at that time, and what happened on the bottom of the sea could be heard by just listening.
So as soon as he said this, Ding Sicheng quickly nodded and said, "This is very likely! According to our guess, the big tomb found by the Qianlong salvage ship is not the tomb of Redbeard, but it is likely to be the tomb of Redbeard's mother. And if the tomb you found is really Redbeard's tomb, it wouldn't be surprising that the two tombs have the same structure!"
The others listened to the two of them, and they didn't know why except for Poplar Iron Bull.
But this is not the time to dwell on this issue, and they did not enter the tomb in person, even if Ding Sicheng is willing to explain, they may not be able to understand.
Therefore, the surname Li still asks back the most important question at present.
"So what are we going to do now? The island is gone, where can we find it?"
Boss Jin was speechless, just sighed.
Ding Sicheng thought for a while, and then asked Boss Jin: "I wonder when Boss Jin last came here?"
"That was before the summer monsoon, and it's been a few months now!" said Boss Kim.
"If that's the case, it's really hard to find that island!" Ding Sicheng couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"But we can't do nothing, can we?" interjected Poplar cautiously, "why don't we try to look in a few directions?" we're coming from the north, so we can leave the north alone. Yesterday we went south, why don't we go west or east today, and come back here in the evening, and then look in the other direction tomorrow?"
Everyone else was silent, waiting to see how Boss Jin and Ding Sicheng expressed their attitude.
In the end, Ding Sicheng opened his mouth and said: "Although what Xiaobai said is a stupid method, it is better than us doing nothing, what do you think, Boss Jin?"
"What else can I feel now?" Boss Jin frowned, "I'm tired of everyone coming, but I can't find that place!" But it's really unwilling to turn around and go back like this, so ...... Just try it as Brother Bai said!"
When the surnamed Li heard them say this, he said: "Not far to the west, we will reach the boundary of the Vietnamese, why don't we look for it in the east today and walk a little west tomorrow?"
Boss Jin was discouraged and said, "You can take care of it yourself!"
The surnamed Li hurriedly agreed, and immediately walked away and ordered the crew to start the boat.
In the second half of the day, I walked slowly to the east, and I saw two islands along the way, but they were fixed islands that had long been on the nautical map. Like the floating island that Boss Jin said, I couldn't even see the slightest shadow.
The surnamed Li could only order the crew to return to the voyage, and when it was evening, he returned to the position that Boss Jin had remembered, and it was expected to try to go west again the next day.
Almost everyone on the boat was hopeless, and Ding Sicheng thought about running empty, which would inevitably be a little discouraged, but not sad.
Poplar and Iron Bull didn't pay much attention to it. Especially Tie Niu, he took the opportunity to talk and laugh with Haizhu and fight hotly.
Only Boss Jin sighed all day long, obviously shocked.
There was no entertainment on board, so everyone went to bed early that night.
At four or five o'clock in the morning, just after dawn, Poplar seemed to feel the hull of the ship shake slightly in his sleep.
However, the tremor was not severe, so Poplar continued to sleep, not paying much attention to it.
It wasn't until more than an hour later, when it was already bright, that he heard a noise outside, and Poplar woke up suddenly, and hurriedly woke up Tie Niu, and got dressed and went out to see what was going on.
I heard a crew member shouting, "...... I didn't know! I was on duty at the time, but ...... Floating on the sea and nothing happened, I took a nap for a while. After a short while, I woke up in shock, and this strange thing had happened!"
Poplar didn't need to ask what was going on, for he had turned his head and glared in horror as the crew member shouted his defense.
He saw that on the side of the big boat they were on, there was a large area of trees. Most of the canopies are much higher than the masts.
But they were obviously in the deep sea area, and there were no reef islands in this deep sea area, could it be that a strong wind blew over last night and blew the ship next to an island?
With doubts in his heart, he immediately walked to the side of the ship.
Boss Jin hadn't gotten up yet, only the man surnamed Li and Ding Sicheng were standing on the side of the ship, and the crew on duty just now was explaining to the person surnamed Li and Ding Sicheng.
"What's going on, where is our ship drifting to?" asked Poplar.
"It's not floating anywhere, just stopping where it was last night!" replied the interface surnamed Li, with an incomparable horror on his face.
Poplar was equally startled and looked out of the ship's side.
Indeed, their ship was next to an island, which did not appear to be very large, but from a distance it was at least fifteen meters high.
Moreover, the ship was so close to the island that it could not feel the slight swaying in the seawater, but it was afraid that the bottom of the ship had been stranded on the island.
"Why is this happening? how can this be?" Poplar blurted out, still feeling incredulous even though he had experienced strange things after strange things.
"I don't think it's possible, but the gauge shows that there can't be anything wrong, our ship is indeed still where it stayed last night, it's just ...... I don't know what's going on, but an island suddenly appeared early in the morning, and our ship ran aground......! This island grew out of the bottom of the sea overnight!"
When the surnamed Li said that later, he probably felt that this incident was too weird, and he couldn't help but shudder.
It just so happened that Tie Niu and Boss Jin also walked out of the cabin, and when they opened their mouths to ask, they were also dumbfounded.
Tie Niu gasped and said, "This is too strange, isn't it? Yesterday we were looking for an island nearby, but today this island suddenly came out of the bottom of the sea and ran our ship aground......! It's even weirder and weirder than anything we've encountered before!"
Boss Jin quickly recovered from the initial surprise, and ran to the sides of the boat to look at each other, but he couldn't help but frown, and said, "Yes, this is the island I told you about before! I know that when I told you, you didn't believe it very much, but now, you should believe me, right?"
Everyone on board looked at each other.
The surnamed Li said: "It's not that we didn't believe it before, it's just ...... Floating islands have always been just legends, but who knew that such a strange thing would happen in reality?"
"But how do I think it's not like a floating island at all, but like a small island growing out of the sea?" said Iron Bull.
He wasn't unreasonable, and Poplar actually felt the same way.
So Poplar nodded and said, "I agree with what Lao Hei said! If this small island is really a floating island, our ships shouldn't be stranded so badly!"
"But the problem is, the floating islands already feel incredible, if they really...... It would be even more unimaginable for an island to grow out of the bottom of the sea overnight! Moreover, if it really grew out of the bottom of the sea, what would happen to the green trees that filled the island? It is impossible for these trees to grow in the sea, right?" asked the surnamed Li in a loud voice.
No one was able to answer him.
Ding Sicheng sighed softly and said: "I have seen some reports that there is an island named Xiaolat in the western waters of the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, which sometimes sinks in the water and cannot be found, and sometimes emerges from the water. Its height is also unpredictable, and it can be more than 40 meters above the sea at its highest, but it is only about 10 meters high most of the time. Locals also call the island 'Ghost Island'. It's a small island, and so far, scientists haven't been able to explain why it sinks and floats on the water. But...... Even this strange enough ghost island has no trees growing on it. So...... The island in front of us will certainly not emerge from the sea overnight, but ...... If it came from somewhere else, it doesn't explain why our ship ran aground so badly!"
"We don't care if it floated from somewhere else or grew out of the sea, in short, since this island has appeared, then we can find the big tomb I mentioned! Master Chen, do you think you should start acting today? Otherwise, this island may disappear again, then we can draw water with a bamboo basket!" said Boss Jin.
Seeing that he couldn't hold back his excitement, Bai Yang couldn't help but ask him: "This island has appeared so strangely, don't you feel a little worried and scared?"
"I'm a little worried, ......am I? We've all come here, we can't just run back without doing anything, right?Besides, with the three of us having such great ability, even if this island is a little weird, it should be weird as a ghost ship, right?" replied Boss Kim.
When talking about the "ghost ship", he obviously had some flinching meaning, it seems that as he said, he is not not not afraid, but the excitement of finding the island hides his fear.
Bai Yang wanted to say that he "wants money and doesn't want to die", but when the words came to his lips, he changed his words and said: "But I think this small island is much stranger than the ghost ship! After all, the ghost ship is so big, but no matter how small this island is, there are hundreds of square meters in radius, right?"
"That's it!" Iron Bull followed, "Think about how scary it would be to grow an island from the bottom of the sea overnight! I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes!"
"Believe it or not, the facts already exist!" Boss Jin said, turning to Ding Sicheng again, "Master Chen, what do you say? You won't ...... It's the same as the two little brothers said, they were scared by this island, right?"
"This is indeed a very strange thing, if I am not frightened at all, then I am definitely not a normal person! But we have all come here, we can't leave immediately, let's go to the island first and then make a decision!" Ding Sicheng concluded.
(See Chapter 348 "Spooky Island")