Volume 4 The Stormy Waves Chapter 369 Searching for the Ghost Ship
At this time, there was still a faint light outside, but there was also no moon or stars, and it was completely unclear where this faint light came from.
Fearing that he would collide head-on with Redbeard, Poplar Iron Bull first circled to the side after entering the woods, and then cautiously dodged through the forest and rushed to the sea.
The forest was not very wide, and with the strength of the two of them, it did not take long to reach the seashore, and as far as the eye could see, there was a big black ship on the sea.
But because the water was not deep enough to get close to the island, the boat was at least a thousand meters away from the beach where the Poplar Iron Bull stood.
However, it is difficult to reach the Poplar Iron Ox for more than a thousand meters, but to the surprise of Poplar again, yesterday - or before in the daytime, the sea was so calm that there was not even a trace of ripples, and now, with the wind howling, waves crashing against the beach, the boat also swayed in the waves, as if it would capsize at any moment.
"Lao Bai, let's go quickly, don't let the people on the boat see the shadows of the two of us!" Iron Bull whispered.
Poplar nodded, and the two of them quickly crossed the beach with their waists bowed, entered the sea, each took a deep breath, and dived into the deep water.
Both of them were as agile and swift underwater as swimming fish, so it didn't take long for them to reach the bottom of the boat.
The ship was huge, slightly bigger than the one they had taken to the sea, Boss Kim.
But it was really shabby, and after the Poplar Iron Ox came out of the water, you could even see a few obvious holes in the hull.
Then the poplar iron bull looked at each other, and both of them saw that there was obvious fear in each other's eyes.
Because at least in their eyes, this ship is very much like the ghost ship that they once encountered.
Of course, the light at the moment is not very bright, and the two of them just feel that this ship looks like a ghost ship, but whether it is or not, neither of them is sure.
And it's a very old ship, and it's not driven by machinery, but by two rows of huge oars sticking out from the bottom of the boat on both sides, as in the movies. In order for the ship to move, the huge oars had to be pushed by the crew or the slaves who were responsible for the oars.
Of course, the ship was moored at this moment, and the oars were all tucked into the hull, leaving only a short section exposed.
The Poplar Iron Ox climbed first up the holes in the oars, and then quickly climbed above the wooden boat through a few holes in the hull.
The boat was so old that when the iron bull climbed a hole, he actually felt a soft "creak" under his feet, as if he had stepped on a board of the ship.
Thankfully, the creaking sound was extremely slight, and the Iron Bull was nimble enough to grasp a hole further up, so it didn't alarm anyone on the boat—or any monster—for the time being.
Rao was like this, and the Poplar Iron Ox was still so frightened that it clung to the hull of the boat, and waited for a while before climbing up again.
Poplar glanced over the deck first, and saw some debris piled up on the deck, but there was no sign of it, so Poplar supported the side of the ship with both hands, and jumped on the deck with a little force.
Iron Bull followed, and the two of them looked to both sides, and found that the structure of the ship was exactly the same as the one in the tomb before, but it was much larger than the one.
So the two men immediately crossed the deck with bent hands and feet, and came to a wooden door under the high bow of the ship.
The wooden door was unlocked, and Poplar pushed it with his hand, and the door squeaked open.
When the poplar probe looked at it, he saw that there seemed to be light shining through below.
Poplar couldn't help but grab the javelin, and then dodged into the door. Iron Bull then walked in and gently closed the wooden door.
The two brothers slowly descended the wooden staircase, every nerve in their bodies on alert, ready to meet the on-demand attack of the people below or other monsters.
But these imaginary things did not happen, and Poplar saw that there was a narrow passage directly opposite the wooden staircase, and to the left of the passage were three cabins with closed doors. On the right is an open cargo hold, piled with sacks, cargo boxes, and other items.
In the innermost of the three cabins, a faint light peeked through the crack in the door.
Tie Niu approached Poplar and whispered in his ear, "Why can't anyone see it?"
Poplar shook his head, and after a little calculation in his heart, he quickly followed the passage to the innermost cabin.
The door of the cabin was hidden, and Poplar gently pushed it with his hand, causing the hatch to open a large crack first, and peeked inside, feeling that there seemed to be no one inside.
Poplar pushed the crack in the door a little wider, and there was indeed no one in the cabin.
Poplar dodged in, looked inside the cabin, and immediately determined that this cabin was the residence of the ship's owner.
Sure enough, as Haizhu said, the cabin was furnished comfortably and luxuriously, completely incompatible with the torn hull on the outside.
Of course, it will not be a 20th-century decoration, but a very old style that is very different from the classical Chinese style.
In addition, on the walls on both sides of the cabin, there is a windproof lamp, and the light is reflected from this windproof lamp, but it is a very strange dark green color.
And this dark green color is obviously not because of the lampshade, but because the light inside is a little strange.
Poplar always felt that if he wanted to know the oddities of this ship, he could understand it by looking at these two windproof lights.
So he immediately approached a windproof lamp and carefully removed the shade.
Sure enough, on the wick inside the lampshade, the faint shining light was not a red flame, but a faint green color. If you see it from afar, you will only think of two words: ghost fire.
Poplar suddenly had a gloomy feeling of being in hell in his heart, and he didn't dare to take a closer look at the ghost-like lamp, so he hurriedly put the lampshade on the lamp again. Just as Tie Niu whispered, "Look at Lao Bai!"
Poplar immediately turned his head to look, and suddenly saw a boxy object in one corner of Tie Niu's finger.
"Our explosives bag?" Poplar blurted out.
"I think too!" replied Iron Bull, grabbing two steps to pick up the thing, "It is indeed our explosives bag, it seems that the bottomless hollow actually leads here!"
Poplar wasn't sure if the bottomless hole had led here, but he was thinking about whether the explosives bag could be used in this inexplicable space, and if it could, it might be of great use later.
So he nodded to the iron bull and said, "Put this explosive bag on your back, and you'll really be in a hurry with the monsters on this ship later, let's just blow up the boat!"
"Okay!" Iron Bull nodded immediately, and while carrying the dynamite bag on his back, he asked, "Where did you say all the people or monsters on this ship went?"
"It can't all go, right? But didn't Haizhu say it, when she first came up, there was no one on the boat, but I don't know where those monsters suddenly came out. And it's drenched in water, and it feels like it's coming out of the sea, so ...... Maybe they're in the water right now!"
"This can't be!" Iron Bull immediately questioned, "Even if all these people live for a thousand years, it is impossible for them to transform from land creatures to sea creatures like swimming fish, right?"
"I'm afraid they're not human anymore!" Poplar shook his head, "Didn't Haizhu say it? They are human, but they don't look like people! Although I haven't really seen them yet, I can almost imagine what they look like! And I think that because they are human but not human, Redbeard needs Haizhu to be willing and not forced to marry him." ”
"The more you talk about me, the more confused I become!" Iron Bull scratched his scalp with his hands, "You mean, if Redbeard wants to marry Haizhu, he must turn Haizhu into a monster who is as human as him and not human?"
"That's exactly what I think!" Poplar nodded, "If Haizhu is a human and Redbeard is a monster that is both inhuman and human, it will be like ...... Chickens and ducks can't be combined!"
Tie Niu was stunned for a while, it was difficult to digest and understand the speculation of the poplar, and it took a long time for another sentence to come out: "Then why can't he force Haizhu to turn Haizhu into an inhuman monster?"
"He can force it, but if he presses it, Haizhu can still find a suicide, then isn't he a bamboo basket to draw water?" Bai Yang replied, and couldn't help but smile softly, "Okay, this is all my guess, I really don't know! So let's not think about this, let's hurry up and find the psychic orb!"
Tie Niu couldn't help but sigh softly, and said: "Only your crooked mind can think about it so much, if you were me, you wouldn't be able to think of coming here!"
Poplar smiled slightly, no longer talking, but carefully searched every corner of the cabin with his eyes.
In fact, while talking to Iron Bull, his eyes never stopped.
It's a pity that he saw two large boxes stacked together, and the boxes looked quite delicate, but he never found the extremely delicate small box that Haizhu said was locked with a golden lock.
I was about to open these two large boxes to take a look, when suddenly, there was an extremely strange "rustling" sound outside, followed by an even more "tom" sound in my ears, and it felt like a lot of people had jumped on the deck.
"Are those monsters back?" Iron Bull said immediately, naturally keeping the volume to a minimum.
Poplar nodded to indicate that it was very likely, and he heard the sound of footsteps walking down, but he was really unwilling not to open the two boxes to see, so Poplar gave Tie Niu a look and asked him to guard the door, but he himself quickly approached the place where the two boxes were placed.
(See Chapter 370 "Fighting the Sea Ghost Again")