Chapter 30 (Part I) A Ship Full of Wet Corpses
Gu Huaiyi said that she knew the words in the fireplace, which surprised Ah Yue this time, she turned her head to look at Gu Huaiyi, Gu Huaiyi first looked at the words, then looked at her, and asked, "Is it strange?" Haven't you seen the original Beowulf? ”
Ah Yue shook his head, and Gu Huaiyi said again: "The original "Beowulf" is a very important literary work in Old English. ”
Ah Yue turned his head and looked at Tang Shuxing again, Tang Shuxing hugged his arms and said expressionlessly: "I just found out now that I am completely super illiterate in front of the two of you." Ji Kefeng then slowly raised his hand, indicating that he was too.
Gu Huaiyi's whole body went into the fireplace, muttering something in a low voice.
After a long time, Ah Yue asked, "What is written on it?" ”
"It says, 'Please don't throw clutter into the fireplace.'" Gu Huaiyi turned his head to look at the others, the others were stunned, and Gu Huaiyi smiled again, "Just kidding, don't you think it's funny?" ”
"It's cold." Tang Shuxing looked at him stunned.
Ah Yue frowned: "Don't be kidding, let's talk, what is written?" ”
"It should be a suicide note...... Gu Huaiyi then pointed to the dense words carved out of the dagger on it and explained that this person called himself 'Guda', claiming to be a very old family in England, one of the few remaining aborigines on the entire island of England, with pure blood, and had not had any intermarriage with outsiders. The Guda family had been searching for traces of their ancestors, and in his generation they had finally traced their ancestors' footprints, so they arrived at this place, and he followed a general of the British army to North America to look for them, but he was involved in the war. Because the general discovered his secret, the secret that his body will change, and asked his men to arrest him, but Guda fled and was forced to join the American army.
Gu Huaiyi said: "Later, he participated in a battle here, in which the American army, which outnumbered the British army, was defeated, he was also forced to flee, came to this place, and found this island in the middle of the river with traces of ancestors, and decided to stay and study. But the good times didn't last long. He had only been here for a few days. The victorious British arrived, and the owner of the land was his own, and was eventually killed, and he fought hard. All 51 British soldiers who will come here have been killed...... Wait a minute. The word is gone here. ”
Ah Yue closed his eyes and recalled: "It is possible that he participated in the Battle of Camden, which was a crushing defeat for the United States in the American Revolutionary War. ”
Gu Huaiyi began to dig out the ashes in the fireplace. Then he wiped the fireplace floor with his hand, and the words underneath were exposed again, and it continued to tell the story of the man named Gooda, after he had killed the 51 British soldiers. The British arrived late in the build-up to attack the house with artillery, but the first round of shelling hit the ground around the house, causing it to collapse completely, and he went underground with the entire house, where he found that the building he was in had fallen on a ship.
The appearance of this ship surprised and delighted Guda, but in addition to his surprise and joy, many more fires appeared from the ground, burning most of the British troops who arrived at him, but he did not have any accidents, and then he witnessed the cracked ground merge again on the ship.
"According to the man's own account, after the house collapsed, it fell directly on the boat directly above the ground, and the foundation of the house crushed a man and a woman on board to serious injuries." Speaking of this, Gu Huaiyi turned his head to look at the others, "It should be said that the two dried corpses we saw under the boat earlier, right?" ”
Ah Yue nodded: "Go on, what else is behind?" ”
After discovering the two men who were seriously injured, Guda rescued them, but he could only partially understand their words. The two men told Guda that there was something important on the ship, and that they had come thousands of miles to take that dangerous thing with them, but just as they were about to leave in the boat, a house fell from it, smashing them to serious injuries.
Guda vaguely judged that these two people might be the ancestors he was looking for, but the two didn't say much to him, just told him to control the things in the ship, and not let the things leave the hull, otherwise it would cause a huge disaster.
After saying this, the two men died.
The death of the two was very disappointed, and he decided to leave first, and then return to investigate in detail after making sure that the surrounding environment was safe, so he used some of the objects in the house and the well drilled by the previous construction of the house, that is, the garbage passage that Tang Shuxing and the others came down to return to the surface.
"Oh, those daggers were the ones Guda stuck into the wall trying to crawl out?" Tang Shuxing nodded when he heard this, "This guy doesn't seem to have left, right?" ”
"Yes, because the wellhead is sealed, he can't get out." Gu Huaiyi explained, "In the end, he could only wait for death in this room, without eating or drinking, but he found the thing in the hull that was considered terrible by his ancestors, he wrote it like this, and he didn't write it here." ”
"This descendant named Guda was starved to death?" Ah Yue turned his head to look at the dried corpse, "In this way, Shangdu's rumors are true, there really are ancient humans, and their descendants are still alive somewhere on earth." ”
Tang Shuxing nodded: "We confirmed this when we were in Astaya, and now the ship we see and the words left by Guda also confirm this, now, we need to go to the bottom of the cabin to see what terrible things are inside." ”
Ah Yue wanted to say something at this time, but he didn't say it, he just turned around and followed Tang Shuxing and the others from the hatch on the deck and climbed down the stairs.
Before climbing down the stairs, they threw down all the burning sticks in their hands, and then lit new ones, and found that there was no such thing as a cabin below, but a huge cargo hold like a freighter, and in it there were countless plants that had dried up but had a strange flower.
The plants are dry, but the flowers are still blooming, and the form of the plants is like countless pythons intertwined, just looking at it makes people's scalp tingle, and several layers of goosebumps can emerge all over the body.
Below the deck, there were no extra compartments at all, just an empty warehouse-like place, but there was no sign of any creatures moving here, the ground was very flat, and the plants were all left untouched, and if you reached out and touched them, they would immediately crumble into powder.
After going down the stairs to the bottom floor, Ah Ling, who was beside Ah Yue, looked very uneasy, clinging to her sister and began to walk upright, not touching the ground with her limbs in an animal posture like before.
Except for the plants and the flowers that were still blooming on the plants, they didn't find much in the dark, and it wasn't until later that Ji Kefeng accidentally removed the plants that were clinging to the hull of the ship, and found the neatly arranged rows of corpses hanging there.
"Wow-" Tang Shuxing looked at the naked corpse after the plant stalks were peeled open, and together with Gu Huaiyi, he used the weapon in his hand to peel off all the surrounding plants, and found that all the plants covering the surface of the cabin hull should be a corpse that was about the same as tall, short, fat and thin, and it was well preserved, it was not a dry corpse, the skin still had a certain elasticity to the touch, and the most important thing was that many corpses had water droplets oozing from the surface.
"In this dry environment, can you retain moisture for hundreds of years?" Ji Kefeng stepped forward and was about to touch it with his hand, but Gu Huaiyi grabbed his wrist and signaled him not to touch it, in case these water droplets hurt them.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Huaiyi touched the corpse with the back of the Yin Bee's knife, and when he pressed it gently, countless droplets of water seeped out of the skin and dripped onto the floor of the cabin.
"You look at the facial expressions of these corpses, and you can tell that they seem to be laughing?" Ah Yue pointed to the face of the wet corpse closest to him, and everyone looked closer, and the expression was really smiling, and he was smiling happily, but with the face full of water droplets, it looked very terrifying.
"In the Guda text, it is said that the two ancient humans who came to drive the boat claim that there are monsters underneath, but what about monsters? Is that what it refers to? Ji Kefeng didn't understand, so he had to leave and go to the stern of the boat to see if there was anything else to discover, but this time he walked over, and what he found was a large cloud of strange things, like metal, and there seemed to be other substances mixed in it.
"Hey, come and see this!" Ji Kefeng shouted, and the others immediately rushed over, standing with Ji Kefeng, looking at the strange thing.
"What is this?" Gu Huaiyi stepped forward to look closer, and touched it with the Yin Bee, the mass was quite huge, directly occupying the entire stern cabin.
Ah Yue approached the metal, looked around again, and soon found that there was a flattened arm in the metal mass, the arm was dried up due to the evaporation of water, but the armband on the sleeve of the arm could still be seen.
"It's the logo of the U.S. Navy!" Ah Yue pointed to the arm and said, "This mass of metal is the half of the warship in the military port that entered the magnetic field space, but it was compressed into this shape, and all the people inside died, and none of them were spared." ”
The others came over and looked at the arm, Tang Shuxing looked at it for a while and said, "It turns out that the so-called magnetic field space refers to the location of this ship, why would it be compressed into this shape?" And it's a warship, and it's not much smaller than the sailboat we're on, right? Half of the warship was compressed into a metal ball. ”
At this time, Ah Yue smiled, took out a camera from his waist pocket, and began to take the details of the metal ball: "As long as these photos are on the market, they can be sold for a very good price!" ”
Ah Yue just took a few photos, Tang Shuxing stepped forward and held down the camera and said: "I advise you not to do this, the two bracelets you took before have already made your trip worthwhile, if you spread these photos out of the road, do you know what the results of the road will be?" It can make things uncontrollable after that. ”
Ah Yue took Tang Shuxing's hand away and sneered: "Listen to the meaning of your words, can these things still be controlled now?" ”
Tang Shuxing stretched out his hand and held it down again: "Ah Yue, it's enough, don't be afraid that the world will not be chaotic, if this world really faces collapse, no matter how much money you make, it's useless." ”
When Ah Yue took Tang Shu's torturer away again, the muzzle of the submachine gun in Ji Kefeng's hand was already aimed at Ah Yue's head. (To be continued......)