In exchange for the village chief Wang Shou giving me ten acres of fertile land, I went to sea with him. However, Wang Shou's fishing boat was very strange, not only ingeniously equipped with goggles, fishing nets, harpoons and other tools at the bottom of the cabin, but also possessed by a ghost sailor to enter the hull and operate directly, making the whole boat seem to have wisdom. Wang Shou called this kind of ship a "ghost ship"!

"Actually, the secret of this ship is that it was built out of soul-perching wood." Wang Shou explained to me, "The soul wood itself is a natural yin wood material, and many wild ghosts in the yang world who can't find the tomb like to inhabit this kind of tree. There happens to be a large soul forest in the Ghost Eating Forest, which is just used to build ghost ships. Once built, the demon possesses it and can be operated directly, making it easier to control than a normal ship. ”

"You can move the goggles, fishing nets, harpoons, and so on to the bottom of the boat, it should be your invention, right?" I think Wang Shou is too modest.

"Well, these are indeed things that I tossed out after researching, and they're quite practical." Wang Shou smiled and nodded in acknowledgement.

I couldn't help but exclaim, "Your ship is amazing! With such a boat, are you afraid that you won't be able to catch fish? ”

"But we're afraid of something else!" Wang Shou said.

"Afraid of what?"

"This brings us to the real reason why I specially invited you to go to sea with our ship today!"

Wang Shou walked around for a long time, and finally mentioned to me the real purpose of inviting me to sea. He smiled and said, "Xue Da told me that your knife is very powerful, and you can also hack and kill the rotten wood crocodile in the air, so I specially invited you to deal with a difficult guy." ”

"What guy?"

"An octopus!"

"Octopus monsters?"

I suddenly felt a little bad, just listening to the name, I felt that this "octopus monster" was definitely a monster in the sea that was not easy to mess with, and this time I was afraid that it was going to be Wang Shou's fool.

"This guy is a bully entrenched in the nearby seas, and he is a big threat to us fishermen!" Wang Shou ignored my suspicious expression, and continued to describe: "It likes to use eight long and powerful tentacles to destroy our boats, the big ships are often overturned by it, and the small boats are dragged directly to the bottom of the sea, and then it catches the fishermen who have fallen into the water and eats them, and people and ghosts are not spared!" ”

"It is precisely because of the existence of this octopus monster that it is a small boat like us, and even the big ships in Hekou Town dare not go out to the far sea, so they can only operate in the near sea. But it's so huge, thick-skinned, and so intelligent that we don't have anything to do with it. Can you help us get rid of it? If it doesn't work, cut off one or two of its tentacles to scare it away! ”

I frowned and asked, "You haven't been able to handle it for so long, how can you be sure I can handle it?" ”

Wang Shou seemed to be very confident in this, and said, "We have been suffering from not being able to break the enemy's sharp weapons before, and neither swords, harpoons, or spears can pierce the tough skin of the octopus monster. But your knife can even break through the scale armor of the rotten wood crocodile, and it shouldn't be a problem to cut through the tentacles of the octopus! ”

That being said, I really didn't know how to fight such a big monster in a rough sea, an environment that I was completely unfamiliar with.

So, I said to Wang Shou: "Since the village chief has high hopes for me, I might as well give it a try." But in the future, I have to see the opponent's situation with my own eyes before I can decide whether to take this big risk, and I won't rush to fight to the death! ”

"I naturally understand this truth!" Wang Shou agreed very straightforwardly, "Let's invite Boss Feng to come, that is, to borrow your sword skills." If we can't do anything, we will definitely give priority to getting out of trouble, and we will not take a risk to the death! ”

Now that everyone has said what needs to be said on the table, there is no need to be suspicious of each other anymore. Actually, I was also vaguely curious and excited in my heart: I don't know what kind of water monster that octopus monster is? I've killed no less than a thousand of terrestrial monsters, and I really haven't seen this monster in the Stygian Sea!

After that, Wang Shou once again ordered the sails to be hoisted and sailed at full speed to the depths of the Stygian Sea. After walking for another half a day, the position of the fishing boat had left the coastline for at least more than 100 miles, and according to Wang Shou, this place had already entered the sphere of influence of the octopus monster.

In order to lure the enemy, Wang Shou deliberately asked the sailors to kill a few large live fish that had just been caught, and then threw them into the water. A large amount of blood contaminated the entire sea area and dragged a long wake trail in the stern of the ship.

Sure enough, the strong smell of blood attracted many seabed predators who rose to the surface to grab the bait we threw into the water. The bait was quickly snatched up, but the ferocious fish were already hungry and aroused to greed and ruthlessness, and the monks had more porridge and less porridge because of the fight in the process of grabbing food, and then they began to kill each other. The fight between predators and predators continued to produce more victims, and the smell of blood on the surface of the sea became stronger and stronger.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind. Finally, an hour later, the long-awaited big boss appeared!

Without warning, several long black shadows suddenly appeared in the blood-water melee at the stern of the boat, and they accurately caught a big fish that was still biting from life and death, and then dragged it to the bottom of the water and disappeared. These black shadows are like snakes but not like snakes, thick at the bottom and thin at the top, and only half of their bodies are exposed. And they were moving so fast that I couldn't even see what they were.

But the remaining big fish were frightened by this sudden sneak attack, or sensed great danger, and gave up the loot that had already reached their mouths, and fled in all directions.

All the big fish swam away, and the sea gradually returned to calm, and the blood-red water began to slowly dilute and spread around. But Wang Shou saw the danger in this temporary calm, and hurriedly ordered: "Put away the sails!" Left full rudder! Turn! ”

"Collect the sails!"

"Left full rudder!"

The sailors repeated the captain's orders loudly, also looking nervous. The ghost ship drew a large semicircular track on the sea, and the bow turned in the direction it had come.

"Cast the oars!" Wang Shou gave the next order in time.

A dozen ghost sailors immediately attached themselves to the wooden oars on both sides of the ship and paddled back with all their might. As they rowed, they shouted loudly:

"Hey! Hey! Hey! ”

"Everybody's paddling hard!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

The ghost ship went against the wind and struggled to get off on the sea. At this time, I couldn't help if I wanted to, and I was standing on the deck at a loss. Seeing this, Wang Shou shouted at me: "Boss Feng! You go to the stern of the boat first, be careful not to fall into the water! ”

"Good!" I said yes, and hurried to the stern of the boat to grab the rigging that tied the sails, while looking closely at the sea behind the stern.

Behind the stern hung an open flame windproof lamp, and a ghost fire lamp was lit up on the bottom plate below the waterline. The ghost fire is not afraid of water, and it will not be extinguished at the bottom of the water, and it can be seen that it is usually used to attract underwater fish, but at this time, the effect is obviously to lure the enemy, and if you don't do it, you are dying!

After the initial difficulty, the ghost boat gradually became faster, and the speed of the oars was no less than the speed of the wind when the sails were full just now. Because of the speed of the ship, the terrible "danger" was forced to speed up the pursuit. I could clearly see a huge black shadow floating out of the deep water, getting closer and closer to the surface of the water, and getting closer and closer to the stern of the ghost ship.

This dark shadow is so huge that I can't help but be amazed by the well-informed. Due to the buoyancy in the water, animals living in the sea are always larger than those living on land. For example, whales and elephants in the sun are not in the same weight class at all. This Stygian Sea monster that is still in the water and has not yet appeared is even bigger than the largest terrestrial monster in the underworld I have ever seen, the three-headed Jiao!

"The city lord of Zuoqiu can handle the three-headed Jiao, but I can't handle it, not to mention that this guy is even bigger than the three-headed Jiao! Now I'm really on a thief ship! "I couldn't help but feel very upset. Regardless of whether this monster in the water is the octopus monster that Wang Shou mentioned before, it is obvious that with its size, I can't deal with it.

But at this time, no matter how much I regret it, no matter how much I beat my chest, it will not help, I can only bite the bullet!

I subconsciously reached out my right hand to my waist and touched the usual knife in the scabbard, and my heart finally calmed down. It's all I have to hope for survival now, and it's up to me to make it through it. But I don't want to be too anxious to draw the knife, after all, this is on the ship, it is at sea, and I can't stand on my feet with ups and downs, and if I lose the knife in a panic, it will be the most fatal mistake.

So, I continued to grip the rigging tightly with both hands, my eyes more focused on the situation behind the stern. The dark shadow under the water was so close to the surface that its physical form was completely revealed. It was a large-headed water monster, with a head much larger than its body, but its body was very long, dragging behind it and bobbing rapidly from side to side, acting like a fish's tail, and making it barely able to keep up with the speed of the ship.

A ghost ship and a water monster that has not shown their true faces for a long time, you chase me in the Stygian Sea like this, and the speed is comparable. Wang Shou also saw the "chasing soldiers" at the stern of the boat, so he asked me: "Boss Feng, are you ready to make a move?" We're starting to slow down! ”

I gritted my teeth and didn't speak, just nodded violently.

Wang Shou immediately gave the order, causing his men to slow down the speed of the oars slightly. In this way, the water monster at the stern of the ship was finally able to get closer to the ghost ship. But it turned around very strangely underwater, with its big head behind and its long body turning forward.

Is it going to attack?