Chapter Seventy-Six: Claw Marks
We all pulled ourselves together and looked around.
It is said that a river like Yinyugou originates in the deep mountains, and there are few reefs in the river, but there are, and the ship that sank on the reef has a few holes at the bottom, and the damage to the hull will not be too serious. And because it is a board boat, it is very lightweight, and when it leaks to a certain extent, it will float on the surface of the water like a wooden plank.
However, the shipwreck we see at this moment is very badly damaged, almost all of them have been broken into slag, not like they were damaged by a rock, but some of them seem to have been hit by something huge, and then they broke into such a shape.
Xiu Ling controlled the boat and slowly approached the place where the wreckage was accumulated, the shore near here was very open, there were not many trees and they were very sparsely distributed, and the most important thing was that there were no high thorns and reeds blocking the road next to the river, so we could directly moor the boat on the shore and then go ashore to check the wreckage.
Unlike the section of the river near the water huwa, there are no fissures in the veins on the banks around the pond that are covered with dry moss, which may be due to the fact that the river is often washed by the rising river during the rainy season, and the ground around it has few dead leaves, which seems to be clear at a glance, and naturally there is no danger.
Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, and for the sake of safety, I still consulted Xiuling before going ashore.
Xiu Ling's knowledge of this land far exceeds ours, she just glanced at it and told us that this area must be flooded by the river during the rainy season, which is why it is so clean.
Such a beach is theoretically not dangerous, but she has never been to this area, and I don't know if there will be any other dangers. But there is no way now, it will be dark in another hour or two, it is absolutely impossible to sail at night, we don't have much gasoline, we must find a relatively safe place to dock, this tidal flat in front of us is a good place.
Xiu Ling said so, we naturally had no objection, so the third child went ashore first, and after it turned around, it did not find danger, so it shouted at us a few times.
After going ashore, we first tied the boat to a big tree on the shore, and Xiu Ling put out the fire and jumped off the boat.
When we stopped the ship, the Taoist priest had already come to the wreckage of the ship and was playing around, and when I saw this, I also walked over and asked him what he had found.
The Taoist priest shook his head, pointed to a board that he had turned over, and sighed: "Their boats are all about the same length, and now they are broken like this, it is even more difficult to identify, and this place may not be the first place of incident, these wrecks may have been washed down by the river from the upstream, otherwise it would not be so clean." ”
Most of the wreckage on the shore was covered on the tidal flats with the bottom side up, and at this time it had been turned over a lot by the Taoist priest, and indeed as he said, there was nothing but the wreckage of the ship's hull.
We rummaged for a while, but still couldn't find anything, and we couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and at this moment, the doctor suddenly beckoned to me and the Taoist priest and asked us to pass.
At this time, the doctor was squatting in front of a relatively large wreckage, groping the hull with his hands, and his expression was a little solemn. As soon as I saw his appearance, I knew that he might have noticed something, so I hurriedly walked over with the Taoist priest.
When I got closer, I realized that the wreckage that the doctor had been looking at intently was actually half a whole bow.
The doctor's expression was a little solemn, and when he saw us coming, he pointed to the mottled scratches on the hull of the ship for us to see, and at first I was a little puzzled, but after carefully identifying the marks, my back immediately began to feel cold.
Damn, these scratches, why are they so like claw marks from claws?
There are so many claw marks that almost all the paint layers on the hull have been scraped off, and it is precisely because there are so many traces that we did not find out that these are actually paw prints in the first place.
The doctor took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "I've roughly measured the width of these paw prints, which don't look like they're left by ordinary beasts, but... Instead, it's a little human! ”
As he spoke, the doctor stretched out his hands, parted his five fingers and made a claw gesture, and then pasted it on a relatively intact claw mark on the hull of the ship.
A surprising scene appeared, only to see that his five fingers were tightly matched with the spacing of the paw print, and even the unevenness of the top of the paw print was very consistent.
Seeing this situation, we looked at each other, and I subconsciously thought of the walking corpses in the burial corpse forest in Ah Ji Village, and a terrifying thought suddenly rose in my heart: "Could it be that there are also such walking corpses near this body of water?" The reason why these ships capsized was the work of the walking corpse? My dear, so many claw marks, if it's a walking corpse, how many corpses do you have to scratch the ship like this? ”
I told them what I thought, and the Taoist priest immediately shook his head and denied my idea: "Impossible, there are many types of walking corpses, but no matter what kind of walking corpses they are, they all have one characteristic, that is, they are afraid of water!" These boats are all sailing on the water, and it is absolutely impossible for the walking corpses to rush into the river to attack the boats, besides, those people in your third uncle's team are all masters of this way, just walking corpses, let alone overturning the boat, I am afraid that before they get closer, they have already turned into flying ashes. ”
I thought about it, thinking that the number of walking corpses that I met with the Taoist priest in the hanging corpse forest was definitely not less than a thousand, but it still failed to do anything to me and the Taoist priest, and the ones summoned by the third uncle were definitely first-class masters in the country, and it was impossible not to deal with them.
But if it's not a walking corpse, then what would be left by these marks that are extremely similar to human claw marks?
Thinking about it, the faces of the three people changed at the same time, and they said two words in unison: "Shark!" ”
Although the doctor and I were almost killed by the merman in the legend of Toasttai, due to the special situation at that time, we did not see what the merman looked like, but we have the description of the first eyewitness, the Taoist priest, and we can still imagine the appearance of the merman.
The shape of this thing is indeed similar to that of a human, and if these paw prints are left by the merman, it is not unusual, but what worries us the most is the number of mermen, judging from the dense traces of the hull, the number of mermaids will definitely not be less than twenty.
Twenty, what kind of concept is this, we only met two on the night we almost died, two mermaids, and the water around the water gourd was covered with tentacles, of course, now we know that it is not tentacles, but hair.
But no matter what it is, the horror of this thing is obvious, maybe these broken boats were destroyed because of the attack of a large number of sharks, and people don't know whether they are alive or dead. Twenty, that's just the bow of a ship, and if you count the other wrecked ships, I really can't imagine it.