Then I raised my flashlight and shone it deeper into the corridor on the right. It was a long hallway.

From where I am, I guess the whole corridor is about 20 meters long. At first, before my eyes could get used to it, I saw a wall at the end of the hallway. After slowly looking through the gray air for a while, I realized that the corridor had just suddenly turned a corner.

After looking at each other for a while, I decided to look in the direction where the sound of obvious footsteps was coming from. Before setting off again, I still looked back at the corridor behind me.

The corridor behind him has always led to the bow of the ship, and the distance is very long, but because the corridor is a little foggy, there is no way to estimate how far it is.

It didn't take me long to reach the bend in the corridor on the right, and the corner was facing the outside of the boat. This corner is not a raised right angle, but a smooth arc.

There are many wooden doors on both sides of the corridor, but when you reach the bend of the arc, there is no door to the curved wall.

When I was on deck, I could already feel the enormity of this ship, and now when I went down into the cabin, it was definitely even greater, and just by looking at the wooden doors that appeared every seven or eight meters, I could tell that there were at least fifty rooms on this level.

I leaned against the wall of the hallway and walked slowly and leisurely. The boat was wobbly, and I was almost circling left and right to move forward.

It's normal that there aren't many decorations in the cabin, but I think the structure in the cabin is a little different from what I imagined.

There are too many compartments in the cabin, but they are only for the purpose of putting goods, which is very unreasonable.

It is understood that the shipbuilding industry in the Ming Dynasty was very developed, and there was already a keel splicing technology at that time. In fact, normally speaking, how long the wood is determines how big the ship can be, but there are skilled craftsmen who can perfectly assemble the keel girder of more than seventy or eighty meters, but I don't know why it was lost soon after.

At that time, although the treasure ships were magnificent on the outside, the interior was made for practicality. Excluding the watertight compartment near the bottom of the ship, the upper compartment should be very large.

Sailors and shipwrights were not treated as human beings in those days, so there were no more separate cabins for them, and they all slept in bunks. And the upper floors are even less likely to live in the lower warehouse, and the dry ship building on the deck is their residence.

It is even more unlikely that the goods will be placed in a small compartment, which is a complete waste of space. Now if there is a similar structure in the cabin, it is. Nowadays, sightseeing cruise ships are subcontracted rooms, but I don't think anyone had such a good time at that time.

Thinking that I had already walked more than ten meters out, there was no separate hatch on the corridor walls on my left and right sides, and according to the distance, the right side of my body might be the outermost plank.

As I got closer, I noticed that the sound of hurried footsteps was getting clearer and clearer. It was like it was around me, but I didn't actually see the source of the sound.

"What about people, anyone? Fatso? I screamed a few times, but no one answered, but it was only a moment before several voices suddenly came from around where I was standing.

"Help." The loudest was the scream, and its direction was clear, deep in the corridor in front of me.

The sound from other directions is really unclear, and it is impossible to distinguish the direction and whose voice it is. The miserable cry for help in the corridor in front of him was still screaming, and the sound was getting closer.

The voice wasn't fat or old, I just remembered the other unidentified people on the ship just thinking about it.

I searched for the sound and walked a few dozen steps further, until the end of the light shone around a corner. I secretly guessed the structure of the cabin, and I knew that this was a corridor in the shape of a "hui", and the circular barn wall might be a circular room in the central cabin of the "hui".

Before he could think about it for long, suddenly something almost blood-red and rather vague in shape popped up from the corner at the end of the light. In less than a second, the thing was coming at me.

I was startled, and for the first time I felt the powerlessness of running away. His legs had lost his strength, and he wanted to turn around and run, but he didn't have the strength to make that move.

The thing was extremely fast, and with a high-pitched scream, it ran straight at me. I thought I would stay on the boat, but I immediately saw that behind the blood-red thing, a thing with stubby limbs and scales also appeared in the corner.

It looked like a big, fat bug, but now it had scales and limbs. I immediately thought of the mythical story told by the White Vests, which was a Yaksha.

A few seconds later, I slammed into the blood-colored thing. I couldn't keep myself calm, and the moment I was hit, I didn't know if it was saliva or blood in my mouth.

When we both fell to the ground together, we immediately understood what it was. Damn, this is a man covered in blood.

I felt the hot breath coming out of his nose and I calmed down. But this man was so heavy that he was so heavy that his ribs almost broke on my body.

This guy was still struggling when he hit me. The blood stains on his body smeared my body, and now I can confirm that this person is definitely not a fat man or an old generation.

I struggled hard to push this man away, but immediately the big worm pounced on me, scolding in my heart, why should the hell I push this person away.

The big bugs pounced and came towards my front door. At this moment, the light source was next to my head, illuminating the entire outline of the thing, and I immediately thought of something similar.

This creature is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, among which the "Classic of Mountains and Seas and the South of the Sea" is the first to mention the country of Bo and the country of Li'er in the south of Yushui, and the mermaid with the body of a mermaid covered with scales in the sea market. The Hainai Nanjing more specifically describes these mermaids with faces and bodies as "four-legged and with a voice like that of a baby." And "The Great Wilderness South Classic" also mentions a kind of "fish woman" who can be resurrected after death.

Whatever the name, they are described as having four legs, the first two legs resembling human arms, and the back two limbs resembling the fins of a fish. The upper half of their bodies are human beings and the lower half of their lives are fish, which is called mermaids in the East, and mermaids in Western legends.

But for the characteristics of these things, they are consistent in the East and the West. But mermaids in the West have been depicted as using their beauty and singing to confuse passing boats, and then take the opportunity to drag the people on board into the water and drown them for their consumption.

The Chinese mermaids are very kind and docile, and it is written in the "Taiping Yulan": "The mermaids come out of the water, live in other people's houses, and sell silk every day." Will go, ask for a vessel from the master, weep into a full plate of beads, to be with the master. ”

It probably means that the merman came out of the sea, borrowed and lived in people's homes, and lived by weaving every day, and when he left, he couldn't bear it, and he would turn his tears into pearls and give them to his master.

Let's not talk about whether these are real or not, let's just say that the big insect that is coming towards me at this time is indeed similar to the merman in the record. As for why its upper body is not human, it may be just passed down orally by the ancients, and at the same time, it is also for beautification and other things, so it is recorded like that.

But the cannibalism in Western legends must be true, and now a bloody mouth is coming at me. I didn't even have time to twist around, but with the fishing knife in my hand, I instantly stood up. It was just a matter of an instant, and the merman had already pounced on me.

The fishing knife is sharp, but at the same time under its own weight. The knife I was holding vertically was inserted into the merman's jaw in an instant, and I couldn't tell which part it was, because the merman's big mouth was still the same as when it was in the form of an insect, but I still haven't seen where its eyes are.

The sharp knife pierced the entire merman's head, if that was the head.

After a very terrible scream, the merman began to writhe its body wildly. I stabbed it with a knife out of instinct, and I didn't think of killing it, so I let go and let it break free.

It took a few struggles to get up, and the merman had already dodged to the side. I already had my hands and arms covered in black blood, and it was so thick that it was almost like asphalt.

The merman suffered a loss from me, although it also found it by itself, but just looking at its movements, it must not want to walk away.

The shark with black blood dripping from his jaw was at first aimed at me, and I couldn't see where his eyes were, but I could feel that this thing was a little jealous of me.

Of course, I won't take the initiative to attack it, thinking that the fat man will definitely kill this monster here. The merman's wound hurt, and he twisted his head at the front end, and rushed forward.

My defensive action was useless after a few seconds, because the merman was trying to attack wasn't me at all. Immediately, the bloody man who was still squatting on the side screamed again, this guy was also a coward, almost a meter away from him from the merman, he directly tilted his head and fainted.

When it comes to the matter, of course I can't see death without help, the sharkman's mouth is aimed at the bloody man's neck. I just stabbed the shark in the air with a fishing knife.

What I didn't expect was that when the tip of the knife touched the merman's body, it was like rubbing against a piece of iron, and sparks instantly erupted. Although the knife did not pierce the merman's body, the merman also lost his head, dodged and pounced in the direction I came.

I was worried that the thing would come back again, so I took a few steps after it. But the merman seemed to be really cowardly, and fled all the way, and I didn't even chase a few steps, the only thing left was a black blood on the ground.

The bloody man's eyes rolled white, and his tongue spit out. I was afraid that this man would bite his tongue, so I endured the nausea and stuffed it back for him. I naturally couldn't put him here, and I was afraid that there would be that kind of monster in the direction he came from, so I dragged the bloody man's collar in the direction I came. But just as I accidentally pulled his collar open, I saw something different under his collarbone.