Oriental Ghost Sea Chapter 59 On the Boat
The nets used for marine fishing are woven from high-strength nylon rope with a small grid. I could barely reach my fingertips.
The nets were already wet and slippery. I just climbed up and smelled a strong fishy smell, and it took me a long time to get used to the smell.
Although the two ships remained relatively stable, the sea was never always smooth. Just looking at the stable net rope, going up is a different feeling.
One end of the net was fastened to the rope stakes of the ship's hull, and the other end was hung from the deck railing of the ghost ship. The position of the two ships is offset so that the net is stretched at one time and then gathered together to create an arc.
It's better if the nets are just stretched, and as long as the boat doesn't suddenly get farther away, the tenacity of the nets can still withstand the pressure. The most feared thing is that the distance between the boats will be shortened, the center of the fishing net will be concave, and there is no borrowing point on the top of the net that can be stepped on.
If it weren't for the fishing nets, we would have been drowning in the sea. Through the holes in the fishing nets, you can clearly see the sea, and the waves are not big, but they can still be called turbulent.
Even in the midst of the black waters, glowing creatures swim in the water. If the sea were calmer, I would have thought of the sea below me as a starry sky.
After such a toss, because of the sudden convergence between the two boats several times, several of us were submerged in the sea. Luckily, after another distance, we were picked up again.
After many failed slides, the three of us finally climbed onto the railing of the giant ghost ship. The wood used to make this large ship must have been specially treated, and after 600 years of wind and rain, it is still very strong to the touch.
The fat man, who had difficulty moving in the fishnet, was also pulled up after several efforts by me and the old generation. With his size, doing this kind of exercise is still a bit more disadvantageous than us.
The fat man turned his head to the side and spit out the seawater in the air, and scolded: "Damn, I have to eat all the salt I want to eat in this life, and I have eaten it all today." ”
Seeing that he looked embarrassed, I didn't say anything more, and returned the harpoon gun he had handed him in front of me. When I thought of him being soaked all over the place, I didn't know if those detonators would still work.
The fat man sat down on the fence, and I asked him, "I'm afraid your cannonballs are all soaked now, can you still hear the sound?" ”
"Hey, hey." The fat man laughed twice and said, "What are you fat man and I are messing with, and I won't mess with this thing, I've been prepared." ”
As he spoke, the fat man opened his pocket, and the detonator in his pocket was still dry. I touched the material of his clothes and knew that he was wearing a kind of clothes made of waterproof materials, and the zippers were also waterproof.
I snorted and shoved the detonator in his pocket again: "You can pretend, don't blow yourself up, and then you will trouble us again." ”
"You just put your heart in your stomach, this thing doesn't blow up so easily. Besides, even if it is blown up, as long as it is on the ship, no one can avoid it. ”
"Then I'll throw you into the sea first, and if you blow it up, you can be considered a contribution to the sea life."
"Look, what I'm talking about, your fucking eyes aren't ordinarily bad." The fat man said.
After writhing the water off the railing, the three of us climbed over the railing and reached the deck of the ghost ship. There was some water on the deck, and the sound of splashing on the ground and the creaking of the formwork came and went.
More than a dozen huge black shadows stood tall on the deck of the dark big ship, and they were the huge masts I had seen before. These more than a dozen masts must have gone straight to the bottom of the ship to stand so firmly here.
The entire hull is roughly more than 40 meters wide and more than 100 meters long. The two ends are raised separately, and there are steps to go up. The middle section is concave and is a relatively flat deck, and it is from the left side of the middle section that we climbed up.
"Where are we going?" The old man asked.
Fat Shang stood for a while, as if he was sleepy, and said with a sigh: "Let's go straight to the point, enter the cabin, and take a look in the control room." ”
We said yes and walked to the aft cabin. When I passed through the mast in the deck, I saw that it was a whole piece of wood, which I guess was mostly a teak.
Teak, also known as annatto, grows in hilly terrain at high altitudes. It is rarely grown in the country, and the largest production area is Myanmar and Thailand. This timber has a straight trunk when it grows into an adult, can grow to a height of 40 to 50 meters, and has a high wood density, making it the best material for making large ships.
A few dozen steps we were below the aft ship, which could really be called a building. There are three floors, the second and third floors are recessed inward, and there is a clear space flowing in front of it, with stairs on each side.
Walk up the stairs to the top floor. According to the logic of normal thinking, the place with dominant control is generally set at the highest place, and the position of the whole world can be observed.
It seems that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and our thinking are on the same line, and when we reach the third layer, it is obvious that there is a big difference between the faces.
There are still steps up here, but there is already the next flat deck above. The door to the cabin on the third floor is in the middle of the entire platform, and there are two double-open wooden doors, which can be vaguely seen to have been painted with black paint before.
I don't know what kind of paint was used back then, but it is still only colorful today. Outside the platform in front of the gate is a wooden fence on which a carved dragon-shaped relief swells.
When I got closer, I realized that there was not only one dragon carving. Instead, there is one from the center to each of the two directions, and these two wooden carved dragons lie on the railing against the tail, extending to the end of the fence, and the dragon's head is raised high, and the momentum is extraordinary.
"This dragon-shaped object, if it weren't for the Son of Heaven, he wouldn't have used it indiscriminately." I was a little puzzled, but before I got on the boat, I had already seen two dragon head reliefs on the bow of the boat. Now with the addition of this, there are four in total, and this number, even if it is the main ship of the Daming fleet, it is unlikely that it will dare to have this configuration.
The fat man stepped forward to look at it for a while, and then touched the dragon's body with his hand: "What you said is also a reason, I'm afraid this ship is not that simple." ”
We were studying two dragon carvings on the railing when we heard two wooden planks being knocked behind us.
When I turned around, I saw where the old generation, who had not participated in our discussion, knocked on the wooden door with his index finger, knocked and pushed it in, but the door did not move.
Seeing this, the fat man sneered, and said, "What are you doing so politely with those dead ghosts, you can kick him away." ”
"No, I don't think this door is locked from the inside." The old generation immediately responded.
The railing was only three paces away from the wooden door, and the fat man immediately stepped forward and pressed one hand on the carved door of black lacquered teak, which was carved by a very sophisticated craftsman.
On each of the two doors is a relief of an unknown lion or a unicorn, and the form is vivid, as if it is about to jump out of the wooden door. It can also be seen that the craftsman's carving technique is still a bit of a show-off.
The fat man stretched out his hand and pressed it, but the wooden door did not move. He exerted his strength again, and his face could see that he was holding back his strength, but behind the wooden door it was like a boulder, and the fat man's push had no effect.
He immediately clapped his hands and made something that was out of the way. I'm familiar with this, he's going to be a human door breaker.
I can't help but feel some pity for this wooden door, the six-hundred-year-old cultural relics are about to be damaged by him. Those who study the history of the Ming Dynasty, if they know that we are doing this, I am afraid that we will not be able to resolve our hatred with a thousand cuts. This treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty is estimated to be one in the world, and it has been destroyed by us like this, and it is angry to those scholars.
The old generation passed by, and it also flashed to the side. I only heard the fat man yell, and he ran from the railing and hit the wooden door.
After a bang, we didn't see the wooden door shattering or the fat man flying into the cabin. The door still didn't move at all, only some droplets of water that fell on it flew out of the vibrating catapult that the fat man struck.
The fat man groaned and fell to the ground leaning. He exhaled a long breath, lay half on the ground and scolded, "Damn, this door is a stone." ”
When he was like this, he may have been really hit lightly. There may be some special setting behind the wooden door, and the fat man hit it like this, and it didn't work at all.
The old man went to pull the fat man on the ground, and I felt a little strange, so I tried to push the wooden door. As a result, I found that the wooden door was really attached to a whole stone, and there was no indentation in the door at all.
When I realized that the push didn't work, I kicked it a few more times. It still didn't work at all.
The fat man was half-sitting on the ground, and when he saw me doing this, he waved his hand and said, "Don't waste your efforts, there must be a crossbar behind the door, and there must be more than one, otherwise it would not have been strong enough to be so strong." ”
The horizontal wood is often used on the old-fashioned wooden doors and windows, generally one, and the two ends of the wooden door are buckled, as long as the horizontal wood is stuck inside, unless it is directly destroyed from the outside, it is basically impossible to open.
"Looks like we're going to have to go home, this thing can't be opened." I said helplessly.
The fat man sat on the ground and sneered: "Since the text is not good, then let's give it some martial arts." ”
I was still thinking about what the fat man had come up with. As a result, he pulled a detonator out of his pocket, and I instantly felt that this place was not safe.
"Damn, don't blow up the boat, then we'll all have to cheapen the fish in the Pacific."