Chapter 11: Fish Scales
The hull of the ship suddenly paused heavily, it seemed to be moored and docked, Luan Jingjing looked at Nie Fengshui with some surprise, his own psychological quality was extremely strong at this moment, at least much stronger than ordinary men.
It turned out that Luan Jingjing found that it was not seaweed that entwined the propeller, but the bones of countless fish, and it took a lot of effort to remove the fish bones, and the boat suddenly drove out, but she herself fell into a kind of labyrinth, like a ghost hitting a wall, knowing that someone would come to find her in the future, but she couldn't meet Li Green Ant anyway, and the arrival of the wooden boat seemed to break this delicate balance, so that she suddenly came out of the water.
It seems to be a huge hollow cave here, and there are drips of water falling, making a "da-da" sound, Li Luant and Luan Jingjing don't know about the Yin soldiers' borrowing at all, so they thought it was on the sea, but Nie Fengshui's penny was fiercely propped up, bent into a full moon, and the wooden boat swayed and stopped.
"You go down here."
Nie Fengshui looked at the two of them expressionlessly, because along the way, Nie Fengshui did not embarrass the two of them, but propped up the boat, and at this moment, he suddenly stopped in this inexplicable place, and Li Luant asked, "What did you bring us to this place for?" β
"You go down here."
Nie Fengshui's dark eyes were expressionless, and he still spat out these words.
Luan Jingjing and Li Luant exchanged glances, and they both understood, and suddenly each took out a gun from their backpacks, exchanged directions on both sides, and shot at Nie Fengshui at 45 degrees on the side, but Nie Fengshui seemed to have expected it, and at the moment when the bullet fell on his body, he suddenly took a sharp leap and "plopped" into the water, like a cunning carp, and quickly disappeared.
Well?
Luan Jingjing glanced at Li Luant strangely, Li Luant pondered for a while and put away his gun, and poked into the board of the boat where Nie Fengshui fell into the water, but saw that there were several pale black fish scales falling on the board, each of which was about the size of a baby's fingernail, in a regular fan-shape, and black mucus was attached to the tip.
Li Luant shook his hand, "If you guess like this, this fish scale should be the fish scale on the abdomen." β
"How do you know?"
"The ventral scales are located on the ventral side of the ribs and are made up of hyaline cartilage, the ventral scales of the first few pairs of ribs. Directly connected to the sternum, it is called the true rib or sternal rib; The ventral scales of the remaining ribs are sequentially connected by connective tissue to form costal arches, which are called pseudoribs or arched ribs. Some ribs have free ventral scales at the end, which is called floating ribs. The first striking feature is the softest scale armor of the body, which is flexible and almost transparent, close to the color of water, which is the most direct connection between fish living on the bottom of the water. β
Luan Jingjing smiled slightly, "You know a lot, but even if you know that this is the fish scales on the stomach of that thing, it's useless, this place is strange-" Looking around, I saw that this hollow cave seemed to be very far away, and I don't know how long a few people had walked, why there was still such a existence on the sea, could it be that they had already left Crescent Bay?
Li Luant shook his head, "The abdomen is the most vulnerable place for all living things, and the same is true for fish, if you scrape the fish scales when you are ready to cook and scrape the abdomen, what does this mean?" β
Luan Jingjing pursed her mouth: she had never been in the kitchen in her life, she really didn't know what to explain, but she still guessed a "means it's going to be cooked soon?" β
"That's right, it means that it is about to be disemboweled, and the scales on its belly are the last line of defense." Thinking that when he was on the fishing boat, Su Jiu shot Nie Fengshui many times, and he didn't seem to be doing much at the time, but Su Jiu was thrown far away, and at that time he thought that Nie Fengshui was invincible, but it turned out -
Li Luant picked up a piece of fish scale with his thumb and forefinger and bent it in pair, "No wonder when we shot it, he didn't fight back like before, it turned out that he was seriously injured." "Throw the scales away" In this case, if we really took the time to find him, we might be able to find it, but now that you are the team leader, you should take it. Li Luant bent down and stretched out his hand, and made a "please" gesture to Luan Jingjing, showing the demeanor of a British gentleman, Luan Jingjing saw this and "coughed" slightly, a little uncomfortable, "Since the members of Li Luant's team have said so, then the team leader focuses on the overall situation, and the poor Kou Mo chases, let's go and meet our other team members first." β
"The team leader is wise." Li Luant smiled and expressed his approval.
Luan Jingjing, who saved a little face, seemed to be in a good mood, and the two of them always felt bad when they stayed on the boat, so Nie Fengshui just said that the two of them would get off the boat here, indicating that it was definitely not a good place to go forward, and it was better to retreat quickly, no matter how bad the boat was, there was only one person with a penny, and one person watched and rowed back, and this drudgery naturally fell on Li Luant's head.
Sooner or later, you will have to pay it back.
Li Luant held the penny and asked Luan Jingjing, who was letting off steam, "Before, you said that the propeller was stuck in a fishbone?" β
Luan Jingjing looked at him, "I know what you want to ask, you also think it's incredible, isn't it, but I can still distinguish between fish bones and human bones, and the size of the fish bones is not the size we usually see, one of the backbones is almost two meters long, I really didn't lie to you." β
It's not that Li Luant doesn't believe what Luan Jingjing said, but is there really a fish whose backbone can reach two meters? ? If that's the case, then this fish was at least 2.5 meters old when it was alive, could it be a large fish like a shark? No, the shark is alive and well, what is it doing with the propellers of its own kind of backbone stuck fishing boats? Is it trying to get away with it? And according to Luan Jingjing's description, there seems to be more than one backbone of such a size.
Thinking of such a tricky matter, Luan Jingjing must have made a lot of effort to clear it, but she didn't complain at all afterwards, which shows that she has a lot of potential to be a leader.
"What are you staring at me for?"
Li Luant smiled, "I think the black glasses are still very discerning." β
Luan Jingjing raised her eyebrows, "It's useless for you to praise me, you have to do the hard work." β
This hollow cave is very long and narrow, and I don't know what trick Nie Fengshui used, but he just had a meal and sent people away thousands of miles away.
After a long timeβ
The boat traveled for a long distance, but still didn't go out, Luan Jingjing pointed to the shore, "Look, is this the place we left before?" β
Well?
Li Luant looked at the bare stone wall, "Why do you say that?" β
"At that time, we each fired a bullet from 45 degrees, but when my bullet didn't hit Nie Fengshui, Nie Fengshui had already left, so I missed, and the bullet marks at that time broke a stone pillar and collapsed, I remember it very clearly."
Saying this, Li Luant had to be cautious, got off the boat and looked at it, took Luan Jingjing's pistol, compared the ballistic traces, and shot the same shot from the angle just now, and deliberately missed, and sure enough, it landed on the same point, and suddenly looked back at the wooden boat with a numb scalp: How is it possible? The wooden boat has been moving forward just now, but it has never retreated, why did the ship that has been moving forward actually go around to the place where it just left? This is a straight waterway without any forks in the road, and this scene is very similar to what happened to the foggy fishing boats on the sea during the Obon Festival.
They, again, encountered a ghost hitting the wall.
Luan Jingjing saw that Li Luant's face was not good, and the conjecture she came up with came true, and couldn't help asking, "I've always wanted to ask you, how did Nie Fengshui come back to life?" β
Li Luant slowly stood up and returned the gun to Luan Jingjing, "That thing is no longer Nie Fengshui, the most obvious thing is that a person is still alive after dozens of bullets from the shooting rifle, the fish scales on his body have replaced his skin, and there is no life of a living person, as if it is a marionette manipulated by something, just a puppet of the walking dead." β
Luan Jingjing sighed, "No wonder Pianpin said something like that to me at that time, and it is estimated that it is also a little related." β
Qin Pianpian? Li Luant hurriedly said, "What did she say to you?" β
"Didn't you hear? Yes, you were in the wheelhouse at that time, I'm afraid you didn't hear it, at that time, Qin Pianpian was tied by Song Zhao and Shen Yunyun and waited for death on the boat, I am very strange why a person like Song Zhao would spare Qin Pianpian's life, and after listening to Qin Pianpian's words, this doubt also increased. β
"At that time, Shen Yunyun insisted on killing Qin Pianpian, but Song Yu stopped her, and said, 'You forgot what the master said, don't kill people easily before the matter is successful, because above this sea, you can't make the corpse disappear, otherwise you will become a puppet of those things, you have already killed one by mistake, if you kill another one, those things will be difficult to deal with at that time, and it will be troublesome'." looked at Li Luant who was deep in thought, "That Song Xuan said, I guess it could be this Nie Fengshui we met?" β
Li Luant touched his chin, "There is a great probability, but Song Zhao doesn't even know that the water tomb is in Penglai, Shandong, how does he know these things, and can he still be unpredictable?" β
If you don't kill Qin Pianpian because you are afraid that the second Nie Fengshui will appear and cause trouble to them, then how did this model of turning dead people into puppets come about?
Li Luant looked around: Could it be that in the depths of this sea, there is a soul rejuvenation technique that can bring people back from the dead?
It's useless to think about it, even if you encounter a ghost hitting the wall, you still have to have a way to get out, Li Luant said to Luan Jingjing, "Since the way out will encounter a ghost hitting the wall, let's go inside." β
"But didn't you just say that if you went inside, it was in Nie Fengshui's arms?"
"Now there are no clues, I can't get out, I might as well see what tricks he is going to play, that Nie Fengshui has been seriously injured, which means that the physical attack is still effective against him."
The pistol was pinned to his waist, but the two did not change into their diving suits, for fear that they would encounter an accident, but when they were about to get on the boat, the tattered boat, the white sails on it, suddenly "poof", suddenly fell, so that the footsteps of the two stopped instantly, this strange change occurred, it must indicate something, the original wooden boat was strange, and now there is this change.
Li Green Ant put his hand in front of Luan Jingjing, the two looked around cautiously, but after a long time, there was no change, and the heart guard was not removed, but at this time, an extremely harsh frequency came, as if someone blew a conch with the highest decibel in the range of human hearing, Luan Jingjing bled on the spot and collapsed to the ground, Li Green Ant wanted to help her, but a sound of a head like an explosion came from all directions, and it was blasted into hundreds of copies in an instant.
"As long as there is an underclass, I am the same; As long as there is a criminal element, I will go with it; As long as there are geists in prison, I will not be free. β
"Give your heart and your flesh and blood to hand over the murderer who killed my pawn, and I will avenge him and not let any greedy person escape."
The horn of the conch was obviously just a sound wave of one frequency, but in this sound wave, Li Luant heard these whispers that seemed to come from hell, echoing in his ears. He blocked his ears, but sound waves entered from his eyes, from his nose, from his mouth, and burned his every sense, and this kind of torment beyond common sense was simply the most torturous torture in the world!
Luan Jingjing had already passed out, Li Luant took a breath and dragged her body to leave this terrifying place, but at this moment, the white sail that had already sunk "poof", rose again, and suddenly jumped out of the water A wet creature, take a closer look, it turned out that the creature was Nie Fengshui, who had disappeared before!
At this time, Nie Fengshui seemed to be refreshed, and his face was radiant, I don't know what kind of elixir he drank in just a few hours after disappearing, his spirit was uplifted, and he returned to his cruelty again, he glanced indifferently at Li Luant and Luan Jingjing, who were still struggling, picked up the penny, and disappeared in front of him with the white sail.
But this time, it was very strange that when Nie Fengshui held up the penny, the wooden boat that had been ghosting the wall in place disappeared like a mirage with just a few rippled ripples.
"Keep going, keep going, my pawn, my groom, bring me more fresh meat for me to play with, and make my paradise rich."
Looking at Nie Fengshui's disappearing figure, Li Luant's heart suddenly suddenly: it turned out that it was not a ghost hitting the wall, in this cave, there was such a creature that could control the flow of water and the direction of everything, and with its will, it could make anything under its control.
After Li Green Ant figured this out, the sound of the conch's horn suddenly became more harsh, Li Green Ant only felt that his nose was warm, and he reached out to touch it, but found that his nosebleeds and the corners of his eyes, ears, and mouth couldn't help bleeding, and an extremely uncomfortable feeling of dizziness came all over the world, and then he didn't know anything.
Quietly in the water cave, Li Luant and Luan Jingjing breathed steadily, and when the conch horn stopped suddenly after the two fainted, it seemed to be a lullaby like a heart, but it was a magic sound.
"Giggles, clucksβ"
It was a fairy-like laughter, and a girl-like silver bell, slowly rising from the bottom of the water, slowly floating to the shore, a group of black figures, looking at the two people who fell to the ground, their hideous faces showing murderous intentions.
"Eat them, eat them!"
"Eat them!"
β¦β¦
The sound of chattering discussions, but it was all about how to eat the two of them, and suddenly a shadow stronger than any living creature floated from the middle of the water, stopping "More than 20 years ago, we suffered a huge loss, have you forgotten?" That person made us move freely at the bottom of the sea, but turned into the wreckage of being trapped in this small mausoleum all day long, this person has the same blood as him, such a simple job tearing him apart, can not vent the hatred in our hearts for more than 20 years! β
"How?"
"We must control his life for us, let his dreams be shattered like those two flying heads, become our carefully controlled playthings, and fall into the boundless trap we have set, so as to repay us for these countless days and nights!"
God gave Noah a rainbow, not to say that there would be no more floods, but that he would attack with fire next time.
There is only sin and suffering in the world, and even cherries are bitter and sour.
"There is also a human outside, and the human next to that person back then also has the same blood on his body, and I smell it, it is the breath of the enemy! It is the breath of aiding and abusiveness and collusion! β
"Don't worry, my dear companions, Charon is already on his way, he will bring back the bodies of his enemies for us, today's Obon is their death, this fairy water Penglai, is the place where their bones are buried, endure, patience, my dear companions, in vain I run to the top of the mountain of Zion, and the sins of greed follow after me...... Like the dusty nostrils of a hungry lion, inserted into quicksand, tracing the scented footsteps of a wild deer. β
"The breath of food, the flesh of the enemy, will become a pinch of loess that captured us thousands of years ago and guarded the cemetery for him, and the feast of Obon will become an opportunity for us to break through the shackles of this thousand years!!"
Qin Pianpian, Su Jiu, Wang Blind, and Jin Yuanbao each wore diving suits and came to the moat that Wogua had said they would not go to before. After a dense coral jungle, the cliffs on both sides began to stand thousands of walls, wandering between the mountain walls, and found that the mountain walls were covered with all kinds of seaweeds, some of which were like giant anemones in the world, some of which were like stick insects, and some of which were like orchestral instruments, and there were more shells attached to the mountain walls, but they would also move their bodies, which were barnacles that could be parasitized by everything in the world.
Wo Gua is full of flowers, the more he looks at the flowers, just wanted to tinker with something, and a little depressed: If only the shell Lang was here, he would definitely know what these things were.
A dazzling light came from the front, and through the long underwater stone wall, you can see countless underwater whirlpools, like countless spinning tops, and on the opposite side, it seems to be a huge cave.
Wogua is not easy to talk in the water, with teeth and claws, which probably means: That is where the entrance Li Luant said before, but there is an underwater tornado here, once it is involved, it is not a joke, Li Luant was captured by the ghost soldiers, are you sure that the place where he captured Li Luant is through it?
The blind man made a gesture of "rest assured", and suddenly groped for something on his waist, but saw that it was actually a conch!