Chapter 37: Humans and Birds
Although the crowd did not have the exquisite carpentry like Lu Ban, after several days of research and experimentation, it was natural to build two small boats.
Well, that's right, two were built.
If only one ship is built and the ship capsizes in the sea, who will save them?
Four people in two boats, and if one boat capsizes, the other boat can help.
At night, the four of them looked at the two small boats floating on the sea, and they were a little apprehensive. When the sun sets and the moon rises, the waves are at their highest, and after this time, the sea will gradually calm down.
Dai Qing asked Ye Mu with some concern: "Are these two ships really okay?"
Ye Mu comforted: "It shouldn't be a big problem, you and I will be with you later, Liu Wen and Qin Aowu together, you two girls hold on to the floating board in your hands, if there is an accident, you will go ashore first, Qin Aowu understands water, I can't drown, I will come back as soon as a few waves hit." ”
"Okay." Dai Qing nodded sensibly.
"Let's go."
The waves became smaller and smaller, and the sea gradually returned to calm, Qin Aowu threw the oars in his hand into the wooden boat, and while pushing the wooden boat into the sea, he urged everyone to move.
"Dai Qing, let's go!" Ye Mu's strength was not as strong as Qin Aowu's, and the two of them could work together to push the wooden boat into the sea.
Two small boats, one behind the other, staggered and floated on the sea.
Liu Wen sat leisurely behind the boat holding the plank, Qin Aowu in front of him, full of physical strength like a steel man, he held the sculls, his movements were smooth, and the boat was moving quickly on the sea, without Liu Wen's help at all.
In comparison, Ye Mu was too weak, even with Dai Qing on the side to help, he was still tired and out of breath, and the two of them used their strength to barely keep up with Qin Aowu in front.
"Ye Mu! Ye Mu! Ye Mu! ”
A long female voice suddenly came from the air, eagerly calling out Ye Mu's name.
"Huh?" Ye Mu replied reflexively, looking up at the location where the voice came from.
Under the blood moon, a strange bird with a human head and a snake body and an elder with green wings behind it hovered in the air, and she showed a strange smile at Ye Mu.
"Poof.. Poof.." Ye Mu's heart suddenly beat violently, as if it would burst out of his chest at any moment.
"What's wrong with you?" Dai Qing noticed Ye Mu's strangeness and nervously grabbed Ye Mu's shoulder.
Qin Aowu in front also noticed the strangeness of the matter, turned the bow of the boat and sailed to Ye Mu's side.
"Dai Qing! Dai Qing! The human-headed strange bird under the moon began to call out Dai Qing's name again.
"Don't answer!" Ye Mu gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and then he rolled his eyes and fainted.
"What's going on?" Qin Aowu jumped onto the boat of Ye Mu and the others, and saw that Ye Mu was suddenly unconscious, and his face was anxious.
"That monster in the sky just called Ye Mu's name, and after Ye Mu answered, he vomited blood and fainted."
Dai Qing looked into the air with a solemn expression, and took out two pistols from behind him.
'Bang! ''Bang! ''Bang! ’
The muzzle of the gun flickered, and several bullets were fired towards the strange bird in the air.
"No, it's too high." Before the bullets hit the strange bird, they began to fall, and they all landed in the distant water.
"Liu Wen! Liu! The strange birds were still hovering in the air, calling out the names of the people in turn.
Dai Qing held Ye Mu in her arms, she glanced at the strange bird in the air, and said softly: "Ignore it, there should be no danger, Ye Mu is fine, we will wait for him to wake up and then move on." ”
Qin Aowu nodded, jumped back onto his wooden boat, and watched the ugly monster hovering in the air with caution.
Ye Mu woke up after half a ring, he took out the animal skin water bag from his bag and rinsed his mouth, then looked up at the monster in mid-air with palpitations and said: "I guess my heart exploded directly just now, this kind of monster is really weird." ”
He visually measured the height of the monster, and shook his head helplessly: "It's too far to fight, let's move on, from now on we will shout our names in reverse, if you can't be sure that it is your teammates who call you, don't agree." ”
"Got it!" The people answered.
No matter how the strange birds in the sky called their names, the people remained silent and paddled the oars in their hands.
In order to prevent another emergency, Qin Aowudi's speed was also slowed down a lot, so that the two small boats could meet each other.
The strange bird in the sky seemed to have no other means of attack than to call people's names, and she circled around the two small boats for a while, and when they saw that the crowd did not pay attention to her, she simply gave up her shouting and flew towards the other side of the coast.
"Fortunately, she was the first to shout me, if I called your name, I am afraid I would die directly." Looking at the figure of the strange bird in the distance, Ye Mu had palpitations.
"Could there be any water ghosts and tree monsters... Suddenly it came out of nowhere and flipped our boat. Qin Aowu guessed seriously.
"Shut up!" Ye Mu shouted at him.
How can anyone say such unlucky things when going to sea, just like a person who goes out to sea to fish, the most taboo thing is to say that when you eat with them, it is quite unlucky to turn over the fish on your plate.
"Murphy's Law" tells us that things tend to go in the wrong direction as you think they are, as long as there is a possibility.
Ye Mu called it the 'law of the crow's beak'.
To put it simply, what are you afraid of?
A sparse strange sound came from the hull, and Ye Mu keenly felt that the hull was trembling.
"What sound?"
Under the illumination of the golden ball of light, everyone saw that around the two small boats, countless dense transparent water droplets were surging along the hull of the boat.
Qin Aowu shouted in disbelief: "Water droplets? Will you move yourself? ”
"It's not a drop of water! It's a bug! Ye Mu's expression was solemn, he always encountered these strange and various insect tides, fortunately he did not have a dense phobia, otherwise he would have been scared to death by these insects.
The fingertips quickly condensed a dark elemental ball, the dark attribute is the power of the withering curse, and it will not have much impact on the dead thing, which is the most applicable in the current situation.
I have to say that Ye Mu's ability is very versatile, although he is not the opponent of Ma Zizhou and Qin Aowu alone, but he can do many things that the two of them can't achieve.
The dark elemental ball came out of his hand and smashed into the hull of the boat in front of him.
The moment the dark elemental ball came into contact with the swarm, it spread like a deadly toxin in the swarm.
Large expanses of transparent bugs were dyed black by the curse, and fell from the hull of a ship into the sea like ripe sesame seeds.
"It worked!" Ye Mu was overjoyed in his heart, and constantly summoned dark elemental bullets to throw at the swarm of insects on the hull.
"No! I'm so busy fighting insects that I can't care about rowing, Qin Qin, you and Wen Liu are both on my boat, you row and I will repel insects! Seeing that there were more and more insects on the ship, Ye Mu had already begun to take care of himself, so he could only call the two people in front of him to come to his own boat.
As for the salutation just shouted... The main thing is to prevent the sneak attack of that strange bird.
Qin Aowu's name was too tongue-twisting, and Ye Mu felt that it was more smooth to call him Qin Qin.
Qin Aowu's movements were extremely fast, he held Liu Wen in his arms, and easily jumped onto Ye Mu's boat, he quickly took the oars in Dai Qing's hand, and began to row forward rapidly.
Ye Mu hurriedly cleaned up the transparent insects that climbed onto the wooden boat, and asked eagerly, "How long is it until it arrives?" ”
Qin Aowu rowed his sculls hard, looked at the city not far in front of him and replied, "It should be soon!" ”
As if something on the ship was attracting them, batch after batch of transparent bugs surfaced and crawled up towards the hull.
If it weren't for Ye Mu's inadvertent dropping the Dark Elemental Ball on the water's surface, no one would have been able to detect these strange insects that were almost integrated with the seawater.
Fortunately, Ye Mu hit the right one, and the ancestral curse effect of the dark element seemed to be the nemesis of these small insects, often hitting a small piece of insects, just like a plague, the infection spread at an extremely fast speed, and a large number of black insect corpses floated on the sea around the boat.