Chapter 582: Immortal Island
When Fang Shi began to deal with the imperial court carefully, in the cave mansion not far from the sect, Wu Mian had already given up his plan to find the reverse scales on the dragon corpse. He searched for a whole day, rummaging through almost every scale on the surface of the white dragon, but he couldn't find what he was looking for. Finally, under the persuasion of no return, the white-haired man finally nodded and agreed to find the location of the next map.
If it weren't for the grievances between Wen Tianlou and Fang Shi, Wu Mian and Gui would have started the plan to go to the next map a long time ago, counting that a few of them would have already set off a few years ago. It's just that their trip this time is a little troublesome, and at this time, Wu Mian said that the address marked on this map is different from the other maps, and it is on an isolated island overseas.
In order to unlock the seal on his body as soon as possible, he didn't know where to get dozens of charts. Let Wu Mian identify the place they were going on it, but what he didn't expect was that after the white-haired man looked at it, he shook his head, indicating that there was no map in his memory on it.
Due to the limited sea charts at hand, fortunately, Wu Mian remembered the place to cross the sea on the map - Langya. At the moment, if he didn't return, he didn't go to prepare any charts, so he directly took Wu Mian, Bai Wuqiu, and Ren San to Langya. still kept the vengeance to guard the cave, but this time when they went out, the black cat rushed out of the cave chamber. Ran into the arms of the second stunned man and refused to come down, since the dragon corpse was placed in the cave, the black cat seemed to be frightened, saying that he would not come out of the cave without asking for anything. Now that it saw that its master was leaving, it went crazy and had to leave with them.
Fortunately, it's just a black cat, so it doesn't take up much space for Bai Wuqiu to hold it. It was only when he left from the cave that he found that tens of thousands of officers and soldiers had guarded the main road to the Fangshi Sect. Fortunately, their cave was not within the scope of the blockade, although these officers and soldiers looked at these four people strangely, and no one came to interrogate them.
Langya was not far from their cave house, and a few people went to the nearby town store to buy a carriage first. Along the way, while heading towards Langya, he also began to buy some items needed to cross the sea. In the early years of returning to the sea, the old guy knew that some things were inconvenient to buy in coastal areas, and it was better to buy them inland.
Three days later, their carriage finally arrived in Langya. After finding an inn to stay in, he began to find nearby fishermen who go to sea all year round to inquire about the overseas island. The name of the isolated island marked on the map is Bait Island, and I thought that there must be fishermen nearby who knew the whereabouts of Bait Island. However, after asking Sanwu about whether it was a fisherman, there was no news about this bait island. In the end, I even asked about Ear Island and Son Island, and no one knew any islands related to bait, ears, children, and er.
Seeing that no one knew the news about the bait island, Wu Mian finally found a silk silk and personally drew a chart on it for the fishermen to identify. I thought that someone should recognize it now, but what I didn't expect was that more than a dozen fishermen who could read the charts still shook their heads vigorously after seeing it.
An old fisherman who had just passed his sixtieth birthday had been a sailor under the hands of King Langya, and even he shook his head when he saw it: "Are you mistaken, the old man I went to sea with my family at the age of nine, joined the navy of Langya at the age of fifteen, and almost became a captain of the navy at the age of thirty." Fifty miles of sea around Langya can drive a boat back and forth with your eyes closed, you are not our Langya's chart. Why don't you try your luck somewhere else? ”
After listening to the old fisherman's words, he peeked at Wu Mian, who was still mean-looking. Seeing that he didn't mean to speak, he smiled and took out a small gold coin from his bosom. Stuffed into the old fisherman's hand and said, "Take a good look, this chart was left over a hundred years ago." It may not be called a bait island anymore, but the charts can't be wrong. ”
For the sake of the gold bills, the old fisherman glanced at the chart again. However, after reading it, he still shook his head and said: "When the old man was still a doll, I heard the old man in the village say that more than a hundred years ago, the Dragon Lord sank several islands in anger. This lord, if you are unlucky, this bait island has sunk to the bottom of the sea at that time. ”
"Sunken Sea...... No, even if all the islands overseas sink into the sea, our Erhai Lake will not sink. With a smile, he put away the charts and prepared to try his luck in a different fishing village.
However, his words made the old fisherman mistaken, thinking that this was a hint that he would return the gold just now. The old fisherman was reluctant to give up this piece of gold, so he slapped his thigh and said to the returnee: "Although I can't tell where the bait island is, I still have a seventy-seven-year-old uncle at home. A radius of 100 miles is his longest lifespan, and when he was young, he went to sea to the sea a hundred miles away. If he can't say it, don't ask within a hundred miles. After a hundred miles, there may still be people who know the whereabouts of this bait island. After finishing speaking, the old fisherman patted the gold coin in his arms, meaning that the old man had done my best, and if I couldn't find out again, the gold would not be returned.
At that moment, Wu Mian and Gui Wu were taken to his home by the old fishermen. His uncle lost his wife in middle age, and although he had three sons, none of them died well. One was captured by the imperial court and died on the battlefield, and the remaining two sons did not even return with a ship because of a storm when they went to sea. Fortunately, the local folk customs are simple, and the old man's brothers have not been separated, and now they are taken care of by nephews and grandnephews in turn. Although he is seventy-seven, his legs and feet are still very strong and his brain is clear.
Hearing his nephew ask him about the whereabouts of the bait island, the old man shook his head vigorously, and counted his nephew in his mouth: "You are in your sixties, don't you know how many islands we have in the sea here?" What kind of bait island is not our island in the sea at all. ”
After hearing his uncle's words, the old fisherman turned around and sighed at Wu Mian and the others, and said, "The old men have heard it too, right?" My uncle said no, then there really isn't. You'd better try your luck a hundred miles away. ”
However, if he doesn't return, he still doesn't give up, and he took out the chart drawn by Wu Mian. put it in front of the old man, and then smiled and said, "Little brother, you can look at this again." Do you recognize this island on the chart? ”
Hearing someone call him little brother, the old man looked at him with some displeasure. After seeing the old guy's appearance clearly, he still didn't recognize this title in his heart: It's polite enough that you don't call it a doll.
When he saw the island on the chart, he was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Isn't this the fairy island?" Why is it called Bait Island again......"
As soon as a word came out, the old fishermen and those who didn't return were relieved. At that moment, the old guy stepped forward and said to the old man: "What kind of island does he belong to, have you been there, little brother?" ”
"Go up? That's where the immortals live, how dare I, a mortal old man, go up? After the old man smiled bitterly, he asked his nephew for a bowl of water to drink, moistened his throat, and continued: "When I was young, I went out to sea with the adults in the family to fish. That year was also an evil sect, and the guys in the village who went to the sea to fish couldn't catch fish. My father took me and some of my uncles out to sea, and at last I sailed nearly a hundred miles before I found a school of fish. You don't see it, those fish are too dense to count. You don't have to go to the net, you just have to go to your pocket. The last fish we caught were all on the boat, and we sailed back.
On the way back, our boat encountered a heavy fog and could not tell the direction at that time. At first, he lowered the anchor and waited for the fog to clear before leaving, and then waited for a day and a night without waiting for the fog to clear. The fresh water was about to run out, so we had to sail in the direction of land, and the boat drifted at sea for a day and a night, and finally floated to an island. At that time, we ran out of fresh water, and my father and I thought about going to the island to find a water source, and we saw the fairy ...... on it."