Chapter 37: The Submerged Land

"What the hell?"

"Demons. ”

“... No, I mean, what kind of creature it is. ”

"Haven't you heard of it?" Yuan Shanghan asked Gui Qingchen rhetorically, but he didn't blame him if he didn't know, after all, the evil ghost shark was a rumor in the Yuan Kingdom a long time ago, and Gui Qingchen, as an ordinary person who was born and raised in the Yuan Kingdom for more than ten years, naturally would not know about the things in the distant Beihai.

"It is rumored that the evil ghost shark has the upper body of the evil ghost and the lower body of the shark man, and can stand up dozens of meters high, with a very large mouth, long and thin fangs, and can swallow the entire medium-sized ship in one bite. Scarlet explained.

"Since it's a rumor......"

"I think that rumors are such things, one person describes one kind of appearance, but everyone describes the same kind of appearance, that is, there is a real existence. ”

“......”

Seeing Gui Qingchen, who was a little depressed, Han Jian said: "These monsters are all exaggerated by ordinary people, and they have been reflected in the nightmare of children, and their real bodies are just relatively rare low-level monsters, so don't worry so much." ”

"It's only you who think this steel monster is a low-level monster here. Yuan Shanghan said helplessly, after all, the standard of people's gold medals is very different from ours.

"Hahahahaha," Han Jian laughed, "so you guys are still scared of something." ”

Alas, Gui Qingchen took a long breath and thought, too, it doesn't matter where I go anyway, what are you afraid of now that Brother Han Jian is supporting.

The conversation ended for the time being, and the group gradually narrowed their eyes as they jolted in the carriage.

After a day, a night and a half a day, Yuan Shanghan, who was napping, suddenly sniffed, and the humid air was mixed with a slight salty smell. He poked his head out and looked ahead, startled by what he saw, only a barren clearing and the sea in the distance, and nothing around.

"I remember when I came here as a kid and it wasn't so desolate," Enjohan wondered.

"When you were a child?" Han Blade, who was originally wrapping his arms and closing his eyes to recuperate, opened one eye and looked at Yuan Shanghan at this time, "It's been more than ten years. ”

"Ah, woke you up?" Enjohan turned his head.

Han Jian tilted his hand around his neck a few times, making a clicking sound, "It's okay, I'm not asleep." Saying that, he looked at Scarlet and Gui Qingchen, who were still napping opposite, "Wake them up, they'll be at their destination soon." ”

After a while, the horses pulling the carriage seemed to feel something unpleasant, and after not wanting to go any further, everyone had to get out of the carriage and walk to the water's edge.

It's not that the vast sea is endless with his own eyes, and Gui Qingchen can't believe that this is the seaside. In his imagination, the seashore was a large sandy beach and a reef everywhere, but now he was stepping on the ground under his feet, and even the rooftops emerging from the water could be seen in the distance.

Scarlet stepped forward and stood next to him and said, "Let me guess what you're thinking, 'Where is the sea, it's basically flooded land.'" ”

Gui Qingchen, who was scarped, was silent.

"Actually," Scarlet continued, "this is the land that has been submerged by the sea, and it is even farther away, and it is still farther away. "After all, it's no joke that the submerged border is one-fifth the size of the country.

"Is that still called the sea?"

Scarlet tilted his head and asked suspiciously, "What is it called the sea if it's not called the sea, submerging the ground?"

“......”

"The people of the Yuan Kingdom have become accustomed to it, whether the seaside is no longer sea sand but solid land, or the underwater is no longer a coral reef but a village where people live, for people now, this is the coast. ”

"Hey~"

Not far away, Yuan Shanghan beckoned to this side, ran along the water's edge, and saw Gui Qingchen, whose expression was a little complicated, asked, "Are you talking about something?"

"Nothing, what's going on over there, did you find anything?"

When he first came down to the water's edge, Han Jian suggested that he improve efficiency and divided into two teams to move at two ends, on the one hand, Scarlet and Gui Qingchen went to inspect the area where there were no fishing boats staying, and on the other hand, Yuan Shanghan and Han Jian went to investigate the place where there were many fishing boats. There's nothing abnormal on the Scarlet side.,It seems that Yuanshanghan's side has found something.,Now I'm here to inform them.。

"Alas, if you look at it from a distance, you can see a large number of broken trees and broken masts floating on the water, and in addition, the land away from the coast is also extremely wet, it is estimated that the waves set off by the monster, Brother Blade said that it looks calm now, and it is estimated that the monster only haunts at night. Yuan Shanghan said.

"At night, isn't there no light?" Gui Qingchen remembered the feeling of being surrounded by darkness under the water.

"Who said there is no light," Han Jian also came back at this time, he pointed to the sky, "The bright moon on the sea, the bright white moonlight is bright enough, and it is now a cloudless summer, don't worry about being covered by clouds." ”

"But, after all this time, and there are no more fishing boats and fishermen, do you think the monster will not come? Enjohan asked.

There was a sudden rustle behind everyone, and Gui Qingchen turned his head sharply, and exhaled when he saw that it was Long Yu, who had settled his horses and luggage, coming over.

"It's not easy, we just use it as bait if there is no one. Takashi said.

Listening to Takashi's words, Yuan Shanghan said indifferently: "Of course I know this, I mean I don't know how many nights it will take to get it." ”

"That's just a matter of waiting. Han Jian responded.

"At night. Scarlet looked at the sky and sighed for some reason.

Then, everyone went to the water area to pick up a small boat that was not so badly damaged, and fished some wreckage of the boat floating on the water, looking at these broken logs, Long Naki sighed why there was no wood in our team, otherwise we could cut down wood to make a new small wooden boat. Ah, the wood attribute is not necessarily cut down and shipwed, although Gui Qingchen thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say it in front of him.

Han Jian silently picked up the bits and pieces, repaired the small broken boat in Ping Pong, and installed the sails and rudders, Long Yu and Gui Qingchen stepped forward one after another to sigh at the craftsmanship of Brother Blade, both of them were extremely worshipful. Isn't it normal for metallic people to be able to make up for it, Yuan Shanghan thought to himself, of course, he didn't dare to say it.

Long Yu pushed the repaired small broken boat into the water, raised the sail and said that it was to try to see if it could really come in handy, he waited for the wind to blow, the canvas was spread, the boat shook at first, and then finally stabilized and slowly drifted away, he stood on the boat and gave Han Jian a thumbs up with a bright smile.

After confirming that it worked, he put away the sail and rowed back to the shore, and hurried to the carriage to get a bunch of things.

"Alright!" said Takaku, looking at the package he had just brought to the ship, which contained some dry food and water. After pondering for a while, he said to himself, "Do you want no more blankets?"

"......" Yuan Shanghan looked at the tossing of his own Takashi and asked, "Why are you going to live on the boat and have a crusoe?"

Long Yu looked at him, his eyes widened, and he pretended to be harmless to humans and animals, "Well, I'm floating for you." ”

"Ha ??!!"