20. Archives of the Japanese Army
Half of the boat was already submerged in the water, and I, the woman, and the nearest door, Koshibin, struggled to grasp the railing of the boat.
But fortunately, this time the capsizing was not as ruthless as before,
After a few seconds, the ship stabilized, and at the same time glanced above the water level, the ship was now in tatters, the bridge and chimney had turned to powder, the first and last towers were gone, and only the tower where the searchlight was located stood tall, because the fish leap just happened to have not hit it.
"It's ichthyosaurus!" The woman shouted, "This is a large marine reptile that resembles a fish." They should have lived in the Mesozoic Era between 250 million and 90 million years ago, why are there still here? β
"! Don't look at what kind of place this is? I wiped a handful of water from my face.
"That's not good!" Men's eyes kept staring ahead.
"What?"
"Didn't you notice that we were dangerous here?" He withdrew his hand and pointed back and forth.
I understand, because of the reason why the Arowana Eye jumped over the Kobe Maru, so now we have a dragon on the left hand side, and a Arowana order on the right hand, of course, they don't care about us ant-like humans in their eyes, but this fairy fights, where will they care about the life or death of your ants? We're just caught in the middle.
The boat finally stabilized after several overturns, and still walked forward slowly, and the surviving water monkeys seemed to feel a great threat and ignored us, jumping into the water and diving into the deep sea.
I wiped the sea water from my face with my hands, the water here has not been exposed to the light all year round, the water temperature is bitterly cold, like applying snow to my body in the middle of winter, and gradually my lips began to turn a little white, and I couldn't bear it.
"Damn, what are you going to do?"
No one answered me, but before I could finish my question, I saw the two ancient creatures suddenly move, and the dragon roared at the scales on his body and suddenly turned scarlet blood as if they were congested.
"Mother, are you going to breathe fire?" I thought to myself.
The Arowana rushed into the sea water and began to swim at high speed, and under the light, the sea water boiled, like a hot pot.
"Idiot, come here!" Rong Jitong has been looking for a place for us to take refuge since he started to be swept away by the water of the waterfall, and I heard his voice, and he seemed to have discovered something.
But at this time, the dragon spit out a dark red cloud from its mouth, drew an arc in the air, soared and dived into the water, I saw that the situation was not right, and the sea was about to make waves again, and the three of us quickly ran towards the place where Rong Jitong was, and at the same time, the corner of his eye only saw that the ichthyosaurus was below the other side, and its back did not know what was cut a long blood line, and the red liquid in the middle of his back, flowing to both sides Suddenly, it was dyed into a bloody fish.
As it stands, this creature is suitable for fast swimming, with a saucer-like body with slightly concave sides, a vertebrae that resemble a string of saucers strung on a rope, and a long and flattened tail vertebrae. And the dragon seemed to know this, and it stood upright in the water not far away, looking down like a king, and blood dripping from the two holes in its mouth.
Soon I saw the dragon dive into the water again, and the scales on his back protruded from the water, and the waterlogged places slowly changed a little, and in some places the scales began to grow wildly and gather on the back to arch into a line, and the dragon's back was like a sharp knife.
The dragon attacked from underwater, but the ichthyosaurus also escaped into the deep sea with its tail wagging, only the blood stains on its back dragged a hideous red line in the water.
At this time, the water became the shape of a whirlpool, and the surface of the water was concave into it little by little, and the dragon I saw was hovering underwater, and constantly spitting out red smoke, and the dragon was wandering in the whirlpool, waiting for the opportunity to move. After a while, as the suction of the whirlpool increased, I saw the ichthyosaurus float up from the swirling water, and the dragon slowly swam up from underneath him, it suddenly shrank the scales on its back and began to whistle and break open the chest of the ichthyosaurus with the scales under his mouth.
It's a grappling between giant creatures, the world is turned upside down, and the water is excited. Huge waves hundreds of meters high are set off because of them, and the waves are bigger than the waves.
The ship is still churning and turning in the dark sea, and I think if it weren't for a huge ship, we would have died in the belly of the fish.
"Let's go!" Rong Jitong shouted, his voice was already a little hoarse: "The upper level is too dangerous. β
"Where to go?" The hull of the ship swayed, and the dragon and ichthyosaurs under the yin sea were inextricably entangled, and the sea began to be dyed red, and everywhere as far as the eye could see, it was red.
"There's a way to the lower levels."
We walked slowly down the stairs from the deck, and Rong Jitong walked at the front.
Sure enough, the door of the lower floor was open, and the sea water of the Yin Sea had just poured in, flooding the place into a flooded country.
"Anyway, we can't stay on deck, at least we won't be swept away by the waves here, all we can do now is pray that the boat doesn't capsize."
The four of us walked in one after another with flashlights, and the one below the deck was a room the size of a basketball court, with a large desk 2 meters wide in the middle, and behind the desk were rows and rows of safes, too many for me to see clearly.
"Take a look!" Rong Jitong instructed: "Brother Men, you go to the door, see where the boat is outside, and call us out at any time if there is no danger." β
"Yes!" Brother Men's nodded, but it was also refreshing, at this time, this guy didn't think about anything, probably just thinking about the gold, silver and jewelry at the bottom of the cabin!
In this way, the woman walked to the place where the filing cabinet was located, while He Rong Jitong waded towards the table, and my intuition told me that there must be something in the table.
The table is made of mahogany inlaid boxwood, the marble legs are well connected to the junction of wood and stone, and the surface of the marble is a brilliant fiery red, which is the traces of fire rendering, I stood in front of the table, and turned over the drawers one by one.
"What did you find?"
"It's all brushes and inkstones, and some gadgets."
I thought as I touched it, this place should belong to the archives of the Japanese army, so what are the archives in it? Why would you put a thing that stores archives on a ship and carry it with you? Also, since it is an archive, there should be a roster of the entire archive, which is something similar to a catalog of novels, and if we can find this thing, we can basically find relevant archival materials based on him.
Soon I turned to a drawer in the middle of the table, and I couldn't open it for a while, and I realized that the drawer was locked.
Rong Jitong glanced at me, I stepped out of the way, he reached out to hold the drawer handle, and with a force he ripped the lock open, I flashed over with a flashlight, and saw that it was indeed a relatively well-sealed notepad, with a five-pointed star on the top of the tawny cover, and four big characters written below it "Army Handbook".
I probably flipped through a few pages, and it was full of things written in Japanese characters, not archival catalogs, but like diaries, and I went up and down, relying on the fact that Japanese characters are similar to Chinese characters, and I can read and understand some of the contents of them. I soon found out that there was one thing repeatedly mentioned in this handbook, which was "Dragon Hall".
Sure enough, these Japanese came to the waters of Poyang Lake with a purpose, and Longtang was also one of their targets, but what were they looking for? Soon another recurring word came into view, a word for "tree".
"η©ΊγΈγ¨ηΆγζ¨."
A tree that leads to the sky? My understanding of Japan is only those anime works, because sometimes the waiting process for cooked meat is too long, and I even turn over the raw meat to watch it, so I slowly accumulated a little bit of knowledge. Then what is recorded in this handbook should be that these Japanese are looking for a tree that can lead to the sky in the dragon hall.
"She's coming!" Rong Jitong touched my arm.
I hurriedly closed the ledger, threw it back into the drawer, and when the woman came, I took it out of the drawer.
When the woman saw that I had found a notepad, she immediately grabbed it, she threw off the dust on it and said: "This is a notepad specially prepared for Japanese soldiers, basically at that time, this was a proof of identity, did you see this pentagram?" The pentagram represents the sun, and the five-pointed star on the cap of the Japanese Army can represent that the Japanese Army is as powerful as the sun. β
I nodded and asked her, "Did you find anything?" β
"The archives here are records of mirages in Japan and China, as well as cases of missing people."
I pulled out a copy from the cabinet and looked at her expression as I pretended to flip through it.
She should have understood Japanese writing, and she flipped through a few pages of the Japanese army's handbook, and her face suddenly froze.
"Do you understand? What's in this cupboard? I walked over and asked, "What are you looking at?" β
"It's nothing, it's almost the same as what is recorded in the archives, it's just a generalization."
I sighed and glanced at Rong Jitong, Rong Jitong didn't have such a strong curiosity as me, he didn't care about other things, just occasionally helped me hunt for curiosities with interest, anyway, his purpose was always only one, that is, to find the ancient tomb of the Marquis of Haidu.
"Hey, you're coming out, there's something wrong." After a rare calm ride, the door at the door called out to us.
When I heard this, I thought something was wrong, so I hurriedly threw down the file in my hand and ran out.
"What's wrong?" We asked.
"Damn, there's a big waterfall ahead."
Menkoshi Bin pointed to the end of the water area illuminated by the searchlight, where we saw that it was a circular group of waterfalls, and the water of the eight and nine wildernesses in this huge underground sea, the flow of heaven and Han, finally gathered into this bottomless hole in front of us. And in the middle of this bottomless pit there stood a large area of stone pillars, on which I saw a building sitting, with the water splashing, ethereal, like a fairy palace.
"This is the ancient tomb of the Marquis of Haidu?" I couldn't help but shout.