Chapter 12: The Catastrophe of Destruction
I speculated wildly, and my men were not idle, and cut off half of the fishing net with a few knives, and the three-masted boat was originally wrapped around the sea willow boat with the fishing net, but before I could cut off the other half of the fishing net with Shirley Yang, under the undulating sea, the parallel angles of the two boats suddenly separated, and the fishing net was pulled tightly between the two boats, and if the force of the hull tilt was slightly greater, one of the lifeboat and the fishing net would be forcibly broken.
In a great shake of the hull, I leaned back and slammed my body into the cabin, but the ship was so sturdy that it was so weak that my body sank into the white plank of the cabin, and knocked out a big hole.
I felt strange, I glanced at the hollow of the hull that I had broken, and streams of dirty blood were flowing out, and the cabin was not wooden, but simply pasted with white cardboard, and Shirley Yang saw the muddy and bloody blood, and her face changed color, she reached out and pulled me up from the ground, and I had already noticed something wrong with the cabin, and hurriedly said to her: "Quickly withdraw, quickly scatter, this ship is white paper, it is a ghost ship burned to the souls of the dead at sea." β
The calm water suddenly stirred, and the hull shook so violently that I staggered and fell backwards without roots, and my back was hitting the cabin, and I heard a "click" sound, and I actually slammed the plank into it, and although the blow was not light, I did not feel any pain, it felt as if it were mounted on an empty paper shell.
I looked back suspiciously, the white three-masted ship, about the position close to the door, was knocked into a large area by me, it was not that the board was rotten and not strong enough, the door was simply pasted with cardboard, if it wasn't for Shirley Yang reaching out and pulling me, it was probably impossible to stop the momentum through the cardboard and fell into the cabin, the crack in the hatch was pitch black, I couldn't see the situation inside the ship, only the heavy smell of blood inside made people want to vomit. As soon as the hull of the ship shook, blood flowed out along the crack in the door.
How can there be a paper boat on the vast sea? I remember that there was a custom in China's coastal areas to send the five saints back to the sea on a "great heat boat", and to send the boat out to sea on a hot day and let them drift on their own: there was also a peculiar custom similar to chasing the epidemic, every time there was an outbreak of a contagious plague such as a boil, a similar activity would be held, using abandoned old boats, and chasing the plague had the meaning of sending the plague god out to sea. In addition, such as knives, spears, guns, various fishing boats, merchant ship utensils, and masts and rudders, all kinds of white rice can only be placed in one liter at most, all of which are donated by coastal fishermen, and the more things donated on the ship, the farther the plague god will be sent. It was towed by boat to the open sea and then set on fire.
There was an incident before liberation. There is a rice shop in the town near the sea, and late one night, a guest suddenly came to ask for rice. Because it was dark, the rice shop refused to see the guest's appearance clearly, as if he was wearing a robe, this dress was very strange, a bit like a murderous suit worn by a dead man, and the visitor had a salty smell of rotting corpses, and asked him why, the guest said that the boat was carrying pork, and Lu Yuan was afraid of it, so he took the fresh meat with salt and fish. But I didn't expect that although the pork was marinated, but because the weather was too hot, it was still rotten and smelly, and tomorrow at dawn it would be found to find a place to dispose of it, the rice shop shopkeeper was a greedy and cheap person, and the price of these rice was very cheap, the only drawback was that the bag containing the rice was a little stinky, but the rice shop shopkeeper thought that it didn't matter if the rice had the smell of stinky meat. You can participate in the takeaway, no one can find out, so I didn't ask anything else, lit the lantern and weighed the rice, and then ordered the guy to temporarily put the rice in the courtyard first, the wind at night, and then enter the rice warehouse at dawn tomorrow, otherwise it is too smelly, who knows that the next morning to see, open and pour dozens of bags of rice in the courtyard, all gone, only a grain of rice remains, put away about a liter, then I know, last night may have hit the ghost, bought is the dead man's rice on the plague ship, at that time did not dare to make a noise, within three days, The town cried out with a plague, and nearly half of the people died.
I have heard this legend more than once when I was in Fujian, all the narrators said that this thing is true, but it did not happen in Fujian, the specific place of the incident is somewhere along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is an old thing during the Republic of China, at that time, the world view is immature, I like to listen to this strange power and chaos, so that I still remember it vividly, sometimes I accidentally think of the zombies on the ship at night to the rice shop to sell rice to send the plague, and I really feel that the back of the neck is a little cold, so I saw that the door of the ship was blocked with white cardboard, and the first thing I thought of was the ship of chasing the epidemicI wonder if the ship and the boat towing it were separated before drifting here with the current?
My mind immediately remembered this, but wasn't the custom of chasing the epidemic long ago? I didn't understand it for a while, but the idea of chasing the plague ship was preconceived, thinking that this ship was by no means a good place, and if I stayed for a long time, I might infect the corpses on the ship, and I didn't bother to look at it carefully, so I hurriedly beckoned from Shirley Yang to quickly withdraw the "Trident".
From Shirley Jan poked the deck under his feet with a fishing knife, making a tom-tom sound of wood, and said to me, "How can there be a papier-mΓ’chΓ© ship on the sea?" The whole ship had the front and rear hatches covered with paper armor, and if the whole ship was paper-paste, it would have been swallowed up by the sea long ago.
I thought to myself, although Shirley Young has a wide range of knowledge, after all, she received an American-style education, how many years of history does the United States have? Of course, I don't know that I have a lot of things in China, and there are many strange customs and customs among the people since ancient times, and the current situation is urgent, so how can I take care of it and explain it in detail, and at this time it is the sea fog and the demonic atmosphere is thick, I am afraid that there will be a rice seller in the cabin of the boat that oozes blood, so I don't say more, and immediately take her hand and run to the string of the boat.
In order to prevent accidents, Shirley Yang still waved a knife to completely cut the fishing nets, the two boats lost connection, the hull shook farther and farther away, the gangplank fell into the sea, the boat boss Ruan Hei controlled the trident to respond with all his might, so that it could stick to the three-masted boat as much as possible, several people on the opposite boat shouted at us, and threw the two cables tied to the lifebuoy to us, and threw them over to us, I threw the fish chopping knife casually, Holding the lifebuoy tightly with his arms, it seems that if he wants to return to the "Trident", he can only swing across the sea from mid-air like an ape.
The deck is low from the water's height, but Tasuzu and Guchai are very experienced. They had already wound the rope around the top of the boat in advance, and they were about to make a move to hold on to the rope so that they would not fall overboard, but the fat man shouted loudly and pressed the beam of the searchlight to the surface of the sea, as if there was something in the water, and I looked down at the surface of the boat below, and I could not help but gasp, the surface of the water was full of shark wings. Attracted by blood, they were coming from all directions, and there were many of them, and they were all circling around the boat, because they were so excited, they swam so fast that they were dazzling to see, and if they fell into the water, they would be torn apart in a moment.
No matter how brave the person is, he will feel frightened when he sees these sharks, with their speed and the sharp teeth in their mouths that are better than knives and saws, preying on people who have fallen into the water is tantamount to a tiger pounceing on a sheep, Shirley Yang even knew the power of the bloody sharks, and was shocked: "My God." Lao Hu, be careful, don't fall down. β
I didn't need her to remind me that I knew it was powerful, and I had to remind her: "Don't hesitate, don't look into the sea when you pass......" At this time, the three-masted ship rose and fell even more violently, and the distance between the two ships expanded again, due to the inflow of seawater, the hull on this side was already tilted, and the farther the distance, the more likely it was to fall into the water when swinging past, and there was no time for me to fully prepare psychologically. It is impossible to walk together, one must drag the other, increase the height above the ground, and minimize the possibility of touching the water, I dragged Shirley Yang and said: "You go first, I will help you......"
Shirley Yang hurriedly said: "No, you have to be reckless, how can you go by yourself?" "With every second at stake, I don't want to wait for her to say more. Holding up her feet and pushing hard, Shirley Yang was light, pulling the lifebuoy under the rope, sliding across the water, as soon as she touched the lifeboat hanging on the side of the boat, she immediately climbed the string of the boat with her hands and feet, turned to me and shouted, "Come here, the boat is sinking." β
But at this time, the two boats with the ups and downs of the waves, the distance has been opened, just now I in order to help Shirley Yang swing across the sea, I put my own lifebuoy beside me, did not have time to find a place to fix, the two boats were divided, the lifebuoy was dragged into the water by the cable, the fat man and Gu Chai and others were so anxious to jump on the deck when they saw this, they quickly pulled the cable, to drag the lifebuoy that fell into the water back to the boat, wanted to throw it over again to save people, but it was a little far away, and it fell into the sea again.
There was a big crack in the bottom of the three-masted ship, and the sea water kept pouring in, and although the hull of the ship had tilted, for some reason not only did it not sink, but began to shake, as if something huge on the bottom of the ship had grabbed the bottom of the ship, and if it shook a few more times, the hull of the ship, which was not very strong in itself, was about to fall apart.
I saw that I was getting farther and farther away from the "Trident", and I could no longer see the faces of my companions in the sea fog, and gradually disappeared into the thick fog, only to hear them shouting desperately, my brain was swollen, and I couldn't hear what they were shouting, but when I heard those voices, my heart was a little sour, and a feeling of loneliness arose, did I really want to die at the bottom of the sea with this ghost ship? As the hull of the ship tossed, the blood in the three-masted cabin also continued to gush out, flowing down the deck of the ship into the sea, although there was no light in the night fog, it was difficult to distinguish the situation at sea, but listening to the chaotic sound in the water, it was like getting off the dumplings and boiling the pot, and you knew that the number of sharks gathered around was incalculable.
The ship was blind with black lights, only the lone lamp on the mast was on, I looked around, almost nothing could be seen, so I had to hold the mainmast to stabilize the center of gravity, and turned on the small spotlight flashlight that I carried, and finally there was a little light, I shone on the paper door that I hung up, the white cabin was stained with blood and water flowing from it, and I couldn't see the original appearance, I thought to myself that it would be better to see what was in the cabin before I died, so much blood, and when I saw the old horse and them below, I also reported truthfully, so as not to be asked three questions, I'm still a fool until I die, this ghostly white blood ship, as if it has life, it will bleed wherever it is broken, if it is a ship to chase the plague, it is not like it, I really want to see what is famous in this ghost ship?
I don't know why, at the last moment, my curiosity always overcomes my fear, and I was about to rush into the boat to see what was going on, but before I could lift my legs, the hull of the boat sank suddenly, and I scolded his second uncle, why did it suddenly sink so fast?
After so many years of training in the melting pot of the army, and doing many times to touch the life of Captain Jin, in this case, after all, I can't wait for death, so I bit the miniature condenser with my teeth, and climbed the mast with my hands and feet, the ship sank fast, I climbed faster, and climbed to the top of the mast in a few strokes, only to see that there was sea fog up and down, and below was the chaotic sound of the sea water surging sharks swimming, and I heard the hair in my heart.
The three-masted ship sank faster and faster, and the "Trident" could no longer be seen in the thick sea fog, and I thought to myself that the only thing I could do now was to try to buy time and wait for them to sail back to the rescue, and now I can only hope that the ship will sink more slowly, and at first I can still hear their shouts, but now there is no sound, and the hope has become much slimmer, and it is estimated that I will never see the day of victory again, and when I was waiting for reinforcements to arrive, there was a sudden huge fluctuation in the sea, and the leaky three-masted ship suddenly came out of the water againLike a leaf fluttering in the wind, it was thrown up and down by the waves, and under the violent shaking of the whirlwind of the sky, the mast I was holding trembled and tilted to break, and it could fall into the water at any time.
The three-masted ship finally began to sink into the sea because of the leakage, the sharks circled in the sea, and the spirit was stimulated by the smell of blood, and the wooden boat was hit by sharks and rattled, I quickly climbed to the top of the mast, but I did not expect that at this time the hull of the ship shook and the part that had sunk into the sea suddenly surfaced, and in the fog I could only hear a loud noise from the cabin, like a dragon chanting a tsunami.
My whole body clothes were splashed wet by the sea water stirred up by the three-masted ship, the wind was blowing in my ears, as the hull of the ship rose and fell violently, I hugged the mast tightly and did not dare to let go, I heard the movement under the ship, and my heart said badly, no wonder the ship leaked and still did not sink, it turned out that there was something in the sea to support it, how big must this thing be? It's hard to get all the blood in the cabin from that guy?
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