Chapter 270: Tower in the River
I originally thought that I met Xu Jianguo in the cabin, and there should be a lot of people on the ship, but I was wrong, very wrong, this ship is the same as the Helen, there is not a single living person in sight. [No pop-ups. 】
There were corpses all over the ground, most of them had long since been dried, and some of them were decomposing, and the clothes they were wearing were relatively close to modern times, presumably the crew members who had inadvertently broken in.
However, I searched the whole ship, both the living quarters and the combat quarters, and even the dormitories turned upside down, and I was stunned to find not half a living person, only a mutilated corpse everywhere.
I remember Lei Dong mentioned that there were a total of 276 people on the Huangquan back then, including soldiers and scientific researchers, but as far as I can see so far, there are at most more than 100 corpses, some of which are foreigners who accidentally broke in.
Strangely, everyone else went there.
I walked all the way and all the way, and finally made it to the captain's room, hoping to find some useful clues inside.
Pushing open the rusty iron door, countless dust flew in the sky, this room should have been a long time since anyone came.
The desk in the captain's room was littered with papers and books, and I flipped through a few of them, but I didn't have what I was looking for, so I had to open the middle drawer and check them out.
There were a lot of personal belongings in the drawers, and at the bottom was a black notepad, and my heart was suddenly happy, and I quickly opened the notepad and looked at it.
Sure enough, I guessed it, the notepad is used to keep a diary, and Luo Yonghe's name is written on the cover, which records in detail what happened after the Huangquan entered the black whirlpool on August 1, 1970.
At that time, all the crew members were in a brief coma, and after the hull of the ship stabilized, Luo Yonghe immediately asked the crew to determine their location.
But unfortunately, there is no way to locate and transmit information to the outside world.
Luo Yonghe led the people to the deck and found that the entire sky was dusk, and their position was in a river basin, and they couldn't see the surrounding scenery clearly.
Just when Luo Yonghe asked the scientist what kind of place this was, a strange bird suddenly flew in the sky, with a black body and red eyes, and its feathers were purple-green, and its body was not very large.
This strange bird kept circling in the sky, neither attacking Luo Yong nor them nor flying away, but a strong strange scream.
Luo Yonghe didn't understand what was going on, so he could only put the soldiers on guard, but it didn't take long for the strange bird to rush towards the river, which frightened everyone at that time.
I don't know who fired the first shot first, and in an instant, countless tongues of fire suddenly attacked the strange bird.
The strange bird did not mean to attack the crew, but plunged into the river and caught something, and when it flew into the sky again, it realized that it had caught a strange snake with a pitch-black body from the river.
However, it was too late, and the red-eyed soldier was even more frightened when he saw the strange snake, and the dense bullets flew again towards the strange bird in the sky.
The strange bird screamed twice and landed on the deck, and the strange black snake took the opportunity to kill all sides.
The strange snake had a barb on its tail, and its whole body was covered with scale armor, and it was invulnerable, and the soldiers' bullets could not penetrate it at all, but the strange snake stabbed several soldiers with barbs.
The barbs of the strange snake may be highly venomous, and the skin of the soldier in the hook festers in an instant, as if it has been soaked in concentrated sulfuric acid.
For a while, people were panicked, gunshots rang out, and the strange snake kept sliding on the boat, as if the killing god had descended, and more than a dozen soldiers were killed by it alone.
Later, Dr. Zhu, the chief scientist who accompanied the ship, came over with a flamethrower, which drove the strange snake off the ship, and when it was counted afterwards, it was found that more than 50 soldiers had died.
Several of the fighters jumped into the river when they saw that the situation was not good, but they did not expect that the river water was more corrosive, and the skin and flesh of several soldiers fell off in an instant, turning into a skeleton floating on the surface of the river.
When Luo Yonghe's diary was written here, he wrote the first four words of heartache, which shows that his heart is extremely sad.
I continued to flip back two pages, and the rest of the content was their speculation about the location, but no one could be sure, but Dr. Zhu did have a conclusion about the strange bird that landed on the deck.
Dr. Zhu believes that this strange bird is a strange beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which matches its color, body shape, and habits.
The appearance of strange beasts from ancient times on the mysterious river made Luo Yong and the captain uneasy, and he ordered the Huangquan to move forward at full speed to see if it could find its way to the shore.
The Yellow Springs sailed aimlessly down the river for about three days when it spotted a very small island ahead of it with a tower.
The diary ends here, and there is no follow-up, that is, everything happened after the discovery of the island, so that Luo Yonghe never had a chance to come back and continue writing the diary.
Putting down the journal in my hand, I walked around the cabin again, and found nothing else, not even Moy, who had come in before me.
This dusk river basin, I once saw in Li Guangde's notebook, according to him, should be the Lechuan River of the Nine Springs of the Netherworld, but they met the Netherworld Ferryman at that time, and the Huangquan met a small island.
Walking up the stairs, I finally came to the deck, where the whole sky was dusk, just as my diary had said.
There were still corpses everywhere, but most of the corpses on the deck were burned, and the whole person was charred.
The Yellow Springs leaned against the shore, and not far away stood a small three-story tower, the body of the tower was pale blue, and each floor seemed to be lit with candles, flashing with turquoise candles.
I was still hesitating to go down when I saw a dark shadow appear on the tower, moving along the outer edge towards the third floor, and that black shadow should be Moy.
No matter how many there are, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will come to cover it, I walked down the Yellow Springs along the pedal, and I didn't encounter any strange beasts along the way, and I walked into the tower smoothly.
However, just the first layer already scared me, and the ground was full of corpses, not only the soldiers of the Yellow Springs, but also the corpses of many modern seamen.
The soldiers of the Yellow Springs were riddled with bullet holes, and there were countless empty shells on the ground, so you can imagine how fierce the battle was at that time.
And what shocked me even more was that in addition to the corpses, there was also gold and jade everywhere, and it is no exaggeration to say that if you take out all these treasures, you will become a billionaire in an instant.
I don't know exactly what's going on here, but one thing is for sure, it has something to do with the gold, silver, and jewelry.
It's just the first floor, and the other second floors don't know what you'll see.
I took a deep breath and hurried up to the second floor, ignoring the jewels everywhere.
There are obviously a lot fewer corpses on the second floor, but the deaths are all miserable, all of them are missing arms and legs, and none of the corpses are normal.
Just as I was about to continue climbing to the third floor, the candles on the entire second floor were extinguished, and I was plunged into darkness.
I tried to get out of here as fast as I could, but I found that there seemed to be an invisible wall of air at the entrance to the third floor, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get through.
At this moment, a yin and yang strange voice came: "Why don't you want the gold and silver jewels downstairs, they will bring you endless wealth, leave, leave here with the jewels, continue to go up, only death awaits you." ”
"Who, who is pretending to be a ghost, if you don't come out, I'm not welcome."
"You're welcome, this is my territory, why are you not polite to me, I'm asking you once, why don't you take the gold, silver and jewelry downstairs, if you don't think it's enough, I can give it to you tenfold and hundredfold."
I secretly contemplated my luck, closed my eyes and felt the fluctuations in the aura around me, as soon as there was a stir, I would attack as soon as possible.
I said: "I don't have high requirements for material life, although I can't do it without money, but money is not omnipotent, the dead downstairs is the best example, these gold, silver and jewelry can't be taken away at all, you hurry up and show up, who are you." ”
As soon as I finished speaking, the candles on the entire second floor were lit again, and the wall of air blocking my way disappeared without a trace.
The mysterious man didn't say a word, it seemed that he had gone far, I don't know if I had passed the test, anyway, I could only continue to climb up.
Pushing open the door on the third floor, I saw a man who appeared to be a monk sitting in the middle, and Moy, who had turned into a monster, was lying beside him obediently, like an obedient pet.
Behind the monk there is a tribute platform, and in the middle of the tribute platform is a glass with a colorful luster, but the cup is empty.
And what struck me the most was that there was a locked leather case to the left of the man.