Chapter 1: Floating Corpses in the Deep
I am the 77th generation disciple of Faqiumen, I remember that when I was only 15 years old, I went to sea with my senior brother with the master, and the ship that went to sea was a salvage ship called "702", but what did the master do not tell us, but I only know that these people who invited the master to come are all old-timers in the same industry, and they are amazing.
Speaking of which, I have to mention the master. The master's real name is: Chen Jiang, is the 76th generation of Faqiumen, the head of the family of the Haozi generation, the people of the rivers and lakes are called "Haojiang Lingguan", although the master has robbed countless tombs in his life, but he has never lost his hand, nor has he broken his buddy, he is very famous in the road, and for us, the master is simply a mythical existence.
I am a disciple of the Jiezi generation, and it can be regarded as a closed disciple of the master, the master has confiscated the apprentice for many years, and all those who are sent to apprentice to the master, the master has asked the senior brother to accept it, and the apprentice of the senior brother is the Anzi generation, and some of his apprentices are much older than me in age.
The master was invited by a man nicknamed "Pastoral Warrior" this time, and I heard that this person had only brought one guy to steal the imperial tomb with a lot of organs, and even the masters who accompanied him were amazed.
Night is approaching, and the 702 salvage ship is sailing in the boundless dark blue sea, like a lonely boat, as if it will be swallowed by the coming night.
"Senior brother, where are we going?" Somehow, a wave of fear came over me, where is our ship going, I asked in a whisper.
The senior brother showed a suspicious look on his face and sighed: "I don't know very well, but I just heard those seniors say that we need to find a place with different sea water." ”
"Is there anything different about the sea? Isn't it all salty, all like this? I asked innocently.
"I don't know about this, I've never heard of different seawater before." The senior brother also replied with a questioning face.
"Senior brother, have you ever been to the sea tomb before?"
"I went to the master once, but I didn't enter the tomb, and the master didn't let me in, saying that the air inside was not enough, so he let me come up again.
I don't know when the 702 salvage ship slowly stopped, and the seniors who traveled with me all leaned on the side of the ship and looked into the sea, and they didn't know what they were watching. The man named "Pastoral Lux" came up and said, "It's still early, the moon isn't bright enough, let's wait." With that, everyone went back to their respective seats.
At this time, the master walked up to me and the senior brother, frowned, and said to the senior brother with a solemn face: "You give me a good look at your junior brother, and when the master and them go down, you take your junior brother on the boat, and you are not allowed to go to the sea!" ”
Senior Brother had long been suspicious, but at this time, the master's expression made him feel even more foggy, and he hesitated for a moment and asked, "Master, don't I go to the sea with you either?" ”
"I don't know what the situation is down there, after all, the sea is not like the inland, anything will happen, you just need to take care of your junior brother in a while." The master said in a deep tone, as if he was afraid that the person next to him would hear it.
Suddenly, someone on the side of the boat shouted, "See, see!" Over there! ......" When everyone heard this, they immediately ran out, and looked in the direction that the man pointed, it turned out that the sea water in the distance was really different, it was a green sea, and the light through the moon refracted the shining green light, as if thousands of devils were showing their teeth and claws, which was extremely eerie and made people shudder.
The owner of the boat quickly started the boat and drove in that direction, expecting it to be close, but he did not expect to drive for nearly an hour, and when the boat arrived here, he could not see the glittering green water.
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to the "Pastoral Lux", only to see that the "Pastoral Lux" had a calm face and said softly: "Yes, this is it, everyone is ready to prepare." After saying a word, everyone changed into diving suits and oxygen cylinders, and prepared to enter the water!
At this time, the master had already finished preparation, and walked over to us and said, "No matter how long the master comes back, you two can't go to the sea, do you know the way?" ”
"I know it." We replied in unison, but our hearts were still full of worries about the master.
I only heard a few "bang bang bang bang...... and everyone jumped into the water in turn, and only me, the elder brother, the owner and a "pastoral wrestler" were left on the boat. After about half an hour, the guy came up to us and asked if we were hungry? He pointed to the location of the cabin and signaled that we could find something to eat there.
But don't say it, my stomach was also rumbling at that time, and when the senior brother saw my embarrassment, he said with concern: "If you are hungry, go and see what is delicious and bring me some too." ”
"Hey! Dude, remember to bring me some more wine, thanks! When the fellow knew that I was going down to get food, he cried out. I answered the word and went straight to the cabin, and quickly came up with some food and drink. The elder brother and the fellow were chatting happily at this time, and when they saw me coming up, they motioned for me to sit down and eat and drink together.
It turns out that the guy next to "Pastoral Lux" is called: He Tianxiang, who has been with Pastoral Lux for 7 years and is his right-hand man. As for why He Tianxiang didn't go into the water with Tian Tian Lux, the senior brother was also very puzzled. Thinking that He Tianxiang was also a smart person, he saw what the senior brother was thinking, so he confessed the reason why he didn't go. It turned out that Tian Tian Lux and the master had the same words before they went into the water, they were all worried about the situation under the sea.
The two of them were chatting just right, I was eating and listening on the side, and a feeling of sleepiness came up, and I listened and fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was already dawn. At a glance, Senior Brother and He Tianxiang were standing by the side of the boat, not knowing what Lu Dao was looking at.
"Senior brother, haven't they come up yet?" I got up and walked over.
"No, it stands to reason that they should have come out a long time ago, they didn't bring enough oxygen for so long, why haven't they come up yet? Could it be that the master has encountered something......" The senior brother tightened his eyebrows, his expression was extremely frightened, and after speaking, he looked at the sea in front of him.
He Tianxiang on the side had a solemn face, and he was stunned and didn't say a word. At this time, why wasn't he worried about his boss "Tianyuan Lux"!
The three of them were silent for a long time, and the senior brother told me, "Wait a minute, Tianxiang and I will go into the water to see the situation, you stay on the boat by yourself, remember not to come down!" ”
"No, the master said he wouldn't let us go down."
"Now the master is in danger, I have to go down."
"Then I'll go down too."
"I said you can't go down! Stop talking nonsense! Stay on board! The senior brother said angrily.
"Before the master left, we told us not to go down, you are worried about the master, and I am also worried! If you want to go down, of course I will go down too. "I don't know where I got the courage to do it, because I have always had a sense of fear of my senior brother.
"Take him down, just don't lose him." He Tianxiang on the side finally spoke, as if this decision had been considered for a long time.
Senior Brother looked at Tianxiang, nodded slightly, and asked, "Do you still have equipment?" ”
"Also, I'll get it." After that, Tianxiang went to the side to get a diving suit and oxygen cylinder.
He Tianxiang brought 3 sets of wetsuits and oxygen tanks, and gave me the smallest wetsuit, but I was still much bigger.
After all, the first time I went to the sea, I was still a little nervous, Tianxiang and the senior brother jumped into the water one after the other, I was hesitating, the senior brother surfaced and waited for me, I dared to jump down.
I followed Tianxiang and the elder brother followed me, and both of them had flashlights and let me follow their flashlights. It's easier to swim in a wetsuit, and I don't know how many meters I have swam down, and the flashlight shines on the green and faint patch in front of me, flashing and flashing, and I still can't see what it is from a distance. After swimming forward for a while, suddenly my leg was grabbed by the senior brother, and he dragged me, which frightened me.
At this time, He Tianxiang also stopped, I looked at the position of the senior brother's flashlight, and almost scared me to death, there was a group of corpses floating in front of me, and the corpses were glowing with green points of light, which were extremely gloomy under the illumination of the flashlight. But the strange thing is that these corpses show no signs of decay, and they are neatly arranged, as if they have just died, floating in one direction.
It was the first time I had seen so many bodies together. I could feel the hairs on my body stand on end, and the elder brother dragged me behind him, and I could already feel the senior brother shivering, but he was still in front of me.
Tianxiang swam forward a few more times, signaling me and the senior brother to continue, the senior brother let go of me, and I swam over, at first far away, looking a little scared, but closer to the point, to the point that it was not so scary.
The corpses were wrapped in cloth, so it was impossible to distinguish the gender of the corpses, but the outside seemed to be coated with a layer of grease, and one of the corpses had hair scattered, and the corpses were arranged in a very regular order, each with its head facing forward, arranged in several rows, fluttering in one direction.
Tianxiang swam towards the last corpse, first shining a flashlight for a while, I was a little far away, and I didn't know what he was looking at. He actually looked at it and touched the floating corpse with a flashlight, but who knew that the corpse suddenly moved, and rolled on its side, and its head immediately pointed to Tianxiang and floated towards Tianxiang. The three of us were stunned, and I froze in place for a moment before I could react.
Tianxiang instinctively swam backwards a few times. The senior brother immediately took out the dagger and swam over, but fortunately, the corpse floated very slowly, and he couldn't catch up with Tianxiang for a while. The senior brother swam towards the oncoming corpse and put on an attack posture, but the corpse ignored the senior brother at all and chased Tianxiang with all his heart.
Tianxiang used sign language to signal the senior brother to take me to continue diving, leave him alone for the time being, he will come back to us later. Then Tianxiang swam away, and the corpse followed him and swam into the distance.
Soon I couldn't see his flashlight, and the body that was floating towards him was gone. I looked at the elder brother, who motioned for me to continue downstream and not touch the corpses. After a little further swimming, we reached the bottom of the sea.
There is not even a coral reef on the bottom of the sea, and the bottom of the sea is bare. The elder brother took me around here a few more times, but I still didn't find anything.
At this time, there was a flashlight behind us swimming towards us, it was Tianxiang! But the corpse that followed him was gone, and the senior brother pointed to Tianxiang and asked where the corpse was, Tianxiang didn't give any answer but motioned for us to follow him, and the senior brother and I followed Tianxiang and swam back to the place where we saw the corpse just now. However, the corpses were gone, and Tianxiang and Senior Brother swam around again, but they still didn't find anything suspicious.
In an instant, a group of green corpses floated in the other direction. None of the three of us moved, observing the corpses. Tianxiang asked us to swim with the corpse.
The corpse in front of me, whose feet didn't seem to be wrapped, swam forward a few times to see what was different, and I saw that the corpse's feet were covered with scales.
I was shocked, this is a scaly corpse, I have heard of scaly corpses before, but that is the legend of the old man, and I have never seen it. When I really encountered it, I was a little scared in my heart, because an old man said: All corpses with scales are spirit corpses, and spirit corpses are formed after thousands of years of purification, and they are also a kind of living corpses.
Could it be that the corpses floating in front of us are really scaly corpses that have lasted for thousands of years?
There is a rule in our Faqiu Gate, that is: when encountering a spirit corpse, there is no corpse, and when encountering a Kun corpse, the coffin is not opened. This is also a kind of respect for the corpse that has been purified for thousands of years, and the corpse must remain undecayed for thousands of years before it can grow scales, so scale corpses can rarely be encountered, and even the master has never encountered a scale corpse.
I beckoned Senior Brother and Tianxiang to come and see, Senior Brother was very nervous, after all, it was the first time he had encountered a scaly corpse, and Tianxiang didn't react, as if he was very used to it.
The elder brother turned and swam past to check the corpse in front of him, and I followed suit. Like the corpse in the back, the corpse in front also shows some scales.
"Where are we going with these corpses?" Senior Brother looked at He Tianxiang and gestured. Tianxiang shook his head and said that he didn't know what to do, and just followed the corpse.
Just when Senior Brother and Tianxiang were still gesturing sign language, I saw Tianxiang behind, followed by a corpse, and I don't know when Lu Dao followed him, as if he was chasing Tianxiang just now, I waved my hand to Senior Brother and Tianxiang fiercely, and asked them to look behind Tianxiang.
Tianxiang hurriedly looked back and almost collided with the corpse, but when Tianxiang instinctively dodged, he happened to bump into the scaly corpse he was looking at just now. This is really a wave of unsettled waves, the scaly corpse before is still chasing, and now there is one more, and it makes people unable to live! Tianxiang made a bitter expression and began to swim in circles in the sea.
And gestured in sign language: "The corpse here is very strange, it will follow the person who touched it, he has to swim a little farther, shake off these two corpses, and come back, let us continue to swim with the corpses." ”
However, the senior brother pointed to Tianxiang, and then pointed to the oxygen cylinder on his back, and then shook his head, signaling to Tianxiang that we can't swim far without much oxygen.
Tianxiang also looked at the oxygen meter, it is true that he can't swim far away, and he can't follow these corpses, if he is following, it is estimated that he has not followed the end, and we have become floating corpses.
The three of us stopped, Tianxiang and Senior Brother were discussing something in sign language, I was already very tired at this time, after all, I was still young and didn't have so much physical strength.
The two corpses immediately followed again, Tianxiang swam in a big circle, my senior brother and I didn't move, the two corpses floated past me at close range, and I could even feel the water carried by the corpse, slowly passing through my face. It's a suffocating feeling.
Before I could react, they began to pull me upstream, but the two corpses did not follow, and after a while, the three of us surfaced, perhaps we had swam too far, and we did not see any trace of the 702 salvage boat.
They all took off their oxygen masks and talked a few words.
"Can you still find the direction of the ship?" The senior brother looked at Tianxiang suspiciously and asked.
"Yes, but it takes some effort." After speaking, Tianxiang looked around, and took me and Senior Brother to swim in one direction. Maybe it was because I was too physically exhausted, so I was quickly carried away by the two of them, or to be exact, I should swim away.
Sadly, the three of us tossed for nearly 2 hours and did not find the 702 salvage boat.
"You can't go in the wrong direction! The ship is obviously in this direction, why can't you find it! He Tianxiang muttered to himself.
"Did the owner of the ship sail away?" Senior Brother also questioned.
"Probably not, no one has paid him yet, it's impossible for him to leave without money." Tianxiang then said: "When I came, I saw that there was an island and reef not far from where the boat stopped, and if I held on a little longer, I should be almost at that island and reef." ”