Chapter 20: The Red Lantern
In the foggy sea, the dilapidated pier in front of me looked a little unreal, illusory like a mirage, and through the mist, it even began to distort in some places.
The red lantern does not seem to be a bamboo pole, but a very ordinary wooden pole, but the bowl mouth is thick, as high as the third or fourth floor.
The closer the ship got to the dock, the softer the red light emitted by the red lantern became, and it no longer looked like light, but a thick red fog.
When the motor boat drove to the edge of the pier and looked up, the real appearance of the red lantern came into our eyes.
It's not a lantern, it's a lantern.
Unlike the common paper cloth lanterns, which were chiseled out of a human head, it was a skull that had weathered for an unknown amount of time.
The Tianling cover was chiseled open, and it seemed to have been processed inside, I don't know if it was a candle or something else, and I could feel the heat wave from above from a long distance, which made people feel inexplicably irritable.
"What's going on?" Qibao tilted his head and looked at the skull lantern, his face full of surprise: "Isn't hanging a skull on the dock outside the village to find trouble for yourself?" Those villagers don't care? ”
I didn't speak, but looked away from the skull and looked ahead.
Directly opposite the pier is a mountain road, this mountain is not high, but the forest is very dense, there is no way to see the situation inside at a glance.
After Situ parked the boat, he walked up to me with an assault rifle in his hand and said, "Longwang Village is inside." ”
"To be honest, Brother Situ, I don't want to go in a little," I said, my brows furrowed very tightly, and when I saw the foggy mountain road in front of me, I only felt a drum beating in my heart.
Afraid.
Really, that's no exaggeration.
Unlike Shippo, they just felt weird, but I was scared from the bottom of my heart.
I don't know what's hidden on this island, or why this village looks so dark
My intuition tells me that there is something trickier here than Zhou Wugui.
"This fog is too thick, and the fog on the top has not faded" Situ raised his head and glanced at the sky, his expression was a little solemn: "The situation here has exceeded our expectations, and the information I got is completely inconsistent with here, there is no fog, and there are no things on the sea." ”
I don't know if it's because of the fog or if the weather has changed suddenly, but because the top of the island is covered in thick fog, there is only a small amount of sunlight that can barely get in.
It is no exaggeration to say that when I didn't break into this fog area, the sun was still cloudless, but now it looks a bit like dusk.
The gloom is one thing, but the sunlight that comes in looks very unreal, with some orange yellow, which makes people inexplicably a little dull.
"Shall we go in again?" Chen Qiuyan seemed to be a little scared, and subconsciously hugged my arm.
There was obvious horror in her eyes as she looked ahead.
"It's all on this, and I can't say anything if I don't go in." I sighed: "Otherwise, I'll go in with Lao Kong, and you guys will be on standby on the ship and support us at any time, okay?" ”
Hearing my words, Qibao and Situ Qi glanced at me, flipped off the boat with dexterity, and jumped on the dock very easily.
By the time I took Kong Baiyang and the others to follow, the rat had already climbed up from the sea, flicking its fur like a dog.
To be honest, I don't understand a little, who did I learn from this feather throwing virtue of the mouse?
This little beast's hair doesn't get wet at all, and after encountering water, the insulation is only so strong, and you still need to shake the hair?
After a few flicks, the rat stood up, looked left and right, and slid up to my back, and grabbed the strap of the backpack on my shoulder with both hands, and squeaked twice, the voice was slightly rapid, as if to remind us of something.
"Is there any danger in this?" I asked tentatively.
The rat nodded.
"You ask if it's a fart, can there be no danger here?" Shippo said, took a few steps forward, pointed his gun at the wooden pole where the skull was hanging, and said, "There's a sign behind here, and there's blood!" ”
Hearing this, we hurriedly ran over to take a look.
On the back of the wooden pole, there is indeed a small wooden sign the width of a palm, on which three large characters are clearly written.
Longwang Village.
At the bottom of the wooden plaque, almost soaked with blood, it was still a little wet when I touched it with my hands, and when I came up to smell it, the smell of blood was quite fresh.
"I'll take the lead with the mouse, Lao Kong, you and the Seven Treasures Palace, and the others will walk in the middle."
As soon as they heard my arrangement, everyone did not refute, they nodded one after another, and stood in a line according to the position they said.
Although the Flesh Gu has improved my physique, both the strength of the Flesh Body and the reaction speed are a bit more than the momentum of Qibao, but to be honest, I'm not good at close combat.
The reason why I chose to go first is because I am not afraid of death.
Strong anti-risk ability, even if I am stabbed seventy or eighty times in front of someone, I feel that I can have a chance to rescue, and it is impossible to burp directly.
As for the rat, it has evil qi to protect its body, and it can be said to be the living creature with the highest physical strength in our group.
I'm not afraid of bullets, can I be afraid of something else?
Kong Baiyang is good at making bows, and Qibao is good at making guns, so let the two of them stand farther away, which is also harmless, and they can give me fire support at any time in case of trouble.
Along the steep mountain path, we cautiously walked inside.
The fog, which had already faded and thinned, seemed to have regained its concentration in the forest, and visibility was extremely low, but not so low as it was in the outermost layer.
Zhou Wugui and Yang Jiusheng must be hiding here, so while we are in a hurry, we have to beware of those two brutes sneaking up on us.
Now that it's foggy, we should be a little bit safer.
But the fog is also bad for us, it's too easy to get lost, the compass brought by Situ is not easy to use just on the island, the pointer is whining and turning in circles, not to mention distinguishing the southeast and northwest, it is difficult for you to make it stop.
The same is true of the small compass that Kong Baiyang carried with him, the pointer was not controlled at all, and he began to spin in circles frantically as soon as he got on the island.
"It's a magnetic field, isn't it?" Situ muttered, put the compass back in his pocket, and his expression was a little solemn: "With such a big fog, it will be difficult for us to walk in a straight line, and it is estimated that we will have to turn around a lot." ”
"Magnetic field?" Kong Baiyang frowned: "It should be that the qi is wrong, the flow of yin and yang qi here is chaotic, like a whirlpool, all the qi is spinning in circles, and it doesn't follow the earth's veins at all." ”
"Holy shit, no matter how awesome these gases are, they have to follow the Basic Law." Qibao said helplessly: "Walking around aimlessly like this makes us very troubled." ”
Situ glanced at Qibao and asked him, do you want to enter politics or what? I care about national affairs! What is the relationship between the Basic Law and the two qi of yin and yang?
"It doesn't matter if the relationship doesn't matter, let's walk by the side of the road." Qibao said with a smile: "This mountain road is obviously artificially opened, although there are no bricks on the ground, but they have been flattened by people, and if you follow it, sooner or later there will be a time to come to the end." ”
"Ding"
Suddenly, a bell rang, and the darkness came from a distance.
It was obviously the sound of someone rattling, and the bell sounded a little familiar, much like the common magic bell in our industry.
Have you seen zombie movies?
The bells with handles used by Taoist priests in the movie are Dharma bells.
"Zhou Wugui??" I hurriedly stopped, took out a coffin nail from my bag and used it as a weapon, blocking Chen Qiuyan and the others.
"Is that supposed to be the sound of the bell?" Kong Baiyang frowned and said: "The person who can shake the magic bell in this kind of place is probably the only gentleman in our business, maybe it is really Zhou Wugui." ”
The bell of the formation came from directly in front of us.
Every three seconds or so, it rings, and each time it gets closer and closer, it seems that the person who is shaking the bell is approaching us.
At this time, none of us dared to be careless, and we all hid in the thorn bushes on the side of the road, and camouflaged ourselves with the help of weeds and thorns.
"Can you see the man?" Qibao asked Kong Baiyang.
"Can't see clearly, but"
Before Kong Baiyang could finish speaking, he heard a muffled sound of dragging heavy objects, which slowly came from the front.
With that strange sound, there was a continuous stream of footsteps.
The man walked slowly, heavy with each step.
Although I couldn't see who it was, I knew by guessing that it didn't come empty-handed, but shaking the bell with one hand and dragging heavy objects with the other
"Shh
Kong Baiyang's expression suddenly became nervous, and he said to us in a suppressed voice.
"Here we are."