75. The origin of maritime mythology

It is a pure white sand beach with fine and silky sand, which seems to indicate good fortune.

But about 100 meters away from here is a black and oppressive forest, the trees are old and grow so densely that only one person can squeeze into the gaps between the trees, and this crowding has a sense of oppression.

On top of the black and white handover, nine blood-red coffins have landed.

The imperial sister climbed out of the coffin and stretched her waist, and the seven demon cats also rose into the air and landed behind her one after another, as if she smelled the smell of danger, Xia Jiejie turned her head to look at the Shenwu King who was dragging the coffins one by one to the beach, "Hey, Xia Guang, what are you doing." ”

"Of course, it is convenient to run our 'boat' on the beach, and it is convenient to leave after a while, and even if it can't, it can be dismantled and used as a material for the wooden boat. ”

The Shenwu King had a lot of strength, just grabbed the side of the coffin, and as soon as he dragged it, the blood-red coffin rose into the air, fell heavily into the shallow sand, and even fell into the ground for a few points.

Three times and five divisions are completed, clapped his hands, and turned his head to look at the imperial sister.

The messy long hair was simply pulled behind him, but the sea breeze on the beach was blown away from time to time, the big eyes hid the sleepiness that had never woken up, the moon-white chest was a little wrinkled, and the clothes were also untidy, and the royal sister, who had always lived almost unable to take care of herself, obviously did not notice this.

She was stretching her long legs, pressing her left palm back and forth on the three demon knives, muttering, "Where is this?"

"Just go in and have a look. ”

King Shenwu was very calm, even though he had already felt a strong evil intent rising from the depths of the forest.

"That's... You go ahead. ”

The imperial sister began to choose her position carefully.

"No, when you go behind, your eyes must be on me. ”

The imperial sister muttered and shouted, she obviously remembered to kill alone, for fear of being dragged away by something behind her.

Xia Jiejie knows that only a good position can make herself invincible in a big battle.

As for the annihilation...

Hmm, if she doesn't stand in a good position, how can she output?

Although she never outputs.

...

At this time, in the forest.

Thirteen "wild men" were beating drums.

Their skin was painted with strange patterns in black ink and red blood, which seemed to be a huge mouth, and their eyes were staring hard, like King Kong's angry eyes, and even the wrinkles between their foreheads were all up.

In short, it's a liver-colored face...

Bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang!

Thirteen wild men were jumping left and right around a strange statue in the center, their rough palms beating rhythmically on the white-faced drum hanging from their chests.

Behind the savages, there were hundreds of dark-faced people, looking at the texture on their bodies, they should be of the same race.

These people have no voice, no expressions, indifference and depression.

Later, there are scarecrows, clay figures, cloth figures, and even living people who have been dead for a long time and have been dried in the air with sharp stones and sharp knives stuck deep in the trees.

If you look at it from above, you can see that it is a circular island, surrounded by pristine silver beaches, and in the middle is a dense labyrinth of woods.

And the further you go to the center, the more depressing and weird it becomes.

For the trees are full of people, hanging upside down, mutilated... Numerous.

All the way to the statue in the middle of the clearing.

"Let go of me, let go of me..."

A scream sounded on the north side of the forest, and a white-skinned young woman was naked and dragged out by two savages, the woman was now completely ignorant of the cold of winter and the shyness of being naked, but only screamed and struggled, trying to turn and flee.

But the hands of the two savages were like iron hoops, clutching her arms, and even if she pushed her feet forward desperately, crying, and making trouble, they could not change anything.

"I am the daughter of the head of the Lin family in Beifu, you let me go... Whatever you want, I'll ask my father to send it to you..."

The young fair-skinned woman shouted in fear, she had already seen the statue, and vaguely, she felt that the statue's eyes also rolled, staring at her directly, revealing a greedy look.

"Let me go, you ask for money, I will ask my father to send a boatload of gold, to ask for food, we will send big fish and meat every year, and ask for people, I will send a hundred virgins, a hundred virgins. ”

"Every year, every year!"

"Please, let me go... Let me go... As long as you let me go, I'm willing to do anything. ”

The white-skinned woman's face was completely distorted, and she felt that her heart was about to explode, and the blood flowed from the soles of her feet to her brain, but it was like falling into an ice cave.

In the rapid drumming of the thirteen savages, her heart also began to beat with the drums.

Suddenly...

The drumming stopped.

The white-skinned naked woman was thrown in front of the statue, and she felt as if she was restrained, completely unable to move.

An extremely tall savage stepped out of the crowd, drew a sharp knife, and stood to the side.

Another savage of some age squatted in front of the young woman who claimed to be the "daughter of the head of the Lin family in Beifu" holding a stone basin filled with black and red liquid, reached into the basin, dipped it in the liquid, grabbed it to her chest, and started from the top of the red plum with his five fingers and began to draw the outline pattern to the four sides.

It was apparently a strange sacrificial ritual, and when the ritual was complete, the sharp knife in the tall savage's hand would plunge into her chest.

The white-skinned woman's whole body trembled.

Suddenly, the painted savage stopped, squinted and listened, as if receiving some will, and then bowed respectfully to the statue a few times, and then shouted back in a strange language.

Soon, a savage reacted, turned around and entered the dense forest, and later took out a stone box and opened the box, which turned out to be the four treasures of the study, with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

These are the items that have floated here for many years.

In fact, the statue is very evil, at first, it can only control the weather in the surrounding seas, but as the sacrifices increase, the range of control it can increase and expand, as long as the ship falls into it, it will be shipwrecked, and then transported to the island, where it will be drained of value and become a sacrifice of flesh and blood.

Even the lies that circulated such as "overseas fairy island" and "secret treasure of the sea" were spread by it...

There are many such ones, distributed in the depths of the endless sea, and they are not at all accessible by ordinary routes.

But... It only takes one storm, one loss, and it is likely that the shipwrecked ship will be left to one of them.

The white-skinned woman knelt on the ground and looked at the four treasures of the study spread in front of her, and the rice paper had even been spread out on the flat stone box, pressing the corners with the square text.

She was stunned, as if she had suddenly seen civilization in the midst of barbarism, and she didn't know why.

Otherwise, the painted savage suddenly spoke: "Write, boys and girls, take it, accept you..."

In the face of death, the white-skinned woman's brain turned rapidly, and she quickly understood what this wild man meant, it seemed that her plea for mercy had just worked?

So, he hurriedly lay on his stomach and wrote in beautiful words on rice paper.

"To Lin Chulong, the head of the Lin family in Beifu,

Dad, my daughter was shipwrecked and was rescued by the gods, and now you need to arrange for a hundred boys and a hundred virgins to take a big ship from the north to the south, and you need to cross the White Elephant Strait, and then to the south...

Only two hundred boys and girls as gifts will the daughter survive, so please arrange it as soon as possible. ”

After that, the white-skinned woman wrote a few more words that could obviously be used as confirmation of identity, and after thinking about it, she added a few words such as "If you transfer it to the head of the Lin family, how much reward can you get".

Finally, I took a deep breath and made the payment.

After writing, the rice paper was rolled up and taken away, and then it was skillfully stuffed into a red glass bottle by a savage, and ran barefoot away to the sea.

The letter in this drifting bottle will be pushed by their gods to the place of the time, and then it will most likely fall into the hands of the recipient.

After all, they've been doing this for a long, long time, so long that it's become a tradition.

It can be said that many of the myths and legends on the sea came from them.