Chapter Eighty-Nine: Encampment
In this uninhabited place, there was a stone stele, the inscription is traditional Chinese characters, but the stele was artificially damaged, missing a corner, it is incomplete, but we can still recognize a rough, the old cat can understand, so he carefully studied and told us: "The stele is written that there are 9,999 steps in front of the Dragon King Palace, each step represents a year, the sea god will detain the Dragon King on the Dragon King Island, meaning to be detained for 9,999 years before letting it out of the mountain." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Hearing this, I thought of my grandfather's message on the keel before, writing that the dragon king was imprisoned on Dragon King Island because he offended the sea god, but what my grandfather wrote was that the dragon king was imprisoned for eternal life, and this stone tablet said that it was 9,999 years, in the end who is true and who is false, I can't guess, but we are sure of an answer, that is, the dragon king is imprisoned on Dragon King Island, and this Dragon King Island is a large cage.
But then again, if this idea is true, since dragons are real, then should this so-called sea god also exist, not what species people imagine, what species does the god belong to, is it a human or an abyssal creature, or a soul?
Regardless of whether this dragon king is imprisoned for immortality or nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, it shows that its lifespan must be very long, so if we enter the Dragon King Palace, it is very likely that we will encounter this evil dragon who is still alive, and I don't know what happened to the team that arrived at the Dragon King Mountain before us, whether it has reached the Dragon King Palace, if we meet them, maybe we can cooperate, in case we encounter the evil dragon, we can still deal with it together.
At this moment, my mood is very complicated, excited and scared, one is that we are about to witness the existence of the dragon, and the other is how dangerous the dragon king is, we don't know at all, at least we are sure that the dragon king is not easy to mess with, and the old cat went on to tell us the meaning of the remaining words on the stone tablet, probably saying that this dragon is a heinous dragon, for what specific reason the stone tablet is not written, but the name of this dragon is written, the black dragon king.
After reading this stele, we determined that there must be a dragon in the Dragon King Palace, this dragon is called the Black Dragon King, the dragon is still divided into colors, the Black Dragon King must be black, then there will also be the legendary golden dragon, silver dragon and other colors of dragons, but at a glance at the three words of the Black Dragon King, it seems fierce, obviously the role of the dragon villain, and I don't know why the Black Dragon King offended the sea god, and he was imprisoned on Dragon King Island until he died.
The most important thing is that this stele is carved by a well-wisher to tell the descendants the method of getting out of Longwang Island, but a corner of the stele is missing, and that piece is written "Enter the Dragon Palace to get it, you can get out", this should be our method of getting out of Longwang Island, what can go out, but it is missing in the most important place, this is obviously someone deliberate, is the purpose to trap the people on the island?
It's easy to get on the island and it's hard to get off the island, in fact, on the day of departure, we have already made the worst plan, after all the way down what we saw and heard, I didn't expect that the key to everything in the end is the Dragon King Palace, no matter what, we all know that if we want to successfully escape from the Seven Islands, no matter what is in the Dragon King Palace, we also have to break once, even if it is dangerous, but after all, this is our only hope to go home.
We already know what is written on the stele, so we accelerated the speed of climbing, less than two hours, we arrived at the top of the mountain out of breath, the top of the Dragon King Mountain is flat, the area is quite large, I can't tell the direction, but we are at the top of the mountain, the Dragon King Hall is at the top of the mountain, I roughly calculated the rest of the distance, and the Dragon King Palace is close at hand, it is only two or three kilometers away.
However, the Dragon King Hall that looks like it is in our position, it is already very grandiose, the Dragon King Hall is really not small, compared with the previous Mazu Temple, it is at least five times that of the Mazu Temple, this feeling is a small city, no wonder we are far away, we can see the location of the Dragon King Palace, and can accommodate such a huge building, this mountain is really big.
However, we had an unexpected harvest, we found six or seven abandoned sleeping bags in the forest next to the steps, and they were brand new, it looked like they should have been used the night before, we had planned to rest for one night after reaching the top, and then enter the Dragon King Hall tomorrow, no, the sleeping bags left by the explorers in front of us just left us benefits, and a few of us decided to rest here as soon as we researched it, and looked at the sky, there was still some time before nightfall, and we decided to rest again.
You 18 took out a watch from his pocket, slammed it on the ground, and opened his mouth to scold: "It's useless to give back the damn water, it cost Lao Tzu three hundred oceans in vain." ”
The old cat grinned and said to You Eighteen: "Your watch is waterproof and not anti-magnetic, there is a mine on Longwang Island, I estimate that there are a lot, it should be a big mine below Longwang Island, otherwise all the pointers should point in the direction of the magnetic field, and our current pointers are out of order." ”
The old cat said this, we all agreed, and then the old cat took out the sun stone he had used before from the backpack, and then took out a piece of paper, this paper is tin foil, he kneaded the tin foil into a pot shape, and then put the sun stone in the middle, suddenly, we instantly warmed up in front of us, so we sat down one after another, I didn't expect this thing to have a warming effect.
The old cat said proudly: "The sun stone is a good thing, not only can it exorcise demons, but also can keep warm, and there will not be too strong light to attract the soul body, so even if a soul body finds us, it is categorically afraid to approach, obviously the team in front of us does not have the protection of the sun stone, otherwise it will not use life to keep warm, I can't believe how they survived." ”
There are only two or three kilometers away from the Dragon King Palace, originally we were very worried in our hearts, this Dragon King Palace is the same as going to the execution ground in reality, knowing that nine deaths and one life, but we still have to go, in fact, at this time, we don't care about what is dead or not, exploring the sea is to give life to the sea, if you succeed, of course, you will return with a full load, if you fail, you have to put your life there, after all, there is no pie in the sky, if you want to succeed, you must pay.
I feel a little sorry for You Eighteen and the old cat, but the two of them are outsiders who have accompanied me all the way here, I looked at them and sighed and said: "It is also a kind of fate that we can get here today, but in the final analysis, it is because of me, if I didn't propose to go to Dragon King Island, it wouldn't be like this now, if any of you have an accident tomorrow, then I'll really be sorry for his family." ”
You Eighteen is not afraid now, he scratched his head and said: "Don't say such unlucky words, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get a tiger, I am right, since we have entered the line of sea explorers, it is impossible not to encounter danger, we have passed so many dangers before, can we still be afraid of this time?" ”
You Eighteen has grown up in the end, but although the words are beautiful, I don't know if he will be timid after entering the Dragon King Hall tomorrow.
The old cat smiled and said: "Our family has been a sea explorer for generations, and it is a very risky thing to do, how can there be no danger, these years, there are not a few people who have accidents in the family, I have two elder brothers, and I have no wife and no offspring, and there is no problem if I die, besides, I entered the legendary Dragon King Island with Mr. Zhu Erpi's grandson, maybe the family is still proud of me." ”
Zhang Dongzi nodded and said: "This matter is not bad Ah Ming, I also insisted, even if I did not have amnesia, I would definitely go to Longwang Island to find my comrades-in-arms." ”
Zhang Dongzi mentioned his comrades-in-arms, we have been on the island for so long, except for the ships, we have not found any clues, I have been wondering where they went, but the Dragon King Island is so big, it is impossible to find them, and now for the sake of our living people, we can only venture into the Dragon King Hall to find a way to leave.
When Niu really made a statement, but he always didn't speak, just nodded, we saw that he didn't want to talk to us, and didn't force him, so we went with him, and then we continued to talk about some interesting things from the past, but most of us were listening to the old cat tell his adventure story, exploring the world of the Sea Walker, it was really dangerous and fascinated me, the hundred ghost corals, ghost sharks, death bugs, five-headed snakes, hairy fish, Chupacabra and other unheard of creatures, listening to us very much to see the shape of these abyssal creatures.
It was night, we arranged to be on duty at night, this time there were more of us, we could sleep more at night, I was assigned the first post, so I asked the old cat to get two cigarettes and sat aside, and the others immediately got into the sleeping bag to rest.
After sitting for less than an hour, I became addicted to smoking, and as soon as I took a puff, a hand suddenly slapped on my shoulder behind me, which startled me, and I turned my head to see that it was You Eighteen.
Without saying a word, You Eighteen Twelve pulled the cigarette off my mouth and put it in his mouth, yawned and said, "I can't sleep, anyway, the second whistle is me, why don't I talk to you for a while and wait to pick up your whistle." ”
I don't care about him, I'll go to bed and leave him here alone.
The two of us also have a lot of topics, mainly the past when we were in the army, Zhang Dongzi was also there at that time, he was a competent old squad leader, thinking of this, we couldn't help sighing, a good person is so amnesiac, but he is also a blessing in misfortune.
Originally, the chat was good, but You Eighteen suddenly looked at me very seriously and said, "Lao Zhu, do you feel that something is wrong, are we missing someone." ”
I was startled by what he said, and I immediately picked up the flashlight and looked at the number of people sleeping in the sleeping bag, "The cow is really here, the old cat is here, Zhang Dongzi is here, that's right, the number is right, plus the two of us are exactly five." ”
You 18 suddenly stood up and looked around: "No, we are six people up the mountain, and Liu Nian is not here." ”