Chapter 52: Covering the Sky and the Sun
I was speechless in astonishment, looking at the image in the sky, I felt like my heart was about to jump out of my throat! I think only I know what it is, and he doesn't understand the stone at all, so he won't be afraid.
"Xiaotian, look, that cloud seems to be a person!" The stone was dumbfounded, pointed to the cloud and said to me excitedly.
I didn't dare to look at it again, and just one look at that image made me feel as if I had fallen into a bottomless abyss. I buried my head in my legs, my whole body began to tremble, I knew something was going to happen, I knew that it was not an illusion, it was supposed to come or it would come, we couldn't hide from it!
"Hey, why did it suddenly get so dark?" There was an exclamation from the crowd. I hurriedly looked up, and at this moment the dark clouds in the human form had taken over the entire sky, obscuring the sun, and in an instant the surroundings became dark. Shi looked at the strange picture, his mouth was wide open, and he actually entered a natural state again.
Before everyone could figure out what was going on, the ship began to shake again. The shaking stopped after two clicks, and after a few seconds, it began to shake again, and by a greater magnitude than before, and there seemed to be something under the boat!
I pulled up the stone and instinctively hugged the mast, and the uneasiness intensified. Suddenly, the hull of the ship shook suddenly, and the whole ship began to tilt, and a few of the defenseless people standing on the side fell into the water. Then the stone began to be afraid, and he followed my example, and clung to the mast tightly, his face pale with fright. The boat was tilting more and more, and people were scrambling to get to the top of the house, making a mess. It's just that there are no life-saving facilities on this boat, and those who can swim may be able to swim ashore, and those who can't swim can imagine their fate if they fall into the water.
I looked up at the sky, and the whole world was dark, and it was pitch black everywhere I looked, with black clouds overhead, and the black river around me. I suddenly felt like I had seen this picture somewhere, but I just couldn't remember!
"Ah, help me...... I can't swim......" In the water, people struggled, and many people fell into it and never surfaced again. The coffin had also slipped to the side at this moment, and it was about to fall in, when Li Xiaohua's parents stumbled and crawled to the coffin, and her mother cried and said, "Quick, save your daughter!"
Li Xiaohua's father also gritted his teeth anxiously, he held the coffin and pulled it up hard, trying to drag it to a high place. But after all, it was a coffin made of fine wood, and it was difficult for four people to carry it, so how could he drag it alone. So the two of them dragged the coffin to a high place, and tried the coffin a few times but it didn't move, when Li Xiaohua's father suddenly looked at me, and he dragged the thick hemp rope tied to the coffin and crawled towards us.
I could already guess what he was trying to do, he probably wanted to tie the rope to the mast so that perhaps the coffin wouldn't fall into the water so quickly. But he seems to have overlooked one thing, when the ship sinks completely, let alone the big coffin, I'm afraid all of us won't survive, not to mention those terrible monsters in the water!
Sure enough, he tied one end of the rope to the mast, and after doing all this, his face looked a little better. When he was done, he felt that it was inappropriate, so he untied the rope again, and after wrapping around the mast a few times, he tied one end of the rope around his waist, and tied Li Xiaohua's mother to him. After everything was done, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, completely ignoring the existence of me and the stone.
What the hell are they doing, don't they understand that once the coffin falls into the water, their actions are undoubtedly cocooning! Did they want to sink to the bottom of the river with their daughter, or were they just too nervous to think about it!
The number of people on the ship has changed from a hundred or so at the beginning to twenty or thirty people, and the people who are still struggling on the deck at the moment are some young people. Those who fell into the water struggled for a while, and then sank, and not one of them came to the surface. It doesn't make sense, it's impossible that none of them know how to swim, and there are a lot of people who know who can swim, I've seen them, I don't know what their names are, I've seen them before in a small river.
Looking at the dark river, I couldn't help but feel an extremely strong sense of fear, I was about to collapse. Under this strange atmosphere, I even felt like I couldn't breathe, and a faint fishy smell came, I couldn't stand it anymore, and finally screamed.
Smack, I felt my face hot, and when I turned my head, I was slapped by a stone. He looked at me and said to me in a serious way, "What's your name!" Aren't you dead yet? ”
I looked at the stone with some curiosity, what happened to this kid today, this is not the same as his usual life. It stands to reason that when he encounters this situation, he should be the first to be frightened, why did he behave so calmly today!
When the stone saw that I was watching him and not speak, he thought I was scared stupid, so he opened his mouth and said to me, "Listen, we can swim, don't be afraid, and when the boat sinks, we will swim back."
I don't know if I should tell the stone that there are monsters in this water, or rather, youkai. Because I don't know what it is, what they want to do! I was afraid that I would be scared if I said it, so I didn't tell him. Watching a group of fresh lives disappear in front of me, I just feel very bad in my heart, if all this is caused by me and the stone, then I am willing to use my life to end this nightmare! But I'm not the savior, maybe I'm just one of the innocent people, and I can't escape the fate of dying at sea!
"What's the matter, jump quickly, the ship is sinking!" A word from the stone pulled me back from my thoughts to reality. When I looked, it was not, the hull of the ship was already two-thirds submerged in water, and soon it would be completely submerged, and the big coffin was no longer visible. I looked at the stone, let go of the mast, and jumped into the river.
The water was bitterly cold, very different from when it entered the River Styx in the morning, and it was summer, and the water shouldn't be so cold, it was just too counterintuitive! I didn't dwell on it, and after I fell, the stone and I slid desperately on all fours and began to swim into the distance.
But it was all dark, even the water was black, and I couldn't tell the direction that was the shore on that side. The current is too gentle, and it's hard to make out the direction by the direction of the flow, but I know only one thing, we must not stop, or there will be danger!
"Ahh Help me......"
Suddenly, the cry for help from the stone came, and I hurriedly turned my head to look, but I could no longer see the stone. At this time, I suddenly felt a tightness in my ankles, and I was pulled into the water by a force.
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