This trip to Penglai Island is very important to me, because the success or failure of this trip will be related to my fate, and it can be said that I have put all my hopes on this trip. If I can't find this Penglai Island, not only will all my efforts over the years be in vain, but I will also be lonely for the rest of my life.

I was looking forward to it and worrying about it, and it was very messy. With this in mind, I embarked on the journey eastward.

To find Penglai Island, you must first go to Shandong. There is a Penglai city in Shandong, this Penglai, of course, is not the Penglai Island we are looking for, it is said that Qin Shi Huang went to Penglai Island to seek immortal medicine when he visited here, so this place is also named Penglai. Penglai City is located in the northeast of Shandong Province, and borders the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea.

The day after leaving Xuantang to the east, we came to Penglai City, Shandong Province. I stayed in Penglai City for a day, mainly to rent a boat and prepare food.

Since none of us have experience at sea, it will definitely not work to drive a boat on our own. So we found a local fisherman, in his 40s, who had been working at sea for a long time, and his whole body was tanned, but he was very strong. He has a fishing boat, so we plan to give him his fishing boat and let him send us out to sea.

The fisherman asked where we were going? I said, "Do you know that there is a place called Guixu hundreds of miles to the east?" ”

The fisherman shook his head and said he had never heard of this place.

I asked him again, do you know that there is a big mountain called Yinshan hundreds of miles away from the sea?

The fisherman still shook his head, this is not surprising, after all, whether it is Guixu or Yinshan, it only exists in myths and legends, if the fisherman in front of me knows, then there is no need for me to spend all my efforts to find the map of Gujing Lake.

When the fishermen saw that we couldn't tell where we were going, they became suspicious of who we were and who we were and what we were going to do.

In order to dispel his suspicions, we told him that we were a folk exploration team to find out whether the mythical Penglai Immortal Mountain existed.

When the fisherman heard this, he looked at us again and laughed, "You can't be joking with me, are you?" Do you believe in this kind of mythology? ”

Seeing that he didn't believe it, I took out the map of Gujing Lake and showed him the island in the map. Then he said: "We have collected all kinds of ancient books and documents, and there are records of this immortal mountain. We just love to explore magical things, whether it really exists or not, we just want to explore it. ”

"I really don't understand your exploratory minds." Hearing me say this, the fisherman muttered, and although he thought that our idea was nonsense enough, he still asked, "How many days are you going?" How far to go? ”

I thought about it, and now there are still four days left before the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I said: "Four or five days, as long as you go hundreds of miles to the east." How about it, will you take us there? ”

The fishermen thought about it and said to us, "It's too far away, and it's going to take so long, I don't want to go if I don't have enough money." ”

Hearing this, I naturally knew that he meant that if the price was high, he would still go. So we offered him a high price, and he finally nodded yes.

As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and this is not false at all. As long as the money given is enough to make people happy, there is nothing that cannot be done. For the fisherman in front of him, all he wants is money, and he doesn't care if we can find the mythical Penglai Island.

We had plenty of fresh water and food, enough to keep us at sea for more than a month. We put all of this stuff on the fishing boat.

This fisherman's surname is Yang, and because he is older than us, we all call him Lao Yang.

Before leaving, Brother Yang didn't forget to mutter, complaining that this trip to the sea took too long. What he meant was that their fishing boats would not go too far, but only fish in the coastal waters, and they would return the same day if they were fast, and the next day if they were slow, and they would never go out for four or five days. First, their fishing boats are not professional fishing boats for long-distance sailing, and the hardware conditions of such wooden boats are not very suitable for the open sea. Second, if the boat breaks down, the fishermen in the nearby waters know each other well and can take care of each other. So, that's why he's reluctant to travel far.

Lao Yang carefully inspected the fishing boat, and then we got on the boat and set off.

It was a drizzle in the sky, but we were all very excited because it was our first time at sea. The sea, as far as the eye can see, makes people feel much more cheerful.

However, after spending half a day at sea, this excitement disappeared with the boredom of the sea, because at sea we could only look at the sea in a daze except for chatting and playing with our mobile phones.

On the second morning of our voyage, we had sailed hundreds of miles. Because the map of Gujing Lake did not indicate the specific location of Guiru, it only said that it was hundreds of miles to the east, so we had to look for it within a radius of hundreds of miles. Maybe it's five hundred miles, maybe it's nine hundred miles......

In the vast sea, within a radius of hundreds of miles, it can be said that it is more difficult to find something that does not know the specific location and does not know whether it exists than looking for a needle in a haystack. In Lao Yang's words, it is something that is daydreaming and impossible to find.

However, despite this, we still asked Lao Yang to look around for hundreds of miles. This search is a day, but we found nothing, not to mention seeing the ruins, Yin Mountain, not even the land, as far as the eye can see, there is no boundless ocean.

By the time it was nearly dusk, we had sailed nearly a thousand miles. Because the ruins on the map are written in a location of hundreds of miles, it should be unlikely to be thousands of miles away, so I asked Lao Yang to turn around and go back to the hundreds of miles to continue searching.

However, just as we were about to turn the ship back, there was a sudden "thud" sound from the ship's engine, which was obviously not quite right, and after a while, the engine stopped on its own, and there was no movement.

At this time, we were all a little panicked, and Lao Yang told us not to worry, saying that he would repair it and see if it could be repaired.

But when he cultivated it, he cultivated it until it was dark, and he was stunned that there was no way to take it. He didn't know whether he was in a hurry or tired, and he was sweating profusely, so he ran up to us and said, "Something big is going to happen, and I can't fix the engine." ”

When we heard this, we were all shocked, knowing that something big was indeed going to happen. So we quickly picked up the satellite phone on the boat to call the police, but the fishing boat was very old and did not have a positioning system, so we had to give an approximate location and wait for someone else to rescue.

The engine was broken, the ship lost power, there were no lights, and the whole ship was pitch black. Our ship drifted in the darkness of the night, and none of us knew where it would go.

That night, several of us didn't sleep all night. Everyone is waiting for help to get us out of danger.

Although Yang Qing is a girl, she looks very strong at this time and is not panicked. In order not to worry him, I also chatted with her all the time. Chen Xianyi said that I was not good at being a teacher, which is not wrong at all, this time I just went to sea, and I encountered a ship failure, not to mention looking for Penglai Island, whether I can go back alive is unknown.

Although a few of us didn't say anything desperate, we all knew very well that because we didn't have a positioning system, it was not easy for the rescue ship to find us. Our ship is really too small in this vast ocean, and it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack for others to find us.

We didn't sleep all night, and the next morning, we stood on the deck, everyone looking into the distance, hoping to see the ship that searched and rescued us.

Regrettably, however, we did not see the ship that came to search and rescue us for a whole day. Not only that, but not even a single passing ship was seen.

The ship continues to drift with the tide in the sea, and at this time we no longer know where we are, whether it is thousands of miles away or thousands of miles away.

It was dark again, and the satellite phone was long out of power. In the darkness, our hearts were heavier than the night before, and everyone felt a hint of panic.

However, the situation did not get any better, because for the next two days, we still did not see any ships. It's the fourth day, and the sea breeze doesn't know where we've got. Everyone's eyes were full of confusion and panic......