Chapter 42: Injuries
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The three of us carried the mermaid all the way up, and then there was no accident, this strange space inside the ghost pillar was actually a strange burial custom of the islanders of the Sea Snake Country. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThey sacrifice to their ancestors, and they are different from us. We let the ancestors lie quietly in the tomb, and the living worship the tombstone and the tomb outside. They built a sacrificial tunnel directly in the tomb and moved the sacrificial activities to the tomb.
The remaining spaces are also sacrificial stone pillars and some stone paintings, these stone painting craftsmanship, at best, is clumsy, to be honest, the level is too poor.
It was not until the seventh floor that the staircase had finally reached the top.
Around the top is a circular reef, about a meter high, Tan Jian took the lead in climbing up, observed the surrounding environment, and made sure that it was not close to the sea, so he let us go up.
We then handed the mermaids out before we climbed up one after another.
As soon as it came out, a sea breeze blew in the hula, which not only made people feel cold, but also washed away the feeling of suffocation in the waterway.
At this moment, the moon stars are scarce, but the light moonlight does not bring much convenience to our eyesight. By the light of the searchlight, as far as the eye can see, the surrounding area is full of dark reefs, almost blending into the night. The reef is covered with such a special glowing shellfish, in the moonlight, the mouth is slightly open, the shells reflect fluorescence, and some corners are hidden sea crabs, fish and shrimp.
But after looking around, I didn't see our boat.
Tan Jian didn't need to look at the instrument watch on his wrist at all, he himself understood numerology Feng Shui, looked up at the moon and sparse stars in the sky, and determined the direction where we were, and said; "We're in the northwest corner of the island, and the ship is in the southeast, so we have to pass through."
Fortunately, the island is not big, even if the whole person hikes, it will only take about half an hour, and there is no sea around, which means that we are not on the edge of the island, so it takes less time and less physical strength.
At that moment, the three of us carried the mermaid to the southeast.
But I thought it was too simple, I thought it would take some effort at most, and it would be estimated that it would take more than ten minutes to insist on it, but we forgot one thing, that is, we don't have shoes.
The only fabric under our feet is a one-piece wetsuit that covers our feet, sticks to the flesh, wraps tightly, and resists pressure underwater, but on the shore, that is, an ordinary layer of fabric, there is no way to move on the reef.
The whole ghost island is full of rocks, and it is the kind of reef washed out by the sea, the surface is like a hedgehog, with potholes, ups and downs, slippery in some places, sharp and piercing feet in some places, and every step is like being tortured, so the eyes have to keep an eye on the feet all the time, looking for a slightly better place to stay.
I didn't feel much about walking around the island with shoes on, but now I realize that it's really scary.
Even with such care, it didn't take long for the soles of our feet to be scratched by various accidents, and finally we walked barefoot. It's just that this place is undulating, sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes detouring, even if we are cautious, something still happens.
Zhou Xuanye, who was walking in front, suddenly slipped his foot, and the whole person stumbled, although we did not fall, but his body lost balance, and in the area ahead, the merman we were carrying on our shoulders suddenly lost his strength.
Nearly more than 300 catties of merman, just smashed down directly, grunt and rolled twice, and then, the merman, who had been quiet, suddenly burst out of a sharp and high-pitched cry, with this cry, I saw blood flowing out of its back, and its fish tail was slapped because of pain, but only slapped twice, and the fish tail did not move.
I had a sudden feeling in my heart, and my heart said that it was broken, this ground was extremely complicated, some places were like an awl, some places were like blades, and its weight of more than 300 catties was smashed and rolled down, and it must have been injured.
Zhou Xuanye stabilized his figure, and was also startled, not caring about the reef under his feet, he stepped to the merman in two steps, squatted down, and shouted at me: "Quick, turn it over and see what's going on." ”
This merman's face was also injured just now, and there was a cut on the face where there were no scales, but it was not too serious, and it was estimated that there was too much blood on the back.
I hurriedly went over, and together with Zhou Xuanye, carefully turned the merman over.
It probably knew that the terrain wasn't suitable for struggle, so it just screamed and let us go. When I flipped the merman over, I couldn't help but gasp.
The scales of this merman have a certain hardness and defensive ability, so the places with scales on its body are unharmed, but the parts above the waist socket are miserable, the biggest wound seems to be pulled out by a sharp stone, the wound is at least one centimeter deep, fifteen centimeters long, and it is the left shoulder to the right waist, in addition, there are some small scratches and some small holes in other places, as if poked out by sharp reefs, the injury is very serious, bloody, and because it is tied by a rope, the wound expands outward because of the squeezing, The skin and flesh are rolled, which is extremely terrifying.
I don't know what kind of expression I am now, but I just feel that my mouth is dry, and I hurriedly said, "Quick, quickly untie the rope." ”
Immediately, Tan Jian cut one of the ropes, only tying the merman's hands, and the ropes on the upper body were quickly withdrawn, so that the rolled wound was slightly withdrawn.
We went to the sea with no medicine with us and no cloth on us, so we didn't know what to do with its injuries for a while.
In a hurry, I gritted my teeth and took out a dagger, and was about to bleed, but Zhou Xuanye stopped me and said, "It's not to this point, the shark's recovery ability is still very strong." As he spoke, he snatched the dagger from me, lifted his wetsuit, and cut it from his waist.
The overall set of wetsuits was divided into tops and pants by him, because this thing is elastic, it shrinks as soon as it is cut, Zhou Xuanye deliberately set aside two belts as trouser belts, which did not make the lower half of the pants fall directly.
Then, he raised his hand to take off his shirt, cut it into a long piece of fabric, and we began to bandage the wounds of the merman. This merman is also a highly intelligent creature, although there is a species gap and a language gap between us, it also knows that we didn't get it on purpose, and probably understands that we are wounding it, so there is not much struggle in the whole process except for barking.
The quality of the shark people is still different from that of people, we did not deliberately stop the bleeding, and as soon as the wound was bandaged, there was not much bleeding.
Zhou Xuanye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This merman is still relatively docile, much better than that of Thundering Valley. ”
Tan Jian frowned and asked him, "What happened to you just now?" ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "The consumption of the soul was too great before, and the body did not fully recover, so I didn't step on it just now. ”
Tan Jian then said, "I'll carry it." ”
Zhou Xuanye nodded, they are all his own people, these things don't need to be polite at all, he said: "It's injured, this time you have to be more careful, don't move too much." ”
As a result of this change, we walked even more slowly, and we had expected to travel for more than ten minutes, but we walked for more than forty minutes before we could see the lights of our ship in the distance.
The moment I saw the lights on the sea, I was so excited that I almost didn't cry, you know, carrying more than 300 catties of things, walking on such land, is simply a fold
grinding, and it's a great torture.
The people on board also discovered our presence, and because of the proximity of the separation, the light of the searchlight was strong, so that we could see our faces clearly. I saw Ah Zi standing on the side of the boat, looking like a ghost, and said, "Why are you on the island, what are you carrying?" Oh my God, mermaid? ”
The common name of the mermaid is the mermaid, but although this merman is not ugly, the pair of huge webbed claws and protruding bone joints are really not beautiful.
We carried the merman ashore and put it on the deck, the merman's eyesight should be good, it looked at the vast sea in the night, and suddenly struggled violently, trying to rush into the sea, and at the same time, tears flowed from its eyes that were larger than humans.
Since it looks similar to a human, and its face has some scales, we can clearly guess the thoughts of this merman through its expression. At this moment, I felt that it was extremely excited, extremely eager to be free, extremely eager to return to the sea, to return to its own home.
There are so many differences between this mermaid and what we met in Yumen, and this extremely human performance made us and the strange people on the boat look at each other.
Ah Zi looked at it silently, probably reflected, and said, "Could this be the legendary merman?" I nodded, and together with Zhou Xuanye, I restrained the merman's struggle. Our original plan was to release it back into the sea when we got to the shore, but just along the way, the injury to the shark's back was too serious, and although this thing has a strong recovery ability, it is not strong enough to heal quickly, and it will take four or five days to say the least, right?
Just let it go back to the sea with its injuries, and it would probably be enough to choke.
I don't care if it understands it or not, while stopping it, I try to convince it: don't worry, don't worry, we won't lock you up and wait until your injuries are healed before going to the sea. Don't worry, no matter what you say, you are also an endangered creature, we are still very loving, and we will let you go to the sea, don't worry......"
This merman naturally can't understand words, but animals can distinguish tones, and people are the same, and the sound of a well-intentioned dog barking at you and a vicious dog barking can easily tell whether there is an intention to attack or not.
Eighty percent of the mermaids listened to our tone without malice, and gradually quieted down.
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