XXXVII. Trick Ship
The sea seemed to be in high waves, the wind was getting stronger in the distance, and the cold and humidity in the air gradually increased dramatically. The ship continued to sway with the water, and a thick cloud of ash fell with the naked eye.
I climbed on the rope that I threw down on the boat and was holding my nose and yelling. It's bad luck, but now it's windy, but since it's windy, there is still a place to the ground, and we've been thinking about how to get to the other side, but who has ever thought about how to get out of here? I climbed on the boat and saw this huge ship quietly staying in this sea area after the initial fluctuations, the deck and bilge structure of the ship came into my eyes at a glance, the deck was covered with buildings of Lu, Feilu, Jue Room, and other various cabins, the boathouse was surrounded by a wooden fence like the current cordon, but the body of the wooden fence was carved with dense human-shaped paintings, all kinds of things made me suddenly in the lost ancient forest of Heizhugou, the strange projection in the ancient forest.
Further ahead is a raised mast, the lower part of the mast had to be cut flat on both sides to lean against the mast clamp, the root end was made into a tenon shape to insert into the mast base, and the top of the air door or an iron hoop with a ring was attached to tie the pulley device for hanging sails. However, something is wrong with a huge ship with only one pole and one sail, and the pole is a round fir wood mast, which is light and elastic because of the cedar wood, and has good flexural strength and corrosion resistance. When the mast length is insufficient or broken for some reason, longitudinal lap joints are allowed, and fastening with two or three iron hoops. The sail is a cloth sail, made of multiple pieces of cheesecloth stitched longitudinally. The shape of the sail is roughly a mixture of a fan at the top and a rectangle at the bottom.
The outer body of the ship is 20 fish-shaped oars, and none of the oars, rudders, swords, and pennies that I know of are visible.
In general, the material of the ship is Masson pine as the main building, especially the wood is extremely resistant to water moisture, and there is a saying of "thousand-year-old pine in the water", which is especially suitable for underwater engineering. In ancient shipbuilding, the keel was processed, and the main materials of the hull were masson pine and camphor wood. Pinus massoniana is inferior in wood, with many and large knots, many grease layers, wide sapwood surface, hollow core material, and easy to decay; The surface is not easy to paint, so it is rarely used for marine materials nowadays.
"What a big guy." The fat man approached the beach, crossed the chains that had been laid down, and walked step by step towards the boat, which had been waiting for hundreds of years in the water, with the tendency of the wind to blow and move the water, and the swaying of human life in the water.
"Is there a central control room in this place?" I asked. "How are we going to get this ship moving?"
"Stupid, this is a ship from many years ago, and the central control room." The fat man couldn't help but curse, and then said to the people who were looking around on the boat, "You go around and see where the boat is driven." ”
I listened to the fat man's words and walked away to look around, when I walked to the place where Wu Bin was, I saw the small room behind the wooden fence that this guy had been staring at, and I felt that something in my heart was touched at the first sight of that place, but I still didn't feel anything, I looked back at another person standing behind me, and found that his posture at this time was exactly the same as Wu Bin.
When the man saw me looking at him, he smiled at me and said, "Don't stand so high, as if you are something." ”
I was speechless, I didn't know why Wu Bin looked at that direction when he said this, he just followed the trend, and silently despised it in his heart, but the nerve in his mind that was touched just now was suddenly bounced up, yes height, usually the cabin and houseboat of a ship are abnormally high, but this boat is only more than 2 people high, and I covered the flashlight with my hand and slowly shrunk the light into a straight line, like the back of a wooden fence.
But at this time, the person and I saw Wu Bin suddenly and slowly walked towards the cabin, I glanced at him and slowly followed, there was basically no one talking on this boat, and the people scattered around were busy, so a strange atmosphere was spreading. But it wasn't over yet, and as we approached the cabin, we heard a clattering sound, like a man walking unintentionally on a splint, and the sound began to propagate through the wooden floor, and a little sound wave spread out like ocean waves, second by second.
"Wu Bin! There's a sound in there! He said.
"That's not right!" Wu Bin turned his head and said with a gloomy face, "There are people inside." ”
"Is there someone in the fat man?" I hurriedly shouted out what I had found, but the rest of the boat just smiled and ignored me.
"How long has the ship been parked here? There are also people. Dawn smiled, "Don't scare yourself. ”
"It's true." I'm a little frightened, could it be a hallucination?
But I could still hear it in my place, and the sound continued. It spread throughout the hull of the ship, and finally came to a halt with a thud.
I thought that the sound would stop and return to normal, but things were far from being as simple as I imagined, and before half a minute came, the whole body of the ship trembled, and Wu Bin didn't even stand firmly, and because of this vibration, the pattern on the wooden door in the cabin in front of me appeared in my eyes.
The door of the cabin is a very ordinary wooden door, but the door is painted with a dwarf, this dwarf is standing in the middle of a sea, there is a small island in the sea, above the island is a round of light, the sun shines in all directions, the carver uses a very strange way to depict the spread of light, but this is not weird, the next picture I almost collapsed, the picture on the door actually changed by itself, like a projector, the sea is getting smaller and smaller, the island is getting bigger and bigger, And the sun in the sky was gradually surrounded by a thick fog that I don't know what it was, and finally the sea disappeared, and all sides became flat, and the sun disappeared, leaving only a layer of white clouds in the sky, and the dwarf was half-crouching there, not knowing what he was praying for?
"What is this?"
"It could be a paint, something that would only be seen when the light was reflected at a certain angle." Wu Bin said.
But I looked at the dwarf, and I suddenly thought of the dwarf I saw in the underground forest of Shennongjia, what is the connection between the two? And why are there gnomes in that place?
"What's going on?" The shock startled the fat man, who had been patrolling a cabin before.
"Boss, boss." At this time, I heard a cry from the man named Hu Yong, and his voice became more and more poignant.
"What's wrong?" All of us had all run to the place for a moment, where there was the entrance to an underground cabin, but at this time the plank was dead, and there was a trace of blood in it.
"Hu Yong, he's down there?"
"Down there?" I wondered, "Why not." "When I was just talking about trying to pull the flap of the floor open, I found that this thing couldn't be opened, something was wrong! It looks like it's just an ordinary splint! But as I looked at Hu Yong pounding the floor and the blood stains on the flap, I realized that this was a real place. I was stunned, until the fat man pushed me away and desperately pulled the handle up I came to my senses, I saw the fat man's flushed face and I suddenly heard a voice.
"Ahh It was Hu Yong, and soon I heard it, down there, under the plank. Then the screaming slowly stopped, and turned into footsteps, like a giant pacing under the plank, and it was very real, and now everyone heard it, and there were people down there!
Suddenly, I was patted at the moment, and I only heard the old man's trembling voice: "The ship is gone?" ”
"Spread?"
"The ship is moving, look!" He shouted in an almost hoarse voice.
I felt the movement under my feet, and suddenly I saw that the beach before was getting farther and farther away from us, the boat was moving, the boat was moving, who was driving this guy? **? Yang Yang? As soon as I turned my head, I found that they were all standing beside me with stunned expressions, so who was it, I hurried to the railing of the boat and lay down on the side of the boat, and the waves seemed to have been cut into the skin from it, making a terrible cutting sound, and with the sound of the rest of the water, forming a majestic spectacle.
Who's driving the boat? Who could start such a large hull in an instant? Where exactly will we be taken by it?
"Find a way to jump. We can't let it go like that. I shouted.
"No, the sea is down there and we're getting farther and farther from the shore, so we'll die if we do that." Dawn ran over and wiped off a handful of splashed seawater on his face.
The boat was still moving forward without a slight tendency to stop, the waves made a snapping sound, crashing against the hull, majestic and vigorous, different from land driving, although the distance of the ocean is flat and open, but the danger does not need me to say more, more troublesome is that the degree of turbulence of the ship seems to exceed my known surname for sailing. I didn't expect it to swing so much.
"Can't stay here, I can't stay here." At this time, Wu Bin's voice trembled and sounded. At the same time, there was an exclamation from others.
Liming and I turned around and suddenly saw Wu Bin walking towards us with a bloody face, still muttering as he walked, "I can't stay here, I can't." Wu Bin staggered to the side of the ship.
Most of the blood on Wu Bin's face flowed from his eyes and nose, and the blood gathered on his face as if it were alive, squirming. Dawn and I looked shocked and frightened, and stayed there in amazement, not knowing what to do.
At this time, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and Dawn and I saw that the people on the splint were talking to us, and the air gradually formed a hurricane because of the speed of the ship, and it passed through our sleeves, and drove the sails on the pole to hunt, and the sound of the old man facing the wind changed a little, and became indistinct. Finally we understood the shape of his mouth: "Don't let him jump." ”
But when it was too late for us to come to our senses, I saw Wu Bin suddenly accelerate and jump off the boat.
I hurriedly pulled a rope and rushed over, but at this time I saw a strange scene happen, Wu Bin in the water initially swam for a while, and then as if he was pulled by something, he waved his hand and sank underwater. (To be continued.) )