The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 41 Corpses

Before I could hear what he was saying, I saw Uncle Ming's knees weaken and he fell to the ground with a bang, and Duoling and Gu Chai also knelt down, as if they had seen something that made the egg people extremely afraid. Uncle Ming used his knees instead of his feet, crawled over and put the "muscles and bones" soft corpse into a large sealed bag, and saw that the corpse was not wet, and his ugly face gradually eased, and he kowtowed again and again, praying for the blessing of the fisherman.

In the windy and turbulent sea, the egg people and fishermen all regard "Mazu" as a god, and the queen of heaven is a sacred party to bless the safety of the boat at sea, but the people who venture out to sea are not to fight against the wind and waves, but to support their families to earn food, collect eggs and slaughter whales in the sea, or salvage green heads, and catch thousands of catties of big fish, then be sure to worship the "fisherman", please enjoy the sea god to eat.

I always thought that the "fisherman" was the legendary dragon lord in the sea, but when I saw that Uncle Ming and the others were so frightened, they were so respectful to the female corpse in the snail shell, I really didn't know what the three egg people wanted to do. A person who cultivates the Tao of the Formation ascends to immortality after death, and the corpse left behind is called "Remain", is this soft as mud woman's skin is the remains of the "fisherman"?

Shirley Yang wanted to find the map of "Returning to the Ruins" in the snail shell, but unexpectedly Uncle Ming and Duoling sisters and brothers suffered a false alarm, obviously all kinds of things hidden in the green snail shell were known to the egg people and fishermen, so he asked Uncle Ming and the others, what did the female corpse with muscles and bones, as well as the copper sword and jade plate in the snail.

Uncle Ming wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: "Your uncle, this consultant is naturally not in vain, don't look at your masters of touching gold and moving mountains, you have always searched mountains and rivers and walked in danger, but you don't know the story and rules of egg picking at sea." Although they all eat by their skills in the seventy-two lines, they are like mountains across the rows, so you don't know what the female corpse and the short sword are used for, in the eyes of the egg people, these are all sacred objects left by the ancestors. ”

I said: "Uncle Ming, you are a reactionary academic authority, don't talk about the big sale of the clouds and mountains and fog covers, I can guess three points even if I have never picked eggs before, and what is hidden in the snail armor is probably the things used by the ancestors of the Tan people to collect eggs on the bottom of the sea in ancient times." ”

Uncle Ming said: "Hu Zai is worthy of being the Yuan Liang in the Golden Captain, his vision is indeed sharp, this snail sealed by the copper lid is neither a coffin, nor a burial box." The craftsmanship of the egg people is passed on from the barbarians of the sea in the Qin and Han dynasties, the legend is that the ancestors of the Longhu otter family can be placed on the bottom of the sea to attract mussels, and now in the ancient sea temple in some years, you can also see the murals that record the miracles of those ancient times. These Dansha books are all sacred objects of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the means of touching gold are all derived from it, but no one in later generations has ever seen any auspicious books of Dansha. The mussel of the ancestor of the egg man is like the dansha book of the ancestor of the golden man, and it is an artifact that the egg picker has never heard of. ”

Hearing Uncle Ming say this, Shirley Yang and I understood more than half of it. The Tan people are the remnants of the hating heaven clan, they should know how their ancestors went to the sea to collect eggs and slaughter mussels, and the antiquities hidden in the snail armor are all the props used by the hating heaven clan in pearl diving at the bottom of the sea. But how are these strange things used, and is the boneless female corpse of the so-called "mussel beard" also a prop for catching mussels and pearls? For these things of the egg people, we are the second monk who is confused, and we are indeed laymen.

Uncle Ming said that since these things are called for us to meet, they are all entrusted to the fisherman's Hongfu, so they will simply take them back, and if they want to collect eggs in the South China Sea in the future, they will all come in handy. Nowadays, the natural pearls along the coast have been exhausted, and there are not many coral spirals, and there may not be any more moonlight pearls that have been formed in hundreds of years, but these antiquities are the ancestors of the green heads left on the seabed, and they can be sold if they are not used, and they are also a lot of wealth.

But among these green heads, only the "mussel" is more dangerous, just now Shirley Yang said that in ancient times, King Xu Yan's whole body was boneless, only muscles and blood, and this female corpse may have suffered from King Xu Yan's boneless strange disease before her death. King Xu Yan of the ancient Xu Kingdom suffered from a boneless disease, and since he was born, he was a waste man with muscles and bones, who could only lie on his back facing the sky, and could not sit and look down in his life. However, this is not the case with the female corpse of the "mussel beard", she was subjected to a cruel punishment and the bones of her whole body were removed, and the skin and flesh of the corpse were specially treated, as if they had been made into a strange specimen, but this method of making the beard was not circulated from the ruins at all, so future generations could not know.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, because some thousand-year-old mussels are tightly hidden, and their bodies are huge, it is difficult to hold out of the water, so the dragon households in the Tan people must bring "pearl media" into the sea, and place "pearl media" at the bottom of the water to attract pearls. When the old snail giant clam saw the "pearl medium" flashing, he would mistakenly think that the bright moon was in the sky, and they all showed their armor from their hiding places, spit out beads and make the moon, and adopted the essence of the aura of heaven and earth. This technique is extremely dangerous. Because at this time, the bottom of the sea is full of light, attracting the deep-sea evil fish shark dragon to infest, and the dragon often has to fight the dragon to touch the shark's kiss on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to seize the mussel pearl when the old mussel Tibetan pearl is closed. In the past, after Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty heard about the deeds of pearl diving in these dragon households, he exclaimed repeatedly: "Dangerous! ”

The earliest prototype of "Pearl Media" is a "corpse" made of a woman's body. There are often mussel ancestors in the extreme shade of the bottom of the original Hongmeng, which has become a refinement, and this kind of mussel has lived for no less than 1,000 years, and has been fossilized with the submarine reef as one, and refuses to spit out pearls until the full moon is extremely bright. Its mussel pearl is magnificent, and the old mussel is cunning and psychic, the ordinary "pearl medium" can not lead to its mussel beads at all, only to the female corpse to wear beads, the pearls on the beads are worthless fish beads, similar to the stones in the fish brain, there is no brilliance under the water, but the female corpse has a resentful atmosphere, at the bottom of the sea can make the fish beads produce a dull essence light, this halo is heavy, very similar to the moon yin, pearl divers only carry the "corpse" to the water and dive into the sea, in order to attract the mussel essence to vomit the pearl.

This primitive and effective, and with a bit of evil, cruelty and mystery, the method of pearl diving is only in the hands of the ancestors of the Tan people, and even the dragon otters will not make the corpse, they can only use the ordinary deceased phosphopaste mixed with fish beads as a medium, and there is no way to form the mussel essence.

As for the two short swords in the snail armor, the sword body is pitch black, the back blade has a perforation, and it is arranged in the Big Dipper, and the blade handle swallow is cast as one. The hilt of the sword is the form of a scaly merman, the tail of the mermaid is bent and coiled, and the blade of the sword is spit out on the head. The two swords are one yin and one yang, the process is symmetrical and precise, and the edge has become slightly dark red, but it is still sharp, and people will feel cold when they get close. The piercing of the blade is attached to the ear, and the faint sound of the sea tide can be heard, and the two short swords are similar to the "dragon arc", which is the sharp weapon of the ancestors of the Tan people who entered the sea to slaughter mussels and dragons. Looking at the piles of snail armor piled up like a mountain of graves under this patio, I don't know how many water tribes have died under the blade.

Uncle Ming calls himself an egg people, although he has never really picked eggs in the sea, but he is proficient in the world, doing illegal things at sea all the year round, familiar with the maritime affairs, and is more familiar with the craftsmanship and various stories of the egg people than those who really live on it. I looked at his words and knew that what he said was true, but I was a little unimpressed: "This is like the dragon slaying technique said in ancient times, and it has no practical use at all." Now that the old mussels have been killed almost extinct, and the living environment they need is very special, where is there an old mussel that needs to be lured out with a corpse on the bottom of the sea? ”

What I am most concerned about is the set of jade plates and candles in the snail armor, according to legend, when King Wen of Zhou deduced the number of innate hexagrams, the tools used were tortoise shells and candles. Objects such as tortoiseshell keel and jade on the bottom of the sea contain their own mysterious dragon energy, and since ancient times, they have been regarded as spiritual creatures that reach the sky. It is very likely that there are relics of the innate sixteen hexagrams in the ancient city of Guixu, so I asked Uncle Ming to stop talking about those irrelevant mussel ancestor fishermen, jade plates, jade bottles, and those few mermaid candles, but the ancients used them for divination?

Uncle Ming said that the egg man is a barbarian on the sea, never do witch divination, jade plate and candle are through the shadow of the candle to measure the moon of the moon and the lack of the moon, in the early days there were many dragon households also inherited this ancient method, and later there were more types of things to measure the moon and observe the stars, so they gradually stopped using this old method; The ointment in the black jade bottle is the secretion under the scales of the merman, in addition to curing diving diseases, it can also be used to apply to the pearl diver, otherwise the breath of the living person cannot be covered underwater, and those spiritual giant mussels will know that someone has taken the pearl and closed the armor to hide, making it difficult for the egg man to approach. These things, in fact, are a complete set of mysterious instruments used in ancient pearl diving, and I am afraid that they are not intentionally buried in the remains of the shells of the snail mussels.

When everyone heard what Uncle Ming said, they were all apprehensive, looking at the snail shell remains piled up under their feet, they seemed to be able to smell a bloody breath. Mussel disease and pearls, living underwater for thousands of years, harmless to people, but often slaughtered, it is "the husband is not guilty, with his guilt", not only the greed of people, even those shark scales of the sea monster, but also often sacrifice their lives to chase the pearls, tireless. Although there are many mussel shells in the ruins of Guiru, over the years from ancient times to the present, the number of egg people who have died for Nanzhu is probably more than ten times. It is no wonder that the pearls are all taken from the essence of the moon, but it is really because the yin qi is attached and difficult to eliminate, and this yin qi can even make the ancient corpse stay for thousands of years. In ancient times, those dignitaries and nobles who were greedy for Nanzhu, if they knew that every pearl the size of a thumb cover was exchanged for the lives of countless egg people, would they dare to wear it with them again?

The fat man and I put Ruan Hei's body into a hollowed-out snail armor, resealed it with a copper cover, buried it in a grave piled up with mussel shells, and bowed two times together, hoping that he would have a spirit in heaven and be able to rest in peace with beads, and bless us with a smooth sail and a speedy return home. Then they ate something to satisfy their hunger and rested on the spot.

The fat man was not worried about the current situation, he filled the jade treasure robe, and the remains of the mermaid swallowing pearls and other priceless things, all into a backpack, hugged in his arms and fell asleep, in his dream seemed to be counting money, muttering nonsense: "The feeling of the money on the face is so ......"

Uncle Ming looked at the "corpse beard" for a while, and touched the pair of shark scale short swords for a while, although he couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart, he couldn't help but worry about how to get out of the bottom of the sea, and his whole body trembled when he thought of fear and despair.

Gu Chai and Duo Ling were sad about the tragic death of their master, and secondly, they were worried about their future fate and current predicament, and they couldn't sleep after eating some things, and they lay on the "Luojia Tomb" with their bloodshot eyes open and listened to the sound of the sea surging outside the city.

I went over and asked them to seize the time to close their eyes and rest for a while, to see that the momentum of this sea qi surging is ominous, and there may be a great disaster in the future, and when the time comes, it is life or death in this move, if they can't cultivate enough mental strength, they can't grasp the fleeting vitality. We Jiren have our own natural appearance, don't think about anything at the moment, just sleep and talk.

Since entering the "Coral Spiral", everyone has been nervous, no one has to take a breath, at this time they are exhausted, after my persuasion, the spirit is slightly relaxed, Uncle Ming and Duoling sisters and brothers fell asleep in the rubber boat one after another.

Only Shirley Yang's heart was fluctuating and she couldn't sleep, she leaned on her side in the dinghy and whispered to me about how to solve the difficulties faced by the salvage team. The next situation is not optimistic, and there are several sea eyes on the ruins, there are scorching yin fire flows, blocking tens of millions of tons of seawater from irrigating people. However, in the crust of the seabed, the perennial large-scale mining has been hollowed out, making the sea air in the veins of the earth turbulent, once the condensed and accumulated sea air changes, it will produce sea subsidence again, and the sea hole will be rolled with endless sea water into the ruins, and it is more difficult to return to the sea surface from the eye of the sea than to ascend to the sky. We have personally experienced the power of the sea cave to devour the sea, and the huge suction generated by the sea cave at that time can involve all the seabirds in the air, so the sea eye is basically a dead end.

Shirley Young said: "There is turbulence under the ruins, and the water is sometimes calm, sometimes boiling, and even swelling, and the dinghy cannot navigate in such a harsh environment. Although there may be an outlet for the subterranean stream in the distance, it is also difficult to approach, and I don't know when the sea cave will suck the sea water in, and then the ruins of the ancient city that have surfaced will be immediately flooded, and we will not even have a place to stay. ”

In order to clear my mind, I took out the cigarette case and lit a cigarette, thinking that I could smoke in the ancient ruins thousands of years ago, and this kind of treatment is really not something that ordinary people can enjoy. Looking at the smoke of cigarette burning, I suddenly remembered that there was a master in the past, who was born as a fisherman, called "Liu Baitou", he was addicted to tobacco all his life, and he was also a generation of feng shui masters, but he did not look at the mountains but only the water, the most refined way of sea qi, and wrote the strange book "Submarine Eye", which elaborated and demonstrated the mirage of sea and air, and the method of viewing the sea from the water was unique in the world, which was a must.

"Touching the Golden School Captain" of the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", is "exhaustive study of the changes of heaven and earth, self-contained words" of the Feng Shui secret technique, a collection of many grandmasters of the essence of Kanyu, the form of the content of the book can be divided into "figures, tables, songs, tips, Fu" five categories, only in the "dragon hunting" involves the "Southern Dragon". Because the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" is a "guide to touching gold", the analysis of the "Southern Dragon" with few ancient tombs and mountains is not detailed, and the discussion of "sea eye, sea air, and dragon fire" is derived from the "Underwater Eye" written by Liu Baitou, a strange man on the sea.

In "Eyes on the Sea Floor", it is said that the changes in the sea and qi are nothing more than the principle of "Pangu is chaotic, yin and yang are turbid", but in fact, the chaotic qi in the sea has been retained when the world was opened. The water of yin and yang is mixed with each other, and there must be an undercurrent under the sea air, that is, a freshwater hot spring at the bottom of the sea. In ancient times, the Hate Tian clan avoided the island, judging from the scale of the ruins, the population should be quite large, they have been mining copper mines underground all year round, but they have not always lived in this whale-like seabed. The architectural remains in the Coral Spiral Trench all sank from the sea back then, and they needed a huge supply of fresh water for daily needs, and there were many turbulences in the coral forest, probably the remains of the former freshwater deep wells, and if they could identify the direction, they might be able to float back to the Coral Spiral by the fresh water sprayed up from the bottom of the sea.

I thought it was a brilliant idea, but Shirley Field said it would never work. The distance from the sea is too deep for the water pressure and turbulence to be incalculable, and it can tear people to pieces lightly. Then she said that there seemed to be many secrets hidden in the tattoos behind Gu Chai's body, and maybe if she could understand the truth, she would find a way to escape.

The mountain in the sea depicted in the sea tattoo is consistent with what we see, and all kinds of architectural halls are built in the undulating mountains, the mountains are in a ring, there is a black giant tree in the middle, and a strangely shaped zombie is pressed under the wood, and in the depths are the remains of sharks and ancient dragons, the mystery of which is unimaginable if you don't see it with your own eyes. Now the only thing we can do is to recharge our energy for the time being, and then go to the monuments to find out the truth and seek a way out. I talked to Shirley Young for a while, and I felt my eyelids fight, and before I knew it, I fell into a deep sleep.

Maybe it was too tired, this sleep was very solid, and suddenly the sky fell apart, only to feel the sea around the roar, everyone woke up from their sleep together. The water in the patio swelled, the four doorways were submerged, and the two dinghys that had been dragged up to the "clam grave" also floated. I rubbed my eyes, worried that the dinghy would be swept away by the current, and hurriedly called everyone aboard. At this moment, I listened to the sonorous sound of the bronze armor outside the patio, and it was like the bronze warrior statue in the temple that shot the sun, all of which suddenly came to life, and the bronze armor rubbed and collided, and surrounded us. And the sound was dense and difficult to distinguish the number, not only the dozens of bronze giants we saw in the Bronze Hall of Shooting Sun, it seemed that an army of thousands of bronze began to resurrect in the sea. Thousands of troops stepped out of the water, the bronze collision and the sound of the sea surging mixed, I don't know whether it was the sound of the army like a tide, or the tide like a military sound, but this deafening sound was particularly terrifying.