The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 36 The Dragon Is Not Hidden in the Backwater
The British salvage team spent a lot of effort to modify the sea willow ship, intending to enter the coral spiral sea area to fish for green heads, who expected that before the division, all of them died in the bilge of the sea willow ship. The islanders of Coral Temple Island are very secretive about this matter, most of the islanders, including the black market merchant Breaking Force, do not know the details of this matter, only Ruan Hei seems to know some details, but now that he is dead, we can't get any more information from him. Once you encounter something hidden in the bilge that kills you, you don't know how to deal with it.
But what a sinister way to fish for green heads in the sea? Fearing that something would come to him, the shark's head crashed through the hidden compartment of the cabin, and a lifeless black water flowed out of the eyes of the dead man's skull in the cabin. I hurriedly dragged the fat man who was squatting on the ground up and hurriedly took a few steps back.
At this time, the water level recedes, and the water surface of the bilge is only above the surface of the feet, but when you move around, you still have to "bang and la" the water, and the water level in the ruins is not stable, and it rises and falls irregularly. I don't think the momentum is right, and if I stay in the bilge, I will probably die like the British. Among the British salvage team, there were many experts in exploration and maritime salvage, and they were so experienced and well-equipped that they still lost their lives here, and they must have been caught off guard by the suddenness of the incident.
The fat man and I took a few steps back, only to see the shadows in the sea stone flowers turning into black water flowing out, and the several diving flashlights equipped on our bodies, as well as the waterproof lamp port in front of us, flashed a few times at the same time, and the lights seemed to be disturbed, flickering on and off, making a short sound of "stinging, stinging, stinging, stinging". Unlike a strong light searchlight, the maximum battery-powered voltage specification of the diving flashlight is only "3.8V0.5A", and it is hard to imagine that a quartz bulb will emit such a movement.
The beam of the flashlight is bright and dark, and it makes people's eyes glaze. Seeing that the light and shadow in the dark bilge were in a trance, I hurriedly slapped the head of the flashlight a few times, and the beam was able to stabilize down, but the quartz bulb in the lamp seemed to be overwhelmed, and the light was much dimmer than before.
The light in the bilge was dim, and I felt a chill in the water under my feet, as if something hiding in the cabin was hiding in the water, and at any moment it would stretch out its ghost hand and grab my ankle like a water ghost. Perhaps due to the fact that it was not clear in the dimness, this feeling became more and more intense. The fear of "water" is difficult to suppress for a while.
The four of us and the fat man were trembling, and we took a few steps back one after another, and our backs had reached a row of boxes piled up, and there was no way back. Gu Chai was a little afraid of ghosts, so he panicked and wanted to escape. I quickly grabbed him: "Don't move. "Where can a blind man run in the dark? Now that it has collided, if there is really some fierce ghost hidden in the bilge, if there is no break here, even if it escapes from the Trident, it will continue to be entangled, and it will run away like a lost dog and a fish that has slipped through the net, and it will definitely give away its life in a daze.
In fact, in the current situation, it is difficult for me to judge whether to flee or stay, but I hold a basic principle that if you don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle, you can't risk everyone's lives until you are sure whether you can escape safely from the bilge. The light of the flashlights is too dim to do anything in the bilge where the light of day is gone, and they can no longer be counted on. I fumbled in my dive bag and pulled out the only phosphorescent tube I had.
Since I became a captain of the gold school, out of professional habits, I rely on lighting equipment very much, lest I bring it enough. The phosphorescent cylinder is full of white phosphorus, which can be used for lighting underwater, and the light is far stronger than fluorescence, so it is not suitable for aquatic environments. When the flashlight broke, I was anxious to get some light, so I took out the phosphorescent tube, pulled the collar, and threw it into the bilge a few centimeters deep.
The white phosphorus in the water immediately appeared dazzling and dazzling light, although there was a bilge water barrier, I still felt a tingling in front of my eyes, in the miserable white light that made people's heads swell, I saw that the black water flowing out of the sea stone flowers, was gathering into a ghost figure similar to a human shape, the black water floated just blocked the way to the upper cabin, there were a few strange fish with their heads hit the cabin, were caught by the black water of the bilge, and died on the ground in silence.
In an instant, a few strange fish kowtowing like pounding garlic, only the dead fish scattered everywhere remained, these strange fish did not die when they left the water, but they were touched by the black water, they all died so abruptly, the bilge suddenly quieted down, and a ghostly black water, like a black cloth floating in the water, floated over the white shark corpse that fell to the bilge, and floated towards us silently.
I saw the black water leaping over the shark carcass that came out of the water, and secretly screamed, if it could only survive in the water, we would still be alive, but since it could get out of the water and move with the dead fish attached to the deck, where could we hide? The four of them had no choice but to shout, and quickly dispersed outward to dodge, and in the white phosphorescence, a black piece of sewage suddenly stood up from the bulkhead and floated onto the roof, and all the parts of the hull made of sea willows were oozing out with blood-like black water.
The fat man jumped onto the wooden crate where the supplies were stored and called out to me, "Commander Hu." Take the bronze mirror and shine on it! "I dodged and climbed up a wooden box, heard the fat man's shout, reached out and touched the diving bag containing the bone mirror of King Qin, the cold and hard copper mirror was in it, the black water that can flow out of the sea stone flower is extraordinary, the bronze mirror can only crush the corpse, how can I deal with this ghostly backwater?
I saw that the black water was surging up to the ceiling, and a gap flashed in front of the door, so I pointed to the hatch door to Shirley Yang, and asked her to take this opportunity to take Gu Chai out, me and the fat man first tried to delay here for a while, Shirley Yang is not the kind of person who likes to be more serious, she should understand that the terrain of the bilge is narrow, and it is not only impossible to play it if she stays underneath, but is prone to accidents due to the terrain restrictions, so she immediately grabbed Gu Chai by the arm, pulled him and ran to the hatch.
The black water on the top seemed to be aware of it, sensing that Shirley Yang and Gu Chai wanted to escape, and floated across the deck, like a black flag blown by the wind, falling straight from above. Shirley Yang saw that the situation was not good, and dragged Gu Chai to make a turn, and splashed to the inside of the bilge, so that the four people who had just dispersed were forced to the side of the cargo hold.
There are stacked cargo boxes all around, and the corpse of a giant shark is underground, and if you want to jump into the water through the hole in the bilge, it is equivalent to feeding the shark yourself, which is nothing more than a different way to die. The black shadow seemed to be formless and substantial, moving like a ghost in the cabin, and in the phosphorescent light, it only felt that it was dark in front of him, and the ghost shadow floated in front of him. I know that anyone who touches this shadow will immediately stop their heart and die on the spot, but there is no way back, and there is nothing to resist.
When death came, I couldn't help but feel a little sad in my heart, and I felt that my back was cold, but then I realized that something was wrong, not because I lost my life, but because I was scared to the bottom of my heart. The place where my back leans against is cold and a large stone wall, this chill is from behind, in my impression, there is no such gloomy and cold thing in the sea willow boat, I don't care about looking back, only touch it with my hand, and immediately wake up, before entering the coral spiral, I salvaged a floating stone coffin in the sea, and the sarcophagus hidden in it is well preserved as new, and the material is a rare stone mirror.
The stone mirror is the ancient wood on the seabed and turned into stone, the layer is smooth like a mirror, and the undersea yin qi is obtained, it is impacted by the tide for thousands of years, and the stone forms layers of layers, undulating ripples, and the denser the texture, the harder the texture. In Huainan Wanbishu, a branch of Qingwu Feng Shui, it was clearly mentioned that the ghosts of Shineng Town were said that there were shadow walls in the old courtyard and old houses, one was to block the family's wealth from leaking, and the other was to prevent ghosts from entering the house. The earliest shadow walls are all bluestone bricks, and later gradually use kiln bricks, people who know the way to settle down, still have to bury stones under the wall, which is to take the stone town ghost to block the evil.
People are in a hurry to rebel, dogs are in a hurry to jump over the wall, and the methods and ways to survive are forced out as a last resort. This thought flashed in my mind, and it was said that the life of Captain Jin was the hardest among the tomb robbers, and if it was really an endless road, the stone mirror ancient coffin behind us was our only chance. The sarcophagus was kept in the cabin of the ship, always used to preserve perishable items, and with the consumption of a large amount of material in the Coral Spiral, there was now only an empty coffin with the stone lid on the side. I saw that the black ghost floating in the water was approaching, and I hurriedly set up a ladder with the fat man, and let Shirley Yang and Guchai climb onto the cargo box tied together on the side.
The black shadow-like black water came and went so quickly, and in an instant, it was under your feet, and an eerie chill surged. As soon as I pulled the fat man, the two of them lifted their feet and stepped into the sarcophagus, and the black water attached to the coffin wall and flowed into the coffin. I scolded the fat man: "The son of a bitch came so quickly...... hurriedly pulled out of the black water and jumped out of the stone mirror coffin. The phosphorescent light from the bilge did not enter the sarcophagus, and in the already cold coffin, the black tide was surging.
I know that if this piece of black water is really a terrible ghost attached to the sea willow boat, as long as the coffin lid is closed, it will never think of it, how dare I hesitate at the moment, and before the black water gushes out of the coffin again, I lifted the coffin lid and buckled it, and then turned over and sat on it and pressed it. The sarcophagus is clasped, like a strong armor embrace, no gaps can be penetrated, only listen to the sound of water whistling in the sarcophagus, such as the sea rolling waves and angry waves, it took a long time to calm down.
Looking at the black water flowing out of the sea willows on the four walls, those hard 10,000-year-old sea willows seem to have lost their essence, and they all turned into rotten wood in an instant. If this ancient coffin had not been found in the sea before, or had not put it in the bilge, today I am afraid that it will be the same as the British salvage team, and it will be explained here in an unclear way, but what is in the cabin, whether it is a ghost or a thing, there is no way to know.
When I saw Shirley Yang get down from the cargo box, I asked her to take Gu Chai first, and then I beckoned the fat man to find some thick ropes to tie up the goods. These ropes are a mixture of yellow vine, silk brown, and human hair, and they can't be broken after soaking in water for many years, and they are tied vertically and horizontally on the sarcophagus dozens of times, and seven or eight dead knots are tied up. At this time, the entire hull of the sea willows was about to fall apart, and the hull made a creaking sound. It looks like it will soon be scattered from the stranded stone pillar into the water, and the sarcophagus will sink into the ruins.
I touched the bone mirror of King Qin in my bag, beckoned to the fat man, and we climbed onto the deck in the crumbling cabin. The water was still calm and calm, after Shirley Yang met Uncle Ming, he had already put down two small boats, Uncle Ming and Gu Chai and Duoling took a ride, and Ruan Hei's corpse wrapped in a white cloth was also among them, and I jumped into another lifeboat where Shirley Yang was with the fat man.
As soon as he stepped onto the rubber boat, the Trident behind him was centrifuged inside and out, the hull of the ship became fragmented, and everything on the ship fell into the water with a clatter, and in a moment only a mess was left on the water. Everyone was silent, watching the sea willow boat scatter and sink, thinking that this ship that once accompanied us in life and death at sea, through the stormy waves, will disappear in the sea of ruins and no longer exist, thinking of this heart is like overturning the five-flavor bottle, there is an indescribable taste.
Uncle Ming had already learned from Shirley Yang about the brief history of our recovery of the Qin King's bone mirror from the wreck, and he could see that the wreckage of the ship was gradually sinking to the bottom, and his face looked very ugly: "I hope to find something to repair the ship...... But now there are no more sea willows, only two dinghys left, and we are in the middle of the vast sea. There is no trace of land within a radius of several hundred nautical miles, how can you return to Coral Temple Island? ”
Shirley Yang said: "Lost in this sea of chaos hidden under the eyes of the sea, is the biggest trouble in front of us, only by trying to return to the real sea surface of the coral spiral, it is possible to seek rescue at sea, Lao Hu, what do we think we should do now?" ”
I looked around, only to see the sea air, the overhead of the yin fire in the rock formations from time to time, like the starry sky hanging upside down, in the boat floating on the sea, really like a boat in the sky, looking at the extreme, but also can not see the edge of this water of ruins, east, west, north and south seem to be all the same, I really don't know where is the crossing.
When I heard Shirley Yang ask me, I could only grin bitterly: "This place is really big enough, if only we had a pedal boat, it is a fool's dream to row the lifeboat out with two stupid strengths." "Actually, what I said is also the truth, how to escape from the sea with a lifeboat, how to return to the real sea from this chaotic and boundless sea of ruins, how to continue to paddle with the wooden oars on the boat for a long time is the primary problem, and how can this small boat withstand the occasional swells? Who knows if there are any boat-swallowing fish in the sea?
When Uncle Ming heard me say this, he became even more worried: "What is the ruin? The Buddhist scriptures say that the weak water is 3,000, and it is difficult to cross it unless you die. We've fallen into weak water. Weak water is stagnant water, there will be no exit door, no one wants to go back alive, poor my good daughter Ah Xiang, who was abducted to the United States by you, who can take care of her in the future? ”
I said to Uncle Ming: "Weak water is a metaphor, how can there really be weak water in the world?" Don't worry about it, in addition to touching gold, the best thing is the word 'hope', and the art of Qingwu Kanyu specializes in analyzing and dismantling geographical veins. The sea eye is the place where the sea gas of the South Dragon condenses, and it is said in feng shui that the prosperity of the dragon fire and sea qi here is unparalleled in the world, and if it is stagnant, there will be no such regular dragon qi. So in my opinion, there must be living water under the ruins. But it's an elusive undercurrent, with a lot of shipwreckage and remnants of ancient buildings, as well as deep canyons gushing with boiling hot springs. There should be a large amount of geothermal freshwater resources under the coral spiral sea, otherwise the salt content of the sea water is too high, and there will be no place for those old snail giant mussels to hide their eggs. If you manage to find out where the water is flowing, you may be able to dive back to the surface from the labyrinthine coral reef. But let's not mess around, now let's go to the ancient city that emerged from the water to bury Ruan Hei, and after a short rest, then think about it in the long run. Dwarfed by the situation, looking for the way to advance and retreat, this is the good trick of touching the golden captain, my half of the "Sixteen Characters Mingyang Feng Shui Secret Technique", is not the trick of the overpass - it is useless. ”
I bluffed people with the secret technique of Captain Jin, in fact, I don't have a score in my heart, but although Uncle Ming made a fortune by running a boat in the South Seas, his ancestors were also tomb robbers who carried corpses in the south, and he often resold valuable dried corpses, like the prince of the Western Regions, the general in the desert, the princess of Loulan, the fragrant corpse of the Tianshan Mountains, and the mummy of the Qin corpse and Han figurines...... There is nothing he hasn't poured upside down, of course, most of the "names" of the dried corpse are installed by himself, and he thinks that he is also a half-inverted craftsman. In the eyes of ordinary tomb robbers, Captain Touching Jin is the Yuan Liang in this industry, and he has the ability to reach the sky, so when he mentioned this matter, Uncle Ming really felt a lot more relieved, and since the goal was determined, everyone picked up the oars respectively, rowed the two small boats on the water, and slowly sailed into the distance.
While rowing, the fat man looked at the gold watch he fished up from the wreck, the gold watch was reflected by the moonlight dragon fire veins in the sky, and it was even more golden, and the fat man didn't recognize what brand it was after looking at it for a long time, so he held it up for Shirley Yang to identify whether it was omega or not.
As soon as I looked at the gold watch, I remembered that in the Mary Sannu, in a broken mirror, I saw a bearded man with a gold watch lying behind him, and it was the ghost of the captain. At that time, the underwater situation was chaotic, and the rest of the people didn't notice it except me, but after that, Gu Chai was not abnormal, so I put this matter in my mind for the time being, and when I thought of this, I couldn't help but peek at Gu Chai with my eyes.
Gu Chai had some minor injuries on his body, and his senior sister Duoling had already helped him with emergency treatment, although he was tired at this time, he still insisted on helping rowing with a brute force and tenacity.
When I looked at him, Gu Chai couldn't help but look back at the water behind him, I saw that he was acting abnormally, and immediately asked him what he was looking back at, Gu Chai heard my words, glared and replied, "Ghosts, there are ghosts." ”