Chapter 55 The Dutchman Flying in the Sky

Uncle Ming was afraid that he would fall into the sea, so he hugged a piece of arrow stone and shouted: "Hu Zai, it is still your uncle and I usually do too many good deeds and accumulate great virtues, so that Ji people have their own natural appearance. ”

I used to be in Fujian, and I also heard that there was a "dragon soldier" in the South China Sea, and the phenomenon of Haishi and Haizi is a rare spectacle on the sea, that refers to whales or turtles gathering in groups, whale spine tortoise shells floating out of the water, looking at the sea from afar, magnificent. Fishermen believe that the phenomenon of "crossing the dragon soldiers" is a good omen, and passing a large number of sea fish floating in the water is a sign of a bad harvest and a disaster that is about to be shipwrecked.

In fact, the phenomenon of "dragon soldiers" is caused by drastic changes on the seabed, causing groups of aquatic tribes in the sea to migrate, which may be the disappearance of the sea air dragon fire in the coral spiral, and the turtles in the ruins are floating far away, which happens to lift up the sacred tree that we rely on to float. In the past, the fat man and I were in the Hundred Eyes Cave between the grassland and the desert, and we had seen the tortoise shells all over the ground, and the sea atmosphere in the "turtle burial" changed like a ghost city, resulting in a gray monument. Now that I think about it, in the ghost market of the Hundred Eyes Cave, the strange scenes that change are the ancient tombs in the ruins. As early as thousands of years ago, there must have been several "dragon soldiers" turtle migration wonders, but the turtles that escaped from the ruins back then have long been buried in the turtle sleeping place of the Hundred Eyes Yellow Spring.

Uncle Ming asked everyone to seize the opportunity to chop the corpse of the grandmother again with a knife, I saw that things had taken a turn for the better, thinking that the lives of Ruan Hei and Duoling Master and apprentice were left at the end of the remaining veins of the southern dragon, and I felt a lot of loss in my heart, and suddenly felt weak all over my body, and felt that I couldn't stand on my feet, so I sat on the wood, and as soon as my hand touched the wood, the wooden blocks and arrows fell into the water. I looked down and saw that the cracks on the wood were deepening and expanding, and I couldn't help but shiver immediately: "Oh no, this ancient tree has been hit by the sea under the ghost island, and it is the most fragile, and it looks like it will soon fall apart, and a catastrophe is coming." Before they could warn the rest of the people, the azela floating in the sea had already begun to disintegrate.

The azela wood floating on the surface of the coral spiral sea, in the eyes of the sea for thousands of years, has been alive and alive in the sea, and now it has left the ruins, and has suffered several heavy blows one after another, and the bark full of scales and the arrows embedded in it have begun to fall off and peel off. The corpse of the shark grandmother was impulsed by the waves, and slowly broke away from the alea wood, and the broken half of the sacred tree drifted along the sea.

We saw that this thick natural "canoe" could not last long at sea before it was shattered by the ocean currents, but under the starry night sky, there was a vast endless sea water in all directions, and everyone was helpless.

I looked at the undulating turtles around me and was thinking hard about what to do, and suddenly I saw that there seemed to be a person on the back of the turtle not far away. The man was wearing a diving suit with a yellow logo, which was quite conspicuous on the sea, and his long hair was spread out, which was the Duoling who had fallen into the ruins. She lay motionless on the turtle's back, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive, the giant turtle floated with the current, and suddenly sank into the sea, and Duoling's body was immediately washed aside by the sea.

It may be that she didn't die after falling from the sacred tree, and with the skillful water nature of the egg people, she dragged the giant turtle that escaped from the ruins in the turbulence, and was able to return to the sea. Seeing Duo Ling fall into the sea from the back of the turtle and drift past the tree, I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly greeted Gu Chai, and jumped to the end of the wood in one step, grabbed a piece of arrow stone and jumped into the water, and pulled Duo Ling's hair.

I grabbed the arrow stone and climbed up the tree, only to see Shirley Yang was doing his best to rescue, many bells were like white paper, unconscious, but after rescue, finally spit out a few mouthfuls of seawater, and had a trace of vitality.

A stone fell to the ground in my heart, and I looked at Gu Chai who was kowtowing to the east, as if to thank Ruan Hei for having a spirit in the sky and keeping Duo Ling alive, and as if he was worshipping the ancestor of the egg people. The fat man dragged him up: "Don't hit the wood with your head, why don't you think it's sinking fast enough?" Thank God it's all nonsense, death does not belong to the proletariat, I fought in the mountains back then......"

In the sea, it is most taboo to mention words such as "turning, pouring, sinking", and before the fat man's voice fell, he was held down by Uncle Ming: "Fat boy, everyone is going to be killed by you, don't bully the mountains and the water, dare to talk nonsense if there are taboo words!" ”

The fat man was furious, and was about to denounce the absurd views of Uncle Ming, an old "reactionary academic authority", but at this time, everyone felt that their feet suddenly loosened, and for a while they all staggered and stood unsteadily, and the wooden body under their feet continued to crack and scatter. I didn't scream, I thought that this rotten stake would at least float at sea for an hour, but now it looks like it's about to break up.

At this time, the turtles had dived to the bottom of the sea and disappeared, and there was nothing above the sea, and a wave hit, and the part of the tree that surfaced was suddenly shattered. Everyone fell into the water one after another, so they had to grab the scattered wood, there are a lot of sharks in the South China Sea, even if you are lucky not to encounter evil sharks, how long can you last when you are immersed in the icy water?

I was carrying a heavy bronze mirror on my back, and I even grabbed a few wooden boards, but they were all rotten and loose, and it was difficult to bear people, so I had to pull the lifeguard on my shoulder. A small life-saving air bag was immediately filled with gas and floated high and low on the surface of the sea. When I was complaining about my distress, I suddenly heard Shirley Yang greet me and say, "Old Hu, look, there is a boat!" ”

I thought I heard it wrong, how can there be a ship in the Coral Spiral Sea? But at this time, the fat man and others also shouted on the sea, as if everyone had really discovered the ship. I looked closely, but it was not a foreign ship, it turned out that the top of the tree, although there was no passage, but the inside was also hollowed out, and there were some strange funerary goods inside, after the wood was broken, it was scattered and floated in the sea, and there was a complete ancient ship hidden in it. The ship with a short shallow bottom and an oval hull seemed to be a funerary object for the undead at the bottom of the sea, and in our words, the ship was a bright vessel.

In the midst of the surging waves, we couldn't see what was going on with the ship for a while, but at this time, there was finally a life-saving straw, not to mention that the ship was a bright weapon, even if it was a ghost ship, it would only be said by climbing up first. I am afraid that if I hesitate a little, once the amplitude of the swell on the sea surface increases, everyone will be swept away by the waves in an instant.

I quickly refreshed myself and swam to the side of the boat, and when I got closer, I realized that the bottom of the ship was made of the bone armor of a giant tortoise, which was about one size larger than an ordinary lifeboat, and there was no problem with accommodating five or six people. There was only one shallow cabin in the ship, which was filled with some burial goods such as coral, and because it was for the dead, there was nothing practical. With whale skin as the sail and shark tendons as the cable, this almost fossilized tortoiseshell whalebone boat can last longer than ordinary wooden boats, and can still be used today. But this ancient ship is like a model that will surely be buried at the bottom of the sea if it encounters strong winds and waves.

But we didn't care about it so much, so we helped each other to get on the "dead ship" one after another, lying on the tortoise shell and panting, and no one had the strength to move anymore. Now is not the wind season at sea, the sea air condensed by the southern dragon in the eyes of the sea disappears, and there is no better ** than when I came, as long as Mazu blesses that there is no hurricane, we live on this lonely boat, at least for the time being, we don't have to worry about falling in the sea to feed the sharks.

Duo Ling in the boat was still unconscious, and the rest of the people were a little tired, and they closed their eyes and fell asleep in exhaustion, not wanting to open their eyes even if the sky fell. My two eyelids fought, and I was also confused for an hour or two, and I was still vaguely thinking about the details of the "Mountain Moving and Reclamation Technique", and I was thinking hard about how to use the magic of the Mountain Movers to sail this bone armor ship back to Coral Temple Island without water and food.

In the second half of the night, I was hungry and angry, and I woke up to see Shirley Yang had woken up at some point, leaning on the whalebone mast and staring at the starry sky. I also looked at the dense stars in the sky for a while, this experience of going to sea flashed in my mind one by one, with feelings, I couldn't help but say to Shirley Yang: "I also knew that the Coral Spiral Sea was unpredictable, but I still came with a hot head, and now I have fallen into such a situation, there is a boat full of priceless green heads, but I can't exchange it for a pot of water and half a piece of dry food, looking back, we were probably crazy at that time......"

Shirley Yang said: "Just you are a madman, I am a fool at most, I was tricked by you to go crazy with you." ”

I hurriedly defended myself and said, "I'm crazy, that's what Professor Chen did." I really admire the predecessors who spent their lives in ancient times touching gold and moving mountains, this kind of day I don't know what will happen tomorrow, and I have no home everywhere in the world, which is really not something that anyone can bear, how many brain cells have to die every day on this kind of day? It's time for a few days to live a life of peace. ”

Shirley Yang sighed softly: "It would be nice if you really had that kind of awareness, but the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change, in your eyes, the scenery is always in the distance, and there is no scenery in the near place, and you can't be honest at home for a few days." But this time we are drifting on the sea, the sea is merciless, but it is really not as good as the past, may God forbid, don't let us be Dutchmen flying in the sky. ”

"The Flying Dutchman" is synonymous with the ghost ship, a legend that refers to the cursed to drift forever on the sea without being able to dock, I have heard Shirley Young mention it before, and at this moment I can't help but feel a little chill down my spine at the thought of it, and I hurriedly find a way to divert my attention and examine the green head fished out of the South China Sea.

In the past, he was the captain who touched the gold of the mountains and Ze, and ten times he was not as fruitful as being an egg farmer this time, and almost all of this thing in the eyes of the South China Sea was fished out, and the most important of them was, of course, the Qin King Bone Mirror, which belonged to the head of the Eight Mirrors of King Qin, if it could be handed over to Professor Chen, it would be regarded as a wish.

However, this bronze mirror was heavy, and after I found it from the wreck, I had never seen it in a bag again, so I took it out and looked at it again with Shirley Yang. The bright moon hangs high on the sea, but in the moonlight, the ancient mirror has no luster, the mirror is worn very strictly, and the fine seal carved and cut by the mirror body is extremely fine. The summer ware is plain and has no lines, the Yin ware is simple and majestic, the wisps are like insects and fish swimming, but the carved seal of the Qin King according to the bone mirror is like a tadpole forming a formation, like the hexagram of Han Gu, it is estimated that it is a secret weapon cast in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

I was marveling at myself, and my eyes fell on the four-legged mermaid in the corner of the bronze mirror, but I was stunned on the spot as if I had been sucked in. The four-legged fish decorated with the mirror body is simple and expressive, but the fish eyes are empty, just like the bronze dragon talisman I found in the Hundred Eyes Cave more than ten years ago. The blind dragon talisman is also an antiquity handed down from which dynasty and which generation, and was packed in the bronze coffin of Wong Tai Sin to make a bright vessel, and now carefully recall, the dragon talisman and the fish ornaments on the bronze mirror, the age of the bones, the size of the model, are extremely similar.

Chen Jingzi, who lives as a fortune teller in Beijing, seems to know the secret, but last time he was in a hurry, after I mentioned the blind dragon talisman, he only made a "four" gesture, and then his whereabouts were unknown. I have thought about it repeatedly, but I can't guess what the "four" is, now I see the bronze mirror on the purposeless four-legged fish as the ornament, the heart is a cloud of fog, is the "four" refers to four bronze ancient vessels, the dragon and the fish are one of them, and the other two are what? What are these eyeless bronze beasts used for? What's the secret? The tadpole pattern on the bone mirror of the King of Qin seems to contain hexagrams, and perhaps these mysterious bronze dragons and copper fish without eyes are related to the all-day hexagram in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The sixteen-character all-day hexagram contains an infinite number of machines, which can be deduced into various hexagrams. Hexagrams need to be interpreted with hexagrams, which are really difficult for me to ascend to the sky, but the ancient ancestors of the Tan people have passed down the most primitive Western Zhou Quantian hexagram mantra from generation to generation, although the formula is not complicated, but the content is more profound than the author of "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" Zhang Yingchuan studied. However, the Tan people have always regarded these hexagrams as a spell to protect themselves at the bottom of the sea, and they do not seem to know their origins.

Thinking of this, I turned my head to look at the sleeping Gu Chai and thought that it would be better to wait for him to wake up and ask him about King Qin's bone mirror, maybe he would know the mystery in the blind copper beast.

I was thinking about it on the boat, when the fat man and Uncle Ming also woke up hungry one after another, and the sea was calm and the tide was calm, and I don't know where the broken ship has drifted now. Everyone moistened their throats with the last few drops of water from the kettle, and discussed how to catch a few of them and eat them raw if a flying fish passed by the boat for a while.

I also felt hungry, so I first reinstalled the bone mirror of King Qin, and said to everyone: "Revolution is to invite guests to eat, if you don't fill your stomach, you have no strength to do anything, you must have an attitude and appetite like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves when you eat and drink, and you can't be sloppy, so we have to think about it quickly......"

I talked to the fat man and Uncle Ming and tried to catch fish. Uncle Ming said that there are flying colors in the South China Sea, often in groups on the sea surface through the waves, as soon as the sky is bright, as long as the pearl is used as a guide, you can attract the winged flying fish to pass by the side of the boat. But it was still the middle of the night, and we waited at the bow of the boat for a long time, but no fish came out of the water.

We had no choice but to wait until dawn to make plans, and when we turned around, we saw Shirley Young checking on the unconscious Duoling. There is no medical treatment in the vast sea, and if she continues to be unconscious, I am afraid that her life will be in danger, and the situation is not optimistic.

Shirley Young noticed that her condition was deteriorating and asked me to take a busy look at Duoling's pulse. But as soon as I touched Duoling's wrist, I felt that there was something hidden under her sleeve, as if she was wearing a watch, I thought it was a diving watch, so I wanted to take it off for her, but unexpectedly, what Duoling was wearing on her wrist was the diamond-encrusted gold watch that the fat man took off from the arm of the dead man in the sunken ship. Seeing this, the fat man wanted to take the watch back, but the gold watch was already deeply embedded in the flesh of Duoling's wrist, and perhaps it could be found with a knife.

I looked at the gold watch and said, "This gold watch...... Why did you run to her? "Just when I was suspicious, I suddenly heard a fishy smell in the sea breeze. We have dealt with dead bodies many times, and we all feel like corpses, but there are no decomposing corpses on the ship, so I can't help but wonder.

Uncle Ming is an ancient corpse that has been poured for more than ten years, and when he smells it, he knows that it is definitely a corpse smell. Everyone sniffed each other for a long time before they were sure that the corpse smell came from Duoling's body, and upon closer inspection, it was found that there were indeed not obvious corpse spots on her body, and there were still a few drops of fishy corpse oil flowing out of her mouth and nose. I had long thought that the wreck of the Mary Xiannu was not very peaceful, and that there might be something wrong with the captain's gold watch, so I didn't care if it would hurt Duoling's flesh and skin, so I used a diving dagger to pick off the gold watch and threw it into the sea.

Uncle Ming exclaimed: "Oh no, the gold watch was fished out of the sunken ship, and I am afraid that it was lowered by the evil art of lowering the head of the South Seas, what is the use of just throwing the gold watch away?" Now that the head has descended on her, the smell of her corpse is worse than that of an infectious disease, if you don't throw Ah Ling into the sea to feed the fish, none of us in this boat will want to live. ”

Uncle Ming wandered around the South Seas for a long time, and when he saw the smell of corpses in the gold watch, he thought that he had been lowered. The three techniques of "descending, Gu, and hesion", also known as the three major evil techniques of Nanyang, are strange poisons made of various unbelievable methods; The principle of Gu art is inseparable from the word "confusion", which is to raise poisonous insects and release Gu to make people lose their minds; The head-descending technique is a demonic technique that uses charms, corpses, and ghosts as a medium to harm people, and the corpses and ghosts derived from it can quickly lead to the death of a large number of people and animals like an infectious disease, which is more severe than the plague and is the most elusive.