The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 54 The Dragon Soldiers
Finally passed through the cracked rock formation, and there were already crooked copper slaves around him, and the sound of the huge bowl around him was still resounding. I took the opportunity to look down at the surface of the water in the coral cave, the turbid subterranean current was tumbling, the black scales in the water were shaking, and two shark eyes with a fierce gray light were staring up at the sky.
I wondered for a while, the moon under the water has dispersed, why does the shark still refuse to return to the nest? It wants to eat us, can't we? But then when he looked up at the sky, he already understood the reason, and he couldn't help but cry out again and again. Tongyue Shenmu is pointing directly at the gap on the ghost island, at this moment the sea air gradually dissipates, the perennial accumulation of clouds on the sea surface is gone, just at night, the stars and moon on the sea are shining, the clear moonlight is sprinkled into the ruins, the shark is looking up at the bright moon at the bottom of the sea, where is willing to return to the underwater cave.
Seeing the water waves, the black-scaled shark basked jumped on the azale, and its ovaries and placenta were full of mucus, which were attached to the tree as a sucker, and actually crawled up from the water with a squirming squirrel. I cursed to myself, cut off the oxygen cylinder of the empty scuba with a diving dagger, threw it down and smashed it on the shark's body, but how could this stop it in the slightest.
I even urged the fat man and others above to climb up as much as possible, don't look back. Everyone had thrown away their oxygen cylinders, stuck their short knives into the trees, and climbed to the top of the sacred tree with all their might, and as soon as they arrived, they were forced to the end of the road. The fat man became weaker and weaker as he climbed, and when he looked down, he was dizzy and slipped off the wet arrow stone. This place is not the same as in the water, suddenly falling straight down, I hurriedly reached out to grab it, but was taken out by the force of his fall, and the two of them rolled and fell down dozens of meters high Tongtian Divine Tree.
The top of the sacred tree is wide, and there are many arrow stones embedded in it, and when viewed from a distance, it looks like a tree canopy. It is a fossil of an ancient sea creature, in the shape of a flat and obtuse angle, with a wonderful pattern similar to a shell, it seems that it is not embedded by man, but in the ancient ocean age, this was once the bottom of the sea, there are many arrow stones like old snails attached to the sea tree, and the clusters are attached to the top of the sacred tree, forming this rare canopy wonder today.
I was dragged by the fat man and fell from the sacred tree, and in the midst of everyone's exclamations, I felt a sharp blow on my back, and it landed right on a protruding arrow stone. The arrow stone was like the umbrella cover of an old tree, holding us up for a moment, but this fossil was a hundred times harder than the real canopy, and this time it hit my bones so hard that my eyes blackened and I almost fainted.
But the more unfortunate thing is still to come, the arrow stone pavilion on the giant tree is like a cover, at the top of the tree, forming hundreds of natural inclined platforms, as if a cloud of colorful clouds turned into the crown of ancient pines and cypresses. At high tide, Ghost Island is submerged under the surface of the sea, and the sea water pours down through the hole, washing the canopy over the years, and although the arrowstones embedded in the wooden body die in it, they still inevitably produce many wave cracks under the water pressure, and even some of the arrowstones have already broken and fallen.
The fat man and I landed on an arrow stone, and before we could get up from the inclined stone face, the crack of the arrow stone under us suddenly expanded and extended, and after a pause, it snapped apart with a "click". We continued to fall downwards with the stones, and we broke three or five layers of arrow stones before we could stop the momentum.
The fat man's most feared thing is to fall down from a height, and on weekdays, he is filled with the "invincible majesty, the pride of Lingyun", and he has long since disappeared, hugging my thighs tightly, closing his eyes on the surface of the inclined and slippery arrow stone and shouting: "Commander Hu, for the sake of the party-state, quickly pull the brothers!" ”
I don't have as much skin and flesh as the fat man, these few blows have been unbearable pain in the joints of the whole body, and the fat man hugged the thighs, involuntarily gradually slid down, quickly gritted his teeth and forced, and used a diving dagger to insert a knife into the wooden trunk of Shenmu, so that the body was temporarily fixed, but the tendons on the legs were about to be broken by the fat man. Looking down, the shark at the bottom of the sea climbed the trunk of the tree with a turbid current, and climbed up without a head. The few arrows that we had just smashed were like iron plates and steel pieces that had fallen in mid-air, and they were inserted into its body one by one, and blood was gushing out, staining the nearby seawater.
At this time, if you stumble and fall, even if you are lucky not to be swallowed by the shark, you will have to fall on the copper slave who is half submerged in the water, and your brain will burst. The fierceness in my bones attacked, ignoring the pain in my body, I pierced the trunk of the tree with a dagger with one hand, and grabbed the edge of the arrow stone with the other, and slowly dragged the fat man up with the strength of milk. As long as you get up from this slippery stone face, you can climb back to the sacred tree.
Although I forcibly dragged the fat man up less than half a meter with my legs, the toughness of the diving dagger had exceeded its limit, and the blade was broken. In this way, I only have the hand that reaches the arrow stone to make the upper force, and the strength of the whole body is eaten here, and those fingers have become numb unconsciously, and they are about to slip off their hands, and it is difficult to have the art of returning to heaven again, so I have to close my eyes and wait for death.
At this moment, my arm was suddenly grabbed, and the force of my leg falling up and down suddenly decreased, and when I opened my eyes, it turned out that it was Shirley Yang who saw that we were nervous, and hurriedly climbed down with Guchai to help, and dragged me and the fat man up from the arrow stone. The arrow stone under him could not bear the weight of the four people, and was immediately crushed and collapsed. We had climbed back into the tree before that, and we were lucky enough not to fall with it.
The arrow stone was extremely large, and its weight was afraid that it could be hundreds of kilograms, and it fell from a high place suddenly, and the weight of the road was not less than a thousand pounds. I saw a large arrow stone that was flat like an arrow, spinning and tumbling from the air and falling down, and was smashing on the head of the shark, and the arrow stone did not stop, brushing the ground and falling into the water, and the head of the giant shark was immediately cut off half obliquely, and the blood spurted out several meters high.
At this time, the head of the shark basking poked out of the water, and we saw the face of the shark in the clear water. I saw that its body size was several times larger than that of the old giant salamander, and only the ancient slippery tooth Canglong, which had been extinct for thousands of years, could be compared with it. The scale armor of the shark body is wrapped all over the placenta, the head is like a fish, hundreds of tentacles on the gills that resemble long beards, more than ten meters long, there are dozens of pairs of fish fins under the body, and the end of the teeth that are inverted horizontally is like a rattan hook and thorns, and there is a fishy smell when opening and closing.
It followed the surging water and climbed on the giant tree, and was cutting off half of its head by the falling arrows, but instead of dying immediately, it stared at its fish's eyes, which were as big as a ball and as good as gray crystals, and looked directly at the light of the stars and moon leaking from the dome, and its expression was extremely sad, and under the serious injury, it refused to dive back to the bottom of the water.
There was a big blue shark trapped by the turbulent current, and in a panic, he didn't choose the direction, and actually bumped into the vicinity of the sacred tree, and was grabbed by the shark's tentacle whiskers, and swallowed it alive with its head and tail, which made the waves bloody for a while. Ignoring the blood gushing from her body, she squirmed her fleshy body, and continued to climb the sacred tree with the help of her whisker fins. We saw that this bloody sea monster was beneath us, it devoured the evil shark effortlessly, and the fear in our hearts increased greatly, where did we dare to take a closer look, and in desperation, we had to desperately flee to the top of the sacred tree that had no way out.
At this moment, in the whale-bellied cave rock formation, the condensed sea gas gradually disappeared, the yin fire suddenly lost its miserable white light, and in the darkness, only the chaotic water could be heard boiling, and the rumbling mountain cracked, as if the sky had collapsed. The surrounding water submerged the ruins of the ancient city, and the whirlpool of rapids was stirred up under the sacred tree in the city, and we climbed on the arrow stone at the top of the sacred tree and were shocked to the bones and bones, and we did not dare to move.
The countless bronze slaves with bronze chains twisted at the bottom of the tree were all washed by the sea and crumbling against each other, and several chains could not withstand such a strong rapid, and broke into several knots, and the fragments exploded and flew out. The sacred tree that reaches into the sea is unusually tall, tilting and sinking into the sea, constantly suffering from the impact of the sea surge. These chains can play a role in pulling and binding and preventing the giant tree from breaking, but at this moment, without the rope binding rope binding, this billion-year-old ancient tree seems to be likely to collapse in the stormy waves at any time.
Duoling's body is weak and weak, and her psychological quality is far inferior to the rest of the people, and under the violent tremor of the mountain and tsunami that swept the world, she was already so frightened that she couldn't speak, and her hands couldn't move. At this moment, there was a thunderbolt in the sky, and the arrow stone shook with a loud noise, and her hands and feet were weak, and she slipped off the stone platform.
Shirley Yang and I saw her fall from the top of the tree, and immediately reached out to pull her in mid-air, but Shenmu shook endlessly, grabbed it in his hand, and in the blink of an eye, Duo Ling fell into the tumbling seawater. In the black water, only the monster body of the shark is floating, but where is there a figure of Duoling, I am afraid that the moment I enter the water, I will be swallowed by the shark.
Gu guessed that Duoling was killed, stared at bloodshot eyes, and wanted to jump into the water to find her. I hurriedly grabbed his belt and dragged him hard, where is the life of the person who fell, and if I go down to save people, I will die in vain. But at this time, the flood waves were angry, the mountains and the sea were sinking, covering all the sounds, and the ears and bones of the people hurt, and they could not hear each other when they spoke, and I had no way to speak to Gu Chai so that I had to hold him down so that he would not die in the water.
Suddenly, the cool breeze blew on my face, and I looked up, only to see that in the dozens of sea eyes where the sea air condensed in the ruins, a huge current like a water dragon fell one after another, and the dragon fire and sea gas in the rock formation dissipated, forming a large sea hole that absorbs water. However, this time it may be the last sea hole in the Coral Spiral Sea, and the cracking of the dragon fire rock layer has made several sea holes connect into a winding water dragon, and the tens of millions of tons of sea water that fall are like erecting a water wall in the ruins.
The tension of the cracking of the rock layer on the bottom of the sea caused the highest point in the ruins, that is, the ghost island that exposed the sea, to split from the Tianmen Cave on the top of the mountain, and a huge canyon appeared in the sea, and the sea water with a drop of more than 100 meters on both sides fell and fell like thunder. Although the mechanism of the earthquake hexagram is the mystery of the funeral of the ancients, it was never expected that the ruins would be shaken open after a thousand years. The power of this southern dragon's shock spread to the vast sea surface of the coral spiral, not to mention a hundred miles. There are many hexagrams in the Yi hexagram, and the hexagram of "earthquake up and down" is used as a way to send death to the underworld, could it be that in the hexagram, it has already foreshadowed the destruction and subsidence of this country that shoots the sun and the moon, as well as the drastic changes that will occur in the ruins thousands of years later?
The cracks that appear on the surface of the sea seem to be the scars on the body of the sea, they are about one or two hundred meters deep, and they are seventy or eighty meters wide, and the lines and convex points are completely symmetrical, as if a large crack has been torn apart on the surface of the sea. The top of the tree we climbed was in the middle of a large trench, surrounded and under our feet by the pouring and churning water, the water shook the earth, and only the sky above our heads was surprisingly quiet. The bright moon is at the head, the shining stars, like fine quicksand covered with the blue sky, looking at the turbulent fangs in the sea and the dreamy and quiet starry sky on the sea, for a while, people are in a trance, thinking that the night sky above is a touch of unreal dreams.
The shark was also washed by the sea and couldn't move, but when it saw the stars and moon shining in the sky, it was even more desperate to cling to the sacred tree. The sea water mixed with the underground current, and it didn't take long for the cracked ruins to fill up. However, as soon as the subterranean flow of the bottom of the sea fell, it still generated a sea hole with a diameter of several miles, this sea hole is in the place where the sacred wood is plunged into the bottom of the sea, and the swirl undercurrent is poured into it endlessly, and it seems that it will never be filled with the bottomless pit in the pearl sea, and the ruins that are repeatedly mentioned in ancient books have finally revealed its true face, in addition to the ghost caves of the ancient spirit country, there are indeed some bottomless abysses in the world that are difficult to explore, and the ruins are one of them.
Now the ruins under the tree are washed away by the undercurrent, forming a powerful force field, constantly sucking the seawater, tilting the giant wood trapped in the bottom of the sea, the interior has been hollowed out for thousands of years, opening a channel of the soul, in such a turbulent current, the wooden body is broken layer by layer, and the surrounding thousands of copper slaves who fix the wooden body are also swept into the deep sea. The movement of the sea brought up a huge surge like a mountain, and when we saw that the separated sea was about to close, we could only look at the ocean and sigh from the arrow stones of the canopy. The top of the sacred tree is a cut shorter than the sea, but it is far beyond the reach of man, and only by inserting wings can it escape.
As the cracks in the sea gradually disappeared, the sound of the sky falling and the sea submerging in the ruins was drowned underwater. Only half of the sea eye under the tree is staggering. We are disheartened, our minds and bodies are exhausted, our faces are empty, and we are clinging to the arrows and stones and closing our eyes to death. At this moment, Mu Duan shook suddenly, and suddenly fell into the sea, it turned out that the shark at the bottom of the sea was injured by the arrow stone, the injury was fatal, but it was quite strong and vicious, and did not die immediately, still not giving up on the sacred tree to devour the moonlight. The swirling current of the sea cave is turbulent, and it shakes the wooden body, and a section of the tree more than ten meters long is pushed and broken by it.
The tree is covered with arrows like a canopy, and it is extremely buoyant in the turbulent currents of the sea, and the body of the tree sinks diagonally to the bottom of the sea, so it is not swept into the depths by the whirlpool, but rises to the surface by the swelling water. Almost at the same time, the sea water completely closed, covering the turbulence in the ruins below, and the shark held the broken tail end of the sacred tree, and floated up with it, but in the end, due to excessive bleeding, Yuan opened a pair of gray giant eyes, and lost his life blindly, dragging a line of dirty blood behind him, floating on the sea.
We were a little dumbfounded, seeing the cold light of the stars and moon in the sky shining on the calm sea, we really couldn't believe that we could come out of the ruins alive. But before we had time to rejoice in surviving, we found the corpse of the shark that was as big as a giant whale. Still entangled in this piece of wood, a piece of residual wood more than ten meters long, could not bear the heavy body of the sea monster at all, just floated on the surface of the sea, and was dragged into the sea and sank by it.
At this time, the giant tree had not yet floated out of the ghost island submerged by the sea, and the water absorption force of the underwater ruins formed a vague clockwise vortex on the surface of the sea, and the tree floated and sank faster, and in the blink of an eye, it had sunk two-thirds of the way to the water. A flash flashed in my mind: "How can you leave the Coral Spiral without a boat?" Isn't this broken thick tree just a floating chariot across the sea? With it, there is a glimmer of hope drifting out of this devil's sea. ”
Thinking of this, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, so he beckoned the fat man to take a hurry, and the detective snatched the dragon arc copper knife from Gu Chai, and desperately went to cut the corpse of the shark who was entangled in the broken wood. Gu Chai seemed to be stupid, his eyes were straight and unbright, but he kept muttering inarticulately: "Senior sister is also dead......
Although we sympathized with him, but at the moment of life and death, no one cared about persuading him, I and the fat man, Shirley Yang raced against time to chop up the body of the shark grandmother, Uncle Ming also crawled over like crazy, and used his teeth to bite the shark scales stuck in the arrow stone. In the unique smell of the sea, a little blood splashed on the sea, but the corpse of the shark was too big, and the old flesh monster scales on the whole body were extremely thick, and we only had short knives and short swords used underwater in our hands, so we had to watch the broken wood spin and sink in the whirlpool of the sea.
I was so anxious that my brain jumped high, and I really couldn't help it, if I didn't jump into the water and escape, I would have to be dragged into the bottom of the sea by the azalea wood and the shark corpse, but how much courage it took to jump into the shark-infested coral spiral, and I would die in the sea horizontally, and it was better to be dragged into the sea and drown than to be kissed by a shark.
Just when I was hesitating and didn't know whether to jump into the sea, the water waves suddenly swelled in the whirlpool on the sea surface, and many huge reefs suddenly appeared, holding up the thick trees and the corpses of dead sharks, and slowly moved westward in a flurry of ups and downs.
The stars and moon shine on the sea. But in the cold moonlight, it was impossible to see why this black reef moved. Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they couldn't help but stop what they were doing, I knew that Uncle Ming had experienced many things at sea, and this old thief was a "reactionary academic authority" in maritime affairs, and he was busy asking him what was going on with the reefs that appeared on the sea, whether it was evil or auspicious.