Chapter 267: The Island of Eclipse (Seventy-Three)
"What did you say?"
I turned my head to look at Lin Chang in disbelief, it was he who spoke just now.
"I said get him up and throw him down, faster." Lin Chang repeated clearly, and stretched out his hand to point at Lin Ya and gestured towards the lake.
"Nope! No way! I helped Lin Ya to get up and supported his body, "What nonsense are you talking about, how can I throw Lin Ya down!" ”
Lin Chang glanced at me and showed a contemptuous sneer, "Otherwise? Who do you want to die? Look at the cracks that have appeared under your feet, the water has begun to overflow, the raft is sinking, at this rate we will not be able to make it ashore, someone must die here! ”
"So what!? So the one who died must be Lin Ya! Why! ”
I retorted angrily, and I did feel that the raft was sinking. Whether it's the constant sound under my feet, the widening cracks, or the silence of others, it makes me feel panicked.
"If you want someone to live, someone has to die, and if you want someone to live, you have to die, what's the problem?" Lin Chang looked at me like a poisonous snake staring at his prey, "He won't live long at all like he is now, it's better to make a contribution than to die worthless!" ”
"Why do you say that!" I roared angrily, "Lin Ya, he's not dead!" And he will never die! He'll be fine! ”
"Nothing? If he wants to be okay, someone else has to do something! Don't you see that? He's just a drag! Lin Chang yelled at me as well, turning to look at the others.
"What about you! Speak! Don't talk about it! You all think he's a drag, and you all want to use him to replace a dead spot! That's what every one of you thinks, isn't it? ”
"You talk nonsense!"
"Am I talking nonsense?" Lin Chang smiled disdainfully, "Then you let them talk!" You let them contradict me! Let me tell you, everyone here thinks so, only you are still dragging that burden, wanting to exchange the lives of other living people for his half-dead rotten life! You say they don't think so, so let them refute me! Come on! Refute me! ”
I looked around with some horror, expecting someone else to say something, but all I gained was Fang Ruoxi's sneer, Fu Lingjun and Li Sheng dodging their eyes that didn't want to make eye contact with me, and Yu Pu's avoidance of staring at Lin Ya without looking at me.
The only person who met my gaze and looked at me was Lu Haisheng, but there was only a calm look on his face, no superfluous expression or special look, and I couldn't see anything in his eyes.
No one wants to come to Paulin Cliff for their lives.
"Speak," I said, panicking, and looking at the others around me pleading, "Speak! Yu Pu? Fang Ruoxi? Shall I beg you? Say something? ”
"Heh, they won't say that." Lin Chang sneered again, his face full of pride and anticipation, "I know you all think I'm not a good person, but each of you is the same,
"Poof!"
Fortunately, Lu Haisheng was not an ordinary person, and he reacted at the same time as the fish jumped out of the water. As the body retreated, the wooden paddle in his hand accurately blocked the fish's attack, slapping it back into the water. At the same time, the lake around us seemed to suddenly boil, huge splashes and waves rolled, and the raft was no longer stable and began to bumble!
I see it clearly, I finally see it clearly! Damn it! That's not black lake at all! It's a school of blackfish!
I finally realized that I don't know when we were surrounded by those fish, and that huge "black shadow" did not appear, but we entered the center of it!
As if the fuse had been lit, all the lakes around us exploded, and the black fish seemed to wake up from their slumber in an instant, rolling and gathering at us from all directions!
I saw schools of fish tumbling, crowded and puddling to expose part of their bodies from time to time, their black scales connected together, dense and dense, and there was nowhere to escape!
"Let's go! Come on! Fast! ”
Lu Haisheng roared angrily and rowed the wooden oars with all his might, and the fish around the raft began to attack us, and countless black fish jumped up and pounced on us, and were blocked back by us.
I couldn't care about Lin Ya for a while, at least he was in the middle of the raft now, and those black fish couldn't easily attack it, and everyone who was idle moved in an instant, using clothes, backpacks, or other things to block those black fish that pounced on them back into the lake.
Fortunately, there are too many black fish, and the huge number makes it crowded around us, and it is not easy to jump up in such an environment, and fish are fish after all, and they are inconvenient to move after leaving the water, and a few black fish that fell on the raft can only struggle and twist their bodies, and bite the air with their mouths open.
It was all thanks to all of this that we were able to hold out and stop these attacks, but as we all know, it wasn't a long-term solution.
"Another wooden paddle! Fast! We'll be stuck here for a long time! ”
Lu Haisheng's scream exploded in my ears, and I realized that Li Sheng and Lin Chang were also busy blocking those black fish at this time, and the bitten wooden paddle was staying on the raft. I was about to rush over and pick up the wooden paddle to help, but someone picked up the wooden paddle first and made up for another paddle position - Fu Lingjun.
"Hold off those who pounce! I'll paddle! ”
At Fu Lingjun's shout, the raft finally began to move again. When I came into contact with these black fish, I realized that their bodies were very hard, and those black scales seemed to be much harder than normal fish, and I could hear the creaking sound of the bottom of the raft rubbing against the bodies of those black fish during the raft as it went.
The action of those black fish pounced on only a moment before gradually becoming less and slower, and finally stopped completely, and at this time there was still some distance from the island in the middle of the lake, and if you estimate the speed just now, it may take about eight minutes to arrive.
However, the attack of the black fish stopped at this moment, but they did not disperse, and still surrounded our raft one by one, with their mouths half out of the water, revealing their black, sharp teeth.
"What's going on with them, why did they stop? Did we pass the level? Li Sheng's voice was breathless, and he could hear that resisting the black fish just now also consumed a lot of his physical strength.
"Clear? Scold. Lin Chang obviously disagreed with Li Sheng's words, "Only the dead can pass the test." ”
We all know what he means, and here, the so-called criterion for passing the test is that one person must die.
The muscles on Lu Haisheng's body were tense, and it was easy to see what he was nervous about, "Leave them alone!" Hurry up and paddle! Ashore! Fu Lingjun's strength is not enough! Lin Chang, you take over! ”
I subconsciously turned my head and glanced at Lu Haisheng, I felt his anxiety at this time, this is the first time I heard him ask others to take the initiative to give an explanation, if it weren't for the fact that the current situation is really critical, I don't think he would be like this.
Lin Chang didn't say anything this time, and stepped forward to take the wooden paddle in Fu Lingjun's hand, I don't know if he also understood the urgency of the current situation.
We made steady progress under the paddle of two men, and the blackfish around us seemed to have given up, just around our raft, crowded and tumbling but not jumping again.
"Are these man-eating pomfrets? What are they doing? Fu Lingjun's voice also carried a slight gasp, it was obvious that paddleing was by no means an easy thing for her, "If you don't attack us, how can I have a bad premonition." ”
I looked at the black sharp teeth everywhere around me, and my voice trembled uncontrollably: "Strictly speaking, this is not the kind of man-eating pomfret in our world. At least the man-eating pomfret of our world is not black, and the mouth and teeth are not so terrible. But if they're piranhas, they're pretty much the thing, and they don't come around us out of curiosity."
I paused slightly, and then added, "I remember that the man-eating pomfret is a fish with a very high IQ, and I hope these black fish are not close relatives of those piranha pomfrets, and besides, I also have a bad premonition."
"Click"
As soon as I finished speaking, a strange sound came, and we looked at each other in some panic.
"What's that sound?" Fu Lingjun quickly looked left and right, looking for the source of the sound, "Sounds like the sound of gnawing wood!?" ”
I was suddenly startled, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Lu Haisheng and Lin Chang. After all, the wooden paddle has been bitten before before, and those black fish are gnawing on the wooden paddle again!?
However, Lu Haisheng and Lin Chang both picked up the wooden paddles at this time and checked them, the two wooden paddles had not changed, they were still one complete, and a small part was missing on one side.
Since it's not a wooden paddle, it is
"Under our feet, there is a raft."
It was Fang Ruoxi who spoke, and at this time I didn't have much of the heart to pay attention to why her tone was so calm, completely different from her usual personality. The implicit message in her words was enough to make me tremble!
Raft! I subconsciously looked at my feet, and sure enough, as Fang Ruoxi said, if I carefully identify it, I can find that the sound is coming from under our feet!
The sound of gnawing on the raft, those black fish are trying to bite the raft to pieces!
A black fish, both its eyes and its scales, is pitch black, like a ghost, like a devil, about the size of a person's palm, but that mouth occupies half of it. The mouth seemed to be unable to close, and the jagged teeth that emerged from the mouth were also black, faintly flashing with a sharp black light.
"Speed up! It's coming soon! Lu Haisheng roared angrily and rowed the wooden paddle in his hand harder.