Chapter 23: Singing in the middle of the night
Nan Xian and Yu Lin met smoothly, and the two of them took the parchment roll and put it together, and sure enough, it was a complete map of the island.
There is no pattern in the distribution of clues on the map, and it is impossible to see which one is more special.
Yu Lin turned the map around, and after observing it carefully for a while, he suddenly said: "It's strange, some of these clues can be connected, and some seem to be unrelated......
Nan Xian's heart moved slightly, took a look at the map, and pointed to a few clues in the middle: "Connect them, do they look like the Big Dipper?" β
Yu Lin's eyes widened in surprise, "It's true!" Then we're going toβ"
"Position of the North Star!"
The two spoke in unison, looked at each other, and stepped up to set off.
They soon arrived at the location of the North Star on the map, which was the temple in the village.
Nan Xian used the bag of pearls to "bribe" the temple gatekeeper, and used the key to open the last door in the temple, only to find that a stone statue of half man and half fish was enshrined here.
The stone statue has gone through many years of vicissitudes, its face is no longer visible, and most of the carved scales on its body are mottled and peeled off.
Next to its fishtail, a thin book is placed.
The first half of the book describes the bizarre story of the villagers meeting the merman, but the second half tells an outrageous story -
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, science and technology developed rapidly, and at the same time, a large number of chemical pollutants were discharged into the sea.
These pollutants are ingested by plankton in the sea and enter the bodies of shrimp and fish, and local villagers make a living from fishing, and they are almost inseparable from fish and shrimp for three meals a day......
Over time, they accumulate a lot of chemical toxins in their bodies.
Some people with weak resistance begin to experience a series of adverse reactions - the skin becomes dry and easy to peel off, the fingers become more slender, the nails become sharper, the soles of the feet become wider and wider, and even the toes are joined together......
"So, in fact, there are no sharks, but some people are mistaken for sharks or passed on by word of mouth because the toxin shows characteristics similar to the characteristics of the shark's body signs?" Yu Lin guessed.
Nan Xian thought of the previous Gu and did not comment on this statement.
It was not early, and they returned to the starting point.
Seeing the two of them appear together, Yao Mingke leaned over to Nan Xian's side and asked curiously, "I haven't seen you two all afternoon-what's the matter, you and Yu Lin are sure to form an alliance?" I heard that he said in the last issue that he wanted to help you get a medal, so you are not afraid of someone's ......" As she spoke, she glanced at He Mingxiao intentionally or unintentionally.
Nan Xian was helpless and explained: "One of us has half of the clues, and we are just temporarily forming an alliance. By the way, did you have a harvest in the afternoon? β
Yao Mingke shrugged, "Sort of, I got two low-level clues, and I exchanged them for a middle-level clue with Brother Lang Zhuo." β
As he spoke, everyone arrived one after another.
Today, the director team finally made a second person, and did not embarrass them anymore, and even specially prepared a fruit platter and seafood dinner for them.
The atmosphere was rare and harmonious, everyone talked and laughed and chatted about what they had seen and heard in the afternoon, and at the end of the dinner, Director Deng suddenly appeared-
"I've just looked at the number of clues each of you have gotten, the most is four, the least is one. Let's play something exciting tonight, the top three winners can draw any one of the bottom two clues, and if the first place has the least number of clues, then his number of clues will be fivefold! β
As soon as they heard this rule, everyone was eager to try it, especially the few people with few clues, who were already gearing up to start.
The props team pushed up five large boxes covered with black cloth, and before they could stop, there was a collision sound in one of the boxes.
Yao Mingke was the closest, and was taken aback, "Thisβthis can't be a horror box, right?" β
Director Deng smiled: "That's right, there are five different things in these five boxes, and one will be counted for one point, and each box is limited to one minute." β
Yao Mingke stepped back in fear, "I don't like this kind of link the most, can I abstain?" β
Lang Zhuo looked at her in surprise when he heard this, "Today, seeing you catch the bull with your bare hands, I thought you were very bold." β
She shook her head vigorously, "I'm not afraid of what I can see, I'm afraid of the unknown, even if you tell me that there is a rabbit in the box, I don't dare to touch it until I see it with my own eyes!" β
Lang Zhuo smiled, "Okay, then I'll be the first to come!" β
As he spoke, he walked over to the first box, tentatively reached into it, and after a moment suddenly withdrew his hand.
He quickly finished all five boxes and wrote down his answers on the small whiteboard.
Next is Yu Lin, who is bold and quickly finishes touching.
Yao Mingke moved to the box with a sad face, hesitated for a long time, turned his head and asked Lang Zhuo: "Brother, which one should I choose?" β
Langro gestured to the third box.
"Really? Brother, don't fool me! β
"Really, absolutely fine."
"Okay, then I'll listen to you." She took a deep breath and reached into the box.
In the next second, Yao Mingke retracted his hand with an "ah", and escaped several meters away with his right hand.
"What's that! Why did it pull me as soon as I reached in! She looked shocked, "Brother, you lied to me!" β
Langjo was already smiling straight.
In the end, Yao Mingke still scratched her head and touched another box, but looking at her speed faster than a dragonfly to drop water, it is estimated that she didn't touch anything.
Then there is Nan Xian.
After reading the reactions of the others, she could roughly determine which of these boxes were more difficult and which were easy.
She didn't feel any pressure on the first box, and immediately felt that it was a bouncy ball.
The second box is a sea cucumber.
Third ...... She was also taken aback when she first reached in, as Yao Mingke described, "it" would take the initiative.
However, after several attempts, she finally guessed what was insideβa human hand wearing leather gloves, presumably hidden under the box by the staff.
The fourth one was a little difficult, because there was water, and she fished for a long time to catch it, and it was so slippery and flexible that she couldn't tell whether it was an eel or a loach.
The fifth is the octopus.
The last one was Gu Changlin's turn.
He easily passed three of the first four, until the fifth, when his hand was suddenly sucked tightly by the octopus.
Gu Changlin subconsciously wanted to break free, but the more he struggled, the tighter the octopus sucked.
He screamed in pain and jerked his hand out of the box, attempting to tear it off with his other hand.
Then he heard a "poof", and the octopus sprayed a large mouthful of ink in his face.
The scene was quiet for half a second, and then burst into violent laughter - the laughter mainly came from Yao Mingke.
Gu Changlin was so angry that his face turned red, and he tore the octopus harder and harder.
There was another "poof", and it added a touch of darkness to his face again.
For a while, Gu Changlin's face was red and black, so it was not ugly.
"Hahahaha Yao Mingke laughed as loud and loud as he could.
Later, with the help of several staff members, he finally got rid of the shackles of the octopus and went to clean it with a black face.
In the end, the scores of several people were as follows: Lang Zhuoquan was right, Nan Xian and Yu Lin were all right, and Gu Changlin was three.
Yao Mingke's score is a conspicuous zero, but she smiles happier than everyone else.
Nan Xian drew Gu Changlin's clue, which was a low-level clue and was not of much use.
After recording this part, everyone returned one after another.
Late at night, in a remote thatched hut.
Gu Changlin tossed and turned.
He wiped his face, as if he could still smell the strange smell of octopus ink.
"Phew!" He got up and spat on the ground, his expression contorted.
Since he laughed at Nan Xian in the first issue, everything has not gone well-
Both times I drew the worst house, and the makeup artist assigned to me was a novice and drew himself like a girl......
And he bought the planning team in advance to get the know-how of the merman cake task, and deliberately made the cake loose, but when he took it up, the silk thread on the cake was tied tightly, and not a grain of rice leaked out!
There is such a big mess tonight, and the octopus doesn't spray sooner or later, so it has to spray itself!
It's definitely Nan Xian and He Mingxiao's ghost!
Thinking of this, his heart was furious, and he kicked over the barrel at the foot of the bed.
"Damn, a with a, it's really natural-"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a melodious singing.
Gu Changlin's eyebrows furrowed, "Who the sings at night and calls the soul!" β
He rushed out the door in a rage and walked towards the singing.
He walked to a very remote bay, and by the moonlight he saw two men sitting on the reef in the distance.
They turned their backs to him and sang to the moon with their heads up.
Gu Changlin squinted, pointed the flashlight at them, and shouted impatiently: "What are you singing in the middle of the night, do you know that this is called disturbing the people!" β
As soon as the words fell, the two men turned their heads.
Long curly and slightly damp hair, an unusually beautiful face, fin-shaped ears, and fish scales faintly peeking on the side of the face-
Gu Changlin's pupils shrank suddenly, and with a "snap", the flashlight slipped out of his hand.
The larger merman straightened up from the reef, its dark gray tail glowing with a terrifying chill in the moonlight.
He raised his hand in the direction of Gu Changlin, and a short sentence with a strange tone came out of his mouth.
In an instant, more than a dozen mermaids floated from the sea, their eyes looking straight at him.
Gu Changlin's body was cold, he was constantly trembling with fear, and his lips subconsciously opened and closed.
Instantly, he heard his own runaway screams.