Chapter 15: Floating Corpses
The original churning waves subsided in an instant, and if it weren't for the fact that my body was wet by the previous waves, which made me feel extremely cold, I might have foolishly thought that this was just an illusion, a strange dream.
The boat was not rowing, as if it had dropped a heavy anchor and was fixed in the river, not moving.
"What are you doing stupidly, row the boat!"
Leotian roared hysterically, and the ugly boatman came to his senses, and waved his oars with both hands, trying to make the boat move again.
However, something strange happened.
No matter how hard the boatman rowed, there was not a single ripple on the silent river, and the boat remained motionless.
Click......!
Two crisp sounds shook the heartstrings of everyone on the boat, and the ugly boatman collapsed directly on the boat, "head...... Leader, oars...... Broken ......! ”
The sun and the moon alternate, and a bright and bright full moon rises high, reflecting on the calm river, adding a bit of weirdness.
Except for me and Liu Tingting, everyone in this small boat showed extremely frightened looks, especially the pig-headed man, whose sad expression was as if his father had died.
Burst......!
There was a muffled sound, and it sounded like a fish in the water peeking out to breathe.
However, in the moonlight, what appeared on the silent surface of the river was not a fish head, but the head of a man whitened by blistered hair follicles!
Half of the head was out of the water, staring at us in the boat with a pair of lifeless eyes.
Puff puff puff ......!
Immediately after, with one muffled sound after another, human heads emerged one after another in the silence of the river.
Not all of them were gray-haired, and some of them were probably eaten by fish in the water, leaving only a mutilated and horrible skeleton.
"Wow...... Ghosts, so many ghosts, are going to die, we're all going to die! ”
The pig-headed man screamed in fright, if he hadn't been in this small ship, he would have been the first to flee for his life.
"Shut up, you piece of shit!"
Lai Aotian angrily scolded the pig-headed clan, and then looked at the head of the person who was still coming out of the water and said coldly: "The warriors of the Lai clan pay attention, the soles of their feet are firmly rooted, don't be dragged into the water!" ”
"Got it!"
Seven or eight black-robed men responded in unison.
I didn't have time to pay attention to the men on the boat, for my eyes were all stunned by the dense crowd of human heads in the river.
In just a few tens of seconds, there were hundreds of human heads just coming out of the water, and they directly surrounded the small boat in our depths.
Uhh......h
The heads opened their mouths and roared almost at the same time, and then gathered around the boat like fish.
The quiet river was once again set off by bursts of waves, and the weak boat was trapped in the middle by hundreds of moving heads.
Finally, the strangeness of being in the river is not only limited to the human head, but also a pair of arms with the same gray hair and even mutilation poking out of the river.
A pair of hands grabbed the edge of the boat and shook violently, as if it were about to overturn the boat completely.
"Cut me!"
Lai Aotian shouted, and took the lead in swinging his machete and slashing at a pair of arms that had just climbed on the edge of the boat.
Swish......!
Poof......!
A pair of pale arms were severed by the sound, and a black, foul-smelling viscous liquid flowed from the fracture.
The floating corpse that had lost its arm was still waving its stump and broken arm and slapping the edge of the boat unmoved, and even opened its disgusting mouth to ask for the edge.
"Ah...... Help me......! ”
Or the boat shook violently, and the boat was slippery and difficult to stand, which caused a black-robed man to slash the arm of the boat at the same time, because of the slippage under his feet, he actually fell into the crowded river.
A desperate scream came, and by the time the others came to their senses and wanted to go and pull a handful, it was obviously too late, and the black-robed man was directly overwhelmed by dozens of human heads.
It's not just that person who fell into the water, and the tragedy is still unhurried.
One after another, the black-robed people fell into the river one after another, some of them were careless, and some of them were pulled down by the pairs of arms.
In just a few minutes, there were very few people left still standing in the bow and stern of the ship.
The pig-headed man curled up in the boat with his head in his hands, pouting his ass so high that without the restraint of the canopy, my feet were stretched, so I couldn't help but kick the pig-headed man's butt hard.
"I kicked this kick for you, you waste!"
The pig-headed man looked at me with great resentment, and it was obvious that he wanted to kill me on the spot.
But the arms that reached out to the edge of the boat had already alarmed him, and where else did he have the heart to take care of me.
The boat was so wide that Liu Tingting and I were back to back, kicking the floating corpses that were clinging to the edge of the boat one by one, preventing them from trying to capsize the boat.
"Xie Dongzi, quick, there are scissors in my backpack, quick!"
During the struggle, the rags in Liu Tingting's mouth fell off, and she suddenly shouted, twisted her body, and threw the small handbag on her body to my hand.
I immediately unzipped the small pouch by feeling, and soon found the small scissors used to cut the gauze.
The scissors were small, but they were fast, so I easily cut the rope that was tied to my wrist.
After untying Liu Tingting in the same way, I hurriedly grabbed the dragon claw that was still on the board of the boat at random.
In fact, I really wanted to give that Lai Aotian a blow directly, but I didn't do that, although he wanted to kill me, but presumably in the current situation, letting him live may also give himself a chance to live.
As several black-robed people continued to fall into the river, there were very few people still alive.
In addition to me and Liu Tingting, there are only Lai Aotian and the black-robed man who talked to him before, and then the pig-headed clan who curled up in the corner.
Lai Aotian had apparently noticed that I had broken free from the ropes, but now he had no time to care, and kept waving the machete in his hand and slashing.
In the face of such a dangerous situation, I naturally can't stand idly by, but it is better to directly smash their heads than to destroy those pairs of arms.
Syllable...... Boom......!
The head of a floating corpse was crushed by me with one claw like a rotten watermelon.
Although a large amount of disgusting viscous liquid was splashed, it really had a substantial effect, and as soon as the head exploded, the body of the floating corpse began to sink, and the arm that was clinging to the edge of the boat fell off in response.
Lai Aotian and his remaining warriors were still slashing and slashing, but they quickly learned the experience of winning from me.
"Chop off your head!"
With one chopping after another, the heads of one floating corpse after another were split like watermelons, and then one after another floating corpses were immersed in the river.
Although this trick worked, there were hundreds of floating corpses, in fact, a few of us were able to solve them in a short time.
Although the boat is not big, in the face of so many floating corpses, several of us are also lacking in skills, the boat is still shaking violently, and even the entire hull makes a sound of being on the verge of disintegration.
"Oh no, the bottom of the ship is cracked!"
Liu Tingting shouted, I am looking for prestige, not only at the bottom of the boat, but with the center of the boat as the boundary, there has been a crack visible to the naked eye, and the slightest river water has been pouring in from the gap.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a pang of despair, at this rate, I am afraid that it will not be long before this small boat will be completely broken and silent, and we will be buried in this cold river.
Or drown, or be eaten by the floating corpses!