Chapter 491: Pointing to the Fish
In Qiu Xiangchen's view, going out on the boat is not to play, and taking a dog on the boat is inevitably a little improper.
"It's not an ordinary dog, it's very sensitive to danger. Zhou Fan explained.
If he left his brother in the Tang Street House, he was worried that he would be targeted by the bad guys, and he was unfamiliar with the people here, so he could only bring his brother, and the brother might be able to help.
Qiu Xiangchen's face softened slightly, and Wu Gaoxuan said, "But after all, it's on the water, is it really okay?"
"It swims. Zhou Fan said.
Wu Gaoxuan nodded, and agreed to it.
Zhou Fan's boat is the largest type in the corpse salvage team out of the boat, even if five people sit on it, there are still half of the empty seats, and it can't be said to be crowded with the old man.
The half of the empty seats on the ship were not too wasteful, but there were all kinds of utensils piled up, some of which Zhou Fan recognized, and some of which Zhou Fan couldn't, but they naturally had their intentions when they wanted to come to Wu Gaoxuan to prepare these things.
Ma Rui and Fang Lixing are carefully counting the number of these equipment on board.
Qiu Xiangchen and Wu Gaoxuan were inspecting the wooden boat to see if there were any defects, and if there was a small defect in the wooden boat in the lotus pond, it would easily have a fatal impact on the corpse recovery team.
The wooden boat used by the corpse salvage team was not made of ordinary wood, but made of iron pine, which was harder than iron, and such a wooden boat could withstand a large impact.
But for the dangerous and ecologically complex Liantang, the boat is not strong enough to reassure.
Zhou Fan didn't understand this, so he could only watch from the side, and he would do whatever Wu Gaoxuan asked him to do.
As time passes, the sky becomes clearer, and the change between night and day is refreshing.
At this time, the shadow weirdness has completely receded.
Wooden boats rocked the oars and headed towards the lotus pond.
The people on the shore said goodbye to the warriors of the corpse salvage team standing on the boat.
Because they are all martial artists, rowing is effortless for them, like the wooden boat where Zhou Fan is, now it is enough for Fang Lixing to be responsible for rowing alone.
The wooden boat soon rowed into the turquoise pond.
The petioles, taller than a man, hold the lotus leaves, and the wooden boats pass through them, as if they had entered a jungle on the water.
Because of the shade of layers of lotus leaves, there is a layer of shadows all around, and when you look up, you can see the emerald leaf veins and the pink lotus flowers and dark green lotus flowers supported on the lotus leaves.
In the early morning, the water surface of the lotus pond is faintly cold, making people feel cold.
Tanghe is as vast as a forest, and because of the influence of lotus stems on his vision, Zhou Fan looked around and found that the remaining thirty-one wooden boats that could be seen could only vaguely see the shadows of a few.
The wooden boat rowed dozens of feet again, and the few boats that could have been seen were out of sight.
It seems that there is only one ship left on the lotus pond.
Zhou Fan and their boat also slowly stopped in the water and stopped moving forward.
The breeze blows and the water ripples.
The ship stopped in order to determine the direction.
Ma Rui picked up a clay pot from the stacked utensils on the ship, she lifted the lid of the jar, and carefully took out a fist-sized round glass ball from it.
The glass ball is filled with water, and in the water there is a small fish as big as a thumb, the small fish is gray all over, with a large head and a small tail, somewhat similar to tadpoles.
The small gray fish swirled around the glass ball, but soon it came to a standstill.
This is pointing at the fish, and its head will always point to the north, providing direction for the corpse salvage team in Liantang.
However, the water of the glass ball pointed at the fish will continue to evaporate, and every once in a while, it must be put back into the clay pot to allow the specially refined glass ball to absorb and replenish the water.
It's not convenient to use.
The reason why you don't use simpler tools such as compass and Sinan to confirm the direction is because these tools in the lotus pond will turn around and fail.
As for discerning direction through the sun in the sky......
Zhou Fan looked up and found that the sun above the lotus leaf had changed direction again and appeared in the west.
This is another strange thing about the lotus pond, even if the lotus leaf is pulled, the direction of the sun is different every time, according to the people of Tang Street, this is because there is an unbreakable illusion above the lotus pond, which causes the direction of the sun to be seen every once in a while will be incalculably deviated.
Therefore, they are in the lotus pond, and there are not many ways to identify the direction, and pointing to the fish is a common and effective method.
Zhou Fan didn't waste time yesterday, he collected a lot of information about Liantang from Tang Street, even if he didn't ask, he also knew that pointing to fish was a very basic common sense in Liantang.
After confirming the direction, the wooden boat began to row under Fang Lixing's rocking oars again.
Wu Gaoxuan held the map in his hand and was studying it carefully, saying a few words to Fang Lixing from time to time to adjust the route ahead.
And Qiu Xiangchen stood at the bow of the boat, looking around, Zhou Fan and Ma Rui stood in the boat, looking at the side alone.
Everyone on board has their part to do.
The bottom of the ship is inscribed with runes, and it is difficult for the monsters to pierce the planks to attack them.
Bloody lotus seeds generally appear in the Xin area of the lotus pond, and bloody lotus seeds are occasionally found in other areas, but they are very rare.
The lotus pond was divided into ten layers of irregular circular areas by the warriors, and from the outside to the inside, they were marked as ten areas: A, B, C, D, penthyl, hexageng, xin, and non decay.
It is said that the further you go, the more dangerous it becomes, and no boat dares to step into the most central area of legend.
However, it is said that the first area of Liantang, which is known as the safest, occasionally encounters great dangers, and even in the first area, no corpse removal team dares to be careless.
Because of the location of the Xin District, it will take a long time to get there, and counting the time to find the Blood Heart Lotus Seed, if you don't hurry up the time, you may not be able to leave the Lotus Pond before dark.
After arriving in the Xin area, the search time available is too short, which is also one of the reasons why the blood heart lotus seeds are difficult to pick.
If you can speed up the boat, it will save a lot of time to enter the Xin area.
It's just that it's not wise to rampage quickly in the lotus pond like this, it's easy to attract some weird attention, and if there's any danger, it's hard to stop in time, if it's not necessary, no corpse salvage team dares to risk moving forward at too fast speed.
Zhou Fan and their time is very short, and they must not delay too long halfway, otherwise their efforts are likely to be in vain today.
After bypassing some waters in Area A that Wu Gaoxuan thought might be dangerous, they left Area A and entered Area B without incident.
In Zhou Fan's opinion, it was difficult for him to discern the clear boundary between Area A and Area B, and after questioning, Wu Gaoxuan told Zhou Fan that it was estimated by the time the ship was advancing.
The boundaries of the outer area of the lotus pond are blurred, and the biggest difference between the two areas that seem to be indistinguishable is the increase in danger.
After entering Area B, no one on the boat spoke again, but raised their vigilance and stared at the water everywhere.
All you can hear is the slight paddling sound of the oars bobbing from side to side.
The old man squatted at Zhou Fan's feet, it looked at the calm water surface like a mirror, and the lotus leaves were reflected on the water surface, and it suddenly barked wildly.