Chapter 19: From the Codex of a Thousand Years Ago
Before going to sea, Li Mu handed over all the preparations to Erxi and asked Su Shan and the stake to give him a hand. Then, he, the big boss, slept at home for two days. It wasn't until he went out to sea that he became refreshed, but he only lasted a morning before he took refuge in the cabin.
Three days later, Li Mu stood on the deck, his robe was hunted by the sea breeze, but he was like a javelin, firmly nailed there. As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea. I don't know how many sea routes I have walked in the past three days, but I haven't seen a single island.
He was infinitely irritable. He remembered that before going to sea, Wan Niang told him that no matter whether he could find the island or not, he must return on the third day, and if he did not return in the evening of the sixth day, she would go to sea overnight to find him. Wan Niang was very serious when she said it, so serious that he was now thinking about whether he really wanted to return.
At this time, Erxi rushed to the deck with excitement on his face and shouted loudly: "Amu, I see the island, there is an island ahead!"
"Where?" Li Mu raised his eyebrows, he didn't see any islands.
"There!" Erxi pointed to him, Li Mu looked at it, there was indeed a small black spot in front of him, he found it just now, he thought it was a blue whale or some large sea fish. Because he was pleasantly surprised many times in the first two days, the small black dot was moving every time the fishing boat approached, and finally Erxi commented: This is a large moving sea fish.
"Are you sure it's not a sea fish?" Li Mu's eyes stared at the front.
Erxi's face was full of determination: "I have carefully studied the moving sea fish in the past few days, and I am sure that it is an island in front of me. Otherwise, it would be a sea fish many times bigger than a giant fish that we have never seen before. ”
Li Mu regained his confidence and said, "Let the fishing boat come over, and I'll go see the situation first." ”
"But the sea is ...... today," Erxi patted his head, and before he could finish his words, the guy had already jumped into the sea.
Li Mu didn't hear what Erxi said, and after entering the water, he quickly moved towards the goal. Da Luo Nei was urged, and his speed increased suddenly, and in less than half an hour, he could see the outline of the island in front of him clearly, and his psychological irritability was swept away, and his speed increased again.
It's a very, very huge island!
The island is lush with vegetation, and although it is winter, it looks like an oasis in the desert, which is refreshing. Closer, he finally saw the sandy beach of the island. However, his mood suddenly sank.
He saw a boat on the beach of the island!!
And more than one!
The boats were even a few points larger than his fishing boats, and the largest one was more than twice as large as his fishing boat. He secretly guessed that these boats should be fishing boats from some coastal area, and they came here to fish for the same purpose as himself. If that's the case, it's not bad, at least ask them where there are islands nearby, and give their fishing boats a direction.
Getting closer and closer, Li Mu's gaze never left these ships, and after looking at them for a long time, it gave people a strange feeling, and they couldn't think of where the blame was.
At last, he swam to the vicinity of the ships, and he finally knew where they were: they were not wooden fishing boats, but warships made of steel!
However, the ships looked rusty and in shambles. It seems to have experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain......
Wait a minute!
His pupils dilated instantly, and he was startled by what he had thought of in his own mind. Could it be that there was a naval battle here?
Under the strong pressure of psychological shock, he first climbed onto the beach to take off his clothes and wring them out, and then put them on and dried them with internal force. After all this was done, he jumped onto a warship with light feats. The interior of the ship was so badly oxidized by the sea that all the open air was in shambles, and there were no useful clues left, so he could only pin his hopes on the cabin. He reached out and grabbed the handle of the hatch, and with a little force, the hatch fell backwards towards him in its entirety, and he hurriedly held it and threw it aside.
Walking into the cabin, there was nothing but a musty smell. He walked past the cabins one by one, all the same. He even rummaged through the entire warship, and there was nothing but fragments of parts from the battleship itself.
Li Mu was unwilling, he changed another ship, and there was still nothing. One by one, the last ship was the most embarrassed, and most of the ships were soaked in the sea. The waves washed up and washed the green deck clean.
Li Mu returned to the beach, his eyes on the primeval forest in front of him. Taking a deep breath, Da Luo Neijing operated, raised his vigilance, and cautiously took a step into it. The trees here are very dense, but the road in front of Li Mu's eyes is straight and not blocked by towering trees. He walked all the way, and he didn't know how far he had walked, but gradually, a wall made of stone appeared in front of him.
It's really inhabited!
It's just that the wall looks scarred, as if something has attacked it. He walked back and forth along the wall twice, but couldn't find the entrance. Finally, he locked his eyes on the top of the wall, found a point of strength, and used light skills to climb the ten-meter-high wall. Then, the sight that appeared in front of his eyes almost scared him to pee!
The ground is full of bones!
Horizontal and vertical, some are even mixed together, and there are at least a hundred or so corpses at first!
Looking at the bones, at the end of the bones was a palace, the gate of the palace was open, and the bones spread all the way to the inside of the palace.
Li Mu took a deep breath, performed light skills and floated down the wall, he tried not to step on the white bones, and walked all the way towards the gate of the palace. Sometimes it even takes light work to get past the bones without stepping on them, which shows the horror of the density of the bones.
There was a faint light in the palace, and when he entered the palace, he found that the light was fluorite, barely able to illuminate the passage of the entrance, and sometimes he had to grope his way forward. Turning a corner, he noticed a bright spot in front of him, and he quickly moved over, and the scene in front of him immediately lit up. He looked up and saw that the top of his head was a glass-like substance, not transparent, but refracting the light, making the place bright.
At the same time, the scenery inside the palace finally appeared in front of him. The palace was empty, as if the palace had just been built and abandoned, and the builders had not had time to decorate it.
There was only one white bone in the palace, and Li Mu quickly came to the white bone and picked up a codex next to it. At first, he was worried that it would be damaged due to oxidation, but when he got it in his hand, he found that the material of this codex was very unique, not paper, but a material similar to oiled paper. When he opened the first page of the Codex, the first four words on it startled him!
The first year of Great Xia!
This is a codex from 928 years ago!
"On September 9 of the first year of Great Xia, I, the descendant of Ji Boming, the descendant of the Dragon Guard. The founding ceremony of Great Xia ended, and the thirteen dragon guards were disarmed and returned to the field. However, not long ago, a traitor appeared among the Dragon Descending Guard, who stole the brocade box. Now, there are only two dragon guards that His Majesty can summon: me and Nanmen Jingshan. Jingshan sits in the palace, and I will sail with His Majesty to hunt down that traitor. ”
After reading the first paragraph of the codex, Li Mu's jaw almost fell to the ground. Nanmen Jingshan was not the founding emperor of the Great Xia Empire! His identity turned out to be only a member of an organization called the Descending Dragon Guard next to the founding emperor at that time!
Oh, my God!
Nanmen Jingshan told a big lie!
He has deceived people all over the world for almost a thousand years!!
Li Mu felt that his hands were a little trembling, and finally calmed down and continued to look down: "On the 11th day of September in the first year of Great Xia, after two days and three nights of sailing, we caught up with him, and we saw the traitor's warship stranded on the beach of the island, and His Majesty and I were ready to go deep into the jungle. Although he broke our original oath, I really don't want to face him, after all, we are all brothers who have shared ups and downs. ”
There were a few black spots on the next codex, and Li Mu recognized them as dripping blood at a glance.
"On September 12 of the first year of Great Xia, I couldn't live, and I didn't know how much I could write. We chased all the way to the palace, and the damned traitor actually wanted to carve out a country here. Isn't it ridiculous? No! It's so sad. Hu Zi'an, Wen Guangqi, Why did you break your oath? Why did you choose to be a traitor! Guangqi, I killed Guangqi with my own hands. I still remember the battle with the Five Banners two years ago, my army was scattered, and the remnants of my leadership were ambushed again. Guangqi, it was you who led your personal guards to rush into the enemy camp and kill three in and three out to rescue me. In that battle, you had as many as seventy-nine wounds all over your body, large and small. Guangqi, why did I kill you with my own hands in the end? ”
The words behind "Zi'an, how can you ......" are covered by 'black spots' and can't be seen clearly. Li Mu guessed that Ji Boming should have spit out a mouthful of blood at that time, covering all the words below. He flipped straight to the next page.
“...... The trenches are also dead, counting me, six dragon guards died in this cold palace today......"
Li Muyi turned many pages in a row and was covered with black spots, it seemed that Ji Boming was really seriously injured at that time, but he didn't know what he recorded in these places covered by black spots. Turning all the way to the penultimate page, there is a passage that is quite clear: "...... I finally figured it out, it's all in ......" and it was gone, Li Mu rolled his eyes and turned directly to the last page: "Your Majesty, how can the stone wall trap you? You must come out...... See this codex!"
Li Mu put down the codex and said to himself: "Ji Boming, Ji Boming, why did you say that you described those inconsequential things so clearly before? Hey, what a ......" From the last words of the codex, it is not difficult to see that Ji Boming seems to smell the conspiracy about Jingshan in the South Gate. Even the brocade box recorded in the codex seems to be related to Jingshan at the South Gate.
Of course, this is just Li Mu's own speculation.
At this moment, without warning, a hoarse voice that seemed to float out of hell penetrated Li Mu's central nervous system, causing the pores of his whole body to explode instantly!