Chapter 323: Roundabout
"You just said that there are newcomers in the lake, are they the ones who just passed?" Seeing Zhang Xuanqing and the others rowing away quickly, Master Cai asked Lao Tian beside him thoughtfully. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This Master Cai looks like he is more than 100 years old, but his voice is very loud. He has spent the most time in the lake today, and it is said that he went to the island thirty-eight years ago. And Mo said that the people who went to the island with him, even if they came to the island a few years later than him, basically died. Although there is no emphasis on seniority here, everyone respects him from the bottom of their hearts.
When Lao Tian heard the inquiry, he hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, not only these few, but I also saw two other boats of newcomers, but they were in a hurry to come over and didn't go over to speak, only said a few words to the few who just passed." One of them fell into the lake...... Oh, it's the bald head that paddles on the bow of the boat. ”
"Oh?" Master Cai looked at the backs of Zhang Xuanqing and the others and narrowed his eyes, only to see that they were rowing very quickly, and in just a few words, they had gone out for more than 100 meters. After a moment of silence, he suddenly turned the bow of the boat and said, "Let's go, follow and have a look!"
Since he said so, Lao Tian did not allow it. The two of them drove a small boat and followed Zhang Xuanqing and the others far behind. Don't look at the posture of only one person, but Zhang Xuanqing has seven people on board. But Zhang Xuanqing and the others have never rowed except Zhang Xuanqing, even if Zhang Xuanqing is "at the helm" at the bow, but the speed is not much faster than Master Cai and Lao Tian. It's barely enough to keep a fixed distance.
At this time, there were hundreds of small boats like them on the lake, some with only one person, some with two or three people, and at most only five or six. Except for the two ships that came in with Zhang Xuanqing and a few others, most of these people knew Master Cai's identity. When I first woke up, almost everyone wanted to ask Master Cai, who had lived here for the longest time, what was going on here. It's just that they all know that Master Cai is happy and clean, he usually doesn't talk much, and he has only communicated with a few people, and Lao Tian is one of them. Therefore, when everyone saw Lao Tian rushing over there, they didn't move. But the attention has always been here with Master Cai.
Now seeing Master Cai and Lao Tian start rowing, everyone almost didn't think about it, and they also rocked the oars and followed. In their hearts, either Master Cai found a way out of the lake, or Master Cai found something else, in short, it must be right to follow him. And the two boats of people who entered the lake with Zhang Xuanqing saw that everyone was rushing in the same direction, and they also subconsciously followed closely behind.
After about ten minutes, a piece of land faintly appeared on the lake in front of them, and everyone suddenly understood in their hearts: Master Cai is taking them to Penglai Island. It was only after another thirty minutes or so that they gradually approached the "shore", and everyone suddenly discovered that where this is land, it is clearly a continuous island.
It turns out that the whole "Penglai Island" is actually composed of countless large and small islands, surrounded by a circle, and the so-called "Yunmeng Lake" is the "sea in the island" in the middle of the roundabout. Because of the presence of a mirage before, it seems that it only arranges illusions in the spirits of people on the lake, and does not swallow mirages and change the general environment. In fact, its mirage has long spread to the entire island, turning the archipelago into a high mountain, and the sea in the center of the archipelago into a lake. Even the "Penglai ghost thieves" such as Village Chief Jiang came without a trace, went without a trace, and no one could find here, all because the mirage covered this place with mirage, and from the outside, this is a sea area shrouded in fog. Even the "aborigines" such as Village Chief Jiang didn't know this, but their ancestors were lucky enough to find such a naturally formed mirage.
Until today, the mirage died, and even the mirage beads were all taken away by Zhang Xuanqing. The illusion environment created by the mirage naturally no longer exists, and the entire "Penglai Island" has returned to its original appearance. Mo said that these people on the lake, even the "native" village chief Jiang and the villagers on the island were in a mess, and they didn't know what was going on. In addition, the boatload of people who stayed in the welcome house was even more noisy to go home, and the entire "Penglai Island" was a mess.
On the lake, everyone is even more confused. As the circular island slowly approached, looking at the unfamiliar coast, everyone couldn't help but want to catch up and ask Master Cai in person what the situation was.
At this time, everyone drove the boat behind Master Cai and Lao Tian, and it was not far away, the farthest was only one or two hundred meters, and the closest was even only a few tens of meters. The dense bunch of boats together, some side by side, some staggered back and forth, looks really spectacular. Moreover, at this time, everyone also discovered that in front of their "fleet", it was not Master Cai and Lao Tian, but a boatload of people they didn't know. Among the hundreds of boats, the two boats that entered the lake with Zhang Xuanqing and others entered next to each other, and after a little conversation, they also knew that they were all newcomers, but they didn't know what the identity of the other party was.
As the news gradually spread among the boats, at the same time, Zhang Xuanqing at the front had already controlled the ship, passing through the gap between the two islands and going outside. There are gaps between the islands that make up Penglai Island, whether large or small, and the gap that Zhang Xuanqing drove through is only a slightly larger one. It's just that I'm afraid everyone present doesn't know except him that these so-called "islands", combined, are actually a huge volcano. It is only because the mountains are broken and the sea water is poured into them that these "islands" are formed. There was a mirage blocking the crater below, and the mirage dragon was able to suppress the volcanic magma with cultivation. Now that the mirage has been killed by him, its body is decaying, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the volcano erupts again.
Following his boat, Lao Tian and Master Cai also passed through the gap between the two islands, and saw that there was a vast and boundless sea outside, Lao Tian couldn't help but shout: "Hey, those new arrivals, where are you going? Are you leaving? Since you can come out, do you know what is going on here?"
At the same time, on the boat where Zhang Xuanqing was, Chen Lei and others were also asking him: "Brother Zhang, what happened, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
"Yes, Brother Zhang, how did you know that you could come out of here?"
"Little Brother Zhang, if you have anything to say, now everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, don't hide it from us. ”
“......”
"Hmph, surnamed Zhang, you'd better tell us honestly if you have anything. Otherwise, don't blame me for not doing it!"
The last sentence came out of Mr. King's mouth, and when he finished speaking, he withdrew the oars and was still on board.
Glancing back at the many ships that followed behind, and thinking about the illusion that had come to mind earlier. Zhang Xuanqing sighed, stopped rowing, and said, "Since you want to know, then I will tell you." But...... Let's make a long story short, time has to hurry. I just say it once, believe it or not, go or not, it's all up to you. (To be continued.) )