not good! This is a warship!
My heart suddenly went cold.
Ordinary merchant ships will be equipped with guards on board, but will not build cannon ports on board. Isn't the place where the plank is open exactly the location of the warship's gun port
Before I could move my body, the warship's gun muzzle was completely open, but the thing pushed out from there was not an artillery piece, but an arrow as thick as an arm's crossbow and as big as an engineer's shovel, pointed at me in shock. between the eyebrows.
Before I had time to dodge, my hands suddenly sank and I was hung outside the side of the ship. When I raised my head, the long crossbow had been pushed out more than two feet from my head, and the sound of the crossbow bed being twisted continued to be heard. , the hull began to rotate slowly, was it preparing to aim the crossbow bed at the crowd on the shore
I clasped the gap between the boards with both hands and moved several times in succession, bypassing the direction of the crossbow bed, quickly climbed up the side of the ship, drew my knife and jumped onto the deck. But as soon as I landed, I was stunned on the spot. There was actually something on the deck of the ghost ship. It was empty, except for a row of crossbow beds that had been twisted open, not even a single figure existed.
At this time, Ruan Dalong also jumped up after me: "Why is there no one? No, this is not the ship we met at the beginning."
Only then did I realize that the style of this warship was very different from the "Fairy Ship" that picked up tourists last night. Judging from the shape of the bow alone, it should be older than that "Fairy Ship".
When Ruan Dalong and I each walked toward the hatch with weapons in hand, the originally closed hatch suddenly opened from the inside. A group of soldiers dragged a group of death row prisoners in white and filed out of the hatch. They stood in a formation on the side of the ship. A row of prisoners on death row kneeled on the ground.
Two of the soldiers were clearly passing by us, but they seemed not to notice our presence and walked straight in front of me.
When I turned to look at Ruan Dalong, the latter shook his head slightly and wrote two words behind me with his hand: "Ghost!"
Before I could say anything, I saw an old man dressed as a Taoist priest walking out of the cabin door: "Sacrifice to the God of the Sea."
The soldiers on the ship drew their swords and swung their swords in unison. Rows of heads were thrown into the air and fell into the sea one after another. Strangely, the decapitated corpses were kneeling motionless on the deck like clay sculptures. Lines of blood were like running water dripping from the corpse's neck to the ground and flowing along the opening of the crossbow bed into the sea.
A moment later, the vast sea suddenly changed. Waves of water rose into the sky. Silver-colored water columns spread out in the direction of the ship at a distance of several meters. In the blink of an eye, five water columns clung to the edge of the ship's side and soared into the air.
The soldier who was standing next to the body without moving at the same time took half a step back, picked up the body on the boat left and right, and threw it into the sea. It wasn't until the body fell into the water that the water column rising into the sky collapsed and turned into a continuous rainstorm and fell on the deck. When the blood soaked on the deck flowed to the bottom of the ship with the heavy rain, an official in red robe quietly walked up to the Taoist priest: "Taoist Priest , this is already the fourth batch of death row inmates, and we are almost running out of death row inmates! We also have fresh water... "
The Taoist priest who stood silently on the deck sighed after a long time and said: "Let us resign ourselves to fate! If we can't find Penglai Island again, we will have no choice but to follow Xu Fuyuan's example and escape overseas."
The official exclaimed: "You mean Xu Fu..."
The Taoist priest made a silent gesture before turning and walking into the cabin.
Ruan Dalong and I looked at each other and followed each other down the cabin door in unison. As soon as we got off the boat, we were shocked again. The cabin was full of sergeants holding long guns.
If we do this, aren't we throwing ourselves into a trap
As soon as Ruan Dalong and I raised our swords, we found that all the sergeants turned a blind eye to us, as if we had never appeared on the ship.
Ruan Dalong tentatively put his hand in front of a soldier's eyes and waved it twice, but the other soldier also showed no reaction.
What do ghosts want us to see on purpose
After this idea flashed through my mind, I did not hesitate and chased after the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest walked until he reached the cabin and then waved his hand: "You all can get off! No one is allowed to approach the cabin door without an order." "
While the soldiers in the corridor retreated one after another, Ruan Dalong and I rushed into the cabin and stood in the corner.
The Taoist priest seemed not to notice, closed the cabin door, sat down, and said straight to the point: "Master Li, I know that you are a member of the royal family and loyal to His Majesty. But I ask you, if we can't take you back, What are the consequences of the Immortal Medicine?"
Mr. Li's face changed uncertainly for a long time before he said: "Execute the three tribes."
"Yes!" said the Taoist priest: "No one can bear the crime of deceiving the emperor. Even if you don't think about yourself, you still have to think about your family, right? The youngest son was killed, and the wife and daughter were sent to the officials to be sold. How miserable it is. ? Sir, can you bear to do this? "
Master Li finally managed to squeeze out a sentence while his body was trembling slightly: "Taoist Priest, we really can't find Penglai Immortal Island?"
"Can't find it!" The Taoist priest shook his head and said: "Unless we can enter Penglai Immortal Island within nine days, we will definitely die. That beast has been following us for so long, just waiting to eat people. We still have How many death row inmates are available?”
Master Li suddenly said angrily: "But didn't you swear that you can find the elixir by going to sea?"
The Taoist priest sighed: "The immortal way is so ethereal! Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty both looked for the way to immortality, but did they find it? No."
"Your Majesty, I asked Pindao about immortality. How should I reply? That there is no elixir of immortality in this world? In that case, not only Pindao himself, but also hundreds of monks in our Immortality Temple would be killed, and the status of the Taoist sect would plummet. The Tao cannot be spoken!”
Mr. Li shouted with red eyes: "Then you can bully the king wantonly?"
"It's not that I want to deceive the emperor, it's that I also have a glimmer of hope." The Taoist priest said: "When Xu Fu went to sea to find the fairy island, he was not deceiving Qin Shihuang. He just made two preparations. Everyone is happy to find the fairy medicine. If you don't meet him, you will have to flee overseas."
The Taoist priest said: "At this point, we can only choose to flee."
Master Li said angrily: "If we leave and never come back, what will happen to my family? What will happen to your view of immortality?"
The Taoist priest said: "Pindao had already made preparations when he left the Temple of Immortality. If Pindao did not return at the agreed time, someone would naturally report it to Your Majesty. Pindao's soul lamp would go out and he would die at sea."
"On the vast sea, anything can happen. Since we have been buried at the bottom of the sea, His Majesty will naturally not hold us responsible."
Master Li then calmed down: "There are three hundred imperial troops on our ship. There must be His Majesty's eyes and ears among them. They will not obey my command."
The Taoist priest lowered his voice and said: "Then you need to screen it carefully, sir. That beast will follow us until it eats all the people on the boat. After the death row prisoners are used up, they will use the forbidden army to sacrifice the sea. At that time, sir You can definitely find out the emperor’s ears and eyes, right?”
Master Li said in a deep voice: "Where do you want to go?"
"Japan!" The Taoist priest said in a deep voice: "The only place we can go to now is Japan. The Japanese have admired the Tang Dynasty for a long time. We will definitely be treated politely when we get there. With our status and knowledge as adults, when we arrive in Japan, we will not only be crowned kings, but at least You can also worship the prime minister. It’s better than being a loose official with no power and no real substance in the Tang Dynasty, right?"
Master Li said excitedly: "But can the fresh water on our ship support us to the Japanese country?"
The Taoist priest took out a sea map from his arms and said: "Sir, please see, there is an island here. We can replenish fresh water there. It is not difficult to think of the Japanese country. There are many dangers at sea now, so please make a decision early."
"Let me think about it... let me think about it..." Mr. Li's voice became lower and lower, and his figure began to become lighter and lighter. After a few seconds, he and the Taoist priest disappeared like smoke blown away by the wind. Before my eyes. The entire cabin once again looked like a sunken ship exuding the smell of rotten wood.
I couldn't help but said to myself: "Are those ghosts just now?"
"It should be!" Ruan Dalong is not sure what we saw
I quickly asked: "Have you ever seen a ghost?"
"I've never seen it." Ruan Dalong shook his head and said: "I have been in the hands of detectives for more than 20 years, but I have never seen real ghosts. I can't tell what those things were just now. If it is an illusion, …”
"Impossible!" Ruan Dalong immediately rejected his idea: "Illusion requires a warlock to cast the spell nearby. The ghost ship is a real existence. Where did the warlock come from?"
While we were talking, there was a sudden fire in the corridor, and the sound of soldiers running back and forth suddenly came. Mr. Li, who had just disappeared in front of us, suddenly opened the door: "Taoist priest, it's not good! It's not good!" There are Yin soldiers outside, and Yin soldiers are killing people!"
The Taoist priest who had just disappeared suddenly appeared in the room again, looking as if he had just stood up from meditation: "Nonsense, where did the underworld soldiers come from in broad daylight?"
"What a Yin soldier!" Mr. Li shouted: "Go outside and take a look? The Yin soldiers are about to board the ship!"
"Take me there!" The Taoist priest pulled out the sword hanging on the wall and strode out of the cabin. Ruan Dalong and I followed each other onto the deck.
At this time, another double-decker ship appeared opposite the warship. Countless soldiers were holding long swords and lay across the deck. There were also men and horses holding crossbows and aiming at our warship.
Mr. Li pointed forward and said with a trembling voice: "Look, isn't that the Qin Army's crossbow array? We encountered Yin soldiers! We encountered Yin soldiers!"
The Taoist priest couldn't help laughing and said: "We found it, we found it... Penglai Island is nearby."
Master Li said in shock: "Taoist Priest, what did you say?"
The Taoist priest was so excited that he could not speak coherently: "Those soldiers have shadows, and they are not evil soldiers. It turns out that Xu Fu did not escape overseas, but found the Penglai Island. Even the Qin army he took away is immortal. We Finally found the fairy island!"