Gu Piaoran obviously didn't care about our looks: "You'd better take a rest. At our current speed, we will be able to enter the designated sea area tonight. By then, I'm afraid we will be in a state of panic at every step."
The man who spoke first said, "Since we have plenty of time now, why don't you take out the map for us to study so that we can be prepared."
Gu Piaoran pointed at his head and said, "The map can only be here, so I can't take it out. Let's all take a rest!"
Gu Piaoran turned and left the cabin after he finished speaking. Ye Jin and I leaned against the corner of the cabin and used our inner force to communicate with each other: "Can you tell what those people are up to?"
Ye Jin said: "The two people on the far left have index and middle fingers of almost the same length, and their fingers are flexible. They should be people from Kong Dao, that is, thieves."
"The three sitting by the window have sinister looks on their faces and black fingers. There seem to be a few stick-like things in their backpacks, which should be Luoyang shovels. Those people probably eat dirt."
Ye Jin said in a serious voice, "And the two men by the door, they have big feet and iron hooks on their bodies. They should be corpse retrievers. But they don't seem to be in the same group."
Ye Jin said, "The one in black has a relatively small hook and a dagger on his body. He should be someone who plays with his life in the river. The one who is a few years older has a blade on his hook, which can be used to retrieve corpses or kill people. It should be a sea hook."
Ye Jin paused for a moment and said, "I can't figure out what the other guys are up to."
I felt a little relieved after hearing this. At least the people Gu Piaoran brought were closely related to this business.
When I was observing my companions, they were also looking around without leaving any trace. How could such a group of people who didn't understand each other, didn't trust each other, and even suspected each other really go through the "gate of hell" together
I didn't know what Gu Piaoran was planning, so I could only take things one step at a time and simply ignored the things around me. I lay down in the cabin and fell into a deep sleep. It was not until I was awakened by a bell that I realized it was already night.
The ship we were on had changed its appearance. The bow and the sides of the ship were all equipped with mechanical crossbows engraved with a large number of runes. The crossbow arrows were thick enough to be a pickaxe and were made entirely of mahogany. The half-foot-long arrowheads emitted a blood-red glow in the night. Even before the ghosts appeared, the rune arrows had a slight reaction, which showed that this sea area itself carried a certain amount of yin energy.
As I looked around at the vast sea, Ye Jin whispered, "What the old man got was a mechanical ship. If this ship were auctioned on the magic road, it would be worth at least two or three luxury yachts. The old man spent a lot of money on it."
As I was carefully looking at the mechanical boat under my feet, Gu Piaoran suddenly shouted, "It's almost there, everyone be careful!"
When I looked forward in the direction of the bow, I only saw a dark sea. Did someone use an illusion array to hide an island, or was there a secret burial at the bottom of the sea
I was just wondering when I suddenly heard someone shouting, "Ghost ship! It's a ghost ship!"
When I turned to look in the direction the man was pointing, I saw a black-sailed boat with a rolled-up canvas and a hull covered with moss slowly approaching us.
I've heard of this ghost ship.
Legend has it that for families who make a living by the water, fishing boats are passed down from father to son. Once a family dies out, the villagers will load the body of the last generation of boat owners onto the boat, seal the cabin, roll up the sails, push the boat into the water and let it drift until it sinks to the bottom of the water.
Some wooden boats in better condition can even drift on rivers for several years and finally sink into the sea.
Once people on the water see a ghost ship approaching, they must burn incense and paper, kowtow from a distance, and then try to avoid the ghost ship and never collide with it; if they really can't avoid it, they will use a long bamboo pole to hold the ghost ship back and slowly go around it. In short, never let the ghost ship collide with you, because the ghost ship will drag you.
Gu Piaoran stood on the bow and said, "Boss Xu, what should we do now?"
"The ghost ship is heading for us, let's sink it first." The person who spoke was a corpse retriever who made a living on rivers.
Boss Xu walked to the bow with two people and said, "Give us your crossbow."
"No!" Gu Piaoran shook his head and said, "The Demon-Slaying Crossbow cannot be used now. We have firearms here."
Xu Laodao: "Is there any?"
"Give it to him." As Gu Piaoran waved his hand, someone handed Boss Xu a long-handled pistol from World War II.
Boss Xu pulled the fuse of the grenade and threw it towards the approaching ghost ship. The wooden-handled grenade landed squarely on the bow, bounced twice on the plank, and rolled into the cabin through the hole in the plank.
As I was marveling at Boss Xu's sharp eyesight, a loud bang rose from the cabin. The already dilapidated wooden boat was split in half by the violent explosion, and then torn apart by the impact of the flames. The bodies torn apart by the fire also flew straight into the air, scattered all over the place and fell into the sea. Boss Xu took a look at the bodies and cursed in a low voice: "Fuck, it turned out to be a false alarm."
I also looked at the scattered bones in the light of the fire. The corpse that rotted into a skeleton in the water is not scary. What is scary is the corpse that is intact. The better the corpse is preserved, the more powerful it is. If the corpse in the water has a white and tender skin, and even a ruddy face like a living person, then it is really scary, which means that it is not far from becoming a monster.
As soon as Boss Xu said that, I heard a loud bang from the side of the ship. When we turned around, we saw a ghost ship was already tightly against the side of our ship.
Gu Piaoran asked sternly, "Where did the ghost ship come from?"
“No, no… I don’t know…” As the sailor was stammering in reply, Boss Xu shouted, “Turn the rudder! Turn the rudder, throw it out!”
Although the ghost ship was attached to the side of the ship, it was slightly closer to the stern. If the ship turned quickly, the ship would likely use inertia to push it away. The sailors on the ship probably knew this, and immediately turned the rudder to make the ship turn quickly in the water.
The water splashed by the ship had just created a half-circle arc on the sea when a loud "click" sound came from the stern, and the entire ship stopped. Someone at the stern shouted, "The propeller is stuck. It's a ghost ship..."
I tilted my head to look at the stern. There were a lot of wooden wreckages bobbing in the foamy sea water, and some wood blocks were flipping up to the sea surface in the direction of the propeller. It looked like someone had stuffed a wooden window into the propeller of the big ship and forced the ship to stop.
Ghost ship under the water
As soon as this thought popped into my head, I saw a large amount of water rolling up around the side of the ship. One ghost ship after another pushed away the water surface, stood up from the bottom of the sea, and at the same time fell off the sea surface, rapidly approaching the big ship.
Our large ship was like a magnet that attracted iron filings, rapidly luring countless ghost ships to quickly approach the side of the ship. After just a few minutes, we were surrounded by hundreds of ghost ships, as if they had formed a circular platform on the sea.
Boss Xu shouted, "Quick! Do you have any guns? Shoot down all the ghost ships! Quick!"
When the sailors on the ship pulled their guns out of the cabin, the entire ship suddenly sank half a foot into the water.
Gu Piaoran staggered slightly and roared, "What's going on?"
Boss Xu's face turned pale as he said, "There are dead people pulling the boat down there."
I have also heard of dead people pulling boats. Some dead people just pulled the boat to prevent it from moving and demanded sacrifices from the people on the boat; some were ready to overturn the boat and pull the scapegoat off the boat.
Boss Xu's face turned pale: "The dead man is under the deck, someone has to get off the boat..."
Gu Piaoran gritted his teeth and said, "Then go down. Come on, destroy the ghost ship below and send Boss Xu off the ship."
The sailors on the ship immediately gathered on one side of the ship, raised their guns and fired continuously at the bottom of the ship. The sailors were all holding guns, and although the range was short, the bullets had a large coverage area. After only a few rounds of volleys, the already dilapidated ghost ship was blown to pieces, and a piece of open space was opened up next to the ship.
Boss Xu pulled out a dagger from his body and held it in his mouth, then pulled out an iron hook with his right hand and jumped into the water. The three corpse-recoverers with him also jumped off the boat one after another.
Not long after, the ship suddenly sank again, and the entire ship seemed to be pressed two feet into the water. A large amount of water rolled up from the side of the ship, and the bright red blood foam also rolled to the side of the ship with the waves.
Boss Xu was murdered!
I couldn't help but hold the side of the boat and look down into the sea. The body of Boss Xu had already floated up from the water. Floating in the water, Boss Xu had his hands folded in front of his chest, his legs stretched straight in the water, his face calm as he slowly sank and floated with the waves, but the scarlet blood continued to spread outwards from all around his body...
Hai Gouzi frowned and said, "There is a powerful water ghost down there. The man surnamed Xu had his heart ripped out from behind by the water ghost. If he wants to be reborn, he has to get his heart back. Now no matter who goes into the water, the first person they will face is the man surnamed Xu."
Boss Xu has been living in the water all his life. Less than five minutes after he entered the water, a ghost ripped out his heart from behind. How fast can underwater ghosts be
While Hai Gouzi was talking, the ship sank another foot into the water in another violent earthquake. If the ship continued to sink one foot at a time, it would sink to the bottom of the sea sooner or later. By then, we would have no choice but to go into the water.
Gu Piaoran growled, "Why don't you get in the water now?"
Sea Hook said calmly, "There are only two Sea Hooks in our group now. Are you sure you want us to go down? Without Sea Hooks, aren't you afraid that you will be unable to move at all on the sea?"
Gu Piaoran's expression changed twice before he said, "Let's draw lots. Come, prepare the life and death lot for me."
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Thanks to Doudou, Hongyan, and Zhu Xiaowei for the tips! (To be continued)