Soon, someone handed Gu Piaoran a handful of bamboo sticks. Gu Piaoran held the sticks in his hand and turned them a few times: "The life and death sticks are divided into long and short. The one who draws the shortest stick will go into the water first, and so on. Those who have gone into the water, whether they succeeded or not, do not need to go into the water again until the end of the round, and then go into the water again in the original order. If you have no doubts, then let's start. We have limited time."
Seeing that no one nodded, Gu Piaoran handed the life and death lot to the sailor next to him. There were about thirty people on the ship, including the sailors, and it only took a few minutes to draw the lot. Before long, everyone showed the life and death lot in their hands.
Gu Piaoran pointed at a sailor and said, "You go down first."
The sea hook took out a bamboo tube from his bag and handed it to the sailor: "If you see a dead body under the boat, quickly turn the mechanism behind the bamboo tube, and then run back quickly, whether you hit it or not. We will pick you up on the boat. If you run too slowly and run into the corpse-dissolving water, don't blame others when you get there."
The sailor gritted his teeth, took the bamboo tube, looked at Gu Piaoran, and then jumped into the water.
The sailor sank into the water for only a few seconds before floating up again, raising his hands in the air and waving them vigorously: "I got it!"
Hai Gouzi immediately threw down a rope: "Grab the end of the rope and I'll pull you up."
As soon as the sailor touched the rope, he felt like someone had yanked him hard in the water, and he sank straight to the bottom of the water. In the blink of an eye, he suddenly jumped out of the water like a fish that suddenly fell into boiling water.
The man's upper body had just jumped out of the water when he immediately fell back into the water, with the sea water covering his head. However, his hands that were stretched out accidentally grabbed the rope floating on the water.
"Hurry up!" Hai Gouzi grabbed the rope and pulled it up suddenly, pulling the man out of the water. As soon as the man came out of the water, there was a cry of surprise from the boat...
After the sailor who was intact just now was pulled out of the water, only a bloody skeleton was left. The sailor had only been in the water for a few seconds, as if he had been slashed from head to toe with a sharp knife. Except for his internal organs, which had not been completely hollowed out, there was no intact flesh on his body, especially his eyelidless eyes, which stared at everyone on the boat with pale bloodshot eyes.
With a casual shake of the sea hook, the originally straight rope immediately created a series of twists and turns of waves, one wave after another, which shook towards the dead body's palm, and in an instant the corpse was shaken into pieces and fell into the sea.
Hai Gouzi swung the rope twice vigorously: "That person didn't touch the dead body under the boat. The corpse-dissolving water in the bamboo tube will be soaked with poison in a short time once it touches the sea water. No matter who goes down, they must not get hurt. If they get hurt a little, they will be turned into bones immediately."
Corpse-dissolving water may seem scary, but it won't have any immediate effect unless there are any wounds on the body.
Before Hai Gouzi finished speaking, the ship started to move violently again, and the ship sank another foot. Hai Gouzi said anxiously, "Who's going to go down next? Remember, this time you have to not only pour the corpse-dissolving water, but also find a way to make a hole for the dead body to come out. Who's the second one? Come to me and get the poison cartridge."
The person holding the second life and death lottery was Ye Jin. Just as he was about to move forward, I held out the life and death lottery to him: "I'll do it."
Ye Jin suddenly became anxious: "Zhaozi, why are you showing off? I am a better swimmer than you."
I nodded to Ye Jin and said, "Believe me, I won't rush to die if I'm not sure of something."
Ye Jin hesitated for a moment before grabbing the rope and standing beside the boat. When I took the poison cartridge from the sea hook, the corpse-dissolving water in the seawater had been diluted to a negligible level. I pulled out the Rakshasa and bit it in my mouth. Just as I was about to stand up and jump off the boat, I heard someone shout, "Wait a minute!"
When I turned around, I saw a girl in black walking towards me. The girl hadn't spoken a word since she got on the boat, so I didn't have a deep impression of her. What was she calling me for
Her companions chased after her closely: "Xiaoyao, what are you doing? Tong Xiaoyao, stop right there!"
Tong Xiaoyao stood up, but what she said made me laugh and cry: "Your knife is good, it would be a pity to sink it into the sea with you, why not give it to me."
Tong Xiaoyao's expression seemed to be saying something that was a matter of course, but her companion's face suddenly turned red: "Tong Xiaoyao, shut up!"
I looked at Tong Xiaoyao coldly: "Are you okay?"
Tong Xiaoyao said confidently: "Am I wrong? It's a pity to let such a good knife sink into the sea with you. It's better to..."
"Shut up, shut up, shut up..." The girl next to her yelled three times in a row, and Tong Xiaoyao said blankly, "You Ran, what did I say wrong?"
I figured out that Tong Xiaoyao might have some problems with her brain, so I simply ignored her, put on the diving goggles handed to me by the sailor, and jumped into the sea.
My body broke through the sea surface and sank several meters into the water. When I turned over and looked at the bottom of the boat, I almost gasped—there were at least fifty corpses wearing various clothes, holding the bottom of the boat with their hands raised high, hanging under the big ship.
I guess that there are either iron plates or talismans underneath this wooden ship to prevent the dead men who are holding the ship from moving forward easily. Otherwise, the strength they use to pry open the bottom of the ship would be enough to tear through the hull and drown us.
When I stood firm after a few kicks in the water, the corpses holding onto the boat hunched up like shrimps, exerted all their strength, and pulled down with both hands. The boat was immediately pulled one foot under the water. The corpses holding onto the bottom of the boat stretched their feet to the bottom of the water at the same time without waiting for the boat to float up under the buoyancy of the seawater. The more than 50 pairs of human feet hanging straight down seemed to have a force of thousands of pounds, and they actually dragged the floating boat.
Is this how these dead guys are holding up our ship
Although I thought it was a bit absurd, I didn't have time to study the corpses, so I simply took out the bamboo tube from my body, pointed it at the corpse under the boat, and turned the mechanism. With a "thump" sound, a thing with a pointed head and a flat bottom like a spinning top shot out of the bamboo tube.
As soon as the hidden weapon jumped out of the bamboo tube, it spun rapidly and drilled into the bottom of the boat. At the same time, the dead man hanging under the boat suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight at me with bloodshot eyes.
In a short moment, the hidden weapon I fired had already approached the corpses under the boat. The two corpses that were hit first shook their arms at the same time, floating to the sides, and the rotating hidden weapon rushed into the corpse group through the gap between the two of them. Then, the second and third rows of corpses also floated up and moved to the sides...
If this continues, the hidden weapons will soon be out of the group of zombies. What use will they be then
Just as I was about to reach out to touch the Green Fly Dart, the hidden weapon suddenly exploded from the center outwards, and the dark yellow liquid gushing out from the inside of the hidden weapon instantly filled the sea area within a radius of ten meters. The corpse that was originally standing in front of me seemed to be covered with a layer of dark yellow gauze, and except for a pair of bloodshot eyes, only the outline of a human figure remained.
At the same time, I also felt a fatal crisis quietly attacking me from behind. Although the water waves pushed by the opponent were extremely slight, their speed was extremely fast, and they approached my back in just a moment.
At the critical moment, the Mysterious Ice Armor that surged out of my body also pressed back at the opponent in an instant. I just felt like someone pushed me hard from behind, and my whole body couldn't help but lean forward half a foot.
Without waiting for my body to stop, I immediately grabbed Luosha and swung forward with a knife. The sword energy rolled out in a fan-shaped and wild advance, but I didn't even look at the results of my knife attack. My feet kept pushing the sea water to float to the surface.
When I popped my head out, Ye Jin had already thrown the rope towards me: "Come up quickly!"
I reached out and grabbed the rope, and as Ye Jin pulled me up into the air, I heard a loud sound of ice breaking beneath me. Then, a humanoid black figure emerged from the water between the floating ice blocks and grabbed my ankles.
"Be careful!" Ye Jin screamed and was about to pull the rope, but Hai Gouzi, who was standing next to him, grabbed the rope and twisted it several times in the air. I felt a spinning force coming from the rope, and my whole body couldn't help but turn with the rope.
I hesitated for only a moment, then turned the Rakshasa with one hand, and spun up with all my strength following the force of the rope. The silver-white blade energy also spun along with my body into a fan-shaped blade wheel, flying out from front to back. The sharp blade light whistled in the wild, and a scream that was not like a human voice came from behind me. When I was pulled onto the deck by the sea hook, the sound of heavy objects falling into the water came from a distance.
I must have hit something with my knife just now, but I am sure I did not cause serious damage to him. The ghost that I chopped into the sea was just afraid to show its head temporarily.
I stood up and thanked Hai Gouzi, who just nodded and looked at the water. At this time, the water surface under the flashlight had already rippled with dark red waves, and there were waves of sounds from the bottom of the boat, like a school of fish flapping their wings desperately.
Someone exclaimed in surprise: "The corpse-dissolving water worked!"
"It's not that easy! Stand still!" After Hai Gouzi reminded loudly, a wave more than two feet high suddenly arose under the ship, and the whole ship moved forward rapidly under the push of the water current.
Hai Gouzi shouted sternly: "Hold the rudder steady and keep the boat spinning in place. Don't drift too far!"
The sea is vast and bottomless. Even if we pour buckets of corpse-dissolving water into the sea, how much area can it cover? The farther the boat is pushed, the lower the concentration of the corpse-dissolving water will be. After a hundred meters, it may completely lose its effect.
At that time, do we still need to go to sea? (To be continued)