Ghost Blowing Lantern II

Uncle Ming was afraid that he would lose his footing and fall into the sea, so he hugged an arrow stone tightly and shouted: "Hu Zai, it's your uncle who has done so many good deeds and accumulated great virtues, so that Ji people have their own celestial phenomena. You are a waste of time." You followed me this time and came back with your life, thanks to the blessings of the fisherman’s master and Mazu, the dragon soldiers passed by the sea."

I used to be in Fujian, and I had heard about the "Dragon Soldiers" incident in the South China Sea. It is a rare spectacle on the sea, together with haishi and haizhi. It refers to whales or turtles gathering in groups, and whale spines and turtle shells floating in the water. When you look out from the sea, it is a spectacular sight. Fishermen believe that the phenomenon of dragon soldiers crossing has different signs. The passing of whales and turtles is a good omen, while the presence of a large number of sea fish floating across the sea is a sign of poor seafood harvest and impending disaster. omen.

In fact, the phenomenon of "passing the dragon soldiers" is caused by the huge changes in the seabed, which caused the migration of aquatic animals in the sea. It may be that the sea air dragon fire in the coral spiral disappeared, and the turtles in the "Guixu" floated away and escaped, which happened to bring us The sacred tree that floated on it was lifted up. Fatty and I had seen tortoise shells all over the ground in the Baiyan Cave between the grassland and the desert. The sea air in that "turtle burial" changed like a ghost market, creating a gray ruins. , now that I think about it, the strange and strange scenes that change in the ghost market of Baiyan Cave are exactly the ancient tombs in "Guixu". As early as thousands of years ago, there must have been several "passes" in the Coral Spiral Sea. The turtle migration of "Dragon Soldier" is a spectacle, but the bones of the turtles that escaped from the ruins have long been buried in the "turtle resting place" of Baiyan Huangquan.

Uncle Ming asked everyone to seize the opportunity and use the knife to chop up the dead body of Grandma Shark again. Seeing that things had turned around, I thought that the lives of Ruan Hei and Master Duo Ling were left at the end of the remaining veins of the "Nanlong", and I felt so good. I felt lost for a while, and suddenly felt weak all over. I felt that I could no longer stand on my feet, so I sat down on the wood. As soon as my hand touched the oak tree, the wooden pieces and stones fell into the water one after another. I looked down and saw that the wood was on the wood. The cracks were deepening and expanding, and I couldn't help but shudder immediately: "Oh no, this ancient tree has been severely impacted by the sea water under the ghost island. It is most fragile. It looks like it will be broken into pieces soon. A catastrophe is imminent." Before there was any time to alert the others, the cedarwood floating in the sea began to disintegrate.

The barberry tree floating on the coral spiral sea has been immortal in the eye of the sea for thousands of years, relying entirely on the vitality of the sea to sustain itself. Now that it has left Guixu, it has been severely damaged several times in succession. The bark is covered with scales, and embedded in it. The arrow stones began to peel off one after another. Grandma Shark's body was affected by the waves and slowly detached from the oak tree. The broken half of the sacred tree drifted on the sea with the current.

We saw that this large natural "canoe" could not last long at sea before being crushed by the ocean currents. However, under the starry night sky and surrounded by endless sea water, everyone was helpless. Until now, nothing could be done. I just had to let nature take its course and resign myself to fate.

I was looking at the undulating turtles around me and was thinking hard about countermeasures. Suddenly I saw a turtle not far away carrying a person on its back. The person was wearing a diving suit with a yellow logo. He was quite eye-catching on the sea. He had long hair. Scattered away, it was Duo Ling who had fallen into Guixu. She lay motionless on the back of the turtle, not knowing whether she was dead or alive. The giant turtle floated with the ocean current and suddenly sank into the sea. Duo Ling's body was immediately covered by the sea water. Rush aside.

She might have survived after falling from the sacred tree. With Dan Min's proficiency in water, she grabbed the giant turtle that escaped from the ruins in the turbulent current, and then she was able to return to the sea and saw many things. Ling fell into the sea from the turtle's back and was drifting past the cedar tree. I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly called Guchai, jumped to the end of the log, grabbed a piece of belemnite, jumped into the water, and pulled off Duo Ling's hair. Hold on, Guchai and others have arrived at this time, and everyone is busy lifting Duoling onto the wood.

I grabbed the arrow stone and climbed up the tree. I saw Shirley Yang trying her best to rescue her. Duo Ling's face was as white as a sheet of paper and she was unconscious. However, after rescuing her, she finally spit out a few mouthfuls of seawater and gained a little bit of vitality.

A stone fell in my heart. I looked at Guchai. He was kowtowing to the east, as if he was thanking Ruan Hei for being a spirit in the sky and for keeping Duoling alive, and he seemed to be worshiping the people of Dan. Grandmaster, the fat man pulled him up: "Don't hit your head against the wood. Why do you think it doesn't sink fast enough? Thank God it's all nonsense. Death does not belong to the proletariat. Back then I was fighting upside down in the mountains..."

It is most taboo to mention words like "capsize, overturn, and sink" at sea. Before Fatty could finish his words, Uncle Ming silenced him: "Fatboy, everyone will be killed by you. If you bully the mountains, don't bully the water." , you dare to say such taboo words!"

The fat man was furious and was about to denounce the absurd views of Uncle Ming, an old reactionary academic authority. But at this moment, everyone felt that their feet suddenly became loose. For a moment, they all staggered and stood unsteadily. The wooden body under their feet continued to crack and fall apart. I screamed badly. Just now I thought that this piece of rotten wooden pile could float on the sea for at least an hour, but now it seems that it will be separated soon.

At this time, the group of turtles had dived to the bottom of the sea and disappeared. There was nothing on the sea. When a wave hit, the part of the "楗木" that surfaced was immediately smashed into pieces. Everyone fell into the water one after another, and had no choice but to grab and scatter them. There are many kinds of wood, but there are a lot of sharks in the South China Sea. Even if you are lucky enough not to encounter a vicious shark, how long can you last immersed in the cold sea water like this?

I was carrying a heavy bronze mirror on my back, and even grabbed a few wooden boards, but they were all rotten and loose, making it difficult for people to carry them. I had to pull the life plug on my shoulder, and a small life-saving airbag was immediately filled with gas, and floated up and down. On the sea, when I was complaining endlessly, I suddenly heard Shirley Yang calling me: "Old Hu, look quickly, there is a boat!"

I thought I heard it wrong. How could there be a ship in the "Coral Spiral" waters? But at this time, the fat man and others were also shouting and shouting on the sea, as if everyone had really discovered the ship. I took a closer look, but it was not an alien ship. It turned out that at the top of "Zhimu", although there was no passage, The interior was also hollowed out, and there were some strange funerary objects inside. After the oak trees were broken into pieces, they scattered and floated in the sea. There was actually a complete ancient ship hidden in it. The ship had a shallow bottom and short masts. The oval body seems to be a burial object prepared for the souls of the dead at the bottom of the sea. In our words, this ship is a "clear weapon".

In the turbulent sea, we couldn't see clearly what was going on with the ship for a while, but at this time we finally had a life-saving straw. Let alone the ship being a "bright weapon", even if it was a ghost ship, we had to climb up first. I'm afraid that if there is any hesitation, once the waves on the sea increase in magnitude, everyone will be swept away by the waves in an instant.

I quickly cheered up and swam to the side of the ship. Only when I got closer did I realize that the bottom of the ship was made of the bone armor of a giant turtle. It was about one size larger than an ordinary lifeboat and could accommodate five people. There is no problem for six people. There is only one shallow cabin in the boat that cannot be entered by people. There are some funerary objects such as corals in it. Because it is for the dead, there is nothing practical. Whale skin is used as a sail in the boat. Compared with ordinary wooden boats, this nearly fossilized tortoise-shell and whale-bone boat can be used as a cable. Compared with ordinary wooden boats, this nearly fossilized tortoise shell and whale bone boat can last as long as new and can still be used today. However, this ancient boat is like an empty model. If it encounters strong winds and huge waves, it will surely be destroyed. seabed.

But we didn't care about that much anymore. We helped Lu get on the "Pluto Ship" one after another, lying on the tortoise shell panting. No one had the strength to move anymore. It was not the windy season on the sea, and the southern dragons condensed in the eyes of the sea. Once the sea air dissipates, we will most likely not be as worried as when we arrived. As long as Mazu protects us from hurricanes and waves, we are living on this lonely boat, at least for the time being, we don’t have to worry about falling into the sea to feed the sharks.

Duoling was still unconscious in the boat. The rest of the people were a little tired and exhausted. They all closed their eyes and fell asleep in exhaustion. At this moment, they didn’t want to open their eyes even if the sky fell. My eyelids were fighting and I was also confused for a moment or two. For an hour, I was still vaguely thinking about the details of the "mountain-moving Taoist technique", thinking hard about how to use the mountain-moving Taoist's method to sail the bone armor ship back to the Coral Temple Island without water or food.

In the second half of the night, I felt hungry and unbearable. When I woke up, I saw that Shirley Yang had also woken up. She was leaning on the whalebone mast and staring at the stars. I also looked at the dense stars in the sky and fell into a trance for a while. This time The experience of going to sea flashed through my mind one by one, and I couldn't help but said to Shirley Yang: "I knew that the coral spiral sea area was dangerous and unpredictable, but I still came here when my head was hot, and now I am in this situation. , there was a boat full of priceless green heads, but we couldn’t exchange for a pot of water and half a piece of dry food. Looking back, we must have been crazy at that time..."

Shirley Yang said: "You are just a lunatic. I am a fool at best. I was tricked by you into going crazy with you."

I quickly explained: "I'm crazy, that's why Professor Chen is talking about me. I really admire the seniors in ancient times who spent their entire lives moving mountains and moving mountains. Today, I don't know what will happen tomorrow, and I have no home in the world." It’s really not something that anyone can bear. How many brain cells must be lost every day in this kind of life? It’s time to live a peaceful life for a few days.”

Shirley Yang sighed softly: "It would be great if you really had that kind of consciousness, but the world is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change. In your eyes, the scenery is always far away, and there is no scenery nearby. You can't be honest at home for a few days, but We are drifting on the sea this time. The sea is ruthless and rough, but it is really worse than before. I hope God bless us and don’t let us become Dutchmen flying in the sky."

"Flying Dutchman" is synonymous with "ghost ship". This legend refers to being cursed and drifting on the sea forever without being able to dock. I have heard Shirley Yang mention it before, and now I can't help but feel a chill down my spine when I think about it. Find a way to divert your attention and examine the green heads fished out from the South China Sea.

In the past ten times as a "gold-touching captain" who searched the mountains and picked out the rivers, the harvest was not as rich as this time as an egg farmer. We have fished out almost all the things in the eyes of the South China Sea, the most important of which Of course, it has to be the "Qin King Bone Mirror", which is the first of the Qin King's eight mirrors. If it can be handed over to Professor Chen, it will be regarded as fulfilling a wish.

However, this bronze mirror had a dark atmosphere. After I found it from the sunken ship, I kept it sealed in a bag and never looked at it again. Now I took it out and took a closer look with Shirley Yang again. The bright moon hung high on the sea. But under the moonlight, the ancient mirror has no luster. The mirror surface is very badly worn. The fine seals carved on the mirror body are extremely fine. , but the carved seals on the "King of Qin Bone Mirror" look like tadpoles forming a formation, and resemble ancient hexagrams. It is estimated that it is a secret weapon forged in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

I was just claiming to be curious when my eyes fell on the four-legged mermaid on the corner of the bronze mirror, and I froze on the spot as if being sucked. The four-legged fish decorated on the mirror body had a simple and expressive shape, but the fish eyes were empty and aimless, like Like the bronze dragon talisman I found in Baiyan Cave more than ten years ago, the blind dragon talisman is also an ancient relic passed down from an unknown dynasty and which generation. It was placed in Wong Tai Sin’s copper coffin and made into a sacred object. Now that I think about it carefully Looking up, the dragon talisman and the fish ornament on the bronze mirror are very similar in terms of age, style, shape and size.

Chen Xiazi, who makes a living as a fortune teller in Beijing, seems to know the secret, but he was in a hurry last time. After I mentioned the blind dragon talisman, he only made a "four" gesture, and then disappeared. I I have thought about it repeatedly, but I can't guess what the name "four" is. Now I see the purposeless four-legged fish as decoration on the bronze mirror, and I am even more confused. Could it be that "four" refers to four kinds of ancient bronze mirrors? The dragon and the fish are each one of them. What are the other two? What are these eyeless copper beasts used for? What secrets are hidden in it? The tadpole pattern on the "King of Qin Bone Mirror" seems to contain hexagram numbers. Perhaps these mysterious eyeless bronze dragons and copper fish are related to the all-sky hexagrams of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The sixteen-character hexagram numbers of the whole sky contain infinite opportunities, which can be deduced into various hexagrams. The hexagrams need to be interpreted using hexagram texts. These are really difficult for me to reach the sky with my half-hearted level, but the ancient guessing ancestors The Dan people passed down from generation to generation, the most primitive Western Zhou Dynasty hexagram formula. Although the formula is not complicated, the content is more profound than that studied by Zhang Yingchuan, the descendant of the author of "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique". However, The Dan people have always regarded these hexagrams as mantras to protect themselves at the bottom of the sea, and they seem to be unaware of their origins.

Thinking of this, I turned around and looked at the sleeping Guchai, thinking that it would be better to wait until he woke up and ask him about King Qin's bone mirror. Maybe he would know the mystery behind the blind copper beast.

I was thinking wildly on the boat. At this time, Fatty and Uncle Ming also woke up from hunger. The sea was calm and the tide was calm. I don’t know where the broken boat was drifting now. Everyone drank the last few drops of water from the kettle to moisten their throats, and discussed what to do after a while. There were flying fish passing by the boat. How could I catch a few of them and eat them alive to satisfy my hunger?

I also felt very hungry, so I reinstalled the King of Qin's osteoscope and said to everyone: "Revolution is to treat guests to a meal. If you don't fill your stomach, you won't have the energy to do anything. You should treat eating and drinking with the attitude of the autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves." and appetite, we can’t be careless, so we have to think of something quickly..."

Fatty and Uncle Ming and I were talking and trying to catch fish. Uncle Ming said that there are flying fish in the South China Sea, and they often swim in groups on the sea. It attracted flying fish with wings to pass by the side of the boat, but it was still midnight, and we waited at the bow of the boat for a long time but no fish came out of the water.

We had no choice but to wait until dawn before making any further calculations. When we turned around, we saw Shirley Yang checking on the unconscious Duo Ling. There was no medical treatment or medicine in the vast sea. If she had remained unconscious, she might have died. Dangerous, the situation is not optimistic.

Shirley Yang noticed that her condition was deteriorating and asked me to help detect Duoling's pulse. But as soon as I touched Duoling's wrist, I felt that there was something hidden under her sleeve. She seemed to be wearing a watch. I thought it was a diving watch. She wanted to take it off for her, but unexpectedly, what Duoling was wearing on her wrist was the diamond-encrusted gold watch that Fatty had taken off the arm of the dead man in the shipwreck. When Fatty saw this, he wanted to take the watch back, but that The gold watch was deeply embedded in the flesh of Duoling's wrist, and it might be possible to dig it out with a knife.

I looked at the gold watch and wondered: "How did this gold watch... come to her?" When I was suspicious, I suddenly smelled an extremely fishy smell in the sea breeze. We had dealt with dead bodies many times and felt that It smelled like corpses, but there were no rotting corpses on the boat, which made me wonder.

Uncle Ming even searched for ancient corpses for more than ten years. He knew it was definitely corpse smell when he smelled it. Everyone sniffed each other for a long time before confirming that the corpse smell came from Duo Ling. After careful inspection, I found that she did have some inconspicuous corpse stains on her body, and there were a few drops of fishy corpse oil flowing out of her mouth and nose. I had long thought that the sunken ship of the Marymount was haunted, and that there might be something wrong with the captain's gold watch. At this time, what happened? Not caring about hurting Duo Ling's flesh, he used a diving dagger to break off the gold watch and threw it into the sea.

Uncle Ming said in shock: "Oh no, the gold watch was fished out from the sunken ship, and I am afraid that the head-destroying witchcraft of Nanyang was used in it. What's the use of just throwing the gold watch away? Now the head-destroying magic has been used on her. The body odor on her body is worse than the infectious disease. If you don’t throw A Ling into the sea to feed the fish, no one on our boat will survive."

Uncle Ming has been wandering around in Nanyang for a long time. When he saw the smell of the corpse in the gold watch, he decided that someone had lowered his head. The three techniques of "dropping, poisoning, and killing" were also called the three major evil arts in Nanyang. Strange poisons made from incredible methods; the principle of voodoo is inseparable from the word "confusion", which is to make people lose their minds by raising poisonous insects and releasing voodoo; while the head-dropping technique uses spells, corpses, ghosts As a medium of sorcery that harms people, the "corpse descending and ghost descending" derived from it can quickly lead to the death of large numbers of humans and animals like infectious diseases, even worse than the plague, and are the most elusive. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)