Chapter 233 The ship is coming

I quickly got out of the sleeping bag. I didn't look like a person who had just woken up from sleep. I was full of energy.

I had already guessed about this result, but when it actually happened, I still had a dreamy feeling, which was better than stimulants, and I lost all sleep in an instant.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi probably have the same mentality.

Brother Yaozi held Zhang Xinya's shoulders with both hands and said in a deep voice: "Second girl, don't panic. Speak slowly. Is that ship really here? Has it docked at the shore?"

"No landing!"

Zhang Xinya hurriedly said: "When I saw it, it was still far away from me. I couldn't see its specific shape. I could only see a rough outline. It was definitely a ship. That feeling... Oh, I'm not feeling well either.

Describe it and you will understand it clearly after just one look."

"Walk!"

The kite brother raised his chin.

A few of us packed up the good things and hit the road immediately. During the past half day, the four of us took turns returning to the side of the Mercury Sea to observe. Each of us went there at least two or three times to see what was behind the tomb door.

This corridor has become so familiar that I can't be more familiar with it. To be arrogant, I know where the chain of flaps is even with my eyes closed. There is no such thing as a stumble. I almost reached Mercury at the fastest speed.

seaside.

It is still deathly silent here, dark, cold, and full of haze. Every time I come here, I feel very uncomfortable, with an unspeakable sense of depression, and my spirit is dark, as if this is really the boundary between life and death.

The boundary between the living and the dead.

In the mercury sea, a huge ship is slowly heading in our direction. The speed is very slow, but it is extremely tall. It is a unique building ship in ancient times. There is a flagpole on the bow with a flag flying on it.

It's a pity that this ship has been in existence for an unknown number of years, and there is no one to take care of it. The flag has long been corroded by the wind and has become disfigured. At first glance, it looks like a few blackened rags wrapped around the flagpole.

This makes me a little regretful. The flag is a very important symbol and will reveal some potentially important information, but now I can't see anything.

The building boat moved forward slowly, as fast as a turtle. It has been a while since Zhang Xinya saw it, but it is still far away from us. It is moving forward silently, and the four of us are eager to see it.

As he watched, Lao Bai clenched his fists tightly, his forehead was shiny and covered with sweat beads, he was extremely nervous!

I didn’t dare to express my anger. This underground ruins was so weird that it even exceeded our understanding of tombs. No one knew what was waiting for us on the ship.

According to the current situation, it might take a while for the ship to arrive, and it was not an option to remain so tense. In the end, I simply took off my backpack, sat down with it under my butt, and waited quietly.

As time went by, we gradually got used to the existence of this building ship. On the contrary, it was the depressing and dull atmosphere here that made it difficult for us to adapt.

The four of us also discussed it and felt that there might be something we didn't know about in the mercury sea. It should be more than just mercury, otherwise it would not have a negative impact on people's spirits. Zhang Xinya asked Wan Niang'er to take over the body and open her yin and yang eyes.

I keep looking at this place, but I still can't see any doorway.

She said that it was dark down there and the yin energy was very strong, but other than that, she didn't find anything else.

After an unknown amount of time, the building boat finally docked.

As I guessed, the ruins should have been a pier before. After the ship came over, it parked directly near the ruins, as if it had set a route. Regardless of whether the pier is there or not, the ship will still be here.

dock.

What is supposed to come will eventually come, and you can't avoid it by hiding. Now that we have reached this point, the four of us no longer hesitated, looked at each other, and walked directly over.

The building ship is in the mercury sea, and the dock no longer exists. If you want to board the ship, you must pass through the shallow mercury. Even if we are brave, we dare not directly test the lethality of this mercury with our own skin and flesh, so Brother Yaozi starts from

I picked out an extremely long wooden board from the ruins and put it directly on the boat from the shore. Then I stepped on the wooden board to board the ship. The board was very thick, but it was still rotten. It made a creaking sound when I stepped on it, and it wobbled three times with every step.

, it may break at any time.

I had already awakened the Tianguan Blade, held the Taoist Sanqing Finger in one hand to protect my body, walked at the front, and was the first to jump on the ship.

This boat is just a wooden boat, but it is not made of ordinary wood. I can’t tell what it is used for. The wood is black, and there are thick black stains on it that are rusty like oil stains, giving it a special look.

It feels dirty. There is a ferocious wooden carving of an animal head above the corner. I can't identify what species it is. It has a green face and fangs. It looks very eye-catching.

There was a faint sour smell permeating the boat, like the smell of sulfuric acid, but mixed with the aroma of some wood. It should be the smell emitted by this weird wood. There was nothing everywhere, not to mention the shadow of people, even if

Not even a ghost can be seen!

"Where is the master's house?"

I stood on the deck, looked around, and shouted to the cabin: "We have boarded the ship, why don't we come out to meet?!"

The cabin was still quiet and there was no response.

Lao Bai came close to me and muttered: "This place is so weird, there must be no one there, right?"

I glanced sideways at him. There must be no humans. No one can live in this kind of environment for two thousand years. But there should be other things. Even modern ships need humans to control them, let alone such a ship.

A wooden boat?

"Come here and take a look."

Brother Yaozi didn't know when he boarded the height of the building boat, looked steadily into the distance, and said softly: "This boat is very interesting!"

I rushed to his side and soon understood what he meant by interesting.

Mercury is a volatile thing. There is so much mercury here that it has been buried underground for thousands of years. The mercury content in the air has reached an alarming level. As a result, a very strange scene appears in the mercury sea. It is a thick

Black mist washes in the air, making this place look very sinister.

However, when the ubiquitous black mist floated near the building ship, it seemed to have hit an invisible wall, immediately dissipated and disappeared...

Needless to say, this is due to the wood of the hull. It should be this mysterious wood that restrains mercury. If it must be explained scientifically, I think it may be related to the sour woody aroma emitted by the wood.

It has something to do with the smell. The smell emitted by the wood contains substances that have not been discovered by modern science. It has a certain chemical reaction with the mercury, preventing the mercury vapor from getting close to it.

Looking at it this way, not only is this ship not evil, it actually seems to be protecting us!!

This feels so weird.

Brother Yaozi was very brave. After thinking about it, he actually took off his gas mask. I exclaimed "Hey" and it was too late to stop him.

He just took off the life-saving thing, and took a big breath of air as if he was afraid that he would die slowly, and grinned: "It's true, you should take off this thing on your face. It's too uncomfortable to wear it on this ship."

unnecessary."

Even so, the few of us remained motionless.

Mercury poisoning is not like eating arsenic. The reaction is so strong and fast. Who knows if the air is really clean? I don't have the courage to gamble with my life.

Brother Yaozi shook his head and said with a smile: "Let's go together and see where the owner of this boat is."

We had checked back and forth on the deck, but found nothing, really not even a ghost, so a few of us got into the cabin together and rummaged through it again!

Finally, I have to admit that I feel that maybe Lao Bai really got it right.

There is really nothing on this ship. Not only is the boatman missing, but the ship is also missing a lot of things!!

A ship should have a rudder, right?

This is the most basic thing, right?

Of course, unless it's something like a canoe, but this is a large ship. An ancient warship should have a rudder, right?

But, there is none on this ship!!

How to control the direction without a rudder?

In addition, there are no paddles on the left and right sides!

The building boat has no sails, and relies entirely on the hard work of the oarsmen on the left and right sides to provide power. The archers drill behind the parapet to attack from a distance. This is the most basic configuration, but there is nothing on the boat, it just has the shape of a building boat.

That’s it!

I can't even figure out how this ship sailed.

Is it relying on the power of ghosts and gods?

We searched the entire ship and found nothing supernatural!

However, after spending so much effort, we still found it.

In a corner inside the cabin, we found several strange words. The gestures were stiff and the writing was weird. It looked like someone was digging out the wood alive with his fingernails when he was about to die!

We have never seen this kind of writing before. It is very simple and should be the earliest writing. According to our current classification of writing, it should belong to pictographs, that is, ideograms.

The biggest difference between ideograms and phonetic characters is that there is room for guessing in ideograms. You may not understand them, but you can at least imagine them. Especially this earliest hieroglyphics, its way of expression is like drawing.

Likewise, one word may contain a very big message.

I stared at it for a long time and said hesitantly: "It seems to be saying... I'm going to die."

This is only the meaning of part of the text, and I can't understand more of it.

"Has anyone been on this ship before?"

Brother Yaozi said: "But looking at the traces of this ancient tomb, it doesn't look like it has been destroyed at all!!"

I shrugged, indicating that I couldn't explain this and didn't know what the situation was.

Zhang Xinya gestured at the scratches with her fingers on the words, and said softly: "Look at this scratch, the bottom is round, not sharp. The nails that dug out this mark are not accidental.

It's almost the same, but it's definitely not left by humans, whose hands are not as slender."

Zhang Xinya's character is a bit carefree. After getting to know her, I always regard her as a brother. In fact, purely from the appearance point of view, she is definitely an iconic beauty, especially her hands, which are slender and slender, with green fingers, very, very

She looks good, and her fingers are thinner than normal people. However, the marks her nails made on the wood are much thicker than the scratches of these writings. The other party's fingers are much slender than hers, which is extremely abnormal.
To be continued...