"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I used to think that this captain was not a normal person, but I didn't expect him to be so stupid! My benefactor, what did you discover?"

"...I have wanted to say this before, could you please stop calling me your benefactor?"

"Then what should I call you?"

"Call me Chen Siyu. Others call me Xianyu or Xiao Yuzi. It's up to you."

"Then I'll call you Yu'er. That's what everyone close to me calls you."

I thought to myself that the folk customs over there are quite simple and honest, but the people there are so gross and have a phony accent.

"Yu'er, what's written on this?"

I read the diary roughly.

When I read the diary about exploring the Danjiang Underwater Palace decades ago, I suddenly realized something!

The notes mentioned that in fact the real captain of this ship had died a long time ago. On a rainy night during the Yangtze River flood a few decades ago, it was the later captain, the diary reporter, who personally pushed the captain into the roaring river.

And his goal is to play a game of chess that has been played for decades.

This started with an amateur outdoor swimming team decades ago.

One day, this group of diving enthusiasts were doing activities in the Yangtze River. By chance, they discovered a copper gui underwater.

The so-called copper gui is an ancient sacrificial utensil. Especially in the pre-Qin period, which was an era that focused on ritual and music, sacrifices focused on tripods and eight guis. The emperor had nine tripods and eight tripods, the princes had seven tripods and six tripods, and the officials had five tripods and four tripods.

This incident quickly caused a sensation in the archaeological circles of Henan and Hubei at that time. The first team sent to investigate was Zhang Erpang's grandfather Zhang Peng's team.

Later, the captain of the Fangyuan Cruise Ship Aspiration was an archaeological team member under Zhang Peng.

The captain wrote clearly about this matter in his notes.

At that time, the captain followed Zhang Peng into the water, and they found a large number of cultural relics on the river bottom. The strange thing is that the ages of these cultural relics were very different.

Most of the cultural relics seemed to have been deposited in the river mud from somewhere. They were originally shocked by these archaeological discoveries.

But soon, the discovery at the bottom of the Yangtze River made them forget about this excitement.

Zhang Peng and others discovered that there was an underground palace under the silt. The most amazing thing was that this underground palace used the silt as a barrier to cut off the river water. There was still air in the underground palace, so people could live.

This discovery made them very excited, so the archaeological team submitted an application for excavation.

However, before the application result was approved, they encountered a new situation.

During the approval period, they carried out slow excavation work underwater many times. During the process, many team members said that they often heard strange sounds in the underground palace.

This is especially true for the captain, who often hears someone calling his name, and his words are quite tempting.

Finally, the captain followed the sound and found the bronze statue in the underground palace, and he saw a strange sight in the bronze statue.

He saw that he had gained unparalleled wealth and a world-famous reputation. At the same time, he heard someone speaking in the liquid in the bronze statue.

The voice sounded like someone else's, but also like his own.

In the end, the captain decided to kill the original captain of the Aspiration and replace him. He wanted to steal the bronze statue and study it himself.

So he killed the original captain on a rainy night and threw his body into the river, and then put on the captain's clothes to replace him.

"Isn't it right? Then he looks different from the original captain. How can he deceive the archaeological team?"

I'm also very surprised about this.

Continue reading the notes.

Of course he knew, how could he possibly deceive the archaeological team members who were with him day and night by simply changing into a suit of skin?

So he did the second crazy thing.

He first killed the captain and then peeled off the original captain's face, and then killed the female team member named Wu Sisi at night.

He soaked the peeled face in a bronze statue to wash away the blood, then made a human skin mask and wore it on his face.

He then made Wu Sisi's body look like it had been molested and abandoned it in the wilderness.

The next day, the archaeological team searched for Wu Sisi's traces and finally found Wu Sisi in a ravine. They thought he had molested Wu Sisi and fled in fear of crime. People felt sorry for Wu Sisi and hated this man's animal behavior, and no one paid any attention to him.

Is he a real captain?

In this way, he can steal the bronze statue naturally.

In the process of studying the bronze statue, he discovered the ancient worship of human sacrifices, which made him fall into incomparable fanaticism.

The so-called human sacrifice, simply put, means the sacrifice of living people.

Everyone has learned about He Bo's marriage before. In the pre-Qin period, this kind of thing was actually very common in the eyes of ordinary people.

Even Ximen Bao, who stopped him for a while, was no longer able to stop the human sacrifice, and even joined him after he couldn't defeat him.

This behavior did not end until the first emperor of Qin Dynasty unified the world.

The fake captain discovered the connection between the ancients' yin and yang, Bagua, the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, and the human body's organs on the lines of the bronze statue, and thus carried out human sacrifices and experiments on a large scale.

He first deliberately caused an accident, causing the archaeological team to be trapped underwater, and then took the opportunity to kill the archaeological team members one by one and cut off their organs for human sacrifice.

Then at the last moment, the fake captain's experiment went wrong.

Zhang Peng disappeared.

The fake captain became nervous. He was very afraid that Zhang Peng would report him to the outside world and delay his research.

So while searching for Zhang Peng, he stepped up his research on the bronze statue.

However, at this moment, his behavior was discovered by the company behind Fangyuan.

Someone came to find him, but they did not ask him to repay the price. On the contrary, the other party was willing to officially accept him as the captain of the Fang Yuan Qing Ding and funded his research on the bronze tripod.

This time, the fake captain became the real captain. He began to fish in the Yangtze River many times, and used people who were in debt to the company behind Fangyuan to conduct experiments, luring them onto the ship to become experimental subjects.

Finally, he found out some clues about the bronze statue.

What is contained in this bronze statue is not an ordinary liquid, not wine, nor ordinary water.

But "sacred water".

The notes didn't say where exactly this water god was.

It is only said that this bronze statue has the secret of making people immortal.

It's just that the bronze statue he salvaged was not complete. To solve this mystery, another thing from the Danjiang Underwater Palace needs to be salvaged.

As for what it was, he didn't mention it.

In addition, during the research process, he also did a very crazy thing.

That is to conduct a replication experiment.

He discovered that the human skin soaked in the water in the bronze statue has strong plasticity and can become anyone's appearance with just a few changes.

Taking advantage of this, he brainwashed many people into obedience, and made them wear human skin masks and transform into many people exactly like him.

The purpose is to prevent Zhang Peng from finding him one day.

The note ends here. I feel like I am getting closer to the truth, but I still haven't grasped the key point.

Now I can only place my hope on that bronze statue.

Ah Hui and I returned to the captain's cabin. Although there was no sea monkey to help me, Ah Hui helped me step up and I climbed to the captain's cabin easily.

This time I repeated my old trick, holding the black and white magatama in my hand while approaching the bronze statue.

This time I no longer focus on the things in the statue, but pay attention to the patterns on the bronze statue.

The paintings on it seem to be not just animal patterns, but complete story paintings.

It's said in ancient times.

There are three evil dragons who occupy the Yangtze River.

These dragons were making waves in the river all day long. One day, a human emperor led his troops to conquer the evil dragons.

These three evil dragons set off huge waves, causing floods to flood the entire world.

People were swept away by the floods and starved to death as the floods eroded their crops.

In the end, as a last resort, a man from the human race led the people to control the flood and suppressed these evil dragons in the sea forever.

The animal head painted on the front of the bronze statue is a ferocious beast that was conquered by the man who controlled the water.

Among them are the ape-like Wuzhi Qi and the winged Yinglong.

I guess this Wuzhiqi refers to the ancient sea monkey, and the man who controlled the water was the legendary Dayu.

I also found a line of words on the base of the bronze statue, which was written in a glyph similar to oracle bone inscriptions and translated into modern words:

"In the ninth month of that year, Yu set up a memorial ceremony at the river."

This means that in September of that year, Dayu built an altar on the river bank to comfort the gods.

I climbed onto the bronze statue and opened the bronze cover again.

This time, I won't give him a chance to confuse me.

I put my hand directly into the water, and sure enough! I touched something in the bronze statue.
To be continued...