Tonight, Surti and Adan were responsible for keeping vigil with Jin An. When they rushed to the place with Jin An, they were also shocked by the ancient desert ship in front of them.
"Is this a sunken ship in the desert that was washed out by snow?"
Adan cried out in surprise.
Sureti shouted in horror: "Devil ship in the desert!"
Devil ship?
There have always been legends about the devil ship circulating in the desert.
There are as many legends about devil ships as there are dried up ancient rivers in the desert. They are as timeless as those ancient river beds that have existed for thousands of years even after they dried up. There are too many merchant ships permanently buried in the desert together with the dried up ancient rivers.
"What's going on?"
Jin An just glanced at the old antique boat floating on the river, and then asked the two sheep with sharp eyes.
Seeing Jin An coming, the two sheep, who were originally screaming in fright, quickly cried for their fathers and mothers and ran towards Jin An, with a strong smell of sheep on their bodies.
Those sheep odors all come from wet feet. They were so frightened that they veered off the road just now, and most of them peed on their hooves.
But at this time, old Sadiq and young Sahaf could no longer care so much. You and I told each other everything that had just happened.
After finishing speaking, old Sadiq glared at his cheating nephew: "Let's see if you dare to talk about the devil at night next time. Let's see, this time you really called the devil ship!"
When people reach middle age, they always feel that they are beyond their capabilities, and it is difficult to even think about relieving themselves heartily.
That scare just now.
The road got sidetracked halfway.
In the end, all the urine ended up on the hooves.
I don’t know if this scare has any sequelae.
You are going to make your aunt a widow.
This cheating uncle’s nephew.
"Whether it's a devil or not, you'll know once you get on the boat."
"You guys stay here and don't let others get close. I'll go to this ancient ship to see it myself."
"If Yari and the others come over, Sureti, ask them to go back and guard the entrance of the cave. That is our foundation and nothing can go wrong."
Jin'an didn't care whether Sureti understood what he said. He jumped up with agility, using the soles of his feet on the side of the ship, he easily jumped onto the deck.
This ancient ship is very big.
The hull, deck, and railings are all covered with thick sediment. The sediment on the hull exposed on the river is dry and hard sediment, which has formed into thick lumps. It is obvious at a glance that this sediment is not short-lived.
Internally accumulated.
"Um?"
Jin An also noticed a more important detail.
The sediment on the hull deck was spread evenly, unlike the sunken ship he encountered when he first entered the desert, which was half clean and half sediment.
"It seems that this ancient ship did not tilt and run aground on the river bed, but sat directly on the bottom of the river bed." Jin An thought this way and continued to look at the ancient ship in front of him.
Snap, snap.
Footsteps tapped lightly on the empty hull and deck, which seemed empty and quiet. There was no one on this old antique ship, which was older than everyone present combined. It was exceptionally quiet, and every slight footsteps sounded.
You can hear it clearly in the weird dark night, and it can be heard far away.
With a hint of surprise and thoughtfulness, Jin An continued to search deeply within the hull.
Three broken masts.
Only one mainmast remained, but it was also crumbling.
There are also canvases on the mast that have been torn into strips by the desert wind.
There are also more than a dozen holes of various sizes on the deck.
Those holes were like dark ghost mouths. The cabin was so dark that it was difficult to see what was going on inside.
Even the ship building is in a very dilapidated state, with many doors and windows missing.
break.
old.
antiquity.
Every aspect of this old merchant ship gives people a dilapidated and desolate feeling, and it has a feeling of dilapidation and desolation like a coffin in a graveyard at night.
But this huge mobile coffin is much larger than the coffins in the cemetery.
Squeak, squeak——
collapse--
Perhaps it was because of the old objects, but from time to time there were sounds of wooden boards rubbing against each other on the ship's hull. The sound was very soft, but it gave people a very loud and harsh feeling. Whenever I tracked down the location where the sound came from, nothing happened.
No clues were found.
After several fruitless pursuits, Jin An simply didn't bother to take it seriously anymore, and just thought it was some abnormal noises made by the ship's hull that couldn't bear the weight of the years.
After Jin An boarded the ancient ship, he searched for about half an hour before jumping off the ship.
The gap between the ancient ship and the shore was several stories high, but it was so relaxing for Jin An that he didn't even take a breath.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, what's going on on the boat? You've been gone for so long. We're all worried about you." As soon as Jin An landed smoothly, Thermoplastic Ti and Adan surrounded him.
Jin An smiled warmly, thanked the two for their concern, and briefly talked about the situation in the boat.
"There is no one on this ship. There is no danger. It is not the devil ship you mentioned Sureti. There is nothing to be nervous about. This ancient ship is just an ordinary sunken ship. It should be a sunken ship somewhere. It was covered with melted snow.
Rushed over." Jin An comforted the two of them with a warm smile, calming their panic and anxiety.
He probably searched the ancient ship, but found no one on board.
Therefore, there is no need to take some things too seriously, and there is no need to create too much fear in the team.
Why bother worrying about how true or false his words are.
Speaking of this, Jin An laughed and said: "We should be happy. The desert gods have blessed us with a desert boat. Tomorrow we can take this ancient boat all the way down the river and go to Desert Haizi to find the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom.
,Don’t you think you should be happy about this happy event?”
"You go find Yali and find a longer rope. We will drag this ancient ship to the shore. When it gets bright tomorrow and the view is clear, we will thoroughly inspect the ship and then take this ship to the desert Haizi."
Ah this?
The two of them looked dumbfounded at what they thought was a dark, shabby ship with several big black holes on its sides. Could this ship really be able to take them on a ride in the desert without sinking in half?
?
The ones who had the biggest reaction were Old Sadiq and Young Sahaf.
Others saw the Desert Devil Ship and had no time to hide. Only Taoist Master Jin An was not afraid and took them all on board. Both of them were stunned.
When Jin An took the people and sheep back and expressed his thoughts, it naturally caused a lot of consternation and discussion.
…
The next day.
As soon as it got light, Jin An took ten people from Ari and boarded the ship to check the details of the ancient ship and see if they could guide them safely in the river.
There were many details that could not be seen at night. When the vision was bright during the day, Jin An discovered that this ancient ship had many older objects than he imagined, and there were countless holes in the wooden planks of the ship's side.
Except for the fact that there are no holes below the water surface, there are holes everywhere else. To say that it is riddled with holes is an understatement.
It felt like any big wave could capsize the boat.
This is a flat-bottomed boat. One advantage of being used as a merchant ship is that it carries a heavy load. It can carry more cargo in one trip and earn more profits.
The merchant ship is spacious and divided into four floors: cabin for loading cargo, cabin for living, deck, and building.
When we descended into the cabin, the place was almost filled with sediment. After thousands of years of sedimentation, the sediment has long been integrated with the ship's hull. It would be a big project to dig out the sediment.
All this sediment was poured into the ship along the holes in the hull.
They found a large number of neatly stacked wooden boxes and sacks in the cabin. Those wooden boxes and sacks had long become rotten and brittle, and could be broken easily without using any force.
The wooden boxes contained pieces of cloth, and the linen bags contained tea leaves and some medicinal materials. These things were too rotten to be used.
Cloth and tea are luxuries in the desert that only nobles and royal families can afford. It seems that the goods in this ancient ship are shipped to the royal family of a certain country for enjoyment.
Carefully avoiding the accumulated sediment, everyone held torches in the cabin and continued walking deeper. Along the way, they also found boxes of ivory and spices, which were all luxuries of the nobles.
"This boat was filled with goods. It seemed that it was going to be traded in the desert. Before it could be sold, it had an accident and sank in the ancient river." Someone in the team speculated.
In fact, most of these cargoes were covered with thick mud and sand. What they saw was only a corner. The team continued to go deep into the cabin to inspect everything.
I checked all the way for safety, and finally arrived at the bottom floor.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The cabin at the bottom was tightly protected, and the wooden door was locked with thick iron chains. Ari kicked it several times before finally breaking through the wooden door, kicking up a large amount of dust.
Everyone covered their noses and coughed, and after the dust had cleared, they walked into the cabin on the lowest level. When they saw it, everyone was stunned.
This level is densely packed with many large wine vats, at least sixty or seventy of them. This is the place closest to the bottom of the ship, and it is also the most intact place on the whole ship.
There are no holes at all on the side of the ship.
Not a ray of sunlight shines through.
"Why are there so many wine jars here? The cabins outside are filled with precious tea, cloth, and ivory. They are all luxuries for the royal family. The wine jars here must be fine wines for the royal family."
"I have never tasted the fine wines that are exclusively for the royal family and nobles. These fine wines have been stored for thousands of years, so they must be very old and mellow!"
Someone who likes what is in the cup approaches a wine jar with a smile. When he talks about the wine, he can’t wait to take out his machete and open the seal.
The moment the mud seal was lifted, the smell of corpses rushed out, and a mummy that had been dead for an unknown number of years appeared in the wine vat. This unprepared scene made the man scream in terror.
Hearing the screams, Jin An and Yali also ran over and saw the mummy in the wine vat.
Jin An looked ugly, and opened the seals of other wine jars one by one. They were all full of mummies of women, and there was no good wine in them.
"This ship is the ship of human traffickers! These damn human traffickers put the beautiful women they trafficked into wine jars and disguised them as wine, and secretly carried out human trafficking! These human traffickers would kill them a hundred times!" Yali looked very ugly.
Swearing loudly.
Human traffickers have torn apart countless families and are reviled no matter where they are.
There are nearly dozens of wine vats here, which means dozens of corpses.
Ari felt uncomfortable.
At this time, even Jin An also had a heavy look on his face: "I originally had a great life, but my youth withered away early, and I died a tragic death, never to see the light of day again."
"Since we borrowed their boat, we naturally want to repay the favor. Let's move all these wine tanks out and find a spacious place to bury them, so that they can regain their freedom and rest in peace."
No one objected to Jin An's words. Next, everyone began to carefully move the wine jars.
Finally, they broke the wine vat, took out the mummies, and buried them all under a desert poplar tree. They hung cloth strips under the poplar tree. A strip of cloth was equal to a human life and served as a tombstone to comfort their spirits in heaven.
It was already noon when Jin An finished reciting "Tai Shang Cave Xuan Ling Bao Tian Zun's Wonderful Sutra for Saving Suffering and Eradicating Sin" to save the souls of the dead.
After finishing all this, the team began to drive the camels onto the ship. Fortunately, the ship had boarding boards, which saved them a lot of effort.
When the wind picked up in the desert, everyone put down the tattered canvas and drove with the wind towards the desert Haizi.
Taking a boat in the depths of the desert was a new experience. It took half a day for the people on the boat to lose their enthusiasm.
The desert is very vast, and it doesn't look far to the naked eye. In fact, the ancient ship traveled for two days before approaching the desert Haizi.
Of course, there are also reasons why the ancient ship is too old, too big and heavy, and cannot travel quickly in the desert.
As the mirror-blue desert sea appeared in front of us and could be seen with the naked eye, people on the boat ran to the bow and looked into the distance.
Sparkling.
The water surface is like a mirror.
"Is that the sea? It's just like what the old man said, you can't see the edge at a glance!" Yali and the others looked excited, and even a few sheep joined in the fun and squeezed in to look into the distance.
Jin'an isolated the ship building, holding the railing and looking at the huge lake in the distance, with the same emotion.
We are finally going to find the legendary Guchi Kingdom and the Holy Mountain of Huahai!
In fact, there is no sea in the desert, just a huge lake. The people of the desert have never seen the vastness of the sea, so when they see a huge lake, they mistakenly think it is the sea.
Strictly speaking, it should not be called the Holy Mountain of Huahai, but the Holy Mountain of Huahu.
The ancient ship rode the wind and waves along the winding river. Finally, the bow of the ship hit a huge wave and finally floated from the river into the huge lake.
The sky in the desert is very clear, and the blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the lake, like a blue mirror with sparkling waves. This lake containing snow water is so large that you can't see the edges from left to right. It seems that the lake is as far as the sky is high.