Wujun Changmen Sea Falcon thirty-nine, these words seemed to have magic power, causing Su Xinghuo's face to change suddenly, and his body to stiffen suddenly.
"Your Excellency,"
The muscles on Su Xinghuo's face twitched, and he asked with difficulty: "Where did you hear the name of this ship?"
"..."
Li Ang didn't answer, but just looked at Su Xinghuo silently, with an obvious meaning - don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked.
"Okay."
Su Xinghuo sighed, "You saved my life, so I can't hide anything. However, because this ship involves the past secrets of the Su family, I hope you can keep it a secret."
"Okay."
Li Ang nodded in agreement and took out two more insulation notes from the drawer to completely isolate the risk of being eavesdropped.
"It starts with my father."
Su Xinghuo took a deep breath, closed her eyes and recalled, and said: "My parents have always had a good relationship. In my memory, they almost never quarreled, until one day they had a big fight.
My father, who was very drunk, told me the truth about the decline and demise of the Su family.
The ancestors of the Su family accumulated a lot of money by running boats. In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, they founded the Yiyuan Trading Company in Suzhou. The family members worked hard and a hundred years later, the Yiyuan Trading Company became the number one in Suzhou and the top five in Jiangnan Province.
Family assets include land, cattle, mountain farms, watersheds, mills, houses, shops along the street, etc.
But one thing has always troubled the Su people - disease.
Once a family member reaches the age of fifty or sixty, the probability of mental deterioration is much higher than that of outsiders.
This is a disease that entangles the blood of the Su family. As people grow old, they will gradually lose their ability to take care of themselves and even be unable to swallow.
According to the publication of the Chang'an Imperial Medical Office, it is a family hereditary disease.
The Su family felt that this was a family scandal, so they took all the clan elders into the back of the house and put them under centralized care."
Su Xinghuo paused and said slowly: "The emperors of the Sui Dynasty all believed in the rumors that there was an elixir of life in overseas fairy islands, and the people were no exception.
In order to find a cure for the disease, the ancestors of the Su family frequently explored the periphery of the Endless Sea and drew sea maps using the convenience of running a business.
Finally, by chance, a ship was carried on the back of an unimaginably huge sea beast and sailed into the depths of the endless sea.
According to the ancestors of the Su family who survived the ship, one scale of the sea beast was as big as a house.
Standing on the deck of a ship, a person can only see a small piece of the sea beast's back, while a larger shadow lurks under the sea.
Its body length may be described in units of "li". It is comparable to Kunpeng.
The frightened crew members 'sailed' for thirty days and thirty nights, passing through the most dangerous area of the Endless Sea, where there were endless thunderstorms, waves tens to hundreds of meters high, and all kinds of strange creatures that preyed on each other.
Alien monster.
The sea beast of unknown shape seems to be an overlord-level existence in the endless sea.
Wherever it goes, the thunderstorm subsides and the huge waves calm down.
Even the fierce sea beasts dare not approach.
The surviving crew members believed that no ship would be able to sail to such a terrifying place without relying on the sea beast.
On the thirtieth night, the sea beast stopped swimming on the edge of an island and dived deeply. Sea Falcon No. 39 finally touched the water again.
Because the ship is located in the depths of the endless sea that no one has ever explored, and is surrounded by dangers, the crew members who are close to running out of food and drinking water immediately decide to sail to the island, replenish their supplies on the island, and look for fresh water and edible food.
Half a day passed, and most of the crew members who were looking for supplies came back, but several people had not returned yet, and their whistles for help were not heard.
The captain sent several people to look for it.
The crew followed the footprints, used machetes to cut off the vines blocking the road, and carefully walked deeper into the jungle. Then, they saw a scene they would never forget -
In the middle of the island, there is a pit ten feet in diameter. In the pit stands a huge black stone.
There are large and small black stones. Most of the largest pieces are in the rock formations, and countless tree root-like things extend from the bottom of the ground.
Like dye staining, it soaks into the surrounding area.
The surface of the vegetation is covered with spiderweb-like black lines, and the bodies of birds and animals are replaced with pitch-black substances.
The missing persons stood blankly in the pit, with black tree roots stuck in their necks, wrists, and ankles.
After careful consideration, the others decided to use ropes to pull them out from a distance.
Everything in the endless sea is dangerous. The crew did not send the missing people to the ship, but placed them in a temporary camp far away from the island coastline for observation.
The next day, several missing persons woke up leisurely, and nothing seemed strange.
In fact, one of the Su clan members, who was nearly fifty years old and had already shown intermittent mental decline, completely recovered and no longer suffered from sudden stuttering or slow speech.
There's just one thing - their blood turned red and black.
The captain discovered this change. He issued a hush-hush order to all crew members who knew about it. He took a few people back to the pit, picked up a large piece of black stone outside the pit, and put it into a specially made stone box used to seal alien species.<
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A few days later, thick blood floated from the sea, together with large pieces of stumps - the stumps were blue-black in color, with carapace on the back and dense suckers as big as a carriage on the front, similar to octopuses.
The captain guessed that the sea beast that brought them here probably had habits similar to that of a python. It liked to prey on prey that was large enough, and a single hunt could last for several years, ten years, or even longer.
After successfully hunting, return to your residence to hibernate.
A few days later, the sea monster resurfaced. The crew seized the opportunity and parked the ship on the back of the sea monster, and followed the sea monster back to the sea.
Perhaps because of a full meal, this time the sea beast took forty days and forty nights before returning to the outer reaches of the Endless Sea and starting to dive.
More than half of the crew on the Sea Falcon Thirty-Nine were killed or injured. The remaining survivors controlled the ship and barely sailed back to the land from the outskirts of the Endless Sea. After resupplying in Nanzhao, they sailed to the Sui Kingdom and returned to Suzhou.
The Su family blocked all news about this voyage, and the elders of the clan and the monks trained by the family studied the black stone brought back.
The more they studied, the more surprised they were at the mystery of the black stone. Later, they directly regarded the black stone as a divine object given by Haotian, set up an altar for it, and worshiped it secretly.
Gradually, the probability of genetic diseases in the family continues to decrease. Just when the clan members thought they had finally gotten rid of the blood curse, a group of uninvited guests came to visit.
Taixuanzong.
For some reason, this hidden sect knew about the Black Stone. They broke into the mansion that the family had spent a lot of money to build and was full of restrictions, and held the clan leader and elders hostage, demanding cooperation."
This chapter has been completed!