Chapter 251 The hunt begins!
"So the Millennium Rat also has a more widely known name, that is, the Corpse Rat. Once this rat wakes up, it will eat both living people and corpses. Therefore, after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many princes and kings would raise some Corpse Rats.
In the tomb, it is used to deal with tomb robbers. Often, as soon as the tomb robbers dig the hole, they are eaten by the hordes of corpse rats and all that is left is a piece of skin. If it were not for the quick eyesight and quick hands of the brothers who aided Korea, Tinker Bell would probably have died.
He was bitten into a skeleton." The fat man laughed heartlessly.
"Fuck you, even if I bite you, I'll bite you first. You're the fattest one on this boat!" I cursed.
"But didn't the corpse rats become extinct a long time ago? Why did they appear on this ship? It's really strange. Brother Yuanchao, look at the claws of that rat. Are they green and hook-shaped?
Are its teeth different from those of ordinary mice?" The fat man put on his clothes and asked Wang Yuanchao.
Wang Yuanchao stepped on the black mouse's head, then lifted its tail, bent down and carefully inspected its teeth and claws. After a moment, he said in shock: "Look at its teeth, I've never seen them before."
I’ve never seen a mouse like this!”
"What kind?" I poked my head over curiously.
Looking at it like this, my eyes widened. The teeth of this black mouse turned out to be like those of a shark, arranged in three layers inside and three outside. Each tooth was thin, long, and extremely sharp. There were at least one or two hundred of them. Look.
I have developed intensive phobia.
At this moment, the black mouse is still alive, struggling angrily in Wang Yuanchao's hands. Although its long beard and fleshy little nose look very cute, I always feel that its green eyes are always staring at mine.
I couldn't bear to blink when I looked at it with my ears.
"Is this still a fucking mouse?" I was so frightened that I quickly turned my head and didn't dare to look again.
"Corpse rat, this is a corpse rat for sure." The fat man said tremblingly: "Everyone, please be careful! All the information from ancient times to the present shows that this thing is a social animal, and it will never live in groups of three or five.
When they gather together, they form a large wave, just like the man-eating ants on the African savanna."
"I'm thinking that this ghost ship is just a rat's nest. We are blind and came up to deliver food rations to people..."
The fat man seemed to have traveled all over the country and visited several tombs, but he was actually the timidest. When he met the corpse rat, he immediately lost his sense of control and kept talking like a fart.
Wang Yuanchao and I both wanted to jump into the water and run away.
I didn’t want to hear the fat man continue to shake the morale of the army, so I lit up a lantern and continued to search the bow of the ship. Since there were boys and girls on the ship and corpse rats, it was 80% likely that they were the things in the tomb. As long as you search carefully, you will definitely be able to find them.
What clues were found?
After a while, I finally discovered that there seemed to be writing on the back of a boy and a girl, and it was in regular script like the word "Wei" on the green phosphorus, so I called the fat man to recognize the writing.
The fat man was reluctant at first, but after reading the words, he immediately couldn't move his legs and studied it carefully with his eyes wide open.
I watched it like this for more than ten minutes.
This made the atmosphere at the scene a little awkward, so I urged: "Fat man, tell us what is written on this!"
"Grandma, this seems to be the autobiography secretly engraved by the person who built this ghost ship! It says that his name is Ma Jun, he is eight Dou tall and unparalleled in the world, and you can know the structure of something just by taking it apart and looking at it.
Principle, there are a lot of boastful words behind it, saying that he is the first inventor of the Han Dynasty and has benefited millions of people. Other capable people are not worthy of carrying his shoes. Even Zhuge Liang's crossbow is copied from him."
"Hey, the fat man thought he was shameless enough, but he didn't expect that he would grow eyes today and meet his shameless ancestor." After the fat man translated, he started to feel happy.
But I couldn't laugh. I always felt that the name Ma Jun was very familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.
I racked my brains and thought about it, and finally figured it out. Isn't Ma Jun the wizard from the Three Kingdoms period?
It is said that Ma Jun suffered from a stutter since childhood and was not good at speaking, but he had an amazing talent for mechanical inventions. He successively invented the loom, waterwheel, compass, etc. Even Cao Cao was able to defeat Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu.
He also benefited from Ma Jun's help in times of need and the hundreds of giant trebuchets he sent to him.
Thousands of rocks flew, knocking off Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops!
Later, in order to thank Ma Jun, Cao Cao made an exception and promoted him to a senior official in Cao Wei. Unfortunately, craftsmen were looked down upon in that era. In the end, Ma Jun was ostracized by the court and died in depression.
Later generations also proved that Ma Jun invented the repeating crossbow before Zhuge Liang, and that Zhuge Liang did indeed plagiarize. Ma Jun was even called the Edison of China by foreigners.
I never expected that this ship was actually built by Ma Jun, but in other words, except Ma Jun, an invention madman, who could build such an exquisite ghost ship and puppets? Even modern high-tech
It's hard to do.
I was so excited that I asked the fat man: "Fat man, come on, are there any more? Continue to translate."
The fat man muttered for a while and then said: "It's time for Ma Jun to complain later. He said that he had ambitions but couldn't put them into practice. The emperor also thought he was verbose, so he sent him to repair the tomb. But Ma Jun
The old man was diligent in everything he did, so it took him five years to build this spiritual ship and the channel. He said that this spiritual ship could connect Yin and Yang, allowing the late emperor to continue to patrol the Yang world after his death.
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"In order to protect the tomb, he arranged the most exquisite mechanism on the ship and raised countless corpse rats. Every once in a while, the spirit ship would carry the corpse rats downstream to replenish food. Wait, there is another sentence later, the spirit ship is anchored
On that day, when the rats hunt!"
The fat man turned around and asked us confusedly: "Dingdang, what does this sentence mean?"
Before the fat man finished asking this question, he heard the ghost ship suddenly make a "bang" and hit something unknown. The three of us slipped and fell on the ship.
I quickly picked up the lantern and looked forward, only to realize that at some point, the black stream going upstream had disappeared without a trace. The big boat carrying the three of us really looked like a ghost ship leading to the underworld.
, anchored halfway up the mountain.
The fat man covered his head in pain and said: "What the hell is going on? We haven't gone far yet. Why does the stream end?"
I was also a little depressed. According to common sense, the source of streams is usually at waterfalls in the mountains, but why was this boat anchored on a bare mountainside, and there was not a drop of water under our feet.
And where did that black creek go? How could it disappear for no reason? Could it be that there is some mechanism here that we haven't discovered yet.
Just when we didn't know where to go next, a piercing sound of wind chimes sounded again on the ghost ship. The ringing of the bells was like the squirming of insects in the catkins, which startled us.
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The sound of the wind chimes was getting louder and louder, as if countless evil ghosts had climbed onto the boat and wanted to kill us! It was also like some kind of signal, calling something out.
Along with the sound of wind chimes, I also noticed a pair of green eyes appearing on the dark boat. Those eyes were as big as soybeans, staring at me and blinking.
Chapter completed!