Chapter 242 The Thirty-Second Act Enters the Northern Wilderness Five
Chapter 242 Act 32 Entering the Northern Wilderness Five
"Jiu Lu·Zhi of Mountains and Seas" is a strange book that was written before the establishment of the Dasheng Dynasty. It contains mostly folk legends and ancient geography, including mountains and rivers, roads, products, medicines, sacrifices, witch doctors, etc. However, the author of the book is unknown. After Bai Jiangxi ascended the throne, he ordered Fu Yao, a scholar of Xingyuan Pavilion, to compile the fragments scattered among the people into a volume, totaling 16 volumes.
Among them, "Geography of Guizhou" contains:
"The north of the Dark Sea is called Guizhou, and the water to the west of Guizhou is called the Floating Ice Sea. The ice is a few inches thin and a few feet thick. It stretches for more than a thousand miles to the extreme north. There are many cracks in the ice and phosphorus is produced. Shrimps, red clams, mackerel, soft fish. There are animals on the ice, they have no legs but are good at water, and their voices are as loud as cattle.
To the north of the floating ice sea is the Hades, and there is light flowing in the sky. Although it is called a sea, the ice is as solid as stone and covers the water. At this point, the ship cannot move, and no one has come back..."
After drifting among the ice floes for several days, the food carried on the ship was quickly consumed. It seems that under anxiety, people's food intake will increase sharply. In order to prevent the beans, rice and meat stored on the ship from drying out, They ran out of money early, so Qi Ziyin had to order food rationing and ordered people to catch fish and shrimps from the sea every day to satisfy his hunger.
However, the further north you go, the less aquatic products you can catch. Blocked by ice floes, the opportunity to cast your net becomes increasingly rare. Unfortunately, the fish and shrimp under the ice are only as thin as a little finger, or even as big as a fingernail. It's impossible to catch it with an ordinary net.
That night, young Ye Guogong's empty stomach kept growling, and he tossed and turned on the couch. Finally he got up and planned to go to the deck to see if he could still ask some skilled fishermen on the ship to help him. Eat some food to satisfy your hunger.
As soon as he opened the cabin door, he felt the biting cold wind, which actually made him more awake. The young man put his hands to his mouth, and rubbed them hard again and again while exhaling, but there was still a raw and stiff feeling between his fingers. Feel.
He wrapped the mink fur around him tighter, but found that he was not the only one who had no intention of sleeping. At the moment, there were three or three figures gathering on the side of the boat, either casting nets or fishing. It was probably because they were greedy. Now, I plan to catch as much seafood as possible while there are few people, and make some toothpaste.
It seemed that the group of people had been busy on the deck for a while, but still failed to gain anything. Qi Ziyin suddenly felt that it would be a bit abrupt if he rashly stepped forward, so he stood and watched from a distance. Unexpectedly, suddenly there was someone. A hand slapped him hard on the back:
"Hey, dignified Duke Ye ran on the deck in the middle of the night. Could it be that he wanted to snatch food from the mouths of the rest of us?"
The voice was as gentle as a warbler, making the young man smile slightly. When he turned around to look, he saw a pair of blue eyes peeking out from behind his shoulders, flickering.
"Ning Yue, I guess you are probably hungry too, and I was just about to call you."
"Ah, what do you mean I'm hungry too? It sounds like I'm just a serious foodie."
The girl whispered softly, her flaming red hair gently teasing Qi Ziyin's face with the night wind, but he didn't want to avoid it. For the first time in months on the ship, the young man felt so relaxed. It seemed that he knew that he had no way out, and that after experiencing the disaster, he felt more open-minded. He just smiled and joked:
"Yes, yes, I made a mistake. But if Ning Yue, you are not pregnant, why haven't you fallen asleep until now?"
"Of course it's because of you! I don't know who it is, but in the middle of the night, you are still walking past someone's door with your shoes on. You will be woken up even if you fall asleep, okay?"
After experiencing the accident, Ning Yue rarely showed the innocence and innocence she had only had in Mulu City many years ago. That smile like the warm sunshine in spring suddenly made the young Duke Ye feel that there seemed to be nothing around him. It's cold.
"Okay, okay, you are so sharp-tongued that I can't always speak better."
The young man waved his hands, but he laughed with the girl towards the endless sea of ice. Their laughter spread farther and farther, but it seemed to bring a sense of vitality to this piece of ice and snow that no one had ever visited in ancient times. and vitality.
Even the people fishing on the ship were affected by the laughter and began to shout loudly. As if attracted by the sound and firelight on the ship, as the fishing nets were pulled onto the deck again and again, the fish caught There were more and more shrimps, crabs and shellfish, and they were getting fatter and fatter. The energetic people soon lured out more people who were hungry and unwilling to sleep in the cabin. Some people even used the braziers on both sides of the ship for lighting. , after grilling the seafood, he ate it on the spot.
The people who had lost hope suddenly seemed to have discovered a fertile virgin land. After eating and drinking, they couldn't help but start singing and dancing. Under the ice, more and more living creatures were attracted by the lights on the ship. Weaving and swimming on both sides of the ship's side, it's dizzying.
"Ziyin, look quickly, what is that?!"
Although Ning Yue has lived on the bottom of Chanying since she was a child, no one from the Cangyu clan has ever visited this far north water. At this time, she was as excited as a child. She pulled Qi Ziyin and leaned over the side of the ship, lowering her head to look. The little white fox curled up in his arms was also woken up by the noise. He stuck his head out and twitched his nose sleepily.
Following the direction of the girl's finger, the young Duke Ye saw countless translucent shrimps gathering in the ice cracks under the belly of the ship in just a short moment.
He seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly ordered the surrounding braziers to be extinguished. After their eyes adapted to the brief darkness after the fire disappeared, people discovered that the sea around the ship did not dim, but became brighter than before - That is the faint fluorescence emitted by krill. Trillions of shrimps are like an underwater glowing cloud, constantly emerging from the ice crevices.
"It's so beautiful! The ancient fairyland mentioned in the book is just like this -"
Qi Ziyin's jaw almost dropped in shock, and he praised from the bottom of his heart. But before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the crowd around him seemed to be frightened by something in the water. First there was a sudden silence, and then a loud sound. The long cry from the sky came from below the ship, distant and long.
The crowd was in an uproar. The underwater sound moved quickly from the other side of the boat to where the boy and the girl were standing. Following the sound, the two looked down and saw a shadow of Wu Peng suddenly emerging from the water. It was actually a figure. The huge head of a giant whale!
Even the young man in white who grew up on the seaside of Ye State had only heard of whales appearing in the waters south of Whale Bay, but he never thought that they could be seen in such extremely cold seas, and even It was several times bigger than the whale I had seen in Qingwan!
The giant whale opened its mouth as huge as a cave and swallowed nearly half of the krill under the ice floe in just one mouthful. The shrimp group was disturbed and instantly fled in all directions in the water. However, they were blocked by the wide bottom of the ship and jumped up with all their strength. The small shrimps behind hit the wooden planks on the side with a crackling sound, as if there was a shower of rain, and then fell back into the water one after another, becoming a feast for the giant whale's mouth.
The whale ate all the krill beside the boat, then turned around, stretched out its long tail high out of the water, and slapped it hard, causing countless waves, as if it was heading towards the fish that had attracted the shrimps with the light. People paid their respects. Immediately, the sound of its heavy and short breathing was heard in the darkness. The giant whale dived again and swam towards another group of krill lingering in the sea not far away.
When the giant whale swam under the boat, it seemed to accidentally nudge the hull. Everyone who had been stunned only felt a slight sway under their feet, and finally came to their senses. However, no one felt scared. Instead, they were moved by the sincerity in front of them. The original scene is moving.
"Ning Yue, it seems that the situation is not as bad as we thought. The current is taking our ship all the way north. If we can keep going like this, maybe we will be able to cross this ice floe in a few days. Reach the far north where no one has ever been before!”
Qi Ziyin turned his head and looked at the red-haired girl beside him. His golden pupils shone like the Milky Way falling from the sky.
The girl was also infected by her companion's emotions. She nodded vigorously, then turned around and hugged him, giving him a gentle kiss on the cheek. She didn't know why she acted like this, but she just felt that this was the only way. Only then can you express the complex feelings in your heart that cannot be described in words.
The young Duke Ye seemed to have been struck by lightning and stood there for a long time. His hands were clasped on the girl's waistcoat, but he did not dare to hold her tightly tightly and was unwilling to let go just like that.
Time suddenly became extremely slow at this moment. The young man even had a vague illusion in his heart, feeling that he and the girl opposite him had spent their entire lives like this.
However, this sweetness was soon disturbed by the shouts that broke out around them. The two turned their heads and saw that the people around them who were also amazed by the appearance of the giant whale had already raised their heads and pointed. There was a lot of discussion on the cloudless starry night.
Following the direction that everyone was looking at, Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin finally saw that on the dark blue sky, there was a touch of red appearing at some point. The red was not eye-catching at first, as if someone had used a very light Color, using the dome as the canvas, I painted a few strokes at random.
But soon, the red color became more intense and intense. The translucent color gradually changed from dark red to deep purple, and then turned into light purple, pink, and became brighter. Gradually, the red color became brighter and brighter. A light green gradually appeared in the purple. The colors gradually mixed together, just like two strands of paint blended into the water, blurring the boundaries of each other, but still maintaining their true colors.
The brighter the light, it was like a colorful brocade across the sky, drawing a soft strip of light above everyone's heads. However, some people on the ship became nervous because of this.
Some people began to say that this might be a sign that they had mistakenly entered a forbidden area, offended the gods in the sky, and were about to punish themselves. Others said that those were the heroic spirits of their ancestors from the past tens of millions of years. The huge waves rescued three Ye Kingdom ships from the siege of the Peng Kingdom fleet. Some devout people actually knelt down on the deck on the spot and worshiped.
"Ziyin, do you know what that is?"
Ning Yue gently tugged on the sleeve of the young man next to her, but she couldn't take her eyes away from the strip of light in the sky. In a pair of blue eyes, there was some excitement when they first met, but also some instinctive fear.
The young Duke Ye smiled gently, shook his head and said:
"I have seen in records in books that there is light in the far north, like neon like a rainbow, like smoke like a ribbon. I don't know whether that light is the ancestors' spirits from the past tens of millions of years, but I can be sure.
This is by no means a sign of impending punishment from the gods!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard another loud noise in the night sky, like thunder, but it was obviously caused by someone. The young Duke Ye and the red-haired girl in front of him looked at each other, and they both rushed to the ship.
From the command podium on the stern, I followed the sound and saw something like a meteor in the distance, drawing a slender arc in the sky and flying straight in my direction!
"It's the Pengguo army! They're catching up again!"
The sentry on the deck shouted loudly. However, before he could finish his words, the meteor in the night sky flew over everyone's heads and landed heavily on the deck. It was actually a star tied tightly with iron bars.
wooden barrel.
The tail of the barrel trailed a burning fire. Before it hit the ground, a pungent smell filled the air.
"It's Lan Yan! Find cover!"
Qi Ziyin was the first to react, and immediately shouted and protected the red-haired girl beside him. However, it was still too late. There was only a loud "thump" sound, and the barrel exploded among the unprepared crowd.
A burst of blue flame instantly rose up. Broken wood chips and iron slag flew everywhere, injuring countless people. Many people were even thrown into the air by the heat wave and fell straight into the cold sea water, flopping around for several times.
After falling, it sank quickly and never surfaced again.
The originally quiet ice sea was suddenly stirred up like a pot of boiling water. The fish, shrimps, crabs and shells under the ice, as well as the giant whales eating leisurely, disappeared without a trace. However, the attack of the Pengguo army
It's just the beginning.
Barrels of blue flames were projected from the stone crossbows on the ship, accurately exploding everywhere on the Yeguo ship. Soon the deck was a sea of blue fire, and the sounds of running, calling for help, and crying could not be heard.
, and even several holes measuring two or three feet square were blown out in many places on the side of the ship.
Cold seawater poured into the cabin from outside the hole in an instant. At first, the sergeants under the cabin struggled to fill the cabin with sacks filled with sand. However, more than a hundred sacks were prepared on the ship to prevent flooding.
It was quickly consumed, but the holes on the side were still increasing.
The ship soon began to sink. On the gradually tilting deck, Qi Ziyin held Ning Yue in his arms with his left arm, while his right arm tightly grasped a cable on the side, but it did not help. He
Their feet kept slipping, making the two of them completely unable to stand still. There were also people around who could no longer stabilize their bodies. They lost their feet and fell along the increasingly steep deck, crashing heavily into more people below, and then crashed again.
The cabin and the side of the ship were already riddled with holes, and then fell into the water, causing broken bones and tendons.
The young Duke Ye realized that there was no chance of survival if he continued like this. In desperation, his eyes suddenly fell on the ice floe floating in the sea outside the ship's side, which was several times larger than an ordinary fishing boat.
, and immediately shouted loudly:
"Abandon ship, abandon ship! Find a way to get to the ice!"
However, in the chaos, it was difficult for his voice to be heard by the panicking crowd, and even harder to attract anyone's attention...
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