Xiao Zhonghua nodded and approached Chen Si. Chen Si asked, "Did you find anything wrong when we were advancing just now?" Xiao Zhonghua shook his head and said, "There is nothing wrong."
Chen Si thought for a while, turned around, and stared at Gu Fengchun, trying to ask for his opinion. Although Gu Fengchun had come across some records about these ghost islands, most of the records were vague and he found ghosts.
The ships on the island usually just leave records in the logbook and mark the directions on the navigation charts. Very few people set foot on the island, and even if they do, they will not stay on the island for as long as they did. In other words, they are lost.
Basically, you can't find it in the records related to Ghost Island.
Of course, the record of the priest on the Dutch merchant ship may be the most detailed record. It records that the captain, first mate and others disappeared on the island one after another. Could it be that they also encountered such a thing on this island?
, can’t get out?
Gu Fengchun shook his head, but he was sorting out what happened in his mind. But at this moment, the front of the team suddenly stopped. Chen Si frowned and asked: "What happened in front?"
Soon, Tang Maiqiu came back. His face was nervous. "Old Chen, something is not good." Tang Maiqiu lowered his voice and said to Chen Si.
"What should I say?" Chen Si said calmly. It was very different from the nervousness on Tang Maiqiu's face.
"Look at this." Tang Maiqiu took out the compass and said to Chen Si.
Chen Si lowered his eyes and found that the pointer was still. He couldn't help but feel strange. Isn't this compass quite normal? What's there to make such a fuss about? But Tang Maiqiu said with a grimace: "Didn't you find anything?"
"
Chen Si shook his head blankly, but Xiao Zhonghua next to him said: "Old Chen, look at it, the pointer has deviated from north to south. The direction of the pointer now points to the southwest, which is different from the position we measured before.
." Xiao Zhonghua's eyes immediately discovered the error. But this is not surprising. After landing on the island, he determined the geographical location of the island, so he was relatively sensitive to this.
Chen Si suddenly realized it and said: "Yes, how could such a thing happen? Is it a magnetic declination deviation? Or is the magnetic field here abnormal, interfering with the normal operation of the compass?"
Tang Maiqiu shook his head and said: "No, there is no explanation for this matter. If we have to explain it, we can only say that the island under our feet is rotating, so the geographical position of the island has changed, and we are based on
You move in the direction indicated by the compass, so you go wrong and even end up back where you were before you knew it."
"It makes sense, but it should be more than this. No matter how the geographical position changes, if we walk along a straight line, we must go to the coast and not go back." Chen Si said with a solemn expression.
"In this vast fog, there is no reference object, and we cannot be completely sure that we are walking in a straight line." Gu Fengchun reminded from the side.
"Well, not bad." Chen Si thought thoughtfully, and then said after a while: "This is easy to do. Turn on a searchlight, put it over here, and place it steadily toward where we are going. The light will propagate along a straight line, and there will be
If you follow the light's prompts, there will be no detours."
Everyone agreed with Chen Si's method. Xiao Zhonghua immediately found a high-power searchlight, climbed up a big tree with a "chichi" sound, and tied the searchlight to a tree branch. The high-power light emitted a burning white light.
The bright lights, in the milky white fog, are like sunlight shining through layers of dark clouds, illuminating the sky.
Tang Maiqiu saw that the light did not shine very far in the thick fog, only about a mile, but for now, this was already a very satisfactory effect. There were many searchlights accompanying him. If it was effective, he could continue
Install it.
After doing this, it took a lot of time. Suddenly there was a "rustling" sound from behind, and Chen Si's face changed. "Everyone, leave quickly." Chen Si gave the order decisively: "Stay.
After ten people have been killed, Lao Xiao, you stay with me." Chen Si said.
"What's the sound coming from?" Luo Xiaodan also heard the sound coming from the bushes behind and asked in confusion.
"I don't know, I guess I was attracted by the dead pterosaurs in the camp." Gu Fengchun responded.
Gu Fengchun guessed well. It was those centipede poisonous snakes that smelled the smell of blood and came from all directions. "Did you bring a flamethrower?" Chen Si frowned and asked Xiao Zhonghua next to him. Chen Si thought
These sounds should be made by small animals such as venomous snakes and centipedes. The best effect is to kill them with a flamethrower.
"Yes, they are available in various sizes. The longest shooting distance can reach sixty meters, and the duration of firepower is also long. Each team member carries a small bottle, which can last up to one and a half minutes. This kind of
The flamethrower can kill nearly twenty meters. A large team also carries more than ten bottles, and each bottle lasts for nearly a minute. If you use it sparingly, it can last for about ten minutes, which is not a problem." Xiao Zhonghua explained patiently.
"Okay, let the team members on the edge get ready and pay attention to saving fuel." Chen Si said with a solemn expression.
"If you use a flamethrower here, aren't you afraid of igniting a mountain fire and trapping us here?" Gu Fengchun frowned and said. Don't think that everything will be fine after a heavy rain. The fuel in the flamethrower can even be extinguished by water.
No, and the heat generated during combustion is so great that it can instantly evaporate the water on the trees and ignite them. Many trees here also secrete flammable resin. Once burned, the consequences will be disastrous.
"No." Chen Si said confidently: "Even if you are burned to death, it is better than being chewed alive by these little things, right?"
Gu Fengchun smiled bitterly, "Okay? Neither of these are good, it's best to live."
Following Xiao Zhonghua's order, the team members were divided into two lines, one on the left and one on the right. They removed the safety levers of the flamethrowers in their hands and fully adjusted their positions to protect Gufeng Chunluo Xiaodan and several wounded people in the middle.
In addition to this, Chen Si also asked people to take out the realgar used to repel snakes and sprinkle it under their feet. This can play a role in driving away poisonous snakes. However, Chen Si did not know that the centipedes here live in the hot springs.
Next to it, the hot spring contained a lot of sulfur smell. Although the poisonous snakes did not dare to come near, the centipede followed the smell along the way...
Everyone's spirits fell into a state of nervousness. They couldn't help but speed up their pace. If there weren't too many poisonous thorns here, everyone would have left this place at a fast speed. Fortunately, twenty minutes passed.
, although the rustling sounds around did not stop, there was no incident of venomous snakes and insects attacking people.
However, another unexpected thing happened. The searchlight that had been pointing the direction of the team suddenly went out. Everyone was stunned and didn't know what was going on. Chen Si was the first to notice this and stopped immediately.
He stopped walking and said to Xiao Zhonghua who was standing behind him: "What's going on? The light is broken?"
Xiao Zhonghua shook his head and said: "Impossible. This is a product that has just been disassembled. How could it possibly break down so quickly? The battery can last at least three hours. How about I go back and check?"
But Chen Si shook his head and said, "No, just install another one here. It's too dangerous to go back and forth, and it's a waste of time." Xiao Zhonghua was convinced, and immediately called for another searchlight.
But at this time, Luo Xiaodan shuddered, grabbed Gu Fengchun's hand tightly, and said in surprise: "Fengchun, did you hear anything?"
Gu Fengchun was stunned, listened attentively, and said, "No, are you referring to the sound of rustling leaves? It's always there. Don't worry, Chen Si has made corresponding preparations for this."
"That's not what you're talking about." Luo Xiaodan shook his head, frowned and said, "Someone was talking, and he was speaking in a foreign language, as if he was telling something in his ear." Luo Xiaodan said.
"Do you still hear it now?" Gu Fengchun patted Luo Xiaodan's cold little hand and asked.
"No more." Luo Xiaodan said, "Wait a minute, it's gone again." Luo Xiaodan said nervously again.
Gu Fengchun hurriedly listened. This time, some intermittent sentences floated in the air, and Gu Fengchun quickly worked hard to carefully identify the source and meaning of the sound.
However, Gu Fengchun was very embarrassed because he couldn't understand the voice at all. After listening to Luo Xiaodan's words, Chen Si and others also stopped and listened carefully. They vaguely seemed to hear something, but except for Chen Si's keener hearing, they could not hear the sound.
It got to a point where no one else noticed anything at all.
"What do you mean?" Gu Fengchun asked Luo Xiaodan in confusion. He didn't understand the meaning of the words, but he could tell that it should be the pronunciation of Latin. After all, he is also a master of deciphering ancient characters, and the language is the same as the characters.
, more or less have identification skills.
Luo Xiaodan's face turned pale. It was obvious that she understood the meaning of these words. After a while, she said: "The meaning of these words is that the devil of the night is hidden in the thick fog, and the dead will not be exposed."
Secret, no one can leave here alive."
Gu Fengchun nodded and glanced at Chen Si. Chen Si should be an expert in dealing with such strange things. According to Luo Xiaodan, there should be ghosts and the like here. Although Gu Fengchun doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he has nothing to do with that mysterious thing.
After the exchange with the female voice, I no longer had any doubts about the existence of ghosts. Ghosts are just a form of spiritual power condensed after death. They are similar to the spiritual existence of prehistoric humans, but they are far from reaching the strength to continue to survive. They will gradually
It disappeared into the air and was not a scary monster. Chen Si also nodded with understanding and said: "Don't worry, we will leave here safely and unscathed."