After the three of us sat down, Mr. Mai began to speak, "Although the sunken ship has been discovered, it still needs to be salvaged. I have decided to salvage it again tomorrow morning. Do you have any opinions?"
A few of us nodded and agreed, but Jenny suddenly said to me, "Can you do it? Your leg injury is not healed yet, so stop trying to show off." Although her tone was a bit unkind, I could still hear a little bit of it.
The concern really warmed my heart.
"It's okay. This little injury won't delay things. What are we from? Marine Corps." I deliberately said Marine Corps in a serious way, and kept looking at Jenny, but Jenny quickly turned her eyes elsewhere.
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"Zhongyi, Jenny is right. You are injured now and are not suitable for going into the water for the time being. You stay on the boat tomorrow and we can go into the water." Lao Mai said to me seriously.
"Okay, Mr. Mai, just make your decision." Actually, I don't want to go into the water at all. I was just trying to deal with them. My damn leg injury hasn't healed yet. No matter how serious it is, I can't do it. Besides, I want to rest more.
Resting.
"Okay, since there's nothing going on, let's all leave." As soon as Mr. Mai finished speaking, I suddenly remembered another thing and asked, "Oh, by the way, Mr. Mai, I want to ask you something.
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"What's the matter?" Mr. Mai pushed up his glasses.
"What on earth were those little black monsters we encountered under the deep sea?" I looked around, and I remembered this unknown creature too deeply. That's how the wounds on my mother's legs came from.
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Mai Lao frowned and thought for a while and said, "This...it should be a kind of fish in the ocean, but I can't tell which kind of fish it is. There is no record of it yet."
I sighed helplessly and said to myself, "Screw you, uncle. Isn't it the same as you didn't tell me?" I also know that it is a strange thing in the ocean. Aren't you an expert in marine biology? Since going to sea, I have encountered
None of you know anything about this, so you still call yourself an expert and call yourself a beast. Just go ahead and play with it.
When Mr. Mai saw my expression, he said awkwardly, "Well...it seems that I still don't fully understand this vast ocean."
Jiao Ba said with a playful smile next to him, "Oh, that thing has nothing to do with marine life. If I remember correctly, it should be a bloodthirsty insect."
"Bloodthirsty bugs? What the hell is that?" I looked at Jiao Ba with a question mark in my head. This grandson really knew a lot about these weird things. Tomb robbers are just different from ordinary people.
Mai Lao and Jenny also acted as if they were all ears, especially Mai Lao, who is a marine mythologist, but he can't beat a tomb robber. How embarrassing is this for him? This old guy doesn't dare to talk too much.
When he spoke, he had no choice but to listen obediently.
Jiao Ba smiled and said, "You all should know about leeches, right? They are also locusts."
"Leech? Is it still called Lepi?" Shunzi suddenly asked.
Jiao Ba nodded and said, "You are right. This thing is called a leech in the Northeast, which is what people often call blood-sucking insects. They usually appear in river pools. They often stick to the soles of the feet and are difficult to come out. They usually appear on the soles of the feet.
You have to use the soles of your shoes to pump your muscles hard to get this thing out."
When Jiao Ba said this, I remembered that when I was a child, I was raped by a leech once. The thing penetrated into the sole of my foot. If I couldn't pull it out by force, I had to use my shoe to whip the sole of my foot.
It's very painful, but what is the connection between this thing and that little monster?
I hurriedly asked, "Everyone knows this, so why don't you tell me, we want to know what kind of bird that little black monster is."
Jenny also said, "Yes, leech is a kind of sucking creature. Does it have anything to do with the strange thing you mentioned?"
"It's very important, don't worry, everyone, listen to me slowly." Jiao Ba collected his thoughts and said, "Let me put it simply, this bloodthirsty insect is actually a leech, just a mutated species of leech.
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"A mutated type of locust? **, Lao Ba, you're not fooling me, are you? It's not like I've never seen a locust before. Does that thing have such sharp teeth? Does it have fins like a fish?"
I feel like what Jiao Ba said is a bit ridiculous. A leech is nothing like that thing.
Jiao Ba glanced at Mai Lao and said a little coquettishly, "Mao Lao, what do you think? Will it matter?"
Mai Lao took a deep breath and said, "Is this...Based on my understanding of marine life, it is not without the possibility of mutation, but I can't draw a conclusion on whether that creature was transformed from a leech."
I thought Jiao Ba was deliberately trying to embarrass the old man. He knew that Mr. Mai couldn't answer the question, so he still asked this question. It was obvious that he was making the old man look bad. I pursed my lips and snickered beside him, and ended up meeting Jenny's eyes.
Go up, this girl glared at me fiercely, and I reluctantly suppressed my smile.
Jiao Ba smiled and said, "It's definitely a mutated species of locust. I've seen this thing once before, probably a few years ago. I saw it in an ancient tomb in the Kingdom of Jin, but it's the same as ours under the deep sea.
There are some differences in what I see, but they are all similar. My old man said that the bloodthirsty bug is actually a parasite and a method of torture for living people."
"In ancient times, there was a kind of criminal law, which was to put a large number of leech into the prisoner's body, and then let the leech suck the prisoner's blood, and then tortured him to death little by little. This is a very disgusting and cruel criminal law.
, after the prisoner dies, he will be buried under the ground along with the locusts."
"After a hundred or even hundreds of years, this kind of parasitic locust on the human body will turn into the monster we saw underwater at that time, which is called a bloodthirsty insect."
After listening to Jiao Ba's explanation, although I was a little confused, I understood it to some extent. Although the credibility was not high, there was no more reasonable explanation for the time being. I could only blindly believe it to be true, but I still asked.
One sentence, "Then how can you be sure that this thing must be a mutated locust? Couldn't it be some other creature?"
Jiao Ba glanced at me and said, "Don't ask me about this. I only know this thing. I don't know the specific reason. It's just like if you asked me where human beings came from, if I can answer it, I guess
I don’t have to work so hard anymore.”
Shunzi made a silly remark, "You don't have to think about it, humans are transformed from monkeys."
After he finished speaking, Jiao Ba added, "By the way, I almost forgot, this bloodthirsty insect has another name, it's called the devil insect."
What? Demonic insect? Several of us were stunned after hearing this. I immediately asked, "Does this demonic insect have anything to do with that demonic insect corpse?"
Jiao Ba nodded and said, "It must be related. As far as I know, there are two ways to make demon insect corpses. One is to use elixirs, which are the elixirs refined by some mages themselves, but the success rate is not very high.
It is easy to fail during the production process. If you fail once, the corpse will corrode immediately. The other method is to use blood-thirsty insects. The success rate is very high, but the blood-thirsty insects are difficult to find, so if you want to make a demon insect corpse, generally
Most high-ranking officials don't have that ability, what do you think, Mr. Mai?"
Jiao Ba's last words were thrown to Mai Lao. Mai Lao pushed up his glasses and said, "It seems that's what you said. I only know that there is such an evil thing. I don't know the rest at all."
I suddenly felt that this old guy seemed to be hiding something, or maybe I was being careless. I asked casually, "Old man, according to what you said, could these bloodthirsty insects come out of the coffin of the female corpse?"
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"It's very possible. Didn't you also say that you encountered the floating corpses of several divers before? I think their deaths are inseparable from the female corpse in the coffin. Maybe it was the work of bloodthirsty insects." Jiao Ba
Analyzed very calmly.
I turned my head and said, "Yes, they died miserably. It is indeed possible. It is probably because they opened the coffin and released those bloodthirsty insects. Shunzi, remember we just opened the deck hatch.
At that time, didn’t these group of bloodthirsty insects come out from inside?”
Shunzi nodded and said, "Well, that's true. What do you think, Mr. Mai?"
Old Man Mai said with a stern expression, "I don't care about their deaths. I just want to know whether we can touch that coffin."
Jiao Ba said seriously, "It's best not to touch the coffin, including the sunken ship. Stay as far away as possible. I don't know what will happen to the female corpse. It's definitely not that simple."
Jenny said, "Absolutely not. I've said it many times. No matter what, we must salvage the sunken ship. Jiao Ba, you must come up with a solution for me."
Jiao Ba said helplessly, "What can I do? Forget it, just leave it to fate. I hope we are lucky enough to get through this difficulty.
At this time, Mr. Mai finally said, "Okay, okay, no matter what that ghost thing is, in short, none of us want to encounter it again. It's getting a little late now. Let's go back and have a rest. We will continue to go to the sea tomorrow. There's nothing to say."