Some soldiers murmured in a low voice that the black water and the cold wind were really disturbing.
Suddenly, the boat slowed down.
"We'll reach Ghost Reef ahead. Keep sailing! Wait until you get close to the shore before getting off the boat. Who asked you to slow down?" Bai Xiaowen said.
Several soldiers at the helm rushed over and said, sweating profusely: "Master, it's bad, the ship... the ship can't move!"
"Can't it be turned on?" Bai Xiaowen repeated.
"Yes, after entering the black water area, no matter how hard we tried, the speed of the ship kept decreasing. Even when the rudder turned, it became a lot stiffer. This feeling... was like there was something under the ship.
It's like the water ghost is dragging you forward, preventing you from moving forward!" one of the soldiers said nervously.
Bai Xiaowen said with a smile: "Water ghosts? Even if there are water ghosts, we are not allowed to go to the ghost reef. This proves that ghosts are afraid of people. How can anyone be afraid of ghosts!"
Li Shuyi, who had been observing the sea, waved her hand: "Xiaowen, it's none of the soldiers' business, there's something wrong with the sea water."
Bai Xiaowen walked over. Li Shuyi picked up a long pole from the side, dipped it into the black sea water, and stirred it vigorously.
This stirring immediately made Bai Xiaowen realize that something was wrong. Entering the water with a long pole and stirring the sea waves should be a very light action, and children of several years old can do it. However, Li Shuyi felt a little difficult when stirring the sea water.
.
Li Shuyi lifted the end of the long pole. This simple action was like carrying a heavy object. With Li Shuyi's strength, it was really unbelievable that this happened.
Wow!
A large clump of messy seaweed, tangled and entangled with a long pole, was dragged out of the sea by Li Shuyi.
What was dragged out of this mass of seaweed was only the tip of the iceberg, and most of it was still under the sea surface. It is even possible that the seaweed in the entire sea area grew in entanglements like this, and a single move affected the whole body. No wonder with Li Shuyi's strength,
Dragging seaweed is so difficult.
Li Shuyi pulled back her long pole, and a soldier beside her pulled out a waist knife and cut off a small piece of seaweed, preparing to give it to Bai Xiaowen.
As soon as the soldier touched the seaweed, his expression suddenly changed and he threw the seaweed and the knife on the deck: "This is not seaweed, this... this is a woman's hair!"
"Deceitful words!"
Bai Xiaowen snorted, squatted down to observe the small section of seaweed, and then reached out to touch it.
In terms of appearance and feel, this seaweed is indeed very similar to women's hair. Both are black and slender, and feel soft and tough to the touch.
A wisp of flame burst out from Bai Xiaowen's fingertips, burning the seaweed into ashes.
"I understand, the reason why this sea area looks black is because it is covered with this kind of seaweed,"
Bai Xiaowen stood up and said, "The closer we get to the shallow sea of Ghost Reef, the more luxuriant the seaweed becomes, so we can't continue sailing forward, otherwise the bottom of the boat will be tangled with seaweed and the paddle wheel will be blocked, and we will be trapped here."
, there is no way to go back.”
"Then what should we do now?" Li Shuyi asked.
"Let's get off the boat. The boat has a shallow draft and the resistance of the seaweed won't be so strong. Let's paddle across slowly."
Bai Xiaowen secretly thought that Zhang Ting's group of soldiers were probably not blocked by seaweed because they were in small boats.
The two boats carried a small number of boats, and Zhang Ting and others took away two more boats. The remaining three boats could only carry a dozen people.
Bai Xiaowen thought for a while and brought only four soldiers, including him and Li Shuyi, a total of six people. Each two people took a small boat and paddled forward.
The reason why Bai Xiaowen did not bring more people was because he wanted to save people. Zhang Ting and the others had not returned for a long time, so they must have been in danger. This trip required not only collecting medicine, but also bringing Zhang Ting and others back.
If the two boats that supported them sank, there would still be room for passengers in the three boats.
Moreover, bringing a few fewer soldiers will not have much impact on this mission of picking ghost wormwood.
Three small boats slowly approached Ghost Reef.
As Bai Xiaowen had guessed, the seaweed in the shape of black hair became more and more luxuriant as it approached the ghost reef. The sun had turned pale white, and when the light shone down, it did not make people feel warm, but rather cold.
The atmosphere was very depressing, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of long oars paddling in the water.
"There's someone! There's someone over here!" Suddenly, a soldier shouted excitedly in a low voice.
That was on the shore of Guijiao. A soldier wearing a Ming army trumpet uniform was lying on his back, unconscious. Bai Xiaowen suddenly recognized that this man was one of Yu Dayou's soldiers who followed Zhang Ting to collect medicine.
Three small boats landed, and two soldiers rushed over, patting and beating them, trying to wake up the comrade.
Bai Xiaowen quietly gained an insight. Behind the soldier's name plate, he could see a bad state called "drowning coma".
The simple first aid knowledge learned in the classroom came in handy. Bai Xiaowen directed two soldiers to clean up the sludge and seaweed between the mouth and nose of the drowning person, and then hung upside down to drain the water from the chest and abdomen. After some tossing, the drowning soldier finally
It's time to wake up.
From the mouth of the drowned soldier, Bai Xiaowen learned about the route of Zhang Ting and others. Regarding the intelligence on Ghost Reef, the drowned soldier could not provide complete information.
Bai Xiaowen took the drowned soldiers and used him as a guide to follow the route of Zhang Ting and his party. Along the way, he found several soldiers who had fallen to the ground. However, two of the soldiers had died, and their
There are blue-black fingerprints all over the throat.
"They strangled themselves."
Bai Xiaowen made a judgment based on the posture and angle of the death soldier's fingerprints.
The few soldiers who were lucky enough to survive still have lingering fears when talking about the situation on Ghost Reef.
"Master, I was waiting on the ghost reef, and I only saw two kinds of monsters. One of them was a zombie. It was extremely powerful, and its skin was like gold and iron. It was quite difficult to kill. Zombies are just that. We will follow the martial arts learned by the general.
, we can handle it after all. It’s just another kind of monster that we are really helpless to deal with, it’s a ghost!”
"These ghosts are as if they are transparent. When we slash them with our swords, it is like cutting through the air. It has no effect at all..."
Bai Xiaowen said: "If they are disembodied ghosts, you can't hurt them, and they shouldn't be able to hurt you either."
"No, these ghosts only know one trick, which is to pounce on living people! After I was attacked by the ghosts, I immediately felt a splitting headache, and all my eyes were filled with phantoms and illusions..."
Bai Xiaowen nodded and roughly understood the danger of Ghost Reef.
This place is very unfriendly to the Chopper Team. There are zombies with extremely high armor and ethereal ghosts, all of which are very restrained by the physical output type Awakeners.
It is very unfortunate that Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi happen to be included in this list.
Needless to say, Li Shuyi is a typical chopper-style DPS. Although Bai Xiaowen has a mental specialty, he is a summoner. Most of the summoned creatures are physical attacks...
"I also have a magic output type creature..." Bai Xiaowen thought of the Skeleton Mage, "It's time to strengthen the Skeleton Mage."