Chapter 233 The Ship Arrives

I quickly got out of the sleeping bag, not like someone who just woke up from a dream, full of energy.

I had guessed this result, but when it really happened, I still felt a sense of dream, better than stimulants, and all my sleepiness disappeared in an instant.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi probably had similar mindsets.

Brother Yaozi held Zhang Xinya's shoulders with both hands and said in a deep voice: "Second girl, don't panic, talk slowly, is that ship really here? Has it docked?"

"No!"

Zhang Xinya hurriedly said: "When I saw it, it was still far away from me, and I couldn't see its specific appearance. I could only see a rough outline. It was definitely a ship. That feeling... Oh, I can't describe it very well. You will understand it if you take a look."

"Let's go!"

Brother Yaozi raised his chin.

We quickly packed up our things and set off. In the past half day, the four of us took turns to return to the Mercury Sea to observe. Each of us went there at least two or three times. We were so familiar with the corridor behind the tomb door that I could not be more familiar with it. To be arrogant, I know where the chain flip board is with my eyes closed. There is no such thing as falling. We reached the Mercury Sea at the fastest speed.

It was still dead silent here, dark, cold, and full of haze. Every time I came here, I felt very uncomfortable, with an unspeakable sense of depression, and my spirit was gloomy, as if this was really the boundary between life and death, the boundary between the living and the dead.

In the Mercury Sea, a huge ship was slowly heading towards us. It was very slow, but very tall. It was a unique ancient building ship. There was a flagpole on the bow with a flag flying on it.

Unfortunately, this ship has existed for many years, and no one has taken care of it. The flag has long been eroded and decayed. At first glance, it is just a few black rags wrapped around the flagpole.

This makes me a little regretful. The flag is a very important symbol, which will reveal some potentially important information, but now I can't see anything.

The building ship is moving slowly, and its speed is probably comparable to that of a turtle. It has been a while since Zhang Xinya saw it, but it is still a distance away from us. It is moving forward silently. The four of us are watching eagerly. Lao Bai clenched his fists tightly, his forehead was shiny and covered with sweat, and he was extremely nervous!

I didn't dare to breathe either. This underground relic is too weird, even beyond our understanding of tombs. No one knows what is waiting for us on the ship.

According to the current situation, it may take a while for the ship to arrive. It is not a good idea to keep tense like this. Finally, I simply took off my backpack, sat under my butt, and waited quietly.

As time went by, we gradually got used to the existence of this building ship. Instead, it was the depression and dullness here that made it difficult for us to adapt.

The four of us also discussed and felt that there might be something we didn't know in this mercury sea. It should not be just mercury, otherwise it would not have a negative impact on people's spirit. Zhang Xinya let Wan Niang'er enter the body, opened the Yin-Yang eyes, and kept looking at this place, but she could not see any doorway.

She said that it was dark and gloomy below, and there was a heavy Yin energy. Apart from that, there was no discovery.

I don't know how long it took, but the building ship finally docked.

As I guessed, the collapsed ruins should have been a pier before. After the building ship came over, it was directly moored near the ruins, just like a set route. Regardless of whether the pier is there or not, the ship will still dock here.

What is coming will come, and you can't avoid it. Since it has come to this, the four of us no longer hesitated, looked at each other, and walked over directly.

The building ship was in the mercury sea, and the dock no longer existed. If you want to board the ship, you must wade through the shallow mercury. Even if we are daring, we dare not directly use our own flesh and blood to test the lethality of these mercury. So Brother Yaozi picked out a very long wooden board from the ruins, put it directly on the building ship from the shore, and then stepped on the wooden board to board the ship. The board was very thick, but still rotten. After walking on it, it made a "creaking" sound, and it shook three times with one step, and it might break at any time.

I had already awakened the Tianguan Blade, holding the Taoist Sanqing Finger in one hand to protect myself, walking in the front, and was the first to jump onto the ship.

This boat is a wooden boat, but it is not made of ordinary wood. I can't tell what it is made of. The wood is black, with thick black stains similar to oil stains on it, giving people a particularly dirty feeling. There is a ferocious animal head wooden carving above the corner. I can't recognize what species it is. It has a green face and fangs, which looks very creepy.

There is a faint sour smell in the boat, like the smell of sulfuric acid, but mixed with some wood fragrance. It should be the smell of this strange wood. There is no one around, not to mention human shadows, even ghosts can't be seen!

"Where is the owner?"

I stood on the deck, looked around, and shouted to the cabin: "We are already on board, why don't you come out to meet?!"

The cabin is still quiet, without any response.

Lao Bai came to me and muttered, "This place is so weird, is there no one here?"

I glanced at him. There must be no one here. No one can live in this environment for two thousand years, but there should be other things. Even modern ships need people to drive them, let alone such a wooden boat?

"Come here and take a look."

Brother Yaozi climbed up to the top of the ship at some point, staring into the distance, and whispered, "This ship is very interesting!"

I rushed to his side and soon understood what he meant by "very interesting".

Mercury is a volatile substance. There is so much mercury in this place. It has been trapped underground for thousands of years. The mercury content in the air has reached an astonishing level. Therefore, a very strange scene appeared on the mercury sea. It was a thick black fog that swept through the air, making this place look very evil.

However, when the ubiquitous black fog drifted near the ship, it seemed to hit an invisible wall, and immediately collapsed and disappeared...

Needless to say, this is the credit of the wood of the hull. It should be this mysterious wood that restrains mercury. If it really must be explained by science, I think it may be related to the sour smell with wood fragrance emitted by the wood. The smell emitted by the wood contains substances that modern science has not discovered, which react with mercury in some way, making mercury vapor unable to get close to here.

According to this point of view, this ship is not evil, but it seems to be protecting us! !

This feels so weird.

Brother Yaozi is very brave. After thinking about it, he took off his gas mask on his own initiative. I exclaimed "Ah", but it was too late to stop him.

He took off the life-saving thing, and took a deep breath of air as if he was afraid of dying slowly, grinning: "It's true, take off this thing on your face, it's too uncomfortable to wear, and it's not necessary on this ship."

Having said that, we didn't move.

Mercury poisoning is not like eating arsenic. The reaction is so strong and so fast. Who knows if the air is really clean? I don't have the courage to gamble with my life.

Brother Yaozi shook his head and smiled: "Let's go together and see where the owner of this ship is."

We have checked the deck back and forth, but there is nothing to find. We really didn't find a ghost, so several people got into the cabin together and searched inside and out!

Finally, I have to admit that I sighed, maybe Lao Bai was right.

This ship, there is really nothing on it. Not only is there no boatman, but even this ship is missing a lot of things! !

A ship should have a rudder, right?

This is the most basic thing, right?

Of course, unless it is a canoe, but this is a tower ship, an ancient warship, it should have a rudder, right?

But this ship has none at all!!

Without a rudder, how to control the direction?

In addition, there are no oars on the left and right sides!

The tower ship has no sails, and it relies on the rowers on the left and right sides to paddle hard to provide power. The archers drill behind the parapet to attack from a distance. This is the most basic configuration, but there is nothing on this ship, just a tower ship shape!

I can't figure out how this ship sails after racking my brains?

Is it relying on the power of ghosts and gods?

We searched the entire ship and didn't find any supernatural existence!

However, after spending so much effort, we did find something.

In a corner inside the cabin, we found a few strange characters, with stiff gestures and weird writing. It looks like someone was scratching them out on the wood with his fingernails when he was dying!

We have never seen this kind of writing before. It is very simple and should be the earliest writing. According to our current classification of writing, it should be pictographic, that is, ideographic.

The biggest difference between ideographic and phonetic writing is that ideographic writing has room for guessing. You may not understand it, but at least you can imagine it. Especially this earliest pictographic writing, its expression is like drawing, and there may be a lot of information in one word.

I stared at it for a long time and hesitated: "It seems to say... I am going to die."

This is only the meaning of part of the text, and I can't understand more.

"Has anyone been on this ship?"

Brother Yaozi said: "But looking at the traces of this ancient tomb, it doesn't look like it has been destroyed at all!!"

I shrugged, indicating that I couldn't explain these and didn't know what was going on.

Zhang Xinya used her fingers to point at the scratches on the words and whispered, "Look at these scratches. The bottom is round, not sharp. If nothing goes wrong, the nails that scratched these marks are similar to those of humans, but they are definitely not left by humans. Human hands are not so slender."

Zhang Xinya's personality is a bit carefree. After getting to know her, I always treat her as a brother. In fact, purely from the appearance, she is definitely a symbol of beauty, especially her hands, which are slender and long, with green fingers, very, very beautiful, and thinner than normal people. However, the marks made by her nails on the wood are much thicker than the scratches on the words. The other party's fingers are much thinner than hers, which is already extremely abnormal.

Lao Bai said, maybe it's a child?

Without waiting for Zhang Xinya to speak, Brother Yaozi was the first to deny it. Looking at the fineness of the scratches, if they were really scratched by a person, they were probably left by a five or six-year-old child. The wood of this boat is very hard. Can a five or six-year-old child have such strength in his nails?

Moreover, although I can't completely decipher the specific meaning of this sentence, from what I can only understand, I can see that the person who left these words was very sad at the time, as if using these words to tell the world how unfair they were treated!

Five or six-year-old children don't even have a complete concept of death, so how can they show such a strong desire to survive between the lines? !

This is simply left by a mature thing!

So, if it's not a person or a ghost, then what is it?

We looked at each other and felt that the information contained in this underground ruins seemed to be much greater than we imagined!

Boom!

At this time, the ship shook, just like a parked vehicle suddenly stepped on the accelerator and started. Caught off guard, the four of us were thrown into a ball in the cabin. My head hit the wooden board and my head hurt.

But at this critical moment, no one cared about this. Almost at the same time, we rolled out of the cabin.

The ship really moved, right under our noses, without any power output source, and without feeling any mysterious power, it just moved against common sense, leaving the ruined dock, drifting on the mercury sea, heading towards the dark distance...