Chapter 238 Langya Ship

I don't know if there will be a next time, but this time, we should have escaped.

At this point, I breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps because of excessive tension, I felt a sense of exhaustion. I was hanging limply on the animal head statue, and I could no longer muster any strength.

The screams and cries on the deck lasted only a moment before they subsided.

What happened?

I don't know anything.

Because this ship is too unfamiliar to me. I have only heard of its legends. This is the first time I have seen the real thing. Before I opened the mechanism, I had no idea what would happen. This was a crazy gamble I made in a situation where I was doomed to die!

Rumble!

The ship trembled, and every structure on the hull made a "creaking" sound, as if it was overwhelmed, but it finally moved again, sailing forward a little bit along the boundless mercury sea.

The Eye of the Sea disappeared, and those creepy bubbles never appeared again.

A shocking crisis was just passed, and the deck returned to peace.

Soon after, Brother Yaozi shouted in doubt on the deck: "Jingzhe?! Are you okay!?"

"I'm fine..."

I held the animal head statue and said helplessly: "I'm just a little weak and can't go up..."

Soon, three heads popped out from the guardrail. They were Brother Yaozi and Lao Bai. Their faces were full of dirt, with their own blood and dirt from somewhere. They looked very embarrassed and should have been injured. However, in such a situation, it was a blessing that no one was lost.

"Wait a moment!"

Brother Yaozi shouted at me, and quickly took out the climbing rope, made one end into a rope loop, and handed it down from the deck. I tied the rope loop around my waist, and the three of them pulled me up together.

The deck was empty.

Except for some bloodstains left by the four of us, there were no traces left, as if what we had experienced before was just a big dream.

I found a clean place to sit down, rested for a while, and then looked up and asked Brother Yaozi: "Just now...what happened on the boat?"

"This..."

Brother Yaozi's face flashed a trace of hesitation, more of shock, as if recalling everything he had just experienced made him a little frightened. He spread his hands and was about to speak, but he didn't know how to describe the scene.

So, Lao Bai interrupted, and the three of them described it for a long time, and I had a rough outline in my mind.

The moment I jumped off the deck, the resentful spirits on the deck were completely detonated. These things were affected by the strong man's emotions, felt the strong man's anger, and attacked Lao Bai and others crazily. The three of them couldn't resist for a while, and most of the injuries on their bodies were left at that time.

At that time, the situation was already so serious that it was a matter of life and death.

The three of them were knocked down one after another. If it was a little later, I'm afraid someone would have to stay here.

It was at this time that I twisted the beast's head, and the situation on the deck changed immediately.

Countless mysterious symbols appeared on the whole ship, and those symbols were shining with blood...

"I feel like a formation!"

Brother Yaozi recalled and frowned, "But it is more vicious than the ordinary Taoist formation, and it has even reached the point of interfering with the harmony of heaven. It directly targets the Yin people and strangles the souls. The resentful ghosts and evil spirits who are entangled with us are immediately burned. The souls are scattered in the blink of an eye..."

"It doesn't look like Yang Qi, but more like a power similar to Gengjin Qi, which is very sharp!"

Zhang Xinya said: "And it doesn't distinguish between enemies and friends at all, only targeting the dead. Wan Niang'er was also injured. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and hid immediately, and replaced me. Otherwise... I'm afraid she won't be able to escape the result of being scattered..."

This is terrible.

Those evil spirits were powerful, but there was only one ending - instant kill!

In the blink of an eye, I don't know how many were killed. If this karma was placed on one person, he would be settled by the underworld in the end!

In the end, only the strong man escaped, because he was strong enough and did not die immediately, and he was also decisive enough to jump off the deck in an instant.

After listening to this series of descriptions, I lowered my head and sighed.

"Did you figure out something?"

Brother Yaozi asked tentatively: "You were the one who controlled the ship just now, weren't you?"

I nodded, turned to look at Zhang Xinya, and said: "Do you remember what we talked about the day before we went down to the tomb and I mapped the entire tomb structure?"

Zhang Xinya said without thinking: "Of course, this tomb is based on the Luoshu as a whole. After you finished it, you felt very familiar with it and suspected that it was related to the ritual officer."

"That's right, but... After seeing Shi Kuang's problem, I changed my mind and thought that this familiar method might be a coincidence, so I gave up the previous idea."

I hung my head and sighed: "As a result, after a round, I am back to my original guess. This tomb is definitely the work of the ritual official. To be precise, it should be one of my ancestors who built this tomb together with Shi Kuang. There is also the shadow of the mountain man. At least from the current point of view, several parties participated in the construction of this tomb. I even suspect that there are many shady things in it..."

Some words I can't say too harshly, after all, I am scolding my own ancestors...

But I know in my heart that the ancestor who built this tomb is probably not a good person. This badness has nothing to do with his position and ultimate goal. It's just that his way of doing things may be... not very clean...

The reason why the strong man pestered us so much may be very simple. He thought I was my ancestor! !

It has nothing to do with blood. I guess that maybe my ancestor and I look very much alike, which is completely a coincidence!

Because, because of the layout here, the strong man's brain is not very good, and it is impossible for him to see too deep things. However, after all, I am not my ancestor, and there are still some subtle differences. There can't be two identical leaves in the world, so I should give the strong man a strange and familiar feeling, but because of hatred, he is too lazy to care about all those things, just kill me first! !

In short, in the whole thing, I am the one who takes the blame, and I take the blame for my own ancestors. Others are cheating their fathers, but in my family, it is always the old ones who cheat the young ones!

"Eighty percent, that strong man was buried alive."

I sighed: "Moreover, he and my ancestor should be close friends, and he once trusted my ancestor very much."

Lao Bai was confused and couldn't help asking: "How can I say this?"

"Think about the reaction of that strong man..."

I said helplessly: "If one day, I trick you and trick you to death, and you hate me to the bone, when you want to kill me, how will you feel?"

I wanted Lao Bai to imagine it carefully, but unexpectedly, this grandson immediately stood three meters away from me and said with a vigilant face: "Little Weizi, brothers are used, not to stab you for no reason..."

I really wanted to rush up and punch his scumbag face, but I held back and gritted my teeth and said: "I just want you to think about it!"

"No, I saw that you have this tendency."

Lao Bai was still a little worried and said, "You are a sinister guy, you have too many dirty tricks. I saw through you when you took off the little boy's pants in the demon tomb. When you jumped off the boat just now, you didn't know how sinister your smile was. You might have to bury me in the future."

I lost my temper. I thought it would be useless to talk too much to this grandson, so I just told him my guess directly.

This is actually a very easy thing to guess.

When the strong man saw me, he kept telling me to shut up, as if he would have a headache if I said one more word. Of course, this was not directed at me. I had no intersection with it at all. It was actually directly aimed at my ancestor!

Back then, the strong man was most likely convinced by my ancestor's nonsense, so he was cheated to death and fell to this point today. He had a shadow on my ancestor in his heart, which caused him to think that I was going to cheat him again when I opened my mouth...

Then, things are more interesting. Back then, the strong man and my ancestor should have been good friends! !

Think about it, what should I do when my friend cheats me like this?

Of course, I will grit my teeth and give him a hard blow. Beat the shit out first. If I still don't feel relieved, I will beat him with the shit I beat out! !

However, when the opponent is really knocked down and the knife is on his neck, who can be so decisive and take action directly? The mood must be extremely complicated! !

This is why the strong man was furious at the beginning, but when he really pushed us to a dead end, he stopped attacking.

Part of the reason is revenge, wanting to see my true face, and more of it is emotional complexity!

That is why the strong man gave me a chance. Otherwise, if we were completely strangers and were in an opposing situation, there would definitely not be this series of events, because if I was killed, I would be killed, and there would be no waves in my heart!

The strong man reminded me of Xing Wei. I was tricked to death by my friend, and I suddenly understood everything. However, it was also a warning. If I see him in the future, I must not give him a chance to speak, but directly behead him with a knife, cleanly.

Then, again, why am I so sure that the one who tricked the strong man must be my ancestor?

It is not just that the other party is directly targeting me and looking for revenge on me. This can explain some problems, but it does not explain too much!

The most critical thing is still this ship! !

"This is a funeral ship..."

I said, "This ship has a very great origin. How should I put it? It is indeed a thing of the ceremonial officer, but it is too profound and far beyond my reach now!"

Regarding this kind of ship, I have only heard my father talk about it before, but it was just a casual listen. I have no idea how this kind of ship is made, and I have never even seen it!

After we boarded the ship, I didn't think about it at all. I was too unfamiliar with this kind of ship and didn't see any clues at all!

My dad said that burying a ship is also a burial method, which is included in the "Ten Thousand Burials Sutra".

There are four chapters in the Ten Thousand Burials Sutra, all written in sacrificial texts. If you don't have enough skills, you can't understand it at all. With my current ability, I can only understand the three burials of heaven and man and the five elements hidden treasures. I can't even touch the door of the following Tianguan Juque and Xuanhuang Jiuzang.

Tianguan Juque is mainly responsible for some large tombs. It can be said to be an outline, similar to Sun Tzu's Art of War in military books. If you understand this chapter, you can be considered a real Tianguan.

As far as I know, most of the ritual officials stop here.

As for the last Xuanhuang Jiuzang, that thing can communicate yin and yang. From ancient times to the present, few people in our family can understand it.

The burial boat comes from the Xuanhuang Nine Burials. It can be seen that although the ancestor who built this tomb pitted his descendants, he was very capable and was probably one of the most powerful people in our family from ancient times to the present.

But I don't know who it is now. Our family has been passed down for too long, and the various branches have been passed down too chaotically. The more we go back, the more chaotic it becomes. Just to say that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were people from our family in the royal court of the Zhou emperor and the fiefdoms of various princes. It is difficult to guess who it is. However, since the last Tianguan, the family has declined, which has opened up a tragic era and the population has dwindled. Now, I am afraid that I am the last ritual official in our generation. If something happens to me, if my parents don't work harder, this school will be lost.

The burial ship appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and was related to a small country called Ju State in the coastal area at that time. After the Qin Dynasty swept the world and unified the country, Ju land belonged to Langya County, so this kind of ship was also called Langya Ship.

Brother Yaozi is well-informed and didn't know about the burial ship, but when I mentioned the Langya Ship, he immediately exclaimed: "Langya Ship that doesn't bury the dead, but only sends the living? This ship is the Langya Ship!?"

He was covered with hair, obviously he had heard of this thing, but he had never seen it. He reacted all of a sudden and his face turned cold.

I nodded silently. As he said, the role of this kind of ship is not so glamorous, on the contrary, it is very, very cruel.

Ju State is close to the sea, so in addition to burial, this country also popularized boat burials.

The so-called boat burial is to use the boat as a tomb, and the tomb owner drifts out to sea after death.

Langya boats are considered as accompanying ships, but not every ship burial tomb has a Langya boat.

The appearance of this thing is related to a vicious nobleman in Ju State. Ju State was a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was a paradise for many exiles at that time. The famous Duke Huan of Qi once took refuge here. Like Duke Huan of Qi, there was also a famous talent Ziju in Qi State who took refuge here and was accepted by a nobleman. The nobleman admired Ziju very much. The two often slept with their feet touching. However, the nobleman was old and his days were numbered.

When he was critically ill, he was not thinking about his wife, concubines and children, but Ziju.

So one day he called Ziju and said, you and I are friends of different ages, and we have a tacit understanding. If I die and go to sea alone, it will be too lonely. Why don't you accompany me?

Ziju was terrified and fled that night, but was caught before dawn.

The powerful official was furious and called the ritual officer of Ju State at that time, saying that he should think of a way for him to follow me to the sea. When my ship reaches the end point, he will die at that time, and his soul must not leave after death. He must stay by my side forever and never be reborn.

The ritual officer racked his brains, and the Langya ship appeared just like that...

This kind of ship is both a magic weapon and a mechanical ship. It is probably a product of extreme power in ancient times. It is used for sea burials and is specifically for those who are unwilling to be buried alive.

The cabin of this kind of ship hides a kind of wood called red oil wood. This wood is only a short-lived one in coastal areas and is now gone. Red oil wood itself is poisonous and will release poisonous gas. After the victims get on the ship, they will begin to be chronically poisoned. How long it will take to die depends on the wishes of the ritual officer. The more red oil wood is used, the faster they will die.

The ritual officer would add the amount of red oil wood according to the time when the tomb owner's ship arrived at the destination. In this way, when the tomb owner arrived at the destination, the sacrificial person in the Langya ship would be poisoned to death, and his soul would be suppressed forever in that sea area by the sacrificial ship after death.

In short, that sea area has become a formation to suppress the dead, and the Langya ship is the center of this formation! !

The Langya ship is very evil. My father said that witchcraft was prevalent in Ju State. The ritual officer of Ju State was affected by witchcraft. Therefore, when making the Langya ship, some witchcraft was used. The formation on the ship was somewhat related to his blood.

As a descendant of the ritual officer, my blood can naturally stimulate the formation on the Langya ship.

That's why after my blood dripped on the ship, a sacrificial text emerged. It was at that time that I boldly guessed that this was a Langya ship.

The Langya ship has a mechanism to control the ship, which is probably a backhand left by the ritual officer.

After all, any formation will eventually weaken over time. The ceremonial officer who created the Langya ship took this into consideration. He was worried that the dead would not be suppressed after a long time, so he left a mechanism similar to an emergency switch.

When this mechanism is turned, something hidden in the hull will be released, which can strengthen the formation!

The beast head of the ship we are on now is the mechanism. This Langya ship has been here for too long, and the formation can no longer suppress the strong man. When I turned the switch, the formation was immediately strengthened, and the strong man and his men were suppressed again!

In fact, when I did all this, I had no idea in my mind. I was completely confused. I have seen this ship inside and out many times, but the beast head is the most abrupt and has some strange places. I guessed that it might be the mechanism. We are alive now, thanks to two words-luck!

The strong man and I talked nonsense for so long, all based on these clues to make some guesses, buying time to get closer to the beast head! !

That's right, I lied to him again in the end...

"Back then, that strong man might have been tricked onto the ship by my ancestor. All the wronged souls in this mercury sea were buried alive by the Langya ship!"

I said, "Finally, what is the relationship between Shi Kuang, my ancestor, and even Han Shanren? Why did they do everything they could to bury this strong man? I don't know... I vaguely feel that there may be a huge secret here. In fact, this place is not as simple as a tomb, because... mercury has too many explanations in terms of the Yin and Yang worlds. If my ancestor really wanted to kill the strong man, there was no need to create such a large sea of ​​mercury. This mercury is good for the strong man!"

I have no way to speculate about more, because the clues we have now are very, very limited.

Also, the fairy has not appeared. Cheng Yi and Hu Wa have been collecting souls and three smelly soil for her. This makes me very uneasy. I always feel that something big is going to happen.

"This is really..."

Lao Bai thought for a long time, but he didn't have any suitable words to describe his feelings. He said helplessly: "It's hard to say what fate is. This place has nothing to do with you, but you came here inexplicably. In the end, you found that this place is related to your ancestors. It seems to be true. How can you say that everything is predetermined?"

I don't know whether it is predetermined or not. I hate topics like sense of mission the most. It's too nonsense.

I only know that at least we have survived the crisis now. This Langya ship was originally used to bury living people, but now it has become our amulet in this mercury sea. Especially after the formation has been revived, it should be safe.

After going back and forth, I was really tired to the extreme. After hurting my soul, I seemed to be more tired. I treated the wound hastily and went back to the cabin to sleep. My wound was only stained with a small part of mercury. After cleaning the wound, it should not be a big problem.

As I expected, we didn't encounter any weird things afterwards, and I was sleeping to rest.

I don't know how long it took, but Lao Bai and the other two who wandered around the deck every now and then rushed into the cabin excitedly, and started to pack things without saying a word. Lao Bai even picked me up and shouted, "Okay, don't sleep, we're here, the ship has docked!!"