Chapter 289 Voyage Log

Luo Songyuan disappeared without a word, short and sudden...

But he left us with countless questions.

He only mentioned two words.

Mountain top and bugs.

Undoubtedly, the two words he tried to say on the verge of death must be the key, which made me think about it.

Could it be that the weirdness shown by Qi Houzi and others is related to the bugs Luo Songyuan mentioned?

What kind of bug is this?

There is a Gu King among us, the nemesis of all poisons and bugs in the world. Since my master's guidance, Lao Bai and the Gu King have entered a honeymoon period. The two often communicate privately. If there are really bugs on this ship, the Gu King should have warned long ago!

What kind of bug is it that can hide under the Gu King's nose without being discovered? !

However, the world is full of wonders. Compared with it, we are too small. If there is something beyond our understanding, it is not a big deal. Being in this industry, I know the magic of this world too well. I can accept the statement of the bug, but the word "mountain top" mentioned by Luo Songyuan is a bit sensational.

As far as I know, there is only one mountain in this place, and this mountain is on the so-called fairy island, and it is in the central area! !

Could it be that Luo Songyuan had set foot there in the past?

Qi Houzi said that the central area of ​​the fairy island is a restricted area. Once you set foot in it, it is basically impossible to come out alive.

If Luo Songyuan really set foot there in the past, then is the cause of their death related to this?

I thought about it over and over again, and I think it is really possible!

According to Old Man Li, only armor worn by those who are born extraordinary can form Yinshan characters after their death. This world is big, but most people are ordinary. Characters who are born outstanding are rare in the vast sea of ​​people. Yinshan characters are also destined to be very rare. The number of times they have appeared in the thousands of years of civilization is very few. Otherwise, it is impossible that only Old Man Li has heard of it.

But how many of them appeared here at once?

More than 20!!

Apart from the mysterious and unknown place in the central area of ​​the island, where else can so many Yinshan characters appear at once?

Too many questions...

After a short silence, I stood up and sighed: "Anyway, I finally got a hint. I don't know why, but these Yinshan texts reminded me of the song sung by the mermaid. The song mentioned a dusty ancient country. These armors should be used by the soldiers of this ancient country. What kind of country is this? Why are there so many people with visions in the army?"

"Who knows?"

Lao Bai shrugged: "It's probably an ancient country with few historical materials. At most, there are a few words in some epics, or there is nothing left."

My master held Luo Songyuan's broken bones in his hand, sighed unwillingly, handed the broken bones to Shunzi who was crying, patted his shoulder, and asked Lao Duyan to pick up the body of Da Nier. After all, he was traveling with us, so he couldn't just leave his body here.

The old one-eyed man looked back blankly, and his eyes twitched violently.

This is indeed a difficult task.

The corpse no longer looked like a human being. It would be more appropriate to say that it was a pile of rotten meat. The head of Da Ni'er was smashed into a rotten watermelon by Yin Shanwen's fist. He was lying dead on the spot. It was a mess at the time. No one cared about him. The corpse was trampled back and forth by more than 20 armors. I don't know how many times. The bones and flesh flew everywhere. It was shocking. Even though I was used to seeing death, the blood made my stomach churn. In order to avoid nightmares, I ignored the old one-eyed man's pleading eyes and turned around to follow my master to go back to the cabin to rest.

"Wait!!"

Suddenly, Zhang Xinya shouted and called my master. She jumped up from the ground like a mad scientist who suddenly got inspiration, pointed to a cabin at the end of the corridor and said: "The clues that Luo Songyuan left for us may not only be these two short words, but also more important clues. You carefully review the scene before his soul flew away. He was always looking at Shunzi until the last moment. His head moved slightly. At that time, his facial features were blurred, but from the direction he was facing, he should be looking at that cabin. Maybe he knew that he had no time, so he simply used this method to guide us to find clues ourselves!!"

To be honest, if she hadn't mentioned it, none of us would pay attention to this detail, but after careful review, it seems to be true.

The cabin that Zhang Xinya mentioned is just to the left of the steel door that seals the entrance to the cabin. It is the first cabin here.

Shunzi was originally in a daze after being stimulated by the ups and downs, but when he heard the three words "Luo Songyuan", he suddenly came back to his senses, as if he had a flash of light, and slapped his head hard: "Oh, why didn't I think of this? That cabin was my father's cabin. I lived there with him for a long time!"

"Is this reliable?"

Lao Bai hesitated and said: "Luo Songyuan has been dead for a full ten years. During this period, the boss of this ship was Qi Houzi. How could Qi Houzi not search there when he took office? In my opinion, even if there is something, I am afraid that Qi Houzi would have taken it away long ago!"

"How can we know if we don't look for it?"

Brother Yaozi said with a smile as he walked: "Anyway, we are already trapped here, are we afraid of wasting some time?"

As he was talking, the man was already standing at the door of the cabin. He turned the handle and found that the door was locked. It turned out that there were some tricks. There were many cabins here, but only this one was locked. Fortunately, it was not reinforced with steel plates. Brother Yaozi stepped back a few steps and kicked the door open with a "clang".

The captain's cabin was indeed extraordinary. The layout was completely different from other cabins. Although the area was similar, it was not so crowded. There was only a desk and a single bed. It was obviously a single room.

Several of us started together and searched inside and out several times, but found nothing.

As Lao Bai expected, Qi Houzi had been here a long time ago. As the place where Luo Songyuan slept and worked in the past, there should be many documents. In fact, we didn't even find a piece of paper.

"It doesn't make sense!"

Zhang Xinya couldn't help but say to herself: "Since Luo Songyuan has been looking at this place, the clue is already very obvious. This is unreasonable!"

I glanced at Shunzi, who was sitting on the single bed in a daze. He must have been reminded of the past. He had been sleepwalking since he entered here, so I stepped forward and gently patted his shoulder. I wanted to say that the dead are gone, and the living are working hard. You are already cold, but we are still warm. Let's think about staying alive first, okay? I was worried that this kid would go crazy and jump up to beat me, so I had to express it in a tactful way, and went around in circles for a long time.

After listening to him, Shunzi leaned back and lay on the bed, staring at the top of the cabin. Seeing him like that, he was lost in memories again. I was so angry that I almost wanted to punch him in the face. Seeing that he didn't respond for a long time, I was so angry that I threw my sleeves and was about to leave. As a result, Shunzi suddenly sat up straight and said, "I remembered that there is still a place you haven't found!"

Lao Bai hurriedly asked where it was.

Shunzi got off the bed and asked us to move the bed aside. Then he gently knocked on the cabin wall blocked by the bed. After a while, he grabbed the gap in the cabin wall and gently pulled it. With a "click", a square board was removed, and there was a secret room behind it.

Shunzi smiled and said that this was his father's safe. Any important things would be hidden here in the past.

Lao Bai pushed him aside and took out a Type 54 pistol and several bullets from the secret cabinet. However, it was badly worn and rusted, and no one dared to use it. Once it fired, no one knew whether it was hitting the enemy or itself. In addition, there was a thick book with the words "Navigation Diary" written on it!

"What a good thing! With this, I can understand what Luo Songyuan had experienced!"

Lao Bai was overjoyed and raised the navigation diary in his hand. A black object fell out of the diary and made a crisp "ding-dong" sound when it landed on the ground.

My master exclaimed softly and bent down to pick up the object. Only then did I see clearly that it was a round metal piece the size of a palm, with some strange characters on it, which should also be a kind of structural characters, densely packed and circling a large circle.

"Look at these words..."

Lao Bai hesitated for a moment and whispered, "This seems to be the words of the mermaids. Although I can't understand it, you can count the numbers. It seems to be the mermaid song that Shunzi sang when he was sick!"

"And this rust is also interesting!"

Zhang Xinya took the metal sheet from my master, rubbed it in her hand, and said, "Look, the rust in the middle of this metal sheet is reddish brown, which is iron oxide, showing a shape similar to leaves, indicating that the material of this area is iron. But the other areas are gray, which seems to be basic magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, that is, the material of other areas is magnesium!!

A piece of metal sheet, but there are two kinds of metals on it, what is it for?"

"Never mind!"

Lao Bai opened the navigation diary: "There must be an answer in it!!"

This diary is very thick, and the earliest entry can be traced back to nineteen years ago, nine years earlier than Luo Songyuan entered District 17. All of Luo Songyuan's adventures should be recorded in it.

There were too many contents, and we didn't have time to read anything else, so we just turned to the records left by Luo Songyuan after he entered District 17 ten years ago.

What happened in the earliest period was similar to what we knew.

They were caught in a whirlpool, and Luo Songyuan thought they were doomed, so he took the opportunity to push Shunzi out. The only difference was that the process of them passing through the cracks on the seabed to enter here was not as tragic as Qi Houzi said. Luo Songyuan was very strong. The crew on this huge ship were all elites of the sea gang, and they were not comparable to the old one-eyed man. The crew knew some mysterious methods and were even equipped with a lot of guns. No matter how powerful the mermaids were, they were still flesh and blood. They would still be beaten into a sieve after a burst of bullets. When they encountered the mermaids, they had the upper hand. It was clearly recorded here that after the mermaids boarded the ship, the battle was short and extremely intense. They lost seven people and killed more than 200 mermaids.

After entering here, they were not as embarrassed as we were. The damage to the hull was very small. After a simple repair, they started sailing directly. They had a smooth journey and soon found the island! !

Qi Houzi did not lie about the situation on the island. At least, when he first landed, Luo Songyuan felt that it was like a paradise. The former members of the sea gang and the missing people who were caught in the whirlpool in District 17 were almost all on the island. There was even an oil tanker that was accidentally caught in it, which stored a lot of fuel. In short, there was everything. The survivors on the island welcomed them very much and even held a bonfire party.

However, on the day of the party, half of Luo Songyuan's crew members disappeared, including Qi Houzi.

After learning about the situation, Luo Songyuan immediately suspected that it was the survivors on the island who did it, but he was an old man. He did not explode directly and rush to ask for people. Instead, he asked his remaining men to get weapons from the ship, and he went to investigate the situation in the dark.

Then he saw a scene he would never forget.

 That's what the diary says.

 "I have spent half my life in the unpredictable world of martial arts, and I thought I had seen all the ugliness, but that scene directly impacted my soul's ability to endure.

 It was a dim little room, with an oil lamp emitting a flickering yellow glow. Two huge dining tables were placed together, with the survivors sitting on both sides of the table. They were dressed neatly, holding knives and forks in their hands. They looked like upright gentlemen from the West, but their food… was actually people, my two brothers, who were washed clean, bound hands and feet, gagged, and placed on the dining table. They were still alive. These demons kept cutting their flesh with dinner knives, and were whispering and talking and laughing among themselves.

 I even heard one of them say that because I was too cautious, it was difficult to startle me and I had to wait for an opportunity. In order to avoid disturbing me, I had to be very careful when eating and cover my mouth. It was such a waste. The cry was almost celestial.

 I could clearly see my two brothers twitching in pain...

 At that moment, I was so angry that I wanted to eat anyone I wanted. For the first time in my life, I felt the hatred to eat my enemy alive.

 But I did not explode. I retreated and called on others to attack them while they were eating. I killed them all. In my hatred, I even chopped off their heads. … …

 The disaster also happened at this time. Bugs actually crawled out of the necks of the dead people.

 I understood everything at once. These people were all controlled by this strange insect that I had never seen before. This insect had no mouthparts and could not eat, so it needed to attach itself to other people to eat.

 In fact, these insects are much more difficult to deal with than humans, and much more terrifying! !

 When they came out, many of my brothers were killed. I could only flee in panic with the remaining people, and finally found Qi Monkey and the others in their holy land.

 Fortunately, these people are okay!

 I even found a holy object in their holy place!

 We had to return to the ship. "

 Next up is the next diary entry.

 "Another day has passed and we finally got some good news!!

 After our survey, we found that this underwater sea has an end, and this small island is the end! !

 According to Xiaoqi's estimation, this fairy island under the sea should be just a small hill, which is next to a larger mountain. This mountain directly emerges from the sea and is an isolated island in the high seas.

 Nine out of ten ruins in the world have exits, so I guess there should be a secret passage in the center of Shenxian Island, which goes straight to the isolated island in the high seas!

 In order to survive, we must go there and explore!

 I don't know if I can come back this time, and I don't know if Shunzi survived.

 If God has mercy and really lets you survive, I know you will come here again.

 I think, if there is anyone in this world who can find this diary, it must be you, because that place is where we hide our little secrets, and no one knows about it, right?

 If you really come...

 Remember, don't trust any so-called living person you see here. If you really meet one, you must kill him from behind and cut off his spine. I suspect those bugs are attached to their spines. Don't ever let them rush out.

 Finally, Dad loves you. "

 …

 This is all that is recorded in the logbook.

 After reading it, I subconsciously glanced at Shunzi who was in a daze beside me. After thinking about it, I decided not to show him the rest, otherwise his spirit would probably collapse completely! !

 The old white man had an irrepressible joy on his face: "I didn't expect that there is actually an exit. This is not a dead place!!"

 "So, this thing is the so-called holy object?"

 Zhang Xinya shook the metal sheet in her hand and said, "Qi Houzi and the others should also be controlled by the bugs. Did you notice this? At that time, Qi Houzi and several other crew members were captured, but the other party ate them. The two of them, Qi Houzi and the others were saved, and finally even followed Luo Songyuan to the restricted area in the center of the island.

 I have to suspect that by then they might have been controlled by the bugs and had become part of the same species, so they naturally wouldn't eat them.

 Of course, it is also possible that we didn't have time to eat it.

 However, I am more inclined to the worst scenario. Those bugs were lurking beside Luo Songyuan, waiting to launch a fatal attack at the critical moment. Otherwise, why did Luo Songyuan and others die, while Qi Houzi and others were fine?

 If this is true, what does it mean?

 This means that these bugs are related to the ruins in the center of the island, and may be guarding the ruins! ! "

 I also felt a headache after hearing this. The mystery and weirdness of this island is really beyond imagination!

 "That's not all."

 Brother Yaozi sighed and said, "The key is that there is another group watching this place. I don't know where the evil spirits of Lord Shui are now, and whether they have come in..."

 "Don't think too much about it for now, go back to the cabin and rest."

 My master said: "If an enemy comes, we will fight him; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth. Just wait patiently, we will eventually reach the destination!"