Half asleep and half awake, it seems as if someone is singing softly in the ear. The song is sad and deep, which reminds people of their hometown and relatives.
Chen Xing looked at the darkness ahead, as if his eyes traveled through endless time and came to a dilapidated building.
It was a factory dormitory built in the 1970s and 1980s, and the yellow skin on the outside had rolled and fallen off. The light bulb in the stairwell emitted dim light, illuminating the rusty iron gate.
There is a large red circle printed on the wall with the Arabic numeral "5" in the middle.
When I opened the door, the smell of cooking came to my face. The figure wearing an apron was busy in the kitchen behind the half-curtain.
Walking inside, there was a hazy shadow sitting on the wooden sofa. The newspaper covered his upper body, and only the deep wrinkles on the back of his hands were clearly visible.
A gust of wind blew, the curtains swayed, the calendar on the wall flipped, and pieces of paper broke away and flew around.
In the end, there was only one left. Looking at it carefully, the date was August 30, 2017.
Chen Xing thought hard about what kind of day this was and what special meaning it had to him.
But no matter how hard he racked his brains, nothing came to mind.
"Clang!"
The feet suddenly shook, and then the surrounding scenery began to rotate faster and faster, turning into elongated blocks of color, and then collapsed and shattered.
Two groups of green lights appeared in the darkness. With the faint light, you could see that the iron fence door had been opened.
The rotten corpses were lining up and heading out one by one.
arrive?
Chen Xing looked upward, and a faint blue light filtered through the gaps in the deck.
It seems that we have really arrived at our destination.
Chen Xing stood up slowly, followed the corpse, walked out of the cell, walked through the long passage and wooden stairs, and walked out of the cabin.
At just the first glance, he was shocked by the sight before him.
The Bone Mountain Range that I saw in the demon plane before was nothing compared to this place.
A huge star was suspended in front, with cracks all over its surface emitting a faint blue light.
It was not a star in the ordinary sense, but a cluster composed of countless sunken ships. The boats were lurching this way and that, or turning over, or being stuck upside down, or breaking in two.
The blue light passed through the gaps between the ships and emanated from the depths of the star.
Chen Xing realized that this was the shipwreck cemetery that Shad Sinclair mentioned.
The rope ladder along the side of the ship has been lowered. One skeleton grabbed a ball of blue light in his hand and gestured towards the corpse. The other skeleton grabbed a pickaxe from the tool box beside him, stuffed it into the corpse's arms, and kicked it down.
The bones seemed to tell the wights what they were looking for.
When passing by the skeleton, Chen Xing's pocket watch flashed. The skeleton seemed not to see him and stood motionless.
Chen Xing climbed down the rope ladder and landed on the deck of a sunken ship.
It was so weird here that he didn't act in a hurry, but instead observed the rotting corpses that fell from the ship.
Some of them fell on the deck and spread out, and some smashed directly through the wooden boards and fell into the sunken ship.
After a while, the rotten corpse climbed up awkwardly, fumbled for the pickaxe next to it, and started digging around on the ship, seeming to be digging for something.
Chen Xing observed quietly. After a long time, suddenly a vague roar came from inside the hull.
"puff!"
A piece of manuscript was cut through the deck, and a rotten corpse crawled out, holding a ball of blue light in its hand and roaring towards the ghost ship.
A skeleton fell from the sky, snatched the ball of light from the rotting corpse, then climbed up the rope ladder and sent the ball of light back.
"Click, click, click..."
A few seconds after the skeleton left, cracking sounds were heard from all sides of the ship. Chen Xing quickly jumped to another sunken ship.
"Boom!"
The sunken ship that had the light group taken away seemed to have lost its last support, shattered into pieces, and turned into countless stardust, flying into the interior of the star.
Heart of the ship?
Chen Xing remembered the legend he had read in books.
During the long voyage, the crew and the ship depended on each other and gradually became one. Even if the ship sank, the spirit of the crew remained stubborn and maintained the ship for thousands of years.
This is the legendary heart of the ship, the "ship spirit" formed by the aggregation of the spirits of all crew members.
It is speculated from this that the purpose of the ghost ship transporting these corpses is to dig out the hearts of the ships for them.
After roughly figuring out the matter, Chen Xing began to search for the ship.
The ship that belongs to him may be one of these thousands of sunken ships. Lying there quietly, through endless years, waiting for the person who awakens him to appear.
At night, on the border of Silver Claw Principality, Wildcat Town.
After a whole day of artillery fire, Silver Claw's army finally stopped.
Several expeditionary soldiers cleared away the dust and snow from their bodies, lit kerosene lamps, and sat down in the corner of half a stone wall.
Although the wall made of stones does not have much defensive capabilities, and even the collapsed stones can cause casualties, it can at least make people feel at ease.
This is the defense area of the Fourth Squadron of the Seventh Squadron of the First Infantry Brigade of the 22nd Brigade of the Left Army.
Usually a brigade has two brigades, two brigades have twenty-four squadrons, and the twenty-four squadrons have 288 squads. Each squad has twelve people, together with the command staff, military police, and logistics personnel, there are about four Fifteen hundred people.
Four infantry brigades are stationed here, one of more than a thousand squads.
The soldiers silently tore open the bags of military rations, took out the self-heating lunch boxes, and heated them to eat.
Today is the Harvest Festival, so a special extra meal is Longhe Industrial’s “Turkey Set Meal”.
No one spoke. The whole day of artillery coverage was too brutal. Some of them lost their companions, and some lost their legs or arms.
As he ate, a young soldier began to cry. On the childish face, tears washed away the dust, forming two tear stains.
"It's so good that I started crying." A slightly older soldier put down his lunch box and patted the other party on the shoulder.
"I miss home..." the young soldier cried.
The left army commanded by Viscount Ramon was mainly composed of family troops from the Lizard City and local recruits.
Not long after joining the army, many new recruits are not used to it.
"Shut your mouth, recruit!" A combat soldier wearing protective armor yelled rudely, "If you don't want to be discovered by the military police, drag him out and kill him!"
At the mention of the military police, the young soldier looked frightened and covered his mouth, trying to control his crying.
If the military police found someone crying, they would shoot them for "shaking the morale of the army."
There was still food in his mouth, and he might have choked on it, so he spat it out and then coughed violently.
"What bad luck to meet such a weakling!" The fighting soldier cursed and got up and walked aside to eat by himself.
Several other soldiers also stood up and left to avoid being misunderstood by the patrolling military police.
The Red Kingdom is a martial arts country, and people with weak characters are generally discriminated against, and even Liuying is unwilling to receive them.
"Don't be nervous, it's okay." The older soldier patted the young soldier's back and comforted him.
The young soldier coughed for a while and finally returned to normal.
"Why did you come to join the army?" The older soldier knew that the most important thing at this time was to divert attention and not think about life and death.
"I want to save a down payment and find a wife," the young soldier said.
Just like many young people in Monitor City, they are under pressure to buy a house, a car, a wife and children. Joining the army and fighting is the fastest way to make money. Of course there is another ending, that is, there is no need to work at all...
"Don't you want to be a noble?" the older soldier asked.
In the Red Country, joining the army and fighting in the war was the fastest way to obtain a noble title. As long as you accumulate enough military exploits, you can become a noble. From then on, I was superior to others, enjoying various government subsidies and privileges, occasionally attending dances, chatting with dignitaries, bragging with businessmen, and flirting and having sex with ladies and ladies. What a pleasant life it was!
"I want to..." "Just do it if you want. Why are you crying?" "Hehe."
With the encouragement of the older soldiers, the young soldiers finally broke through tears and laughed.
"Okay, let's go to bed after eating. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow." "Yeah, yeah."
After a while, the two of them finished eating, dug a small hole on the spot and buried the lunch box. Then they wrapped their military coats tightly and huddled in the corner to rest.
It is now the end of December, in the depth of winter, and the temperature at night in Guiwei Plain reaches minus 45 degrees. Ordinary soldiers must be injected with adrenaline, otherwise they will freeze to death if they sleep in the open.
Several fighting soldiers in the distance were drinking strong alcohol, and the strong smell of alcohol could be smelled dozens of meters away. They seemed to be chatting happily, and burst into laughter from time to time.
In the Red Kingdom, strong fighting soldiers are generally more popular than other types of soldiers, which also develops their unscrupulous character.
As the night progressed, the voices of the combat soldiers became smaller and smaller, and finally they lay staggering on the ground, snoring heavily.
The soldier in the corner yawned, wrapped himself in a military coat, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he slowly fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, a burst of ethereal music sounded, and the soldiers twitched and opened their eyes suddenly.
The unfocused pupils emitted a faint red light, like an unconscious walking corpse.
In the snow, a small trace suddenly appeared, winding and extending towards the tent in front.
In the blink of an eye, a small white snake appeared in the camp, spitting out a scarlet snake message, and swam quietly towards the sleeping officer.
Not long after, the sleeping officer suddenly tilted his head and became silent. If you look closely, you will see that there are two small blood holes on his neck, and dark blood is oozing out.
His face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the distorted expression remained on his face.
"Oh no, Commander-in-Chief, our soldiers have mutinied!"
"What!" Viscount Ramon, who was resting, quickly put on his coat and went outside to check.
A strange sound of music came into his ears, like a magic sound, and Viscount Ramon immediately knew the problem.
"It's not mutiny, it's mental interference!"
"Turn on the loudspeaker and make loud noise!"
