"... Damn it!" The captain wiped his face fiercely.
As the ship passed through the fog, Tan Yue looked silently at the exact same island in front of him - this island should have been behind them, not in front of them.
They had been wandering around the outskirts of this ghost island for ten hours. From afternoon to night, every time they passed through the fog, they saw another ghost island.
"Go back." Tan Yue said, "We should look for clues about the weirdness of Ghost Island on Ghost Island."
So the ship did not move forward, but once again passed through the fog and returned to this strange island.
Tan Yue thought of the boy wolf cub in the cave and decided to climb the mountain again to ask the wolf cub for clues about the island.
The island is still rampant with the living dead. The zombie tide two years ago has been consumed by Mother Wolf, but the remaining living dead and mutated animals and plants are still extremely dangerous. Tan Yue thought of the wolf cub, who had been living in a cave to avoid danger, and the cave was tightly covered by the bones of the wolf mother, and couldn't help but sigh again.
It was already night, and everyone rested for the night in a house near the shore. They woke up on time the next morning to the sound of birdsong, and were ready to embark on the journey to find a way to break the situation.
The troops were still divided into two groups, Guo Pingfan and others from Noah City, and Tan Yue, Zhou Chenghua and others from land. Tan Yue and Yilong looked at each other. They were thinking about the same thing, which was to go back to find the only survivor on the island - the wolf cub.
This land team set off towards the depths of the forest, but the Noah City team went straight to the ruins of the aboriginal people on Ghost Island. When it comes to things about islands, there must be no place where you have a greater chance of finding clues than in a community of villagers.
Guo Pingfan and others visited the village. The village is very large, and you can see its prosperity and liveliness during its lifetime, so facing its ruins makes people feel even more sad.
There is indeed an ancestral hall in the village.
Guo Pingfan squinted his eyes and focused on the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall is made of a wooden house, and the color of the wood is deep reddish brown. When you get closer, you can smell the strange fragrance emanating from the entire ancestral hall - that is the fragrance of the wood used as the building material of the ancestral hall. Even after experiencing the crisis of the living dead and the apocalypse, this aroma was still not covered up by the smell of corpses, making it refreshing.
The ancestral hall is very large. When you walk in, you can see many tablets in the hall. The names on them all start with the word "Xu".
There were traces of burning incense on the tables on both sides, and the ashes of the incense fell on the table, still scattered in pieces two years later.
Guo Pingfan looked at it carefully and then walked into the inner room.
There is a library in the inner room. Surprisingly, even though there are corpses of the living dead in the hall of the ancestral hall, the library in the inner room is clean, as if it has never experienced a crisis.
Guo Pingfan called people in, and the team members from Noah City were all shocked, and then their faces showed joy.
There are books, which means there is hope. Maybe the way to break the situation is hidden in these classics.
Guo Pingfan took people to spend a whole day here.
Books that can be placed in the ancestral hall naturally have their own importance, and the information contained in them is also truly useful.
The island has a long history, dating back to the Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, the residents on the island have lived a self-sufficient and secluded life, making it a veritable "Taoyuan Island".
The residents of the island pride themselves on having noble blood, and every islander's blood contains mysterious power. This power can support them in completing magical rituals such as sacrifices, and also brings many conveniences to their lives. The person with the most powerful bloodline is called the "Grand Wizard" and is responsible for presiding over every ceremony. The reason why the ghost island disappeared from the map was due to such a magical ritual.
If Tan Yue were here, she would guess the truth about the ghost breaking the wall. The 331 incident brought a painful lesson to Ghost Island. In order to prevent the virus from spreading and to prevent outsiders from disturbing their ancestors, the remaining villagers probably held some ceremony so that those who entered Ghost Island would never be able to go out. People can't get in either.
It was thanks to Tan Yue's system that Tan Yue and his group were able to find the location of the island.
Guo Pingfan also guessed that the ghost wall-breaking was the result of a certain ritual among the villagers. He shared the news with the team members: "As long as it is a ritual, there is a way to crack it. I believe there must be a way to crack it in these books! Everyone! Don’t give up hope, victory is just around the corner.”
However, he couldn't help but feel worried. The opening conditions for some rituals are harsh and complicated. With their configuration, even if you find the ritual to crack the ghost wall, you may not be able to successfully complete the cracking ritual.
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There are seven people in the mainland team. Tan Yue, Zhou Chenghua, Xiao Miao and Qin Heng have been to the mountain before. In addition, there are Ye Gucheng, Ye Gucheng's senior sister, the mind reader, and Director Liang, a researcher in City S.
They have been delayed at sea for a week, and Qin Shuye only has three weeks to wake up. Tan Yue and others went to sea to search for the Dream Tapir, while in City S, research institutes on land were also constantly looking for ways to stimulate Xie Wan to wake up. Only when Xie Wan wakes up can the curse placed on Qin Shuye be withdrawn.
As for what Xie Wan thinks, this is not within the scope of everyone's consideration.
Tan Yue used the spider mother to carry a group of people up the mountain through the forest, and arrived at the wolf mother's skeleton that evening.
The wolf cub is no longer where it was.
Tan Yue was not surprised by this. With his cautious character and awareness of the dangers of long-term survival in the wild, once his residence was discovered, he would definitely have to change places. This is the wisdom of survival, but it is a pity that the wolf mother sacrificed her life for the shelter.
But Tan Yue was determined that he couldn't go far.
The wolf cub is young, has short legs, and has a lame little wolf with it. How far can it go in more than a day?
Tan Yue and others continued to search up the mountain, and finally caught the wolf cub and his little wolf in another cave at noon the next day.
The wolf cub became even more uneasy when he saw that there were three more people this time. He squatted in the distance and bared his teeth at them in protest. The emotion in his eyes was full of hatred and unkindness. In his understanding, it was these outsiders who ruined life on Ghost Island.
Tan Yue knelt down and said like last time: "We don't mean any harm. Can we sit down and have a chat like last time?"
The wolf cub had no problem with Tan Yue, the person who gave him food, but he didn't like the looks in the eyes of the remaining three strangers.
Tan Yue said: "We left the island by boat yesterday, but we couldn't get out."
She briefly told the wolf pups what had happened to them.
After hearing this, the wolf cub's face turned pale, as if he was extremely frightened.
At the same time in the village ancestral hall, Guo Pingfan finally found a way to crack the ghost wall:
This method can be broken by sacrificing the life of a person with bloodline power.
