Wujun Changmen Sea Falcon thirty-nine, these words seemed to have magic power, causing Su Xinghuo's expression to change suddenly and his body to stiffen suddenly.
"Your Mightiness,"
The muscles on Su Xinghuo's face twitched, and he asked with difficulty, "Where did you hear the name of this ship?"
"..."
Li Ang didn't answer, but just looked at Su Xinghuo silently, with an obvious meaning - don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked.
"All right."
Su Xinghuo sighed, "You saved my life, so I can't hide anything. However, because this ship involves the past secrets of the Su family, I hope you can keep it a secret."
"good."
Li Ang nodded in agreement and took out two more insulation notes from the drawer to completely isolate the risk of being eavesdropped.
"It starts with my father."
Su Xinghuo took a deep breath, closed his eyes and recalled, and said: "My parents have always had a good relationship. In my memory, they almost never quarreled, until one day they had a big quarrel.
My father, who was very drunk, told me the truth about the decline and demise of the Su family.
The ancestors of the Su family accumulated a lot of money by running boats. In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, they founded the Yiyuan Trading Company in Suzhou. The tribesmen worked hard, and a hundred years later, Yiyuan Company became the number one in Suzhou and the top five in Jiangnan Province.
Family assets include land, cattle, mountain farms, water mosses, mills, houses, shops along the street, etc.
But one thing has always troubled the Su people - disease.
Once a family member reaches the age of fifty or sixty, the probability and rate of mental deterioration are much higher than that of outsiders.
This is a disease that haunts the Su family's bloodline. As people grow older, they will gradually lose their ability to take care of themselves and even become unable to swallow.
According to the publication of the Chang'an Imperial Medical Office, it is a family hereditary disease.
The Su family realized that this was a family scandal, so they took all the clan elders deep into the house and put them under centralized care. "
Su Xinghuo paused and said slowly: "The emperors of the Sui Dynasty all believed in the rumors that there was an elixir of life in overseas fairy islands, and the people were no exception.
In order to find a cure for the disease, the ancestors of the Su family frequently explored the periphery of the Endless Sea and drew sea maps using the convenience of running a business.
Finally, by chance, a ship was carried on the back of an unimaginably huge sea beast and sailed into the depths of the endless sea.
According to the ancestors of the Su family who survived the ship, one scale of the sea beast was as big as a house.
Standing on the deck of the ship, people can only see a small piece of the sea beast's back, and a larger shadow lurks under the sea.
Its body length may be described in units of "li". Comparable to Kunpeng.
The frightened crew members 'sailed' for thirty days and thirty nights, passing through the most dangerous areas of the Endless Sea, where there were endless thunderstorms, waves tens to hundreds of meters high, and all kinds of strange creatures that preyed on each other. Alien monster.
The sea beast of unknown shape seems to be an overlord-level existence in the endless sea.
Wherever it goes, the thunderstorm subsides and the huge waves calm down,
Even the fierce sea beasts dare not approach.
The surviving crew members believed that no ship could sail to such a terrifying place without relying on the sea beast.
On the thirtieth night, the sea beast stopped swimming on the edge of an island and dived deep. Sea Falcon 39 finally touched the water again.
Because the ship is located in the depths of the endless sea that no one has ever explored, and is surrounded by dangers, the crew members who are close to running out of food and drinking water immediately decide to sail to the island, replenish their supplies on the island, and look for fresh water and edible food.
Half a day passed, and most of the crew members who were looking for supplies came back, but several people still hadn't returned, and their whistles for help were not heard.
The captain sent several people to look for it.
The crew followed the footprints, used machetes to cut off the vines blocking the road, and carefully walked deeper into the dense forest. Then, they saw a scene they would never forget——
In the middle of the island, there is a pit ten feet in diameter. A dark boulder stood in the pit.
There are large and small black rocks. Most of the largest pieces are in the rock formations. Countless tree root-like things extend from the bottom of the rocks that touch the ground.
Like dye staining, it soaks into the surrounding area.
The surface of the vegetation is covered with spiderweb-like black lines, and the bodies of birds and animals are replaced with pitch-black substances.
The missing persons stood blankly in the pit, with black tree roots stuck in their necks, wrists, and ankles.
After careful consideration, the others decided to use ropes to pull them out from a distance.
Everything in the endless sea is dangerous. Instead of sending the missing people to the ship, the crew placed them in a temporary camp far away from the island coastline for observation.
The next day, several missing people woke up leisurely, but nothing happened.
In fact, one of the Su clan members, who was nearly fifty years old and had already shown intermittent mental decline, completely recovered and no longer suffered from sudden stuttering or slow speech.
Only one thing - their blood turned red and black.
The captain discovered this change. He issued a hush-hush order to all crew members who knew about it. He took a few people back to the pit, picked up a large piece of black stone outside the pit, and put it into a specially made stone box for sealing alien species.
A few days later, thick blood floated on the sea, together with large pieces of stumps - the stumps were blue-black in color, covered with carapace on the back, and densely packed with octopus-like suckers as big as a carriage on the front.
The captain guessed that the sea beast that brought them here probably had habits similar to those of a python. It likes to hunt prey that are large enough, and a single hunt can last for several years, ten years, or even longer.
After successfully hunting, they return to their residence to hibernate.
A few days later, the sea monster resurfaced. The crew seized the opportunity, parked the ship on the back of the sea monster, and returned with the sea monster.
Perhaps because of a full meal, this time the sea beast took forty days and forty nights before returning to the outskirts of the Endless Sea and starting to dive.
More than half of the crew on the Sea Falcon Thirty-Nine were killed or injured. The remaining survivors managed the ship and barely sailed back to the land from the edge of the Endless Sea. After resupplying in Nanzhao, they sailed to the Sui Kingdom and returned to Suzhou.
The Su family blocked all news about this voyage, and the elders of the clan and the monks trained by the family studied the black stone brought back.
The more they studied, the more surprised they were at the mystery of the black stone. Later, they directly regarded the black stone as a divine object given by Haotian, set up an altar for it, and worshiped it secretly.
Gradually, the probability of genetic diseases in the family continues to decrease. Just when the clan members thought they had finally gotten rid of the blood curse, a group of uninvited guests came to visit.
Taixuanzong.
For some reason, this hidden sect knew about the Black Stone. They directly broke into the forbidden mansion that the family had spent a lot of money to build, and held the clan leader and elders hostage, demanding cooperation. "
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