Midnight watch.
A small boat set out for Daze loaded with a large amount of fishing gear sent by the sergeant to please the three men.
The fish basket swayed gently in the river breeze.
Ke Wenbin rocked the oar, Xiang Fangsu stared at the map, and Liang Qu held the compass.
Daze is surrounded by waves and there are no terrain markers. It is easy to get lost without a compass.
When the building boat was completely out of sight behind him, the boat immediately turned around and made a long arc.
Three-quarters of an hour after leaving, the three of them entered the island again, carefully avoiding the eyeliners who were deployed all around, and reached the vicinity of the island chain.
"Get off the boat and let's swim over."
There are scouts around the island chain, and the ship target is too large to be easily discovered by the scouts.
The three found a small island nearby, dragged the boat ashore, covered it with shrubs, and hid it in the woods.
Fireflies were flying around the bushes, and the annoying chirping of cicadas during the day was now the best cover.
Having done their homework, the three of them took their tools and dived in succession, heading towards the island chain under the cover of night.
The finless porpoises patrolling underwater noticed the abnormality of the water flow and moved closer.
Xiang Fangsu took out the token from his arms and injected it with Qi and blood.
The token emitted invisible waves, and several finless porpoises stopped entangled and dispersed.
Ke Wenbin patted the finless porpoise's head and caught a big silver carp at some point. He fed it to the finless porpoise and followed the two people in front of him.
Arriving at the nearby water, faint black smoke was floating in the water, and countless small fish were floating on the water with white bellies, and their bodies were shriveled.
Although they were soaked in the water, they looked like smoked fish that had been dried on the shore, as if they would break into crumbs if you pinched them.
Xiang Fangsu did not dare to move forward and took a step back to give up his position.
Liang Qu succeeded Xiang Fangsu as the leader, stimulating Qi and blood, and a faint golden glow spread all over his body.
The black air was like snow melted by hot urine, melting continuously on both sides, spreading out a transparent channel.
Xiang Fangsu and Ke Wenbin followed closely, looking at the black smoke that closed again behind them, keeping a good distance to ensure that they would not be contaminated by the black smoke.
By the time they finally reached the island, more than half an hour had passed since they set off.
"I repeat, don't split up. We don't know if there is anything going on on the island. If there is something unusual, no matter whether it is an illusion or not, talk about it and discuss it. If you find anything, don't leave the team yourself."
Xiang Fangsu reminded me.
The evil idea of resurrection from the dead was still lingering in their minds. They had already discussed it before setting off, and now they just mentioned it again.
"Follow Ah Shui unswervingly! Even if you kill me, I don't dare to leave."
Ke Wenbin expressed his position loudly.
Just kidding, the black air on the island is worse than underwater. Liang Qu's radiation range is only two to three meters around him, and he can't leave even if he wants to.
Xiang Fangsu nodded, and the three of them quickly rushed to the center of the island, focusing on Liang Qu.
There were cicadas chirping outside, but it was silent inside.
Snake corpses, rat corpses, ants, centipedes, and millipedes all crawled out of the soil and lay dead on the ground.
When you step on it, it dries up and breaks into pieces. It is blown away by the wind in the river, turned into ashes, and buried deep in the desert.
Looking at the plants, they were all dead branches and broken leaves. A small part had been burned to death, and most of them had been contaminated by black air, draining their vitality.
Several trees grew tall, and the lower parts were immersed in black smoke, dry and rotten, while the upper parts were intact and full of green, giving them a strange and contrasting feeling.
Xiang Fangsu approached the tree and scratched it with his fingernails. The bark of the entire giant tree fell rustlingly, and the trunk cracked rapidly. Fine cracks spread along the main body and stopped abruptly at the junction of life and death.
It seemed as if if he moved again, the whole tree would topple over, and the current balance was just an illusion.
Xiang Fangsu didn't dare to move anymore and followed Liang Qu deeper into the area. He soon saw several houses.
The Ghost Mother Cult has many buildings on the island. They are not ordinary palaces or courtyards. Most of them are mud houses built of rammed earth.
The form is not much better than that of ordinary people, but more regular and wider, like a military camp.
As we got closer, there were more signs of destruction all around.
There were sword marks on most of the trees, and the ground was littered with corpses. Undried blood was scattered on the mud, and there were red and black spots everywhere.
There were many bird carcasses surrounding those corpses. Even though they were shriveled, they were intact and showed no signs of trauma.
Liang Qu suspected that the birds were trying to steal food, so he rushed into the black smoke but found that he could no longer fly.
He walked into a large mud house with no precious porcelain or nanmu furniture.
All you can see are clay pots and wooden basins, and the furniture is all made of cheap wood such as birch, pine, and red eucalyptus.
"What are you planning?"
Ke Wenbin felt extremely shabby. He could not imagine living in such a shabby home for several years.
To take a shower, you have to chop wood to heat hot water. Halfway through the shower, the water is not warm enough and you can go out naked and boil another pot.
"I will be able to live the same life as you and me one day."
Xiang Fangsu ended the chat with one sentence.
Ke Wenbin was bored. When he thought about it carefully, this was really the truth.
The purpose of the Ghost Mother Cult is to overthrow Dashun and restore their former glory. Isn’t it just that they want to live their lives one day?
The contents of several surrounding houses are almost the same, so there is nothing to explore.
The real treasure house was probably near the master's residence. They rummaged through it for a while before heading deeper.
The closer you get to the cliff in the center of the island chain, the more terrifying the traces of intertwined battles are.
The knife marks stretching hundreds of meters across were clearly visible, and it was hard to imagine that humans could do this.
When they approached the cliff where Xu Yuelong and others jumped, a more "gorgeous" compound appeared in front of everyone.
Called gorgeous, Liang Qu thought it was just on the same level as his previous second hospital stay.
If you think about how great martial arts masters and even grandmaster-level figures live in the same place as you did before, you will know how shabby their lives are.
"Come on, let's go in and have a look?"
Ke Wenbin gave advice.
"etc!"
Liang Qu stopped the two of them.
The two men tensed their muscles and looked around.
"What's wrong?"
"There is a sound, the sound is wrong!"
sound?
Xiang Fangsu and Ke Wenbin frowned and tried their best to relax their ears.
There was silence all around, and there was no special sound.
Their strength is much higher than Liang Qu, so why can Liang Qu hear it but they two can't?
But the two of them had no doubts, they just buried their confusion, drew their weapons and leaned towards Liang Qu.
The three of them formed a triangular position to resist all directions, ensuring that no gap was missed.
"Ah Shui, what did you hear?"
Liang Qu pointed at the stones that appeared on the ground. The stones were stained with large pieces of soil that were exposed to the air and gradually dried and turned yellow.
"Those rocks were turned over two hours ago!"
Xiang Fangsu and Ke Wenbin were speechless: "How do you know?"
"I heard it."
The different water contents of wet soil and dry soil lead to completely different sounds. This is the message given by the two stones.
Did you hear it?
Even if you can see it, it’s more reliable than hearing it!
The two found it strange, but soon realized something was wrong.
Two hours! ?
There are other living people on the island!
No, is it really a living person?
It has been twelve hours since the battle last night. Even a great martial artist cannot stay for such a long time!
Either go to the island in the middle, or...
The three of them looked at the courtyard again, shuddering, feeling that it was indescribably weird.
The stone slabs in front of the compound were empty, the trees were in the shade, and sporadic moonlight penetrated the gaps between the leaves and projected onto the ground, glowing with a layer of hazy gray light.
There are islands all around. The river wind has washed them here and they have become extremely small, and the leaves are almost motionless.
But under Liang Qu's prompting, the three of them looked carefully, and finally found something shaking gently in the shade of the tree, and it suddenly escaped the shadow range of the leaves. It seemed to be... a human figure?
All three people saw it and confirmed it, but no one dared to move.
They concentrated their whole body's aura to the extreme, for fear of being discovered by something in the yard.
Just like this, separated by a wall, the three of them watched the black shadow move slowly, moving from the east side to the west side, and then back from the west side.
Sluggish, dull.
Something on the other side of the wall didn't seem to notice anyone coming outside the door.
