Holy Bone

Chapter 421
"what happened?"

"What happened!"

Tonight, Sulti and Adan were in charge of guarding the night with Jin'an. When they rushed to the place with Jin'an, they were also shocked by the ancient desert ship in front of them.

"Is this a sunken ship in the desert washed out by snow water!"

Adam cried out in surprise.

Su Reti shouted in horror: "A devil ship in the desert!"

Devil ship?
There have always been legends about devil ships in the desert.

There are as many ancient rivers that have dried up in the desert, and there are so many legends about devil ships, just like those ancient river beds that have existed for thousands of years even after drying up, too many merchant ships have been permanently buried in the desert together with the ancient rivers that have dried up.

"what happened?"

Jin An just glanced at the ancient boats floating on the river, and then asked the two sheep sharply.

Seeing Jin An coming, the two sheep, who were screaming in fright, hurried to Jin An, crying for their father and mother, with a strong smell of sheep on their bodies.

The smell of sheep came from wet feet. They were scared off the road just now, and most of them urinated on their hooves.

But at this moment, old Sadik and young Sahaf couldn't take care of that much anymore, and you told me what happened just now.

After finishing speaking, the old Sadik glared at his nephew who was a poor uncle: "Let's see if you dare to talk about the devil at night next time. Look, you really called the devil ship this time!"

When people reach middle age, they always feel powerless, and it is difficult to even try to relieve them heartily.

That scare just now.

The road diverged in the middle.

In the end they pissed all over their hooves.

I don't know if this scare has any sequelae.

You are trying to make your aunt a widow.

This uncle's nephew.

"Whether it's a devil or not, you can tell when you get on the boat."

"You guys stay here, don't let others get close, I will go on this ancient ship and see for myself."

"If Yali and the others come over, Su Reti, tell them to go back and guard the entrance of the cave. That is our foundation, and nothing can go wrong."

Jin'an didn't care whether Su Reti understood his words or not, he leaped nimbly, with the soles of his feet on the ship's side, he jumped onto the deck easily.

This ancient ship is huge.

The hull, deck, and railings are covered with thick silt, and the silt on the hull exposed to the river surface is dry, dry and hard silt, forming thick hard lumps. built up inside.

"Ok?"

Jin An also noticed a more important detail.

The mud and sand on the deck of the ship was evenly distributed, unlike the sunken ship he encountered when he first entered the desert, half clean and half sandy.

"It seems that this ancient ship is not stranded on the river bed at an angle, but sits dead on the bottom of the river bed." Jin An thought so, and continued to look at the ancient and vicissitudes of life in front of him.

pat, pat.

Footsteps tapped lightly on the empty hull deck, which seemed empty and lonely. There was no one on this antique ship, which was older than the combined ages of all the people present, and it was extremely quiet. Every slight sound of footsteps It can be heard clearly in the weird dark night, and it can be heard far away.

With a hint of surprise and thoughtfulness, Jin An continued to search deeply in the hull.

Three masts broken.

All that remains is the main mast, which is also crumbling.

There is also the canvas on the mast that was torn into strips by the desert wind and sand.

There is also a deck covered with more than a dozen holes of different sizes.

Those holes are like the mouth of a dark ghost, the cabin is dark, and the situation inside cannot be seen clearly for the time being.

Even the ship building is dilapidated and dilapidated, many doors and windows have disappeared.

broken.

old.

antiquity.

This old merchant ship is dilapidated and desolate everywhere, and it has a dilapidated and desolate feeling like a coffin in a graveyard at night.

But this huge mobile coffin is much larger than the coffins in the graveyard.

squeak, squeak—

collapse--

Perhaps because of the old objects, there are a few wooden boards rubbing against the hull from time to time, and the sound is very soft, but it gives people a very loud and harsh feeling. Whenever they catch up to the sound source, what? No clues were found.

After several times of investigations to no avail, Jin An simply didn't bother to take it seriously, and took it as some abnormal noises from the unbearable weight of the ship.

After Jin An boarded the ancient ship, he searched for about half an hour before jumping off the ship.

The gap between the ancient ship and the shore was several stories high, but Jin An was so relaxed that he didn't even catch his breath.

"Daoist Jin'an, the boat, what's the situation on the boat, you've been away for so long, we are very worried about you." As soon as Jin'an landed smoothly, Thermoplastic Ti and Adan surrounded him.

Jin An smiled gently, thanked the two for their concern, and gave a general introduction to the situation in the disembarkation.

"There is no one on this boat, and there is no danger. It is not the devil ship you mentioned, Su Reti. There is nothing to be nervous about. This ancient ship is an ordinary shipwreck. It should be a shipwreck somewhere, melted by snow. He rushed over." Jin An comforted the two with a gentle smile, calming their panic and anxiety.

He probably searched the ancient ship, but he did not find anyone on board.

So there is no need to take some things too seriously, and there is no need to create an atmosphere of fear in the team too much.

Why care about how much of what he said is true or false.

Speaking of this, Jin An laughed and said: "We should be happy. The desert gods have blessed us with a desert boat. Tomorrow, we can take this ancient boat down the river and go to Desert Haizi to find the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom. , you said that this happy event should not be happy?"

"Go to Yali to find a longer rope. We will drag this ancient boat to the shore. When the view is clear tomorrow, we will thoroughly check the back of the boat and take this boat to Desert Haizi."

Ah this?

The two looked dumbfounded at the gloomy, dilapidated ship in their eyes, with a few big black holes on the side of the ship. This ship could really take them to ride the wind and waves in the desert, wouldn't it sink in half? ?

To say that the biggest reaction is old Sadiq and little Sahafu.

When others saw the desert devil ship, they had no time to hide. Only Daoist Jin'an was not afraid and took them all on board. Both of them were dumbfounded.

When Jin An took the people and the sheep back and expressed his thoughts, it naturally caused a lot of surprise and discussion.

……

The next day.

Just after dawn, Jin'an boarded the boat with ten people from Yali to check the specific condition of the ancient boat and see if they could drive them safely in the river.

There were many details that could not be seen at night, but during the day when the vision was bright, Jin An found that the ancient ship was much older than he had imagined, and there were countless holes in the boards of the ship's sides.

Except that there are no holes below the water surface, there are holes everywhere in other places. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is riddled with holes.

It feels like any big wave can overturn the ship.

This is a flat-bottomed boat. It has the advantage of being used as a merchant ship, that is, it can carry a lot of weight, and it can load more cargo in one trip and earn more profits.

The most important point is that flat land boats are not easy to run aground when encountering sand. They are suitable for driving in shallow water and are most suitable for desert terrain.

Merchant ships are broad and thick, and are divided into four floors, the cargo cabin, the living cabin, the deck, and the ship building.

When I entered the cabin, it was almost filled with silt. After thousands of years of sedimentation, the silt had long been integrated with the hull of the ship. It was a big project to dig out the silt.

The silt was poured into the boat through the holes in the hull.

They found a large number of neatly stacked wooden boxes and sacks in the cabin. Those wooden boxes and sacks had long been rotten and brittle, and they could be broken easily without using force.

The wooden boxes contained pieces of cloth, and the sacks contained tea leaves and some medicinal materials, which were too rotten to be usable.

Cloth and tea are luxuries in the desert, and only nobles and royal families can afford them. It seems that the goods in this ancient ship were transported to the royal family and nobles of a certain country.

Carefully avoiding those piles of sand and sand, everyone held torches in the cabin and continued to walk deeper. Along the way, they also found boxes of ivory and spices, all of which were luxuries of the nobles.

"This ship is full of goods. It seems that it is going to be traded in the desert. Before it can be sold, an accident happened halfway and it sank in the ancient river." Someone in the team guessed.

In fact, most of these goods were covered by thick sand, what they saw was only a corner, and the team continued to go deep into the cabin to check everywhere.

It is safe to check all the way, and finally come to the bottom layer.

boom! boom! boom!
The lowest cabin was well protected, and the wooden door was locked with thick iron chains. Yali kicked it several times before finally breaking the wooden door and kicking up a large cloud of dust.

Everyone covered their noses and coughed, and waited for the dust to clear before entering the cabin on the lowest floor. As a result, everyone was taken aback when they saw it.

This floor is densely packed with many large wine tanks, at least sixty or seventy. This is the place closest to the bottom of the ship, and it is also the place where the whole ship is most intact.

There are no holes in the side of the ship.

Not a ray of sunlight came in.

"Why are there so many wine vats here? The outer cabins are filled with expensive tea, cloth, and ivory, all of which are luxuries for the royal family and nobles. The wine vats here must be fine wine for the royal family and nobles."

"I've never tasted fine wines that are exclusively for the royal family and nobles. These fine wines have been stored for thousands of years, so they must be very old and mellow!"

Someone who likes what's in the glass approached a wine jar with a smile, and when it came to fine wine, he couldn't wait to take out his machete and lift the seal.

The moment the mud seal was lifted, the smell of corpses rushed out, and a mummified corpse that had died many years ago appeared in the wine tank. This unexpected scene made the man scream out in fright.

Hearing the screams, Jin'an and Yali also ran over, and they all saw the mummy in the wine tank.

Jin An's face was ugly, and he lifted the mud seals of other wine tanks one by one. They were full of mummified women, so there was no good wine.

"This boat is a boat of human traffickers! These damn human traffickers put the beautiful women they kidnapped into wine tanks and disguised them as wine, and secretly carried out human trafficking! These human traffickers can kill them a hundred times!" Yari looked ugly Swear.

Human traffickers have caused countless families to be torn apart, and no matter where they are, human traffickers will be reviled.

There are nearly dozens of wine tanks here, that is, dozens of corpses.

Ari was uncomfortable.

At this time, even Jin An's expression was also heavy: "I had a good life, but it withered early in my youth, and I died a tragic death, never seeing the light of day."

"Since we borrowed their boats, we should naturally repay their kindness. Let's move all these wine vats out and find a spacious place to bury them, so that they can regain their freedom and rest in the ground."

No one objected to Jin An's words. Next, everyone began to carefully move the wine jars.

Finally, they broke the wine vat, took out the mummies, and buried them all under a desert Populus euphratica tree, and hung cloth strips under the Populus euphratica tree. A cloth strip is equal to a human life, which is regarded as a tombstone to comfort their spirits in heaven.

It was already noon when Jin An finished reading the "Taishang Dongxuan Lingbao Tianzun Said the Wonderful Sutra of Rescuing Suffering and Exorcising Sin" to save the souls of the dead.

After finishing all this work, the team began to drive the camels onto the boat. Fortunately, there were boards in the boat, which saved them a lot of effort.

When the wind blows on the desert, everyone put down the tattered canvas and sailed downwind to Haizi Desert.

It was a new experience to take a boat in the depths of the desert, and the enthusiasm of the people on the boat gradually faded after half a day.

The desert is very vast, and it is not far away with the naked eye. In fact, this ancient ship has been driving for two days before approaching Desert Haizi.

Of course, there are also reasons why the ancient ships are too old, too large and heavy, and cannot travel fast in the desert.

When the mirror-like desert lake appeared in front of the eyes and could be seen by the naked eye, all the people in the boat ran to the bow to look into the distance.

sparkling.

The surface of the water is like a mirror.

"Is that the sea! It's really just like what the old man said, you can't see the edge at a glance!" Yali and the others looked excited, and even a few sheep crowded over to look into the distance.

Jin'an isolated the ship building, holding on to the railing and looking at the huge lake in the distance, with the same feeling and a lot of emotion.

Finally, we are going to find the legendary Guchi Kingdom and the Holy Mountain of Huahai!
In fact, there is no sea in the desert, it is just a huge lake. The desert people have never seen the vastness of the sea, so they mistakenly think that it is the sea when they see a huge lake.

Strictly speaking, it should not be called the Holy Mountain of Huahai, but the Holy Mountain of Huahu.

The ancient boat braved the wind and waves along the winding river, and finally, the bow of the boat hit a huge wave, and finally drifted from the river into the huge lake.

The sky in the desert is very clear, and the blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the lake, like a blue mirror shimmering. This lake containing snow water is so large that you can’t see the edge from the left and right. It seems that the lake is as far away as the sky is high.

(End of this chapter)