Holy Bone

Chapter 763 Why is there an extra one

On the way to Houchi Village, we passed several checkpoints in succession. The main purpose was to prevent outsiders from getting close to Houchi Village to get infected with the plague and then come out to harm others.

But it is said to be a checkpoint, but it is actually a few township braves holding waist knives and hiding in the sentry to avoid the fierce sun above their heads. People are sleepy from boredom and sweating profusely from the heat.

This kind of checkpoint whose form is greater than its actual purpose is to guard against gentlemen and ordinary people, but not against those who really want to enter the village.

Because there were officials from the Yamen to lead the way, the group of people went unimpeded. Finally, a few miles away from Houchi Village, those Yin County government servants did not dare to go any further. They only dared to send Jin'an and the old Taoist here.

The two of them did not embarrass these ordinary government servants, everyone was old or young, there was no need to follow them two bachelors into danger.

"Thank you for sending me off all the way, let's send it here, and we will finish the rest of the journey by ourselves." Jin An cupped his fists to thank the yamen servants.

Seeing Jin An being so polite, he took the initiative to ask them to go back first, which made the yamen servants a little embarrassed, and said a word of caution in concern, and the yamen servants left in shame.

Houchi Village was relocated last year, almost a year ago, the village is empty and quiet, with dozens of private houses scattered here and there, and you can directly see the shallows and sea water when you leave Houchi Village.

The sea water here is relatively shallow, and dozens of sampan boats, large and small, are stranded on the shoal. They are all fishing boats used by the fishermen of Houchi Village in the past.

Abandoned houses, stranded fishing boats, and empty fishing pier, everything looks so deserted.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect. As soon as I walked in, I felt that there was a strange smell in the air, and even the soil under my feet had a different color, giving people a sense of foreboding.Perhaps the yamen had sprayed lime powder on the village to disinfect it, but the rainwater washing over the past year has washed away the lime powder.

Those stranded sampan fishing boats are full of foul-smelling black water, which makes people think of the smelly water of corpses. Maybe these fishing boats have participated in salvaging the dead bodies of shipwrecks...

Out of curiosity, the old Taoist approached one of the fishing boats to see if there was anything else in the black stagnant water. As a result, his body had just been lying on the fishing boat, and his palms had just supported the bow of the boat. The board was broken off by him.

Suddenly it was out of balance, which almost made the old Taoist plunge into the black water of the fishing boat. Finally, relying on the other hand to support him, he narrowly escaped the bad luck of soaking in corpse water and drinking corpse water.

Jin An, who was observing another sampan boat, heard movement behind him, turned around and saw the missing piece of the bow and the old Taoist priest who had regained his footing, and said a word of caution, these fishing boats have been brittle by the sun and cannot withstand The weight of an adult, and then continue to look at the fishing boats one by one.

Of course, he just watched and didn't take the initiative to touch it.

Seeing that no useful clues were found outside, the two began to check the abandoned vacant houses from house to house. This is an extremely ordinary small fishing village. If it hadn’t been for the large number of shipwreck corpses washed ashore last year, it would have become a topic of conversation after dinner. Not many people will remember such a small fishing village.

However, it wasn't that the two of them had nothing to gain. They found a few footprints near the shoal. The sand near the shoal was wet, and it was easy to wash away the traces when the tide rose and fell, so they didn't find them at the beginning. These footprints, when I came to the shallows for the second time to check, I found these few footprints that are easily overlooked in a place where the tide does not rise.

Old Taoist: "Little brother, these should be animals from the nearby forests that came into the village after the village was abandoned or looked for food."

Jin An: "Beasts are more vigilant than humans. Houchi Village is not an unusual place. The beasts that can be found here should be beasts that like to eat carrion."

Apart from the footprints of these beasts, there were no other clues in the entire Houchi Village. The two searched twice but failed and decided to solve the Jiutou Mountain first.

Jiangzhou prefecture has a well-developed water network and green hills. When I climbed over several hills and arrived at the location agreed with the county magistrate, it was already afternoon.

Although Jiutou Mountain is near Houchi Village, if you want to enter the water cave of Jiutou Mountain, you can't go by land, you can only enter by sea.

The county magistrate had already arranged for someone to wait for him nearby. As soon as the two of them arrived at the agreed place, a boat boss was already holding a sampan coming with the wind.

The sampan was unable to dock, and the two waded through a section of shallow water before successfully boarding the boat through a springboard.

When the boat boss saw Jin An and the old Taoist, he frowned: "Why is there one more?"

The old Taoist looked left and right: "What is there? Who is there?"

The boat boss didn't explain, he laughed and said it's all right, he can carry ten more people on this boat.

Afterwards, the sampan set sail and headed for Jiutou Mountain.

During the period, the old Taoist chatted with the boss of the boat: "Boss, I heard that you are the only one who has seen the pirate village in Jiutou Mountain within a radius of tens of miles? You are the only one who dares to enter Jiutou Mountain to fight." Yu, don't you believe in those strange things that are rumored by the people?"

The boat boss modestly said that it was exaggerated by the fathers and villagers from all over the world. It was not because of his courage that he dared to enter Jiutou Mountain.

The boat boss continued: "A person is really cruel when he is not afraid of being poor."

After hearing the complaint from the boat boss, the old Taoist just nodded and didn't speak, and he didn't know whether he agreed with the concept or disagreed with it?

Sitting on a fishing boat, approaching Jiutou Mountain from the front, Jin'an finally appreciates the unique topography of Jiutou Mountain.

This is a depression that has been eroded by the sea wind for thousands of years, and it looks like a surrounding depression. Nine mountains stretch out to both sides, forming a natural safe haven.

The terrain here is unique, no wonder it has been used as a pirate's stronghold several times. If this place is used well, it is indeed a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

"Boss Chuan, do you live nearby? How much do you know about Houchi Village?" The seasick old Taoist priest kept talking to people to forget about seasickness.

"Hey, that place in Houchi Village is a pity." The boss of the boat said a sentence without beginning or end.

Suffering from seasickness, the old Taoist priest lying on the railing wanted to vomit but couldn't vomit, and said casually, "It's really a pity."

The sampan boat does not need to raise the sails to move forward with the help of air. Under the helm of the boss of the boat, it drifts directly down the current into Dongshan Cave, a black hole half exposed on the sea.The strong vision was abnormal, and his eyes suddenly darkened, and he fell into a state of temporary blindness, and only the sound of crashing sea tides could be heard in his ears.

(End of this chapter)