Holy Bone

Chapter 765 Water Village
Deep in the cave is the water village of the pirates, with buildings such as arrow towers, watchtowers, high walls, martial arts halls, armories, etc., rising one after another on the water.

However, the current water village is almost in ruins, a large number of buildings collapsed, and the water surface is like stagnant water, with a large number of bamboo fragments floating, because the overall material of the water village is the most common moso bamboo in Jiangzhou Prefecture.

These moso bamboos can be well preserved in humid places, and they are also very cheap. In the mountainous Jiangzhou Prefecture, they are everywhere in the mountains and plains, and it is easy to obtain materials.

These water villages collapsed into ruins, and there were a lot of sundries floating on the water surface. The sampan boat of the boat boss was too big to enter the pirate water villages, so we had to let the sampan dock to the shore first, and then the three of them salvaged it from the water. One by one moso bamboo, a bamboo raft was improvised, intending to use the flexible and convenient bamboo raft to enter the water village.

Naturally, it took a lot of time during this period.

It was already afternoon when they arrived at Houchi Village, and it was almost evening outside now, and now the sky and earth were changing again, the days were short and the nights were long, and it would soon be dark.

puff-

A few people lowered the bamboo raft with a sling and splashed water, and then Jin An and the old Taoist descended to the bamboo raft one after another. The boat boss didn't follow him, he said that someone should stay on board to prevent the fishing boat from being washed away by the current.

Although neither of them believed the reason the boat boss was looking for, the fishing boat really needed someone to watch over it, and the boat boss was found for them by the county magistrate. Although they suspected that the boat boss might have impure purposes, they couldn't just tear it up immediately. fall out.

The first purpose at the moment is to find out whether the bodies of the shipwrecks rushed into Jiutou Mountain along the ocean current.

Leave a few polite words and tell the boat boss to pay attention to safety. The old Taoist held a torch in charge of lighting, and Jin An was in charge of pole and steering. In the water village.

On the next journey, the two saw many dilapidated and dilapidated buildings, such as the collapsed martial arts hall, such as the armory where the weapons were rusted...

The swords and sharp guns in the arsenal were severely corroded by the coastal water vapor, and the rust residue was left in the palm of your hand when you squeezed it, leaving a stench of rust and sea salt on the palm.

The water fortress was huge, and Jin An rowed on a pole for quite a while, but he still hadn't seen the end. It looked like they hadn't even finished half of the journey.

The old Taoist priest holding a torch at the bow couldn't help muttering: "There are so many debris floating in the sea here, is it true that the bodies of shipwrecks will be washed so far away by the current?"

Jin An didn't answer the words, he looked around the water and underwater while he was pole-pulling, paying attention to any wind and grass.

After swimming on the pole for a while, the two of them smelled a special smell in the air. They were also people who often deal with all kinds of dead people, and they immediately recognized that it was the stench emitted by the rotting corpses in Xia Tian.

Sure enough, among the debris on the water surface a few feet away, they found a floating corpse stuck in the debris and unable to move.

The body of the floating corpse was severely swollen by the sea water, face down and back up, and the clothes on its body seemed to be quite new. Needless to say, the two of them had already seen that this swollen floating corpse was the shipwreck corpse they were looking for.

Speaking of facing the dead, the old Taoist priest and Jin An had never been afraid. The old Taoist priest rolled up his cuffs, picked up a wooden stick on the water, and turned over the floating corpse in front of him.

The floating corpse had just been turned over, and several fat mice ran out from the collar of the clothes, each of which was two or three times bigger than the palm of an adult.

These little beasts are used to eating dead human flesh, so they are very ferocious. Not only are they not afraid of people, they also take the initiative to squeak at the old Taoist priest, as if annoyed that the old Taoist priest interrupted their gluttonous feast.

The old Taoist would definitely not be afraid of these rats, he beat the dog with a stick in his hand, drove away the fat rats, and finally turned the floating corpse in the water over.

"Mother!"

The old Taoist gasped, and was immediately coughed by the stench of the corpse. The flesh on the human face was the most tender, and the flesh and blood on the face of the swollen corpse had almost been eaten away by the fat mice, revealing the horrible bones.

The face was eaten like this, not to mention the belly under the clothes, which must have been hollowed out by the few mice that ran out of the collar before.

Wild beasts have a habit of hunting, they always tear open the belly and eat the internal organs first.

One is the highest visceral nutrition.

Second, internal organs are the most perishable.

Jin An frowned: "It seems that the county magistrate of Yin County is not unreasonable in worrying. Plague is easy to break out in places with frequent rats."

Because the floating corpse could not be taken away, the old Taoist chanted the scriptures of superseding the deceased, and then the bamboo raft continued to move forward.

The bamboo raft stopped and went, and as it got deeper, there were more debris floating on the water, and the two of them saw more and more floating corpses stuck by the debris.

Without exception, these floating corpses are the corpses of shipwrecks, and they have been severely eaten by rats, which have become the rations for the rats in this area.

"The rat problem here is so serious, and the rats are the best at digging holes. If these rats that have eaten dead human flesh are allowed to go out of the hole, some people who don't know the truth will catch these fat rats as voles, and then return home and infect them. People, family members and neighbors in the village, sparrows eat things that people have touched, once this plague breaks out, it will be another catastrophe!" The old Taoist's face was very serious.

"We have already encountered five or six dead bodies of shipwrecks, and there will probably be more dead bodies inside! How many dead bodies of shipwrecks were washed into Jiutou Mountain by the current!"

Although there are many pirate water villages, they will eventually come to an end.

vomit--

At the end of the water village, the stench of corpses was reeking, and the air was cloudy. The old Taoist almost vomited, so he quickly took out a detoxification pill and put it in his mouth to detoxify, and handed Jin An a detoxification pill by the way.

The smell of corpses here is so strong that Jin'an and the old Taoist thought that after the end of the water village, there would be a large number of shipwrecked corpses stranded, forming a special environment similar to a corpse accumulation place or a corpse raising place, but when they really arrived at the place, they found that there was a lot of dead bodies. Not a single body.

"How could there not even be a corpse?"

"Could it be that we guessed wrong?"

The old Taoist didn't give up, and held up a torch to look around, but he didn't find a corpse. There were a lot of sundries and pieces of wood floating on the water, but he couldn't find a floating corpse.

"Go ashore and have a look first."

As soon as the two landed on the shore, they felt abnormal under their feet, a feeling of stepping on rotten cotton wool, without the sense of being down-to-earth.

Take a torch and bend down to shine on the ground. The oil on the ground is shiny, and the black water flows horizontally, hissing. Is this black mud on the ground corpse water and rotten flesh from the dead?But there is no corpse here?The old Taoist first exclaimed and then tightly knit a pair of eyebrows into the word Chuan.

"It seems that Jiutou Mountain is more complicated than we imagined."

Jin An raised his finger and pointed in one direction, leading the old Taoist towards that place.

Just now, he used the qi-watching technique to see that the corpse aura was accumulating into illnesses in that place, gathering but not dispersing, and it was the place with the heaviest corpse aura in Jiutou Mountain.

He wanted to see what was going on in Jiutou Mountain!
(End of this chapter)