Starting boy Ma Kongqun

Chapter 71 Deserted Island, Giant Cocoon, Little Old Man
  After Qi Jiguang defeated the Japanese pirates in Taizhou, the Ming army won great victories in Ningbo and Wenzhou, basically eliminating the Japanese pirates in Zhejiang Province.

Those Japanese pirates who were lucky enough to escape with their lives were forced to flee back to the sea. They did not dare to come back to Zhejiang Province to confront the power of Qi Jiguang, who was already known as "Qi Hu", so they all found other ways to make a living.

Most of the Japanese pirates went to the neighboring Fujian Province in groups and joined their comrades who had turned the place upside down and made things prosperous.

There were also smart Japanese pirates who thought more deeply. They thought that the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang were adjacent to each other. Once the chaos in Fujian became serious and uncontrollable, the imperial court would probably recruit Qi Jiguang, who had just made outstanding military achievements, to join the rebellion in Fujian. If he ran into Qi Huhu's knife again, he might not be as lucky as this time to escape. Therefore, they all chose to go elsewhere. Some went to Guangdong Province, which was farther away from Zhejiang Province, and some simply returned to the Japanese mainland.

It is said that one of the Japanese pirates, a group of more than [-] people, drove a sea ship southward.

They were said to be Japanese pirates, but in fact they were all fake Japanese pirates dressed up as Han people. Even their leader He Haishun was a Han Chinese.

He had been a maritime merchant in his early years, but this time he chose to go further, but he was planning to go to Nanyang, which was said to be richer than China, where he planned to create a new world.

It's a pity that their bad luck seems to have not passed yet. On land, they encountered the nemesis Qi Jiguang while pretending to be Japanese pirates, and at sea, they encountered even more terrifying natural disasters.

Less than three days after going to sea, the originally cloudless sky suddenly changed its attitude and a storm broke out on the sea.

Huge waves rose into the sky, and then collapsed like mountains, destroying the huge and sturdy ship they specially selected.

Under the sea, there was an undercurrent that was more terrifying than the giant waves, tossing and tossing the large ship around like a toy.

At first, He Haishun tried to take these men who had been living at sea all year round to sail a boat to fight the wind and waves. After seven or eight people were swept into the sea by huge waves and no bones were left, he gave up completely and asked his men to find them individually. A rope tied him to the boat, and then he left everything to fate.

I don’t know how long it took, but this terrible storm finally passed, and the sea returned to tranquility, with calm waves and a blue sky.

The half-broken ship was stranded on a white and soft beach. The end of the beach was full of green, but there was an endless jungle.

After the people on the boat regained some energy, they cut the ropes with knives one after another. With soft hands and soft feet, they got off the boat half walking and half climbing to the beach. They all lay down on their backs and used their whole bodies to feel the solidity of returning to land. and stability.

After a long while, He Haishun called everyone up and boarded the boat again for inspection. It was confirmed that the damage was serious and difficult to repair in a short time. After the boat was fixed, they could get off the boat and discuss how to live on the island for a while.

Yes, at this moment they have initially determined that they are not a continent but an island, but the area is really not small.

He Haishun believes that the first thing to do is to explore whether there is the most important water source on the island, whether there are other human beings living on it, and whether there are dangerous poisonous insects and beasts.

So he divided the more than [-] people into two teams. He led one team to collect food on the beach and build a temporary residence, while the other team went to explore the interior of the island.

The results are mixed. Not far from the beach, there is clear water that can be used. However, there are no traces of humans or larger birds and animals in the jungle. There are only deadly poisonous snakes, insects and ants. One unlucky guy has already been killed by a drama. He was bitten by a poisonous black snake and died in pain from a blackened body after just a dozen breaths.

But He Haishun knew that they could not give up further exploration, because the food on the ship had been soaked by the sea water. Although there were some fruit trees such as bananas on the beach, they were far from enough to fill the stomachs of so many people.

This time he took everyone with him to the jungle, and after sacrificing several lives again, he finally made a discovery.

When a cliff full of old and new vines blocked the way, one of them pulled out a long knife in desperation and hacked at the cliff. After cutting off a large piece of vines, he discovered that there was a path behind that could only allow one person to pass side by side. Crack.

With the last glimmer of hope, they filed in through the gap.

The crack became wider and wider as it went inward, and now it could accommodate three or five people walking side by side.

Later, they found a clear stream that flowed into one side of the mountain wall, so they went upstream and continued walking up. After walking straight for more than half an hour, their eyes suddenly opened up. They had reached a building covered with green grass and green grass. There are also small animals such as hares and wild deer dotting the valley.

But after the ecstasy, they became wary again, because there was a lonely stone house on the gentle slope in the distance. He Haishun looked at the stone house for a while and saw that it was severely eroded on the surface. It seemed to be quite old and did not look like it was inhabited. He felt relieved again and called everyone to encourage each other to come to the stone house together. outside.

When you look closer, you can see that this stone house is indeed an old thing from an unknown number of years ago, and it must have been uninhabited for many years, because the simple doors and windows made of thick wooden boards are in a state of decay.

"what is that?"

A man stood in front of the dilapidated wooden door, looked in through the hole, and saw something strange.

The other one impatiently kicked the wooden door open, walked in and said with a smile: "What is it? Come in and take a look, won't it be clear?"

Everyone followed him inside and saw that there was nothing else in the stone house except for a white oval-shaped object that was more than ten feet tall and five feet wide standing in the middle.

Looking closer, we can see that this object is made of extremely fine gray-white silk threads that are densely wrapped, and it looks like a huge silkworm cocoon.

The first person to come in raised his hand and touched the giant cocoon, curiously asking: "How could there be such a huge cocoon in the world?"

"stop!"

After all, He Haishun, as the leader, had some insight and knew that such strange things with unknown details should not be touched casually, so he hurriedly shouted to stop.

But the man didn't pay attention. He still placed his right hand on the surface of the giant cocoon. He turned to He Haishun and smiled: "Boss He, I..."

As soon as he said these words, his expression suddenly changed. It turned out that a fluff of silk thread suddenly appeared on the giant cocoon and tightly wrapped his right hand. Then the exposed skin of his right arm became visibly shriveled. Go down.

"Help!"

The man struggled desperately, but couldn't break free of the thread. He could only make a shrill cry for help.

When the people nearby saw this, they all slashed at the giant cocoon with their swords.

But the sharp blade landed on the giant cocoon and sank in without any force. Immediately, silk threads came out and wrapped around their knife-holding arms, and then quickly shriveled up like the former.

"Go, let's go!"

He Haishun was so horrified that he shouted with a trembling voice and turned around to escape from the stone house.

The rest also rushed out of the door, no one dared to save their companion whose shriveled condition had spread to his torso and who could not even make a cry for help.

After a while, the six people who were originally flesh and blood seemed to have lost all their flesh and blood, and turned into horrific mummies covered in bones and fell to the ground.

The giant cocoon with faint blood-colored light pulsated like a heartbeat, and then the layers of silk threads shrank inward, and none of them entered the body of the person at the core of the giant cocoon.

This is a little old man who looks to be in his sixties. His round face looks very kind. Half of his head is bald and he has a small bun on the back of his head. There was no hair on her body, and her skin was as fair and smooth as a newborn baby's, but it didn't look like an old man's body at all.

He slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of eyes as deep as an endless black abyss. There was some confusion and confusion in his eyes, and he whispered to himself: "How many years have passed since I fell asleep?"

(End of this chapter)