Chapter 165: Jiao Chi surrounds the river gorge(2/2)
But this was the first time that the Dan people ignored the scolding and disdain in front of Jiang Wen, and did not show a trace of timidity or hesitation. They just continued to say to Jiang Wen: "Hurry, the dragon ghost under the water is coming up!"
At this moment, the Green Eyebrow Bird Boat, which had been running smoothly, suddenly stopped in place as if it was stuck by something. There were sounds of collision and shaking from everywhere, and even the keel made teeth ache.
Squeak!
"Shacai! What's going on again!"
The boss of the boat stumbled against the pole of the boat. He cursed angrily and yelled at the young paddler. He was afraid of hearing the bad news that the boat hit the rocks and opened his mouth. "Whoever told you to stop the boat and dock it, stop it all!"
The scene at this time was obviously not right. After a pause and swaying, the green-browed bird boat that was originally going down the river suddenly moved slower and slower until it stopped motionless. The few disciples on the boat were obviously clenching their teeth and paddling hard.
The sails on the top of the ship were also fully opened, but the entire ship stayed on the wide water surface of the Xijiang River, unable to move an inch.
It didn't look like the ship was parked. Instead, it looked like it was hit head-on by an invisible and intangible ghost ship, forcing it to stop in the river!
The lights on the bow of the ship became increasingly dim, condensed to the point where only cigarette butts remained. The existence of this dim light seemed to be just to highlight the extremely dim scene around it. Jiang Wen quickly stopped the boss of the ship and looked there with the same shock: "Boatman
There are weird things before and after, so be careful!"
When the breeze blows across the river, everyone can smell an indescribable fishy smell. At this time, the sandbank and the river water carry this smell. People who often walk at night will understand that when traveling at night, they often feel the smell of land.
It is white, but the water is black, so dark and unclear that it is impossible to see what it should look like.
On the surface of the water where Jinlin was jumping just now, more and denser waves appeared, one after another like the dark boiling of the river before it was boiled, as if something was about to jump out of the water and about to flop onto the shore.
The boss of the boat turned pale. He suddenly picked up the pole and rushed to the side of the boat. He raised his hand and thrust it into the water. His teeth were clenched and his eyes were wide open. He seemed to be frightened and angry to an uncontrollable level.
The rivers fight fiercely and resist.
Yuan Ziyi was already looking around with a soft silver whip in hand, standing warily with Jiang Wen. The surrounding cold mist surged unknowingly from Dihua, blocking the sight in all directions. Invisible things seemed to be staring at this person.
A night boat.
"The boat is drifting in place. There should be an undercurrent passing underneath."
Jiang Wen looked at the Dan people running out and continued to ask, "What is the Jiao ghost you are talking about?"
Dan Min widened his eyes and said to Jiang Wen, "The old man said that before the dragon corpse rots under the water, it will turn into a dragon ghost, also called a shipwreck ghost. It is a thing that specializes in overturning ships and killing people. If it encounters it, it can only be done quickly.
Run, the faster the better!”
Dan people have lived in lakes, seas and rivers for generations, and their perception and experience of danger are richer than ordinary people. They obviously know that the current situation is not right. Jiang Wen believed their statement without hesitation and turned to look at the side of the ship.
The boss of the ship.
"Boatman, now is not the time to worry about these things, just hurry up and leave!"
At this moment, the sound of someone flipping over and falling into the water was heard. Before a young paddler could make a sound, something grabbed the oar and threw it into the water. Even the sound of people and people disappeared and was swallowed up.
In the cold water of the Xijiang River.
The boatman's eyes were red, and he was still fighting against the river water with his pole in hand. He kept searching for the place where the young disciple fell into the water, but he couldn't reach it. He could only fall into the dark water faster, as if he was being caught by a creature hidden deep in it.
Drag away by hand.
"It must be Danhu's magic!"
Without saying a word, he turned around and tried to hit the thin and dark Dan Min, but Jiang Wen easily blocked him and pushed him away three steps away.
"Why do we need to bring so many people with us if we want to harm you?! Now that we are in the same boat, do you plan to see the blood first?"
Yuan Ziyi lectured angrily, raised his hand and whipped out a whip, and wrapped it around the arm of a young disciple with great accuracy. Using both hands together, he suddenly pulled him out by three points.
At this time, the boss of the boat also woke up from a dream, and with a livid face, he took the pole again and finally rescued the young disciple from the dark and cold water, and barely dragged him to the boat.
The apprentice looked panicked and vomited river water. His eyes were wide open when he coughed violently, and his eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. His mind was already confused, but he yelled persistently and horrifiedly that someone was pulling him under the water!
Jiang Wen suddenly came to the side of the ship and looked at the dark river water. He yanked the ship's light with his left hand and got close to the water desperately. He looked straight at the bottom of the ship where the water was surging. He held the Han Gaozu Cutting Snake in his hand.
The sword shows no fear at all.
But with just one glance, Jiang Wen discovered the twisted black shadow hidden under the water, which was now facing his eyes at a distance of less than a foot!
It was a swollen and white human face, with the eyelids swollen into a slit, but strangely narrowed into an upward diagonal line, as if carrying a mysterious and strange smile.
It faced the people on the shore with its broken and rotten eyes, its mouth was wide open, its lips, teeth and mouthpiece were a mess, as if it had laughed to the extreme and then tore its face into a big black hole, with its throat leading straight to the bottom of the unfathomable water.
of corridor.
The shadow of the sword cut through the water, stirring up waves that splashed into the sky, but the body of the floating bag slowly froze in place, just like the green-browed bird boat that had no power to resist, except that one was on the water and the other was on the ground.
Under the water, he maliciously told the people on the boat that one day you would be in this position and become one of the floating corpses.
As if to verify this feeling, countless corpses with the same "smiling" appeared in the deeper water below the floating corpse, scattered at different heights to dazzle the eyes. The more they looked at it, the more they looked, and the more they looked, the more real they were. It was these countless swollen hands.
The dark green body was approaching Jiang Wen, and those ugly faces were gathering around and grabbing him bit by bit.
Regardless of whether they were men, women, old or young, their appearance had become so corrupted and distorted that they were extremely similar, as if they were hundreds or thousands of identical beings swimming towards the water surface laughing.
The arm in the water seemed to suddenly change direction, suddenly trying to grab his neck and drag Jiang Wen on the boat to the bottom of the river - this dark bottom of the river was different from before. This was not a shoal at all, but a direct line to the underworld.
A deep pit at the bottom of the river!
"Honorable man, be careful!"
The voice of the gangsters rang out, and the sound of falling into the water followed soon after. He actually rushed away from Jiang Wen before Jiang Wen drew his sword and slashed again, and threw himself into the dark and smelly river water.
During the day, the Dan people were still kneeling in fear by the Beidi Temple. No matter the threat of whipping, they would not easily go into the water to get the pearls. But now, not only the person in front of them, but the remaining adult Dan people were also filing out.
, tearing open the tight-fitting rags sewn together with old canvas, revealing a lean and muscular dark body, revealing the dazzling tattoos all over his body.
Qu Dajun of the same period may not have written "Guangdong Xinyu" yet, but the boat language in Volume 18 of this book will clearly record the legend in Cantonese, "Dan women can be addicted to raw fish and can swim. In the past, it was called Longhu.
Those who go into the water and embroider their faces and tattoos are like the sons of dragons. They can walk thirty or forty miles in the water without being harmed by anything. Now they are called the Ta family, the female is an otter and the male is a dragon. They are neither human beings.]
The green-browed bird boat slowly began to move. The mysterious customs of the Dan people and their strange physical features seemed to be tainted with a trace of ancient divinity at this moment. Even Jiang Wen's martial arts could not compare to the Jiangshui battlefield.
In the middle, a vicious wave and wind filled the sky.
The old men and women took off the snake-shaped hairpins from their hair and threw themselves into the river. The undercurrents in the water were turbulent and the floating corpses were menacing. However, these men filed into the water and fought with their bare hands against unknown objects in the water.
People from the Baiyue period, which lasted to this day, seemed to still firmly believe in their identity as the son of the dragon. Jiang Wen could only rely on imagination and guessing to imagine the horrifying scene of life and death, and the battle between humans and corpses!
Taking advantage of the critical moment when the people were fighting for water, the boss of the ship finally remembered his mission like waking up from a nightmare. He raised the sail again and sailed hard and firmly through the thick and boiling black water without looking at the rising and falling in the water.
of rotten limb bones.
I don’t know how long it took, the underwater undertow gradually receded. With the desolate moonlight shining on it, everyone on the boat suddenly heard a huge sound like dragons and thunder rising from the sea, rolling in and sweeping away across the endless domain.
time, arousing all the ominousness in the sea and sky.
Accompanied by strange sounds in the sea, the stagnant wind beside the boat suddenly changed direction, invariably going against the direction, turning back and disappearing on the vast sea. Only then did the exhausted people float up from the water, with the dragons on their bodies.
The snake tattoo turns red and discolored like a burn, and is extremely irritating.
On the sandbank in the distance, you can see many undulating spots. When you look closely, you find that they are pieces of decayed and crooked tombstones. In the sandy hill area where salty and salty water meet, many sand graves were washed away after the big tide.
Exposed, the corpse was washed into the sea again, leaving only the empty tomb and coffin - not far away is a quiet and peaceful small fishing village, with lights swaying faintly, just like the frightened hearts.
Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, shouting and cursing, a group of haggard villagers rushed to the riverside holding torches, seemingly for no purpose other than to drive away the haze in their hearts and retain their last courage.
The bizarre and strange scene is still unfolding before our eyes. The people on the boat don’t even know what they are fighting. The people on the shore can only watch helplessly under the green-browed bird boat. They can clearly see countless deformed corpses in floating bags, but they still keep their weird smiles.
Chapter completed!