twin moon

Chapter 242 No.30 Act Two Entering the Northern Wilderness Part Five

"Jiulu Mountains and Seas" is a strange book written before the Dashengli Dynasty. Most of them are folk tales and ancient geography, including mountains and rivers, roads, products, medicines, sacrifices, witch doctors, etc. However, the author is unknown.After Bai Jiangxi ascended the throne, he ordered Fu Yao, a scholar of Xingyuan Pavilion, to compile the fragments scattered among the people into a book, with a total of [-] volumes.

Among them, "Ghost State Geography" contains:

"The north of the Dark Sea is called Guizhou, and the water west of Guizhou is called the Sea of ​​Floating Ice. The thin ice is several inches, and the thickest is about a foot. It stretches for more than a thousand miles to the extreme north without end. There are many cracks in the ice, and phosphorus grows." Shrimp, shellfish, mackerel, squid. There are beasts on the ice, which have no feet and are good at water, and their voices are as loud as cattle.

To the north of the floating ice sea is the pole of the underworld, and there is a stream of light flowing in the pole of the sky.Although it is called the sea, the ice is as hard as a rock and covers the water.So far, the boat can't move, and no one has returned..."

Drifting with the waves among the ice floes for several days, the food on board was quickly consumed.It seems that under anxiety, people's food intake will increase sharply.In order to prevent the beans, rice and dried meat stored on the ship from running out prematurely, Qi Ziyin had to order food rationing, and ordered people to catch some fish and shrimp from the sea every day to satisfy their hunger.

However, the further north one travels, the less fish can be caught.Because of the ice floes, the opportunity to cast nets is becoming more and more precious.It's a pity that the fish and shrimp under the ice are only as thick as a little finger, or even the size of a fingernail, and it is impossible to catch them with ordinary nets.

That night, the young Ye Guogong kept groaning in his empty stomach, tossed and turned on the couch, and finally got up to go to the deck to see if he could ask some skilled fishermen on the ship to do it for him. Eat something to satisfy your hunger.

As soon as the cabin door was pushed open, I felt the cold wind, which actually made me more sober.The young man put his hands close to his mouth, and rubbed and rubbed vigorously while exhaling, there was still a jerky and stiff feeling between his fingers.

He wrapped the mink fur around his body a little tighter, but found that he was not the only one who didn't want to sleep.Right now, there are people in twos and threes gathering on the side of the boat, casting nets or fishing, probably because they are hungry for food, and they plan to catch as much seafood as possible while there are few people, and make tooth sacrifices.

From the looks of it, that group of people seemed to have been busy on the deck for a while, but still failed to achieve anything.Qi Ziyin suddenly felt that if he stepped forward rashly, he would be a bit abrupt, so he stood behind and watched from a distance.Unexpectedly, a hand suddenly slapped him heavily on the back:

"Hey, the dignified Lord Ye ran up the deck in the middle of the night, didn't he want to take food from the mouths of us?"

The voice was mellow like a warbler, making the young man smile slightly.When he turned his head to look, he saw a pair of blue eyes poking out from behind his shoulders, flickering.

"Ning Yue, I guess you're probably hungry too, and just wanted to call you."

"Ah bah, what do you mean guess I'm hungry too, making it sound like he's just a serious foodie."

The girl groaned softly, with the night wind blowing her fiery red hair gently on Qi Ziyin's face, but he didn't want to avoid it.It was the first time that the young man felt so relaxed after several months of sailing.It seemed that he knew that he had no way out, and it seemed that after going through the catastrophe, his heart became more open-minded, so he just laughed and joked:
"Yes, yes, I made a slip of the tongue. But Ning Yue, if you are not rumbling in your stomach, why haven't you fallen asleep until now?"

"Of course it's because of you! I don't know who it is, but in the middle of the night, you still walk past people's doors with your shoes on. If you fall asleep, you will be woken up, okay?"

Ning Yue, who had gone through the changes, rarely showed the innocence that she had in Mulu City many years ago.That smile, like the warm sunshine in spring, suddenly made the young Ye Guogong feel that the surroundings seemed not so cold anymore.

"Okay, okay, you are eloquent, I have never been able to say that."

The young man waved his hand, but laughed together with the girl towards the endless sea of ​​ice.Their laughter spread farther and farther, but it seemed to bring vigor and vitality to this piece of ice and snow that had never been visited by humans since ancient times.

Even the fishing people on the ship were affected by the laughter, and began to shout loudly.As if attracted by the sound and light of the fire on the boat, as the fishing nets were pulled onto the deck again and again, more and more fish, shrimps and crab shells were caught, and they became fatter and fatter.The energetic people soon drew out more people who were hungry and sleepless in the cabin.Some people even grilled the seafood on the braziers used for lighting on both sides of the ship, and then feasted on it on the spot.

People who had already lost hope suddenly found a fertile virgin land. After eating and drinking, they couldn't help singing and dancing.And under the ice, more and more living creatures were attracted by the lights on the ship, and they swam densely on both sides of the ship, making it dizzying.

"Look, Ziyin, what is that?!"

Although Ning Yue lived on the seabed of Chanying since she was a child, no one from the Cangyu clan has ever visited this extreme northern waters.At this time, she was as excited as a child, pulling Qi Ziyin to lean over the side of the boat, looking down.The little white fox curled up in his arms was also woken up by the noise, stuck his head out, and twitched his nose sleepily.

Following the direction of the girl's finger, the young Lord Ye saw countless translucent shrimps gathered in the ice crevice under the belly of the boat in just a short moment.

He seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly ordered to extinguish the braziers around him.After the eyes got used to the short-term darkness after the fire disappeared, people found that the sea surface around the ship did not dim, but became brighter than before—it was the faint fluorescence emitted by the krill.Trillions of shrimp, just like a cloud of glowing underwater, are constantly emerging from the ice crevasse.

"It's so beautiful! The ancient fairyland mentioned in the book, I'm afraid it's nothing more than this—"

Qi Ziyin's jaw was about to drop from shock, and he praised from the bottom of his heart.But before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the crowd around him seem to be shocked by something in the water. There was a sudden silence at first, and then a long cry that resounded through the sky came from below the ship, far and long.

The crowd went into an uproar.The underwater sound moved quickly from the other side of the ship to the place where the boy and the girl were standing. The two of them lowered their heads to look at the sound, and saw a shadow suddenly emerged from the water. It was a huge whale. head!

Even the white-clothed boy who grew up on the seashore of Ye country had only heard of cetaceans appearing in the waters south of Jinghui Bay, but never thought that they could be seen in such an extremely cold sea, even It was several times bigger than the whales I had seen in Qingwan!
The giant whale opened its mouth as huge as a cave, and swallowed nearly half of the krill under the ice floe with just one bite.The prawns were disturbed, and they scattered and fled in the water in an instant, but they were blocked by the wide bottom of the ship. After struggling to jump, the prawns hit the wooden boards on the side of the ship, crackling, as if there was a shower of rain , and then fell back into the water one after another, becoming a feast for the giant whale's mouth.

The whale ate up all the krill beside the boat, then turned around immediately, stretched its long tail high up out of the water, and slapped it vigorously, causing countless waves, as if it was attracting the shrimp with the light for itself. people compliments.Immediately, the sound of its heavy and short breathing was heard again in the darkness, and the giant whale dived again, swimming towards another group of krill hovering in the sea not far away.

When the giant whale swam across the bottom of the boat, it seemed to accidentally push against the hull of the boat.The people who had been staring blankly for a long time only felt their feet sway slightly, and finally came back to their senses. However, no one felt scared, but was moved by the simple and primitive scene in front of them.

"Ning Yue, it seems that the situation is not as bad as we thought. Right now, the ocean current is taking our ship all the way north. If we can really go on like this, maybe in a few days, we will be able to cross this ice floe, Reach the extreme north that no one has ever been to!"

Qi Ziyin turned his head, looked at the red-haired girl beside him and said, the golden pupils seemed to be shining like the Milky Way falling from the sky.

The girl was also infected by her companion's emotions, she nodded vigorously, then turned around and hugged him, and kissed him lightly on the cheek.She didn't know why she acted like this, but she just felt that it seemed that only in this way could she express the complex feelings in her heart that could not be described in words.

The young Ye Guogong seemed to be struck by lightning, and he stood there for a long time, with both hands wrapped around the girl's vest, but he didn't dare to hug her tightly, and he didn't want to just let it go.

Time suddenly became extremely slow at this moment.The young man even faintly had an illusion in his heart, feeling that he and the girl opposite had already spent their entire lives like this.

However, this sweetness was quickly disturbed by the shouts erupting around him.The two turned their heads, and saw that the people who were also amazed by the appearance of the giant whale had already raised their heads, pointing to the cloudless starry night and discussing it.

Following the direction that everyone was staring at, Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin finally saw that there was a touch of red on the dark blue sky.The red color was not eye-catching at first, as if someone had randomly painted a few brush strokes on the dome as a canvas with a very light color.

But soon, that patch of red became thicker and more intense.The translucent color gradually changed from dark red to deep purple, and then turned into light purple and pink, becoming brighter and brighter.Gradually, a streak of light green gradually appeared in the purple.The colors are gradually mixed together, just like two strands of paint being melted into the water, blurring the boundaries of each other, but still maintaining their own true colors.

The brighter the light, it was like a multicolored brocade across the sky, drawing a soft belt of light above everyone's heads.However, someone on board got nervous because of this.

At the beginning, some people said that this might be a sign that they had strayed into the forbidden area, annoyed the gods in the sky, and were about to punish themselves.It is also said that the light is the ancestor heroic spirits of the past tens of millions of years.It was also they who used the huge wave before to rescue the three lone ships of the Ye State from the siege of the Peng State Fleet.Even more pious people knelt down on the deck on the spot and worshiped.

"Ziyin, do you know what that is?"

Ning Yue gently tugged at the sleeves of the young man beside her, but she couldn't take her eyes off the belt of light in the sky.In a pair of blue eyes, there was both the excitement at first sight and the instinctive fear.

The young Lord Ye smiled softly, shook his head and said:
"I have seen in the records in the book that there is light in the extreme north, like neon, rainbow, and smoke. I don't know whether the light is the ancestors of the ancestors of the past tens of thousands of years, but I can be sure, It is definitely not a harbinger of punishment from the gods!"

However, as soon as he spoke, he suddenly heard another loud noise in the night sky, like thunder, but it was obviously made by humans.The young Lord Ye and the red-haired girl in front of him exchanged glances, and they both rushed to the podium at the stern of the ship.Following the sound, I saw something in the distance, like a shooting star, drawing a slender arc in the sky, flying straight in my direction!
"It's the Peng Army! They're catching up again!"

The sentries on deck shouted loudly.But before his words fell, the shooting star in the night sky had already flown to the top of everyone's heads, and landed heavily on the deck, it was actually a wooden barrel tightly bound by iron bars.

A burning twig trailed from the end of the barrel.Before landing, there was a pungent smell in the air.

"It's Lan Yan! Find cover!"

Qi Ziyin was the first to react, and immediately roared to protect the red-haired girl beside him.Yet it was too late.There was a loud sound of "teng", and the wooden barrel burst open among the unprepared crowd, instantly bursting into a blue flame.The splintered wood chips and iron slag scattered in all directions, hurting countless people.Many people were thrown into the air by the heat wave and fell straight into the icy sea water. After a few thumps, they quickly sank and never surfaced again.

The originally quiet sea of ​​ice was like a pot of boiling water, and suddenly it was stirred up. The fish, shrimp, crab shells under the ice, and the giant whales eating leisurely all disappeared without a trace.However, the Peng army's offensive had only just begun.

Barrels of blue flames were projected from the crossbow on the ship, and they accurately exploded everywhere on the Ye Kingdom ship.Soon there was a sea of ​​blue flames on the deck, and the sound of running, calling for help, and crying could be heard endlessly, and even many places on the ship's side were blasted with holes that were two or three feet square.

The icy sea water poured into the cabin from outside the hole in an instant.At first, the sergeants under the cabin struggled to fill up with sacks filled with sand.However, the more than a hundred sacks prepared on the ship to prevent flooding were quickly consumed, while the number of holes in the side of the ship continued to increase.

The hull soon began to sink.On the gradually sloping deck, Qi Ziyin held Ning Yue in his arms with his left arm, while his right arm firmly grasped a cable on the side, but it didn't help.His feet kept slipping, making it impossible for the two of them to stand still.There were also people around who could no longer stabilize their bodies, slipped and fell along the increasingly steep deck, hit more people below, and then hit the already riddled cabin and side of the ship, and then fell into the water , Straight fall and broken bones.

The young Ye Guogong realized that there was no chance of survival in this situation, and when he was desperate, his eyes suddenly fell on the ice floe floating in the sea outside the ship's side, but it was several times larger than ordinary fishing boats. , immediately shouted loudly:
"Abandon ship, abandon ship! Find a way to get to the ice!"

However, amidst the chaos, it was difficult for his voice to be heard by the panic-stricken crowd, and it was even more difficult to attract anyone's attention...

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