I want to embrace the moon for nine days

In a place like Chongming Island, more than a thousand people suddenly became mad and died without help in one day and night. The news had already spread throughout the island, and the rumors made everyone feel very uneasy.

When the government came to organize the relocation, many people took advantage of the situation and were willing to flee here and take refuge, but there were also many who were reluctant to leave their family property.

The prefect's Yamen mobilized seven ships and hundreds of small boats to come and go, transporting large and small bags of clothing and belongings, dragging families and families across the water. The working group was divided into three shifts, Make sure there are people on and off the boat every hour.

The relocation work of nearly 80,000 people has been busy for more than three days, but it is still not finished.

The sun rises and the moon sets, the tide ebbs and flows.

For some families who were still stranded on the island, the adults were so busy that the children did not realize how serious the problem was. Instead, they took the opportunity to have fun, running along the river bank and going to the tidal flats to look at the sea.

Chongming Island has strong tides. During the high and low tides every day, the water level difference can reach five to six meters.

Once the tide completely recedes in the evening, the edge of the island can expose several miles of tidal flats.

Hidden among the soaked mud and dust are countless crabs, small fish, leeches, sea snakes, jellyfish, clams, etc.

In the past, children in fishing villages near the sea liked to play on the tidal flats and pick up these things to take home.

Now that all the fishing villages near the sea have been vacated, these children who live in the heart of the big island finally have the opportunity to come here and visit.

But before they entered the tidal flat area, they heard a shout from a distance.

“You can’t enter here!!”

Dozens of Kongwu men and strong women with harpoons in their hands were originally guarding the edge of the beach. When they saw this group of children, they pointed and shouted.

"Hasn't every family's child been told by officials? Recently, poisonous insects drifted over from the sea, got into the belly of fish, and hid in the shells of shrimps and crabs."

"Especially on the east beach, there are the most poisons. There may be everywhere in the sand. Even we are not allowed to get close. You kids, don't seek death!"

The children stopped and shouted: "We all know this, and we are not planning to go there, let alone eat the food here."

"Just come here to have a look, I guarantee you won't get there!"

They had heard that on the tidal flats here, every evening, government officials would perform magical arts to kill poisonous insects. The scene was very novel, so they wanted to watch the excitement.

A group of children watched from a distance and soon discovered that there was indeed a person standing inside the tidal flat.

There seemed to be something flying and shining around that person, but that place was at least two or three miles away from the children, so they couldn't see clearly.

Su Hanshan stood on the vast and humid tidal flat, with a calm and focused expression. His hands kept changing gestures, pinching out the Qi structures one by one, and punching them into the dragon-shaped outline in front of him.

Compared with when he first tried it in the steel mill, the dragon-shaped silhouette suspended in front of him now seemed to have more joints in the internal frame.

During the construction process, the figure was already floating slightly, as if it was breathing of its own, and as if it was waking up from a long sleep and could fly away at any time.

Even though the details of the dragon's horns, whiskers, dragon's eyes and dragon's scales have not yet been perfected, the majestic and majestic look of this dragon's eagerness to take the plunge and its arrogance has been fully revealed.

After a long time, Su Hanshan stopped his gesture and allowed the three-foot dragon to fly, but with his eyes closed tightly, it never really took off.

Far away in the east, under the tide, white light flashed slightly and the waves cracked.

He Zong's figure rose up, passing through countless mud puddles all the way from the seaside, and approached Su Hanshan.

"you made it?"

He Zong looked at the dragon, "It seems that the structure has stabilized. Even if you stop, it will not easily lose balance and disappear."

Su Hanshan shook his head and said: "It's still a little bit behind. This Xuantai model can already absorb the vitality of heaven and earth from the outside world, but it has not yet completed the connection with my own essence."

He Zong's eyes flashed slightly: "According to the experience of watching you build the mysterious body a few times before, you should gradually connect your own energy and spirit to it when you first build it."

"Why does it seem that this connection process has been eliminated these two times?"

He smiled and said, "Have you changed your mind? Are you willing to move the three Dantians out and fill them directly inside? With eight basic parts, you can reduce the difficulty and realize the full set of functions of your Xuantai Golden Pill."

Su Hanshan said calmly: "You guessed it right."

"This……"

He Zong was silent for a moment, then suppressed his smile, "It's very uncomfortable to walk on a road alone and find that it's broken in front of you and you need to modify and reconnect it yourself."

"I am a person with a lot of fighting spirit. I can say that I take martial arts for fun. However, because I take martial arts for fun, it is even more difficult to endure the intermittent torture. If I really have the opportunity to choose again, I will definitely choose a more open road. ”

"If you retain the Three Dantians, there will be very detailed and perfect experiences later on that can guide you in your practice, right? Then it's better not to abandon this path rashly."

Su Hanshan said strangely: "You are obviously a very independent person. I thought you would be happy to see me change to a path similar to yours."

"After all, this kind of thing should be fun for you. Why are you suddenly trying to persuade me here like a close friend?"

He Zong crossed his arms across his chest and said lazily: "People who go their own way, can't they show kindness occasionally?"

"After getting along with you during this time, I feel that you are quite interesting. But if you make this choice and regret it in the future, it will be difficult for me to bear the ugly attitude of blaming others and regretting it too late."

"Maybe we will destroy our trading relationship and beat you with all our strength!"

Su Hanshan laughed loudly after hearing this.

"At that time, will you still have the strength to beat me up? You are really confident!"

Su Hanshan's smile didn't stop, he turned his neck and said, "Actually, I have experienced it countless times. When the internal energy reaches the meridians of the legs, it has to slow down, and it feels like it is connected intermittently."

“What I was practicing at that time was a technique passed down by my predecessors who had many experiences, but my predecessors were not in wheelchairs, so I struggled on my own and walked on a path that needed modification for several years. Bar."

"If at that time, I were asked to make a choice like Xuantai and Jindan, I would probably be willing to endure more and make concessions in a chaotic situation in order to preserve my future hopes."

"But, the person I am now is no longer the person I was then."

While they were talking, countless pores were appearing on the tidal flats.

Thousands of countless marine creatures crawled out of these muddy areas, seemingly trying to breathe air, fighting each other, gnawing hard, digesting each other, and absorbing nutrients.

If the egg of the black starfish parasitizes into the human stomach, it will get the most suitable environment for its development. It only takes a few hours to grow to the point where it can emit neurotoxins, destroy the human brain, occupy the magpie's nest, and control the body. degree.

But if these eggs are parasitic in the bodies of those marine organisms, the development speed will be much slower. It may take more than half a month to gradually grow into the shape of a starfish.

Therefore, the fighting of these marine creatures is actually because they are controlled by starfish eggs and compete for nutrients.

However, in the past, it was impossible for so many parasitic marine organisms to gather on the tidal flats in one go.

Such a scene occurs today because He Zong referred to Su Hanshan's specific radio wave induction method and figured out a method to use specific energy fluctuations to lure the black starfish to gather.

Since the high tide this morning, He Zong has been immersed in the deep sea in the eastern part of Chongming Island, and he has been running this trick unremittingly until he came up just now.

It can be said that all the detection-type black starfish released by Sato and his experimental base, as long as they have the opportunity to land, have gathered on this beach.

The dozens of people guarding the hard earth bank outside the tidal flat have seen several scenes of "killing poisonous insects" in the past three days, but they have never seen such a dense phenomenon. Such a large tidal flat has now become a place where you can surely step on one or two sea creatures even if you take just two steps.

Moreover, there are many sea creatures that should be slow-moving, but they are quickly emerging from the mud holes, making the number even greater.

The faces of dozens of adults became a little pale and they backed away slightly. The children were also a little scared, but they stared at them intently with their dark eyes.

The calls of seabirds came from the sky. Thousands of big birds noticed the unusually abundant food here, and flew over one after another, circling about to fall.

Su Hanshan looked up, and invisible mental waves rippled out. At one glance, all the seabirds were frightened and did not dare to descend.

"Stupid bird, if you eat these things, you will also be parasitized."

Su Hanshan whispered softly, pointed like a sword, and looked at the three-foot little dragon in front of him, his expression focused again, and his eyes became a little deeper.

The person I am now is no longer the person I was then.

The change in martial arts strength is naturally very different, and more importantly, the change in mind is like the difference between mud and steel.

Even if I break my leg again, go back to the original state, and lose the mark of Tai Chi, I will never let my heart be on the verge of the quagmire again.

"If I hadn't really encountered these things, I wouldn't know it. I can be considered a mysophobic person."

Tens of thousands of parasitic bodies on the tidal flats, zombies as big as a palm and as small as a finger, are all fighting, like layers of variegated mud, rolling and floating.

Su Hanshan's voice was calm, but it had an extremely tough tone, which produced a murderous aura that was difficult to distinguish and resolve.

"The villains in the world are like sandworms, forcing the gentlemen to turn into apes and cranes. The monkeys pretend to be ugly and have to be patient, or they are like escaping cranes into the depths of the clouds."

"This kind of bad thing makes me unhappy even if I imagine it. Now that I'm in the game, if I can't punch these eyesores, how can I be worthy of the martial arts I have practiced for so many years!"

Su Hanshan pointed his finger at the center of Shenlong's eyebrows, and suddenly there was a sound like a dragon roaring between heaven and earth.

The adults were astonished and looked up at the sky, while the children's eyes were so bright that they seemed to shine. They remembered the scene in front of them for a long time and their whole lives.

At dusk and sunset, the sky is as golden as gold, the vast sea is surging, and the water is deep blue.

The mud turned white, hard and unyielding.

The entire turbid beach turned into pure frost!
"Even if you have to sacrifice the three Dantians, you must step into this realm first and buy a little more time."

He Zong murmured, "You are completely unwilling to give in and endure it, so how are you going to deal with this situation next?"

………………

This evening, it was almost the same time.

In the emperor's palace in Guangfu City, a huge black thing opened.

It looked like a large coffin or a furnace. It was made of pure black, and it was hard to tell what material it was made of. The surface was covered with various patterns, a bit like a Taotie, and a bit like a unicorn.

Because of this, when Emperor Xu excavated this thing, he named it... Qilin Black Cauldron!
Several gaps appeared on the front of the black tripod, like an iron door, which was opening outwards and touching the ground, forming a staircase.

When the iron door opened, thick white smoke came out of the black cauldron, and there were several gems of different colors on the upper part of the cauldron, flickering and extinguishing.

Bright yellow boots, stepping down the stairs step by step.

Xu Zhixing, who was wearing a Nine-Five Dragon Robe and a golden crown on his black hair, completely left the black tripod and stood on the ground.

This man has been famous for more than forty years, but his face is still young, as if he is not yet twenty years old, his skin is as good as snow, and his bright eyes are brighter.

It is said that a long time ago, many people doubted whether General Xu was a man or a woman. But when the general became the emperor, no one dared to raise this question now.

That's not important. If you want the emperor to be a man, you will naturally default to him as a man. If you want the emperor to be a woman, you will also default to a woman.

No matter what gender he is, it will not damage others' respect and... fear for Emperor Xu.

Even his close minister Wu Shaorong, a bachelor who was qualified to wait outside the Qilin Hall, couldn't help but breathe softly every time he saw him, for fear of any disrespect.

"The amount of radium sent by the Dutch this time is larger than last time, but it took less time. Maybe the extraction process has improved again."

Xu Zhixing said softly, "How much can our workshops purify in the same amount of time?"

Wu Shaorong immediately replied: "Less than a pound."

"too slow."

Xu Zhixing shook his head, "The Kirin Black Cauldron requires ten kilograms of radium to operate once."

"The raw materials I have obtained over the years are limited. According to the covenant, I gave Úrsula three opportunities, and I only used them five times."

"He Zong stayed in Songjiang Mansion for a long time, agreed to so many thankless alliances, and did not hesitate to cause big businessmen in his territory to defect. He must have received great benefits from that person in Songjiang Mansion."

"If I don't have enough Kirin Black Cauldron to bathe in, how can I guarantee victory over He Zong? And when will it take until I can truly unify the Nine Provinces and achieve imperial status?"

Radium is a radioactive substance that is almost impossible to mine in nature and requires tedious extraction and refining.

The people under Xu Zhixing's command are currently able to extract one gram of radium from dozens of tons of pitchblende slag, and everyone involved in the work is prone to strange diseases and will die soon.

"The best way is to get their refining technology from the Dutch and obtain the mineral deposits they discovered."

Wu Shaorong said, "The nails have been planted over the years, and some news has recently been transmitted. Combined with the fact that Songjiang Prefecture began to relocate the population of Chongming Island three days ago, Wei Chen has sorted out some clues."

"Maybe this time is a good opportunity to renegotiate the terms and gain something else."

The Black Sea Star Experimental Base, Taibai Sacred Tree, and Songjiang Prefecture where the Dutch and Fuso people cooperated.

These key points were connected in Wu Shaorong's words and explained clearly in four or five sentences.

Xu Zhixing pondered: "Oh? If this happens, Songjiang will definitely become the target of public criticism."

"Exactly, they will probably change their attitude and negotiate terms with the British. That is the only person they can still win over."

"Otherwise, we parties will never mind taking this opportunity to hit them hard and drive them away from the table where the Taibai Sacred Tree is divided. This also means that He and Su will get further and further apart in the future."

Wu Shaorong said, "Weak minister Qianjian, maybe we can send someone first to contact the British people. It has been many years since the war that year. There are no eternal enemies in the world. This time..."

"No!"

Xu Zhixing raised his hand to veto his opinion, turned his eyes slightly, and said, "I want to go out in person. During this period, you are not to make any new moves to the outside world. All matters within the country will be coordinated by several bachelors of the cabinet." drawn up.”

Before he finished speaking, the figure in dragon robe had already risen into the sky.

(End of this chapter)