The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

Another day passed, and the merchant ship Apis continued to sail in the red algae sea with its doubtful crew.In the blink of an eye, it has already arrived in late November, and it is estimated that some northern areas of the mainland have already been covered with heavy snow, but everyone who is still sailing near the equator feels the scorching heat waves rolling on the sea.

On the fifth day since the first turtle was caught, the merchant ship had drifted [-] nautical miles on the sea surface, but no matter how Abbas measured the wind speed in the sea area, or used the sun and stars as the coordinates of the course, it was in vain in the end.The unlucky boat kept circling on the surface of the red algae.

The weather is a bit sunny these days, and the milky white fog in the early morning has dissipated a lot, but the temperature soared suddenly at noon, everyone was very thirsty, and the seven or eight sea turtles caught had already been slaughtered, most of them were wiped out in everyone's belly .

The tortoise shell was kept as a souvenir, but the appearance of the same pattern on the century-old tortoise shell was no surprise to them.

Besides, there are only dozens of gallons of fresh water left, and it is estimated that they will not be able to sail out of the foggy sea area. The sad people will have to throw themselves into the sea. If they die, they can still drink salt water to fill their stomachs.

Fatty's favorite food was food shortage these days. Apart from tobacco and some furs and cloths, the rest on board was ceramics, jade and bronze.He muttered that the captain, Abbas, pulled all the hard things from Asia that he couldn't chew. The fat man who was hungry couldn't hold it anymore. He took the risk of leaving the mother ship by himself in the boat early in the morning without telling everyone. Forage for food on the rocks a mile away.

Half an hour later, the fat man's excited face was rosy, and he rowed hard to run back to the Abis, and when he was still far away, he waved to everyone and shouted:

"Quick, I have a new discovery!"

Everyone was worried about the safety of the fat man who was going out, but they didn't expect him to report the news excitedly at this moment.Immediately, the mother ship quickly lifted anchor and set sail to follow the fat man. Under the guidance of the small boat, the big ship came to a cluster of reefs with a radius of several hundred square meters.

"Look. Is that a stone pillar supporting the sky! Something is wrong! A big discovery!"

The fat man danced and pointed to the steep diamond-shaped stone pillars surrounded by a large number of reefs more than [-] meters away. Surrounded by layers of diamond-shaped stone pillars, a large straight boulder rose from the middle of the stone pile. The black stone reef pillars are more than ten meters high, and it is really dangerous and spectacular from a distance.

"It's just a cluster of sharper and taller stone pillars. What's the fuss about?"

Guo Nuan raised his eyes and murmured for a while, he didn't understand why the fat man was so excited.For the reefs generated on the sea surface, some of them are formed by the condensation of lava erupted by submarine volcanoes when they meet water.Although the cluster of reef pillars in front of me looks strange, it can still be explained.Guo Nuan guessed that this was due to the violent lava erupting violently from the submarine volcano, and then blasting out fossils to form towering stone pillars when it was cold. Such a spectacle is a little rare.

"Nature is full of wonders."

Just when everyone was thinking the same as Guo Nuan, they felt that there was nothing to make a fuss about.But the fat man's smiling fleshy face trembled, he pointed at the boulder and said, "Hey, don't rush to draw conclusions, and then look at the back, there is a mystery."

Then everyone slowly circled the boat to the sea area behind the giant stone pillar. It didn't matter, but they were shocked.

"Wow, my mother, this... is really shocking!"

Everyone immediately caused a commotion, leaning on the deck railing and looking forward to the back of the tall boulder, all exclaimed.

On the vertical stone cliff in front of him, there is actually a huge snake-shaped beast that soars into the sky and roars. At this moment, it just opened its sharp fangs, looking extremely ferocious and terrifying.Coupled with the three-dimensional reliefs, powerful stripes, and the simple and vicissitudes of life, the vicissitudes of life come straight to the face. Such an imposing carved snake is so lifelike, it is no wonder that everyone's heart is pounding, and there is a kind of blood vessel spurting excitement.

"Grandma, which master's masterpiece is this sculpture? You're so talented. You can play sculpture on the surface of the sea. It's a superb work." Guo Nuan wiped her eyes with her hands, as if thinking she was dazzled.He clearly felt the divine coercion that can only be found in religious temples. If he was timid, he would immediately kneel down and kowtow to worship. It was really shocking.

"The sun hovered over the end of the red ocean, the goddess of love bathed in the earth, and the giant snake swallowed the sun...the place where black and white meet... there is an island coordinates."

Pei Pei muttered to herself, she seemed to be connected to something, the giant snake in front of her was still different from the five-clawed golden dragon of the Chinese totem, from the engraved stripes, it was more like the kind of snake described in Taoism, which could generate rain and A class of giant snakes and beasts that often do evil.Pei Pei, who had a keen mind, immediately connected the patterns on the turtles caught a few days ago.

"Well, it seems that we have hope to sail out of this sea area." Guo Nuan did not know when he came to Pei Pei's side, and he said calmly at this moment.

When the ship was docked near the Serpentine Stone Pillar, everyone sat on the deck in a circle and discussed the next thing to face.

"I think the snake's claws seem to be leading in some direction." A sailor made his point.

"Well, didn't it say on the turtle shell that the end of the red ocean clearly means that we have come to this sea area full of red algae, and maybe the end is the way out." A sailor interjected.

"That's right, the giant scorpion swallowed the sun. This sentence reminds us that the sculpture of the snake has been found. Its mouth is opening straight up to the sky. Maybe it will wait until the sun passes over the mouth of the snake. One moment is the closest time for us to find the end of the red ocean." Another sailor said.

Abasto listened carefully to the opinions expressed by the chief sailor, resting his cheeks. He felt that most of the analysis made sense, and he added some of his own opinions:

"Does the phrase where black and white meet mean...the dawn is just breaking?"

"Uh, no, it will be dawn, and the sun has just risen from the sea level. There is a contradiction. Doesn't one sentence in the turtle shell say that the giant snake swallowed the sun, but the mouth of the snake is pointing directly above the sky. Could it be that the sun is hanging in the middle of the sky at dawn? It doesn't make sense..."

Guo Nuan waved his hands again and again, and he saw the clue: "Maybe the place where black and white meet is not a time period, but a natural phenomenon that occurs in the sea area."

(I'm sorry that the code word was confused last night and I got the content of the previous chapter into this chapter)