The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 519 Injured
The three of us carried the merman all the way up, and there was no accident. The strange space inside the ghost column is actually a strange burial custom of the islanders of the Sea Snake Country.They worship their ancestors differently from us.We let the ancestors lie quietly in the tomb, and the living people sacrifice to the tombstone and the external tomb outside.They directly built a sacrificial tunnel in the tomb, and moved the sacrificial activities to the tomb.

The rest of the spaces are also composed of sacrificial stone pillars and some stone paintings. The craftsmanship of these stone paintings is, at best, ancient, but at the most honest level, the level is too poor.

On the seventh floor, the upward ladder finally reached the top.

Around the top is a ring-shaped reef, which is about one meter higher. Tan Ren climbed up first, observed the surrounding environment, and let us go up after making sure that it is not near the sea.

We then handed out the merman before we climbed up one after another.

As soon as I came out, a gust of sea breeze blew over, which not only made people feel cold, but also washed away the feeling of oppression in the waterway.

At this moment, the moon and stars are sparse, but the faint moonlight does not bring much convenience to our eyesight. We have to rely on searchlights to really see things.With the light of the searchlight, at a glance, there are dark reefs all around, almost blending into the night.There are so special luminous shellfish on the reef. Under the moonlight, their mouths are slightly open, and the shells reflect fluorescence. There are also sea crabs, fish and shrimp hidden in some corners.

But after looking around, we didn't see our boat.

Tan Ren didn't need to look at the instrument panel on his wrist at all. He knew numerology and feng shui himself. He looked up at the moon and the few stars in the sky, then determined our position, and said, "We are in the northwest corner of the island. The ship is in the southeast and has to go through."

Fortunately, the island is not big, even if the whole person hikes, it will take about half an hour, and there is no sea around, which means that we are not at the edge of the island, so the time required is shorter and the physical strength is less .

Immediately, the three of us carried the shark to the southeast.

But my thinking was too simple. I thought it would take more than ten minutes of hard work at most, but we forgot one thing, that is, we didn't have shoes.

The only fabric under our feet is a one-piece diving suit that covers the feet, sticks to the flesh, wraps tightly, and is resistant to pressure underwater, but on the shore, that is, a layer of ordinary fabric, there is no way to move on the reef .

The entire ghost island is full of rocks, and it is the kind of reef washed out by sea water. The surface is like a hedgehog, with potholes, ups and downs, some places are slippery, and some places are sharp. Every step is like being tortured. Therefore, the eyes have to stare at the feet all the time, looking for a slightly better foothold.

I didn't feel much about walking on the island wearing shoes before, but now I realize that it's really shocking every step of the way.

Even though we were so careful, it didn't take long for the wetsuits we put on, and the soles of our feet were quickly scratched and torn by various accidents, and we ended up walking barefoot.It's just that this place is ups and downs, sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes detours, even if we are careful, something happened.

Zhou Xuanye, who was walking in front, suddenly slipped his foot and staggered. Although we didn't fall, he lost his balance. In the area ahead, the merman we were carrying on our shoulders lost all strength.

The merman, who weighed more than 300 kilograms, just fell straight down and rolled around twice. Immediately afterwards, the merman who had calmed down suddenly let out a sharp and high-pitched cry. Accompanied by this cry, I I saw blood coming out of its back, and its fish tail slapped because of the pain, but after only two slaps, the fish tail stopped moving.

I had a sudden shock in my heart, and I thought it was broken. The ground is extremely complicated. Some places are like awls, and some places are like blades.

Zhou Xuanye stabilized his body and was also startled for a moment, ignoring the rocky rocks under his feet, he stepped over to the mermaid in two steps, knelt down, and shouted at me: "Quick, turn it over and see what's going on. "

The merman's face was also injured just now, and there was a cut on the part of the face where there were no scales, but it was not too serious. The serious one was probably from the back, bleeding too much.

I hurried over, together with Zhou Xuanye, carefully turned the Merman over.

It probably knows that the terrain here is not suitable for struggling, so it just screamed and let us move.When I turned the merman over, I couldn't help gasping.

The fish scales of this merman have a certain degree of hardness and defensive ability, so the areas where the scales grow on its body are safe and sound, but the parts above the waist socket are miserable. The biggest wound seems to be pulled out by a sharp stone. It was at least one centimeter deep and fifteen centimeters long, and it stretched from the left shoulder to the right waist. In addition, there were some small scratches and holes in other places, as if poked out by sharp reefs. The injuries were very serious. It was bloody, and because it was tied up with ropes, the wound expanded outwards due to squeezing, and the flesh rolled up, which was extremely terrifying.

I don't know what expression I have now, but I just feel my mouth is dry, and I hurriedly said: "Quickly, quickly untie the rope."

Immediately, Tan Ren cut off one of the ropes, only tied up the shark's hands, and the rope on the upper body was quickly withdrawn, so that the rolled wound was slightly retracted.

When we went into the sea, we didn't bring any medicine or cloth on our bodies, so we didn't know how to deal with its injuries for a while.

In desperation, I gritted my teeth and took out the dagger, and was about to bleed, Zhou Xuanye stopped me and said: "Before this point, the mermaid's recovery ability is still very strong." While speaking, he grabbed the dagger from me , set off his diving suit, cut the diving suit with a knife from the waist.

The whole diving suit was divided into jacket and trousers by him, and because it was elastic, it would shrink when cut, so Zhou Xuanye specially left two belts as trouser waistbands, so that the lower half of the trousers did not fall off directly.

Immediately afterwards, he raised his hand and took off his shirt, cut the long-shaped fabric, and we began to bandage the shark's wound.This merman is also a highly intelligent creature. Although there are species and language gaps between us, it also knows that we didn't do it on purpose, and probably understands that we are wounding it, so the whole process except Yelling, and not much of a struggle.

Merman's qualities are different from human beings. We didn't deliberately stop the bleeding. Once the wound was bandaged, the bleeding stopped.

Zhou Xuanye heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "This shark's character is quite docile, much better than that of Thunder Valley."

Tan Ren frowned and asked him: "What happened to you just now?"

Zhou Xuanye said: "The soul restraint was too exhausting before, and the body has not fully recovered, so I didn't step firmly just now."

Tan Ren then said: "I'll carry it."

Zhou Xuanye nodded. They are all his own people. There is no need to be polite about these things. He said: "It is injured, this time it has to be more careful, don't move too much."

Due to this change, we walked more slowly. We had expected to walk for more than 40 minutes, but after walking for more than [-] minutes, we saw the lights of our ship in the distance.

The moment I saw the lights on the sea, I was so excited that I almost shed tears. You know, walking on such land with a load of more than 300 kilograms is simply a kind of torture.
Grinding, and it was a huge torture.

The people on the boat also noticed our presence. Because we were so close and the light from the searchlight was strong, we could see our faces clearly.I saw Ah Zi standing on the side of the boat, with an expression as if she saw a ghost, and said: "Why are you on the island, what are you carrying? My God, a mermaid?"

The common name of a merman is a mermaid, but although this merman is not ugly, his huge webbed claws and protruding joints are really not beautiful.

We carried the merman ashore and put it on the deck. The merman's eyesight should be good. It looked at the vast sea in the night, and suddenly struggled violently, wanting to rush into the sea. Tears flowed from the larger eyes.

Since its appearance is similar to that of a human, with some scales on its face, we can clearly guess what this merman is thinking through its expression.At this moment, I felt that it was extremely excited, extremely longing for freedom, and extremely wanting to return to the sea and return to its own home.

This merman was very different from the one we met in Yumen. This extremely humane performance made us and the people on the boat who came to see the strange look at each other.

AhZi looked at it silently, probably reflected it, and said, "Could this be the legendary mermaid?" I nodded, and together with Zhou Xuanye, restrained the mermaid's struggle.Our original plan was to release it back into the sea when we reached the coast, but along the way just now, the merman’s back injury was too serious. Although this thing has a strong recovery ability, it is not strong enough to heal quickly , at least four or five days, right?
Just let it go back to the sea with injuries, it's probably not enough.

I don't care if it understands or not, so I stopped it and tried to comfort it: don't worry, we won't lock you up, and we won't go into the sea until the injury heals.Don't worry, you are also an endangered creature, we are still very caring and will let you go into the sea, don't worry, don't worry..."

Naturally, the merman can't understand words, but animals can distinguish tones, and so can humans. It is easy to distinguish between the snorting of a dog with good intentions and the barking of a vicious dog. Not aggressive.

The merman probably heard our tone of voice harmless, and gradually calmed down.

(End of this chapter)