No matter how difficult the road ahead can be predicted, the days still have to go on every day, without a trace, just like the water of the Ganges, quietly passing away

In the blink of an eye, it was already three months later, and the footsteps of spring were about to leave, and the smell of summer had spread to the earth through the scorching sun overhead.

In the past few months of sailing, I have developed an inexplicable dependence on the Penglai, as if accepting my black skin after staying in this land for nearly half a year.

"Maybe it's more manly." When I got up in the morning, after washing, I couldn't help but smile and comfort myself, and I habitually went to get a wine glass.

Holding a wine glass, I walked onto the deck, the hard-working Singer was already cleaning the deck, Johnny was still fishing, and Hui Gen'er glanced at me and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother, I started drinking before breakfast, I don't think it's a good habit." ”

I walked over, habitually put my hand on Hui Gen'er's bald head, and said, "People don't sometimes live for good habits, do they?" Especially after seeing so many messy underwater creatures. ”

Hui Gen'er pursed her lips and stopped talking, and poured a large glass of milk in one gulp as if she was drinking, and sighed with satisfaction.

He knew that what I said was the truth, that we drifted along the legend, and although sometimes we went into the water to investigate, sometimes we didn't, but we did see a lot of strange water creatures, fish, turtles, and water snakes, the only thing they had in common was that they were extremely aggressive, polluted creatures.

The three-month rafting does not have a fixed route, sometimes in the tributaries, and sometimes in the mainstream.

And now, we can no longer find the mysterious underwater murder legend, just drifted down the river to the current place, Johnny said, today will sacrifice a magic weapon left by my ancestor to him, the final location.

In fact, three days ago, we experienced the last place where the legend took place, where Wal-Mart almost died in the water, besieged by a group of brutal and bloodthirsty fish, one of which was the giant catfish, and if it weren't for the sudden power of the powerful Taoper, Wal-Mart would definitely not have come back in the water.

Despite this, he is still very persistent in his adventurous career, and he is eager to see the eventual existence.

But thinking of this, I took a sip of the wine in the glass, and sensitively found that the place where we are now is a small city, according to Johnny's map, after the small city, there will be a large barren area, and the Ganges River will go through a period of no man's land, Johnny judged that the place where the existence finally stays is under a section of the river bank in the no man's land, but is there any other deep meaning in this?

As I was thinking, Singh warmly offered me a breakfast, very Western-style breakfast, omelette, hash browns and bacon, because it was simple and very filling.

I thought about this question, so I couldn't wait to ask Johnny for verification, so I walked up to Johnny who was fishing with a plate of breakfast and hash browns in my mouth.

"This bacon is actually very fragrant." Johnny saw me sitting down next to him, and without hesitation, grabbed a strip of bacon from my plate, put it in his mouth and chewed it.

And I didn't mind, but just said my judgment in front of Johnny: "Uncle Johnny, what do you think?" Is that being wise? What to avoid in a deserted place? But so close to a small city? ”

Johnny's expression was originally very pleasant, but after hearing my question, his expression stiffened for a moment, and the movement of chewing bacon stopped, and then a painful look appeared on his face, and he was silent for a long time before turning to me and saying, "Don't make plausible judgments, I don't want to think about this!" I am even more reluctant to recall some things, since I can't escape them, can I make my mood lighter? ”

What does this mean? I got some inexplicable words from Uncle Johnny's side, but my heart was a little heavy, as long as that existence was mentioned, Johnny was always vague, and the most reliable information we got now was that this existence was a corpse, and the others were completely unknown.

But what kind of corpse? Is the old village chief's corpse like that? Thinking of this, there was also a painful expression on my face, if it was the old village chief, I wouldn't want to face it a second time.

At this time, it was 7 o'clock in the morning, and everyone got up one after another, because the sun at this time was already very hot, making people so hot that they couldn't sleep anymore.

After a night of slow sailing, the Penglai has completely departed from the scope of the small city, and officially entered the barren no man's land, to be exact, in this far area, except for the occasional scattered villages, there are almost no people, and further forward, it is probably a hundred miles long real no man's land.

I don't know why, as soon as the ship sailed here, my mood became a little gloomy, and the strong summer sun could not dispel this gloom in my heart.

It's not just me, it seems that everyone has more or less such a mood, as well as some sense of crisis, Chengqing has been wiping the magic weapon repeatedly, and Brother Chengqing is arranging his bottles and cans in the same way, Lu Shan, Tao Bai and Hui Gen'er are also working harder than before on the deck in the morning

All of them felt like they were putting the last touches on it, except for Walmart and Johnny.

Wal-Mart didn't understand what the definition of a dangerous situation was, and as for Johnny's true calmness, he hadn't taken out the magic weapon that his ancestor had passed down to him, but he felt that fishing was more serious.

I took a long breath, grabbed a stool, sat down next to Johnny, and asked, "Uncle Johnny, when will you start searching for magic weapons?" ”

"When I get more." While speaking, Uncle Johnny glanced at the fish pocket next to him, unlike the fish pocket that found nothing along the way, there were already two or three fish in the fish pocket, I lifted the fish pocket to see, and found that these fish were struggling in the fish pocket, just looking at it gave people a feeling of rage! I didn't even ignore the purple marks on the fish that almost bit me, but I also found that almost all of them were contaminated with carnivorous fish.

"Originally, they were not so aggressive by nature, except for their prey! Now each one is attacking people, and fortunately there are no people on this stretch of the river, except for the occasional cargo ship. "Uncle Johnny's eyes are very worried, I don't know what he's thinking, the past that he has always refused to speak?

So, I wisely avoided the topic and asked directly, "So what is the harvest?" ”

"That's this special bait that will make me go down every shot and attract a fish in less than 5 minutes, and that's pretty much it." Johnny said lightly.

At this time, I noticed Johnny's bait, a bait with a faint red tinge, I had never paid so much attention to it before because I had not harvested it, I twisted it up a little bit, put it on the end of my nose, there was an indescribable taste, which made me crave and resist from my soul, and finally I couldn't help but ask, "What kind of bait is this?" ”

"There is a special talisman ash in it, and this talisman was left by your ancestor, he didn't explain it in detail, he only told me that this talisman is written with a special kind of blood, if you want to determine a large area at that time, you can use this to probe, and the contaminated creature will definitely be sensitive to this Then, I decided to burn it into talisman ash, and in the bait." Uncle Johnny took a sip of wine and explained calmly.

"What a genius idea." I couldn't help but mutter.

At the same time, Uncle Johnny's rod sank, another fish took the bait, and in the distance a general cargo ship smaller than us happened to pass by, and the crew of the ship was waving at us.

Singh piloted the Penglai and approached the general cargo ship a little, and the crew on board greeted us: "Are you a novice, your first time on the cargo?" Then I advise you that it is better to bypass this section of the river along the previous tributary, and do not think about shortening the road, we have just come back from the detour, this section of the river is not very peaceful, and there are not very good-tempered river gods. ”

Johnny was translating the crew member's words to me, while Singh had already said thank you and threw a bottle of wine to the enthusiastic crew member.

The grocery ship drove away, and I couldn't help but ask Uncle Johnny why Singh didn't even ask one. Uncle Johnny closed his eyes, rubbed his brows, and said, "This has nothing to do with the existence we are looking for, it is a very old legend about sailing!" There are some sections of the river where boats are not allowed to go, and it is a forbidden place for the river gods, and the front section of the no-man's land happens to be such a place. ”

"Why is it a coincidence that it is in that kind of place? Or what's in those river sections? "Actually, from the bottom of my heart, I don't believe it was a coincidence.

But Johnny was visibly a little irritable, and he said loudly: "I'm not a jack of all trades, don't ask me everything, taboos have been handed down since ancient times, not decided by me." ”

As he spoke, his rod sank again, and another bloodthirsty fish took the bait!