Chapter 18: The End of the World

I guessed wildly, my hands were not idle, a few knives cut off half of the fishing net, the three-masted ship was originally wrapped in the net on the sea willow boat, but before Shirley Yang and I cut off the other half of the net, the sea surge under the ups and downs of the parallel angle of the two boats suddenly split, the fishing net was ripped tightly taut between the two boats, the hull of the boat tilted with the force of the boat a little more, the lifeboat and one of the nets will be forcibly yanked off. would have been forcibly yanked off.

In a substantial swaying of the hull, my center of gravity backward, my body hit the cabin, I did not expect that the boat is not sturdy, unbearable, my body was sunk into the cabin of the white wooden boards, hit out a big hole out.

I think it is strange, the head mouth looked, in the hull of the boat I broke the depression, is from the flow of a strand of dirty blood, the cabin is not wooden, but with white cardboard simply framed, Shirley Yang saw those murky bloody blood, is also the face of the change of color, she reached out to me from the ground to drag up, I have also noticed that the cabin has a different, and hastened to say to her: “quickly withdraw, quickly withdraw! , this ship is made of white paper, a ghost ship burned to the dead souls at sea.”

Calm sea water suddenly surging and drumming up, the ship shook very badly, I have no root under the feet, staggering backward, my back is hitting the cabin, only to hear a “kala” sound, even the wooden boards sunk in, although this hit is not light, but I didn’t feel any pain, it felt as if it was mounted on an empty paper shell.

I looked back in doubt, the white three-masted ship, about the position near the hatch, was I collapsed into a large part of the board is not rotten and not strong enough, the hatch is simply a hard paper paste, if it is not Shirley Yang’s hands will drag me to hold on to, may not be able to stop the momentum of the fall through the hard paper into the cabin, the hatch cracks in the darkness of a group, can not see the state of the cabin, only inside the heavy smell of blood! The hatch crack is dark, can not see the situation inside the cabin, only the inside of the strong smell of blood want to make people want to vomit, the ship shook, along the doorway out of the blood.

How can there be a paper boat in the vast ocean? I remember that China’s coastal areas have a kind of put “summer boat” to send the five saints return to the sea custom, in the summer day to send the boat out to sea, let it drift on its own; there is also a kind of similar to the peculiar customs of the epidemic, every contagious plague such as plague disease, will be held in a similar activity, the use of all the old abandoned boat, the epidemic has the meaning of the gods of the plague out of the sea, are usually in the old boat glued with white paper. is in the old boat paste full of white paper, and the boat to tie many paper people paper money, in addition, such as swords, spears and guns, a variety of fishing boats and merchant vessels, as well as masts and yachts, masts and rudders are not all complete, the only white rice can be placed up to a liter, are coastal fishing boat people donations, donated in the boat, the more things, the God of the plague will be sent farther away, the boat is generally loaded with the body of the person who died of the disease, the most often full of a boat are This kind of boat is usually loaded with the bodies of people who died of diseases, and at most a boat full of dead bodies will be hauled to the distant sea and then incinerated by fire.

Before the liberation of an incident, the town of Linhai has a rice store, one day late at night, suddenly came a guest to black rice, because it was dark, the rice shopkeeper could not see the appearance of the guest, as if wearing a robe, which is very strange clothes, a little bit like the dead wearing the murderous clothes, and the guest has a salty rotten body odor, ask him the reason, the guest said that the ship is with pork, the road is far afraid of bad, they will be the fresh meat with Salt and fishy took, but did not think that although the pork pickled, but because the weather is too hot, or rotting and stinking, tomorrow dawn will find a place to deal with it, the rice shopkeeper is a greedy cheap people, see these rice is very cheap, the only drawback is that the bag containing rice a little bit of stink, but the rice shopkeeper that even if there is a stinky smell on the rice meat does not matter, you can be involved in the outward sale, who can not be found, so did not ask for anything else. So did not ask for anything else, pointing a lantern over the weighing of rice, and then ordered the fellows to temporarily put the first rice in the yard, the night over the wind, tomorrow dawn into the rice warehouse, otherwise it is really too stinky, who knows that the next day in the morning to look at the dozens of bags of rice unpacked and poured in the yard, all disappeared, leaving a ground of rice grains, put together about a liter, and only then know that last night may be the ghost, buy into the epidemic ship’s Dead people rice, did not dare to report, not three days, the town sounded the plague, nearly half of the people died.

This legend I heard more than once in Fujian, where the narrator said that this thing is true, but did not happen in Fujian, the specific location of the incident is in the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang somewhere, is an old story during the Republic of China, when the age of small, immature world view, this kind of strange and chaotic God is very like to listen to, so that I still have a vivid memory of the zombies on board the ship sometimes inadvertently think of the night to the rice store to sell rice to send the plague, but also really feel the back of the neck. Neck a little cold whooshing, so I look at the hatch is sealed with white hard paper, the first thing I thought of is the ship of the epidemic, I wonder if the ship and the ship towing it scattered, and drifted here with the ocean current?

I immediately thought of this matter, but the custom of expelling the epidemic has long been abolished, has it not? A moment to think do not quite understand, but the concept of the epidemic ship preconceived ideas, that this ship is by no means a good place to stay for a long time, may be infected with the bodies in the cabin of the epidemic, I also do not care to take a close look at, and hastily greeted Shirley Yang to quickly withdraw the “trident”.

Shirley Yang with a fishing knife poked and prodded the deck under the feet, tom-tom sound of wood, said to me: “How can there be a papier-mâché ship on the sea? The whole ship has front and rear hatches covered with paper armor, if the whole ship was papier-mâché, it would have been swallowed up by the sea surge.”

I thought Shirley Yang although the knowledge is very wide, but after all, she was educated in the United States, the United States has only a total of how many years of history? Of course, I do not know I China’s vast expanse of land, since ancient folk strange customs, the current state of affairs is urgent, which cares about the detailed description, and at this time when the sea fog is filled with demonic atmosphere, fear that the oozing of blood in the cabin of the ship will jump out of a rice seller, and then no longer say more, and immediately held her hand and ran to the ship’s strings.

The sea surge gradually increased, wrapped around the two boats of the last half of the fishing net even without cutting the knife will soon be taut, in order to prevent accidents, Shirley Yang is still waving the knife will be completely cut off the fishnet, the two boats lost connection, the ship shook more and more away from the farther the jumping-off point fell into the sea, the captain of the boat Ruan Hei control of the trident to meet the full force of the three-masted boat to try to post the boat, a few people on the opposite side of the boat to us shouting! A few people on the opposite ship shouted at us, and threw two cables with life preservers to us successively. I threw away my fishing knife and held the life preservers tightly with my arms, so it seemed that if I wanted to go back to the Trident, I could only swing over the surface of the sea in mid-air just like the apes and briskets.

The height of the deck from the water is very low, but Duoling and Guchai are very experienced, they have already wrapped the rope around the top of the ship in advance in a higher place, to grab the cable to go over and not fall into the water, was about to take action, but the fat man shouted loudly to the searchlight beam pressed to the surface, as if there is something in the water, I looked down to the surface of the sea under the ship, I couldn’t help but sucked in a breath of cool air, the water is full of sharks’ spine wings, they are attracted by the blood, are from all sides of the sea, they are attracted by the blood. attracted by the blood, are coming from all directions, there are a lot of them, they are all circling around the ship, because they are too excited, they are swimming extremely fast, it’s dazzling to see, if they fall into the water, they will be torn apart by them in a few moments.

Bold and then big people see these sharks will also feel chills, with their speed and mouth several layers of sharp teeth than the saw, prey on people in the water, is like a tiger pouncing on a sheep, Shirley Yang more know see the blood of the group of sharks powerful place, horrified: “my God ah, old Hu you can be careful, do not fall.”

I don’t need her to remind me that I know the power of it, I also had to remind her, “You must not hesitate, don’t look into the sea when you go over ……” At this time, the three masted ship undulated even more violently, and the distance between the two ships expanded once again, and due to the seawater pouring in, the side of the The hull of the boat is already tilted, and the farther away it is, the more likely it is that it will fall into the water while swinging over, there is no more time for me to make adequate mental preparation, and it’s impossible to want to go together, there must be one to hold up the other to increase the height from the ground, and minimize the possibility of touching the water, I held Shirley Yang and said, “You go first, I’ll help you! ……”

Shirley Yang anxiously said: “No, you want to show off again, how can you pass by yourself?” Seconds and seconds of life and death, I did not want to wait for her to say more, hold up her feet to push upward, Shirley Yang’s body is light, tugging the lifebuoy in the cable driven, brush a slide over the water, she touched the side of the boat hanging this lifeboat, it immediately hands and feet quickly climbed up to the string of the boat, turned to me and called out: “Quickly come over, the boat is going to sink. ”

But at this time the two boats with the sea wave undulation, the distance has been pulled apart, just now I in order to help Shirley Yang swings across the sea, they put their own lifebuoy on the side of the body, did not have time to find a place to fix, the two boats one point, the lifebuoy will be dragged into the water by the cable, the fat man and Gu Guchai and other people see the situation is anxious on the deck jumping straight to their feet, they hurriedly pulling the cable to pull the lifebuoy back to the boat, and want to once again thrown! They hurriedly pulled the cable and went to drag the lifebuoy back to the ship, wanting to throw it again to save the people, but they were a little far away, and it fell into the sea again under one throw.

The bottom of this three-masted ship was scraped with a big crack, and seawater kept pouring into it, and although the hull was already tilted, for some reason it not only didn’t sink, but began to rock, as if there was something huge at the bottom of the sea seizing the bottom of the ship, and if it was shaken a few times, the hull, which was not too strong, would be broken up.

I see the distance from the “trident” more and more far away, the sea fog have been unable to see the faces of their companions, gradually disappeared in the fog, only to hear them desperately shouting, brain fever, can not hear what they shout, just hear those voices in the heart a little bit of acid, a lonely feeling came to life, is it really with this ghost ship? Is it really going to die with this ghost ship at the bottom of the sea? As the ship lurched, three-masted cabin in the blood also gushed out continuously, along the deck of the ship flowed into the sea, although there is no light illumination in the night fog, it is difficult to distinguish the situation at sea, but listen to the water that piece of chaotic ringing, as with the dumplings opened the pot, we know that the sharks around the gathering of the number of sharks has not been able to estimate.

The ship was in the dark, only the lone light on the mast was on, I looked around, I could not see almost anything, I had to hold the main mast to stabilize the center of gravity, and lighted up the small spotlight flashlight I brought with me, and finally there was some light, I took a look at the paper hatch that was broken by me, and the white hatch was stained with the blood that came out of the inside, and could not see its original appearance, and I thought that I might as well take a look at the hatch to see what was in it before I died! Shed so much blood, wait until the next to see the old horse them, I can also truthfully report, lest be asked three do not know, to the death or a confused ghost, this ghostly white blood ship, as if there is a life where the same as where it will bleed when broken, if it is said to be the ship by the epidemic is not like, I really want to see this ghost ship in the end there is what is the name of the ship?

I do not know why at the last moment, my curiosity will always win over their own fear, the heart of a ruthless, intends to rush into the cabin to see in the end, but did not wait to lift his legs, the ship sank violently, I cursed a fuck him two granddaddy’s, how to suddenly sink so fast again?

In the melting pot of the army so many years of exercise, and have done a lot of times to touch the gold lieutenant’s play hook, encountered this situation, after all, can not wait for death, so the teeth bite the miniature spotlight tube, hands and feet climbed up the mast, the ship sinking fast, I climbed even faster, “Miso miso, miso, miso,” a few times climbed to the top of the mast, and only to see up and down the right and left are all The sea fog, the following is the seawater raging group of sharks swimming messy sound, hear my heart straight hairy.

The three-masted ship sinking faster and faster, the thick sea fog has been unable to see the “trident” direction, I think now can only try to buy time, waiting for them to sail back to rescue, now can only hope that the ship sinking slower, at first you can hear their shouts, now even the sound of the sound is not there, the hope has become remote! Many, I guess is no longer see the day of victory, when I was waiting for reinforcements do not come, the sea suddenly appeared a huge fluctuation, the leaky three-masted ship suddenly emerged from the water, like a piece of leaves floating in the wind, high and low by the waves thrown up and down, in the sky and earth like a violent rocking, I hold the mast trembling tilted want to break, at any time may fall into the water.

Three-masted ship because of leakage, finally began to sink into the sea, the sea water swarms of sharks circling, by the smell of blood stimulate the spirit of hyperactivity, the wooden ship was hit by the sharks thumping, I hurriedly climbed to the top of the mast, I did not expect this time the ship swayed, has sunk into the sea, but suddenly surfaced, the fog only heard the cabin of the ship issued a loud noise, such as a dragon roar and tsunami.

My whole body clothes were three-masted ship stirred up seawater splash wet, ears whistling wind, with the ship’s body violently undulate, tightly embraced the mast do not dare to spread, heard the movement of the ship, heart said bad, no wonder this ship leaks the water is still not sinking, the original sea there is something to support it, this thing must be how big one? How big is this thing? Is the blood in the cabin all that guy’s?