Pick up the Dragon

When Peng Yu flew to Penglai on the back of a dragon, he was still a little dazed.

He was still discussing the past and present with Li Yi in the morning, and he just figured out that he was an old friend of Moulong 2000 years ago... no, best friend.I really don't understand why I was suddenly ordered to pack up and fly directly from Xianzhou to Penglai.

The lineup is still the same lineup—two people and two dragons. I didn't pay attention when I set off, and accidentally let a little beast named Huangdou get mixed in the package. The cold wind blew shiveringly.

While flying, Jiuyuan still did not forget to communicate with his dragon king: "My lord, I always feel that we are being played by someone."

The still half-disabled Dragon King was held in Peng Yu's arms to prevent him from falling, and he answered his words expressionlessly: "Did you feel it now? I felt it as soon as I set off."

Even though the dragon flies thousands of miles away, it still takes a while to fly from Xianzhou to Penglai. Peng Yu pointed on the dragon's back: "You land in Dengzhou for me first, and I will find my father."

Peng Yu hasn't seen his father for more than three years, and hasn't received a letter for more than a year. He just visited so suddenly, and he really doesn't know what expression the old man will give in return.Peng Yu was thinking all the way, how to explain to his father that he just had a "big change" the night before, that he was the reincarnation of a fairy 2000 years ago, and that he got involved with a dragon for no apparent reason.

I'm afraid Father Peng will think that his son has been turned into a lunatic or a fool by Zhou Huaizhi.

Young Master Peng felt uneasy, which caused his footsteps to flutter when he landed.In order to save trouble, Jiuyuan stopped the dragon directly at the ferry, and the few people were almost knocked over by the sea breeze. Although Peng Yu had dragon energy to keep out the cold, he still couldn't help being sneezed a few times by the damp and salty wind. Grabbing a handful of hair that was blown wildly because he forgot to tie it up, he gave Jiu Yuan a ferocious look.

Jiu Yuan was baffled, and didn't want to talk to this young master who was always convulsed, and walked past him without changing his face behind his back.

Peng Yu looked around and quickly found his very eye-catching merchant ship, which was moored at the ferry because the weather was bad and it was not suitable for going to sea. The huge "Peng" business name was faintly visible on the furled sails.

He led Qianyue to join the Pengjia caravan in Dengzhou—six Class A caravan No. 30, code-named "Jihai".

Shi Hang, the leader of the Jihai caravan, was taken aback by his young master's sudden visit. Since the caravan could not go to sea for several days, they were idly gathering people to gamble on the ship. The whole cabin was filled with smog. It was like mice seeing a cat, chirping, chirping and tinkling, standing against the bulkhead one after another, raising their hands in surrender.

The team leader was nicknamed "Dung Pit" - because his name was written too scribbled when he first entered Peng's house to register, and Master Peng's second-five eyes regarded "Hang" as "Pit", and coupled with the surname "Shi", It is a freshly baked "shit pit".

Peng Yu only felt that the caravan of Ji Hai was also brought into the cesspit by this Shi Hang. He patrolled around the cabin with a straight face and hands behind his back, and finally stopped in front of Shi Hang: "Where is the master?"

"Master, he..." Shi Hang's eyes flicked wildly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, "Master, he went to sea."

"Going out to sea," Peng Yu gritted his teeth and chewed the three words again, "Tell me, the boats are all parked at the ferry, how did the master go out to sea and swim? Do you want to say that the master is a bastard, or do you want to say Young master, am I a bastard?"

Shi Hang was shaking like a sieve: "No...not..."

Peng Yu didn't want to listen to his weak excuses at all, so he stretched out a finger and clicked in the cabin: "The Jihai caravan has 16 people, and there are quite a few of them here. Let me let my father do it together with you!" Did you swim to Penglai Island?"

Shi Hang was "interrogated" by him, and his psychological construction completely collapsed. Suddenly, he knelt down in front of him with a "plop", grabbed his leg and started howling: "Master! It's not that we deliberately concealed it from you, but the master didn't let us Say! The master did go out to sea, he took six brothers a year and a half ago, sailed to Penglai Xiandao in a boat, and never came back!"

"We can't stop him. Before he left, he left... a message saying, if he doesn't come back, don't inform the young master, don't let the young master know! The boat that is parked now is our new build, and the people are our new ones." It’s recruited, if you don’t believe me, take a closer look!”

Peng Yu froze for a moment, twisted his neck stiffly, and saw more than a dozen people poked beside him lowered their heads one after another—there were too many people in the Peng family caravan, it was impossible for him to recognize every face, and he could not Possibly remember every ship.If what Shi Hang said is true, then...

He strode out of the cabin and yelled at Jiuyuan against the sea wind: "Take me to the island, now, immediately!"

The wind howls along the coast of Dengzhou, but once it goes deep into the sea area, the fog locks up, and Penglai Xiandao is hidden in this thick fog. Without the guidance of the real dragon, anyone will be lost in the vast sea area.

Peng Yu still circled Li Yi and sat on Jiuyuan's back, with a surprisingly dignified expression—this time on the island, the foursome turned into a threesome, and he left Qianyue on the coast of Dengzhou to meet him, because he heard that the island's environment It is not suitable for human life, and it is not good for a girl to follow them to eat and drink.

Although his heart was heavy at this time, when Jiuyuan broke through the thick fog and arrived at the outskirts of Xiandao, he still couldn't help opening his eyes - the island appeared far away at the end of his sight, and he could only see a piece of greenery from afar. Numerous plants cover the sky, seabirds circling, gulls singing, waves hitting the fine sand on the shore, the golden sand is shining in the sun, occasionally leaving some small shells, or crawling over a few crabs.

Jiu Yuan turned back into a human form and landed on the ground. Peng Yu stepped on the soft sand with one foot, and one of them lost his footing. He knelt down with a "Ouch".The Dragon Guard only cared about his Dragon King, and didn't want to reach out to help him, so he had to get up on the spot, patted his clothes and took a deep breath of the fresh sea breeze: "This place is so beautiful."

Penglai Xiandao is like spring all the year round, and the vegetation is evergreen. Soybeans fly out of someone's clothes, chattering and hovering above everyone's heads.Peng Yu followed the two dragons for a while, and suddenly asked, "Did you say my father really landed on the island?"

Li Yi lay lazily on Jiuyuan's back: "I think it's very difficult, unless someone guides you, outsiders can't get in."

"But if he hadn't landed on the island, where has he been in the past year and a half?"

"It's possible to get lost at sea," Li Yi said. "The area blocked by the fog near Penglai Island is very large, and this sea area is very strange. Sinan will probably fail in all likelihood. If your father loses his way in this sea area, there is People could be lost due to wind and waves or reef boats."

Peng Yu pursed his lips tightly, but Li Yi changed his voice and said, "However, the probability of this is not high. Penglai is protected by the Azure Dragon Clan. The Aquarium in the sea is protected by the Dragon Clan, so they will not hurt people at will. And if you see a ship getting lost, you will take the initiative to guide them and let them return in the direction of Dengzhou—so why your father disappeared here, I am not sure why."

"Then what should I do? I won't be able to find him again?" Peng Yu's tone was a little anxious, "I have to...you want to see people and dead bodies, right?"

Li Yi asked Jiu Yuan to put himself on a big rock, and waved to Peng Yu: "Come here."

Peng Yu didn't know why, so he walked up to him and stood still.Li Yi took a hair from his shoulder and stroked it slowly between his fingers: "This is my territory, as long as he is here, I will definitely find him, life or death."

The green light went up along the hair, struggled out from between his fingers as if alive, swam around in mid-air, and suddenly swooped down around Peng Yu, the blue light suddenly faded, and the hair fell on him lightly. feet.

Peng Yu looked at the hair in confusion: "What's going on? It's out of order?"

"No," Li Wei said with a strange expression, "he's right...under your feet."

Peng Yu was startled suddenly, and took a step back involuntarily, but was tripped by something, staggered and fell to the ground, his fingers sank into the sand, as if he had supported something hard.

He suddenly lowered his head, and saw a hole was dug out by him in the golden fine sand at his hand, and in the hole was a piece of white bone!

Peng Yu's hairs stood on end, and he felt the blood rushing to the top of his head. He stared at the severed bone for a few seconds, and then staggered away. When he crawled away, he brought more sand and more dust. bones.

He rolled aside in shock, muttering in a mess: "No... no, is this a human bone? This is an animal... it must not be my father, right? Why is he coming to Penglai Island for nothing, is he alive? He's crazy and can't think of coming to die? He definitely didn't come, he must still be in Dengzhou, let's go back, Jiuyuan, let's go back..."

"Peng Yu," Li Yi poked his eyes straight at him, "this is a human bone. Take a good look to see if it is someone you know. If it is someone from your caravan, you must keep the bones , take it back and give someone an explanation."

Peng Yu shivered violently, closed his eyes forcefully, and lowered his head to scrape away the fine sand covering the white bones. He dug out something from the sand within a few strokes. His breathing was stagnant, and his pupils Shrinking violently, he slowly raised his hand to cover his face.

His whole body trembled like an electric shock, he bent down and shrank himself into a ball, and the blue veins on his forehead, which were not covered by his hands, stood out.No one spoke for a while, and even Jiu Yuan seemed to know that there should be no more words in this situation, so he closed his mouth tightly on one side and poked it motionless.

After a long while, Peng Yu finally raised his head slowly, with no expression on his face, but the corners of his eyes were red.He spread out his palm, and there were two jade pendants in his palm. He wiped away the sand sticking to the jade pendants bit by bit, and opened his mouth with slightly trembling lips: "This is my father and mother's jade... It's a pair. My father just put the two pieces of jade together on his body, no...it can't be wrong."

He held the jade pendant tightly, and his white knuckles were full of confusion: "Why? Why did he go to Penglai Island, and how did he get up? Even the fleet sent by the emperor couldn't get up. How did you find it?"

Li Yi didn't answer, just raised his hand to wave a gust of wind, gently blowing away the yellow sand that buried the bones.Peng Yu couldn't bear to look at it, but he still watched the exposed bones gradually piece together into a human figure, because he messed up a few joints, and it looked a bit messy.

The white bone fell on the beach in a prone position, with both arms desperately reaching forward, as if trying to grab something.Li Yi swept the sand away a little more, and saw that he was still holding another skeleton in his hand, but the skeleton was not big, with outstretched wings, it was obviously not a human being, it should be some kind of bird.

"What? A seabird?" Jiu Yuan stepped forward and fiddled with it a few times, picked up a bone and examined it carefully in his hand.

When Li Wei saw the bird bone, he suddenly remembered something, and his mind was connected like a thread: "You said before that the last Chongming bird disappeared on Penglai Island—it was Chongming, and it was Chongming who led him to find this place. .”

"Chongming?" Jiu Yuan seemed incredulous, "How could Chongming die? Still dying in such a place?"

Li Yi looked at the two inseparable skeletons again: "There is no obvious trauma on this person's skeleton, it should not be injured to death, and this place... is already a little far away from the sea, and it is generally difficult to come here when the tide rises." , he should not be washed ashore after death, but crawled here before dying."

"Chongming will not appear on Penglai Island for no reason - I have heard such a saying that when some animals are about to die, they will find a quiet and beautiful no-man's land for themselves, as a tomb for themselves to live in after death, divine bird Maybe it’s unavoidable. Maybe Chongming knew that his power was about to run out, so he chose Penglai Island, but on the way, he encountered a merchant ship that got lost in the mist.”

Jiuyuan nodded: "So Chongming just led them to the island?"

Li Yi: "No, Chongming will not lure human beings to the island at will, it will definitely take them back to Dengzhou, but these human beings don't want to return in vain. Zhou Xuan, the last divine power was exhausted, so he was chased by that human being and died on the island together."

He turned his gaze to Peng Yu: "You said before that a chicken really flew into your home when you were born, and that chicken was Chongming. Your father must have found out about this, and he couldn't let your mother go. , perhaps thought that Chongming took her away, and heard that Chongming appeared in Penglai, so they came here to look for it. They may have encountered some accidents while circling the sea. Although they succeeded in catching Chongming in the end, they failed as they wished, and they were still exhausted. Or die for some other reason."

"Of course, these are all my guesses." He didn't wait for Peng Yu to answer, and then ordered Jiuyuan, "Go and look around, it's impossible for the seven of them to have only one skeleton, there must be other clues, let's see See if there is anything like the remains of a merchant ship."

Jiu Yuan nodded and left in response. After a while, several bones were found on the beach closer to the sea. Unfortunately, they were incomplete due to the accumulation of tides. There were only three skulls, and the other bones were even more messy.

He searched in deeper waters, and finally fished out a rusty iron plate among the overgrown rocks, which should be part of the hull, with the still scorching "Peng" brand on it.

At this point, all the mysteries seem to have been solved. The merchant ship forcibly landed on the island and hit a rock in the offshore and sank. The scattered parts of the ship were thrown far away by the waves. to the shore.Only Mr. Peng pursued Chongming persistently, and finally landed on the island, but due to exhaustion, hunger and thirst, he fell asleep here completely.

Peng Yu sat there with blank eyes for a long time, carefully put the two jade pendants in his arms, got up without saying a word and began to collect the corpses.The Dragon King was unable to move, so he had to stay aside and watch with a complicated expression. Jiu Yuan came over to help, but it was rare that he wisely did not speak out to provoke him.

In the seven-member team, only Master Peng's skeleton was still intact, and the three on the shore could only be roughly put together. All the items that could prove their identity were swept away by the waves, and no one could even tell their names.But compared with the remaining three brothers who have no bones left, they seem to be lucky, and there is nothing to be ashamed of.

The two packed up several corpses separately, together with the iron plate with the Peng's business name on it, and let Jiuyuan transport it back to the other side, and handed it over to Qianyue and the Jihai caravan who were in Dengzhou.

The gray dragon disappeared on the swaying blue sea under the rays of the sun, the seabirds stopped circling one after another, the twilight merged, and the hustle and bustle gradually subsided, only the waves still washed the beach endlessly, bringing something and taking something away .

Peng Yu randomly found a stone and sat down, with his long legs stretched out, and the ignorant Soybean jumped back and forth on his knees, having a great time.He didn't know where his eyes were looking, and the world in his eyes was temporarily covered with a thin layer of mist, like a barrier stretching thousands of miles outside Penglai Island, blocking the outside world from looking inside.

Suddenly a pale hand came from the side and handed a water bag in front of him, Li Yi stared at his dry and cracked lips for a while, then said softly: "Drink some water, it's already afternoon. "

"Thank you."

Peng Yu took the water bag, unscrewed the plug, took a sip, and heard him say, "My condolences."