The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The cabins on the ship are no more than hotel rooms. Even if they live in a better room, the space is extremely limited.Chong Liu was lying on the single bed, listening to the creaking sound of the planks of the hull in the dark and the rustling sound of the waves beating the hull, as if it was the whisper of a ghost in the sea.

Zhu Helan who was on the opposite bunk blew out the candle, and suddenly climbed onto Chong Liu's bed.

"What are you doing! It's so crowded!"

"It's too cold over there."

"...I don't feel cold!"

Zhu Helan wrapped his arms around his waist from behind, sticking to his back like a huge human-shaped plaster in all directions.Chong Liu was caught in the long-lost familiar breath, and let out a long breath.

He listened carefully to his consciousness, but he didn't hear the drumbeat.

He knew the raven hadn't let him go.As for why the sound of the drums suddenly went out... probably because Qiongji Island was where the crow wanted him to go.

For some reason, a thought came to my mind: the beginning of everything is also the end of everything.

"You said on the poor island, what will we find?" Chong Liu asked softly.

Zhu Helan tightened his arms, and said after a while, "I don't know."

"Don't know or don't want to think?"

Zhu Helan gently kissed the back of his neck, "Just remember, no matter what, I won't let you go, that's all."

Chong Liu grasped Zhu Helan's hand tightly, and his fingers turned into soft tentacles, tightly entangled with Zhu Helan's fingers.And Zhu Helan's hair also quietly climbed onto his body, covering their bodies like a quilt with a scent of blood.

Sleeping until midnight, Chong Liu suddenly woke up.Although he woke up, he didn't know that it was a dream that was pulled out by something.

Zhu Helan also opened his eyes suddenly, gathered his hair, sat up and looked at the small cabin.Darkness condenses in every silent corner, and the unresolved silence floats on the eternal sound of waves, brewing a tense and ominous feeling.

Zhu Helan sniffed the smell in the air.Although it is normal to have the smell of the sea on board, this smell seems to be more than twice as strong as before they fell asleep, and it is also more humid and turbid.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the door.Chong Liu and Zhu Helan looked at each other, and hurriedly opened the door to go out to check the situation, just in time to see Chong Wu also coming out from the side.The three of them exchanged glances and hurried down the ship building, only to see that the deck was brightly lit, and a group of sailors gathered near the entrance of the cabin in shock, looking at the impenetrable darkness under the cabin at the bottom like a ghost.

Several sailors surrounded a crying middle-aged man and continued to comfort him, while Song Mingzi, who arrived faster than them, was already asking, "What happened?"

"He heard his little daughter, who had been dead for three years, call him from below," said an old sailor, and then added in a low voice, "Drown."

"She said she was so cold..." The man grabbed his hair and said in great pain, "She asked me to carry her up."

"I heard it too..." Another young man with a scarf on his head was full of fear. "I heard my grandma calling me out to eat dumplings. But she has been dead for more than ten years."

Several people chattered in one go, as if they heard the voices of their deceased relatives.

Song Mingzi hurriedly asked, "Have you all answered?"

Everyone shook their heads hurriedly, and the bearded man said, "You ordered not to agree, and we didn't agree."

Chong Wu suddenly said at this time, "Look, it's foggy."

After he said this, everyone noticed the fog gradually gathering around the boat.Dusty and coiled, almost like shaped silk.They were still some distance from the ship, but the almost solid mist rolled and approached from all sides.

water ghost.

The water ghost has arrived.

They may be under the boat at this moment, like a group of silent ghosts, like vultures waiting to hunt, hovering around their big boat.He weighed six volts to the side of the ship, bent down again and looked into the depths of the dark sea.

Unknowingly, his spirit seemed to be extending downward... extending, penetrating the surface of the sea, and dipping into the salty sea water.There is no light, but the sea water itself seems to exude a faint green fluorescence, and every smallest particle that makes up the water is responding to his search.

With a rustle, something quickly passed his field of vision, a huge and solid thing.The originally calm water was disturbed and trembling.Chong Liuyu wanted to catch the flashing black shadow with his sight, but no matter how he looked, he could only find the surging sea water.

So he concentrated his energy and looked deeper into the water.But that darkness is impossible to see through.

Suddenly, darkness squirmed.

Chongliu didn't understand at first, thinking it was an illusion caused by the sloshing sea water.But gradually, he realized that the depths of the sea, the place he couldn't see through, wasn't the darkness that couldn't be seen.

It was densely packed with thousands of dark shadows, blocking his spreading vision.

Chong Liu felt a chill blasting on his scalp, but he was inexplicably attracted by those shadows, unwilling to look away.

The dark, furry shadows in the rippling water are silent, like countless terracotta warriors and horses lined up quietly, waiting under the sea for thousands of years.Slowly but synchronously, they raised their heads, revealing cloudy, white eyes without lids.The empty and dead sight is like a ghost shooting from the world of death.

They stretched out illusory arms, beckoning to him slowly, like dense seaweed swaying slowly.

Chong Liu didn't realize that his upper body had already protruded from the ship's side. It wasn't until a hand grabbed his collar suddenly and pulled him up that he suddenly recovered and met Zhu Helan's dignified face.

"What are you looking at?" Zhu Helan asked nervously.

Chong Liu glanced at the panicked crowd and whispered, "They are under the boat."

Zhu Helan also looked into the sea.Although he couldn't see the situation under the sea, he could sense that something huge and ancient was rapidly approaching them from the depths of the sea.The foul smell of the sticky and fishy tide was thicker than he had ever seen before, and it surrounded them overwhelmingly.

On the cockpit, Mr. Xuanwu's eyes behind the mask were filled with faint light, looking at the guide fish circling wildly on the water surface in the basin, "The water ghost has appeared, and Qiongji Island is probably not far away."

Xu Hanke stood behind him and asked, "What do these water ghosts have to do with Qiongji Island?"

Mr. Xuanwu said slowly, "Water ghosts are the abyss corpses. People in the far west call them the deep dive tribe. They are half human and half fish, and they live forever. Among them is a pair of the oldest and most powerful abyss corpses, which are close to demigods. They are probably all The ancestor of the deep corpse. There are not many records about this pair of sea monsters in the Central Plains, but there are rumors about them in the Far West and Southeast Asia. They are called Dagon and Hydra.

Although ancient and powerful, Dagon and Hydra are not gods that Abyssal Corpse truly worships.Their true belief is Cthulhu, the devourer of the sea. "

Xu Hanke said, "I've heard of this name before. All sailors are taboo to mention these three words."

"Most sailors only know that they can't mention it, but they don't know what it is. Only those old sailors who often travel on ocean trade routes know a little bit. The Devourer of the Sea is not in our universe at this time, but with other filthy It is isolated in another universe like a god. It has a high status among the gods, half because of its own strength, and the other half because it is one of the three main gods among the unclean gods—the omniscient god son."

Xu Hanke was slightly startled, "The omniscient god... is the filthy god who left behind the poor book?"

"That's right. Before Cthulhu was expelled, he was the master of the entire sea. The place where he lived was Poor Island. After it left, the deep corpses have been protecting the island, waiting for the return of their gods."

Gangshou and Shaotou rushed into the cockpit at this time, panicked and asked them what to do.Mr. Xuanwu raised his hand and said, "Don't be anxious, we don't need to do anything."

"do nothing?!"

"This fog will take us where we're looking."

Suddenly, the whole ship trembled violently, as if being hit by some huge monster.The crew yelled in fright as they couldn't stand still, and hurriedly hugged the side of the mast.

Another slam followed.The strong and huge hull made a crumbling whine, which made people's hearts tremble.

"There are ghosts! There are ghosts in the water!" Someone started screaming.

The water ghosts are floating up, getting closer and closer to the sea surface.But what collided with the hull was something beside it...

"It can't get in, so it has to break through." Song Mingzi looked at Master Qi Yao, "This is not an ordinary filth."

Daoist Qi Yao loudly ordered the alchemists he brought to protect the law, and at the same time said to Song Mingzi, "We have to divert the force of the collision so that we can hold on to the hull."

"Where is it transferred?"

"You and I use the star-moving technique to transfer most of the momentum to our Dao lock, and then disperse into the sea. It's just that the Dao lock must not be broken, otherwise our lives are in danger."

Song Mingzi knew that this method was equivalent to transferring the power of the entire ship to the two of them, which was extremely dangerous.But if the ship is really destroyed, what follows them is not only the boundless raging sea, but also those water ghosts waiting for a full meal...

"Zhu Helan, hurry up and think of a way! We can only hold back for now!" Song Mingzi yelled at Zhu Helan, while sitting opposite Daoist Qi Yao.The rest of the Qingming Sect disciples surrounded them and each recited mantras silently.

But seeing Song Mingzi and Daoist Qi Yao's palms facing each other, the moment they closed their eyes, bright golden brilliance suddenly burst out from both of them.Pure and clear Dao Qi burst out between the two of them like a whirlwind.The Qi flowed around the two of them for a few weeks, and then a rune flashed faintly on the foreheads of the two of them.

In their facing palms, a round ball of light began to appear.

When the next impact hit, the shaking of the ship's body became much smaller, but the ball of light trembled violently.At the same time, the bodies of Song Mingzi and Daoist Qi Yao seemed to have been hit hard, and Dao Qi was in chaos for a moment before returning to its original operation.

Chong Liu strode towards the ship's side, but was held back by Zhu Helan.

"What are you going to do?"

"They're coming for me, and I can stop them."

"I am with you."

Chong Liu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Aren't you good at swimming?"

Zhu Helan's face was livid.He never expected that his own shortcomings would be hindered at this moment.

Chong Liu grabbed his hand and patted the back of his hand, "Don't worry, I won't go with them."

"I'll go with you, lest they drag you away with so many people." Chong Wu said beside him.

"Haven't you never been in the water before?!" Zhu Helan asked unwillingly.

"Please, take a look at the real life of me and Xiaoliu. Is this something worth learning?" Chong Wu rolled his eyes in disdain.

Zhu Helan found out that he had never won against his new brother Chong Liu...

At this time Chong Liu had already stood on the side of the boat, and the gust of wind from the collision of Dao Qi and foul air blew away his hair bun.

"Liu'er! Be careful!" Zhu Helan shouted.

Chong Liu turned around, smiled brightly at him, and nodded.He jumped, and in the chaotic and confused mist, Chong Liu's body began to deform rapidly.Arms, legs... all scattered into countless marine tentacles, and at first glance, it looks like countless silk threads flying in the night sky.In an instant, he shot into the dark and unknown sea like a blue meteor.