treacherous world

Lu Fang told everyone about the so-called legend of the Scarlet Demon City.

That was when he was very young, he heard an old fisherman say.

It is said that when the old fisherman was young, he helped people run a ship to transport goods. That time, he went to a relatively distant sea area, and encountered a strong storm on the return journey, and their boat capsized.He caught hold of a plank, survived the catastrophe, drifted at sea for several days, and finally drifted on a deserted island.

It is said that there are villages and markets on this deserted island, but there are no people, and the whole village is a strange brown-black color.The fisherman originally thought that some kind of tree on the island was used to build the house, so it would have this color, so he didn't pay much attention to it.He searched around the island, but strangely, he didn't find anyone. It turned out to be a deserted island.

The fisherman himself caught some fish and crabs by the river, and made a bonfire to roast and eat them. When the sun set and the moon rose, he didn't see anyone in the village.So he confirmed again that it was an isolated city.

But the fisherman was not depressed, on the contrary, he was very happy. He found an ax and an oil lamp in the village, and planned to build a boat by himself and sail back.

But that night, when the moon was in the middle of the sky, the fisherman looked into the village and was stunned for a moment.It turned out that the whole village turned red, as if it had been painted with a layer of red blood... When I looked closely, I felt that all the houses and land were bleeding out, and there was a bloody smell coming from it.

The fisherman was terrified, so he ran wildly to the shore.Looking back at the village, the fisherman opened his mouth wide, and saw that the village was covered in blood, and even the full moon in the sky seemed to be reflected in red.

Just when the fisherman was desperate, there was a fishing boat passing by in the sea ahead. The boat was huge!Overjoyed, the fisherman lit a bonfire and waved his torch for help.

After a while, the boat stopped at the shallows.

The fisherman swam over and climbed up the rope ladder... When he got on the boat and saw it, he was stunned.

I saw that the inside of the ship was also blood-red, the sails were worn out, and there were some dead bones lying on the ship... It turned out to be a dead ship.

This kind of dead ship on the sea is very common. Basically, it is even worse. People die and the ship has no ministers, and it has been floating on the sea.

The fisherman inspected the corpses carefully, and found that the corpses looked weird, with a big hole in the chest and heart, as if the heart had been ripped out.

Compared with the situation on the island, it seems that the ship is more terrifying.The fisherman wanted to go back, but when he looked back, it was unbelievable that the small island that was still behind him had disappeared.

The fisherman rubbed his eyes to search, but at this time there was a vast ocean all around, and there was no shadow of the island, as if nothing had ever existed.The fisherman was frightened, his limbs went limp, and he sat paralyzed on the boat.

After that, the fisherman began to drift on the sea with the dead boat, and he fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up, it was already daylight.

The boat was still dead silent, and the fisherman felt that he would die of starvation, thirst, or loneliness if he continued like this. In short, he would not be scared to death.

So I decided to save myself and try my best, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

He searched around the boat, and found water, food, and wine. After eating, his whole body became refreshed, and he began to identify the direction according to the sun's position, and prepared to return.

It's just that those corpses lying all over the boat were not very pleasing to the eye, so he threw them all into the sea.When dealing with the corpse of an old man, a scroll, paper and pen fell from the corpse.

The fisherman opened the scroll, and saw the words written by the old man on it, which recorded their voyage.

It turned out that this was also a merchant ship carrying goods and was on its way home.In the last article, the time was recorded half a year ago. It can be judged that it should be the time when the ship was shipwrecked.

There are many things recorded in that piece of text.On the return journey of their big ship, they saw a small island in the sea.At that time, several experienced boatmen warned everyone that there might be a demon city there, and they must not approach it.

Regarding the demon city, the old man made some simple records in words. It is said that it is a human-shaped monster in the sea, which creates the illusion of an isolated island, lures people to go to the island, and eats it.

There are villages and markets on the island. Once people enter, they will be trapped by demons, gouging out their hearts and eating them. The blood of the corpses is sprayed everywhere. At first glance, it looks like a city of blood.

This kind of small island has some characteristics. If you go to the island and see a brand-new village, then you must pay attention, because it is a trap, and the monsters have just set it up, waiting for people to take the bait. People who go to the island will undoubtedly die.

And if Shangdao sees blood, then run away!Because the demon city has already experienced massacres.If you are lucky, the monsters have already left, but if you are not lucky, the monsters may not have left, so it can only be used as a snack.

Because of the above reasons, this red demon city is called the Scarlet Demon City.Young people seldom heard of it, mostly old people know about it, it is too weird, so it has not been mentioned.

At that time, the old boatmen advised the captain not to approach the island, but it was a pity that the captain was young and energetic, and rashly led the fleet to approach the small island.After boarding the boat, nothing unusual was noticed, only the brown-black castle.

It was almost evening at that time, and the captain ordered to stay on the island for one night and set off tomorrow.

That night the moon hangs high...

The old man's words came to an abrupt end here. As for what happened afterwards, why their bodies were on the boat, they are all unknown.

The fisherman drifted on the boat for a long time, finally drifted to the pier near Songjiang, and was rescued.He was afraid of lawsuits, so he only said that he was in distress at sea and encountered an abandoned ship, but he didn't mention the demon city.

Soon after, the fisherman disappeared, but he kept the scroll that recorded the demon city.

After Lu Fang finished speaking, he took a brocade box from Min Xiuxiu behind him, opened the box, took out an old withered and worn-out sheepskin scroll, and handed it to everyone, "This is the scroll."

Bai Yutang and the others looked at Lu Fang in surprise, "Brother...is it in your hands?"

Lu Fang smiled and shook his head, "To tell you the truth, that fisherman is my adoptive father."

Everyone understood that Lu Fang was an orphan who had been adopted by an old fisherman since he was a child. The old man was surnamed Lu and died when Lu Fang was a teenager.

"Then how did your father die?" Gongsun asked curiously.

Lu Fang sighed, "He died of a heart attack! He had nightmares every night, so he got a bad problem of heart palpitations at a young age, and the market had angina."

"Heart disease..." Everyone felt that this case was too strange, it seemed to have something to do with people's hearts, and that monster was really weird, why did it only eat people's hearts.

"Those bloodstains may have been shot out when the heart was dug out." Gongsun asked seriously, "By the way, was Uncle He buried?"

"No!" Xu Qing shook his head, "Only a clothes tomb was erected over there first. According to the rules of the world, those who die unexpectedly must be brought to the grave for a blood sacrifice, and then the body will be sent back to the place of origin for burial. Now it is parked in the mourning hall."

Gongsun nodded, "Can I see the corpse?"

"Of course!" Min Soo-soo nodded, "To tell you the truth, sir, I had an autopsy before, and I found something suspicious. It just so happened that my husband came, let's go for another autopsy!"

Gongsun nodded, stood up, and followed Min Xiuxiu.

Zhao Pu asked several shadow guards to accompany him.

The remaining people continued to study this case.

"Is it also suspected that the monster city or the sea monster did what happened this time?" Zhao Pu asked Lu Fang.

"Oh, pull it out, what kind of monsters and ghosts." Xu Qing straightened his mind, "My lord, don't listen to my elder brother, he is suspicious. In my opinion, it may be someone who came to make trouble, pretending to be a ghost to make up this paragraph of right and wrong Come, with an ulterior motive.”

"I think so too." Han Zhang nodded, "I'd rather believe that people kill people than monsters kill people!"

Lu Fang himself nodded, "Yes, the theory of the demon city is a little too mysterious."

"But what about that small island that popped out of nowhere in the sea? Is there any reasonable explanation?" Zhan Zhao was always concerned about that small island, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. In the end, he had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, without a clue.

"Brother, can't we reach the island?" Bai Yutang asked Lu Fang.

Lu Fang shook his head, "Your third brother and second brother took people there personally, as well as those from the He Gang and Hai Long Gang. They all sent a large number of fleets, but unfortunately none of them arrived! That's why everyone believes in those ghosts and ghosts." It’s rumored. You don’t know, people along the river have blocked the news to prevent people from spreading it to the towns along the river, for fear of causing panic.”

"Forget it, this matter has to be investigated slowly, Yutang." Lu Fang patted Bai Yutang beside him, "You are injured, take care of yourself when you go home, and go shopping with Brother Zhan, what's the matter?" We'll take care of it."

"Uh...Brother." Bai Yutang just wanted to say that he also wanted to help Uncle He's case, but unfortunately everyone was busy with their own things, but Bai Yutang couldn't arrange things for him, so Bai Yutang had to sit idle.

And if he is idle, it means that Zhan Zhao is idle with him.

When the two came out of the main hall, Zhan Zhao took two steps and asked Bai Yutang, "Why are Zhao Pu and Gongsun busy while we are idle?"

Bai Yutang was also quite depressed, "I can't help it either."

"Meow meow, for nothing!"

At this time, the call of the fourth son came from behind, and the two looked at each other helplessly—it seemed that there was something to do!

"Little Four?" Zhan Zhao turned to look at him with a smile.

"Let's go." The fourth son held them back, "Go to the hot spring!"

"Hot spring?" Zhan Zhao hurriedly winked at Bai Yutang—think of a way to get out!

When Bai Yutang heard about the hot spring, he felt that this was a good opportunity to clarify himself, so he nodded, "Okay, go get a change of clothes, and I'll lead the way."

"Okay!" The fourth son clapped his hands and pulled Xiao Liang to run away together, and the rock-scissors followed happily.

Zhan Zhao grabbed Bai Yutang, "Are you really going?"

"That's right." Bai Yutang nodded, "By the way, the hot springs on the small rocky mountain behind Sunken Island are very good."

"On the mountain?" Zhan Zhao's eyes widened in surprise, "Outdoor?"

"That's natural." Just as Bai Yutang finished his answer, Zhan Zhao turned around and ran away, "I won't go, you guys go."

"Hey!" Bai Yutang held him back, "Cat, forget it, you think you can escape from the Wuzhi Mountain of the little four?!"

Zhan Zhao's eyelids twitched.

"Okay, stretching your head out and retracting your head is also a knife, let's go!" Bai Yutang pulled the man and went to Xiaoshishan.

At the foot of the mountain, Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang were already standing there waiting. Stone and Scissors held two bundles in their mouths, which were a change of clothes.

"Are they washing together too?" Zhan Zhao looked at the stone and the scissors, stretched out his hand to rummage through the fur, thinking that there would be no lice, right?

"It's okay, the hot spring in Xiaoshishan is a spring and a pit, you can wash it separately." After finishing speaking, he led everyone up the mountain.While walking, Bai Yutang was thinking in his mind, how to wash it so that Zhan Zhao can see it and not think it's deliberate?Don't let the cat think that he is abnormal for a while, isn't that a joke? !

There was nothing to say along the way, everyone was full of preoccupations, Zhan Zhao was worried about how not to be seen by others, and Bai Yutang was worried about how to be seen by others.The fourth son was thinking about how to make the two of them go further, Xiao Liang was thinking about seeing the fourth son for a while, only the stone and the scissors were the most sincere, and they went there purely for taking a bath.

On the top of the mountain, the weather today is not particularly clear, the sky is low and gray, and I feel a bit chilly when I go up the mountain.

"This kind of weather is just right." Bai Yutang said, "It's not suitable for bathing in hot springs on too hot days.

Zhan Zhao thought it was true, and looked around again, but luckily, there was fog.There are pavilions and pavilions built all around, and the hot spring pools are also scattered one by one, not connected to each other, which is much better than the big pool he imagined.

The fourth son was still full of fuss at first, but when he saw the pool, he forgot everything, happily took Xiao Liang to take a bath, and then the stone and the scissors put down their burdens, rushed into a big pool with a few clatters Inside, swim up.

The fourth son was amused, took off his underpants with Xiao Liang, and jumped into the pool on the other side.

Xiao Liang was afraid of the depth of the water, so he found a smaller pool, and Bai Yutang also pointed out to the two of them, saying that this place is for children to soak in, and they can step on the ground, so they can play with confidence.

Both of them got out of the pool, Zhan Zhao looked left and right, and saw Bai Yutang started to undress, he quickly turned his back, and also got up on his own.

Bai Yutang thought to himself, don't turn around, just take a look, so you don't have to worry about it all the time.

Zhan Zhao took it off three times, five times and two times, but it was a pity that there was only one pair of underwear left, so he dived into the water and looked back at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang thought it was just right, he took off his underwear and was about to take it off again, Zhan Zhao grabbed his ankle, "Take it off again? Come down and wash it, why are you taking it off so clean?"

Bai Yutang was unprepared, fell into the pool with a crash, took a sip of hot spring water, and coughed.

Zhan Zhao carefully looked at the splint on his hand, and found that it was well tied and not loose, so he took a bath with peace of mind.

Bai Yutang was very depressed, this cat... didn't know what to think.After thinking about it, I realized that Zhan Zhao has always been considerate and considerate. Could it be that he was afraid of embarrassing himself, so he didn't want to watch it? !

Bai Yutang turned his eyes depressed, and saw that little four and Xiao Liang were having a water fight, there was a sputtering sound of water, the stone and scissors were swimming back and forth in the big pool, the stone turned over and floated on its belly, Looks like he's enjoying himself.

"You can see the sea from here." Zhan Zhao went to the edge of the pool, pawing at the wall.

"Well, look over there!" Bai Yutang said, stretching out his finger and pointing not far away, the extra isolated island in the sea can also be clearly seen.

"It can be seen here too!" Zhan Zhao frowned, if it was a mirage or phantom, there is no reason to be able to see it in all directions.

Bai Yutang moved closer to Zhan Zhao, and continued to think of ideas, what should we do?

The fourth son was tired from playing, he looked at the two with his chin in his hands, behind him Xiao Liang rubbed his back, and asked in a low voice, "Jin'er, do you have any plans?"

The fourth son sighed, "Little Liangzi, Miaomiao and Baibai, it's so delicate now!"

"Subtle?" Xiao Liang was puzzled, "What kind of subtlety?"

"Hmm..." Little Si touched his chin, "Look at the two of them together, they seem very anxious."

"Agitated?" Xiao Liang was pondering the meaning of the word when he heard the creaking of stone and scissors behind him.

Everyone looked at them in bewilderment, only to see Scissors lying on his back and barking in the direction of the coast outside, looking fierce.Jianzi is a male clawed civet, and this state is a warning.

"Yutang, look!" Zhan Zhao glanced out, immediately realized something was wrong, and patted Bai Yutang to see.

Bai Yutang looked in the direction of Zhan Zhao's finger, and saw a big ship approaching from a distance on the sea. The whole body of the ship was brown and black, the sails were tattered, and it was lifeless.

Bai Yutang frowned, jumped onto the shore, looked down carefully, and saw that the boats from Sunken Island and surrounding islands had already been dispatched, and there were horns sounding the warning.

"It looks like a dead ship. It feels suspicious... Cat, it's still foggy. Shall we go and have a look?"

After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he didn't hear Zhan Zhao Yinghe's voice, so he looked back...

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was staring at him, his eyes met, Zhan Zhao turned his eyes away in embarrassment, and touched his chin.

Bai Yutang lowered his head, only to realize that he was wearing underwear, and the white satin pants were so thin that they were almost transparent when wet.

Bai Yutang blinked - Could it be?

Looking back at Zhan Zhao again, I saw him squinting at the ship, his face was a little red, and his ears were even redder.

"Cough cough." Bai Yutang jumped back into the water, suddenly felt relieved, and lightly touched Zhan Zhao with his elbow, "Would you like to get up and take a look, you can see clearly from above."

Zhan Zhao shot him a sideways look, then reached out to grab the baggage on the shore, "Hurry down and have a look."

Bai Yutang smiled and took the burden to get dressed.

The fourth son squinted his eyes and told Xiao Liang, "Ang, little Liangzi, there is progress!"