Chapter 337 [The sea monster and boarding the first island]
It was pitch black all around, only the inside of the ship building at both ends of the deck, there were dots of lights shining through the window lattice. But the light doesn't travel far, and it can't even be spread over the top of the waves like starlight, and is crushed into the night with the movement of the waves.
Feeling the very cold night wind in winter, Fang Chang was about to go back to his room.
But immediately, he stared into the darkness, looking in an unknown direction.
"who is it?"
At that moment just now, Fang Chang felt the prying eyes, and a line of sight looked at the boat under his feet in the sea far away.
Fang Chang, who is very sensitive to the surroundings, immediately caught the slightest movement, and then he took a closer look, but it was a little demon, half of his body stepped in the water, with a curious face, standing alone from hundreds of feet away. , looking at the light here.
He stretched out his hand and pointed, then turned his hand over, and ticked this way.
Then the water surface in the distance suddenly hardened, and it galloped towards this side with the little demon fixed inside.
Faced with this situation, that little demon had no fear, but was still only curious.
When it got close, Fang Chang looked at the little demon above, and said with a smile: "Who is your Excellency, why are you spying on this night ship?"
It is said to be a little demon, but in fact it is only a little smaller in size, and it has already transformed into a shape in terms of cultivation, let alone talking about it.
Seeing that the seawater holding him had dissipated, the other party moved slightly, and did not answer the question directly nor run away, but still asked curiously: "This spell is interesting, how did it trap me, what is its name?" Head?"
Fang Chang shook his head and said:
"I didn't say anything, I just did it casually, and invited you to use it."
The little demon didn't doubt that it was there, nodded and said: "That's a pity, this spell is very powerful, it should have a good name."
"It's not impossible." Fang Chang laughed dumbly, "Water is the most soft thing in the world, but when it changes its shape, it is extremely hard, or it can be called 'the combination of hardness and softness'."
"Okay!" The monster in front of him clapped his hands and cheered: "Good name, I just wandered around at night with nothing to do. I saw that this boat was brightly lit and fast. I saw it as a scenery. I didn't expect such a powerful person like you to be on it. It will be such a good name."
The monsters in front of them talked and behaved very distinctively, obviously different from the monsters on land.
Fang Chang became interested and asked, "Excuse me, are you a monster in the sea? How long has it been in shape? How do you call it? I am a practitioner on land, named Fang Chang."
The monster walked back and forth twice in the same place, looking up and down at the ship and the square length on top of the building. Although the ship is moving with the wind, its distance relative to the ship does not change. Fortunately, from this angle, no one on the deck could see this place, and Fang Chang's casual actions just now prevented the crew and passengers on the ship from noticing what was going on here.
Looked at the sail again, and then the monster withdrew his gaze and said:
This monster named Xia Erwu is not afraid of practitioners at all. But it is because there is not much communication between the monsters in the sea and the monsters on the land, so many terrible rumors and stories about practitioners have not been uploaded from the land to the sea. Kill demons and demons in the sea.
But Fang Chang took a look, and found that it was different. The aura on the head of this sea monster was clear, and it was obvious that he had not set foot in this catastrophe.
It seems that the monster race in the sea seems to be detached from the world.
Fang Chang suddenly thought of something, reached into his bosom to feel it, took out the token that he got when he met the sea monster when he was eating in Guangping Mansion, waved at the monster in the sea ahead, and asked: " Can you recognize this thing?"
"Of course, the mark of Heishuiya is very common." Xia Erwu said.
"Oh?" Fang Chang was slightly happy, and asked: "I have something to do and want to go to Heishui Cliff. If you want to visit there, I wonder if you know how to get to Heishui Cliff?"
"certainly."
The monster readily agreed, but encountered difficulties when it came to showing the way. After all, he only knew how to walk, and it was even more difficult for him to describe the route he took.
After thinking about it carefully, Xia Erwu pointed in a certain direction and said:
"Swim in that direction for a few sunrises and sunsets, and you will reach a small island at dusk, then turn to the right, and swim straight forward into the ocean until the terrain gets lower and the surrounding islands become rarer and rarer. , There will suddenly be a fault in the seabed."
"In that place, the sea water will suddenly become cold and tight. From a distance, it looks like black water. There are few fish and shrimps in it, and it is difficult to catch anything to eat. And the black water cliff is built on the wall of this fault. It is not difficult Look for it, because there is a building whose whole body is made of beautiful crystals produced in the sea, and after embellished with some night pearls, the light can be seen for several miles around, and it is so dazzling."
Fang Chang nodded, and asked: "I don't know if your Excellency is in the sea, but have you seen a demon from land?"
"No." Xia Erwu said, "Our nature has always been difficult to deal with. The sea is an unknown foreign land to them. It is okay for sea monsters to go ashore. How can there be land monsters coming to the sea?"
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The destination of this ship is a small inhabited island closest to the coast in the East China Sea, and it will not go further.
Mooring at the crude port here, after unloading the people and goods, the ship will continue to return, carrying the people and goods that are transferred back to the land here, and return to Chaoyun Port, and then repair it slightly, waiting for the next step set sail again.
Fang Chang and many passengers on board disembarked here.
The owner of the island seems to have made a lot of money in business. There are many soldiers under his command. They are stuck on the pier, carefully checking everyone and everyone's goods, and charge a lot of likin. After paying the tax on the goods, the merchants on board dispersed in a rush, each looking for a place to sell the goods.
The wharf is quite lively, although it is far from comparable to Chaoyun Port.
Because it is close to the land, there are many East China Sea products and land products distributed here, but it is also busy. However, compared to the Central Plains where King Jiumu became king, things here have a savage atmosphere, whether it is the soldiers who come to collect taxes, the notices on the street, or the people who come and go.
Thanks to the prosperous economy here, the lives of the people here seem to be generally stable.
However, the tax is very heavy, and the personal control is very strict.
(end of this chapter)