I am fish

Zhen Wenjun didn't care about getting hurt when he got on the boat, he raised his head and stared at the weather vane on the top of the main mast, and shouted to order everyone to pull the tent rope, and tension the tent against the wind. .

A shoal of thumping fish is still following around the boat, and the huge strange fish may fly out of the water again at any time to deal a fatal blow. With its strength and weight, if it hits the hull instead of the bow and stern , it would not be difficult to split the entire ship in half.Zhen Wenjun jumped onto the rudder tower and saw the school of fish chasing after him. The huge strange fish jumped up and came towards the rudder tower.

Seeing that the long tail of the strange fish was about to hit the hull, Xiaohua pulled up the auxiliary anchor at the rear of the ship with a roar that shattered the sky, and flung it towards the strange fish whizzingly.The strange fish was hit by the heavy anchor, and there was a loud "bang", the scales and water on the fish were shaken off, and Zhen Wenjun was sprinkled all over.

The strange fish was thrown back into the water by Xiaohua, and it didn't dare to go forward for a while.The juveniles also circled around it, no longer attacking nor retreating, and followed closely.

Zhen Wenjun gave Xiao Hua a thumbs up sincerely.

Everyone knows how heavy the anchor is, even the auxiliary anchor for strengthening the stability of the ship weighs a thousand catties, and Xiao Hua can actually swing this thing up, Zhen Wenjun is so impressed.

Although Xiaohua is strong, the swing just now burst out with strength beyond herself. At this time, her arms were completely out of strength and she couldn't lift them up.

Zhen Wenjun ran to the top of the watchtower, aimed at the young fish that were eager to try, and shot wildly.After being driven out by her for a few feet, the school of juveniles swam back unwillingly.And the strange fish, which was paddling quietly, became more cautious after eating a trap, as if carefully observing the boat and the people on board, waiting for the next opportunity calmly.

What a monster.

This kind of fish has never been seen in Dayu, and I have never heard of it from my mother!

Wei Tingxu came up to help, Zhen Wenjun immediately pushed her back to the cabin, and said loudly: "You stay here and don't come out!"

Before Wei Tingxu could speak, she locked the cabin.

Zhen Wenjun returned to the archery tower and looked at the remaining arrows. There were about two hundred arrows left.Xiaohua has no strength in one blow, where is Axi?What about Zuo Kunda?

Just as his thoughts turned to Zuo Kunda, he heard a "plop" and someone fell into the water. Zhen Wenjun stared at the strange fish to prevent it from attacking suddenly again, and couldn't spare his eyes to see who fell into the water.

"Ji Yong, are you crazy! Come up quickly!" Someone shouted on the deck, the back of Zhen Wenjun's head went numb, what kind of monster is Zuo Kunda at such a critical moment, is he going to die!

Zuo Kunda tied a rope around his waist, and the other end of the rope was hastily tied to the boat, before he had time to think about it, he flew into the sea and swam forward with all his might, to the place where Mrs. Axi fell into the water.

Mrs. Axi can't swim, and the shock just now was photographed in the sea. Fortunately, a wooden case was photographed together, and she hugged the wooden case and desperately called for help.The shoal of juvenile fish quickly swam over and surrounded her, staring at her with a circle of blue-white eyeballs, ready to rush up and gnaw her into bones at any moment.

Mrs. Axi is the confidante in A Liao's "Qingyuan".Ah Liao himself grew up in the inland and could not swim. It can be seen that Ah Xi's wife was in distress. Ah Liao, who was still hurting in his chest just after being kicked onto the boat, went crazy and wanted to rush down to rescue Ah Xi, but was dragged back by Ah Zheng and others. .

"A Liao, you must not go to die!" Ah Zheng and the other 21 ladies hugged Ah Liao tightly in the center, no matter how much Ah Liao cried and cried, they would not let her go.

"My Axi! My darling! How can I just watch her die in the belly of a fish?! Let me die with her, don't stop me!" Ah Liao cried until he was almost blind, heartbroken Zuo Kunda jumped into the water when he screamed lung-piercingly.

Zuo Kunda swam towards Lady Axi with a harpoon in his hand. The circle of young fish surrounded her became smaller and smaller. They were about to lock her in and attack her. Zuo Kunda dived into the water and circled up from below, like An off-string arrow flies up.The juveniles swarmed up and opened their mouths to bite. Axi screamed for a long time but was not injured. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a man standing in front of her.The harpoon in the man's hand was covered in blood, and the mouths of the young fish closest to them were all cut open.

"Take a deep breath and hold me tight!" Zuo Kunda yelled, and Axi instinctively did as he said.

Before the juvenile fish attacked again, Zuo Kunda quickly dived with Axi.The people on the boat dragged the rope and Zuo Kunda was also swimming desperately, but he couldn't get rid of the pursuit of the school of juvenile fish.

The speed of the school of fish is extremely fast, like a huge water snake chasing after it.Ah Xi closed his eyes tightly and held his breath, his lungs were about to explode, and he hadn't escaped to the surface yet!

Zhen Wenjun put down his crossbow and ran to help pull the rope. More than a dozen people pulled together. The resistance in the water was extremely high. They could see the shadows of Zuo Kunda and Axi and the school of fish chasing frantically, and they were very anxious.

"Quick! Quick!" Zhen Wenjun's shout made everyone feel more urgent, and they didn't even know that their palms were worn out.Ah Liao was so anxious that he lay on the side of the boat and yelled Axi's name, a young fish flew straight out of the water, aimed at her nose and bit her.Ah Zheng's cross arm blocked Ah Liao's delicate nose, and the young fish firmly bit Ah Zheng's arm to drag her down.The juvenile fish looked small in the water, but once they rushed to the front, they realized that each juvenile fish was comparable in size to an adult.The ladies took out their own weapons and went up to kill the juvenile fish that had thrown themselves into the net, and the other strange fish saw the opportunity and jumped into the air again to launch a surprise attack!

The boat was in chaos, except for Axi who hid in the storage room early in the morning and Wei Tingxu who was locked up by Zhen Wenjun, even Xiaohua who was exhausted was using his remaining strength to control the direction of the wind on the canopy.Everyone was yelling and couldn't tell whether it was sweat or sea water on their bodies. At this time, the strange fish attacked again, and no one was prepared or resisted.

When it soared into the sky and cast a terrifying shadow on the ship, the crowd who realized the danger raised their heads one after another.

This may be the picture of the last moment of this life.

It is no exaggeration to say that everyone has already foreseen in their hearts that they will soon be photographed into the bottom of the sea and buried in the belly of a fish, or they will be thrown into the sky and smashed to pieces on the sea surface. There are only two ways of death waiting for them.

Under the shadow of death, a thin figure stood at the gate of hell.

"Is it here?" Zhong Ji looked down at the slot of the crossbow, and was sure that it was the mechanism that was pressed here. At the critical moment, she pointed the ancient rhinoceros crossbow at the strange fish.

Flicking the mechanism with two fingers, the bow and crossbow "chug chug" and shoot three arrows at the strange fish, hitting its eyes impartially.

Zhong Ji didn't panic at all, he quickly loaded the arrow and fired again, the strange fish struggled frantically and twisted its body, when it fell, it passed by the bow of the ship, only narrowly missing the big ship.

The boat was bumped by the waves caused by the strange fish falling into the water, and the people on board fell to the ground one after another. At the very moment, Zuo Kunda got on the boat and fell down with Axi.Zuo Kunda used his last strength to turn around and leave Axi, lying on the side and vomiting profusely.

Zuo Kunda's foot was bitten to a bloody mess, and Axi was unconscious.Ah Liao and her wives quickly came up to rescue, Zuo Kunda managed to recover, and said weakly:

"Turn her... over, face down, so that the water can be spit out."

Zhen Wenjun, Xiaohua, and many strong men marched forward at full speed, and happened to catch a gust of sea breeze, and escaped by luck.

After making sure that the school of fish did not catch up again, Zhen Wenjun fell down on the wet deck with a howl, without any strength to move anymore.

Hundreds of people all collapsed, their muscles sore crazily after the extreme tension, wishing they could chop off their heads and lose them, so as not to suffer.

Zhen Wenjun fell asleep panting, and everyone in the boat was injured or frightened, except Zhongji.

The whole boat was lying down and unable to move. Zhongji went over to check everyone one by one, and marked the seriously injured people. Those who were just frightened would first tell them that they were not injured, and after temporarily comforting them, they would not stop. Tube.

After Zhongji checked around, Xiaohua stepped forward and said:

"Do you know how to use a crossbow?"

Zhong Ji: "No. I'm learning now."

The two looked at each other for a moment, turned their faces away at the same time, and each went about their own business.

Xiao Hua released Wei Tingxu from the cabin.

When Wei Tingxu came out, his expression was not good, Xiao Hua didn't know how to comfort her.She walked quickly to Zhen Wenjun's side, and found that the wound she had suffered in the Ancient Rhinoceros Kingdom hadn't completely healed, and the wound burst open again.According to the frequency of her injuries, I don't know how many wounds she will suffer before returning to Dayu.

"Huh?" Zhen Wenjun opened his eyes confusedly and with difficulty.

"You just fell asleep like this."

"Yes." Zhen Wenjun closed his eyes and smiled, "I woke up when I smelled your fragrance."

"Still have the strength to talk nonsense?"

"It's nonsense. If it wasn't for you, I would probably have abandoned the ship and fled long ago. I'm so sleepy, let me sleep for a while..." Zhen Wenjun fell asleep again after saying sleep, and Wei Tingxu knelt beside her Did not leave either.

When Zhen Wenjun woke up again, he was awakened by the aroma of Xiaohua grilled fish.

In the dream, she hugged and gnawed on the strange fish that attacked them. The strange fish looked ugly and tasted delicious!While she was eating, her stomach was still making gurgling noises, and she was quite puzzled, why is it that the whole big fish is still not full after eating it?

When I woke up, I saw that I didn't have a bite to eat at all, and my stomach was almost flattened by hunger.

Turning over and getting ready to have a big meal, he suddenly found someone in his arms.

He looked down and saw that Wei Tingxu was sleeping deeply in her arms. The two of them covered the quilt together and slept next to each other on the deck.

Zhen Wenjun looked around, it was dusk, and the warm sunset where the sea and the sky meet was slowly sinking below the sea level.The other people on the boat were busy at the bow, stern and sides of the boat. The grilled fish and the grilled fish healed their wounds, and they tacitly didn't look at them.

Zhen Wenjun couldn't bear to disturb Wei Tingxu's sleep, just like Wei Tingxu two hours ago.

She stroked Wei Tingxu's long hair, and her stomach growled louder and louder.

very hungry.

Wait a minute, wait until Zi Zhuo wakes up.

But I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry.

Just wait, wait a little longer.

……

When the sun was setting and dinner was about to start, Ah Xi appeared, but he couldn't find Qi En everywhere.

"He's dead." Xiao Hua told her the truth.

"Dead?!" Axi almost sat down on the ground, "Wandao compass! Is Wandao compass lost too!"

Xiaohua didn't answer her, and Ah Xi panicked completely: "What if he dies in Liuhuo Kingdom? Don't talk about the desert, it's now! Which direction are we going on this sea?"

Everyone on the boat looked at Axi.

"Anyone know?!" Ash yelled.

"Axi." Zhen Wenjun waved to her with a string of fish in his hand.

"I can't eat..." Ah Xi was so annoyed that his entire abdomen began to ache.

"Come here." Zhen Wenjun called her repeatedly, Axi had no choice but to go over, reaching out to take the grilled fish, unexpectedly Zhen Wenjun took the Wandao Compass into her palm.

"...Are you interested?" Ah Xi was furious.

"It was true that I fell into the sea with Qi En. If I hadn't tried my best to retrieve it, we would have been lost in the sea!"

A Xi shook the compass, looked it up and down, and asked Zhen Wenjun, "Can you use it?"

Zhen Wenjun shook his head.

"Beautiful, we're still going to get lost at sea."

Zhen Wenjun: "..."

What is precious is not the Wandao Compass, but the descendants of the Liuhuo Nation who can use the Wandao Compass.

Axi and Zhen Wenjun stayed up all night, playing with the compass all the time.

Wandao Compass is a round palm-sized object with a copper body and glass surface, through which the inside of the compass can be seen.Inside the compass, there is a pile of white fine sand distributed on the bottom surface. Every time the compass is turned, the fine sand will also move and rearrange on the bottom surface.There are circles of strange symbols under the white sand, which look like words.

Axi said that she used to have a feng shui compass, and this fine sand should be the Tianchi pointer. The symbols are probably similar to the Kanyu characters on the inner plate of the feng shui compass. If you can understand the Liuhuo language, you may be able to get a glimpse of it.And the biggest problem now is that the only descendant of Liuhuo Nation is dead, no one can use this crap.

Ah Xi lay down on the table in despair like a dead body, while Zhen Wenjun continued to fiddle with it.

"It's useless, and no one can use it except the people of Liuhuo Nation." Axi's voice seemed to come out of the ground, "We are just a drop in the ocean, we don't know the way forward, we don't know the way back...the food in the cabin can last Forty days, now that more than 200 people have died, they can last longer. Hmph, I'm afraid they will end up killing each other and cannibalizing each other."

A Xi kept throwing out scary words, but Zhen Wenjun ignored her at all, and continued to play with the compass, even took out a pen and leaves, and wrote down all the symbols on the compass.

"You, do you know the language of the Liuhuo country?" Seeing that she was silent and confident, Ah Xi suddenly raised a gleam of hope, "So...you really don't look like a Da Yu. Could it be that you are also a descendant of the Liuhuo country? ?”

Zhen Wenjun still didn't speak, looked back and forth at the words on the leaves, and finally shook his head: "No."

"Then what are you looking at?"

"No."

"Aren't you a descendant of Liuhuo Nation? Then what tribe are you from? Why don't you look like a Central Plains person?"

Zhen Wenjun didn't answer Axi's question at all, no matter how much Axi pestered her, she didn't speak again, thinking about her own plans.

She didn't tell Axi the truth, so she couldn't tell.

What troubles her is not that she can't use a compass if she can't see the clue, but how to explain it to Wei Tingxu after she sees it.

When she picked up the compass and looked at it for the first time, she understood the corresponding four words "east, west, south, north" in Dayu's language.

Every time you turn the compass, the white sand will change its position and focus on a certain place, which seems to be guiding the direction.And she also understood the words engraved in a circle inside the direction sign, it was about four hours.It's just that Da Yu divides a day into twelve hours, and the compass divides it into four hours.The outermost circle of the compass is marked with southeast, northwest, and the inner circle is the time. Zhen Wenjun has not understood the meaning of the smallest circle for the time being, but these words are also very familiar, and it may be possible to understand if you explore them in memory. come out.

This coincidence made her even more sure that her mother was not from Da Yu.

The reason why she was able to understand these words half-guessed and half-ignorantly was because Amu had taught her some simple Hu language.

At that time, Zhen Wenjun felt strange why his mother would do this, and why should he learn this.My mother said that learning another language is definitely beneficial. Who knows where you will go and what will happen to you in the future.

My mother is quite far-sighted, or it can be said that my mother does not want Zhen Wenjun to forget her roots.They are a certain Hu people, their roots are in another piece of soil, and writing is the most fundamental connection.

It's just that Grandma taught her too much and too fast, even if her memory and comprehension skills are excellent, it is still difficult to digest and absorb all of them.After so many years, Zhen Wenjun doesn't have much impression of these words that he doesn't care much about, so he can only recall them slowly with his little memories.

As indicated by the current compass, most of the white sand is concentrated in the upper left corner, and the word "South" is engraved on the upper left corner. Zhen Wenjun guessed that this is the compass indicating the direction of Liuhuo Kingdom, so he asked everyone to go to the compass. direction forward.

If it's that simple, you don't need to know the language of Liuhuo Kingdom, you can guess its instructions just by guessing, right?What is the use of the two inner circles?

Zhen Wenjun has not been able to figure it out for the time being, but the food is getting less and less day by day, and the followers are getting sick one after another. They must speed up their pace and try to set foot on land as soon as possible.It's better to start before we hesitate.

Axi pestered her for several days and nights just to understand the secret of the compass, and even refused to let her sleep soundly. She would only repeat one sentence like an innocent soul—how did you find out.

Zhen Wenjun said that she guessed that the outermost circle meant "south, south, north and west". She fooled Ah Xi and explained it to Wei Tingxu in the same way. Xi didn't believe it at all.

Zhen Wenjun was really going to be annoyed to death by her, so he simply hid in the cabin with Wei Tingxu to avoid Axi's soul-hunting inquiries.

Zhen Wenjun commanded everyone to move in the direction indicated by the compass. After sailing for 42 days, they still could not see any shadow of land.

After changing several prescriptions, the medicine Zhongji prescribed to Wei Tingxu finally took effect. Her vomiting stopped, but new troubles appeared.

When the food and drinking water bottomed out, some people began to panic and restlessness, questioning whether Zhen Wenjun was looking in the right direction.Zuo Kunda firmly supported Zhen Wenjun, and the quarrel with the doubters escalated into a fist fight.Zhen Wenjun and Xiaohua heard the sound and rushed to separate the wrestling people.Zuo Kunda has not healed because of his foot injury, and he is no match for these strong soldiers who have stayed in the imperial city all year round and are unwilling to go to the muddy water of the Wanxiang Road, and are now full of complaints.

Protecting Zuo Kunda, who was covered in bruises, Zhen Wenjun asked what happened. These soldiers questioned her decision in front of her.

After hearing this, Zhen Wenjun laughed, shouted "Yes", and drew out his sword to point at them:

"You have long been dissatisfied, understandable. Now that you have spoken out today, it is time to make a decision! Among you who are willing to obey me, stand behind me now. As long as I, Zhen Wenjun, eat a bite of food, I will not miss a bite of you. "If you don't want to obey, it's easy to do, come up and take my sword and kill me now, and you will be the master of this boat in the future!"

Zhen Wenjun pointed to the dozen or so people on the opposite side one by one: "Who will come first? You? Or you? Or all together?"

Everyone understands that if we continue to be unable to reach the land, there will be less and less food, and fewer and fewer people will survive. Now that we kill a group of people who can guarantee their survival, these doubters think so, Zhen Wenjun The same is true of the plan in the heart.

The palm of Zhen Wenjun holding the hilt of the sword was hot, and a smile of triumph slowly spread on the corner of her mouth.

She has long wanted to reduce some of the burden, but everyone on the boat followed her through life and death, how could she bear it?

At this juncture, someone bumped into him. Zhen Wenjun thanked God for his blessing, and the time to kill him has come!

Xiaohua stood on the archery tower studying the ingenuity of the bow and crossbow, and glanced down lightly.

Zhen Wenjun's kung fu became more and more sophisticated, and he killed the rebels one by one.When the sixth person was killed, the remaining rebels finally couldn't hold back and rushed forward. Zhen Wenjun did not retreat but advanced, and entered the enemy's formation.

When Wei Tingxu heard the sound, he happened to see Zhen Wenjun's sword covered with blood, standing among a pile of corpses.

Zhen Wenjun put away the sword and asked people to drag the body down and put it away, planning for the worst.If they have not reached the shore, they may have to eat human flesh as a last resort.

"I'm bothering you." Zhen Wenjun wiped the blood off his face, walked up to Wei Tingxu quickly like a child and said with a smile, "I just heard that they caught some midday bamboo shoot fish. This fish is very delicious and fat. It's fresh, we'll eat this fish tonight."

Wei Tingxu was almost fascinated by Zhen Wenjun, who had killed 12 people with his own power, and when this frightening man turned his head, he was as soft as a piece of sweet jelly when facing her.

Of course Wei Tingxu understands that she likes Zhen Wenjun because she likes her toughness and unexpected intelligence. In the beginning, when the two of them were secretly tempted to come and go and fought secretly, Zhen Wenjun had already let her suffer. To trace the beginning of this friendship, it is when Zhen Wenjun turned her back.

Maybe she shouldn't criticize Zhen Wenjun who is tough to outsiders but gentle to her.

Tenderness is the instinct of love.

The boat continued to move in the direction guided by Zhen Wenjun, and for another three days, the end was far away.

The food was about to be finished, so Zhen Wenjun sliced ​​the last plate of mutton into thin slices, brought it to Wei Tingxu's room, and asked her to eat it.

"After eating this meal, you can last for another three days. The compass has changed, and I speculate that you will reach the shore within two days. You must support until then. So whether you like it or not, you will eat it or not. It will be disgusting and you will have to eat it."

"You ordered me?"

"Yes, I order you."

As keen as Zhen Wenjun, how can she not see what Wei Tingxu likes and dislikes, and the look in her eyes will change when she says something.

Wei Tingxu stepped forward and sat in her arms to kiss her actively. Zhen Wenjun stroked her long hair and slid something into her body.

Wei Tingxu stopped moving.

"I'm not sure if we'll land in two days. It's very likely that we'll all die here." Zhen Wenjun looked up at her with fire in his eyes, "It's better to die happily than to die in pain. I was afraid I haven’t dared you to try it because of the side effects, so let’s go to death now.”

Zhen Wenjun supported her leg and spread her leg outward.

"What is that?" Wei Tingxu began to feel hot in the depths that he had seldom felt.

"A natural herbal medicine, I made it myself."

"What are you practicing this for?"

"I want us to be happy, and I want you to know that this world can give you not only pain, but also all kinds of happiness. Try it while we are still alive."