Chapter 235 Road-Knowing Beetle
Mu Xingchen then thought of the previous shipwreck and asked, "What was that huge shipwreck that Xiaoyu and Shuishui saw before?"
Lin Hanzhi glanced at him, and spoke in a gentler tone than when she treated the other two children: "That is the quarantine ship. We were able to contact them because of the reminder from the bullet screen."
Facing Mu Xingchen's increasingly clear and confused eyes, Lin Hanzhi patiently explained: "Shui Shui said that the hatch of the ship was sealed with wooden boards, and most of the corpses inside had their faces covered with cloth strips. These are consistent with the emergency measures that the ancients could take to prevent the epidemic, that is, to stuff the sick people into the old ship, put no or only a small amount of water and rice in the cabin, and then completely seal the cabin and let the ship sail downwind to achieve the purpose of isolating the plague."
"However, the villagers may have thought of using this method because they were inspired by the incarnation of the Sea Lord... After all, we need to send away all the bad things. The sea is very tolerant and can take away everything. The large-scale production of human-faced snails should also be due to the bones and flesh of that batch of people. The Sea Lord also regained more power from the hundreds and thousands of lives he harvested. He no longer attacks indiscriminately, but focuses on selecting pure yin souls and improving the quality of food to achieve the purpose of destroying the seal..."
[Okay, okay, now I have a clear understanding of the hundreds of years of experience of this sea in Mindi]
[The quality of the food is so damn terrible...]
[So the villagers thought they were sending Hai Gong away, but they were actually saving Hai Gong? 】
[How can this not be considered an application of the sea god's obfuscation ability?]
What about that human blood candle? Hai Gong is too idle. Does he really have his artistic cells burst out when he has nothing to do and make handmade candles at home? 】
[Oops, I imagined an octopus manipulating its claws to pinch the candles, so weird]
[Hiss… What kind of perverted murderous artist ghost is this? 】
Lin Hanzhi helped explain the plot, and Qi Gu stared at the comments on the barrage. Now he took the initiative to explain: "That is not a simple human blood candle. There are other things mixed in it, otherwise it would not be able to withstand burning so well."
He pointed at the lone remaining burning red candle. It had clearly been a long time, but the red candle seemed to have not burned at all. It was still the same length as before. Even the thrilling fight just now did not cause the candle flame to flicker. The flame still steadily illuminated the small area between the altar and the table.
The appearance of the four claws was actually related to Lin Hanzhi's destruction of a candle... This candle seemed to have some very important function for Hai Gong, just like it could obviously leave Hai Gong Temple, but it took great pains to summon the human-faced snail to attack the surrounding walls.
If we think of Hai Gong not as a ghost, but as a person living alone on this floating island, this mentality is actually very understandable - all the above, the candles and the walls, should be for protecting himself.
Human blood candles are equivalent to incense offerings. If the candle is not extinguished, it means that it is a "god" being worshipped, not a ghost. If the wall does not fall down, it will still be Hai Gong on the altar in Hai Gong Temple. It is using these external things to hide its own existence.
But what kind of enemy would an S-level ghost like Hai Gong encounter to come up with this way of protecting himself?
The information was incomplete, and Qi Gu could not imagine more. For him at the moment, it was not so important whether Hai Gong left Hai Gong Temple or not. After all, he was here, and he had to send Hai Gong off no matter what.
Moreover, Qi Gu already had a guess about its true identity, which had been hiding all this time.
According to Qi Gu's understanding of ghosts, if a ghost is scary and threatening enough to be on the "stage", they will not hide themselves behind the scenes from beginning to end, unless it is inconvenient for its real body to show up, and combined with those densely packed four claws...
[I think of the ghost ship brothers from before. If history had not been confused, they should have come to worship at the Seven Righteous Men Temple. In that case, they would not have encountered a shipwreck and would not have become a ghost ship...]
[The Lord of the Sea really did all kinds of bad things, including guiding sacrifices, causing shipwrecks, and maliciously feeding human-faced snails to breed a new ferocious species, which seriously damaged the ecological environment of the Mindi ocean! 】
[Great, it's a marine biologist. We are saved! 】
[Let me summarize this for those friends who are still scratching their heads. In short, Lord Hai is bad and always makes trouble. The kid and the Taoist priest are good and use their lives to stop Lord Hai from making trouble. However, Lord Hai is still not honest after being sealed and he takes over the body of the kid to continue making trouble. He also takes over the Temple of the Seven Righteous Men and makes it his own temple. He lets the nearby fishermen worship him and makes all kinds of tragedies. In the process, he also collects SSR (souls of pure Yin constitution) that are beneficial to him.]
【Thank you class representative】
[So where is Hai Gong now? There has been so much commotion in the temple for so long, why hasn’t it come out yet? Are you so patient? 】
Qi Gu lowered his eyes and looked at the mottled traces of sand on the ground. These were left behind by those four-clawed creatures crawling around. The place they came from should be where Hai Gong is.
Lin Hanzhi noticed his gaze, picked up the lit fluorescent stick and walked towards the dark corner where he had crawled out with four claws before, and Qi Gu followed.
The main hall of Haigong Temple is not big, and it took less than a minute to reach the end. There was scattered sand at the base of the wall, revealing a gap as thick as a finger.
The four claws climbed up from here.
Qi Gu shook the gourd, and a dazed four-clawed creature fell out of it. While it was still unconscious on the ground, he asked Mu Xingchen to tie it up with a rope, and then asked Miao Yue, "Is there a poisonous insect that can remember routes?"
Miao Yue made a steady gesture, took out a fingernail-sized, colorful black beetle from the handle of the knife and placed it on the ground.
After a while, the dizzy four claws gradually regained consciousness, and they rubbed the ground tentatively. After confirming that no one would try to stop them, they unintelligently drilled directly into the gap in full view of everyone.
If Hai Gong saw this, he would definitely curse and call him a rip-off.
The beetle followed.
After a rustling crawl, Qi Gu slowly felt that the rope in his hand was completely tightened. Worried that the rope was not long enough, he took out another one from Lin Hanzhi's backpack to continue the rope.
Then there was another slow drag.
Finally, the movement of the rope stopped completely. Next, all they had to do was wait for Miao Yue's road-recognizing beetle to come back before they could start the next step.
As there was still about fifteen minutes left, the group of five began to eat and drink on the spot.
Lin Hanzhi very "appropriately" took out boneless chicken feet from his backpack and distributed them to several people.
Qi Gu took it without any objection.
Miao Yue and Pubugesang paused for a second before taking it.
Mu Xingchen forced a smile: "...Brother Lin, you are really an expert at arranging the order in which snacks should be eaten, haha."
After watching the human-faced snails, eat cat ears, and after beating the four claws, eat boneless chicken feet.
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