This is the coastal waters of the Great Han Kingdom! There is no such island on the map!
Clearly, this is an island that has been revealed due to strange events.
Hou Wenjie landed on the huge cargo ship, but there was no one else on board!
However, there was a large amount of blood on the deck, as well as the remains of three people. Apart from that, no other findings were made.
After storing the three corpses in his Ruyi Qiankun Bag, Hou Wenjie left the cargo ship and set foot on the nameless island.
On the beach by the island, you can still vaguely see messy footprints and scattered items.
Hou Wenjie found a cell phone in the sand. He pressed the power button, but it wouldn't turn on; it was out of power.
Hou Wenjie used this to make a very simple deduction:
The owner of this phone must have been in a panic, and may have experienced some unknown terror. Otherwise, he wouldn't have lost his own phone. After all, for many people, a phone is their second life.
Furthermore, the cargo ship has charging facilities, but this phone cannot be turned on, which is enough to prove that the owner of the phone has been on this mysterious island for at least 6 hours. Well, this number is not very accurate.
Hou Wenjie quickly realized he wasn't a reasoning expert, so he stopped overthinking and left the beach, heading into the island's jungle.
The jungle looked so ancient that there were no paths, and the ground was covered with dead branches and leaves, seemingly thousands of years old.
Hou Wenjie used his Shrinking Earth technique to quickly move through the jungle. He didn't encounter a single living person, but he saw many birds and beasts.
But the birds and beasts here all look incredibly strange.
There is a black, strange bird with three heads, six wings, and a tail like a monkey.
There is a small bird with horns on its head, a bright red body, and four legs.
There was a strange snake with a rooster's comb on its head and wings on its body.
…
This scene, reminiscent of the strange and wondrous creatures appearing one after another in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, made Hou Wenjie even more aware of the ancient mystery of this small island.
Hou Wenjie had no desire to hunt these birds and beasts. In fact, a thought popped into his mind: if he really hunted these endangered species, would he be sentenced to life imprisonment?
Then he heard the rumbling sound of water coming from afar.
Hou Wenjie followed the sound of water and saw a rocky mountain with strangely shaped rocks!
A huge waterfall cascades down from the strange rocks of the stone mountain, falls to the ground, and then turns to one side, carving out a not-so-wide canyon!
Hou Wenjie stood beneath the waterfall, watching the torrents cascade down the rocks, their powerful roar deafening. Just as the poem describes, "A waterfall plunges three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way were falling from the ninth heaven!"
Then, he froze. What he could see was a cave faintly visible in the middle of the waterfall.
His heart began to pound, and he had a strange feeling, unconsciously recalling the description of the Water Curtain Cave.
A white rainbow rises, a thousand-foot snow wave flies. The sea breeze cannot break it, the river moon still shines upon it.
A cool breeze partes the green peaks, the remaining flow moistens the verdant slopes. The murmuring waterfall, truly like a hanging curtain.
Could this be the place?
Without much hesitation, Hou Wenjie used the Shrinking Earth Technique and disappeared into the waterfall in an instant.
Then he saw a stone slab bridge. The waterfall water fell under the bridge, washed between the rocks, and then cascaded down.
Hou Wenjie stepped onto the stone bridge, and after that step, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
Because he saw the stone tablet standing in the cave. Several large characters were engraved on the tablet:
【Flower and Fruit Mountain Grotto Heaven, Water Curtain Cave Blessed Land】!
Is this the Flower and Fruit Mountain Grotto Heaven? The legendary cave dwelling of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King?
Could there really be a Sun Wukong in the world? Hou Wenjie couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart. This was his favorite mythological figure from his childhood.
Powerful and unruly, they fight against heaven and earth!
Once inside the cave, Hou Wenjie saw stalactites hanging overhead, and a few stone artifacts such as a stone seat and a stone bed on the ground, but nothing else.
Hou Wenjie couldn't even find a single monkey hair.
A little disappointed.
However, finding even a grotto is a blessing, let alone the legendary Flower and Fruit Mountain Grotto!
After leaving this place, Hou Wenjie continued to search for the missing crew members.
Finally, under an ancient tree, he saw a young man crouching there, looking around in fear, like a frightened bird.
Hou Wenjie walked up to the young man in one step.
The young man was looking around when he suddenly saw the person in front of him. He instinctively shrank back and held the knife in his right hand to his chest.
Then, his body slowly arched, like a wild leopard gathering its strength. His eyes were bloodshot, filled with both unfathomable fear and resolute ferocity. He let out a low growl, his hand gripping the knife trembling slightly:
"Are you human or a monster?"
Hou Wenjie took out his police ID and unfolded it: "Hou Wenjie, staff member of the Patrol Police Detachment, Yunmengze City Police Bureau, Chuzhou! I'm here to take you back!"
Seeing that Hou Wenjie could communicate normally, the man produced his identification and then squatted down against the tree. His movements were strange; it was as if his spine had been suddenly removed, and he seemed to collapse. Yet, his hand remained tightly gripping the knife, held horizontally across his chest.
"You're also from a special department, right? Like the Bureau of Public Opinion Research?"
There were three people before, in a small boat, at sea!
They said they would rescue us and take us back, and they even showed us their police IDs! But…”
At this point, an uncontrollable fear appeared on the man's face, and he said in an almost whispered tone:
"But two of them were eaten while they were boarding our ship, on the rope ladder."
It was eaten by a sea monster.
It has many eyes and countless tiny tentacles. No! Those shouldn't be tentacles, maybe... they're its scales. I don't know what they are.
I have never seen such a terrifying monster.
It looked so big, much bigger than a cargo ship, so much bigger, it blotted out the sky, just floating there, just floating there, it had so many eyes, so many eyes watching you…”
The young man was clearly incoherent, obviously filled with immense fear when he saw the sea monster.
Hou Wenjie listened quietly to him speak.
The young people seem to be in a better mood:
"It looks like a fish, a very big fish, with many, many eyes on its body, densely packed on its scales."
Yes, those tentacles, those tiny tentacles, are right above those eyes.
Countless eyes are staring at you, and countless tentacles are reaching out to grab you!
Its eyes are all moving, so many eyes are all looking at you.
Ah… its tentacles took a breath, and those two people were gone.
"Sucked into those eyes, those eyes even had teeth, eyes that devour people..."
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