Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 160 USO
The boat was too quiet, as if there was no one there, which reminded me of the saying about the ghost ship, and I said to myself: Could it be that we have encountered a ghost ship on the sea?
Most people know UFO, that is, unidentified flying objects, but few people know USO, and the so-called USO refers to unidentified flying objects at sea, which is what we commonly call ghost ships.They are generally mostly lost or sunk ships that suddenly reappeared on the sea, with no one on board, floating on their own, as if there was an invisible ghost manipulating them.

USO is also very rare like UFO, but in recent years, because some literary works like to use it to make a big fuss, more people know about ghost ships.We were trapped on the reef, and when we first saw the ship, we were naturally very happy, but when the ship arrived, we felt weird everywhere.First of all, the material and hull structure of the ship are not like modern ships. Secondly, there is only a single light on the ship. It is like a ghost fire on the dark sea. It is inevitable that people will not think of some weird and weird legends.

Just when I thought of the USO because of the silence of the ship, a spiral ladder was suddenly thrown down from the wooden ship's edge. The spiral ladder composed of ropes and wooden sticks dangled by the side of the ship. It was obvious that there were people on board. , and wait for us to go up.

Tofu was overjoyed, swung his sleeves and was about to climb up. I quickly stopped him and said, "Be careful." Then he shouted at the boat, "Where are you from?" After asking, the boat leaned out. It was a foreigner with very fair skin who covered the upper body of a person, and said in Chinese with a strange accent: "Come up first."

As soon as this person appeared, the previous speculation about the ghost ship was naturally shattered. I was relieved. Tofu teased me that I was a bit of a snake, and I carried a pack of equipment and started to climb. Happily, he swam around the boat, jumping up from time to time.

We got on the boat, only to find that the person who talked to us just now had disappeared. This scene made me have a very bad association, and I suddenly remembered what happened in Yinyang Liubu Village back then.Obviously, Tofu and Gu Wenmin, who had experienced that incident, were obviously also brought up some bad memories by this similar scene.

Tofu laughed at me just now, but now his face changed a little, and he shouted on the boat: "Where are you? Come out, don't pretend to be a ghost." The only answer to us was the sound of the waves and the sea wind.

In essence, Gu Wenmin is relatively materialistic. Seeing that Tofu and I had a bad complexion, he forced a smile and comforted him and said, "Don't think too much, how can you always encounter some unclean things, maybe it's We are overthinking." What she said made me feel guilty, normal people really don't encounter these things all the time, but I happen to be not a normal person, and under the curse of the ghost face, I have become a physique of meeting zongzi.Where there are corpses, there are bound to be hard rice dumplings, and where there are no corpses, there are bound to be soft rice dumplings. This is called Zhang Guolao riding a donkey - walking on his back.

Gu Wenmin and Tofu comforted themselves there, and the rest of the people also saw that something was wrong.

The four robots were very vigilant. They held out their weapons and did not speak to each other. They quickly spread out with a set of gestures and a few glances. Obviously, they were going to touch this weird ship all over again.This boat is much larger than our previous fishing boats. There should be one floor underneath, two floors above the boat, and a mast behind the boat with sails hanging on it, but the cloth sails are now retracted.

Due to the relatively large size of the ship, it took a lot of effort for the four robots to search. During this time, I found that our ship was still moving, but not at a fast speed. The ship is from north to south, not the way back at all, but roughly the same as our previous course.

How can the boat move if there is no one on board?Is this really a USO?Thinking about this, my mind has calmed down. After more than a month, my ability to adapt to these bizarre things has become much stronger. Even if it is really USO, I am not afraid of it.While thinking about it, I began to think about various possibilities and ways to deal with it.

Professor Lin clapped his fists and said, "Oh, we were all overwhelmed by joy just now. There is something wrong with this boat and it shouldn't be coming up."

Wu Sidong said: "Just now I also felt that this boat was a little... a little ghostly, and I didn't plan to get on it, but the foreigner suddenly lowered the hanging ladder, which dispelled my worries."

Tofu and I looked at each other. In fact, it was not just Wu Sidong. When the ship stopped in front of us, I thought anyone who wasn't an idiot should be able to detect the problem. If the foreigner didn't appear suddenly, we It was not easy to get on board.Right now, we can only wait for the news from the four robots. If there is really a problem with the ship, we must jump into the sea without hesitation and return to the rocks.

About 10 minutes later, the four robots gathered at the bow of the ship, with a serious and cold expression, showing a rare nervousness. This time, the robot No. [-] spoke first: "There is no one." He added: "There are no dead bodies. .There was no food or water on board."

Robot One said, "Obviously, we've encountered the USO."

Robot No. [-] said: "I didn't look at the almanac when I went out this time."

Robot No. [-] said: "Someone among us must have had bad luck." I choked and said to myself: He was really fooled.

When Professor Lin heard this, he frowned, waved decisively, and sighed, "Jump off the ship." Everyone had already been mentally prepared, and before anything happened to the ghost ship, it was better to run away as soon as possible.Everyone reached the edge of the boat immediately, took a deep breath, turned over and jumped into the dark sea.At this moment, the boat is not far away, and after swimming for about [-] minutes, you can swim back to the previous reef.

Unexpectedly, when I jumped, what greeted me was not the icy sea water, but a bang, and my whole body fell onto a hard object, and I grinned in pain.Before I could utter a cry, there were several bang bang bang bangs in my ears, followed by a burst of ouch. I opened my eyes and saw that everyone was lying on the deck in a posture of falling down.

I really remember that I jumped into the sea, and my body flew to the surface of the sea, how could I fall on the boat?My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly got up, ignoring Professor Lin and the others. Without saying a word, I turned over again, leaning on the side of the boat with my arms, and jumped into the sea with my body in the air.

This time I deliberately opened my eyes and did not close them. I saw my body fall into the sea. Just as I was about to enter the water, the sea below suddenly swayed and turned into a wooden deck. Professor Lin and his party were crooked, covering their buttocks and holding their heads.

They were obviously attracted by my quick reaction. At this moment, their eyes were still looking at the direction I jumped out of, but the next moment, my body fell to the deck and appeared in front of Professor Lin and others.Everyone was stunned, looking at each other with different expressions, not to mention how weird they were.I noticed that almost everyone had a layer of sweat on their foreheads. The situation in front of them is self-evident. This is a USO, and it is still a USO that cannot jump out.

I thought of the white man who was lying on the side of the boat to put the ladder for us before, and couldn't help but swear in my heart. Now that I think about it, that man's face was strangely pale at that time, not like a normal person at all.We are all cautious and vigilant people, why did we climb onto the boat so impulsively?Thinking about it, we were really terrified of being trapped on the reef for the past few days.

Ah Ying was even more frightened. She hugged her legs, shrunk her neck, looked around nervously, and asked me: "Brother Chen, you have the most idea... tell me, what should we do? That...that white face Will the ghosts of the ghosts hide somewhere and look at us, waiting to harm us? It's scary to think about it."

Gu Wenmin happened to be next to Ah Ying, and patted Ah Ying on the shoulder to comfort her. Relatively speaking, Gu Wenmin often came into contact with some environments that ordinary people could not touch, and she was relatively courageous. While comforting Ah Ying, she said: I was too impulsive before, and it is useless to regret it now. Tell me, what should I do when I go to USO?"

Tofu was probably also because of the unhappiness during this period of time, so he held back his anger, and now he exploded, cursing angrily: "I'm afraid of a ball! Grandpa Dou almost kissed the zongzi in the corpse pit, what a shame!" I'm a soft persimmon, I don't believe in this evil today!"

He then said to me, "Old Chen, please be fragrant."

I'm not a timid person, and when tofu got angry, I didn't bother to look forward and backward. I said to myself, if it's a hard rice dumpling, it has a shape and quality, and I'll smash it one by one. If it's a soft rice dumpling, I'll have to Find a way to peel it off.Thinking of this, I immediately searched for incense in my equipment bag.

Although our equipment was prepared by Professor Lin, most of what he brought with him were regular inverting equipment, and some out-of-the-way equipment, such as incense candles and glutinous rice, were not prepared.There are many strange and weird things handed down from the inverted fight, such as glutinous rice that can remove poison from corpses and cast ghosts. We didn’t believe in evil when we fought in the first two fights, so we were not prepared for these unorthodox things. Yulong's tomb suffered a lot, and this time he was entrusted by Professor Lin, so he brought some strange items.

When Tofu greeted me, I acted. Seeing that Tofu and I seemed to have an idea, the rest of the people couldn't help being curious.

The carp asked the tofu: "What is incense?"

Tofu was stared at by so many people with curiosity, and immediately felt good, and the anger was also lowered. After explaining it triumphantly, the function of inviting incense was amazing.While they were talking, I first took out a candle and lit it.Everyone heard Tofu tell the secret of ghost panting, so they stared at the candle intently. After a while, they saw that the candle flame was still there, neither turning blue nor getting smaller.

Duan Fei couldn't help being suspicious and said: "Don't be fooling people, there is no such thing as ghost panting." Professor Lin frowned slightly, and said: "No, ghost panting is true. When I was with Teacher Chen, I saw it before. Once. Could it be because we are not in the ancient tomb, so there is no change?"

Tofu couldn't figure it out either, so he scratched his head and muttered, "Could it be that only those in the tomb pant for this zongzi? It's really weird."

(End of this chapter)