In a place like Chongming Island, more than a thousand people suddenly became mad and died without help in one day and night. The news had already spread throughout the island, and the rumors made everyone feel very uneasy.
When the government came to organize the relocation, many people took advantage of the situation and were willing to flee here and take refuge, but there were also a lot of people who were reluctant to leave their family property.
The prefect's Yamen mobilized seven ships and hundreds of small boats, coming and going, transporting large and small bags of clothing and property, dragging families and families across the water, and the people of the working group Three shifts were arranged to ensure that there were people on board and off the boat every hour.
The relocation work of nearly 80,000 people has been busy for more than three days, but it is still not finished.
The sun rises and the moon sets, the tide rises and the tide recedes.
For some families who were still stranded on the island, the adults were so busy that the children did not realize how serious the problem was. Instead, they took the opportunity to have fun, running along the river bank and going to the tidal flats to look at the sea.
The tides in Chongming Island are large. When the tide rises and falls every day, the water level difference can reach five or six meters.
Once the tide completely recedes in the evening, the edge of the island can expose several miles of tidal flats.
Between the soaked mud and dust, there are countless crabs, small fish, leeches, sea snakes, jellyfish, clams and so on.
In the fishing villages that used to be close to the sea, the children liked to play on the tidal flats and pick up these things to take home.
Now that all the fishing villages near the sea have been vacated, these children who live in the heart of the big island finally have the opportunity to come here and visit.
But before they entered the tidal flat area, a shout came from a distance.
“You can’t enter here!!”
Dozens of Kongwu men and strong women with harpoons in their hands were originally guarding the edge of the tidal flat. When they saw this group of children, they Point and shout.
“Didn’t every family have officials and family members talk about their children? Recently, poisonous insects drifted over from the sea, got into the bellies of fish, and hid in the shells of shrimps and crabs.”
"Especially on the east beach, there are the most poisons. There may be everywhere in the sand. Even we are not allowed to get close. You kids, don't seek death!"
The kids stopped. , shouted: "We all know this, and we are not prepared to go there, let alone eat this "
"Just come here and have a look, I guarantee you won't get there!"
They heard that there are government officials on the beach here every evening. Magical skills are performed here to kill poisonous insects. The scene is very novel, so I wanted to come and watch the excitement.
A group of children watched from a distance and soon discovered that there was indeed a person standing inside the tidal flat.
There seemed to be something flying and shining around that person, but that place was at least two or three miles away from the children, so they couldn't see clearly.
Su Hanshan stood on the vast and humid tidal flat, with a calm and focused expression. His hands kept changing gestures, pinching out the Qi structures one by one, and punching them into the dragon-shaped outline in front of him.
Compared to the first time he tried it in the steel mill, the dragon-shaped outline suspended in front of him now seemed to have more joints in the internal frame.
During the construction process, the figure was already floating slightly, as if it was breathing of its own, and as if it was waking up from a long sleep and could fly away at any time.
Even though the details of the dragon's horns, whiskers, dragon's eyes and dragon's scales have not yet been perfected, the majestic and majestic look of this dragon's eagerness to take the plunge and its arrogance has been fully revealed.
After a long time, Su Hanshan stopped his gesture and allowed the three-foot dragon to fly, but with his eyes closed tightly, it never really took off.
Far away in the east, under the tide, white light flashes slightly, and the waves crack.
He Zong's figure rose up, passing through countless mud puddles all the way from the seaside, and approached Su Hanshan.
"You succeeded?"
He Zong looked at the dragon, "It seems that the structure has stabilized. Even if you stop, it will not easily lose balance and disappear."
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Su Hanshan shook his head and said: "It's still a little bit worse. This Xuantai model can already absorb the energy of heaven and earth from the outside world, but it has not yet completed the connection with my own energy and spirit."
He Zong's eyes flashed slightly: "Based on my previous experience of watching you build the Mysterious Body, you should have gradually connected your own energy and spirit to it when you first started building it."
"How come these two times, it seems that this set of connecting processes has been eliminated?"
He smiled, "Did you change your mind and be willing to move the three Dantians out and fill them directly inside, with eight A basic component to reduce the difficulty and realize the full set of functions of your Xuan Ti Jin Dan."
Su Hanshan said calmly: "You guessed it."
"This..."
He Zong was silent for a moment and suppressed his smile, "It is very uncomfortable to walk on a road alone and find that the front is broken and you need to modify and reconnect on your own. . ”
“I am a very fighting person, and I can say that I take martial arts for fun, but because I take martial arts for fun, it is even more difficult to endure the intermittent torture. If there is a chance, let me choose again. , I will definitely choose a more open path.”
“If you retain the Three Dantians, I will have very detailed and complete experience to guide you in your practice, right? It’s better not to abandon this path rashly.”< br>
Su Hanshan said strangely: "You are obviously a very independent person. I thought you would be happy to see me change to a path similar to yours."
"After all, this kind of thing should be fun for you, why are you suddenly here to persuade me like a close friend?"
He Zong crossed his arms in front of his chest and said lazily: "I am a person who goes his own way. , can’t you show kindness once in a while?”
“After getting along with each other during this time, I feel like you are a person. It's quite interesting, but if you make this choice and regret it in the future, I can't bear the ugly attitude of blaming others and regretting it too late."
"Maybe it will destroy us. I will use all my strength to beat you up!”
Su Hanshan laughed after hearing this.
"At that time, will you still have the strength to beat me up? You are really confident!"
Su Hanshan smiled without stopping, turned his neck, and said, "Actually, I have experienced it before Countless times, when the internal energy reaches the meridians of both legs, it has to slow down, and it feels like it is intermittent and continuous.”
“Although the skills I practiced at that time were inherited from the experience of my predecessors. Law, but the predecessor was not a wheelchair user , so I struggled on my own, taking a path that needed to be modified, and walked for several years.”
“If I had to make a choice like Xuantai and Jindan at that time, I would. Most of them will be willing to endure more and make concessions in the chaotic situation in order to preserve their hopes in the future. "
"But the person I am now is no longer the person I was back then."< br>
While they were talking, countless pores were appearing on the tidal flats.
Thousands and countless marine creatures crawled out of these muddy areas, seeming to want to breathe air, fighting each other, struggling to eat, digest each other, and absorb nutrients.
If the egg of the black starfish parasitizes into the human stomach, it will get the most suitable environment for its development. It only takes a few hours to grow to the point where it emits neurotoxins and destroys the human brain. Jiuzhan Magpie's Nest, the degree of control over the body.
But if these eggs are parasitic in those marine organisms, the development speed will be much slower. It may take more than half a month to gradually grow into the shape of a starfish.
So the fighting of these marine creatures is actually because they are controlled by starfish eggs and compete for nutrients.
However, in the past, it was impossible for so many parasitic marine organisms to gather on the tidal flats in one go.
Such a scene occurred today because He Zong referred to Su Hanshan's specific radio wave induction method and figured out a method of using specific energy fluctuations to lure the black starfish to gather.
Since the high tide this morning, He Zong has been immersed in the deep sea in the eastern part of Chongming Island, and he has been running this trick unremittingly until he came up just now.
It can be said that all the detection black starfish released by Sato and his experimental base, as long as they have the opportunity to land, have gathered on this beach.
On the outskirts of the tidal flat, the dozens of people guarding the hard earth embankment have seen scenes of "killing poisonous insects" several times in the past three days, but they have never seen such a dense phenomenon. Such a large tidal flat has now become a place where you can surely step on one or two sea creatures even if you take just two steps.
And there are many sea creatures that should be slow-moving, but they are quickly emerging from the mud holes, making the number even greater.
The faces of dozens of adults became a little pale and they backed away slightly. The children were also a little scared, but they stared at them intently with their dark eyes.
The cries of seabirds came from the sky. Thousands of big birds noticed the unusually abundant food here, and flew over one after another, circling about to fall.
Su Hanshan looked up, and invisible mental waves started to stir. In one glance, all the seabirds were frightened and did not dare to descend.
"Stupid bird, if you eat these things, you will also be parasitized."
Su Hanshan whispered, pointing like a sword, looking at the three-foot little dragon in front of him, his expression focused again, his eyes Add some depth.
The person I am now is no longer the person I was then.
The change in martial arts strength is naturally very different, and more importantly, the change in mind is like the difference between mud and steel.
Even if my legs were broken again, and I could go back to the beginning and lose my Tai Chi mark, I would never let my heart be in the quagmire again.
"If I hadn't really encountered these things, I wouldn't have known it. I would be considered a mysophobic person."
Tens of thousands of parasitic bodies on the tidal flats, walking zombies as big as a palm and as small as a finger , are all fighting, like layers of variegated mud, rolling and floating.
Su Hanshan's voice was calm, but it had an extremely tough tone, which produced a murderous aura that was difficult to distinguish and resolve.
“The villains in the world are like sandworms, forcing the gentlemen to turn into apes and cranes. The monkeys pretend to be ugly and have to be patient, or they may be like fleeing cranes into the depths of the clouds.”
“This kind of bad thing makes me Even if you fantasize about it, you will feel uncomfortable. Now that you are in the game, if you still can’t punch these eyesores, how can you be worthy of the martial arts I have practiced for so many years?”
Su Hanshan pointed his finger at the center of Shenlong's eyebrows, and suddenly there was a sound like a dragon roaring between heaven and earth.
The adults were astonished and looked up at the sky, while the children's eyes were so bright that they seemed to shine. They remembered the scene in front of them for a long time and for the rest of their lives.
At dusk and sunset, the sky is as golden as gold, the vast sea is surging, and the water is dark green.
The mud turned white, hard and unyielding.
The entire turbid beach turned into pure frost!
"We have to step into this realm first and buy a little more time even if we have to sacrifice the three Dantians."
He Zong murmured, "You are completely unwilling to give in and endure. Then, how are you going to deal with it next? What about this situation? "
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It was almost the same time in the evening.
In the emperor's palace in Guangfu City, a huge black thing opened.
It looked like a large coffin or a furnace. It was made of pure black, and it was hard to tell what material it was made of. The surface was covered with various patterns, a bit like a Taotie, and a bit like a unicorn.
For this reason, when Emperor Xu excavated this thing, he named it... Qilin Black Cauldron!
Several gaps appeared on the front of the black tripod, like an iron door, which was opening outwards and touching the ground, forming a staircase.
When the iron door opened, thick white smoke came out of the black cauldron, and there were several gems of different colors on the upper part of the cauldron, flickering and extinguishing.
Bright yellow boots, stepping down the stairs step by step.
Xu Zhixing, who was wearing a Nine-Five Dragon Robe and a golden crown on his black hair, completely left the black tripod and stood on the ground.
This man has been famous for more than forty years, and his face is still young, as if he is not yet twenty years old. His skin is as good as snow, and his bright eyes are brighter.
It is said that a long time ago, many people doubted whether General Xu was a man or a woman. But when the general became the emperor, no one dared to raise this question.
That’s not important. If you want the emperor to be a man, you will naturally default to him as a man. If you want the emperor to be a woman, you will also default to a woman.
No matter what gender you are, it will not damage other people's respect and... fear of Emperor Xu.
Even his close minister Wu Shaorong, a bachelor who was qualified to wait outside the Qilin Hall, couldn't help but breathe softly every time he saw him, for fear of any disrespect.
“The amount of radium sent by the Dutch this time was larger than last time, but it took less time. This may mean that the extraction process has improved again.”
Xu Zhixing said softly, "How much can our workshops purify in the same time?"
Wu Shaorong immediately replied: "Less than a pound."
"It's too slow. .”
Xu Zhixing shook his head, "The Kirin Black Cauldron requires ten kilograms of radium to operate once."
"The raw materials obtained over the years are limited. According to the covenant, I have also given three opportunities to Ursula and myself. It only took five times.”
“He Zong stayed in Songjiang Mansion for a long time, agreed to so many thankless covenants, and did not hesitate to let the big businessmen in his territory come into being. "Defection must have benefited greatly from that person in Songjiang Mansion."
"If I don't have enough Qilin Black Cauldron to bathe in, how can I guarantee that I will defeat He Zong, and how long will it take for me to do so?" To truly unify Kyushu and become an emperor? "
Radium is a radioactive substance. It is almost impossible to dig out the finished product in nature and requires tedious extraction and refining.
The people under Xu Zhixing's command are currently able to extract one gram of radium from dozens of tons of pitchblende slag, and everyone involved in the work is prone to strange diseases and will die soon.
“The best way is to get their refining technology from the Dutch and obtain the mineral deposits they discovered.”
Wu Shaorong said, “The people who have been deployed over the years have Nail, some news came recently, combined with the fact that Songjiang Mansion started three days ago The matter of relocating the population of Chongming Island allowed Wei Chen to sort out some clues."
"Maybe this time is a good opportunity to renegotiate the terms and gain something else."
Ni. The Black Sea Star Experimental Base, Taibai Sacred Tree, and Songjiang Prefecture where the Delan people and Fuso people cooperated.
These key points were connected in Wu Shaorong's words and explained clearly in four or five sentences.
Xu Zhixing muttered: "Oh? In this case, Songjiang will definitely become the target of public criticism."
"Exactly, they will probably change their attitude and negotiate terms with the British. That is their only option. There are also potential targets to win over.”
“Otherwise, we will never mind taking this opportunity to get him. They were severely damaged and kicked out of the table that divided the Taibai Sacred Tree this time, which also means that He and Su will become worse and worse in the future."
Wu Shaorong said, "Wei Chen Qianjian, maybe we can send them first. People, contact the British people, the war that year has passed for many years, there is no eternal enemy in the world, this time..."
"No!"
Xu Zhixing raised his hand to veto his opinion, turned his eyes slightly, and said, "I want to go out in person. During this period, you are not allowed to make any new moves outside the country. The matter was jointly planned by several bachelors in the cabinet."
Before he finished speaking, the figure in the dragon robe had already risen into the sky.
(End of this chapter)