Chapter 18 The Truth
After boarding the "Lian Family Ship", Li Sheng realized that the rumors that the Dan people would never go ashore and only live on the ship were true.
All kinds of living utensils are available on board. Ordinary Dan people grow up from birth and never set foot on the mainland in their entire lives.
And when they entertain guests, they mostly adopt the "water banquet" method.
Several boats carrying various types of food docked on the river, while the rest of the people came in other boats to get food and drinks.
It was also the first time for Li Sheng to experience the customs of the Dan people, which was very novel.
Looked at the food eaten by the Dan people.
Most of them are all kinds of fish, either raw or cooked, but raw fish is still the main one.
In addition to fish, there are also some black meats of unknown origin, which seem to be roasted over fire.
The smell was slightly weird, and Li Sheng felt a strange discomfort after just smelling it.
Therefore, I did not choose to eat these meats.
Instead, I took some wine and tasted it with the cooked fish.
For the Dan people, the most precious food is grains from the land, followed by various spices.
After taking a few bites, Tang Yan revealed his true intentions.
That is, they want to take the opportunity to recruit Li Sheng to join their Dan people.
Although their people have always been xenophobic, Li Sheng is not only a fisherman, but also a second-level practitioner of the "Sailor Realm".
With such strength and talent, they can naturally put aside their past resentments and choose to accept Li Sheng.
Although Li Sheng had a good impression of these Dan people, their rules and customs were too complicated and strict.
There is no point in simply asking Li Sheng to abide by it himself. He also has a wife and son, so how can he join the Dan people and cut off the advancement of his descendants.
Although he himself makes a living from fishing, he does not want his two children to inherit his father's business.
After all, only he himself knows how dangerous this business is.
It doesn’t matter whether there will be harvest in times of drought, flood, wind and rain.
The dangers hidden in this river and sea are by no means low. Doing this is no less than wearing your head in your belt.
When Li Sheng explained his thoughts and asked for their forgiveness.
Tang Yan's face changed slightly, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, but there was no attack.
He just said with regret:
"What a pity. Please forgive me for the inconvenience of staying here longer. Please leave after drinking this glass of wine."
Seeing that he was given an expulsion order, Li Sheng I had no choice but to say goodbye and prepare to return to my ship and leave.
But as soon as he took two steps, Li Sheng felt a sense of dizziness.
“I don’t know what charm your flesh and blood has. The Dragon King specifically asked me to keep you and use your flesh to raise his dragon sons and grandsons.”
Before Li Sheng could react, he fell to the ground.
"You are too careless. You didn't even give medicine to the people you brought from outside?"
"If I hadn't reacted in time, he would have killed me long ago!"
Tang Yan was no longer as easy-going and cheerful as before. Instead, he frowned and shouted at a man behind him.
"Report to the Sea Priest, we saw that after he landed on the shore, he was covered in injuries and bloody, and he looked like he was about to die, so we did not waste a dose of anesthetic."
"Who knew he would come back to life again and be able to walk and run that night, which almost disturbed our ceremony."
Tang Yan had no patience to listen to the other party's excuses anymore, casually threw out a water snake, and directly Drilled into the opponent's eyes.
The severe pain immediately made him cover his head and howl.
"Bring ten people to feed the dragons and grandsons within three days, or you will be used to top up the number!"
The man lay on the ground and wailed for a while, and then the pain subsided slightly. He got up and accepted the matter with difficulty.
Li Sheng was tied up with ropes by several people and carried to a dark and closed ship prison.
As soon as he was thrown inside, Li Sheng suddenly opened his eyes.
In fact, he was not drunk by the poisoned wine.
Even if some of these Dan people have strength close to the second realm, they do not have the corresponding realm.
He is just a lame strong man, so naturally he does not know the ability of the real second level cultivation. The reason why Li Sheng deliberately pretended to be fainted and restrained was to find out the true face of these gangsters.
It was also because the poisonous wine he drank did affect his condition.
It takes at least a moment of rest to regain strength.
That's why he came up with this delaying strategy, waiting for his toxin to be eliminated before turning against him and taking action.
At this moment, Li Sheng suddenly heard a subtle moan from the dark ship prison.
Under the dim moonlight, Li Sheng suddenly realized that the boat prison was filled with twenty or thirty people staggering around.
Most of them had mutilated limbs and were too miserable to look at.
No one was cleaning up the entire ship prison. It could be said that there was feces and urine everywhere and the stench was endless.
Among this group of people, Li Sheng even found Xiao Chen, who was quite familiar with him before and was also a fisherman with him.
“What’s going on, Xiao Chen, how could you be caught by these people!”
At this time, Xiao Chen was missing one of his thighs, and he fell in a corner of the ship's prison in a state of weakness.
Seeing Li Sheng's arrival, Xiao Chen's numb face first flashed a look of surprise.
Then he seemed to realize something. After a moment of shock, he sighed and regained his numb expression.
After Li Sheng asked for a long time, Xiao Chen shook his head helplessly and told his experience with a wry smile.
It turns out that this group of Dan people would not enter the city on weekdays.
But they would secretly rob ordinary people who were alone and imprison them in ship jails.
Take its flesh and blood to feed evil things.
Even in order to save money, they refused to feed one person at a time, but took one thigh or two arms.
It often takes two or three days to eat a whole person.
At the same time, it can also make them lose the ability to resist.
"Evil thing?"
Li Sheng didn't know what the evil thing they were talking about was at first.
But within half an hour, two men came over carrying a monster with a fish head on its upper body and human legs on its lower body.
“Is this the evil thing they are raising?”
“Yes, it is also the so-called dragon’s son and grandson.” Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and cursed:
"What kind of dragon son and grandson? It's just that they rebelled against fish and gave birth to this half-human, half-fish monster."
"This monster seems to have the ability to confuse people's minds, and according to everyone's opinions Observe that people whose limbs he eats in hallucinations will also be mentally depressed for a long time."
Hearing this, Li Sheng also roughly understood why there were so many people with broken limbs here. .
After all, it stands to reason that if you want to use people as food most efficiently.
You should eat one person first to prevent the other person from dying from his injuries.
But looking at the current situation, when this kind of monster devours the human body, it will also eat the other person's spirit or soul.
As long as they don’t eat the other person at once, the other person can slowly recover some energy over time, allowing them to eat a second time, or even a third or fourth time.
This method of raising people as pigs really aroused Li Sheng's anger.
While they were talking, the two villagers were already driving a monster with a fish head and human body to eat them.
As the song sounded, Li Sheng's eyes suddenly fell into confusion and he couldn't help himself.
The monster in front of him seems to have turned into countless gold and silver, food and wine, and palace splendor.
Li Sheng walked forward blankly, stretched out his hand from the cage, and automatically came to the monster's mouth.
Just when the monster opened its bloody mouth, it was ready to feast with its sharp teeth.
Li Sheng suddenly changed the direction of his palm and poked the opponent's throat with one finger.
As the sound of broken bones came, the monster stopped singing and could only collapse on the ground and vomit blood.
(End of this chapter)