False evidence

Chapter 336 Fishing for Spiritual Bones at the Dragon Ascension Pavilion (7)

Liu the Blind laid the eunuch's body flat, bowed respectfully three times to him, straightened up, turned around and ran towards the location of the glow sticks.

Without needing to say more, Liu Hong and I knew why he had sped up.

The glow sticks couldn't provide long-lasting illumination; the one he threw out to scout ahead was already starting to dim.

And right now, all we have for lighting is these four glow sticks.

"No lights on, no darkness!"

Liu the Blind kicked the glow stick at the top of the stairs and then ran down the steps without stopping.

Liu Hongcai and I followed him down a third of the way, and there we saw Blind Liu standing frozen below, motionless.

At that moment, the glow stick reached the end of its lifespan and went out.

Just as I was about to grab another glow stick, I heard Blind Liu say in a deep voice, "Don't go up to the lights, put your arm around my shoulder and come with me!"

His voice was hoarse when he said this.

I had just come down the steps and hadn't seen the situation below yet, but I immediately put my arm around Liu Hong's shoulder and used my fingers to press and knead instead of sign language to roughly convey the blind man's meaning to him.

The three of them resumed their bridging connection.

Blind Liu was at the very front, walking very slowly.

I put my arm around Liu Hong's shoulder from behind and moved forward at the pace of the two people in front of me. In the darkness, I couldn't see anything at all, but I could feel a pressure around me that was hard to describe.

Because I was walking in the dark, I instinctively counted my steps.

From the moment he descended the stairs until the blind man gave another instruction, there were a total of seventy-one steps.

Walking in the dark, with short strides.

Excluding the diagonal detour, the estimated longitudinal length of this floor is approximately twenty meters.

It is shorter than the upper layer.

In other words, my earlier assessment was correct. We have indeed entered the main hull, and the space will only become narrower as we go down.

Because the entire ship was made of iron, in the darkness, although the three of them deliberately walked lightly down the stairs, the sound of their bare feet stepping on the iron plates was still very clear.

At this moment, I envy Liu Hong the most. He has hearing problems and probably can't understand the psychological pressure that this kind of sound brings.

Then go down to the next level.

"Oh shit!"

Suddenly, Blind Liu cursed.

Immediately afterwards, the fluorescence lit up again.

Liu the Blind Man broke off another glow stick.

Seeing the situation on this floor by the light, I immediately understood why the blind man was cursing.

So far, this ship graveyard feels more like a building to me.

Apart from the previous floor, which was reached in the dark, and the dead eunuch on the floor before that, the other floors were completely empty.

However, this layer is quite different.

Under the fluorescent light, at first glance, the entire cabin was filled with 'people'!
They were all women, dressed in ancient clothing. Each of them stood with their hands clasped in front of their stomachs, eyes closed, heads bowed.

The distance between people is no more than half a meter, and at a glance, there are at least a hundred of them!
These women, dressed in court attire, stood on either side, leaving a passage about three feet wide in the middle.

Judging from Liu the Blind's posture, it's not hard to imagine that the reason he was cursing was because the first thing he did after getting down was to touch the face of a nearby 'maid'!
There were still faint finger marks on the woman's cheek!

"Holy crap, are these real people?" Liu Hong couldn't help but ask.

"Depend on!"

As Blind Liu turned and pointed at him, I couldn't help but give him a hard pat on the shoulder. This guy's hearing isn't good, so he can't control his voice.

Even when Liu the Blind Man was cursing in the dark, he kept his voice down. But this time, he spoke even louder than usual.

This isn't about being overly sensitive. Rather, in such an environment, even the slightest sudden noise can significantly trigger one's most sensitive nerves.

Blind Liu was definitely a man of experience. After a brief moment of shock, he gestured to the two of us and then slowly walked forward along the passageway cleared by the maids.

As I followed him down into this special passageway, I realized just how strong his... and even Liu Hong's, mental strength was.

The aisle was so wide that, as an adult man, if I walked across the middle with my shoulders shouldered, the closest maids on either side would be no more than two feet away from my cheek!
Those fair and rosy faces...

If this were a living person, standing still like this would be creepy.

Besides... can these people even be alive?
"Are these all real people?" Liu Hong finally couldn't help but ask.

He was really trying to keep his voice down this time, but I still couldn't help wanting to punch him on the back of the head.

He really couldn't control his voice. He pressed it so hard that his throat felt like it was falling into his pants, and it was like he had steel wool stuffed in it. His voice was so hoarse that it didn't sound like a human's at all!
Actually, I have the same question as him right now.

The three of us were practically naked, none of us were wearing shoes.

Of the three, Liu Hong was the tallest, at least 1.8 meters tall.

Both Liu the Blind and I are of average height.

The maids on both sides, although they had their heads down, had heads that were about the same height as mine and Liu the Blind!

If these women were real people, they could form ten women's basketball teams today, plus substitutes, right?
Consort Li was from the Ming Dynasty. Were all women in the Ming Dynasty this tall?
Finally, after passing through the 'crowd', I arrived at the stairwell again.

At this point, I couldn't help but nudge Liu the Blind and whisper, "Are these real people or mannequins?"

I honestly didn't see it.

Firstly, glow sticks are not of a normal color, and the light they emit is dim.

And then... at such close range, looking at these ancient-style maids, each with a rosy blush on their cheeks, they looked like living people, except for their eyes not being open!

How can living people stand up? And they are all tall women.
"This is my first time too!" Liu the Blind Man said succinctly.

I would never misunderstand this "first time," because it seems he was kicked out of the house by his wife after he got his son drunk.

I suddenly felt a little sorry for Lu Zelin. As a descendant of tomb raiders, he probably had never seen such a bizarre ship tomb before...

Going down the stairs again, halfway down, Blind Liu muttered under his breath:
"What the hell?! Is this a ship or a tower?!"

It's really not his fault.

If those maids hadn't been so strange, I would have asked them already.

It's called a ship, but it has so many layers on top and down layer after layer... Was ancient shipbuilding technology really that advanced?
The key question is... can a boat with this design actually sail on water?
It's hollow inside, made of pig iron... and it's so high up, yet it doesn't sink. Won't it capsize due to weightlessness?

"Who is coming?!"

A sharp voice suddenly rang out.

I jumped up in fright again.

This landing wasn't so lucky; my foot slipped, and I slid straight down the steps.

Liu Hong, who was in front, was fine at first, but when I kicked him in the back of the knee with one of my raised feet, he immediately lost his balance.

He didn't react because he couldn't hear well, but the noise Liu the Blind Man made was much louder than mine.

This thing also suddenly leaped upwards, and before it even landed, it was already rapidly swinging its two hairy legs in mid-air, howling loudly. And then... it had already run more than three meters away!

"Who?!"

Blind Liu was actually quite righteous; the first thing he did after turning around was to throw the glow stick towards the source of the sound... which was behind the steps we had come down...

(End of this chapter)