Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 3: Fishing for Corpses in the Ice Sea
Next, Gong Tianwu followed the same method and made seven parallel tripwires in one go, with each tripwire about three meters apart.

Of course, Gong Tianwu was so distressed about the eggs that he gritted his teeth. After all, the last time he tasted eggs was five years ago, and it was only half a mouthful of egg custard.

Gong Tianwu then took out the oars, and tied a chopping knife from his bag to the oar head with a thin straw rope. Not only did he wrap it densely in three layers inside and three layers outside, he also soaked it in the water in the ice pit. When the cold wind blew, the places where it was wrapped immediately froze hard.

In this way, a sword with an attack range of about three meters was formed.

Gong Tianwu tried swinging the knife twice, nodded with satisfaction, and took out the big rooster tied in the sack. Because the sack was padded with a thick layer of hay, the rooster could still struggle even though it was not in good spirits.

The next second, Gong Tianwu cut the chicken's neck with a knife and carefully dripped the warm chicken blood into the wooden bowl next to it.

The bottom of the wooden bowl was covered with some crushed grass roots. Every few seconds after Gong Tianwu released blood, he would gently stir the wooden bowl next to it with a stick to allow the chicken blood to be fully mixed with the crushed grass roots below.

Soon, a large bowl of fresh chicken blood was served. The rooster was dead, and because of the crushed grass roots in the wooden bowl, the chicken blood did not coagulate in such severe cold.

Gong Tianwu took two deep breaths, came to the side of the ice pit, and poured half a bowl of chicken blood into it.

The chicken blood surged in the ice water, and under the moonlight it looked like a large ball of constantly stirring ink, and then gradually spread to the side.

Gong Tianwu immediately retreated quickly, put the wooden bowl aside, then quickly picked up the oar and knife next to him and retreated quickly to the rear, standing behind the "tripwire" next to him, while nervously looking at the ice pit in front of him.

If anything wanted to emerge from the ice pit, it would have to pass through the "tripwire" first before it could reach Gong Tianwu.

Time passed by minute by minute, but unfortunately nothing happened. Gong Tianwu was already shivering in the cold wind, his face turned blue and his lips turned white, and he could hardly hold on any longer.

However, how could Gong Tianwu be willing to just give up and leave? He trembled as he came to the front of the ice pit, poured some chicken blood into it again, and quietly stepped back, but there was still no reaction.

After repeating this process for more than an hour, there was very little chicken blood left in the bowl. At this moment, Gong Tianwu was completely overwhelmed by frustration. He sat down on the ice helplessly, knowing that he would most likely return empty-handed this time.

The key point is that he even squandered all of Tian Dachun's "legacy", so it would be difficult for him to do the same thing again.

Suddenly, Gong Tianwu began to look around in confusion, because he suddenly felt something approaching, and that thing was under the ice! !
There is no doubt that Gong Tianwu's first reaction was to run away, because he intuitively sensed that the thing under the ice was coming towards him.

But Gong Tianwu's current condition was not very good. His hands, feet and body were all frozen stiff. He just stood up and fell on his face in the mud, with his lips swollen and bleeding.

After only a few seconds of delay, a large dark blue hand suddenly stretched out from the ice pit and started to dig it hard.

Suddenly, ice debris and seawater splashed everywhere! A strange corpse emerged from the ice pit!

The corpse's face was distorted, its lips were contracted so that its teeth were exposed, and its eyes were completely white, making it look particularly hideous.

The corpse was wearing a white silk-like gown with a flame-like mark on the lower right corner. However, the mark was not red, but rather bluish.

You can see that its chest is obviously sunken - this should be the cause of its death.

After the corpse arrived at the ice pit, it began to look around, but it was obvious that its eyesight was very poor.

But soon it smelled the scent of chicken blood, jumped over, grabbed the wooden bowl next to it, and began to lick it greedily.

At this time, Gong Tianwu had been frozen in such an environment for such a long time, and witnessed such a weird and hideous ice corpse with his own eyes, he was suddenly suffocated by an indescribable fear. He froze in place, shaking violently all over.

If this ice corpse pounced on him at this moment, Gong Tianwu's only fate would be to be bitten to death and eaten!
Fortunately, it took the ice corpse about five or six seconds to lick the bowl of chicken blood. This buffer time was really precious to Gong Tianwu.

He immediately bit his tongue hard. The severe pain almost made Gong Tianwu cry, but it also made him regain his sanity. After all, he was mentally prepared before he came here and knew what would happen.

After bending down and picking up the homemade knife, Gong Tianwu shouted at the ice corpse, and then came to the front of the "tripwire".

The ice corpse immediately turned around and jumped towards this side. Although its movements seemed stiff and sluggish, its speed was not slow at all, and there was an indescribable fishy wind blowing towards us.

At this moment, the "tripwire" that Gong Tianwu had set up in advance came into play. When the ice corpse jumped towards him, its feet were hooked by the straw rope in front of it, so it fell forward and fell flat on the ground, then waved its hands and feet slowly and with difficulty to try to get up.

Seeing this opportunity, Gong Tianwu suddenly became bolder. He swung his sword and chopped at his neck.

As a result, Gong Tianwu was nervous and inexperienced, so his aim was surprisingly poor. He hit the ice corpse's head instead of its neck, and a crisp "clang" sound was heard, as if he had hit a hard rock.

Gong Tianwu suddenly felt an excruciating pain in the palm of his hand and couldn't help but let out a scream.

Then he raised his hand and saw that the base of his palm was bright red, with a big gash created by the shattering!

Fortunately, the ice corpse was also chopped to the ground, barely shook its head, climbed up and continued to chase, but was knocked down by the tripwire in front.
After repeating this several times, Gong Tianwu began to breathe heavily, but the blood in his body began to flow, and a little sweat appeared on his forehead. His movements, which had been stiff due to nervousness, returned to normal.

At the same time, Gong Tianwu also realized that although the ice corpse looked scary, it was actually tied up by the lasso he had created, and his mood calmed down.

You have to know that Tian Dachun, who was resurrected by him, was a brave and fierce gangster who had also touched a knife and hurt people, so the muscle memory was still there!

In this situation, Gong Tianwu seized the opportunity and quickly hit the same spot with several consecutive slashes, successfully cutting a large gash on the neck of the ice corpse. Looking closely, one can see that the cross section of the neck wound is full of purple flesh and blood, which is still wriggling as if it has life, and dark red blood foam and ice debris are falling.

At this time, one of Gong Tianwu's character advantages was revealed. He was able to be patient and proceed step by step. Once he felt the risk, he would rather stay alive than take action. In simple terms, he was as steady as an old dog and would never be greedy.

Time passed quickly. Gong Tianwu's physical strength was exhausted. He breathed heavily and even felt a slight pain in his heart. He also felt an unusually dry mouth.

Suddenly! Another straw rope was broken by the ice corpse, and it lost its center and fell to the ground again. At the same time, its right arm was pressed under its body, but it was still struggling hard, making a "ho ho" sound from its mouth.

"Chance!!"

Gong Tianwu's eyes lit up, and he immediately took a half step forward, took a deep breath, raised his homemade knife high, then aimed at the wound on the ice corpse's neck and chopped it down hard.

But at this moment, the ice corpse opened its mouth, bit the blade that was about to cut it, and shook its head hard.

Gong Tianwu was already exhausted at this time, and his reaction was slow. When faced with such an emergency, he was unable to make an effective response. His sword slipped out of his hand and was thrown to the side. He lost his balance and fell to the ground, with his forehead hitting the ice heavily.

The impact was quite severe. Besides the severe pain, golden spots appeared in front of my eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Gong Tianwu smelled a pungent smell of the sea, making him feel like vomiting, and his cheeks also felt the coldness of the ice.

A hot current flowed down from the forehead and soaked into the corners of the mouth, bringing with it a strong smell of rust and fishy smell!
That's the smell of blood!!

At this most critical moment, there was no fear or pain in Gong Tianwu's heart. Instead, there was calmness. At this moment of life and death, a huge force erupted and rolled to the side.

Sure enough, two seconds after he rolled away, the ice corpse had already rushed towards him and pressed heavily on the ice surface. The cold and fishy water on its body splashed everywhere, and its sharp black fingers were less than two inches away from Gong Tianwu's calf.

Gong Tianwu seized this opportunity, grabbed the broken tripwire nearby and wrapped it around the corpse's legs a few times, then while it was struggling, he climbed up, grabbed the slashing knife nearby and swung it hard! !

A dull sound of chopping meat and cutting bones was heard immediately, and the quantitative change finally accumulated into a qualitative change.
The head of the ice corpse rolled to the side, its teeth still clacking as it rolled, and its body was still trying to stand up and move, but unfortunately it had obviously become aimless.

After seeing this scene, Gong Tianwu let out a long sigh, took a few steps back, and sat down on the ice.

There were stars in front of my eyes, and things were getting dark. The worst thing was the dull pain in my chest, and my heart seemed to be jumping out of my throat!
After a few minutes, although Gong Tianwu was still sweating, he felt much better, so he stood up shakily.

He first came to the chopped-off head of the ice corpse, held it down from the back of its head, and stuffed a wooden stick into its mouth before searching the body. After all, there must be some lethality left in the zombie's head.

Soon, Gong Tianwu was overjoyed because he found a jade hairpin in the hair of this head.

The key is that the hairpin is made of delicate jade, and there is a warm feeling when holding it in the hand. The carving is also very exquisite. The only flaw is that there is a black line surrounding the originally white hairpin.

At first, Gong Tianwu thought that this thing was dirt, but after wiping it again and again, he found that it was part of the jade flesh. He was quite frustrated. After all, with this black line, the selling price would drop by at least 70%.

But at this time, Gong Tianwu still felt something was wrong, because the strange feeling that emerged in his mind was still there, and it was on the headless corpse in front of him, and he could feel that this thing was closely related to his life.

But the problem is that now he has searched the headless corpse thoroughly, which means that what he is looking for is inside it.

Thinking of this, Gong Tianwu couldn't help but shudder. This was not an easy job. Opening up a headless corpse in this icy and snowy place? And then slowly and carefully searching for something inside?

OMG, just thinking about it makes me creepy and even colder!
The key point is that the ice pit that I made is still there. If something is attracted by the smell of blood and comes out of it, I will be dead for sure.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Gong Tianwu finally decided to continue the adventure. He dragged the headless ice corpse directly to a high ground not far away, and then began to disembowel the ice corpse with a grimace, while shivering in the cold wind.

Fortunately, not long after, Gong Tianwu found the thing that had a close connection with him. It was found in the stomach of the ice corpse. It turned out to be a ring. When it was found, it was put on a bony finger, and the bone was so rotten that it was falling apart.

The material of this ring is very special, like vine or bone, but for some reason it looks familiar, and Gong Tianwu put it on his finger.

Gong Tianwu was in a dangerous situation at this time and was about to be frozen to death. He had no time to think, so he stripped off the clothes of the zombie and threw the zombie's head into the package. He then rowed away, exhaling bursts of white air from his mouth.

Although the boy was so cold that his face turned pale, his nose was running and he almost lost his life, he must have been very excited and rowed with great energy.

That jade hairpin should still be worth some money. With the money, relying on the connections that Tian Dachun had made before, the matter of serving the Xianmen corvée should be settled! !

***
While the sampan was returning, Gong Tianwu couldn't help but think of some past events out of boredom.

Hunting corpses in the ice sea is extremely dangerous, and requires a lot of complicated preparations. These things are obviously not something Gong Tianwu can figure out on his own.
The reason why Gong Tianwu had a good family background in his first life and was able to study for several years was because of his grandfather Gong Gengjun.

Gong Gengjun was decisive, bold, and unconventional in his actions, and was known as Geng the Cannon.

When he was young, he worked as a peddler and a porter. After returning to his hometown, he often did the work of a monk.

Of course, this incident caused great hatred and brought a very bad reputation, so Lao Gong’s external pseudonym was Geng Jun, which showed that he was well-informed.

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