Chapter 409 19 Reasoning Clues and the Truth

Chapter 409 19. Reasoning clues and hidden truths

"I remember that the red meat I found in the ancient city of Nanze was tied up with string and sealed in a porcelain vase. After being escaped from the porcelain vase, it could grow into a red snake monster, which was huge in size and had many tentacles."

"When the Immortal Master was tied up in the belly of the red snake monster, he was almost killed by the red snake. It was really thrilling."

"But I think the red meat in the iron coffin is slightly different from the red meat in the porcelain vase. It may be the same kind of evil thing. I have to go back to the Heavenly Palace to look through ancient books and compare it to find out."

"I remember that on the third floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, in the corner of the second floor, there is an ancient book that records red evil objects. It's called 'Shajiang Zhilu'. There are thirty volumes in total. You can try to find it."

Ji Dao looked at the picture and thought.

He had never seen such an evil thing before, and he had no memory of looking through relevant information. He needed to go back to Tiangong to check it out.

"Let the little Taoist go."

Zheng Yun nodded and sent someone back to investigate.

"Master Xian, Hongrou is motionless and seems to have no ability to fight back. What should we do next?"

Zhang Ergou frowned and asked.

From the first point of view of the Yin soldiers at the scene, the red meat still did not move at all. The linen was pulled out of the iron coffin by the iron hook, and the whole piece of red meat was unobstructed, like fermented bean curd in an iron box.

The red meat was motionless.

They are also difficult to deal with.

Even if you want to take the first step, you are still a little helpless. What should you do next? Take out the red meat? Or cut it with a knife? Or move the iron coffin?

What a headache.

This red meat has the feeling of a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water, but the more it is like this, the more people are afraid of it.

"First determine what kind of meat it is."

Zheng Yun chose to slow down the pace of exploration.

This fact is really weird. The Ghost Suppression Division transported the ghosts to the Immortal Sect, but how many pieces of meat were escorted?

What on earth are the ancestors doing?

Are these pieces of meat ghosts? There are meat ghosts among the ancient monsters, but there are none as big as two cubes.

Sometimes I really can't figure out what kind of life the ancestors lived, what they were busy with every day, and how they came to focus on such weird things.

"I also know about the red meat in a porcelain bottle that you are talking about. The biologist of our expedition team said that the red meat in a porcelain bottle is the limb of a cephalopod marine creature and has the ability to resurrect."

"No matter how many parts it is broken into, it can grow back to its original shape as long as it encounters seawater with a temperature of minus 17 to 20 degrees and a salt content that does not exceed extreme values."

"But the red meat in front of us is different. Its temperature exceeds 30 degrees, which proves that the two are not the same."

Nia also recalled carefully.

They spent a year exploring the floating city in the deep sea, salvaged a large number of porcelain bottles from the seabed, and saw the red meat and black worms inside. Researchers in the same team also conducted a lot of research.

"Is it a marine creature? A marine creature with a body temperature close to the human body. What characteristics should it have?"

Zheng Yun nodded and continued to ask.

Temperature is indeed the key. The temperature of this red meat is too high to understand, with a body temperature of thirty-five or six degrees. In theory, it is almost impossible for it to be a marine creature.

High body temperature means high caloric consumption. The caloric consumption of such a large high-temperature creature cannot be estimated. In fact, there are not so many nutrients inside and outside the iron coffin.

It is similar to human body temperature.

But people have to eat three meals a day, and the foods they eat are high-calorie foods in nature, which provide stable nutrition.

It has no such condition.

But there is also such a high body temperature.

"I don't know much about it. High-temperature organisms usually have special heat supplies. I have seen an organism before that can produce high temperature and nutrients through fermentation in the body."

"But this is just a scientific guess. In this place and this environment, anything is possible. I'm not sure. I'd better let Ji Dao check the ancient information."

"Many creatures on the Endless Passage are beyond the scope of explanation of contemporary science and have abilities that are beyond comprehension."

Nia shook her head and did not dare to speak nonsense.

Science is science, but this place is not an ordinary place after all, but a real dangerous place with ghosts and ghosts. The red meat is not an ordinary creature, but a ghost transported by the Ghost Suppression Department.

Something that can be targeted by the Ghost Suppression Division.

It must be a rare treasure in nature. Even if it is a living creature, it must be an incredible and strange creature.

"Master Immortal, you don't need to be too careful. Hong Rou is still sealed in the iron coffin to this day, and the Ghost Suppression Division's transfer envoy has survived to this day, which shows that Hong Rou has not escaped from the trap."

"If Red Meat really has the power of heaven and can easily kill us, it would have broken open the iron coffin and escaped long ago, and the Ghost Suppressing Division's Transport Envoy would have been killed by this thing long ago."

Ji Dao speculated in turn.

Looking back from the results, the facts are as Ji Dao said, the red meat has not left the iron coffin, and the methods left by the ancestors have not failed, otherwise the red meat would have disappeared long ago.

"What you said is crucial."

“But I’m afraid that’s not necessarily the case now.”

"The sackcloth is probably the Ghost Suppression Department's method of restricting red meat. If it is uncovered by us now, something might happen."

Zheng Yun was awakened by Ji Dao's words, and the many clues he had obtained before were connected one by one, and the truth emerged faintly before his eyes.

There was a large amount of linen hanging from the ship's building, the porcelain bottle that the ghost-suppressing envoy immediately picked up, the mountain goods collected by Zhou Jiu and his son, and the fact that Zhou Jiu had been hiding in the mountains for eighteen years.

among these clues.

The most important thing is the ghost-suppressing transfer envoy.

Every move he makes may have a profound meaning. Even if he is exhausted and unable to speak, his reaction is crucial and may be hinting and explaining something.

Ji Dao provided a direction.

It can also be said to be a beacon.

His logic is correct.

The fact that the Transport Envoy of the Suppressing Ghosts Division has survived to this day and has stayed in the lock box of the ancient ship’s deck, without being harmed by the ghosts he escorted, proves one thing: the ecology of the ancient ship is balanced.

It can also be said to be a stalemate.

The Transport Envoy of the Suppressing Ghosts Division cannot change the status quo, cannot completely kill Hongrou, and cannot leave the vicinity of the ancient ship.

The situation here is different from that of the Hades Pavilion.

Before, their guess was that this place was the same as the Hades Pavilion, and the Suppressing Ghosts Division left people to guard and monitor Hongrou at all times.

But later investigations found that the skinny living man was not an ordinary Suppressing Ghosts Division, but a Transport Envoy of the Suppressing Ghosts Division. His mission from beginning to end was not to guard, but to transport ghosts.

It is completely different from the ghost general.

He is not an ordinary Suppressing Ghosts Division at all.

The Transport Envoy’s duty is to transport. He is still guarding the ancient ship until now, which proves that the transport mission has not been completed.

The rules of the ancient sea guards are strict. People should do what they are supposed to do, and it is impossible for them to take over other people’s business.

Since he is a transport envoy.

Then he is only responsible for transport, which is a dynamic task, a task that must have a process and a result.

The ghost general guarding the Hades Pavilion is a task that has already had a result. It is the finishing process after the exploration is completed. The superior ordered them to continue to guard without a deadline.

The transport envoy is different. The transport mission can only succeed or fail. It is impossible to choose to be on duty for a long time halfway.

Once on duty for a long time.

It means that the mission is not over.

The salt and iron transport envoy can be used as an example.

If a fleet full of salt and iron in ancient times was forced to run aground in a remote river, the transport envoy would send someone to send a letter to find someone to rescue. During this period, the transport envoy guarded the fleet.

There are two subsequent situations.

If the court sends someone to rescue, the entire fleet will be rescued. Even if the stranded ancient ship is damaged, at least the salt and iron will be transferred to other ships and continue to be escorted to the target.

If the situation is extremely dangerous and the court chooses to give up the rescue, then the transport envoy will bury the salt and iron, wait for the court to send troops to dig it up again, and use other methods to transport the salt and iron away.

There is also an extreme situation.

The fleet transporting salt and iron lost its way or was completely trapped somewhere, unable to send out news, and the court did not know where they went. All the officers and soldiers on the ship could only guard the fleet.

Now it seems.

The five ancient ships in front of us are very much like the last extreme situation. The ghost transporter cannot send out news, and no one knows where these ancient ships are hidden. He can only guard.

From this perspective.

We can get a conclusion.

The ghost transporter guarding the ancient ship must be forced. This is a temporary process, which does not mean that the entire transport mission is over. His duty is a helpless move.

Thinking of this key.

We can distinguish between enemies and friends.

The ghost transporter is the escort officer.

Hongrou is the prisoner being escorted.

This is the two camps at this moment, in a delicate balance, and neither side has the ability to break the balance.

The transporter is unable to continue the mission.

Hongrou cannot regain his freedom.

Combined with Ji Dao's logic.

Hongrou has not escaped until now, and is still suppressed in the iron coffin, proving that the ghost transporter cannot be controlled by Hongrou and cannot be contaminated by the local evil spirits.

If the transfer agent had been controlled by the Ghost Seal like the ghost generals of the Hades Pavilion, the same situation as in La Maine would have occurred, with the methods of the gods and ghosts leaking out and harming innocent people.

But it did not happen here.

The bandits in the mountain stronghold were all free.

There was no sign of being contaminated by evil spirits.

So the ghost transfer agent was one of us.

He had the same goal as himself and others, which was to control the evil spirits, either to transfer them successfully or to deal with them permanently.

He had been waiting for a result.

This was the reason why he had held on until today.

After seeing the Haiwei official uniform, the transfer agent did not resist at all, because he had no reason to resist.

Even though he was stabbed in the bone by Ji Daoxian's two knives, he did not struggle at all, but took the risk of being misjudged and killed, and picked up a porcelain bottle from the wreckage of the buckle box.

This move was meaningful.

What exactly did he want to express?

What did he want to say by picking up the porcelain bottle? What did the porcelain bottle represent? Was this his instruction to hand over the task, or his last words before he closed his eyes completely?

What did the porcelain bottle represent?

Wasn't that put out by Zhou Jiu?

What does this have to do with Zhou Jiu?

On the other hand, the identities of Zhou Jiu and his sons also need to be questioned. Are they the villains in this matter?

What is the purpose of Zhou Jiu and his sons, as well as the successive big bosses of this mountain stronghold?

Are they helping the ghost-suppressing and fortune-telling envoy?

Or are they helping the iron coffin and red meat?

It can be clearly observed that there are two factions in the ancient ship, one is the ghost-suppressing and fortune-telling envoy, and the other is red meat.

The protagonists of these two hostile factions are very obvious, namely the fortune-telling envoy and the red meat, but Zhou Jiu and others are not clear about what they are doing hiding in the ancient ship?

They chiseled open the iron coffin.

Take out the linen and dry it.

They also use porcelain bottles to collect liquids.

It looks like they are seeking the benefits brought by the iron coffin and red meat, but if you think about it from another angle, Zhou Jiu and his sons have been to the iron coffin, so how could they not know the fortune-telling envoy?

Zhou Jiu turned the ancient ship over and over.

He must have seen the fortune-telling envoy and the lock box.

He must have tried to open the lock box.

In the ship building where the lock boxes were stored, there were porcelain bottles and bones all over the floor, which was also proof that Zhou Jiu had contacted the transfer agent.

But the transfer agent of the Suppressing Ghost Division did not kill them.

With the strength and speed of the transfer agent of the Suppressing Ghost Division to grab the ghost soldiers with his fingers as claws, and the agility of dodging flying knives, it was almost easy for him to kill Zhou Jiu and his men.

But the reality is.

Zhou Jiu was not killed.

They can hide in the ancient ship, live in the depths of the ancient ship, and go to the iron coffin openly.

Why is this?

The transfer agent of the Suppressing Ghost Division cannot speak, but he is obviously not completely insane, he can distinguish between enemies and friends.

Since he did not kill.

Does it mean that Zhou Jiu and his son are not villains, but are helping the Suppressing Ghost Division to maintain the balance of the ancient ship?

Does this possibility exist?

Looking at what Zhou Jiu and his son have done, they know that there is something strange in the cave in the back mountain, but they did not tell the outside world, but hid it in their hearts and went to the depths by themselves.

The father and son were infected by evil spirits one after another.

Zhou Jiu even abandoned the mountain stronghold and lived in the ancient ship for eighteen years, eventually falling into mental dementia.

If they plotted the benefits brought by the red meat in the iron coffin, what benefits could the red meat provide? The red meat couldn't even speak, what could it promise them?

On the contrary, it was the side of the Ghost-Suppressing and Transferring Envoy.

The Ghost-Suppressing Division was subordinate to the Immortal Monitoring Division. Any Ghost-Suppressing Division was familiar with a lot of methods of gods and ghosts. If the Transferring Envoy promised some benefits, would it be more tempting than red meat?

Thinking about these was definitely not a waste of time.

Determining the camp of Zhou Jiu and his son was the top priority of this exploration. Only by determining where they sat could we know whether their behavior was good or bad.

They took the linen from the iron coffin.

Drying it on the upper floor of the ship.

But they didn't take away all the linen, and left a layer in the iron coffin. What was the reason for this?

There was another linen on the surface of the red meat.

Why didn't Zhou Jiu take this one?

Are these sackcloths grown by the red meat itself, or are they the key instruments to seal the red meat? Is it a method of the Ghost Suppression Division? Do they need to be replaced and cleaned frequently?

This method is also common.

The ship building is full of mountain bones and some strange things. It seems that some kind of spiritual medicine is being prepared and applied on the sackcloth to suppress the growth of red meat.

For example, anesthetics.

Or poison.

Wuhai Xianzhou is vast, and the herbs on the mountain are not scarce. It is not impossible to use mountain products to prepare some herbs.

This matter does not need to be investigated in detail.

Whether Zhou Jiu is helping the red meat out of trouble or helping the transfer envoy of the Ghost Suppression Division depends only on their identities.

Only by confirming this point.

Can we further clarify whether Zheng Yun asked the ghost soldiers to remove the sackcloth at this moment to help the red meat out of trouble.

And Zheng Yun has made a judgment.

He does not think that the mountain bandit Zhou Jiu has the ideological awareness of the Ghost Suppression Division and is willing to give up his freedom to suppress ghosts.

But since the Ghost Suppression Department's Transport Envoy did not kill Zhou Jiu, it means that he condoned Zhou Jiu's behavior. No matter what Zhou Jiu's starting point was, at least Zhou Jiu was not helping Hongrou.

So the act of tearing off the sackcloth.

is not necessarily a good thing.