I secretly observed Yu Wu's expression change and deliberately dragged his voice to him. Yu Wu frowned and stared at me intently, as if I was looking forward to the following.

"The buds on it are crystals, so beautiful."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wu's body became stiff and his expression was very complicated, but he obviously had no joy or similar emotions.

"What a magical thing about crystal flowers on the tree. We all believed him, but... he said that the island had sunk and could not be found, but the story could be preserved, so I took the liberty to disturb you. Of course, if you need it..." My hand reached into the burlap bag and took out the wallet from it.

"No, no." Yu Wu waved his hand repeatedly, "I don't need it."

He fell silent, lowered his head slightly, as if he was thinking about things. He did not directly reject me and drove me out. I felt that there was a way to do this, but it was not appropriate to urge me too quickly.

The living room was quiet, outside the window, there was a rustling sound of the wind blowing the leaves, and the fragrance of flowers floated in, and there was a blue sea line in the distance.

When Yu Wu looked up again, he chatted with me about his family and his ancestors' lives overseas.

I didn't interrupt, listened carefully, and talked for a long time before I talked about his father's age. He brought him to this land to do business and encountered many setbacks.

This country has been colonies of Western countries for hundreds of years, but the foreigners who visited this place earlier than Western countries were Chinese.

Although the proportion is very small, there are some, but unfortunately locals do not welcome the arrival of Chinese people very much.

Yu Wu talked for a long time, and during this period, the nanny he hired came to cook lunch and came in to say hello. He was quite surprised to see a customer. Then he went to the kitchen, brought a cup of coffee and a cup of tea.

In order to avoid war, the Yu family finally saved a considerable foundation after many generations of efforts.

As for Yu Wu's generation, factories and shops are all in the hands of his uncle and cousin. Their family is doing a small business, not a wealthy person, but also a well-off family.

The cowhide roll was the "industry" assigned by their family. Because the brothers were unhappy about the inheritance at that time, Yu Wu's father was angry and handed over the cowhide roll to Yu Wu and asked him to sell it.

This thing was originally a heirloom of their family. Unlike gold and jade, its value lies in spirit. However, this spiritual product is only valuable within their family. To put it bluntly, it is not eaten or drunk properly.

Yu Wu was young at that time and wanted to go back to his legendary hometown, so he returned to China with a cowhide roll.

Seeing that there were many opportunities in China at that time, he asked his family for money and invested in a factory in the local area.

When the factory was started, he remembered the cowhide rolls and asked the partner who runs the factory to take him to the antique market.

The cowhide scroll is a real antique, and the stories recorded on it are bizarre, and there are still people who are interested, but the price is average. After all, this is not written by a "celebrity", and the story is illusory.

Perhaps the antique dealer could make cowhide into a complete collection of Water Margin, but Yu Wu didn't understand these. He just sold their heirloom according to his father's wishes.

Moreover, when he returned to China, he wanted to return to his roots. Yu Wu clearly stated that he did not believe in the content written on the cowhide roll at the beginning.

until……

The owner of an antique shop took a fancy to him, but the man refused to accept it, saying that he was looking for his friend. The friend was in the capital and immediately booked tickets to the coast with a letter.

Two days later, Yu Wu met the real buyer, a boss from the capital.

This man also works in antique business. He has his own antique shop in the capital, which specializes in collecting these old objects that record strange and unofficial history.

"They are the same as you think." Yu Wu took a sip of tea and looked at me and said, "I thought I knew something that was not written on the cowhide roll."

"Then have you told them?" I followed the sentence. In fact, someone organized a team from behind to find Taoyuan Island and successfully looked at it. Yu Wu probably really knew some information outside the volume and told the antique shop owner.

"Well, I said it." Yu Wu nodded gently, "I have been thinking over the years, how great it would be if I had kept my mouth shut at that time."

Yu Wu suddenly added a sentence off topic and said that he was so fluent in Chinese because he still has friends from China and has never stopped interacting with each other.

After talking about family history, all the grievances were discussed. Yu Wu finally talked about the main topic, talking about the things he shouldn't have told me back then and today.

The fisherman was carried to Taoyuan Island by a giant tortoise in the sea. When he met the villagers of Men's Village, they took him to visit the island. What he saw was very strange, and it was fine if it was strange flowers and plants. There was a towering tree in the center of the island, with countless jade leaves, crystal flowers, and gem fruits on it. The fisherman was amazed and thought he had arrived in the fairyland.

This kind of strange tree that appears on the branches at the same time is regarded as a holy tree by the villagers of the Man Village. By eating gem fruits, they can live forever.

So to put it bluntly, these people on the island have no birth or cultivation, thousands of years, and thousands of years, and they all see familiar faces. No wonder they are in a hurry to go out.

Originally, the islander asked the fisherman if he would like to eat a fruit, but the fisherman refused. Otherwise, he would say that he was an educated fisherman. He replied to the island country that his happy time is to be with his family. If all his relatives and lovers die and leave him alone in the world, it would be better to grow old and die normally.

He said this because the gem fruit cannot be taken out of the island. As long as the fruit leaves the island, it will turn into dust.

Similarly, when the island country leaves Taoyuan, it will no longer have immortality. Like normal people, it will experience birth, old age, sickness and death.

However, they didn't care, they had decided to leave, and they were in a hurry to give them a wooden basin and would sit and take a seat away from the island.

No wonder someone spent money to organize an expedition team for an unproven ancient cowhide scroll. It turned out that he was another person who hoped to use "Eternal Life" to protect his wealth.

According to the report, there were no fruits on the branches auctioned later, so what Yu Wu said should be the truth. The gem fruit will turn into ashes after leaving the island, but the branches and flowers are still there, but they just won't bear fruit.

"Boss Yao bought the cowhide rolls. Not long after, he called me again and said that someone was willing to fund the island search operation and invited me to join them." Yu Wu said as he suddenly threw out a big melon.

"You also participated in the action back then?" My surprise was not pretending, which really surprised me.

Yu Wu nodded and sighed, "Curiosity...is very dangerous."

When he said it, he looked at me. I just said that it was because of the tendency of curiosity that he found a way to find him to learn more. Is this a pun?

"Listen to the story, this curiosity should not be dangerous." I sat casually without any tension.

"Yes, I was the same as your current thoughts at that time. I was just a sea trip and would come back if I couldn't find one. What danger would I have? At the age of twenty, I was too naive about many things."

Maybe he didn't understand the adventure and treasure hunting, and thought it was a tour group, but he didn't know it was a dragon's pond.

It’s not that Taoyuan Island is so dangerous, but that the boat he boarded is extremely dangerous.

People often say that humans are more terrible than ghosts. It is not unreasonable. As a descendant of the "party involved", Yu Wu was actually cheated on the ship. The investor was afraid that he would lie and specifically asked to take him on the ship. If he found out that he was lying on the way or at the place, they had a way to let him tell the truth immediately.

The naive Yu Wu didn't know that he had boarded the pirate ship. His idea was very simple. The story passed down from generation to generation of the family would be a legendary experience if he was lucky enough to witness it.

Fortunately, there was more than a wave of people on the ship, and several forces gathered here to compete with each other, but instead protected Yu Wu. Some people wanted to harm him, some people protected him, some people wanted to be severe, and some people stopped him.

At the beginning, everything was calm and the forces on the ship could still maintain open harmony. Yu Wu didn't see any problems. He just watched the scenery, slept, ate, or played cards with the guys on the ship all day.

He thought it was a trip, but the others were accumulating their energy. He was not on the same channel as them at all, so he lived a leisurely life.

For a person who has lived by the sea since childhood, taking a boat is not difficult. Some people vomited badly for the first time when they went to sea, and they didn't even leave the cabin.

The first time Yu Wu discovered something was wrong on the ship was a month after going out to sea, there was no one on the ship.

The man often played cards with him, but suddenly the person disappeared. He asked who he said he didn't know.

How could I not know that the living person is gone?

He asked the captain because the person he had disappeared was the sailor on the boat. The captain said that the man had drunk too much last night and fell into the sea and could not find him.

Yu Wu didn't believe it. It was true that the man liked to play cards, but he was a person who didn't drink. After they played cards several times, Yu Wu asked to drink some, but the man refused, saying that he had rashes all over his body, which made him feel itchy and he would never dare to touch him.

But he did not see the actual situation with his own eyes, and there was no evidence to argue with the captain.

The sailors brought on this ship were twice as many as they were when they went to sea. There were too many people, and there would be no problem if they lost one. It was just that Yu Wu felt awkward. One person was missing, and the others seemed to have no feelings at all.

The second thing that made him suspicious happened the next night, when a storm broke out on the sea. They were swaying in the cabin and heard laughter faintly, as if in their ears.

Yu Wu was already having a good relationship with several people at this time. He ran to their cabin and asked if he could hear any sound.

Those people were sailors on the boat and liked to play cards just like him. At first they denied it and said they didn't hear it.

But seeing Yu Wu so nervous, he was so nervous that he might not bear it, so he reminded him that it would be best to not hear anything he was listening to on the boat.

One of them also warned him that he would disappear like the sailor when he talked too much.

This is equivalent to admitting in disguise that the sailor's disappearance was not an accident. Yu Wu was so scared that he had no acquaintances on the ship. The sailor was hired by the captain. Even if he said he would disappear, he would disappear. No companions stood up to speak for him, let alone him.

Yu Wu felt the danger and finally became cautious, but he could not ignore the faint laugh. He heard that the voice was probably a woman. There were only two women on the boat, one was a "big boss" sent by the investor, a rich woman in her fifties lived in the best cabin, and the other was a little girl who was only seven or eight years old. She stayed in her own cabin all day and never went out.

And the laughter seemed to follow him, and wherever he went, the laughter would follow. His voice was not as low as a rich woman, nor as crisp as a little girl.

"I suddenly remembered something. On the day I boarded the boat, they moved a lot of boxes for supplies, but one of them was very large, unlike a small animal. There was a black cloth covering the cage. I asked Boss Yao what it was. He said it was a large dog pet raised by Miss Lulu. Oh, Miss Lulu is that very rich woman."

Yu Wu said something specifically and continued, but he had never seen any large dog since he got on the boat. If Miss Lulu didn't let it come out to move, she had never even yelled.

Many things are not taken seriously under special circumstances. Once a doubt arises, a string of things that have never been thought of before.

I listened patiently to his story, but in fact I just wanted to know where those who ran out of Taoyuan Island went later.

However, it is not harmful to listen to more details about this matter. What Yu Wu encountered should be several treasure hunting teams that were temporarily working together. This is a good statement, but it may not be so legal in fact.

Yu Wu just has no such experience. He is not a reckless man. He knows that he is weak on the ship and has to remain silent when it is time to remain silent.

So he did not continue to laugh, pretended not to hear, and stayed in the sailors' room to play cards with them.

What happened next was even more terrifying. He said that Taoyuan Island, just like its name, is a pure land for everyone to rest.

However, on the boat, it was a place like Shura hell, and the night he heard the laughter, two more sailors disappeared.

But this time the captain and the others no longer pretended to be deaf and dumb. They finally became nervous and searched for the two missing sailors.

From this point of view, we can guess that this time it was not their move, and that the person disappeared without their knowledge.

Yu Wu guessed that the first missing sailor might have discovered something and was thrown into the sea by the captain and others to feed the fish.

And the two missing later found the remains, no, he said that they could only be considered wreckage.

"Have you ever seen roast chicken that was eaten very clean?" Yu Wu asked suddenly.

"See." I said, not only had I seen it, but if I had eaten it, the chicken bones would not be left.

"They... nothing left, and their brains were knocked open, empty." Yu Wu seemed unwilling to describe the scene he saw at that time in detail. Decades have passed, and that picture may still be a very deep psychological shadow for him.

An ogre appeared on the ship. Miss Lulu was furious and shouted at the captain, ordering him to find the 'that thing'.

This time she didn't avoid anyone, and everyone heard her loud yelling sound.
Chapter completed!