In Qiu Xiangchen's opinion, taking a boat is not about playing, and taking a dog on the boat is a bit inappropriate.

"It is not an ordinary dog, and it has a keen perception of danger." Zhou Fan explained.

If he left his brother in the Tangjie house, he was worried that he would be targeted by a bad person. If he was unfamiliar with the place, he could only take the brother with him, and the brother might be able to help.

Qiu Xiangchen's face was slightly relaxed, and Wu Gaoxuan said, "But it's on the water after all, is it really OK?"

"It can swim in the water." Zhou Fan said.

Wu Gaoxuan nodded and agreed.

Zhou Fan and his crew are the largest of the corpse-fishing teams that go out. Even if the five people sit on it, there is still half of the empty seats. If you take the guy with you, it will not be crowded.

The half-space on the ship was not wasted, but was piled with various instruments. Zhou Fan recognized some of these instruments, and some of them could not be recognized, but if you think Wu Gaoxuan and the others prepared these things, they naturally had their intentions.

Ma Rui and Fang Lixing are carefully counting the number of these equipment on the ship.

Qiu Xiangchen and Wu Gaoxuan surrounded the wooden boat to see if there were any defects. If a small defect appeared in the wooden boat in the lotus pond, it would easily have a fatal impact on the corpse-fishing team.

The wooden boat used by the corpse hunting team is not made of ordinary wood, but is made of iron pine which is harder than iron. Such wooden boats can withstand greater impact.

But for the lotus pond, which is full of crises and complex ecology, the firmness of the ship is not enough to make people feel at ease.

Zhou Fan didn't understand these things, so he could only watch them from the side, and he would do whatever Wu Gaoxuan asked him to do.

As time goes by, the sky becomes clearer, and the changes between the night and the day make people feel refreshed.

This shadow monster has completely receded.

Wooden boats rowed their oars and headed towards the lotus pond.

The people on the shore said goodbye with the warriors of the corpse-fishing team standing on the boat.

Because they are all warriors, rowing is effortless for them. It is like the wooden boat where Zhou Fan is located. Now it is enough for Fang Lixing to be responsible for rowing alone.

The wooden boat quickly rowed into the green lotus pond.

The petiole, which is taller than a human, holds lotus leaves, and the wooden boat passes through it as if entering a water jungle.

The surroundings are covered with shadows due to the layers of lotus leaves. Looking up, you can see the emerald-like veins, pink lotus flowers and dark green lotus pods supported on the lotus leaves.

The surface of the lotus pond in the early morning was faintly chilling, making people feel cold.

The lotus pond is as vast as a forest, and because of the influence of the lotus stems on the field of vision, Zhou Fan looked around and found that the remaining thirty-one wooden boats that could have been seen before could only vaguely see a few shadows.

The wooden boat rowed dozens of feet, and the few ships that could have been seen were no longer visible.

It seemed that they were the only ship left on the lotus pond.

Zhou Fan and his other boats also slowly stopped in the water and stopped moving forward.

The light breeze blows the water.

The boat stopped to determine the direction.

Ma Rui picked up a pottery jar from the utensils piled on the boat. She uncovered the lid and carefully took out a round glass ball as big as a fist from it.

The glass ball is filled with water. In the water, there is a small fish as big as a thumb. The small fish are all gray, with a big head and a small tail, somewhat similar to tadpoles.

The gray fish swam and rotated in the glass ball, but soon it stopped quietly.

This is pointing to the fish, and its head will always point to the north, providing direction to the corpse-catching team in Liantang.

However, the moisture of the glaze balls pointing to the fish will continue to evaporate. Every once in a while, it will be put back into the pot, so that the specially refined glaze balls can absorb and replenish the moisture.

It is not convenient to use.

The reason why we don’t use compass, Si Nan and other simpler tools to confirm the direction is because these tools in the lotus pond will turn randomly and fail.

As for identifying directions through the sun in the sky...

Zhou Fan looked up and found that the sun above the lotus leaf changed direction again and appeared in the west.

This is another strange thing about the lotus pond. Even if the lotus leaves are pulled open, the direction of the sun you see is different every time. According to people in Tang Street, this is because an illusion condensed above the lotus pond, which causes the direction of the sun you see every once in a while will have an incalculable deviation.

Therefore, they don’t have many ways to identify the direction in the lotus pond, and pointing at the fish is a commonly used and effective method.

Zhou Fan did not waste his time yesterday. He collected a lot of information about the lotus pond from the Tang Street. Even if he didn't ask, he knew the common sense of pointing to fish, which is very basic in the lotus pond.

After confirming the direction, the wooden boat then started to move under Fang Lixing's oar again.

Wu Gaoxuan was holding a map in his hand and was studying it carefully. He said something to Fang Lixing from time to time and adjusted his path forward.

Qiu Xiangchen stood at the bow of the boat and looked around. Zhou Fan and Ma Rui stood in the boat, looking aside.

Everyone on the ship performs their own duties.

The bottom of the ship was engraved with runes, and it was difficult for the monsters to pierce the boards and attack them.

Blood-heart lotus seeds usually appear in the Xin area of ​​the lotus pond, and blood-heart lotus seeds are occasionally found in other areas, but they are very rare.

The Lotus pond is divided into ten irregularly circular areas by warriors, and is marked from the outside to the inside to the ten areas of Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui.

It is said that the more you go inward, the more dangerous it is. No ship dares to step into the core Gui area in the legend.

But saying that's it, the Liantang A District, known as the safest, occasionally encounters great dangers. Even in Area A, there is no team that dares to be careless.

Because of the location of Xin District, it will take a long time to get there. Then count the time to find the Blood Heart Lotus Seed. If you don’t catch the time, you may not be able to leave the lotus pond before dark.

After arriving in Xin District, the search time that can be used is too short, which is also one of the reasons why the blood-heart lotus seeds are difficult to pick.

If the ship can speed up, it will greatly save time entering Xin District.

It is just that it is unwise to rush around in the lotus pond quickly, it is easy to attract the attention of some monsters, and it is difficult to stop in time if there is any danger. If it is not necessary, the corpse-retrieval team dares to venture forward at too fast speed.

Zhou Fan and his team have a very tight time and must not delay too long halfway, otherwise today may be futile.

After bypassing some waters in Area A that Wu Gaoxuan thought might be dangerous, they left Area A and successfully entered Area B.

In Zhou Fan's opinion, it was difficult for him to identify the clear boundary between Area A and Area B. After inquiring, Wu Gaoxuan and the others told Zhou Fan that it estimated it based on the time the ship advanced.

The boundaries of the outer area of ​​Liantang are blurred. The biggest difference between the two areas that seem to be indistinguishable is the increase in danger.

After entering Area B, no one on the boat spoke again, but became alert and stared at the water surface everywhere.

All you can hear is the slight paddling sound of the oars swing left and right.
Chapter completed!