Before Li Tian finished speaking, the originally calm lake surface suddenly surged violently like boiling water. With the sound of water breaking, dozens of half-arm-long wooden fish suddenly leaped into the air from the green water!
These strange fish are completely black, with wooden scales glowing with a strange cold light. Their mouths are wide open in mid-air, and inside are rows of sharp iron fangs, which are as sharp as jagged teeth. With the sound of metal friction, they rush towards everyone on the boat overwhelmingly!
"Be careful!" Cang Mo shouted sharply, and his tall body instantly blocked Lin Qingyang's body. He waved the mace in his hand and brought up a gust of wind. With a few dull loud noises, the piranhas at the front were directly smashed into pieces in the air, and sharp wood chips and broken iron teeth fell on the deck.
Jian Hong also reacted quickly, enduring the tearing pain in his shoulder, and the long sword in his hand turned into a dense sword net, slashing down the strange fish that came from the side.
While Su Jingui was screaming, he pressed the heavy copper shield against his head and huddled up, letting the piranhas hit the shield like hailstones, making a deafening "ding-dong" sound.
Li Tian hid behind Su Jingui's "human shield", holding the fine iron crossbow and pulling the trigger repeatedly, pinning the strange fish in mid-air into the water.
For a moment, the small white jade boat was caught in a melee. The boat was shaking violently under the crazy impact of the strange fish, as if it would capsize at any time.
However, there was still an endless supply of piranhas in the water, leaping up from the water one after another, biting crazily everything they could touch. Even the hard white jade side of the ship was gnawed with deep white marks by the fine iron fangs, making a scalp-numbing scraping sound.
"Think of a way! Can't this broken ship drive faster?!"
Lin Qingyang held the dagger in his backhand and slashed a fish that had escaped the net and almost bit Cang Mo's arm into two halves in mid-air. The feeling of the broken wood made his jaw go numb.
Li Tian gritted his teeth, squatted down with Su Jingui's cover, and cut his fingertips with a dagger. The bright red blood quickly outlined a complicated formation on the pure white stern deck.
As his fingertips touched the center of the formation, he shouted loudly, "Get up!"
The blood formation suddenly lit up with a dazzling red light, and the surrounding air trembled violently. Then, a violent whirlwind was pulled up from the stern of the ship, like an invisible giant hand, violently swatting away the piranhas leaping around. Driven by this wind force, the white jade ship suddenly shot out like an arrow from the string, leaving the boiling "fish school" behind in an instant, and speeding towards the white jade waterside pavilion in the center of the lake.
Seeing the outline of the White Jade Waterside Pavilion becoming clearer and clearer in the mist, everyone's tense nerves did not dare to relax at all. Everyone knew that the closer to the center of the formation, the more deadly the hidden murderous intention would be.
"Wait... why did the water suddenly turn black?" Su Jingui poked half of his head out from under the shield and pointed out of the boat with a trembling voice.
Everyone immediately looked down and saw that the lake water, which was so clear just now that one could clearly see the bronze gears underwater, turned into a thick ink color. The black water was rolling strangely under the hull, as if some huge living creature was awakening under the water.
At the same time, the white jade boat beneath him seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, slowing down visibly to the naked eye, and finally, with an unsettling feeling of sluggishness, it completely stopped in the middle of the black water.
"It's water plants!" Li Tian's expression suddenly changed, he stared at the looming green outline under the water, and said solemnly, "These water plants were originally sunk at the bottom of the water to prevent things in the water from approaching the gears. That person must have modified part of the formation to be able to control these water plants... This person can actually change the formation of his ancestors!"
Li Tian paused, his expression became more solemn and he said, "This person's formation skills should be extremely high!"
While he was talking, several thick water plants under the water that were originally swaying with the water waves suddenly burst out of the water like poisonous snakes with life. With a disgusting slippery feeling, they quickly climbed and spread along the edge of the white jade boat, heading straight towards the people on the boat.
Everyone immediately waved their weapons and slashed at the vines. Su Jingui's copper shield was obviously useless against these soft and slippery water plants. Several thick water plants instantly entangled the edge of the shield and twisted violently!
Under the erosion of water plants, the originally carved shield instantly returned to the fragile form of rotten wood, and was then twisted into a pile of sawdust by the water plants!
Su Jingui was so frightened that he threw away the remaining shield handle in his hand, but a waterweed wrapped around his wrist and dragged him violently out of the boat.
"Oh my god!" Su Jingui pressed hard on the side of the boat with both feet. The entire white jade boat tilted violently due to this huge pulling force, and the lake water instantly poured into the cabin.
Jian Hong's long sword flashed with cold light, accurately cutting off the group of water plants. Su Jingui rolled and crawled back to the deck, huddled next to Jian Hong, still in shock.
But this is just the beginning, more and more aquatic plants are flooding onto the deck like a green tide.
Cang Mo's mace and the dagger in Lin Qingyang's hand were quickly entangled in the water plants, and the moment they were entangled, the weapons in these spaces immediately returned to their original wooden form and were easily broken. Seeing this, Li Tian simply threw away the crossbow arrows in his hands and pulled out the dagger he carried with him to cut off the incoming water plants.
Dense aquatic plants pulled wildly on the hull of the boat, and the white jade boat shook violently in the black water, almost to the edge of capsizing.
Everyone was tossed around, and in the midst of this extremely chaotic tugging, an extremely hidden, snake-like waterweed quietly emerged from the gap in the bottom of the boat, and suddenly wrapped around Lin Qingyang's ankle!
Lin Qingyang only had time to let out a short exclamation before he completely lost his balance. He was dragged directly out of the cabin by the force, and was slammed into the cold and biting black water with a "plop".
"Lin Qingyang!!!" Cang Mo screamed, jumped up, and plunged into the bottomless dark lake.
The cold lake water poured into his mouth and nose in an instant. Lin Qingyang struggled desperately, but the green water plants came from all directions, climbed up quickly along his ankles, tightly wrapped around his wrists, waist and abdomen, dragging his whole body towards the abyss of the lake bottom.
Cang Mo dived hard into the cold water, his eyes full of frenzy and anxiety. He stretched out his hand and tried his best to catch Lin Qingyang. But just when his fingertips were about to touch Lin Qingyang, the surrounding water plants swarmed in and instantly entangled Cang Mo's limbs, pinning him to death in the water and struggling.
Lin Qingyang was entangled tighter and tighter by the water plants, and gradually became unable to exert any strength. The green vines gradually covered his chest and neck, slowly wrapping his whole body into an airtight green cocoon.
The second before his vision was completely blocked, the last scene Lin Qingyang saw through the dark lake was Cang Mo's figure frantically tearing at the water plants in the water and desperately trying to swim towards him. His scarlet eyes were full of despair and panic.
Then, the endless darkness and suffocation completely swallowed him up.