C45

"Are you not hot, boatman? Why are you dressed like this? "

When the boatman heard the sound, he turned to look at me and smiled. "Ah, I'm doing this because the weather is too hot. If I don't stand there drying my equipment like this, I'll really die from the sun."

"But why did you come out? It's not so easy to get out in the sun."

I pointed to the inside of the boat and said, "It's too stuffy inside. I looked at the scenery outside and wanted to take a breather to relax."

The boatsman nodded in understanding, "It's a bit stuffy inside, but it's better than outside. You should go in. I've been doing this for years, so you don't have to worry about me."

I had to nod my head and go in, and there was a kind of tightness in my chest when I got there, and I leaned against the boat and thought about it for a while and attributed it to the fact that everybody seemed to know something I didn't know, so they all acted in unison, and I was completely excluded, and the grandmother seemed to be reminding me, but that was all.

It seems that everyone doesn't want to get involved with my business, this kind of feeling really makes me feel a bit unhappy.

What was going to happen? Letting others not tell others was a very dangerous thing to do. Could it be that he would be able to save them just by sacrificing himself?

Although the rest of the time was extremely torturous, it was already late into the night. Since I really didn't have any appetite, I secretly threw away my lunch.

On top of that, I had been thinking about that question for a whole day, but still couldn't find an answer. I was exhausted, so I fell asleep not long after nightfall.

In a daze, I don't know how long I slept, but I felt that someone was constantly walking around me, looking for something.

When I slightly opened my eyes, I saw the boatsman searching the bodies of others. I tightly closed my eyes and hid my head in a slightly hidden location before secretly opening my eyes to take a look.

The boatman rummaged out all the money he had on them, then pocketed them all in his own pocket. When he was done, he began to dispose of the seemingly valuable pieces of gold and silver.

I didn't expect that this seemingly simple and honest middle-aged man would actually be a swindler. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, the person who sold the tickets seemed to be from the local shipping office.

After the boatmen finished their search, they started walking towards me. I pulled a knife from my pocket and slashed at the boatsman's foot as the boatman approached.

Then, the moment the boatman fell, he stood up and held his hand upside down, one leg bent and tightly controlling him. After that, I used some force and heard the boatsman scream miserably. When I loosened my grip on him, both of my hands drooped down powerlessly.

I took the opportunity to find a piece of clothing and tied it around his hand. Hearing the boatsman's painful groan, I couldn't help but tighten my grip. This kind of person who cheated others was really too much.

The boatman shouted, "Hero, have mercy! I can't stand this kind of shit. "

I coldly snorted, "Looking at your proficient technique, you must have done quite a few things. What's the point of suffering like this?!"

"It's not like that, Hero, listen to me, I don't want to be like this myself, I was just forced to do it, otherwise why do you think I have to do hard work like rowing, and the people in the village cooperating with me."

I pressed his hand and asked, "Then why don't you tell me what happened? "If your answer is satisfactory, I'll let you go."

"Good, good, good …" "The thing is, although we are in a remote rural area, the scenery here is still very beautiful. The city had originally planned to develop our place into a tourist attraction, but after several passengers fell into the water and died in succession, the city gave up on this plan. Furthermore, our evaluation here has plummeted, and at this time, our economy has become very depressed."

I thought about all the people coming and going during the day and I couldn't help but frown and ask, "You said this place is very desolate, but today I saw a lot of tourists playing around."

The boatman suddenly looked at me with wide eyes. "You..." "What are you talking about? We don't have many tourists here, but some people that we've never heard of occasionally barge in. Are you seeing things or are you saying you've run into a ghost!"

I carefully thought about it and realized that it might have really been a ghost. After all, at this level, it was completely fine for me to see a ghost. However, it was strange that there were so many ghosts wandering around. It was simply unscientific.

I patted the boatsman's face. "Don't let your imagination run wild. Now immediately continue!"

He was probably too scared to keep his voice from shaking. "Later on, there were rumors that we had water ghosts, and they had a deep grievance because they all drowned in the water, so every once in a while they would take someone and drown him in the water to vent their anger."

"Therefore, we will find a way to send a few here every once in a while as sacrifices. Some of the villagers won't be able to use the labor force. If there are outsiders like you today, we will send you here."

After I heard what he said, my whole body started to grow angry. If it was like what he just said, then they would have killed countless people and killed countless lives already!

"You guys are insane, do you know what will happen to you after killing so many people?!" Are you all really stupid? Don't you even know how to find people to catch ghosts?! "

"I, I …" "I …"

Before he could even say anything, the boat suddenly shook violently, and a lot of water started gushing up from the surroundings.

The boatman's face began to show fear. "Here it comes, water..." The water ghost is here! "

I listened and looked around vigilantly, but all I could see was water pouring in and nothing else.

Seeing the water getting heavier and heavier, I walked up to the unconscious people and patted them, trying to wake them up. Seeing that there was no reaction from them, I frowned and asked the boatman, "What did you do to them?"

The boatman didn't know what he was immersed in. He just kept shaking. I walked up to him and gave him a hard slap. He looked at me. I stared at him and repeated the question.

"That... That's because I drugged my dinner tonight. "

I was getting more and more nervous. There was no antidote for sleeping pills.

"How much did you put on it?" If not, he should be able to wake up with water.

When I saw the storekeeper wobble up to five, my heart almost broke down.

"Are you okay? Do you know that if you put so many sleeping pills in there, you might die? How are you trying to faint! "

The boatman cowered even more in the corner of the boat, afraid to speak.

I stood on the boat a little impatiently, watching as more and more people appeared. The group of people didn't react at all.

At that moment, he heard the boatman's cry for help. I looked over and saw that his body was actually knocking out of the boat. I quickly moved closer to look and discovered that there was a hand fiercely pulling at the boat owner's clothes. He was currently doing his best to tear it out.

The boatman's hand was broken by me, so he could only weakly wave it around but couldn't do anything. Seeing this, tears and snot started streaming down his face as he screamed out hoarsely, "Hero, you have to save me!" I don't want to die yet. My mother, my wife and my children are still waiting for me at home! They can't do without me! "

I rubbed my forehead. "Now that you know about Gu Nian's family, you should have known earlier when doing bad things that there would always be retribution."

"Hero, I was wrong. I will never do anything bad again. I swear that what I said was true, or else I will be struck by lightning!"

As I took out the most basic peach wood sword from my body, I said to him, "Remember what you said. If you offend me again, I guarantee that you will receive a punishment a hundred times more painful than this."

I cut my finger with my mahogany sword and let the blood flow all the way down to the side of the sword. I chanted a spell and stabbed at the hand.

According to what I know, the water ghost is the type of ghost that has the heaviest yin energy, and because of this, the water ghost is the one that cannot stand yang energy the most. For example, this peach wood sword is made from peach wood that grows under the sun all year round, but it also has the greatest damage to the water ghost. That water ghost's hand should have been crippled.

The boatsman looked at me in a daze and then quickly moved to my side and shouted, "Master! Are you a master? Hurry up and kill all these water ghosts. We are all forced to do these wrong things. Just help us! "

This is already the second time someone has treated me as a powerful Mage, but I didn't end up well last time.

I remembered what the boatman had just said and caught the main point. "What do you mean by these water ghosts?"

"It's just that there are a lot of water ghosts …"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was startled by the water ghost that climbed out of the water and stopped abruptly. I ran up to him and viciously stabbed it in the back, causing the water ghost to scream out in pain. I forcefully kicked him down, but who knew that he would still have the strength to pull me back.

When I saw that half of my foot had fallen into the water, I felt relieved and almost fell into the water.

I stood up and looked into the water. I saw a lot of water ghosts swimming around. These water ghosts all had green skin and long hair. Their eyes were bloodshot, as if they were going to devour us at any moment.

After watching for a while, I felt as if I was going blind. I hurried inside the boat, and then I set up a sigil on both sides of the boat so that none of the water ghosts could enter, but that didn't stop the flow of water that was continuously flowing in.

If this continues, this boat will probably die. I looked at the unconscious people on the ground, and then looked at the boat owner who was extremely scared due to the pain in his hands. I made a decision in my heart.

I walked up to the boatman and asked, "Did you say that as long as someone went down, the water ghost would not harm anyone else?"

"Generally speaking, we only need to throw one at a time. However, if we want to last a little longer, we have to sacrifice a few more people. But why do you ask? "