treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang put on their clothes respectively, and looked out again, the ship was almost approaching the sea.

"Is that boat really a dead boat?" Zhan Zhao couldn't help frowning when he saw the boat's route, "Why did it turn around?"

"The boat is moving forward with its bow facing forward, avoiding hidden reefs, it doesn't look like no one is watching it." Bai Yutang hurriedly turned and went down the mountain, and Zhan Zhao quickly followed.Xiao Liang was also in a hurry, picked up the little four who was still wearing his belt and rushed down the mountain, rock scissors followed with his hair flung all over his body, and picked up a shoe that the little four had dropped on the way.

When I got to the foot of the mountain, I saw many people standing on the bank. Min Xiuxiu also hugged Lu Zhen, and took a few women to stand at the door of the house to look around.

"Sister-in-law." Bai Yutang came to her side.

"Yutang, what happened there?" Min Xiuxiu didn't quite understand the situation, and now everyone didn't quite understand... Because of the angle of view, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao could see it most clearly just now from a high place.

"I saw from the mountain that it seems that a large ship has entered the port." After speaking, Bai Yutang walked towards the seashore.

Zhan Zhao also wanted to follow, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the chubby little Lu Zhen.The chubby one or two-year-old doll is at its cutest, Zhan Zhao involuntarily wants to go over and pinch his cheeks, but Bai Yutang drags him away.

At this moment, Xiao Liang also arrived with the fourth son in his arms.

The fourth son finally put on his belt, put on his shoes and came over to coax Lu Zhen, while describing to Min Xiuxiu the appearance of the big boat he saw just now.

Min Soo-soo couldn't help frowning, "The black...big boat?"

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When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang arrived at the shore, they asked Xu Qing who was standing on the ferry and looking into the distance, "Brother, what kind of boat is that?"

"Old five, ghost ship or dead ship." Xu Qing pointed to the sea, "Look at the fog!"

Zhan Zhao and the others also noticed that just a short while ago, there was a thick fog on the sea.

"Is there anyone on board?" Bai Yutang felt strange, the boat looked gloomy in the fog, and it was not clear whether there were people on it.

"I don't know, it looks like someone is there!" Xu Qing pointed to the distance, "Look, the elder brother and the fourth son passed by by boat, and there are also people from the river gang over there."

"Just the two of them?!" Bai Yutang was worried, he jumped, stepped across the water, and boarded the boat that Lu Fang and the others had not sailed far away, and Zhan Zhao hurriedly followed.He found a problem. In the past, it was often what he wanted to do, and as soon as he left, Bai Yutang hurriedly followed behind.Ever since I came to the empty island... No, it should be said that since Bai Yutang got injured in his hand, it became, he disappeared in a flash, and I hurried to catch up. Sure enough, all the injured were uncles!

After landing steadily on the boat, the two went to Jiang Ping and Lu Fang's side.

Jiang Ping frowned and looked at Bai Yutang, "Tsk, why are you here with a cat? Can you two swim? You fell into the sea in a while, and I need to save two more people!"

Bai Yutang's eyelids trembled, he probably hadn't been back for a long time, why was Jiang Ping's poisonous words so kind.

"Fourth brother, what kind of boat is that?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"I haven't seen this scene before, but this boat is too big!" Jiang Ping tutted twice and shook his head, "It is estimated that everyone in your second brother's dockyard will use it, and it may not be possible to build such a luxurious boat. Come!"

"That color..." Zhan Zhao reminded Lu Fang, "it seems to be brownish black."

"Yeah, I don't know what kind of wood it is. It's so dark, so it can't be gloomy wood... Wouldn't that ship sink if it was built?!" Lu Fang was still joking, but his face was not good-looking.

Soon, the boat approached the big boat.

Because they didn't know if there was anyone on the boat, everyone had to shout to the boat, and they couldn't just board the boat and search if they weren't sure.

It's just that everyone yelled a few times, but no one agreed. Jiang Ping and his team's boat was the closest to the big boat, and they looked at each other. Lu Fang's Qinggong was good, so he decided to board the boat.

Bai Yutang was worried, "Brother, I'll go."

"Oh...you are hurt." Lu Fang stopped him, "Brother is not old yet."

How can Bai Yutang rest assured, when he thinks of those people who died tragically, his heart beats.

Zhan Zhao blinked, "I'll go too, let's go up together! Good luck."

Jiang Ping smiled, "Yes, let's go together and take a look on the boat."

Everyone agreed, performed lightness kung fu one after another, and jumped onto the big boat.

At the same time, Dong Xiaodie also stepped on the water on the boat on the river bank not far away, and jumped onto the big boat.

Both feet landed on the ground and looked intently, everyone was stunned... I saw that the ship was in a mess, everything was crumbling and dilapidated, and looking carefully, I saw a large pool of blood on the black deck.

Zhan Zhao patted Bai Yutang's shoulder lightly, and pointed to his ear.

Bai Yutang listened attentively... and heard a "duk tuk tuk" sound coming from inside the cabin, as if something was beating, or wood was hitting.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, looked at the closed cabin door, always felt very strange.

And after boarding the ship, looking at the decorative structure of the ship, it is quite weird, anyway, it must not be a ship that you will see in the Central Plains.

Everyone walked around the cabin on the boat, but found nothing except chaos and blood.So... all eyes turned to the inside of the cabin.

When they got to the cabin door, they could hear the sound of "Tuk Tuk Tuk" becoming clearer inside, but everyone still couldn't tell what it was.

At this time, there was a slight noise on the deck of the ship, and Zhao Pu also jumped up. He and Gongsun were doing an autopsy in the backyard just now. When they heard the commotion, the fourth son said that there was a ghost ship.

"This is a ship from the Western Regions!" Zhao Pu is familiar with the objects in the Western Regions, and he can see something strange at a glance. "The buildings, boats and vehicles in the Persian region like to use this kind of carved pattern."

"A Persian merchant ship?" Lu Fang frowned, looking at the exotic pottery pots that rolled down on the deck, "How far did it have to float over?"

Zhan Zhao pointed to the inside of the cabin and asked Zhao Pu, "Do you know what this sound is?"

Zhao Pu shook his head, "I haven't heard of it."

"Open it and have a look." Bai Yutang was about to open the door, Zhan Zhao walked over, stood behind the door with him, and waved to everyone, signaling - don't stand in front of the door, be careful of the mechanism.

Wait for everyone to find a good place to stand.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tugged on the doorknob... With a creak, the old cabin door swung open.After waiting for a while, there were no organs or crossbow arrows.

Walking to the cabin door, everyone looked inside and opened their mouths—the cabin was full of coffins.

The cabin is square, and there is a shrine in the center, on which a statue of a god is enshrined.The statue looks weird, anyway, it is definitely not the Amitabha Arhat that is common in the Central Plains, but the evil god of the Western Regions with teeth and claws.

Around the shrine, there is a large circle of coffins in a ring.Those coffins are also made of the same black wood as the hull, and they are very close to each other.

The sound of "Tuk Tuk Tuk" continued.

Zhan Zhao waited for a long time before he came back to his senses. Following the sound, he looked up and saw a black wooden wind chime hanging directly above the shrine.

The wind chime was swinging rhythmically with the wind, and the wood chips hit the wood chips, making that weird "duk-duk" sound.

"What kind of shit is this?!" Dong Xiaodie felt unlucky.

Most people who sail on the sea believe in the good and bad luck of Feng Shui, after all, they depend on the sky for food.Such a big ship brought so many coffins... Isn't it just a big bad luck?Lu Fang was also somewhat displeased.

Zhan Zhao asked himself that he had never seen such a battle before, and asked Zhao Pu, "Is this also the custom of the Western Regions?"

Zhao Pu shook his head like a rattle, indicating that he hadn't seen it before, and looked at Bai Yutang in the blink of an eye.

Bai Yutang slightly shrugged his shoulders - never seen it before!

"There's a layer of dust on the coffin board!" Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang, meaning——it's been a long time!

Dong Xiaodie walked over and tapped the lid of the coffin lightly with the knife in her hand. There was a muffled sound inside, which felt very solid...

Everyone's heart went cold.These people are all veterans, and they can tell whether the coffin is empty or full by knocking on it.Generally, if the sound is empty, it means that there is nothing inside, but if the sound is dull, there must be a dead person!

Dong Xiaodie signaled that she was about to pry open the coffin, and everyone nodded, being careful.

The coffin boards were just covering the top of the coffin, they were not crucified... When one of the coffin boards was pried open, a corpse was found inside.

After seeing the corpse, everyone frowned again.It was a bit of a surprise and I felt it was expected, the corpse had obviously been dusty for a long time... It was dry, with a big hole in the chest!

"He died like that again." Zhan Zhao felt depressed, "Who is the murderer?"

"If it's the same murderer...how long has he been at sea?" Lu Fang frowned, "This corpse must have been dead for at least a few years?"

"Let Gongsun take a look." Zhao Pu turned around and wanted to call Gongsun, but when he turned around, he was immediately stunned!Because the whole ship was surrounded by thick fog, it was impossible to see the surrounding situation at all.

"Isn't it?!" Dong Xiaodie's eyes widened, and she rushed to the side of the boat to look into the distance, but it's a great thing to have no direction and no distance on the sea, and now I don't know if the boat is moving. , if it is drifting far away, that would be terrible.

Lu Fang's expression also changed. Although the boat is full of experts, if someone comes to fight and kill, then it's no problem!But if you lose your way at sea, it is really a dead end!

When it was extremely critical, I only heard the sound of "squeak" coming from the side of the boat.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were immediately pleasantly surprised!

Zhao Pu was by the fence, looked down and saw—in the water, Stone and Scissors swam over at some point, with a piece of thick hemp rope dangling from their mouths.

At the same time, everyone found that the distance between the stones and them was gradually getting farther, that is, the big black ship under their feet was drifting in the opposite direction quickly, and it was really dangerous!

But seeing the rock and scissors, there is life!Everyone's lightness skills were good, and they didn't care about the boat, so they jumped off the deck.

The moment he jumped off the deck, Zhan Zhao was at the end, he subconsciously looked back at the cabin... but saw two faint red dots.

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, there was already thick fog on the boat.In the dense fog, a black cat with red eyes stood beside a coffin in the cabin.

"Cat!" Bai Yutang reminded Zhan Zhao, and then he remembered to take a breath and perform lightness kung fu without falling directly into the water.

Following the stone and the hemp rope held in the mouth of the scissors, I stepped on the water all the way to get back to the original boat and saw Jiang Ping.

Everyone escaped safely, and the stone and scissors also swam back, shook off their fur, and squeaked, as if they were communicating something, but unfortunately they couldn't understand.Both the stone and the scissors came from the Western Regions, and the civet was not originally an animal in the Central Plains. Maybe the two of them had seen that kind of boat. Everyone thought... it would be nice if they could understand what they said.

After a while, the fog gradually dispersed... and the big ship disappeared in front of everyone.Seeing this situation, everyone's first reaction was - I saw a ghost!

Those present are all masters, just Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu are the top masters in the Central Plains martial arts... In front of their eyes, a huge ship came and went, and there was nothing unusual about it. No brains.

"Oh, mother!" Xu Qing was the most stunned, and patted his head, "It's haunted! Brother, what's on the boat?"

Lu Fang opened his mouth, and answered him for a long time, "Dead man..."

"Huh?!" Xu Qing opened his eyes wide, and Jiang Ping also frowned.

Zhan Zhao told everyone about the situation on the boat.

"The coffins placed in a circle?" Gongsun came closer, and he heard it too.

"Yes, bookworm, do you know the origin?" Zhao Pu saw Gongsun's expression, and knew that he might know something inside.

"Hmm..." Gongsun thought for a while, and said honestly, "I really remembered something... Are you sure it's a Persian ship?"

"There's nothing wrong with people from Persia in the Western Regions!" Zhao Pu nodded.

"That's the summoning array!" Gongsun said, "It's generally taboo to place coffins in a circular shape, unless it's for summoning spirits."

Zhan Zhao stood aside, with a pimple on his brow... He was always very concerned. When he turned his head before leaving, he did indeed see a black cat.It was the same black cat that I saw at the inn before, the bell on its neck and those blood-red eyes... exactly the same.

At this time, the fog on the sea had completely dissipated, and the sea was empty. The two families sent many boats and troops to find out that the boat was nowhere to be seen, and it was just a strange way.

If it's hallucinations, everyone has seen them. Phantoms, Zhan Zhao and the others have all boarded the boat!HH?

"Hey, don't frown like you're facing an enemy." Seeing everyone's frowning, Min Xiuxiu came up, pulled Lu Fang and said, "What should you be busy with? It's time for dinner in a while!"

Lu Fang also felt that was the case, and hurriedly called everyone back, so as not to be confused by what happened just now.

Everyone walked back, Zhan Zhao suddenly gave Bai Yutang a hand, and asked in a low voice, "Just now... did you see that?"

Bai Yutang just glanced back and asked, "Is it the same cat?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

The two of them were talking when they saw Gongsun turn around and asked, "Did you just talk about cats?"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, then nodded, "Yes..."

"Black cat?"

"Hmm!" The two wondered, did Gongsun see it too?

"Tsk, calling back souls, black cats are the most taboo!" Gongsun frowned.

"Why?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't understand.

"Spiritualism in the Western Regions involves many things such as witchcraft and incantations... Black cats can communicate with Yin. Generally, if you encounter a black cat, you should go to the soul or cheat the corpse."

"Fake corpse?!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang said in shock.

The fourth son in front turned his head and looked at the two with wide eyes.

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang pulled Gongsun and asked in a low voice, "Gongsun, what exactly does the spirit summoning technique say?"

Gongsun frowned, "To be honest, I really don't know much about this... But as far as I know, there are experts in this area in Songjiang Mansion!"

"What kind of expert?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked in unison.

"Oh..." Gongsun rolled his eyes, waved to Zhao Pu in front of him, and pinched the stomach of the fourth son who was following him, "Siss, do you want to go to Taibaiju to eat whitebait egg custard?"

"Think!" The fourth son nodded immediately.

Gongsun picked up the fourth son and said to Min Xiuxiu and others in front of him, "Brother and sister-in-law, the fourth son said he wanted to go to the city, so we went to Songjiang Mansion for dinner."

"That's it..." Both Lu Fang and Min Xiuxiu nodded, telling everyone to be careful and come back early.

Gongsun, Zhan Zhao and others turned around and boarded the boat, and rushed to Songjiang Mansion to find the "expert" and inquire about the secret of this soul-calling technique!