treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other subconsciously, and then looked at the small carriage in front of them. What kind of mysterious person is in this carriage? He wears a soul calling bell, which shows that it has a great relationship with this case!

"Um……"

At this moment, the old voice in the carriage sounded again, "Why is it so fragrant?"

The young man was a little confused, and sniffed around, "No! Master, what kind of fragrance do you smell? The smell of flowers and plants or the smell of food?" The man in the car was silent for a while, and said in a low voice, "The smell of corpses."

"Oh my god!" The young man jumped up and said, "Don't talk nonsense, it's broad daylight..."

It's just that he was stunned before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't help but frowned.

Not far away, a small boat was floating on the river near the bridge.The boat was very small, it looked like a big bathtub, it was drifting closer, and soon it was under the bridge.It floated past Zhan Zhao's eyes... and there was a person lying on the boat.

After Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at it, they opened their eyes wide at the same time.There was a corpse on the boat, not a human being. This corpse was almost blue, and it should have been dead for a long time, but the key point was that the corpse was wearing a shroud and had already been collected. It looked like it had come out of a coffin.

After Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, he came to his senses and said in a low voice, "Isn't this the corpse of Qinglong King Cao?"

Zhan Zhao was also taken aback, he didn't recognize the Azure Dragon King, so the initial shock wasn't as great as Bai Yutang's.But after hearing what Bai Yutang said, he couldn't figure it out, why did this corpse come here?

The two looked at each other and thought for a while, then they understood, could it be that the Hailong gang was on fire that day, and this corpse floated out?

After Zhan Zhao thought about it carefully, he felt chills coming from his back. How should I put it——the Azure Dragon King should be offering offerings in the mourning hall, that is to say, it would be placed in the coffin, so why not? ship?

Bai Yutang comforted, "It may be that in order to protect the corpse, someone saw the fire, so they put it on the boat in a hurry, and finally drifted away..."

Speaking of this, Bai Yutang also stopped - this river is a tributary of the Yangtze River, and the water of the river flows down from the upper reaches, rushes into the lower reaches and enters the sea.The sea area where the Hailong gang is located is downstream.No matter how this corpse floats, it is impossible to suddenly float from the downstream sea to the upstream river, and then float down from the upstream into the sea, right?That's too wicked!

The two of them were thinking about it, seeing that the corpse was about to float away, they saw that the young man took a tree branch and wanted to pull the corpse back, but the boat was in the middle of the river, and the current was relatively fast, so he couldn't reach it anywhere. with.

Zhan Zhao wanted to go over and take the body back, but Bai Yutang grabbed him and shook his head helplessly.

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and understood... This matter is strange, if they got the corpse, it would be justifiable.Now there are everyone around to be witnesses, just a pair of passers-by in front of them. If others accuse them of stealing the corpse or having something to do with the fire of the Hailong gang, then they will not be cleared by jumping into the Yellow River.What's more, the Sea Dragon Gang was destroyed, and the indirect beneficiary was the Sky Island, and now there are rumors that the most benefited from the destruction of the Sea Dragon Gang is the Sky Island, otherwise why would they be willing to volunteer to take care of the refugees of the Sea Dragon Gang? ? !A few days ago, Mrs. Lu was still losing her temper over this matter.

But just let it go... the dead are the worst, what's the point of floating in the river like this?

Seeing that Zhan Zhao seemed to be in a dilemma, Bai Yutang leaned over and said in a low voice, "In this direction, the corpse is drifting towards the city. Someone will soon find out and report to the officials. At that time, someone from the yamen will come to collect the corpse and notify People from the Hailong Gang came to pick it up. The rain has dropped a lot now, and it shouldn’t take long before they can be taken away. Let’s go to the Azure Dragon King. This matter involves the comfort of the young and old in the empty island, so it’s a big deal.”

Zhan Zhao nodded, naturally listening to Bai Yutang.

So, the two of them clasped their palms together silently and said goodbye to the Azure Dragon King, and watched the boat drift away slowly, gradually drifting away, and sure enough, after a while... the screams of pedestrians came from the street.Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang shook their heads helplessly. Compared with the other heads of the Hai Long Gang, he was not as good as him. After all, he got a whole body.

"Ugh……"

At this moment, the person in the opposite carriage also sighed, "It's dead, it's over."

"Master." The young man asked curiously, "Why is your nose so sharp that you can even tell the smell of a dead body? Also, the dead body must be smelly, why do you say it smells good?"

The person in the car smiled, "Fool, fool, flowers have their fragrance and smell, and so do corpses. Everything in this world has two sides!"

After Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang heard this, they subconsciously raised their eyebrows, thinking that the old man's chatter was quite good.

"It's so-called living to see the person and dying to see the corpse. If you don't see the corpse, you may not be dead." The people in the car suddenly laughed twice, "Some people want to live and have reasons to live, but they just die. Some people Dead, and still deserve to die, but still alive, sin and sin!"

His words made Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang feel a slight twitch in their hearts, as if they thought of something, but they couldn't tell what it was.

At this time, the rain had almost stopped, and the person in the car urged the boy, "Hurry up, or something will happen if you are late."

"Okay, master!" The boy hurried on his horse.

Zhan Zhao caught up two steps, "Wait, can you come out of the car and meet?"

The people in the car were silent for a while, then refused, "We meet by chance, it's better not to see each other."

"It's fate to meet each other by chance, why don't you see each other if there is fate?" Zhan Zhao asked back.

"Hey, my lord, don't force him!" The young man smiled and waved at Zhan Zhao, "I've been driving him for more than a month, and I don't even know what he looks like, let alone you! "

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Bai Yutang.

Seeing Bai Yutang's concentration slightly, his expression showed that he understood...he is a person who does what he does, and this opportunity is once in a lifetime, why not...see the person in the car and see who he is!

Although there was suspicion of being rude, the two of them had already decided to act after exchanging glances.

Just as I was about to jump over, I heard the man laugh, "I was born ugly, and I dare not see people. You two are very talented, how dare I get out of the car to take shame, you two, please don't embarrass me gone."

The boy smiled and whipped the whip down...the two strange horses drove away from the bridge hole.Bai Yutang frowned, jumped across the river sideways, caught up a few steps, and landed on the roof of the carriage without making a sound.

Zhan Zhao was afraid that something would happen to him, so he quickly followed.

Bai Yutang jumped to the boy's side.

"Oh?" The young man was startled, and hurriedly pulled the reins to stop the carriage, "My lord, what are you doing?"

Bai Yutang ignored him, just picked up the curtain with a silver knife, and moved aside... At this moment, Zhan Zhao landed on the front of the car, turned his head and looked in along the raised curtain, and saw that the car was sitting upright. Looking at a man, that appearance is too scary.

When the two of them took a quick look, they were both stunned.

The man was wearing a black cloak with a high collar, barely covering half of his face.But despite this, he still couldn't hide his astonishingly ugly face.Most of his face was almost covered with burns, and he was extremely ugly.

Seeing that the curtain was lifted, the people in the car were so shocked that they quickly covered their faces with their sleeves and shouted, "It's a crime, a crime!"

The boy didn't look carefully, but was anxious with Bai Yutang, yelling, "Oh, let me tell you, why are you so rude when you are so good-looking?"

Bai Yutang was awakened from his stupor by his sound, and after recovering, he lowered his head lightly and jumped out of the carriage.At the same time as he got out of the car, I saw him lightly "slap" twice with his palm, and patted the triangular buttocks of the two horses...

The black horse didn't stop, and ran straight out of the city. The boy was still cursing in the car.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang only looked at each other when they saw the chariots and horses leaving - they couldn't describe the feeling, they were embarrassed, of course, they were also puzzled.Why did such a hideous and strange person appear out of thin air?What exactly is he planning?

At this time, the heavy rain had completely stopped, and of course, it was approaching evening.The two hurried to the ferry, thinking about taking the last boat to Xiaoyao Island to save trouble.

"Cat."

After walking for a while, Bai Yutang suddenly asked, "Do you still remember what that weird man said just now?"

Zhan Zhao smiled knowingly, "Hurry up, I still know what you said!"

Bai Yutang also laughed, "That's right... some people died and some people lived during that period, so it doesn't mean that you can't be sure that you're dead without seeing the corpse!"

"As for the fire of the Hailong gang, several other dragon kings died in the fire, and now it seems—there are no people alive or dead!" Zhan Zhao shook his head, "The fire is indeed ruthless, but... it is difficult to fight the fire, but it is possible to escape. It's easy. What's more, those dragon kings are good at water and good at lightness, how could they not be able to escape when they are on fire, and many people who don't know martial arts have escaped!"

"Therefore, there are only two reasons!" Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and gestured, "Either, they were already burned to death before the fire. Or..."

Having said that, the two of them smiled knowingly—playing dead!

When we arrived at the ferry, by coincidence, we ran into the boat of Yingwei and the others preparing to go to Xiaoyao Island.It turned out that Gongsun missed the fourth son so much, Zhao Pu asked Zhe Ying and the others to pick him up, and he also picked up Zhan Zhaobai Yutang by the way, because there was a very good news.Gongsun and the others have already found the so-called "cat road"!

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were refreshed when they heard this, and they secretly thought that Zhao Pu Gongsun Zhengzheng is quite capable, and they really let them find it.

They got on the boat together, and sure enough, they saw Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang sitting on the deck of the boat in tweed, Xiao Sizi was holding a pen, and Xiao Liang was helping him grind cinnabar.Seeing the two of them boarding the boat, she quickly put down the things in her hands and ran over to make some intimacy first.

Bai Yutang asked Zhe Ying, "How did you find it?"

Zhe Ying shook his head again and again, "Fifth Master, this is unbelievable, I told you to keep it safe!"

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao laughed, urging him to speak quickly.

"It turns out that those kittens came along the surface of the water." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were dumbfounded by Zhe Ying's words.

"Just now, Mr. Gongsun carefully watched the rise and fall of the tide in the sea, and suddenly found that the sea level seems to have dropped a lot recently for some reason. And recently there was a big tide. Just now when the sea water went down and down, there were sporadically more water on the sea surface. A regular ledge, and lots and lots of queer reefs, or long rocks standing in the sea."

"Submerged reefs?" Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Indeed, there are quite a lot of submerged reefs in that area of ​​water, and experienced fishermen don't go out to sea when the tide is low, saying that it is extremely easy to run aground or run aground.

Zhan Zhao also seemed to understand, "As soon as the tide ebbs and the rocks are all over the sea, those cats come running over? But although the method is feasible, but the distance is very far, why do they come here?"

Bai Yutang was also puzzled. Imagine a large group of cats running along the reef for several miles, from one island to another. Is this really weird?

In addition, Bai Yutang still has some doubts - if this is the case, why did he think there were not so many hidden reefs before?The hidden reef will not grow out of nowhere by itself, just like that broken island.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao suddenly became excited, and leaned over to ask Bai Yutang, "Do you still remember someone saying that the people who chased that island didn't come back?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "That's right, the boat didn't come back after it was released.

Brother and the others' boats were released far away, but they just couldn't reach them.

Zhan Zhao clapped his hands lightly, "Tell me, it's impossible for there to be some kind of formation in the sea. That kind of hidden reef is like the five elements and eight trigrams formation. If you are trapped in the formation, you can't see it, and when you touch the dark reef, you will sink the ship." !"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yutang asked Zhe Ying to take out a chart.

In the picture, the Sinking Island and the Xiaoyao Island are diagonally opposite, but the Hailong Gang and the River Gang are far away from each other, and they are at the two ends of the two.

"The formation on the bottom of the sea is indeed possible, so the purpose of its appearance must be to protect that island!" Bai Yutang put down his pen, "It's a pity that I only know a little about the formation, so I might as well go back and discuss it with Gongsun. "

Zhan Zhao nodded.

At this time, the fourth son leaned over and saw that Bai Yutang had dotted all the small islands with black dots on the table, so he stretched out his hand a little bit handily, and dipped a brush in cinnabar to connect those dots.

After a few strokes, Xiao Liang, who was watching from the side, whispered, "Jin'er, look quickly, do you want a half moon?"

The fourth son tilted his head to look at it, and laughed, "Yes! It's half a crooked moon!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback for a moment, then lowered their heads to take a closer look, they were all shocked.It turned out that the four islands of Zhakong Island, Xiaoyao Island, Hailongbang, and Hebang were serialized together, forming a large half of the moon.

"So that's what happened!" Zhan Zhao felt suddenly enlightened.

Bai Yutang also nodded, picked up the paintbrush to complete the shape of the half moon.No need to ask, the real location of the strange island should be on the small half moon that he just completed!But the entire moon-shaped sea is full of hidden reefs. To successfully reach that small island, you must get the legendary piece of moon glass!