Evil Emperor Zun

Chapter 124 Chartering a Ship

The fishing boat has completely shaken off the smell of the land, and the salty and wet smell of the sea blows over.

Ye Shuo stood on the deck, looking at the vast expanse of blue.In the distance, the water and the sky line, the clear and clear blue sea, rolling away thousands of miles of smoke and clouds.

Mermaid Island in the East China Sea, this is the destination of his trip.

According to the words of the half-devil, the essence of the sea moon jellyfish can be found there, but it is also a place full of dangers and thorns.

The unknown distance, the unknown journey, and a group of unknown companions seem to indicate that this journey will never be as smooth as the surface.

This matter started when Ye Shuo was still on the shore.

At that time, he had just arrived at the pier. The pier was not big, but it was bustling.There is a lot of traffic and people coming and going.The loading of the goods, the unloading of the unloading, looked orderly.

Large and small ships are leaning against the pier, and there are voices of bargaining in their ears. Most of them are people who are traveling far away and renting ships.

At first, Ye Shuo was also a little dazed. After all, the Mermaid Island in the East China Sea, ordinary people wouldn't want to go there, would they?How can I find the boat to Mermaid Island?Hearing the sound of bargaining, he suddenly had an epiphany, then I should rent a boat too!

However, as soon as he mentioned Mermaid Island, or even the word mermaid, all the boatmen shook their heads and waved their hands in a hurry, as if it was a taboo to listen to one more sentence.

This group of boatmen certainly avoided this like snakes and scorpions, but there were also some good people among the business travelers.Amidst the chatter of the crowd, Ye Shuo also heard a lot of rumors.

Some people say that there are water ghosts wandering in the sea, they are undead who died fiercely in the water, with deep resentment, unless they find another ghost for the dead, they can be reincarnated.There have already been many fishermen who went to sea to die strangely, and it is said that they were caught and eaten by water ghosts.

Some people also say that the mermaids there are extremely ferocious, they will swallow people alive, or pull people into the water, and don't eat them or bite them, just to see how human beings struggle and suffocate in the water, and then die.

Regarding these rumors, Ye Shuo chose not to believe them at all.

Are there still few things that are rumored?What's more, those troublemakers finally quarreled.Just because the versions they said were different, in order to prove that their rumors were the most reliable, they actually fought in public.

It's really unreliable.Ye Shuo shook his head.

The further south you go, the bigger the boat, and the noise of bargaining becomes much quieter.There are boatmen on the big ship, working on their own, orderly.

Looks like a bigger boat would be better.Ye Shuo looked at these big boats, most of them were two or even three stories high, with wide decks, compared to small boats, they were indeed more able to withstand wind and waves.

"This...captain?" Ye Shuo picked a benign captain as much as he could, and asked, "Well, can I rent your boat?"

The captain was plump and round, wearing a blue bunt with his trouser legs rolled up, lying comfortably on the deck of his cabin basking in the sun.

"Ah? What did you say?" The fat captain half-closed his eyes.

"I said——I want to rent your boat—! I want—to go to sea—" Ye Shuo thought that the captain's ears might be bad, so he said at the top of his voice.

"Young man, why are you talking so loudly?" The fat captain picked out his ears, and looked at Ye Shuo angrily, "I want to rent my boat, but my boat is very expensive!" After speaking, he went up and down carefully. He looked at Ye Shuo carefully.

Because Ye Shuo was imprisoned in the prison before, he was dirty all over, so he changed into a new dress before leaving.Clean is clean, but that is the servant uniform of Helian Mansion.

"In the past, whoever rented my boat didn't wear gold and silver. Why do you dress like a servant?" The fat captain kept pointing at Ye Shuo's clothes. "—Or?" The fat captain suddenly thought of something, "You rented the boat for your master? Okay! Okay! Then let me talk to your master directly!"

"No. I rented the boat myself." Ye Shuo replied.

"Individual? Then I have to pay a deposit. How about a thousand spirit stones?" Apparently the fat captain didn't take Ye Shuo seriously at all. He opened his mouth on purpose, just to make him quit.

"Sure!" Ye Shuo didn't have any other ideas.He readily took out the storage ring, and a large number of spirit stones fell on the deck in an instant.

Seeing so many spirit stones, the fat captain's eyes narrowed again, his eyes were already small, and when he smiled happily, it seemed as if they were gone, "I can't tell, brother, you are quite rich! "

The fat factory manager took out a package, stuffed the spirit stones into it little by little, and asked, "Then brother, where are you going to rent the boat? If it's too far away, I'll have to pay extra. "

"Uh, this..." Ye Shuo hesitated for a moment, and finally tentatively said: "Captain, have you ever heard of a mermaid island in the East China Sea?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the fat captain's hand holding the spirit stone stopped immediately.Twisting towards Ye Shuo with a stiff neck, he hesitated and said, "You... are you going to Mermaid Island?"

"Ah, no, no," Ye Shuo quickly waved his hands, "I'm just out of curiosity, out of curiosity, just ask."

"Out of curiosity? Stop pretending!" The fat captain resumed the action of putting on the spirit stone, "Do you know how long I have been on this ship? 20 years! 20 years, I have seen how many people like you, eating A person with a heart of bear, leopard and courage, with a heart so big that there is no limit, went to some mermaid island for some mermaid, and ended up never returning!"

"Then, if you don't want to rent it to me anymore, can you return the spirit stone to me?" Ye Shuo felt helpless, and he knew that the result would be like this if he told the destination.

Hearing this, the fat captain looked at the Lingshi in the package, and seemed a little reluctant.

"Little brother, it's very dangerous there, you don't know it! You see, there are so many boatmen brothers on my boat, I have to think about them too? So..." The fat captain struggled, "One price , One hundred thousand spirit stones! I will sell this boat to you!"

The fat captain himself had no idea about getting out the [-] spirit stones.Although he was worried that this almost outrageously high price would directly scare away the buyers, Ye Shuo gave out a thousand spirit stones so readily before. Out of a merchant's instinct, he immediately couldn't bear the desire to be greedy for money. Raise the price drastically.

"Okay!" Ye Shuo couldn't hide the joy on his face.He was still thinking that if he couldn't rent a boat, he might have to go to the shipyard and have someone build one for him.

The fat captain didn't expect Ye Shuo to be so generous, and the refreshing "Okay!" made him stunned for a moment.When he came back to his senses, he immediately responded repeatedly: "That's good, that's good, little brother, don't go back on your word! I'll get you a boat charter, you wait here, don't go away!" Walked out After a few steps, I couldn't help but turned around and said: "Don't leave!"

"Brother Fat, do you want to sell the boat?" The captain of a nearby boat suddenly called out.

The fat captain suddenly felt as if someone had poked his spine, and his smile, which was originally as bright as a flower, instantly wilted: "Second skinny, what are you talking about, how can I sell the ship?"

The second thin man smiled maliciously: "Fat third brother, I heard it with my own ears!" Then, he leaned his whole body on the railing of the boat and yelled at the fat third brother's boat: "Fat third brother! The boat is about to be sold!"

(End of this chapter)