Indiana Jones

Chapter 610 Another Black Hand (03)

The fishing boats on the endless lake are dotted with dots, and you can see the patrolling Japanese gunboats in the distance. These plague gods rampage on the water, disturbing the fishermen's peace, and sometimes even colliding with the fishing boats for fun. They are definitely a group of vicious and domineering people. Bastard, Lin Feng's boat was heading east, and they could see a large swath of reeds in the distance, with no end in sight.

The owner of the boat, Lao Wu, said that the area of ​​the reed marsh is quite large, and inexperienced boat owners are reluctant to go in, because it is easy to get lost in it.

Lin Feng had no experience in tracking on the water, so all this could only be handled by the boatman. At this moment, a patrol gunboat suddenly jumped out of the reed marshes in the distance, which shocked everyone on board.

"It's strange, the little devil came here to do it? There are sand dunes everywhere, and the underwater terrain is undulating. Their big boats are easy to run aground. There are also guerrillas of water bandits here. Are they not afraid of being tricked?" Wu couldn't figure out what these little devils were tossing about.

"Is there a waterway in the middle of the reeds?" Lin Feng asked.

"That's right, but the situation inside is very complicated, and the waterways are criss-crossed. Even the old boatmen who come and go often don't want to go in, so I advise you not to drill in. Once you get lost, we will be very worried." Trouble, if we run into a guerrilla, it will be very difficult for us to get out." Lao Wu lost no time in encouraging Lin Feng to retreat, not because he didn't want to make the money, but because he didn't want to take the risk, in case the boat hit a rock drain in shallow water Now, it is not so easy for them to figure it out. Besides, the guerrillas here are not so easy to mess with. They are said to be guerrillas, but they are actually a bunch of water bandits.

"Based on your experience, which way will they go?" Lin Feng ignored his tricks at all, but directly asked the question he wanted to know.

"Actually, it doesn't matter which way you go. It's all connected with water nets. The criss-crossing is quite complicated. A large part of them is under the control of the water guerrillas. Just now, those little devils didn't know what they were going crazy. Run to the inside." Old Wu said.

While talking, their boat had already penetrated into the reed marsh, and there were towering reeds on both sides of the boat. Only when they were in it did they understand the feeling of being besieged, as if someone was always spying on them in the surrounding reeds.

"It's not a big deal. You'll understand when you're inside. Except for the sun in the sky, everything seems to be the same here. If it's a cloudy day, we'll be trapped inside." Apparently the ship owner didn't want to go there. come to this place.

"Send us to the place closest to the road and where we can go ashore as soon as possible." Lin Feng said, "If you can find that ship before then, your reward will be doubled."

"Really?" As soon as Old Wu heard that there would be an increase in money, he immediately regained his spirits.

"This kind of thing is not suitable for joking, is it?" Lin Feng said.

"Hey...you can just find me." Lao Wu said casually, "I'm not bragging, no one in this area is more familiar with the reed marshes than me, if you want to go ashore and take the shortest route to Changsha, you need Crossing to the nearest shore, there are six places where we can go directly to the road, we can only find them one by one, and I’m afraid we won’t be able to finish a few before dark.”

"Start with the closest one first." Lin Feng said.

The boat crawled around among the reeds, and the dense reeds blocked their sight, so they couldn't tell the difference between south, east and north. Fortunately, the old Wu's family was familiar enough with this place, so they didn't get lost.

After drilling in the reeds for more than an hour, Lin Feng and the others completely lost their sense of direction. Even with the sun in the sky, they couldn't tell whether they were still moving forward. The criss-crossing waterways made them dizzy.

Old Wu was very talkative, and he kept introducing the customs and events on the lake. He knew the boat owner they were looking for. Nicknamed Li Banjin, the reason why he was so called was because he drank half a catty of white wine every meal except for breakfast. Although the bottle of wine that the poor could afford was not very good, but the alcohol content was very high, so this guy The sky is in a half-dizzy state, this Li Banjin is usually not very talkative, and he is alone, and the fish he catches is basically exchanged for wine. He eats fish and crabs every day, drinks for pleasure, and rarely socializes with people , a dilapidated boat lasts for more than ten years.

The lake is really too big, and the reeds have no edges. Under the lake, there are strong fish and fat crabs, and there are water birds flying around. It feels like a good place, but Lin Feng's attention is not on it at all. , he sat on the bow and listened carefully to the movement in the reeds, hoping to distinguish some different sounds from it, but the range was too wide, and his method had no effect, except for the sound of water and birdsong, he Can't really hear anything.

"There are still a few miles of water to reach the first landing site." Captain Wu said, "From here, a few miles to the south is a big road."

"Which way would you choose to go?" Lin Feng asked.

"It doesn't matter to me. I'm used to making a living on the water, and I never go ashore easily." Old Wu said.

"Then which road do you think is the fastest, safest, and least labor-saving?" Lin Feng asked in another way.

"There are only this one and the one to the north. The others are either far from the main road or difficult to walk." Old Wu said, "Huh..."

While talking, Old Wu fished something out of the water along the oars, a piece of clothing, hanging on a broken reed and half submerged in the water, a part of the clothing was short, as if it had been torn off on purpose.

"The material is good." Old Wu shook, "Take it back and mend it, and you can still wear it."

Lin Feng pulled off the clothes and recognized at a glance that this was the jacket he had prepared for Si Xuanyi. The missing piece was exactly the piece of fabric that was found in blood on the car. It seemed that they The direction they were chasing should be correct, but the location where they found it was the biggest problem. This was the fork of the two waterways, and it was completely different from the direction they were going.

"Could it have been washed here?" someone asked.

"Impossible, it was hung so low on purpose, and it must not be like this when it is washed down. This kind of fabric is heavy, and it is impossible to float on the water after being soaked in water. The current is not urgent, and it cannot be rushed so high." Mr. Wu Denied this statement.

"That's what he hung up here?" Lin Feng frowned, as if he understood that this was a clue Si Xuanyi had left for them on purpose. According to their previous judgment, they shouldn't have taken this path, but what if What's worse is that they were washed here by the water, and they changed their direction without authorization, which may delay the big event.

"No one here flows from the direction we are going to, it can't be over there." Old Wu said with certainty.

"Then change to his direction." Lin Feng said decisively.

In fact, they couldn't be sure whether the clothes were dropped by Si Xuanyi or accidentally dropped from the boat, so they could only move forward by luck.

Not long after, they heard the sound of a motor coming from afar.

"It's the devil's gunboat." Old Wu's face changed instantly. He was afraid that these plague gods would be avoided. If they bumped into this place, they would inevitably be interrogated. As long as the little devil is suspicious, he will definitely be arrested, then It's no different from falling into the devil's lair. When he took this order before, he was sure that Lin Feng had given him a lot of money. In addition to the vast lake, he might not be able to bump into the little devil. He didn't expect it to be wrong Underneath, this kind of close contact still occurred.

The distance to hear the sound didn't seem too far away, but the dense reeds blocked their sight.

"Avoid it." Lin Feng said to Lao Wu, the reeds here are dense, and avoiding it should not be a problem.

It's not that Lao Wu lacked guts, he was so paralyzed that he couldn't do anything there, he quickly rocked the boat and retreated to the nearest thicket of reeds. dodge.

Almost the gunboat they just hid the devils appeared on the waterway not far away. Compared with their small boats, the gunboat is definitely a big guy. It rampaged through this not-so-wide waterway, and the reeds on both sides were overwhelmed. a large piece.

Through the gaps in the reeds, they saw the ghosts on the gunboat, and even saw a few trapped people. Old Wu recognized with sharp eyes that one of them was Li Banjin they were looking for...

"Li Banjin was arrested..." Old Wu said as he looked at the gunboat rushing past.

"Are you sure you read it right?" Lin Feng felt cold. He didn't know who Li Banjin was, but there were indeed a few people on board. If Li Banjin was arrested, would Yu Dong and Si Xuanyi also be in the boat? In the hands of the devil?He couldn't tell whether there was Si Xuanyi among the people on the boat. After all, the reeds here were too dense and the speed of the gunboat was so fast.

"I recognize Li Banjin. It's definitely him. That old boy seems to have been scared to death." Old Wu said with certainty.

Lin Feng stopped talking when he saw the gunboat going away, he didn't know what to do for a while, what would he do if Si Xuanyi was really captured?It's impossible for these two and a half men under his command to snatch him back, let alone do it, even the gunboats can't catch up with them.

All of a sudden the people on the boat stopped talking, Lao Wu didn't know what to do next, they were waiting for him to make a decision, actually Lin Feng didn't know what to do next either.

At this moment, they heard shouting and cursing from the reed marsh. It was a little far away, and they couldn't hear what the shouting was, but they probably knew it was cursing.

"It doesn't seem far away." Someone whispered.

"Their ship seems to be leaking..." Old Wu listened carefully.

Lin Feng didn't speak. In fact, he had already heard that person was yelling at the boat for leaking, but he was not in the mood to pay attention to it. What should he do next?To determine whether Si Xuanyi was captured by the little devil, or continue to search?
"If you want me to help, you see..." Old Wu wanted to save people, but because of Lin Feng, he didn't dare to make decisions privately.

Lin Feng didn't speak, but just waved his hands. He was not in the mood to think about this at all. In fact, he also wanted to go to the front. Anyway, the port was coming soon. Maybe Yu Dong and Si Xuanyi had already landed. This Li Banjin was here He was caught on the way back. After careful analysis, the possibility of this is quite high, so he planned to go ahead to investigate the situation and see if there were any clues.

Lao Wu immediately rowed to that direction, and at the same time yelled loudly to that side, and soon there was a response from that side, with surprise in his voice, as if he did not expect to meet others in this kind of place, especially Even in such a predicament, it is indeed a great surprise to get help from people.

The reeds are so dense that it is difficult to find their exact location. Lao Wu and that person can only keep calling each other to determine the direction, and then make a little correction to get closer. It took a long time to find them. From the position of that person, they can see a person standing by the side of the boat from a distance. The boat has entered a lot of water, and one-third of it is submerged in the water. The position of that person seems to be in a place without water. .

When they got closer, they saw that the man seemed to be standing on a foreshore.

"Oh, someone finally came, thank God." The man couldn't help cheering loudly when he saw them.

Old Wu waved the boat over while saying hello: "Why did you break into this place, didn't you see the devil just now?"

"I panicked just now to hide from the devils, otherwise the boat wouldn't have hit the rocks and leaked!"

"Where are you from? From the east coast?" Lao Wu asked as he set the boat, "You seem a bit unfamiliar, haven't you seen it before?"

"He hired a boat to pass by..." When the boat got closer, the man saw Lin Feng and the others sitting on the boat, "Hey... there are quite a few people on your boat."

Lin Feng looked at the man on the boat, and he saw that there was something wrong with him. After observing his words and expressions, he found that this man looked like a fisherman, not to mention his clothes. He frowned, and made up his mind in his heart. Suddenly he opened his mouth and shouted: "Yu Dong..."

"Hey..." Yu Dong instinctively agreed, and immediately reacted, turned around and burrowed into the reeds.

"Grandma's... It really is him, chase me!" Lin Feng was overjoyed. He was just planning to try his luck, but he didn't expect to meet this guy. It's just that he was the only one. Could it be that Si Xuanyi was really caught by the devil? Captured, or was he murdered?No matter what, you have to catch this kid and ask him clearly, and you can't let him run away like this.

A few people had already jumped off the boat and waded through the water. Lin Feng was the fastest. He leaped from the bow of the boat and landed gently on the shoal. From a distance, he could see Yu Dong's figure swaying in the reeds, he raised his hand without hesitation and shot Yu Dong's leg. He was not in the mood to play peek-a-boo with this guy.

Yu Dong staggered and fell to the ground, Lin Feng also chased after him, stepped on his back and put a gun to his head: "Where's the person?"

"Hmph... I sank into the water." Yu Dong said with a sneer, "Haha, you are late."

(End of this chapter)