Nightmare Apostle

"Do we really...really need to carry this thing?" After touching the bag with her own hands, Mi Shu's face turned pale. She suspected that everything she encountered now was related to this head.

Yang Xiao nodded without hesitation and tied the bag tightly, "You must bring it with you. Think about it, those guys in Dujiacun will not let us go after we go back. We have no use value anymore, and they will kill us to silence us. This head is our only chance to make a comeback.”

Sui Chengguo nodded silently when he heard this. It is true that the ghost monk's hatred for Dujiacun is engraved in his bones. It is a clever plan to lure the ghost monk to deal with the people of Dujiacun and take advantage of the chaos to find a real way to survive.

When Mi Shu lowered his head to think, his peripheral vision swept across the river inadvertently, and then he seemed to see some kind of terrifying scene, and his expression suddenly changed, "There is... someone!"

Looking in the direction Mi Shu was looking, he saw a corpse floating in the mist 7 or 8 meters away from the side of the ship. The corpse was dressed in black cloth. It was unknown how long it had been dead. The exposed skin had already been whitened by the river water. Liang, because he was facing down and couldn't see his face, but it felt like he was a man.

What's really strange is the man's attire. He's dressed in black cloth, which looks quite normal, just like an ordinary farmer. But the body has a red belt wrapped around his waist and a tricorn hat with two red hydrangeas hanging on his head. Dressed like an actor, two red hydrangeas connected by threads were floating up and down in the dark river water. The scene was indescribably weird.

Before the three of them could take a closer look, more and more corpses floated out of the mist. Mi Shu couldn't help but widen her eyes. The bodies were one after another until they were connected together. What was even more terrifying was that these corpses seemed to have consciousness. generally,

Unknowingly, their ship was surrounded.

"It's not these corpses that are moving, it's our boat that's moving. It's the boat that has entered this body of water." Yang Xiao quickly discovered the problem.

There is something wrong with the floating corpses nearby. They are all face down. They are all dressed in the same style. The men wear black cloth clothes with a red belt around their waists and triangular hats with red hydrangeas on their heads. The women wear red and green clothes.

Dressed in their own style.

Yang Xiao held his breath and bent down as low as possible to observe carefully. He looked at each corpse one after another until he found a gold hairpin on the head of a woman who was most elegantly dressed. There were several jade pieces hanging on silver threads under the gold hairpin. piece.

This discovery made Yang Xiao immediately confirm the identity of these people, "They are the people on the flower boat."

"Flower boat?" Mi Shu was stunned.

"The flower boat is also known as the painted boat. Look at these women in costumes, they are the dancing girls and singers on the boat. The painted boat is most prosperous at night, with bright lights, and music and music every night, all four seasons."

Yang Xiao raised his hand again, motioning the other two to look at the well-dressed woman's head, "Have you seen that golden hairpin? Only one dancer in a painted boat is qualified to wear that golden hairpin, and its meaning is almost here. The top card.”

"Every grand festival, a celebration ceremony is held in the boat. Countless dancers and singers have the opportunity to perform on the stage. Those invited under the night stage are all wealthy people who spend a lot of money, or literati who are famous for their poems and articles. , each of these people will be given a piece of thin jade pendant, and the jade pendant will be given to whoever likes the talent the most. "

“When the performances are all over and the atmosphere is at its peak, the selection criteria will be based on the number of jade pendants the dancers have received.

Select the dancing girl who wins in the end. Not only will this girl's value rise greatly from then on, the jade pendant she receives will also become part of the glory and be allowed to hang under the golden hairpin. The literati and elegant people in the audience who are in high spirits will also I wrote a great article without any hesitation. "

Hearing this, Sui Chengguo frowned and stared at the corpses, "Then why did these people die here? Could it be that their ship sank?"

This possibility is not ruled out, but they know that things are definitely not that simple. After checking by the three of them, none of them have experienced the current scene. This mission does not belong to any of them.

Also, their boat stopped moving and was just floating on the river. Sui Chengguo lowered his head to observe the water. After a while, he came to the conclusion that they were not on the river, but on the lake. The water here did not flow. The signs are like a pool of stagnant water.

"Follow the chain and meet Brother Cheng and the others first." Sui Chengguo lowered his voice, and Mi Shu was alert to the movements around him. Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo squatted on the bow of the ship, pulled the chain hard, and slowly moved closer to the other ship.

Since this mission does not belong to the three of them, the problem must lie with Tong Han, Cheng Cha and those four people. Only by finding the person involved can they understand the whole story.

But pulling Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo along, they noticed something was wrong. They had already advanced at least 20 meters.

But the other end of the chain was still in the fog. According to their observations on the shore, the chain connecting the two ships should be only a dozen meters long.

But soon, a scene occurred that caught them off guard. Even though they no longer pulled the rope,

But their ship was still heading deeper into the fog, even faster than before. It felt as if there was a force in the fog pulling them in.

At this time, the three of them no longer cared about looking for Tong Han and his party. Yang Xiao made a prompt decision and removed the chains that were tied to the boat. Sui Chengguo also started to help. Just as the two of them lowered their heads to work, Mi Shu exclaimed from behind and looked up. When I went there, I saw a ship vaguely appearing in the mist ahead. It was a awning ship about the same size as theirs.

What's even weirder is that there are four figures standing side by side at the stern of the boat. "Mi Shu, is that you, Mi Shu?" The figure in the middle kept waving, and it was Tong Han's voice.

Yang Xiao confirmed that there was something wrong with the other party with just one glance. First of all, Tong Han would never directly call his teammates by their names in an environment full of floating corpses. Next, and most importantly, the load capacity of their two ships was not the same. Not big. If it were like what happened in the mist, with four big living people pressed against the stern of the boat, the boat would easily capsize.

Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo ignored it at all and continued to remove the chains. Finally, just before the boat was about to sail out of the fog, they finally removed the chains and threw the chains into the water. A strange scene happened. The boat came towards them. He stopped immediately, then backed away a little, and the four figures on the boat became sluggish and stiff.

Slowly, Mi Shu couldn't help but widen her eyes, and saw a huge shadow slowly emerging from the mist behind the boat on the opposite side. It was an extremely huge ship, hundreds of times larger than the two of them. , it was pitch black above.

Now the three people finally understood. It turned out that the previous ship was not pulled over by them, but pushed over by this big ship hidden in the fog. There is no doubt that the appearance of this mysterious big ship just verified Yang Xiao speculated that this was a painting boat with extremely high specifications.

As the fog enveloped the surroundings, the small boat carrying four ghost figures not far in front of them, as well as the painting boat hidden behind, all disappeared in the fog, but the three of them did not dare to take it lightly. After all, this matter is not over yet, and the crisis has not passed yet. ,

After all, there were dozens or hundreds of corpses floating on the lake around them at this moment, and these floating corpses had already surrounded them.

They had already checked the things in the cabin before, and there were not many that could be used. There were only some simple tools, hooks and ropes, and two short oars for paddling.

Mi Shu grabbed a short oar and suppressed her fear and asked, "Should we...should we try to paddle out?" Staying in such a place made her days feel like years. After all, no one knew whether these floating corpses could stay like this forever. Be honest.

But this proposal was vetoed by Yang Xiao. Sui Chengguo remained silent and stared at the nearby lake, thinking about ways to get out of trouble.

"Then what should we do now?" Mi Shu panicked, and now she urgently needed to do something to calm her inner panic.

Yang Xiao took her hand and shook it hard, as if giving her strength, "Listen to me, we don't have to do anything now."

"But...but we can't just sit back and wait for death." Although nothing can be seen yet, these floating corpses around are obviously not easy to deal with. If it continues, Mi Shu is worried that it will sink deeper. She has experienced similar crisis situations. , that time their team paid a heavy price for hesitating.

"Brother Chu is right. The situation is unclear now. It would be better if we don't do anything wrong." Sui Chengguo is the oldest among these people and his words are very weighty. "We need to wait now. This crisis is not caused by us. It should be caused by us." Cheng Cha, Tong Han and others, we have to believe them. They must be thinking of ways to break the situation now.

They will succeed. We will not only harm ourselves but also harm them by trying randomly like headless chickens. "

With the combined efforts of Yang Xiao and Sui Chengguo to comfort her, Mi Shu, who was highly nervous, gradually calmed down. Tong Han's face could not help but appear in her mind. She always had inexplicable confidence in Tong Han. He was a person with a strong heart, which made her People admire.

At the same time, Tong Han, Cheng Cha and four others were also trapped in the foggy lake, with corpses floating in the black lake around them.

Indeed, as Yang Xiao and the others had guessed, the difficulties they faced this time came from their teammates on the ship, or to be precise, from Tong Han.

This is Tong Han's experience.

Staring at the body of the most luxuriously dressed woman on the lake, Tong Han couldn't help but fall into deep thought. During that mission, she had put the jade pendant on the woman's head with her own hands, and now this woman was the one she complained about. Ghost in the eyes.

Speaking of which, a woman's life is very hard. She was sold into Huafang by her gambling father since she was a child, and she grew up under the training and beatings of Lao Tungsten. Huafang is no better than a dark kiln on land, and she disdains the business of skin and flesh. It's not that Lao Tungsten and The bosses behind the scenes are kind-hearted, but they know how to make money. They know that only those talented and beautiful people who can be seen but cannot be touched can empty the pockets of these young men from aristocratic families.

As the girl grew up day by day, she became successful in playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her appearance became even more charming. She soon became the number one in the painting party.

The girl rejected the advances of countless young men from aristocratic families and literati, not entirely because of the rules on the boat.

The more important reason is that she doesn't like men in the first place. Men are deceitful. Although she is young in the painting boat, she has already seen countless people.

In the world, men are like mud and women are like water. She is looking forward to finding a beautiful woman to spend the rest of her life. For this reason, she has rejected countless wealthy young men who are willing to redeem her life. She is waiting for an opportunity.

Every boat has an unwritten rule. As long as she wins five consecutive championships, she can redeem herself. Now she has won four consecutive championships, and tonight is the last time.