Chapter Seventy-Eight: We Can Only Seek Relative Peace of Mind
"Sister Yanzi's proposal is good, we might as well spend the night on the boat, anyway, we won't be in a hurry!" Meng Ran said in surprise.
But seeing the frightened face of the big boss at this time, he hurriedly said: "No, no!" That's not going to work! ”
The second boat beside Li San also said with a crying voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you have to live here, you might as well give the little one a good time!" ”
Qi Zhen and Li Qiang glanced at each other and saw the deep doubt in each other's eyes.
"What's going on, you make it clear." Li San asked with a frown.
"Sit down and speak slowly." Qi Zhen pointed to the seats in the cabin and said to the big boss.
"It's too noisy." Jiang Yan looked at the five lake bandits in front of him who were still screaming miserably after being unjointed by Meng Ran, and was a little irritable.
Li Qiang walked up to the lake bandits who were still lying on the ground and humming, checked their injuries, and nodded at Meng Ran.
Meng Ran smiled and raised his chin proudly.
Another rattling sound continued to sound, and the joints that had just been removed were installed by Li Qiang again.
The five lake bandits couldn't take care of their severely painful arms, and their faces rolled back to their eldest brother's side.
They looked at Qi Zhen and the others in front of them, their faces full of horror.
Compared to those who fainted directly, these five lake bandits can be called quite unlucky.
Who let them meet Jiang Yan, who has the worst temper, and the jealous and hateful comrade of the criminal police?
It hurts so much!
The big boss stabilized his mind, sat down in his seat, and began to slowly speak to everyone.
Taihu Lake is extremely vast, and naturally there are a group of people who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water.
In addition to fishing, the people will also grow some vegetables and grains on the shore, relying on Taihu Lake, which is everywhere in the land of fish and rice.
Just three years ago, there was a sudden vision in Taihu Lake.
Within a few days, the people on the shore suddenly found that there were fewer and fewer fish in Taihu Lake, and in the end, they could not catch fish at all.
At a time when everyone doesn't understand what's going on.
Rumors of missing people suddenly appeared in fishing villages along the coast.
In the beginning, there were only sporadic disappearances, and they did not attract everyone's attention.
It wasn't until a year later that the situation became more and more serious, from one missing person in the first month, to one missing person in half a month.
In the end, two people will be missing in half a month!
There is no pattern to the missing people, even in all these fishing villages along the coast, some people disappear in the middle of the night.
When this happens, it spreads very quickly.
From the disappearance of the first person to the beginning of the fear of everyone along the coast, in fact, less than two years have passed.
In the past two years, less than 20 people have disappeared from the fishing villages along the coast, but the panic in the hearts of people can always overwhelm everything.
There are those who choose to flee with their families to other places, and of course, there are those whose ancestors have lived here for generations and cannot leave.
It is not realistic to bring everyone together because the disappearances happen randomly.
The time is random, the place is random, and the people who disappear are also random.
For a while, everyone was worried.
Some people began to associate the disappearance with the disappearance of aquatic products in Taihu Lake.
Some people say that Taihu Lake is cursed, some people say that it is monsters, and some people say that it is God's retribution to the surrounding fishing villages.
For these ignorant people, this kind of mythical rumor is particularly powerful.
Prayers began to be prayed, and slaughtered animals were thrown into the lake.
Obviously, doing this kind of thing did not get God's mercy, and since then, the situation of one missing person in Half Moon has escalated to two missing people in Half Moon.
Some people say that it is because of the leakage of heavenly secrets, which is God's punishment.
In short, people are panicking.
And because the disappearance of people always happens at night, after nightfall, this Taihu Lake, which has nurtured countless generations, has become a forbidden place.
Until one day, a certain fisherman took his wife and children to the lake to try his luck because his family was really poor.
Then the child fell into the water, and the fisherman hurried down to catch the man, but the child was nowhere to be seen.
In that half a month, there was one less missing person in the surrounding fishing villages.
Then rumors began to flood again, and there were youkai in the lake, and two living sacrifices were needed every half a month.
I have to admire the wisdom of the working people, and the experience summed up through death is always so inseparable.
Speaking of this, where does Qi Zhen's team still not understand the truth of the matter.
Three years ago again.
It must have been a monster movement caused by the leakage of demonic energy from the Well of Gods and Demons.
It's just that I don't know if there are other demons like King Xiangli who have come to the world to do evil.
Whatever it is, it's either a demon or a demon anyway.
The people in the surrounding fishing villages have almost walked away, and the remaining people who can't walk naturally can't sit still.
Lacking the most important means of livelihood but shrouded in the shadow of death, the villagers have come up with a solution that is not the answer.
First of all, the village-to-village alliance was formed to form an organization similar to the joint defense brigade.
This joint defense brigade disembarked for the people, got on the boat for the bandits, robbed the passengers who were generous, and then killed the sunken lake.
At first, I was trembling about it, but habit is a really scary thing.
Less than a month later, it was almost impossible for the passengers who took the ferry to and from the ferry to reach the other side safely.
The paper couldn't contain the fire, and the government quickly sent soldiers to investigate, but the silver had already been distributed to the people along the coast, and the corpses were fed to the monsters.
One month, two months......
No one went missing, and the number of people killed by these fishermen, who were originally fishermen, has long exceeded the number of missing people.
They were completely reduced to lake bandits.
But not going to the Taihu Lake at night has become an insurmountable bottom line in everyone's heart.
This big boss is the captain of this joint defense brigade.
Qi Zhen sighed slightly in her heart, it seemed that under the fishing port where she lived and worked peacefully, there was so much blood and cruelty hidden.
I don't know how those old and young women and children can survive calmly with these bloody silver.
"You can report to the official, is it right to kill someone?!" When Meng Ran heard this, he was already furious and scolded loudly.
"I've already reported to the official, the government doesn't care at all, and I can't control it, I heard that there are monsters in the lake, those old men don't say it, the soles of their feet are like grinding oil, they slip faster than anyone else, and even look at us with the wrong eyes, for fear of being contaminated with some bad luck." Boat Er said with a crying voice.
The master sighed: "We can't leave here, and we don't know where to go when we leave here, but as long as we can live well, who wants to do this murderous thing." ”
"Then you can ask for help from immortal cultivators!" Jiang Yan still said.
The big boss had a sad face: "Not to mention that those immortal masters have nowhere to find them, even if they find them, we don't have so much money to ask the immortal masters to get rid of the demons." ”
Meng Ran was silent.
After listening to the story, everyone in the team had their own ideas, but they all had nothing to say.
"Please spare our lives, heroes, after all, the people of the seven fishing villages along the coast are still feeding us, and we can't die!" The big boss continued.
"To kill or not to kill?" Li San lowered his head slightly and said softly.
Funaji's body tensed suddenly.
Qi Zhen sighed, did not answer Li San's question, but muttered: "If the strong can only swing their knives at the weak, it is forcing the weak to bare their fangs at the weaker." ”
"We can leave it alone." Li Qiang reminded.
Indeed, the team could still reach the other side of the lake before nightfall and continue their journey as if nothing had happened, so that there was no danger and no complications could be avoided.
Qi Zhen shook his head: "I can't get over my conscience." ”
"Aren't they NPCs?" Yu Liang prompted.
Qi Zhen knew that he didn't have any malicious intent, but still looked up at him and said, "Isn't Zhao Xuance too?" ”
Yu Liang stopped talking.
"Vote by show of hands." Li Qiang proposed.
Six hands were raised in the air, and everyone's eyes naturally turned to the only one who did not raise their hands.
Jiang Yan.
"Swallow, what do you say?" Li Qiang asked.
"I don't have an opinion, but." Jiang Yan raised her head and stared at Qi Zhen.
"They must die!"
Everyone looked at Qi Zhen helplessly, and Meng Ran's eyes were full of apologies, saying that he really couldn't help.
Qi Zhen knew where Jiang Yan's idea came from, so he was also a little helpless.
These lake bandits naturally have a reason why they can't help but kill people and goods, and where there is any saying that evil is good, evil is evil.
If the actions of these lake bandits are excusable, how innocent are the passing boat passengers?
If the team wants to seek hope for the innocent villagers, then why can't justice be done for the innocent travelers?
What if the thing in the lake is finally defeated, and it has something to hide? Isn't it because of the invasion of demonic energy, so it has become what it is now?
How did the squad choose at that time?
If you choose to kill just because the thing in the river that I don't know if it's a demon or a demon hurts humans, what is the difference between it and Liao Xunli's idea that the heart of a non-human race must be different?
If we only look at the things in front of us regardless of the cause and effect, what is the difference between caring and not noting? Aren't they all NPCs? Aren't they all games? And why be so serious?
Jiang Yan just threw out a question, but Qi Zhen thought of countless questions.
And Qi Zhen knows that these questions are also something she must think about, where there are so many good and evil rewards, and where there are so many years of tranquility.
Qi Zhen looked at Jiang Yan's eyes, still did not agree or disagree with what she said, but said softly: "We may all do something that we think is right because of our own ability, but any decision we make relying on our strength, I hope we can all seek relative peace of mind." ”
"Since we can agree to settle this matter first, then their lives will be recorded in the account first, and we can all think about what to do, and when we leave, it will not be too late to vote."
After listening to Qi Zhen's words, everyone began to silently think about the message expressed by Qi Zhen.
Li Qiang stepped forward and patted Qi Zhen's shoulder, and the two looked at each other, all without saying a word.
Only Lin Xiao is a big grinning character, anyway, whatever the captain says, it's what it is, and I don't know if he is wise and stupid, or really stupid.
"Fight again? All right! After the battle just now, Lin Xiao was obviously still a little unsatisfied, and said at this time.
However, he looked at the people with heavy faces, and said suspiciously: "You can't beat it again this time, right?" ”
Everyone had their own affairs, but no one paid attention to him.
Several lake bandits heard this and their lives were temporarily saved, and they all collapsed to the ground at this time, even if it was the big boss, their bodies were much more relaxed.