"Three, do you want to cross the river?"

The boatman who was sitting at the ferry not far away slowly turned around, and a bloodless shriveled pale face suddenly appeared in the sight of Gu Cheng and the others, he grinned and showed several yellowed teeth, although he was smiling, but the feeling for Gu Cheng and the three of them was a little uglier than crying, and a strange cold air for no reason grew in the hearts of the three of them at the same time.

They may have heard the saying "people look like ghosts" before, but they have never seen it with their own eyes, but today, they have seen it.

To them, this boatman is really no different from a ghost.

Not only is the appearance similar, but so is the temperament.

"No...... No need ......"

Ao Jiaojiao, who has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, spoke surprisingly with a trace of trilling at this time, and immediately shook her head and replied.

At the moment of speaking, she involuntarily took two steps back and stood behind Gu Cheng and Zhou Yuanyang.

Gu Cheng and Zhou Yuanyang were men in the end, although they were also taken aback, they could still resist after all, and their faces were normal.

"Then it's not easy for you to cross the river."

In the face of Ao Jiaojiao's refusal, the strange boatman didn't care, but smiled weirdly.

Then he turned his head and continued to sit there, staring blankly at the black river with billowing white smoke not far away, and his expression was focused, as if he had fallen asleep.

"What now?" Seeing the boatman turn his head again and not see his shriveled face, Ao Jiaojiao breathed a long sigh of relief, and then couldn't help asking.

"By the way, how are we going to cross the river now?" Zhou Yuanyang also asked.

The eyes of the two turned to Gu Cheng in unison.

"You ask me?" Gu Cheng was surprised.

"Nonsense, except for us here. Is there a fourth person? Zhou Yuanyang rolled his eyes, but as soon as the words came out, he suddenly remembered that there really seemed to be a fourth person, although he didn't know whether the boatman was a human or not, but it was not good to slander others after all. He immediately changed his tune and said, "Don't you know how to cross the river?" ”

Seeing his startled appearance, Gu Cheng smiled a little bitterly, shook his head and said, "I really don't know." ”

"Didn't you say you've been here before, don't lie to me, you even know the ghost cave, how can you not know how to cross the river...... Don't talk nonsense, just say it when you know. Don't waste time. Ao Jiaojiao was a little unconvinced, and thought that Gu Cheng was deliberately playing tricks, so she glared at him fiercely, and ordered angrily.

"I really don't know, when I came here before, the situation was different, and I haven't been here before, and the ghost caves are all over the place. Haven't you seen it too, not every route passes through here. Gu Cheng explained helplessly.

Gu Cheng didn't tell the truth. He'd actually been here, and he knew the name of the river, and it was called the River of the Underworld.

However, in the game, there are teleportation arrays on both sides of the Stygian River, so it is very convenient to cross the river.

But this real world ......

Gu Cheng looked around, but he didn't see any trace of the teleportation array.

"What then?" Seeing that Gu Cheng didn't look like a fake. Zhou Yuanyang couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded for a while.

"Aren't you good at star arithmetic, you calculate, how to cross the river is the safest and most convenient." Ao Jiaojiao looked at Zhou Yuanyang and said.

"You think I'm a god, how can such a thing be measured." Faced with Ao Jiaojiao's unreasonable demand, Zhou Yuanyang couldn't help but roll his eyes. Said a little speechlessly.

Seeing that there was no way for the two of them, Ao Jiaojiao's face couldn't help but collapse, "Could it be that we still have to swim over?" I can feel that there seems to be a special prohibition on this river, and there is no way to fly at all. ”

In fact, this Gu Cheng and Zhou Yuanyang also felt it.

If they could fly over, they wouldn't have had such a headache, they would have already flown over, and there was no need to talk nonsense here.

As for what Ao Jiaojiao said about swimming past?

Look at the black water, the white bones floating on the water, and the rich rancid smell, imagine what it would be like to enter the water...... Both of them shuddered, and if they really wanted to swim through the river, they would prefer to take a different path.

"Let's try something else first, but if it doesn't work, I'll say something else."

In desperation, the three of them had to start trying other methods.

Zhou Yuanyang took out a long wooden strip from the space storage equipment, and then placed it on the shore, his right hand condensed a cloud of colorful light, and gently wiped it on the long wooden strip, and the wooden strip soon became brilliant.

He put the long wooden strip on the river, the colorful light flickered, under Zhou Yuanyang's control, this long wooden strip immediately flew towards the other side of the river, but before it reached the middle of the river, the long wooden strip broke away from Zhou Yuanyang's control, and sank directly into the river, without even a bubble coming out.

"There's something weird in the river."

Zhou Yuanyang quickly came to a conclusion.

Gu Cheng and Ao Jiaojiao also saw that although the long wooden board was protected by mana, the moment it sank into the river, it was instantly corroded by the river, and it was estimated that there was not even any residue left.

In this way, if they want to swim into the water, the situation may not be much better, and most of them will be corrupted and swallowed by the rancid river.

"I don't believe it today."

Ao Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and took out a palm-sized statue of a strange bird.

Although this statue is small, it exudes amazing aura fluctuations, and it is an extremely good medium-grade magic weapon.

Ao Jiaojiao was originally a female tyrant, and her net worth was much stronger than that of Gu Cheng, a poor boy, and she was not reluctant to try a medium-grade magic weapon, but she was directly stimulated without saying a word.

Under the urging of her mana, this strange bird statue quickly let out a scream, and then the light flickered, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a huge strange bird several feet huge and soared into the air, the demonic energy surged, the big wings spread, the wind howled, and it flew directly towards the other side of the river.

Under the instigation of the wings of this huge strange bird, not only did it have a rolling demonic qi to protect its body, but also bursts of gray-brown whirlwinds also wrapped its body, and it actually resisted the prohibition on the river, and really flew towards the other side of the river.

Seeing such a scene, Gu Cheng and the three of them couldn't help but show a hint of joy.

If successful. Then they can cross the river this way.

But before the smile on their faces could be fully revealed, a lightning bolt suddenly lit up in the void, and it fell in an instant, and the alien bird transformed by the magic weapon was directly struck by this lightning before it could react.

There was a bang of "boom", and the demonic energy and the wind could not stop it. Thunder and lightning instantly poured into the alien bird's body and exploded directly.

A medium-grade magic weapon, just gone.

Gu Cheng and Zhou Yuanyang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this is a medium-grade magic weapon, no matter how much it is worth hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, they didn't even carry an attack.

"Seems a bit of a hassle."

Although Ao Jiaojiao didn't feel sorry for these hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, she also felt a little headache in the face of the predicament in front of her.

"No, let's go on a boat. I'm afraid that's the only way to go, unless we find another way. ”

Looking at the boatman sitting there not far away, and then at the small boat that was suspended on the water but had nothing to do, Gu Cheng shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

Ao Jiaojiao and Zhou Yuanyang glanced at each other, and they tacitly agreed that they didn't say anything, and followed Gu Cheng towards that side.

Although the boatman gave them a bit of a strange feeling, let them go back and find another way. They were still very reluctant.

"Why, figured it out. Want to take a boat? ”

As soon as Gu Cheng and the three of them approached, before they could speak, the boatman turned his head again and asked with a smile.

"Yes, what do you want to take us across the river?" I saw the face in front of me that didn't look like a human face at all. Gu Cheng forcibly suppressed the discomfort in his heart, stepped forward, and asked politely.

"Aren't you afraid that I will throw you off the boat halfway, and with your cultivation, once you fall into the Stygian River? There's no chance of survival. The boatman did not answer Gu Cheng's question, but asked with interest.

"Uh......" As soon as he said this, Gu Cheng and the three couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

yes, what would they do if they were really dropped off the ship halfway?

Nowadays, it seems that it is not safe to take a boat.

If it was the past situation, Ao Jiaojiao would definitely stand up and scold a few words angrily, joking, who would dare to threaten her, but in the face of the strange boatman here and out, she really didn't have the guts.

The other party's appearance and temperament are not at all like human beings, not to mention, a person actually stays here as a boatman, how many times can he have business throughout the year? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a normal person.

"Don't worry, I won't do that kind of thing, I'm the most trustworthy person, as long as I carry you, I will definitely send you to the other side safely."

"Assuming you can afford it, of course."

Without waiting for Gu Cheng and the others to answer, the boatman took the lead in giving the answer, pulled the corners of his mouth, and showed a barely kind smile, he said lightly.

"Excuse me, what is the price of taking them to the other side?" Zhou Yuanyang stood up and asked.

"Everyone, one ......"

With that, the boatman stretched out an index finger and spat out a word in his mouth at the same time.

It was not a spirit stone, nor a treasure, but a "head", and he asked for a living head.

In other words, if Gu Cheng and the three of them want to take a boat, they have to contribute three heads first, otherwise, there will be no fun.

Hearing his strange request, Rao is Gu Cheng and the three of them were mentally prepared, and they couldn't help but be dumbfounded in an instant, they wanted a head, and it was a living head, what was this for?

"It's okay to change it to a spirit stone, it's really okay to have a treasure, as long as you're willing to take us to the other side of the river, we won't be stingy." Ao Jiaojiao endured the discomfort in her heart and asked.

"What's the use of me asking for spirit stone treasures, those guys in the river don't eat spirit stone treasures, as long as you take out your heads and give them enough to eat, then you can cross the river in peace, otherwise, I agree, and they won't agree." The boatman glanced at Ao Jiaojiao without curiosity, pointed to the dark river not far away, and said coldly.

"Who are you talking about?" Gu Cheng couldn't help but ask.

"They are the real masters of this dark river, I am just a boatman, you can't feed them, I don't dare to sail the boat." The boatman explained casually.

"Shall we drive it ourselves?" Zhou Yuanyang seemed to find a loophole in the other party's words, and suddenly proposed.

The boatman glanced at him, did not hide the sarcastic look in his eyes, and sneered, "You get on the boat and try it, if you can row, I will give you the boat." ”

"Then I'll try."

Zhou Yuanyang was a little unconvinced, and as he spoke, he jumped on the boat, and then grabbed two oars.

But the strange thing was that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake the oars in the slightest, not even the whole boat, even if he was jumping around in the boat, it was the same, as if the whole boat was connected to the river.

Half a ring of time passed, the boat did not row, and Zhou Yuanyang was so angry that he blushed.

Reluctantly, he turned back to the shore and asked Gu Cheng and the others, "Why don't you go up and try it too?" ”

Obviously, he was disgraced by himself, and he wanted to pull Gu Cheng and Ao Jiaojiao into the water together, anyway, everyone would lose face together, so it didn't matter.

But Gu Cheng and Ao Jiaojiao could not be fooled, they had completely seen through the strangeness of that ship, maybe their strength was greater than Zhou Yuanyang, but with his cultivation strength, it was obvious that he would not be able to row that ship.

For a while, the three of them couldn't help but be a little deflated.

"We've tried all the other methods we can, but we can't cross the river."

"If you take a boat, you can, but you need three heads, what kind of strange conditions is this......"

"I knew that when I fought with those people from the Black Dragon Society before, I should have brought three people over, so I didn't have to worry about it."

The three of them sat on the shore and sighed together.

Perhaps there was another way, which was to force the boatman to row a boat to carry them over, but they only dared to think about this idea, the boatman was too eccentric, and his whole body was full of mystery, and they really did not dare to risk it.

"What to do? Do we really want to go back......" Ao Jiaojiao asked a little unwillingly.

And at this moment, a scream sounded in the air, mixed with a lot of cheerful and piercing whistles.

Immediately afterwards, a big cyan bird rushed out of the mountains and forests in the distance, and there were four figures standing on the big bird, speeding towards this side quickly, and it was obvious that the sound of breaking the air and whistling came from them.

When they reached the side of the Stygian River, the birds they were driving did not slow down in the slightest, and obviously intended to rush straight over.

But when the big bird just entered the upper part of the river basin, they encountered the situation before Gu Cheng and the others, a lightning bolt directly struck, and the big bird they were riding was instantly split into pieces, and the four of them also fell down one after another, and before they landed, these four guys in strange costumes scolded one after another. (To be continued.) )

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