Chapter 13: The Boat Leaks
Seeing this scene, Mu Yuan's heart trembled, knowing that the other party should have noticed something, so he squatted down and lowered his head and pretended to clean up some of the dirt on his shoes.
Feng Xiaosan, who was as short as a four or five-year-old child, saw his eldest brother looking around with strange eyes, he couldn't help but be curious, so he pulled the sleeve of Fengye's half-hung shirt with his hand.
"Big brother, what are you looking at?"
"Oh, big brother didn't see anything."
Disturbed by Feng Xiaosan like this, Feng Ye stopped his body, stopped looking at anything, and then turned his head to look at Feng Zheng who was standing beside him.
"Second brother, after we enter the city, you go to find a portrait of the kid according to the characteristics of the kid's face, draw some portraits, and post them in a crowded place in the city in the form of a reward."
Feng Zheng's thin body is 1.97 meters, standing next to his two brothers always has a condescending feeling, he patted his bony chest, and said very confidently:
"Big brother, don't worry, I will definitely do this portrait thing beautifully."
"I don't know if that kid is not in this city."
"Perhaps, after all, this is the closest city to the place where the bird doesn't, and the eagle has flown back to the depths of the mountain range alone, and now he is the only mortal man left, where else can he go."
"Let's go ashore, An's dead and the kid can't go far alone. Perhaps, at this moment, he is sleeping in a room in this city! ”
"Besides, he didn't know that our brothers were still alive."
“……”
The three monsters of the Feng clan quickly went ashore, and it didn't take long for them to disappear and go straight to the official road in Bai'an City.
The passenger merchant ship had already sailed south in the center of the riverbed of the river, and Mu Yuan collected his mind after a long time and returned to the cabin lounge.
Lying quietly on the bed, he pillowed a pair of hands and thought about it, just now he saw the appearance of the three strange people of the Feng family, he was both shocked and resentful, and then there was a trace of hope in the depths of his heart.
He hoped that Chang An would also escape from the sea of fire created by the Great Cheng Heavenly Tribulation like the three monsters of the Feng Clan, and survive somewhere safe and sound.
However, this glimmer of hope was dashed after he vaguely heard the conversation of the three monsters of the Feng clan under the sound of the river waves and the howling wind.
Now, he is not only remembered by the Gu family, but also by the three monsters of the Feng clan who have followed his whereabouts all the way here, which shows that his safety is not good in the future.
In this regard, Mu Yuan doesn't care so much, anyway, the soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, the gods will kill the gods, and the Buddha will kill the Buddha, although his current cultivation is only at the furnace stage, and his strength is still very weak, but he is not the master who is afraid of things.
It's just that there are still a lot of things that he needs to do in him, so he is rational and chooses to forbear when he meets the three monsters of the Feng clan before.
"Regardless of his new hatred and old hatred, in short, when Lao Tzu succeeds in cultivation, it will be the end of what you are waiting for!"
Mu Yuan secretly made an oath in his heart, so he lay on the bed, and fell asleep unconsciously.
As he fell asleep, a strange thing happened outside the ship, a column of water trailing in the waters behind the big ship, to be precise.
The water column poured up from under the river in an endless stream, and continued to fall down at a height of about three zhang, and it was about the size of an adult's arms, and it was so far from the water behind the big boat that it was more than five zhang away, and it followed there.
All of a sudden, the curiosity of the passengers on this big ship was overflowing, and they rushed to the back of the ship to see what was going on.
Seeing this, several boatmen in charge of the navigation of this big ship hurriedly put down the matter in their hands and anxiously stepped forward to persuade them, saying that it was a huge water demon doing evil, and that they should not go near the stern of the boat, otherwise the consequences would be very serious.
Some of them stopped in disbelief and did not dare to approach the stern of the boat, but most of them could not resist their curiosity, and finally took the boatman's words as the wind in their ears, and ran to the stern of the boat to watch the strange column of water.
"Alas! After many years, the water demon reappeared. ”
Seeing this, one of the boatmen seemed to remember some of the past, and he sighed helplessly, and then got up and hurried into the cabin, where he wanted to tell the captain what had happened here.
The stern of the boat was already overcrowded, some old and young, pointing at the beam of water five zhang away, giggling, talking and laughing, it seemed that being able to witness this strange "scenery" with their own eyes was the biggest gain of their trip.
At this time, someone exclaimed in surprise, "Look! It's coming closer. ”
"yes, it's spectacular!"
"It's really eye-opening to go out this time, remembering that it cost fifty gold to buy a ferry ticket yesterday, and now it's worth it."
"I don't know what's underneath the water injection? There is such a strange and unique phenomenon. ”
“……”
While everyone was still trying to continue to talk about the water, the column of water, about three feet high, suddenly disappeared only two feet away from the stern of the boat.
Then, clinging to the water below the stern of the boat, where the waves rolled violently, everyone next to the boat looked curious, leaning out half of their bodies to look down.
But at this moment, a giant beast with dragon horns and a smooth body appeared on the surface of the water, staring at two round eyes as big as the mouth of a bowl, and opening a large mouth full of wide sharp teeth, and in an instant it jumped two and a half feet high next to the stern of the boat.
Unfortunately, in the group standing at the stern of the boat, five or six people were bitten by the giant beast in its mouth that would be two feet wide, and then with a "poof" sound, the giant beast sank heavily into the river water, and a bright red liquid suddenly appeared on the water.
The rest of the crowd were horrified when they saw this, their mouths wide open, their eyes wide open, as if time had stopped at this moment, and they were all stunned.
"Ahh
I don't know who was the first to let out a scream, followed by a series of screams of panic, and then the crowd rushed to the cabin like a flood.
Originally, the passage on the ship was quite wide, but under the scramble of everyone and did not give in to each other, it seemed very narrow.
Fortunately, in the process, the unknown giant beast did not mean to make trouble again.
Since it sank into the river, there has been no trace of it, not even the beam of water has never appeared, as if it had never appeared, and it has disappeared from the river.
Mu Yuan, who was woken up in his sleep, walked out of the cabin and saw that almost all the people around him looked like they were palpitating, and he was a little puzzled, until he found someone to ask, and he didn't know what happened just now.
"Looks like I did sleep too deeply this time." Mu Yuan blamed himself. He wasn't happy enough with his own alertness, so he made a secret note of it.
Then, he walked alone to the stern of the boat, wanting to find out what kind of demon beast it was, and how strange the water column was.
When he arrived at the stern of the boat, except for a middle-aged man standing on the deck with his hands behind his back, Mu Yuan didn't see any other figures, and it seemed that those people before were frightened.
Mu Yuan stepped forward, and after talking with the middle-aged man, he learned that he was the main person in charge here, and he was also a monk, a cultivator in the middle of the Qi Gathering Order, and he was also the captain of this boat.
Moreover, he learned that the giant beast in Fang Cai was a demon beast named Dragon Horn Catfish.
Its shape is somewhat similar to that of a common catfish, but its head has a pair of dragon horns, and there is also a vent the size of a water dish, which usually spews out a column of water about three feet high to confuse the prey before hunting.
And when it opens its mouth, it can be as wide as two feet; The huge body is like the body of a catfish, with a length of about 21 zhang.
Although it was only a low-level spirit beast, its strong body was enough to fight against a monk in the Qi Gathering Stage.
Six years ago, this middle-aged man standing beside Mu Yuan was just a boatman, and he once encountered this dragon-horned catfish demon when he sailed south with the previous captain of this ship.
At that time, the previous captain's cultivation was already close to the late stage of the Qi Gathering Stage, and although he defeated the dragon horn catfish demon, he also suffered a fatal wound and passed away not long after.
Nowadays, the middle-aged man standing here always has some touch injuries, and Mu Yuan is also quite touched by his narration.
In his opinion, if you want to be in this world of the jungle, if you don't have strong strength, you may be bullied and slaughtered at any time.
The two of them chatted for a while, and then went back to their cabins.
The night was approaching, and the day was sent away, and a moon with a disc was removed, and a group of stars were brought in.
After dinner, Mu Yuan walked out of the cabin and came to the bow deck, he had already asked the middle-aged man to arrive at the dock in Changle City before coming out, and he would continue sailing for at least three days and two nights.
And one hundred and eighty miles outside Changle City, it is the destination of Mu Yuan's trip - Kunyang Mountain Kunyang Sword Sect.
Thinking of the city of Changle City, Mu Yuan couldn't help but think of Yan Xiaotian, who was as beautiful as a flower and had fine skin and white skin.
"I don't know if he has arrived in Changle City at this moment? I hope he's all right. ”
Just as Mu Yuan was praying for Yan Xiaotian, one side of the hull seemed to be hit hard by something, causing the entire big ship to shake violently several times.
He was almost not thrown out of the ship, and so were the boatmen and passengers standing outside the cabin.
There were even people who were violently shaken by the sudden impact, and fell heavily on the deck, and rolled several times before grabbing some fixed objects there and stopping.
"Oh no, the monster from before has reappeared, and it's going to crash into the hull again! Everyone's up! ”
A boatman saw a huge figure in the river, and he shouted for everyone on board to pay attention.
Rumble!
"It's broken, ship...... The boat is leaking! ”