The boat is getting closer and closer, but the strange thing is that there is no boatman on the boat, and there is no one in charge of the boat. I look at it in my heart, this painting boat seems to have traveled through time and space from ancient times to the present, ethereal like a dream.

It didn't take long for the painting boat to slowly come to the shore, and the sound of silk and bamboo on the boat stopped.

I instinctively took a step back, and my heart couldn't help but speed up a little, only to see three blood-red ancient characters written on the front of the painting boat: Jun Budu.

I tightened my grip on the heavy knife and sensed it carefully, but I didn't find anything unusual, and I didn't feel a cold ghost aura around me. The boat stopped quietly, with only the faint glow of the dark red lantern.

After that, I looked around again, and I didn't know what to do for a while, and I wondered if I should go up and investigate? The ship is parked here, as if it had come to wait for me.

But I felt uneasy, and the more I didn't notice the abnormality, the more it made me feel wrong. The colorful eagle didn't know where it went, the footprints disappeared here, and I didn't know if it flew away.

After thinking about it, I decided to wait a minute, if the colorful eagle really flew away from here, it would definitely have to fly back if its physical strength was not good, and if I could go up with it, the situation might be better.

Its third colored feather is about to grow, and its combat power is definitely much stronger than before, and the most important thing is that it will warn.

But then I waited left and right, and waited for a full twenty minutes, and it still didn't appear, and I didn't know where it went.

Helplessly, I decided not to wait.

There is not much time left before the time has passed, and if it does not go up now, the boat will probably have to leave.

There's no evidence, but my gut feeling is that it should be.

Just like Bai Xiangyue's small building, as soon as midnight passed, it immediately disappeared without a trace, and only appeared when the yin qi was at its peak.

Having made up my mind, I jumped from the pier pier to the boat and felt inside.

The painting boat is not too big, about two rooms, antique, in front of a curtain, I slowly picked up the curtain and flashed in.

Inside is a private room, there are five or six tables and chairs, on which are teapots and dishes, the top is a stage, there is a piano in the middle, and there is a pipa and an erhu in the corner next to it are quietly placed there, and the teapots and dishes are also placed.

The whole scene was as if someone was listening to the piano here just now, but suddenly disappeared, and the tea bowl had no time to be cleaned up, and even the instruments were not taken away.

I couldn't help but stand on end, and instinctively glanced at the tea bowl and found that there was still tea in it, some of which I hadn't drunk, and some of which were only half drunk.

My heart began to beat faster, and I wondered if this painting boat was a ghost ship?

Otherwise, I still heard the sound of the piano just now, why is it gone?

After thinking about it, I slowly reached out and touched the teapot, trying to feel if the teapot was still warm.

But at this moment:

"Wow!"

A piano sound suddenly sounded.

My heart jumped to my throat, and I hurriedly took my knife and faced the stage.

At this time, I was shocked to find that there was a string on the piano that was vibrating.

"Damn!"

I fell into an ice cave, instinctively biting the tip of my tongue, and then using the tip of my tongue to push the roof of my mouth, ready to do it at any time.

Then I felt my shoulder be jerked, and I sat down on a table behind me involuntarily, and at the same time a slightly familiar voice came: "Boy, if you don't want to provoke the public, sit down." ”

I shuddered, instinctively wanting to slash at it, but when I saw that face, I couldn't help but be completely stunned.

In front of me appeared a small dark red cheek, with pointed ears, and it was a ...... Night Wanderer!

I was directly stunned, and when I looked at the stage again, I saw a woman in plain clothes caressing the piano with both hands, looking at me strangely, and the table that was empty before was almost full of people.

They all looked at me coldly, especially a middle-aged man in Confucian clothes next to me, who gritted his teeth and glared at me angrily.

"What's the situation?" I was so shocked that I almost didn't bite my tongue, the painting boat that was empty just now was actually full of people at the moment?

The Night Wandering God is also there!!

I looked at the night wandering god and instinctively opened my mouth: "Night ......" "Shhh The Night Wanderer hurriedly made a silent gesture, and then: "If you don't want to provoke the anger of the people, shut up." ”

I didn't dare to speak, and when the guests next to me saw this, they slowly withdrew their cold gazes, and then the woman on the high platform caressed the liuqin, and the melodious sound of the piano flowed out like flowing water, which was exactly what I heard on the shore.

I breathed a sigh of relief, instinctively looked at the soles of the guests' feet, and immediately a cold sweat came down.

There is no shadow at all!

In other words, I'm the only one in this boat at the moment!

The Night Wanderer is also a ghost, except that it escaped from the underworld.

This is indeed a ghost ship, and it is full of ghosts.

After reacting a little, I immediately planned to retreat, although I had a lot of questions in my heart and wanted to ask the night wanderer, but this situation was obviously not suitable, so it was better to leave early. Messing around with all this filth, God knows what's going to happen.

I couldn't see them just now, it was entirely because they didn't appear, but then I bit the tip of my tongue and saw it, and the blood on the tip of the tongue of Zhiyang sealed the yin door, which had the effect of breaking the barrier.

However, as soon as I got up, the night wanderer pushed me back again, and instead of speaking, pointed out at me.

I was shocked, and then I found that the ship had already left the shore, and had sailed out for a long way, and I could barely see the shore; I didn't even find anything, there was no bump in it at all, as if it was completely unaffected by the wind and waves.

I was completely dumbfounded, and I had to jump into the lake to go back.

The Night Wanderer let go of me and shook his head slowly at me, signaling me to be restless.

I nodded, and I could only follow this boat to the end, last time I was coaxed to go to the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, and used my yang blood to remove the "corpse worm" used to kill the dragon, although both sides were calculating each other. But in the end, the Night Wandering God kept his promise and gave Miao Miao's father another ten years, and from this point of view, it was not hostile to me.

It's a ghost, but I've made at least one deal with him, so it's a little bit of a friendship. And it was it that pulled me to sit in a chair just now, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the ghosts messing around, and I wouldn't be able to be beaten by these ghosts.

The night wandering god's dress is no longer the same as the last time he saw it, his whole body is wrapped in a decent black robe, the red body skin is covered, his face is obviously whitewashed, and the black gauze hat with the word "night" written on his head is gone, replaced by a small cyan hat.

The night wanderer looked at me with a smile, took a sip of the teacup, then dipped the saucer in water, and wrote a few words on the table: Why are you here?

I thought about it for a moment and wrote back: Investigate Rouge Lake.

Night Wanderer shook his head speechlessly and wrote: This is not the place you should be.

My heart flashed, and judging by the looks of the ghosts, they didn't seem surprised to see me.

In other words, they probably often meet living people.

This makes me even more curious, what the hell is this place?

The boat is specially used for amusement and must have a certain popularity support.

"Is there not only a ghost here, but also a ghost nest?" I was shocked by the thought of myself jumping out of my spine.

After thinking about it, I hurriedly dipped tea and wrote on the table: Where is the painting boat going?

The night wandering god was even more speechless, sighed and shook his head, and wrote down three more words: more than half a step.

"What?!"

I was so shocked that I almost jumped up, and I immediately caught the attention of the audience again.

More than half a step!!

Fat Man once inadvertently mentioned this name to me.

It is a place where the yang and the underworld meet, and it belongs neither to the underworld nor to the human world.

Different from the entrance to the underworld, the entrance to the underworld is controlled by the underworld, as soon as you enter the entrance is the underworld, and the entrance and exit are the yang world, with clear boundaries and clear distinctions.

But half a step is different, it is a zone where neither side cares, it can not only lead to the Yin Division, but also return to the human world, which is equivalent to a neutral zone, which is very magical.

The fat man mentioned to me that this place was still northeast, and he said that more than half a step did not exist originally, but for some reason it suddenly appeared, and it was an entrance completely different from the underworld.

But the strange thing is that the underworld did not close that entrance, but let it go, and over time it became a gray area where the yang and yin meet, and no one could take care of it.

The reason why the fat man mentioned it to me was because there were a considerable number of Xingyin and Yin-Yang merchants gathered there. When he introduced me to Xingyin, he specifically mentioned the three names of Banbuduo.

A Yin Practitioner is a person who accumulates merit to obtain the retribution of the present world, while a Yin and Yang Merchant is a person who does business between the dead and the living, or a ghost, or even some special existence.

In short, half a step into the underworld and half a step back into the world.

In addition, the fat man also told me that more than half a step is very mysterious, and not everyone or any ghost can go, because it is a gray area, and it does not belong to the underworld and the human world, and the dead ghosts will not enter the underworld from there.

Anyone who can go needs to be guided, and they can't go without permission.

Only then did I understand why the ghosts on this ship didn't have any special reaction when they saw me as a big living person, because more than half a step is a place where people and ghosts are mixed, and it is not surprising that people and ghosts meet halfway through.

And I looked at the guests again, and I saw that most of them were dressed quite luxuriously, most of them were dressed in ancient costumes, and only one or two were in a modern style.

Everyone was dissatisfied with my disturbance again, and more people glared at me angrily, and even the plain-clothed woman on the stage slowly glanced up at me.

I hurriedly folded my hands together and made an apologetic gesture, then sat back in my chair and didn't dare to move.

These ghosts are not simple, they don't have a cold aura, and they don't know if there is a change.

After all the guests had shifted their attention, Ye Youshen nodded at those people and wrote three words on the table: Yin and Yang Shang.

I nodded slowly, this fat man has already told me, when I was in Liuhe Town in the northeast before, there was an old man who was a person during the day and a ghost at night, and pulled us to the head ditch with a broken face, and asked each of us to collect a piece of dark silver yellow straw paper as money.

Later, Gua Ge told me that the dark silver yellow straw paper was the money used in the underworld, and it was hard currency, and only one family in the yang world would do it, called the Qian family.

The Qian family has been making paper money for generations, and the wealth is strong, and the yin and yang worlds are all-encompassing, which is second only to the Peng family in the land of Yan and Zhao.

The paper money made by the old Qian family is also called money, and its status is equivalent to that of a bank that issues currency in the world, which is very low-key, but no one dares to mess with it. And the currency in the hands of these yin and yang merchants is money.

Businessmen pursue profits, where there are profits, there are transactions, and where there are transactions, businessmen will exist, and there is no exchange, even if it is the two worlds of yin and yang!

Seeing that I knew a little, Yeyoushen smiled slightly, and seemed not to be surprised.

We didn't talk anymore, and this wasn't the place to communicate.

After half an hour, the piano song was finished, and the boat slowly approached the shore.

I calculated that the Rouge Lake was not that big at all, and that it would only take a quarter of an hour to cross the road from one side to the other. But the boat traveled for almost an hour, far beyond the confines of Rouge Lake.

Obviously, at this moment, I am afraid that the painting boat is no longer in the yang world.

Sure enough, all those yin and yang merchants got up to cheer, and after the plain-clothed woman bowed, they put a piece of money on the table one after another, turned around and left the cabin.

The Night Wanderer also took out two pieces of money and put them down, motioning for me to follow.

I secretly sighed, the legendary half step is more than half a step.

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