The marina was built on the shores of the lake.

Looking down from the sky.

The lake is connected to a large river, and the veins of the water are like jade belts, spreading into the distance and reaching the horizon.

Tang Wen took a closer look, whether it was the shore of the lake or the bank of the river.

There is no sign of a significant drop in the water level.

Tang Wen was puzzled.

This place also belongs to the Northwest Wilderness.

It hasn't rained much in the past year.

Why is there so much water here?

If it was a previous life, if it didn't rain for a year, the creatures on the ground would probably die.

First of all, most of the plants die.

Only a few drought-tolerant survived.

Then the herbivores decreased sharply.

Then there was the mass starvation of carnivores.

The biological chain has suffered a cliff-like blow.

Humans will also turn into wild beasts in order to snatch clean water.

Whoever has a big fist and has access to water will be alive.

Even by controlling water sources, gain power and rule over other people.

Tang Wen, who was hiding in the clouds, couldn't help but sigh: "After so long of drought, the water here is still so abundant." ”

By this time, the two of them had straightened up, a full arm's length apart.

Separate your body and no longer have to be tense.

Xia Qingge stopped trying to catch the clouds and looked down: "I'm afraid this lake is connected to many dark rivers. ”

The Dark River, the lake around the Flame Camp also leads to a bottomless Dark River.

He was curious: "There are a lot of dark rivers in this world? ”

"Of course, there are many of them, and where there are lakes, there are dark rivers. This lake is so big, I don't know how many dark rivers are swallowing at the bottom of the lake. "The sound of the tiger seven urns is angry.

"The underground river is stable?" Tang Wen didn't understand.

The dark river is the underground river.

According to the knowledge of Tang Wen's memory in his previous life, the reasons for the formation of underground rivers are complex, the underground environment is complex, and the geological structure is easy to change due to the continuous erosion of water flows.

The waterways of underground rivers will collapse directly.

As a result, there are fewer dark rivers that can flow steadily.

"Stable, of course." Hu Qi replied: "The underground world is incomparably vast, with mountains, waterfalls, rivers, and countless strange beasts. ”

"Can a strange beast live? Is there light underground? ”

"Of course."

"Impossible, right?"

"Why can't there be light, and there won't be stars at night?" Xia Qingge said this kind of thing, obviously without any common sense of astronomy.

Hu Qi explained: "The stars are beyond the sky, infinity, and there is no night underground, but there are a large number of rocks that glow. ”

It said a few words, Tang Wen is fine.

I remember a lot of pictures of works underground.

There is no yearning for this.

If he could, he wouldn't want to go underground.

Xia Qingge took a sip of wine and looked eager to try.

Tang Wen was silent.

Hu Qi's words made him realize that he couldn't always use the common sense accumulated in his previous life to look at the problem.

In the previous life, if it didn't rain for a year, it was almost a catastrophe.

At present, it has not rained for a year in the wilderness of the northwest, but now it seems that the environment is only a little worse, and there is not much change.

Beneath the vast Northwest wilderness, there is a complex underground world.

There are not only demons underground, but also all kinds of strange beasts, with a diverse ecology.

The complex interplay of water systems above and below may also be one of the main causes of repeated droughts on the ground.

Observe the large and small ships shuttling back and forth on the water below.

Tang Wen asked again: "Since there are so many resources underground, what are human beings still fighting for on the ground, and it is not good to go underground to develop?" ”

Hu Qi shook his head and asked rhetorically, "How do you know that humans haven't gone underground?" ”

"So there are humans underground? There are cities. ”

"Yes, definitely, yes. However, ordinary people don't live long underground. It was the first time for Hu Qi to reveal these things to Tang Wen.

The latter listened very seriously: "There are so many masters on the ground, can't you take the demons?" ”

"It's the glowing stones."

"Stones?"

"They are limited in places, and in the summer, they don't light up."

"Huh?" Tang Wen was stunned: "The stone still has to hibernate, no, summer hibernation can't be." ”

"Not only that, but they can suddenly dim for a few days, or even stop at all, for a few days."

I see.

Tang Wen could imagine the despair without light.

Ordinary martial artists fighting demons under the light source may be able to gain an advantage.

If in the middle of the battle, they suddenly lose their light source, then what awaits them is slaughter, one-sided slaughter.

"No wonder you can only defend." Tang Wen nodded thoughtfully.

Xia Qingge was also very interested: "Have you ever been a master of the four grades?" ”

The white tiger looked at her with big eyes: "Of course." ”

It didn't say a conclusion, but the two could guess.

If Sipin goes down, it will be done, and now the crisis caused by the underground demons will no longer exist.

Tang Wen asked again: "The demon has never rushed out?" ”

Tiger Seven humanely "tsk": "If you come up below the fifth grade, you can't turn up any wind and waves, and if you don't respond to it in time, it's a disaster." Therefore, the entrance to the underground cave of the mountain city is placed in the inner city. However, just as we don't like the dark, they don't like the sun very much. Usually they hide in the darkness underground. ”

When the two of them were chatting about the underground.

Brush the floor.

Another white tiger crashed into the white clouds.

The speed was so fast that Tang Wen couldn't see the direction it was coming from.

Without waiting for a few people to ask, Hu Twenty-one waved his furry paws and said, "I have inquired about the boats below, and the ones over there are full of grain." There were also a few big iron ships on the outside, loaded with ice and meat, all kinds of meat! ”

"Alien beast meat?"

"There is very little meat for exotic beasts, and they are ordinary cattle, sheep and pigs."

After asking about the details, following the direction pointed by the white tiger, Tang Wen distinguished the ship it was referring to.

Although he believed in the strength of the five-rank white tiger, he still asked: "This is an important dock for the boat gang, there are five pins in charge, and the six-rank is as many as two digits." How did you get closer? ”

The white tiger is the size of a white tiger, flying fast in the sky, and it is not very noticeable.

But once you get close to the ship and peek at what cargo is inside, as long as the sailors on board are not blind, they will inevitably find it.

Tiger Twenty-One did not speak, but raised his head on the ground.

Hu Qi spoke: "Its Transfiguration Technique is very well practiced. ”

Transfiguration?

Xia Qingge looked at it.

Tang Wen subconsciously thought: Can I learn?

As if he saw what Tang Wen meant, Hu Qi's amber pupils flashed helplessly: "Anthropology can't learn it." Transfiguration relies on the inheritance of memory. Or the elders teach it to their fellow clans in their sleep, without contemplation and thought, without written records. How do you learn? ”

Tang Wen had no choice but to dispel his thoughts.

The white tiger actually has a memory inheritance, no wonder the adult white tiger is the worst and extraordinary strength.

This is clearly a transcendent race!

The two looked at Tiger Twenty-One, who showed off his Transfiguration without hesitation

The body shrinks unreasonably, and finally becomes similar to a normal domestic cat.

Well, it jumped on Hu Qi and meowed twice.

Xia Qingge couldn't help but reach out to touch it, but it flashed quickly and dodged it.

Tang Wenqi said: "The size of the change, even the momentum can be hidden?" ”

"There are pros and cons to everything, I'm not a fourth-grade, after my body became smaller, my strength dropped to almost the peak of the sixth-grade." Tiger Twenty-One washed his face with his paws, more like a little white cat.

Xia Qingge was fishing again, even more tricky, the little white cat twisted her waist and folded her body into an acute angle, and jumped straight off Hu Qi's body.

"In the camp below, there are only two senior five-rank guards. Seventh Sister and I can completely suppress them! It's better to sneak attack first, kill one first, and leave the other, and you will never escape the combination of the two of us. ”

Twenty-one kittens, waving their paws and being cute, are very violent!

This is very much to Xia Qingge's appetite: "Good! Have a good fight! ”

"No way!" Hu Qi and Tang Wen stopped it at the same time.

Xia Qingge tightened her pretty face, not angry, she mainly wanted to show the majesty of the queen and give Tang Wen a little shock.

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

On the contrary, because of the transition from "brainless brave beauty" to "temperament royal sister", it changed too quickly, which made Tang Wen's lustful weakness even stronger.

Good and decent, how do you feel like you're seducing me?

Well, it must be that I haven't looked for Sister Bing and Li Zi to regulate my body in the past few days, and the anger is too great.

It's just that I'm too strong.

Two militants, who wanted to make a big fuss, were rejected.

Tang Wen carefully analyzed, left two tigers and one person, and went deep into dangerous places such as dock taverns, green buildings, and massage parlors, and did field investigations.

He inquired about the grain and goods here, and they were sent to the Triple City.

Ships are being loaded on the wharf, loaded with raw materials such as grain, cloth, and iron ingots.

And the merchant ships returning from the Triple.

He quietly went up to take a look, and came with dressing mirrors, enamel basins, mosquito nets, tobacco leaves, tea leaves, and other higher-value processed agricultural products or primary industrial products.

"It's an uneven trade."

The degree of civilization of the Sanlian City is much higher than that of the Mountain City.

He was looking forward to an alliance with the Bai family.

Establish contact with the White Tiger tribe and gain military support.

On the bright side, no one dared to oppose him.

After forming an alliance with the Bai family, Tang Wen wanted the exclusive right to operate Sanlian City's goods.

Or you want to have a trade route to yourself.

When the time comes, whether it is the Huang family or the boat gang, won't they all have to work for themselves?

Whew!

Tang Wen stepped on the white clouds in an instant.

The footsteps fell to the ground, like stepping on a ball of tough cotton.

"What is this?"

"I'm idle and bored, and I strengthened it with mental power."

"What kind of means is this?" Tang Wen wants to learn.

Hu Qi didn't want to talk to him about this, so he quickly changed the topic: "Have you thought of a way?" ”

Tang Wen was not in a hurry: "I thought of it, the haunted incident on the water." ”

"What?" The two tigers and Xia Qingge raised their heads at the same time.

"You and Twenty-One dress up, go down at night to make trouble, don't kill people, be scary! Scare those sailors, scare those martial artists and transcendentals, but don't scare the six pins! ”

Xia Qingge was eager to try it, but when she heard that she was not allowed to touch the six pins, she was immediately dissatisfied, hugged her arms, and the group on her chest was a little bigger: "I'm afraid of the six pins?" ”

"That's it! Scare six, hit five! "Tiger Twenty-One waved its pink claws.

Tang Wen shook his head firmly: "We are not here to kill. ”

"Wouldn't it be more robbed if you kill and rob again?!" Xia Qingge raised her head.

"You have to change your mind, if after robbing, the other party is still in the dark, and he catches some female ghost on the water like a headless fly, will it be more able to show your means?"

"Huh?"

Xia Qingge and Hu Twenty-one glanced at each other.

In half a day, one person and one tiger have the same temper and are already familiar.

Listening to Tang Wen say this, it seems to be more interesting than going straight.

Seeing the two of them moved.

Tang Wen struck while the iron was hot, and threw the white clothes, white yarn, mosquito nets, rouge gouache and other things he bought below to Xia Qingge.

Take advantage of the other party's curiosity to come up.

flickered into a female ghost dressed as a female ghost with blood-red lips and a pale face, wearing a white dress and white veil.

With no mirror at hand, she couldn't see herself, but she didn't complain.

The idea of pretending to be a ghost was not Tang Wen's idea, he heard the story of the water ghost in the tavern below.

Several women standing on the street also said that people drown on the dock every month, and there must be water ghosts who are asking for their lives.

Since the legend of the water ghost is so marketable, of course, it is necessary to take advantage of one or two.

Night.

The moonlight shone in the lake, sparkling and rippling.

During the day, the ship, which was loading and unloading cargo, quieted down.

Except for the people on duty at night, only a lone lamp was lit.

During the day, the cruise ships floating on the lake and not moving are hung with lanterns and ribbons.

The sound of the silk and bamboo orchestra sounded.

The boat is rippling and gently rocking in the water.

The atmosphere was filled up at once.

"I'm pretty good at playing!"

Tang Wen has only been to the Qinglou, and has never seen the Qingchuan.

If you want to see it, well, it's a criticism.

But if you have to do something, you can only go to the ship where no one cares about you to play the ghost!

"Ahh

A scream, accompanied by the sound of falling water.

The screams sounded on the quiet dock, and the lights of several ships next door were lit up one after another, and several special mirrors reflected the bright light, which was a simple and primitive searchlight.

"Black third?! What the fuck is your name in the middle of the night? ”

"That's it! Screaming so scary? ”

"This dog thing must be deliberately scaring the old men"

The people who were begging for a living on a nearby boat were quite familiar with each other.

When they are on duty at night, they will also say hello to each other, so that no one will take care of them if something really happens.

"Hei San, don't be fucking scary! Are you secretly drinking again? ”

The man on the dock is quite righteous.

Several people shouted a few times, but there was no response, and they were really relieved, so they gestured, carried the kerosene lamp with the blackened glass cover, and walked on the big boat guarded by Hei Laosan together.

Brush!

White shadows flashed.

White clothes, white shoes and socks, white face.

There is no place on the body that is not white.

Only the lips were bright red, with a smear of blood at the corners of the mouth.

"What's that?"

"White-clothed water ghosts!"

There was chaos in the cabin.

Syllable!

The kerosene lamp fell to the ground, and the flames burst into flames.

The pace was as rapid as a drum, and they scrambled to run out.

Suddenly!

With a shake of foot, the boat moved.

"Run."

"There are ghosts, there are really ghosts!"

It's not just this one ship that moved.

The demon wind blows.

Docked at the docks, many ships loaded with grain, iron ingots, armor and weapons, moved together.

A white shadow, with a speed beyond the speed of ordinary martial artists and extraordinary reactions, quickly swept past one cargo ship after another.

"The Water Ghost Has Tiger Claws"

"Nonsense, the water ghost is obviously a big-breasted woman"

“……”

Those who saw it exclaimed.

The boat fluttered to the middle of the lake.

Don't wait for the people on the shore to have any means to save them.

Several boats, the bottom began to leak, and they sank in a whirlpool.

The people on the dock panicked, and soon alarmed Wupin.

But a few inspections revealed nothing.

Beneath the lake, only the wreckage of a few ships was seen, and the cargo inside was also there.

And the remaining dozen or so ships could not be found.

The white mist rises and the lake breeze blows.

The two Wupin suddenly shuddered and looked at each other: so many big ships disappeared out of thin air, could there really be water ghosts?

(End of chapter)