The wind, blowing from the shore, shook the whole ship from side to side. The river also kept beating the planks on the wooden boat, making a thumping sound.

The rain fell from the sky, and the misty rain as thin as a cow's hair fell on everyone. Fish can occasionally be seen on the surface of the river.

Xia Zhician pinched a trick to avoid water with his left hand, and said a few words silently in his mouth. The rain that was supposed to fall on him turned out to be like hitting an invisible umbrella.

"Daddy, Daddy, don't leave me, don't ......"

The stupid boy was still holding Xia Zhiciao's right arm with both hands, shouting indiscriminately in his mouth, his whole body kept trembling, and tears slowly fell from the corners of his eyes.

"What kind of illusion is this...... Xia Zhician thought for a moment and flicked his left hand on his crown of heaven. With a crisp clang, a pale golden aperture enveloped the entire ship almost instantly.

But nothing seems to have changed.

The others still didn't wake up, and the silly boy on the side didn't show any signs of wanting to let go. This situation made Xia Zhician a little dazed.

"Not an illusion? It's impossible for ordinary illusions to affect me......"

Buzz, another crisp chirp.

The voice was made by a slender straight knife from the stupid boy's waist. The scabbard is black, and the hilt is black. There is no pattern decoration, and if you don't look closely, you will think it is a burning stick.

Syllable!

Xia Zhician pulled out his right hand forcefully, and directly slapped the other party down when the stupid boy came up to entangle again.

Taking the opportunity, he pulled out the straight knife from his waist that kept screaming.

Dark clouds cover the sky, and the autumn wind is howling on all sides. No matter which direction you look at, you can only see a gray patch, and you can't tell the boundary between heaven and earth.

But at this moment, a light bloomed from the ship.

It was white light, cold white light. It's like the white moonlight sprinkled by the full moon on a cloudless sky on a moonlit night.

It's just that this light is colder than moonlight.

Xia Zhicicada only pulled out the knife three inches, and through the cold light reflected from it, he saw that the mirror-like blade flowed like fine lines like waves cascading. He didn't know much, but he also knew that it was a knife mark. It is said that a knife smith will not be able to make a few knives with knife lines in his lifetime.

It is impossible for ordinary knife patterns to have such a strange sight, so there is only one possibility. Legend has it that there can be a knife with a natural pattern in 10,000 knives, and a knife with a reverse pattern can appear in 10,000 knives with a natural knife pattern. The knife pattern knife cuts iron like mud, while the reverse pattern knife can cut the knife pattern knife like mud.

It can be said that before this, Xia Zhician had always listened to these things as legends.

Today, he saw the real thing.

Xia Zhician looked at it with some curiosity, and then put the knife back into the sheath, just at this time the silly boy struggled to get up again, so he handed the knife back into the stupid boy's hand.

Airplanes!

As soon as the knife was in his hands, the kid immediately opened his eyes. The tears in the corners of his eyes were thrown down directly, and his hands held the backline knife in a very strange posture. With his left hand on top and his right hand twitching, a white light was reflected on his face, dividing his face into light and dark.

"Where am I?"

"On the boat, you forgot about your ferry?" Xia Zhician saw that the stupid boy also came back to his senses, so he put his mind at ease, he found a place to sit casually, put his right hand into his left hand sleeve robe, fiddled for a while, and then pulled out his fingers in some disappointment.

The index finger of the right hand is covered with biting tooth marks.

"It doesn't seem to be because of the ...... of the golden jade human head," Xia Zhician could tell from the black cat's reaction whether there were fragments of the golden jade human head around here. This is also why until now, Xia Zhician still kept this black cat and did not take out the fragment in her stomach.

"What do you say?"

The stupid boy saw that Xia Zhician ignored him, and he also felt that his reaction was a little excessive, so he pressed the knife back into the sheath with a shameful face. He looked around, and ran over to look at the unconscious men lying on the boat.

"It's nothing, I just think it's a little weird, but I can't say exactly what's weird."

Xia Zhician yawned, he looked up at the dark sky, and then turned his face sideways to look at the dark river under the boat.

"It's all my fault, if you weren't in the same boat as me, you wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing......

The boy with the knife also found a place to sit, and held the back-line knife in his arms, and he said with a look of regret:

"I am a person who is born with a hard life, and the master said that I am a bad person, and I am born to be a friend of my father, mother, brother, and friend. The fate is destined to have three more death catastrophes, if you can hide it, you can live, if you can't hide it, you will die, and you may even die with innocent others......"

"Hehe......"

Xia Zhician just smiled when he heard this, he turned his head to look up and down at the stupid boy holding the knife, and before he could speak, he heard the other party say:

"Don't believe it, I was born with a difficult birth, and my mother gave birth to me after giving birth to me, which was the first death in my life. When I was five years old, there was a great drought, and my father took me to escape from the famine, leaving the last food for me, and my father starved to death, which was the second death disaster in my life......"

Speaking of this, the kid couldn't help but grasp the knife in his arms, lowered his head and sank his face into the darkness. Crackling was the sound of droplets of water hitting the planks at the bottom of the boat.

"I'm not saying I don't believe it, it's the opposite......"

Xia Zhician took out the red gourd from his right sleeve robe, he raised his head and took a sip of wine, taking the opportunity to slide down the tears that were about to gush out of the corners of his eyes mixed with the rain.

He stood up, walked in front of the silly boy in a few steps, handed over the red wine gourd, and smiled in the other party's somewhat surprised eyes:

"Take a bite."

"No, you'd better stay away from me, or I'll kill you."

The kid also moved to the side, trying to distance himself from Xia Zhicicada. Unexpectedly, his shoulders sank, and when he looked back, he saw Xia Zhician sitting next to him, holding his shoulder with one hand.

"Open your mouth!"

The boy felt completely out of control, and his mouth opened involuntarily, and then a mouthful of wine was poured into his mouth.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

He had never drunk alcohol, and he had not even eaten a decent meal since he was a child, let alone drunk. When the knife-like wine entered his throat, it was as if he had been carried out by a fierce horse.

"After drinking, we are friends."

Xia Zhician patted the kid on the shoulder and said unreasonably.

"Ahem, ahem, you, aren't you afraid of being killed by me?"

That kid was also the first time to see such a strange guy as Xia Zhicicada, he coughed for a long time, and finally eased up, before asking.

"I'm ......"

Xia Zhician took another sip of wine, he exhaled a breath of wine, stretched out his finger and pointed his nose and said:

"My master said that I was a seven-death fate, and I was also a friend of my father, mother, brother, and brother, and I had seven deaths in my life...... Then the question is, guess we are friends, will you kill me first, or will I kill you first? ”

"This ...... I do not know. ”

The stupid boy scratched his head, he really couldn't answer this tricky question asked by Xia Zhiciao. He was in a trance for a moment, as if he might have never had a friend.

Xia Zhicicada seems to be the first person willing to be friends with him.

"South two, south of south, one two of two."

Nan Er was a little uncomfortable, not because of Xia Zhicicada, but because he rarely introduced himself in front of others, so he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Xia Zhi Cicada. The cicadas chirp and know the summer solstice. ”

Xia Zhician took another sip of wine, he was a little drunk. Listen to the symphony of the river lapping in your ears, mixed with the sound of the wind whistling, interwoven into a harmonious natural music:

"What a strange name. South two, male two. It sounds like the name of the supporting character in a third-rate novel, and I don't know which unscrupulous author came up with it. ”

"My surname is Nan, and I am second in the family. It used to have a name, but it didn't matter anymore. Everyone in my family is dead, even the master who saved my life is dead. It doesn't matter what my name is......"

Nan Er smiled, but there was unspeakable pain in his eyes. The name he used to have not only represented himself, but also his family, representing the honor that has been precipitated for nearly a hundred years.

But now that the family is dead, the family is destroyed, and the name that represents the family is buried in the soil along with it.

"Well, do you feel that something is wrong?"

Xia Zhician was crooked to the side, he looked at the people who were still sleeping on the ground, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"What's wrong? Look at what else is there besides the old ferryman who disappeared......" Before Nan Er's words were finished, he was suddenly stunned, and his eyes once again looked at those who were still on the ground.

One, two, three...... Seven?

In addition, Xia Zhician and Nan Er are only nine people, which means that there is one less person on the boat?

"Impossible, I just counted, it's really a lot of ten......"

Nan Er tightened his brows, and his hands once again climbed onto the handle of the backprint knife in his arms. He didn't speak again, just looked at Xia Zhician with his eyes, which meant that he was asking what to do next.

Xia Zhician smiled and shook his head lightly, signaling Nan Er not to act rashly. Then he raised the wine gourd and took another sip, and then simply took advantage of the wine and pretended to sleep.

Seeing his lazy appearance, Nan Er also understood that the other party was planning to deliberately pretend not to know, so that the mastermind behind all this could relax his vigilance, and when he made his next move, he would be able to win it in one fell swoop.

"Yawn...... I'm so sleepy, I'll sleep for a while. ”

Nan Er yawned, he curled up and crooked to the side, and also learned Xia Zhicicada to pretend to sleep.

After both closed their eyes, at the bottom of the boat that they could not see.

Thin and thin black paws slowly climbed up, the owners of these black claws were all black shadows that looked like monkeys, they had no hair like monkeys, only the mud at the bottom of the river was on the skin.

The scarlet eyes flowed from the blood of all those who died in the river. The mouth is wide open, and inside it are fangs that are completely the same color as the skin.

They climbed silently on the sides of the boat, swaying from side to side with the river. In a dimly lit environment, it is able to completely hide its body.

If it weren't for Xia Zhicicada suddenly waking up just now, he pulled out the backline knife again. These guys hiding at the bottom of the dark river had already climbed into the boat and dropped the damned people down the river.

There was a boom, as if there was thunder in the sky, and it seemed like a boulder at the bottom of the river was moved by something, making a loud noise. The loud sound was like a war drum beating in front of the two armies, and the strangely shaped water ghosts climbed up from both sides of the ship.

Squeak, squeak, the sharp claws of those monsters digging into the planks of the ship made a tooth-aching sound. They seemed to be organized and planned, and after getting on the boat, they didn't dare to get close to Xia Zhician and Nan Er, but directly grabbed the people who were still unconscious and dragged them to throw them down the river.

At this moment, a white light burst out of the sky.

The black monster, which resembled a monkey but was even more distorted, let out a piercing scream.

It was then split in two.

The other monsters around it were scattered in a panic, and their mouths full of sharp teeth were gurgling and making incomprehensible sounds.

They didn't intend to fight with Nan Er who was holding the backline knife at all, and one by one they rushed into the river like dumplings and disappeared.

Nan Er slashed left and right, and still relied on his knife skills to kill several monkey-shaped water monsters. But most of the remaining monsters took the opportunity to escape back into the water, and they didn't dare to come out again.

The slain monsters slowly turned into a foul-smelling black sludge.

A gust of wind arose, and the boat began to shake violently with the wind. Even if Nan Er is a martial artist with a very solid foundation for many years of martial arts, he can only grasp the plank of the boat gang for a while and barely stabilize his body.

After I don't know how long, this strong wind finally blew over for no reason. Nan Er wiped the river water on his face, he looked intently, and saw that there were only two people left on the boat, him and Xia Zhiciao.

Those unconscious were swept into the river by the wind.

"Damn! This damn wind! ”

Nan Er scolded angrily, and he was so angry that he couldn't help but stomp on the wooden plank under his feet a few times. This was followed by another violent shaking, but unlike just now, the strong wind had swayed the boat with it.

Now, it's windless and automatic.

"What's going on here?"

Nan Er could only sit next to the boat gang again, holding a knife in his right hand and grabbing the wood on the boat gang with his left hand. He is really uncomfortable now, knowing that it is so uncomfortable to take a boat, he would rather detour fifty miles of mountain road to take the bridge than take a boat.

"It's fine."

When Nan Er killed the water monster just now, Xia Zhicicada didn't move, and he didn't even bother to pinch a trick. But now he stood up, and no matter how much the little wooden boat swayed, he was like a nail firmly nailed to the wooden boat:

"It's coming."