Chapter 16: The Ghost Keeper (Recommend!Collect!)
"You didn't kill people, what are you doing running so fast?"
With his left hand on the long knife at his waist, Zhou Qing looked at the delicate girl in front of him and asked.
"There are dead people here, I'm afraid, of course I'm going to run, otherwise I'm going to stay here and die......"
The girl's reason is straightforward.
"Can you explain to me what it is?"
Taking a step forward and pulling out the short knife that was diagonally inserted in the girl's waist, two smokes came out of her mouth, Zhou Qing half-narrowed her eyes and asked,
"If I'm not mistaken, guests are forbidden to carry weapons on the Sea Flower Boat, and you must not say that you took it for self-defense when you escaped!"
Obviously, this hairy thief girl is still a savor, and when she ran away, she didn't forget to pick up the short knife that had just fallen to the ground.
"I ......"
This short knife is indeed hers, how to explain it?
Do you want to tell the other party that you are actually a thief, but the wallet was stolen by someone else, and you can only come and grab it back with a knife?
The way to deal with the thieves is very simple, cut a knife in the major artery of the wrist and soak it in the water for 5 minutes, if it does not die...... Then keep soaking!
This is the rule written at the entrance of the sea flower boat.
In this boundless sea, human life is worthless!
His gaze wandered, and finally fell on the two people not far away, and they all blamed them, if they hadn't stolen their money bags, how could they have suffered such a crime.
Wait, can he testify to himself?
"I stayed with them just now, and they can testify to me that I didn't kill anyone!"
raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Lu Jing and the others, so everyone's eyes turned to someone who had just put a chicken leg in his mouth from somewhere.
Raising his hand and pointing at himself with a blank face, Lu Jing took out the bone in his mouth, shook his head, and then looked away.
"You bastard, you don't recognize people when you eat and wipe clean?"
The girl broke free of restraint and rushed to Lu Jing, her ambiguous words made the eyes around her immediately weird, and the latter thought that she was going to continue scolding, but when she looked down, she saw a small face with pear blossoms and rain,
"Everyone is a peer, if you help me, there will be a lot of thanks in the future!"
"Who is with you...... 1 gold leaf. ”
The Tears Offensive was useless to Lu Jing.
"I don't have that much money, at most 20 silver dollars......"
"Forget it, I'm not the one who was used as bait anyway. ”
"Okay, 1 gold leaf is 1 gold leaf. ”
"She had brought me a fruit bowl, and she was indeed with me when she died, but I did not know her, and I don't know where the dagger came from. ”
Lu Jing, who had long thought that this woman was likely to pull herself out as a shield, explained, looked back at Xu Xu, and saw that he bowed his head in agreement, so he continued,
"Steward Zhou, if we may have a way to help you find the murderer, I don't know if there is any reward?"
"Oh?"
Zhou Qing stared at Lu Jing, his eyes stayed on the chicken leg in his hand and the oily light on the corner of his mouth for a few seconds, and then said,
"Of course, 30 silver dollars, you just need to tell me who the murderer is, and I'll take care of the rest. ”
Zhou Qing knew in his heart that the woman he caught was not a murderer, she didn't have that ability!
It's just that if the person in front of him doesn't stand up, he doesn't mind using this foul distance person to temporarily suppress the panic of the crowd.
"I can only guarantee that the murderer can be found when he is not a person, and if some special person is doing it, I am afraid it will be difficult. ”
Lu Jing didn't plan to really spend time on this ship, they just came to have a meal, and they had to go to Huashu Island tomorrow morning, walked quickly in front of Zhou Qing, and pointed sideways at the limp corpse on the bench,
"I didn't hear any strange noises when she died, and the dancers were beside her, you know what I mean. ”
"It seems that Your Excellency is also extraordinary......"
After listening to Lu Jing's words, Zhou Qing's face was a little solemn, waved his hand to signal the people next to the corpse to retreat, and arched his hand to Lu Jing to show respect.
"I wonder how Your Excellency plans to find out the murderer?"
"Then it's up to my friend. ”
Lu Jing also wanted to know what Xu Chu said before about his ability to attract monsters in a specific environment.
"Can you lend me the dagger?"
Under the gaze of everyone, Xu Chu walked to the side of the corpse and stood still, took the short knife thrown by Zhou Qing, and turned his gaze to Lu Jing,
"Captain, if you bring in anything later, you'll have to protect me. ”
"Don't worry, if something happens, I'll die before you. ”
Lu Jing stood in front of Xu Xi, and the blue light in the palm of his left hand loomed.
Zhou Qing in the rear was aware of it almost the moment Lu Jing summoned the torrent card, and slammed two puffs of the cigarette gun, and the gray-white mist poured out of his mouth and nose but did not dissipate into the air like before, but remained on his side.
Drawing the knife out of its sheath, it slashed straight across his palm, palming it upwards and letting the blood gush out of the wound.
"What are you doing?"
Seeing Xu Chu's self-harming behavior, Lu Jing was stunned for a while.
"This is how I control my ability, rest assured, the wound is not deep, and I will put some wound medicine and wrap a bandage later, and it will scab over in half a day. ”
It seems that he has long been accustomed to this practice, and Xu Chu seems to be at ease.
Lu Jing opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but his eyes suddenly turned to the back of Xu Xu, and in the shadow of the corner there, he sensed some kind of strange aura, and almost at the same time as he realized this, a black shadow flew out of it, heading straight for Xu Xu!
"Everybody, get out of the way!"
Without waiting for Lu Jing to remind, Zhou Qing had already jumped out, stopped the path of the black shadow, and slashed out with the long knife in his hand.
Clang~
Like the sonorous sound of iron colliding, a series of sparks burst out.
At this time, Lu Jing had already seen what the black shadow was through the torches around him, and then he gasped like everyone else around.
It was a monster that was two circles smaller than a newborn baby, with a dark body, sticky skin like a layer of oil, stubby limbs, sharp claws at the end, and even more disgusting was the three-lobed mouthparts that took up two-thirds of the size of the skull, full of sharp teeth, and the viscous saliva and dark red blurred fragments could be seen between opening and closing.
"This little thing is really chic......"
Compared to this thing, Lu Jing even thought that the fish monsters he had encountered before were good-looking!
At this time, Zhou Qing was already fighting with this monster, although the strength of this monster was not as good as Zhou Qing, but it was extremely fast, and the body seemed to be extremely tough, Zhou Qing could only cut it away with a few slashes, but could not really hurt it.
"If you keep it for a long time, you will lose, and if you continue to fight like this, I am afraid that there will be problems. ”
Xu Chu looked at the battle situation with some concern.
"Rest assured, this man has more than just the knife in his hand. ”
Lu Jing didn't mean to forcibly go up and intervene, but stared at the gray mist that always lingered on Zhou Qing's side,
"Actually, I care more about where this monster came from than about the battle here...... This can't just come out of nowhere, can it?"
Clang~
After another collision, Zhou Qing seemed to have figured out the monster's way of action, and made a sword finger with his left hand, stabbing at the monster that had just flown out upside down.
Immediately after that, the mist around him turned into more than a dozen mist threads and surged out, wrapping the monster tightly in just a few seconds.
Pick up the cigarette gun on his waist again, put the mouth on the front of the tobacco leaves in front of his mouth and blow it violently, a series of sparks floated up, and the next second those fog lines suddenly burst into flames like gunpowder fuses, burning towards the entangled monster.
However, at this moment, a tentacle rushed out of the cable-stayed pull and forcibly broke the silk threads.
Once the monster was freed, it no longer attacked, but crawled somewhere in the crowd.
One of them slowly got up and raised his arm to let the monster climb on.