"If it weren't for your timely reminder, I'm afraid we would have been under siege by now. ”

At the entrance of an alley on the street behind the Yuelai Inn, Lu Jing's eyes fell through the rain curtain on the figure flickering on the second floor, holding a short arrow with a strip of cloth wrapped around the tip in his hand, frowning and looking at Fu Ju beside him,

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of ...... How do you know that those officials are coming to us, Xu Chu and I only arrived in Qihuang Island late last night, and today in addition to visiting you, we are sending our ship to the shipyard for repairs, how can we suddenly be targeted by the officials here?"

Gratitude is gratitude, but the confusion in Lu Jing's heart has not decreased because of the successful avoidance of official errands, and has even increased.

Regardless of the question above, how did these officials know that they were in the Yuelai Inn?

There are no surveillance cameras in this day and age!

"At first, when I saw the officials on the street corner, I didn't think that their target was the soul puppet, until I saw the butler of the Shangguan family next to them...... Your whereabouts have been exposed, and the Nightmare Pirates know that you are on Qihuang Island!"

Fu Ju seemed to have anticipated Lu Jing's question, and replied bluntly,

"Then again, you're in luck, the room you chose happened to have a window facing the street, and you happened to be at the window, otherwise I would like to inform you that you can't find your target. ”

"The Nightmare Pirates know our whereabouts, and the Shangguan family has come forward to have the officials search for us...... You mean there is collusion between the two?"

When they heard the news at first glance, both Lu Jing and Xu Chu were shocked.

"Who do you think made this special item like the Soul Puppet, the Nightmare Pirates, they don't have that ability at all!"

Fu Ju pursed his lips and thought about it, then said,

"Get out of here and go to my house, this place is not suitable for detailing. ”

"Wait a minute, Xu Ju, you follow Fu Ju, I have to rush to the shipyard immediately!"

The Tide Flow is something that Lu Jing has to keep no matter what, and that is the way for him and Xu Chu to retreat.

"They're doing something here, so it's hard to assume they haven't sent someone to look for our ship, and maybe someone is already waiting for them. ”

Xu Chu was a little worried that Lu Jing would now go to the port and fall into the other party's encirclement.

"No, it's not so fast, don't forget that the information we left in the management office when we boarded the ship was all fake, the Shangguan family is not the Qihuangdao government, they can't block all the ports, let alone you got up early this morning and drove it into the shipyard, their private port can be so easy to block...... yes, it was the guy at the port who exposed our whereabouts!"

Halfway through the words, Lu Jing suddenly realized that if their whereabouts were exposed, the only possibility was that the person he met at the port last night recognized them, he knew the time when the two went ashore, and there was only one bus stop outside the port, so he could naturally deduce which bus the two were taking, plus there were relatively few passengers at night, it was not too easy to recognize, not to mention that Lu Jing also specially explained that the driver wanted to find them a stop with an inn!

Of course, now is not the time to dwell on these, Lu Jing knows that even if he goes back to find that guy now, it is pointless.

"Are you going to escape from Qihuang Island?"

Fu Ju, who was listening to the conversation between the two next to him, thought that they were going to leave Qihuang Island immediately, and couldn't help asking.

Risking being found out yourself and informing them wasn't about working with two people who wanted to run when they saw danger!

"Run?"

Lu Jing, who had just walked to the entrance of the lane, turned his head and held the handle of the knife on his waist with his right hand.

"This is just the beginning!"

was approached by someone, and Lu Jing naturally had to let them know that the impolite behavior of visiting without a gift would have to pay a price!

......

When Lu Jing returned to Fu Ju's house, it was already late at night, and he didn't go through the main gate, but chose to jump in from outside the courtyard wall.

At a glance, I saw Xu Yu sitting under the eaves and Liuli squatting next to him, and Fu Ju in the house was banging on the edge of the workbench, with a rhythmic sound response and the sound of rain outside the house, which made people feel a lot more at ease for no reason.

"How's it going?"

Seeing Lu Jing's return intact, Xu Chu also breathed a sigh of relief and asked.

"Fortunately, you got up early enough today, the Shangguan family set up a checkpoint in the port through the government under the pretext that the ancestral treasure was stolen, but it only blocked the official port, and the dock of the private shipyard has not been affected for the time being, the only problem is that the Tide Stream has not been completely repaired...... I drove it away from the harbor and hid in the sea cliffs on the other side of Qihuang Island, so it took me a lot of time on the way back. ”

pointed to the mud on his feet, and at the same time handed the two notices on his waist to Xu Chu, who unfolded them, and on the top were portraits that were seven or eight points similar to the two of them, and there were annotations at the bottom: Lu Jing, the captain of the Tidal Current, offered a bounty of 5 gold leaves, and Xu Ju, a crew member of the Tidal Current, offered a bounty of 2 gold leaves!

"The wanted warrant was issued so quickly, and it is impossible to reprint the image so quickly just through the shopkeeper in the inn, and I want to know that it is something provided by the Nightmare Pirates...... Hmph, being wanted by the pirates using official power is really underestimating the ability of those guys!"

These two wanted warrants were accidentally discovered by Lu Jing on the way back, and he was surprised by the efficiency of those guys, but also saw something noteworthy from them, but since he dared to come back, he was naturally prepared, and his eyes fell on Fu Ju, who had already put down his tools and walked out of the house at this time, and said,

"Now that we're barely grasshoppers on a rope, now you should be willing to talk to us about what this parasitic puppet is, right?"

The three of them sat around the workbench in the room, and Fu Ju, who had already made up his mind, no longer covered it up, took out a black and white photo from his pocket and put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Lu Jing.

In the photo, Fu Ju and a man who resembled her stood in front of a garden on Qihuang Island.

"I don't know the inside story of the collusion between the Nightmare Pirates and the Shangguan family, in fact, the person who the housekeeper knows about the Nightmare Pirates was also accidentally discovered by me when I was looking for my missing brother some time ago...... After this period of investigation, I have reason to believe that the people of the Shangguan family have kidnapped my brother, stolen the soul puppet technology that belonged to our Fu family, and transformed it into a nondescript and vicious monster!"

So far, Fu Ju didn't plan to hide it, and it turned out that Lu Jing's previous guess was correct.

The original intention of the parasitic puppet was not to be a strange thing used to torture or even imprison souls, its real origin was actually a man-made strange thing created by the ancestors of the Fu family in imitation of an unknown strange object, specifically used to save those who were on the verge of collapse due to contact with some unknowable and unspeakable existence on the boundless sea.

It is precisely because of it that the Fu family will become a well-known existence in Qihuang Island and even the entire Taining Mansion!

However, the husband is not guilty, and he is guilty......