Chapter 22: [The Strange Man with a Bark-Covered Face]

"Brother Jiang, didn't you just say that Mao can't cross these 800 miles of cold water bay?

Jiang Wubian smiled bitterly, spread his hands, and said: "That's right, it's a fact that Mao can't cross the eight hundred miles of cold water bay." Don't believe it, you see!" As the boundless voice fell, he gently pulled his right hand, and immediately tore off a piece of cloth from his cuff, and threw it into the lake of Cold Water Bay.

The cloth on Jiang Wubian's body is a kind of silk, and it stands to reason that even if it is thrown into the water, it will float for a long time before sinking.

However, as soon as this piece of cloth touched the water of the lake in Cold Water Bay, it instantly formed a block of ice and sank to the bottom of the lake.

Lin Tao smacked his tongue in his heart, and only then did he believe a little bit of Jiang Wubian's words. Seeing this situation, Bai Dian, who was on the side, shrank back a little cautiously, for fear that he would accidentally fall into the lake of Cold Water Bay, turn into ice, and sink to the bottom of the lake, so he couldn't paddle.

Although this piece of silk is not as good as a feather, the sentence "Eight hundred miles of cold water bay, hair can't cross" is true.

As if he was very satisfied with the surprise in Lin Tao's heart, Jiang Wubian smiled and said, "It's the truth that Mao can't cross, and it's not a lie that he can cross with a boat!"

Lin Tao nodded, and immediately suppressed the curiosity in his heart, followed behind the boundless border with white lightning, and walked forward.

I don't know how long after walking, there was a small thatched house in Lin Tao's field of vision. This thatched hut is erected abruptly on the shore of Coldwater Bay Lake, which looks unusually incongruous. Because of the bare area around, the temperature is extremely low, there are no animals and plants, and there are white patches everywhere. The appearance of thatched huts is obviously very inconsistent with the surrounding environment.

Lin Tao muttered in a low voice: "Hell, is there anyone still living in such a harsh environment?"

But the next moment, he looked in the direction of Jiang Wubian's finger, but he saw a small boat with a single oar, just quietly moored on the shore of the lake. Strangely, it did not freeze and sink to the bottom of the lake.

Lin Tao felt a pang in his heart, knowing that this was the ferry port that Jiang Wubian said, and the single-oarled boat was the ferry boat.

The two of them walked all the way to the perimeter of the thatched hut before stopping.

The wooden door of the thatched house was closed at this time, and a thick layer of ice was formed around the whole house, and the eaves were full of ice picks more than a meter long.

Jiang Wubian exhaled heavily, and the hot air he exhaled turned into a cloud of steaming smoke. His expression was unusually solemn, and he looked a little nervous.

"Toot, beet, beet!" Three crisp knocks on the door instantly broke the quiet environment around them, and they seemed so harsh and abrupt.

After knocking on the door, Jiang Wubian immediately bowed down and stood aside, as if to make way for the people in the grass hut to go out.

There was no movement, the wooden door of the thatched hut was not opened, and no one came out.

Just when Lin Tao was curious and about to ask, he saw Jiang Wubian turn his head and make a look at himself, which was to silence him. Lin Tao then remembered what Jiang Wubian had said before, no matter what happened, he just needed to follow him. At that moment, he suppressed the growing curiosity in his heart, and stared at the wooden door of the thatched house with his eyes.

After a few minutes or so, with a crisp creak, a small crack opened in the wooden door of the thatched house.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" With a series of squeaks, the wooden door opened wider and wider, and finally opened completely. And the moment the wooden door opened, the heavy ice fell to the ground with a thud. It turned out that the edge of the wooden door had formed a thick layer of ice, and the door was tightly sealed.

At this time, an old back appeared in Lin Tao's eyes. Just looking at the back, this person is at least sixty or seventy years old, and his whole back is rickety, as if his spine is bent by the burden of life.

Because he was facing the boundless frontier and at the same time facing the old man who came out of the house, Lin Tao couldn't see this person's face all the time, and he looked a little curious.

"Ferry?" An old voice suddenly sounded and reached Lin Tao's ears. But strangely, the voice seems very hollow, like an echo, without a trace of emotion.

Jiang Wubian didn't speak, but nodded.

"Do you know the rules?" the old man asked, his voice rising upward. Even if he couldn't see the other party's facial expressions, Lin Tao could imagine the mocking smile on the old man's face. "It's been almost a year since I had a ferry, but I didn't expect to have a business today. ”

Jiang Wubian looked a little nervous, forced a dry smile, and said, "Understood, sir!"

The old man didn't even nod his head when he heard Jiang Wubian's reply, and walked straight to the edge of the lake in Cold Water Bay.

At this time, Jiang Wubian walked over to Lin Tao, glanced at Lin Tao, and motioned for Lin Tao to follow.

Lin Tao nodded and followed with white electricity.

For some reason, Bai Dian always looked at the old man with a vigilant look, and there was a trace of ...... in his eyes Fear. After getting along with Bai Dian for so long, Lin Tao had never seen such a look in Bai Dian's eyes, and he couldn't help but be curious.

But Jiang Wubian was in a hurry, and he didn't think much about it at the moment.

When he missed the old man, Lin Tao's afterglow pretended to pass over the old man's face unintentionally, and he was shocked.

He found that the old man in front of him was not ...... Not human!

The old man's entire quadruple shape was no different from that of a human, but his face was ......

Strange to say, his face was like the skin of the plane tree on the side of the road, full of wrinkles and textures. It is such a face, which is still indistinguishable from a human being, with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. It's just that the eyeballs are glowing with a faint blue light, like a ghostly light in the middle of the night, which makes people feel full of palpitations at a glance.

At this time, Lin Tao's heart was already filled with a little fear and incomprehension, and he even ignored the boundless urging of the past.

Of course, in just a moment, he came back to his senses, felt that he was a little rude, suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and walked in the boundless direction.

Jiang Wubian knew Lin Tao's thoughts, but there was not much of it, even if Lin Tao had more questions, Jiang Wubian couldn't explain it to him, after all, it was in front of this mysterious person of the Aita clan.

The old man of the Atta tribe walked to the boat, untied the cable of a large stone tied to the shore, and threw it on the boat with his big hand, and the next moment it seemed to be a gentle push with his right foot, but the boat seemed to be under a monstrous force, and sped towards the center of Coldwater Bay

The next moment, Jiang Wubian and Lin Tao flashed quickly, and they jumped onto the boat, and Bai Dian also jumped onto the boat with a tiger pounce. What made Lin Tao even more shocked was that this strange man with a bark-covered face actually boarded the boat in a strange posture, not jumping, but more like floating up.

Lin Tao smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that there were really a lot of strange things and strange people he encountered today.

At the moment, it looks like the boat has been in use for an unknown number of years. The inner wall of the cabin was densely covered with a thick layer of moss, and the outside of the cabin had been weathered for a long time.

These patterns are intertwined and intertwined, seemingly disorganized, but in fact they are clearly organized.

"This is definitely not an ordinary pattern!" Lin Tao thought to himself.

If a wooden boat like this wants to move, it relies on two ways to borrow power. One is paddled by slurry, and the second is sailed by the wind. It's no wonder that there is no paddle or sail on this small boat, how can this be sailed to the other side?

The doubts in Lin Tao's heart became heavier and heavier, and then he thought that when the silk cloth on the cuffs of Jiang Wubian was still in the water of the cold water bay lake, the silk cloth swayed and sank into the lake in a moment, but why could this small boat, which was much heavier, still be able to sail safely on the lake of the cold water bay? Lin Tao couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.

Strange things surrounded Lin Tao......

And then what's even more bizarre is that the small boat under the feet is very old, tattered, and looks like it may fall apart anytime and anywhere, and even when it breaks through the water, it will make a "click" sound of wooden planks, but of course it is still galloping in the lake of Cold Water Bay. It's not slow or fast.

Lin Tao sighed, there were so many questions in his heart, but it was difficult to ask after all, so he could only ask when he went to the other side of the ship.

On the huge cold water bay lake, the small boat that Lin Tao and the others were riding on was so inconspicuous, like a small ant.

In the boat, Lin Tao and Jiang Wubian sat separately, but the strange man with a bark-covered face was always standing and looking ahead. Jiang Wubian's eyes were slightly closed, but Lin Tao knew that he didn't seem to be in a good mood when he knew about it.

Except for a few words when he first started talking about business with Jiang Wubian, the old man has not spoken until now, as if he is dumb. The three of them had their own thoughts, and none of them spoke, and all they heard along the way was the sound of the biting cold wind howling in the cold water bay.

But at this moment, the old man with a bark-covered face spoke.

"When the boat reaches the middle of Coldwater, throw all the gold and silver watches you have on you into the lake, and do not hesitate to bow to the east. ”

Lin Tao was stunned, and looked back at the old man's blue eyes that looked very terrifying. At that moment, I couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart anymore and asked, "Why?"

The old man of the Aita tribe had a flat expression when he heard this, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried, but said coldly: "This is a rule borrowed from the surface of the lake in Cold Water Bay, no one has been able to make an exception, if we don't follow it, we will all die here." ”

Lin Tao was stunned, thinking to himself what kind of ghost rule this was. Although he said that he was not interested in money, he had to admit that it was pouring out, and now he wanted to throw the small amount of gold coins on his body into the lake, but with such a ridiculous reason, I believe that not only Lin Tao, but also anyone else would have to think for a while.

When he looked at the boundless frontier, he happened to nod secretly at the boundless frontier, and Lin Tao had no choice but to nod helplessly. This little money, Lin Tao naturally didn't care about it, and what he was unwilling to do was just one less reason.

As a result, the three people on the boat fell into silence the next moment. Except for Bai Dian, who kept his head down from beginning to end, rolling his eyes and staring at the old man in front of him who looked like a monster, and made a provocative sound of "woo woo" in his throat from time to time, everything else was normal.

I don't know how long it took for this small boat without assistance to finally sail into the depths of Coldwater Bay. At this time, they were really surrounded by ice and frozen water, and the surroundings were slim, as if the sky should not be called, and the earth was not spiritual.