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In the early morning of the next day, after Fenggui said goodbye to the city guard, he led the remaining 150 or so believers and headed for Qingshuiwan, [-] miles outside the city.

The journey between the two places is about a day and a half, not to mention people who practice martial arts, even ordinary people can get there within two days.But it was just such a short distance, but it made Fenggui and his party grind for five days.

It's not that they deliberately thought this way, but they knew that the road would not be peaceful, so they paid attention everywhere. After sunset, they found a post station or stayed with villagers, and tried not to go to remote areas with few people along the way.

Even so, some weird things happened along the way.For example, a horse tethered in a stable at a post station foams at the mouth after eating a few mouthfuls of fresh fodder, falls to the ground, and twitches its limbs; or it is like an enthusiastic old woodcutter sneaking into Fenggui’s room in the middle of the night to search for his bundles ; Another example is hating and marrying a silly village girl who is constantly pestering Hei Xiaozi... and so on, although it is trivial, it is more tiring than real swords and guns.

Looking at the pier not far away, Lin Xu spat hard, "Damn it, we finally arrived at Qingshuiwan pier!"

Qingshui Bay is a river wharf, with marble embankments and wooden piers erecting a platform for carrying goods on board.In the villages near here, most of them rely on ferry for their livelihood, and the large ships that transport goods are controlled by caravans.Merchants can use the river to transport their goods to other cities along the river, and they can also use it to go to the sea and go to the land of the North.

However, there have always been river officials stationed and guarded in the important areas of the river, but all ships going to sea must pay corresponding taxes.Compared with other piers, Qingshui Bay is considered to be above average. The river officer stationed nearby is in a small town five miles away, and there are more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers guarding the pier.

Fenggui and his party probably consisted of about twenty people, and if they rented farm boats, they would need to rent four or five, which was too scattered, and there were not so many that could be rented out at the same time.As for the commercial cargo ship, it is too huge, the people on board are relatively complicated, and the time for merchant ships to go to sea is clearly stipulated, and those who are going to sea in the near future may not be willing to take more of them.So, in the end, Fenggui and the others took a few more steps and rented a cruise ship from the town.

In spring and summer, some rich families like to travel by boat. To cater to their preference, there are exquisite and comfortable cruise ships.A cruise ship can carry more than [-] people, which is convenient for rich merchants to bring their servants.There is a compartment at the bottom of the boat, where all the oarsmen live, and there are also several storage bins for salutes.

Lin Xu led people to check the cruise ship several times, disbanded the original helmsman team, hired another group of people from the local area, and then ordered the trackers to pull the cruise ship into the water.

After so many days of tossing outside, it's already hot summer.

There is no shelter on the water, the sun is very poisonous, but because the ship is moving along the water, standing on the deck, a cool wind mixed with a fishy smell is blowing in front of you.The strong water vapor and the peculiar smell unique to the river water make you feel different.

After the boat sailed for a day, it completely left the scope of Yinmo City, and the hearts of everyone who were always hanging on it finally fell half.And the originally stable river course also began to change. The two sides of the river were no longer boundless plains and grasslands, and hills of various shapes emerged one after another.

The current is slow and fast, and on the eve of entering the sea, there is a section of turbulent river.

The cruise ship was sturdy, and the helmsman was also an experienced old sailor, but something went wrong here.For some reason, the cruise ship suddenly lost control and crashed into the reef.The hull trembled suddenly, and the people on the deck accidentally fell into the water.

thump - thump -

"Oops, the deputy leader fell into the water!" A believer who just got on the deck accidentally saw this scene and exclaimed in shock.

All of a sudden, the congregation in the boat rushed out one after another, seeing the situation, those who knew how to swim immediately jumped down to save people.

In fact, Feng Gui didn't fall into the water so easily.At that time, he was standing on the bow deck to enjoy the wind, with Lin Xu, the black boy, beside him.All of a sudden, the boat was shaking violently, and Lin Xu's first reaction was to grab Fenggui by his sleeve, trying to hold him to prevent him from falling into the water.But by coincidence, Lin Xu himself was agitated for a while, and he didn't know how to measure it. On the contrary, he lost his footing and rolled over, and even Feng Gui, who had already stabilized himself, was torn off again.

As soon as they fell into the water, a huge wave came over and instantly broke up the two of them.Lin Xu clutched a piece of rag tightly in his hand, feeling extremely guilty and annoyed.He is good at water, not afraid of wind and waves, he plunged into the water suddenly, looking for Feng Gui's figure.

But the water in the river was not clear, and he couldn't see clearly underwater, so he had to try his best to float to the surface, remembering what Guardian Zuo told him to take good care of the deputy leader before he left, and immediately shouted to the boat: "The deputy leader will not Water, hurry up and save me!"

Hearing this, the people on the boat who couldn't swim also looked around in a hurry, hoping to find the deputy leader soon.

But after a while, the people who stayed on the boat realized that something was wrong. A person who went to check the situation in the compartment at the bottom of the boat rushed up in a panic and shouted: "It's not good, the boat is leaking, the bottom is full of water!"

"What's the matter? Is it because of the impact just now?" The eight-foot-tall man, with a white face, had drowned when he was a child, and was most afraid of water. When he heard the bad news, he hurriedly asked.

"Fart! It's got into the fine work! The bottom water is full up to my calf." After taking a breath, he continued to explain the situation, "The corpses of the helmsman and several sailors are floating on the water. The neck was strangled with a thin thread. A big hole two shoulders wide was dug out in the bottom of the boat, and the boat would sink soon."

"Damn it! The silver thread kills people and is good at water, don't be the one on the list." Gritting his teeth, looking at the turbulent water, he finally resolutely said, "No, the deputy leader will be in danger in the water."

Saying this, the man who is extremely afraid of water bravely jumped out of the boat.Then, several people on the boat watched him flop twice before sinking to the bottom.

"I'm going! I'm looking for death, my brain is flooded!" A person on the boat cursed bitterly, turned his head to find the rope in the cabin, and took down a few wooden boards, and said to the people still on the boat, " The boat cannot be saved, so we tied it together with ropes so that no one would be found if it fell into the water and sank to the bottom."

Fortunately, the one at the bottom had internal strength, so he didn't drown so quickly.In the end, it was fished out and put on a wooden board. After being dragged ashore, several bruises were stamped on its belly.

Feng Gui, who was the first to fall into the water, instinctively wanted to float ashore, but because of Lin Xu's words that the deputy leader could not swim, he suddenly remembered this, so he gave up and rushed into the sea along the current.

Before entering the sea, he keenly sensed a black shadow following him.

He didn't hear the follow-up development on the ship, so he naturally didn't know who this person was. He was thinking about whether to go into the water to investigate without any trace, but he caught a glimpse of the big ship approaching in the distance.

Taking a closer look at the hanging flag, he frowned.

At this time, the black shadow quietly approached, a black hand suddenly grabbed Feng Gui's ankle, and dragged him into the depths of the sea...