Just as everyone's attention was attracted by the heads appearing on the river, the fishermen on the two boats tried to jump off the boats and escape.
Unfortunately, they had been stared at for a long time, and as soon as their bodies moved, they were grabbed by Qin Shaoyou and Ma Monk.
"Where do you want to go?" Qin Shaoyou clasped the fisherman's arm and asked coldly.
The fisherman panicked and tried to struggle, but he couldn't get away at all. He could only make an excuse: "The water ghost is here to find a scapegoat. I'm afraid..."
Qin Shaoyou sneered: "Afraid of jumping off the ship? Are you afraid of water ghosts, or are you afraid of us?"
"I...I..." The fisherman was at a loss and didn't know how to explain.
Qin Shaoyou didn't have time to interrogate him at this time. With a strong force on his hand, he threw the fisherman to Liao Lishi who was guarding the coffin and ordered: "Watch him!"
"yes!"
Liao Lishi took out his sword and put it on the fisherman's neck.
"Don't move around. My knife is very fast. If you don't want to lose your head, just stay calm."
The sharp chill from the blade to his neck made the fisherman feel stinging.
He was instantly sweating profusely, and although his two legs were fighting, his neck remained stiff and he did not dare to move.
Qin Shaoyou turned his attention to the few water ghosts that had swam to the side of the boat and started to climb onto the boat.
The bodies of these water ghosts are even uglier and scarier than their heads. After they came out of the water, water kept pouring out of their loose and enlarged pores.
It was turbid and black, with a scarlet tint, and exuded a putrid smell.
It's stinking corpse water!
Qin Shaoyou suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled a water ghost in front of him who was climbing onto the boat.
The unexpected help made this water ghost a little confused.
It had found a scapegoat before, but it couldn't win over other water ghosts, but it still gained experience.
When those people before saw these water ghosts, they were all panicked, frightened, and fearful.
Why are the three people on this ship so calm?
And you even took the initiative to pull it on board?
Is it possible that people are rushing to become the scapegoat now?
The water ghost raised his swollen and deformed face and looked at Qin Shaoyou in confusion.
Then it saw Qin Shaoyou pull out a knife from somewhere.
The blade of the blade was filled with blood, as if the red sun had suddenly appeared.
The blood energy is so strong that water ghosts are afraid of it!
It realized something was wrong, but it was too late.
Qin Shaoyou raised his knife and cut off the water ghost's head with lightning speed.
The water ghost screamed and turned into a ball of mud, scattering on the ship's deck.
Qin Shaoyou lowered his head and glanced at the hand holding the water ghost.
There was some stinking blood on it, giving him a strange cold and nauseating feeling, mixed with strong resentment and hatred.
Qin Shaoyou leaned down and rubbed his hand on the ship's board, wiping away the smelly blood.
Then he continued to swing his knife and slashed at the water ghosts who were trying to climb onto the boat and drag people into the water.
Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others on the other boat were also doing similar things.
The water ghosts in the river realized that these people on the boat were difficult to deal with, so they stopped climbing on the boat and dived into the water one after another, disappearing.
"The water ghost is gone?"
Liao Lishi, who was guarding the fisherman with a knife, asked nervously.
Qin Shaoyou shook his head and stared at the river.
Although there was water mist that obscured his vision, he was sure that the water ghost had not gone far and was still underwater.
Zhu Xiucai also guessed the intention of the water ghosts: "They want to overturn the boat from under the water!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the two ships began to shake violently.
One after another, purple and black hands came out of the water, like a piece of waterweed, entangled the two boats, trying to overturn them and drag them to the bottom of the river.
Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others rushed to the side of the boat, swung their swords and shot arrows into the water, but they could only injure and kill the water ghosts beside the boat, but had little effect on the water ghosts hiding under the boat.
Fortunately, Qin Shaoyou has a way.
He cast [Ghost Binding], and his blood energy turned into shackles, bundling the water ghost hiding in the bottom of the boat into a ball, and forcibly dragging him onto the boat.
Then he pounced on them, killing several water ghosts one at a time.
The two ships stabilized at this point.
"Have the water ghosts retreated?" someone asked nervously.
"Not yet." Qin Shaoyou stared at the water.
Sure enough, the two ships were stable for a moment, and then began to shake violently again.
Even the originally calm water in the river went crazy, rolling up huge waves and hitting the two boats.
Qin Shaoyou knew that the scene before him meant that more water ghosts were coming to the river.
Obviously relying on [Binding Ghosts] alone is not enough. Before he can finish tying up the water ghosts in the river, he will fall down due to exhaustion of blood and energy.
However, Qin Shaoyou also has a countermeasure.
The moment he decided to board the ship, he formulated solutions for various situations that might arise.
In this situation, the seventh plan can be used.
Qin Shaoyou immediately turned around and took off a robe from the horse's back, which was well-informed and showed no signs of panic.
Then he rushed to the bow of the ship, kicked away the pot on the stove, then took out a stone bowl from the sack and placed it on the stove.
As soon as the fire burned, mysterious lines immediately appeared on the khaki stone bowl.
Qin Shaoyou struck the stone bowl with his knife, and a crisp buzzing sound was heard immediately.
The mist that shrouded the river surface was shaken by the sound of the bowl and showed signs of dissipating.
Another supernatural item?
Zhu Xiucai, who was standing next to him, was surprised at first when he saw this, and then felt that it should be so.
"As expected of you, you are indeed well prepared!" He sighed secretly.
The stone bowl Qin Shaoyou took out was a supernatural item collected by the Demon Division of Luocheng Town.
After it encounters fire and is struck with a gold object, it can stimulate the five elements of earthy energy and suppress the monsters and evil spells related to water energy.
In the previous cases of missing children in Mianyuan County, people in the Demon Suppression Department thought it was the work of a philanderer or a gangster.
And Hei Yi is a demon transformed from the water vapor of the Five Elements, so Qin Shaoyou specially brought the stone bowl, thinking that after meeting Hei Yi, it could suppress him.
It was only when I arrived in Mianyuan County that I learned that the missing children there had nothing to do with Hei Yi.
Therefore, the stone bowl has never been put to use, and it is only today that it shows its power.
As the mist was dispersed, the obscured sun soon reappeared.
The temperature has changed, and the water ghosts have been burned by the sunlight shining into the river, and they let out shrill screams.
The stone bowl also resonates with the stone cows in the river.
Vaguely, everyone seemed to hear the sound of cows croaking from the bottom of the river.
At this time, not only the water mist was dispersed, but the turbulent waves in the river were also suppressed and soon subsided.
The water ghosts also disappeared and dived into the bottom of the river one after another.
Soon, the mist completely dissipated, the temperature returned to normal, and the river became calm again.
It seemed that nothing just happened had happened.
"Monk, are you all okay?"
Qin Shaoyou shouted to Monk Ma and others on the other boat.
After getting the reply of "It's okay" from the other party, he felt relieved, then he put away the stone bowl and came to the fisherman.
Zhu Xiucai also came over, took out an iron chain and put it on his body.
The fisherman's body was trembling wildly, and he was crying and begging for mercy: "Don't kill me, I am also forced to do it, I have an old man and a young man..."
"Don't be miserable. Those people you sold to the water ghosts as scapegoats don't have parents, wives and children at home?"
Qin Shaoyou interrupted his complaint and ordered with a straight face: "Go and punt the boat, and then tell us clearly about the water ghost looking for a scapegoat. If you tell a lie, I will chop you down."
The fisherman didn't want to cooperate at first, but he couldn't stand up to Qin Shaoyou. They had knives and were very fierce. They fought off so many water ghosts. He couldn't stand up to him.
I could only cry sadly, pick up the pole, and while paddling the boat obediently, I trembled and confessed under the threat of the sword:
"The thing is like this..."
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