At the dock shrouded in darkness, Zhou Shi found Ruan Hunxiong and Yu Heng.
"Shopkeeper Zhou! What did you get?"
Zhou Shi waved his hand, indicating that he would explain later.
After the three met, they walked to the berth under the leadership of Zhou Shi, and met the Qinglong Gang who had been waiting here.
"Guys, you've been waiting for a long time. Mr. Fu asked me to take you on board."
"Aren't you going to get on the ship? Why are you going that way?" Yu Heng pointed to the berth behind him.
"How can the body-retrieving boat stop here? Let's get on the boat in the wild." Zhou Shi explained.
After walking along the river beach for a while, a figure appeared under the moonlight, it was Fu Yujiang.
"Resign, villain." The minions sent the people there and left. The three of them met with Fu Yujiang, and Zhou Shi introduced him to the partners of this crusade one by one.
"I didn't expect that even the corpse buryers would join in. But I can't give you the corpse on the river." Fu Yujiang joked inappropriately.
"Mr. Fu, your boat..." Zhou Shi didn't notice anything unusual until he walked into the side of the boat.
Fu Yujiang's corpse-retrieving boat is in the shape of a boxy coffin. Only this shape can accumulate Yin energy and stabilize the corpses floating in the river.
But this time, there was not one corpse-recovering boat parked on the riverside, but five! After the big "coffin boat", there were four small "coffin boats" connected by ropes.
"I have also made some preparations." Fu Yujiang introduced, "This is the formation for us to retrieve corpses, the four coffins blocking the river formation. As soon as Lady Xu appears, I will disconnect the ropes and let the four coffins
Floating in four directions. As long as Lady Xu is in this formation, she is simply at our mercy."
Yu Heng and Ruan Hunxiong praised repeatedly. Even within a group, the formation can only be passed down to a few people. In other words, only the elites in the industry can understand the mystery of the formation. Fu Yujiang was able to move out the four-coffin river-blocking formation.
, which shows how powerful he is.
"I have taken out all the treasures from the bottom of the box. I will escort you this time. I guarantee..."
"Mr. Yu, interrupt me." Zhou Shi said, "It seems that these four coffin boats cannot take people on board. As long as Lady Nasu aims at the boats with people on them, aren't we in great danger?"
"That's... that's true." Fu Yujiang calmed down, "Anyway, we have to fight her head-on, so if she rushes up, we won't have to chase her."
"So I prepared this."
Zhou Shi took out the things in his arms, opened them gently, and turned into a paper doll.
"Paper man?"
"This is a prop in the witch sect. It can emit the same yang energy as humans. In the eyes of monsters, it is no different from us." Zhou Shi slowly unfolded several folded and flattened paper figures and said, "These are
They are puppets with enhanced yang energy. If we put them in a small coffin boat, Lady Xu won’t be able to tell which boat we are on, and we can still lure her out.”
The moment Fu Yujiang took the paper man, he had a hallucination, as if there was warmth and weight on his arm, as if he were holding a real person. But when he looked closely, he found that the paper man was only half a person tall and did not have the same color as those sold in the temple.
Bright, just a little cinnabar on the face.
But just this little cinnabar seems to be able to make eyes shine!
"Good stuff!" Ruan Hunxiong praised.
"This was prepared by Mr. Mo. Unfortunately, it is not convenient for him to wade into the water, so he can only use this thing to help us." Zhou Shi explained.
"It doesn't matter, it's enough for just the few of us to fight that goblin. Get on the boat and set off!"
Four big men stood on Fu Yujiang's body-retrieving boat. It was a little crowded, but the hull was very stable.
"It's so stable! It's like standing on flat ground!" Ruan Hunxiong exclaimed. He was the largest among the four. He was the first to get on the boat, but found that the hull did not shake at all, which made him a little uncomfortable.
.
"This is my corpse boat to ensure that you are walking on flat ground!" Fu Yujiang said, holding up the eighteen-section Arhat bamboo in his hand, and the corpse boat immediately rushed out, dragging its "tail" and galloping under the night.
On top of the river.
The river breeze blew against their faces, causing everyone to shiver. Considering that they might have to go into the water, they didn't wear heavy clothes to prevent them from becoming a burden if they got in the water.
"Oh, if I had your ship, why would I be trapped in Jiangdu City!" Yu Heng stood on the bow of the ship and sighed.
"Yes, why don't you leave the city by water?" Zhou Shi asked him.
"I've thought about it, but it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people from the government on the pier, especially last month. There were more government officials than boatmen. How could I dare to come here to look for a boat? Besides, I can't get the boat money... If
Let's swim, there are mountains stretching for hundreds of miles upstream and downstream, and there is a dead end. Alas, how did I end up in this homeless field..."
"Then you should have come to me earlier, I often rescue homeless corpses!"
Yu Heng was speechless for a moment.
Ruan Hunxiong came out to smooth things over: "Mr. Fu, there are so many of us, and we are on the water again. Are you tired of pushing the boat? How about we take turns?"
"Haha, no, no, no, no, no. That soaked corpse has absorbed enough water and is much heavier than you."
"..." Ruan Hunxiong also fell silent.
"But don't say it was four, it was eight. I still held the boat as if it was flying. This is your first time here, so I don't dare to exert any force. If you have the opportunity to board my boat again in the future, I will take you to experience it.
It feels like riding on the wind! Hahaha..."
Fu Yujiang's hearty laughter and awkward atmosphere spread on the river.
Zhou Zhi secretly thought to himself: This guy is not just incapable of speaking, he can speak like a curse. I wonder if it’s because he is traveling on the river without anyone to accompany him, but he also likes to talk...
They sailed all the way upstream for about an hour. During this period, the bright moon rose high and then got into the clouds.
It's hard to see clearly on a moonless night, Zhou Shi thought.
Do you want to bring out the fire fold? No, the Yin Fire is too conspicuous. Lady Xu can tell which boat is occupied at a glance. It is too dangerous.
"It's right in front." Fu Yujiang, who was chatting and laughing all the way, also became serious, "I'm going to paddle across slowly, and when Lady Xu appears, we'll do it together, and we'll use whatever moves we have, she'll be in pain.
We will definitely get into the water in the end. Only then can the four-coffin river-blocking formation come into play."
He worked hard on the eighteen-section Luohan bamboo, slowed down the boat, and asked Zhou Shi to untie the small coffin boat one by one.
Zhou Shi carefully jumped onto the small coffin boat, placed the paper figures, and watched them slowly float away and merge into the darkness.
He looked intently at the Qi and saw the Yin Qi floating on the river, but it was not so strong that he could not tell where Lady Xu was.
The corpse boat drew a circle and scattered four small coffin boats in four directions. They would not float away with the current, but would only be fixed in the distance, waiting for the formation to start.
"My coffin boat can't be taken in by the river, so it can't capsize and sink. If someone falls into the water, swim to the boat quickly." Fu Yujiang warned.
All we have to do now is wait.
The four people stood back to back facing the four directions and remained vigilant.
The river wind blows, making people shiver with cold.
It's so quiet that you can hear the sound of waves hitting the bottom of the boat.
"Plop-wow-"
"Who fell into the water? Come up quickly!" Fu Yujiang shouted.
Empress Xu might show up at any time. Zhou Shi was facing the direction of the sound of falling into the water. He quickly stretched his hand out of the side of the ship and touched a big hand——
"Who fell into the water?" Yu Heng's voice came from behind, "Aren't they all here?"
——That hand, cold and smooth, pulled Zhou Shi into the water.