He limped across the beach and pulled out a small boat from behind a boulder.
He jumped on the bow of the boat and paddled vigorously. In an instant, he was already more than ten feet away from the shore, and then he let out a sigh of relief.
Suddenly I was startled and trembled for no reason.
Turning around suddenly, I didn't know when there was someone else on the stern of the boat.
Lin Ji sat sideways on the bow of the boat, swung his long sword in his hand, and scratched off the black scarf covering the man's face.
"What? Can't Honghualou's fifty-tael monthly salary keep you?" Lin Ji asked with a smile.
This man is the boatman who goes to and fro to see off guests in a magnificent way!
At that time, Lin Ji felt a little strange.
Would a man with a cultivation level at the peak of the Six Realms be willing to work as a boatman for a monthly salary of fifty silver?
But at that time, he didn't think much about it, thinking that he was practicing this kind of technique and wanted to use it to enter the Tao.
I chased him all the way, but I just thought the figure looked familiar. It wasn't until he got on the boat to paddle that I dared to confirm it.
The boatman was startled, and the muscles on his face trembled unnaturally twice: "As expected of Lin Tianguan, it's not unfair to die in your hands!"
Lin Ji smiled and said: "If I want you to die, the sword in the water prison is enough! Why bother? Tell me, who are you?"
The boatman also smiled and asked instead of answering: "I also want to ask Lin Tianguan, now that the Qin Dynasty has disappeared, and the Supervisor Tiansi is also a thing of the past, why are you doing this?"
"I don't do it for anyone. I don't have any case to investigate. My hands are itchy." Lin Ji was still smiling, and then he put force on his wrist, pressing down on the boatman and forcing him to bend down.
But the sword wound on his leg was still bleeding, and he couldn't help it anymore, and he immediately fell to his knees.
Although the boatman was at the pinnacle of the Six Realms, he was powerless to fight back in front of Lin Ji, almost no different from an ordinary person.
Lin Ji's sword turned, he put it against his throat and raised his chin and said: "If you don't want to say it, it's the same if I ask, did you kill Zhao Weiguo?"
The boatman said with a straight face: "Now that I've fallen into your hands, I'll kill you if you want. I won't say anything!"
Lin Ji smiled and said: "Yesterday, at about this time, the same sword, in almost the same position, was pressed against the neck of the Demon King. She is a great demon king who has lived for thousands of years, and she is even afraid of it.
Damn it, you actually said you're not afraid of death?"
"Okay, I believe it too!" Lin Ji said, swung his sword and opened the hidden compartment hidden in the stern of the ship, and with a clatter, a piece of white and golden silver and gold ingots were exposed.
"Since you are determined to die, what use do you secretly save so much gold and silver? You may not be afraid of death, but your family is not afraid either. Have you lived enough?"
The boatman's eyes flashed, and he was obviously a little panicked.
Lin Ji pretended not to see it and continued: "I just saw that after you left the shore, you would rather turn the tide and go all the way north. There is only Yunzhou to the north of Xuzhou, so your family must be there?"
"You should have a son and a daughter." Lin Ji looked at the pile of red agate hairpins and silver rattles sandwiched with gold and silver and said, "You want to make this last deal, then withdraw from the dispute and enjoy a peaceful family life."
"This is a good idea, but it's a pity. If you hadn't met me, you would have died!"
With that said, Lin Ji grabbed the dry food prepared by the boatman, opened the water bag and got out of the boat.
In an instant, all the fish chasing the boat died, and they were floating on the sea in white flowers.
In fact, this was the snake venom that Lin Jifeng left behind after killing Qinggangzi, and mixed it into the dry food when the boatman was unprepared.
When the boatman saw it, his expression changed drastically.
Lin Ji seemed to be unaware and continued: "Also, you should have seen just now that there was a stain of blood outside the secret door. Do you know who it belongs to? It's the killer of Honghua Building, who is waiting there.
With you!"
"Even if you can escape the pursuit, can you really enjoy a happy family life with your family? They may not know who your family is yet, but once you return to Yunzhou, do you think they will be safe? You
Can you lead them through the barrier?"
"What kind of place is Yunzhou? You know it very well without me telling you. Even if you keep their mouths shut and save their lives, are you willing to let them suffer there for the rest of their lives? Be slaves for generations?"
At this point, Lin Ji stared into the boatman's eyes and said: "Now there is a vast sea all around. No one will hear what you said to me. I will arrange for you to go to Liangcheng first and then pick you up."
Your children and their families will be reunited. Otherwise..."
Lin Ji withdrew the Qingzhi sword and said, "There's no need for me to kill you. Let's see how long the old thief from Li Nan can spare you."
Lin Ji had already noticed that the boatman had a black pattern on the back of his neck that was exactly the same as Lu Cong's, and for some reason the Qingzhi Sword secretly reacted to both Li Nan and the boatman.
It's just that one is extremely strong and the other is very weak.
If it is said that it was caused by the evil arts practiced by these two people, it is not correct. Why did it not react to Lu Cong?
"Lin Tianguan..." the boatman hesitated for a while and said, "I have long heard that you were true to your promise. I...I said that I was indeed the one who killed Zhao Weiguo!"
"Who asked you to go?" Lin Ji asked.
"It's the master... no, it's Li Nanxie Dao who sent me a secret message early yesterday morning, asking me to take advantage of the chaos in the city to sneak into the water prison and kill Zhao Weiguo."
Lin Ji secretly thought: "As expected, that old thief from Li Nan has hidden many secrets in order to conspire against Weicheng! Now that I think about it, the Yuan and Lu families secretly formed a marriage, and Lu Cong killed Jinshan Yu in front of me.
, this may all be part of his calculation!"
"If I had killed Yuan Xiu with one sword, or killed Jin Xiaocang in the splendid city, then the Fengyun Thunder and Lightning Formation would not have been formed. He didn't even need to take action. Just a few demon kings could have taken over Weicheng!"
"But... what is the purpose of sending a boatman who has hidden himself so deeply to take advantage of the chaos to kill Zhao Weiguo?"
"Why kill Zhao Weiguo?"
"I don't know about this," the boatman said, "I never ask about this kind of thing. Ever since I became my teacher and learned sorcery, I have always acted according to orders without asking about cause and effect."
This is the same as Lu Cong, who was turned into a puppet by the old thief Li Nan!
"Then since you completed the task of killing Zhao Weiguo yesterday, why are you still going today?" Lin Ji asked with some confusion.
"Because... I found out that it was not Zhao Weiguo who died yesterday!"
"Huh?!" Lin Ji was stunned: "It's not Zhao Weiguo? What's going on? Be more careful."
"Yes." The boatman responded: "I killed Zhao Weiguo firstly to complete the task and obtain the soul-eating pill that Li Nan gave me. Secondly, I also had some selfish motives and wanted to take the opportunity to steal the head of the evil Buddha."
"Lin Tianguan, do you know why Zhao Weiguo has been hiding in the water prison for so many years to practice?" the boatman suddenly asked.