Chapter 838: Falling into the trap
The monk in Tsing Yi, named Ye Hong, has a peak level of foundation building and is an elder of the Ye family.
When doing divination in ink painting, the calculations are about "people related to Ye Jin".
The cause and effect of divination points to this person.
Since he is related to Senior Sister Ye Jin, and his appearance is somewhat similar to Senior Sister Ye Jin, there is a high probability that he is her father.
The name "Ye Hong" was something Mo Hua saw when he looked up Ye Jin's birthplace from Dao Tingsi.
Time was limited, so Mo Hua could only go directly to the door, reveal his identity, and explain his purpose straight to the point.
As for her thoughts of revenge, Ye Hong was indeed hiding it on the surface.
But as a father, how can he not avenge the murder of his son and his daughter?
What's more, Mo Hua now has a deeper understanding of the way of the soul. The anger and hatred that penetrate into the soul cannot be hidden from him at all.
Ye Hong was still hesitant before, but now that he agreed, he made up his mind and would not go back on his word.
With his ability, there are indeed many things he cannot do.
Ye Hong thought for a moment and then said to Mo Hua:
"This is a boat hired by Guishui Sect. Most of the people on board are disciples of the sect. They board the boat with their tokens. I don't have this token, so if you want to get on the boat, I'm afraid you will have to be aggrieved and pretend to be a young boy accompanying you. Just bring tea and water."
Mo Hua nodded, "No problem."
In order to enter the Baihua Valley, he even put on the Taoist robe of the Baihua Valley and pretended to be a boy, so it was no problem.
Ye Hong found a piece of clothing belonging to the boy, put it on Mo Hua, and then took him to the cruise ship.
When he arrived at the door, he was stopped by people from Guishui Gate.
Ye Hong said: "I am a young man from the Ye family, please do some chores with me."
The people from Guishuimen hesitated for a moment, but they thought that this boat belonged to Ye Hong, and it was normal for him to bring a boy with him, so he was no longer embarrassed.
"Elder Ye, please."
Ye Hong nodded and got on the boat with the ink painting.
After arriving on the ship, Ye Hong didn't move around much. Instead, he took Mo Hua directly into his room, closed the door and window, and said to Mo Hua: "There are so many people at this time, it's inconvenient to go out, so please take care of me." , wait here until Youshi."
"Yeah." Mo Hua nodded.
He doesn't plan to go out now.
If you go out now, you won't be able to find out anything. The fun won't begin until after sunset and the boat arrives at its destination.
Seeing that Mo Hua agreed, Ye Hong was slightly relieved, and then asked Mo Hua to sit down, and personally made tea to entertain Mo Hua.
Mo Hua sat calmly and drank tea solemnly. He looked like a handsome, friendly and elegant young man with no talent at all.
The more Ye Hong looked, the more elusive and secretly he felt.
He didn't know who Mo Hua was or where he came from.
On the surface, Mo Hua is only in the middle stage of foundation building and is not very strong.
But the sharp sword-like look in Ye Hong's mind just now was deeply remembered, and he thought about it with fear.
What's more, this young master said that he would help him get revenge.
Regardless of whether it was true or false, Ye Hong did not dare to neglect it.
Mo Hua drank a few sips of tea and became curious, so he asked Ye Hong: "Is this boat yours?"
"Yes." Ye Hong said.
"How come it was rented to Guishuimen?"
Ye Hong thought for a moment, sighed, and then slowly spoke, explaining the whole story:
"It's a long story..."
"Xiu'er died on the Yanshui River. I have always been worried about his death, but due to family pressure, I didn't dare to investigate. Thinking about this 'unworthy son', I will die if I die, so I can save my worries. I will place all my hopes on Jin'er."
"I didn't expect that Jin'er would also..."
Ye Hong looked bitter, "In the beginning, I just thought of myself as a person who had a rough life. It was my destiny to be like this. Until later, I found a jade slip from Xiu'er..."
"Jade slips?" Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Yes," Ye Hong nodded, "it's some of the things he jotted down on weekdays. It said that he found that his sister, Jin'er, was much duller than before. She spoke less and occasionally looked painful when she lived alone. , I suspect that I was bullied.”
"His brother is usually lazy, idle, and doesn't pay attention to spiritual matters, but he has loved his only sister since he was a child."
"He went to investigate, and it seemed that he found something, and then... he died on the Yanshui River..."
Ye Hong sighed deeply.
Mo Hua's eyes were also somewhat silent.
"What happens after that?"
"After that..." Ye Hong calmed down and continued, "After that, I felt heartbroken and angry, so I wanted to find out on my own."
"If I had a lot of worries before, I would not dare to investigate. But now that I am alone, I have nothing to be afraid of."
"After this investigation, we found out..."
Ye Hong paused slightly, as if he didn't want to say those words.
Mo Hua then continued, "Rouge Boat?"
Ye Hong was startled, and then he believed that Mo Hua really knew the inside story.
He nodded, then frowned:
"I have occasionally heard about the Rouge Boat before, but I just thought it was some gossip on the Yanshui River and didn't take it seriously."
"But I didn't expect it to be true...and the forces behind it are unfathomable and beyond the reach of me, a young elder from a third-grade family."
"I was wondering if I could find some way to get on the line..."
"So you rented a boat?" Mo Hua said.
"Yes," Ye Hong said in a deep voice, "I used my life savings to buy this spiritual boat and do leasing business on the Yanshui River, and the price is lower than others. So, after several months of doing this, nothing happened. progress."
"Just a few days ago, someone came to my door and said they wanted to rent a boat and entertain some 'distinguished guests'. Then I was shocked and grabbed this clue..."
Ye Hong told Mo Hua everything.
Mo Hua nodded and asked: "What about Senior Sister Ye Jin's death? Do you know who killed her?"
Ye Hong was stunned, "Senior sister?"
Mo Hua nodded and did not hide anything, "I have some friendship with Senior Sister Ye Jin. In terms of seniority, I should call her Senior Sister."
Although this friendship is only a one-sided relationship.
Mo Hua only called her "senior sister" once - and only had time to call her this time.
Ye Hong's heart trembled, his eyes became much gentler, and he looked at Mo Hua with a little more trust.
"Jin'er, this miserable child, is also remembered..."
Ye Hong murmured in his heart, and then he no longer concealed anything, and said solemnly: "I checked, and it is said that someone has seen Jin'er near the Yanshui River, and there was a man accompanying him."
"I later looked through Jin'er's belongings and found bits and pieces of clues about this man."
"I don't know who this person is, but I only know that he has a fair face and handsome appearance, but sometimes he has sinister eyes and likes to torture others."
Mo Hua looked slightly startled.
Fair, handsome, sinister, and likes to torture others...
Shui Yanluo's face naturally appeared in his mind.
Water Yama.
It turns out it's you again...
Mo Hua's eyes were cold, and another "death sign" was recorded for Shui Yanluo in his heart.
When Ye Hong said this, he felt a little sad and sighed:
"I am incompetent as a father. I...can't protect my children..."
He knew in his heart that the Ye family members were selfish and would not seek justice for him.
As a foundation-building monk, even if he knew who the murderer was, he might not have the strength to take revenge.
What's more, the identity of the murderer is probably someone he can't afford to offend.
Thinking of this, Ye Hong felt miserable and a little more desperate.
The ink painting looked at Ye Hong with compassion, and sighed softly: "Don't worry, damn people will die..."
…
After that, Mo Hua stayed in the cabin for most of the day.
As the sun began to set and the sky became darker, it became noisy outside. There seemed to be many monks celebrating something.
One after another, the lanterns were put into the Yanshui River.
The sky was dim and the river was hazy, but there were a few gorgeous lights that lit up on the water and drifted with the waves.
There is a kind of beauty in the silence.
But within the beauty, there is hidden corruption...
At You time, the ship set off.
Mo Hua still didn't go out, he just opened a window and took note of the direction of the ship and the location of the cruise ship where Cheng Mo and the others were.
He had specifically positioned himself during the day, so even though the sky was getting dark at this time, he could still vaguely see the position of Cheng Mo's boat.
Cheng Mo's cruise ship and the spirit boat Mo Hua rode were indeed heading in the same direction towards the unknown area of the Yanshui River.
Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief silently.
The position was correct. Although there were some deviations, I finally managed to get through.
After that, you only need to wait for these seemingly ordinary cruise ships to change their routes halfway through, gather together, and become "rouge boats", and you will be able to follow them to your destination.
Mo Hua lay at the window, paying attention to the direction of the ship. At the same time, he also looked at the night view of the Yanshui River.
At this time, night falls, and countless lanterns float on the water.
These lanterns are of all kinds and colorful.
Spirit boats, in groups, are lit up with colorful lights, like schools of colorful fish at rising tide, swimming in the river paved with lanterns, which is extremely gorgeous and spectacular.
Mo Hua just watched silently, a little distracted.
The spirit boat had been traveling for an unknown amount of time. Just when he was getting tired of looking at the ink paintings, there was sudden movement on the cruise ship in front of him.
With a thought, Mo Hua found some cruise ships and quietly changed their course.
The cruise ship Cheng Mo and the others were on also changed direction.
"really……"
Mo Hua was refreshed and his consciousness became more focused. After sensing it for a moment, his expression changed.
"wrong."
Cheng Mo's ship changed direction, but the spirit boat he was on did not change. Instead, it was traveling along the established course like other cruise ships.
Mo Hua's heart tightened, and he turned around and asked Ye Hong, "Is the person who rented your boat really from Guishui Gate?"
Ye Hong didn't quite understand the situation at this time, so he just nodded and said: "It should be that they have the sect order of Guishui Sect."
"Then why? The heading is wrong... did they find something fishy?" Mo Hua frowned. He turned his head again and looked at the vast Yanshui River. Seeing Cheng Mo and his boat part ways with him, going further and further away, Mo Hua couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling in his heart.
what to do?
At this point, it was hard for him to jump into the river and catch up with them.
Although he has learned some water-based body movements and techniques to repel water and avoid monsters, he grew up in the Daheishan Mountains and did not touch water very much. He learned some techniques along the way, and his water properties are not very good.
Mo Hua pondered for a moment and sighed silently.
After a while, Cheng Mo and his team's boat had completely entered another river channel and disappeared under the cover of night.
We can only wait for the ship to dock and then think of another way.
Mo Hua was a little anxious, but he still forced himself to calm down and consider what to do after landing in order to find Cheng Mo and the others...
The spirit boat continued to sail.
The surrounding scenery keeps alternating backwards.
There are also fewer cruise ships traveling with us.
Mo Hua looked at it and was suddenly stunned.
"wrong……"
This river channel looks very strange. The course of the spirit boat is also a bit strange, and there are fewer and fewer cruise ships traveling with it.
Mo Hua's eyes trembled and he suddenly understood.
It's not that Cheng Mo and the others changed their course, they didn't.
It was his spiritual boat that changed direction.
In other words, the boat Cheng Mo and the others boarded was just an ordinary cruise ship, but his own was the real "Rouge Boat"!
Mo Hua breathed a sigh of relief slowly, but his eyes became a little solemn.
After driving for a while, there were no other cruise ships around. The Yanshui River was vast and the night was dark. Only his own spiritual boat was traveling alone.
Mo Hua didn't even know where he was.
After a while, the messenger trembled slightly. He took out the ink painting and saw that it was from Gu Changhuai: "We fell into a trap. We got on the wrong ship."
Mo Hua silently wrote: "It's okay, I'm on the right track..."
Gu Changhuai was silent for a moment, seeming a little hard to understand, "Why did you get on the right ship?"
Mo Hua was at a loss for words for a moment, and only said:
"It's a coincidence..."
Gu Changhuai no longer hesitated, time was urgent, and now was indeed not the time to talk about this.
"Do you know the river area you are in now?"
The surroundings were completely dark, and Mo Hua pondered slightly, sighing: "I don't know."
Trouble...
Gu Changhuai frowned.
Mo Hua recalled it again, and then sent a letter to Gu Changhuai:
"I only remember the first half of the route and the direction of the change. You can go find Cheng Mo and Hao Xuan and compare the routes. You should know the general direction."
Gu Changhuai perked up and said, "Okay."
Mo Hua told Gu Changhuai the details of the Lingzhou route one by one, hoping that he could deduce the location of the Rouge Boat's anchorage based on these details.
"I will step up the time to verify. You are alone and don't act rashly." Gu Changhuai instructed.
But he knew in his heart that unless Mo Hua was tied up and unable to move, he would not be honest.
Gu Changhuai only gave routine instructions.
Mo Hua also responded symbolically, "Okay."
Then Mo Hua sent a message to Situ Jian, telling them the general situation and asking them to cooperate with Gu Changhuai to check the route.
Besides, Situ Jian and the others should be safe.
Although you can’t get on the Rouge Boat and see nothing new, you don’t have to bear the temptation and risks of the Rouge Boat.
"By the way," Mo Hua remembered something and passed on the message, "When you go back, remember to find Wang Chen's senior brother, beat him up, and get back the ticket price of 100,000 spirit stones."
One hundred thousand spiritual stones is not a small amount.
Although it is not your own spiritual stone, the spiritual stones of your junior fellow apprentices are also spiritual stones, and you cannot take advantage of others.
"good……"
Situ Jian sighed.
As expected of a young senior brother, he really didn’t suffer any losses.
Then he also warned: "Senior brother, you are alone, so be careful."
"Yeah, don't worry."
After finishing the explanation, Mo Hua put away the messenger and looked at the night scene outside the window attentively, waiting for the spirit boat to reach its destination and turn into a real "rouge boat".
He wanted to see what the rumored "Rouge Boat" did for a living and what it was like inside.
Ye Hong sat next to Mo Hua, looking at the dark night outside the window with a serious expression.
…
At the same time, in Yanshui City, inside a luxurious restaurant.
The two were drinking and talking secretly.
The room was very dark, with only one candlelight, and it was blurry, and the faces of the two people could not be seen clearly.
"The ship has sailed out?"
"Drive out."
"How's it going?"
"It went pretty well."
"Okay," one of them nodded, and then sneered, "Do you really think that I, the Guishui Sect, am blind? Do the Dao Tingsi, the Taixu Sect, and the Gu family think they can sneak into the ship by just disguising themselves?"
Another person echoed: "Yes, this time all the boats related to Daotingsi, Taixumen, and the Gu family have been allowed to land."
"In order to keep it secret, Guishuimen's boats are useless. The only ones that can really reach the place are some spiritual boats we hired from outside."
"And there is the boat prepared for the young masters."
"Well, good!"
"However, elder, the current rumors don't seem right..."
The monk who was called "elder" raised his eyebrows and asked, "How do you say that?"
"Daoting seems to be checking..."
"Have you heard the news?"
"yes……"
The "elder" was silent for a moment and said: "It doesn't matter, we can't stop eating other people's meat and just watch."
"What if..."
The elder put down his wine glass and said nothing.
The other man was very discerning and quickly picked up the wine pot and poured a glass of wine for the elder.
The elder was quite satisfied, and then he said in a deep voice: "Guishui Gate is a ship, and we are all on this ship."
"But Guishui Gate is just a ship. The ship is going smoothly, so we will follow the gangsters. If the ship sinks, those who have no ability and no sense of crisis will sink with it; but those who have ability and foresight will sink with it. I will find another boat and jump on it before it sinks..."
The other person pondered for a moment and then said with a shocked expression, "Elder, could it be that you..."
The elder gave him a solemn look, and then he swallowed his words.
"It's just that it's not that easy to jump off the ship..."
"I said," the elder took a sip of wine and said calmly, "Only those with ability and foresight have the ability to jump off the ship. The rest of the people can only die with the sinking ship."
"There are a lot of opportunities in this world, and there are a lot of opportunities. It depends on whether you know how to sneak into a camp and whether you have a 'wink'."
The elder put down his wine glass.
The other person immediately understood the meaning and poured a glass of wine for the elder with an increasingly respectful expression:
"From now on, it will all depend on the support of the elders. I am willing to be an elder and live in peace."
The elder had an arrogant attitude and nodded slightly. Then he remembered something and confirmed:
"Have all the sect disciples on the list boarded the ship?"
"In compliance with the elder's instructions, please come on board."
"Um."
"It's just..." The other person was still a little confused, "There are some arrangements this time, which are very weird. That place... is not allowed to be guarded. Is it really okay?"
The elder looked serious and said solemnly: "Is this something you can consider?"
"Yes." The other person quickly lowered his head and handed over his hand.
The elder paused slightly, his expression softened, and he pointed upward with his hand:
"The arrangement above has its own purpose. The water here is very deep. Ordinary monks will drown if they get even a little bit of it. I don't let you ask. It's for your own good."
"The elders taught you this..."
The elder nodded slightly, then said nothing, but drank a glass of wine silently.
After a moment, he turned his head and looked at the Yanshui River, which was still dark and gloomy even though it was illuminated by lights.
There were some things that he really couldn't understand, but he didn't need to.
As a chess piece, you must have the consciousness of a chess piece.
He was not qualified to know how the big forces above, as well as those old monsters who were stirring things up in the dark, wanted to influence the pattern of the state boundaries, and what they wanted to plan to kill.
He just had to do as he was told.
An obedient chess piece is a good chess piece.
…
Amidst the surging undercurrent, on the other side is the Yanshui River.
After an unknown amount of time, the spirit boat Mo Hua was riding finally stopped.
Mo Hua didn't know the situation, so he held his breath and concentrated without making any movement.
After a while, there was the sound of water all around, and it seemed that other spirit boats were coming and gathering together.
There were occasional sounds of iron chains, as if someone was using iron ropes to tie the ships together and connect them together.
After that, the sound of water faded away, and the spirit boat started moving again.
All the nearby spirit boats were connected by iron cables, like a long dragon, swimming in the Yanshui River, and soon they swam into the dark fog.
The moment the spirit boat entered the thick fog, Mo Hua sensed the energy in the thick fog, and his pupils trembled.
"Such a strong...evil god's aura."
(End of chapter)