Hearing Lu Zhicheng's cry, Hua Muling and I didn't say anything more. After taking a few deep breaths, I walked over and picked up Xiong Ming, who was almost thrown into a pig's head, and carefully walked down the steps step by step.

Not long after, a few of us came to a dark and extremely wide underground river.

Perhaps to suit the occasion, or perhaps to warn the world, a stone tablet actually stood beside this underground river.

The stone tablet clearly says: Anyone who trespasses will die.

I looked at the tombstone and smiled with a slight disdain, and murmured to myself: "It's an ordinary underground river, but it turned out to be so annoying."

Before I finished speaking, a sound of bells suddenly floated across the river.

The sound of the bell was heavy and muffled, making it extremely uncomfortable. To be more specific, it was similar to the soul-calling bells used by shamans in rural areas of Northeast China.

A few of us followed the sound of the bell and looked towards the dark river, only to see ripples on the river. After a while, a long, dark and narrow boat followed the waves and reached the shore.

The boat is very strange. It is surprisingly narrow and long. At first glance, it looks a bit like some kind of fishing boat in the south, but upon closer inspection, it doesn't look much like it.

A pole was inserted diagonally at the bow of the ship, and a copper bell the size of a bowl was hung on the pole.

This little boat is strange, and the ferryman is even stranger.

I saw an old woman standing behind the bell as big as a bowl. She was only a little over one and a half meters tall at most. Her stooped body made her look like a walking "question mark" from a distance.

The old woman's face is full of wrinkles. Even if she doesn't smile, the wrinkles on her face are enough to kill a few flies. You don't need to guess to know that this old woman is definitely not young.

But what surprised me was that this old woman actually had eyes that were completely inconsistent with hers. Those eyes seemed to me not only surprisingly bright, but also surprisingly charming.

The frightening murderous aura, but also inadvertently revealed a girl-like look.

I looked at the old woman's eyes and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

At this time, the old woman had already used the pole to swing the boat in front of the few of us.

Only then did I clearly see that there was a guy in a black cloak behind the old woman.

The guy brought a big bamboo hat, which was very low and covered his entire face.

He was dressed like a boatman, with blue clothes and coarse trousers, some of which had been worn white in places, but he was holding a pole made of pure gold in his hand, which was still shining even at this moment.

Golden light.

I stared straight at the boatman. Although I couldn't see the guy's face clearly, for some reason I always felt like I had seen him somewhere, but for a while I couldn't remember where exactly.

Just when I was in a daze, Hua Muling elbowed me in the waist.

I turned to look at Hua Muling and asked in surprise: "Fourth girl, what's wrong?"

Hua Muling lowered her voice and whispered in my ear: "There is something wrong with that boatman."

I nodded and lowered my voice and said, "Yeah! I think so too. I always feel like I've seen that guy somewhere. But for a while I can't tell where it is..."

Hua Muling also nodded and said: "In short, this place is very weird. We must be careful, careful, and careful in everything we do."

I nodded and was about to speak when I heard the old woman who had been standing at the bow slowly speak.

Just listen to the old woman saying: "Who is ringing the bell to cross the river?"

After hearing what the old woman said, I noticed that there was a copper bell the size of a bowl not far from the river bank.

Seeing the old woman asking this question, Lu Zhicheng, who had been standing aside, took a step forward and said with a smile: "Yes, mother-in-law! A few of us want to cross the river, please ask mother-in-law and the boatman to wait for us to cross."

The old woman glanced at each of us with eyes as cold as knives. After a long time, she slowly said: "You all understand the rules, right?"

Lu Zhicheng smiled and nodded and said: "Of course! We all understand the rules! We all understand them!"

As Lu Zhicheng spoke, he reached out and took out five ghost coins from his pocket, held them in both hands and handed them respectfully to the old woman on the boat.

The old woman reached out and took the five pieces of ghost money, and looked at them one by one under the chandelier on the bow. After confirming that they were correct, she nodded slowly and said: "Yes! It's true! In that case, then

Come up!"

The old woman said and turned slightly to the side. When I saw this, I picked up Xiong Ming and started to put it on. But just as I was about to step onto the boat, the boatman who had been standing behind the old woman suddenly suddenly

I shook my hand, and the solid gold one poked directly at my ankle.

I was so startled that my body swayed and I jumped back.

If it were normal times, I would have dodged this blow in minutes, but now there was a Xiong Ming pressing behind me, and my movements were obviously much slower.

In an instant, I didn't even dodge the boatman's blow. Although the boat pole made of pure gold missed my ankle, it hit me squarely on my calf.

I suddenly felt a heartbreaking pain coming from my calf, and then, my center of gravity shifted, and I fell backwards.

Seeing that there was an accident on my side, Hua Mullington, who was already on the boat, shouted: "What are you going to do? Haven't we already paid the ghost money?"

The old woman tilted her head slightly, her girl-like eyes swept back and forth on Hua Muling's face several times, and finally said slowly: "My boat is small, and it will sink if there are so many people on it at once."

Yes. You don’t want to die in this Naihe, right?”

The old woman's words made Hua Muling speechless for a moment. She opened her mouth several times and didn't know what to say.

Seeing that Hua Muling didn't speak, the old woman just stared at her with a pair of beautiful eyes. She couldn't help but sigh and continued: "I didn't say I wouldn't pick them up. Since you have already paid, old lady, I naturally didn't send them away."

The truth.”

When the old woman said this, she tilted her head slightly, and the boatman tapped the pole made of pure gold on the bank. The long and narrow boat instantly swung away from the river bank and sailed along the river into the darkness.

At the same time, the old woman also said: "If you want to cross the river, just wait here honestly!"

After finishing speaking, there was a dull sound of copper bells. The sound was muffled and deep, and it soon covered up the old woman's words.

I watched the boat getting further and further away, sighed helplessly, got up from the ground, and laid Xiong Ming flat on the river bank.

And when I turned Xiong Ming over, I almost burst out laughing.

Originally, only half of Xiong Ming's face hit the ground, but this time it was good. The fall just now happened to turn the remaining half of Xiong Ming's face into a pig's head.

I looked at Xiong Ming's green and purple face and couldn't help but sigh. Then I took out a pack of cigarettes from my coat pocket. Just as I was about to light it, I saw a figure flashing out of the darkness not far to the left.

Pass.

My heart tightened, so of course I shouted to the dark place on the left: "Who is there?"

But there was no response. When no one answered me, I stood up and walked slowly towards the dark place on the left. My right hand unconsciously reached for the knife stuck in my waist.

I walked very slowly. Originally, the distance was only six or seven meters, but I walked for five minutes.

I walked very lightly, lifting and placing each step gently, for fear of making any noise.

But just when I was about to walk into the darkness, suddenly there was a "crash" sound under my feet.

I was stunned, and before I had time to react, I stepped on something under my feet.

I was surprised and said, "What did I step on?"

As I thought about it, I squatted down to see what I had stepped on. But when I saw the object under my feet, I was stunned.

Because, that thing was nothing else but a bunch of mobile phone accessories.

I picked up the mobile phone pendant on the ground and found that there was a bow and two bells on it. The bells and bow were covered with broken diamonds, and they were still shining brightly under the weak light of the underground river.

Even if I'm stupid, I know that this thing doesn't belong in the plateau area, and the people living nearby don't have the time to tinker with these bits and pieces.

"Since it doesn't belong here, then why does it appear here?" I looked at the string of mobile phone pendants in my hand in surprise, and thought to myself: "Could it be that the black shadow just left it accidentally? That's it.

, is that guy a woman? Or, is he a transvestite?"

Just when I was looking at the object in my hand in a daze, suddenly the string of copper bells sounded on the river again.

"Bang...bang...bang..."

Every time the bell struck, I felt like my heart was being hammered hard.

I took a long breath and turned my thoughts away from the string of mobile phone pendants.

I am a very open-minded person, and I often comfort myself, "All unanswered questions will be answered one day. As for when that day will be? Let time handle it!"

It was this mentality that made me stop worrying about the pendant and the figure. Instead, I carefully put the cell phone pendant into my jacket pocket, turned around and walked towards the river bank.

The boat arrived very quickly, and within a short time it had already docked. What surprised me was that this time there was only an old woman.

The boatman who had been standing behind her now disappeared.

The old woman held the pure gold pole and swung it back and forth in the river a few times. The long and narrow boat straightened instantly.

Looking at the movements of the old woman in one go, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "Where did this old woman come from? The boat pole weighing dozens of kilograms was like a bamboo pole in her hand. She stopped the boat and docked so lightly. This...

Even Xiong Ming's arm strength is strong enough to do it."

The old woman didn't notice what I was thinking. After parking the boat, she poled the solid gold boat into the river and said softly: "Get on the boat! It's your turn to cross the river!"
Chapter completed!