polar demon

Chapter 66

Watching the sky darken little by little, Kang Rongfa exhorted:
"Control the speed of the boat, don't go too fast, wait until it's completely dark before going there."

Kang Kun lowered the sails, and the passenger boat was still going down the current.He whispered to Kang Rongfa:

"Father, will the water demon kill those children?"

Kang Rongfa shook his head and said:

"The water demon is different from the water ghost. When the water ghost encounters a living person, it will kill it even if it does not eat it. But the water demon is only looking for food. Whether it is eating a living person or a livestock, as long as it fills its stomach, it will Leave. The water demon entrenched in this section of the river is even easier to satisfy, and it is enough to eat two people at a time."

Kang Kun looked sad when he heard this:
"That is to say, at least two of the five of them must die. If we don't run away, Catcher Jiang may not have murderous intentions, and he might let us go."

Kang Rongfa sneered and said:

"Kun'er, you are still too young. Do you still remember the night when we met the cargo ship in Chisha City? There was no need for Jiang Butou to sink that big ship, but he did it anyway, causing all the people on the ship to die Hedi. Jiang Tutou is not a kind person, his reputation is well known in Yangcheng. He has never touched us, but he just needs us to drive the boat."

Having said that, Kang Rongfa grabbed his son's hand:

"Whether he wants to kill us or not, we can't take any chances! Listen to my father, let's go ashore as soon as the water demon is entangled with him. Then we start a new life. After earning two years of money, I will give you a daughter-in-law. Pass on the family line for our Kang family!"

Kang Kun hesitated when the matter came to an end:
"But--"

Kang Rongfa interrupted:

"Don't worry about it so much, just sail the boat with peace of mind."

Looking at his son's young face, Kang Rongfa sighed in his heart, how can he care about other children at this time, only his own is the most important.

In the cabin, the four children were still practicing, but Jiang Yuan had a smile on his lips:
"A water monster?"

Although the voices of the two people outside the cabin were very low, Jiang Yuan's sensitive six senses had already heard their secret conversation clearly.

Jiang Yuan has been ignoring them, just as they said, they need to drive the boat.

They were smart enough to guess that they would kill them to silence them.

At this time, they have already entered Wushe County, and they are no longer needed.If the two of them really dared to do anything against them, they might as well just let them die first.

But at this time, Jiang Yuan still stood still. He was full of expectations for the water monster.

The silver moon is like a hook, and the river is churning.

The sightlines tonight were not very bad, and the two had been staring closely at the scenery around the river.

The environment here is no stranger to them who have been running boats all year round.

Finally, a deserted shoal appeared on the side of the Xuan River.

The shoal is not at a gap in the steep mountain wall, behind it, it seems to lead to a wider world.

Aquatic plants grow out of the water, bending and twisting along the current.

Kang Rongfa and Kang Kun looked at each other and knew they had arrived.

Kang Kun hurriedly picked up the iron anchor and threw it into the river. The iron chain on the winch was pulled longer and longer by the iron anchor, and finally stopped suddenly.

The hull also began to stay firmly in the middle of the river.

Then the father and son began to stare nervously at the cabin, waiting for Jiang Yuan to come out and ask why the ship stopped.They have prepared a lot of excuses in their hearts.

But the two waited for a while, but there was no movement.

The two looked at each other suspiciously, this situation was somewhat beyond their expectations.

At this time, there was a sound of nails scratching suddenly from the bottom of the boat.

The sound became more and more sharp, followed by something that seemed to be grabbing the hull and trying to climb up.

Knowing that they couldn't wait any longer, the father and son hurriedly hid under the sails, where a lot of rotten black fish had been prepared to cover up the smell.The two of them just lay down among the rotten fish, looking out through a gap.

Soon, something climbed onto the deck, and the footsteps sounded heavy and clear.

Kang Rongfa stared nervously outside, only to see a pair of feet covered with blue scales, slowly walking towards the cabin.

The father and son were secretly happy, and things had been moving in the direction they expected.

"Squeak!" With a sound, the cabin door has been opened by that thing, and the light in the cabin instantly casts on the deck.

At the same time, four children screamed in terror from the cabin.

"It's now!"

Kang Rongfa let out a deep cry, jumped off the side of the boat with Kang Kun, and jumped into the rushing river.

The water demon was about to attack the people in the cabin soon, and Jiang Yuan was too busy dealing with it, so he had no time to care about the two of them.

By the time the water demon had eaten enough and left, the two of them had already fled far away.

The two people who entered the water were like two nimble fish. Although they were constantly being rushed downstream by the rushing river, they still swam towards the shoal little by little.

Inside the cabin, Jiang Yuan was still sitting calmly behind the table.

The four children hid behind Jiang Yuan in horror, looking at the monster at the cabin door.

I saw that it was a humanoid monster covered with scales, its body was slightly bent, it looked like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child, but its arms were surprisingly long, almost hanging on the ground.

There are many fins on its body, eyes on both sides of the cheeks, a protruding forehead, and a pointed mouth full of fine fangs.

Looking at this monster, Jiang Yuan couldn't help feeling a little disappointed:

"Is this the water demon? It can whet my appetite, but it smells of weakness."

The aura of this water demon is much weaker than that of the human-faced centipede.

The only thing that makes sense is that both of them give Jiang Yuan a desire to eat them.

Jiang Yuan shook his head helplessly, and said to the water demon at the door:
"Bold enough, just come in."

However, the water demon has been standing at the door of the cabin. It turned its face sideways and stared at Jiang Yuan with one eye.

Its nails are sharp, with water droplets falling from them.But it seemed to be very cautious, just standing at the door, but did not step into the door.

The two sides confronted each other for a while, and Jiang Yuan became impatient.

He got up:
"At first, I thought that you didn't even have the qualifications to die at my hands. But now you dare not come in and don't get out, which makes me very embarrassed. Just... eat you!"

Seeing Jiang Yuan standing up, the water demon at the door trembled all over, then quickly turned and fled from the hatch.

"Crash!" A sound of water soon sounded.

Apparently the water demon has escaped into the water.

The children were dumbfounded. They thought they were about to be buried in the belly of the demon, but they didn't expect the demon to run away by themselves.

Jiang Yuan didn't chase after him either, he told the four children:

"Pack up your things, bring more clothes and gold and silver, we are leaving."

The four children were still in shock, but under Jiang Yuan's order, they went into the bedroom and began to clean up the clothes.

After a while, two sharp screams suddenly came from the river.

The four children heard the cry and recognized the screamer:
"It's Grandpa Kang and the others!"

Followed the children across the river and ran quickly to the outside of the cabin.

The screams continued for a while in the night, and finally subsided gradually.

After a while, the children returned crying:

"Grandpa Kang and the others were dragged into the water by that water demon!"

Jiang Yuan naturally also heard that the father and son were trying to use the water monster to deal with themselves, so as to make it easier for them to escape.

I'm afraid they never thought until their death that the water demon would be scared away by themselves, and thus enter the water to chase and kill the father and son.

Under Jiang Yuan's order, the four children soon each carried a bulging burden.

Most of the baggage contained necessities for life, and many of them were heavy with gold and silver, which made every child feel uncomfortable.

Then Jiang Yuan led them to the side of the boat, embraced all four children with his arms, and jumped to the shallows several feet away.

Now that the boatman is dead, the passenger ship has lost its function, and if it is kept, it will be exposed.

And the father and son chose to escape from this place, which must lead to a place where people live.Jiang Yuan also chose to enter Wushe County from here to start a new life.

He picked up a football-sized rock from the ground and hurled it toward the passenger ship.

"Oh!"

The stone hit the passenger ship like a cannonball, and the huge force quickly smashed a hole in the passenger ship, and the icy river water kept pouring into the bilge.

Jiang Yuan didn't stop, and threw a few more stones in succession.

Under the gaze of everyone, the passenger boat sank to the bottom of the river bit by bit.

The four children began to cry, and Jiang Yuan didn't know whether they were for the passenger ship or for the Kang family and his son.

"Let's go," he said.

The deeper the dew, the more weeds grow around the shallows.

He took the four children and walked towards the land in the darkness.

Farther away, there are no steep mountain walls, but vast grasslands.

On the endless grassland, the cruel and dark night sky is like a pot buckling on the earth.

The night wind swirled and raged in this empty space, and the overgrown weeds swayed from side to side, one after another.The entire prairie is like a turbulent sea full of murderous intent, as long as you dare to go deep into it, it will swallow you mercilessly, leaving no bones left.

Five figures shuttled through the grassland, as insignificant as fallen leaves in the sea.

"Look!" Qian Luo suddenly pointed at the sky and shouted, "It's so beautiful!"

Everyone raised their heads and looked up at the night sky. The dancing luminous light was like a gorgeous wedding dress, looking for the most beautiful bride, and it was also like a sad confession, waiting for a lover to listen attentively.

The Milky Way is gurgling and flowing, reminding people that time is fleeting and past love is hard to get back.The stars are like kites on your fingertips. As long as you hold your finger lightly, it will slowly approach you, but it will never reach you.

The children blinked their big eyes and looked up at the brilliant starry sky.

The night wind froze them and tightened their clothes, but their rosy faces were as pure as the stars and the moon.

Jiang Yuan also stared blankly for a while, at this moment, he felt a little homesick.

It's a pity that I can't go back.

He turned his gaze to the far distance of the grassland, where it was pitch black, and the deep outline of the mountains could be faintly seen.

"I hope that the following life will be as beautiful as this night sky."

(End of this chapter)