Chapter 85: Tail Ship 03

Xia Yi...

How come he is here!

After being told of Xia Yi's true identity and the bounty order... he could no longer look at him the same way as before. You have to know that he is not a visitor to any ghost city, nor is he the master of the city. He is the ghost king who can kill Ji Hongcha with just a flick of his finger!

Jiang Yuelu felt a palpitation in her heart.

My mind turned eight hundred rapid turns in an instant, and my thoughts raced forward like I was stepping on the accelerator.

What is the situation now?

Is this a second dream, or did he really come?

The cold hand on his waist dissipated like smoke, and Xia Yi's body became like a gathering sand tower, with mist constantly overflowing from the edges. His face seemed like a broken image, and it was difficult to recognize the smile on his face.

It doesn't look real, but like a shadow.

Before Jiang Yuelu could even breathe a sigh of relief, she was suddenly tensed up again because Shadow spoke.

"Maybe I should say hello." Xia Yi looked at him: "But now is not a good occasion for communication. This is not the meeting I have been looking forward to for a long time."

“When old friends who have never met before meet again, they should sit down and talk all night long, accompanied by good wine and a beautiful moon.”

Gray fog covered his red eyes. Looking at Jiang Yuelu who remained silent, he smiled mischievously, "Are you surprised? During the time you were gone, I went to many places by myself and learned a lot."

"Wait a minute." Jiang Yuelu spoke cautiously.

"Last time it happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to explain. Well, is it possible that there are many people with the same name in this world, and you recognized the wrong person?"

The smile on Xia Yi's lips froze instantly, "Impossible."

"But when you first met me, you did say that I was very similar to someone you knew. It sounds like you two had experienced a lot of stories and had a very good relationship. But I really don't have these memories."

Every time he said that, Xia Yi's expression became uglier. At the end, his face was so dark that he could no longer see his expression. Only his two red eyes were exposed, looking at him with anger, "You!"

No means no. Jiang Yuelu thought to herself, no matter how much you glare at me, I won't become a different person just because of your words.

Xia Yi said stiffly, "It doesn't matter. Just because you don't have it now doesn't mean you won't have it in the future. If you go back with me, you'll be able to remember it all."

Who wants to go back with you? Jiang Yuelu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

As if thinking that he was stubborn and not wanting to waste any more time talking to him, Xia Yi floated to his side with a dark face and circled around him, like a puppy sniffing out something.

His face turned worse and worse, and finally turned completely black like the bottom of a pot. He yelled, "Damn it! What did they do to you?"

"Why can't I take you with me!"

The proud Lord Ghost King had never encountered such a thing before. Since he was a ghost, he had no entity. Moreover, he was different from those dead city lords. He had never been "alive" since he was born, so there would be no corpse left behind.

Since you are a shadow, you can come and go freely in dreams.

Today was supposed to be a good day. He finally found a trace of the bounty order and successfully entered Jiang Yuelu's dream. Although the chat was not very pleasant, there was still a long way to go. He could take him back and start slowly, but he didn't expect...

"What did they do?"

Xia Yi's expression was indistinguishable. "It can stop me, which means it's not just ordinary witchcraft. It's very likely to harm you as well. Did they do it on their own initiative, or did you agree to it?"

As soon as Jiang Yuelu opened her mouth, Xia Yi said angrily: "I knew it was you!"

“…”

I didn't say anything, how do you know? He did promise Dean Kong to participate in a ceremony before entering the ghost city. Dean Kong patted his chest and promised, "I will definitely not let that kid get close to you." It seems to be useful.

Jiang Yuelu said with a guilty conscience: "I didn't agree either. It's a very complicated and bumpy process..."

"You don't believe me and you're afraid of me."

"No."

He took two steps closer, stared at her motionlessly, and said sarcastically, "I know you much better than you know me. You just don't trust me and are afraid of me."

Jiang Yuelu looked away and changed the subject, "Well, maybe a little, but you never said you were the Ghost King, so it's normal for me to be surprised."

"Ghost King?" He shook his head and said nothing more. He looked over again with a complicated smile, "He accepted the punishment quickly, and even after accepting it, he still shouted. These things haven't changed at all."

A thin light slowly shone through the edge of the gray fog, and voices calling for Jiang Yuelu to wake up continued to ring above, as if someone had already woken up. Xia Yi looked at him resentfully, and he innocently lifted his eyelids to look back, cheering for Tong Mian and Leng Wenhan in his heart. The long confrontation lasted until the skylight completely poured in, swallowing up Xia Yi's figure.

"I will find you eventually." These were his last words, uttered through gritted teeth.

Jiang Yuelu opened his eyes and sat up, touching his back which was covered with cold sweat. This was the first time he didn't think Tong Mian was talkative, and he was cute in a different way even though he kept talking. "Thank you so much."

Tong Mian was suspicious: "We have been awake for a long time, why did you just wake up?"

Leng Wenhan lay on the bed, like a white puppy, blending into the pure-colored bed. If it weren't for his improved perception, it would be difficult for him to notice someone with such a low sense of presence. The white puppy was now looking at him worriedly.

Jiang Yuelu then recounted the two dreams in brief.

"There's a girl imprisoned on the stern ship asking for help?" Tong Mian scratched his head. "Your dream is really strange."

"Is there anything special about dreams in this sea area?" Jiang Yuelu pondered: "I wonder if the girl in the dream is real."

"Whether it's true or not, we'll know when we get to the boat. Compared to this, I think your second dream is more serious." Tong Mian stamped his foot anxiously, and his thumb was instantly broken. He hugged his foot and screamed for a long time before crawling back with tears in his eyes: "What if he catches up with us?"

He didn't dare to call Xia Yi's name directly.

This big ghost comes and goes without a trace. Since it can sneak into other people's dreams in the middle of the night, it might be eavesdropping in some invisible corner right now.

Jiang Yuelu shook her head, "He probably doesn't know where we are."

Tong Mian calmed down, "That's true. We made full preparations before coming here. Firstly, there are so many Ghost City, he doesn't know which one we went to, and secondly, we have the academy to cover for us." Letting them come to Ghost City was only the first plan, and the auxiliary plan would be implemented by Vice Dean Tong who stayed in the academy.

It is like in a battle, they sneak into the battlefield first, and the rear opens fire to buy them opportunities and time.

"In short, it's always right to be careful. Once we enter the sternboat, we must keep a low profile, speak softly, and be careful when doing things—" Tong Mian limped open the door, and the moisture outside rushed in. "Fuck, what the hell is going on here, there are so many people——!!!"

Leng Wenhan: "..."

After being glanced at coldly, Tong Mian touched his nose and said, "Oh, be low-key, be low-key."

His loud voice had already attracted a group of ghosts on the deck. They turned around with expressions that could not hide their excitement, "We're here, we're here, ah ah ah!"

The ghost market has arrived.

The three of them looked into the distance at the same time.

Their ghost ship had unknowingly sailed out of the foggy sea and into a wide expanse of water. There was not a single ripple on the water, as calm as a huge blue mirror, reflecting the starry sky. They were like a dead leaf floating on the mirror of the Milky Way.

A huge wooden ship is floating above this blue water mirror.

After seeing the two giant trees in Flatiron Town and Snow Village, he thought he would never see anything as huge as this again. But the ship in front of him was even bigger than the giant tree.

The boat is made up of two huge pieces of driftwood, which are like inverted cones, with the sharp end piercing the ocean and the flat end serving as the boat's deck. The two pieces of driftwood are connected by a wooden board, and from a distance they look like an inverted three-dimensional number 8.

If the sail doesn't move, the boat won't move either.

The stern boat floated quietly in the sky, like an object that Nuwa put down when she was mending the sky, and it has been left since ancient times. No one knows how such a huge boat can be stuck in the air.

"This is the stern ship?" Tong Mian muttered, "It's a bit unexpected."

Jiang Yuelu was also surprised.

But he was more surprised because he thought he would face a dark and gloomy ghost ship, but he didn't expect to see a pioneering work of art. Yes, the scenery in front of him combined with the floating ship was more like a pleasing work of art.

If you say this is a ghost market, I'm afraid no one will believe it.

"Ah, if we could see the sun, this sea would be even more beautiful." A female ghost beside him sighed and stretched out her hand, trying to scoop up the starlight in the water. But the handful of water passed through her fingers, as if it passed through invisible mist.

"Ah, you forgot that I'm dead and can't even pick up the stars."

She said with a smile, and threw a coquettish glance at Jiang Yuelu, who withdrew her gaze and said to the other two, "Let's go, get on the boat."

About ten minutes later, they finally arrived directly below the stern ship. As they got closer and looked up, they felt the hugeness of the ship, as if the pressure from the ship was doubling.

Jiang Yuelu felt the powerlessness that Sun Wukong felt when he was pinned under the Five Finger Mountain. Leng Wenhan and Tong Mian felt that, compared with the power of wizards, human power was too limited.

Everyone had their own thoughts, but suddenly they heard a gentle female voice reporting from above.

The sound is so normal that it gives people the illusion that it is like the "Ladies and gentlemen, our flight..." announcement one hears before boarding a plane in modern society.

"Welcome to the stern ship."

"You have come here through untold hardships. All the sufferings you have endured in your life will be offset from now on."

"This is a land of joy and happiness, a calm sea without waves, and a dream city where all your dreams can come true."

The sweet female voice echoed in the air for a long time, and the ghosts on the boat seemed to be drugged and in a daze, "We want to go in, let us go in! Lord!"

The female voice chuckled, "Don't worry, everyone has a share."

"But before entering the stern ship, we must follow the rules to measure your suffering and happiness. After entering, the transaction will no longer be based on money and assets, but on your happiness and suffering."