Chapter 56: Water Fairy (3)

In the night, the screams were like a drop of thick ink dropped into clear water, spreading outward from the center and staining the entire area of ​​water.

Li Yuanying opened the door and walked gently into the corridor. When she was about to approach the room, she heard a "puff" sound. The door of the room where the scream came from turned blood red, and blood seeped out from the wooden door.

Gurgle gurgle.

Like boiling water, the blood kept oozing out.

The blood dripping onto the ground flowed toward the corridor like a living thing.

Li Yuanying began to run back. The blood kept spreading on the ground. It seemed to reject the third room, avoiding it, and then seeping into the cracks in the doors of other rooms.

Li Yuanying ran into the house and locked the door.

She heard the gurgling sound of blood. When it reached the door, the blood stopped. Then she heard a bang, as if a heavy object hit the ground. The heavy object seemed to be spherical. It rolled up and after a while hit Li Yuanying's door heavily.

Bang.

Bang.

Bang.

Suddenly, a woman's voice asked faintly, "Excuse me, is your stuff lost?"

Li Yuanying knew that the thing was outside, but the sound seemed to be right next to her ear.

Bang.

Bang.

The sound of the heavy object hitting something became louder and louder.

"Answer me, did you lose this thing?"

Li Yuanying felt strange. With such a big commotion outside, no one noticed?

Li Yuanying looked at the embroiderers. They had been acting strangely since last night. They seemed to be sleeping very soundly and would not wake up no matter what happened.

Li Yuanying leaned in close to the embroiderer. She was sleeping so soundly that the noise outside had no effect on her. Li Yuanying nudged the embroiderer, but she remained motionless. Li Yuanying pinched her again, but she still didn't budge.

Something is wrong. He is sleeping too deeply.

It seems that the thing outside can only make trouble all the time, and it seems that it can't get into the house.

After waiting for a while, Li Yuanying felt tired. She lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

On the third day, when everyone woke up, they found that the captain was missing, but Agou was found. It would be better to say that part of him was found - his head.

The head stood upright at the door of Li Yuanying's room. Agou's expression was horrified, his eyeballs were about to pop out, blood and tears were pouring out of his tear glands, his mouth was slightly open, and his face was full of despair.

There were five crew members in total, but only three were left. When they saw Agou's head, their expressions were extremely ugly. The three of them hurriedly ran to the stern, avoiding Li Yuanying and the others.

"I, I said no, we can't do this..." The crew member named Agang was pale and he collapsed on the ground.

"Look at what you've accomplished!" Qiangzi slapped Agang, making him see stars.

The crew member who had been silent the whole time spoke up: "We are almost at Jinsha Port. We will unload the goods at Jinsha Port before dark."

"But... the boss said that thing can't be brought ashore. If it does, within three days, we..." Ah Gang burst into tears at this point. "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have followed you into this!"

"What's the point of crying now!" Qiangzi was getting increasingly annoyed. "Fifth brother, tell me, why didn't that trick work? Why have those three been fine?"

The man Qiangzi called Fifth Brother pondered for a moment and said, "We can actually try the method that the boss proposed before."

The three of them looked at each other and reached a consensus.

During lunch, Qiangzi gathered everyone on the deck and said he had something to discuss.

Li Yuanying asked Xiu Niang and Shiwu to stay in the room and not come out, and she went to the deck alone.

"Why don't those two in your room come out?" Qiangzi looked impatient.

"They are sick. If they come out, they might infect you." Li Yuanying pretended to be embarrassed.

Qiangzi clicked his tongue and ignored Li Yuanying.

"Okay, I have something important to discuss with you." Qiangzi said as he picked up a velvet bag from the ground. "I found this in the dead boss's room."

Qiangzi was about to tear open the velvet bag but was stopped by the couple.

"Wait a minute, your business has nothing to do with us. We don't care what's in your boss's room." After saying that, the couple wanted to leave.

Qiangzi looked at Agang and his fifth brother. The two men stopped the couple with malicious looks on their faces.

"Hey? Where are you going?" Agang grabbed the woman's hand, while the fifth brother grabbed the man's arm.

"What do you want to do?" The man's voice was low and there was a fierce look in his eyes.

"Ha! That's quite cruel!" A Gang slapped the man on the head.

The man glanced at Agang, adjusted his hair, and then punched Agang in the face.

"Go!" the man shouted to his wife.

The woman looked at the man with some concern. At this time, the fifth brother took out a machete more than one meter long from behind and chopped at the man.

Fortunately, the man was agile. He turned sideways and the long knife hit the deck. The fifth brother had to use a lot of effort to pull it out.

"None of you can escape!" Qiangzi roared. He tore the velvet bag, and snow-white pearls as big as quail eggs fell out. These pearls were dazzling and colorful.

When the pearls flew out, they emitted a strange glow under the sunlight, attracting everyone to look at them unconsciously.

Li Yuanying was so engrossed in watching that it seemed as if her soul was captivated.

The couple and several other crew members were also stunned, as if the farce had not happened.

Only after all the pearls fell to the ground with a clatter did the six people on the deck regain their senses.

Qiangzi showed an evil smile on his face: "Okay, now we are all in the same boat."

Agang and his fifth brother began to pick up the pearls on the ground and put them into a new bag.

Li Yuanying picked up a pearl from the deck and held it above her head. Judging from its brilliance, it must be the legendary Tears of the Demon.

Li Yuanying had heard her father say that Ling Yao's tears were the most miserable in the world. Ling Yao didn't have tears, and only when she was deeply falsely accused and wronged would she weep blood that turned into tears, which then fell to the ground like pearls.

This is a symbol of Lingyao's pain.

Ever since meeting Ling Yao, Li Yuanying has been constantly recalling the details of the time she and her father encountered Ling Yao. Seven people died that time, and at the time, Li Yuanying simply thought Ling Yao was killing people randomly.

But now she understood. It must be what these seven people did that led to the murder. After discovering the bloody word "one" under the bed, Li Yuanying figured out the problem.

This "壹" indicates that someone wants to change Ling Yao's killing order.

The reason they wanted to change was because they knew Ling Yao would come to kill them, just like those seven people back then.

Just because he wanted to understand this, Li Yuanying remembered that the seven people back then had one thing in common, that is, they all got off the boat when they docked in Heishui.

At that time, Li Zhongdao had to deal with some matters, so he stayed on the boat with Li Yuanying. At the same time, two servants also stayed behind.

After those horrific seven days, all the people who had gotten off the ship died except for those who stayed on the ship when it docked.

After seeing this pearl, Li Yuanying finally understood why Ling Yao came to them.

Because they both then and now have angered Ling Yao by stealing her pain - her shame and resentment.

"Anyone who sees Ling Yao's tears must die!" Qiangzi said viciously, "You saw it too, so you must die too! Since you are unwilling to obey, let's go to hell together!"

Li Yuanying looked coldly at the remaining three crew members. They were indeed a group of cowards, and cunning cowards at that.

They stole Ling Yao's pearl. In order to avoid being hunted down, these vicious crew members first numbered the beds from one to eight to guide Ling Yao to kill people in order every day.

So, on the first night, under the bed in Li Yuanying's room were the numbers "one" to "three", while the couple living next door to them were the numbers "four" and "five".

It can be said that Li Yuanying and the other five were scapegoats for these five crew members.

After the first night, the crew was surprised to find that the dead were not Li Yuanying and his party, but the crew members. The captain immediately readjusted the numbers under the beds and reassigned the rooms.

This explains why the number "Lu" was originally written under the bed where Li Yuanying slept last night, then it was crossed out and finally "Yi" was written.

However, the crew members did not expect that changing the order would still not prevent their own deaths.

At this point, they could no longer tolerate it and decided to take Li Yuanying and the others down with them.

"For us, it doesn't matter whether we die or not." Li Yuanying shrugged. "It's just a matter of whether we are harmed by you openly or secretly."

"No, little girl, it's not that simple..." The man looked at Qiangzi warily and moved closer to Li Yuanying.

"If it's just a low-level spell like theirs that attracts the Ling Yao, it might be possible for it to escape. But if it comes to seek revenge after seeing the Ling Yao's tears, they will use the locking technique," said the woman in the couple.

"Miss, what is your name?"

"Your surname is Li, the same as in dawn. Sir and Madam, what are your names?"

"Hello, Miss Li. Please tell me your surname is Zhou."

"Mr. Zhou, hello, Mrs. Zhou."

"Miss Li, you're too polite."

"Hearing what Madam Zhou said, you two know a lot about Ling Yao?" Li Yuanying asked.

"To be honest, we are from the Black Water region. Ling Yao are mostly born in the Black Water region, so we know them well."

"It seems you are experts. No wonder you were able to dodge our spells." Qiangzi snorted coldly, interrupting Master Zhou. "If that's the case, then let's work together to find a way to deal with this Ling Yao."

He paused, his mouth widening into a ferocious grin. “Otherwise, tonight, there’s a two-fifths chance you’ll be targeted.”

Two-fifths.

The probability is indeed not low.

However, this group of people did not know that she already had the demon pill of the Demon King Evil God, and the mere Ling Yao could no longer lock onto her.

And this seemingly ordinary couple may not be as simple as the crew thinks.

Li Yuanying pretended to be very scared and said, "Then, then how do you want us to cooperate?"

Qiangzi and his group had already come up with an idea. A cunning glint flashed in his eyes: "As long as we have a virgin sacrifice, we can appease the anger of the Lingyao."