Chapter 105: Tail Ship 23
Leng Wenhan suddenly appeared, bowed with fear, and stood coldly in front of Jiang Yuelu.
His figure is between that of a teenager and a young man, with a sense of beauty without any excess.
Like a taut white frost bow, an invisible protective barrier was stretched out in front of Jiang Yuelu. Countless wandering souls obeying his orders gathered under the wooden planks and opened their bloody mouths towards the ship owner and his party.
A sharp breath brushed past Tong Mian's fingers, and blood spurted out. He immediately stopped his handsome pose and shouted, "Hurry, hurry, hurry, Leng Wenhan!"
"Don't get too angry and affect innocent people!"
Leng Wenhan didn't even give him a spare glance, instead signaling Jiang Yuelu to be at ease.
Jiang Yuelu was so surprised that they appeared out of nowhere.
"How come you guys..."
“It’s a long story.” Tong Mian blew on his fingers. Just as he was about to speak, Leng Wenhan pushed him out. “Fuck—what on earth are you going to do?!”
Leng Wenhan: "Silence."
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground with Jiang Yuelu as the center suddenly spread outward in a vortex shape, flowing rapidly, faster and faster, as if an invisible hand was beating the black egg liquid madly.
Sticky bubbles rolled around his feet, and unknown water vapor came out with a hissing sound.
"Get up!" Leng Wenhan said lightly.
Two wandering souls rushed out from the ground, and flew to Jiang Yuelu's feet like the wind. They bared their fangs, laughed, and kicked the air bubble away, steadily lifting Jiang Yuelu up. From a distance, it looked like he was stepping on a ball of gray-white mist that was making a laughing sound and soaring into the sky.
Tong Mian: "Lord Luoyinguan is awesome. Following you, I will have a stable happiness."
Having said that, he was not willing to be left behind. He put two fingers together and recited the command quickly. A huge shadow outline of a valley gate appeared behind the three people. On the central plaque, there was a big word "Tong" written on it. A strong smell of medicine wafted out, completely enveloping their figures.
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
What he did.
He seemed to do nothing.
Leng Wenhan: "They are coming."
A distant whistle sounded in the air, and the incision compressed into an ellipse once again split the air, exactly the same as the gap that appeared before Tong Mian and the others. The ship owner knew that something bad was going to happen again, and he stared at the empty air with all his attention, giving up the idea of strangling Jiang Yuelu.
A larger incision appeared beside Drake, and the gap became larger and larger, and in less than a moment it became a full three-dimensional circle. Gurian and Akin walked out pushing a rocking chair.
The rocking of the rocking chair caused the baby to burp.
The boat owner narrowed his eyes, "Is it you?"
The baby sat up and said in a baby voice, "Qiong, long time no see."
With the addition of another group of people, the space became even more cramped, but the two rows of ghosts were each in their own camp, standing at both ends clearly separated by a stagnant river in the middle, so it did not appear crowded to the naked eye.
No one crossed the river first.
It seemed as if they were both waiting in the tense atmosphere for the other party to make the first move.
"Uh ah... Daddy..."
Drake was rescued by Gurian. The corners of his mouth were torn into pieces and the blood soaked the fluorescent ribbon. However, compared with the wound, another blow made him more discouraged.
"I'm sorry I couldn't satisfy you." Drake turned his head away regretfully.
Jiang Yuelu sighed in her heart.
He finally understood that this was a game within a game.
Drake thought that his long-term inquiries had not been attacked by the other party, but the ship owner had known about it for a long time, but pretended to be unaware and set up an ambush today. And these may have been heard by his father through other channels, so he took advantage of the situation and advanced the planned time.
To make the scene more realistic, Dad didn't even tell Drake.
He acted in such an ignorant way...being manipulated like a chess piece by two old foxes, and no one cared whether he lived or died.
However, this poor guy who was kept in the dark did not resent his father at all, and still felt regretful for not completing the task...
Even Jiang Yuelu was impressed by such a spirit of dedication.
"It's alright, my child." The baby forgave him mercifully. "I will repay you a hundredfold for the pain you have suffered today."
Drake burst into tears: "Father..."
The ship owner said quietly, "I say, when will this disgusting family drama end? It's almost making me vomit. Drake, are you sure your cheap father is not your long-lost grandson?"
Drake exploded in anger, "I'll kill you!"
"Oh—try as you please!"
The tense atmosphere seemed to have reached a critical point. The ship owner's men took the lead in smashing the wine bottles. With a loud bang, the door was immediately broken open. Countless security guards immediately surrounded the old man, and the situation was reversed overwhelmingly.
The ship owner sneered: "I don't know what you are thinking. Have you really thought you are the 'dad' after being flattered for so many years? You dare to intrude into my territory with just a few soldiers."
The baby laughed.
His innocent and romantic laughter echoed throughout the room, adding a fairy-tale atmosphere to the fight before his eyes. But this atmosphere was also dark.
"Joan, my poor Joan. Look at you now, so full of energy, so different from the past."
The baby smiled slightly, and his blue eyes swept across the ghosts in happiness: "Your captain never told us his past story? God, he really doesn't regard you as his own people."
"How long ago was that? Was it not long since the capital master left? Or did a large number of wandering souls just pour in from the ghost market? So many cruel ghosts pounced on the ship, just like attracting a pack of wolves that had lost their minds. The way they fought and gnawed scared your lord. That's right, Joan."
The baby asked in surprise: "Were you scared to the point of peeing that day?"
Gurian and Kim chuckled, and even Derek was lying on the ground laughing like a bellows.
The ship owner's face turned even darker. He was about to retaliate with gritted teeth, but he seemed to remember something, slowly sat back, and accepted the harsh ridicule indifferently.
"Time is ruthless. People and ghosts will change. Who can escape this change? But you still like young people as you did in the past."
"Is this baby's body your new residence? I thought you kept this group of loyal boys just to facilitate your future move."
The owner shrugged. "Look, I thought a lot of bad things of you."
What Dad hated most was that others alienated the relationship between family partners. He sat in the rocking chair, and his smile gradually disappeared. Gurian and Jin knew that this was a sign that their father was about to get angry.
"I'm curious."
"Why do you think this is the first step?"
The baby burped, but his words were full of majesty. "The resistance never blows the horn. They will appear after the sun sets. Now that I have come to your territory, I am absolutely sure to change its name and make it mine. Ours. Desperately."
The ship owner frowned at the meaningful words and looked at his men beside him.
"Don't waste your time asking questions. I'll tell you the truth."
Dad was very happy when talking about their recent achievements.
"As early as yesterday, when Guiliuju was in chaos because of the loss of an auction item, I had asked Ah Jin to lead people to secretly ambush in Xingfuli. Now you can't contact not only the commercial district, but also most other places." Dad glanced at the corner, "Qiao, I advise you not to act rashly. Now your family is full of our people."
Qiao sneered: "Just kill that kind of wife..."
Dad interrupted him, "So, you don't even want the happiness hidden in the basement?"
"…………you?!"
Joe was furious and said, "Didn't Drake say that you should wait until the day of the game to take action?"
The ship owner said coldly, "Isn't it obvious? We have all been deceived by this cunning man in front of us. What he drinks every day in the castle is not milk powder, but probably brains squeezed into juice - he looks like a child, but he is actually full of tricks!"
Dad smiled and said, "You're not bad at all. You caught Drake in return. I didn't expect that."
"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. You are still more skilled."
"It's you..."
The leaders on both sides poured arsenic into their sweet words, and they hacked back and forth. Finally, the boat owner seemed to have thought of something. He wondered: Wait.
Could it really be as fast as he said?
The happy empire created by a dozen of them, everything that took them decades to build, was destroyed in just one day?
He slowly reacted, his eyes rolled, and he began to think, "I didn't expect that in addition to the commercial district and Guiliu Residence, you also controlled that place."
Dad remained calm, "Of course, everything is under our control."
Why not just answer?
The ship owner became even more suspicious and tried again, "If you want to get close to that place, I'm afraid a lot of ghosts will die. It seems that you are really risking your life this time."
Dad: "You have to pay a price to survive, right? We all know that."
But what he didn't expect was that the boat owner sat back calmly.
Suddenly, he became confident and calm.
The little baby didn't understand what was going on, so he continued to talk about his plan: "So, do you want to step down, or do you want us to take care of it ourselves? Let me make it clear first, I personally think the former can preserve dignity..."
"Oh, come on. God, I really can't stand it anymore..." The captain suddenly laughed exaggeratedly.
He wiped away the empty tears from the corners of his eyes, "Come on, kid, stop lying."
Dad was stunned, "I don't understand what you are talking about..."
"You were fooling me. From the beginning. You had no intention of showing your honesty in front of your old friend."
The ship owner taunted, "I dare say that what you just said was all bluffing. Yes, you may really have won half the battle. Change this damn smiley face back to your logo."
He tore off the happy smile on his face and cursed viciously: "But don't try to change mine, ours! Look, they are still smiling--!"
"Joe."
"I am here, dear captain."
"No one will interrupt you this time, damn it, let me see if my happiness has fallen as he said!" He smashed the cup viciously, and the residue reflected a pair of deep blue eyes of a baby, which had lost their previous clarity and were stained with the turbid color of anger and shame.
Soon, scenes on the ship appeared before us.
The registration center is filled with ghosts redeeming their happiness.
The streets were filled with the noise of panic buying.
In the sky, red beads melting with happiness are flying.
…
"Joe, you screwed up. What do you see when you look at it like this?"
"I'll teach you how to do it."
He smiled maliciously and pulled out a familiar scale from behind his back.
When they saw what he took out, Dad and his group all changed color.
Tong Mian: “What is that??”
"A scale?" Jiang Yuelu asked in surprise, "It's in his hands?"
The ship owner said in a gloomy voice: "The Lord of the Capital gave me the ship to manage and left me this trump card to protect the ship. He once said that when the time comes, I can use it completely..."
"As time went by, I thought there would be no such moment. But someone insisted on disrupting the peaceful sailing... and even hoisted their own sails. I will never allow this."
The ship owner looked at the rusty scale with fascination, "My treasure... It can not only measure people's hearts, but also play a greater role... Only in my hands."
He smiled triumphantly.
"Next, I'll let you take a good look!"
With a light sigh from him, the scale suddenly broke away from his hands, floated high in the sky, and floated to the opposite side of Jiang Yuelu, looking at him silently like a horizontal track in his vertical pupils.
The ship owner whispered an obscure ancient word, and a tearing sound was heard from the rusty shaft. Its body instantly split into two, and each of them flew up.
The silk thread connecting the shaft to the silver plate slowly began to take on color, one side was deep red, the other side was rusty black, as if something was continuously flowing out of the shaft, turning into two streams of liquid in different colors.
The boat owner looked up, and even though it was the second time he saw it, he couldn't help but be intoxicated by it.
"All the ghosts... all the ghosts on this ship have to pass through it before boarding... Your happiness and suffering have long been deeply remembered by it. It understands your own joy and sorrow better than you do."
Jiang Yuelu whispered: "All..."
He suddenly realized something and opened his eyes wide.
Could it be——
The ship owner was intoxicated and said, "Everything, everything is in it! Come, now let us see how much happiness and pain there is on this ship——"
"I win—or you lose!"
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