Under the dim moonlight, its sly eyes seemed to be examining the three of us.
Everything becomes better with age, and the white raccoon boy in the Willow Forest taught me a great lesson.
It is also recorded in the Nine Arts of Yin Sheng that there are five types of immortals: grey, yellow, white, willow and fox.
This fox with white fur is clearly the fox fairy!
The Gray Fairy bit Miao Guangyang's finger before, and something happened to Miao Guangyang immediately.
This fox fairy is also something that is not easy to mess with.
I'm thinking about how to drive it away so as to avoid conflict with it.
He Zhi suddenly raised his hand, flicked his forearm, and threw the lightning-struck wooden mourning stick straight towards the Fox Fairy!
With a scream of "squeak", the fox fairy slipped back into the woods!
There was another soft "chi" sound, and half of the mourning stick plunged directly into the soil on the shore.
"This..." I hesitated.
He Pheasant's tone was slightly cold: "Rat is used to stealing food, yellow-skinned chickens are stealing chickens, and foxes are fooling people. This thing is more charming than a white raccoon. Don't look at its eyes, and don't let it get close to us." Obviously. , there was more vigilance in her words.
I immediately knew that He Pheasant and He Gui Po had probably come into contact with the Fox Fairy before.
"Mr. Li, the coffin is here, and there is no one behind it." Liu Huayan's voice brought me back to my thoughts.
My eyes fell on the water of the hanging river again, and I noticed that the bamboo raft was only a few dozen meters away from us.
I adjusted my breathing slightly and whispered to He Zhi and Liu Huayan that I should go into the water and bring the coffin to the shore, and asked them to look around and pay attention to giving me signals.
The two girls nodded at the same time.
I walked quickly to the river without hesitation, kicked my legs on the edge of the river bank, and with a sudden force, I jumped into the water!
I haven't been in the water for a long time, and the sudden coldness made my body overactive and stiff for a moment.
But after a while, I adapted to the temperature of the water, and actually felt that the river water made my head clearer.
I swam quickly in the direction of the bamboo raft and coffin.
Not long after, I reached the middle of the hanging river, and the bamboo raft was already in front of me.
The dimly burning candle was flickering in and out of sight under the breeze of the river, as if it would be completely extinguished at any moment.
The red clothes as tributes, as well as the heads of big animals such as pigs, cattle and sheep, gave people an indescribable sense of oppression.
As for the dark coffin, it felt even more cold.
If we hadn't come here, there would have been another innocent soul in this hanging river who could not be reincarnated.
Soon I approached the raft and grabbed a protruding bamboo from its edge with one hand.
The things on top are piled up so much that there is no space for people to stand up.
There are no bamboo poles on the bamboo raft.
I simply took off the green hemp rope on my shoulder, tied one end between my waist and abdomen, and tied the other end to the bamboo raft.
The moonlight and stars reflected on the water, creating sparkling waves, but the oppression around me made me feel like there were countless pairs of eyes peeking at me from the dark.
I am extremely careful with the movements of my hands and highly alert.
The river god is an old beast in the river.
They are used to being worshiped, so I just snatch them away now, for fear that they will come out and cause trouble.
I'm always ready to take action. No matter if it's a white-haired water ghoul or something else I've never seen before, I'm going to fight it!
However, until I tied the rope and started swimming towards the shore, nothing came out of the water to stop me.
I didn't dare to waste time, dragging the raft and swimming at a very slow speed.
Sweat melted into the river, and my body felt hot and cold, which made me feel very uncomfortable.
It took me a quarter of an hour to finally swim back to the shore. As soon as I climbed ashore, I shivered.
Not caring about anything else, I turned around and started pulling on the rope.
He Zhi and Liu Huayan also stepped forward to help.
We dragged the entire bamboo raft onto the turf on the shore!
He Zhi jumped to the coffin.
She fumbled for an iron drill from her body, inserted it along the edge of the coffin, found a suitable angle, and pried it hard.
The coffin lid immediately opened a gap.
"Help!" He Zhi shouted.
I quickly stepped forward and pushed forward from behind the coffin lid. Liu Huayan also came to the side of the coffin and helped me push it together!
With a "squeak" sound mixed with a muffled sound, we pushed half of the entire coffin lid out.
Suddenly, a person sat upright in the coffin.
The man screamed and turned around suddenly!
Her young cheeks were full of panic, and her eyes were full of fear and despair.
And the next moment, there was more shock and uneasiness in her eyes.
She suddenly held the right edge of the coffin with both hands, obviously trying to escape.
With quick eyes and quick hands, He Fei reached the right side of the coffin in a flash and held her shoulder.
The expression on the girl's face went from fear and despair to collapse.
She was trembling so much that she cried. Her whole body was shaking, but she did not continue to try to escape. She just closed her eyes hard, and her sobs were even more pitiful and desperate.
I frowned, and then I realized that this girl had accepted her fate and regarded us as river gods?
He Zhi next to him took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions, and said calmly: "We are here to save you!"
"Come down first." As he spoke, He Zhi reached out and held the girl's shoulders and arms to pull her out of the coffin.
It wasn't until the girl's feet landed that she looked at us blankly.
"You...are not the River God?" Her voice was very thin and gentle, still filled with uneasiness and fear.
At this time, Liu Huayan spoke: "Girl, we passed through Maojia Village just now, and happened to encounter villagers who offered you as a sacrifice to the river god, so we came downstream to save your life."
Liu Huayan's voice was soft and sincere, making people feel calmer after listening to it.
However, the next moment the girl's eyes were even more flustered, even anxious.
She broke away from He Zhi's hand and actually climbed back into the coffin. At the same time, she said urgently: "Hurry up and push me back into the water. I am the sacrifice chosen by the River God! I must get into the water..." I frowned suddenly. The frown deepened.
He Zhi grabbed the girl's shoulders again, and now her tone was a bit stern.
"Don't be stupid, what did they say to you?! You are just risking your life! What a river god, he is obviously a river ghost, and he wants human life to be sacrificed!" It was obvious that He Fei's voice was still full of anger.
But the girl cried even harder, and the two lines of tears on her cheeks were like broken beads.
The next moment, she fell to her knees with a plop, and even kept kowtowing to us, pleading: "Please let me go back, I must be a sacrifice to the river god, otherwise Mr. Bai will not Save my parents, the river god will be angry, and our village will be destroyed..."
