The man fled all the way and looked back again and again.
Limping across the beach, he pulled a small boat out from behind a boulder.
He jumped on the bow of the boat and paddled vigorously. In an instant, he was already more than ten feet away from the shore. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief.
Suddenly I was startled and trembled for no reason.
Turning around, I didn't know when there was someone else on the stern of the boat.
Lin Ji sat sideways on the bow of the boat, swung his long sword in his hand, and scratched off the black scarf covering the man's face.
"What? Honghualou's fifty-tael monthly salary can't keep you?" Lin Ji asked with a smile.
This man is the boatman who goes to and fro to see off guests in a magnificent way!
At that time, Lin Ji felt a little strange.
Would a man with a cultivation level at the peak of the Sixth Realm be willing to work as a boatman for a monthly salary of fifty silver?
But at that time, he didn't think much about it. He thought he was practicing this kind of technique and wanted to use it to enter the Tao.
After chasing him all the way, he just felt that the figure looked familiar. It was not until he got on the boat to paddle that he dared to confirm it.
The boatman was startled, and the muscles on his face trembled unnaturally twice: "As expected of Lin Tianguan, it's not unfair to die in your hands!"
Lin Ji smiled and said: "If I want you to die, the sword in the water prison is enough! Why bother? Tell me, who are you?"
The boatman also smiled and asked without answering: "I also want to ask Lin Tianguan, now that the Qin Dynasty has disappeared and the Supervisor Tiansi has become a thing of the past, why are you doing this?"
"It's not for anyone else. You don't have to check my itchy hands." Lin Ji was still smiling, and then he put force on his wrist, forcing the boatman to bend down.
But the sword wound on his leg was still bleeding, and he couldn't help it anymore, and he immediately fell to his knees.
Although the boatman was at the pinnacle of the Six Realms, he was powerless to fight back in front of Lin Ji. He was almost no different from an ordinary person.
Lin Ji's sword turned, he put it against his throat and raised his chin and said, "If you don't want to say it, it's the same if I ask, did you kill Zhao Weiguo?"
The boatman said with a straight face: "Now that I've fallen into your hands, I'll kill you if you want. I won't say anything!"
Lin Ji smiled and said: "Yesterday, at about this time, the same sword, in almost the same position, was pressed against the neck of the Water Mandrill Demon King. She is a great demon king who has lived for thousands of years, and she is even afraid of it. Damn it, you actually said you’re not afraid of death?”
"Okay, I believe it too!" Lin Ji said, slashing open the hidden compartment hidden at the stern of the ship with his sword, and with a clatter, a sheet of white and golden silver and gold ingots was revealed.
"Since you are determined to die, what use do you secretly save so much gold and silver? You may not be afraid of death, but your family is not afraid either. Have you lived enough?"
The boatman's eyes flashed, and he was obviously panicked.
Lin Ji pretended not to see it and continued: "I just saw that after you left the shore, you would rather turn the tide and go all the way north. There is only Yunzhou to the north of Xuzhou, so your family must be there?"
"You should have a son and a daughter." Lin Ji looked at the pile of red agate hairpins and silver rattles sandwiched between gold and silver and said, "You want to make this last deal, then withdraw from the dispute and enjoy your family in peace."
"This is a good idea, but it's a pity. If you hadn't met me, you would have died!"
With that said, Lin Ji grabbed the dry food prepared by the boatman, opened the water bag and got out of the boat.
In an instant, all the fish chasing the boat died, and they were floating on the sea in white flowers.
In fact, this was the snake venom that Lin Ji had left behind after killing Qing Gangzi, and had mixed it into the dry food when the boatman was unprepared.
When the boatman saw it, his expression changed drastically.
Lin Ji seemed to be unaware and continued: "And just now, you should have seen that there was a stain of blood outside the secret door. Do you know who it belongs to? It's the killer of Honghua Building, who is waiting there. It’s yours!”
"Even if you can escape the pursuit, can you really enjoy a happy family life with your family? They may not know who your family is yet, but once you return to Yunzhou, do you think they will be safe? You Can you lead them through the pass?"
"What kind of place is Yunzhou? You know it very well without me telling you. Even if you keep their mouths shut and save their lives, are you willing to let them suffer there for the rest of their lives? Be slaves for generations?"
At this point, Lin Ji stared into the boatman's eyes and said: "Now there is a vast sea all around. No one will hear what you said to me. I will arrange for you to go to Liangcheng first and then pick you up." Your children and their families will be reunited. Otherwise..."
Lin Ji withdrew the Qingzhi Sword and said, "There's no need for me to kill you. Let's see how long the old thief from Li Nan can spare you?"
Lin Ji had already noticed that the boatman also had a black line on the back of his neck that was exactly the same as Lu Cong's, and for some reason the Qingzhi Sword secretly reacted to both Li Nan and the boatman.
It's just that one is extremely strong and the other is very weak.
If it was said that it was caused by the evil arts practiced by these two people, it is not correct. Why didn't he react to Lu Cong?
"Lin Tianguan..." The boatman hesitated for a while and said, "I have long heard that you kept your promise. I...I said that I was indeed the one who killed Zhao Weiguo!"
"Who asked you to go?" Lin Ji asked.
"It's the master... no, it's Li Nanxie Dao who sent me a secret message early yesterday morning, asking me to take advantage of the chaos in the city to sneak into the water prison and kill Zhao Weiguo."
Lin Ji secretly thought: "As expected, that old thief from Li Nan has hidden many secrets in order to conspire against Weicheng! Now that I think about it, the Yuan and Lu families secretly formed a marriage, and Lu Cong killed Jinshan Yu in front of me. , this may all be part of his calculation!"
"If I had killed Yuan Xiu with one sword, or killed Jin Xiaocang in the magnificent scene, then the Fengyun Thunder and Lightning Formation would not have been able to take shape. He didn't even need to take action. Just a few demon kings could have taken over Weicheng!"
"But... what is the purpose of sending a boatman who has hidden himself so deeply to take advantage of the chaos to kill Zhao Weiguo?"
"Why kill Zhao Weiguo?"
"I don't know about this," the boatman said, "I never ask about this kind of thing. Ever since I became my master and learned the magic, I have always acted according to orders without asking about cause and effect."
This is the same as Lu Cong, who was turned into a puppet by that old thief Li Nan!
"Then since you completed the task of killing Zhao Weiguo yesterday, why are you still going today?" Lin Ji asked with some confusion.
"Because... I found out that it was not Zhao Weiguo who died yesterday!"
"Huh?!" Lin Ji was stunned: "It's not Zhao Weiguo? What's going on? Be more careful."
"Yes." The boatman responded: "I killed Zhao Weiguo firstly to complete the mission and obtain the soul-eating pill that Li Nan gave me. Secondly, I also had some selfish motives and wanted to take the opportunity to steal the head of the evil Buddha."
"Lin Tianguan, do you know why Zhao Weiguo has been hiding in the water prison for so many years to practice?" the boatman suddenly asked.
"Why?" Lin Ji was also wondering about this.
