Since Qingqing agreed to the strange request of the young man named Shu to go to the riverside in the early morning, she would never go back on her word.
She was originally such a woman. She had been living in a brothel with her biological mother since she was a child, and was tainted with the spirit of the market, but she had never really made her heart dirty.
It's just that although she won't go back on her word, she is also a carefree person, but she is a woman after all, and she is a little worried after all if she is asked to run to the river alone at four o'clock in the morning.
This worry is not fear, it is purely because Qingqing knows very well what kind of place the dock area is.
This place is full of passing robbers, local gangsters, and gamblers who lose money. You don't know when you will meet someone late at night and what will happen.
So Qingqing went to find her two friends and asked them to accompany her.
What Qingqing does every day is to welcome people and send them off. She knows many people in Huancheng and has friendships with many people.
But when it comes to friends, the kind of friends who can be called out in the middle of the night and accompany her to the riverside for unknown reasons, there are only two, two friends who have played together since childhood.
They are also two friends that Qingqing has always been proud of.
The three of them grew up in the poorest neighborhood next to the dock. The three families were originally neighbors close together. They played together, ate together, and fought with children from other streets. They experienced so many things together, and their relationship was like... Like true siblings.
Although two of her friends later became the richest man in Huancheng, and the other was admitted to the most famous military academy in Dahua and became a soldier with a promising future, she was just a brothel madam. The circumstances were completely different, but it did not affect the relationship between the three people.
However, Qingqing never told anyone that Jin Ziang and Qu Chaoyan were just her friends.
Because although Jin Ziang and Qu Chaoyan would not mind her identity, she would have a bad influence on her two friends if she did mind her own identity.
But when she needs help, Qingqing will still go to Jin Ziang and Qu Chaoyan, and only to those two.
It's just that her two friends seemed to be in a bad mood today.
Qu Chaoyan looked very worried, keeping his head down and saying nothing.
Jin Ziang looked a little better, but he also looked depressed. He was yawning all the way, but he kept chatting with Qingqing.
"Sister Qing, I have told you countless times that you should not continue working in that kind of place. Now that I have some wealth, I will have no problem supporting you for the rest of my life."
"Even if I buy you a big house in Yuzhang City and hire a few servants to make you feel as comfortable as a wealthy lady, why do you have to serve in such a lowly manner in a place like Cuixiang Tower? other people."
"If I leave, what will happen to the girls under me?"
Qingqing glared at him and said:
"If the madam is someone greedy for money, she shouldn't push them into the pit of fire!"
"They are not your relatives, Sister Qing. Why bother dragging yourself in that place for them?"
Jin Ziang sighed.
He has actually discussed this matter with Qingqing many times. As long as Sister Qing is willing to leave a place like a brothel, she can do whatever she wants, even if he raises her for the rest of her life.
Jin Ziang even suggested that if Sister Qing really couldn't let go of those girls, he might as well ransom all the girls.
It's not impossible with his financial resources.
But Qingqing was determined not to let him do this, because it was her business to be reluctant to let go of those girls, and she couldn't let Jin Zi Anghua spend such a large sum of money just for her own softness.
Qingqing's persistence made Jin Ziang helpless.
Because Qingqing was a few years older than him and Qu Chaoyan, he had protected them since they were young, but he also managed them obediently.
Almost no one could have imagined that the richest man in Huancheng, a young officer who had killed many people on the battlefield, would behave like two little rabbits in front of a brothel madam.
"Don't bother me. When I was sixteen, my mother asked an expert in the building to tell my life. He said that I would never leave a place like a brothel in my life, and who Anyone who tries to help me will be in bad luck.”
"That expert who came from out of town was a very accurate fortune teller. Although he only stayed in the building for a month, according to my mother, many of his predictions came true."
Qingqing and Jin Ziang talked all the way, while Qu Chao followed them silently, and the three of them arrived at the edge of the river.
Shu Guan stood in the distance, watching the three people walking towards the river. Of course, it was impossible for him to let those three ordinary people discover his existence.
The initial surprise was somewhat relieved by the breathless conversation between Qing Qing and Jin Ziang. Although he still had some doubts about certain things, there were more important things that required his attention at this time.
Shu Guan put his hand into the river, and immediately used the water control technique. A stream of water flowed quietly in the opposite direction toward the bottom of the river, circling around the four-legged snake lying on the bottom of the river.
The four-legged snake, which had been resting with its eyes closed, opened its golden eyes.
Extreme excitement and excitement emerged in the golden vertical pupils.
Then, it swam hard toward the surface of the river.
This may be the most important swim in its snake life so far.
On the bank of the river, Qingqing looked around, but she couldn't see the young man named Shu who asked her to come to the river in the early morning.
"Sister Qing, what are you looking for?"
Jin Ziang asked in confusion, and Qu Chaoyan finally spoke at this time.
"Sister Qing, you asked the two of us to accompany you to the riverside at this time. What is going on?"
"I don't know either……"
Qingqing looked towards the river bank and said with the same confusion:
"Last night, two strange guests came to the building. They gave me a large amount of money and asked me to accompany them, but they did nothing. They just asked me a few strange questions."
"Later, some guests in the building made trouble, and they helped to solve it. Later, they gave me a sum of money. They only asked me to come to the riverside outside the pier at four o'clock in the morning, but they didn't say what they wanted me to do. .”
When Qing Qing was telling the story, Qu Chaoyan, who was beside her, had changed his expression and his body began to tremble slightly.
"Sister Qing...what are the two people looking for you like?"
Qu Mingyan asked Qingqing in a hoarse voice.
Qingqing glanced at him strangely, feeling that brother Xiaoqu seemed to be a little abnormal today, especially when she went to find him not long ago. When brother Xiaoqu came out of the military camp, his face was frighteningly white, as if he had suffered something. Generally frightened.
I just asked him what happened, but this kid refused to tell him.
Under normal circumstances, no matter it is Qu Chaoyan or Jin Ziang, they will not hide anything from themselves.
Of course, Qingqing didn't think much at this time and replied casually:
"Those two people, one is a young man...well, he is quite good-looking, and the other one cannot tell how old he is. Even in the room, he is wearing a windbreaker, hat, and sunglasses, looking weird."
As a result, Qu Chaoyan's face became paler, and his eyes showed more confusion.
...Did they also go to see Sister Qingqing?
……Why?
At this time, Jin Ziang suddenly touched his head and said with the same confused expression:
"I also encountered a strange thing today..."
"At noon, I invited a group of people to have dinner at Wei Chuanlou. I don't know if I was drunk or something. I seemed to have fallen asleep. When I woke up, I found myself alone in the room."
"Later I asked other people and found out that two people came to see me at noon. Those two people could do magic tricks and turn paper figures into real people. Later, those two people drove away all my guests. They left me alone in the private room. I don’t know what they did to me. I forgot all about it after I woke up... By the way, others told me later that one of those two people was a young man. , and the other one is also a man wearing a trench coat and sunglasses.”
"What!"
Qu Chaoyan let out an exclamation, and at this time his expression had become extremely stunned.
What's going on? Why did those two people even look for Ziang?
What is the purpose of those two people?
Because of his exclamation, both Qingqing and Jin Ziang looked at him in surprise.
Qu Chaoyan seemed to be about to say something. At this moment, a huge splash of water suddenly came from the river in front of the three of them.
Then a huge and ferocious monster head emerged from the river five or six meters in front of them.
The monster's head looked like a huge snake head, but there was a big bulge on the head. It looked like a horn in the dark night. A pair of giant eyes shone with a strange golden light, as if two stars were rising from the river. a bright light bulb.
And these two "light bulbs" continued to rise into the sky.
Because the monster jumped out of the river, its slender body as thick as a bucket, wrapped in pieces of hard scales. The black scales were still clearly visible in the dark night, because those scales also shone with a faint light.
The four-legged snake tried its best to jump out of the river.
During this period, it used the special parade method taught by its senior brother to walk across the river. Its physical strength has increased sharply compared to before leaving Jingcheng. Even Han Biao, who is a zombie puppet, is still weak in this regard. Incomparable to it.
At this moment, he jumped with all his strength, and his huge body jumped into the air nearly twenty meters above the river.
The four-legged snake fully exposed its nearly nine-meter-long body in front of the three people on the riverside. At the same time, it stretched its four legs as much as possible according to Shu Guan's instructions.
And with a full leap, it not only jumped twenty meters into the air from the river, but also slid a dozen meters in the air.
At this moment, the four-legged snake really looked like it was flying.
Then it twisted its body and completed another difficult tumbling action in the air, like a dragon's disk. Then it got back into the river, causing a huge wave. The black body loomed in the river for a few times. , and then disappeared under the river.
On the bank of the river, Qingqing, Qu Chaoyan, and Jin Ziang stood there stiffly, with expressions of nervousness, panic, and fear on their faces.
Shu Guan, who was watching them silently from a distance, was also extremely nervous at this moment.
Although according to his judgment and Xiaoyi's calculation and analysis, the old bustard Qingqing was a person with an unusually clear brain circuit. The probability that he would tell the four-legged snake was a dragon was over 85%.
But after all, there is still a 15% chance that the four-legged snake will fail in its attempt to seal.
It's just a matter of practice, so there's no way it can be 100% problem-free.
Just like normal practitioners, they always bear the risk of going crazy.
The road to immortality is steep, and no one can guarantee how far they can go.
So Shu Guan finally told the four-legged snake about his judgment and the risks of this matter, and let him decide for himself whether he should choose to seek sealing before the big hurdle of nine meters, or wait until later to find Find someone who is more confident in sealing it, and then pursue the matter of sealing it.
Of course, you may never find a more suitable person than this old bustard Qingqing.
The Four-Legged Snake's choice is to ask for the title this time.
And now whether this choice is right or wrong, the result will come out soon.
At this moment, Shu Guan felt as if his heart was lifted into his throat.
After all, he had never thought before that Qingqing would actually bring two people with strange fates, Jin Ziang and Qu Mingyan, together, which made the risk of this matter much higher.
After all, if the other two people speak first, the possibility of the four-legged snake's sealing failure will greatly increase.
Can it be done or not...
…
More than a minute had passed before the monster disappeared into the river.
The three people by the river still stood stiffly and did not speak.
Jin Ziang is actually a very courageous person.
His courage and confidence come from his luck, because he has experienced many seemingly dangerous things in the past, but they always saved him from danger. So slowly, Jin Ziang felt that nothing in the world could hurt him. I naturally become more and more courageous.
Qu Chaoyan is also a very courageous person. After all, he is a soldier who has experienced the real test of blood and fire on the battlefield. During the Central Plains War, he rose from a small platoon leader to a brigade commander through countless battles. In this way People are naturally very courageous.
But neither of them are as courageous as their sister Qingqing.
Their courage was developed later, but Sister Qingqing's courage seemed to be natural.
She has been fearless since she was a child. At the age of three, she dared to sneak into the river to swim. She also dared to run into the wild in the middle of the night to steal corn grown in other people's fields. She even dared to fight with boys who were several years older than her. .
This is also the reason why Jin Ziang and Qu Chaoyan have admired Sister Qingqing since they were young.
Therefore, among the three people, the one who came to his senses first at this time was Qingqing, the old bustard of Cuixiang Tower.
Qingqing swallowed and calmed down.
At this time, she suddenly remembered what the young man named Shu who made her heart beat last night asked her before leaving.
"Do you believe there are dragons in this world?"
After the young man asked this question, she saw such a "strange thing" in the river.
An inexplicable strange feeling surged in the heart of the brothel madam, and then she blurted out a sentence subconsciously.
"What a small dragon!"
Then she turned around and said to her two friends with some excitement:
"We actually saw a dragon just now!"
Qu Mingyan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to refute something, because before that moment, he didn't think that mythical creatures like dragons really existed in this world.
But at this moment, he remembered the two people who "flew" from the sky and landed in his military camp in the afternoon. At this moment, Qu Chaoyan's eyes became a little confused.
"...Yeah, that's a dragon..."
Qu Chaoyan murmured this in a low voice.
As for Jin Ziang, after touching his head, he actually felt that the "strange thing" just now looked more like a snake.
But... Sister Qingqing said whatever she said was what she said. Ever since she was a child, Jin Ziang had never refuted Sister Qingqing, not even anything. Just like Sister Qingqing didn't let him care about her affairs in the brothel, Jin Ziang didn't dare to Take care.
So at this time, Jin Ziang nodded his head in a flattering manner and said:
"Yeah, what a small dragon."
He said these words willingly.
Just after Jin Ziang said these words, Shu Guan, who was standing in the distance, felt his heart that was about to reach his throat finally dropped.
At the same time, in his eyes, he saw three groups of "qi" emerging from the bodies of the three people on the riverside, floating towards the river, and getting into the river.
And in the river, a ball of pure black "qi" rose up, floated towards the three people on the riverside, turned into three wisps, and penetrated into the three people's bodies.
(End of chapter)
