In the narrow alley, the big man ran and caught up with Bai Qi, yelling and cursing. Just as he was about to grab Bai Qi's collar, Bai Qi suddenly turned around and punched his finger. The punch was directed in any direction and was invincible to anyone who blocked him. His fingers were knocked upside down and dislocated. The big man didn't expect that the other party would attack so cruelly and decisively. Such methods were obviously not at the level of ordinary street fighting. This big man was also a figure in the world who had been together for many years. He finally had some knowledge and realized that something was wrong and turned around and ran away.
Yuan Quan had already blocked his way out. Seeing Yuan Quan's fair and delicate face, the big man thought he was easy to bully. He roared and pounced forward, using his uninjured left hand to grab Yuan Quan's lapel. Yuan Quan quickly ducked behind the big man, raised his leg and kicked the big man on the crook of his leg, knocking him to his knees on the ground. He pulled out his pistol and put it against the back of the big man's head, shouting: "Don't move, if you keep yelling or moving, I'll kill you!"
Li Muye led Ji Xuefei and appeared at the entrance of the alley, and ordered: "Get him into the house first."
Bai Qi opened the door of a house in the alley and carried the big man into the house.
It turns out that this is a newly rented house from the Special Administrative Office. It is located in the urban-rural fringe, an area dominated by bungalows, with crisscrossed alleys, and a mixture of dragons and snakes.
The big man stood in the main room. Li Muye sat next to him and looked at him, saying, "Wu Yinglong, do you know why I'm looking for you?"
"I know, you are here to ask for money." Wu Yinglong said dejectedly: "You guys have such a good nose. I just got the money before I could warm it up, and you came for it. In fact, I really didn't want to default on the debt. You guys didn't even think about it. There’s no need to make such a big battle and ask for money.”
Li Muye said coldly: "Hun Jianglong, you are considered a well-known figure in the local world. I heard that you worshiped the Paizi Gang when you were young. You are as strong as a dragon. You are the leader in the local corpse hunting industry." One share. After being around for so long, you still can’t tell whether we are after money or life? Do you want to live or die? "
When Wu Yinglong heard this, he knelt down and said, "I'm dying."
Li Muye said: "It's very simple. I ask you what you say, and then you do whatever I ask you to do. Do you understand?"
This Wu Yinglong was found by Lao Ye through his old connections, so Lao Ye deliberately avoided it.
Li Muye and Lao Ye had previously conducted research and analysis together and concluded that the main target of Xiaoyao Pavilion and the Xinjiang was the sunken ship in the river. If they wanted to salvage the sunken ship, they would definitely have to invite people who were most familiar with the water conditions in the area to help. Lao Ye's hometown is in Gan Province, and the local gangsters are connected with each other. As long as you inquire sincerely, you can always find someone related to him. I quickly identified Wu Yinglong through my friends.
This person's occupation is a corpse hunter, also known as a water ghost. He is a fisherman in name, but in fact his main business is salvaging corpses from the river. There is a local state-owned salvage company. They are self-employed without a license. They have no professional qualifications and have not received formal relevant safety training. They are completely unscrupulous. However, in terms of efficiency and capabilities, they are more modern and equipped than official mechanical ships. Much more powerful. Therefore, he got a nickname in the local area: Hunjianglong.
Lao Ye also found out that the water flow at the local river mouth entering the lake is rapid and the water conditions are complicated, especially in the Taigong Temple area. The water channel is long and narrow, with different depths. The deep water is like the abyss of hell, but the shallow water can often cause large ships to run aground. The terrain on both sides of the bank is wide in the south and narrow in the north. When the wind enters the river mouth, the wind speed will accelerate in large inflows and small outflows. In the flood season, the river is full and the wind and waves are strong. The waters tens of meters deep are like a deep sea thousands of meters deep, turbulent and dangerous. Unpredictable.
These are not terrible. For those old water ghosts who have been dealing with rivers and lakes all year round, the most terrifying thing about this water area is the evil legends related to it.
There is a relatively widespread legend that there is a portal hidden under the water, which leads to the Crystal Palace of the Sea. From time to time, the Dragon King and his family will come out from here and enter the waterway. When they see something they like passing by, they will make waves and capsize the boat.
Some nearby fishermen even claimed that in a certain year and month before liberation, they had seen countless water ghost soldiers going to the Dragon Palace to crusade, fighting with underwater shrimp soldiers and crab generals for several days and nights, and the entire waterway was dyed red with blood. In those days, fishermen living near the lakeshore could often catch dozens of kilograms of injured shrimps and crabs.
The Japanese ship that was recorded in history sank in the 1940s. During the Republic of China, the Nanjing National Government and the United States organized a joint salvage operation, but it ended in failure. The people involved in the salvage were dead and crazy, and it didn’t matter. Good results.
When Li Muye heard this, he joked with Lao Ye that I had heard something similar once. It seemed to be in North America, and it was related to Bai Wuxia. I can't remember clearly. It seemed that it was also an underwater place, known as Some treasure or something was hidden, and then some government departments organized people to salvage it, and many people died as a result.
Old Ye Zhengse said, this is really not a legend, and this place is not the same as Lake Michigan in North America. The water here is not that deep, and generally speaking, it cannot hide many secrets. In the late 1980s, our state-run salvage The team once selected elite soldiers and conducted a detailed hydrological survey and mapping of the entire area with imported sonar equipment. As a result, just in the middle of the process, suddenly there were wind and waves on the water, and the river fog filled the air. The members of the salvage team were dizzy. When they woke up, they had already reached the shore.
This Hunjianglong is forty-nine years old this year. The reason why he got such a nickname is because of a legendary incident.
In the 1990s, there was a cruise ship that accidentally offended the underwater Dragon King when it passed by. I heard that a woman threw a used aunt's towel from the ship into the river, which happened to hit the dragon's head. This made the Dragon King angry and caused a storm that almost sank the cruise ship. Later, it was said that a Tantric monk was on board and calmed down the Dragon King's anger, thus avoiding a catastrophe.
However, although the boat did not capsize, several people were thrown off the boat and several were rescued on the spot. In the end, four people said they could not be found.
The cruise ship docked, and the owner of the cruise ship paid a large sum of money to a salvage team to help recover the body. Two large state-owned ships were busy on the river for a long time but failed to fish out a single body. Later, someone suggested that the boss ask the folk water ghosts from the fish pier to help salvage it. Many people took the boat into the water with the help of heavy money, Wu Yinglong was among them.
Three days later, no one else found anything, except Wu Yinglong who rescued all four drowned tourists.
This incident was widely circulated in the local area, so much so that some people believed that Wu Yinglong was the reincarnation of a big catfish, and was friends with the Dragon King in his previous life, so going into the water would bring him great honor and bring back the food that the Dragon King had put into his mouth. From then on, he got the nickname Hunjianglong.
There are many buried corpses that no one else can find, and asking him to help them often leads to no success.
Those who work in their profession are very unlucky, and few women are willing to live with them. Wu Yinglong has never been married in his life. Apart from the occasional whore, his biggest hobby is gambling. This guy is not good at gambling. He fished the money out of the water with his left hand and gave it away on the gambling table with his right hand. He fished for most of his life and gambled for most of his life. In the end, he had nothing left but a life-long debt owed to loan sharks.
The reason why Li Muye approached him was simple. Ye Hong had already conducted a detailed investigation into his background before deciding to approach him. If Zeng Xiguo and Qi Rulong's group wanted to find the sunken ship, he would be the most suitable guide.
Wu Yinglong was not that scared when he saw the gun in Yuan Quan's hand. When Li Muye asked him in a cold tone whether he wanted to live or die, this guy was really scared. He was afraid because he had identified these people as people from the Jianghu Dao. Based on his experience in the martial arts world, the person holding the gun is most likely an official. As long as he is an official, he will not mess around. But if someone who is not an official is holding a gun, it will be really fatal.
Li Muye said: "It's easy for you to live. Tell me, did someone give you a sum of money recently and ask you to go into the water to fish for something?"
Wu Yinglong didn't dare to hide it, nodded and said: "Since this happened, I agreed to come down, but they said they still need to make some preparations, so I haven't entered the water yet."
Li Muye asked again: "Do you know the name of the person who invited you into the water?"
Wu Yinglong shook his head and said: "That's not clear. I was introduced by a friend. There is an intermediary between my employer and me. He directly gave me a deposit of 20,000 yuan and said that he would give me another 180,000 yuan when the matter was completed. A total of 200,000 yuan. There are really only so many consciences in heaven and earth." He added: "If you want to get the money, you have to let me finish this transaction."
This old boy still regards Brother Xiaoye and others as ruthless people hired by loan sharks to make money.
Li Muye said: "Once again, I am not interested in your money."
"Then why are you arresting me?" Wu Yinglong said with an aggrieved look on his face: "I am just an old bachelor, with no tiles in my house and not a single ridge on the ground."
Li Muye said: "But you know the secrets under the water around Taigong Temple."
Wu Yinglong was stunned and said: "Hey, you are flattering me. Where can I find out what secrets there are? If I really knew, I would have gotten rich a long time ago."
This man is an old man who won't tell the truth if he doesn't give any serious information. Li Muye could see that he was not very capable and had nothing special about him. However, he was highly praised in the water ghost industry. It was not because of any special abilities, but because he had mastered some secrets that others did not know.
Li Muye said: "Wu Yinglong, you should be very clear by now. Your life is in my hands. Whether you live or die is all determined by my thoughts." As he spoke, Bai Baiqi waved his hand and ordered: "Hold it. The little finger of his right hand was broken off."
Bai Qi didn't hesitate, grabbed Wu Yinglong's right hand, and pulled off the guy's little finger.
"If you answer the wrong question again, I will cut off your hand." Li Muye stared at the painful nose with tears streaming down his face. Wu Yinglong, who was squatting there and shaking, continued to ask: "What is under the water? What were you doing back then?" How did you find those four bodies?”
Wu Yinglong could not resist, but he also realized that this group of people would not give up until they achieved their goal, so he had to explain: "I don't know if there is a dragon palace or a real dragon under the water, but there must be a cave for the boss. I found it at the beginning. The four corpses were near the entrance of the cave."
"Just a hole?" Li Muye was a little skeptical and said, "Why didn't the state-owned salvage team find it when they used sonar to detect it?"
Wu Yinglong said: "The location of the cave is very special. It is hidden under a shoal that is only about ten meters deep. It cannot be seen from the surface. You can only find it by diving down. The entrance of the cave is very large, and the shoal seems to be specially used to cover it. The lid of the cave entrance cannot be completely closed, so there are often undercurrents nearby, and I found the corpses that others could not find nearby."
"With such a simple transaction, why don't others know about that place?" Li Muye grasped the key and asked.
"There is a wall of water ghosts there, and ordinary fishermen and sailors will turn around when they encounter it, and they can't get up to it. When I was young, I learned a little about water magic from Paizi's teacher, and I knew that it was a weak current, and even goose feathers floated on it. If you can't hold it back, no matter how big the water is, you won't be able to exert it when you encounter it. You can only walk over with the stone in your arms..."
"What is water method, and what's going on with the Paizi Cult?" Ji Xuefei suddenly interrupted and asked. (End of chapter)