In the narrow alley, the big man rushed to catch up with Bai Qi, screaming, his hand was about to grab Bai Qi's collar, and suddenly Bai Qi turned around and hit his finger with a punch. At the direction of the fist, the blocker was invincible, and suddenly knocked his fingers upside down and dislocated. The big man didn't expect that the other party would make such a fierce and decisive action. Such a method is obviously no longer an ordinary street fight level. This big man was also a quagmire figure who had been together for many years. He finally had some knowledge and realized that he was wrong and turned around and ran away.
Yuan Quan blocked his back road early. Seeing Yuan Quan's fair and beautiful face, the big man only said that he was a good bully, so he rushed forward with a roar, and went to grab Yuan Quan's shirt without his injured left hand. Yuan Quan swiftly flashed around, letting him get behind the big man, and kicked him to the ground with a kick on the curve of the big man's legs. He showed his pistol to the back of the man's head, and shouted: "Don't move, you will collapse if you shout and move around!"
Li Muye led Ji Xuefei to appear at the entrance of the alley, and said: "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 turned out that this is a newly rented house for the special commissioning office. It is located in the junction of urban and rural areas.
The big man stood in the hall, and Li Muye sat next to him and looked at him, and said, "Wu Yinglong, do you know why I am looking for you?"
"I know, you are here to ask for money." Wu Yinglong said in frustration: "Your nose is too good. I just got the money and I haven't covered it, so you found it. In fact, I really don't want to go wrong. There is no need to make such a big battle for money."
Li Muye said coldly: "Hunjianglong, you are considered a well-known figure in the local arena. I heard that when you were young, you also worshipped the platoon gang. You are as big as a dragon. You are the head of the local corpse hunting. One portion, after spending so much time in the rivers and lakes, still can’t tell if we are asking for money or are we going to die? Do you want to live?"
As soon as Wu Yinglong heard this, he knelt down and said, "I'm dying."
Li Muye said: "It's deadly simple, I ask you what you say, and then you do whatever I ask you to do, understand?"
This Wu Yinglong was found by Lao Ye using the old relationship between the rivers and lakes, so Lao Ye avoided it deliberately.
Before Li Muye and Lao Ye studied and analyzed together, they believed that the main goal of Xiaoyao Pavilion and Protestant Church was the shipwreck in the river. They wanted to salvage the shipwreck, and they would definitely ask people who are most familiar with the water conditions in the area to help. Lao Ye's hometown is in Jiangxi Province, and local figures from the rivers and lakes are connected to each other. As long as you inquire sincerely, you can always find someone related to it. Soon this Wu Yinglong was locked through a friend.
This person's profession is a corpse hunter, also known as a water ghost. He is a fisherman in name, but in fact his main business is to salvage corpses on the river. There is a local state-run salvage company. He is an unlicensed self-employed person. He has no qualifications and no relevant safety training on the right track. It is completely wild, but in terms of efficiency and capability, it is more modern than the official machinery. Much more powerful. Therefore, I got a nickname in the local area: Hunjianglong.
Lao Ye also inquired that the local river estuary into the lake section of the water is turbulent, the water regime is complex, especially in the Taigong Temple area, the water channel is long and narrow, with different depths, deep places such as the abyss of hell, but shallow waters often make big ships run aground. The terrain on both sides of the strait is wide in the south and narrow in the north. Wind entering the estuary will cause the wind speed to increase. When the flood season comes, the river is full and the waves are violent. Unpredictable.
These are not terrible. For those old water ghosts who have been dealing with big rivers and lakes all the year round, the most terrifying thing about this water area is the evil legends related to it.
There is a wider legend that there is a gateway hidden under the water that leads to the Crystal Palace of the Sea. The Dragon King’s family will come out from here and enter the waterway from time to time. When they see something they like passing by, they will make waves and overturn the boat.
There are even nearby fishermen who claimed that in a certain month before liberation, they had seen countless water ghost soldiers went to the Dragon Palace to fight against the underwater shrimp soldiers and crabs for days and nights, and the entire waterway was stained red with blood. During that period, fishermen living near the lake shore could often salvage dozens of catties of injured shrimps and crabs.
The historically recorded Devil Ship sank in the 1940s. During the Republic of China, the Nanjing National Government and the United States organized a joint salvage by men and horses, but it ended in failure. The people involved in the salvage died and went crazy. There was nothing wrong with it. Good results.
Li Muye joked with Lao Ye when he heard this. I heard something similar once. It seemed to be in North America and was related to Bai Wuxia. I don’t remember clearly. It seems to be such an underwater place. What kind of treasures were hidden, and then some people were organized by the government to salvage them, and many people died in the end.
Lao Ye Zhengshi said, this is really not a legend, and this place is not the same as the Lake Michigan in North America. The water here is not so deep. Generally speaking, there are not many secrets to hide. In the late 1980s, our state-owned salvage. The team once selected elite soldiers and used imported sonar equipment to conduct a detailed hydrographic survey and mapping of the entire area. As a result, just halfway through the process, suddenly there was wind and waves on the water, the mist filled the river, and the members of the salvage team were dizzy. When they woke up, they were already on the shore.
This Hun Jianglong is forty-nine years old this year, and the reason he got such a nickname is due to a rather legendary strange event.
At that time in the 1990s, there was a cruise ship that accidentally offended the underwater dragon lord while passing here. I heard that a woman threw the used aunt’s towel from the ship into the river and hit the dragon’s head. It provoked the Dragon King's anger and set off a storm, which almost sank the cruise ship. Later, it was said that there was a Tantric monk on the ship, which suppressed the dragon king's anger, and this saved a catastrophe.
However, although the ship did not overturn, several people were thrown off the ship, and a few were rescued on the spot. In the end, four people said they couldn't find anything.
The cruise ship docked, and the owner of the cruise ship paid a lot of money to ask the salvage team to help salvage the corpse. The two large state-owned ships have been busy on the river for a long time but have not recovered a single body. Later, someone instructed the boss to ask the folk water ghosts at the fish terminal to help salvage. Many people took the boats into the water under the heavy money, and Wu Yinglong was among them.
Three days later, the others found nothing, but Wu Yinglong alone retrieved all the four tourists who had drowned.
This matter was so widespread in the local area that some people thought that Wu Yinglong was the reincarnation of the big catfish. He had been friends with the Dragon King in his previous life, so he could get a lot of face in the water and brought back the food that the Dragon King had eaten. Since then, he won the nickname of Hunjianglong.
There are many sunken corpses that no one else can find.
Those who do their business are unhappy, and few women are willing to live with them. Wu Yinglong has not been married in his entire life. Apart from the occasional prostitute, his biggest hobby is to gamble. The gambling skills of this man were not good. The money he got from the water with his left hand was sent out at the gambling table with his right hand. After gambling for most of his life, there was nothing left but a desperate debt owed to usury.
The reason why Li Muye approached him is very simple, and Ye Hong has done a detailed investigation of his details before deciding to approach him. If Zeng Xiguo and Qi Rulong want to find the sunken ship, he is the most suitable guide.
Wu Yinglong saw that the gun in Yuan Quan's hand was not so scared yet. When Li Muye asked him in a cold tone that he was going to die, this guy was really scared. He was scared because he had already identified these people as quaint people. Judging from his experience in the arena, the person holding the gun is most likely to be an official, and as long as it is an official person, he will not mess around casually. But if it's not an official person holding a gun, it's really terrible.
Li Muye said, "It's easy if you want to live. Tell me, has someone paid you a sum of money recently and asks you to go into the water to get something?"
Wu Yinglong didn't dare to hide it, nodded and said, "I should come down because of such a stall, but they said that some preparations are needed, so I haven't gotten into the water yet."
Li Muye asked again: "Do you know the name of the person who asked you to enter the water?"
Wu Yinglong shook his head and said, "That's not very clear. A friend introduced me. There is an intermediary between the employer and me. He directly gave a deposit of 20,000 yuan, and said that after the incident was completed, he would pay another 180,000 yuan, a total of 200,000 yuan. The conscience of heaven and earth really only has so much." Then he said: "If you want to get the money, you have to allow me to finish the sale."
The old boy still regarded Xiaoye and others as ruthless people who were invited by usury to run for the money.
Li Muye said: "Say it again, I'm not interested in your money."
"Then what are you doing to catch me?" Wu Yinglong said with a grieved expression: "I am just an old stick, there is no tile in the room, and there is no ridge on the ground."
Li Muye said, "But you know the secrets under the water in the Taigong Temple area."
Wu Yinglong was taken aback for a moment and said, "Oh, you can lift me up. I don't know if there are any secrets there. If I really know it, I will get rich soon."
This man is an old greasy man, who doesn't give a bit of truth, can't tell the truth. Li Muye saw that he was not very capable, and there was nothing special about him, but he was highly praised in the water ghost business, and he did not rely on special skills, but mostly mastered secrets that others didn't know.
Li Muye said: "Wu Yinglong, you should be very clear now that your life is in my hands, whether death or life is between my thoughts." After speaking, the dialogue waved his hand and ordered: " He broke off the tail finger of his right hand."
Bai Qi didn't hesitate, and grabbed Wu Yinglong's right hand in the past.
"If you answer incorrectly, just chop off your hand." Li Muye stared fiercely at his painful nose and tears flowed down. Wu Yinglong, who was squatting and trembling, continued to ask: "What is under the water? How did you find the four corpses?"
However, Wu Yinglong shirks his excuses and realizes that this group of people will not give up if they fail to achieve their goals, so he has to explain: "I don't know if there are Dragon Palaces and real dragons under this water, but there must be a hole for the boss, I found it in the first place. The four bodies are near the entrance of the cave."
"Just one hole?" Li Muye was a little skeptical, and said: "Why didn't the state-run 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 shallow shoal less than ten meters deep. It is not visible on the surface. It can only be found by diving. The lid of the cave entrance cannot be completely closed, so there are often undercurrents nearby, and the corpses that others can't find are all found near by me."
"For such a simple activity, why don't others know that place?" Li Muye grasped the key and asked.
"There is a wall of water ghosts in that place. The average fisherman and sailor turned around when they met, and couldn't get there at all. When I was young, I learned a little water method from someone taught by Paizi. I knew it was a weak current. No, don’t worry about how watery you are, you will not be able to show it, you can only walk over with a stone..."
"What is water law, and what's the matter with Paizi?" Ji Xuefei interjected and asked. (End of this chapter)