Catching Monsters

Chapter 120 Old Woman
The Jingcheng Grand Canal connects the north and south of the capital.

It is an important channel for transporting goods from north to south in the capital.

During the day, countless boat workers in the city transported goods along the river.

In the evening, both sides of the river are still bustling with activity. The reason is that brothels in Beijing buy many large ships in order to expand their business.

As soon as it got dark, they drove out of the city and onto the canal, starting a flesh trade, and their business was booming for a while.

All brothels followed suit and held revelries every night.

However, in recent days, the once bustling canal has become extremely deserted because of rumors that a mysterious ship covered with red lanterns appeared on the canal.

This ghost ship eats people.

No one who boarded the strange ship came out alive.

Therefore, business near the canal has become much quieter.

On both sides of the river, there are dim lanterns that are not very bright.

"It's almost midnight. Did that ship hear some news and not dare to come?"

In a teahouse along the coast, Jiang Yun, Xu Xiaogang and Wei Huaian were sitting at a wooden table drinking tea.

Inside the teahouse, there were another twenty-seven Jinyiwei under Wei Huaian.

They were all dressed in disguise, wearing the clothes of boatmen.

"Check everyone to see if the characters on the talismans I drew on you have been wiped off by your clothes." Jiang Yun reminded all the Jinyiwei present.

These Jinyiwei lifted up their clothes and looked at their chests.

"Don't worry, Jiang Xiaoqi."

“They’re all still here.”

Jiang Yun asked: "Do you remember the spells I taught you before?"

Seeing everyone nodding, Jiang Yun finally felt relieved.

A group of people have been drinking tea in this teahouse from the evening until midnight, and have gone to the toilet countless times.

The so-called strange ship has not appeared yet.

At this moment, suddenly, a thin mist floated over the entire canal.

The fog grew thicker and thicker, and soon covered both sides of the river.

Then, a large wooden ship slowly sailed into the thick fog from outside the capital.

Through the thick fog, one could only see the eaves, bow, deck rails and stern of the ship, all hung with crimson lanterns.

The whole ship was extremely quiet as it slowly approached the shore and anchored.

What was strange was that the moment the ship docked, flickering candlelight lit up in every room above, and the windows were pushed open one after another. One after another, beautiful young women stood by the windows, smiling and waving at the people below.

"Young Master, come up and sit down."

"Come up and listen to some music."

But there were clearly few people walking on the shore except Jiang Yun and his group.

Even if there were any, they would be very cautious when hearing the voices of these girls and would quickly turn around and leave.

And these girls, as if they were a set program, were still shouting and greeting people in the open space on the shore.

Everyone present frowned.

Even Wei Huaian felt a little frightened, not to mention the other Jinyiwei.

Of the more than thirty people led by General Zhu Ciyun, twenty were killed.

Those who escaped were basically seriously injured.

Wei Huaian took a deep breath, stood up and ordered: "Jiang Yun, Xu Xiaogang and I will go up and take a look."

"You all should pay attention when you're out there."

"When you see the signal, rush in to help immediately."

"Yes." Everyone present nodded.

Knowing that there was something strange on the ship, Wei Huaian naturally did not dare to bring everyone on board like Zhu Ciyun did.

Instead, most of the people were left behind to provide support.

Jiang Yun whispered to Wei Huaian and Xu Xiaogang: "No matter what happens later, don't stay too far away from me."

"This ship has some evil qualities."

The mysterious ship had already lowered the boarding plank, and Wei Huaian smiled, pretending to be a customer coming to consume.

A group of three people went up to the deck.

As soon as he got on the boat, Jiang Yun felt a slight dizziness in his head. He knew it was a hallucination.

He hurriedly recited the Heart Clearing Technique in his mind, and soon, the dizziness gradually disappeared.

As expected, Xu Xiaogang and Wei Huaian's eyes also looked a little blurry.

A plump, graceful woman in her thirties, wearing red gauze, twisted her waist and walked towards the three of them.

The woman held a small round fan in her hand, gently covering her face, and said with a smile: "Oh, the three guests are unfamiliar. It must be your first time to visit our Red Pink Marriage Boat. Come with me quickly. I'm afraid the girls inside are waiting anxiously."

Wei Huaian and Xu Xiaogang followed with slightly dazed looks.

"You two wait for me." Jiang Yun smiled and walked forward, walked between the two of them, put his arms around their shoulders, and then put their ears close to his mouth.

'When the mind and spirit are united, the qi should follow each other, and when they are in harmony, they will not be startled by any changes.'

'No delusion, no anger, no desire, no seeking, no giving up, no abandonment, no action, no self.'

After reciting the Qingxin Jue, the eyes of the two people instantly became extremely clear and awake.

Wei Huaian was still frightened and looked at Jiang Yun with some gratitude.

Jiang Yun couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't bring all the people up with him.

If more than 30 people come up and are all confused, it will not be easy for me to recite the Qingxin Jue to wake them up without leaving any trace.

The three men didn't say much. They followed the woman and slowly walked into the ship.

This strange ship is three stories high and 70 to 80 meters long, quite huge. Walking from the deck into the ship's tower, it is a different world inside.

Inside the ship, the hall is spacious and has many guest tables.

What the three of them didn't expect was that the room was full of guests.

At a cursory glance, there are probably hundreds of them.

Every guest is accompanied by a beautiful girl, serving tea and wine.

Wei Huaian turned his head and looked. There were more than 20 guests wearing Jinyiwei flying fish uniforms sitting at the three tables on the right.

They were obviously the men left behind by Zhu Ciyun.

Among them, Wei Huaian also knew many acquaintances. Wei Huaian muttered in a low voice: "Zhou Youbai, Qiao Zijie..."

"Are they still alive?"

Wei Huaian's face showed obvious relief.

The whole hall was filled with a cheerful atmosphere, with the laughter of guests teasing the girls, and the shy sounds of the girls as they were reluctant to accept.

Soon, the three of them, led by the woman, came to an empty guest table and sat down.

"I'll go get the girls now." The woman smiled and turned away.

Wei Huaian glanced at his Jinyiwei colleagues from time to time: "Brother Jiang, are they all okay?"

"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Yun reminded in a deep voice, then he took out the rooster blood from his backpack and handed it to Wei Huaian and Xu Xiaogang from under the table: "Apply it on your forehead and see?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Huaian took the rooster blood, smeared it on his forehead, and swept around again.

His expression changed completely.

The happy scene just now suddenly changed.

There were many dead bodies lying all over the chairs at all the guest tables.

The bodies of those Jinyiwei were fine, they just died yesterday.

Some of those who died early had their bodies crawling with dense white maggots.

And what accompanied their corpses were not beautiful girls, but paper figures.

When Wei Huaian and Xu Xiaogang saw this scene, their faces darkened.

After all, both of them are extraordinary people. They have been members of the Jinyiwei for many years and are very experienced.

At this time, Jiang Yun was wondering about one question: what exactly was this ship trying to do?
Just to lure men onto the boat and suck their essence?

wrong.

If this is the case, it can also be done in more remote areas.

Why go to a place like the capital to harm people?

They must have other purposes.

Just as the three were thinking about it, soon an old woman came in front of them with a dozen paper figures that could move around and were made of white paper.

The old woman was over sixty years old, with wrinkles all over her face. But after looking at the three people, she had a big smile on her face, especially on Jiang Yun, where she stayed for a while.

"Three of you, choose a girl."

It would have been fine if it hadn't been smeared with rooster blood.

Now looking at the strange paper man standing in front of them, the two could only bite the bullet and randomly choose a paper man.

Wei Huaian pointed at a paper figure at random, and a pleasant female voice uttered from the paper figure: "Thank you, sir. I will serve you well."

Xu Xiaogang casually pointed to the last paper figure holding a plate.

Anyway, in his opinion, this paper man is no different.

Unexpectedly, the last paper figure spoke in a male voice: "Ah? Sir, I am a turtle..."

Xu Xiaogang's mouth twitched and he subconsciously looked at Jiang Yun.

The sixty-year-old woman also looked at Xu Xiaogang in confusion.

In order not to reveal that he had seen through their true identities, Xu Xiaogang took a deep breath and said through gritted teeth: "Turtle man, huh? That's what I like!"

Upon hearing this, the paper figure of 'Turtle' slowly came to Xu Xiaogang and said in a rough voice: "Then my lord, please be gentle with me."

Xu Xiaogang clenched his fists, his face darkened, and he wished he could fight this group of evil demons right now.

Looking up, Wei Huaian's paper figurine made a shy sound like a woman and said in a coquettish voice, "Sir, I'll feed you some wine..."

Xu Xiaogang turned around and looked at his paper figurine. He also picked up the wine glass and said in a rough voice: "Sir, I will feed you too."

"Sorry, I don't drink."

"Then sir, I will feed you vegetables."

"I'm not hungry either."

"Officer."

"Don't call me sir."

Seeing Xu Xiaogang clenching his fists tightly, wishing he could take action immediately, Jiang Yun's hand slowly touched a talisman, ready to act at any time.

Unexpectedly, the old woman saw that Jiang Yun had not yet chosen a girl to drink with her.

Instead, she asked Jiang Yun with a smile, "Sir, you don't like these girls? Why don't you follow me to the back and pick a few more girls?"

"There are so many girls behind."

Want to take me away alone?

Jiang Yun frowned deeply, shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for your kindness, but no need."

The old woman reached out her hand, held Jiang Yun, and said with a smile, "Let's go, young master."

Just as Jiang Yun was about to continue to refuse, suddenly, the old woman's head came to Jiang Yun's ear and whispered in a voice that only Jiang Yun could hear, "Red Lotus Eternal."

"follow me."

(End of this chapter)