Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

"We worked together to kill her..." Zhu Zhi said painfully.

These words made the old woman's eyes widen. She ignored her weak legs and actually staggered to her feet, pointed at Zhu Zhi and asked, "Say it again? You said you killed Lu and that girl?"

Zhu Zhi just held his head and cried, not answering the repeated question for a while.

"You've lost your mind! That girl is clearly alive and well! Everyone in the village saw it. Didn't she run away with her brother?!"

"I don't know... I really don't know!! Don't ask!!"

"I'll say what you can't say." Shen Qiao stood up.

"When you went out to sea together before, you did find those so-called pearls and gems, but you didn't know at the time that these things were illusions cast by the sea monsters. Lu Hexu was born with abundant spiritual energy, and she saw through the illusion and saw the true appearance of these things."

"She watched you frantically fishing up these corpses like jewels, one by one. She was frightened, so she tried to stop you. But you were so distracted by the illusion that you couldn't tell friend from foe."

"During a heated argument, one of you picked up a machete from the boat...

"One knife after another... cut down Lu He who is trying to stop you."

The old woman's legs gave way again. Zhu Zhi's hands, covering his ears with such force, seemed to be scratching his scalp, drawing blood. He trembled, weeping until he was hoarse. After Shen Qiao finished speaking, he suddenly banged his head against the beach in a fit of emotion, the sand scraping against his forehead until it was bloody.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I really didn't mean it..."

"It's too late to say sorry now." Shen Qiao said coldly.

"I'm just asking you, where is her body?"

"Corpse..." Zhu Zhi seemed to have just reacted, but then he became nervous again.

"We didn't notice the body... It seems... It was thrown into the sea..."

Snapped--

A slap landed directly on Zhu Zhi's face.

"We will go out to sea tonight, and you will come with us. I need you to lead the way and retrieve Lu He's body."

Zhu Zhi's head tilted sideways after being slapped by Shen Qiao, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He was stunned for a long time. When he heard that Shen Qiao wanted to take him out to sea, he ignored the burning pain on his face and shook his head violently, "No! I won't go out to sea again! The sea is full of monsters! They are demons! There are no jewels at all! They are all fake! Fake! I will die!!"

"Master!! Master!! Master!!"

When Zhu Zhi said this, the villagers who had gone to his house to look for the jewels also came back.

As expected, fear was written on the faces of these people, and only a few of them came back to report the news.

"We found the box, but what was inside was... it was... Ugh!"

"They are rotten human heads, a lot of them." The young man who first raised the doubt added the second half of the sentence. His face turned pale and he was obviously disgusted.

"Uncle Wang and his family of four, who were going to the beach for the first time... were also there."

These words made the old woman unable to bear it anymore. She slapped her legs and cried.

"What a sin... What a sin! God! Why do you have to take revenge on us like this?"

"Old Village Chief, please get up first. This matter...he is really too evil."

"The weather is suitable tonight. If we want to solve this problem, we must go out to sea." Shen Qiao said, and she looked at the few people who ran back to deliver the letter.

"I want to borrow a boat from you to go out to sea tonight."

"I'll lend you mine!" the young man asked without hesitation, causing a man accompanying him to kick him quickly.

"I won't use your boat for nothing." Shen Qiao said, taking out a gray cloth bag and throwing it to the young man.

The young man took it and opened it, and saw some colorful light instantly reflected on his face.

The man next to him also gasped when he saw it.

A whole bag of high-grade spirit stones! That's at least over a hundred yuan! That's enough for a family of four to spend for two or three years!

"I'm sorry, for some reason, I can't guarantee that the ship will be returned intact, so these spirit stones are the money to buy the entire ship. Do you think these are enough?"

It’s more than enough, it’s equivalent to the cost of three or four top-of-the-line new ships!

The young man scratched his head hesitantly, "This is too much...ah!"

Before he could finish his sentence, the young man was slapped on the head by his father. "Enough! That's enough! I'll take you to see the boat right now!"

"Good work."

The few people who had been avoiding the idea when they heard that Shen Qiao wanted to borrow a boat were obviously enraged when they saw the whole bag of high-grade spirit stones. However, the deal had already been settled, so it was not easy for others to say anything. They could only watch the father and son take the person away.

"Someone, tie up this Zhu family kid and send him to the immortal." The old woman spoke sternly and sighed as if she was disappointed in him.

"Send a few more people and find all the people who went out to sea with the Lu family girl last time. We must know what happened!"

"Old village chief, why are you suddenly looking for these people again?"

The old woman shook her head slowly with a struggling look, waved her hand to signal these people to do it, and then she took the crutch handed to her and walked away step by step in a daze.

On the other side, on the way there, the man introduced himself attentively, "Actually, we don't want to get involved tonight, so we moved the boat up there. But don't worry! We'll just tow it down for you. If you need anything else, we'll prepare it for you!"

Shen Qiao thought for a moment and said, "If it's okay... I do have something else I'd like to trouble you with."

The man had gotten the benefit and obviously didn't care about this. "You tell me! Even if you want to borrow two ships, it's no problem!"

"I'd like to ask you to help me find someone to make a wooden box. It doesn't have to be too big." As she spoke, she rummaged through her storage bag again and finally found the piece of golden wood that Zhang Zhi had given her before she left the sect.

"Use this one, though time is tight. Please send the finished box here before tomorrow afternoon."

When the golden wood was pushed into the man's hands, he held it for a long time, unable to recover. "Why... why is this wood glowing?"

"Oh, this was planted by our sect's own people in the back mountain. It might have more spiritual energy. If you don't feel comfortable with it, I can find someone else..."

"No need!" The man suddenly spoke, causing the young man next to him who had been silent all the way to tremble in fear.

The man took a deep breath, carefully wrapped the piece of wood in his coat, and then handed it to his son. When he looked at Shen Qiao, his eyes were firm, as if he was about to bow. "Don't worry, I promise to complete the task you assigned."

Shen Qiao smiled, "Thank you both very much."