Chapter 59: Out of the Dungeon

But before Qiao Xianxian could go look for someone, she saw the old lady enter the house.

"Your leg is about to be broken, right? Your son is really cruel. He was a coward when he was alive, and even after his death he only dared to eat you, his father." The old lady said with drooping eyes, looking at Father Qiao who was lying on the bed with black air still emitting from his wound.

Mr. Qiao's pale face twisted for a moment, then he thought of something and said sinisterly.

"No matter what, my son has spared me. But you'd better let those outsiders participate in the sacrifice and feed the evil spirits in the sea. Otherwise, your starving son will not let you go just because you are old and skinny."

The meaning of these words couldn't be more obvious. It seemed that Chu Qing and the others were going to be fed to the evil spirits.

Qiao Xianxian panicked and accidentally spilled the hot water she was bringing to Qiao's father on her hands. She couldn't help but scream. The old lady who was talking to Qiao's father looked over at her.

The old lady didn’t know if it was because she turned too quickly, and the bones in her neck made a crackling sound. Combined with the old lady’s wrinkled face which exuded a terrifying aura, Qiao Xianxian almost screamed out.

"Aunt is here, I'll pour you some water." Qiao Xianxian forced a smile, suppressed her trembling legs, and went back to the kitchen to get a bowl.

After all this back and forth, Qiao Xianxian thought that this was not the real world and she still had the system, so she managed to calm down and handed the bowl of water to Qiao's father and the old lady.

The old lady looked at Qiao Xianxian with a gloomy look. Even after Qiao Xianxian left the house, she could still feel the cold gaze behind her.

As soon as she went out, Qiao Xianxian avoided the villagers. After seeing Chu Qing and Shen Jinyan, she quickly used her eyes to guide them to a secluded place and told them what she had heard.

"They want to send you to be eaten by evil spirits during the evening sacrifice. You should find a way to escape from the village quickly."

Chu Qing and Shen Jinyan looked at each other and said, "The road outside the village is blocked, and our car is also smashed, so there is no way to leave."

Qiao Xianxian was stunned. She didn't expect that the people in this village would be so ruthless. She was thinking about whether she should create a copy in advance at night before the ghosts came.

"Now the only way to leave the village is by boat, but the villagers will not let us use the boat." Shen Jinyan said calmly.

They knew that there were things in the sea, but if they performed the sacrifice at night, there would be countless ghosts eyeing them and wanting to eat them, so it would be better to fight during the day. Moreover, they had talismans that could burn ghosts, so perhaps the chances of escaping would be much greater.

"But there are people watching over the boats in the village." Qiao Xianxian looked embarrassed.

No matter how friendly she acted, Qiao Xianxian was a local of the fishing village after all, and Shen Jinyan was on guard against her. These two pieces of information were enough.

"Thank you for telling us this, classmate. We will find a way to deal with the rest. You should go back first. It would be bad if the villagers became suspicious and thought you were with us."

When Qiao Xianxian saw that Shen Jinyan still cared about her, she immediately felt that there was no problem with Shen Jinyan's favorability value increasing.

Just as she was about to say that she could help them steal the boat, she saw the old lady looking over here. Qiao Xianxian's heart started beating nervously. She turned around and saw that Chu Qing and Shen Jinyan were gone. Only then did she feel relieved.

"What are you doing here?" The old lady looked at her suspiciously.

Qiao Xianxian pinched her palms and said, "I came out to get some fresh air and just to see if there's anything I can help with regarding the sacrifice."

The old lady didn't say anything. When she turned around and Qiao Xianxian thought she had passed this hurdle, the old lady suddenly turned her head, stared at her with her cloudy eyes, and smashed a stone on her head. Then the world spun around and she fell into complete darkness.

Jiang Xinglan, who was acting alone, also got some useful information. "They will send us to the center of the sea by boat to be eaten by evil spirits and to please the sea monsters in the water."

Jiang Xinglan put his hands in his pockets, and the lip piercing on his lips reflected a sharp light.

The boys returned to the inn and shared the news with Yun Jiao and others. Everyone looked solemn.

The fishing village was determined to send them to the evil spirits and sea monsters, so they blocked all the roads. It was very difficult for the students to leave safely.

"All the boats in the village are watched by them. We went to see them and found that they were all young and strong fishermen. There were four people guarding at a time and there should be shifts later."

After Chu Qing finished saying all this, he discussed with everyone how to get two boats out. It seemed that most people in this fishing village were not very wealthy, and the boats were small. There were seven of them, and one boat could not accommodate them at all, and there was also the risk of capsizing.

Although these people had never experienced such a thing, their brains were the primary productive force. After some discussion, they estimated the time of the sacrifice and solved the problem violently when the fishermen guarding the boat were slacking off before changing shifts.

Time waits for no one, and everyone took action after the agreement. The action went more smoothly than they had imagined. No matter how vigilant those fishermen were, they were still human beings with physiological needs. One of them solved it while going to the toilet, and another was knocked unconscious while he was smoking.

The remaining two people were dealt with by the cooperation of several people. They just entered the warehouse. The village was full of fishermen. They wanted to move the boat to the seaside, and they were too big a target.

In the end, everyone calculated the time and worked together to get the boat to the seaside before the shift change arrived while the villagers went to the ancestral temple to burn incense and perform other rituals.

But they had only rowed two or three meters away when they were discovered by the villagers, who quickly gathered at the beach in anger. They wanted to capture them so as not to affect the ceremony, but they were afraid of the sea monsters in the sea and did not dare to act rashly.

Yun Jiao, who was sitting on the boat, saw the villagers making way for them. An old lady walked forward, supporting an old man who was dressed strangely and had dull eyes.

The old man was facing their direction, muttering something and shaking a bell in his hand, as if he was performing some kind of summoning ritual, Yun Jiao thought.

Maybe this was indeed a call. Just as Yun Jiao had this thought, the relatively calm sea surface suddenly became turbulent. The gray waves rolled, and something seemed to be coming towards them.

Yun Jiao felt uneasy, and the next second, a huge sticky tentacle wrapped around her waist and tried to drag her into the sea.

Several terrifyingly large tentacles grabbed at their boats and fiddled with them like a toy.

Chu Qing and Shen Jinyan, who were rowing, saw this scene, their pupils slightly widened, and they both held her hands at the same time.

Shen Jinyan took out a knife and stabbed it fiercely into the tentacles that were wrapped around Yun Jiao, causing dark and smelly blood to flow out.

As if afraid of being angered, it casually wrapped Chu Qing and Shen Jinyan with its tentacles, and then threw them out. Even Jiang Xinglan who came to help was not spared, and they all fell into the water.

Before anyone could react, the sea monster rolled up the clouds and sank to the bottom of the sea.

Yun Jiao was about to reach the critical point of holding her breath. When the feeling of suffocation came over her, she felt dizzy and vaguely saw a silver stream of light appear in front of her eyes. The magnificent and dreamy Mr. Mermaid caught her, and Yun Jiao fell into a cold embrace.

The last thing he remembered was that clear voice tinged with anxiety, and the sea monster that was cut into pieces by the fish's tail in an instant.

Hmm, the sea monster’s blood stinks so much, please don’t log off here.

(End of this chapter)