Chapter five hundred and forty-two out of the predicament
I patted the water to keep Lao Mo and I balanced in the water.
Lao Mo looked around and saw only black mist and waves of river water.
And looking at the shore, which was only a dozen meters away but with no way to reach it, I felt very panicked.
"Damn, this evil spirit is really powerful.
Also, what are those blackheads?
It’s so unreliable, it’s been so long and it hasn’t appeared yet.”
Lao Mo was silent, a little confused.
I also had a wry smile on my face.
I don't know what happened to the blackheads either.
I can only say:
"Stop thinking about that, do you have a Bagua Pan on you?
Let's use Bagua to see if we can locate it and escape from here."
My Bagua tray was lost when the boat sank.
Now I can only ask Lao Mo.
Lao Mo touched the treasure bag on his waist with his hand:
"Wait, let me take a look first!"
"Yes, I'm here!"
Saying that, he quickly took out the gossip.
At this moment, I suddenly felt a chill on my back.
A wave of coolness came over.
I turned around suddenly and saw a human head emerging from the water.
Together with the river wave, it bit my face with a "ouch" sound.
It's just an ordinary dead water ghost, and it wants to sneak up on me.
My pupils shrank, and I struck a sword with my backhand.
With a "bang" sound, the water ghost was split into a burst of black mist and disappeared.
Lao Mo now raised the Bagua plate:
"Here, the Bagua Pan."
I took a look:
"Take it, I'll take a look!"
I spoke.
Because I have to support Lao Mo with one hand and hold the mahogany sword with the other, so I can no longer free my hands.
Lao Mo nodded and placed the Bagua tray flat.
I looked at the Bagua disk and thought about some of the formulas that Master taught me when he was still alive.
And use the pointer to deduce the Bagua directions.
These messages kept flashing in my mind.
He also chanted in his mouth:
"Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, Kan.
The acquired Bagua position;
Zhendong, Duixi, Linan, Kanbei, northwest of Qianxi, southwest of Kun, northeast of Gen, and southeast of Xunda.
The moon shines in the west, and this is Duixi.
Qixing North, this is Kanbei.
…”
As I spoke, I judged the direction through celestial phenomena.
Lao Mo is obviously not as good at this as me.
Staring at me, he said hurriedly:
"Okay, Lao Qin, there seem to be more water ghosts around."
After saying that, he raised his mahogany ax and struck it into the water.
Achieve a deterrent effect.
Finally, I identified it through pointers and directions.
Determined our position in the river:
"We swam in the wrong direction. We kept swimming this way, but we were actually swimming upstream.
We should go to the west or south, both directions, to get to the shore."
After saying that, I pointed in the direction.
Lao Mo said in surprise:
"But, the shore is obviously here? Could it be that what we see is all an illusion?"
I nodded:
"It should be that the evil spirit used tricks to confuse our eyes.
Let us both keep going against the current.
Coupled with other methods, we couldn't swim out of the river at all.
So, we have to go this way..."
Lao Mo suddenly realized:
"So that's it. No wonder we couldn't reach the shore even after swimming for so long at a distance of more than ten meters.
Without further ado, let’s swim quickly!”
I said "Yeah", then grabbed Lao Mo and started swimming in another direction.
This direction seems to be going against the current.
But when I actually swam, I found that it was much easier than when I swam before.
And the further you go, the less black confusion surrounds you.
However, the dead souls underwater still harass us from time to time.
They are all water ghosts looking for a substitute.
We are two living beings, especially those with a sinister destiny like mine, which are extremely attractive to them.
But fortunately, we both have real abilities.
Facing these weaker water ghosts, they can handle it.
Sure enough, we killed three water ghosts in a row.
After swimming forward for a certain distance, the surrounding black fog dissipated.
The scene around us has changed.
The river is no longer so turbulent and much calmer.
The real shore appeared, only seven or eight meters away from us.
Seven or eight meters, at this distance, I can drag Lao Mo ashore in thirty seconds at most.
"We're here, we're coming."
I spoke excitedly.
Lao Mo also nodded happily and imitated me to pat the water next to him.
Want to speed things up a bit.
However, this evil spirit never thought of letting us go.
Now I saw that I was about to go ashore.
That damn evil ghost showed up again.
Three meters in front of us, a series of bubbles suddenly popped up.
A gloomy chill swept across the water.
Lao Mo and I felt nervous and secretly thought that something was wrong.
Before the two of us could react.
Three meters away, where the blisters appeared, a human hand suddenly stretched out.
The man grabbed the river surface with his hands and climbed up with all his strength.
The evil ghost that appeared just now climbed up from the water to the surface of the river.
He still had that pale face, a big mouth that was split to the base of his ears, and a pair of white eyes without pupils.
There is a bloody hole in the left shoulder, which looks wet.
"Evil ghost!"
Lao Mo exclaimed.
I also thought to myself that it was bad, and hurriedly patted the water to keep us steady where we were.
The evil ghost appeared, but Mr. Jiang was nowhere to be seen.
From this we can see that Mr. Jiang is probably in serious danger.
A wave of anger rushed straight at him.
I want to kill this evil spirit.
But now, I didn't show it.
Instead, I was thinking about how to deal with this evil ghost.
Because only when you are alive can you be qualified to talk about revenge.
Now, we are only seven or eight meters away from the river bank.
But even if it's only seven or eight meters, it's still in the river.
If we take action rashly, both Lao Mo and I may die...
This chapter has been completed!