Chapter 377 Seize the Credit
Ye Lingyue and others took the three children to the mayor's mansion.
What surprised them was that Luo Qianche and Jiang Ce were also in the mayor's mansion.
"How are you?"
Luo Qianche was very happy when he saw Di Xin, but when he saw Ye Lingyue, his tone became unpleasant.
"We're here for the water ghosts. When the parents of these children had an accident, the townspeople couldn't help but say that they were going to burn down the house and kill people. They also said that this was the usual practice in the town."
Ye Lingyue recounted what happened.
"Mayor, is this really the case?"
Luo Qianche glanced at the children and saw that they were thin, small, and dirty. What she hated most was dealing with such commoner children.
"Young City Lord, you don't know something, and we have to do it. The water ghost thing is getting worse. Earlier I issued an order in the town not to go out for fishing. But the father of these three children did not obey the order. When he went fishing in private, something happened when he came back. Everyone he came in contact with died inexplicably, his wife died a few days ago, and their family was attacked by water ghosts. The people of the town will suffer."
The mayor looked at the three children with fear.
"We are not devils, and my father and mother have not been possessed by ghosts. Our family has nothing to eat. Father does not fish, and my younger brothers and sisters have nothing to eat. Father went fishing for us."
The eldest of them heard it, wiped his nose, and shouted unwillingly.
He was about six or seven years old, the eldest of the three children.
He may not understand the word death, but he knows the water ghost.
Since Dad came back from fishing, the people in the town have been saying behind their backs that they are devils, and the children don't play with them anymore.
"It's nonsense. The town has not always distributed food rations to every household, how could there be no food."
The mayor had a thick red neck and reprimanded the children.
"Then you have to ask your good nephew. We have already asked the neighbors nearby. This man hoarded food and sold it at a high price because he was the nephew of the mayor. He made a fortune by taking advantage of the water ghost. There are more than one family of townspeople, those townspeople have no food,
And there is no money, can only go out to fish. "
Ye Lingyue grabbed the militia captain and fell to the ground.
The latter turned pale with fright, and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy.
"It's unreasonable, what a dog slave."
Luo Qianche felt very unhappy when he heard this.
She and Ye Lingyue arrived at Yuliao Town at about the same time, but in just one night, Ye Lingyue actually found out so many things, which made her, the young city owner, very embarrassed.
The power of reincarnation in Luo Qianche's hands was condensed and turned into a spirit dagger, which was about to be wiped at the neck of the militia captain.
"Hold on."
However, Ye Lingyue stopped Luo Qianche with a split hand.
"What to do, I teach my subordinates, when is your turn to take care of it."
Luo Qianche glared angrily.
"It's useless to kill him. In the final analysis, this matter still lies with the water ghost. If you kill a greedy and pervert the law, the problem in Yuliao Town still cannot be solved."
Ye Lingyue had already inquired about the water ghosts in the villages and towns along the river in the Hanshui area, which has existed since ancient times.
But I don't know why the troubles have been particularly severe this month. In the past, there were water ghosts at most a few times a year, but recently, almost all the fishermen who went out of the boat were caught.
There are already many people who died because of water ghosts in the town.
In some households, because a certain person was possessed by a water ghost, the whole family was treated as a devil, either burned to death or imprisoned. Like this time, if they hadn't stopped them, those children would have become unjust ghosts. .
"Then what do you say?"
Luo Qianche was also dubious about the water ghost.
"It's very simple, the bell has to be tied to the bell. We can really resolve the crisis in Yuliao Town by finding the water ghost."
The mayor turned pale when he learned that Ye Lingyue was going to catch the water ghost in person.
"Several adults absolutely must. That water ghost is very ferocious, and there is no trace to follow. Earlier, we also organized militia guards to arrest people, and even paid a high price to invite some monster hunters, but all of them were useless. .And after offending the water ghost, the casualties in the town will be more serious."
When the mayor mentioned this, he broke into a cold sweat.
At the beginning, he also thought about catching the water ghosts, but when the militia guards arrived in the area where water ghosts are often seen in the Han River, it was obviously windless and waveless weather, but the boat capsized all of a sudden.
Those monster hunters also tried to fly into the waters to find out.
But after entering that area, the spirit tool would fail for no reason, and those hunters even fell into the Han River with their spirit tool, and in the end they couldn't even salvage the corpse capital.
Over time, the water ghosts in Yuliao Town became known to everyone, and even the most experienced hunters dared not mention catching water ghosts.
Yuliao Town is also deserted day by day.
"It makes no sense. You confuse us with those ordinary monster hunters. They are just water ghosts. What's the big deal? I am the blood of the water god, protected by the gods, and I will definitely be able to catch them." Luo Qianche listened The mayor reprimanded.
"Yes, the Lord of the Shaocheng has divine beasts to protect his body, so he doesn't need to be afraid of cows, ghosts and snakes. I'll go with you to see the Han River Basin. We are here to solve the problems for the people of Yuliao Town, not like some people who only know how to move. The lip-smacking, in fact, is a person who is greedy for life and fears death." Jiang Ce also agreed with Luo Qianche.
The reason why Luo Qianche and Jiang Ce are so confident is all because of the presence of the merman king. In their opinion, the merman king is the king of the waters, and when the water ghost sees him, it is bound to have no way to hide.
Ye Lingyue, Di Xin and others were helpless when they heard it.
Ye Lingyue looked at the shark king again. His blue eyes, which were originally very melancholy, looked even deeper now.
At noon that day, Luo Qianche, Jiang Ce and others forced the mayor and others to send a boat to the Han River Basin.
Watching the boat go out, Huang Jun and the others were still full of unwillingness.
"Lingyue, why didn't you say anything just now, the matter of catching the water ghost was clearly brought up by you first, but let them grab it first. If they really caught the water ghost, the townspeople of Yuliao Town would All to support them."
"In my opinion, that water ghost is not so easy to deal with. There is not only one way to turn people's hearts against them. Let's go to the town first and check the situation of the townspeople who died for no reason and others."
Ye Lingyue looked at the wide river of Hanshui with an ominous premonition in her heart.
The water was running long and far, and she didn't know where it was going. She always felt that there was an indiscernible icy coldness on the river surface, which kept spreading, as if something was about to emerge from the bottom of the water.