"As for the escort, the Mounted Police of the Beta Town Public Security Bureau will be responsible."
As he spoke, the wizard with the Trident Sword raised his head and glanced at the treetops in the distance within the Silent Forest. Then he took out his Pocket Watch, checked the time, and muttered, "Why aren't they here yet... They should have arrived by now, right?"
"Over there!" Zheng Qing pointed in the opposite direction from where the Trident Sword wizard was looking and shouted, "Is that them?"
Everyone else on the boat turned in unison to look where Zheng Qing was pointing.
Several figures riding brooms came speeding over from the other end of the river bend, steadily descending as they flew. The uneven treetops stretching out from both banks caused them no trouble at all.
Under the wizards' control, the brooms nimbly swept past one obstacle after another, occasionally stirring up a few dead leaves still clinging to the branches.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh, whoosh!"
Before long, the Mounted Police came to a stop on both sides of the ferry boat amid howling winds.
There were five newcomers in all. Two hovered on each side with their brooms suspended beneath them, while the lead Mounted Police officer landed his broom on the deck, swung up a leg, and jumped down.
Zheng Qing noticed that all of their brooms were striped blue and white.
A thin string dangled from each broom's tail, with a red Pumpkin Lantern shaped like a spinning top hanging from its end. It spun madly while emitting a shrill, buzzing alarm, making an incessant racket.
After jumping off his broom, the lead Mounted Police officer casually grabbed the red Pumpkin Lantern and hung it on a hook set into the broom's tail. The Pumpkin Lantern finally stopped screaming,