Yang Shilong and the others excitedly discussed the dragon vein in the canyon for a long time. Then, they turned around and asked me casually, "How do we cross this river?
Is there a bridge nearby? "
I shook my head. "There's no bridge, and this river is really strange."
"Strange?" Yang Shilong was surprised. "Tell me the details."
Then, I told him about the last time we sent people to cross the river and how they disappeared mysteriously.
After I finished, Fang Xing, one of the two directors, frowned and asked, "Disappeared?
Could there be some kind of water monster in the water? "
As soon as he said that, Yang Shilong gestured for us not to talk. He walked to the riverside and looked at the water for a long time. Then, he shook his head with a puzzled face. "The water has a lot of Yin energy, but water belongs to the Yin attribute. It's not wrong to have a lot of Yin energy.
Besides that, I don't see anything strange. "
The three of them discussed for a while. Eventually, Yang Shilong turned to me and asked, "How did you cross the river last time?"
I considered for a while then told them about how I had gotten the villagers to cross the river.
At first, Yang Shilong and the others looked normal. However, when I talked about the large number of floating corpses flowing down the river and the floating corpse bridge, the three of them looked shocked.
When I told him about the black zombies and the golden head that popped up from the bottom of the lake, Yang Shilong was shocked. He looked at me in disbelief.
After telling them everything in one breath, I added, "The floating corpse bridge only appears on the first and fifteenth day of each lunar month. Today is the twenty-eighth day of the ninth lunar month. If we can't find another way to cross the river, we will have to rest by the riverside for two days. We will cross the river the day after tomorrow."
Yang Shilong thought for a long time. In the end, he decided to set up camp by the riverside. We would use these two days to try other methods. If it didn't work, we would have to wait for the floating corpse bridge to appear two days later.
I was just a guide, and Yang Shilong was the leader. Since he had made the decision, we had to follow him. We set up camp by the riverside to rest.
For the next two days, Yang Shilong and the other two stayed by the riverside to study the strange features of the river and discuss other ways to cross the river.
I wasn't interested in their topic. Ever since I saw the terrifying golden head at the bottom of the river, I was filled with respect for the river. If it wasn't for the fatty who had disappeared in the Fire God Temple, I wouldn't have been willing to come back even if I was beaten to death.
As for studying the strangeness of the river, it was better to leave this matter to an expert like Yang Shilong.
In these two days, I basically stayed in my own tent, thinking about whether or not I should borrow Yang Shilong and the rest's power to summon the Fire God Temple again.
Fatty had disappeared into the Fire God Temple. If he wanted to find Fatty, he had to find the Fire God Temple first.
Back then, I saw the method Director Liu used to summon the Fire God Temple. As long as I can find someone like the fatty who has the experience and a sacrificial person, I should be able to summon the Fire God Temple again.
It will definitely be difficult for me to do this alone, but using Yang Shilong and the power of the Metaphysics Union to summon the Fire God Temple is almost effortless.
The only problem was that the last time I stood outside the Fire God Temple, I couldn't enter. Even if I summoned the Fire God Temple this time, would I be able to enter?
If I couldn't enter, then I could only ask someone else to go in and find Fatty. However, the people from the Metaphysics Union probably wouldn't do their best to find him.
After thinking about it for two days, I couldn't confirm if I should tell Yang Shilong and the rest, so I could only take it one step at a time. When I arrived at the Fire God Temple, I would observe the situation before deciding on my next step.
Very quickly, two days passed. At noon on the 30th of September, we packed our luggage. The four of us stood by the river, waiting for the floating corpses to appear.
At around two o 'clock in the afternoon, the first black dot appeared in the distant river.
When the first corpse floated in front of us, countless black dots appeared in the distance, forming a black line.
Since I had explained the situation before, Yang Shilong and the rest weren't too shocked. They only observed the corpse on the surface of the river and nodded. "It really is a soulless corpse."
After studying it for a while, we started swimming towards the river. Along the way, countless corpses floated past us. Even though it was the second time I encountered this situation, I still couldn't help but feel scared.
Since we set out early this time, it was still daytime when we reached the upper reaches of the river.
At this time, there wasn't a floating corpse bridge at the upper reaches of the river. However, every ten seconds or so, a corpse would float up from the bottom of the river and slowly float downstream.
We sat by the river and slowly waited. Gradually, the night sky enveloped us, and the sky became dark.
The last time I came here, it was the fifteenth of the lunar calendar. After the sky turned dark, the moonlight shone brightly, and everything on the river could be seen clearly.
However, this time, it was the first day of the lunar calendar. There was no trace of the moon in the sky, and we were in the depths of the forest, so when night fell, the sky was dark, and only the light from the flashlights in our hands could be seen.
I held the flashlight and shone it towards the middle of the river. There were continuously dried corpses that floated up from the bottom of the river. Under the light of the flashlight, it was as if their entire bodies were emitting black light. It looked extremely scary.
Strangely enough, those corpses were soaking in the water, but none of them had swollen up. Quite the contrary, they all looked dry and shriveled. They didn't look like corpses that had died in the water. Instead, they looked like dried corpses that had been blown away by the wind in the desert.
We looked at the corpses on the surface of the river until midnight. All of a sudden, a bubbling sound came from the water. We hurried to use the flashlight to see. There were a lot of bubbles and white foam rising from the surface of the water.
This situation lasted for around two minutes. Then, the bubbles and white foam disappeared, replaced by a sea of black corpses.
Now, I knew that the corpses that made up the floating corpse bridge had appeared all at once.
The situation in the water looked like a massive school of black fish that had suddenly jumped into a small pond. All of a sudden, they rose from the bottom of the water to the surface, crowding together. It looked strange and absurd.
Just like Yang Shilong and the others, it was the first time we had seen such a strange scene. We stood by the river and held the flashlight in our hands. We kept silent and didn't know what to say.
Around one or two minutes later, a layer of corpses appeared on the surface of the water, blocking the entire river and forming a floating corpse bridge.
Although Yang Shilong was interested in the golden head underwater, the most urgent matter at hand was to cross the river. Shortly after, he reacted. He waved his hand and said to us, "We shouldn't delay any longer. Let's cross the river!"
After saying that, he took a step forward and directly jumped onto the floating corpses in the river.
The three of us followed behind and were about to jump onto the floating corpses. Right at this moment, I heard footsteps next to me. Instinctively, I lifted my head and saw a shadow dashing past us. It jumped onto the bridge of floating corpses. Then, it didn't stop and directly ran to the other side of the river.
I wasn't the only one who was startled. Yang Shilong and the others were also startled. They couldn't react in time and just let the shadow run past them.
Before we could react, the shadow had reached the center of the river.
The Yellow Spring River was a deserted place. After we had left the scenic area, we hadn't met anyone along the way. How could we coincidentally meet someone here?
Before I could figure it out, Fang Xing, who was standing next to me, shouted, "Who are you?
Why are you following us? "
I was surprised. Did this person follow us here?
After Fang Xing shouted, the shadow stopped at the center of the river. However, it immediately moved to the other side of the river.
Fang Xing was enraged. He took out a magic tool that looked like a folding fan and raised his hand to draw the Dao energy.
Yang Shilong, who was standing not far from him, raised his hand to stop him. This place was full of floating corpses, and I had told them about the Black Zombie incident. No matter what, we shouldn't use our Dao energy here. We couldn't be sure if something unexpected would happen.
Fang Xing reluctantly stopped. We could only stare at the shadow crossing the river.
It was strange that after the person reached the other side of the river, he didn't hurry to leave. Instead, he turned around and looked at us from a distance.
Yang Shilong and the others had prepared excellent equipment for this trip. For example, their flashlights were military-grade LED flashlights. Even though they were dozens of meters away from the river, they could still see the person's face clearly.
So, the moment the man turned around, I saw his face. Then, I was completely shocked.