On the way back, teacher Liao Zhi explained to everyone what had just happened. The ghost suddenly appeared behind him. In desperation, he directly opened the window and jumped out.
Although he sprained his arm and had many scratches on his body, he managed to save his life.
"Mr. Shi, you are really lucky." Jiang Cheng turned his head and said in a very lucky tone: "Ordinary people may not survive such a thing."
Hearing this, Zuo Jing and others' expressions changed slightly. They were all doubting the identity of Master Liao Zhi, but with such a blatant hint... wasn't he afraid of being targeted by ghosts?
Even the fat man walking beside Jiang Cheng couldn't help but become nervous.
But fortunately, the teacher Liao Zhi didn't do anything except look scared. He glanced at the lake and seemed to want to say something.
An Xuan, who was always paying attention, noticed something strange about him and asked, "Mr. Shi, did you think of something?"
While stroking his arm, teacher Liao Zhi whispered: "When the ghost was hiding behind me, I seemed to be able to see something."
"It's just... it's a very strange feeling." He paused, as if he was organizing his words. After a while, he raised his head and continued: "Well... just It was like a different perspective, and I suddenly felt that the surroundings were very dark, but it was not the kind of darkness where I couldn't see anything. There was a little light above my head, but it was not obvious, and the surroundings were blurry."
"My chest is very tight, as if there is a stone pressing on it. I can only breathe very slowly, and I feel a slight suffocation."
Teacher Liao Zhi's memories gave everyone new ideas. You Qi seemed to think for a while, then touched his chin and said, "The feeling you mentioned... seems like diving!"
"I'm afraid you were affected by a ghost and briefly saw her perspective." Xia Meng added.
"To be precise, it should be the perspective of her corpse." Zuo Jing's tone was a little strange. She seemed to have thought of something, but due to some reasons, she couldn't explain it clearly.
The fat man nodded and responded: "So the body of the female ghost was indeed sunk underwater, at the bottom of the lake."
Everyone has suspected this before.
"Mr. Shi." An Xuan looked at his teacher Liao Zhi and said in a sincere tone: "I'm afraid I have to trouble you to take a look around the lake and get a feel for it. If you can find the body of the female ghost, then everything will go smoothly. Much more.”
This was a very appropriate reason. Everyone was staring at Master Liao Zhi and gave him no chance to refuse.
Hearing this, Master Liao Zhi immediately showed a very frightened expression. His throat rolled and he looked towards the lake. After all, he had just escaped from the ghost's pursuit and now he was back at the lake...
But in the end he compromised, "Okay." He said reluctantly, "But I can't guarantee that I can find it."
An Xuan replied very politely: "Please, Mr. Shi."
"It seems...it doesn't seem to be here." Teacher Liao Zhi walked slowly along the lakeside, stopping for a while from time to time, seemingly sensing, "It's not here either."
Others kept a close distance from him.
Fortunately, Master Liao Zhi's attention was focused on finding the body, and he did not notice anything unusual behind him for a moment.
The weather was good and calm.
The lake is as calm as a mirror.
The shadow of Master Liao Zhi was clearly reflected on the water very close to the shore.
Everyone looked at him calmly. From top to bottom, especially his back, there was nothing unusual.
The fat man's face improved a little, but before he could speak, An Xuan on one side said in a low voice: "Leave a few people to watch, and the rest of you will come back to the room with me."
Zuo Jing frowned, "You mean that painting?"
It's not difficult to guess An Xuan's thinking. He still has doubts about his teacher Liao Zhi. If his teacher Liao Zhi was really replaced by a ghost, there might be hints in the painting.
"An...Mr. An." Youqi, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke. He looked at everyone with a somewhat embarrassed expression, "I covered that painting with a red cloth. It looked too weird to me. ,Fear......"
"Bindded?" An Xuan's expression changed slightly when he looked at You Qi.
Youqi licked his lips and said in a very worried tone: "You...don't you feel that the woman in that painting is gradually changing?" He paused and continued: "This is the first time I saw it. When it came to painting, I remember that her face was facing towards the painting, only a little bit was exposed, but now, she has turned more than half of it!"
While saying the last sentence, he couldn't help trembling. Now he was sure that the woman in the painting was a ghost, the ghost bride that Master Huang had longed for.
A very scary, but quite reasonable guess gradually took shape in everyone's mind——
When the woman turns completely around, she is likely to disappear from the painting and come to reality.
After that, everyone will die.
"It seems that this is the deadline for the mission." Zuo Jing sighed as she stared at the back of her teacher Liao Zhi.
Just when Youqi opened his mouth and wanted to continue saying something, he suddenly heard a scream. Teacher Liao Zhi was sitting by the lake, with his hands on the ground and crawling backwards tremblingly.
"No!" He looked terrified, "Please, don't come to me!"
His eyes were almost filled with fear, and it was hard to imagine what he actually saw.
"What's wrong?" An Xuan was the first to run over, but stopped only two meters away from him, without any intention of approaching him.
"She is here, right here!" Master Liao Zhi's voice changed. "When I walked here, I suddenly had a strange feeling, and then I looked down, and it turned out..."
His eyes narrowed into slits.
Staring at the faint water, Zuo Jing suddenly had a very bad premonition. The lake water, which was unusually clear just now, turned a little turbid now.
"What's the result?" She looked at her teacher Liao Zhi and asked.
"There is a rotten face under the water!" Teacher Liao Zhi said with a cry, "She is looking at me and smiling at me. She is eyeing me, she is eyeing me!"
If Master Liao Zhi's fear was feigned before, now his fear is very real. At least Xia Meng didn't see any flaws.
Master Liao Zhi is not a newcomer, but regardless of whether he is a newcomer or not, the result of being targeted by ghosts is predictable, or just like Jiang Cheng, the risk is passed on within the scope allowed by the rules.
Or just wait for death to come in extreme fear.
In fact, there is another way to go, that is to find clues immediately and escape from the mission before the ghost comes to find you.
But as far as the actual situation is concerned, the last way is completely unfeasible. The clues found so far are very limited and are not enough to deduce what happened.
After cautiously moving forward a few steps, Jiang Cheng moved closer.
There was an embankment built with stones, about one meter above the lake. He glanced at the water, and the water below showed a darker green color.
