"Xiao An, come up quickly." Xing Baole waved to me.
I walked directly over and got on the canoe. Xing Baole used a long wooden pole to slide forward in the river.
The water glowed with a half-dead white light, like the skin of a dead body.
I unconsciously pictured a corpse emerging from the water and grabbing my neck, and I felt a little chilly in my heart.
After all, this is my first time having vaginal contact, so I would be lying if I wasn’t nervous.
Inside the canoe was a large and small piece of gray and plain cloth, which should be the shroud.
"Brother Xing, do you know where the body is? Has it not been washed away by the river?" I asked nervously and curiously.
"Of course I know. We corpse fishers have our own methods of finding corpses. Besides, I used wooden stakes to tie the corpse to the bottom of the river last time. There is no way it will be washed away." After he finished speaking, he looked at me and said: "If you didn't have me, would you be able to find the body? My dad needed your grandma's help to find some difficult bodies back then."
"Me?" I frowned and looked at the sparkling water, "We are the ones who came out. Relying on our own abilities, we can sense the Yin Qi nearby and judge whether there are sneaks or corpses, but..."
I looked at the surrounding water carefully again, "But I don't feel the slightest fluctuation of Yin energy around here."
"Huh? There are no Yin Qi fluctuations?" Xing Baole was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "This is impossible. Is the body missing? Something is wrong."
After speaking, Xing Baole accelerated his canoeing speed and rowed downstream. He said seriously: "This water area is not too deep. I fixed the body on the bottom of the water not far ahead."
"It's not too deep, it should be about five or six meters. Also, can you physically handle going into the water in this winter?" I asked curiously.
"Five or six meters is not worth mentioning to us corpse collectors. If ordinary people go into the water in winter, they will probably be frozen and unable to get out. But we have a method of circulating internal energy, which can form warm currents in the body, so we are not afraid of the water temperature. It's too low." After Xing Baole said this, he showed a proud look.
In my heart, I am worthy of being a corpse collector, and most of the skills I know are related to this job.
Soon, the canoe slid forward for about 500 meters and stopped at a location on the left shore.
Xing Baole pointed at the water and looked at me solemnly: "Xiao An, Xu Jinhua's body is down there."
My heart skipped a beat, and I looked down subconsciously. The full moon and a few dark clouds in the sky were reflected on the water surface, which was very scary.
But what puzzles me is that there is no fluctuation of Yin Qi below at all.
"Are you sure? Brother Xing, there is no Yin Qi fluctuation under the water. Is the body really down there?" I looked at him and asked doubtfully.
"What? There are no Yin Qi fluctuations? Impossible." Xing Baole's expression changed when he heard this, and he quickly took out a compass from his bag.
His compass is different from the ones commonly used by us immortals. Most of the ones we use are metal. His compass is a wooden compass with a simple shape.
Some of the character patterns engraved on it are also different from those we commonly use. I don’t know what kind of material the pointer is made of. I only saw the pointer swaying slightly and then stopped.
"How is this possible?" Xing Baole exclaimed, "The body is really missing!"
Hearing this, a thrilling feeling of horror hit my heart.
I quickly looked around vigilantly and asked solemnly, "Brother Xing, will the body turn into evil and leave the water and come ashore?"
"This is impossible. If we had gone ashore, something would have happened to the people in the village. No, I have to go down and take a look. You can wait for me on the canoe." After Xing Baole said this, he quickly started to take off his clothes.
Looking at his upper body exposed after taking off his clothes, I was trembling inside.
The skin under his clothes was completely different in color from the skin on his face and neck exposed outside. It was as white as a corpse.
The same thing happened with his lower body. He looked back at me and then jumped into the water. After a splash, the ripples quickly spread around.
I quickly looked down and saw a figure like a big fish under the water. It swayed a few times and then disappeared.
A gust of cold wind blew, and I shivered and looked around cautiously.
There was silence all around, and I felt a little nervous.
I always feel like there is something secretly watching me, and it will suddenly attack when the time comes.
As time passed, the ripples on the river surface disappeared, and the atmosphere became as quiet as if I was the only one here, as if Xing Baole had been drowned.
"Brother Xing." I looked at the water and called tentatively, but there was no response.
My heart beat slightly faster, thinking something might have happened to Xing Baole.
"Brother Xing, Brother Xing?" I called twice more quickly, and my voice echoed around me, but there was still no response from Xing Baole.
How is this possible?
Was there really an accident and he was captured by the corpse, or...
Just when I was extremely anxious to paddle the canoe to the shore and wait.
Suddenly, a faint cry came from behind, "Wow wow..."
Along with a gust of cold wind, it seemed like a female ghost was blowing cold air on the back of my neck, which made my body tremble.
"Wow wow..."
There were two more cries, which seemed to be very far behind me, but also seemed to be in my ears. When I heard them, my body felt like an electric shock.
"This voice!" I felt a thump in my heart.
This sound turned out to be the cry of a baby.
Could it be that the baby in the female corpse’s belly had already burst out?
If this were the case, wouldn't the corpse turn into evil spirits?
My heart was beating fast and I quickly looked back, my pupils suddenly contracting.
I saw that on the water surface about 500 meters upstream from me, there was a mass of black and rich Yin Qi, which was mixed with overwhelming resentment.
"Wow wow wow..."
The baby's cry came from that cloud of Yin Qi, and that Yin Qi was approaching us very quickly.
"Brother Xing, no, something happened. Where are you?" I shouted anxiously toward the water.
The Yin Qi was approaching me very fast, and it was accompanied by the cry of the baby, indicating that the corpses of mother and child might have turned into evil spirits. They were terrifying beings with the strength of half a ghost soldier.
Even if Xing Baole and I were put together, we would definitely not be a match for the mother and son. We should run away immediately and make long-term plans.
I was extremely nervous, but the water surface was still silent, as if Xing Baole had really drowned in the water.
Just when I was about to shout anxiously, there was a crash.
I saw Xing Baole's head emerging from the water more than twenty meters away from me.
Seeing this, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief and called out quickly: "Brother Xing, come up quickly. It's bad, the bodies of Xu Jinhua and the baby have already turned into evil spirits."
Xing Baole also looked solemnly at the Yin Qi approaching us upstream, but what I didn't understand was that his expression actually relaxed at the next moment.
"It's okay, Xiao An, don't panic, the corpse has not been transformed into evil spirits." Xing Baole shouted and swam towards me quickly.
He grabbed the edge of the canoe with both hands. After he came up, he looked carefully at the cloud of Yin Qi, his expression serious again, "This, even if the evil spirit is not transformed, we are not far away from that step. The wooden stakes fixed at the bottom of the water are actually covered by her Caught to pieces."
Hearing this, I quickly asked, "Can you scratch the wooden stake to pieces without turning it into evil spirits? And did you hear the baby crying? That dead baby..."
"Wow wow wow..."
Before I finished speaking, the cry of a baby could be heard again from the upper reaches of the river, and the cloud of Yin Qi was getting closer and closer to us, only less than 300 meters away.
"The baby was not born. If you listen carefully, the baby's cry is very dull, which means it is coming from the belly of the female corpse. It sounds very resentful. It may be trying to scratch the mother's belly and crawl out on its own."
After Xing Baole finished speaking, he looked at me again with a very solemn expression, "Go back to Xiao An, you came in time this time. If the connection fails tonight, the dead baby will probably crawl out on its own tomorrow. By then, the village will be devastated. The female corpse's behavior of walking around underwater may also be asking for help."
"Seeking help?" I asked curiously what was going on.
Xing Baole said that although Xu Jinhua was filled with resentment, his reason was not completely swallowed up by the resentment.
She knows that if the baby breaks out of the belly and creates evil causes for others, the final outcome will be that it will be dragged into the endless hell through reincarnation.
So she was walking around under the water trying to find help from us practitioners.
You may have noticed our aura at this moment, so you came here like us.
But the current situation is not optimistic. If the female corpse cannot suppress the resentful infant spirit, she will be completely swallowed up by the resentment.
Then they will come ashore to eat people.
I was amazed and frightened when I heard this. After all, it was the first time I had encountered such a pregnant corpse in more than ten years.
"Let's go, let's go over now and fish her out." After Xing Baole said that, he took the initiative to paddle the canoe towards the cloud of Yin Qi.
