For the sarcastic and smooth Manager Wu to lose his composure, Liang Jiunan and Yu Langya looked at each other and already had a plan in mind.
Yu Langya took a step forward, his eyes sharp, with the oppressive feeling of a ninth-level warlock:
"Steward Wu, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, when the Demon Subduing Division is handling a case, others must obey unconditionally!"
"With this expression on your face, could it be that you are trying to shirk it?"
Manager Wu trembled all over and waved his hands repeatedly: "No, I..."
"Sister Langya." Liang Jiunan also approached with a smile and took out a silver coin from his arms:
"You are in charge, we won't let you suffer."
"One ingot of silver, just to borrow a boat from you, let's go to the center of the lake and have a look, it should be enough."
With that said, without waiting for Manager Wu to refuse, Liang Jiunan placed the silver coins in Manager Wu's hands with a hint of coercion.
Doing so is tantamount to hinting to Manager Wu that if he continues to shirk, he is not showing appreciation.
Butler Wu has a delicate heart, but he doesn't understand that Liang Jiunan and Yu Langya are just one of them being a good person and the other a bad person.
But under the current situation, he couldn't refuse at all.
After thinking about it, Butler Wu gritted his teeth:
"You two adults, I can lend you a boat...yes!"
"But there's one thing we have to agree on first!"
"The center of the lake is...haunted!"
"You have to write me a note!"
"If there is really...there is any danger, this matter has nothing to do with me!"
Haunted?
Liang Jiunan and Yu Langya looked at each other.
Could it be... a baby ghost?
"Steward Wu, what do you know?" Liang Jiunan narrowed his eyes slightly and patted the other party's shoulder gently: "We can write a note, but you have to tell everything you know!"
Yu Langya glared angrily: "Say!"
Butler Wu collapsed on the ground with a plop, his face pale and shaking like chaff.
After scolding the workers around him and leaving, Butler Wu intermittently told the strange things about Pei's dock.
"It started about...three years ago."
"At that time, I didn't know what happened."
"It's just that after the Chinese New Year Festival, when the workers started working at the dock normally, several cargo ships sank inexplicably in the center of the lake!"
"This kind of situation has never happened to our Pei family's cargo ships."
"But now that the matter has come to this, we can only save people first!"
"Some people with good water properties should immediately go rescue people."
"Unexpectedly, people standing on the shore suddenly discovered that many water bubbles appeared inexplicably in the center of the lake, as if...as if someone was breathing underwater!"
Liang Jiunan frowned and signaled Butler Wu to continue.
The latter swallowed his saliva, wiped the cold sweat on his face haphazardly, and continued tremblingly:
"Someone with good water properties already noticed something was wrong, so he thought about withdrawing it quickly."
"But at this moment, they...they were actually dragged into the water one by one!"
"Everyone is panicking!"
"No one knows what happened!"
"No one knows what caused it!"
"More and more people are going into the water to save them, and more and more people are sinking to the bottom of the water inexplicably!"
“In the end, only 30% of the workers who went into the water made it ashore alive!”
"They... they all said they saw ghosts underwater!"
When Manager Wu was talking, Yu Langya kept staring at him.
After realizing that Manager Wu didn't seem to be lying, Yu Langya nodded towards Liang Jiunan.
Liang Jiunan frowned, but thought of a time point mentioned by Manager Wu just now.
Ghost Festival!
During the Qianku Temple, Taoist Master Yunhe also said that Cuihuan would ask for a jade pendant from Empress Cansheng on the Ghost Festival every year for three consecutive years.
According to Manager Wu, the haunting in the center of the lake started three years ago, and the first casualty occurred on the second day of the Ghost Festival.
At this point in time, it seems that it cannot be described as a coincidence.
Could it be...that Cuihuan's dead daughter was really causing trouble?
What is the connection between her dead daughter and the baby ghost that appeared at the New Year's Eve ceremony?
After much deliberation, Liang Jiunan decided to write a note to Manager Wu first, and then asked for a boat from him.
When the workers who were moving the goods saw that Liang Jiunan and Yu Langya were going to the center of the lake, every one of them showed a hint of shock and fear.
On the boat, having a panoramic view of the workers on the dock, Liang Jiunan said: "It seems... Manager Wu is not lying. There is something really weird in the middle of the lake."
Yu Langya frowned:
"But the question is...didn't the Demon Conquering Division have any record of what happened three years ago?"
"You and I were already in office three years ago."
"Although I can't handle cases independently yet, I didn't hear at the time that the Pei's Pier was haunted!"
Liang Jiunan tapped the hull of the boat with his fingers, looking at the slightly turbid lake water and remaining silent.
Soon, they arrived at the center of the lake.
The boat also stopped at this time.
Looking at the shore again, the noise can almost no longer be heard.
It can be said that even though it is daytime at this moment, the center of Yangzhou Lake is filled with silence and depth, giving people an inexplicable and chilling feeling.
"Sister Langya, you keep an eye on the boat while I go into the water and take a look." Liang Jiunan suggested.
Yu Langya immediately objected: "No! I am your sister, and I am better at water than you. It should be me who goes down to investigate!"
Liang Jiunan suddenly became unserious and said with a smile: "If you go into the water now, if you come back up, your clothes will be soaked."
"You stinky boy, you're giving me a bad rap again, you..." Yu Langya was ashamed and angry, but before the slap fell, Liang Jiunan jumped directly into the lake first.
"Nine difficulties!" Yu Langya's face changed slightly: "This brat!"
Helpless, Yu Langya summoned the awakening lion head to protect him, stood on the bow of the ship and stared around carefully.
At the same time, Liang Jiunan had already dived below. Relying on his ninth-level cultivation, it was not difficult to hold his breath for a short period of time.
What gave Liang Jiunan a headache was that the bottom of the lake, which was about two feet long, was empty, except for mud.
However, according to what Manager Wu said, there should at least be some human bones or the wreckage of a cargo ship here.
Sudden:
"Woo...wow..."
A familiar cry came to my ears.
It's a baby ghost!
Liang Jiunan's expression changed, he immediately pulled out the horizontal knife and turned around to look.
suddenly:
"Hiss!"
From the mud beneath his feet, a pair of small black hands suddenly came out and grabbed Liang Jiunan's legs.
Before he could react, Liang Jiunan's entire body was dragged downwards.
At the moment of crisis, Liang Jiunan pulled out his horizontal sword, and the "Army-Breaking Thunder Technique" was attached to the blade, and he slashed downwards.
In an instant, with a burst of shrill screams, the mud beneath his feet was completely overturned.
Liang Jiunan was immediately fascinated.
But that cold feeling began to spread throughout his body.
In times of crisis, Liang Jiunan instinctively used thunder to wrap his body.
"Hiss!"
In the lightning, the mud was scattered, and Liang Jiunan finally saw clearly.
At this moment, his eyes were full of horror.
Because there are densely packed baby ghosts floating here. At a glance, there are actually hundreds of them!
