Corpse Retriever

The good news is that although Lin Shuyou was carrying a bamboo pole in the corpse-driving team, he was able to open his eyes and seemed to retain a certain degree of self-awareness.

This means that he might not have been "picked up" here, but he took the initiative to join this team.

But the problem is that although Lin Shuyou occasionally had a short circuit in his brain, he was still very obedient without a face, especially since he arranged him and Yin Meng to be in a team.

Under normal circumstances, the two of them would never sneak around to do something free-to-play in the existing tasks.

The most important thing for my team is team discipline.

So, something happened in the middle of the journey, and some accident caused the two of them to be involved?

The bad news is that they are entering the water.

The sound of the bell in the hand of the yellow-robed Taoist priest walking in front gradually faded, and the sound of water rose. Li Zhuiyuan had good hearing and could hear the sound of them walking into the lake one by one.

Li Zhuiyuan pursed his lips and began to think quickly.

Because... time is running out.

At the moment, Lin Shuyou still has a certain degree of self-awareness. Although Yin Meng failed to observe it, it is highly likely that he will not be in the worst state.

But now is now, what about one day later?

Tomorrow, eight teams will leave the lake and set out again, but at that time, each team should be in the standard formation of "two people carrying one person".

The eight teams will return at about this time tomorrow, that is, 24 hours from now.

During this day and night, can Yin Meng and Lin Shuyou still guarantee their safety under the lake?

Therefore, if you choose to wait for another 24 hours, it is almost equivalent to giving up the rescue and expecting them to create a miracle and come out alive.

And if you want to do something, the only chance is that there is a shadow in front, and the eighth team is coming soon.

Mix in the eighth team and get into the water!

Li Zhuiyuan made up his mind.

In the dictionary of young people, there is no option of lighting the lights twice to end the river and admit defeat.

Therefore, he will get into the water sooner or later.

So on this basis, if we don't go down to join the rescue while Yin Meng and Lin Shuyou still have self-awareness, do we have to wait until they are dead?

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head and looked at Xiong Shan.

Xiong Shan had been down before, so he had experience.

Whether from the perspective of a guide or team cooperation, if Xiong Shan could go down together, it would undoubtedly greatly increase the success rate of his rescue.

Xiong Shan's eyes were now showing a struggle.

Li Zhuiyuan couldn't specifically measure the relationship between Xiong Shan and his brothers, but Xiong Shan had previously shown that he wanted to light the lamp and stop for the second time.

When a person takes the initiative to show this emotion, it means that his inner dam has actually been riddled with holes.

And it was his brothers who went down, and he and his wife and children who stayed up there. If this configuration was changed, his struggle might not be so strong.

The situation was out of control. Xiong Shan could light the lamp again, declare defeat, and spend the rest of his life with his wife and children. At most, he would think of the two brothers he had abandoned and endured some inner condemnation when he woke up in the middle of the night.

"Dinglingling... Dinglingling... Dinglingling..."

The bell of the eighth team was approaching.

Xiong Shan closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the struggle in his eyes disappeared.

He looked at Li Zhuiyuan, but reached out and patted his wife, saying, "Let's go save the second and third children."

Lihua breathed a sigh of relief, a smile on her face, first lowered her head and kissed her son, then tied the swaddle around herself, letting the child tighten against her body, thus completely freeing her hands.

Facing Xiong Shan's gaze, Li Zhuiyuan replied calmly:

"Together."

Xiong Shan smiled: "I was defeated by you, little brother. You are more sentimental."

Li Zhuiyuan: "What should we do next?"

Xiong Shan had previously talked about how to sneak into the team, but he did not tell the actual details of the operation, also to deliberately hide a trick.

"When they are about to enter or leave the 'inn', quickly blend into the team and throw away the paper money at the same time, so that you can successfully blend in without alarming them.

After entering there, when the bamboo pole starts to turn, let go, stand still, and pretend to be dead.

There is an eye there, don't move when it is open, wait until it closes before looking for an opportunity."

"Did you succeed in one go last time?"

"I am half a local. After killing that evil cultivator, I also learned the Chenzhou Talisman he left behind. I know a little about the taboos and methods of corpse-driving.

If you are interested, little brother, I have some Chenzhou Talisman fragments in my hand. If we can all come out alive this time, I can lend them to you."

"I am not interested in this."

"That's right, you are worried that this will be contaminated by my karma in the martial arts world."

Li Zhuiyuan did not explain any more.

The eighth team has only three people, which means that this team has not received anyone.

Xiong Shan: "We will go first, the three of you will go later."

He obviously counted his son as one of them.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Okay."

The boy looked at Runsheng and Tan Wenbin, and they nodded in return.

The eighth team came, and everyone bowed their heads collectively.

When the team adjusted the angle and began to circle around the "Yin Yang Road Inn", which is the so-called "entering the inn", Xiong Shan and Lihua quickly stood up, one on each side, grabbed the bamboo pole with one hand, and lifted their shoulders.

Three pieces of paper money fell from them.

When the team was about to "leave the inn", Li Zhuiyuan and the other two also stood up quickly.

Runsheng and Tan Wenbin imitated Xiong Shan and the others' movements, while Li Zhuiyuan grabbed Runsheng's clothes.

Three pieces of paper money were thrown away quickly.

In an instant, I felt that the whole person's perspective had changed.

The surrounding environment became blurred, and there seemed to be a phantom of an inn with lights on behind him.

Although he was walking step by step, the speed of movement was a bit exaggerated, and there was a weird sense of spatial dislocation.

Lin Shuyou must have sensed something before, so he opened his eyes to look for it, but he was in the corpse-driving team, and Li Zhuiyuan and others were holding paper money in the inn, which was equivalent to being in another barrier, so it was normal for Lin Shuyou to fail to find anyone.

It is better to walk at the back of the team than at the front.

Because you have to avoid the one in the middle whose feet are not touching the ground, and you cannot look at it.

Therefore, Xiong Shan and others who are walking in the front can look forward more freely, while Li Zhuiyuan and the other three who are at the back can only look around.

But who can blame them for being experienced? The tour guide is walking in the front, and there is really nothing to say.

There is a sound of water splashing under my feet.

It is time to enter the water.

The front one enters first, and the back one follows.

The water is a little cold, but after being completely immersed in it, there is a feeling of being unable to breathe, but this is more of a psychological feeling, and there is no real strong physiological suffocation.

It is very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, but you can't drown.

This should be another characteristic of this corpse-driving team.

It turns out that Brother Liangliang feels this way every time he goes to see the Bai family's mother.

Even if he has to go through this pain twice every time, it can't stop him from going back and forth to Nantong frequently.

The team is moving at the bottom of the lake, and the two bamboo poles are like a boat, which is very stable.

As they walked, Li Zhuiyuan saw an underwater village, which was submerged under the water. This should be Taohua Village.

The underwater Taohua Village still retains most of its original appearance, and the team also walked through the middle of the village road.

After leaving the village, the team continued to move downwards. This should be the real Yinma Lake.

Down, down, and down again, this should be heading towards the center of the lake.

Finally, Li Zhuiyuan felt that his feet had fallen into the air, and the entire team began to descend vertically.

But even so, the "corpse driver" behind him continued to swing his feet back and forth at the original frequency, and everyone followed his rhythm and continued to swing their legs.

Sink, sink, and sink again...

"Splash!"

For the first time, I experienced the feeling of floating on the water after sinking, and the dirty but real air rushed into my nasal cavity and began to soothe my heart and lungs.

Here is an underwater pool.

In front of the pool, there are many people standing.

Everyone stood in the water with their lower body, eyes closed, steady, and motionless.

At this time, the bamboo pole began to turn.

Xiong Shan and Lihua let go and stood in place, and Runsheng and Tan Wenbin also let go and stood in place.

The standard three-person corpse-driving team seemed to have completed the unloading here and then continued to move forward.

There was an ancient and heavy stone gate on the water pond. Only half of the stone gate on the left was left, and the stone gate on the right was full of cracks. There was a big pit on the steps leading to the stone gate, with four thick dents on the edge, as if it was smashed out by a fist.

The surrounding rock walls should have been carefully painted murals, similar to the arc dome pattern, but now these murals are densely covered with black stains of varying depths, which should be blood splashed on.

There was a war here, and many people died.

Suddenly, the "sky" was bright.

A ball of red ghost fire appeared above his head.

Ghost fire is usually not this color, but in this ball of fire, it really seems like there is an eye, scanning the bottom, bringing tremendous pressure.

This "eye" made Li Zhuiyuan feel extremely familiar.

The corpse-driving team, which had unloaded the people, began to walk into the stone gate. As they moved, there were faint flames rubbing around them, but they were suppressed and extinguished by another force.

They should not have moved. Under the ghost eye, any extra movement would be regarded as heresy and be burned at the stake.

But either the ghost eye had been damaged, or it had been modified by humans, or both. In short, the ghost eye did not work on the corpse-driving people.

The corpse-driving people could enter and exit here freely, but other people could not enjoy this treatment.

Even if there was no reminder from Xiong Shan on the shore, everyone would not move at this moment. The warning from the ghost eye was so strong that it was almost real.

There were still many rows of people standing in front. Li Zhuiyuan was short and could see some details of the front row from the gap between the legs of the people below.

He found that he could see the back of the heads of the people in the first two rows.

Judging from the shape of their heads, they were all adults.

And from the front row to the back, the overall height showed a clear trend of gradually increasing.

This means that it is not because the first two rows are all dwarfs and hypercephalic patients, but because they have been melted.

This pool of water is like a candlestick. The "people" who are brought here will melt here and become wax to maintain the existence of the ghost eye.

But the problem is that although this method is clever, it seems a bit out of place when put together with this majestic ghost eye.

Wei Zhengdao had criticized the evil formation in detail and severely.

The young man agreed with him.

Therefore, Li Zhuiyuan knew that ordinary evil formations could indeed disguise themselves as fair and square to trick people into entering, but the more sophisticated the evil formation, the more difficult it was to conceal its true aura. Moreover, there was no need to do so, because the person who deserved your strict preparation and arrangement could not fail to see this simple trick, which seemed a bit like taking off pants and farting.

Moreover, if you want to keep the ghost eye lit forever, it is really too troublesome to rely on the team of corpse drivers to constantly pick up people from outside as lamp oil. It feels like relying on horses to pull a locomotive.

If I were to arrange this ghost eye... Isn't there a lake above? I could directly use the tide of the lake to connect with the ghost eye. As long as the lake does not dry up, the ghost eye can exist endlessly.

No mistakes in one poem, one post, one content, one book, one bar!

Suddenly, Li Zhuiyuan's eyes lit up.

No wonder I feel so familiar. After putting my own thoughts into it, isn't the operating principle of this ghost eye the "Qin Family Observation Dragon Method"? And isn't this formation itself the Qin family's "Dragon Eye Locking Gate Formation"?

It's just that the way to maintain existence has been changed, and it was supposed to be a pair of ghost eyes, but now there is only one left.

The Qin family used to set up this formation in the retreat of the old house to prevent being disturbed by the outside world during retreat; some special forbidden areas would also set up this formation, that is, if anyone is blind and finds it here, it is not wrong to be burned.

It seems that this is the work of a Qin family dragon king.

It was him who gathered the four major families of the old Tianmen and suppressed the general here.

To be honest, this is still Li Zhuiyuan's first time to come to the "ancestors' ruins".

Although the ruins have been destroyed and modified beyond recognition.

At this moment, the ghost eye gradually dimmed.

This should be what Xiong Shan said before, wait for it to close its eyes.

Li Zhuiyuan's breathing became heavier. You can change it if you want, but you have to lower the level of this formation.

Whose formation in the forbidden area has a method of dozing off with eyes closed?

Finally, the ghost eye was completely extinguished.

Xiong Shan moved, and Lihua moved with him. The two left their original place and began to search forward for the second and third members of their team.

"Search!"

Li Zhuiyuan also moved with Runsheng and Tan Wenbin, and began to search for Yin Meng and Lin Shuyou.

There were many people in the pool, and the brightness was not enough, so it was really troublesome to search.

Fortunately, everyone could start from the height first, and only search in the last two rows. After all, they were just sent in, and they would not melt and become shorter.

But at this time, Li Zhuiyuan was confused. He didn't know what was going on with Yin Meng, but Lin Shuyou should be able to move freely. He didn't dare to move when the ghost eye was open before, which was understandable. Now that the ghost eye was closed, why didn't Lin Shuyou move?

In the pool, there were only five sounds of movement now, not counting the child on Lihua's chest.

Secondly, if it is just a simple "open eyes and close eyes" taboo, then the difficulty here is undoubtedly too low, and Xiong Shan would not say that he almost died in there when he came in last time.

So, the entrance and exit of this place are not in the same position?

If you want to get out from here, you have to enter the stone gate?

The boy knew that even if he asked Xiong Shan now, he would not tell you clearly that their internal brotherhood is brotherhood, and when it comes to the outside world, they will not be confused and have the slightest ambiguity.

"Stop!"

Li Zhuiyuan reminded.

Runsheng and Tan Wenbin stopped moving immediately.

Xiong Shan and Lihua continued to search. Lihua heard the reminder from Li Zhuiyuan, but she did not stop when she saw that her husband did not respond.

The ghost eye did not light up. After a long time, a new light appeared. Xiong Shan then took his wife's hand and the two stopped moving.

Li Zhuiyuan predicted half a minute earlier and asked Tan Wenbin and Runsheng to accompany him to play the wooden man for a while longer.

This was Li Zhuiyuan's mistake, because he put the correct running rhythm into the incorrect formation.

After another period of waiting, when the ghost eye went out again, the five people started moving at the same time.

Li Zhuiyuan still couldn't find Lin Shuyou and Yin Meng, not only that, he didn't even see the three brothers Hu.

However, Tan Wenbin found the second and third brothers, who were standing in the middle of the second to last row, with their eyes closed and motionless.

Tan Wenbin looked at Li Zhuiyuan.

Find their people first, what if they don't help us find people after taking the people away? Maybe they will leave first.

Li Zhuiyuan took the initiative to shout: "Found it!"

The difficulty is not in finding people, but how to take such a group of people out safely, and Xiong Shan should still be thinking about sealing the general in his heart.

People are not so short-sighted.

Xiong Shan and Lihua waded over immediately.

Lihua: "Second, third!"

Facing the call, the second and third brothers still closed their eyes and had no reaction, as if they were dead.

Li Zhuiyuan was ready to try to wake him up, but seeing Xiong Shan was already taking the talisman and making a seal, he didn't bother to intervene.

After making the seal, Xiong Shan pasted a Chenzhou talisman on Lao Er's forehead and slid his thumb down along the talisman paper.

A black mist emanated from Lao Er's nostrils, and his eyes slowly opened, but he could only move his eyeballs after opening them, but could not speak or move.

Li Zhuiyuan's eyes froze instantly: he was restricted by someone!

Xiong Shan: "Hahaha, Lao Er, luckily, you are not dead, wait, I will help you remove the restriction..."

Xiong Shan stopped talking, and he also found the problem. Who put the ban on the second brother, and what was the purpose of the ban?

The second brother's eyes began to move quickly to the side, where the third brother was.

Xiong Shan: "Third brother, what's wrong with him?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "He's telling you to run!"

The second brother had been closing his eyes before, how did he know that the third brother was standing next to him. And even if he opened his eyes, he couldn't see the third brother's position without turning his head.

This was just a coincidence. When he made an eye signal, he happened to glance in the direction of the third brother, which confused Xiong Shan.

"Brother Runsheng!"

The boy reached out and grabbed Runsheng's arm. Runsheng habitually threw Li Zhuiyuan on his back, then grabbed Tan Wenbin's arm with his other hand, opened the valve, and Runsheng started running wildly under the direction of the boy.

After being reminded, Xiong Shan finally realized it and ran back with his wife in his arms.

A blue light shone from the clothes of the second brother, as if there were a lot of talisman papers hanging inside, and there were also chains wrapped around them. The chains were filled with black air, and were rubbing violently with the power of the talisman papers. All of this officially began with the host opening his eyes.

"Crackle! Crackle!"

Electric snakes were running around the second brother, and black flames were also gushing out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

Not only outside, but also inside his body was filled with something.

This was definitely not done by the "corpse chaser". It could only be that the person who put the ban on the two of them had reserved a handwriting for them, so that they could bring these things and be taken here by the corpse chaser.

The eruption of black flames around the second brother ignited the third brother, and the third brother also had a blue light on his body first, and then black flames gushed out of his mouth.

These black flames are corpse fires, which are made by refining corpse oil in a special way. After being ignited, they can easily induce corpse gas and ignite the surrounding corpses.

"Ah!!!"

"Ah!!!"

As the corpse fire in the bodies of the second and third brothers continued to erupt, the restrictions on them were also erased, but the two of them only had time to look back and take a look at the eldest brother, and their heads fell off, their bodies quickly melted, the container broke, and the corpse fire poured out and began to spread over a large area.

After the others were infected with the corpse fire, even the dead people began to twist and shake, just like the corpses would deform and make some movements after the crematorium was ignited.

For a time, most of the pool area was like a group of demons dancing.

"Second brother, third brother!"

Xiong Shan shouted at them with tears in his eyes, while pulling his wife and running towards the stone gate.

As for Li Zhuiyuan, he didn't even look back.

After the Runqi valve was opened, the force and speed were too terrible. After all, Tan Wenbin had the body of an ordinary person, and there was no chance for him to invite ghosts to possess him at this time. After following for a while with all his strength, he finally couldn't hold on and fell down.

However, Runsheng still pulled him to continue running, and Tan Wenbin's body was like a skipping stone on the river bank, "Plop! Plop! Plop!" being carried away.

Binbin began to slide with his hands and feet, trying to help as much as possible, and at the same time closed his mouth tightly to prevent being poured into the dirty water.

But it was useless to just close the mouth, because the nose and ears could not be closed, especially the nose, which was facing the sprint direction. The strong impact brought water pressure and drove the water into the nasal cavity.

But even so, he still couldn't stop.

If he didn't run, it would be too late.

Because the ghost eye was about to open.

Finally, Li Zhuiyuan and the other two came to the shore first. Tan Wenbin knelt on the ground, and his stomach was churning. At the same time, a hot feeling flowed out of his nostrils. It should be a nosebleed.

At this time, the ghost eye was also gradually opening.

Xiong Shan slapped two Chenzhou talismans on himself and his wife respectively, and the speed of the two was blessed.

But they were delayed by many factors, and Xiong Shan was already injured, and Lihua had a child, so the two were still a little distance away from the shore. They should be able to catch up, but there was also a certain danger.

On the shore, Li Zhuiyuan said, "Help them."

Upon hearing this, Tan Wenbin immediately took out the seven-star hook from his backpack, threw it forward, and the hook quickly extended, and then quickly handed it to Runsheng.

Xiong Shan and Lihua grabbed the hook, and Runsheng, who was standing on the shore, exerted force to pull the couple up like fishing.

I have to say that the two of them are really good at kung fu, and they were stable when they landed.

Lihua began to sob, turned around, and turned her back to the pool.

Xiong Shan's eyes were red, and he looked at Li Zhuiyuan first, nodded to him, and then growled in his throat: "Xie family, Bu family!"

The ghost eyes opened.

The corpses below were all "dancing" under the corpse fire.

Flames fell from above and hit all the bodies.

For a moment, the entire pool was on fire, and the pool began to boil violently, like hell on earth.

The people standing on the shore were motionless, but even so, they could feel the horrible heat waves constantly hitting their bodies.

Finally, the fire burned out, the pool was almost dry, and all the bodies turned into ashes.

The ghost eye became fainter, and then it was time for it to close its eyes, and gradually closed.

Xiong Shan: "Sorry, let your people be buried too..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Sorry, my people are not here."

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I was reduced to a level by the flu, and my typing state is not good. As usual, I will post half of it first, and I will continue to type. There will be another chapter tomorrow during the day.