According to Su Xiaoniu, this area was once a vast lake, with numerous villages nearby. Most of the villagers made their livings fishing and lived a self-sufficient life. However, after the drying up of Lop Nur, these villagers lost their food supply and some starved to death or left. Thousands of years later, the consciousness of the fishermen who once starved to death here still retains the memories of their fishing days, which is why the fisherman ghosts that appear here now have this appearance.

Fishing has always been their primary life, and they live and work in peace and contentment. Su Xiaoniu also said that although these fisher ghosts are old, they are not aggressive, and as long as you don't offend them, they will never attack you.

This puts my mind at ease, and I can save the Golden Light Talisman. Actually, looking at these fishing ghosts is quite pitiful. After a slight sigh, I rowed the coffin boat over. I originally wanted to go straight through them and not disturb their peaceful fishing life, but the river ahead turned into a dead end.

There are walls on three sides and we have reached the end of the river. We can only retreat, otherwise we will not be able to get through.

This really left me at a loss. You know, the King of Loulan and Xuanxuan had entered the cave at that time, but now I couldn't get through this river. I didn't even see the King of Loulan and the others. It was strange to think about it.

"Could it be... there is a secret passage here?" I thought to myself. Apart from this, I really don't know what other reasons there are.

So, I searched for secret passages in the river. Several times, I accidentally ran into the coffin boats of these fishing ghosts. They would turn around to look at me and then say to me, "I'm sorry..."

I felt a little embarrassed for a moment. It was clearly me who bumped into them, but they were the ones who said sorry... I was so fucking drunk.

But I also felt relieved about this. Just like Su Xiaoniu said, as long as I don’t offend them, these fishing ghosts will never attack me.

This made me feel much more at ease. What surprised me even myself was that I actually greeted these fishermen and asked them, "Do you fish here every day?"

A fisherman nodded and said, "We go out to fish every morning... but at night the lake disappears along with the fish... so we don't go out to fish at night."

I went out to fish in the morning...it's clearly evening now...

And he said the lake would disappear along with the fish at night... It's night now, so that doesn't mean the lake and the fish will disappear together? Besides, are there any fish down there?

Su Xiaoniu said cheerfully, "They fish in the river below day and night, so how could they tell the difference?... But based on what he said, I can guess that the lake near their village used to have high tide during the day and low tide at night. That's why he said they would come out to fish in the morning, and the lake and the fish would disappear in the evening."

I nodded slightly. Su Xiaoniu's analysis was indeed thorough. But this also made me even more curious. Could it be that the river "ebbs" at night? The problem was, it was nighttime now, and considering these fishermen couldn't tell the difference between day and night, the river should ebb during the day.

If this is true, perhaps we have to wait until daytime, when the river tide recedes, to find the secret passage, and then we can go find the King of Loulan!

After I thanked the fisherman ghost, I turned around and rowed the coffin boat to leave. When I passed the middle of the river, a nearby fisherman ghost suddenly said to me, "Don't go that way... There's a whirlpool there... Be careful not to get stuck..."

Whirlpool? I was stunned for a moment, looking up. Where were the whirlpools in all directions? Why was this fisherman talking nonsense?

Before I could react, the entire coffin boat began to shake slightly. After a while, the shaking became more and more violent, and the rotation became faster and faster. A huge whirlpool began to appear on the river surface below the coffin boat, and it was so terrifying that it seemed like it wanted to swallow me up!

The nearby fishermen saw this and rowed over, chattering, "Someone's about to be swept away by the whirlpool...Hurry up and save him!"

Before I could react, a group of fishermen rushed over and tried to rescue me from the whirlpool, but it was too late. I was sucked into the whirlpool along with my boat and was submerged in the river in minutes.