Chapter 931 The Returnee's Notes 5

The driver took the two directly to the reservoir manager's house, a two-story building. As soon as they entered, a middle-aged man wearing a striped polo shirt came out to greet them.

"Is this Xie Xiangu?"

There are many ways people call the old lady; some call her a sorceress, some call her a fairy, and others, like this middle-aged man, call her a fairy maiden.

The old lady responded and then looked inside, "Old Master Wang."

This was a completely unfamiliar person to Xie Ning, probably a friend of the old lady, but the person had never visited the Xie family.

The old Taoist priest had a small tuft of beard and looked somewhat like a sage. He smiled at the old lady and then looked at Xie Ning beside him.

The old lady pointed at Xie Ning and said, "It's my little granddaughter, I brought her out to see the world."

“This is Master Wang. According to seniority, you should call him Uncle Wang.”

There was no connection between them or their respective schools of thought. After all, they had learned from different schools. This old Taoist priest, Wang, seemed more orthodox, but he was actually a self-taught practitioner. On the other hand, the old lady's divination, which looked like something that should be severely punished as feudal superstition, actually had a legitimate lineage of teaching.

"Uncle Wang." Actually, this old Taoist priest Wang looked older than the old lady.

Old Wang stared at Xie Ning for a long while before slowly saying, "Is your little granddaughter better?"

He wasn't very skilled in cultivation before and couldn't see what was wrong with Xie Ning. He only felt that the child had an aura of death and probably wouldn't live much longer. He didn't know how the old lady had managed to raise him.

"Hmm." That was a response.

Standing next to Master Wang was a young man in his early twenties, not very tall, slightly overweight, and always smiling. He was Master Wang's youngest apprentice, Wang Ze.

After the two finished catching up, the middle-aged man, who was also the foreman, hurriedly invited them to sit down. He had prepared good wine and food, as it was their custom to discuss business over a meal.

Xie Ning had no appetite due to the bumpy journey and only drank tea, while Wang Ze ate quite a lot.

Originally, the foreman only hired Old Wang, but because they hadn't found any trace of the water ghost after searching for several days, Old Wang then called the old lady.

It's all for the sake of the old lady's fragrance.

Ordinary incense can attract ordinary water ghosts formed from vengeful spirits, but Wang Laodao had lit almost nine incense sticks and hadn't attracted any movement, so he concluded that it wasn't a water ghost formed from a vengeful spirit, but probably a water monkey.

Different places have different perceptions of water ghosts and water monkeys. Some people think that water ghosts and water monkeys are the same. However, in the town of No Return, water monkeys are different from ordinary water ghosts. They have a real physical form.

Water monkeys are no different from ordinary people, except that they have darker skin, are about the size of a child, and have shorter limbs with claws and webbed feet.

Of course, water monkeys are also classified into two types: one is the water monkey that devours life, thereby enhancing its own power.

Secondly, there is the exchange of life souls. That is to say, among those who drown and are rescued, some may have had their life souls exchanged. The original human became a water monkey, and the water monkey became a human. This is a kind of replacement.

The last explanation is that of a scapegoat. The water monkey forcibly pulls others into the water to drown, then swaps them for its own reincarnation. The drowned person who was swapped becomes the new water monkey.

Old Master Wang had seen the worker who was lured into the water, and it wasn't the second scenario; the rest still needs to be verified.

As Xie Ning listened to Wang Laodao's analysis, his eyes involuntarily swept between Wang Laodao and the foreman who looked terrified. Was this a hoax, or just a hoax?

Wang Ze glanced at Xie Ning's eyes and was stunned. Why did this little girl look at him like he was a liar?