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Liu Muzhe nodded affirmatively at Qiu Zimu. The Book of Hundred Demons was a must-read book for anyone working in this field. It was also the most basic book, recording the more common ghosts and monsters. Apparently, Ye Jingan was too lazy to read it again.
Liu Muzhe sighed deeply. He didn't have any expectations for Ye Jing'an. It was good enough that he was alive. It was not easy to save his life, so why expect anything else?
Why……
"You know, right?! Go save them for me!" Seeing Brother Liu walking out of the house, Ye Jing'an chased after him and said, "Brother Liu, what's going on with the missing cattle and sheep? Do ghosts need to eat?"
"It doesn't need to eat, but the water ghost has absorbed the souls of other animals." Liu Muzhe said, "I saw the water ghost teasing Guoguo the other day, and he exuded the scent of various animals."
"What the hell? I don't understand." Ye Jing'an said.
Liu Muzhe explained, "Most ghosts are killed by people, and they hold a grudge that traps them in the lake. They need to find a scapegoat to free themselves. But I didn't see any grudges by the lake. I guess he accidentally drowned. With this kind of death, the soul won't be trapped in the lake, so it can go straight to reincarnation. Perhaps he has unfulfilled wishes and doesn't want to leave to reincarnate. But ghosts without grudges can't stay in the human world, so they rely on absorbing the souls of small animals to stay."
"Oh~ so how to solve it?" Ye Jingan asked.
Liu Muze sighed again and said, "Let Qiu Zimu tell you."
"Come on, listen carefully. If you want to free the ghost, you need to first fish out his body that is sinking in the water, give it to his relatives to bury, and then help him fulfill his wish." Qiu Zimu said.
"Fill it out?" Ye Jing'an glanced at the dark green lake. "How deep is it?"
"Let me test it for you." Qiu Zimu took out the Gu jar. It was very small, only as thick as a finger. Ye Jing'an had never seen him use it before. Qiu Zimu dropped the insect into the water and used his phone to record the time.
The three of them waited quietly for a while, and then a worm emerged from the water and swam towards the shore. Qiu Zimu fed it some food, put it in a jar, and said, "Wait for me to calculate it."
Ye Jingan said, "How many bugs do you have?"
"Not much, not much." Qiu Zimu handed him the phone and said, "It's about five meters deep."
"That's not bad. I can hold my breath and dive down, but I don't like opening my eyes underwater." Ye Jing'an looked at Qiu Zimu and said with a smile, "You can swim and know how to deal with the ghosts. You go."
"I won't go! You know it's a ghost. If he takes a fancy to me and doesn't let me go, I'll be dead, right?" Qiu Zimu said.
"You're so well behaved! Everyone loves you!" Ye Jing'an retorted, then looked at Liu Muzhe and said, "Brother Liu?"
"I can't swim..." said Liu Muzhe.
"Tsk! Then it's me." Ye Jing'an looked at the dark lake and said in silence for a while, "Brother Liu, do you have any treasures for self-defense or attack? Hahahahahahahahaha, this... I'm also afraid that he will take a fancy to me."
"I usually use talismans and swords, nothing else. But the talismans passed down by my master are weak against water and will become ineffective when they come into contact with water." Liu Muzhe said.
"Then why don't you just use talismans made of paper? You can draw talismans in the air, right?" Ye Jing'an said with a smile.
"I may not have explained it clearly. All talismans are ineffective in water." Liu Muzhe said.
"..." Ye Jing'an took out the talisman passed down by his ancestor from his pocket and muttered, "My ancestor's talisman should not be ineffective when it comes into contact with water, right? But is this thing I'm trying to draw really useful?"
"Well... I think you should not pin your hopes on the talisman. I think your talisman is probably useless." Liu Muzhe said.
Ye Jingan exploded: "What did you say? This is my ancestor's talisman! You actually said it's useless!"
"It's useful, it's useful. Your ancestor is the most powerful, so go ahead and use it. This ghost won't harm you even if he has no resentment." Liu Muzhe laughed.
"Don't laugh! You can look down on me, but you can't look down on my ancestor." Ye Jing'an said.
"I don't look down on your ancestor. I also think he is very powerful, even though you can't do anything." Liu Muzhe said with a smile.
"Oh, Brother Liu, don't pay any attention to him. He's been like this since he was a child. Back then, we all believed in Ultraman, but Ye Jing'an came up with this grandmaster, talking about his grandmaster all the time, and he was so awesome. But when you ask, no one has ever seen him." Qiu Zimu complained, "He's already an adult, and he's still talking about his grandmaster..."
Ye Jingan: “…”
"Okay, okay, don't be angry, I believe you!" Liu Muzhe felt that he shouldn't laugh when he saw Ye Jing'an was angry and wanted to hit someone, but as the person involved in Ye Jing'an and Qiu Zimu's conversation, it was really hard for him to hold back from laughing.
"Believe it or not!" Ye Jingan took off his clothes and walked into the water. "Let's go! My ancestor died to save me, just so you can broaden your horizons. You two are so ignorant!"
The weather is still quite warm, so swimming is no problem. As soon as Ye Jingan put his feet in the water, a biting chill spread up his feet. He immediately retracted his feet. The water temperature was a bit cold, so he should stretch for a while before going in.
After stretching, Ye Jingan splashed some water on himself to adjust to the temperature and slowly walked into the lake. When the water reached his arm, Ye Jingan took a deep breath and dove in. As soon as he opened his eyes, the water was cold and astringent, scratching his eyes like a small blade. He surfaced again to wipe his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Qiu Zimu shouted.
"It's okay, water got into my eyes, I need to adapt for a while." Ye Jingan buried his face in the water and closed his eyes uncontrollably. He forced himself to open his eyes and look, and it took him a long time to adapt. He emerged and took a breath, then dived down.
The further down he went, the icier the lake became, and visibility was very low. The lake was a dark green, with no visible bottom, and no fish around. He felt like something was staring at him from the depths of the darkness. Ye Jing'an was stunned. There had to be something there. Wasn't that ghost waiting for him down there?
No, the water is too dark and I can’t see anything. Ye Jingan swam up.
"Why are you here again at this time?" Qiu Zimu asked.
"I can't see anything, so I'll just search around inside." Ye Jing'an shook the water off his head. "Do you have a waterproof flashlight?"
"Don't mention it, I really have one." Qiu Zimu took out a small flashlight from his bag and handed it over. "Don't drop it for me, this flashlight is very expensive!"
"If you drop it, I'll give you a new one!" Ye Jing'an was worried the flashlight wasn't waterproof, so he tested it on the shore. It worked fine after soaking it in the water. He dove into the water. The flashlight looked small, but the light was quite strong. The sight of a beam of light underwater was reassuring.
Ye Jing'an couldn't hold his breath much longer, so without thinking, he quickly swam down to the bottom of the lake. In the light, he saw something white below. Swimming closer, he saw nothing but bones. Ye Jing'an subconsciously lost control of his breathing and choked on his saliva. He immediately held his breath and swam up.
"Cough... cough cough cough." Ye Jing'an coughed out the water in his nose and swam back to the shore.
"What's wrong?" Liu Muzhe asked.
"There are only bones underneath. How am I supposed to find it? How do I know which bone is his?" Ye Jing'an said.
"It's really hard to find you without the Yin-Yang Eyes." Liu Muze cut his finger, "Come here."
"What are you doing!?" Ye Jing'an grabbed Liu Muzhe's hand and said, "It's bleeding!"
"It needs to bleed." Liu Muze placed a drop of blood between Ye Jing'an's eyebrows and pressed hard. "That's it. If you go down further, you should be able to see a green glow on his bones."
Ye Jingan frowned and said, "Don't hurt yourself all the time. Don't cut your hands next time!"
"What else can we do if we don't cut it? This talisman can't be used, so we can only use blood. Are we just going to leave it alone?" Liu Muzhe said.
"Then cut mine." Ye Jing'an said.
"If you have the Yin-Yang Eyes, you wouldn't need my blood." Liu Muzhe smiled faintly and said, "It's okay, you see, there's no bleeding."
Ye Jing'an couldn't bear to see his indifferent look, so he turned and walked towards the lake, diving into the water suddenly, splashing a large amount of water.
"Brother Liu, Ye Jingan fried fish and he is angry again." Qiu Zimu said.
"Yeah, I know." Liu Muzhe said.
"Brother Liu, you really had the heart to do that to yourself. It hurt us just looking at the flesh on the nails." Qiu Zimu shuddered.
"I didn't know what a nail looked like, so I just pulled it out in a fit of rage..." Liu Muzhe said.
Qiu Zimu laughed dryly. Even if it was a normal nail, he would have to give it anesthesia before pulling it out. Besides, he didn't know what kind of special nail it was. Brother Liu was not just acting rashly, he was not calm at all.
Ye Jingan was already feeling suffocated underwater, and after a while, he couldn't hold it anymore. He surfaced for air, took a few deep breaths, and still felt suffocated. Liu Muze, watching him floating on the surface without making any movement, asked him what was wrong. Ye Jingan got angry just thinking about him, so he decided to stay underwater. Out of sight, out of mind!
Soaking in the water all the time is not a solution. His hands are already wrinkled. It is better to deal with the problem of this evil ghost first, and then deal with Brother Liu's problem.
He swam diagonally downstream, and none of the bones on the lake bottom had the green glow Liu Ge had described. After taking a few breaths, he saw a pile of bones with a green glow beside a clump of waterweed. It wasn't just green, it was almost black.
Ye Jingan swam over. There was no bag for the bones, so he would have to carry them several times. He picked up the skull and thought about asking Brother Liu if it was okay to bury it with just the skull.
Ye Jing'an kicked his legs and swam upwards when something suddenly grabbed his foot. It looked like a hand, clinging to his foot like an ice cube. He shone a flashlight at his ankle and saw a large, inky hand extending from his bones, grabbing him. Ye Jing'an cursed Liu Muze inwardly for betraying him, saying that the accomplice wouldn't harm anyone, but now that he had grabbed his foot, it was clear he was going to die.
Ye Jing'an picked up the skull in his hand and smashed it towards Mo Shou. The more he smashed, the tighter his grip became. He was almost at his limit after just coming down from the bed, so it was just right for him to hold the skull and take a breath.
The ghost was caught and struggled for a while. Ye Jing'an had reached his limit. He choked on his saliva, and the sour and stinging feeling in his nasal cavity made his mind clear up a lot. He quickly threw away his skull, pinched his nose, and struggled to swim upstream with his legs kicked hard.
The hand suddenly released him, and Ye Jing'an swam up two or three meters. But he could no longer hold on, swallowing two large gulps of water and watching the shimmering water slowly sink...
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