As the ferryman approached, everyone felt a chill run down their spines, sending shivers down their spines.
Everyone stared intently at the incredibly eerie ferryman, none daring to let their guard down, and each assumed an attack stance.
However, the ferryman simply moored the boat at the shore and did nothing more.
"Board the ship." Fang Xiu gave the order, and everyone boarded the ship.
The greedy Yang Ming took the opportunity to pick up the ghost money that Wei Xin had dropped.
On the ship.
The group maintained a certain distance from the ferryman and never took their eyes off him. After all, in such a strange place, facing such a strange creature, no one dared to be careless.
"There are ten ghost money notes in total, each with a value of one thousand, for a total of ten thousand." Yang Ming showed the ghost money notes in his hand.
Everyone looked around and immediately noticed something amiss.
"These ghost money coins are different from those in the real world. Judging from the design, they seem to be products of a previous era. I have seen them in ancient books before." The cultured Li Xiaoru showed off the few books he had read.
"What's the name of that book?" Xiong Tianguang asked.
Li Xiaoru's face stiffened slightly, and he chuckled awkwardly, saying, "I can't remember. I've read so many books that I've long forgotten their names."
Luo Qingxin took the ghost money, rubbed it carefully in her hand, and then looked away after a moment.
"There is an extremely subtle and eerie aura hidden on it, which gives people the feeling of a ghost artifact."
"A ghost artifact!?" Yang Ming's eyes lit up immediately: "So these ghost coins are very valuable?"
Luo Qingxin shook her head: "Although this ghost money contains a strange aura, it doesn't seem to have anything special about it. Too much contact with it can easily cause the spirit to lose control. It may be valuable in the burial ground, but it may not be so in the outside world."
Yang Ming was greatly disappointed.
"Huh? Why isn't this boat moving? Could it be that, as that zombie said, we really need to pay?"
"Then I'll give it a try by paying."
As Yang Ming spoke, he carefully took out six pieces of ghost money and handed them to the ferryman.
Wei Xin had previously said that the boat tickets cost one thousand yuan per person, so he gave out six tickets.
The ferryman, who had been motionless, suddenly moved strangely upon seeing the ghost money. A sound of bones grinding together rang out as he raised his bony hand and took the ghost money from Yang Ming's hand.
A miraculous thing happened: the ghost money spontaneously combusted.
Flickering flames appeared, and the ghost money was constantly devoured by the flames, turning into tiny black ash, which all seeped into the ferryman's body, as if being absorbed.
Suddenly, a faint green flame lit up in the ferryman's empty eye sockets.
He seemed to come alive, and began to row, the sound of his bones rubbing together creaking like gears turning.
The ship... started moving.
Yang Ming was delighted to see this.
"That Wei Xin is a real liar. Didn't he say that the stolen ghost money couldn't be spent? It's fine as long as it's not spent."
The crowd remained solemn, because they did not believe that Wei Xin was lying. There was no need to tell such a low-level lie; who knows what might happen on the ship.
The boat slowly moved forward, disappearing into a gray fog. Soon, the shore was no longer visible to the group.
As they went deeper, the eerie atmosphere emanating from the lake seemed to grow stronger, making them quite uneasy.
Suddenly, Xiao Chuxia's exclamation rang out from the ship.
"Look quickly at the lake! There seems to be someone in there!"
Everyone was shocked and quickly looked down. They saw countless figures floating in the lake, which looked like the bodies of drowning people.
Gradually, more and more corpses appeared, and they became clearer and clearer. The bodies were pale and swollen, which was very creepy. They were so numerous that they almost filled the entire lake!
It gives the impression that the boat is not sailing on the water, but rather navigating a sea of corpses.
This bizarre scene set off alarm bells in everyone's hearts, sending chills down their spines.
No one dares to imagine what terrible things they would encounter if they fell into such a sea of corpses.
"Holy crap, this is the first time I've ever felt so phobia from looking at corpses," Yang Ming said with a shiver.
Xiao Chuxia's pretty face was also pale, her expression full of lingering fear. She subconsciously leaned towards Fang Xiu and grabbed his sleeve tightly.
"That's terrifying! Who knows what would happen if someone fell in?"
"It's simple, just jump down and try it, you'll know soon enough," Fang Xiu's calm voice rang out, startling Xiao Chuxia so much that she quickly let go of his hand and distanced herself from him.
"Hugh... Hugh, you're not kidding, are you? You're not really going to jump, are you?"
"It's not me, it's us."
"What!?" Everyone was shocked. Faced with such a strange lake, were they really going to jump in?
Fang Xiu pointed to the ground and calmly stated a terrifying fact: "The boat is leaking."
Yang Ming and the others were instantly shocked. Looking down, they found that the bottom of the cabin was indeed wet.
"Damn it, ferryman, your boat is leaking! Fix it now!" Yang Ming shouted at the lifeless ferryman.
The ferryman seemed oblivious, continuing to row his boat with a creaking sound.
Gradually, more and more water came out, soaking everyone's shoes. The moment the icy lake water touched their skin, they felt an extremely cold and eerie aura invading their bodies, as if it were freezing their souls.
Their spirituality is being suppressed.
"This lake water can suppress spirituality!!" Li Xiaoru shouted anxiously.
Luo Qingxin's expression turned icy as she immediately activated her ability.
"Freeze!"
A strong chill emanated from her small mouth, freezing the lake water beneath the boat, intending to freeze the hull into ice to prevent the lake water from entering.
However, the moment the cold air came into contact with the lake water, it was suppressed by the power of the lake water and dissipated completely.
"No, I can't freeze the lake." Luo Qingxin's face turned ugly. She never imagined that she, a peak fourth-level spirit master, couldn't even freeze water.
Xiong Tianguang and Li Xiaoru also tried to fight, but the lake water was too terrifying, directly suppressing their power and rendering it useless.
"Damn it, is this the terror of spatial nodes? It's on a completely different level from the real world."
The group was somewhat disheartened. They were considered top experts in the outside world, but at the spatial node, they couldn't even handle a lake.
Fang Xiu was not surprised by this. Although the spatial node was not the other shore, it was connected to it. The terror here was beyond question. Not to mention the peak of the fourth rank, even a fifth rank would perish here if they were not careful.
To the other side, a fifth-tier creature is nothing more than a slightly larger rat.
At this point, Yang Ming got a little anxious and shouted at the ferryman, "Ferryman, you got paid, and now the boat is leaking, so why don't you move it!"
The ferryman, who looked like a dead body, seemed not to hear anything.
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