At this moment, Xiao Tangqiu was filled with despair - there is always a way out, and it seems that he cannot escape this time!
Under the water, the woman in the red kimono was getting closer and closer to him, and her half-gorgeous, half-scary face was also getting closer and closer to him...
Finally, those boneless yet incomparably cold hands wrapped around his neck and waist again. At that moment, the air in Xiao Tangqiu's lungs was completely consumed. He closed his eyes in despair...
Just before Xiao Tangqiu completely lost consciousness, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Then his lips softened, and something warm and soft came up to him, bringing a breath of air into his mouth.
His lungs, which were on the verge of exhaustion, finally came back to life. The warm and dry fresh air made him a little more conscious, and he subconsciously wanted to ask for more.
——Saved! Finally saved!
Is he saved?
But in this desperate situation, who will come to save him?
Xiao Tangqiu's mind was in a mess. When he opened his eyes in a daze, he met Shen Yuan's dark eyes.
——It turned out to be Shen Yuan.
It was indeed Shen Yuan...
Xiao Tangqiu felt a sense of fate that "it's just as I expected". Shen Yuan's appearance made him feel unexpected... but also expected.
Having finally escaped death, he couldn't help but greedily suck the air from Shen Yuan's mouth. It was not until a moment later that he realized that they were still at the bottom of the river and there were a group of drowned ghosts around them. He quickly pushed Shen Yuan away.
Xiao Tangqiu had just regained some consciousness and hurriedly took out a high-level ghost-exorcising talisman to exorcise the ghosts. However, when he turned around, he found that the drowned ghosts had disappeared, and the gorgeous woman in the red kimono was also gone... Only he and Shen Yuan were left under the water.
Shen Yuan looked at him from across the river, his face half bright and half dark in the dimly lit river. Before Xiao Tangqiu could carefully outline the face in front of him, an arm was put around his waist.
——It’s Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan seemed dissatisfied with Xiao Tangqiu's pushing him away just now, and frowned in displeasure, but still put his arm around his waist and floated to the surface of the river together.
Xiao Tangqiu had just surfaced when she heard Tang Mianmian shouting from the shore: "Qiuqiu! Xiao Tangqiu! Are you okay?"
He looked back and found Tang Mianmian, the Samsara team, and the witch standing on the shore. He quickly shouted back, "I'm fine!"
Shen Yuan hugged Xiao Tangqiu's waist and snorted coldly: "You almost died, and you still say you're fine!"
Xiao Tangqiu finally returned to the ground. He immediately took big gulps of fresh air and sighed sincerely, "It feels so good to be alive!"
"Qiuqiu, what happened just now?" Tang Mianmian came over and asked worriedly, "We were just walking peacefully, and suddenly you rushed to the river and jumped in. We couldn't stop you! It was like you were crazy! No, it was like you saw some treasure!"
Duan Hongzhen crossed his arms and asked maliciously, "I'm afraid you didn't see any treasure, but some great beauty, right? Like the Rain Girl that day?"
As soon as Duan Hongzhen finished speaking, Shen Yuan's face suddenly darkened.
Xiao Tangqiu felt a surge of pressure, but he still gritted his teeth and continued, "I do think I saw something unclean..."
He succinctly recounted what had just happened. When he mentioned the woman in the red kimono, Shen Yuan's face turned gloomy and dark as the bottom of a pot.
After he finished speaking, Duan Hongzhen teased him maliciously again: "Before, it was a beauty in a white kimono, this time it's a beauty in a red kimono. I didn't expect that a little loser like you would be so lucky. Even a beautiful female ghost has set its sights on you."
Tang Mianmian asked in surprise, "You said that when we were crossing the bridge, you suddenly saw a woman in a red kimono in the middle of the bridge? That's not right! We didn't even cross the bridge just now, and there is no bridge here!"
Xiao Tangqiu was stunned for a moment and quickly turned his head to look around. As expected, there was no bridge in their sight. There was only a dark and deep river between the shore and the opposite bank.
The river seemed to have stopped flowing, and under the cover of night, it was like dead water.
At this moment, a cold wind blew, and Xiao Tangqiu, who was soaked, instantly felt a chill running up along his tailbone.
Yu Fuling frowned slightly as she looked at Xiao Tangqiu and Shen Yuan who had just climbed out of the river: "You two should change your clothes first."
Xiao Tangqiu was about to take action when the silent witch suddenly spoke up: "No, there is indeed a bridge here."
Everyone was stunned. Ruyue paused, then continued solemnly, "To be precise, there used to be a bridge. It was an old bridge that had been built many years ago. The exact date of its construction is no longer known, but the residents of Baigui Town have cherished and protected it for generations. It was also a vital passage connecting Baigui Town to the outside world... until a rare flood several years ago washed the bridge away, and it has since become a broken bridge."
Xiao Tangqiu followed Ruyue's line of sight and saw that there were indeed some traces of the broken bridge not far away - a few bluestone slabs, but that was all. It seemed that the bridge was indeed broken completely back then.
After Xiao Tangqiu calmed down from the fear of escaping death, he suddenly remembered something: "That woman in the red kimono... could it be Qiao Ji?"
Xue Junli pushed his glasses and said, "It does sound a bit like that. Wandering on the bridge, pulling pedestrians into the water and drowning them..."
Tang Mianmian asked, "Who is Qiao Ji? Is she also from the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?"
Xiao Tangqiu nodded. "It's said that a woman who couldn't be with her lover drowned herself and turned into a ghost, wandering around the bridge where she drowned herself."
Tang Mianmian complained quietly, "The bridge is broken, her family is ruined, why is she still not content?"
Xiao Tangqiu smiled but didn't know what to say. If Shen Yuan hadn't come to save him, he would have turned into one of the countless drowned ghosts at the bottom of the river. He really had no right to complain.
Duan Hongzhen, however, seemed to be enjoying the fun and was not afraid to get involved when he said, "You really are prone to accidents. Why is it always you who gets haunted by beautiful ghosts? I didn't realize you were so lucky in this area."
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