Chapter 111 Lungs
Tu Lanxun shook his head repeatedly, not falling for it at all. "I don't have any diving equipment. I'll just wait for you in the parking lot."
After saying that, seeing that N didn't object, she smiled, took two steps back, then turned around and jogged back the way she came.
But just as she was about to step onto the narrow brick road, an invisible restriction stopped Tu Lanxun, preventing her from moving forward even a millimeter.
Turning back, N was still standing there, staring at her. His straight long legs and broad shoulders and arms made him look like a black flag in the cold wind. "Come back."
The two were about twenty meters apart, and the wind was strong by the lake, but N's voice seemed to be ringing directly in Tu Lanxun's ears, and it was cold and itchy and penetrated into the ear canal.
Tu Lanxun stayed on the shore, and N went into the water alone. He didn't even test the water temperature. The moment his shoes touched the lake surface, he disappeared into thin air. A wave went against the waves and drilled towards the center of the lake, disappearing in the black mist and white air.
She confirmed that N was not there, looked around, and was about to turn around to escape from this damn place, but two figures suddenly blocked her way. They were the couple in the windbreakers.
The two men stared at her expressionlessly, the inhumanity unique to the dead exposed, and approached her step by step.
"Don't come over, N, N, have you gone far..." Tu Lanxun bent her waist and stepped back, stepping to the edge of the lake. An arm stretched out from the black water behind her, grabbed her hanging hand, and their palms touched, wrapping her in the wet and cool air.
The next second, Tu Lanxun was suddenly pulled, lost his balance and fell into the lake, "Plop!"
The light suddenly dimmed, and the surging bubbles engulfed his body. Tu Lanxun flapped his limbs and tried hard to paddle upwards, but his shoulders were gently stopped by a pair of big hands.
"Woo...!" She was almost unable to hold her breath. In panic, she saw that it was N floating in front of her, who was trying to stop her from floating up.
Tu Lanxun waved her hands to hit him, kicking and kicking, but the ghost raised his hand and grabbed her chin. The male ghost's index finger and thumb had distinct joints, and he easily grabbed the girl's jaw. With a little force, the air in her cheeks was squeezed out with a "gu" sound.
The expected suffocation and choking did not occur. On the contrary, a stream of clear water flowed into the alveoli and was then exhaled. Could she breathe underwater?
The blue-colored Xun was covered with a light film of light, just like the huge bubbles blown by the square magician when I was a child, isolating it from the cold lake water and bringing her oxygen with the smell of grass and trees.
It's N.
He quietly floated opposite Tu Lanxun, waiting for her to come back to her senses. A little light emanated from the skin three inches below his throat, shining through his black clothes, outlining the contours of his pectoral muscles on both sides.
That was the way to provide her with oxygen. She was now connected to his lungs. Tu Lanxun lowered his eyes and said, "Thank you."
N appeared even paler and taller underwater. His broken eyeballs were mended by the water, becoming transparent on the surface. This time, Tu Lanxun could see clearly into his eyes, which were deeper than Lenghu's.
"Don't waste time." He withdrew his hand, and his voice went straight into Tu Lanxun's mind.
N swam straight down and Tu Lanxun followed. She knew a little bit about diving, but N's diving posture was so beautiful.
He did not use any professional movements. He swam underwater as freely as flying. His clothes were tight, his waist and abdomen were narrow and tight, his shoulders and arms were stretched and strong. He looked like a fish incarnation of the sea god, as if he was born to belong to the water.
N grabbed Tu Lanxun's wrist and pulled her down. This time she didn't even need to kick her legs. She just hung on N and flew across the darker lake at a rapid speed.
The light was dim and the water was as cold as ice. Tu Lanxun felt increasingly uneasy. Perhaps because she had encountered ghosts more often recently, she was very sensitive to the eerie and dead air. At this moment, the concentration of the dead air at the bottom of the lake gave her goose bumps, and painful emotions flowed in the water.
The strangest thing is that when you first enter the water, there are fish swimming around, but the deeper you go, the fewer fish there are, as if all the creatures in the lake have retreated to the deep water.
In the end, visibility dropped sharply. Apart from the hands circling her wrists N times, Tu Lanxun couldn't even see her own feet clearly. She only felt something slippery constantly attacking the back of her waist and the sides of her neck. She didn't know whether it was the water or the running fish.
"Uh..." A distorted, pale smiling face suddenly floated across the waves below, like a ball of wax melting in the water, disappearing as quickly as it appeared.
Tu Lanxun shuddered all over, and the ghost face just appeared in the path that N was leading her. She shook her arms physiologically and broke free from N's restraints.
The light was too dim, a dark grey covering the whole sky. She waved her hands a few times but couldn't reach N's hand anymore, and they were separated.
"N?" she whispered, not wanting the strange thing to hear, but no one responded.
Her breathing became rapid and she tried to calm herself down. However, she didn't know whether it was the lake bottom or the effect of the light film given by N, but Tu Lanxun's sense of gravity was severely weakened. In other words, she couldn't find the direction of upwards, and she couldn't even spit out a bubble.
Tu Lanxun felt something behind her and turned around in surprise, only to see that pale smiling face, looming in the dark water, its black eyes staring at her.
Then, the corners of the pale smiling face opened wider and wider, and finally the facial features were replaced by a huge mouth opened to the extreme, with the upper and lower teeth turning more than 180 degrees, spewing out a long, sharp black tongue, biting towards her like a frog eating a water flea.
Don't come over here! Tu Lanxun paddled desperately, but it seemed she couldn't swim far underwater without any reference points. She pulled the key from her trouser pocket, stuck it between her fingers, clenched her fist, and pointed the exposed metal tip at the ghost's mouth.
She was so scared that her whole body was shaking, but she made up her mind that even if she was about to die, she would give this guy a beating.
N who brought her to the lake was even more eager to do it!
Seeing that two rows of huge teeth were about to bite Tu Lanxun, she suddenly swung her fist. The ghost mouth suddenly froze and trembled, making a heart-wrenching scream, the sound almost penetrated Tu Lanxun's eardrum. Did it succeed?
The black tongue twisted and stretched out from the ghost's mouth, the muscles squirming, and it actually rolled towards Tu Lanxun. It was covered with thick black death energy. It was too fast, and she couldn't react in time -
"Stop." A cold male voice sounded from the front.
Tu Lanxun looked over and saw N appear beside the ghost mouth at some point, with his arm blocking it and Tu Lanxun. Although he was in human form, the oppressive feeling he gave was far greater than that of the huge ghost mouth.
The latter had a penetrating laceration on the side of his cheek, with the edge covered with ice chips, revealing the mouth and tongue, which was obviously caused by N just now.
The ghost's mouth screamed unwillingly and trembled and retreated, but its long black tongue shot out like an arrow, trying to take advantage of N's inattention to pierce Tu Lanxun, the only living person. A drop of greedy saliva was still hanging on the tip of its tongue.
The fishy smell penetrated into her nose, and Tu Lanxun couldn't avoid it. The water in front of her began to freeze. Black Tongue's movements slowed down, "How dare you."
At this moment, N suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking the black tongue from continuing its attack. The water waves gently pulled the blue-colored Xun back a distance, away from the ghost mouth.
N stepped on the tip of the black tongue and moved forward at a speed faster than it could retract, reaching the edge of the ghost's mouth almost instantly.
The ghost mouth trembled and tried to escape. N grabbed the edges of the ghost mouth with both hands and forced it shut like a door. "Bang!"
The back muscles under the black fabric twitched and contracted, and the two rows of teeth in the ghost mouth bit off the black tongue before it could be retracted. The half of the thing quickly turned into black gas and dissipated at the bottom of the lake.
The ghost screamed silently, causing the water to vibrate. It was then silenced by N's sidelong glance and twisted into a gray-green humanoid.
It was just a human shape, as Tu Lanxun could see. Its entire body was covered with a layer of grayish-green wax, and its head was a bare green ball without eyes, ears, or nose. Its lips had also disappeared, revealing two rows of teeth like a ghost's mouth.
The fish also ate his fingers, toes, and the soft skin of his buttocks. His identity was obvious: he was a drowned ghost at the bottom of the lake.
Tu Lanxun was frightened and quickly swam towards N, fearing that another ghost would appear here. But after swimming just two steps, she realized that she was worrying too much.
——In all directions, there were about seven or eight water ghosts lying in the water, with more or less ice-covered wounds on their bodies, trembling towards the direction of N.
It turned out that during the two minutes he'd been away from her, N had gone to deal with the local tyrants in the lake. The waters adjacent to the city lacked everything except the annual drowning deaths, and they knew the lake best.
"First question." N looked around at the ghosts who were terrified but didn't dare to leave, and said coldly, "Six years ago, two fishermen fell into this lake. Where are their bodies?"
There was silence. Tu Lanxun took the opportunity to say, "It fell down during the rain."
One of the ghosts, whose body was rotten to the point of being half-dead and who looked like he had been dead the longest, pointed in a certain direction.
"Thank you." N said to half of his body.
He continued speaking, and wherever his eyes swept over, the water ghosts trembled. "Second question."
"Who among you killed them both?"
The water ghosts all shook their heads—especially most of the ones with heads. Tu Lanxun could tell they weren't lying; quite the opposite. They didn't even dare look directly in the direction their half-bodies were pointing. That must be the great evil ghost Uncle Liu had mentioned occupying his body.
Drive away those water ghosts
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