After retrieving her belongings from her previous residence, Xiang Wan began to meditate and regulate her breathing.
The corpse in the water was the same one belonging to San'er, the one who had come to Shuiyao Town before. The fact that a fugitive corpse could move so freely in the water showed that the evil spirit was definitely more than just a water ghost. Moreover, after the corpse appeared, Xiang Wan clearly sensed an even greater yin energy lurking in the water. To understand all this, it seemed she would first have to pry open the town mayor's mouth.
After returning from the shore, Blackwater Lake remained turbulent, and no one dared to stay on the shore. Even when fetching water, people were hesitant to go, using the water left over from before.
Even so, something still happened that night.
In the middle of the night, a family in Shuiyao Town cried and wailed, alarming everyone.
This town is not big, with only a hundred or so people living together. If anyone makes a big commotion, it will definitely become the talk of the town.
When Xiang Wan went there with the town mayor, she saw an older woman holding a child of about ten years old, sitting on the ground crying her heart out.
“My son, how could you leave like this? Leaving your mother all alone, how am I supposed to live? Waaaaah… Your dead old man is nowhere to be found, and you’re gone too, what’s the point of me living… My son… Waaaaah…”
"Sister Chunhua, what exactly happened?"
As soon as the mayor arrived, everyone made way for him.
Xiang Wan walked to the side and saw the boy's face. His eyes were closed, his lips were black, and black water was coming out of his mouth and nose. His fingernails were broken, and there were traces of blood between his fingers.
"Mayor! My life is so bitter..." Shen Chunhua cried even more bitterly when she saw the mayor.
The town mayor, his expression grave, interrupted, "Stop talking, I know everything. How could Zhuzi drown? Didn't we repeatedly warn him not to go near the lake? How could this happen?"
“Mayor, I listened to everything you said and never let the child out of my sight. But… but just as I was going to bed last night, he said he was thirsty, so I told him to have some water. I waited and waited, but he didn’t come back to the house. I went out to look for him and found Zhu Zi… he was upside down in the water vat, sobbing… Our water vat isn’t even half a person’s height, how could the child be gone, sobbing…”
Shen Chunhua cried bitterly, and Xiang Wan tapped Zhu Zi's forehead with her index finger, her face extremely pale.
The child's soul and life force were completely gone, and a hidden aura of corpse energy and yin energy lingered in his body, dissipating into the air as the black water flowed out.
"Oh no, this child is just a trigger. If we don't cremate him immediately, the whole town will be doomed."
"You pretend to know what you don't! Someone's child just passed away, and you want to burn his body? Don't you have any humanity?"
Leng Qingxue spoke up at the right moment, immediately winning Shen Chunhua's favor.
Xiang Wan clearly saw that Shen Chunhua looked at her with disgust and moved closer to Leng Qingxue, as if Xiang Wan were some kind of evil spirit or beast.
“Auntie, don’t be afraid. My senior brother and I will help you and bring the murderer who harmed your son to justice.”
As she spoke, Leng Qingxue rolled her eyes at Xiang Wan, then looked at Feng Wuyan with an expression of adoration.
Feng Wuyan frowned and said solemnly, "Please lay the child flat on the ground, ma'am, so I can cast a spell on him."
Xiang Wan watched coldly, and clearly felt a malice coming towards her; it wasn't a hallucination!
Shuiyao Town is not peaceful, and with their meddling, things are likely to become increasingly complicated.
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