Chapter 374: Forgotten River
Everyone was surprised at Xiao Yu's train of thought for a moment, but they soon realized what was going on.
Only by integrating into the strange environment in front of you can you truly understand the strange situation at the moment.
The hunchback stretched out his hand toward them. His fingers were thin and shriveled, like skin and bones, and his nails were long enough to dig in the soil.
Xiao Yu took out a few copper coins from his bosom, twisted them between two fingers, and gently placed them in the palm of the hunchback.
The other party did not respond.
Xiao Yu thought about it and added a few more coins. This time, the hunchback put the copper coins in his arms, then turned sideways and signaled them that they could get on the boat.
"Go ahead?" Shu Yu asked hesitantly.
"Let me try first." Xiao Yu walked forward and asked the hunchback, "Will you take us to the other side?"
The hunchback nodded slightly, and there was a crackling sound of bones colliding in his neck.
"Okay...don't move." Xiao Yu felt that his head would roll off his body in the next second.
He was the first to step onto the boat, cautiously passed by the hunchback and stood at the front of the boat.
Nothing happened, he turned around and signaled to everyone that there was no problem.
Xu Chuchu and the others followed suit and boarded the boat one by one.
When they passed by the hunchback, they smelled a strong odor of decaying corpses, and they didn't know how long he had been rowing the boat here.
There were exactly two rows of seats on the boat, so the four of them sat down in pairs.
Xu Chuchu and Xiao Yu sat in the front, Shu Yu and Sect Master Feng sat in the back. They faced each other so that they could observe each other's backs.
The hunchback stood at the stern and rowed the boat.
Its movements were slow, like those of an elderly man in his seventies. There was no current in the water, so the boat was not moving fast.
As the boat moved forward, everyone's vision gradually widened and the space became larger. Apart from a few protruding rocks at the edge of the cave, there was nothing else.
The only abnormal thing was the faint flickering green light in the cave and on the lake.
It flickers, sometimes visible and sometimes invisible, like a ghost fire.
The small boat, the will-o'-the-wisp fire, the bottomless water, Xu Chuchu suddenly had a creepy idea.
Is this... the underworld? Is this the Forgotten River? Will Meng Po appear again later?
But does the underworld really exist in this world? Doesn't the existence of the Dragon King already deny all this?
There is no King of Hell or gods in this world.
Xu Chuchu looked into the water and saw a lifeless human face floating underwater, looking at her.
"Look in the water!" Master Feng shouted.
Not only Xu Chuchu, everyone noticed that more and more corpses had floated in the water and surrounded their small boat!
"Could this be a pirate ship?! Taking them to the center of the lake to be fed as corpses?" Shu Yu was in tears.
Xu Chuchu soothed him, "Don't worry, don't forget we are fortune tellers. These corpses don't seem to have any spiritual power, so they're easy to deal with. It doesn't matter if the boat collapses, you can fly."
These words barely calmed the morale of the army.
Along the way, they encountered too many forces that were beyond their capabilities and they almost couldn't perform normally.
I don’t know if these corpses heard Xu Chuchu’s ridicule and decided to stand up and prove themselves.
Pairs of hands covered in blisters clung to the side of the boat, all trying to climb aboard.
Xu Chuchu noticed that these corpses included both men and women. Although their clothes had been soaked and tattered, they could still be barely identified. Some were wearing ancient clothes, while others were wearing modern clothes!
The corpse of a young man clinging to the bow of the boat had a long-sleeved shirt clinging to his body. There was also a female corpse on the right side, with most of her face missing, but the hooded sweatshirt she was wearing could be clearly seen.
This is a space-time tunnel... so these people are all ghosts lost in time?!
The limbs of these corpses were all broken, but they were very strong and fast, climbing up by holding onto the side of the ship.
Just as several people were about to fight back, the hunchbacked boatman suddenly swung his oar and hit the corpses with a "bang bang bang" sound.
He didn't have much strength, and the bodies he hit fell back into the water in pain one by one.
They could not make any sound, only muffled and harsh breathing sounds, as if someone was strangling their necks.
Soon, the water returned to calm.
Wuwu seemed to be very afraid of these corpses and kept buried in Xu Chuchu's arms and dared not come out. Xu Chuchu then wrapped it with cloth and tied it to himself.
The hunchback paddled slowly forward, with no expression on his skull face.
"The service is great, the boat ticket is worth the money." Xu Chuchu sat back down.
It seems that taking a boat is the safest option if you want to pass through here.
"I almost understand." Shu Yu looked underwater, "These corpses are all caused by the disorder of time and space."
"Tell me in detail?" Xiao Yu asked.
"How do you know so much?" Sect Leader Feng wondered. As a dragon who also served the Queen, she had never heard of this information.
Shu Yu said seriously, "The timeline we're in isn't absolutely stable. Any energy fluctuations could cause the timeline to become disrupted. People and animals could even end up in other time and space because of this disruption."
"Of course, if things like this keep happening, the world order will be disrupted, and Huang Long will need to step in to make adjustments."
"Apparently something happened to Huang Long, who was in charge of the adjustments, so this place has become what it is now."
Xu Chuchu curled her lips: "The Yellow Dragon King is too despicable. He doesn't solve his own problems, but wants us to clean it up for him...solve it."
"Maybe he doesn't know either." Shu Yu hesitated. "Each dragon has its own jurisdiction. The Dragon King can't take care of everything. For example, the Queen doesn't know the specific details of the area I'm in charge of."
As she was speaking, Xu Chuchu suddenly felt a few gusts of cool wind blowing behind her ears.
She immediately realized something was wrong, drew her sword and stabbed backwards, chopping an upside-down female corpse into two halves!
They failed to attack from underwater, so they launched a sneak attack from above!
However, they are the lowest level of zombies after all, and even a second or third level fortune teller can easily repel them.
Everyone else also took it easily... Wait, oh no!
"Boatman!" Xu Chuchu hurried to rescue the hunchback, but it was too late. He was grabbed by several corpses that jumped out from above and in the water, and was dragged into the water with a splash.
No light could penetrate the water, and the hunchback soon disappeared from view.
"Focus!" Xiao Yu immediately grabbed the oar and slapped the corpses attacking from all directions.
Although the hunchback is gone, the oars still have the power to repel the corpse.
With the help of others, the riot was soon calmed down.
Sect Leader Feng rolled up her long whip and knocked down all the corpses hanging from the row and threw them away.
She thought it was too troublesome to deal with them one by one, so she spat out a mouthful of dragon fire.
"Don't use fire!"
The other three said in unison.
"Ugh!" Sect Leader Feng was startled. The fire stuck in his neck almost burned him.
"What's wrong? I just want to gather them together and burn them!" She looked at the others blankly.
Shu Yu glared at her: "Are you stupid? Don't you see the green will-o'-the-wisp fire still burning here? This means that the water under our feet can't extinguish the flames!"
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