Three teams of people surrounded the lake and dealt with the wandering souls that were lucky enough to escape and were not within the range of the silver-white flames.
There were quite a few of them, so I never had time to check on Luo Zheyu.
Zhang Ya's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a mosquito to death, and he felt so regretful.
It has long been known that young people with special abilities who have just started a mission are a bit impetuous and need to be kept under close watch at all times. How can we ignore Luo Zheyu just because he usually performs well and looks calm?
You see, he usually doesn't cause trouble, but suddenly he scares people into a sweat.
I still don't know what's going on underwater. I haven't come out for so long...
What should I do?
He was so worried and anxious that he was a little distracted. After getting rid of the wandering soul in front of him, he looked up and suddenly saw a familiar figure standing in front of Han Bing, taking a huge silver-white ball from his hand.
She has a straight and tall figure with slender limbs. The clothes soaked in water cling to her body, showing her smooth lines and unique temperament, which makes people's eyes light up.
Who else could this be other than Luo Zheyu!
Zhang Ya slapped away the wandering soul that was howling at him and walked towards it aggressively.
Luo Zheyu just turned around holding the ball compressed by flame.
"Brother Zhang."
He grinned, like ice and snow just melting and the sun warming him, and his face was still covered with mud brought up from the bottom of the lake.
Zhang Ya was about to speak with a stern face, but unexpectedly the former suddenly started running and rushed straight into the lake. After a gurgling sound of water, even his head could not be seen.
Zhang Ya opened his mouth, looked at the lake in vain, and stretched out his hand to grab.
"Han Bing, what's going on? When did he come up? Why didn't you stop him just now?" He glared at Han Bing.
The others were dealing with wandering souls and didn't pay much attention to this side.
"Luo Zheyu said that he discovered the source of the unnatural events in the town down there. Time is running out, so I'll explain when I come up."
Han Bing said this as he punched away a wandering soul.
Luo Zheyu's fire is more convenient. Just take it and touch it, and it can kill a wandering soul.
"And you listened to him?" Zhang Ya's eyes widened in disbelief, as if he was meeting Han Bing for the first time.
"Of course not."
Han Bing spoke with confidence.
"Aren't you afraid that something might happen to him at the bottom of the lake? Han Bing, his actions were not authorized."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Besides, our team three is in a special situation and we have to be flexible. There are a few people who stand still and listen to orders when they encounter problems. He is just experiencing the tradition of his predecessors in advance..."
After hearing this, Zhang Ya became furious.
How can it be the same? Those who disobeyed orders when something happened are all experienced old team members who know how to judge. But Luo Zheyu is different. He is a newcomer and it is easy for him to get into trouble.
"It's a little loose here. Help me hold it up. I have to go down to find him."
"Hey hey hey!" Han Bing grabbed him.
"It's such a big lake, and you are not good at finding people. Where are you going to find them? Stay here and wait for two more minutes."
Zhang Ya had no choice but to hold back.
…
Lake bottom.
Luo Zheyu held up a huge compressed ball of flame and smashed it into the corpse pit below the stone tablet.
Although it is fire, it is different from ordinary fire. It is not afraid of water or soil, and does not burn anything.
The fireball failed to reach the corpse pit several hundred meters deep and was ultimately blocked by the thick layer of soil, but it accidentally ignited the spiritual energy line that connected the stone tablet and countless wandering souls.
Perhaps it was because of the connection with the wandering soul that negative energy was mixed into the spiritual energy line.
The flames absorbed energy frantically, and in just a moment, they had devoured all the spiritual energy lines that were invisible to the naked eye.
Something was destroyed invisibly.
It seemed as if a crisp cracking sound was heard in the distance, and a barrier separating the town disappeared.
The connection of the formation seemed to be destroyed. The naturally formed formation had no one to control and adjust it, and it would not change automatically. If only one link was destroyed, the formation would be broken.
“Yo!”
The little ghosts who were gathered in a circle grinned and cheered, then quickly stretched out their hands to grab the stone tablet and pull it out.
Luo Zheyu pressed his fingers on the stone tablet, opened his eyes in the slightly turbid lake water with raised silt, and looked at them quietly.
These kids are not very honest. They want to reap the fruits of their labor after finding someone to do the hard work.
The little ghosts couldn't pull the stone tablet, so they looked up at Luo Zheyu and then looked at each other.
He lowered his head silently, and reluctantly put his hand down from the stone tablet, looking listless.
“Yo…”
The little kid holding the two little heads cried softly, turned around and walked towards the shore step by step at the bottom of the lake in the direction he came from.
The other little ghosts followed it and turned around, looking at the stone tablet with reluctance, looking back every few steps.
Luo Zheyu grabbed the stone tablet and pulled it up, and this time, the stone tablet was finally pulled up.
It is several times heavier than ordinary stones of the same size, but there is no problem in moving it ashore.
…
Luo Zheyu carried the stones, waded through the lake and walked towards the shore.
The mud was soft and I sank with every step I took. There was a suction force when I pulled my legs out.
The little ghosts followed behind with their heads down, looking at the stone tablet longingly.
"Look, isn't it coming up?" Han Bing stomped on the last wandering soul in his sight, spotted Luo Zheyu with his sharp eyes, and quickly poked Zhang Ya.
The latter was still angry and didn't really want to pay attention to him, but looking at Han Bing's smiling face, he couldn't help but feel hurt.
"You didn't follow the instructions and helped the evildoers. Let me see how you write the report."
Han Bing pretended not to hear and pointed at Luo Zheyu.
"Hey, look, he's carrying something. Let's go over and take a look."
…
Han Bing took a few steps forward and stepped into the lake. When the water reached above his waist, Luo Zheyu also came closer.
"What's this?"
He took the stone tablet that Luo Zheyu was carrying on his shoulders.
"antique."
He relaxed a little and let Han Bing take the stone tablet.
"Oh shit!"
The weight of the stone tablet was beyond Han Bing's imagination. He held the stone with both hands, staggered in the water, and almost fell with the stone tablet.
Luo Zheyu stretched out a hand to hold it firmly.
"Why is it so heavy..."
Han Bing stuffed the stone tablet back into the former's hands and praised: "I can't believe that you look so thin and weak, but you are so strong."
As he spoke, he grabbed Luo Zheyu's sleeve and pulled it up, revealing the smooth lines of his arm muscles.
"Sure enough, he has muscles. Nowadays, it's popular to look thin when dressed, but do you have muscles when you take off your clothes..."
Han Bing muttered to himself and couldn't help touching his belly.
I've been eating too well recently and haven't exercised enough, so my abdominal muscles are almost falling apart. If the captain finds out, I'll get scolded again.
…
"Did you bring this up from the bottom of the lake?"
"right."
"Captain, there are words on it!" said a team member, and was about to touch it.
Pop.
His claws were slapped off by Yuan Tianhong.
"The characters are so blurry, and you're still touching them. If the logistics department finds out, they'll scold you to death."
"Wear gloves when moving, and don't touch the words."
Luo Zheyu briefly mentioned that there was a connection between the stone tablet and the wandering soul, but did not reveal that the formation and the illusion had been cracked.
He couldn't explain how he knew about the formation, but once the three teams left the town, they would naturally know that the illusion had disappeared.
When the stone tablet was moved out by Luo Zheyu, the wandering soul no longer had any spiritual energy to support it. The residual soul and obsession that had passed for who knows how many years could not withstand the torment and fell silent again.
The negative energy they created also quickly dissipated and was sensed by the three teams.
As expected, everyone regarded the stone tablet as the origin of the unnatural events in the town. Even if it was not the origin, there were still many connections.
Yuan Tianhong looked at Luo Zheyu helplessly, without saying much, and asked him to go back and write a self-criticism and hand it in. He would also remember his merits for finding the stone tablet.
Luo Zheyu only asked that the words on the stone tablet be restored so that he could read the information on it.
This request was not excessive, so Yuan Tianhong nodded in agreement.
"Hurry up and find a place to take a shower and change your clothes, or you'll catch a cold."
Wen Jin, the captain of the second team, had repeatedly told him to take care of Luo Zheyu, and said that he was in poor health and had just recovered from a serious illness. If he caught a cold and had a fever on his first mission under him, Wen Jin would definitely nag him for a long time.
…
Oh oh oh~
The loud crowing of roosters echoed over the town.
The early sun with a slight red tint slowly rises with the crowing of roosters.
Everyone couldn't help but look over.
On the roof of the third floor, a brightly colored rooster with its head held high and chest puffed out was crowing.
Behind it, the sun rises.
It felt like only a short time had passed, yet dawn had already arrived so quickly?
Yuan Tianhong couldn't help but look down at his watch.
03:48:12
He looked up again at the big sun behind the rooster.
Maybe the watch is broken.
He pulled the arm of Luo Zheyu, who was changing clothes and drying his hair, and looked at the time on his watch.
03:48:22
The time is right.
Could it be that the sun rises at around three in the morning?
This may happen in other areas, but in Province X at this time of year, the sky usually starts to get brighter after six o'clock.
Yuan Tianhong frowned, somewhat doubting his life.
The team members also looked at each other and murmured.
The beautiful snake that followed Luo Zheyu obediently licked its tongue and stared at the big rooster with green light in its eyes.
"Bah, chicken liar!"
A crow poked its head out of the black cloth bag on Wang Lugan's waist and started cursing in the direction of the rooster.
"You flightless chicken liar are a disgrace to the bird world!" the second crow cursed.
"Gah, you're so awesome, you're so good at scolding, you're a disgrace to the bird world!" The third crow poked its head out.
Everyone could tell there was something fishy going on, so Wang Lugan said, "It's crowing peacefully, why are you scolding it?"
"Bah, liar! Crow? Fake!"
The number one crow was very excited, speaking in a hoarse voice and spitting everywhere.
"The sun behind the chicken is a fake!" Crow No. 2 also looked indignant, but a little calmer.
Just as he finished speaking, the rooster raised its head and crowed loudly again.
The huge sun behind it suddenly jumped up as it crowed.
Follow the rhythm of the rooster's crowing.
It was as if the sun did not rise by itself, but was caused by the crowing of the rooster.
At this moment, everyone saw the flaw.
"How do you know it's fake?"
Wang Lugan was puzzled. It was not that he looked down on the three crows, but he really thought that they were not smart enough to tell that the sun behind the rooster was fake.
“……”The number one crow suddenly fell silent.
“Ga…ga…ga…”
Crow number two made an unpleasant caw.
So crow number three started to answer.
"When we were stealing sausages in the middle of the night, this cheating chicken was crowing outside. We thought it was daybreak and were afraid that someone would come out and catch us, so we threw away all the sausages we had!"
…
Wang Lugan didn’t know whether he should laugh or not, but since the other players in Team 3 were holding back, he had to hold back too.
While the rooster was not paying attention, the three teams climbed onto the roof of the third floor and grabbed the chicken.
The chicken clucked loudly, but was caught obediently in the arms.
Very stable.
This monster is incredibly easy to catch.
The monsters in the town are all rather strange. For example, there are three crows that can speak human language and are quite intelligent, but they don't have any lethal abilities.
The cat demon, although powerful, is not consistent with the wisdom it displays.
There are also spiders, little ghosts, mobile phone spirits, and beautiful snakes...
They all have rather special abilities, and their lethality does not match their actual evolved intelligence.
Monsters with this level of intelligence are generally not weak.
…
While checking the monsters in the town and taking them away, walk towards the town entrance.
Those members of the cult have already been led to the front by their team members, and the rest of them just need to rush and join them.
The little ghosts were still following behind stealthily and watching quietly as before.
There are a lot of little ghosts, and they can hide and run around. They are different from the previous wandering souls that had no consciousness and would pounce on living creatures. They are not easy to catch, and even if they are caught, there are not enough tools to restrain them.
Most importantly, they have not done any harm so far.
Fortunately, the entire town was cleared afterwards and no more monsters appeared.
Time slips away quietly.
Daybreak is breaking and the real sun is rising.
“Yo!”
“Yo!”
The little ghosts who were following behind suddenly shouted in unison and ran out from their hiding places.
He raised his short arms and waved to everyone.
The small figure gradually faded away in the first ray of sunlight until it disappeared.
Only a few bright red fruits were left there.
Luo Zheyu noticed that after the little ghost who had been holding the two little ghost heads disappeared, three fruits were left in its place, one bright red and two green.
"These...are not ghosts?"
Han Bing asked in confusion, took a few steps forward, squatted down and picked up the small bright red fruits on the ground.
Just as my fingertips were about to touch the fruit, I saw it suddenly bounce up from the ground and fly in another direction.
It bounced on the ground and gradually went away.
The rest of the fruits on the ground followed suit.
Many fruits that had become spirits jumped away in groups.
"Let's follow and see." Yuan Tianhong said.
The team members silently used their hands to close their jaws in shock, which almost dropped to the ground.
The cat has become a spirit, great, ok, we accept it.
It’s okay for a spider to become a spirit.
It’s no big deal if crows and pythons become spirits.
The mobile phone has become a spirit, I can only accept it reluctantly.
But what does it mean when a bunch of fruits become spirits?
Everyone ran after a group of fruits in a daze.
It was not until we arrived at the backyard of a house that we saw the fruits bouncing high and hanging on the branches of a lush, ordinary-looking tree.
Just hang it and don't move anymore...
Soon, a row of fruits hung on the lush trees, heavy and bright red, which was particularly pleasing to the eye.
There are only two unripe fruits, quietly growing hidden among the leaves.
In a trance, Luo Zheyu seemed to see the big tree move.
It opened its eyes, and huge facial features emerged on the tree trunk, which had an inexplicable sense of softness.
The facial features on the tree trunk yawned lazily, his eyes turned slightly, and his dark eyes looked at Luo Zheyu.
It curled its lips and smiled, its eyes slightly narrowed, and then its facial features gradually faded from the tree trunk until they disappeared.
It recovered into a normal-looking tree except for the fruits on its branches.
The other people around still kept their eyes on the fruit and did not look at the tree trunk, as if they had not seen what had just happened.
The facial features of the tree no longer appear.
Luo Zheyu was certain that what he had just seen was not an illusion.
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