"What are you doing, sir?" asked a voice.
Wang Xu looked back and saw that it was a policeman uncle.
"Well... look at the scenery..."
"At this time? By the river?" The police uncle looked at Wang Xu suspiciously: "Can I see your ID?"
No need to think about it, Wang Xu knew that it was the conspicuous green kerosene lamp in his hand that attracted this man. He reluctantly took out his ID and handed it to the policeman, who observed carefully with the light.
After a while, the police returned the ID to Wang Xu: "Thank you for your cooperation, sir, no matter what you are doing, I suggest you stay away from this river. The light around here is not good. There have been several incidents of falling into the water recently. gone."
Wang Xu thought to himself, "Isn't that why I came here?"
"Okay, I will leave soon." Wang Xu replied.
The policeman adjusted the brim of his hat, waved to Wang Xu, and left. Wang Xu watched his back gradually drifting away until the light of the kerosene lamp was too weak to be seen, so he let out a long breath.
Unexpectedly, he had just relaxed for three seconds when the policeman's voice came from behind: "Hey! Sir! Why are you there!"
Wang Xu turned his head, with an inexplicable expression on his face: "Hey...you just went in that direction..." He pointed behind him while talking.
The policeman interrupted Wang Xu with a slightly annoyed tone: "What are you talking about? I have been away from you for at least fifteen minutes. By the way, how did you come in front of me?"
Wang Xu looked at the direction he left just now, and muttered in a low voice: "He walked along the embankment in that direction for fifteen minutes, and then appeared from the other side of me... and I was here only a few seconds later. Time, this disordered situation of time and space, could it be a ghost realm..."
The policeman couldn't understand Chinese, so he continued to ask, "Sir, what are you doing here? Do you want me to send you away?"
A sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of Wang Xu's mouth: "You act very similar, but unfortunately you can't fool me."
"What are you talking about?"
"You became like the policeman, walked over and said this on purpose, trying to make me feel weird and scared, and then walked with you."
"Are you crazy?"
"Hmph... If I turn around and run along the river now, I can immediately catch up with the policeman just now, and you don't have to act anymore."
The "policeman" didn't say anything else, he suddenly turned his head and ran away. Wang Xu's reaction and speed were no longer comparable to ordinary people. What are you, just grab it."
But something unexpected happened quickly to Wang Xu, his hand felt wet, and then the policeman easily broke free from Wang Xu's grip like a loach, and jumped straight into the river.
Wang Xu tracked the spiritual consciousness and found that the speed of the opponent's movement became extremely fast after entering the river, which is by no means the speed that human swimming can achieve. But he was not in a hurry, and jumped into the river after silently reciting a few mantras.
The green kerosene lamp was still in Wang Xu's hand, and it still didn't go out even at the bottom of the river. The water diversion spell that Wang Xu had learned was obviously very effective, and he could completely prevent his clothes from getting wet when he entered the water. It's really cumbersome for him to bring a lamp, it's useless except to attract the police, and he can't throw it on the shore, otherwise if the policeman came back from patrolling just now, he might call several boats to salvage Wang Xu's body...
In about five minutes, the escaped spiritual consciousness stopped and turned to a higher place. It took Wang Xu three times as long to get there. His swimming posture, if he hadn't used the Water Dividing Curse and the Breath-holding Curse at the same time, he might have drowned him if he fell into the swimming pool.
Wang Xu found a sewer exit at the bottom of the river, where the "policeman" turned. He didn't care about the dirt, so he just swam in. The pipe was quite narrow at first, until he swam more than 20 meters Then it was a little more spacious. Wang Xu could feel that this was an upward sloping road. He continued to swim and found that the water was getting less and less. After a certain distance, Wang Xu could already stand and walk.
The water level was from his chest to his waist, and finally reached near his knees. Wang Xu lifted the spell, raised the lamp and began to observe the surrounding environment. The sewer is naturally very dirty, and the filth under his feet emits a pungent stench, which is turbid. There are food scraps, household garbage, and many other things that make people sick just thinking about it.
Wang Xu was getting closer and closer to that spiritual consciousness, and he could feel that the other party was just around the corner. Since the green light in his hand had already exposed his position, Wang Xu walked over directly, guarding against the possible attack of the opponent at any moment.
Turning the corner, when the "uncle policeman" came into Wang Xu's sight again, he was extremely surprised, because what he saw was no longer a person, but something that could only appear in a fairy tale—— Mermaid.
She curled up in a corner, holding something in her hands and stuffing it into her mouth. If you say that the appearance of this mermaid is really far from the image in the minds of the general public.
The wine-red hair has now become dirty and brown, hanging down in a mess like a group of seaweed, the length is enough to reach the waist, just completely blocking her face and upper body, and her exposed shoulders, the skin is already dirty and black, You can still vaguely see many pus-oozing sores growing on the muddy skin.
The fish tail on the lower body was even more appalling, all the scales were a dull black-gray color, and many of them turned up, exposing the flesh and blood inside. If for a fish, lifting a scale is as painful as lifting a fingernail for a human, then the mermaid in front of Wang Xu is undoubtedly suffering unimaginable pain.
Wang Xu approached step by step, and he saw clearly that what the other party was eating was a piece of moldy bread. The mermaid also raised her head to look at Wang Xu. It was a horrific face, almost distorted by sores.
She was crying, and the voice in her throat was thick and hoarse like a man: "I... just hungry... please... don't kill me... please..."
Wang Xu didn't know if this was the other party's cruel trick, he glanced to the side again, and finally saw human bones, a pile of skeletons that had been gnawed until only ribs remained.
"It seems that on your menu, there is a feast of meat..." Wang Xu said coldly.
She covered her face with her hands, and wept bitterly, and she seemed so terribly miserable that she could hardly speak.
Wang Xu's Black Flame Dagger appeared on his right hand, and with a single wave, his task for tonight would be completed, but he hesitated, another person appeared in front of him, it was a man whose arms had been chopped off. Go to the werewolf, He Jiamu.
In the face of cruel fate, if you choose to survive, you will have to pay a painful and high price...
"Perhaps, death is the only way to escape for you." Wang Xu said, raising his sword...