Chen Ling got a moment to catch his breath. He took a deep breath and moved forward a little.
The hair on the hairy zombies floated in the water. To be honest, they looked like a group of human-shaped seaweed walking in a group, which was a bit disgusting.
But no matter how bad his image is, Chen Ling will not easily forget his violent aggressiveness.
Just as he was about to reach out, his arm was grabbed from behind. Chen Ling turned around and whipped him with a whip, but the red tassel on the whip was grabbed by a slender and powerful hand.
Chen Ling opened his eyes wide in surprise, released the force of the whip and swam over, "When did you come down?"
Jiang Yu: "After the corpse floats to the shore."
When the dead body came ashore, the people of the Special Investigation Department immediately entered a state of combat readiness. Jiang Yu never cared about the life and death of the living in the world of the living. He did not intend to take action, but just calmly sensed Chen Ling's situation.
It was fine at first, but when the fierce and evil spirit emerged from the bottom of the water, he clearly felt Chen Ling's fear.
Jiang Yu turned to look at Mao Jiang, a hint of darkness flashing in his eyes.
"Then..." Chen Ling's thoughts were still on the previous topic. He felt cold all over when he thought of the countless corpses. The number was so huge that the people from the Special Investigation Department who came for "scientific research" were not enough.
"Don't worry, they have been subdued." Jiang Yu said, "Li Daoxuan, please send down the Five Thunders to defeat the evil spirits on those corpses in one fell swoop."
Chen Ling nodded but did not relax. He nervously held Jiang Yu's arm. Due to the constraints of the diving suit, his finger joints were not very flexible.
"Where's Li Hongyu?"
"When I came down, I helped him temporarily immobilize the entangled corpse." Jiang Yu shifted his gaze and pointed at the hairy zombie, "The hairy zombie has a lot of corpse poison, don't touch it."
The man narrowed his deep eyes slightly, and with five fingers spread out, he attacked the hairy zombie's throat fiercely.
Leng Bai's fingers pierced through the hairy and hard skin like steel bars, and the fingers bent and grabbed something.
Chen Ling realized that there was something hidden in the hairy zombie's throat and couldn't help but move forward a little. Then he saw a pool of black blood oozing out of his throat.
Jiang Yu didn't even turn his head, but drew a talisman on Chen Ling's body with his backhand. The black blood that spread with the lake water was like a mouse seeing a cat, and it circumvented him in fear.
With the amulet drawn by the ancestor himself, Chen Ling felt like he was wearing an invulnerable armor. He boldly moved closer and saw with his own eyes how the ancestor's fingers pinched out a piece of white jade from the other's violently damaged flesh.
Jiang Yu held the jade in his hand and shook it in the water. The black blood on it quickly dissipated, revealing its original appearance.
It's white amber.
This tiger-shaped ritual vessel carved from white jade is one of the six major ritual vessels used for sacrifices in ancient times.
Chen Ling stretched out his hand, wanting to touch it, but Jiang Yu dodged it.
He looked up in confusion and saw that the man's jawline was tense and his lips were pressed into a straight line. Perhaps because of the dim light underwater, his eyes were as dark as a dry well.
"What's wrong?" Chen Ling's voice sounded in the water.
Jiang Yu closed his fingers and held Bai Hu tightly: "Let's talk about it when we get up there."
He put his arm around the young man's shoulders, and just as his feet left the bottom of the lake, a masked figure suddenly rushed out in front of him.
Jiang Yu's eyes darkened, and he pulled up the immobilized hair zombie with one hand, bit his fingertips and touched the other's forehead, and said in a calm voice: "Go."
When the hairy zombie received the order, its already bloodshot eyes looked as if they had just been soaked in blood, and it flew towards the figure with a strong desire to kill.
Jiang Yu held Chen Ling tightly and said, "Lend me the curse whip."
Chen Ling handed the whip to the man, and then he saw the whip leaving a residual shadow and cutting through the lake water, and whipping towards the bottom of the lake with a powerful momentum.
With a clang, the whip was quickly pulled out of the mud, and the two long chains that were violently broken were also picked up and flashed through the turbid water.
Although the hairy zombie is not as brainless as the primary zombie, and can only jump around and spit out breath to bite people randomly, it is still a brainless zombie. It is impossible, and it will not chain itself to the bottom of the water because it has eaten too much and has nothing to do.
Someone deliberately trapped him in this lake filled with corpse energy!
Before he had time to think about it, he heard a loud bang, and the hairy zombie carried the man into the mud at the bottom of the lake. Perhaps they hit a rock, and the entire lake bottom was shaking.
Because he was worried that the torn diving suit would affect the sealing of the diving helmet, Jiang Yu only took a look at the muddy bottom and took Chen Ling back to the shore.
The shore was in a mess, and the water was littered with dead bodies. The villagers who had been watching before going into the water had already been frightened and hid back home, and the people from the Special Investigation Department were exhausted.
In this chaotic scene, the only missing figures were Li Hongyu and Li Daoxuan.
Wu Weiwei wasn't much better either. His sprained foot had been scratched by a dead body and had been infected with corpse poison. It had never fully healed to begin with, and now he had a new injury.
Seeing that Brother Chen was looking around as soon as he got ashore, he hopped over on one foot and said, "After Li Hongyu got ashore, he heard that his junior master-master was chasing someone, so he took off his diving suit and followed him."
"Chasing someone?" Chen Ling was very careful when taking off his diving suit, fearing that his wound would be damaged. "Who?"
"I don't know either." Wu Weiwei frowned. "The situation was chaotic at the time. Li Daoxuan said he saw a man in black and chased after him."
Chen Ling thought of the masked man who was being entangled by the hairy zombie underwater. Could it be the same one
But why did Li Daoxuan have to go and catch him personally
So many dead bodies suddenly came up from the bottom of the lake, but he didn't stay to take charge and instead ran away. It seemed suspicious no matter how you thought about it.
Chen Ling turned to look at Jiang Yu: "Can that hairy zombie beat that guy?"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a sound of water in the center of the blue lake, and the hairy zombie dragged the man directly out of the water.
"It's a Mao zombie!" Someone in the Special Investigation Department suddenly shouted.
The colleagues who were originally exhausted all got up from the ground at once, and frantically looked for magic tools and talisman paper.
The mask of the masked man was removed by the hairy nails, and his hidden appearance could not be seen. Chen Ling was thinking about how to take off his mask when a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred. Five thunders fell from the sky, covering the Blue Lake and the nearby mountains and forests.
The lake water was splashed by lightning and everyone had to retreat, except Jiang Yu.
He did not dodge or evade. He stepped on the water with his toes and quickly approached the trembling man in the center of the lake as if he was walking on flat ground. He raised his hand and grabbed the masked man's neck.
There was a flash of evil in the masked man's eyes, and the corner of his mouth that was exposed curled viciously, and a dagger covered in black blood stabbed into Jiang Yu's abdomen.
He twisted the wrist holding the dagger, wishing he could crush the intestines inside.
Even if he knows magic, what's the use of it? After all, he is just a mortal body. If the body dies, what's there to be afraid of if a few wisps of soul are left behind
"You don't know how to live or die." Jiang Yu said viciously, and his hand that was pinching the other person loosened slightly. Just when the masked man thought he had successfully killed the man and reached out to snatch the white amber from the man's hand, he suddenly opened his mouth.
The cold, invisible Yin energy forcefully penetrated into his mouth, penetrated into his lungs along his throat, and ruthlessly pulled his three souls and seven spirits out of his body like a hook.
Because of the sudden lightning, the trees and grass beside the Blue Lake were all on fire, and black smoke enveloped the lake.
No one saw what Jiang Yu did with his back to them. They only saw the masked man in black suddenly fall into the water. Since Jiang Yu stepped into the lake and grabbed the masked man's neck, the hairy zombie floated in the water like a robot that had lost power.
Jiang Yu looked down at his abdomen. There was a hole in his shirt, but fortunately no blood was seeping out.
He brushed the wound gently with his fingertips, and after the wound healed, he held the masked man in one hand and the soul in the other and walked back to the shore.
Chen Ling stared at Hunpo's face and forgot to react. It was Wu Weiwei who screamed: "Isn't this someone from the Special Investigation Department?"
The people from the Special Investigation Department were shocked when they heard this and quickly gathered around. They were very familiar with that face; it was the thin senior brother.
"How could that be..."
"Of course not!" someone cursed, "When he was expelled from the list, we knew he was not a good person!"
"Expelled?" Chen Ling looked at the person who spoke.
"It's because he secretly learned evil magic." Li Hongyu pushed through the crowd and walked in, reaching out to remove the mask of the masked man.
The thin senior brother died in a hideous manner, his facial features twisted in pain because his soul was forcibly extracted. Li Hongyu closed his eyes in pain, his heart was shocked, but more disappointed and angry.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang." Li Daoxuan spoke. He looked disheveled and looked like he had experienced an extremely fierce battle.
He glanced at the body of Senior Brother Shou thrown on the ground, his eyes tinged with pity, "It was my Special Dispatching Department's lax management that led to today's incident. He deserves what he has suffered, but I still hope that Brother Jiang can hand over his body and soul to us for disposal."
"I heard that Team Leader Li found a suspicious person and chased him away." Chen Ling asked, "The person you found is Senior Brother Shou?"
"I wasn't sure who he was at first, I just thought he looked similar..." Li Daoxuan's expression was gloomy, "but I didn't expect it to be this disdainful disciple."
"Did Team Leader Li call for the five thunders just now?" The five thunders came at too coincidental a time, just in time to stop everyone from entering the lake to catch people.
"It was me. I met an evil spirit in the mountains." Li Daoxuan stopped there and didn't say more. His emotions were still calm. He didn't get angry even though he knew the other party was questioning him.
The man from the Special Investigation Department started to get impatient and pushed Chen Ling's shoulder angrily: "What the hell do you mean? Do you suspect that our team leader is in cahoots with that skinny guy?"
"I was just asking casually, why are you so excited?" Chen Ling said indifferently.
The man was so irritated by the tone that veins popped out on his forehead and he raised his fist: "You!"
"Stop arguing!" Li Hongyu shouted, and looked at Chen Ling, "After all, we are from the same sect. Let us take Senior Brother Shou's body back. As for his three souls and seven spirits... We will interrogate him thoroughly and give an explanation for what happened this time."
"He didn't do what happened at Blue Lake." Chen Ling was certain.
From a ghost to a demon, and then to an invisible one, this is definitely not something that can be achieved overnight. The inner demon has been hiding in the world for so long before revealing itself, what it wants to do must be very difficult. It is impossible to choose an ordinary warlock who is at the bottom of the special investigation department and is bent on secretly learning evil magic to live in.
His target must be someone with great talent and accomplishments.
Only people with higher status and greater abilities can help him achieve his goals as quickly as possible.
Chen Ling believed that Senior Brother Thin was just an abandoned pawn who was thrown out to take the blame, and his status as an abandoned pawn was probably already arranged when he was supposedly learning the evil arts.
He said, "That hairy zombie was trapped underwater by a chain. Do you think Senior Brother Shou has the ability to do that?"
"No." Li Hongyu frowned and said, "Shou Senior Brother did learn the art of controlling corpses, but with his foundation, it should be impossible for him to reach the level of being able to control hairy zombies in just one week."
"Who knows..." someone muttered, "What if he accidentally obtained some rare treasure and his talent improved?"
"You've read too many novels!"
"Well... could it be that he has received guidance from an expert?" someone asked weakly.
The people around him sneered: "Where did you get this expert? Introduce him to me."
"But I really heard him talking to himself in an empty room..." The man spoke in a low voice. Just as he was about to continue, Li Daoxuan asked, "Really? What did you hear him say?"
"I, I don't know." The man said, "The sound was unclear. He stopped talking as soon as I ran upstairs."
The feeling was quite strange, as if the thin senior brother had installed a pair of eyes at the door. His footsteps were clearly very light, so the other party should not be able to hear him.
Li Daoxuan said in a deep voice: "The specific matter will be investigated by the Supervision Department."
It is obvious that he has the attitude that family disgrace should not be made public.
Chen Ling knew that Jiang Yu still had something hidden in his hand, so he planned to get away first. However, just as he turned around with the man, Li Daoxuan spoke again: "Fellow Daoist Jiang, hand over what's in your hand first."
Chen Ling turned around: "What is Team Leader Li talking about?"
Li Daoxuan smiled and gently persuaded: "Your Taoism is not good enough, so you may not be able to sense it, but I can sense a little bit of death energy from Brother Jiang."
He turned his eyes and waved them across Jiang Yu's tightly clenched palm, "If I'm guessing correctly, that thing should be what you took out from the throat of the hairy zombie."
There were discussions all around.
Some fearless people actually approached the hairy zombie to take a look, and indeed, there was a hole in its throat that was violently gouged out.
"Why are you still hiding things?" The people from the Special Investigation Department were unhappy. They surrounded Chen Ling and the other two and refused to let them go.
Jiang Yu spread out his hand, where a white amber was lying quietly. He threw it casually, pulled Chen Ling along and left.
Chen Ling glanced back unwillingly, then turned back and whispered, "Why did you give it to him? What if the inner demon is really in Li Daoxuan!"
Jiang Yu led his people back to the courtyard without saying a word and closed the door. He took out a piece of jade from his pocket, which was exactly the same as the one he threw to Li Daoxuan.
Wu Weiwei exclaimed: "Brother Jiang, you switched the bags?!"
A light bulb lit up in Chen Ling's mind: "Turning stone into gold, stealing the sky and changing the day?"
Jiang Yu placed the white amber on the table. The hellfire jumping on his fingertips gently floated over the jade, and Chen Ling immediately smelled a stench of decay.
"The death energy contained in the white amber is very strong, but it is tightly wrapped by the jade, making it difficult for people to detect."
"Then why can I smell it now?" Chen Ling said, and before the other party could speak, he figured it out first, "Bai Hu was cursed!"