0p0 Chapter 416 [Domain·Drowning] Huang Ying's Attitude
Chapter 416 [Domain·Drowning] Huang Ying's Attitude
Twilight.
The river water was above Wan Xiaoshuang's feet.
Her face was as pale as paper, severing the "connection" between her hair and Chen Ji, which, in the end, was also a reversal of cause and effect.
That short sword was named the Lotus Sword.
It can cut through more than just things in a physical sense.
Wan Xiaoshuang should have suffered a much stronger backlash than she has now. The reason the side effects were weakened is mostly because Wan Chengzhong, the instigator of all this, is already dead.
But this did not lessen Wan Xiaoshuang's worries. Her intuition told her that the black-clad ghost that had never appeared before was the core ghost!
But neither Wan Xiaoshuang nor Tong Zi could dive down to rescue Chen Ji; they could only wait in the shallows.
Because they could vaguely see that the river water was gradually darkening, turning into a strange dark green.
In those deeper areas, dead fish kept floating belly up to the surface.
Wow!
The water surged.
Her eyes suddenly froze. In the only clear sliver of water, Chen Ji's head broke the surface. Without daring to stop for a moment, he took a breath and swam straight toward the shallows.
Wan Xiaoshuang immediately bent down and, together with the boy, pulled Chen Ji up!
When she saw Chen Ji's entire body, she couldn't help but gasp.
Chen Ji was soaked to the bone, kneeling on the bank, constantly spitting out river water. But what was even more terrifying was that his left hand hung loosely like a transparent glove, covered with tiny holes.
Flesh and blood, bones and hands; all have vanished.
It took Chen Ji several minutes to recover.
He opened his eyes, which were bloodshot from the stimulation of the river water, and turned to look at the Jiagu River.
Wan Xiaoshuang subconsciously followed his gaze, only to find that the river water had turned completely dark green, and her heart sank.
"what happened?"
"You'll die if you go into the river," Chen Ji said in a hoarse voice.
"As long as it comes into contact with dark green water, the flesh and blood will decompose. That's how I lost my hand."
He paused, not ignoring the bloodstains on Wan Xiaoshuang's clothes, and asked softly, "Did you use A-level magic?"
Wan Xiaoshuang nodded silently.
"Thank you... otherwise I would be dead by now." With a bitter smile, Chen Ji recounted his experience at the bottom of the river.
It was a near-death experience.
He learned from Wan Xiaoshuang that he and Wan Chengzhong had been dragged down by the black-clad ghost.
"The black-clad ghost killed Wan Chengzhong, peeled off his scalp, and stuffed it into Wan Chengzhong's mouth," Chen Ji murmured. "This way of dying is very strange. I suspect it's related to a substitution method."
The substitution method involves plucking a person's hair, but Wan Chengzhong, who used the substitution method, had his entire scalp peeled off.
Chen Ji sensed a hint of hatred in this method of killing.
"It didn't attack me at first, probably because it thought I was going to die, which is why it became so furious after discovering that I had escaped."
"Then I met Huang Ying..."
"Huang Ying?" The boy interrupted him, his expression somewhat strange.
He touched his pocket and pulled out a limp piece of paper with traces of glue stuck together in the middle.
"What is this?" Chen Ji was taken aback.
“A diary, Huang Ying’s diary,” the boy said. “We found it where you were dragged away before you came out.”
"It must have fallen in before Wan Chengzhong jumped into the water."
The problem is...
A hint of confusion flashed in his eyes: "This is different from the story you heard from Teacher Zhan."
Chen Ji immediately took the diary, and the more he read, the deeper his doubts became.
The boy is right.
According to Teacher Zhan, Huang Ying was tricked away by the man in the yellow hoodie and then obtained the method of taking her place.
But the diary says:
Everything was over, but as I cried by the river, I overheard my older siblings whispering; they seemed to be cursed by a ghost as well.
Combined with the following phrase "listening to what they say," it is clear that this refers to Huang Ying encountering the ghosts of the tour group and learning about the substitution method from their ghost stories.
This diary is strange for more than just that.
Huang Ying mentioned that she saw the reflection of a drowned ghost in the water, which told her when she would die.
All of this is undoubtedly the same as Wan Chengzhong's experience.
However, the condition for the known death announcement was that he had the idea of having someone die in his place. But Huang Ying had no guidance from the entrants, and he only learned about the method of death by substitution after that. What does that mean?
It wasn't written in the diary that Huang Ying wanted someone else to die in her place.
"I have a theory."
Wan Xiaoshuang's voice was somewhat hoarse, "The contents of this diary are fake, and it might even have been written by Huang Ying after she became a ghost..."
"The goal was to spread the idea of surrogacy."
Once they see the diary, they will learn about the method of taking someone else's place, and then they will be tempted and become haunted by the ghost.
Seeing the drowned ghost in the reflection, and then comparing it with Huang Ying's diary, would greatly increase the credibility of the substitution method.
"Once you become a ghost, is it inevitable that you'll harbor malice...?"
Chen Ji murmured, to be honest, he found it hard to connect Huang Ying with this diary that led to someone's death.
But Wan Xiaoshuang is absolutely right.
As it turns out, this diary did indeed cause the deaths of many who entered the domain.
However, Chen Ji still had a question.
"After Huang Ying emerged from the green water, she grabbed me and tried to take me to the black-clad ghost."
"I don't know why she's with the leather-clad ghost, but..."
Chen hesitated for a moment before saying, "I escaped."
"I feel like she's letting the water out."
"Release the water?" The boy frowned. "What do you mean?"
"I was already severely oxygen-deprived at that time."
Chen Ji said slowly, something he only realized after getting ashore: "I couldn't exert any strength in my body, and I couldn't even get close to the water's surface before. It was an illusion, like a mirage."
"I don't know why, but after Huang Ying grabbed me, I suddenly heard your voices and realized that the illusion had disappeared."
He initially suspected that the river was upside down, but even so, with the river attacking from three sides, there was only one way to escape: upstream.
“I tried to get rid of Huang Ying, but I easily shook off her hand and then swam all the way up.”
The boy's expression changed: "You mean, you broke free from a ghost's restraints while in a state of oxygen deprivation?"
"Correct."
Chen Ji nodded; this was the most suspicious point.
Moreover, Huang Ying did not chase after them.
But her goal was indeed to pull Chen Ji to the side of the black-clad ghost. Moreover, her previous actions of stealing the red satchel and then destroying the boiler clearly indicated that she wanted to kill the entrant.
Chen Ji couldn't understand this inconsistent attitude.
Unable to reach Huang Ying, this matter had to be put on hold for the time being.
The three stood on the bank, watching the post-rain sunrise reflected on the water, its golden light unable to illuminate the river even slightly.
The river water had turned completely into a dark, murky green.
It seems capable of devouring all life.
Is the other Hongtian really underwater?
Wan Xiaoshuang said in confusion, "He'll die if he gets into the water, but how can we save him if we don't dive to the bottom of the river?"