On the day I left school, I knocked all the relatives in the hospital to death

Zhang Lingchuan continued to go back to bed and prepared to sleep: "Hurry up and go to bed, I have to go to the dock tomorrow morning."

I sat on the bed, holding the pendant in my hand, but I couldn't fall asleep.

Zhang Lingchuan just told me that the soul of the female corpse is sealed in this jade!

No wonder Kong Sanniang would take the initiative to return this thing to us.

There is a evil spirit hidden in the pendant. Who can ordinary people withstand it?

The black bruises on Kong Sanniang's neck just now were probably caused by the female ghost.

Seeing me sitting motionless on the bed, Zhang Lingchuan said in a daze.

"What's there to be afraid of? You carried me on my back all the way."

He didn't say it was fine.

As soon as I said it, I remembered that sticky feeling again, and I got goosebumps from fear.

Sleeping with ghosts?

I looked at the jade pendant with great confusion. No wonder Zhang Lingchuan said it could temporarily suppress the grimace mask on my arm.

I didn't sleep very well that night. I dreamed of all kinds of monsters and ghosts all night long.

After being woken up by Zhang Lingchuan, he felt terribly heavy.

"Where are we going?"

Zhang Lingchuan kept it secret and said, I will know when the time comes.

Everything was left in the hotel.

When he went out, Zhang Lingchuan walked straight to the front desk of the hotel.

"Master, you are well-informed. Can you help me find out which body-recovering team this person belongs to around here?"

I saw Zhang Lingchuan taking photos of Wang Chongshan directly on the table, and I wondered if he was confused.

It's true that we are looking for Wang Chongshan, but we can't find him by just looking for someone and showing him a photo.

Unexpectedly, the boss stared at Wang Chongshan in the photo carefully. After a long, long time, he shook his head.

"I, Old Man Zhao, never sell information about dead people."

I don’t know what the reason for finding this old man is. Why did he conclude that Wang Chongshan is dead?

After looking at Zhang Lingchuan, he turned to Old Man Zhao and said, "Make a price."

Old Man Zhao could only point to his mouth, and then pointed to the sky.

Zhang Lingchuan's eyes were half-closed, and he said after a few seconds: "I understand."

He collected the money on the table and left the hotel without looking back.

I was just about to ask Zhang Lingchuan what was going on, when I heard him say in my ear in a very low voice: "Stop talking, we are being targeted."

Being targeted?

We are doing our duty honestly, but we just come to Zhongzhou to find someone.

No, a corpse to be precise.

Can this also be targeted?

Zhang Lingchuan's face didn't change, and he led me into a small alley, and then waited at a corner.

After a while, a sneaky, rickety figure followed quietly.

"Catch him!" Zhang Lingchuan gave the order, and I rushed out, catching the man and pounced on him.

But his figure was very strange. I obviously caught him, but I missed him.

The next second, I saw Zhang Lingchuan walking over holding the back of his neck.

"You're quite flexible, kid. Tell me, who ordered you to follow us."

The man was in tatters and looked like a beggar.

He shrank his head back in fear, and then knelt down towards Zhang Lingchuan with a simple sound.

I watched in astonishment as he kowtowed on the ground "bang-bang-" a few times before I heard him say.

"My name is Water Monkey, and I am also a corpse hunter."

His eyes were shining: "You two are Dharma kings with hands and eyes that can reach the sky. Please save my brothers!"

Zhang Lingchuan asked him: "Who are your brothers?"

The water monkey crawled on the ground and burst into tears.

After a long time, he adjusted his emotions and raised his head.

"My brothers are all poor people struggling to survive in the Yellow River!"

Zhang Lingchuan stretched out his hand to help him: "Get up and talk."

Only then did I realize that one of the wrists of the water monkey had been cut off!

He looked around with some fear, and then brought us to a very dilapidated house.

"You two, please come into the room to talk."

After the water monkey finished speaking, he opened the door of the house.

There was a musty smell inside, and tattered socks and clothes were all piled together.

Seeing Zhang Lingchuan step in directly, I had no choice but to follow him.

Water Monkey lit a kerosene lamp and told us about Wang Chongshan through the dim light.

He used his good hand to take the cigarette that Zhang Lingchuan handed him. After taking a long puff, he looked out the door and slowly talked about the past.

"Who would be willing to do such a fatal job if they were not forced to do anything else?"

Water Monkey looks to be in his thirties this year. In his own words, his family's ancestors all lived on the edge of the Yellow River.

Starting from my father's generation, I have been engaged in the business of fishing for corpses.

He got the nickname "Water Monkey" because he has excellent water properties and can avoid attacks from various fish monsters in the river.

I remembered that when I caught him just now, he slithered away like a loach, which showed that this man did have some abilities.

"By the way, the Wang Chongshan you are looking for came to the Yellow River a year ago."

"Wang Chongshan was young at that time, and he had to do this job as a Taoist priest. We saw that he was a good young man, and we tried to persuade him. Unexpectedly, this boy seemed to be possessed by a man and insisted on going into the river."

Zhang Lingchuan looked unhappy after hearing this.

He asked the water monkey: "What is there under the Yellow River?"

Along the way, I also heard a lot of rumors about the Yellow River from Zhang Lingchuan.

Like the Yellow River dug up a thousand-year-old snake monster, a ten-thousand-year-old giant turtle, the Yellow River ghost coffin...

Actually I can understand it too.

After all, the water in the Yellow River is turbid and churning inside as if it were roaring.

The bottom of the river bed is endless, and no one knows what terrible things are hidden underneath.

Upon hearing our question, the water monkey looked unnatural.

His words flickered, and he spoke only after Zhang Lingchuan kept pressing him.

"Wang Chongshan has a good relationship with me. Later, by chance, I discovered that he wrote a letter to his family and mentioned something about grimaces in it."

"I suspected at that time that he came to be a body hunter for ulterior motives."

"After repeated questioning, I learned that Wang Chongshan heard from somewhere that there was a large tomb hidden under the Yellow River!"

Tomb at the bottom of the Yellow River?

If it were before, I would have scolded Wang Chongshan for having something wrong with his brain.

But after going through all this shit, I dare not make any random assertions.

"How can Wang Chongshan be so sure that there is a tomb at the bottom of the Yellow River?"

The water monkey also shook his head: "I don't know either, but he believes it very much. So he came to retrieve the body to find the tomb."

Could it be said that Wang Chongshan's death was related to the so-called big tomb?

Water Monkey said that Wang Chongshan's disappearance was related to a mysterious customer.

"That happened last month. A group of us were resting in the team and suddenly saw a Taoist monk."

"He asked us to retrieve a body that had been dead for more than ten years."

Hearing this, I thought to myself, isn't this sincerely trying to make things difficult for others?

Zhang Lingchuan said that there are rules in the business of salvaging corpses. If the same body cannot be retrieved after three attempts, it cannot be retrieved again.

This kind of corpse is said to have been spotted by Grandpa Water Ghost and kept as a servant.

Retrieving a corpse that was more than ten years old forced the person who retrieved it to violate taboos.

"So you all rejected that Taoist priest?"

But the water monkey closed his eyes in pain.

"No!"

"The Taoist priest made an offer that all the body fishers could not refuse. All twelve corpse fishers in our team went into the water."

An offer that all corpse hunters cannot refuse? How tempting!

However, the water monkey said: "However, no matter how generous the conditions are, they can no longer go ashore."

"There are 13 people in our body-recovering team. Except for me, the disabled number, all the other brothers have gone and never come back!"