Relocation Brigade

Hearing that the new scientific expedition team was about to go into the water, all the villagers in Blue Lake Village came out to watch, chattering and discussing.

"Our water won't be disturbed by them going down, so it won't have such a magical effect as before."

"Isn't it? Didn't you drown someone before, and the pain disappeared after drinking?"

"That's right." The villager looked up at the person on the shore who was wearing diving equipment, and curled his lips, "I hope no one will come after this incident is over."

Every time someone in the village came here for scientific research, it would be noisy for a while, which made the villagers who were used to the peaceful life of the mountain village very uncomfortable.

Compared with figuring out what is hidden in the lake, they care more about the stable life now.

I don't have much money, but I can be self-sufficient. After dinner, I invite three or two neighbors to play cards and chat. Life couldn't be more comfortable.

These words were heard verbatim by the people in the special dispatch department.

One of them couldn't help but whispered, "As if we wanted to come."

"Okay, don't complain." The person next to him pushed him to shut up, and turned his head to look at Li Hongyu, who was bowing his head and putting on clothes, "Deputy team leader, you can go into the water."

Li Hongyu picked up a diving helmet and handed it to Chen Ling, "After fastening the safety buckle, open the oxygen tank. Once there is water seepage, go ashore immediately."

Chen Ling said thank you, put the heavy helmet on his head, then turned his head and waved to Jiang Yu, and dived into the water with the rest.

The blue lake water is very clear, but because of the depth of the water, it looks dark green but a bit dark blue. Looking down from the shore, it always makes people feel like there is something hidden inside.

There is thick glass on the outside of the helmet, and you need to speak loudly to let the people on the opposite side hear what you are saying. Chen Ling pursed his lips and pointed towards Li Hongyu in a certain direction.

Li Hongyu understood, and made a few gestures with his subordinates neatly, and assigned everyone to disperse the investigation, and report with the underwater signal device if there is any situation.

Chen Ling gave him a thumbs up and swam in the opposite direction.

There is the sound of humming water, intruding into people's ears through the glass cover, everything they see is muddy water, and occasionally one or two figures can be seen passing by in front of them.

Chen Ling checked a small area and started to go downstream. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. The current position was five meters underwater.

He lowered his head and looked down, as the depth deepened, the color of the water became darker.

Most importantly, the temperature is getting lower and lower.

This low temperature stuck to his body through the diving suit, and quickly evoked a weird feeling, as if he was wrapped by something.

Normal water feels cool and soft, without this suffocating weirdness at all.

Intertwined with these lake waters are Yin Qi and Dead Qi.

Back then, those few children who wanted to swim in the water but couldn't get up, were either trapped by the ghosts from before, or they were entangled by these Yin Qi.

This time the water has the ability to cause hallucinations. Chen Ling couldn't open his mouth and bite his fingers to draw amulets like he did in the water pool of Fengling Mountain. Fortunately, he wore a telescopic stick and Sanqing bell.

The copper bell vibrated, and the sound echoed with the water waves, and the viscous yin energy around it disappeared immediately.

Chen Ling didn't put the bell away, but held it tightly in his hand, and swam straight to the bottom of the water while making his way with the ringing of the bell.

Just as it was about to hit the bottom, there was a dark, blurry figure in front of it.

As the opponent approached, Chen Ling saw the copper coin sword on the opponent's back, heaved a sigh of relief, and shouted through the diving helmet: "Did you find anything?"

Li Hongyu has always been reserved and strictly abides by etiquette, but now that they are underwater, they can only be forced to respond by yelling regardless of their appearance: "No!"

Not long after, the people who scattered to search also gathered together, shaking their heads and waving their hands, expressing that they also found nothing.

Chen Ling fell to the bottom of the water, and the soil at the bottom was wet and soft, but as his feet sank, he quickly stepped on the ground.

Li Hongyu also stood at the bottom of the water. He pulled out the copper coin sword and poked it down hard, but was easily blocked by the stone and could not go any further.

Chen Ling turned his head and asked the others loudly: "Have you seen the child's bones?"

Before entering the water, he specifically asked the village head if the body of the drowned child had been recovered.

What the village chief said was: no.

Some young and middle-aged men in the village went into the water twice, and no one dared to continue to go into the water after the search failed.

Although the villagers all said that the water of the blue lake can cure their ailments and wishes, it is precisely because of this strange ability of the lake that they are deeply afraid of this lake.

There are springs in the Blue Lake, which will not dry up, but there is no flowing river connected to it. If the bones of the children were not salvaged, the bones should stay at the bottom of the lake.

Why not?

There are some things that Chen Ling can't say directly, but fortunately, Li Hongyu has a tacit understanding with him. Seeing the suspicion in his eyes, he asked loudly, "Have you searched carefully?"

A subordinate shouted, and the voice from the helmet was buzzing, "Search carefully, and make sure there is nothing."

That's weird.

The time it takes for the flesh and internal organs on the corpse to decompose is related to the surrounding humidity, temperature, and pH, but the bones are the most stubborn and will not rot easily, even if they are buried in highly acidic soil. It takes longer to decay than to disappear into nothingness.

Chen Ling shouted back: "Search carefully at the bottom of the lake again."

The people in the special investigation department were a little unhappy, and they didn't understand why it took so much trouble because there were only a few skeletons.

Li Hongyu gestured for them to act immediately.

A few people left unwillingly, because they didn't take this instruction too seriously. After playing around in the water for a while, they planned to go back and report.

Seeing the shadows of Chen Ling and Li Hongyu in front of them, someone suddenly slapped the leader from behind.

The leader looked back, and the colleague hurriedly shouted: "Zhang Yang is gone!"

The leader was taken aback, and immediately led the people back to swim. Zhang Yang's air tube fell out of the helmet and plunged into the mud.Zhang Yang's helmet had already been drowned by the lake water flowing in from the air inlet.

He raised his head desperately to prevent himself from swallowing the lake water, knowing that his colleagues had found him, he desperately waved his hands for help.

The leader swam over with a few colleagues and immediately pulled the air tube out of the soil, but was blocked at the last moment, a hand that was swollen from soaking was actually holding on to the other end of the air tube.

That hand made the opposite intentionally, and suddenly used force in the opposite direction, directly pulling the whole thin tube out of the air bottle. Immediately afterwards, the surrounding water suddenly became cloudy, and all the sediment at the bottom of the water floated up and mixed in the water, which made people feel uncomfortable. Unable to discern surroundings.

The talisman could not be used after entering the water. Several people realized that the situation was wrong, and immediately took out various magic weapons.

More and more sand and sand in the water floated up, as if something was moving wantonly under the soil.With such a big commotion, Chen Ling and Li Hongyu would not fail to notice it. They quickly swam over and stopped outside the murky waters.

Chen Ling took out a section of the red light signal stick and broke it apart. The red light could only illuminate a small area.

Li Hongyu took the signal baton and was about to go in first. As soon as the webs on his feet swung, he bumped into something. He looked down and saw that it was a soaked human face.

The tightly closed eyes on the man's face snapped open, and he quickly grabbed Li Hongyu.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Chen Ling grabbed Li Hongyu's arm and pulled it towards him... Only then did he realize that it was not a human being at all, but a corpse that had been dead for an unknown amount of time without decomposing.

The clothes on his body had already been eroded by the microbes in the water, and his limbs were swollen and stiff.

But after the moment just now, Chen Ling knew how fast the opponent's action was. He let go of his hand, took off the Sanqing bell hanging from his waist, and shook it vigorously.

The dead body trembled and began to be pulled out.

But immediately after, another corpse crawled out of the mud at the bottom of the water.

Chen Ling accelerated the speed of shaking the Sanqing bell, but the yin energy under the water was too heavy, and the effect was very limited.He cursed secretly, pulled out the telescoping stick, turned his wrist, and severely wounded the temple of the dead body with the slightly thicker metal handle.

Taking advantage of the opponent's stagnation, he raised his foot and kicked him.

Li Hongyu also took out the copper coin sword, and slashed at the dead body with all his strength. The dead body's arm broke from the shoulder immediately, and the thick black blood quickly stained the lake.

This was like a signal for war, and everyone felt the bottom of the lake shaking.

Chen Ling looked at the pairs of hands protruding from the soil, and shouted vigorously: "Get out first!"

Li Hongyu refused to leave, and his subordinates never came out in the muddy waters, "You go first, I'll go find them."

Chen Ling is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, how could he leave a few people alone, catch up immediately, and swim with Li Hongyu to the unknown waters.

The red signal stick didn't last long before it went out.

Chen Ling threw it away, broke off a new one, and held it high in the water.

With this glimmer of light, the two of them found those people with great effort.Unfortunately, there were five of them, two of whom were lying at the bottom of the lake with their air tubes pulled out, floating in the water, lifeless like their owners.

Seeing the deputy team leader, the three of them seemed to see a savior, and their morale was restored when they were already powerless to fight.

The leader raised his elbow and slammed into the dead body lying on his back, and pierced the opponent's body with the Seven Star Sword with his backhand. Just when he thought he had succeeded in killing him, the dead body suddenly opened its eyelids, revealing only the whites of the eyes. Eye.

He grinned his mouth, his five fingers formed iron claws, and grabbed the living person's heart forcefully.

In desperation, Chen Ling released the curse whip from the telescopic stick, and threw it straight at the dead body's face with the momentum of breaking water, wrapping it around his neck.

He gritted his teeth and pushed hard in his direction. The curse whip was like a sharp soft blade, and it actually cut off the dead body's head.

Li Hongyu quickly dismantled the copper coin sword, threw out one end of the red string, and trapped three colleagues in it.

The five emperors' coins were meant to ward off evil spirits, and with the red thread that was stained with the blood of ghosts, the place where the copper coin thread passed was like a barrier, keeping the dead bodies out.

"Go!" Li Hongyu turned around and shouted.

For some reason, Chen Ling suddenly stared forward in a daze.

He said, "I can't go."

Countless dead bodies broke free from the mud at the bottom of the lake and swam towards them densely. Judging from the appearance, there were old and young, men and women, all of them rolled their eyes, and their bodies were rotten and swollen.

No one can know whether these things will follow them back to shore.

Chen Ling yelled through the diving helmet: "You take them away, I will die."

The underwater survey work was originally the task of the special investigation department, and Chen Ling was only involved because of the Yuan family's order. It was Chen Ling who should really go, not Li Hongyu!

Li Hongyu pushed a few subordinates hard: "Let's go first."

Human life is more important than the sky, when life is hanging by a thread, who cares about siblings and morality, the three of them just said "be careful, deputy team leader", and quickly swam to the surface of the water without looking back.

Halfway through the swim, someone couldn't help but look back and look down.

Countless dead bodies crowded together, forming a scalp-numbing black.He shivered, swinging his arms and legs desperately.

The water in the rear was shaking, but even San Qingling couldn't resist the thousands of troops after being shaken out of the afterimage.

Chen Ling's foot was grabbed by one hand. The dead body was wearing a tattered robe and mandarin jacket. He obviously didn't belong to this era. He kicked the opponent's head with his other leg and took the opportunity to pull his foot back.

Li Hongyu glanced at him and was about to speak when a dead body rushed towards him.

The dead body was quite different from the others, with sharp fangs growing in its mouth, it was already a zombie.

Zombies, which transcend the six realms, don't know pain, so they can only kill them once.

Li Hongyu moved his fingers, and the straightened copper coin thread seemed to have a life of its own, flying towards the direction of the master and entwined around his hand.

I saw his five fingers flying nimbly, and in the blink of an eye, the copper coin thread turned into a copper coin sword, slashing straight at the zombie's face.

The seemingly blunt copper coin sword was not blocked, and it split the zombie's head in half like splitting tofu.

Chen Ling gestured to him, and he was not idle. The curse whip in his hand became more and more fierce after being stained with blood. I don't know if it was his own illusion. Chen Ling always thought that the color of the curse on the curse whip was darker than before .

The slender and sharp whip wrapped around a dead body, pulled it loose, and the dead body flew out, hitting several new ones that rushed up.

Chen Ling didn't relax, but he couldn't kill so many things with physical strength. He raised his head, and many of them had already passed them and swam to the surface of the water.

He needs more power.

With a thought in mind, Chen Ling was about to risk taking off his helmet, biting his fingers to draw a charm to invite thunder, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a red light flashing across the bottom of the lake.

He froze for a moment, thinking that it was more like a pair of eyes.

The copper coin sword in Li Hongyu's hand was about to cut flowers. Seeing the young man in a daze, he quickly bumped him with his elbow.

Chen Ling came back to his senses, immediately threw the cursed whip out, and insisted on opening a path, his intuition told him that he was not mistaken, besides these dead bodies, there was something underneath.

Seeing a group of reinforcements coming down from above, Li Hongyu should be fine, Chen Ling said "I'll go down to see" and left.

All the dead bodies got out from the bottom of the lake. At this time, the water at the bottom of the lake has gradually become clean over time.

Chen Ling recalled the place where he saw the red light before, and swam along with his body close to the bottom of the lake. Soon he found a problem from the traces in the mud. The further he went, the more messy and dense the traces in the mud at the bottom of the lake became.

He swam faster and faster, and his body in a tight diving suit was like a clumsy but flexible fat fish, quickly shuttling through a field of algae.

Compared with the places he passed through before, the traces in this underwater area are larger, indicating that the dead bodies should come from here, no... Chen Ling raised his head and looked forward through the glass with difficulty.

There was a big pit in that place.

It is certain that this thing was absolutely not there when they checked it out before.

Chen Ling suddenly felt his heart beating a little faster, he closed his eyes for two seconds to calm down, swam with all his strength, and froze for a moment.

—the pit was full of soaked bodies.

Most of them closed their eyes and fell asleep like ordinary corpses. A few of them stretched out their hands, rolled their eyes and struggled, as if they wanted to get up but couldn't.

This place is simply a mass grave!

He hesitated for a while, and dived downwards. Seeing that he was about to hit the bottom, a shadow came out of the sky and threw him into the pile of corpses.

It was a hairy thing, his eyes were red, his fangs were sharp, and his pointed nails were trying hard to pierce the diving suit on the young man.

It's hairy.

Mao Zong is a type of zombie, covered in hair, with copper skin and iron bones, and quick to move. The most terrible thing is that they are not afraid of the sun and can move freely.

Chen Ling's scalp was numb, and he cursed.

It's really unlucky, how could I meet Mao Zang at such a time!

He raised his knee and pushed hard, the opponent's abdomen was harder than a stone, and he felt no pain at all.

Mao Zong pressed his fingers hard, and Chen Ling immediately felt that the waterproof suit was torn. He raised his head suddenly, and with a bang, the helmet hit the opponent's head hard.

The effect of force is reciprocal. At the same time that Mao Zong's head was pushed back, Chen Ling was dizzy. He quickly glanced at his arm, and it was bleeding.

Just right, save the step of biting your fingers to unlock the helmet.

He slammed into the opponent's head again, taking advantage of Mao's stiff retreat, quickly climbed up from the pile of corpses, swung his arms, and the blood followed his movement trajectory, forming a large corpse-repelling talisman in the water.

While punching the bloody talisman with his palm, he said in his mouth: "My sword is extraordinary sword. Brilliant fighting stars refer to Tiangang, Tiantianqing, earth spirits, everyone's longevity, ghosts and ghosts perish. Law!"

It's not that I haven't encountered zombies before. When I first met Zhao Xunchang, Chen Ling often watched Master catch ghosts.

One time the two went out to buy yellow paper, and when they settled in a small village, they came across a corpse that was almost buried because it was buried in a bad place.

At that time, Zhao Xunchang used chicken blood mixed with cinnabar to draw talismans. He had to finish drawing the talisman at the same time as he finished chanting the mantra.

For myself today, it’s fine to draw on the spot, and I don’t even have the talisman paper to carry the mana.

Chen Ling took a deep breath, he had experience in catching ghosts, but he had no idea about catching zombies, he could only silently pray that he would do it, otherwise he would be torn alive by this hairy zombie.

The blood spread in the water, as if it surrounded Mao Zong from all directions, Chen Ling couldn't help but open his eyes wide, seeing Mao Zong open his mouth to roar, his eyes became more red, and he grabbed his ankle.

And then... no more.

Mao Zang was fixed!