Chapter 66: The Death of Zhang Yunhao

  This is the face of a fifteen or sixteen year old girl, although it's dark and murky in the water, this face still looks so pale... The eyes are very big, like those of a cartoon doll, the hair is long and fine, under the push of the water, slightly tilted towards me, like floating aquatic plants.

  She stared at me with wide eyes, motionless.

  Is it a person?

  I was so scared that I directly retreated backwards, water kept gushing into my mouth, my nose felt sour and tears flowed out. The man's mouth corner rose, he suddenly smiled, then quickly retreated backwards, almost disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.

  How is this possible? Is it real? Could it be that I've been underwater for too long, with insufficient oxygen, causing me to hallucinate?

  But I clearly know that this is not an illusion. Just now, I really saw a person, or perhaps it should be said, another kind of living being similar to humans that lives at the bottom of the water.

  Won't Zhang Yunhao be caught by that person in the water? But why didn't she catch me just now? And she didn't attack me either.

  Hesitating for a second, I curiously and nervously swam in the direction that person was swimming.

  I had only swum three or four meters, and vaguely saw a human figure in front of me. Probably seeing that I was coming, he quickly dived upwards and disappeared again. At this time, I had been underwater for at least 30-40 seconds, couldn't hold on anymore, and hastily swam upwards.

  He soon swam out of the water surface.

  I greedily took a big breath, just wanting to wipe away the water droplets on my face, when suddenly a black object shot towards me, I saw it was a stone as large as a washbasin, and I was so shocked that I hastily submerged myself in the water.

  The stone was hitting the water right above my head, making a loud noise. I felt a sudden weight on my head and the stone was pressing down on my brain. I quickly swam away, fortunately the stone fell into the water and was slowed down by the buoyancy of the water, so it didn't exert too much force, and I wasn't hurt, but for a moment I didn't dare to come up to the surface again.

  I'm furious, what kind of monster is attacking me? And they even threw a stone at me, why not throw a bomb or an atomic bomb? They're clearly trying to smash me to death.

  Just now when the stone was thrown over from the water surface, it seemed that there were two human figures standing on the shore, but because of the water on my face, I didn't notice and didn't see clearly who those two people were.

  Suddenly I thought, could it be Zhong Ling'er and that man who went up the mountain with him?

  No, it won't be them. If it were them, they would never lay a hand on me. Even if that man wanted to do so, Zhong Ling'er wouldn't agree.

  Could it be them? Or who else would it be? Who else is in this godforsaken place? Is it that stone statue?

  It's highly likely that only that monster would throw such a big stone at me. What kind of hatred is this? It was Zhang Yunhao who burned her, I just touched its hand!

  But it can't be confirmed as that stone statue either.

  I was eager to know who had just splashed me, mainly to see if it was Zhong Ling'er, so I ignored the danger and stuck my head out of the water again.

  To be on the safe side, I remained vigilant. As soon as I surfaced, I quickly wiped away the water droplets from my face and looked straight towards the shore. What made me feel disappointed yet relieved at the same time was that there was no one on the shore.

  No, it can't be said that there's no one. There is someone lying on the shore. Judging from his figure, if it isn't Zhang Yunhao, then who is it?

  Hao Ge, brother, I've finally found you! You'll never be exposed to the wilderness again! I'm so excited, I threw away the attack from just now and swam to the shore with one breath. I crawled to Zhang Yun's side and saw that his right face was swollen and red, his eyes tightly closed, indeed a pitiful look of an unfortunate death.

  I'm heartbroken and can't believe he's really gone. Although we haven't known each other for long, we hit it off immediately, like brothers. No one got along with me like him. Even though his fortune-telling had some deceitful nature to it, he wasn't a bad person at heart - straightforward, passionate, humorous, and loved helping others. He was a good kid. My heart has never been so heavy, and I couldn't help but shed tears. I pushed Zhang Junhao again and called out his name several times, but there was no response. I tentatively placed my hand in front of his nose to feel for breath...

  He's really dead...

  "Hao Ge, didn't you say you'd be my assistant? Didn't you say we'd be ghost doctors together? Why did you leave so early?" I grabbed his arm and pulled it upwards with force, shouting loudly: "Get up for me! You can't die!"

  At this moment, a splash of water came from the pond. I hastily put down Zhang Yunhao and looked into the water. Subconsciously, I picked up a stone, and with a splash, a human head emerged from the water. Just as I was about to strike it with the stone, I heard that person loudly shouting: "It's me!"

  What's up?

  I quickly withdrew my hand and asked her how she came down. Wu Lele swam to the shore, shaking her hair while saying: "Dead little knife, do you want to murder me?" My heart was heavy, I didn't have the mood to joke with her, so I asked her again how she came down. She said that since I hadn't gone up for a long time, she was worried that I was in danger, so she came down to take a look. As I looked at Zhang Junhao on the ground, my heart felt another pang of sadness.

  Wu Lele also saw Zhang Yunhao, and exclaimed: "Dead?" Then she squatted down and stretched out her hand to feel his nose, stood up silently, looked around, and said: "This place is really a different world."

  It's been a while, and I've only been focusing on my sorrow. I neglected to observe the environment here. When Wu Lele said this, I finally noticed that it was similar to what Zhang Yunhao said earlier. The shore is sloping, like a stone being cut at an angle, about 3 meters long. The surface is covered with stones of various sizes, connected by a large black stone. In the middle of the black stone, there is a small hole about 1 meter high and 0.5 meters wide.

  I remember Zhang Yunhao said that last time he came here with Niu Niu, they saw Zhong Ling'er, could it be that they saw her in that small cave? And the person who attacked me on the shore just now probably also went into that cave.

  Wu Lele also discovered the entrance to the cave, walked over, held up his flashlight and shone it inside, staring ahead without saying a word. I was curious and walked over, thinking that this entrance must be very deep, but unexpectedly, with just one flash of light, it turned out to be quite shallow, only about half a meter in. But upon closer inspection, the entrance seemed to have been blocked by several large stones.

  "There must be a way in here," Wu Lele said: "It's highly likely to be man-made." Then he looked at me and asked, "Do you want to go in and take a look?"

  If it were in the past, I would have to go in and investigate thoroughly, but now that Zhang Yunhao is dead, what mood do I have to go on an adventure?

  "Not going, let's get Brother Hao up first." My heart was extremely heavy, I turned around and shone the flashlight at Zhang Junhao's body, but suddenly felt something was off, Zhang Junhao's body was gone!

  "Brother Hao!" My heart sank, and I quickly shone a flashlight around me.

  Zhang Yunhao is dead, how can his body disappear? Did he fake his own death?

  Wu Lele was puzzled, asking me what's wrong. I said Zhang Hao is gone. Wu Lele said "No way, did he come back to life?" and walked with me in the same direction towards where Zhang Hao was lying just now.

  "There!" we both shouted at the same time, but saw that Zhang Yunhao had actually arrived at the water's edge and was slowly sliding into the water, with his legs already in the water up to his knees!

  I took a step forward, grabbed Zhang Yunhao's arm and pulled him up, but felt a strong force pulling him into the water. Wu Lele also rushed over, we each held one arm, and together pulled Zhang Yunhao onto the shore. Only then did we discover that a thick aquatic plant was tied around Zhang Yunhao's right leg, as if something underwater had grabbed the other end of the plant and was pulling Zhang Yunhao down into the water.

  "Hold on!" I released Zhang Junhao's arm and quickly grabbed the water grass, feeling an extremely strong force at the other end of the water grass. I tried to break the water grass, but found it was very resilient and wouldn't break without a knife. In desperation, I held tight to the water grass and pulled upwards, wanting to see what kind of monster was on the other end.

  We pulled for half a day, but couldn't pull up even an inch, and the other side couldn't pull the water grass down any further either. For a moment, we were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war.

  Wu Lele got impatient and said she wanted to go into the water to take a look, I hastily stopped her, with the monster's strength being so great in the water, it was highly likely that it was an evil spirit in the water, at this time going into the water wasn't seeking death?

  While the water grass on the other end still had a strong pulling force, if this stalemate continued, we would definitely be at a disadvantage. I asked Wu Lele to find a sharp stone and cut off the water grass. Wu Lele put down Zhang Junhao, and our strength was reduced by half. I was slightly careless, and I was pulled down several points, almost falling into the water. I was furious, and with my foot on a large stone, I suddenly pulled the water grass upwards. Suddenly, I found that the opponent's strength had decreased significantly. I was overjoyed, thinking that the opponent's strength had been exhausted. Taking advantage of this, I used force to pull upwards again, and this time it was very easy. It seemed that we could finally pull out the monster from the water.