Chapter 50: Tyrant Water Leech

  I heard a voice like thunder in my mind: "Do you want to cross the river?"

  I shuddered all over and replied in a daze: "To cross the river."

  Lao San was still puzzled: "Second Brother, who are you talking to?" I didn't have time to deal with him either.

  The boat moved slowly, and the others looked at me in surprise. As the boat sailed, that person seemed to be constantly yawning, "Are you sleepy?" I tried to make conversation with him.

  The voice didn't speak again until half a day later. "Every day I have to ferry many people across the river." The voice sounded very young, but it was also very tired.

  "A lot of people? Do many people come here every day?" I was a bit surprised.

  "It's rare to find someone like you, and the young man behind you is even more exceptional, a once-in-a-thousand-years talent. Usually, they're just mindless zombies or malevolent spirits." The voice undulated in his ear.

  "Do you know Wu Zihan?"

  That voice chuckled and said, "I'm not worthy of him."

  "You just said that the cargo was a bunch of dead bodies, are you referring to the Blue Devils?" I waited for half a day, but the voice didn't respond. The boat slowly approached the opposite bank. Unintentionally, I glanced at the river water and found that something seemed to be moving under the water, but it was unclear.

  "What's on the other side of the river, do you know?" I asked tentatively again.

  "That voice yawned: 'I don't know about that, my activity range is limited to this river, you're almost there, and my work will be over soon.'"

  "Is it over? I still have a few friends on the other side, can't you bring them together?"

  That voice suddenly became very sorrowful and said in a low tone, "This is the rule, I am also helpless. I can take you two across because you haven't entered the Mirror Array yet."

  "Mirror Array? Didn't that already break?" I thought the Mirror Array had been broken since I killed the Mirror Person, could it still be working?

  "Haha - if it were that easy, would it be called the Great Dry Sky Formation? Take care of yourself." The voice coldly laughed once.

  At this moment, the boat had already docked, and I carried Wu Zihan ashore with a staggering gait. Just as I was about to call the boat back, it suddenly sank into the river bottom by itself and disappeared without a trace.

  Lao San on the opposite bank of the river cursed loudly: "Damn it, why did this boat sink by itself? Second brother, what's going on?"

  "I don't know either," I shouted loudly towards the opposite bank, "the boat said you guys have fallen into a mirror array and won't let you pass."

  Yang Cangcang pinched her waist and said angrily: "It's really a dog's eye looking down on people, oh no, it's a dog boat looking down on people, I don't even want to sit in it."

  Lao San took off his clothes and put them in the bag, then stretched on the shore and said to us: "That's it, I'm going to swim over." After warming up, he jumped into the river with a "splash".

  I suddenly remembered that I seemed to see something in the river on the boat earlier, and immediately shouted: "Old three, be careful, there seems to be something in this river."

  Lao San was in the river and didn't say a word, desperately thrashing about as if something had wrapped itself around him. He tried to swim with all his might, but no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move from the spot.

  Karamay exclaimed: "There's something wrong with this water, I'll dive in and rescue Ah Long."

  He had just stepped into the water with one foot when Fu Ma stopped him: "Wait, Ah Long's voice said it wasn't that something grabbed his foot, but rather there were many things in the water biting him, causing him to lose strength."

  Xiao Lao hastily ran to the water's edge, where a Karamay stick was scooping back and forth in the water. He shouted loudly: "Oh no! The water is full of leeches!"

  As soon as Xiao Lao said that, I bent down to take a look and saw that the surface of the water was covered with a layer of black, dense, and numerous leeches. Leeches are commonly known as "ants". Lao San was already in a desperate situation in the water, while the people on the shore were anxiously running around, not knowing what to do. Yang Cangcang said: "I'll go down, this thing shouldn't like the blood of the Xuan clan, right?"

  Yang Cangcang jumped into the water, and Lao San was almost exhausted. The leeches in the river didn't seem to have dispersed, but they also didn't harm Yang Cangcang. She grabbed hold of Lao San and swam towards the shore with all her might. Fortunately, Lao San hadn't swum too far away, and when Yang Cangcang was close to the shore, Fu Ma and Kelamayi pulled Lao San onto dry land together.

  Seeing Lao San safely ashore, I also breathed a sigh of relief on the other side of the river. The crowd looked at Lao San and couldn't help but tremble all over, speechless. His bare upper body was densely covered with leeches, almost invisible to his original skin color. At this moment, he was also pale, probably exhausted from using up all his strength, and seeing himself safely ashore, he fainted.

  Yang Cangcang didn't have anything serious, but after all she was a girl, and earlier pulling Lao San to the shore had consumed quite some physical strength. Panting, she said: "A Long, what should we do?"

  Xiao Lao immediately chimed in, "This thing can't be pulled hard, Kalamayi, let's do it together, hurry up and deal with these leeches, otherwise I'm afraid Ah Long won't be able to take it. You use wine, I'll use a lighter to burn them, I have hemostatic medicine in my bag, apply it to him." Kalamayi nodded, Xiao Lao blew on the lighter and scorched the leeches, which then fell off his body. Kalamayi quickly disinfected with wine and applied the hemostatic medicine.

  Xiao Lao's movements were very skilled, like an old doctor. After a while, the leeches on Lao San's body had almost all been removed. Xiao Lao simply bandaged Lao San and he gradually came to, his body just a bit weak.

  Karamay said irritably: "How can we get across this river? Swimming is out of the question now."

  Suddenly, I found that several black shadows floated from the far side of the river. It was too dark in front, and I couldn't see very clearly. I immediately shouted loudly: "You guys look, it seems like there's something on the other side of the river, be careful."

  They too looked in the direction I was talking about, occasionally shining their flashlights over there to get a clearer look. The dark shadow got closer and closer, vaguely resembling a human figure. Could it be someone who drowned in the river? As I was still pondering this, when it approached, I suddenly stared with my eyes wide open.

  There were five corpses floating on the river, namely Kelamayi, Yang Canchan, Lao San, Fu Ma and Xiao Lao. They all had their eyes open, with their facial expressions twisted to the extreme. The people on the opposite bank were also stunned into a daze.

  "This... when did this old man die?" Xiao Lao said in disbelief.

  "Why are our corpses appearing on the river? Are some of us fake?" Yang Cangcang's words made everyone's face turn pale, and now how can we distinguish between true and false.

  "That Li Long on the river is too ugly, my face can actually be twisted like that." Lao San was hurt, but he couldn't forget to mock him.

  Fu Ma snapped his fingers and said, "Didn't Jun Yang just say that this ship couldn't withstand us because it was trapped in the Mirror Array? Are these few people the mirror people that Jun Yang killed at Tianji Old Man's place?"

  "My god, Second Brother, what did you do to my mirror image? Why is his face twisted like that? Was he exploded by a chrysanthemum?" The Third Brother somehow got another burst of energy.

  Yang Cangcang gave him a white eye: "You, go and rest on one side for Lao Niang." Old Three "oh" ed and walked away with a sulk. I couldn't help but laugh on the other side of the river, and had the mood to tease him, it seems that Old Three's injury wasn't serious after all.

  Xiao Lao suddenly turned his head to examine the stone tablet next to the pavilion, staring blankly for a few minutes, and said to everyone: "Earlier, Cang Cang said that the name of this pavilion is called Zidu Pavilion, isn't it obvious? It's telling us to ferry ourselves, there are five of our corpses on this river, if I'm not mistaken..." Xiao Lao trailed off.

  "You're not going to make us cross the river on our own corpses, are you?" Old Three's face was covered in cold sweat, and it was unclear whether he was scared or if his wound hurt.

  "The old man is indeed of this mind"

  "Shan shan, or else you try first? Here only you are not afraid of leeches." Karamay said tentatively.

  Yang Cangcang didn't think much and nodded casually, they stood on the shore, waiting for the corpse to drift back again. After a while, the five black shadows in the distance slowly drifted over, Yang Cangcang waited for the right moment, when it was closest, she jumped onto the corpse, and jumped up, mischievously jumping twice on the mirror person's corpse, shouting loudly: "You guys come quickly, this corpse is hard, really can carry us across."

  Karamay, Xiao Lao, Lao San and Fu Ma also jumped onto their own mirror corpses upon seeing this scene. Xiao Lao said with satisfaction: "Indeed, old man's analysis was correct."

  As they were about to reach the shore where I was, I was preparing to go down and meet them. Suddenly, a huge wave surged up in the river, washing many leeches onto the shore. They quickly grabbed hold of the corpse, but Old Three lost his balance and fell directly on top of it. His face was pressed against the corpse's ferocious-looking face, which had its tongue sticking out halfway. This scared Old Three so much that he hastily stood up.

  In the nearby river, a huge leech suddenly jumped out, almost stunning us all. The leech was as big as a sperm whale's head, and I even doubted whether I had seen it wrong. Its whole body was pitch black, about two meters long, flat, and at first glance, it looked like a snake. The leech opened its big mouth, and the flat body below was covered with tentacles, looking extremely disgusting.

  Lao San almost cried out loud, shouting: "Oh no! This is an ancestor of leeches!"

  Xiao Lao was now closest to the shore, he was scared and covered in cold sweat, desperately crawling towards the shore. But then, the mirror image corpse suddenly came back to life, biting Xiao Lao's leg. Xiao Lao kicked it with all his might, and the mirror image corpse sank into the river. I helped pull Xiao Lao onto the shore, where he wiped away his sweat and rolled up his pant legs to take a look. There was no sign of injury whatsoever, and his expression immediately turned gloomy.

  "Watch out for the corpses under your feet." I shouted loudly.

  Others were still far from the shore, their attention was drawn to that giant leech, and they didn't have time to pay attention to this side. The giant leech stretched out its tentacles towards Lao San, who, despite being injured, reacted quickly and hurriedly pulled out his machete to cut them off. The leech then stretched out its tentacles towards Kelamayi, who used a stick to block them, and actually managed to pull the leech's tentacles down. The leech became anxious and stretched out multiple tentacles.

  Karamay thought for a moment and said: "I have explosives in my bag. If we want to stay alive, we must blow it up."