“There’s another one?! Who?!”
Zhang Qi Ling’s words made everyone present instantly tense again.
“One, two, three, four, five.”
Wu Xie directly started counting, finally finding that the number of people on his boat was correct, and then said: “Fatty, how many are on your side?”
“There are only three people on this boat, if someone is missing, Fatty wouldn’t...”
Wang Pangzi’s words were interrupted by Ah Ning: “Lin Chuan, is gone.”
“Linzi!”
Wang Pangzi was taken aback when he heard this, then immediately reacted and was about to go to the handle at the stern of the boat to turn it around.
“Fatty, what are you doing?!”
Ah Ning immediately stopped him.
“Go back and get him!”
“Fatty doesn’t believe that the big guy, a living person, can disappear out of thin air!”
Wang Pangzi shouted.
“Fatty, it’s no use.”
“This waterway is getting narrower, and it’s downstream, we can’t go back.”
“To get out alive now, we can only keep going forward.”
Pan Zi explained beside him.
“Damn!”
Wang Pangzi knew that what the other person said was reasonable, and with no choice, he could only curse.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
Perhaps Wang Pangzi’s movement disturbed something in the water below.
The black shadow began to riot, the entire water surface was like boiling water, and something kept jumping out of the water.
“What... what are those things?”
The sudden change made Wu Xie’s heart rise to his throat.
“Little Three Ye, be careful.”
Fortunately, Pan Zi was always protecting him.
As soon as the words left his mouth, it happened.
Zhang Qi Ling, sitting at the bow of the boat, stretched out two long fingers and plunged them into the water.
The next second, a bug the size of a large river crab was taken out of the water in his hand, and finally thrown on the deck.
The bug, with dozens of legs, kept struggling.
It looked very strange, quite creepy.
Wu Xie looked at the pitch-black thing and exclaimed: “This is, Dragon Shrimp? But it’s too big, right?”
Wang Pangzi could barely see it from across the boat.
Seeing the appearance of the thing, his heart trembled.
“Damn, such a big bug, and so many of them.”
“Linzi, Fatty can only burn some paper money for you.”
In his heart, if Linzi fell into the water, he might be eaten by these things so that not even his bones would be left.
Like the piranhas in the Animal World.
A chicken is put down, and in less than a minute, only bones are left.
The things in this water must be much more terrifying than those piranhas.
Wu San Sheng frowned and said: “This is not Dragon Shrimp, it’s Corpse Beetle.”
Corpse Beetle?!
Some of the people present had never heard of this term before.
They looked puzzled.
Pan Zi explained: “Corpse Beetles specialize in eating decaying flesh, they are especially common wherever there are dead things. They eat well and grow big, it seems that there must be a mass grave upstream, and it’s definitely not small.”
Wang Pangzi asked: “Do these Corpse Beetles eat living people too?”
Wu San Sheng nodded, his face grim, and he instructed: “Everyone be careful, don’t fall down.”
After speaking, he asked again: “Little Brother, what should we do now?”
Zhang Qi Ling waved his hand, signaling him not to speak, as if he was carefully observing something.
“They, are not coming for us, they are running away.”
“There’s something, ahead.”
As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the corner ahead.
Running away?!
What kind of thing makes a group of Corpse Beetles, so numerous, afraid?
And what exactly is at the corner ahead?!”
“Buzz~ Buzz~ Buzz~”
The boat slowly moved forward with the current.
Everyone could hear a light jingle of bells in their ears.
Zhang Qi Ling, sitting at the bow of the boat, frowned slightly.
He seemed to have heard this sound somewhere.
Bronze Bells?!
Almost instantly, these words popped into his mind.
The sound made by these bells.
Can make people hallucinate.
Severe ones can drain people’s minds and cause them to die on the spot!
But
Why, are there any here?!
At this point, Zhang Qi Ling’s brows became even tighter.
He also became more worried about what was beyond the corner.
“Ah...”
Those who accompanied him, their faces began to show expressions of pain, and everything in front of them began to become blurred.
“Linzi, is that you, you damn son of a gun didn’t die?!”
In a daze, Fatty seemed to see Lin Chuan still sitting beside him.
“Boss, I’ll definitely get the thing back for you.”
Ah Ning also started talking to herself.
“Swish!”
Wu Xie even stood up, looking ahead with vacant eyes.
Everyone’s reactions.
All showed the unusual nature of this sound.
“Wu Xie!”
Wu San Sheng anxiously called out to his nephew.
They had been panning for gold for decades.
Wu San Sheng and Pan Zi had stronger willpower.
They were not affected by the hallucinations.
But even so.
The sound became increasingly piercing, making it impossible for them to bear.
But no matter how much he called and pulled, Wu Xie had no reaction at all, as if he had lost his soul.
Zhang Qi Ling spoke, reminding him: “The sound is wrong, cover your ears.”
But the other party still didn’t move. Seeing that his reminder had no effect.
Zhang Qi Ling directly got up and kicked Wu Xie into the water.
Wu San Sheng exclaimed: “Little Brother, are you crazy?!”
That was his only nephew.
There were so many Corpse Beetles in the water, it was possible that he would be reduced to nothing but bones.
“This is the only way to make him sober up, and it can isolate this strange sound.”
Zhang Qi Ling calmly explained.
And the rest.
He didn’t spare them either, kicking each one into the water.
Underwater, it can isolate the sound and make people sober up.
Indeed, everyone woke up quickly.
At the same time, they all felt a lot of tearing pain.
“Ah!!!”
“What the hell! Don’t bite Fatty!”
“Third Uncle! Save me!”
“Get away!”
Screams echoed through the cave.
The commotion caused by the struggle attracted all the nearby Corpse Beetles.
They swarmed onto the bodies of those who fell into the water.
They were madly tearing at them.
Blood instantly stained the water red.
Zhang Qi Ling also jumped into the water at this moment, grabbed Wu Xie who had fallen into the water with one hand, and threw him onto the boat.
The rest of them were all skilled fighters.
After struggling with all their might, they all managed to climb onto the boat with their own abilities.
Only Wang Pangzi was struggling at the edge of the boat, unable to climb up for a long time.
“Hey, Little Brother, give me a hand too.”
“Damn it! If you bite Fatty’s butt again, Fatty will fart and stink you to death!”
Just as Zhang Qi Ling was about to go over.
Something suddenly fell from above and hit the water heavily, floating to Wang Pangzi’s side.
It was a corpse!
“Damn it!”
“Fatty’s been so unlucky today, it’s like a coal shop opened in his house!”
“It’s never ending!”
When Wang Pangzi saw the situation beside him, he was instantly startled, and he didn’t know where he got his strength.
He actually flipped onto the boat in one go!
“It’s the guide!”
Ah Ning exclaimed in surprise, discovering that the corpse floating on the water was the old man who had led them here.
Only now, it was a corpse.
Her words attracted everyone’s attention.
“His neck is broken.”
Wu San Sheng was sharp-eyed, and saw it at a glance.
But before he could look any further.
The corpse was devoured by countless Corpse Beetles, splashing up a lot of water.
In less than ten seconds, it was completely gone.
“This… there’s really nothing left.”
Pan Zi looked at the wound on his chest, which had been bitten by the Corpse Beetles when he fell into the water, and he felt a chill down his spine.
If he had stayed there for a few more seconds, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
“See if you can find the bodies of the other two?”
Wu San Sheng asked.
In his heart, he had already assumed that the other two had met the same fate.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Chuan’s voice came from above the cave.
“Don’t worry, the boatman is here.”
“As for me, I’m not that easy to kill.”