The talisman begged for by the Land Temple deceived Uncle Li, but I couldn't fool myself. If something evil suddenly appears here, I'm afraid my life will be tied here. Maybe I'll be the new water zombie here!

The more I thought about it, the more scared I became.

Just then, I heard a "grunt", as if someone had taken a sip of water. I hurriedly looked around, thinking it was the sound of something horrible about. But after a glance, I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

"Goo-"

The voice rang out again.

This time I found the source of the sound. The sound came from between the three stone pillars. So, I swam to the middle of the pillar and saw the mud in the middle of the pillar stirring, like a man's chest rising and falling with breath.

Could it be that the horrible thing is hiding in the mud?

I remembered how the mountain daddy turned into a water ghost in the past. Someone once wanted to drain a pond with water spirits to catch water ghosts, but my grandfather said that even if the pond dries up, water ghosts cannot be easily caught. It can lurk in the mud like some fish.

The silt is undulating, but there is no muddy water around. There are some snowflake-like marks on the mud, which looks pretty good at first glance. The imprint undulated, but did not split. If the impression is on the mud, it should crack when the mud bulges and squeeze when it softens.

Curious, I swam towards the undulating silt.

When the light of the flashlight shone on those weird marks, my scalp went numb!

That's not an imprint at all! It's stacks of fish bones! Some of the bones are mutilated, and some of the bones are so complete that I don't know how many overlap there are. There are obviously living creatures underneath the bones, and it is the breath of the living creatures that causes the bones to rise and fall.

I was shocked that the fish in the pond must have been eaten by something under the bones.

It happened suddenly, and with many people coming to find trouble, Li Yu definitely didn't have time to go into the water to find out the truth, so the culprit was still at ease underwater.

The chains on the stone pillars hung down from the top like vines, and the lowest end was submerged in fish bones. Every time the bones undulated, the chains tightened a little tighter. When you look at it from a distance, you can't see these subtle changes at all, but you can see it clearly when you get closer. In this way, the chains are connected to the living creatures beneath the fish bones.

I approached the stone pillar, grabbed the chain lightly, and then suddenly pulled it out.

The fish bones were suddenly rushed up from the bottom to the top by an undercurrent, and the fish bones exploded in the water like fireworks. A black shadow sprung out of the bottom of the fishbone and burst into front of my eyes!

I hurried back.

Thankfully, the three chains were about the same length, and by the time there was still room for the left and right chains, the chains behind the shadow had been straightened. It couldn't get any closer to me. But the rolling eyes of the dead fish still terrified me. The face was as chapped as the dirt of the dry season, and the open mouth had a mouthful of dark teeth, as if it had been smoked from too much smoke. There are also remnants of fish flesh and scales between the teeth. Even with the water, I still smelled a strong fishy stench, and my stomach churned, and I almost threw up.

Its hands and feet were chained, and I don't know if it was diving down like a water zombie to lock itself up, or if someone had imprisoned an innocent person in a similar way since I left last time.