Xie Yixiang also didn't know if Ye Dinggong and Feng Changfeng had sent people to search for the wreck before, but in the current situation, it was obvious that the wreck had not been salvaged from the bottom of the lake. She surfaced and breathed a sigh of relief, and sank to the bottom of the lake again to inspect the wreck, but after a few moments, she found that the bottom of the wreck, which had overturned sideways, had seven or eight round holes the size of bowls on it, and the edges of each hole were smooth and neat, and it was clearly chiseled out with a sharp weapon.

Seeing these circular holes, Xie Yixiang was immediately relieved. It is no wonder that the boat will sink mysteriously in the calm Taihu Lake, but it turned out that it encountered the usual tricks of water thieves, and was scuttled through the bottom of the boat in the water.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly a strange sound came from the water, Xie Yixiang was slightly stunned, and hurriedly listened carefully, and then realized that the sound was actually from the wreck in front of him. She could tell it more closely, it was a bit like the movement of a person or animal when they were eating, and there was not only the sound of chewing, but also the faint sound of teeth gnawing on bones or hard objects.

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but be very curious, could it be that there were big fish similar to sea sharks in the depths of this Taihu Lake, or maybe there were some snake and water monsters? She peeked through the hole dug out of the bottom of the boat, but there was only a black hole, and she couldn't see why. Hearing the strange sound continue to emanate from the wreck, she had to row her arms around the hull to the other side of the cabin, and then pricked up her ears, but the strange sound was gone.

Xie Yixiang was more and more surprised, and even had a trace of inexplicable fear. However, after thinking about it, the shipwreck accident was not only the work of the Shui Kou, but also the murderous act of the Emei Sword Sect, so what was there to be afraid of? Besides, he had come tonight to investigate the case, and since he had already come, of course he had to find out. So she took it from her mouth, grasped the handle of the knife in her right hand, swam boldly to the front of the cabin, and pulled the closed hatch open, but saw that there were only some scattered tables, chairs, pots and cups in the cabin, which had already been soaked in the lake water, and there was nothing unusual, but there was a door panel leading to the bottom in the depths of the cabin, and it was clear that there was another layer under the cabin.

At this time, Xie Yixiang's breath was about to run out again, so she had to surface to breathe, gasp for breath in the moonlight, and then dive to the wreck at the bottom of the lake again. This time she moved very lightly, and quietly swam to the door of the cabin, and sure enough, there was another strange sound coming from inside, which was from the second floor down the cabin. This time, she was determined to find out the source of the sound, so she swam slowly into the cabin and pulled open the door panel that led to the lower floor.

As the door panel opened, I saw a black figure suddenly burst out from the cabin below, rushing towards him in the dark, just facing Xie Yixiang face to face. In a panic, Xie Yixiang raised her eyes to see that in front of her was a swollen man's face, his whole face was pale and pale, and he stared at two big round eyes.

Xie Yixiang's surprise was not trivial, and she subconsciously stretched out her legs, and the whole person immediately shot backwards, and the vest hit the inner wall of the cabin hard. But I saw that the man did not move, just quietly suspended in the lake water in the cabin, and then looked closely, this man was obviously no longer alive, just a drowning corpse, judging from the clothes on his body, but the boatman and sailor who can be seen everywhere on the Taihu Lake.

She immediately breathed a sigh of relief, remembering that the people from Xuanwu Feihuamen had said that the corpses floating on the water after the shipwreck yesterday, the fifteen medical officers and the sailors on the ship, a total of nineteen corpses. Now it seems that there is clearly a sailor's body on this ship, but because he was on the second floor below the cabin at the time of the accident, the body did not surface, and he was not bumped into it until this moment, and I don't know if Ye Dinggong and Feng Changfeng's people did not search carefully when they salvaged it, or they did not send people into the water to salvage it at all.

Seeing that it was just a false alarm, Xie Yixiang dragged the sailor's corpse aside and dived through the open door to the second cabin. Unexpectedly, when the moonlight reached here, the light was already very small, and it was almost impossible to see the shape of the cabin, and I could only vaguely distinguish that there were large and small sacks all around, but they were the goods carried on the ship. Recall that Ye Dinggong once said that in addition to the fifteen medical officers, the imperial court also allocated a large number of medicinal materials to send them this time, and I think that these goods also sank to the bottom of the lake with the ships.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang groped around, but found nothing, so she was ready to surface again for ventilation. She returned the way she came, but the door had been closed again, and she could neither be pushed nor opened, and she was locked in the second cabin. In the panic, she thought for a moment, and suddenly felt a creep, and secretly scolded herself for being confused. You must know that you had entered the cabin in search of a strange noise, but since the sailor's body emerged from the second floor of the cabin, the sound stopped abruptly and was never heard again. Now that I think about it, whether it was to make the sound of Shicai or to re-lock the door to the second floor of the cabin, I am afraid that it was the corpse of the sailor who did it - it was not a drowning "corpse" at all, it was clearly a living person!

With this delay, Xie Yixiang's breath of breath was about to run out, but she was in danger. But how could the cabin of a sunken ship trap herself, who knew the nature of the water? She swam straight to the bulkhead near the stern, and with a random chop in her hand, she immediately made a hole in the hull, and the whole person got out of the hole, and left the wreck. Then she was about to surface to breathe, but suddenly a flower appeared in front of her, and a stiff figure slowly rose from the lush aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake without warning, and suspended motionless in front of Xie Yixiang, with a white and swollen face, and two eyes bulging and round, it was the sailor's corpse in the cabin just now.

Xie Yixiang secretly screamed that it was not good, this "corpse" was obviously in the cabin, and it appeared here in a blink of an eye, which shows that his guess is correct, this is by no means a dead thing, but a master who is proficient in water is pretending to be a ghost, maybe it is one of the so-called "ghosts of Taihu Lake". At this time, the breath in her chest and abdomen had been completely spit out, only to feel that the lake was like a copper wall, as if she wanted to squeeze herself into a piece of tissue paper, in a hurry, she did not dare to have the slightest delay, her hand broke out of the water, and the blade fell, right in the chest of the "corpse".

Seeing that she had succeeded with a knife, but the other party did not dodge or dodge, and did not react at all, Xie Yixiang was a little surprised, could it be that the man dressed as a sailor was really just a corpse? Who knew that she hadn't had time to think about it, but she listened to the "sneer" There was a long sound, as if something was leaking, and then a large stream of blood gushed out from the wound on the corpse's chest, dyeing all the lake in front of her into a strange blood-red color along the chaos;

Faced with the scene in front of her, Xie Yixiang could be said to be frightened in her heart, exhausted in her chest, and nauseated in her abdomen, and was almost poured into her nose by the lake water. At the moment of life and death, she didn't care about it, and kicked her feet hard to the bottom of the lake, saying that she had to desperately rush out of the lake to breathe, so that she could have a glimmer of life. However, I don't know if she was unlucky, she was destined to be buried in this Taihu Lake, or if there was someone or something unclean in secret, her right ankle was tightly entangled by a few aquatic plants, no matter how hard she exerted, she couldn't break free, and she was immediately dragged to the bottom of the lake.

In this way, Xie Yixiang, who was already at the end of her rope, could no longer hold back the embarrassment of running out of breath, opened her mouth and coughed a few times, and the blood-red lake water poured straight into her mouth and nose with a salty smell. For a while, Xie Yixiang waved her limbs desperately, struggling with the last bit of strength, but after a while, the whole person finally quieted down, and like the corpse of the sailor not far away, it was suspended motionless at the bottom of Taihu Lake.