314: Chapter 308: Reveal Oneself 314: Chapter 308: Reveal Oneself The shadowy figure was hidden under the water.
Flames burned on the surface of the water, but it did not surface; it merely floated silently in the water.
Water could refract light, and with the influence of the flames, even Chen Hai, who had good eyesight, found it difficult to see clearly what exactly that thing looked like!
If his Divine Soul had departed from his body and entered directly into the water, he would have no problem seeing clearly what the thing really looked like.
However, to err on the side of caution, Chen Hai did not do so.
After all, the last time he helped Ye Cheng and the others to deal with the Green-haired Zombie, it could detect the existence of the Divine Soul and truly cause damage to it.
Now, the thing in Black Stone Reservoir had some connection with that Green-haired Zombie and the Fierce Blade.
Therefore, there was a high chance it could also cause some psychic damage to a Divine Soul.
Seeing that the monster persistently stayed submerged.
Chen Hai frowned, stretched out his hand, and with a thought, the raging flames burning on the surface of the water a few meters in front of him were extinguished in an instant, dissolving into nothingness.
Without the interference of the flames, although the monster still had not truly emerged from the water,
its position was now very close to the water’s surface.
It was not until then that Chen Hai could finally get a rough idea of what the monster looked like.
The thing had messy hair like straw, and its body was roughly around one meter eighty in height.
Its clothes were so tattered that only a few strips of fabric remained, still hanging from the lower part of its body.
Due to prolonged submersion in the water, its body had become grossly swollen, giving it the appearance of being enormous.
There were many places on its rotten flesh where bones could already be seen.
Such a monster, though it still barely maintained a human shape, could no longer be called human.
If a person with a weaker resolve stood here, just glancing a few times at the monster would surely make them vomit incessantly, not leaving even their last meal from the previous night untouched.
Even worse, some might not even need the monster to do anything and would have their heads lolling to the side and faint from fright.
Even Chen Hai himself felt utterly disgusted upon seeing the gruesome appearance of that ghastly thing.
Only, he neither vomited nor fainted.
A few meters behind him, Wei Fang, who was dragging Taoist Wang, and the others prepared to move farther away.
One of them, without intending to, turned his head back and glanced at the area of water in front of Chen Hai.
“Holy shit, what the hell is that?”
“Zombie?
Doesn’t seem like it.
Undead creature?
It does look a bit similar.”
“But how could that thing live in the water?
And why does it appear here at our Black Stone Reservoir?”
…
At his outburst of shock, his face had already turned bloodless with fright.
His legs went weak, and he found it difficult to move.
His whole body was uncontrollably shaking.
Because of his outcry, the others around him also noticed the presence in the water not far away.
Even though they knew that Black Stone Reservoir was cursed and that several people had already died,
these people still dared to come here to work for Wei Zhidong, which meant they certainly had some courage.
However, at the sight of that terrifying monster in the water, none of them could maintain their composure any longer.
They nearly tumbled and scrambled away, dragging the still dazed Taoist Wang with them; it was only after reaching a spot ten or twenty meters away, where Wei Zhidong was, that they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Fang, that thing in the water finally showed itself?”
“What exactly does that thing look like?
What scared you guys, a bunch of grown men, to such a state?”
As the saying goes, ‘a child of wealth will not venture into a dangerous hall,’ Wei Zhidong did not go near the reservoir’s bank beneath the willow trees, and only stood nearly twenty meters away, watching from a distance.
He was certainly considering safety first.
From his position, he naturally couldn’t see clearly the thing that was still in the water and had not surfaced yet.
Seeing his nephew Wei Fang and several of his men with their panic-stricken, pale faces no longer showing much color, he asked out of curiosity.
“Uncle, that thing in the water, it doesn’t look like a living person, but rather like a corpse…”
Wei Fang was still somewhat unsettled, but in response to his uncle Wei Zhidong’s question, he responded immediately.
“A thing that looks like a corpse soaking in the water?”
“Fang, what is there to be afraid of?
Are you sure that thing is alive?”
“Some unscrupulous people like to throw plastic mannequins or those inflatable silicone dolls into the water!”
“If it turns out you guys made a big mistake and caused a huge blunder…”
Giving his nephew a contemptuous eye-roll, Wei Zhidong chuckled and said.
Just last month, near the river by his residential complex, someone called the police to report a body floating in the river…
But what was the result?
When the police arrived and fished out the supposed corpse, they found it was simply an obviously used, deflated doll.
Because of this incident, the man who reported it to the police almost became a laughingstock, and those in the neighborhood, whenever they ran into him, would always make fun of him a bit.
“What exactly is that thing, dead or alive?” Wei Fang was taken aback as he and the others around him looked at each other in consternation.
Just a moment ago, both Wei Fang and the others were merely caught by the gruesome and disgusting appearance of that thing with a single glance!
Apart from being sure that the thing was suspended in water close to the water’s surface, they really hadn’t noticed whether it was dead or alive, or if it had moved in the water at all.
“Over here with Taoist Wang…” being a crafty one, he had already gleaned the answer to the question from the expressions of the people around Wei Fang.
He didn’t continue to press on the question, to spare the few in front of him any embarrassment.
Wei Zhidong gave a light smile, steering the conversation towards Taoist Wang.
“Uncle, it seems like Taoist Wang has been bewitched by some presence!”
“Chen…
Master Chen had instructed us to use child’s urine, which should be able to awaken him!” Wei Fang hurriedly responded.
“Compared with Master Chen, Taoist Wang’s skills are, after all, somewhat lacking!”
“No matter what you just saw, whether it really is the unknown presence in Black Stone Reservoir.”
“For us, the priority is to wake Taoist Wang up first!” Wei Zhidong sighed and said.
Earlier on, he had regarded Taoist Wang as the key support in resolving the situation at the reservoir.
Although at the moment, Taoist Wang’s performance was somewhat poor, causing Wei Zhidong some disappointment.
But to say that Taoist Wang had no ability whatsoever, just a charlatan, he certainly found it difficult to believe and hard to accept!
“Uncle, I broke my virginity at sixteen, where would I get child’s urine?”
“Boss, my little devil at home can already fetch soy sauce; I’m definitely no child, am I?”
“Yeah, boss, as for us guys here, we really can’t produce any child’s urine!”
…
Wei Fang and the others looked at each other in dismay.
They wanted to follow Wei Zhidong’s orders to wake Taoist Wang up, but even a skilled cook can’t make a meal without rice!
“You guys!
Why are you so rigid in doing things, don’t you know about improvising a little?”
“If it’s not from a child, what then?
Don’t you know to use the ordinary first as a temporary measure, to make do for a bit?”
“Even if it doesn’t work, at least, it’s better than just staring, doing nothing, right?”
“What if we’re lucky, and accidentally pour and wake Taoist Wang up?”
Dissatisfied, Wei Zhidong glared at Wei Fang and the others, huffing as he spoke.
“Boss is absolutely right, I ate with Taoist Wang earlier, drank too much beer; I’ve been holding it in for half a day!”
“I, Zhang, may not be a child, but these past few days I’ve been a bit fiery, and the goods I’ve been holding in, their effectiveness compared to child’s urine, even if not as good, can’t be much different!”
“Don’t fight with me about this, let me be the first one to wake up Taoist Wang!”
The man who claimed to be Zhang snickered.
With a bunch of grown men, everyone had the same thing; he wasn’t embarrassed at all.
As he spoke, he had already unzipped his pants and took out his ‘weapon,’ ready to commence firing.
“Boom…” Not far away, in the middle of the reservoir, like a thunderclap, a sudden loud noise erupted.
When Chen Hai put the flames away, in just this short moment, the calm water’s surface suddenly burst open.
Countless splashes shot out in all directions.
Especially in Chen Hai’s direction, he was the primary target of the splashes.
Ordinary splashes, falling on a person, can only drench their body, but can’t do much harm.
But at this moment, the splashes shot from several meters away, when falling to the ground, kept tingling and rattling incessantly.
At this season, it still ought to be crisp autumn air.
Yet, these splashes, as if they had been tinged with endless chill, somehow turned into icicles.
For this, Chen Hai was already prepared.
The splashes were dense, and as they splattered over, flames blazed fiercely, already enveloping him completely.
The splashes, tainted with chill and turned into icicles, turned into mist as they neared him and began to rise.
This multitude of mist shrouded the area seven to eight meters around Chen Hai.
Like a thick fog, apart from the persistent glow of the fire, Chen Hai’s figure appeared shadowy and indistinct.
The monster, which had been suspended in the water all along, never surfacing, finally rose slowly from the water.
Its upper half, above the navel, was now exposed above the water surface.
“Fresh flesh, fresh flesh…” The voice it uttered was like a broken gong, and its eyes, blood-red, seemed filled with nothing but a craving for flesh.
While the words it spoke were indeed human, this didn’t mean it retained any sensibility.
Looking at the monster’s state, its actions seemed purely driven by instinct.