Chapter 74 Reflection

You Qi's eyes suddenly narrowed, as if he had thought of some extremely terrifying scene.

"What did you see?" Xia Meng urged.

"Ghost!" He gasped. "It's a ghost!"

Of course, it was a ghost, otherwise how could Qin Jian's death be explained? Suicide?

Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, You Qi seemed to react. "In the water." He added, "The ghost is in the water!"

A water ghost?

Everyone frowned.

Even if it was a water ghost, it shouldn't be this scary, right? You Qi wasn't a newbie, so why was he so scared...?

"No." You Qi was anxious. He didn't seem to know how to explain it to everyone, and he had a habit of stuttering when he was anxious, which made it even harder to explain.

"Reflection, no no... it's, it's a reflection!"

"The ghost is in the reflection on the water's surface. She was lying on Qin Jian's back, pressing Qin Jian's body more and more bent, more and more bent." You Qi's whole body was emitting cold air as he thought of the scene at that time, "Like a big shrimp."

"But Qin Jian seemed to know nothing, and just kept walking with his head down."

"But you can't see it from the surface." He repeated, "You can only see it from the reflection next to him, the reflection in the water!"

The reflection in the lake can show ghosts...

A light flashed in An Xuan's eyes. This was a new discovery, at least there was a way to identify ghosts.

"It's the woman in the painting!" You Qi suddenly said, "That female opera singer!"

Jiang Cheng, An Xuan, and others knew about the painting, and they had a general guess that the woman in the painting was related to the ghost, so they didn't have much emotional fluctuation.

Shi Liaozhi was stunned for a moment, and then frowned and asked, "Painting? What painting?"

He immediately looked at the others, but no one explained it to him.

Everyone was only concerned about what the female ghost in the painting had done to Qin Jian, so that they could analyze what clues they could get from it.

"How are you sure it's her?" An Xuan asked a very important question, "Couldn't it be Young Master Huang?"

Both of their costumes were red, and at first glance, it was easy to mistake them.

"No, it must be a woman, I saw the shoes on the ghost's feet, they were..." He gestured anxiously with his hands, "They were those small, strange embroidered shoes! I... I saw them in the sedan chair before!"

Everyone immediately thought of the paper figure who replaced Tang Shirou.

Presumably, that was who You Qi was talking about.

Moreover, according to their later on-site investigation, the female paper figure actually walked back into the lake by herself after they left!

"You mean... the ghost was lying on Qin Jian's body, but he didn't react at all." Zuo Qing suddenly spoke.

"That's right."

"Where did he go in the end?"

"Into the lake, he walked into the lake in the end." You Qi said quickly.

In fact, there was a detail he hadn't mentioned. At that time, he subconsciously wanted to remind Qin Jian not to go any further, but the female ghost lying on Qin Jian's back seemed to have foreseen it.

The female ghost in the reflection slowly turned her head, grinned an extremely ugly smile in You Qi's direction, and then stretched out a finger as swollen as a club and put it to her lips.

"Shh—"

You Qi's legs went weak in an instant.

After a moment of contemplation, An Xuan suddenly asked, "Did you see the ghost's appearance clearly?"

You Qi swallowed, then slowly nodded.

Jiang Cheng's gaze towards You Qi paused.

"She was drowned, or her body was thrown into the lake after death." You Qi said quickly, "Her face was all rotten from being soaked, swollen to the size of two basketballs, her eyes were squeezed into slits, her tongue was hanging out..."

Listening to You Qi's description, everyone finally understood why You Qi was so scared. Indeed, if they had suddenly encountered such a thing, they would have been scared half to death.

"Qin Jian he... was he drowned?"

"No, no." You Qi shook his head, "When half of his body was in the lake, his body began to gradually move backward, first returning to normal, and then... then his waist began to bend backward."

"He looked very painful, his eyes were wide open, and he kept coughing up blood, but... but he couldn't control himself."

Finally, it was the ending that everyone had guessed.

"Crack—"

Qin Jian's body suddenly bent backward and broke.

Dead.

......

This game was beyond most people's expectations, especially after Jiang Cheng told Fatty what he had experienced. Fatty's mouth was open for a long time.

Xia Meng sat silently at the table.

Fortunately, they still had some hot water. Xia Meng held the hot water in her hands, and her pale face looked a little better.

"Doctor," Fatty said nervously, "It seems that what An Xuan said makes sense. There should only be one ghost, otherwise she wouldn't need to separate us and attack one by one."

He continued, "That's too much trouble."

"But I didn't expect that jumping into the lake would be the path to survival." Seeming to think of Qin Jian bathing in the "moonlight," a strange look appeared on Fatty's face.

"He trusted those words too much." Xia Meng's face regained a trace of color, and she interjected, "Even when he was in that situation, he didn't jump into the lake. He's really brave."

In fact, by the time it came to Xia Meng and Jiang Cheng, they had roughly guessed the direction of the path to survival.

So many people had disappeared before them, but were they all killed by the ghost?

There were nine people left in total.

How could four people die instantly?

Moreover, it would not be an exaggeration to describe these four people as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

If it was really that difficult, they wouldn't have to do anything, just wait to die.

So... disappearing didn't mean death.

The path to survival was hidden among the disappeared people.

So when Jiang Cheng and Xia Meng discovered that there was something wrong with the paper bride on their backs, they immediately chose to jump off the boat to escape before the ghost fully evolved.

That's right, evolution.

Jiang Cheng thought this word was very appropriate.

Because he had noticed an extremely ominous premonition before the ghost had obvious changes.

It was like an unspeakable feeling, faintly, he actually felt a faint heartbeat through his back, which was in contact with the paper bride.

From that moment on, he understood what had happened to the missing people.

But... he was also waiting.

Waiting for... the boat to travel under the moon.

After all, he was the one being targeted by the ghost, and he highly suspected the ghost's integrity, wondering if a full moon would immediately appear from the water as soon as he jumped off the boat.

Then... he would be right in the center of the moon.

Then, he would be finished.

Jiang Cheng glanced at Xia Meng, who caught him immediately.

"What are you looking at me for?" Xia Meng frowned.

After a few seconds, "Don't you have anything to say to me?" Jiang Cheng suddenly said, "While there's still time?"

Xia Meng was stunned, then sneered, "I wish you safety, I wish you will survive, okay?"

Shrugging, Jiang Cheng looked at Xia Meng again, then looked away.

Just as Xia Meng turned her head, her eyes slightly unnatural, Jiang Cheng's voice sounded again, "I gave you a chance," Jiang Cheng said while looking down and wringing the water out of his clothes, "Don't forget."