After hanging up the phone, I felt a little excited. Shen Zhaoshan finally had news. Although it was just a shoe, it was a new clue.
Afraid of waking up Fang Zhongyu, I tiptoed out of bed, and the loud snoring that was originally heard on the camp chair suddenly stopped.
As soon as I turned around, I saw Fang Zhongyu lying on his side with his arms folded, his eyes staring straight at me, his voice was a little hoarse: "Where are you going?"
"...Shen Zhaoshan's shoes have appeared. I'll go take a look."
"Don't you want to leave?"
"no."
"Um?"
"That's not true." Hey.
Fang Zhongyu then closed his eyes, waved his hands feebly, turned over, turned his back to me and muttered: "When will you come back?"
"If you go quickly, you'll be back soon, if you go slower, you'll be back tomorrow morning."
Fang Zhongyu said no more.
I looked at his obviously thinner back, his black half-sleeves were somewhat empty, and I couldn't help but feel endless apologies in my heart.
It was really hard on him.
"Then I'll go."
"Well, come back soon."
"good."
After walking out of the ward, I jumped up to the roof, said hello to Chaoyang, and headed straight for the eastern suburbs.
There are dark clouds today and it looks like it will rain again. The sky is very dark. It is almost November and the air is chilly.
The pedestrians who were still wandering on the street late at night were all wearing thick clothes, and their mouths were white when they talked.
I took a quick look and landed on the ground in the eastern suburbs after a while.
There were no houses here, and it was still a long way from the city. The river came from the west around the north of the city. The water was cool. I touched it, and then fixed my sight on a black turtle with a golden turtle painted on it under the water.
On shoes.
After a while, there were several humming sounds of engines behind me on the road leading out of the city.
Zhou Hu and the others arrived very quickly and in a hurry. As soon as more than a dozen cars arrived in front of me, the white high-beam headlights illuminated me for a while, making it difficult to open my eyes.
The fairy families in the sky were soon crowded.
Zhou Cheng hurriedly got out of Zhou Hu's co-pilot. Before anyone could come over, a loud voice rang out: "Where are they? Where are my brother Shen's shoes?"
After he said those words, people on more than a dozen cars all came out cheering and gathered towards me.
I pointed to the surface of the river, and my voice was more solemn than I even noticed: "It's down here, it's covered in mud and it won't float."
When Zhou Cheng heard this, he pressed the corner of his mouth and took off his clothes in front of the public.
"Hey, what are you doing!" There was a little girl among the association members, and she couldn't help shouting.
Zhou Hu smiled and patted the little girl on the shoulder: "It's okay. Zhou Cheng is a snorkeling enthusiast. Let him go down and take a look. I just have a snorkeling suit prepared in the car."
I glanced at Zhou Hu, he was really thoughtful.
Zhou Cheng put on his diving suit three times, put on his oxygen tube, and splashed into the water.
We were all on the shore, sweating for him.
The water was cold, the river was deep, and a little turbid. Zhou Cheng didn't warm up, because he was afraid that his legs would cramp when he got in.
I was a little worried and suddenly regretted that I should have gone down.
Sister Lu hugged my arm worriedly.
I turned my head and reflexively scanned the aorta on her neck. In my sight, Sister Lu's fox spirit suddenly appeared behind her, staring at me with wary and timid eyes.
Sister Lu also noticed my gaze. She just slightly raised the corners of her still purple mouth and patted my hand: "It's okay."
"Yes." I nodded and turned my head to stare at the river again. I heard the fox fairy behind Sister Lu secretly sighing in relief.
A group of people were just waiting on the shore. Zhou Hu's group was relatively calm and not too obviously anxious.
Shen Zhaoshan's group, on the other hand, walked back and forth, smoking one cigarette after another, scratching their scalps with rattling sounds, and all of them looked as ferocious as if they had been screwed by a giant goose.
"Don't worry, Zhou Cheng is fine." I kept my awareness on Zhou Cheng. If his legs cramped, I could rescue him.
Zhou Cheng, who was under the river, spent two hours feeling around before he found the shoe in the sand. He suddenly raised his head, his eyes behind his goggles were bright, as if he had found something, and he swam over.
My heart skipped a beat, and his figure disappeared from my perception!
Is it possible that there is something blocking me in this river?
Afraid that everyone would be too anxious, I didn't say anything, but nervously squeezed my hands and stared at the river like everyone else.
Fortunately, Zhou Cheng was not in danger. At about four o'clock, a black, round little head covered with a diving cap emerged.
"Come out! Come out! Hurry!!"
Everyone was as excited as if they were setting off firecrackers during the New Year. They gathered around Zhou Cheng one by one, those carrying clothes, those picking up shoes, and those picking up shoes.
After everyone had a hard time, I walked up to him and asked him, "What did you find in the river?"
After hearing my question, everyone became quiet and turned to stare at Zhou Cheng expectantly.
Zhou Cheng's hair was still wet, and he wiped it with a white towel. He became more and more irritable: "There is a cave in the river, a secret passage, very deep, and the upstream is..."
He paused and suddenly stopped at this place, which made people feel uneasy.
Zhou Hu slapped him on the head angrily: "Speak quickly!"
"Ouch! Just tell me, why did you hit me?" Zhou Cheng rolled his eyes at Zhou Hu and said mysteriously, "Upstream is... the well where Brother Shen disappeared."
"well??"
"The well leads to the river? Isn't it groundwater?"
"yes!!"
"Didn't you go down the well last time? Didn't you get nothing?"
This group of people shouted, and for a moment, I seemed to be watching a scene of human beings returning to their ancestors.
Zhou Hu frowned and pulled Sister Lu and I aside, away from the noisy atmosphere.
He rubbed his chin: "I doubt..."
"There is a mechanism at the bottom of the well, which can lead to the underground and the river. Perhaps the purpose of building this mechanism is to build a secret room that can be hidden from others. And... there is something in that well that can block my perception."
Zhou Hu looked at me with a complicated expression and nodded: "Well, I think so too, but I suddenly thought of a question."
Sister Lu asked: "What?"
Zhou Hu pointed at me.
I paused: "Does it have anything to do with me?"
"Yes." He nodded, "If there is something that can shield you underground, it means that the person who built the secret room knew that there were vampires in Nanjiang. So it does not make sense that the female ghost was kidnapped before the crusade against Fan Yaosi, but after you... …I was sent here after I became a vampire.”
Sister Lu and I paused together, looking at each other involuntarily, and both of us were shocked to see the other's tears: "There are still foreign evil cultivators in Nanjiang?"
But we have dealt with it all.
Zhou Hu shook his head: "Who said that the members of that organization cannot include our local people? Maybe that person is hiding among us, but what we have to consider now is that the people behind it, at that point in time, What's the purpose of putting the female ghost down? Just to lure Shen Zhaoshan to the bait? Shen Zhaoshan has nothing but money and good looks, and his brain is comparable to a pig's. What's the point? There must be other purposes."