Chapter 689: Ghosts as Fish and Souls as Bait
In the octagonal pavilion, there was clearly a Lan Xuan standing there in a daze.
But there was another Lan Xuan in the Ghost River, who was pulled out by chains.
Lan Xuan, who had just emerged from the water, struggled violently like the giant sturgeon caught by Wu Xian, howling like a pig being slaughtered, her expression distorted to the extreme with pain and fear.
Only two of her limbs were intact. One hand and one leg were torn off. There were countless bite marks on her body. The blood had dyed the nearby water red...
The things that brought her scars were still hanging on her body. They were three water ghosts that were ferociously gnawing at Lan Xuan's flesh!
The three water ghosts had greedy looks in their eyes. Even after being pulled out of the water, they continued to bite Lan Xuan's limbs. One of them even bit through her side abdomen, trying to stick its head into her belly!
Lan Xuan's struggle and the water ghost's biting formed a bloody picture, stimulating Wu Xian's eyes.
“This is… I understand!”
"No wonder I was on the river just now. I clearly felt like I was being dragged into the river by a water ghost, but after a moment of trance, I was standing on the shore again!"
"It turns out that when I looked down at the Ghost River, it was my soul that was dragged into the water!"
"The body of Lan Xuan who was pulled out is slightly translucent. She should also be a soul. It's just that she didn't kill the water ghost like I did, so she was eaten by the water ghost in the water."
"Lan Xuan and the other six people have lost their souls, so they are standing here like zombies!"
"The extradition officer asked us to lower our heads only after we saw the octagonal pavilion. This was to use our souls as bait to attract water ghosts to eat them!"
Wu Xian stared at the river.
Now that the fishing rod has been lifted up, what should we do with the fish that has been caught?
As I was thinking, the fog became thicker.
The three water ghosts that were gnawing at Lan Xuan's body did not notice that a dozen extraditionists with chains on their feet suddenly emerged from the mist.
The extradited people first stared at the water ghost for a while, then slowly opened their mouths, with their entire jaws open, revealing a mouth full of strange piranha-like teeth!
Click, click, click...
The sound of teeth opening and closing attracted the attention of the water ghosts. A long-haired water ghost turned her head in confusion, and saw a big mouth biting her face fiercely, and then shook her head hard, and her whole face was torn off!
What followed was a carnival for these extradited people.
The three water ghosts were quickly torn into pieces and swallowed into the stomachs of the extradited people, but the extradited people licked their lips, looking as if they were still not satisfied.
Without the bite of the water ghost, the tattered soul of Lan Xuan floated up and returned to Lan Xuan's body.
Lan Xuan's body swayed for a moment, and she slowly opened her eyes. Her face was instantly covered with sweat, and she covered her head and screamed in pain.
This woman cut off her own fingers without even crying out in pain on the road, but now she was so scared that she almost had a mental breakdown.
Wu Xian understood this. From Lan Xuan's perspective, she might have been eaten alive by a water ghost just now...
Wow!
Another chain was pulled up, and this time, it was Fan Qingyue's soul that was pulled up. Although her condition was slightly better than Lan Xuan's, she could also be sent directly to a horror film set as a corpse prop.
Normally, when she was hurt, she would blush and feel happy for no apparent reason, but this time, she was like a frightened little lamb, shrinking her body and trembling.
Wu Xian clenched his fists and said, "So that's how it is. When we set foot on the Ghost River, we have already become live bait for fishing, just like earthworms dug out of the soil. This is the real fare needed to extradite people." Wu Xian said this to Yuan Buyai, but he got a reply from a stranger:
"Without our guidance, you will never reach the river eye. This is a fair deal, isn't it? Besides, you didn't pay for the toll."
"Then do you want to take back the travel expenses?"
Wu Xian turned his head in surprise. The person who had just spoken was actually the strange man carrying the statue on his back.
The man shook his head slowly: "The toll is limited to looking down in the Ghost River. If there are baits that break free, that's what we're happy to see."
"You keep calling yourselves 'we'. Who are you?"
Wu Xian felt a strong curiosity in his heart. This person had a statue of a righteous god on him, and he fed on water ghosts, so perhaps he could be a help in their passage through the blessed land.
The man looked at Wu Xian deeply, did not answer the question, but continued to pull the soul out of the water.
The person who was pulled out this time was Guo Xiake, his soul completely hiding in the turtle shell. Several water ghosts were gnawing at the edge of the turtle shell, and their teeth were almost broken.
Wu Xian raised his eyebrows.
It seems that the magic tool for worshiping gods is bound to the soul of the dependent. Even if it is separated from the physical body, the dependent can still use the ability to worship gods, just like Wu Xian used the Sanbao Jade Ruyi in the water before.
in this case……
Jiang Huaian's ability to use Fatima's body to deliver a message may also be related to his ability to worship God.
He may have lost his soul due to a mistake, but his ability to worship gods allows him to walk in the blessed land as a soul, still trying to escape from the blessed land.
The man carrying the statue showed a look of surprise on his pale face when he saw Guo Xiake hiding in the turtle shell.
He began to answer Wu Xian's previous question:
"We are the 'dregs', a collection of unwanted souls devoured by the Ghost River. We stay on the surface of the Ghost River like parasites, surviving by absorbing nutrients from the Ghost River."
"One day, we got the curtain of the goddess Meng Po, and chains were wrapped around our bodies, giving us a fixed form. Our purpose was to send the relatives who came here into the river one day."
The man looked at Wu Xian with his eyes covered with ice crystals.
"Are you the relatives?"
Wu Xian was startled at first, then he looked at the statue of 'Meng Po' behind the man, with a look of understanding on his face.
It seems that this world where the evil god is about to be born has also been interfered with by immortals and gods, but Meng Po's power may not be as strong as that of the 'Lord of Fire', so she can only build a small pavilion on the Ghost River to guide the relatives who will pass by in the future.
Wu Xian originally thought that after learning that he was a loved one, the man would be shocked, then would open the bed to welcome him, and would pat his chest and promise to help everyone.
Unexpectedly, the man just said "Oh", nodded coldly, and continued to pull the chain.
Huang Yuanjiang, Liu Chen and Fu Dahai were pulled out one after another. The worst sufferer among them was Fu Dahai. His soul was incomplete to begin with, and now it was full of bite holes.
The extraditers held a bloody feast with the captured water ghosts, and after eating all the water ghosts clean, they disappeared into the fog.
Wu Xian scratched his hair, sighed, turned around and went to calm Lan Xuan and the others. If he wanted to move forward, he had to at least make sure that his teammates were normal people.
(End of this chapter)
