Chapter 79: The Undercurrent Beneath the Lake

I looked back suddenly, and it was Chengxin. He was lazily smoking a cigarette and looking at me, and said to me, “Chengyi, don’t you think you’re a little too nervous and trying too hard?”

“What do you mean?” As he said this, I glanced underwater again. At this moment, where was there any trace of a human figure underwater? It was just because the boat had set off that some mud had been stirred up.

“Nothing, I really think you’re too nervous. Didn’t you see your expression just now? It was like you saw a ghost in broad daylight. Aren’t we all on the boat?” Chengxin put the cigarette in my mouth, then patted my shoulder and said to me, “Relax. It’s a blessing in disguise. You’re like this, we’ll definitely be nervous.

I smiled reluctantly. In fact, I inexplicably felt some peace of mind on the boat. In the end, I still didn’t say what I had just seen, which seemed like a dream!

Chengxin returned to the cabin, rolled up the small curtains on the cabin, and leisurely began to enjoy the view of the lake. Everyone was like this, sitting in the cabin as if they were on a tour, without any awareness of being in danger.

Only I, holding the boat awning, stood at the stern of the boat, always feeling that something would happen.

At this moment, the boat had already entered the lake smoothly. Ji Feng lowered the pole and took out a signal gun from his backpack, loaded a signal shell and fired a green signal shell into the sky.

“We have to let the people in the village know that we have successfully entered the lake,” said Ji Feng, smiling at me.

I smiled and nodded, casually exhaling a puff of smoke, but for some reason, the smoke seemed to linger in front of my eyes!

What’s going on? I waved my hand in annoyance and realized that the smoke in front of me was not dispersing. It was clearly a large group of dense fog that had quickly formed less than ten meters away from us. The fog was too strange and too fast, which made me think that the smoke in front of me had not dispersed!

“Monsoon, I’m afraid we’re in trouble. Let’s row away from this area quickly.” I stared at the strange fog and said in a low voice.

The next moment, I saw the fog start to spread rapidly, and it was heading in the direction we had just left.

“What?” Ji Feng had just put down the pole and was about to take a sip from the flask when he heard me say this and didn’t react at once!

“Over there,” I said quickly, pointing to the direction of the fog, because the fog suddenly appeared behind us, so the people in the cabin could not see this scene at all. Only Ji Feng and I, who were standing at the stern of the boat, could clearly see this scene.

“Cough…puff…” Ji Feng had already taken a sip of wine, and after seeing this, all the wine in his mouth spewed out. After passing through the pain of the village, no one had a good guess about this strange fog.

Without saying a word, Ji Feng dropped the wine flask and jumped off the stern of the boat. He ran to the bow of the boat, and began to vigorously slide the oars that had already been set up. The boat turned around quickly, heading in the direction of avoiding the fog!

“Hurry up and turn around with me!” The other boat was not far away from us, and Ji Feng almost shouted at the top of his voice!

At the same time, I also ran to the bow of the boat, stood next to Ji Feng, and saw that the other boat was also turning around at high speed in response to Ji Feng’s roar. Judging from their reaction, they had also discovered the strange fog.

My and Ji Feng’s “headless” actions finally attracted everyone’s attention. For a while, a chorus of voices asked us, “What’s going on?”

“Don’t come to the bow, wait a moment, the bow is heavy and the stern is light, it will affect the speed!” Ji Feng roared, beads of sweat trickled down his forehead. The boat was moving very fast at this time, and it was clear that Ji Feng was using all his strength.

“If you look behind the boat, you’ll see what’s going on!” I added, and asked him, “Do you need any help?”

“No, you don’t know how to row. If the two of you don’t row evenly, it won’t be fast.” Jifeng wiped the sweat off his forehead and said to me.

I nodded and stopped arguing. The boat was moving very fast, so I didn’t have to worry about it. I turned around and looked behind the boat. At this time, I had time to calmly observe the strange fog!

At this time, I discovered that the large, strange clouds of fog were actually rising from the lake, spreading very quickly. At this moment, they had already spread to the place where we first boarded the boat, and were still spreading in the distance.

Seeing this, I felt a sense of luck in my heart. If it weren’t for the fact that our boat and the direction of the fog were not in the same direction, we might have been caught up.

“If the fog disperses and rises again, the village will suffer even greater calamity. I never thought it would happen so soon. My divination skills have not reached the level of my master’s. I can calculate this calamity, but I can’t predict the time.” Chengqing’s somewhat annoyed voice rang out in the cabin. Obviously, everyone had already seen the scene of the fog spreading.

But I was shocked. The village will suffer even greater calamity? Why didn’t Master Zheng tell me? Thinking this way, I was about to ask a question, but I felt the boat’s speed suddenly slow down, and then the sound of Ji Feng’s trembling voice sounded next to me: “Brother Mu, are you saying that our village will suffer even greater calamity?”

Cheng Qing looked at Ji Feng strangely and said, “When I did the divination that day, I already said that there would be a turn (turning point), a difficulty, and an opportunity. Did Master Zheng not tell you? I just couldn’t calculate exactly when this difficulty would be, and what this turning point would be, because it was a matter of self… Could it be…”

Ji Feng’s face became very ugly, and my face didn’t look much better. I whispered, “Master Zheng only told me that the turning point of the matter was in the Lake of a Thousand Ghosts. He didn’t say anything about the village.”

“After learning the result, he said that this matter should be kept secret for the time being in order to stabilize people’s minds, and asked me not to make a fuss, and let him tell the people who need to act.” Cheng Qingge frowned slightly and explained.

“Master Zheng was afraid that we wouldn’t leave and would stay to defend the village, so he deliberately didn’t tell us.” Ji Feng’s voice became a little hoarse, and he looked at Cheng Qingge. He must have wanted to ask something, but it seemed that he was a little afraid to ask.

“If the village suffers another disaster, it will be a disaster even greater than the one in Wan Gui Village. The only chance is at Wan Gui Lake!” Cheng Qingge stopped talking after saying this, without further explanation, and without saying whether the disaster was unavoidable.

With a splash, Ji Feng sat down on the bow of the boat, looking at the thick fog with some despair. I suddenly understood Zheng Daxia. There were only two boats, and it was impossible to take everyone in the village. He could only let a few people go to this turning point full of danger. Compared to the village, a place with a turning point was always better than a place of death! And he himself, Zheng Er, and Yun Po Po, as insiders, actually gave up this turning point and stayed in the dangerous place with everyone…

The master said that people always need a bottom line. Can I understand this as a little bit of the Taoist’s feelings of being a righteous person, seeing farther than ordinary people, getting more, and therefore shouldering more?

Master Zheng’s words were still ringing in my ears, and I patted Ji Feng’s shoulder. For a moment, I could only be silent!

The ghostly fog had already spread towards the village, and something even more terrifying had happened. In the misty area on the shore, figures appeared from the lake one by one. First, strange heads appeared on the lake surface, and then they slowly floated towards the shore. The figures emerged, and then one by one they appeared on the shore, marching into the fog and walking towards the village…

“Is this how it comes?” Ji Feng cried, his face red and his voice trembling.

At this time, another boat had already rowed up next to us. The man on the boat shouted, “Why have you stopped?” Ji Feng’s lips mumbled a few times, but in the end he didn’t say anything. He stood up and said, “Take a break!”

Laughter came from the other boat, laughing at Ji Feng’s uselessness. Ji Feng followed with a bitter smile, and his eyes reddened as he laughed. He whispered to me, “Master Zheng has treated me with great kindness, and I have always regarded him as…”

At this time, Xiao Chengqian came over and said to Ji Feng, “If you have time to be sad, it’s better to hurry up and go to the big formation. The turning point is with us. If we act quickly and solve the problem, won’t the village’s problems be solved as well?”

Xiao Dajun is always optimistic in many situations! Ji Feng listened to Xiao Chengqian’s words and his eyes lit up! But my face became ugly. I had been paying attention to the situation of the ghosts and spirits in the fog, and among them I saw a familiar voice, also mixed in with these ghosts and spirits!

Ghost Raksha – Yucui Zi!

As if sensing my gaze, it suddenly turned its head, and I didn’t even have time to escape! At this moment, I finally realized that the figure I saw at the bottom of the lake when the boat was sliding was real, but at that time the fog had not yet risen, so these strange ghosts and spirits had not moved, which meant that our boat was moored on top of thousands of ghosts and spirits…

This thought made me break out in a cold sweat, not to mention that the ghost Rakshasa had already turned around and was staring at me intently…