Chapter 139: The Mysterious Coffin Under the Water

I don’t know when I fell asleep. I was so tired after finishing the paper doll that I didn’t even have time to look at the time.

I didn’t expect a just-completed paper man to be so ‘attractive’ that it made me and Uncle Johnny look at it for a long time without being able to take our eyes off it. It looked at least more real in three dimensions than it did on a flat surface. The few strokes that outlined the eyebrows and eyes seemed to contain some kind of charm, making people feel inexplicably comfortable when they looked at it.

“I… I think people should be like this, right?” I forgot that I had been staring at it for a few minutes, and I couldn’t help but mutter to myself.

But I didn’t expect Uncle Johnny to be ‘sober’ before me, and he pulled me away and said to me, “Li once said that something that has not been achieved but is desired is a kind of ‘evil’ in the heart, but it cannot be called ‘evil’ because it can be converted into the driving force of positive energy, prompting people to constantly move forward, but it can also become an uncontrollable desire that can lead people to fall.”

“Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?” I yawned. The warm fire finally made my exhaustion explode. In fact, what Master Johnny said was not without reason, but since it was the view of the master, my master also said it to me when I was a child. I couldn’t understand it very well, and even now I can only understand the meaning of it, but I can’t do it.

“In other words, don’t stare at the paper man, forget about it. Li once said that it was quite evil…” While saying this, Uncle Johnny spread a thick carpet on the rock.

He pulled me onto the rock and I laughed, “It’s not that bad. I’m just confused by a paper man with no soul.”

Uncle Johnny covered me with a blanket and said, “That’s true, but just in case, didn’t you say that you think people should be that way? This is evidence of being shaken by infection. I don’t want anything to go wrong with you. Li once said to be careful of paper people, especially…”

Uncle Johnny didn’t say any more, but nervously took a blanket and covered the paper man, whispering, “No one should look at it before using it tomorrow.”

At this point, I was already half asleep, and I felt that Uncle Johnny was being overly cautious. But at the same time, I felt a warm feeling welling up inside me. No one but my family and my master had ever made my bed and covered me with a quilt. I never thought that I would experience this again with Uncle Johnny, who was already in his thirties.

The next day, when I woke up, it was already bright.

A good night’s sleep was enough for me to judge that Patel really had no more energy to cause trouble, and after a night’s sleep, everyone’s condition had recovered somewhat, but in actuality, it was probably about half of the peak condition.

I washed up briefly and then took the breakfast that Kisaragi handed me. Although it was just simple dry food, I ate it very sweetly after a good night’s sleep.

The deep pool had changed a little. It was no longer the gloomy place full of fog that made people feel mysterious and a little scary. The surface of the water was also slightly rippled with golden waves brought by the sun.

Today is a sunny day, and although only a few rays of sunlight can shine in, it is still a good start.

I don’t know why, but when I think of this, I feel very good and can’t help but smile.

“The coffin will be opened at 3:00 p.m. Chengyi, you must be careful at this time.” At this time, Xiao Chengqian came to my side. Regarding how to deal with the corpse, the master did not leave a specific method, and Uncle Johnny, a Taoist, is a Taoist who became a monk halfway through his life. He has not had the experience we have, so this matter is almost discussed by us younger generations.

Yesterday, we discussed the general plan, and today Xiao Chengqian was still worried. Seeing me smiling, he came over and emphasized it to me again! According to the plan, the two of us, Xiao Chengqian and I, would go down to the river to retrieve the coffin. Therefore, Xiao, who is used to being “domineering” on weekdays, was unusually serious today. It was also because of the power of Patel’s soul that left us with a deep impression yesterday.

“Don’t worry, the coffin will definitely be opened at noon.” I had just finished eating the dry food in my hand and took a big drink, responding to Xiao Chengqian.

The third quarter of noon is a very important time. At this point, the yang energy reaches its peak and can suppress many kinds of energy, such as evil spirits, resentment, etc. More importantly, it can completely suppress the yin energy, which can prevent the evil spirits from taking shape immediately! After this time, the yang energy will suddenly weaken, and then people will fall into a drowsy midday. After that, the yang energy will recover around 2 pm in the afternoon… Therefore, it is very important to master this time point.

If the coffin is opened at the third quarter of noon, even if the corpse in the coffin rises, it will be suppressed by the yang energy, which will dissipate a lot of yin energy and evil spirits, so that the person will not be immediately knocked unconscious by the first breath of evil spirits when the corpse rises.

To deal with a powerful vampire, you need the right time, the right place, and the right people. The third hour of noon is the right time for us.

After breakfast, I remembered to look at the time. Because I slept late last night, it was already almost 10 o’clock in the morning, and everything could not be delayed.

I casually did some simple warm-up exercises on the rocks, then I called Xiao Chengqian and put on our diving suits together, ready to go in. But before we went in, I took out the ink thread, which is a must-have item for Taoists traveling around the country. After all, the thing Taoists are most worried about is zombies. Having the ink thread on your body can seal the coffin, preventing the zombie from rising up and breaking the coffin for a while.

The Taoist ink thread itself is made from a mixture of imperial ink, cockerel blood, and cinnabar, which is then applied to cotton thread to make the most yang of threads. In addition, it is originally used by craftsmen to measure the sky and the earth, representing absolute righteousness and no deviation. It also suppresses the zombies in terms of breath.

“You’re going to open the coffin anyway, so what’s the point of bringing the ink thread?” Xiao Chengqian looked disapproving of my actions.

“The one in the coffin is Patel, not an ordinary zombie! Although it was sealed by the master, we have to carry the coffin up, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not come into contact with our living energy and turn into something! Even if it is across the coffin.” I said lightly, but in fact, my heart was still quite heavy.

When I said this, Xiao Chengqian also fell silent, his face looking terrible. Obviously, his mood had also become heavy.

Taoists are not necessarily extremely brave people, but they just happen to have learned ways to restrain some evil spirits and ghosts. But who can guarantee that there are no deviations or accidents?

“Well, what’s going to happen will happen. Let’s do our best and accept our fate.” I casually comforted Xiao Chengqian, then put on the hood and bit down on the oxygen tube. I first climbed down the rock and went into the water.

Xiao Chengqian sighed and followed me, and we both went into the water.

The water in this deep pool was much colder than the water in other parts of the Ganges. There were also a few fish carcasses floating on the surface, which you could see when you looked up. For some reason, this place had an added sense of death.

There were also living creatures in the water, some rather strange-looking fish and other things, but because they were no longer controlled by the evil spirit of Pater, these strange creatures did not attack us, even though many of them were huge and gave people a lot of psychological pressure just by looking at them.

Xiao Chengqian and I tried not to pay attention to these creatures, and just kept diving. The water in the deep pool was not as deep as we thought. After diving more than 30 meters, we had not reached the limit of our dive, and we had already reached the bottom of the deep pool.

At the bottom of the pool was an absolutely quiet world. Rocks were scattered sporadically on the silt, and in the crevices of the rocks, some unknown water plants were floating with the water waves.

Xiao Chengqian and I used underwater flashlights to carefully search for the coffin. Because I had sensed the coffin’s location using the spirit-summoning banner-like artifact left by my master, and because the water flow was extremely strong that day, I had seen the coffin for a moment. This gave Xiao Chengqian and I a correct direction to search in, so that we didn’t search aimlessly and waste precious time.

With the correct direction, we found the coffin’s location from a distance under the light of the flashlight.

It was indeed stuck between two rocks, and this time I finally got a good look at it! It was a strange coffin, not the traditional shape of a coffin, but a boat-shaped coffin, at least from the side, it looked like a sunken boat.

The color of the coffin was also colorful, with some drawings on it. Due to the distance, we couldn’t see clearly, but just seeing the colorful colors in the dark water suddenly made us feel a little scared!

As soon as we discovered it, Xiao Chengqian and I exchanged glances, then swam towards the coffin without hesitation. It was three o’clock in the afternoon! This time kept reminding us that we could not delay…

It was very strange. The closer Xiao Chengqian and I got to the coffin, the colder the water around us became. We were wearing very good thermal diving suits, but they couldn’t stop the bone-chilling cold, which made our whole bodies stiff! It was cold from the bottom of our hearts…

Xiao Chengqian and I both knew that this was not the normal coldness of nature, but rather the coldness of the yin energy that had merged into the water, and that it could have such a great impact on the water temperature under the seal, showing just how powerful the vampire in the coffin was!

I forced myself not to think too much, but at that moment I kept thinking about the blood pool that Patel had built. I was so distracted that I suddenly saw a huge blood pool in front of me, with a strong smell of blood, and many tortured souls struggling in the blood pool… This illusion was so real that I was afraid that I would be confused in an instant, so I quickly bit my tongue hard and only then did I come to my senses.

But the moment I came to my senses, I realized that I had mysteriously swum to the edge of the coffin. Looking around, I saw that Xiao Chengqian was there too. Under the flashlight, his expression was also extremely ugly.

Not to mention that at this time, the coffin inexplicably shook slightly.