Chapter 51.

On the way back to Anding County, the sense of gloom still hadn’t disappeared.

Until they reached Anding County, it was already a bit dark.

Sheriff Sun led the constables to the county office, found the magistrate, and told him what happened.

At this time, the other constables were not on duty, even Zhou An was waiting inside the government office.

After all, something big had happened, and they had to be at the disposal of the police at any time.

Being inside the courthouse was much faster than at home.

Zhou An didn’t say anything when he heard Sheriff Sun’s report.

His eyes looked back and forth on Yu Hang, always feeling that Yu Hang was not quite normal tonight.

Between Yu Hang’s eyebrows, there was a touch of low spirits.

But on this occasion, he didn’t say anything either.

County Magistrate Chen’s brows furrowed after listening to Sheriff Sun’s report.

“Worshiping the River God ……”

To be honest, even if he had been in Anding County for so long, there were so many customs inside the villages around Anding County that even he himself couldn’t make sense of them.

With a custom that came out of nowhere, it was estimated that he would have to go back and flip through the pamphlets.

“My lord, it seems that we have to make arrangements as early as possible to send out those with good water skills to salvage the river.” Master Xu spoke up more, brushing off a wave of presence.

Magistrate Chen snapped back from his contemplation and nodded.

“You go ahead with this matter.”

“Tonight?” Master Xu asked.

County Magistrate Chen nodded, “Just tonight, the sooner the better.”

Master Xu was clear that County Magistrate Chen was in a hurry.

During the inspection period, whoever is involved in this matter must be in a hurry.

Master Xu pondered in his heart, isn’t this the time for his own performance?

“My lord, I’ll send people to each village and village, responsible for contacting people with good water skills to salvage the water overnight!”

“You guys form a team in twos and look out for each other, go find people who are familiar with water!”

To do this kind of thing, you have to find people skilled in water, and you also have to find people who go by the river.

Magistrate Chen said, “Draw some silver, don’t make it difficult for the people, and don’t force it.”

Master Xu hurriedly agreed.

The upper head has promulgated the task down, even if it is late, the constable has to go to do it.

Who is good at water and who is bad at water, it is all registered in the government office.

Although Master Xu is a little greedy for money, but the ability to assist the magistrate is there.

It only took half an hour to send all the appropriate information to the constables.

Zhou An and Yu Hang formed a team of their own accord, received the relevant information, and left the courthouse.

The whole process was extremely tedious, but after only one hour of work, all the people were recruited.

Of course, money is good for business.

Especially since Magistrate Chen had allocated silver, there were quite a few people who were willing to do these jobs.

Very quickly, they got the people who were familiar with the water downstream.

Every distance, a few people were arranged to specialize in searching an area.

There was also an advantage for the constables to work in teams of two or two, once something was discovered, one of them could stay put while the other went back to inform.

Zhou An and Yu Hang stood in an area downstream.

On the river, a few people who were good at water had already gone down.

Yu Hang remained silent.

A wind blew around them, carrying a chill.

It was nighttime at the moment.

Torches were inserted along the riverbanks, illuminating the surface of the river in red.

These were prepared by Master Xu, who had handled himself very delicately in this regard.

“Old Zhou, do you think I’m a bit backward?” Yu Hang suddenly asked.

Zhou An eyed the surface of the river that was swirling with water, “You haven’t been talking much on the way, what have you encountered again?”

At this time, there were only the two of them on the bank, and Yu Hang didn’t hide anything, telling what happened to him.

“Cold?”

Zhou An stroked his chin.

He hadn’t heard the other constables say that, and the light was just what Yu Hang encountered.

Yu Hang wrapped his arms around himself and touched his arms.

“Maybe it’s an illusion?”

In fact, he couldn’t figure out if it was an illusion now.

Coming to the surface of the river, this feeling became heavier and heavier.

“There’s something inside the river, it’s messy, very messy!”

Yu Hang pointed at the surface of the river and said, “They seem to be talking to me, but I can’t hear them clearly, I feel very cold, like I’m surrounded by water.”

The more Zhou An listened down below, the more he felt something was wrong.

He came to Yu Hang’s side and grabbed his arm.

The Qi in his body sensed carefully, but found no abnormality.

Yu Hang’s sanity was a little fuzzy, and he was still whispering, “It’s like they’re trying to talk to me, it’s like they’re crying, there’s too many of them, too many of them, they’re all children’s voices, I can’t hear them!”

While talking, Yu Hang squatted on the ground and held his head.

This scene happened suddenly.

“Old Yu, calm down.” Zhou An’s gaze became stern.

Yu Hang’s shoulders trembled, and after hearing Zhou An’s words, he raised his head violently, “Right, there’s a woman’s voice! It’s very nice, hearing that voice makes me want to go to the river.”

He stood up, lifting his feet and preparing to walk towards the river.

Zhou An still didn’t notice anything unusual, but he was already sure that there was something inside this river.

“Snap!”

A dull sound rang out and Yu Hang fainted.

Zhou An looked at the calm river.

At this moment, the people who were salvaging had already gone ashore, but there was nothing to be found.

They looked at Yu Hang, who had fallen to the ground, with a look of surprise in their eyes.

“It’s fine, it’s just too late, I’ll let him sleep for a while.” Zhou An said.

He told the people to rest beside him for a while and go back to salvage later, while he himself came to the bank alone.

The river was still calm and no abnormalities appeared.

Just at this time, Zhou An suddenly heard a sound of footsteps.

When he turned back, he found Yu Hang standing up.

The sound of footsteps just now was coming from Yu Hang.

At this moment, on Yu Hang’s neck, there was a little boy sitting.

The little boy, estimated to be four or five years old, had his hands over Yu Hang’s eyes and was staring at Zhou An with strange eyes.

Zhou An finally felt the icy cold.

While feeling the icy cold, he also knew the identity of the guy in front of him.

Creepy!

The Creepy Boy was dripping wet, even his hair was full of water and was dripping down to the ground drop by drop.

When the Creepy Boy sensed Zhou An’s gaze, those eyes erupted into an even more intense tyranny.

Its body began to whiten and swell, like dead pork soaking in water.

The entire face puffed up and its eyes protruded from its face.

However, the Creepy Boy did not attack Zhou An, but instead brought his mouth to Yu Hang’s ear.

Yu Hang suddenly screamed.

The people who were resting next to him were startled.

“Zhou An, I heard it again!”

“I heard it clearly!”

“They’re dead and can’t be salvaged! They are sealed in the water, they …… are so cold!”

The words were just uttered, and the startled people felt a ghastly wind coming from them, and fell to the ground with their eyes rolled back in their heads.

The weird boy was still the same whitened and puffy look, his bulging eyes looked straight at Zhou An, and his mouth opened and closed slightly ……

Although no sound came out, Zhou An was able to see the mouth shape.

— So cold.

Just these two words.

“Cold? It won’t be cold in a minute!”

Zhou An drew the long knife at his waist, his face calm.

The blade’s light was like water.