mtl008 Chapter 415 [Domain·Drowning] Bottom of the Jiagu River
Chapter 415 [Domain·Drowning] Bottom of the Jiagu River
Jiagu River downstream.
I don't know how deep it is.
Chen Ji drifted aimlessly, like a rootless waterweed.
His thoughts were still frozen on the moment Wan Chengzhong plunged into the water and threw his hair out; his body remained in the same position, as if petrified.
As a substitute, the river would seep into his skin within half a minute of his hair falling in.
But... this curse seems to be recurring, or perhaps it's been blocked by something.
Chen Ji's facial features were slowly becoming clearer from being blurry.
Several small fish swam over calmly, seemingly searching for food on Chen Ji's body.
But soon, a floating corpse scatters the school of fish and hits Chen Ji's leg...
Boom.
Chen Ji's consciousness returned instantly!
A sudden wave of intense discomfort washed over him; the feeling of oxygen deprivation made him dizzy, and he heard a ringing in his ears.
But what's even more terrifying is that the river water has filled Chen Ji's nasal cavity.
This is...the bottom of the Jagu River?
How did he end up at the bottom of the Jiagu River?
The instinct for survival instantly took over Chen Ji's body. He couldn't think about anything else for the time being, and he could only swim desperately towards the surface of the water.
But his legs were so heavy that he couldn't lift them.
Chen Ji turned around and his pupils contracted slightly. It wasn't that he couldn't exert any strength, but that there was a corpse hanging on his leg!
Like a stone hanging on a drowning person, the corpse's hair, mixed with green algae, wrapped around Chen Ji's legs, causing him to fall straight down.
Chen Ji kicked hard, finally managing to knock the floating corpse off. The body flipped over lightly, revealing a pale blue face.
It's Wan Chengzhong.....
Even after he died, he still tried to pull others down with him.
Chen Ji's gaze narrowed slightly. He wasn't surprised that Wan Chengzhong would die, but what he couldn't understand was the manner of his death.
Horrifying and cruel.
Wan Chengzhong's scalp was completely peeled off, revealing his skull underneath. His face was filled with terror, and his cheeks were bulging.
As the water surged, his mouth opened slightly, spilling a trace of black liquid.
Chen Ji suddenly realized something.
Wan Chengzhong was talking about his own scalp.
This was clearly not a curse, but rather someone had ripped off Wan Chengzhong's scalp and stuffed it into his mouth.
Was it Zhang Wenxuan who did it?
But this doesn't match Ah Gou's death in Hong Tian's dream, does it?
Chen Ji's mind was in a daze. He didn't know what had happened before, but he had a feeling that the underwater world was more dangerous than he had imagined.
The good news is that the brief chill he felt after Wan Chengzhong threw the hair into the water has long since disappeared, which may mean that the crisis brought about by the substitution method has been resolved.
Although Chen Ji knew that there might be another Hong Tian underwater, he looked around but couldn't see Hong Tian at all.
The only thing to do now is to swim out and rejoin the others. Besides, Wan Chengzhong's body gives Chen Ji a lingering feeling...
There may be more than one ghost in the Jiagu River.
The water flow is gentle.
The further upstream Chen Ji went, the calmer the river became.
Gradually, the swimming fish disappeared from sight.
Chen Ji did not ignore this anomaly. The higher he went upstream, the stronger the palpitation became, as if a mountain was pressing down on him, making it hard for him to breathe!
What went wrong?
Moreover, even though he was struggling to swim upstream, why did the water seem to be getting further and further away?
It's as if... that dimly lit water surface is just a mirage.
Chen Ji immediately turned to look at the river around him, and soon he realized the problem, his scalp tingling.
left.
right.
The water was gradually turning into an eerie dark green.
Normally, water is fluid and doesn't feel solid, but no matter how Chen Ji looked at it, it just didn't seem like...
The dark green water on his left and right sides was like two walls, rapidly approaching him.
In an instant, Chen Ji recalled a movie he had seen before, in which the characters were squeezed to death by the walls that kept closing in on both sides of a small room!
But this is in the water!
He didn't have time to think much; his sense of crisis grew stronger and stronger. Just then, his finger suddenly stung.
A drop of dark green stained my fingertip.
Almost instantly, countless tiny holes appeared on Chen Ji's fingers, which were stained green, and the skin shriveled up immediately.
This is because his flesh and bones were all broken down into tiny particles, which were overflowing out of the hole!
A few seconds later, the finger completely deflated.
Chen Ji stared at his fingers in disbelief; after just one touch of the dark green river water, only the skin remained on his fingers.
If the whole body.....
What would happen if they were all soaked in this liquid?
The spilled flesh and blood particles, like fish food, floated in the water and slowly turned into a blood mist.
fish food.
Fish food?
Chen Ji's heart suddenly sank. He had a feeling that his flesh and blood would attract something!
The surrounding river water began to ripple!
He looked down and, sure enough, in the direction where he had first woken up, the water was flowing rapidly, as if something was rushing toward him.
Chen Ji's sixth sense made him realize that it was the ghost that killed Wan Chengzhong.
He could feel the other party's rage; malice surged up with the river water, sending chills down his spine.
Was it because he was supposed to die, but he managed to escape?
Who exactly is that ghost?
But Chen Ji didn't have time to look. The dark green water on both sides was getting closer and closer, and in a few minutes, it would completely close in!
Below is a vengeful ghost.
On the left and right are unknown liquids that are even more terrifying than strong acids.
Above, the water stretches out, seemingly unreachable...
Chen Ji had never been in such a desperate situation before. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't think of any solution.
Unless the pen comes to life.
When he entered the domain, he never expected that the development of the domain would be so rapid and dangerous. It has only been less than two days!
The pen remains dormant.
[Words] have already been used, and the little monkey's mouth has been sealed again.
But at that moment, his eyes widened incredulously.
A familiar figure slowly swam out of the eerie dark green river.
That's... Huang Ying!
Her face was as pale as paper, completely unlike the sense of life they had previously felt. At this moment, she was nothing more than a drowned corpse.
Her goal was clear: Chen Ji.
Chen Ji silently lowered his head, and in the deeper part of the riverbed, another black figure gradually became clear.
He looked up, but the water's surface was just a false hope.
Chen Ji's waving hands slowly stopped. He floated in place for two seconds, then turned around and swam straight toward Huang Ying!
His brain was in so much pain from extreme oxygen deprivation that it felt like it was about to explode, leaving him completely incapable of analyzing or thinking. Besides, in this desperate situation, there was nothing left to think about.
You can only rely on instinct.
He got closer and closer to Huang Ying, close enough that he could see the girl's pale face and that Huang Ying could see her own lips.
Gululu...
Bubbles escaped from Chen Ji's mouth.
He gestured, his mouth opening and closing, silently repeating a single word:
Teacher Zhan
Huang Ying showed no reaction; her limbs were extremely stiff, like a mannequin.
Chen Ji had no idea whether Huang Ying had understood what he was saying or not.
Huang Ying's slender body gradually approached, loosely grabbed him, and dragged him towards the dark shadow at the bottom of the river!
Chen Ji felt a chill run down his spine; playing the emotional card was useless.
Although Huang Ying never directly harmed them, it was clear that she was in cahoots with the ghost that killed Wan Chengzhong.
But just then, he suddenly heard Wan Xiaoshuang and Tongzi shouting in his ears!
The sound was not very clear and came from the shore, but it was like an adrenaline rush, instantly bringing Chen Ji back to his senses.
He hadn't heard any sounds from the shore at all.
If the previous water surface was an illusion, then what is now is reality?
With his last bit of strength, Chen Ji struggled and actually managed to shake off Huang Ying!
An unknown force propelled Chen Ji upwards instantly.
He temporarily set aside the questions of why he had managed to break free from the ghost's grasp despite his limbs being weak, and why the water had inexplicably become a path to survival...
The dark green river water on both sides looks like a mountain looming over us, so close we could almost touch it!
Driven by his will to survive, he had no time to think and simply swam frantically toward the surface!