Corpse Recovery Diver

Chapter 1564 285: Kṣitigarbha Hall

Zhao Yi went to protect the people in the toilet. As soon as he entered, he noticed some movement below.It was bad luck for that thing. Just as it poked its head out, Zhao Yi grabbed it.

Afraid of getting disgusted, Zhao Yi placed some toilet paper in his hand ahead of time, then pinched his nose and pulled it out.

But the pull was not a trivial one. Who knew that part of this thing's body was attached inside the toilet structure, and when Zhao Yi pulled it out, the toilet collapsed as well.

The filth wouldn't drown anyone, but if this thing filled with ghost energy kept spreading, it could truly be deadly to ordinary people. He hurriedly sealed it away and ran to the stream to wash.

Lin Shuyou: "All cleaned up."

Zhao Yi walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, bent down, and rummaged through the thing.

Lin Shuyou: "What is this thing?"

Zhao Yi: "You don't know?"

Lin Shuyou: "The official doesn't go to the toilet to catch ghosts."

Zhao Yi: "This is a nasty creature born in filth, a dirty ghost. Sometimes when you use the toilet and feel like someone touched your butt, it's this thing doing it.

The more dangerous ones can drill into your body while you use the toilet and control you from within."

Lin Shuyou: "So sinister?"

Zhao Yi: "Usually this thing can't do that. At most, it feeds off filth, occasionally eating a mouse or snake for a treat, rarely targeting humans, and even more rarely controlling them from within.

Ah, found it."

Zhao Yi pulled out a tiny ring, so small that only a baby's finger could wear it, previously embedded in the thing.

"Here, Ah You, try touching it."

Lin Shuyou reached out to touch the ring. In that instant, Ah You's shuping activated, and the ring emitted a ghostly glow, revealing a single hateful eye.

After meeting Lin Shuyou's shuping gaze, Ah You's body trembled slightly, and the single eye collapsed, the ring turning to dust.

Lin Shuyou: "I didn't mean to..."

He saw how seriously Zhao Yi washed it before, thinking the ring was important, only to destroy it himself.

Zhao Yi patted Ah You's shoulder: "Don't worry, I won't tell your Brother Xiao Yuan about this."

Lin Shuyou: "No, I didn't mean that..."

Zhao Yi: "What are you worried about? Don't you trust me to keep secrets? Look at them, who knows about your situation now?"

Lin Shuyou: "I mean, you should tell Brother Xiao Yuan. This kind of thing can't be hidden."

Zhao Yi: "I'm just messing with you. It's enough that we found the ring, keeping it is useless. If you hadn't destroyed it, I'd have crushed it."

Lin Shuyou: "You..."

Zhao Yi stood up, shook off the cigarette ash, and said:

"The Li's have long suspected that those who attacked Mr. Zhai and other researchers, and those who came after us, are not from the same faction. Now it's basically confirmed."

Lin Shuyou: "How did you confirm it?"

Zhao Yi: "Too deliberate, no disguise, using sinister ghosts to harm people, and the trigger is very standard, a lot like the Ghost Monk in the mountain temple.

When you do bad things, do you stick your name card on your forehead?"

Back in the truck, Zhao Yi propped his legs on the window and yawned, asking:

"How long before we can leave?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Waiting in line for a wash in the water, it'll be a while."

"You guessed right, someone is borrowing the name of Fengdu to frame us."

"At first, we didn't realize because just after we left Nantong, we got caught in a car accident engineered by little ghosts, but that accident was merely a ploy to lead us into a Ghost Miasma to finish us all off.

The first strike from the underworld involved a fake Judge, along with the Four Marshals and Eight Generals, a lavish lineup indeed.

The next wave was the three incense sticks. You not dying was quite lucky, even more dangerous and elaborate than the last time."

Zhao Yi: "Hmm, the underworld's pattern is to not strike, but when they do, they aim to achieve their goal, especially after a failure, they still continue with these little ghost paths.

Considering this, even the problem with the first batch of explorers might not be the work of the underworld.

Oh, by the way, there's a detail we overlooked about the attack on Mr. Zhai and them. Why wait until we meet them?

If they were truly targeted, how could they have arrived there unharmed before being attacked? Couldn't it have happened sooner, rather than near Fengdu?"

Li Zhiyuan looked towards the tourist bus ahead: "Is Mr. Zhai's background really what we think it is?"

"I hope it's not, because I've flattered so earnestly, only to end up serving as your aide.

But precisely because I couldn't get in, I believe Mr. Zhai's background might indeed be clean, most likely, it's that person, do you trust my intuition?"

Li Zhiyuan neither agreed nor disagreed.

Zhao Yi fell silent and dozed off.

The cleansing took quite a long time, and after midnight, they got back on the bus, which started moving, so Zhao Yi followed in the truck.

It wasn't a very long road, but due to the road condition and toilet issues, it took a while. Only when day broke again did they officially enter the Fengdu Territory.

Mr. Zhai and his group had to report to the relevant unit, so Li Zhiyuan and his team followed suit.

At the unit's gate, they saw the staff warmly greet Mr. Zhai's group inside, while Li Zhiyuan set down his brick cell phone. He had just received a call from Xue Liangliang, they were expected to reach Fengdu County by the morning.

Li Zhiyuan planned to formally meet with Mr. Zhai again after his teacher and Brother Liangliang arrived.

The security guard approached to shoo them away: "No parking for trucks here, park outside."

Another guard chimed in: "Can't park outside either, have to go up the mountain at the back."

Li Zhiyuan instructed Run Sheng, Tan Wenbin, and Lin Shuyou to get off first and stay around to keep watch.

Then, Zhao Yi started the truck once again and, following the guards' directions, drove up the back mountain.

It wasn't far, and after a simple climb, they reached a large open-air parking lot. At the other end, stood many tall palace buildings.

Zhao Yi looked at the sign, asking: "Is this a scenic area?"

After parking, the two got out of the truck. Li Zhiyuan gazed at a nearby building and walked over.

Zhao Yi caught up, asking: "Have you been here before, Li?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Yes, visited before, but last time we wandered over from Ghost Street and then went back the same way, didn't come to this back door."

There was no ticket checker at the back door, so they could enter directly, and after entering, they circled to the front of the hall. Zhao Yi read the plaque's writing aloud:

"Ksitigarbha Hall?"

Li Zhiyuan didn't enter, standing at the hall's entrance, observing as many tourists and pilgrims toured and worshipped inside.

Zhao Yi: "Indeed, people from the mortal world shouldn't be overly concerned with underworld entanglements. After all, living people just want things simple and efficient. Since they're here, might as well pay respects together."

Li Zhiyuan: "Do you remember what you told me last night on the truck?"

Zhao Yi: "About the detail we overlooked?"

Li Zhiyuan: "The line before that. What we truly ignored seems even bigger."

"The first batch of explorers' incident may not have been by the underworld?"

"Hmm."

"What's wrong?"

"But the reason I came to Fengdu is that I thought I received Langhua. I was informed to resolve the explorers' incident in Fengdu.

Once the term Fengdu was mentioned, I thought of the Great Emperor, plus at that time, the underworld people were trying to enter the Nantong territory to target me.

A series of factors combined, making me subconsciously believe this wave was led by the Great Emperor, pushing me and you to Fengdu.

But if the first explorers' incident wasn't caused by the underworld, then…"

Zhao Yi: "So this wave wasn't driven by the Great Emperor to bring us here? Then who?"

Li Zhiyuan didn't answer, and instead, looked up again at the plaque on the hall:

Ksitigarbha Hall.