“Help, help, help.”
In the small river west of Gaojia Village, a long-haired woman was struggling in the water.
The bridge was crowded with villagers, chattering noisily.
“Who among you can swim? Hurry and save her!”
“Hey, aren’t you good at swimming? Go quickly!”
“I can only swim myself, I can’t save people. If you want to go, you go.”
“Why are you like this? You have no sense of responsibility as a man!”
“Get lost! Isn’t your man a fisherman? Why don’t you let him go?!”
“Oh, never mind who it is, just go quickly. Any later and she’ll be gone.”
“Wait, isn’t that the girl from the Old Zhong family? Didn’t she fall into the water last year too? She was rescued, but the person who saved her didn’t make it out.”
“I remember now, I heard she did it on purpose, she actually knows how to swim!”
“Didn’t they say it was an accident? What does such a young girl know? What if your children fall into the water later and no one saves them?”
“I don’t have children.”
The villagers argued incessantly, each expressing their own opinions.
“What’s all this commotion about?”
Qi Xiao and Huluwa walked onto the bridge one after another, pushing through the crowded villagers, and leaned on the railing to look down.
When the drowning woman saw more people arrive, she shouted for help at Qi Xiao again.
“Help, help, help me!”
Qi Xiao looked at a woman beside him: “How long has she been in the water? She still has the energy to shout.”
“I, I don’t know, I just got here too.”
The villagers looked at each other, exchanging glances.
“It, it seems like about ten minutes.”
Qi Xiao stroked his chin, wondering if this woman was that water ghost.
“Huluwa, is this woman a water ghost?”
“I don’t know.”
“Don’t you Huluwa smell the scent of monsters?”
“I can’t smell it.”
“You’re useless.”
Huluwa: “......”
At this moment, a man among the onlookers couldn’t hold back and began to take off his coat.
“No, this is a matter of life and death. Saving lives is urgent.”
“What’s the rush?”
Qi Xiao crossed his arms.
“If you really want to save her, wait until she’s had her fill of water before going down, otherwise you might get yourself dragged in.”
“What kind of talk is that? What if she dies?!”
“Then you go, good Samaritan.”
Good words can’t persuade a fated ghost, so Qi Xiao didn’t stop him anymore.
The man snorted, took off his coat and pants, and dove in with a splash.
Qi Xiao simultaneously gave Huluwa a look.
Huluwa understood, quickly took off his clothes and turned invisible, then jumped into the river from the other side of the bridge.
Just as the man swam to the drowning woman, grabbed her, and began to drag her towards the bank, a sudden change occurred.
The woman’s head turned green, and her hair became like rotten water weeds.
Her skin was green, and she looked like a corpse salvaged from the bottom of a pond.
“It, it’s really a water ghost!”
“Ghost, ghost, a ghost!”
The onlookers fled quickly amidst their screams.
In the blink of an eye, only Qi Xiao was left on the bridge.
The man didn’t know what had happened; when he looked back, he realized he wasn’t dragging a person, but a water ghost!
“Ah—!”
The man was dragged into the water by the water ghost; he struggled frantically, splashing up large amounts of water.
......
“Boss, found it!”
At the same time, Huluwa surfaced with a splash, dragging a fishing net in his hand.
The net contained more than a dozen gold coins and a bottle of red potion.
Qi Xiao quickly threw down the prepared rope, and Huluwa, dragging the fishing net, swam towards the rope against the rapid current.
Seeing the commotion, the water ghost stopped toying with the man.
She simply twisted his neck 180 degrees and casually tossed him aside.
“Thief!”
The previously calm river surface immediately began to surge. Huluwa struggled to grab the rope, and Qi Xiao pulled him up.
Just as Qi Xiao was about to grab Huluwa’s hand, the water ghost spouted corrosive liquid from her mouth, corroding and breaking the rope.
Huluwa fell back into the turbulent river.
Damn it!
Qi Xiao turned and pulled out his AK, emptying a clip, but blue-green scales appeared on the water ghost’s body, and the bullets made a metallic clanging sound when they hit.
The bullets can’t penetrate?
These broken fish scales are so hard.
At the same time, the water ghost quickly changed direction and swam towards Huluwa.
“Give me back my treasure! You damned thief!”
Just as she was about to grab Huluwa, Qi Xiao used all his strength to throw the rope in his hand at her.
Word Spirit · Time Zero!
In Qi Xiao’s eyes, everything slowed down.
The still-shaking rope he threw, the water splashes from the water ghost, the hand reaching for Huluwa...
He pulled out ‘lust’, stepped on the rope, and in a few steps, arrived in front of the water ghost.
Cut it! Cut it! Cut it!
‘Lust’ responded, vibrating at a high frequency, echoing Qi Xiao’s will.
The blue-green scales, which even bullets couldn’t penetrate, were shattered by the high-frequency vibration of ‘lust’.
If dragon scales can be cut, what’s a small water ghost!
Die!
With the fish scales shattered, ‘lust’ drew a beautiful arc.
The water ghost’s head and body were split in two.
Even her neck was vibrated into rotten flesh and mud.
With the water ghost eliminated, Qi Xiao extended his other hand to grab Huluwa.
Faster, faster!
Hold on, just a little longer!
Just a little longer, and we’ll be back on the bridge.
I can make it, I can do it!
With a splash, Qi Xiao, who was stepping on the rope, fell into the river.
Word Spirit only lasted for half a second.
......
By the shallow bank of the river.
Tang Tang was desperately pressing on the stomach of the man lying on the ground.
Turbid river water gurgled from the man’s mouth.
Tang Tang wiped away a bead of sweat.
“It’s working!”
Pfft.
After Qi Xiao spat out a mouthful of river water, his body twitched as if in a spasm, and he curled up like a large shrimp, clutching his stomach.
It hurts, it hurts so much!
His entire body felt like it was falling apart; his muscles, bones, tendons, internal organs, and even his brain were screaming—I hurt so much.
Time Zero’s physical burden was simply too great.
To master it on the second day, be able to release the Word Spirit, and successfully kill the water ghost by activating ‘lust’, even if Principal Anjou were to see it, this would be an absolute genius.
It’s just a pity that the genius’s body currently cannot withstand the intense burden required to activate the Word Spirit.
Tang Tang frowned.
He looks like he’s in a lot of pain. Did he hit a rock at the bottom of the river?
“Are you alright?”
“It’s almost dark, and the water ghost will come ashore to eat people.”
Water ghost?
The water ghost isn’t dead yet?!
Qi Xiao’s eyes immediately snapped open when he heard the words “water ghost.”
Ignoring the pain in his body, he propped himself up on his elbows, forcing himself to stand.
He didn’t know when, but it was already almost dark.
My knife, where’s my knife?
Qi Xiao crawled around on the spot like a dog, but saw no trace of his knife.
My ‘lust’, lost?
Where’s Huluwa? Huluwa is gone too.
Damn it!
Qi Xiao looked up at the two girls, gesturing with his hands to show the length.
“My knife, have you seen it? A knife this long?”
Tang Tang shook her head.
“What about a naked child, have you seen one?”
Tang Tang shook her head again.
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