Chapter 32 - 32
Shen Qingqiu sat upright.
A corpse, f*** f*** f***!
I'd just thought "the water's so clear" and you give me a floating corpse? Don't slap my face so heavily, okay!
Liu Qingge used a pole to hook the corpse closer and turn it over. It was actually a complete skeleton. Because it had been wrapped in black cloth from head to toe with the face sunk underwater, it had escaped his notice earlier.
Shen Qingqiu asked, "Junior apprentice brother Mu, do you know what kind of plague will instantly turn an entire body into a skeleton?"
Mu Qingfang slowly shook his head. "I've never heard of anything like this before."
A boat rowing upstream would fall back if it stopped moving forward. Since they'd stopped for a while, the small boat had retreated a short distance. Liu Qingge lifted his pole again and said to those behind him, "There's more ahead."
Sure enough, five or six corpses floated over. Just like the first one, all of them were skeletons clothed in black.
While Shen Qingqiu was lost in his thoughts, Liu Qingge suddenly stabbed the pole into the rock wall beside them. The thin, brittle bamboo pole was thus inserted into the smooth, seamless stone. Once fixed in place, the boat stopped where it was.
Shen Qingqiu also noticed there was something different and stood up. "Who is it?"
In the depths of the darkness ahead came a rush of rapid breathing. The light at the hull of the boat dimly illuminated a person's figure. They heard a boy's voice: "Who are you people? Why are you entering the city through the hidden river?"