Chapter 17 - 4_2
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Though this performance wasn't as flashy as those by the mourning band, everyone knew those were just for show, while this was the real deal.
During this time, two Santana cars drove up, each topped with a police light. It was the local police station arriving.
Usually, if someone drowned, they just drowned, no big deal; but this time, two people drowned at once, a father and son, and right at their doorstep. The nature of the incident was entirely different.
The police came to look at the situation and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. They had seen bloated corpses before, but never ones so meticulously arranged.
Seeing this, they decided to wait until the corpses were brought up, not interrupting Li Sanjiang's ritual, and instead returned to their cars by the roadside, smoking and waiting patiently.
Finally, Li Sanjiang finished his work, slaughtered a rooster, and sprinkled a bowl of what may or may not have been black dog blood. Only then did he get into the pond, rowing the boat to the center.
He first used a "guiding hook" to pull the corpse to the side of the boat, secured it with a "Soul Returning Basket" to lift it onto the boat, and then covered it with a "Returning Home Net." Rowing back to the pond's edge, he bent over, lowered his head, and, with a special technique, transferred the corpse onto his back, ascended to the shore.
This was an important rule in the Corpse Recovery Diver's trade: the diver's feet had to touch the shore before the corpse, as this represented "sending" or "carrying" it home.