Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 314 - 55_5

Chapter 314: Chapter 55_5

Once he escaped from the building, Li Zhiyuan moved beyond the range of the "Black Night," yet Zheng Haiyang also managed to escape right to the dam.

Who was this performance for?

The proposer’s skill level is not high, and their intent is not hard to guess.

But all this was just Li Zhiyuan’s feelings and conjectures; he had no evidence to prove that Zheng Haiyang had been manipulated to move there.

The real reason he refused to help was because he did not want to gamble.

His relationship with Zheng Haiyang wasn’t good enough, nor was their friendship deep enough, to warrant taking such a big risk to save him.

He and Run Sheng had taken risks before, nearly capsizing, but those were his own choices to experience, different from being forcibly involved.

Yet, this reason was not suitable to tell Tan Wenbin; it would make him even sadder.

Therefore, Li Zhiyuan simply responded faintly:

"Hmm."

Tan Wenbin clenched his teeth and, pointing towards the dam ahead, asked, "Brother Xiao Yuan, can they still be saved?"

Li Zhiyuan’s gaze moved to the corners of the dam and the doorframe of the house; he could no longer find his talisman paper.

"I don’t know what sustains the ’Black Night’ inside, but it shouldn’t last long, at least, things should return to normal after daybreak."

Tan Wenbin said with some reluctance, "So... they can’t be saved?"

Zheng Haiyang had just lost his parents, and now he was about to lose his grandparents. No, even he himself might...

Li Zhiyuan shook his head.

Whether they could be saved, he did not know. But he, himself, lacked the ability to save them.

Moreover, in the books written by Wei Zhengdao, there has never been any mention of someone transforming into that kind of thing and then changing back.

If there was a way, the person buried under the peach tree would have used it on himself long ago.

Li Zhiyuan could now try entering the Underworld and use the control methods in the Black Book on one of the two elderly and the child, but it would be meaningless.

Tan Wenbin fiercely wiped his face, clenching his teeth.

In his ears echoed the words shouted by Zheng Haiyang when he suddenly fainted covered in water after school:

"There’s a bastard buried beneath the sea; whoever dares disturb, his entire family will die!"

What kind of vicious being lies at the bottom of that sea?

This is real, sparing no one, an entire family must die!

Suddenly, Li Zhiyuan’s ears trembled.

Run Sheng also turned instinctively to shield the boy behind him.

A figure was running fast.

He ran swiftly like a cheetah.

However, he was running towards the dam from another direction, not passing by where the three of them were.

"Xiao Yuan?"

Li Zhiyuan did not respond; he did not feel it necessary to have Run Sheng intercept this suddenly appearing person.

In fact, where the three of them were now, it was not easy for ordinary people to come in; otherwise, Tan Yunlong and the others would have realized something was wrong and rushed over.

Then, the running man suddenly twisted his head and looked over.

His face was half severely swollen, his eyeballs seemed to have been squeezed out, leaving only dark, empty sockets.

But he seemed to be smiling.

His one-eyed gaze especially focused on Li Zhiyuan among the three.

Li Zhiyuan did not recognize him, but the man’s gaze told him that he seemed to know him.

An answer, regarding the man’s identity, rose in his mind.

Zhu Changyong!

The person who had gone into the sea area with Zheng Haiyang’s parents and then come ashore.

Also the person Xu Wen was trying to find.

Though he still appeared agile, he hardly looked human anymore.

But, what was he here for now?

Li Zhiyuan turned his head again towards the dam, suddenly realizing that perhaps they had misconstrued the hostile relationships.

Zhu Changyong jumped onto the dam, entering the "Black Night."

His arms began to grope around, seemingly having difficulty adjusting at first, but he soon let out a weird laugh, probably because his vocal cords were also damaged.

Now, he was like a continuously rotting piece of human-shaped meat.

Zheng Haiyang and his grandparents were all facing towards him.

Zhu Changyong pounced on them, unaffected by the Black Night.

He rushed at Zheng Haiyang’s grandfather, knocking him down with a punch, then swiftly flipped over Zheng Haiyang’s grandmother and Zheng Haiyang himself as they lunged to bite him.

He was skilled; if he had been the one to attack the three of them in the house during the Black Night, they likely wouldn’t have had a chance to survive.

On the dam, it was like four mad beasts fighting, but the Beast King successfully subdued the three.

Zhu Changyong pried open Zheng Haiyang’s mouth, then reached his hand directly inside, and quickly, when he pulled his hand back, he was holding a small living creature.

"Crunch!"

Zhu Changyong pulled it out, ripping it apart.

Then he did the same to Zheng Haiyang’s grandparents, both old people became terrified and started to frantically try to run away, but they were flipped over on the ground again.

Zhu Changyong pulled a similar living creature from the grandmother’s mouth, then twisted and broke it.

Finally, the grandfather stood up straight, his neck erect, a tumor appearing on his neck.

Because of the clear angle and sufficient height, even from a distance, Li Zhiyuan and the others could see the creature escaping from the mouth; it was a young turtle.

But unlike other young turtles, its shell was a purplish-grey color, reflecting strange patterns under the moonlight.

As soon as the young turtle crawled out, Zhu Changyong leaped forward to catch it, pulling its head out of the shell as he landed, and after stretching it out long enough, finally, "crunch," he tore it apart!