Gu Zhisang’s tone was calm, but her fingertips directly pinched the bulge of the iron mesh that had grown together with the tail fin and pulled out the mesh with force. The pain was so painful that the spiritual creature was like a fish being pressed against the chopping board and almost lost his ability.
Water mist instantly gathered in its eyes, and it looked at the wound on its tail. When it looked at Gu Zhisang, there was a little more fear in its eyes, as if it were looking at a cold-blooded butcher.
Soon, Gu Zhisang used her soul power to nourish the injured area, and it felt less painful, and felt a little grateful in its heart.
The wound on the tail was from decades ago.
At that time, the city’s main source of income was fishery. The fishermen on the lakeside fished wildly. It sank to the bottom of the lake and slept, but it was almost caught in the fishermen’s nets and landed on land.
At that time, it was still a “silly creature” and didn’t know there were fishing nets and baits. When it saw fresh and sweet meat hanging on the sharp fishing hook, it went to eat it. As a result, its tail was injured, and it was deeply trapped in the net.
When it struggled to break through the fishing net, its tail was cut deeply by a broken wire, and it was stuck in the flesh, and it could not reach it with its short claws.
There was only one way to get the wire out, which was to get bigger and force the wire to stretch out its flesh and blood, but it was timid and extremely afraid of pain, so it didn’t dare to do this.
Later, the wire grew together with the tail, and it could no longer change its shape.
The young Taoist Master in front of her looked cruel, but she was helping it.
When Gu Zhisang rubbed its resilient belly with her spiritual energy in the palm, the spiritual creature felt a foul air in its stomach rising.
Its stomach contracted twice, and its body, which was only the size of a basketball, vomited out a lot of stuff that didn’t smell very good. It was many times bigger than its original body, like a small mountain of garbage.
There were limp plastic bottles and bags, tattered clothes that couldn’t be digested, half-broken slippers, and even several children’s toys.
They were all industrial waste abandoned by humans by the lake.
A cloud of dark gas evaporated and dissipated in the air.
The spiritual creature was ashamed and angry, feeling that it had lost face.
These things were all things that he thought he could eat when he swam in the lake, but couldn’t digest them at all. It was a bit uncomfortable to have them piled up in its stomach for many years, but it couldn’t vomit them out.
Anyway, it doesn’t have much impact on it, so it just ignores it.
As for the foul smell, it was the rotten smell generated by the garbage and some of the yin and resentment absorbed by it.
After all these filthy things were removed, the spiritual creature felt like he was reborn.
It twisted and said “thank you” to Gu Zhisang.
Gu Zhisang added: “If you help bring Liu Mouxin’s body up, the Special Spiritual Department will prepare rich tributes like beef, sheep, and other fresh meat for you.”
Upon hearing the tribute, the spiritual creature’s eyes completely lit up. With a wave of its scale tail, it reluctantly agreed to Gu Zhisang’s request and went to retrieve the body from the water.
After the spiritual creature re-entered the water, Gu Zhisang called Gi Liaochan and asked her to prepare a tribute.
Hearing this, Gi Liaochan was stunned for a moment, and then said: “I’ll ask someone to prepare immediately.”
A few minutes later, there seemed to be waves under the calm lake’s surface.
The moonlight shines on the lake, vaguely outlining a huge dark shadow under the lake.
It was more than ten meters long, and its width was also several meters wide. Its ethereal roar resonates under the water.
Gu Zhisang seemed to feel something, raised her head, and looked at the lake.
It turned out that the old fishermen who witnessed it didn’t lie.
There was a giant creature in the water, but it was injured decades ago and has never been seen again.
Gi Liaochan arranged for someone to go to a nearby breeding farm overnight to pick up two cars of fresh livestock that had just been processed and were ready to be put into the wholesale market in the early morning and parked the car on the shore.
When the others walked away, another silver, round head emerged from the water on the shore. It stared at the two cars with its heavy eyes and blinked: “Is it the tribute?”
Gu Zhisang nodded.
She did not ask how Liu Mouxin’s body was doing, because she had already seen the body floating quietly in the middle of the lake.
When she lowered her head, she saw that both of the spiritual creature’s sharp claws were injured.
The underwater spiritual creature was far less compact and fragile than it was now, which was enough to show that it was not easy just now.
It licked its paws, held a piece of fresh meat indifferently, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and gnawed contentedly.
The reason why these livestock were used to kill it was that Gu Zhisang had an idea and thought that the body of the aunt who also disappeared at that time floated up after the goddess threw beef and mutton into the lake as a sacrifice.
After seeing the spiritual creature, she had a feeling that it had something to do with it the previous time.
This was indeed the case after asking.
The spiritual creature gnawed and said disdainfully:
“I don’t eat people, and I don’t do trouble underwater, and I don’t care about those smelly corpses. They are all caused by water ghosts. I don’t know why those stupid mortals fill the lake with their own kind from time to time to offer sacrifices. It’s unreasonable to blame me for these crimes!”
In the past, people by the lake always had the foolish idea that if there was any flood or drought, the “river god” would be angry.
Later, even in the good years, one or two people would be selected to fill the lake, and they were called sinners.
In fact, at that time, “sacrifice to the river god” had become a means for some people to establish their prestige and eliminate dissidents.
The spiritual creature was disdainful and never approached the humans on the shore.
Not long ago, it was starving. The creatures under the water were so sour and smelly from Liu Mouxin’s body that it couldn’t eat them at all.
Seeing the humans on the shore throwing fresh meat sacrifices, it couldn’t maintain its dignity as a spiritual creature due to its appetite, so it went to fight with the water ghosts at the bottom of the lake, snatched the corpse, and threw it onto the surface.
While eating, it slapped the lake surface with its tail fin, and then looked at the corpse floating to the shore in the distance: “I caught it for you.”
The spiritual creature snorted: “This god keeps his word.”
*
When Liu Mouxin’s body was brought to the Special Spiritual Department from the “Goddess Lake”, it was not a long journey, but all the team members responsible for transporting it were worried and their palms were sweating.
Because there was a sinister ghost corpse placed in the carriage!
After arriving at the department, everyone carefully moved the body to a special morgue covered with talismans and prepared for it.
On the cold iron platform, the corpse’s eyes were closed, and it was a little swollen from the soaking.
But compared to other corpses that had been dead for several months and were kept in extremely poor conditions, it was completely complete.
If the corpse hadn’t been mutilated and pockmarked by fish and crabs, it would be believable to say that its flesh and blood had the texture of a living person.
There was a large sunken hole in its chest, and a blood-red nail as long as a human forearm penetrated the corpse’s shrunken and blackened heart, where the resentment was most rampant.
In the eyes of those who have opened their spiritual senses, a ghost with a solid and powerful soul was standing next to the corpse, with a complex and gloomy expression.
Gi Liaochan and the people who came from the headquarters watched through the surveillance camera, but they were all a little frightened, especially the newly recruited Taoist Master.
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