Book 2: Chapter 17: Ruined My Big Event

Book 2: Chapter 17: Ruined My Big Event

The leather figurine women were suspended below the water. They were pulled aside by the current, but not washed away because of the bronze chains around their feet. Black Glasses dove down, grabbed a bronze chain, and lowered himself towards their feet. As soon as he stopped, the fluorescent substance around him was washed away and his surroundings became dark.

Black Glasses slowly crawled along the bronze chain and swam under one of the leather figurines.

The corpse had been processed into leather a long time ago, and there appeared to be something inside of it. Black Glasses didnt know what it was, but the corpse was still in the shape of a human instead of just a lump of leather. He let go and surfaced, but when he dove down again, he couldn't see the leather figurines anymore.

When I heard this, I figured it was also a project to make leather figurines.

The human hand shellfish had the physiological characteristics of secreting liquid while eating the flesh, and the body fluids could leatherize the corpses skin. So, the South Sea country sank those corpses to the bottom of the river and fed the human hand shellfish, thus obtaining leatherized human skin.

Black Glasses didnt know how long he floated down the river, but the current gradually began to slow down, the river became wider, and embankments began to appear on both sides. After coming all this way, he mustve been in a section of the river that was deep underground.

But this wasnt a no-man's land. On the contrary, there were many boats and fishing nets on the riverbank.

Black Glasses swam to shore and climbed up. In the darkness, he could see that there was a very simple altar by the riverbank.

There was a skull on the altar that was covered in gold and jade. The bones were yellow and had been covered in hundreds of layers of paint, probably to prevent them from weathering. The paint had oxidized in such a way that a thousand layers had formed and lifted up like scales.

Black Glasses saw that there was a smooth-edged hole on the skulls forehead. He could tell that it had been artificially made when the person was alive, because the bone had regrown. He looked around to make sure no one was nearby and then pulled a fishing net over. He cut it with his knife to make a net bag, broke off the skull, put it directly into the net bag, and then slung it on his back.

If he got out alive, he could take this thing to Wu Erbai.

Then, he found a place to sit down and rest.

There was only the sound of running water. With so many boats here, this place had to be like a fishing port during the fishing season. But now it was the rainy season, and since it rained every day, the water level was very high. The big fish in the underground river would definitely end up in this part of the river. When it wasnt the rainy season, the water level would be much lower and the underwater ruins would be exposed to the surface.

He didnt know why, but in recent years, he had been having a hard time with these children. He had trouble handling Wu Xie, Li Cu, and Su Wan, and now there was this girl.

"But I missed you so much," Chuchu signed. "Why didnt you come and see me at all?"

"I needed to make a living." Black Glasses looked at the girl.

"Why arent you old at all?" Chuchu asked. "If you didn't speak in a different tone, I wouldve recognized you as soon as I saw you."

Black Glasses couldnt answer her question, so he just laughed and stretched out his hand. Chuchu immediately protected her neck and took about a dozen steps back. Black Glasses followed her, "Be good."

"I wont!" Chuchu shook her head desperately.

Black Glasses tried to force her to faint, but at this time, he saw a person standing in the water behind her.

This mysterious person was a dark shadow that was just standing there, doing nothing.

"Who?" Black Glasses rolled, grabbed onto Chuchus flashlight, and quickly turned it off. He then took off his sunglasses and saw a woman standing in the water behind them.

It was another Chuchu.

He paused and then looked back at the person who was still holding onto the flashlight. He saw that Chuchu, who had been crying just now, had somehow become a soaking wet leather figurine.

When he turned his head again, he saw more than a dozen leather figurines standing up in the water on the riverbank. In the dark light, they were all half in and half out of the water.

And they were looking right at him.