Mysterious Resurrection: From Stream Spirit to Conceptual Water God

Chapter 24 The Mysterious Number in Cangjiang City

"It seems you know something about this lake." Mu Yuan understood immediately after seeing Zhou Gang's expression.

Zhou Gang definitely knows about Qinglan Lake, but we'll have to ask him to find out exactly how much he knows.

"I do know that there is also an A-level strange creature in Qinglan Lake." Zhou Gang said with a serious expression.

The A-level anomaly corresponds to the advanced anomaly among water elements, namely the Myriad Souls Water Corpse!

"One? Why do I see three?" Mu Yuan frowned, his tone filled with doubt.

"Impossible. If there are three, the seal left by the former director would definitely not be able to suppress them. They should have been broken long ago." Zhou Gang shook his head.

The former director, it's the same former director again.

The Soul-Suppressing Nails were left by the former director to suppress the water corpse. The seals around the bottom of Qinglan Lake are also the work of the former director.

"Tell me more about this former director," Mu Yuan said after a moment's thought.

For some reason, he always felt that this former director was very problematic.

Zhou Gang remained silent for a moment, then instead of answering directly, asked, "What brings you here?"

Mu Yuan knew in his heart that the other party did not fully trust him at this moment.

It doesn't matter, all he wants is intelligence. If the Bureau of Abnormal Affairs can help, that's fine; if not, he can handle it himself.

Anyway, it won't be long before I break through to the eighth-grade True God, at which time the divine power in my body will be further enhanced.

Taking down a small flying zombie shouldn't be a problem.

"I've seen it, and there is indeed the formation you mentioned, sealing all the strange creatures inside in the water. Logically speaking, the malevolent energy on the three strange creatures should be able to break through. But there's something else inside."

"A coffin for raising corpses!" Mu Yuan slowly recounted the specific details of Qinglan Lake.

Upon hearing the words "corpse-raising coffin," Zhou Gang's eyes widened suddenly.

"Are you sure? A coffin for raising corpses!?"

"Confirmed!" The detection by the Water Source Book is absolutely accurate.

"Impossible! Wasn't the Corpse-Nourishing Coffin shattered into pieces in that battle ten years ago? Could someone have repaired it?" As the director of the Anomaly Bureau in Cangjiang City, he had access to information that many people couldn't, including the high-level magical artifact, the Corpse-Nourishing Coffin.

Speaking of which, this thing has a bit of a connection to him.

Ten years ago, before I had left the Vajra Temple, I followed my senior brother down the mountain to fight demons and protect the righteous path.

During this time, he joined forces with several fellow Daoists to deal with a sorcerer from across the ocean. The sorcerer somehow obtained the corpse of a general from an ancient Xia Dynasty tomb and placed it in a coffin to nurture it.

It almost turned into a disaster. Fortunately, the general's corpse was eventually destroyed, the coffin used to raise the corpse was smashed to pieces, and then burned to ashes.

Could it be another coffin for raising corpses?

That's a possibility, but even if he figured it out, Zhou Gang's expression remained unpleasant.

It was because he had personally experienced the corpse-raising coffin that he understood its special characteristics.

It absorbs the malevolent and resentful energy between heaven and earth, forcibly infusing it into the corpse it is nurturing, continuously amplifying its mutations.

"I've already given you the intelligence, now it's your turn to speak." Mu Yuan looked calmly at Zhou Gang.

Zhou Gang forcibly suppressed the pounding in his heart, took a deep breath, and slowly said, "Qinglan Lake, the main river in the old city, as well as Luojiang Park and the Art Center, these places basically all have A-level anomalies."

"There are a total of twenty-three Class A Mysterious Beings in the entire Cangjiang City!"

After saying that, he took a map out of the drawer.

That was a map of the entire city, with waterways crisscrossing the city and reaching almost every corner. The Grand Canal and the Yangtze River intersected through the city in a cross shape, eventually flowing into the Yellow Sea.

There are a total of twenty-two red dots on the map, and one blue dot.

The location marked by the blue dot is the main waterway in the old town area of ​​Cangjiang City.

In other words, the original twenty-three A-level anomalies have been reduced to twenty-two after I cleared them out.

The map came at just the right time. Without the slightest hesitation, Mu Yuan carefully studied every detail of the map, planning to examine it further when he returned.

"Besides the A-level anomalies, there are two more calamity-level anomalies, which I told you about last time. And these A-level anomalies were all left behind by the former director," Zhou Gang said, a hint of helplessness in his eyes.

"So many strange things left behind?" Mu Yuan frowned.

"It's not that we absolutely want to keep them, but we can't completely eliminate them. These monsters either have special abilities or their hiding places are hard to find. The price to completely eradicate them would be too high."

"Cangjiang City has a special geographical location, and it's unknown how many ghosts and monsters flow into the city along the river every day."

"Other cities might only see a handful of Class A monsters a year, but in Cangjiang City they're like they're being sold in bulk. We're helpless about it." Zhou Gang sighed as he said this.

In peacetime, given its geographical location and water conditions, Cangjiang City would undoubtedly be a first-tier city.

But now, crises lurk everywhere.

If we wanted to give up, with tens of millions of people here, we simply couldn't bring ourselves to say it; the cost would be too high.

"Therefore, the former director could only do his best to kill some of the evil monsters first, and seal away those that were not so dangerous, and then deal with the rest later when he had recovered."

"But the resurgence of the bizarre is getting more and more serious, and even catastrophic bizarre events are becoming commonplace, leaving us with no chance to catch our breath."

"Things have dragged on like this until now." As he spoke, Zhou Gang's gaze fell on the red dot marked Qinglan Lake.

"Are you sure there are three strange creatures and a corpse-raising coffin in Qinglan Lake?"

"I'm sure. You can go and see for yourself if you don't believe me." Mu Yuan shrugged.

"Of course I'll go, otherwise it's too dangerous." Zhou Gang shook his head. Three strange creatures plus a corpse-raising coffin.

Either way, they pose a threat to Cangjiang City.

Regardless of how things unfold, once the corpse nurtured in the coffin breaks free, it will inevitably be a catastrophe.

The most troublesome thing is that it is formed from malevolent energy and resentment, and when it is born, it kills purely out of instinct, without any rationality.

At that time, other strange entities will take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble, and the entire Cangjiang City will become history, and may even become the only city in the Great Xia Dynasty to be destroyed by ghosts and monsters.

At that point, things really got out of control.

In any case, the Great Xia has only one bottom line: under no circumstances should a city be allowed to be completely transformed into a bizarre territory.

Zhou Gang didn't know the specific reason, but he could only glean a clue.

If an anomaly were to completely take over a city in the Great Xia Dynasty, it would trigger some terrible events.

Therefore, the Great Xia Dynasty has always strived to prevent itself from being completely invaded by the supernatural.

The former director was also transferred to a more serious city because of this incident, to deal with the strange occurrences.

"You just mentioned cooperation? What kind of cooperation can we do?" Zhou Gang asked, looking intently at Mu Yuan.