Chapter 220: Infiltrating the Chaotic Corpse Pool
"Ahhh! I'm gonna die!!!"
Lu Zheng was resting at home when he received a call from Lin Wan. As soon as Lin Wan entered the house, she threw herself onto the bed, burying her head in the covers.
"What's wrong?" Lu Zheng asked with interest, sitting at the edge of the bed.
"Got questioned by the boss!"
"What did they say?"
Lu Zheng had seen the video from last night early this morning.
The most popular video was titled "Shocking! Divine Power Woman Tears Car Door with Bare Hands!"
The video had been edited, likely shot by a passerby facing the car door. The atmosphere was tense and thrilling, especially the part where Lin Wan tore open the car door, with a musical track that just exploded!
Even though Lu Zheng was present at the scene, he watched the video ten times over, adding to its popularity.
At this moment, the video had climbed to the TOP10 on the local Hai City trending list and was still rising.
In the video, although Lin Wan didn't appear directly on camera, her side face was visible, recognizable to those who knew her.
So, with Lin Wan's performance, she was naturally called in for questioning.
"What did you say?"
"Just what you told me!"
"Practicing martial arts, strong, right?"
"Yes!"
"How did your boss react?"
Lin Wan's body started to shake, as she laughed.
"Smack!" A wave of flesh.
"It's more fun to share the joy. Come on, tell me." Lu Zheng said.
Lin Wan lifted the blanket and sat up, her face still flushed.
"I said I've been practicing martial arts and fitness, so I'm naturally strong. The car door wasn't stuck that badly, and the car's quality wasn't great, so I could open it."
"And then?"
Lin Wan pouted, "Then the boss had me hit the strength tester, and that was it."
"No, you haven't finished talking." Lu Zheng could see Lin Wan's eyes wandering, a bit shy and embarrassed.
"Riiiiing—"
"Hello? Xiumin!"
"Hello? Lin Dali, why did you run off as soon as you got off work? Didn't we agree to have dinner together?"
"Pff—"
Lin Wan jumped up, "I forgot, tomorrow then, just like that!"
After hanging up, Lin Wan jumped onto Lu Zheng, "Quickly! Forget about that call just now!"
"Forget what, Officer Lin Dali?"
"Ahhh—"
"Hahaha—"
...
After some exercise, Lin Wan was completely exhausted, lying on the bed without a trace of the divine power woman from last night.
Lu Zheng and Lin Wan lay side by side, scrolling through their phones, watching that "Divine Power Woman Tears Car Door" video.
"Hey, look at you, tearing a car door and exhausting yourself, even getting sweaty, isn't that embarrassing."
Lu Zheng pointed out, "If you could cultivate Martial Dao Blood Qi, in such a situation, you could tear the car door open with just a light pull."
Lin Wan was speechless, "That would be even more exaggerated, and I'd have no way to explain it."
Lin Wan knew well that the "Eighteen Mountain-Carrying Techniques" wasn't something just anyone could master, and the Reishi Mushroom Wine Lu Zheng gave her couldn't be mass-produced.
So, until Lu Zheng spoke up, she wouldn't say a word.
In fact, the safest option would be to resign, but being a police officer had been Lin Wan's dream since childhood, and she didn't want to give it up.
So, as long as she could keep it a secret and get by, she'd continue like this for now.
With this thought, Lin Wan looked at Lu Zheng with love yet with a complex mix of feelings.
This person trusts her, healed her, and gave her so many rare and secret things; how could she let him down?
Then...
"Where are you touching?!"
"Haven't you recovered?"
"But we haven't had dinner yet."
"Forget dinner, we'll just have a late-night snack!"
...
Netherworld, Chaotic Corpse Pool.
After a few tense days, the Chaotic Corpse Pool had returned to its usual calm.
This time, Lu Zheng entered without using the Yin-Yang Road through the City God Temple.
With his abilities, within five miles of the City God Temple, he could sense the spatial fluctuations between the mortal world and the Netherworld after dark.
By casting magic, he could agitate these fluctuations and traverse between the two worlds.
Even Yan Jie could do this before, so naturally, Lu Zheng could do it now.
Lu Zheng concealed his presence and dashed swiftly through the Netherworld. The closer he got to the Chaotic Corpse Pool, the denser the Corpse Qi in the air.
The Chaotic Corpse Pool is a low-lying pool among the continuous mountains in the Netherworld, with several leaders who achieved the Dao through corpses, commanding many ghost corpses. They usually soak in the pool's water, nurturing their bodies with Netherworld Water, hence the name Chaotic Corpse Pool.
Before coming, Lu Zheng consulted Xin Zhanting about the true nature of the Chaotic Corpse Pool; besides the already deceased Enchanting Corpse Bai Yuqing...
Giant Corpse Du He focused on body refinement; his corpse was as durable as healing steel, reminiscent of a low-budget Nether Stone Ghost Corpse.
Water Corpse Mo Xuanzi, who merged with the Chaotic Corpse Pool's water, never left the pool, mysterious and unpredictable.
After battling Bai Yuqing, Lu Zheng figured that if he faced one of these two corpses alone, he could beat them in a fight. But if he encountered both at once, it would be best to run away.
As he thought, Lu Zheng approached the Chaotic Corpse Pool and then suddenly sank into the Netherworld's ground.
Using his magic, Lu Zheng traveled through the earth. The closer he got to the Chaotic Corpse Pool, the heavier the Corpse Qi and Water Qi became in the soil.
Sometimes, he accidentally dug into a hollow pit full of underground water.
Luckily, Lu Zheng knew the Water Avoidance Technique!
...
At the bottom of the Chaotic Corpse Pool, Lu Zheng quietly emerged from the ground, sticking close to a large rock.
Scanning around, Lu Zheng figured out his current location.
He was on the side of a small mountain; below the mountain lay a stretch of water spanning dozens of acres. Floating in the water were hundreds of corpses, bobbing up and down, looking eerie and disgusting.
Moreover, there were some ghostly creatures wandering around the water's edge, with no apparent pattern. It was hard to tell if they were patrolling or strolling.
"So... where's the lair?"
Lu Zheng had thought that the lairs of the Chaotic Corpse Pool's leaders might resemble the caves of the Wolf Demon Leng Jian, carved into the mountain wall. But after searching for half a day, he found no caves until a ghost drifted to the pool's edge and disappeared.
"Oh, come on!"
It turned out that surrounding the Chaotic Corpse Pool were over a thousand grave mounds!
"You guys are already dead! What's the point of building graves in the Netherworld? Do you offer incense and burn paper for yourselves?" Lu Zheng couldn't help but ridicule, "Or are you just used to living underground?"
"What can I say, though? Your hobbies are top-notch! Keep it up!"
Lu Zheng circled the Chaotic Corpse Pool and quickly noticed that in the center of the thousand grave mounds, three were noticeably taller, likely the homes of the Giant Corpse, Water Corpse, and Enchanting Corpse.
Lu Zheng shrunk his form and decided to first take a look at Bai Yuqing's place.
Who knows, maybe those two haven't cleared out Bai Yuqing's belongings yet?