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Chapter 252: Chapter 237: Beneath the Dry Well, Amongst the Mist (4000 words, please subscribe)

Although Yan Long appeared to be somewhat aged, he was remarkably agile, and even while crawling backward out of the cave, his speed remained swift.

But as fast as he was, the crawling “thing” inside the cave was even faster. After just a short while, the beam of the Wolf-Eye Flashlight illuminated a head with a bun, rapidly wriggling towards him.

Yan Long, shocked, threw caution to the wind and scrambled even faster, using hands and feet together to increase his backward speed.

Shortly after, the tunnel widened, and he immediately arched his body and hastily retreated backward even faster. However, that head with a bun was still crawling as if unable to straighten up.

Upon exiting the narrow tunnel, Yan Long quickly took out another Incense Cup, waved his hand over it twice to produce a puff of white smoke, then placed the Incense Cup steadily on the ground, and turned to dash toward the well not far away.

After grabbing the dangling rope, he didn’t climb up using his hands and feet, as that would be too inefficient.

Just then, the man with the hair bun crawled out of the tunnel, water still dripping from his body, and stood up straight. Since the Wolf-Eye Flashlight didn’t illuminate his face, his features were unclear as he took big strides toward Yan Long.

At that moment, Yan Long took out an electric pulley, clipping one end to his clothing and the other onto the rope. With a fierce press, the pulley began to spin, swiftly lifting him up.

The corpse took big strides closer, reaching out for Yan Long’s ankles but grasping nothing. It then stretched out its hand to grab the rope beneath Yan Long’s feet, but was still a step too slow.

It then raised its head to watch Yan Long as he ascended.

Seizing the opportunity, Yan Long shone the Wolf-Eye Flashlight downward, its powerful beam directly hitting the face of the male corpse as it looked up.

The male corpse appeared unaffected by the light, letting it shine upon him as he simply looked upward.

Upon illuminating the male corpse, Yan Long couldn’t help but shudder and exclaimed, “It’s preserved so well!”

The male corpse before him was a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a face full of heavy stubble. If not for its pallid skin from being in the water for years and the lifeless eyes, it would be nearly impossible to distinguish him from a living person.

Yan Long was visibly delighted to have had the fortune of finding such a high-caliber corpse.

If he succeeded in Corpse Refining, this body would probably become his second greatest source of strength. Naturally, his current prime source of strength was the Semi-Spirit Body – the fusion of his body with the Monster Spirit inside him.

Gazing at the nearly perfect male corpse under the flashlight, Yan Long’s eyes lit up with awe, like a starving man laying eyes on a spit-roasted whole lamb, his mouth almost watering.

However, he suddenly became alert as he saw the male corpse lower its head then move towards the rock wall by the well. The corpse reached out, grabbing one of the round rocks on the wall and embedding at least half of its fingers into the stone, then did the same with the other hand. Following that, it pushed off with its feet and began to climb up the well’s rock wall.

Yan Long was startled to see the climbing speed of the male corpse was astonishing, almost matching his electric pulley’s speed, barely trailing him.

While concerned, Yan Long couldn’t help but admire the corpse. To him, it was simply too perfect.

But he definitely couldn’t let it just climb up like that, otherwise his Spirit Raising plan would be ruined.

After increasing the pulley speed, Yan Long ascended even faster. He quickly emerged from the well, landed, and immediately flipped open the backpack on his back, taking out a bundle of Detonators. Lighting the fuse, he swiftly tossed it into the well and then dropped flat onto the ground.

With a booming sound,

the Detonator exploded after reaching the bottom of the well, collapsing the entire mouth of the well. The male corpse, which was about to climb out, was buried under the surging mass of mud and rocks.

The entire opening of the well collapsed inward, burying itself and quickly forming an irregular sinkhole with a radius of five or six meters.

The male corpse was buried deep inside.

Along with it was the second Incense Cup Yan Long had placed earlier.

At this moment, even though the Incense Cup was likewise covered, white smoke still emerged from inside, ignoring the collapsed ground and seeping into every available space, gradually filling the gaps between the rocks and soon enveloping the buried male corpse.

Yan Long packed up his own belongings from the ground and then found a suitable spot to conceal himself, seemingly prepared to settle there for the time being. @@novelbin@@

The explosion of the Detonator was not in his plan, but now that it had gone off, the loud noise was sure to be heard by other Exorcists. It would be perfect if those folks were temporarily unable to come due to the strangenesses, but if they did, he had to have a strategy to face them.

…

“What’s happening?” exclaimed a younger Exorcist sitting inside the house.

“It seems like the vibration came from the east side of the village,” the leading middle-aged man said, equally surprised, as he patted the dust off his head.

Yan Junze was also dusting off his shoulders and casually fixing his trendy hair.

Guo Youliang said, “This tremor is unusual; it seems like something exploded.”

“I’ll send someone to check it out.”

The middle-aged leader was about to instruct the two younger Exorcists in the house to go out when Guo Youliang stopped him, “Stay here, I’ll take a look.”

As Guo Youliang walked to the door, he seemed to think of something, turned around, and continued, “Now, only you and Yan Junze can go and see what happened on the west side of the village. If you see any other colleagues, immediately bring them back for a rendezvous. But the two of you cannot go at the same time; one must stay here with the others. I’ll head directly to the west side in fifteen minutes.”

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