Chapter 60 The Water Ghost Caught Me to Take Over

Li Yaoguang had a good plan, but she also knew that she was a landlubber and could not swim. But it didn't matter. She had been to Water World to play in the water and drifted on the stream in the summer before, so she had plenty of space for water equipment.

She had an inflatable buoyancy float tied to her arm, a fancy large swimming ring, and an orange life jacket. She even had two emergency life-saving buoyancy devices that looked like watches. Besides, she had space to breathe and a light source for illumination. It was just a piece of cake for her to cross the canal.

Li Yaoguang was full of confidence, but he still carefully put away his balance bike and cloak, and prepared to go down to the sewer to carefully observe the situation.

As it turned out, the weather was too cold. Even though the water in the canal was flowing, a thin layer of ice formed on the water surface. Even the surrounding ground was frozen by the water vapor. It was really slippery.

Li Yaoguang, who was leaning forward to check where the drain outlet was, lost his balance and stepped on ice. He slipped and smashed the ice surface with a snap, and fell into the water with a splash. Li Yaoguang was instantly surrounded by coldness, his breathing instantly stagnated, and he was choked by the saliva.

Li Yaoguang reacted and calmed herself down, then she quickly entered the space. At the moment she entered, she seemed to hear someone reminding her to be careful?
Oh never mind, it’s too cold.

Li Yaoguang flashed to the bedroom in an instant and was shivering with cold. Her brain was numb and she kept coughing and sneezing. She stripped herself naked and slipped into the bed. She wrapped herself in the quilt, grabbed the remote control from the drawer of the bedside table and turned on the air conditioner. When the temperature rose and her body felt a little warm, her brain started to think.

When she fell into the water just now, did someone remind her?
Didn’t someone remind her?

It was a coincidence that when Li Yaoguang fell, a young eunuch who was about thirteen or fourteen years old happened to pass by here. Due to the angle, the young eunuch saw Li Yaoguang fall from a distance and subconsciously spoke out to remind him, but was still a step too late.

The young eunuch saw that the other person was wearing the standard palace maid uniform and did not look very old. They were all colleagues, so he should rescue her if she was in danger.

The young eunuch did not dare to delay and ran over quickly over the withered flowers. Seeing that there was no one on the broken ice surface, the young eunuch became anxious and wondered if someone had sunk under the ice.

Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. The young eunuch saw a dead branch as thick as an arm among the flowers. He pulled it out and then lay down by the water and poked it with a stick. He broke a large piece of ice into pieces, but he still did not find the person who fell into the water.

The young eunuch became more and more anxious, thinking that this was the edge of the drain, could it be that someone fell in and was sucked into the drain by the current? That would be really fatal!

Fortunately, there was an iron fence blocking the entrance to the canal, so it was still in time to save the person. The young eunuch dragged his stick and ran a few steps to the edge of the canal. He lay on it, leaned out most of his body, grabbed the stick and hammered it down hard, but he couldn't hit anything, let alone a person.

Although he could not swim, he was eager to save people, so in desperation, the young eunuch simply held his breath and put his head close to the water surface to take a closer look.

Thanks to the regular cleaning of the waterside pavilions in the palace, the lake water is clear and visibility is not low.

After a careful check, he saw that there was no one there. The young eunuch wiped the cold water vapor off his face, stood up, threw away the stick in his hand, and left angrily, still wondering as he walked.

"I was probably dazzled by my eyes just now, wasn't I mistaken?"

Li Yaoguang was also annoyed in the space. It was warm now, but her space was also very rigid. You could enter and exit from anywhere. After estimating the time, Li Yaoguang, who just wanted to get ashore quickly, gritted her teeth, got out of bed, put on her wet clothes again, made enough mental preparations, held her breath and left the space, thinking that the sooner she died, the sooner she died.

While she was still able to move, she climbed ashore with difficulty, and while shivering like a dead dog as she returned to the space, Li Yaoguang kept reminding herself in her heart that it was very painful to go into the water in winter, and she must come up with some self-rescue method, otherwise she would be frozen to death before she could clear the canal or reach the moat.

The young eunuch, who was eager to save the people, was still worried and walked slowly without getting far. Suddenly, he heard the sound of water behind him again. He turned around abruptly and saw the familiar green clothes swaying by the water. He was startled.

I thought to myself, maybe I didn't check carefully enough just now and missed it?
Saving lives was the most important thing, so the young eunuch ran back as fast as he could. But when he got closer, there was no one there. All he saw was the ice cubes that he had just broken floating in the water. There was nothing in the water, but there were some traces of water on the shore.

In this situation, the young eunuch's mind inexplicably thought of the stories his grandmother told him before he entered the palace.

A chill rushed to the top of the young eunuch's head and he was a little scared. He looked around to make sure there was no one around. He shuddered suddenly, turned around and walked away while muttering something to himself, walking faster and faster.

It’s amazing. The more afraid he was, the more curious he became to see. Even after running dozens of meters away, the little eunuch still subconsciously looked back.

What a result! The green figure that had disappeared just now suddenly appeared on the shore again, and the dark head slowly emerged from behind the withered flowers...

The young eunuch's head buzzed, and something shattered. A foul smell spread from under his body. The young eunuch screamed with a trembling sound and suddenly rushed out, crying as he ran: "Master, help me! There is a water ghost who is trying to catch me and take over..."

How did she hear someone howling?
Li Yaoguang, a water ghost, with his back to the bush of dead flowers, was scratching the back of his head which he had just blown half dry, but he didn't know that the little eunuch who had appeared one after another when he saw her was now running through the long corridor crying for his parents, and at an unprecedented speed, he passed through layers of palace gates and rushed straight to the Imperial Kitchen. At the palace gate leading to the Imperial Kitchen, he met his master whom he had been thinking about all the time.

The young eunuch rushed over to his master as if he were his savior, trembling and grabbing hold of his master's clothes, crying.

"Master, master, this is terrible. I, I just passed by the back garden and the water pavilion. Woo woo woo, master, I saw a little water ghost. It's a female! She actually wanted to lure me into the water and let me take her life, master..."

Looking at the disciple who was holding on to his arm tightly, smelling the faint foul odor in his nose, and seeing that many palace maids and eunuchs were coming here with food boxes to get their meals, the old eunuch brushed away the disciple's claws with disgust and gave him a scolding in a harsh tone.

"You bastard, this is the imperial palace in broad daylight, with dragon energy protecting it and the blessing of past emperors. How could this be a ghost?"

The words of teaching were tough, but the young eunuch did not miss the flash of panic in his master's eyes. Seeing his master angrily waving his sleeves and leaving, the young eunuch was still puzzled.

Even my master doesn't seem to disbelieve it, does he?

An elderly maidservant beside him sneered at the situation and said, "Humph! You are a new eunuch, right? You probably don't know that many maidservants have died in vain at the hands of your master over the years... Don't underestimate this old man because he is more and more afraid of death as he gets older. If you say there is something fishy going on, how can he be nice to you?"

Little Eunuch: What do you mean?
(End of this chapter)