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Under the pressure of survival, the group had no other choice.

After hearing Zhao Mou's explanation, they had no other options. Song Xue, representing the Widow Investigation Team, and Zhao Zhan raised no objections, so everyone turned their attention to the sea demon.

The sea demon pressed her lips together. "Fine. I'll go into the water with two others. Everyone else stays on the boat and keeps an eye on those corpses."

She wanted to see, too... how the Yeshui River would "marry" a human bride.

Yu Xing released her hand.

The sea demon unconsciously took a few steps toward the side of the boat, and her view was immediately filled with countless Water Ghosts.

Amid those tangled masses of black hair, the pale, swollen ghost faces were filled with hatred and fury, as if they couldn't wait to grab every living person and drown them in the river, turning them into one of their own.

The sea demon drew a sharp breath, her disgust for this place growing with every passing moment.

It wasn't the Water Ghosts' hideous appearances that frightened her. She had seen enough of them that their numbers were the only thing that truly shook her.

What she hated was the Yeshui River itself.

How many lives had this river claimed over the years?

Not everyone who drowned became a Water Ghost.

Only souls filled with resentment, unable to let go of what they had endured in life, became filthy, mindless evil spirits after their bodies died, trapped within the boundaries of their own hatred.

What had happened here?

She thought she already knew.

Perhaps sensing that the sedan-chair bride was now close to the river's surface, the water began to boil just as the sea demon's hand, resting on the boat's edge, clenched involuntarily. The