A Gold-Seeking Talisman Appeared!
They looked at the two badly mangled bodies.
Lao Hu and Fatty silently patted Zhang Qiling on the shoulder to comfort him.
Zhang Qiling closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Then he opened his eyes and chuckled. "It's all right. I'm used to it. When have we ever entered a tomb without losing a few people? Besides, this is the ancient city of Jingjue, one of the Ten Great Dangerous Places. I was already prepared
to die here."
He placed the two bodies back in the mud.
"High returns mean high risks."
"They enjoyed benefits ordinary people didn't have, so naturally, they were prepared to sacrifice themselves long ago."
"And if an accident happens during a mission, the bureau will give their families generous compensation, enough to keep them fed and clothed without worry."
"Dust to dust, earth to earth. Let them rest here."
Lao Hu sighed.
He could understand how Zhang Qiling felt now. It was the same feeling he had experienced when facing his fallen comrades.
Once they returned to the riverbank,
they gathered around the monster Gu Cheng had kicked ashore earlier and examined it closely.
"What kind of monster is this? It's so fucking ugly!"
Fatty resentfully prodded the monster's corpse with the demon-hunting blade in his hand.
Gu Cheng and the others all shook their heads.
None of them had ever seen a creature like this.
Zhang Qiling, however, thought for a while and said, "It looks a little like a Water Monkey, but it's also very different."
"A Water Monkey?"
Everyone looked baffled.
Gu Cheng did know about Water Monkeys. They had been mentioned in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles.
"Water Monkeys are legendary aquatic creatures shaped like apes. They appear in many folk tales about ghosts and strange