The most frightening thing was that wind was constantly blowing outwards through the gaps. The lake surface was already cold enough, but this wind was even colder. No, it wasn't just cold, but a chilling, soul-piercing cold, as if it wanted to freeze one's bones to dust.

No one knew what the old fisherman was thinking, but he suddenly became very curious about the scene inside the cabin. This curiosity even overwhelmed the fear in his heart. He tremblingly reached out and slowly opened the cabin door.

The silence on the boat was broken the moment the door was fully opened. Someone exclaimed in surprise, and the old fisherman, who was in the front, staggered and almost fell off the boat.

There was actually a person lying in the cabin.

No, it should be a corpse. The corpse's figure was half-hidden in the dim cabin, its head facing their direction. From the old fisherman's perspective, he could just see half of the corpse's face.

It was a man's face, with distinct features and even a hint of heroic spirit. He was wearing a set of old armor, and a faint stench of decay emanated as the cabin door opened.

This was clearly a general of no low rank.

"A corpse… those damned government soldiers actually stuffed their leader's corpse into the cabin. What are they trying to do? Are they trying to kill someone and then frame us poor people?" Someone immediately exploded. According to the dynasty's laws, killing a soldier was a capital crime, let alone such a general. Their families might even be implicated.

At this time, the gray-haired old man seemed to see something. He reached out and took down the lantern hanging at the bow of the boat, held it up, and slowly approached the cabin. After looking for a while, his face suddenly changed. "That's not right, the armor this man is wearing is not the standard type of this dynasty."

"Not the armor of this dynasty, are you sure you saw it clearly?" The weak man couldn't withstand this series of frights. He was just an honest fisherman, and now he was already crying.

"That's right, this is… this is the armor of the previous dynasty!" The old man insisted, "There's no mistake, I used to be a blacksmith, I've seen this kind of pattern, there's absolutely no mistake!"

Now things became even more confusing. On this boat, there was actually a corpse of a general from the previous dynasty. Although it was possible that someone had put a set of armor from the previous dynasty on it, who would do that?

Moreover, with the change of dynasties, especially in this important border town of Luo'an City, the control over matters of the previous dynasty was extremely strict. Once it was discovered that someone was privately hiding armor from the previous dynasty, the end would be death.

Everyone couldn't figure out the reason for doing this. Also, those government soldiers must have known about the corpse of this general from the previous dynasty, so the question was, what exactly were these people trying to do? Letting them take a corpse to the depths of Chun Shen Lake, were they sending the corpse, or were they using this corpse to lure out…

Thinking of this, everyone didn't dare to think any further. The old fisherman and the gray-haired old man were more sensible and knew that if this matter wasn't investigated clearly today, even if they could leave alive tonight, they would still be approached by the soldiers when they returned to the shore. If this trouble wasn't resolved, they would have no way out.

After figuring this out, the two men's courage also grew. They bent down and got into the cabin, and began to investigate the corpse inside, as well as whether there were any other clues.

Sure enough, they soon made a new discovery. They found water stains on the corpse. The corpse was wet all over, as if it had just been salvaged. At the same time, they also found a fishing net and a very long rope at the innermost part of the cabin. At the end of the rope was tied a large stone.

Most importantly, there was also a wooden box. Inside the box was a letter carefully wrapped in cloth.

These people were all fishermen, all rough men. Only the gray-haired old man and the old fisherman knew a few words. The two read and guessed, and the more they read, the more frightened they became. Finally, they roughly understood what the letter said.

The letter was naturally left by the previous government soldiers. Fearing that they wouldn't understand, most of the letter was in plain language. The letter said that they shouldn't be afraid when they saw the corpse. When they saw the corpse, they would probably have arrived at the depths of the lake. It also warned them not to waste their efforts. Before they completed the request, they would never be able to leave the depths of the lake, and even this thick fog would never return them to the shore.

If they wanted to come back alive, then they had to do as they were told, and keep heading towards the center of the lake. They didn't need to use force to row the boat, the current would take them to the final direction.

What they had to do was, after arriving at that place, throw the net down, and then no matter what was caught in the net, they shouldn't look at it, let alone take it upon themselves to pull the net up. Remember, as long as they felt that something was caught in the net, immediately, immediately start the boat, and then do everything they could to steer the boat towards the direction of the shore in their memory.

If they really couldn't judge the direction of the shore, then remember, stay away from the moon, stay away from the moon in the sky, and go in the opposite direction of the moon, keep going, don't stop, and don't look down at the water, remember.

This incomprehensible letter made the two men feel cold all over. Even if they were stupid, they knew that they had encountered something evil, and they were afraid that the things they were going to salvage this time were very strange.

"Do you still remember those fishermen from before? The ones… the ones we were locked up with?" The bald man was so frightened by the two men's conversation that his tongue was tied in knots. "Did those people also encounter this kind of thing, and then… and then didn't complete the task, and… and all died in this lake?"

Although the old fisherman was afraid, his mind was still clear. He thought to himself that this was nonsense, that must be the case, but now he wanted to know what was going on with the corpse of the general from the previous dynasty, why… why didn't the letter mention it at all?

Putting down the letter, the old fisherman squatted down and began to carefully examine the corpse. The corpse looked relatively fresh, and there were some aquatic plants wrapped around it. The old fisherman had been around the lake for most of his life, and he could tell at a glance that this was the beauty fragrance (mei ren xiang) unique to Chun Shen Lake. Combining this with the fishing net, the old fisherman had a bold guess that the corpse of this general from the previous dynasty was salvaged from Chun Shen Lake, and… and the time wouldn't be long, it was just recently.

But this guess was too strange. Even if there were corpses of people from the previous dynasty in Chun Shen Lake, then it would have been many years ago. The corpse had been soaked in the lake for so long, even if it hadn't been eaten by the fish and shrimp in the lake, it would have been rotten by the lake water. How could it still be so well preserved, looking like a living person if you didn't look closely.

Touching it with his hand, the corpse was still covered with a layer of disgusting mucus, the mucus was very slippery, like the kind on a fish.

Before the old fisherman could continue to think about it, suddenly, the weak man squatting behind the cabin door seemed to have discovered something, and made a strange sound while touching the position of the door bolt, "This… is so sticky."