Chapter 374 Fright Amidst the Pond (1/2)

Lin Mengya held the pouch to her chest and a contented smile appeared on her face.

Despite the complicated process, she felt she had not made this trip in vain.

If there was nothing special about this medical book, it would naturally not be so painstakingly hidden at the bottom of the pond.

Moreover, the ginseng seal on her mother’s clothes was surprisingly the key to unlock the chain around the dragon turtle. Such an ingenious design sufficiently went to show how precious the medical book ought to be.

Perhaps she would find information on the use of Tranquil Lotus as well as things that her mother had not been able to accomplish recorded in here.

“Shush, quickly hide. It seems that someone is coming this way.”

Lin Mengya was still in the state of elation when to her surprise, Baizhi covered her mouth all of a sudden.

After the two quickly hid behind the rockery where it was dark and hidden from sight, so they were not being discovered.

Lin Mengya, who had been immersed in joy, lost all vigilance. She was lucky to have the witty Baizhi by her side.

As Lin Mengya glanced at Baizhi, who was squatting and observing what was going on around them, Lin Mengya could not help but felt comforted and reassured. The girls had matured and so had she herself.

She wished they would one day become independent power women by her side.

From the angle behind the rockery, they saw a few people acting suspiciously as they headed toward where she entered the water a moment ago.

Could someone have discovered her action just now?

Lin Mengya’s chest tightened, but she put away the thought as quickly as it came. If they were being found out, they would have been caught in the act a moment ago when there were many flaws.

If these people were trying to sneak up to them, the only possibility was that she had coincidentally gone into the water before they did.

Lin Mengya could not see the features of those men clearly under the dim light at night. In the same token, if those men had spotted Lin Mengya unexpectedly, what they saw would have been a blur.

There was no way the moonlight would go through the rockery to lit up the area behind. Lin Mengya and Baizhi could only stay put and open their eyes wide as they watch those men went about their business.

“Are you very sure that thing is really in that pond?”

One of the shadowy figures inquired softly.

“The mistress says the late Mrs. Lin had instructed that maid never to fill up the pond with soil. For this reason, I believe there must be something valuable in the pond.”

So it was the return of Ms. Tian and Tian Ning that had triggered the suspicion in Shangguan Qing.

Lin Mengya finally felt relieved and the corner of her lips curled up into a relaxed smile.

She had not locked the padlock just now. She was puzzled as to why the dragon turtle had been so friendly towards her. Nevertheless, she knew these men would definitely get into trouble with the dragon turtle.

She once heard people say that a full-grown turtle dragon in the wild could break the neck of a human with one bite. The dragon turtle in the pond was at least as big as a millstone and its shell was very hard. She could gauge that it was an adult dragon turtle.

Just as she expected, the moment the men went into the water, they could not wait but started going all around the pond to search for the treasure.

However, two men were stood at the bank, waiting anxiously for the result of their search.

“How is it going? Did you manage to spot any treasure?”

Even though those two men did not dare to raise their voices, the anxious and impatient tone in their voice could not be mistaken.

Lin Mengya waited patiently for the moment when they would meet with trouble with the dragon turtle, which had a strong territorial nature. Even she was almost overcome with fear at first.

“Not yet… ah… what’s this? Something had bit my leg! Help!”

Suddenly, a blood-curdling scream echoed from the pond.

Baizhi was filled with trepidation. Thank goodness the commotion at the pond had attracted all the attention so much so that no one had noticed them.

“What’s all that screaming? Get up here if you can’t find it!”

The person calling out was obviously worried that the commotion would alarm the people in the mansion, so he tried to hurry the men in the pond.

However, little did they expect that the men who screamed struggled and splashed in the water for a while, then he sank into the water and disappeared.

The rest of the men in the pond who witnessed everything that just happened were stunned.

Thereafter, they scrambled as hard as they could to get out of the pond, each fearing that he would be left behind and become the next victim.

“What, what just happened?”

A chilly breeze blew onto the men who were soaked through and they sneezed.

They never expected their companion to lose his life in an ordinary-looking decorative pond.

Baizhi shaken by what she witnessed, held on to Lin Mengya’s hand when the fear set in.

If her master had been unlucky just a moment ago, she would have ended up like that man…

The scene was too horrible to even think about.

“What happened? Where is he?”

Those men standing at the bank only heard the man’s cries, but they actually did not see what exactly happened in the pond.

Trembling with fear, one man standing on the huge rocks by the pond and refused to get into the water again.

“There’s a ghost in the water!” he stammered.