Corpse Recovery Diver

Might as well just lie here; there's food and drink anyway, and I can quietly wait for Brother Pang Jin to bring back clues.

He brought together three teams, and in the end, only mine was left, so the clue must be mine.

Li Zhiyuan borrowed a small stove from Brother Pang Jin; each of them had some medicinal herbs in their backpacks.

Because the pharmacist originally designated for the team was extremely unreliable, even if you found the right herbs, no one could mix them.

So everyone only brought tonics in their supplies.

Li Zhiyuan was sitting at the door of his room, holding a small fan, brewing medicine.

After brewing, Li Zhiyuan carried a bowl of the medicine to their room and fed it to them.

Even though they were unconscious, their basic swallowing reflex was still there, saving Li Zhiyuan the trouble of inserting feeding tubes.

This tonic was treated like a meal.

After feeding them, Li Zhiyuan helped them wipe their bodies one by one, changed them into clean clothes, turned them over gently, and massaged them to promote blood circulation.

The health care scriptures he'd read earlier finally had a chance for practice now.

After finishing these tasks, it was almost dark.

Taking care of four people alone truly isn't easy.

At night, in the room, Li Zhiyuan first spent ten minutes adding a new seal to the broken jade in his wooden box, while it took him a whopping four hours to re-seal the broken jade in the ceramic doll.

Li Zhiyuan looked at the exquisite porcelain doll with disdain in his eyes.

This thing was getting more and more like a bomb that could explode anytime.

But he still had to do his best to delay its detonation as long as possible and watch it blow up in his arms.

And then, under everyone's watch, hand it over.

After sealing it, Li Zhiyuan could finally take out the piece of red broken porcelain for research.

This thing should be a fragment of some artifact. Sadly, the evil book he left in the corner of the study, or he might try to ask the evil book what this thing really was.

But it was very active, extremely sensitive to flesh and blood, and had been separated from Xu Yijin's body for a day. When Li Zhiyuan moved the copper coins pressing on it, it even started to tremble slightly, just like a hungry wolf cub.

The best way to study it would be to arrange spell marks on his arm in advance, then let it enter his palm for contact and adjustment. If any uncontrollable incidents occurred, he'd forcibly expel it.

But the problem was, he was the only able-bodied person on the team right now. If he injured himself, they'd all be out of commission.

He could only wait until one or two of his teammates woke up before conducting risky research.

Looking at the time, Li Zhiyuan went to bed.

Tomorrow, he just needed to brew and feed the medicine without needing to massage, and the time saved could be used to set up a large array centered on this inn.

When the pack of wolves lurks around, they can't have no safe distance, nor can they expose their team's weakness. If they wanted to perform well, they had to expend more effort setting the stage.

Li Zhiyuan fell asleep here.

But in the front room, Brother Pang Jin and his partner, as well as Brother Pang Jin's parents, remained energetic deep into the night!

Even they didn't know why. Usually, after a busy day, they would fall asleep as soon as they lay down. But tonight, no matter what, they couldn't sleep; they just felt full of energy.

This was because of the medicine Li Zhiyuan brewed in the courtyard during the day; they inhaled the scent.

This strong tonic wasn't much of a problem for the severely injured Run Sheng and his team, who were far from ordinary people. But for normal people, even just inhaling the scent made the effects quite evident.

However, it didn't harm them; it could even be considered as bodily maintenance.

That night, Li Zhiyuan sensed an eruption of corpse energy.

The young man sat up from the bed and took out the compass to investigate.

It should be that the third piece of broken jade could no longer be suppressed and revealed itself.

It was very far away and seemed to be rapidly moving, likely caught in an intense struggle.

Li Zhiyuan put down the compass and lay back down to sleep.

The next morning, Li Zhiyuan got up and started arranging the array, ensuring efficacy while maintaining secrecy, which was easy for the young man.

The entire Brother Pang Jin family was glowing today. Despite going to bed late and waking up early, the short sleep was of extraordinary quality.

They thought it was because of happy spirits due to a joyful event, as today Brother Pang Jin had booked a tourist group from a government agency.

In the morning, Brother Pang Jin drove out, and by noon, he brought back a large crowd, almost filling all the guest rooms.

In the afternoon, while brewing medicine, Li Zhiyuan observed carefully and confirmed they were all ordinary people.

It seemed that Brother Pang Jin was only "responsible" for bringing in three teams, no more.

This also meant that his decision not to move and continue living here was right. The once most dangerous place had now become the safest.

In the evening, Li Zhiyuan first spent fifteen minutes sealing his own broken jade and then over six hours sealing the porcelain doll.

After finishing, the young man slumped into a chair, sweating all over.

He knew that no matter how skilled he was with arrays, there wouldn't be many more times he could perform the seals.

The simplest arithmetic problem — this thing needed sealing once a day, and if the sealing time exceeds a day, then it's utterly impossible.

He lifted his head, looked at the time, and saw it was already very late.