Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1221 - 220: 6
"Did she recognize your voice?"
"I deliberately pinched my throat to change my voice. How could I make such a basic mistake?"
"Pinched your throat and still changed your voice?"
"That's right, no one can tell it's me."
Yin Meng: "Come on, repeat after me, Fuzhou."
Lin Shuyou: "Foo-joo~"
Yin Meng shrugged.
Lin Shuyou: "Was it not accurate? I never have an accent when I speak."
In an environment where everyone spoke the Nantong dialect, speaking Mandarin was already quite jarring, let alone with a Fujian accent.
Yin Meng: "You better go and confess to Brother Xiao Yuan yourself."
Lin Shuyou stood up and saw Brother Xiao Yuan coming out of the East Room, so he quickly ran over.
After a while, Lin Shuyou came back and sat down.
"Brother Xiao Yuan said that even if Xiang Hou suspects anything, as long as there's no solid evidence, it's not a big problem. Plus, she hasn't revealed that she was knocked out, probably because she saw her mother recovered, understood the mysterious person's intentions, and decided to keep it a secret.
Additionally, we're heading to Zhoushan tomorrow to find Brother Bin and start addressing this issue."
Yin Meng: "Then you better practice your Mandarin, or else you'll easily slip up next time."
Lin Shuyou suddenly smiled; Brother Xiao Yuan had told him more than just that.
"Meng Meng, how many is this?"
Lin Shuyou showed his ten fingers to Yin Meng.
"Ten, what's up?"
Lin Shuyou held up four fingers to Yin Meng: "How many is this?"
"You're so childish, ten."
...
Life on the island was boring, and apart from socializing, Tan Wenbin mostly went fishing.
There were fewer and fewer fish, while the number of social events kept increasing.
This was because more and more people were coming here to wait to board the ship headed to Heartless Island to "deliver goods."
The scale clearly indicated that someone was orchestrating this.
Among this group were those from the Northeast and Hainan, truly encompassing Tian Nan Hai Bei.
They all shared a common trait: their original sect family inheritance, similar to Lin Shuyou's official, followed the path of divination to invite deities.
Originally, Tan Wenbin thought it was a pity not to have brought Lin Shuyou, as with Ah You around, they might have gotten along even better.
But after he fanned the flames between them, causing a clash, Tan Wenbin realized it was a good thing he didn't bring Lin Shuyou.
Because this group, performing divinations and inviting deities, calling upon Great Immortals, all seemed to be effective. The commotion during their fights was significant, yet even with his two godsons watching intently, they couldn't see what was actually possessing these two.
Clearly, they hadn't summoned anything, yet seemed to possess the power of successful deity invocation.
After some undercover exchanges, Tan Wenbin discovered another common trait among them — they had been banished due to mistakes within their sect family.
Some had severed ties with the Great Immortals, some had their names erased from the temple records, meaning unless they could have a White Crane Child switch allegiance like Lin Shuyou, they had actually lost the qualification for divination or deity summoning.
If he had brought Lin Shuyou along, and he performed a proper divination, summoning the Yin God, he would stand out as an absolute outlier.
Once someone experiences that power, it's hard to accept life without it. At that moment, if someone appears and promises to restore that power, you'd be willing to do anything they ask.
The people Tan Wenbin initially met were quite straightforward, especially the woman named Xin Jiyue, who genuinely thought she was upholding justice and punishing evil.
The later arrivals, however, bore more karma and had more extreme and twisted personalities, clearly treating "upholding justice" as a business, willing to amplify and exaggerate to gain more karma.
Although Brother Xiao Yuan himself liked to cancel accounts, none of them were innocent. But these people were simply intent on collective account cancellations, fearing their involvement lacked depth of karma.
The day of going ashore was drawing nearer, and new conflicts emerged.
There were even incidents of forming cliques to seize objects of karma from others, escalating rapidly.
Ironically, during their violent struggle, they'd even shout, "Your karma is heavy, I'll act as the Heavenly Dao to discipline you!"
The first to be targeted were those with a simple sense of justice, often acting solo and having relatively normal strength.
In the past couple of days, Tan Wenbin had been busy rescuing several of these individuals.
Mainly because he had known them earlier, despite their crude methods, they genuinely weren't bad at heart, and their straightforwardness made them easy to use.
But what Tan Wenbin didn't expect was that after he saved people and formed a small group, more and more people started gravitating towards him, seeking protection.
At night, fish were roasting over the campfire.
Tan Wenbin sat there, his face flickering in the firelight.
Outside, three people sat; beyond them, six more, not counting those Tan Wenbin had stationed for night watch.
Xin Jiyue approached Tan Wenbin, saying, "Brother Bin."
"What's up?"
"The leaders of some groups sent word, inviting Brother Bin to a meeting negotiation tomorrow morning."
"I got it. Help me look after this place. I'll take a trip to the village below."
"Brother Bin, are you going alone?"
"Don't worry, I can hide my karma; it's very safe."
Actually, Tan Wenbin had no karma on him. Zou Jiang people, even if they originally had remnants, it would be dissolved by Merit after one surge.
The village had a phone, so Tan Wenbin was going to make a call.
Earlier, he would call Brother Xiao Yuan every three days to report that he was still alive via a standard beeper.
With so much happening in the past couple of days, and the situation changing rapidly, he felt compelled to officially call Brother Xiao Yuan to report.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, if you don't come soon, I'm going to end up as the leader here."
