A glimpse of opportunity: Start by marrying a mermaid bride.

"Master, will this work?"

Zhou Xun and his men rowed their small boat around the iron-hulled ship, but Li Jitong was still unwilling to swallow his anger, so he made Zhou Xun go around in circles and arrive at the reeds not far from the iron-hulled ship.

Through the reeds, the three moved stealthily, like hunting cheetahs, searching for an opportunity to strike.

Zhou Xun asked nervously, "Master, do those foreign devils have guns?"

Li Jitong said, "What are you afraid of? Our boat is small, and we're covered by reeds. They won't see us. Let's see what they're doing!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xun said, "What the foreigners do is none of our business. As long as they don't provoke us, it's best not to mess with them."

Upon hearing this, Li Jitong turned around and glared at Zhou Xun, saying, "Bullshit! Foreigners are running wild on our Chinese territory, and we'd be men if we didn't even utter a sound."

Zhou Xun dared not speak after being glared at by Li Jitong.

At this moment, Zheng Xuan frowned and said, "Master, something's not right. I think what those foreigners are catching doesn't look like fish or shrimp. Why, why does it look like people?"

Zheng Xuan's words immediately startled Li Jitong. Li Jitong squinted at the ironclad ships and saw that they were indeed salvaging people, but they were too far away to see clearly.

But a human shape can be vaguely discerned.

Zhou Xun frowned and said, "Hey, are these foreign devils retrieving corpses? Are they trying to steal our business?"

Li Jitong stubbed out his pipe, looked in that direction, and said, "You two stay on the boat, I'll dive over and take a look."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xun immediately said, "Master, I'll go with you."

Upon hearing this, Li Jitong looked at Zhou Xun and quickly added, "Forget it, this dive will be long, and you're not good at holding your breath."

"I'll go with my master!"

Zheng Xuan suddenly spoke up, and Zhou Xun and Li Ji looked at him at the same time. Zheng Xuan then said, "I can hold my breath for more than half an hour."

Hearing this, Zhou Xun was shocked, while Li Jitong nodded. He had seen it yesterday. Zheng Xuan should have entered the ranks of the Corpse Retrievers, the ninth rank, the Water Ghost. Generally, they will awaken an ability, and most of them awaken the Turtle Breath, which allows them to hold their breath underwater for a long time.

Of course, he didn't know that Zheng Xuan's ability to hold his breath underwater wasn't turtle breathing, but a more advanced scuba diving ability; and that his ninth-grade awakened ability, [Drowning Soul Control], was a low-level ghost-controlling technique.

"Okay, Ah Xuan, come with me."

Li Jitong made the decision and looked at Zhou Xun, saying, "You wait here and don't move."

As they spoke, Li Jitong and Zheng Xuan took off their outer clothes and jumped into the river wearing only their shorts. Once in the water, Zheng Xuan felt right at home and completely at ease.

After Li Jitong went underwater, he was worried that Zheng Xuan would fall behind, so he deliberately waited for Zheng Xuan. Unexpectedly, Zheng Xuan followed behind Li Jitong from beginning to end without showing any signs of falling behind.

Li Ji glanced at Zheng Xuan out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart, "Good lad, he's a natural-born water devil!"

Thinking this, Li Jitong and Zheng Xuan swam over. When they were almost at the ironclad ship, Li Jitong suddenly raised his hand and then pressed it down, signaling the two of them to dive underwater.

Sure enough, after the two dived underwater and hid among the seaweed, two frogmen swam over. They were wearing green diving suits and carrying an oxygen tank on their backs, looking almost exactly like modern divers.

The two frogmen searched the area and, finding no one around, turned and left.

After the two frogmen left, Zheng Xuan and Li Jitong exchanged a glance, wondering what these foreign devils were up to, with such tight security.

The two nodded again. Li Jitong pointed ahead, and Zheng Xuan nodded and followed. Soon, the two approached the iron-hulled ship. Upon getting closer, they immediately discovered that the iron-hulled ship was salvaging the river drifter.

Moreover, there were quite a few; it's unknown how many were salvaged, but there were at least four or five floating on the water alone.

Where did all these corpses come from?

Li Jitong looked puzzled, while Zheng Xuan looked even closer. He noticed that all the people were wearing the same style of clothing, which looked like hospital gowns, and the clothes even seemed to have numbers on them.

What on earth are these people doing?

As Zheng Xuan was thinking this, he looked around and suddenly his eyes narrowed as he saw a green light in one direction.

Zheng Xuan was taken aback. Was there really an opportunity underwater?

Thinking it over, Zheng Xuan quietly swam in that direction. It was a patch of water plants. Zheng Xuan quickly swam there and saw the body of a seven or eight-year-old child hiding in the water plants.

The body was already stiff, but its hands were still gripping the roots of the water plants tightly, preventing its body from floating up.

And that green opportunity lies within this corpse.

What opportunities could a corpse possibly have?

Zheng Xuan thought to himself, and reached out to touch the corpse. The mandatory condition for the opportunity to be activated was to touch the target.

The moment Zheng Xuan touched the corpse, he felt a chill run through his body and couldn't help but shiver.

[Touch the target, and opportunity will arise.]

【Opportunity Name: Drowned Soul】

[Opportunity Description: This is a drowned soul that died no more than eight hours ago. The soul has not yet left the body. You can use the skill "Control Drowned Soul" to subdue it and make it a water servant!]

Drowning Soul!

Zheng Xuan murmured something, and when he looked up, his heart skipped a beat. He saw a pale little face almost touching his own, and a pair of red eyes staring intently at him.

"You bad guys, if you let me stab you, I'll bite you to death!"

For some reason, Zheng Xuan was able to hear the voice of the drowning soul in front of him.

The next moment, the drowned soul rushed directly towards Zheng Xuan. If this were an ordinary person, being hit by a dead soul would either kill them or cause them serious illness. However, Zheng Xuan remained calm.

Just as the drowning soul was about to collide with him, he pointed his finger, and the water around him seemed to freeze in place. The drowning soul was also frozen in place. At this moment, the drowning soul was horrified to find that it could not move.

At this moment, Zheng Xuan raised his finger, as if struck by a flash of inspiration, and touched the soul's brow.

With a "pop" sound.

Zheng Xuan felt himself bound to the drowned soul before him. At this moment, the drowned soul's life or death was in his hands. After being bound to Zheng Xuan, the drowned soul's crimson eyes slowly returned to calm.

Before Zheng Xuan could relay the order again, a person suddenly swam down from above; it was Li Jitong.

Li Jitong looked at Zheng Xuan and gestured for him to come down. Zheng Xuan then pointed to the child's corpse in the water plants.

Li Jitong was taken aback, then nodded, pointed to the child's body, and then pointed to the direction where the small boat was hidden. "Let's go!"

Zheng Xuan nodded, turned around, grabbed the child's body by the hand, and pulled him toward the direction where the small boat was hidden.

Thus, Zheng Xuan, carrying the body, swam back to the small boat with Li Ji.

"puff!"

The two climbed onto the small boat, and Li Jitong immediately said, "Let's go, Xun, let's get out of here."