Chapter 78: The Legendary Beach Breakup Ring?

It turned out that Queen Huang also had weaknesses. Chen Fengshi believed she was just a Fungal Demon who loved ease and hated work, so fearing hard labor was naturally her weakness.

Chen Fengshi could not help but wonder, if he used this weakness to interrogate her later, could he get more information faster?

Queen Huang did not dare to make a sound, but she was not truly well-behaved. At first, she lay on her stomach, her eyes shining as she stared at Chen Fengshi. After a long while with no response, she changed to lying on her side, looking at Chen Fengshi listlessly. At first, she even played with herself with her hand, but Chen Fengshi still ignored her, so she let out a bored sigh and lay there facing the sky.

The stuffy room was boring, and even after coming out, it was still boring!

But with just that one sigh, Chen Fengshi heard it and said without even raising his head, “If you’re bored, come dig the sand.”

“Hoo… hoo…” Queen Huang closed her eyes and used a moderate snoring sound as a clear answer.

However, Chen Fengshi even found this noisy, so he added, “Snore again and come dig the sand.”

Queen Huang’s snoring immediately stopped. She quietly pretended to keep her eyes closed, waited a few seconds, then squinted to peek. After making sure Chen Fengshi was ignoring her, she turned her back to him, sipped ice water, and looked around with her eyes open, pretending she was just a person relaxing at the beach.

Chen Fengshi had not done this kind of hard labor for a long time either. In his memory, when he went back to his hometown to visit his grandparents, he once had a sudden whim to playfully help out in the fields, but his arms ended up hurting for two days. Since then, he knew that the romantic-sounding life of men farming and women weaving was not beautiful in reality at all!

In contrast, a happy city life should be: men playing games and women binge-watching shows.

Having great strength and having good stamina were two different things. Chen Fengshi had dug a pit half a meter deep, but still found nothing. However, he figured Queen Huang would not shoot an arrow without a target. He could only admire the person who originally dug the pit—were they being cautious? Or were they just bored with nothing to do? If he had not found anything at half a meter, how deep was that original pit?

On the sea surface, Little An poked her head out of the water. Under the beating of waves, she walked onto the wet, soft beach. She took off her flippers, removed her face mask and snorkel, and shook her wet long hair. She grabbed a bottle of mineral water to rinse her hair, face, and neck, so that uncomfortable salt grains would not be left behind after the water dried.

Little An took off the cumbersome oxygen tank and other equipment. Her pair of phoenix eyes looked at the sandpit, revealing a confused look. “Have you been digging in the same place?”

“Queen Huang is very sure there will be a harvest.” Chen Fengshi thought that if it were not for this, he would have changed places long ago! Would he have dug until now?

“Are you sure her words are credible?” Little An was a bit speechless, suddenly finding that Chen Fengshi also had naive moments.

Chen Fengshi felt that Queen Huang should not dare to talk nonsense, right?

So he continued digging. After a few scoops, a metallic reflection suddenly appeared in the sand. He bent down to pick it up and found it was a ring. He could not help but wonder if it was a diamond ring thrown away by a couple who broke up. If it was very valuable, it would not be a waste of his effort digging so deep. He quickly called Little An to bring the mineral water over.

Little An bent over to pour the water for rinsing with no expression on her face. She noticed that when she bent over, Chen Fengshi’s gaze drifted above the ring. However, this was not the first time, and she was too lazy to call him out on it.

After it was washed clean, the place on the ring where a diamond should have been set actually had nothing!

“Damn! Where did it fall?” Chen Fengshi used his foot to dig and grind in the sand, wanting to find the lost diamond, seeing that the setting hole was quite large.

Little An really could not stand watching anymore and said directly, “Have you ever seen a silver ring set with a diamond?”

Chen Fengshi froze for a moment, and his gaze returned to the ring… alright, it was indeed a silver color, not platinum, not platinum, not platinum…

Was this Queen Huang’s so-called harvest?

Anger burned in Chen Fengshi’s chest, and his fiery gaze shifted to Queen Huang’s face.

The latter sipped her ice water and said with a relaxed smile, “Come on, work me to death!”

Chen Fengshi threw down the shovel, jumped over, activated the golden mist to suck Queen Huang for a second, then pointed a finger and shouted, “Dig the sand!”

“Hey! Can you not be so rude!”

“Can you not be so obscene?” Chen Fengshi asked back, then repeated, “Dig the sand! Stop when you dig out the results.”

“…At this spot, it’s not very deep.” Queen Huang obediently took the shovel and stuck it into a new spot. The meaning was very clear: this time she guaranteed she was not lying, only begging not to make her dig it herself.

But Chen Fengshi pretended not to understand and continued to urge, “Hurry up and dig!”

“Hey, don’t be like this, I promise I’m not lying this time!” Queen Huang pleaded with a pitiful look, but Chen Fengshi was unmoved. He stated clearly, “Dig right now! Today I’ll teach you a lesson: once you trick me, you will never regain my complete trust!”

Queen Huang had no choice but to start digging. With tears streaming down her face, she complained, “What kind of man is this! Treating a beauty like this, with no grace at all, can’t take a joke at all…”

Chen Fengshi sat there drinking a frozen beverage, while leisurely correcting her, “You are a Fungal Demon, not a beauty. If you were a beauty, with your looks and figure, I would definitely endure such a joke! This lesson is to tell you, don’t play the honey trap in front of me, because you are a Fungal Demon—not a beauty! You don’t have the foundation to use a honey trap at all, understand?”

Queen Huang dug while wiping her tears, while accusing him, “No grace, scumbag, public enemy of women, scum of men…”

Little An drank her water, looked at Queen Huang, then looked at Chen Fengshi, and could not help but say, “You are quite ruthless, how could you bear to treat her like this?”

“Doesn’t this contrast to show how precious your attractiveness is?” Chen Fengshi casually made up a line, and as soon as he said it, he regretted it.

Little An did not make a sound. She drank her ice water, her attention seemingly on Queen Huang.

But Chen Fengshi also felt uncomfortable himself. He used to be used to making such jokes with Little An, but now her reactions were too uncooperative. Treating him with unusual silence made him feel that he would rather not make such jokes anymore, so he forcefully changed the topic and asked, “Did you find anything in the sea?”

Actually, since Little An came back so quickly and had not said anything for a long time, logically there should not have been any discovery.

But Little An’s answer was beyond his expectations. “Found three cars, all with people inside. The situation should be similar to Juzi. There might be other cars, but if the car models are different, they likely drifted further away.”

“Aren’t you too calm?” Chen Fengshi did not know what to say. Hearing this made him want to dive into the sea to take a look, yet Little An had been sitting for so long without any rush?

“Sunk in the sea, they won’t run away in a moment. I checked and there was nothing else. The corpses inside only had skin left, swollen from the seawater, very disgusting. Once the situation on the beach is confirmed, then we decide whether to have Heiyang find a way to salvage them, or call the police.” Little An’s narration made people understand her reason for being calm.

However, Chen Fengshi was even more eager to know the truth about the situation under the sand. He looked up and saw Queen Huang slacking off, so he could not help but urge and shout, “Move faster! Otherwise, when you finish digging, I’ll punish you by making you keep digging!”

Queen Huang angrily swung the shovel, glared at Chen Fengshi with teary eyes, and said, “You treat me like this, you will definitely regret it!”

Chen Fengshi was just about to mock her a couple of times, but on second thought, he felt it was inappropriate. He was about to nudge Little An to signal her to play the good cop, but unexpectedly Little An already spoke up, “How about this, you point out all the places with valuable clues buried under the beach, and I promise you can sit here and drink ice water, he won’t dig, I will dig.”

With this deal, Queen Huang agreed without even thinking. She took the shovel and dug a scoop in five different places on the beach to make marks, and said very certainly, “People are buried underneath.” Then she ran to Little An’s side, looked at her hands pitifully, and cried out, “My poor skin, look how worn out it is, how worn out it is…”

Chen Fengshi really felt it was too ridiculous. With a Fungal Demon’s recovery ability, she still cared about skin wear? This level of getting into character, this acting, was so realistic that it made him increasingly doubt his life.

But, the sand still had to be dug.

Chen Fengshi took the shovel and went to work, first digging at the spot Queen Huang had not finished digging.

Little An went back to the car to change clothes on her own, seemingly not planning to go into the water again.

Chen Fengshi shoved the shovel down again and felt it hit something hard.

He took a deep breath. Actually, he had already expected that he might discover something, but he was not someone used to seeing corpses. Just thinking about it made him inexplicably terrified. He was very likely to see a corpse… a corpse!

But, he could not chicken out! Especially with a Queen Huang watching nearby, he could not let her find out that this tough man who claimed to treat Fungal Demons as food would actually vomit, tremble, and feel fear at the sight of a corpse?

Of course not! If that happened, wouldn’t his deterrence in Queen Huang’s impression be greatly reduced?

Chen Fengshi quietly took a deep breath. With a careful look, pretending to be cautious and afraid of destroying the clues, he gently wiped away the sand piece by piece. At this moment, he really wished time could stretch a bit longer.

But, the truth under the sand had to be faced eventually. After two deep breaths, he increased the range and frequency of wiping away the sand, so that his abnormal caution would not expose his inner panic.

After wiping away the sand, the first thing Chen Fengshi clearly saw was a mouth filled with sand…

Yes, there was someone under the sand.

To be precise, it was a corpse, a corpse, there was a corpse under the sand, and it was a skin-and-bones corpse just like Juzi!

Oh…

Seeing the corpse for real, Chen Fengshi involuntarily imagined what the owner of this corpse looked like when alive. Was it someone positive, enthusiastic, and smart like Juzi? Or someone who buried their head in desperate work just for a better life, bearing family responsibilities without daring to hope for personal enjoyment, like a Little Family Beauty?

Chen Fengshi slowly stood up, jumped out of the sandpit, and sat down next to Little An, pretending to be calm. Queen Huang, who was originally lying down, sat up and examined the situation in the sandpit.

“The missing people are either at the bottom of the sea or here.” Chen Fengshi pretended to be composed. Little An actually did not want to go over and look either, so she said, “I’ll arrange for someone else to handle the follow-up investigation and evidence collection. The three of us can’t finish it all.”

After she said that, she thought for a moment, then still stood up and walked to the edge of the sandpit to check the situation.

Queen Huang had already jumped down at this point. She kicked and ground the sand with her foot, and finally hooked the waist of the corpse. With a forceful pull, the corpse flew up with sand, flew out of the sandpit, and was thrown right at the sitting Chen Fengshi—

In this instant, Chen Fengshi should have dodged in horror. But, just at the moment when his body instinctively stood up and was about to jump away, his rationality made him not only not run away, but also stretch out his hands to directly catch the thrown Mummy!

Yes, he could not dodge.

But, he was hugging a corpse?