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I had never swam before, and now I was not only in the lake, but I could clearly feel my soul beginning to falter and want to leave my body. I was shocked.

I swung my feet back and forth, my arms clawing wildly at the water to get out of it, and I saw the child who had fallen into it swimming toward me from a distance with a dagger in his hand.

My heart filled with shock, I immediately wanted to dodge and put the idea of dodging into action.

Holding my breath, I told myself to steady myself and tried to remember what I had seen, how others swam, swinging their legs and arms in the way they did.

With my overwhelming strength, I was actually able to use my hands and feet to dodge in the direction that I wanted to dodge.

I dove out of the way and went back to swimming at the bottom of the water, so that I could get used to swimming before the kids got close to me.

I was in no hurry to surface again. There was thick ice all over the lake except for where I had fallen, and there were two enemies waiting by the lake.

If I was anxious to get to the surface, what I would face would be a pincer attack.

I have to get rid of the child in the water before I feel suffocated.

I was slightly glad that I didn't forget to take a deep breath when I fell into the lake. I didn't choke after falling into the lake.

As I swam, I quickly stripped off my backpack and down jacket, doing my best to reduce the resistance.

My backpack and down jacket were soaked through, and as I threw them away, they sank to the bottom of the lake.

I wrapped the scarf around my hand as I swam, ready to use it as a weapon against the children.

I had just wrapped the scarf around my hand when the child approached me.

However, when I removed my backpack and down jacket, the children swimming towards me immediately focused their attention on my backpack and down jacket.

He glanced at me with the dagger in his hand. After a moment of hesitation, he didn't deal with me first. Instead, he started chasing after the backpack and the down jacket.

I knew better than to miss the opportunity, so I followed the child at once.

It was only then that I noticed that my underwater vision was unobstructed, that I continued to be breathless but not suffocating, that my soul, though it continued to try to leave my body, continued to remain in my body.

The faster I swam, the faster I caught up with the kid as he grabbed my down jacket and stabbed me with his dagger.

I dodged the kid's attack and wrapped the scarf around the wrist of his dagger.

The child then threw away his down jacket and, with his free hand, drew the dagger from his other hand. With a flick of the dagger, he cut off the scarf that was wrapped around his wrist.

As my down jacket continued to sink, the child glanced at me and continued to chase my down jacket. I continued to follow.

The mahogany dagger and the Life Plate were both in my down jacket. I couldn't let my down jacket fall into the hands of a child.

My soul was unstable and trying to break away from my body made me feel uncomfortable. I only felt that the lake water was too abnormal.

Aunt Zhen and Aunt Zhang have already helped me increase the stability of my three souls and seven souls. Furthermore, I have the Soul Suppressing Orb, so the lakewater is actually still able to cause my soul to become unstable.

The more I swam towards the bottom of the lake, the colder the water felt.

Although my vision underwater is unobstructed, my vision is greatly reduced.

When I caught up with the kids at the bottom of the lake, I saw that the bottom of the lake was densely packed with ghosts whose bodies had sunk into the bottom half of the lake.

The ghosts ignored the children, but each reached out to grab me.

I quickly swam up. The ghosts tried to catch me, but they couldn't get away from the bottom of the lake, so they just stared at me.

I watched the child at the bottom of the lake take everything out of my down jacket and stuff it into his pocket. I watched him carry my backpack again.

I saw the child suddenly spit out a large bubble from the back of my backpack, and his face changed dramatically as he moved up the river.

Realizing that the child was on the verge of choking, I immediately went to stop the child from going upstream.

The child was anxious to get out of the water, and the attack became more and more aggressive. I protected my belly as long as I could.

The remaining Ghost Infant poison in my body was all suppressed at my abdomen. If my abdomen was injured again, I wouldn't be as lucky as last time.

Although I continued to prevent the child from swimming upstream, the child continued to swim toward the lake, relying on the dagger in his hand, for fear that the child might hurt my belly, even though my ability to coordinate my limbs underwater continued to weaken.

Seeing the child about to rush out of the lake, I stopped trying to avoid the dagger in his hand and went straight for his leg.

The child choked as he stabbed at me with his dagger, and I took advantage of the brief pause in his assault to pull his legs down and hold his hand tightly around the dagger.

I broke the child's wrist with the force of my hands.

The dagger in the child's hand fell to the bottom of the lake, and the child's body sank towards the bottom.

I quickly took the peach wood dagger and the Life Plate out of the child's pocket and put them in my pants pocket, then lifted the child's body and pushed him out of the lake.

I had no intention of killing the child. I had already given him a punishment for breaking his wrist.

I pushed the child out of the lake, and then I rose to the surface.

Although I continued to feel asphyxiated underwater, my unstable soul continuously wanting to leave my body made me want to get out of the lake as soon as possible.

The appearance of the child and I drew cries of alarm from the people on the lakeside.

Without knowing when, a lot of people had already gathered by the lakeside, including Qi Xiaoxian's stepmother and the woman who threw me into the water.

When the two of them saw the child appear, they relaxed their expressions. When they saw me appear next to them, they looked at each other in dismay.

A rescue team came at this time and dragged me and the kid out of the lake.

As my body left the water, I no longer felt unsteady.

The woman who threw me into the water threw herself beside the child and cried. I became a hero in her mouth.

I heard an old couple whispering that this lake was very strange a long time ago. Someone once said that this lake was Soul Drop Lake.

After coming out of the lake, Bei Feng blew at me, causing me to shiver in fear. I removed my backpack from the child's body and immediately turned around to leave. After walking a few steps, Qi Xiaoxian's stepmother called for me to stop.

I stopped in my tracks, and looked coldly at the mother as she extended her hand towards me. This time, she actually gave me the Life Plate.

My mind connected with Qi Xiaoxian and I carefully described the appearance of the Life Plate that I had obtained.

After confirming that the Life Plate I got from Qi Xiahan was indeed his, I put the Life Plate in my pocket and continued walking forward.

The stepmother grabbed my arm and asked for her son's Life Plate.

I coldly glanced at her and lifted my chin towards the lake in the park. The stepmother Wei Xiaowan continued to tug at me with a doubtful expression.

At this moment, I felt all the more depressed that I couldn't speak.

I don't have a pen and paper or a cell phone, so I can't speak. I can't let my stepmother find out that I can't speak, so that she won't use my weakness to add insult to injury.

I raised my foot to kick at the knee of the stepmother, but she was caught off guard and kneels to the ground with a groan. Her hand is still holding on to me.

I grab her wrist and snap it up, and she lets go of my clothes.

I hurried away, ignoring her frantic voice.

Right now, I am a hero who sacrificed himself to save others. Although the grudge between the stepmother and I has attracted quite a bit of attention, no one came to block my path.

After I came out of the lake, I had the thought of settling the matter as soon as possible.

I intend to give her son's Life Plate if the stepmother gives it to me, and I won't hesitate to give it back to her.

She used her cell phone to take pictures of me. I knew that even if I returned her son's Life Plate to her, she wouldn't let this go easily.

Since that's the case, I might as well offend her a little more thoroughly. I might as well use her son's Life Plate as my protective talisman.

I hurried out of the park and hailed a taxi, which happened to be unheated, and by the time the taxi arrived at my destination, my hair and clothes were already frozen.

I paid for the car with the ice-soaked money in my backpack and went straight home with it.

When I got home, I opened the door to see that Aunt Tao and Yu Kexin had actually arrived home early.