Chapter 144: One wrong step and a lifetime of mistakes (please subscribe!)
"It's not all about men dressing up as women to seduce men."
Xu Baan glanced at Qin Shaoyou and didn't understand why there was a hint of excitement in his surprised tone.
“These ghosts also pretend to be handsome men in paintings to seduce women and suck their blood.
Later, Shen Bin discovered that just absorbing Yang Qi and blood Qi was not enough, because his internal organs would still rot.
So he asked the ghost to look for a healthy person, dig out his heart and lungs, and replace them with him.
Since there were no wounds on the bodies of these people who had their hearts and lungs ripped out, their families just assumed that they died accidentally. Therefore, many of them did not even report it to the official, let alone our Demon Suppression Division..."
Qin Shaoyou sighed softly.
Shen Bin's initial experience of being killed by bandits is certainly sympathetic.
But later, in order to make himself "live" like a human being, he started to attack innocent people, and he changed from a victim to a perpetrator.
It’s like an old song goes: ‘One wrong step and a lifetime of mistakes’.
"Before Shen Bin died, he was just an ordinary person. After his death, although he became a living corpse with the help of a paintbrush, he did not understand the method of cultivation.
So he can only use his own soul to paint the brush.
At first, he didn't think there was any problem.
But as he used the brush more, the damage to his soul worsened, and he began to feel pain.
But at this moment, he couldn't do without the paintbrush. Although he knew that he would probably be drained of his soul by the paintbrush and eventually die, he still couldn't help but keep using it.
It is also because of the consumption of souls that although he has absorbed the blood and yang energy of many people, his strength has not increased much, and he is not as good as the blood warrior.
After painting the murals for the rural temple, Shen Bin wanted to go somewhere else.
But because he is not strong enough and has no way to bring documents, plus he needs to absorb a lot of blood and yang energy, and also needs to replace his internal organs, he definitely cannot stay in the countryside or become a bandit.
After much thought, Shen Bin decided to return to Luocheng.
Because there are many people in Luocheng, it can meet his needs for blood and yang energy, as well as the replacement of internal organs.
Moreover, his family lives next to Ya Tan Tang. He doesn't sell paintings by himself. He only needs to sneak into Ya Tan Tang and seal the ghosts into the erotic books and albums sold by Ya Tan Tang, and then let the ghosts harvest for him. There is a lot of yang energy and blood energy.
Although there is a demon suppression department in Luocheng, Shen Bin feels that he uses the ghosts in the paintings to harm people without people noticing.
As long as he is careful, no matter how powerful the Luocheng Town Demon Division is, it will be impossible for him to discover it..."
Xu Ba'an paused and praised Qin Shaoyou with a smile: "It's just that he never expected that the ghost in his painting would actually set his sights on you, my brother Shaoyou, causing him to lose everything." ."
Qin Shaoyou waved his hand and said: "Brother Xu is too praised. Without me, my colleagues in the Demon Suppression Department would have discovered that Shen Bin was weird."
Xu Baan praised Qin Shaoyou a few more times before continuing:
"After Shen Bin came back, he first drew a painting and sent it to the Yatan Hall.
His purpose is not to sell the painting, but to use this painting to sneak into the elegant talk hall and add a few strokes to seal the ghost in the popular erotic books and albums.
In this way, he absorbed the yang energy and blood energy of many people.
Later, when he was replacing his internal organs, his wife discovered him.
Shen Bin begged his wife to keep it a secret, but his wife, thinking about the relationship between husband and wife for many years and not knowing that he had become a living corpse, agreed to keep it a secret for him, just asking him not to do such harmful things again.
Shen Bin agreed wholeheartedly, but was afraid that his wife would go to the Demon Suppression Department to report him.
So he got toadstools for his wife and children to eat, hoping to poison them to death, thus keeping the secret completely.
The reason why we use toadstools is because these days, many people eat toadstools by mistake, and many of them are poisoned to death. Letting your wife and children die from toadstools will not be noticed by anyone, and naturally it will not attract suspicion. .
After Shen Bin induced his wife and children to eat toadstools, he went to the ancestral hall he had found in advance and painted murals on the roof beams to serve as evidence of alibi so that people would not die because his wife and children ate toadstools. , but he was fine, and he was suspected.
It's just that Shen Bin didn't expect that the ghost in his painting would be exposed because he met you that night.
He was afraid that you would find clues through Yatan Tang and cast suspicion on him, so he simply asked the ghost to set fire to Ya Tan Tang and burn down the entire Ya Tan Tang.
At the same time, he also used the fire to burn down his own house, and also burned the bodies of his wife and children who died of poisoning, faking their deaths in the fire."
Qin Shaoyou frowned and asked: "So, the group of Black Lotus sect believers in Yatan Hall have nothing to do with Shen Bin. They were just unlucky to meet such a neighbor. They first took advantage of them, and then let them go. Was it because of the fire that their identities were exposed?"
"That's true." Xu Ba'an said: "Shen Bin didn't even know that the group of people in Yatan Hall were followers of the Black Lotus Sect."
Qin Shaoyou nodded and asked again: "Why did Shen Bin lock the souls of his wife and children in the coffin, and also drew a pen to dip the souls in?"
Xu Ba'an said: "According to Shen Bin's confession, the souls of his wife and children are different from other people.
The souls of other people will be directly trapped by the paintbrush as ghosts.
But the souls of his wife and children are somewhat similar to his, being locked in the corpse and unable to leave.
But his wife and children did not turn into living corpses.
So Shen Bin tried to see if he could dip his paintbrush into the souls of his wife and children and make ink, and found that it worked.
Shen Bin didn't know the various reasons. According to his explanation, although he could use the brush, he actually didn't know many functions of the brush.
After killing his wife and children, and setting fire to the elegant talk hall, Shen Bin noticed that we were investigating the ghost in the painting, so he wanted to hide for a while and wait until the limelight was over.
He even thought about leaving Luocheng, but was restricted and could not leave the city.
After resting for a few days, he discovered that our investigation of the ghost in the painting had been going on without stopping.
But because he didn't inhale Yang Qi and blood Qi, his body had begun to undergo various changes like that of a corpse.
He was afraid of being exposed, so he had to take risks. First, he created an infatuated image for himself, and then he painted a lot of paintings, sold them in a high profile, and said he would donate them to the temple.
In doing so, one is to absorb some yang energy and blood energy through painting and slow down the decay of the physical body.
The second is to use the excuse of donating money to the temple to see if I can sneak out of the city.
Shen Bin's plan was very good, but he never expected that his painting had only been sold for two days, and he was found out before the ghost in the painting could absorb yang energy and blood, let alone donate money."
Speaking of this, Xu Ba'an took a deep look at Qin Shaoyou and sighed sincerely:
"Your boy's eyes are really poisonous. We have also heard about Shen Bin's story in the past few days, but we were just watching the fun and didn't find anything wrong with him. Only you saw that something was wrong with him."
Qin Shaoyou said a few words of modesty.
But he also felt that his gift of [bright eyesight] was getting sharper and more useful than when he first got it.
The two chatted for a while about the situation of Shen Bin's case, and suddenly heard a commotion coming from outside the gate of the Demon Suppression Department.
"What happened?"
"Let's go and have a look."
The two of them looked solemn and ran towards the gate of the Demon Suppression Department.