The missing moon hangs on the sparse tung trees, and when the moon is missing, people are still at first.
After Yang Zhaoxi watched Zhong Kui leave for a long time, his strength gradually recovered, and then he slowly got up and returned to Shanglinfang alertly. When he climbed over the roof of the building, his breath was unstable for a while, and he almost fell off the tiles.
When he returned to the cramped and cramped room, he was already sweating profusely. The familiar smell filled the room, which made him sober. He spread out a dark quilt on the couch and walked towards Zhong Kui.
All kinds of speculations, as well as the exhaustion after using Zhanzhan Qi Technique and opening the Heavenly Eye, he finally fell into a deep sleep.
Under the same moonlight, in the woodshed in the backyard of Wuhou Pu in Zeshanfang, there was a different scene of horror.
It has been five days and nights since Luo Rou's body was found. Ice cubes of different sizes are still surrounded by a faint cold air. Her wide-open pupils, which were already cloudy, seem to have regained some of their energy at this time.
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Suddenly, several shrill meows sounded over the woodshed, and those pupils blinked several times!
The meowing of the cat woke up the two bad guards guarding outside the woodshed, and they both yawned at the same time. If Fang Qidou was there, he would have recognized that these two bad guards were the guards who guarded Yang Chaoxi five years ago.
They beat Shen Jingbin and Shao Gengxian of Shiyazi in a hut in the reeds beside Luoshui River.
The two of them were originally disciples of Long Xingguan, but for some unknown reason, they now lost their Taoist status, gave up their Taoist titles, and became bad guards.
Shen Jingbin cursed: "This damn wild cat! It calls for spring in the middle of the night, disturbing my sweet dreams! If I had known better, I should have brought my slingshot and discounted the cat's legs..."
"Hush - my mother said you can't say the word "death" at night, it's unlucky... Bah, bah! How did I say it..." Shao Gengxian's words were vague and he advised seriously from the side. Unexpectedly, he also committed a taboo, and he couldn't help but regret it.
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At this time, there seemed to be a soft sound of "dong, dong, dong" coming from the woodshed, a bit like a knocking on the door.
Shen Jingbin felt something was wrong and shouted softly: "Shut up! There is a noise inside... Could it be a wild cat sneaking in?"
When Shao Gengxian heard the words, his breath froze, he covered his mouth, raised his ears and listened carefully: Dong, Dong, Dong... Dong! The two looked at each other and saw fear in each other's eyes.
But as a bad guard, he walked around the streets on weekdays and had many encounters with libertines and thieves, but he still had some courage. With two "swish, swish" sounds, the two of them drew the swords from their waists, and there was more in their hearts.
Feeling somewhat confident, the two of them followed suit and slowly moved toward the woodshed.
When they reached the door, the knocking sound of "dong, dong, dong" became louder and louder. However, this sound did not come from the door, but echoed in the woodshed, which was a bit dull, but thrilling.
Shen Jingbin took a bold move and swung his knife to push the door bolt open. Then he kicked open the wooden door of the firewood shed. Although Shao Gengxian's right hand was shaking, he followed Shen Jingbin and started slashing at the door.
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After six breaths, the two of them noticed it. They swung their swords several times, but they only hit the air. And the "dong-dong" sound came from the ground when they put away their swords and stood still.
The two victims took a closer look and almost lost their minds! The Luo Rou corpse seemed to have come to life. A head kept lifting, falling, lifting, falling... and hit the door panel containing the corpse, making a "dong dong" sound.
"The voice!"
The scalps of the two people exploded, and they yelled "Ah! Ah--" twice, then they dropped the swords in their hands and fled. The sound of "dong dong" was still ringing regularly behind them.
It's like a drumbeat that urges death!
Something happened in the woodshed, which immediately woke up Zhang Wuhou and the bad guards who were on duty in the front yard. They were all lying in their clothes. When they heard the cry, they immediately stood up and rushed to the back yard.
In his haste, Zhang Wuhou did not forget to grab an ink warehouse, a peach wood sword and a small bag of raw glutinous rice on the case, in case the worst happened.
Just a few steps out of the main hall, Shen Jingbin and Shao Gengxian bumped into each other head-on. Zhang Wuhou, who was quick to react, kicked him one by one and knocked him to the ground: "You are so panicked! What are you doing!"
Shen Jingbin's face turned pale: "That female... female corpse is alive! Run away..."
Zhang Wuhou raised his eyebrows and glanced at the two of them: "Follow me!" Then he led the other bad guards and hurried towards the backyard.
The two of them panted for a while, then felt that they had lost their composure, so they plucked up the courage and moved towards the backyard cautiously.
Zhang Wuhou and others rushed to the backyard, and saw the wooden door of the firewood shed wide open, and a figure standing inside the door, with a yellow talisman painted by Yuchi Taoist on his forehead. The clear light fell, and the clothes were clearly visible, which was the body of Luo Rou.
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The corpse's arms were raised flat and its torso was stiff. It seemed that it sensed the presence of a stranger and turned sideways toward them. The yellow symbol on its forehead was blown by the wind and fell down, revealing a pale face! The face was no longer distorted.
, but it is even more frightening than when it was twisted!
Zhang Wuhou secretly thought, "Oh no!" He defended himself day and night for several days, but the result was that he still transformed into a corpse.
Zhang Wuhou did not hesitate and slapped Mocang on the hand of a bad guard: "I will fight her first! You will follow my order later and tie her up with Mocang!"
As he spoke, Zhang Wuhou had already rushed two feet away and rushed towards the standing corpse. He swung out the bag with his left hand, and the raw glutinous rice covered the corpse like raindrops. Anyone who hit it would "crack, bang, bang" and burst out black smoke.
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The corpse resisted the first move, jumped straight up, and hit Zhang Wuhou! Zhang Wuhou did not retreat but advanced, and the peach wood sword thrust out fiercely, stabbing towards the corpse's heart and chest. However, it seemed to have hit a copper wall, and it suddenly broke into several pieces!
In desperation, Zhang Wuhou flew back and shouted: "Tie her up!"
The two bad guards pulled out the ink thread from the ink chamber and ran towards the body. When the ink thread touched the body, the two of them turned around in circles, like tying rice dumplings, wrapping the body with more than a dozen ink threads.
The body was tied, and bursts of black smoke suddenly rose up. He tried to jump forward, but was nailed to the spot, and it was difficult to escape for a while.
At this moment, Zhang Wuhou took out another yellow talisman from his arms and flew towards it. When his body passed by the corpse, he put the yellow talisman on the forehead of the corpse again with a "snap". The corpse looked like the same
Like a wooden stake, there was a "bang!" sound, and he fell straight back and fell to the ground.
Zhang Wuhou paused, wiped off the cold sweat, turned to look at Shen Jingbin, Shao Gengxian and other bad guards: "Don't carry the female body in yet!"
"Here!" Several bad guards responded, then moved the door panel out of the firewood shed, lifted up the body that was tied with large ink threads, placed it, and put it back in place. They also picked up the scattered ice cubes and piled them on the body.
around.
By the time all the bad guards finished their work, it was already midnight. Zhang Wuhou sent a few more bad guards to guard the place together until the rooster crows and both the man and the corpse are safe.
Morning drums woke up the people, and the curfew was lifted. Zhang Wuhou hurriedly led some unscrupulous guards to join the search for the third lady of the Chen family all over the city.
First of all, the impact of this incident was so great that Chen Shaoyin, who was in charge of Wuhou Pu in Luoyang, even issued a reward notice. Anyone who provided information and even caught the real culprit would be rewarded with a silver reward ranging from ten taels to one hundred taels.
Secondly, Luo Rou's corpse transformed last night, which almost caused a ghost disaster. Today, Taoist nun Linjiguan comes to visit her again, and she will definitely not give up. It is better to avoid it.
Sure enough, there is no airtight wall in the world. At the beginning of the morning, after learning about the corpse transformation last night, Wei Chiyuan, the master of Hongdao Temple, Shang Sizuo, the eldest disciple of Chunzong, Xu Meixiang, Feng Yizi of Linji Temple, and Xueyi
Zi Ding Mo Niang, Shang Qing Guan Ming Lingzi Zhuo Songtao, and Yu Lingzi Huang Shuo entered the Wuhou Shop of Zeshanfang together and went straight to the woodshed in the backyard.
At this time, the spring sun was extremely strong and it was difficult to look directly at it. No matter how powerful the evil spirit was, it would not be possible for it to break out in broad daylight, let alone an expected corpse transformation.
The six people entered the woodshed silently, and when they saw the female corpse tied up with ink thread, her eyes were wide open, wide and lifeless, and her ferocious expression had calmed down, they knew that the news about the transformation of the corpse revealed by the bad guard was definitely not a lie!
Yuchiyuan reached into his arms and took out a small scarlet bundle. After opening it, everyone looked at it and were all surprised: it turned out to be a small and simple Sinan!
Sinan's magnetic spoon on a copper base. The eight directions, eight trigrams, heavenly stems, and earthly branches are embossed on the copper base. After gently rotating, the head of the spoon falls to the north, and the handle of the spoon points to the south.
Everyone saw him reciting the incantation softly, holding Si Nan in one hand, starting from the head of the corpse, passing through the chest, crotch, towards the feet, and then suddenly pulling it back. The magnetic spoon on Si Nan was as fast as a top
It started to spin, then stopped for a long time, but then tremblingly pointed towards the southeast.
Yuchi Yuan frowned slightly and said to the rest of the crowd: "Yesterday's corpse changed at the wrong time. It must have been the monster's deliberate act. Although I don't know why, the energy in its body was leaked and locked by me, the evil-preventing Sinan. Let's take advantage of this opportunity.
During the day, you might as well search for it, if you can find traces of the monster, half of your revenge will be avenged!"
Xu Meixiang swept her eyes angrily and said to the two unscrupulous guards who were guarding the door: "You, Marquis Zhang Wu, are hiding away! Save me the old man and I'll scold you. If something strange happens again tonight, you'd better tell us immediately and stop being so smart."
, suppress it randomly to avoid getting burned."
The two bad guards turned away and refused to pay attention to her. Xu Meixiang was about to curse again, but Ding Mo Niang came up to stop her.
Yuchi Yuan took a few steps forward, took out another stack of yellow talismans, and stuffed them into the hands of the two men: "It is abnormal to die without burial. The corpses are mutating together, and they must be more dangerous each time. To guard tonight, please tell Marquis Zhang Wu to add more people.
, just in case something unexpected happens.”
Yuchiyuan paused, pretending to be lofty and smoothed his silver beard,
"This yellow talisman is called the 'breath-holding talisman'. It's not for her, it's for you. If you can't fight her, just escape! You can stick this talisman on your forehead to cover up the breath of strangers and avoid her.
offensive."
The two unscrupulous guards took the yellow talisman doubtfully and wrote down the words of the skinny old man, but they did not agree with it in their hearts: a resurrected corpse is a bit scary at best. If a group of unscrupulous guards came together to avoid its sharp edges, wouldn't it be even more terrifying?
Are the common people in the city looking down upon them?
After Yuchiyuan explained this, he, together with Shang Sizuo, Xu Meixiang, Ding Mouniang, Zhuo Songtao and Huang Shuo, followed the direction pointed by the evil-preventing Sinan and followed the trail.
Every time he arrived at a street intersection, Yuchiyuan urged Sinan to ward off evil spirits to identify the next direction. In this way, he passed diagonally through Huijiefang, Nanshi, and Zhangshanfang, and then entered Huijiefang.
Huijiefang is not far from Jianchun Gate. During the Jizhou Rebellion a few years ago, the Anlushan rebels broke into the city through the three east gates including Jianchun Gate, Shangdong Gate and so on. They burned, killed and destroyed the surrounding cities.
It is also the most serious.
Huijiefang was almost razed to the ground at that time, and the few remaining abandoned houses were piled up alone in the square. Residents in nearby towns often reported that the square was haunted, so few people bought it and rebuilt it.
The wooden gate to the west was decayed and collapsed. When Yuchiyuan and his party entered the gate, Sinan's magnetic spoon to ward off evil spirits started to spin on its own.
Walking eastward along the cross street in Fangnei, Yuchiyuan and others saw Zhang Wuhou and a group of bad guards also investigating here, and they saluted and said: "Master Wuhou, can you find any clues? We have just learned from you, Wuhou
The guards have been laid out and the relevant information has been informed, so please pay attention to it."
Zhang Wuhou glanced at Xu Meixiang who looked hesitant, nodded to Yuchiyuan and said: "Taoist Master, you are polite! Recently, the third lady in Chen Shaoyin's mansion has disappeared, and all the bad guards in the city are looking for her whereabouts. I have sent some bad guards to investigate these abandoned buildings.
In the house, I found that the lime particles found in Luo Rou's hair were very similar to the dust in the ruins. Today, I happened to find some clues in an abandoned house in the Huijiefang."
Hearing this, Xu Meixiang asked first, "Zhang... Lord Wuhou, can you take me to have a look?" Ding Moniang also moved her eyes slightly and looked this way.
Zhang Wuhou coughed lightly: "It doesn't matter! This has nothing to do with the woman's disappearance case, and it has not been reported yet."
The two groups of people were led by Zhang Wuhou to an abandoned house in Huijiefang.
The courtyard has been dilapidated for many years, with most of the courtyard walls overturned. There are overgrown weeds in the courtyard, willow leaves are growing wildly in the garden, and the pavilions are like canopies. Looking through the decayed courtyard walls, you can see the adjacent site of an old Zoroastrian temple, which is also mostly collapsed and has been missing for many years.
people.
Everyone bypassed the rubble barrier at their feet and came to a relatively intact house in the backyard. Several bad guards went in first, seemingly to guard the scene. Seeing nothing unusual, Yu Chiyuan, Zhang Wuhou and others also stepped in one after another.
There are only four walls in the room, except for a strange armchair placed in the center. Its new luster is incompatible with the surrounding environment. There are broken ropes on the armchair, and there are blood stains on the ropes and on the armchair, which have now dried up.
Zhang Wuhou pondered for a while, then refined his words before saying: "Qin Wuzuo and I have repeatedly looked at the injuries on Luo Rou's corpse. The bruises and marks on her arms and legs are all consistent with the lines of the ropes on the armchair. According to this inference, Luo Rou's corpse
Rougei was trapped in this armchair and was humiliated... wantonly by several thugs..."
A soft "pop" sound interrupted Zhang Wuhou's words. However, Yuchiyuan took out the evil-dispelling sinan and activated it again. However, the magnetic spoon shook and spun a few times before it burst apart.
Yuchi Yuan looked stern: "This monster is no small matter! The monster atmosphere remaining here alone can make magic weapons such as the evil-bending Sinan unable to withstand it, and the magic circle will self-destruct. It seems that if you want to subdue the monster, you need to invite more colleagues.
Come on, let’s make a good plan.”
Xu Meixiang and Ding Mo Niang were all worried after hearing what he said. Seeing this, Zhuo Songtao said: "My temple master will be coming down the mountain in the next few days, and he will definitely be able to help!"
Shang Sizuohu, who was silent all the way, said: "Master Wuhou, although we practice Taoism of the Shangqing sect, we usually recite sutras, practice martial arts, practice Qi and cultivate the mind. As for the techniques of subduing demons and catching ghosts, the only method is
The Maoshan Sect is involved in many things. If Lord Wuhou can find some Taoist priests who practice Maoshan, our chances of winning will be even greater."
Yuchiyuan looked at Shang Sizuo, gave an approving look, and then turned to Zhang Wuhou: "Master Wuhou, what my disciple in the temple said is what I thought. Now that we have found the place where the crime occurred, we have
Meimou, we will continue to pursue the case. When Lord Wuhou is ready to settle the case, we will be at your disposal."
After the two groups of people clasped their fists and saluted, they all left the festival hall and went about their business.