Zhang Hao looked at the Ten Corpse Demons in front of him, and then said, "I'm going back to the inn. You stay here for a few days and wait until Zhang Qilin drives the corpses on the road before leaving. The Ten Corpse Demons are still unstable and need someone to watch over them."

As soon as he finished speaking, the village chief asked with a worried look on his face: "Mr. Yin Yang, are you saying that these ten evil spirits will rise up again to harm us?"

Zhang Hao shook his head and said, "They have my talismans on them, so they won't come to harm you. But if any of you want to secretly contact the Ten Corpse Evils, once the restrictions I set on them are broken, then you might be in trouble!"

"Village chief, please vacate a room, or help me find a room to use as a morgue temporarily."

The village chief nodded and said, "That's no problem!"

"By the way, Mr. Yin Yang, there is something I would like to ask you."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Hao glanced at the village chief and found that all the villagers were looking at him.

"Um... earlier when you were casting the spell to retrieve the Ten Corpses, I saw Mr. Black and Mr. White leading our shadows... this?"

Zhang Hao waved his hand and explained, "Those shadows are the luck you have nurtured for the past ten years, and they are also one of your souls. People have three souls and seven spirits. If you lose one spirit, you may be hurt, and it may also affect your lifespan, but it will not kill you directly. If you let the Ten Corpses continue to stay at the bottom of the river, you may not live for many years. But there is no need to worry too much. The ghost will take away a trace of your remaining soul, but you will be stopped when you pass the Ghost Gate. Because if it is found that the remaining soul is incomplete and cannot enter the Ghost Gate, it will be released. You just need to be careful before the remaining soul returns, burn incense and offer sacrifices to the west every day, and stand at the door with your family fairy in your arms when the dog barks for the first time after seven days."

Suddenly, the villagers began to discuss in low voices with puzzled expressions. The village chief saw this and asked hurriedly, "Mr. Yin Yang, what is a family deity? We ordinary people all worship Guanyin or other such deities at home..."

Zhang Hao explained: "The family fairy is the animal in your home that has survived the longest besides you. Generally speaking, it would be best if it is a chicken."

"What if there is no family deity?" asked the villagers.

"If you don't have one, you can go to the market and buy an old chicken, burn incense and offer sacrifices to it for seven days, and it can barely serve as a family deity."

"However, this will make it difficult for you to find your remaining soul."

"Because the family fairy is not very familiar with you, it may not recognize your residual souls."

The village chief then asked curiously: "Mr. Yin Yang, when can we be sure that our remaining souls have come back to find us?"

Zhang Hao looked towards the west of the village and explained:
"On the night of the resurrection, the ferry between the Yin and Yang worlds will open, and a scene of hundreds of rats crossing the corridor will appear on the west side of the village. This is the signal."

"When the ferry is opened, your spirits will come back to find you."

"Look at the head of the family fairy. Wherever it looks, your soul is there."

"When the family spirit starts looking at you, it means your soul is complete!"

After the explanation, the villagers nodded as if they understood, and then some people reacted.

"Oh, I just killed my old hen two days ago. Isn't it all over now?"

"Oh, my chicken died of illness two days ago. I have to go get another one!"

"The oldest animal in my family is the old cow. It should be our family spirit, right? But I can't hold it. Can I stand next to it?"

"Mr. Yin Yang, I have a donkey that I have raised for eight years. Does this count?"

Zhang Hao shook his head slightly, and did not answer their questions one by one. Instead, he patted Fatty Wang on the shoulder and said:
"Find a few people to move these ten evil spirits to the morgue."

Fatty Wang nodded, then shouted:
"Gentlemen from Sanjia Mountain, please help me move the bodies!"

……

On the other side, Secretary Wang from the archaeological team walked to the side of Li Zheng from the Second Branch of the Ministry of State Security and asked with a smile:

"Director Li, what do you think of what happened today?"

Director Li shook his head with emotion and said:
"Hey, as the branch director of the National Security Bureau, I come into contact with a lot of things on a daily basis. But I have seen many supernatural files and many exaggerated things in my life, but I have never been as surprised as today!"

"I think you are the same, right? After all, you are an archaeologist, so you must have seen some strange and inexplicable things, right?"

Secretary Wang nodded, then sighed and said:
"Yeah! But after what happened today, I realized that it wasn't weird at all. At most, I was just scaring myself."

“Today really opened my eyes!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Director Li smiled and said:

“Haha, they’re all pretty much the same!”

"By the way, when you were salvaging the ancient coffin, did you see the old turtle?" Speaking of the old turtle, Li Zheng was most shocked. Although they were far away from the villagers of Sanjiashan, when the villagers shouted "Water Dragon King", no one could fail to hear it. He only knew about the Water Dragon King after asking the villagers of Sanjiashan Village. But this was the first time Li Zheng had seen such a big old turtle. When the old turtle appeared, he couldn't help but think, could such a big old turtle have existed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
At this time, Secretary Wang turned his head and looked at the river, and said with emotion:
"This is also the first time I've seen this old turtle. Oh no, it's the Water Dragon King! The ancient coffin on its back should be the Zhenjiang ancient coffin we wanted to salvage before."

"No wonder Mr. Yin Yang didn't allow us to take it. He should have known the origin of this ancient coffin long ago, right?"

After hearing this, Li Zheng teased, "Oh? You've started calling him Mr. Yin Yang too? I remember your director didn't like this Mr. Yin Yang very much."

Secretary Wang smiled, waved his hand and said:
"Our director should have started to believe it to some extent, but he is just stubborn and doesn't want to admit it. That's just the kind of person he is."

"Besides, today we also saw the corpse evil, the black and white impermanence, and the water dragon king in this area! Although the previous things are still doubtful and can only be believed with suspicion, the water dragon king is real! I think everyone should re-examine this world!"

"Perhaps, this world is not as simple as it seems..."

Li Zheng also looked towards the river at this time, and couldn't help thinking about Secretary Wang's words in his mind. Did they really know this world before? As the director of the National Security Bureau, he thought he knew Longguo and everything about Longguo. Even if he wanted to know the information of anyone in Longguo, he could easily find out. During his tenure, he had also come into contact with some unnatural events and even conducted investigations, but today he discovered that he not only didn't understand Longguo, but he also didn't understand this world. The person who knows this world best should be Mr. Yin Yang. So he nodded and said:

"Yes! If I hadn't seen the Water Dragon King kowtow to Mr. Yin Yang, I still wouldn't have believed what I saw before was real. But when this old turtle appeared, I began to believe it! Because... I had to believe it!"

At this time, Li Zheng and Secretary Wang were looking at the river and sighing. Suddenly, a voice came from behind: "Director Li! Director Li! The autopsy report is out! The cause of Jiang Sheng's death is also out!" After hearing the voice, Li Zheng and Secretary Wang turned around and saw Li Zheng's secretary running over with a stack of materials in his hand. After handing the materials to Li Zheng and Secretary Wang, the secretary panted and said: "Director Li, Secretary Wang, the autopsy report shows that the cause of Jiang Sheng's death was drowning, but we detected a large amount of anesthetic drugs in Jiang Sheng's body."

As soon as he finished speaking, Director Li looked at his secretary in surprise and said, "Anesthetic? So, the murderer didn't kill Jiang Sheng directly, but injected him with anesthetic and then threw him into the river? Isn't this a waste of time?"

At this time, Secretary Wang next to him suddenly frowned, shook his head and said in a deep voice: "No. The Yin-Yang master once said that there is a transparent creature called corpse sting in this water. It lives in deep water all year round and is not easy to be detected. He also said that this creature called corpse sting can release a toxin that paralyzes people's nerves. Could it be that Jiang Sheng encountered this corpse sting after falling into the water? And then drowned?"

At this time, Director Li's secretary shook his head, then looked at Secretary Wang with great certainty and said, "We also found this information when we investigated yesterday. So when we were making the time report, we specially asked the forensic doctor to identify whether the anesthetic drug components in Jiang Sheng's body came from the toxins released by the corpse sting. But the forensic doctor said that the toxins released by the corpse sting are specifically used to paralyze the nerves. And the anesthetic component in Jiang Sheng's body is used to anesthetize the muscles, which is the kind of anesthetic we use when performing surgery. So Jiang Sheng's death is murder. The most important thing is that we found a capsule containing anesthetic residues in Ma Tao's luggage! If nothing unexpected happens, it was Ma Tao who injected Jiang Sheng with anesthetics and threw him into the river!"

"Ma Tao?" Someone raised this name in confusion.

"Is that the young man who helped us fish out the coffin from the water?" another person asked in disbelief.

"How could he be the murderer?" Secretary Wang widened his eyes, his gaze wandering between Director Li and his secretary, then he lowered his head and repeatedly checked the documents in his hand.

Secretary Wang couldn't guarantee that he knew all the members of the archaeological team, but he felt that since Ma Tao was willing to take on such a dangerous job, how could he be the murderer?

At this time, after hearing the conversation between Secretary Wang, Director Li and the other two, everyone looked at them with puzzled eyes, and suspicion was written all over everyone's face.

Chen Wenjin and Dapeng rushed over directly.

"What happened?" Chen Wenjin asked anxiously.

Secretary Wang handed the information in his hand to Chen Wenjin, and then said in disbelief: "The autopsy report is out. Jiang Sheng died of drowning, but anesthetic components were detected in his body. He was injected by someone!"

At this time, Director Li's secretary shook his head slightly and added: "Secretary Wang, this is a fact, and we don't want to wrongly accuse anyone. There are corpse stings in this area of ​​water, and you should know it better than us. The murderer may want to use this to make it seem that Jiang Sheng was poisoned by the corpse sting, paralyzed his nerves and drowned. But he didn't know that the toxins in the corpse stings are different from the anesthetic components in his body. Now we can conclude that this is a fake accidental death homicide! And the murderer is Ma Tao!"

Chen Wenjin frowned and looked at Director Li's secretary and asked, "Why are you so sure it was Ma Tao?"

Director Li's secretary explained, "Ma Tao is not a veteran member of your archaeological team. He is a latecomer. We have reason to suspect him. Moreover, we found a box of cold capsules in his luggage, but they were not cold medicines, but anesthetics! If it wasn't him, why did he prepare the anesthetics?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Dapeng looked at the report in his hand in shock, and whispered in disbelief: "That Yin-Yang Master actually got it right!"

Although Dapeng's voice was very low, many people still heard it. Director Li frowned in confusion, looked at Dapeng and asked, "What did you just say? What did the Yin-Yang Master predict?"

Dapeng looked up at Director Li and explained, "Director Li, yesterday before you came and Ma Tao was not completely drowned, we asked that Yin Yang Master to help us save him. But he refused to save him! We all felt strange at the time because his reason was incomprehensible."

"What did he say?" Director Li asked.

"He said..." Dapeng frowned and thought for a moment before continuing, "He said that this man was haunted by the ghost of an evildoer and deserved to die, and was targeted by a corpse in the water! That corpse was Jiang Sheng's body! He also said that this man must have done many evil things, and asked us to think carefully about why such a person appeared in our archaeological team!"

Chen Wenjin nodded in agreement, "Yes, we thought he was talking nonsense at the time, but we didn't expect that he was right! Ma Tao joined our archaeological team two months ago. Our archaeological team doesn't have any secrets, and it's usually difficult to recruit people, so we naturally accepted someone who came to help. I didn't expect that he had evil intentions."

She paused, then asked doubtfully, "But why did he kill someone? None of us noticed anything wrong with him in the past two months! How could he suddenly..."

At this time, Director Li's secretary looked at Director Li and said, "Director Li, based on the DNA data comparison, we found that this person's real name is not Ma Tao, but Xu Haitao, and he is a member of the Red Dragon Organization."

"Red Dragon!" Li Zheng's eyes widened with a hint of anger in his eyes.

Seeing Chen Wenjin, Secretary Wang and Dapeng looking at him blankly, Director Li explained, "You may not know this. The Red Dragon Organization is a very famous cultural relic smuggling and theft gang in the world! They have smuggled many cultural relics out of our country and sold them abroad at high prices! It is not an exaggeration to call them traitors. This is also an organization we have been looking for. I didn't expect to catch one here!"

After saying that, Director Li looked at the photo of Ma Tao's body printed on the file and said bluntly: "Humph, he really deserved his death!" (End of this chapter)

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