Republic of China

Chapter 159
Strange.

It's really weird.

When Zhao Sanyuan and Kang Muang were having dinner on the first floor of the inn, they were still thinking about what the boy who fed the horse said.

The disappeared deputy village chief.

Multiple grotesque corpses without tongues.

Looking at it alone, there is no connection at all.

The same is true in combination. In this world, more people die every day, with various ways of death. Some villages that suffered from military disasters even have bloody scenes of collective people being hacked with sticks.

The disappearance of a deputy village chief is a trivial matter. It is common for a township or county magistrate or even a larger official to suddenly donate money and run away.

But both brothers knew that Onmyoji was going to cause trouble in Sunjiawan, so it was weird to connect the three.

coincidence?

Or is it related?

"Well, in order to save time, Lao Kang, you go to Yizhuang, and I'll go to the deputy village chief's house to see what clues I can find. No matter whether there are any gains or not, we have to return to the inn before midnight. If either of them encounters an accident, is it okay? When Fa comes back, the other one goes to help.”

Kang Muang, who had always listened to what he said, did not agree this time.

"No, I just made a divination. Today, the Five Elements Great Station earth will be against your Tianhe water, and it will be bad for me if it goes to the north of Rat. The heavenly stems and earthly branches Jiaxu, Yihai, and Bingzi are unfavorable. They are harmful to you and me. Xing, if we insist on taking action tonight, it will be very difficult. Let’s talk about what we want to do tomorrow, and if we can’t act separately, we won’t separate. Stability is the priority.”

When the two brothers were talking, they didn't know that there was a pair of dark and sharp eyes staring at them on the branch of the tree outside.

Humans cannot discover it.

But it doesn't mean that Lao Xian'er didn't notice something strange.

Before the two brothers got up, Uncle Feng had already given Zhao Sanyuan a psychological message.

"Boys, you're being watched."

"Who? Can you confirm the identity of the other party?"

"It's definitely not a human being. The other party is unknown. If I approach without authorization, I may alert the snake. Just listen to Xiaokang and don't go anywhere tonight. Just go upstairs and sleep. I guess this is just indiscriminate surveillance. It shouldn't be Just for you two."

"Uncle Feng, you mean that thing is monitoring the entire inn?"

"I can't say exactly. Maybe I'm monitoring it for the sake of caution. After all, this inn receives a lot of people every day. Anyway, just don't disturb that thing. And to be honest, I've never seen the nature of that thing. But, can you understand this?"

Understand!
Zhao Sanyuan understands it so well!
As an immortal of the Hu family's Xue generation, Uncle Feng has been practicing Taoism for many years and has countless insights and experiences.

It is a weird thing that it has never seen before, and most likely its surname is not Yanhuang.

Onmyoji!
A sinister smile appeared on Zhao Sanyuan's lips.

I'm not afraid of heaven or earth, I'm just afraid that you bunch of idiots won't come!

Now that I know you have arrived in Sunjiawan, it’s easy to say anything.

Let's play slowly.

All night.

The sky had just turned white, and Kang Muang got up first. The room was too stuffy on a midsummer night, and he wanted to go out early to breathe fresh air.

Since the inn did not accept guests in the middle of the night and would not open until midnight, Lao Kang thought of having some activities at the horse stable in the side yard.

Before I could move for a while, I saw a few people rolling up straw mats and walking this way.

Lao Kang could tell at a glance that the half of the face exposed in the straw mat was the boy who was chatting about feeding the horses yesterday!
"Wait."

Seeing that something was wrong, Lao Kang stepped forward and motioned for several people to stop.

But the other party ignored him at all and continued to walk out holding the straw mat.

puff-

The person holding the end of the straw mat stumbled and fell to the ground. Zhao Sanyuan behind him kept kicking forward, "My brother asked you to wait for a while, pretending to be deaf?"

How have these strong men ever seen such a crazy boy?

I thought to myself, you can just wear gold and silver. What qualifications do you have to be crazy about wearing floral pudding?
Facts have proved that those who wear gold and silver are not necessarily celebrities, and those who wear floral pudding are not necessarily diaosi.

Only when the horse card stick was placed on the head of the leading strong man did he understand this hard truth.

"Lao Kang, check it out."

Kang Muang opened the straw mat and examined the boy's body carefully.

No trauma.

There were no signs of a struggle.

The facial features are peaceful.

Judging from the softness of the body, death would not take more than two hours.

If he wasn't breathing, it would be like falling asleep.

Until Kang Muang opened the boy's mouth.

No tongue!

The opening and closing of the throat is very wide!

The missing tongue seemed to have been forcibly pulled out!
A stream of yin energy drifted out from his throat, it was very light and almost undetectable, but it could not escape Kang Muang's eyes.

Sure enough, evil.

After checking for a while, he stood up and nodded to Zhao Sanyuan.

"When was the body found?"

With the gun pressed against his forehead, the leading strong man did not dare to neglect at all, and answered as clearly as possible.

"Reply to the uncle! When I found him, it was less than three o'clock in the middle of the night. He was lying on his back in the kitchen. He was already dead by then."

Zhao Sanyuan nodded slightly and continued to ask: "Where should he be sent? Shouldn't a dead person report to the official?"

The leading strong man smiled bitterly, "I don't know, this is not the first time for us to die in this way. A waiter died ten days ago. In order not to affect the business, our boss announced that the waiter had gone home." I'm going to marry you. After I reported it secretly, there was no follow-up. I sent it directly to Yizhuang and let it go. The village chief said that if this kind of thing happens again, we don't need to go through the normal channels. We will send it to Yizhuang first. We little people like us don't have to worry about the rest, sir. , Our inn owner doesn’t have a big background, how can we dare not to listen to the village chief? What’s more, we are little people, we still expect the uncle to be noble."

When people die, they just die.

Sent to the charity village, Quan pretended that nothing happened.

Oh, fucked up world.

Zhao Sanyuan had no reason to embarrass them anymore and said perfunctorily: "I damn thought there was a plague in the inn, and I didn't know how I would die by then. Okay, you guys should do whatever you want, but remember, you didn't do anything this morning." Met us two brothers."

"I understand, I understand, even villains understand!"

After watching them leave with their straw mats in their arms.

Both brothers understood that the situation was more serious than imagined.

I thought that the Onmyoji had not taken any action yet, but combined with Uncle Feng's warning last night, I am afraid that the situation has already begun.

"There is no need to go to Yizhuang. The symptoms of death must be similar. The so-called strange disease is actually a large amount of blood entering the lung meridian, causing suffocation and death. But the problem is that the boy's expression does not show any pain at all, and he does not even frown. There is a problem, there are coagulated blood stains inside the ten fingernails of the young man. If he fell in a pool of blood, there would never be a large amount of blood coagulated in the ten fingernails, so..."

Zhao Sanyuan took a deep breath and already understood what Lao Kang meant.

I'm afraid it was the boy who pulled out his tongue himself!

That picture is terrifying enough to think about.

Zhao Sanyuan has actually encountered similar things.

That night on the engineering team, the old man and the bald man tortured themselves like crazy.

The difference is that the dead boy killed himself with one blow.

Either commit suicide!

Either that or something forced him to commit suicide!

At this time, a burst of noise came.

The two brothers followed the sound and walked out of the side yard. They found that in a small square not far away, an unkempt man climbed up the steps and raised his arms and shouted. Judging from his clothes, he should be a worker in the mine.

It was already entering Mao hour, and there were gradually more pedestrians and caravans on the streets of Sunjiawan. The workers' shouts attracted many people to watch, wondering if this person was crazy or something.

"Dead people! People die every day in the mine east of the mine!"

"Never stopped for dozens of days!"

"Now people are starting to die in the mines to the south of us!"

The people eating melons all had indifferent eyes.

Mining.

high-risk occupations.

Isn’t it normal for dead people to die?
After all, keeping wages there must be accompanied by risks, and mining accidents are commonplace.I thought it was some big deal, but it turns out it was just some miners who died?

But the worker screamed loudly and reminded everyone with bloodshot eyes.

"They didn't die because of the mining accident at all!"

"It's an evil thing! Something cursed us!"

"Yesterday, I saw with my own eyes that the chattering coworker next to me suddenly pulled out his tongue, and blood spurted all over my face!"

"The foremen in the east and south suppressed the news in order not to cause panic, and just sent the bodies away hastily, as if nothing had happened!"

"In order to keep the news secret, they didn't let any workers who knew the situation leave the mine. If I hadn't been rescued by kind people, I probably wouldn't have been able to escape in my life!"

The melon-eating crowd still didn’t show much interest.

curse?

Something evil?

Stop it.

Who doesn’t know that there are several miners competing for power in the Sunjiawan Mine?In order to fight the entire mine alone, they will do anything they can.

Are you starting to make up rumors and start a public opinion war now?
It's pretty fun to play.

And you pulled out your own tongue?

If you want to commit suicide, what could be less satisfying than this?Even if you bite it with your teeth, it would be more convenient!
Seeing how indifferent the melon-eaters were, the workers looked anxious and couldn't help but raise their voices again.

"Folks! If you have relatives mining in the Sunjiawan Mine, you must fish them out as soon as possible. Don't--"

The voice stopped abruptly.

The worker seemed to have been immobilized, and the sound in his throat was like hot water boiling!

"It's going to be bad——" Zhao Sanyuan Lao Kang's expression on the outside of the crowd changed drastically, and he opened his bow left and right to get into the crowd.

That's too late.

In full view of everyone, the worker put his hands into his mouth without any warning.

The melon-eating crowd, which originally had nothing to do with themselves, were all stunned at this moment.

This scene will never be forgotten until the day they die.

Blood sprayed the crowd in the front row.

The worker's body fell forward helplessly, still holding a bloody tongue in his hand, along with the blood veins in his throat.

"Ahhhh!!!"

Screams came one after another, and there was chaos in the small square.

If you eat melons, you will eat melons, and if you ridicule, you will ridicule.

Seeing such a terrifying scene would scare everyone to the point of peeing.

The crowd was running around and trampling on each other, making it very chaotic.

This was a disaster for the two brothers who were rushing forward. Going upstream was no match for the fleeing crowd, and they were squeezed back again and again.

But they all saw a wisp of 'grey air' drifting away from the back of the worker's neck.

Ghost?

wrong!

The ghost should have Yin energy. If it possesses the worker, Zhao Sanyuan and Lao Kang will definitely be able to sense it.

But in fact, neither brother felt anything strange until the worker pulled out the tongue.

After finally rushing through the crowd, the thing had disappeared.

"Three yuan, take blood!"

"it is good!"

The two brothers cooperated tacitly.

Zhao Sanyuan stepped forward and knelt on one knee beside the worker's body.

He was in a very bad mood after failing to save the person.

After closing the worker's wide eyes, Zhao Sanyuan took a few drops of blood from the corner of his mouth.

Kang Muang took out a strange ocean bowl from his arms.

It looks like a bowl, but the bottom of the bowl is a Bagua mirror, and most of the bowl is filled with water.

A dark embroidery needle was stained with blood and placed in a bowl.

"What kind of trick is this? I've never seen you use it before."

"I just mastered it not long ago. Do you still remember the old woman who was in Yaowang Valley at that time? This method is recorded in the ancient book she gave me."

Zhao Sanyuan was stunned for a while.

Could it be that the Thirteen Needles of Guimen can be used in novel ways, not just to cure diseases?
Kang Muang didn't elaborate. He raised the bowl with one hand and quickly performed the secret with the other hand.

"The Eight Escapes of Yin and Yang come to Shunni!"

"The ground door should be suitable for connecting Qi!"

"The body of Mortal Needle cloths the air cord!"

"Jingyu Qiongshui Yizhengqi!"

"I am here to take care of you as ordered by the Supreme Lord!"

"rise!"

The blood stained by the iron needle spread in the sea bowl.

When Kang Mu raised his cursed sword and stabbed the sea bowl, the iron needle inside suddenly rotated rapidly. After dozens of rotations, the speed gradually slowed down. Finally, the sharp point of the iron needle pointed to the northwest. No matter how he swung the sea bowl, the iron needle did not move. It didn't sink at all, and the direction it was pointing didn't change at all, which was mysterious.

But Zhao Sanyuan didn't know that it would take a lot of effort to practice this technique, and there were too many things to pay attention to just to make this needle.

First, choose a sunny day at noon, thread a needle through a thin red thread, the thinner the better, hang it at a high place without any obstruction, and then expose it to the strongest sunlight for a full hour.

After noon, you need to remove the needle and wrap it with two things, an inner layer of red paper and an outer layer of red cloth, then insert it into the incense burner and offer incense as usual.

Repeat this step every day without interruption. Whenever it is rainy or cloudy, it must be postponed. The needle will be considered first completed after a full 49-[-] days.

After being refined, it has endless uses.

Even ordinary people can use this needle to find some dirty things. For example, after childbirth, prepare a porcelain bowl and yin and yang water. The so-called yin and yang water is half cold water and half boiling water. The cold water is preferably spring water, and the boiling water is the hottest boiling water. Better.

At this time, place the needle on the water in the bowl, and the needle will float on the water without the need to perform any incantations.

If there is a spirit body around, the needle will be like a compass. The needle will always point in a certain direction. No matter where the spirit body moves, the needle will point there, unless there is no spirit body within the range of the effect, or the spirit body leaves the range. After that, the needle will no longer point. It will float on the water for a while and then sink to the bottom.

Materialist warriors please skip this paragraph.

Closer to home.

For people like Lao Kang, this method will be more widely applicable and the effect will be more obvious. After taking the worker's essence and blood, it can detect the dirty things that he has come into contact with without the need for yin and yang water.

"You didn't run too far! Let's chase!"

Lao Kang held the big bowl and trotted in the direction of the pointer.

The pointer changes direction from time to time, but basically does not deviate from the northwest direction.

In addition to such a big event in Sunjiawan, it will naturally cause great panic. Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. When you fart, Sunjiawan almost knows that there is a living person who pulled out his tongue in front of everyone. His tendons were attached and he died on the spot.

However, these two brothers are not concerned about how the authorities will handle it.

Until they stopped outside a deep house compound in the northwest suburbs of Sunjiawan.

Lao Kang could conclude that the devil who killed the workers was inside.

Money mansion!

The deputy village chief’s home!
It seems that the series of strange events in Sunjiawan are all related in some way.

The missing deputy village chief and the ghost who killed the workers are probably inseparable.

Surprisingly.

The two brothers met an acquaintance outside the door.

Lu alloy!
The young master was also very surprised. He didn't expect to meet the two brothers here.

For a moment, Lao Kang looked at Lu Jinhe with a slightly subtle expression.

(End of this chapter)