I become a god in another world

Chapter 563: The Suspicion of the Ghost Fetus
Chapter 563

The life stories of the Fan brothers are no secret in Wan'an County. He mentioned that in a strange illusion, he actually saw himself returning to his "mother's" body. Doesn't this mean that he "saw" his past before he was born?

Everyone was stunned for a moment, looking at each other, not knowing what to say.

When Xie Jingsheng first heard Fan Bisi say this, he didn't take it seriously.

In the ghost domain of evil spirits, all kinds of strange things may happen.

It is not strange for a person to see the past and the future under the influence of the ghost realm - in Xie Jingsheng's view, it doesn't matter what he sees, but the truth or falsehood cannot be guaranteed.

After all, some ghosts' rules are to interfere with people's cognition, affect their judgment, and eventually break their mental defenses, causing them to die faster at the hands of evil ghosts.

But when Fan Bisi mentioned this matter, his expression was horrified, and Wan'an County and others had different expressions, as if there was some hidden story behind this matter.

This actually piqued Xie Jingsheng's interest.

Although he had worked in Wan'an County, his most profound impression of the place was that it was the place where the headless ghosts were suppressed.

The case of the headless ghost is special for him, as this was the outcome his father paid for with his life.

So when he heard that Zhao Fusheng and others were from Wan'an County, he looked at them differently, but he didn't care much about the origins of others.

Hearing Fan Bisi's words, he couldn't help but ask:
"Is the life story of Big and Small Fan strange?"

Zhao Fusheng glanced at him:
"Do you know why we came out of Changping County this time?"

Xie Jingsheng didn't expect her to suddenly bring up this matter at this time. From the surface, the two things were completely unrelated.

However, Zhao Fusheng is not the kind of person who talks nonsense. She suddenly brought up this matter. Could it be that there is some connection between the two?
Xie Jingsheng thought in his heart, but said:
"Ghost fetus case."

"Yes."

Zhao Fusheng's short story:
"Fan and Fan were conceived by a living dead person. Zhao Duan, the head of the Lingsi of Wan'an County, discovered something was wrong, so he cut open the belly of the living dead person and adopted them."

This matter is of great importance, and Zhao Duan is afraid of getting into trouble.

The reanimation of the dead and the living fetus is a rare thing. When Er Fan was dissected out, he turned out to be a human and not a ghost, which made Zhao Duan curious.

It is unknown why he left the twin brothers behind and entrusted them to his own family to be raised. In the records of the Demon Suppression Bureau, there was only a brief mention of this case - but this case did not attract attention in the Demon Suppression Bureau, and the headquarters of the Demon Suppression Bureau in the Imperial Capital did not know the whole story.

When Xie Jingsheng heard what Zhao Fusheng said, his face immediately became very ugly.

The mystery of the Fan brothers' life is not complicated, but it reveals many hidden problems of the Demon Suppression Bureau.

If Er Fan's background had been discovered earlier and reported to the Demon Suppression Division, perhaps the ghost fetus case in Changping County would not have developed into a major case that affected the entire county, and a ghost rider from the Demon Suppression Division would have been killed in the process of handling the case.

He moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself. Finally, he sighed and said:
"I am just a ghost driver, responsible for handling cases. It is not my turn to manage important matters such as files and systems."

After saying this, Xie Jingsheng braced himself:

"Big and small Fan's life stories are bizarre, and they are also the bodies of ghost fetuses——"

He hesitated for a while when he said this, thinking back to his initial feelings of wariness and rejection of the two brothers. Only then did he realize the reason.

Wan'an County is truly a place of outstanding people and beautiful scenery, and Zhao Fusheng has gathered together a group of special people.

If the Imperial Capital delegation can successfully complete the case and return to the county, Wan'an County will probably be the safest place in the Han Dynasty in the future.

These thoughts flashed through Xie Jingsheng's mind.

He then thought of the case of the ghost fetus - this case was special and the rules were powerful. As long as there were pregnant women or children in the family, they might be marked. If it was not controlled well, the ghost case would most likely expand from Changping County to Xuzhou. Therefore, Feng Guangchong, the general of the Xuzhou Demon Suppression Bureau, attached great importance to it and reported the case to the capital.

The whole story of the ghost fetus case went through Xie Jingsheng's mind, and he immediately turned his attention to Er Fan.

The living dead die the moment they become pregnant with a ghost fetus and become the carrier of the ghost fetus.

If Erfan was also pregnant by a living dead person, why didn't Erfan die and grow up safely? Could it be because the ghost fetus was not mature enough at that time?

As soon as Xie Jingsheng thought of this, he immediately became alert: No!

The origin of the ghost fetus has not been figured out yet. Er Fan is also a living dead person who gave birth to a child but did not die, which is very strange in itself.

Just before the ninth gate of hell, the Fan brothers touched the strange seal on the gate and mentioned "time going backwards". The two brothers also mentioned "returning to their mother's body" - in other words, the two brothers were instantly affected by the ghost realm and returned to the time when they were still in the belly of the living dead.

Combining the two situations, Xie Jingsheng was also a ghost handler with rich experience in handling cases. He immediately realized the reason why Zhao Fusheng had a strange expression when he mentioned this matter: the root cause of the ghost fetus case might not lie in the ghost fetus, but in the ghost mother.

But no one knew where the ghost mother was hiding, they only knew that she was a living dead.

After the ghost fetus and the evil spirit were revived, the body of the living dead immediately rotted and turned into a pool of rotten meat. In several cases of the birth of the living dead in Changping County, no trend of the revivification of these evil spirits of the living dead was found.

Before this, everyone had also thought about the ghost fetus case. The ghost fetus might just be a manifestation of the resurrection of the evil ghost - in other words, the ghost fetus was just one of the ghost minions in this ghost case.

(The reason is that from the Changping County ghost case, the two revived and troubled ghost fetuses were swallowed by Zhong Yao, causing Zhong Yao to be unstable.)
But in this way, the evil ghost in the ghost fetus case will disappear without a trace.

The Dijing Demon Suppression Bureau had discussed this case before. Xie Jingsheng had not expected that the answer that everyone had been unable to find might provide an opportunity to find clues in the Shangyang County case.

Thinking about it carefully, Xie Jingsheng couldn't help but shudder: a ghost fetus case occurred in Changping County, and the Changping County general Ding Datong reported it to Feng Guangchong in Xuzhou, and then Feng Guangchong reported it to the Imperial Capital Demon Suppression Department.

After repeated discussions and considerations, the Imperial Capital Demon Suppression Department decided to let Xie Jingsheng handle the case.

Although the ghost fetus case had a great impact, people in the imperial capital did not actually take it seriously.

The reason why Xie Jingsheng was sent to take the lead and Wang Jiangfeng was invited to take care of the aftermath was Shangyang County.

The problems in Shangyang County are complicated and are a legacy of history. If we trace them back, we will find that they are related to the headless ghost case 58 years ago.

The people who handled the case of the headless ghost at that time happened to be the Xie family and Wang Jiangfengdu. It was also appropriate for these two people to clean up the aftermath of the Zang Xiongshan case related to the headless ghost case.

Based on these previous events, the Demon Suppression Division sent an official letter to inform Ding Datong to meet up in Shangyang County with the ghost fetus.

Although the imperial court knew that Shangyang County was plagued by serious ghosts at that time, it did not expect it to be so serious.

I thought that with the two generals taking action, the matter would be a sure thing, but I didn't expect that the case of the human-skin ghost mother was extremely complicated, involving a paper man named Zhang, which resulted in the three-eyed evil ghost being marked by the law of reincarnation and going back to the past in time.

At this point, everyone's attention had already shifted, and they thought the biggest disaster on this trip was the three-eyed evil spirit.

As Zang Xiongshan was subdued 58 years later, everyone wanted to deal with the headless ghost disaster, but they were trapped in the city of Zhongdu.

There are several levels of hell here.

And in this hell, they actually found clues related to the ghost fetus case - through the words of the Fan brothers, the 'first generation ghost fetus' (this statement is questionable) of that year, when the two touched the blood-red seal of the ninth level of the ghost gate, they sensed some memory fragments of that year in the mother's womb.

……

"After going around in circles, I ended up back at the Changping County Ghost Fetus case itself—"

After Xie Jingsheng sorted out the cause and effect in his mind, he couldn't help but sigh.

After he sighed, he became alert again:
"Fusheng, these two major cases are closely linked--" and are both related to the paper man Zhang.

The descendants of the Zang family were thought to have fallen into decline long ago, but who would have thought that two hundred years later, the brothers Zang Xiongshan and Zang Xiongwu would cause such a shocking event.

One evil spirit is revived with extraordinary power; the other is hiding in the dark, stirring up trouble.

Xie Jingsheng originally thought that the case of Zang Xiongshan in Shangyang County was the main course of this major case, but the clues revealed in the ninth level of hell at this time actually implied a conclusion that made him feel uneasy from the bottom of his heart: from the beginning to the end, perhaps the ghost fetus case was the big thing that Zang Xiongwu wanted to do.

At this moment, he finally understood why the faces of the people in Wan'an County changed drastically when they heard Fan Bi Si's words.

"This matter must be reported to the court—"

The imperial court was not prepared for this at all.

If the ghost fetus case is a major case like the Shangyang County ghost case, once the evil ghost revives, it will probably cause unimaginable disasters!
Xie Jingsheng couldn't help but feel horrified when he thought of that scene.

But after he finished shouting, he thought about where he was, and was stunned for a moment, and finally smiled bitterly:
"What's the point of knowing? What's the point of finding out? We are trapped in the tenth level of hell. We don't know if we can get out alive—"

If I die here, everything will be in vain.

"I—sigh—" Xie Jingsheng sighed.

The light in his eyes dimmed, and he looked visibly listless.

After entering hell, although they successfully passed the gates of hell each time, as they went deeper into hell, they all felt the oppressive force brought by hell. They were afraid that the deeper they went, the more dangerous it would be, and they would eventually be trapped in the depths of hell and unable to leave.

No one knows how many layers of hell there are here, nor does anyone know what strange things will happen after entering the deepest part.

Xie Jingsheng tried to remain calm before, but faced with life and death, he couldn't help but become agitated.

After the sigh, the scene became quiet for a while.

"Tap, tap, tap!" In this extreme silence, everyone suddenly heard a few knocking sounds.

The sound was like the crisp sound of a slender hammer hitting a wooden barrel.

Under normal circumstances, this sound is common and nothing strange.

But at this time they were in the ghost realm, and the surroundings were very quiet. Suddenly, the hammering sound was heard, which scared everyone.

"Stop talking. No matter what, let's escape from Zhongdu City first."

Zhao Fusheng spoke without hesitation.

The ghost case in Shangyang County has been solved, and the ghost fetus case has shown some clues, but the prerequisite for successfully handling the case is to stay alive.

There are many dangers in hell.

The deeper you go, the more complex and bizarre the evil spirit laws become, unlike the rough, simple and direct ones at the beginning.

At this time, hearing the sound of the bamboo tubes hitting each other, although they knew that entering the gates of hell was not a good thing - it was just drinking poison to quench thirst, but when everyone heard the "tapping" sound, Xie Jingsheng's scalp still tightened, and he said hurriedly:

"Let's go into the palace again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fusheng paused:
"Enter the palace gate? Which palace gate?"

She asked in a calm voice.

This question made Xie Jingsheng stunned.

Everyone turned to look at her, but saw that she was looking up at the top of the hall and did not see Xie Jingsheng.

"..."

Xie Jingsheng was puzzled, but after working with her on a ghost case, he had a better understanding of her personality. He did not rush to ask, but looked up along her line of sight. This glance made Xie Jingsheng's heart sink.

At this time, everyone was still in front of the "Chongde Hall". There was a long staircase in front of the hall door, a square below, and corridors on both sides.

Judging from the general layout, this place is no different from Chongde Hall.

The gate is wide, and there is still a plaque hanging above it.

However, the totem made of pearls, jade and agate above the Chongde Hall has disappeared, and the location where the plaque is hung has changed.

The plaque of Chongde Hall hangs horizontally, with some gold paint remaining that has not faded.

The plaque in front of everyone was hung vertically, completely black, with three large characters written in bright red cinnabar on it: Yong'an Palace.

Xie Jingsheng was stunned:

"Yong'an Palace? Yong'an Palace!"

Everyone was clearly in front of the Chongde Hall, so how come they ended up in another strange place once they entered the ninth level of the Ghost Gate?

He was in a state of confusion, and everyone else was also feeling uneasy.

Fan Bisi was still uneasy because of the meat Tai Sui he saw when he touched the blood-red seal. Wu Shaochun, Chen Duozi and others subconsciously glanced at Zhao Fusheng.

To everyone, the gate of Chongde Hall meant the gate of hell. Now that the gate of hell had disappeared, everyone was naturally nervous.

But Zhao Fusheng was still calm.

She had the Investiture of the Gods with her, and after the case of the three-eyed ghost was solved, the Investiture of the Gods rewarded her with a large amount of merit points, so she was not too panicked.

When everyone saw that she looked normal, they felt as if they had found their backbone and inexplicably felt at ease.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"The most urgent thing is to find a way to confirm whether this is the real ghost gate."

She glanced at everyone, and finally set her sights on Xie Jingsheng:
"Mr. Xie, you are from the Imperial Capital. You have lived a long time and have seen a lot. Do you know the origin of Yong'an Palace?"

Her tone was gentle and her words were methodical, which made Xie Jingsheng feel that the disappearance of the ghost gate was just a small matter, as if his previous behavior was a fuss out of nothing.

His old face turned red, as if he had taken a reassurance pill. He immediately calmed down, thought for a while, and then said:

"Now that you ask, I really remember there is a Yong'an Palace."

Xie Jingsheng said:

"I mentioned earlier that before and after the Han Dynasty was divided, at the end of the previous dynasty, there was a fire in the palace and everything was burned down. It is said that there was a Yong'an Palace. Later, the court was re-established, and the city of Zhongdu was rebuilt on the site of the abandoned city of the previous Han Dynasty."

After the capital was rebuilt, it was given a new name instead of the old name of the previous dynasty - it was considered unlucky.

When Xie Jingsheng saw the ghost gate disappear, he knew it was a sign of trouble to come again, and he was distracted for a moment. Only after he calmed down did he remember this.