I become a god in another world

Chapter 579: Twins Taken Away
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Liu Yizhen took great pains to suppress the corners of his mouth from rising, so as not to laugh out loud and offend this bad-tempered old woman.

Granny Xu's thoughts were immersed in memories:

"These quacks are swindlers who frequently perform rituals and demand money and tributes when they perform them."

The emperor was already mentally confused at that time and agreed to all the requests.

For the emperor at that time, the Du family case meant his complete defeat in the confrontation with the Demon Suppression Division.

The death of Concubine Du not only made the emperor lose his beloved woman, but also made him realize more clearly his own powerlessness in this world.

He has fame but no power, and cannot even protect those around him.

The court officials knew very well that he was powerless, and they all tried to please the Demon Suppression Division and were indifferent to the plight of the Du family. What frightened him even more was perhaps the powerful force of the Demon Suppression Division. Perhaps one day, the butcher knife that killed Lady Du would fall on his neck.

Under such circumstances, the emperor naturally acted crazy.

He had no power over the Han Dynasty, so he had no choice but to spend money to do ridiculous things.

The sorcerer said that he could help him fulfill his dream of rekindling his old relationship with Lady Du, so he agreed to whatever the other party asked for.

There were rumors in the palace.

"Whenever they were performing rituals, smoke would rise to the sky and the octagonal bell would ring non-stop. I found the sound very creepy."

Granny Xu frowned:
"At that time, every time a ritual was performed, the bell would ring and green mist would fill the sky—"

Zhao Fusheng reminded calmly:

"How about twins in a ghost womb?"

"Twins?" Granny Xu's memories were interrupted by her words, and her eyes were hazy for a moment:
"Oh, oh, twins, twins - yes, yes, yes, every time at this time, the twins are particularly active and you can see the fetal movements."

Granny Xu said:

"I felt horrified at the time, and I couldn't explain why, but now, I feel--"

Fan Wujiu is in a hurry:
"how do you feel?"

Zhao Fusheng said:

"The octagonal bell may really be a very evil thing."

Granny Xu hesitated for a while, then nodded:
"right……"

"This thing might really attract ghosts."

It is true that the sorcerers in the world are swindling people, but the octagonal bell is a truly evil thing. While performing their rituals, these sorcerers accidentally attracted ghosts.

After Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, Liu Yizhen and the others were shocked:
"Didn't the imperial palace become a place of great danger at that time?"

"These ghosts--" Chen Duozi tried to speak.

She lacked confidence, and when she spoke in front of a crowd of people, everyone's eyes were on her, which made her a little anxious, so she paused.

But everyone was staring at her and no one was urging her, which greatly eased her nervousness.

Chen Duozi wanted to ask a question, but when she saw Zhao Fusheng's gaze, she felt relieved. Then her mind turned and an idea came to her mind:

"Sir, Granny Xu mentioned that the twins had strong fetal movements when she was performing the ritual, and that the twins were able to survive without their mother, and that they normally didn't eat or drink. Could it be that, could it be that the twins were being fed by these attracted ghosts?"

People are also forced to use quick wits.

In the past, Chen Duozi was suppressed by her mother and husband at home. After she said this, although she thought it more and more possible, she lacked confidence. After she finished speaking, she looked at Zhao Fusheng nervously.

After seeing this, Zhao Fusheng nodded:
"You are quite right."

Upon hearing this confirmation, Chen Duozi felt relieved, and her heart began to beat non-stop. She felt excited - she even felt that the spooky incident that had frightened her to death had become particularly interesting.

"Emperor Li used the octagonal bell to attract the ghost, and the ghost fed the twins, prolonging their lives."

The twins were not "dead" at that time. It should be that the uterus taken out from Lady Du's body swallowed the ghost in disguise and turned into an endless supply of evil spirit to nourish the twins.

Zhao Fusheng looked at Fan Bisi and the other man meaningfully.

All the inexplicable situations in the past came to her mind: the evil spirits on the ghost carriage could not be marked in the ghost book, the two brothers were both pregnant with the living dead but not dead, and the two could fight ghosts with their living bodies -

All the reasons were explained.

Combining Granny Xu's reaction and various clues, she was almost certain of Er Fan's background.

The situation of these two brothers is so tortuous and bizarre.

She recalled Fan Bisi's threat at the time: if she and his brothers fought to the death, the two brothers would surely be resurrected as evil spirits -

I thought it was funny at the time, but now it seems to be true.

Zhao Fusheng didn't say anything, but when Fan Bisi met her eyes, he instantly understood the complex meaning contained in her eyes.

His face suddenly turned red, and his eyes were dodging:
"grown ups--"

Zhao Fusheng smiled. Fan Bisi thought of the original scene and recalled the various things that happened later. He felt embarrassed but also relieved. He was about to speak, but Zhao Fusheng shook his head and turned his gaze to Granny Xu again:

"And then what happened? How did the child get lost?"

She already knew where the twins had gone, which also meant that Grandma Xu did not keep the twins.

Granny Xu's eyes were filled with gloom:
"The emperor held memorial ceremonies every two or three days. Not long after Lady Du died, during one of the ceremonies, a fire got out of control and the city of Zhongdu was surrounded by flames."

This is the reason why the Former Han Dynasty declined and fell.

On the surface, it seemed to have originated from the tragedy of Du Shengming's family, but in fact, the Du case was just a microcosm of the corruption in the Western Han Dynasty.

In such a distorted world, the Du Shengming case became the fuse for the decline of the Western Han Dynasty.

……

Granny Xu said:

"I don't know much about what happened afterwards, but from then on, there were frequent ghost disasters in the harem."

"The emperor was burned to death. Every few hours, the evil ghost would revive and patrol the palace killing people."

But after the fire in Zhongdu, no one should be able to escape - especially since this was a ghost disaster and Zhongdu had become a ghost zone.

"People who were killed the day before would be resurrected the next day, and the whole palace would form a cycle that would repeat itself over and over again."

At first, Grandma Xu was very scared.

She has only one life left, so her death is not a pity.

"But I have Lady Du's instructions. She was kind to me when she was alive and entrusted her twin sons and the Du family bloodline to me. How can I watch them get into trouble?"

Granny Xu was able to take on the Demon Suppression General Zhang Yunzhong as an ordinary person, and now facing the ghost disaster in Zhongdu, she did not retreat at all.

"After a long time, I also figured out some rules."

The evil ghost had no rules for who to kill, as if it killed at will. "But the time of its appearance was regular. It would appear every few hours. When it appeared, the octagonal bell left by Lady Du in the palace would ring."

Granny Xu said calmly:

"Based on these clues, I figured out the law of evil spirits." She paused and continued:

"I was worried about A Yu and the twins, so I wanted to fight the ghost and die at its hands. If I were to revive as a ghost, Zhang Yunzhong and Zang Junji said that two ghosts could suppress each other and achieve a balance."

Her original plan was to sacrifice herself for the Lord so that the child or the twins would survive.

Before leaving, I had planned everything and told the child to take good care of the twins and wait for the right time. "But I didn't die in the end, and I succeeded in controlling the ghost."

At this point, Granny Xu said sadly:
"I can't tell whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, in the current situation, I don't know whether he is dead or not, but he can't get out."

Anyway, the palace is full of ghosts, and the day when the fire was reignited is repeated over and over again.

The palace was filled with despair and death.

In such an environment, Granny Xu persevered alone with her children.

"I don't know how much time had passed before Zang Junji ventured in. He said the situation was complicated and I couldn't leave."

Having said that, everyone already had a vague understanding of her situation.

The fire in Zhongdu City was so severe that it killed everyone in the palace. Even General Zhang Yunzhong, who held the Qiankun Pen, was killed in the fire.

Ordinary disasters cannot kill the ghost rider. The only thing that can kill the ghost rider is the ghost.

The emperor's evil ghost revived, massacred the city of Zhongdu, and was promoted to a terrifying ghost of unknown rank.

Time was trapped in this day, and the palace maids and eunuchs who appeared in the palace became the ghost minions in this ghost realm.

After successfully controlling the ghost, Granny Xu was also trapped here.

"This ghost area cannot be in chaos. Once it is in chaos, the people trapped inside will become targets for slaughter by ghosts."

Only Granny Xu, who controls the lord of the ghost realm, can suppress this place.

As soon as Zhao Fusheng finished speaking, Granny Xu nodded:

"This is what Zang Junji said. He said that if I leave here, this ghost area will be in chaos."

Granny Xu hesitated to speak:

"Lord Zang helped me back then, preventing Zhang Yunzhong from snatching the twins left by Lady Du, allowing me to complete the task Lady Du entrusted to me. Now that he has a request from me, how could I refuse and make things difficult for him?"

Her words made Wu Shaochun, Meng Po and others respect her in awe.

This old woman has a strange temper, but she values ​​her promises and is loyal.

Being trapped alone in the ghost realm and living with the dead for more than a hundred years would drive even a normal person crazy, but she has a righteous spirit in her heart and has persisted to this day.

"you--"

Liu Yizhen didn't have a good impression of her at first because of her words, but now that he understood the whole story, he felt that this Grandma Xu was amazing.

"I'm guarding the ghost realm for Master Zang."

Granny Xu said calmly:

"Don't let any ghost escape, don't let the ghost domain move out, and don't let other ghosts enter--"

When she said this, an angry look suddenly appeared on her face:

"But one day, one day," she thought of something, her teeth clenched, her whole body tensed, her hands tightly grasped her knees, and she squeezed the tattered hem of her skirt into a ball like a piece of dried pickled vegetable:

"Someone, someone broke in here and took away my ghost palace."

"What?!" Xie Jingsheng was surprised.

As a gold general-level ghost rider, he could feel the terrifying energy from this old woman.

How could an ordinary person be able to guard a ghost area (the tenth level of hell)?

Even though she was restrained, the power she unintentionally displayed still made Xie Jingsheng tremble with fear.

Such a terrifying person, who controls evil spirits that are at least at the calamity level (Xie Jingsheng even feels that the intimidating pressure she displays is no weaker than that of the human-skinned ghost mother), actually has someone who can snatch the ghost womb from her?
"Who is it?" Xie Jingsheng asked:
"Is it male or female?"

"It's a man!" Granny Xu said affirmatively:
"It's a—"

At this point, she hesitated for a moment:
"I can't tell his age."

"What do you mean?"

Meng Po seemed to be thinking about something. She had actually already guessed the reason, but she deliberately asked:
"If you can't tell his age, is it because he is not the same person?"

"It looks like two people, but I guarantee it's just one person. He's younger, probably in his early thirties—"

Granny Xu said:
"Then he looked older and dressed very differently, in a black robe and with white hair."

"That's right." She added:

"This elderly man has something wrong with his head."

After that, I added:
"He brought up a head——"

"Paper figures."

Everyone said in unison.

Xie Jingsheng was filled with shadows.

The existence of Paper Man Zhang was initially a shadow in the hearts of a group of people in Wan'an County - this person suffered a drastic change, and since then he has lost all his conscience, done all kinds of bad things, and is extremely cunning. He has not been arrested or suppressed until now, and is a major concern for Zhao Fusheng.

After the trip to Shangyang County, Paper Man Zhang suddenly appeared and became a shadow in Xie Jingsheng's heart.

He claimed that he came from a noble family and had outstanding talents since childhood. After he grew up, he could control evil spirits and successfully solve cases. Before the evil spirits revived, he found a way to coexist with the ghosts and prolong his life.

However, Paper Man Zhang, the survivor of the 58-year ghost disaster, was able to grow to such a terrifying level solely by relying on his own strength, without relying on the behemoth that is the Demon Suppression Bureau.

"Paper man Zhang?" Granny Xu was puzzled and repeated it.

Zhao Fusheng sighed:
"He is the descendant of Zang Junji."

As soon as she finished speaking, Granny Xu was stunned for a moment, then she was a little unconvinced:

"How could a good man like Lord Zang—"

After saying that, he shook his head:
"How can a good bamboo produce bad shoots? I'm afraid I recognized the wrong person——"

"I didn't admit my mistake."

Zhao Fusheng thoughtfully said:
"Zang Junji participated in the Du Mingsheng case back then. Perhaps the experience of Lord Du's family touched his heart and made him realize the harm of ghost riders having too much power, so -"

She told the story that by the time the Zang family lineage was passed down to Zang Xiongwu's generation, it had already fallen into decline and no one was taking care of it.

The simple diagram also mentioned the "wrongful case" of Zang Xiongshan, which indirectly led to the destruction of Zang Xiongwu's family, leaving only one son to depend on.

……

Although Zhao Fusheng's words were brief and to the point, the amount of information revealed in her words had already left Grandma Xu dumbfounded.

The miserable situation of Zang's descendants was almost unimaginable when she was born.

"In short, in order to investigate the case of Zang Xiongshan and suppress him to prevent him from causing harm to the people, Lao Zhang..." When Zhao Fusheng mentioned Zhang Chuanshi, his tone paused for a moment:
"Zhang Chuanshi died in this ghost disaster."

She said calmly:

"I know you've suffered at the hands of the Demon Suppression Division and have a prejudice against it, but not every ghost rider is like the descendants of the Guo family. Many more people have paid with their lives for ghost disasters."

Granny Xu remained silent.

Although she was stubborn, she was not unreasonable, and guilt was already evident on her face.

"After this drastic change, Paper Man Zhang became extremely aggressive. Many of us lost our families and friends, all because of him."

The Zhao couple died tragically, the evil ghost of Meng Po's daughter was resurrected, and the Sun family also did not have a good ending.