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Chapter 142, Do you think this is corn kernels or cornmeal? (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, two in one)

The villagers were very familiar with each other, and they could find out the man's whereabouts with just a little asking. Lu Yue and his companion followed the direction pointed by the passing villagers. On the way, they met several women holding sticks and looking aggressive. After a conversation, they learned that their men had been called out to play cards secretly again.

The group walked together and soon arrived at an open-air courtyard converted from a private house, on which were clearly written the words "Leisure, Mahjong" in large letters.

It was a busy time for the villagers and the surroundings seemed particularly deserted. From a distance, I saw four people sitting together, apparently playing mahjong.

"Liu Tiezhu, you are so lucky. You win all the cards with the same color."

"Did you cheat? Why have I never seen you do this before?"

"Winning several hundred dollars a day is better than working part-time."

"You win every time. It's boring. I've lost all the money I spent on buying seeds. If my wife finds out, I'll be dead!" One of the men who lost everything couldn't help but feel scared.

The other people also nodded. They originally just played cards to kill time and relax, but they were in a worse and worse mood after losing the past few days.

"All this money is for you. Next time we won't gamble with real money. Let's gamble on something special." The villager named Liu Tiezhu was the man who had beaten the woman before. At this moment, he was staring at the three card-playing friends.

"What are you gambling?"

"Just bet on your body." Liu Tiezhu said.

"Liu Tiezhu, are you mentally ill? We are all grown men. What does it mean to bet on our bodies? Why don't you say bet on your lives?"

Facing the strange looks from the three people, Liu Tiezhu smiled and said slowly: "It's okay to bet your life. As long as you bet with me, I can give you not only today's money, but also the money you lost before."

It was clearly daytime, but the people playing cards felt an inexplicable chill.

"Okay, let's bet." The three of them gritted their teeth and said.

They have lost badly enough during this period. If they don't win back, their wives at home might come to settle the score with them with sticks. Moreover, no matter how capable you, Liu Tiezhu, are, can you really take their lives in broad daylight?

The mentality of relying on luck in gambling often breeds from this.

At this moment, a woman's voice suddenly came from a distance: "Zhang Mazi, you have no conscience. I am working in the fields outside and you are playing mahjong here. I was wondering why the money at home was gone. It turns out that you lost it all. I will beat you to death..."

"It's bad. My wife is here to find me. I won't fight anymore."

"I won't bet anymore. My wife can really break my legs."

"My wife didn't take a stick, no good...she took a knife!"

The three men looked at their wives approaching them with sticks and kitchen knives in their hands and with aggressive momentum, and they suddenly became weak and begged for mercy. Amidst the noise, the three men skipped back home.

At this time, Liu Tiezhu was the only one left at the scene. He watched his three card-playing friends leave quietly with a gloomy face and did not say anything. Instead, he stood up and prepared to leave, but was stopped by Master Lin.

"What do you want to do? I beat my own wife and it's none of your business!" Liu Tiezhu said coldly while looking at Taoist Lin.

"Domestic violence is also illegal. Believe it or not, I will call the police right away." Taoist Priest Lin also got angry and his face turned red.

Lu Yue hurriedly stopped Taoist Lin, who was obsessed with health preservation and was determined to inherit Taoist Fang's property. Just these few seconds of anger would probably shorten his life.

"Liu Tiezhu, I heard that Boss Ma's Zaoshulin Garden offers a very high salary, one thousand yuan a day, which is much better than working in the city, so I came here to apply for the job. You have worked there for a few days, can you tell me the specific job content?" Lu Yue asked.

"Why should I tell you?" Liu Tiezhu asked coldly, as if he remembered that Lu Yue had just thrown him aside like a chicken, so he was not in a good mood.

Lu Yue didn't care and smiled, "I heard that you like gambling recently. It just so happens that I like gambling too. Why don't we make a bet? Tell me if you lose."

"Are you good at gambling?" Liu Tiezhu raised his eyebrows, obviously becoming interested when he heard the word gambling.

Lu Yue nodded and said, "I am still the undefeated general in Penguin Happy Landlord, Happy Mahjong, and Daily Chess. I have never lost. People give me the nickname 'Triple Gambling God'."

"Okay, what shall we play?" Liu Tiezhu agreed immediately.

Lu Yue looked around and saw the grains drying nearby. He picked up a handful of corn kernels from the ground, smiled friendly and said, "Let's bet on whether what I have is corn kernels or corn grits."

Taoist Priest Lin standing by was stunned. What kind of gambling was this?
Isn't this obvious at a glance?
Liu Tiezhu said: "You lose, this is corn kernels."

"Wrong, it's corn grits." Lu Yue twisted his right hand, then spread out his palm, which actually contained a handful of scattered corn grits.

Taoist Lin was secretly shocked. This Junior Brother Lu had such great strength that he could actually crush the corn kernels into corn grits.

At this time, Liu Tiezhu was silent, his face extremely gloomy.

"Well, best of three, I'll give you one more chance. Now it's the second round. Look carefully, is it corn kernels or corn grits in my hand?" Lu Yue grabbed another handful of corn and twisted it and asked.

"Corn grits."

"You lost again. I told you to look carefully, but you still guessed wrong."

Lu Yue opened his palm, revealing intact corn kernels.

"I admit defeat. Now you can tell me what exactly you did while working in Zaoshulin?" Lu Yue asked.

Liu Tiezhu did not answer. Instead, he grabbed a handful of corn and sneered, "If you can guess whether it's corn kernels or corn grits in my hand, I'll tell you!"

"Forget it, it's boring, I don't want to play anymore."

Lu Yue turned and left, leaving Liu Tiezhu stunned.

Seeing that Lu Yue didn't stop at all, Liu Tiezhu hurried forward to stop him: "Come back, bet with me, and I'll tell you!!!"

His gambling addiction was aroused, and he was determined to take a gamble today.

"Then you tell me first." Lu Yue stopped.

"We were picking dates and packing them in boxes. Later we stopped for a few days due to thunderstorms. Then I was asked to transport goods because I had a driver's license and was responsible for driving. I remember it was a huge, pitch-black tree, which was transported outside together with the dates. I was so tired when I came back that I stayed in Boss Ma's factory for a night..." Liu Tiezhu talked incessantly, but his eyes were always looking at Lu Yue's body.

This little trick of playing hard to get cannot fool anyone, but for gamblers, especially those who are addicted to gambling, it is fatal.

If a gambler has self-control, he is no longer a gambler.

Therefore, it is very easy to trick the other party into telling you something, but you still have to judge the truth yourself. After all, you cannot trust everything a gambler says.

"I've finished talking. Can you make a bet with me?" Liu Tiezhu said anxiously.

"Of course." Lu Yue kept his promise.

"Since the bet is off, why don't we try something special and bet our lives?" At this time, Liu Tiezhu showed a sinister smile on his face, just like a villain in a TV series.

"It doesn't matter."

"One round determines the outcome."

"can."

"Then guess whether I have corn kernels or corn grits in my hand? This is a gamble of life, you have to think carefully before you speak." Liu Tiezhu spoke confidently, his eyes burning, like a hungry wolf ready to bite someone. At this time, even Master Lin beside him noticed something was wrong.

This Liu Tiezhu is very strange. He is obviously a living person, but he gives people the feeling of a ghost. He has lived for sixty years and has never seen such a strange thing.

"What you have in your hand is..." Lu Yue stretched out his voice.

Liu Tiezhu raised the corner of his mouth, breathed rapidly, and stared at Lu Yue.

“It’s corn!”

Taoist Priest Lin, who was standing by, staggered and nearly fell.

Wait, this...something seems wrong, but when I think about it, it seems to be okay.

"You are cheating!!!" Liu Tiezhu's face was so gloomy that it seemed like water could drip. When he spread out his palm, it was filled with half corn kernels and half corn grits. No matter what the young man answered, he would lose, but this young man did not play by the rules.

"Just tell me if that's corn in your hand?" Lu Yue said calmly.

"You..." Liu Tiezhu was so angry that his face turned red, just like Master Lin before. He was speechless and prepared to leave, but was stopped by Lu Yue.

"What do you want to do?"

"You just said you were gambling your life, and you lost."

Liu Tiezhu had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but just as he was about to flee the scene, he saw several large floating golden characters coming towards him.

The Nine-Character Mantra to Subdue Demons and Exorcise Evil Spirits... The Combat Warrior...

Lu Yue formed seals with his hands and hit Liu Tiezhu. Liu Tiezhu's body leaned back, and at that moment he seemed to be suspended in the air as if he had lost gravity. A phantom was leaving his body, and the phantom kept roaring when seeing this, trying to force its way back to the body.

All march forward in formation!
After a set of hand seals were completed, several golden characters continuously hit Liu Tiezhu's body. At the last moment, Liu Tiezhu fell to the ground and a figure exactly the same as Liu Tiezhu was suspended in the air.

"Why are you killing me?!!!" Liu Tiezhu shouted in horror.

"You're playing tricks on me. I can tell at a glance that you're not human!"

boom!
Lu Yue punched through the body of the living soul, and the power of his heart fire spread out, igniting the opponent's soul. When the layer of soul clothes burned out, a Liu Tiezhu with black gas emerged.

The fire in his heart began to burn, and those flames were like maggots attached to the bones, and no matter how the opponent tried to shake them off, he could not get rid of them. In the end, Liu Tiezhu, who was filled with black energy, screamed and died on the spot.

[Source Energy +20]

At this time, Taoist Priest Lin was stunned and couldn't think straight.

After checking that Liu Tiezhu was in good health, Lu Yue narrated the incident of possession in a concise manner. He also mentioned what Liu Tiezhu's wife had said about his drastic change in temperament, and the fact that he was able to trip up a transcendental person of the fourth level of the Divine Hidden Realm, which made him suspicious.

"I'm not surprised by this... Junior Brother Lu, how did you master the Nine-Character Mantra Hand Seal of our Taoism? This ability is rare even in Taoism. Could it be that you are the descendant of a Taoist elder who was left behind?"

"How about I go back and look through the Taoist inheritance genealogy so that you can recognize your ancestry?"

Lu Yue: “…”

"Junior Brother Lu, I'm not kidding. You are most likely a descendant of our Taoist lineage. Otherwise, how do you explain that you can use our Taoist abilities?"

"If it is a natural awakening of spiritual energy, and this ability happens to be similar to our Taoist ability, it is possible, but the probability is lower than a meteor shower."

"You must be a person with extraordinary bloodline. Strange, I learned from Junior Brother Fang that your ability is not like this. Let me count how many abilities you have, one, two, three, four, five, six. My Three Pure Ones, your ancestors' bloodline is so mixed."

Lu Yue's face turned dark.

What the hell, mixed blood, this sentence sounds like an insult.

“Brother Lu, don’t get me wrong. All of us extraordinary people have intermarried ancestors. It’s just that over the past dozen generations, only a few have been able to awaken two abilities. It’s really scary to have six abilities like you.”

"Even the descendants of those bloodline families are not so exaggerated..."

Taoist Lin kept talking, and Lu Yue's ears were covered with calluses.

"Master Lin, it is more important to do business. Can you summon Liu Tiezhu's soul?"

"I almost forgot the main thing. I can summon it. Of course I can. I am the orthodox descendant of the Taoist sect. Although my aptitude is a little lacking, I still have the necessary means. Wait for me to use the incense to summon the spirit."

Taoist Priest Lin took out a yellow bag from his lapel. Lu Yue looked at it carefully. It was filled with a strong mysterious atmosphere, just like the bags that Taoist priests often carried in movies. It was a magic tool.

"This is the incense for praying for a child... This is the incense for the god of wealth, this is the incense for a ray of hope, this is the incense for finding someone... None of them are right, it's bad... I didn't bring the incense for summoning souls."

"Fortunately, I still have a backup plan. This is a house-guarding talisman, a talisman to ward off evil spirits, a talisman for protection, a talisman to drive away ghosts, a talisman to protect the fetus, a talisman to cure diseases... That's not right..."

"Brother Lu, don't worry. I still have some elixirs here, including Qiankun Yiqi Pill, Golden Turtle Going Down to the Sea Pill, Hunyuan Pill, and Poison Dragon Pill..."

Lu Yue was slightly surprised.

Taoist Priest Lin's family is so wealthy that he could actually take out so many treasures. It's just like Doraemon's treasure chest. However, after searching for a long time, he couldn't find anything that could save people immediately. In this respect, he is not as reliable as Taoist Priest Fang.

Perhaps because he felt that he had lost face in front of Lu Yue, Taoist Lin was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and finally he really found a black pill.

"Got it, I found the resurrection pill!"

Taoist Lin immediately put the pill into the mouth of Liu Tiezhu, who was gradually losing body temperature, and then began to mutter something that Lu Yue could not understand.

"Master Lin, does your resurrection pill require a spell?"

“No, I was praying to the Three Pure Ones, hoping that the resurrection pill I refined would work.” Taoist Priest Lin looked solemn, and then continued: “Although I have awakened many bloodline abilities, involving alchemy, spells, divination and many other aspects, my bloodline in these aspects is very weak…”

As he spoke, Master Lin's voice became lower and lower.

Lu Yue understood it completely. This was a typical case of "erudition but not specialization". He seemed to know everything, but in fact, he was not proficient in anything and all his skills were only entry-level.

This Taoist priest Lin’s talent is high, but it is also low.

"Strange, this shouldn't be the case. Liu Tiezhu's soul has clearly not dissipated, so why can't it come back? It's as if it's trapped somewhere?" Taoist Lin checked Liu Tiezhu's body, scratching his head constantly. In the end, he could only use a vitality talisman to temporarily ensure that his body would not die.

Stuck somewhere?

Lu Yue was puzzled.

It seems that there is a secret behind this incident of possession.

Lu Yue took out his cell phone, contacted Captain Liu, then called a car, put Liu Tiezhu in the car, and asked the driver to take him to the location designated by Captain Liu to see if the Demon Suppression Division had any special means to summon the soul.

After doing all this, I saw that Boss Ma’s opening time was approaching.

Lu Yue and the other man started to rush towards the jujube forest.

(End of this chapter)