Mythology

Chapter 23: Night Visit to the Yamen
Four days later, at midnight.

The main gate of the yamen was open, and there were no constables guarding the gate. The candlelight inside was dim, and occasionally one or two figures could be seen.

The figures are all ordinary people. They are conscious, but their cognition is influenced by the tiger ghost. They don’t think there will be any problems with the government office.

"Thirteen in total."

Yang He stood in the alley, secretly counting the number of people in the yamen.

Not long after, people began to walk out of the yamen in a daze, because the yamen had not recognized them and could not accommodate their lackeys.

After several days of observation, Yang He roughly figured out the rules of the yamen.

As long as you enter the yamen at midnight and stay until the rooster crows three times the next day, you can successfully accommodate the ghost and become a constable in Peibai City.

If the government does not approve, the relevant memory will be erased.

Although the person will not die, damage to the yang energy is inevitable.

"The number of constables recruited by the government has been decreasing, and some constables' inner ghosts have even died inexplicably."

Once the accomplice dies, they will return to their normal lives as if nothing had happened.

"But judging from the surface, Captain Sun is indeed in charge of Peibai City and has not done anything to harm ordinary mortals..."

While Yang He was thinking, he saw a black cat nimbly sprinting out of the yamen wall.

"Heizi, how is it?"

The black cat is now more intelligent, and relying on the characteristics of the cat ghost, it can move freely in the yamen.

Meow~~

When Yang He heard the black cat's short cry, his brows furrowed slightly. Heizi meant that he didn't find any ghosts in the yamen.

"Let's go. It won't be long until the next allusion world."

[Ghost Flower: 1/3 (81%)]

Yang He looked back at the entrance of the market and could still see the bright lights inside. The huge body of the century-old turbot was lying on the ground.

The half-exposed flesh is the color of mutton-fat white jade, the bones are like gold, and you can vaguely see the internal organs shaped like various gemstones.

In five days at most, the century-old turbot will be completely dismembered.

It is unknown what kind of disaster will occur at that time.

Yang He suppressed his distracting thoughts and walked out of the alley. The black cat quietly slipped into the shadow of his feet.

It was only a dozen meters away from the yamen and in a moment he had crossed the threshold.

As Yang Heyi stepped into the yamen, a biting chill suddenly surged into his heart, and then his heart began to beat wildly like a drum.

"Well."

He groaned, all the strangeness came from the pupil ghost's fear.

The Yin energy in the meridians was extremely disordered, causing the three Yang fires to fluctuate.

Yang He remained calm. Thanks to the extremely sophisticated Qi-refining method taught by Taiyi Zhenren, he was able to control the pupil ghost to gradually restrain its breath.

In the eyes of psychic vision.

There were no ghosts haunting the yamen, but there were spots of varying sizes on the surface of the building.

"Tabby?"

Not only that, even the grass and trees have tiger stripes.

Yang He frowned slightly and subconsciously spread out his palms.

I saw tiger stripes appearing on the palm of my hand and moving between the skin and flesh. I could vaguely feel that the ghost and the tiger stripes were related.

"Hiss, didn't they say that Captain Sun was seriously injured?"

Yang He quickly left the yamen, and the tiger stripes disappeared naturally.

"I seem to have a misunderstanding."

"They have already raised ghosts to cause trouble, how can we understand it with conventional thinking? The closer the cultivators in this world are to death, the more terrifying their strength will be."

No wonder the two monks didn't come to deal with Captain Sun. In their prime, they could only fight him 50-50. When they were on the verge of death, they might be able to fight two at a time.

"Until the tiger stripes cover the entire body, the ghost will not be born."

Yang He entered the yamen again, keeping his eyes on Tiger Stripe.

In the pitch black darkness, there was no sign of a ghost at all. This situation instead brought him an indescribable fear.

Occasionally you can see people standing there in a daze.

As the tiger spots spread all over their bodies, their Yang Fire became unstable, and before long, they left the yamen the same way they came with lifeless eyes.

"The pupil ghost tends to be auxiliary, using Yin Qi to temper the body and thus derive Yin meridians, so I am more adapted to the birth of the ghost." Yang He only had a slight tingling in his head, which was no big deal.

suddenly.

He had just crossed the aisle when he stopped in a cold sweat.

I saw a large number of strange figures all over the training ground where we usually train.

Yang He grabbed the copper coin sword at his waist, and immediately discovered that the human figures were wooden dummies, with traces of swords and knives everywhere.

However, because the joints are so vivid, it is difficult to distinguish them by just looking at the outline.

"I don't see any evil spirits in the government office. Instead, I feel a little uncomfortable. Haha, I really want to slap myself for being too jumpy."

Yang He glanced at the tiger stripes spreading to his forearms and continued walking through the storeroom and kitchen.

Although he didn't know the layout of the yamen, he knew that the place where official business was conducted should usually be in the center of the yamen, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.

It didn't take long.

Several compactly distributed houses came into view.

Yang He's expression brightened and he quickly pushed open the doors one by one.

It turned out to be just a place filled with documents from Peibai City's past cases. From the thick layer of dust on the ground, it could be seen that no one had cleaned it for years.

The tabby stripes have reached the shoulders and there is a lighter spot on the neck.

"If you really can't find it, just come back tomorrow night."

Squeak.

He opened the last room at the end and was filled with a familiar fishy smell.

Yang He showed disappointment, but what came into view was the morgue. In ancient times, forensic doctors "coroners" usually examined corpses in the morgue.

"what?"

He wanted to leave, but found a dead body hanging in the corner of the morgue.

The body of a turbot.

The corpse was shriveled and the hungry ghost that had attached itself to it was nowhere to be found, but human-like limbs could be seen hanging from the abdomen.

Yang He's guess was correct. There was something wrong with the origin of the turbot. It was even...

"Making livestock?"

He had an unconcealable thought: Could it be that the turbot were once living people? The two evil ghosts were in Peibai City for the same purpose.

While he was in a daze, his left eye started to itch, and then tiger stripes appeared.

"kindness?"

Yang He could feel tiger stripes in his eyes and heard the whimpering of the tiger cub. He turned around and found that dozens of wooden dummies had appeared in the corridor outside the house.

The wooden dummies were in different postures, staring at Yang He with empty eyes.

"What the hell?!"

The wooden mannequin has no yin energy and is just an ordinary tool in the eyes of the psychic.

Yang He's scalp went numb. In the blink of an eye, the wooden dummy moved forward half a meter as if teleporting, and the tiger cub's whimpering became more and more intense.

"These dummies are..."

Yang He tried to look away, and when he turned back, the wooden dummy was within ten meters, with fine tiger hair growing all over its body.

"Ghost!!"

"No wonder. After all, how can a ghost be born out of thin air in a living person's body?"

"Captain Sun keeps the ghosts in the training grounds, disguised as wooden dummies. Once the ghosts come into contact with you, they will use the tiger stripes to enter your body."

"How evil."

"Kuroko."

The black cat jumped onto Yang He's shoulder and stared at the wooden dummy without blinking.

Although Yang He has countermeasures and the tiger stripes are currently spreading very scattered, as time goes by, the yamen will definitely become more and more weird.

He returned the same way, but after walking a few steps he found a candle light.

I saw that the warehouse that was originally piled with sundries had been transformed into a study. Candles were always on inside, and a row of bookshelves could be seen against the wall.

The method of cultivation may very well be inside there.

(End of this chapter)