Evil of all ages

Chapter 20 He's been dead for a year
"It's all your fault. I was drinking peacefully in the ghost market, why did you bring me here?"

"Now look what's happened, I've been targeted and cursed."

Qi Hongfei grabbed Di Qingtian's clothes again and started cursing.

"Old Qi, calm down. There are no demons or monsters in the world. These are just methods we haven't seen before."

"Give me a few more Gu worms. I need to figure something out."

Despite his inner turmoil, Di Qingtian firmly believed that there were no demons or monsters in the world, and now he urgently needed to prove something.

"You cursed me, and now you're acting all innocent and asking me for Gu worms."

"Di Qingtian, you are truly remarkable. I was blind. How could I have been so foolish as to be deceived by you with just a few jugs of wine?"

Qi Hongfei was still blaming Di Qingtian for dragging him into matters of supernatural powers and strange phenomena.

"Old Qi, I understand that you blame me, but now is not the time for me to apologize to you. You need to help me figure something out."

"It is to confirm whether the people who are 'cursed' are only those inside the Heavenly Prison and those who enter and leave the Heavenly Prison, or those outside the Heavenly Prison who are also 'cursed'."

“If those outside the prison are also ‘cursed,’ then the entire city’s population will be in danger.”

Although Di Qingtian couldn't understand the unbelievable methods used by the person behind the scenes, he needed to figure out whether the person behind the scenes was only causing trouble inside the prison or was also doing so outside.

If he did it outside as well, how extensive would his activities be?
If he harbors evil intentions, countless people in the city will suffer.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yidao and the others' expressions changed repeatedly. If the people outside the Heavenly Prison were also cursed, it would be even more terrifying than a change in the heavens.

"Humph"

Qi Hongfei snorted coldly and continued.

“I’m cursed. I don’t even know what fate awaits me, so why should I care about the lives of others?”

Di Qingtian: "My friend gave me a hundred jars of fine wine, which are buried in my yard."

“It’s one hundred jars, not one hundred pots. If you help me, all one hundred jars are yours.”

Qi Hongfei's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"You should have said so earlier, and I would have helped you."

"A hundred jars, just thinking about it makes my mouth dry. Even if I drink myself to death, I'd still be rich. Why would I care about curses?"

Qi Hongfei's expression changed quickly, as if alcohol was everything to him.

"I need hundreds of Gu worms to go outside the prison to examine the people's bodies."

Di Qingtian wanted more Gu worms so that the examination would be more accurate.

"I don't have that many Gu worms on my body, except for a few special Gu worms that I can't use."

"There are only about fifty Gu worms hidden in my gourd, in my hair, beard, and clothes."

Qi Hongfei also keeps some Gu worms in the black market, but who would give away all of their wealth?

"Fifty or more is fine."

Di Qingtian immediately took Qi Hongfei out to conduct an experiment near the prison.

"He he he..."

Di Qingtian looked at the people coming and going outside and randomly selected a few civilians.

Qi Hongfei would use his Gu worms to strike whoever Di Qingtian pointed at.

Huang Taichu, with his God-like perspective, smiled. He only wanted to make the Heavenly Prison famous, not to cause panic among the people of the city.

Therefore, as long as someone is chosen by Di Qingtian, the Greedy World-Devouring Gu within their body will not touch Qi Hongfei's Gu worms.

Once the Gu worm entered the human body, Di Qingtian watched Qi Hongfei's expression closely, fearing that Qi Hongfei would show an expression he didn't want to see.

Fortunately, after ten breaths, Qi Hongfei's expression remained unchanged, which gradually lessened his worries.

“My connection with the Gu worms is still intact; they are not cursed.”

After a quarter of an hour, Qi Hongfei spoke.

"hold on!"

Just in case, Di Qingtian didn't want Qi Hongfei to call back the Gu worms too early, and wanted to spend more time observing them.

"Okay, let's go check out the other streets."

It took Di Qingtian a full quarter of an hour before he finally had Qi Hongfei summon the Gu worms back.

However, he did not return to the prison immediately, but instead went to conduct spot checks in several places.

Two hours later, Di Qingtian and his group returned to the prison.

"This is not a good thing. Only those inside the prison and those entering and leaving the Heavenly Prison will be 'cursed'."

Di Qingtian was more relaxed than the others, since what he feared had not happened.

He was relieved, but none of the others were relieved, because they were cursed.

Although they weren't lying there sickly and weak like prisoners, who knew if this curse would take their lives at any moment?

Like the five men, including Shi Boyi, their deaths were gruesome and unbearable to witness.

"Old Qi, what will happen to the prisoner if he continues in this state?" Di Qingtian asked.

"Although their life force is slowly depleted, this is, after all, a prison, dark and damp, and the food the prisoners eat is so bad that even a dog would cry."

"Under all these conditions, in a month or two, all the prisoners will become so thin that they are just skin and bones."

Qi Hongfei made a judgment.

Upon hearing this, He Rongjiang and Liu Yidao exchanged glances and decided to upgrade the prisoners' food from today onwards.

"Tianying, what do you think?"

Seeing that others were already thinking in the direction of supernatural phenomena, Di Qingtian had no choice but to ask his own people what they thought first.

"Sir, you once said that murders always have a motive and a purpose. We might as well think about it more."

Yin Tianying replied.

"Yes, motives and purposes!"

"Why were only Shi Boyi and his four companions killed when there were so many people in the prison?"

"Why is the entire prison 'cursed', yet only the prisoners suffer, while we remain unharmed?"

"What are the motives of those behind the scenes? What do they really want to gain?"

"..."

"Think about it, and say whatever comes to mind."

Di Qingtian encouraged everyone to make bold guesses.

After he finished speaking, everyone present fell into a vortex of thought. Di Qingtian was in no hurry and gave everyone time to think.

"I understand!"

"I understand!"

"I know what's going on now!"

Suddenly, Chang Xingde jumped up, as if he knew the whole story.

"You say you have seen through everything, tell me quickly, who is playing tricks in the prison?"

Although Di Qingtian didn't quite believe that Chang Xingde could find the real culprit so quickly, seeing that Chang Xingde's face clearly showed that he knew the truth, he asked with a mixture of belief and doubt.

Liu Yidao and the others also focused their gazes on Chang Xingde, with a hint of expectation. They really hoped that Chang Xingde would solve this strange case.

Human intervention is always better than ghostly interference.

“No one is playing tricks; it was Huang Tianyi. He did all of this.”

Chang Xingde answered with absolute certainty.

Who is Huang Tianyi?
Di Qingtian was hearing this for the first time and didn't know it.

Liu Yidao was stationed on the third floor. Apart from the people from the Zhenwu Division and the prison warden He Rongjiang, he didn't know every single one of the prison officers, let alone the others.

He Rongjiang was the same. Inside the prison, apart from the numerous prison guards, he could hardly name even a few of the cell bosses.

Not to mention those who have been dead for a year.

Huang Taichu, from God's perspective, wanted to laugh; how could this even involve the body's dead father?

"Is Huang Tianyi someone from inside the prison?"

Liu Yidao and He Rongjiang were both waiting for Chang Xingde to continue.

"It used to be, because he had been dead for a year."

Chang Xingde replied.

Upon hearing this, Di Qingtian sighed. As expected, his expectations were dashed; he had gotten involved with ghosts and monsters again.

"Chang Xingde, you'd better be able to explain yourself logically, otherwise... humph!"

Liu Yidao said coldly.

"The one who truly had a grudge against Shi Boyi was not Ren Zhengnian and his group, but Huang Tianyi. Huang Tianyi and Shi Boyi were mortal enemies."

"Shi Boyi and his gang bullied Huang Tianyi's son for a year, which may be the reason why Huang Tianyi turned into a demon and came back to take revenge."

"That's why Shi Boyi and the others died such gruesome deaths."

"The reason we are cursed is that ghosts exist in the world, perhaps as written in folk tales, and they need to absorb people's yang energy."

"It is possible that Huang Tianyi was a prison guard in his lifetime. He was unwilling to harm innocent people, nor did he want to absorb the yang energy of his colleagues, so he absorbed the yang energy of prisoners instead."

That makes sense!

He actually convinced me.

Despite a hint of uncertainty, the general direction is correct.

This detailed and well-organized account left Liu Yidao and the others completely bewildered.

(End of this chapter)