Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 20 The Source of Malice
Chen Miao turned on his computer and found the surveillance footage of the cold storage.

There are four cameras in total at the cold storage facility: one at the entrance, one at the back, one in the office area, and one in the freezer room.

Chen Miao opened the video recording of the cold storage room and fast-forwarded to the day before yesterday, the time when the twins entered the cold storage.

But then he changed the time again, moving it to noon today!

If anyone were to tamper with the books, it should be today, because the books changed today.

Chen Miao sped up the video recording to the maximum speed.

From noon until 4 pm, apart from Tang Rui entering the freezer room twice to check the operation of the equipment, no one else entered.

At 4:10, three people entered the freezer room.

Tang Rui, Li Weiguo (the twins' grandfather), and that middle-aged man with triangular eyes whom they had met once before!

Snapped!
Chen Miao pressed the keyboard and adjusted the speed to double.

He saw Tang Rui open both of the twins' cabinets and then saw Tang Rui take the money and leave the freezer room.

Chen Miao saw everything less than half a minute after Tang Rui left.

Snapped!
Video paused.

In the video, the middle-aged man with triangular eyes is pulling Li Shilei's hair.

Keep playing.

Snapped!
Video paused.

In the video, a middle-aged man with triangular eyes is clipping Li Shilei's nails.

Keep playing.

After that, they had someone take Li Shirui away, leaving only Li Shilei, who had been touched by the man with the triangular eyes.

Suddenly, Chen Miao seemed to see something.

Rewind: Rewind the recording to a specific point in time and then resume playback.

When Li Shilei was being carried out, the man with the triangular eyes walked at the very back, and then he glanced at the camera.

Snapped!
The video pauses.

Through the video recording, Chen Miao stared at the middle-aged man with triangular eyes.

Chen Miao seems to have found the source of the malice.

Based on the description of talismans in "Zhong's Talismans", Chen Miao roughly deduced some situations.

The hair and nails taken by the middle-aged man with triangular eyes were for making a love charm, while Li Shirui, who was taken away, was the vessel for the love charm.

The reason he didn't react when he entered the freezer and came into close contact with Li Shilei today is because the other party's methods hadn't taken effect yet; Li Shilei was just a normal corpse at that time.

It wasn't until close to midnight, around the time the temperature suddenly dropped, that the other party's methods took effect, variables appeared, and thus the changes in the chapter's content were triggered.

The so-called variable should be the yin energy gathered by the Yin-gathering talisman.

The other party used a Yin-gathering talisman in conjunction with a Heart-to-Heart talisman to transfer Yin energy from Li Shirui to Li Shilei's corpse, thus raising a vengeful ghost from afar!
After figuring out the whole story, Chen Miao's mood became extremely heavy.

He was certain that the other party intended to harm him, but the evidence he had was insufficient to bring the other party to justice in a public manner.

Even if nothing has happened yet, and even if Chen Miao were really dead, no one would connect Chen Miao's death with the behavior of that middle-aged man with the triangular eyes based on the video.

This is probably why middle-aged men with triangular eyes dare to look at the camera.

Because the other party isn't afraid at all!
Chen Miao didn't know why the middle-aged man with the triangular eyes attacked him, nor did he know if there would be a next time.

This made him somewhat irritable.

For a fleeting moment, he glanced at "Notes on Becoming a God in the Mundane World".

Why is there nothing harmful in this book?

Can the Zhong Family Talismans be used to kill someone?

The moment these two thoughts popped into Chen Miao's head, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Standing up from his seat, Chen Miao paced back and forth in the room, trying to calm his inner turmoil.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Chen Miao, covered in a light sweat, finally sat down in his seat again.

There is another way.

Chen Miao calmed himself down.

Soon, his eyes became as still as a deep well.

“If that person makes a move once, he will definitely make another one. If his target is me again next time, the book will be able to predict it and I will be able to prepare in advance.”

"He used the twins this time, so he probably doesn't have a direct way to deal with me, or rather, he doesn't have a way to completely absolve himself of responsibility and kill me." "Therefore, the law is not something he can ignore, which is good."

“In that case, I only need to monitor the bodies entering and leaving the funeral home. It would be best to monitor the columbarium and crematorium as well.”

"No! I might be mistaken!"

“His target wasn’t me! He couldn’t possibly have known I had this book, nor that I would come to the cold storage, so my target from the beginning wasn’t me!”

"If I hadn't come to the cold storage, Tang Rui would have been the one to die! But that book still foresaw my death, so its real target is everyone in the funeral home tonight!"

"In that case... it seems even simpler. As long as he makes a move, and as long as his target is everyone, I will be able to predict it!"

"As long as I can resolve the paranormal events he creates each time, it's not actually a bad thing for me."

"Because in this process, I will gain more ways to deal with him because of the existence of that book."

"During this process, it's not impossible that a countermeasure could emerge!"

"As for the Zhong Family Talisman, it cannot be used against the opponent! The opponent is definitely more familiar with the Zhong Family Talisman than I am. If I use the Zhong Family Talisman, it is very likely to backfire."

"If we're going to use anything, it has to be something from my book!"

"Therefore, I need to be fully prepared."

"Start with the difficult ones first, then move on to the easy ones. The more times I take on challenges, the safer I become!"

Emerging from his contemplative state, Chen Miao's furrowed brows relaxed slightly.

"In that case, I should also plan how to use these six coins of good karma."

Chen Miao opened the book and turned to the redemption list page.

……

the next day.

In the old city's northern district, along the pedestrian streets and alleys, there are shops selling yin-yang (divine interrogation and divination).

Boom!

"Ah Fa, Ah Fa, are you there?"

Boom!

An elderly woman with a full head of silver hair and age spots on her face and hands was knocking on the shop door.

After receiving no response, the old woman took out her phone and made another call.

A faint cell phone rang from inside the door. The old woman paused, then knocked on the door again.

"Ah Fa? Are you in the shop?"

The old woman's weak voice rang out again, but still no one responded.

Gradually, the old woman's eyes began to look blank, and a sense of helplessness appeared on her face.

"Ah Fa, I've done everything you said. When will your Uncle Dong be back?"

"Don't ignore Aunt Mei. Aunt Mei has money. Aunt Mei can give money."

“Ah Fa, you…”

click!
The shop door was opened from the inside.

In the dimly lit room, a pale hand suddenly reached out from inside and grabbed the door frame.

Immediately afterwards, Zhong Fa slowly emerged from the shop.

He leaned against the doorframe and smiled at Aunt Mei.

"Aunt Mei, you're my aunt, cough cough, how could I possibly take your money, cough cough cough..."

As Zhong Fa was speaking, he suddenly began to cough violently.

"Aunt Mei, you go back first. I'll go see Uncle Dong this afternoon."

"Uncle Dong will be back soon."

Ignoring Chung Fat's deathly pale face, Aunt Mei breathed a sigh of relief.

"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back."

"Ah Fa, I'll wait for you at home."

……

(End of this chapter)