Sheriff Uncle, open the door quickly! I've come to solve a case!

Qin Qingzhou closed her eyes silently, her mouth was wrapped with a white cloth strip with runes written on it, and her left ring finger was also wrapped with red thread.

Song Qiu instinctively tried to wake Qin Qingzhou, but Bai Zhizhi stopped her.

"Do not forcibly awaken him, or his soul will be scattered!"

Bai Zhizhi was in a hurry to climb into the coffin, her feet quickly leaving the ground, and Song Qiu carried her in.

"Thank you, sister."

"Don't worry about what's going on outside." Song Qiu stood guard beside her with two other female classmates.

Bai Zhizhi lay half-lying on Qin Qingzhou and started writing talismans again. She stuck the broken talisman on his forehead, bit her finger, and let the blood of a virgin flow out. She dripped the blood onto the cloth strip on her mouth.

The movements were fluid and graceful, and Song Qiu watched from the side, her expression unreadable.

The blood ignited the moment it touched the cloth strip, and the flames burned away along Qin Qingzhou's cheek, leaving not even ashes.

Qin Qingzhou resumed breathing.

Bai Zhizhi untied the red rope, and Qin Qingzhou's eyelashes fluttered slightly as she slowly woke up.

When I opened my eyes, Bai Zhizhi's dirty little face came into view.

"Bai Zhizhi..." Qin Qingzhou felt an unusual hoarseness in her throat.

What's wrong with him?

"Uncle!" Bai Zhizhi burst into tears, hugging his neck tightly, her small body trembling.

Qin Qingzhou coughed and gently patted Bai Zhi's back: "...You're hugging me too tightly, I can't breathe."

"The offering has been destroyed! Kill that child!"

"kill!"

Qin Qingzhou sat up with Bai Zhizhi in his arms, and only then did he see the situation clearly.

He reached behind his back and, sure enough, the gun had been taken away.

Bai Zhizhi raised her little face: "Uncle, they are not human."

"Do you have a way to deal with them?"

She nodded obediently: "Zhizhi's talisman can make them disappear."

"Alright then." Qin Qingzhou placed her in the coffin and then climbed out with one hand.

His recovery ability is extremely strong; he has now recovered about 80%.

80% is enough.

"You draw the talismans here, and I'll handle the rest."

He said, "You've done a fantastic job."

He bent down, pulled a dagger from his ankle, and joined the fight.

Some police officers gradually became exhausted, and the villagers seized the opportunity to shoot them dead. However, they were forced back by a burst of flames, but for some reason, they were triggered.

It was a talisman that the police officers had pestered Bai Zhizhi to buy.

Those people finally realized that the child was the main source of spiritual energy.

If she isn't dealt with, this sacrificial ceremony can never begin.

"Kill that child first!"

The village chief ran over first, his hand covered in snake patterns reaching out to Bai Zhizhi.

So close, so close...

A cold, indifferent face flashed into view: "You can't kill her."

A water talisman was pasted on the mask, and the village chief's face instantly turned to fear.

"No! No—"

The village chief dissolved like water, and the snake-head mask fell to the ground.

Over the next ten minutes, Qin Qingzhou, holding the water talisman given to him by Bai Zhizhi, moved through the crowd with lightning speed. Each time a talisman fell, it was accompanied by a scream.

……

Everyone was rescued, and they were helped down the mountain.

Bai Zhizhi had used too much of her perception and was feeling sleepy while hugging Qin Qingzhou's neck.

Perhaps because of the separation, the little guy became anxious and wouldn't let go of him no matter what.

Qin Qingzhou walked steadily: "What exactly is this sacrificial ceremony they're performing?"

Bai Zhizhi said in a childish voice, "I heard the elders say that animals need to absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. The little snakes here absorb the spiritual energy in the mountains. It seems that the villagers misunderstood and forcibly transferred the spiritual energy to the little snakes. Their spiritual power increased, so they thought it was useful."

"The red thread is a tool for transporting spiritual energy and blood. Once the ritual is completed, the person bound by the red thread will have no blood in their body."

Bai Zhizhi hugged him even tighter: "Uncle, you almost died."

Qin Qingzhou's throat tightened.

In other words, if they hadn't come to the village today, all those students would have died.

If that's the case, then all the blood in the body was drained, so wouldn't the way the old woman's child died look exactly like him?

And where did her child go?

"Then what exactly are those villagers? Are they snake demons?"

"No, they were originally human."

Qin Qingzhou looked at Bai Zhizhi.

Bai Zhizhi continued, "Because they harbored evil intentions, they used themselves as a vessel to initiate the sacrifice. Their human aura was devoured by the little snakes, gradually filling in with the little snakes' aura."

"But Uncle, the little snake isn't bad. It was forced into it. Please don't punish it."

"Okay." Qin Qingzhou patted her little head. "I understand."

Song Qiu and two other female classmates walked ahead, supporting each other. Her features were very similar to her sister's; she was beautiful and aloof.

When Qin Qingzhou was rescued and woke up by Bai Zhizhi, it seemed like she was right next to her.

What struck him as odd was that Song Qiu seemed completely unsurprised by Bai Zhizhi's abilities.

Even her sister sought Bai Zhizhi's help because she knew of Bai's abilities.

If her sister only learned of Bai Zhizhi's abilities after seeing a short video, what about Song Qiu?

She's been in the mountains all this time, so how did she know?

Upon reaching the foot of the mountain, the nearby police had not yet arrived.

They only had one car. Xu Shan drove the students to a nearby hospital first, while the others waited for the police car.

Bai Zhizhi looked around, searching for someone.

"What are you looking at?"

"Where's the handsome guy?"

"What little brother?" Qin Qingzhou frowned slightly.

"Yes, it was that handsome young man who also knows Taoist magic who saved Zhizhi and everyone else."

Is there such a person?

He suddenly remembered the note from this morning. Could it have been left by that person?

Who exactly is he?

"You're not talking about the person who lives next door, are you?"

"Uh-huh!"

"I'll go up..." Before he could finish speaking, a police car drove up from not far away.

The person who got out of the police car was the chief of the nearby police station, who walked straight toward Qin Qingzhou: "Hello, you must be Detective Qin, right? I've heard so much about you, I didn't expect you to be so young."

"Hello."

Qin Qingzhou gave up the idea of ​​going up. If what Bai Zhizhi said was true, that man might not be an ordinary person.

The case was ultimately closed with a different version of events.

The police cannot tell everyone that all of this is related to the paranormal; that would only cause panic among citizens.

Thus, the truth about Hu Lingcun's disappearance was kept hidden in the hearts of everyone in the police station.

The woman who initially fled was the only human in the village, and she suffered a severe mental shock. She was eventually taken in by the police for protection at a mental sanatorium.

Bai Zhizhi was extremely exhausted and slept for three days straight at home, eating and sleeping all the time. Qin Qingzhou very considerately arranged for her to take three days off from kindergarten.

Finally, on the fourth day, an identical brown envelope appeared at their doorstep.

[To: Bai Zhizhi]