Chapter 82: Black Umbrella
Broken tombstones lay in front of the mound of mud and weeds.
Compared with the clean graves arranged next to it, it is believed that it is a deserted grave that has not been taken care of for several years.
"This is the grave that was buried on May 16?"
Lu Jiu's eyes passed through the rain curtain hanging on the edge of the oil-paper umbrella, looking at the "burial place" that once belonged to him, and he really didn't know what to say.
Looking up at the grave keeper's house, it was a little blurry because it was too far away.
In the northeast corner of the grave, is this also a desire to avoid crowds and grave keepers......
"Those guys who should kill a thousand knives dare to come to rob the tomb in the middle of the night, if I hadn't found out, maybe I would have succeeded, but I didn't want to wait until the early morning of the third day, this tomb was actually destroyed again, what you see now is still the result of my way to repair it, and I don't know how the people buried here provoked them, and there will be no peace after death!"
The old man sighed and said in a muffled voice,
"I also thought about contacting this person's family to repair it, but there was not a word on the tombstone, and the people on the Yizhuang side were nowhere to be seen. ”
Maybe you'll get it?
It should have been won a long time ago, but I don't dare to say it.
Lu Jiu glanced at the old man's obviously stiff expression and nervous body movements, knowing that he was probably deliberately concealing the fact that the tomb had been stolen, and this rough repair method was obviously reluctant to remedy it, but the technology was not good, and in the end he could only make a fool of himself.
He can't be blamed for this, if a lonely old man loses his job as a grave keeper, it is almost the same as living on the streets.
Lu Jiu didn't have the heart to pursue this now, stared at the grave for a while, then took out a silver dollar from his backpack and handed it to the old man, and said, "Old man, you said that the day after the two tomb robbers came, the tomb was destroyed again, I want to know how much it was destroyed at that time...... Rest assured, everything you said here will be forgotten when I leave, so I hope you can make it clear. ”
Holding two silver dollars in his hand, the old man subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to say the words he had prepared, but when he looked up, he saw that the man was staring at him through the rain curtain, and almost at the moment when his eyes staggered, the words that had just reached his mouth were swallowed back.
"The whole tomb was destroyed, the coffin lid was overturned, and this tombstone was also destroyed that night, strange to say, it is not that there has never been a tomb robbery before, but I have never seen this kind of direct destruction of the grave. ”
"Did the body disappear that night or was it gone during the first grave robbery?"
When he woke up, he appeared in Qingding City, which means that someone must have dug up his body again after his predecessor was buried in the grave, either a tomb robber or a heart-gouging ghost!
“...... The first time, the coffin was pried open after the tomb robbers came, and when I realized that something was wrong, I secretly dug up the grave and took a look, it was empty, it was not that there had been tomb robberies before, but most of them only took burial goods, and I had never encountered such a thing. ”
Knowing that he had been seen by the other party, the old man no longer tried to hide it, and said with a little hesitation.
And so it was!
Knowing the news, Lu Jiu's hand holding the handle of the umbrella suddenly tightened.
The speculation generated by the previous information in the village has been verified, and the development of the matter is already clear.
The tomb robber stole his body for an unknown purpose, and the heart-ripping ghosts who came to check it later naturally didn't know that there was such a thing.
Sensing that the body was not in the grave, the first reaction of the heart-ripping ghost must have been that the people of Yizhuang did not do what they were told, so they found the person in charge of Yizhuang on the eighteenth, presumably he went in his own image at that time, and he got the answer he wanted through torture, so he turned to look for the two tomb robbers.
Since he is standing here now, it means that the two tomb robbers have already transferred their bodies to other places at that time, and this must be the second turning point.
Regardless of where his body went at that time, it is certain that it did not fall into the hands of the heart-ripping ghost.
It is precisely because of this that the heart-ripping ghost will directly destroy the two families, and venting his anger may account for part of the reason, but Lu Jiu believes that it is more to extinguish the mouth and cut off all clues about the corpse of the predecessor.
His purpose in killing so many officials with his appearance is also obvious now, that is, to imply in this way that all the people who are tracking him have been killed by him, so naturally no one will bother with this anymore.
As soon as he thought of this, Lu Jiu couldn't help but start to think about his own abnormality, what was the intention of the heart-splitting ghost to be so persistent with himself?
It was only two days before and after the predecessor found the Heart-Ripping Ghost and was killed by him, and it was impossible for him to have the opportunity to obtain the pill that could turn him into a demon vein during this time period, and the Heart-Ripping Ghost would not eat the corpse pill that was full.
Could it be the dark golden mechanical heart?
Its ability Lu Jiu had already experienced it personally, and its value was undoubted.
Moreover, the main reason for the death of the predecessor was that the heart was stripped away, and he was still able to retain a part of his consciousness in the coffin, and it was easy to think that something had replaced the function of the original heart, Lu Jiu did not think that it was just a simple coincidence.
However, these were just Lu Jiu's speculations in the end, and he had no actual evidence to prove that the dark golden mechanical heart in his body was a heart-gouging ghost.
Of course, whether it is or not, Lu Jiu has no intention of returning him.
Up to now, Lu Jiu's purpose of coming to Changyi City can be said to have been completed for the most part, and he already knows what happened here in his predecessor.
The next key is what happened to the body of the predecessor after it was taken away by the tomb robbers, which involves Lu Jiu's resurrection and how he became a demon vein in just a few days, the two most important things in his opinion.
"Uncle, have you ever encountered the theft of corpses before, do you think they steal people's corpses, what do they usually use them for?"
Retracting his gaze from the grave, Lu Jiu asked,
"Or where are they going to send these bodies. ”
In addition to figuring out the physical condition, Lu Jiu also wanted to have a general understanding of the possible location of the Heart-Splitting Ghost.
After all, through the information gathered at the moment, it is undeniable that he has now been targeted by the heart-snatching ghost, and Lu Jiu is more inclined to prepare in advance than waiting for trouble to come to the door.
"I don't know, but I've heard that the tomb robbers have private dealings, so you might as well ask the other tomb robbers...... There are quite a few people in Changyi City who do this. ”
The two discussed in front of the tomb, their attention on each other.
No one noticed a figure in a blue-gray cloth shirt that appeared in the wilderness at the southern end of the grave.
The man held a black umbrella in his hand, stopped to look at the two of them, and then turned to leave.