Chapter 4: Who are the Assassins?
"Another one has arrived." The Taoist priest put away the skull, walked out of the wine cellar, walked into the main street, and disappeared into the flow of people.
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"Boss, where is your little two? I've been taking the wine for a long time, and I'm lazy again, right?! A guest in the Orchid Restaurant shouted.
"Okay, okay, wait a minute, I'll go and beat that little guy. I will serve you a drink by the way. "The boss played haha and poured wine for the guests. When he was done, he walked to the cellar.
"This little guy, the store is busy during the day, and I don't know where to run, if I really want to see him lazy, I have to pick his skin." The boss chattered as he walked.
As soon as I got out of the wine cellar, I saw Xiao Er lying on the ground, as if he was sleeping. So it was a kick to go up.
Boom...... After the boss kicked it, he didn't see Xiao Er's squeak, and leaned down to catch the little two to teach him a lesson. As soon as he bent over, he saw that Xiao Er's eyes were wide open, and he felt that something was wrong, so he reached out to try his snort.
"Huh? He's dead! Dead man...... "The boss ran out of the cellar in a frenzy.
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Not long after, the official messenger came and carried Xiao Er out of the cellar. Only then did he see the state of death, the officer's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that Xiao Er's eyes were all black, he thought of the recent crimes committed by ghosts and monsters in Chang'an City, and lightly turned his head and said to the attendant behind him: "Go to report to Dali Temple, and the Daomen will commit crimes!" ”
What does Huidaomen mean? Since ancient times, it refers to those evil ways that are not righteous and deceitful, acting ruthlessly, and disregarding people's lives. They are managed by gangs or organizations, and they practice magic and evil spirits, so people classify them under the term Huidaomen.
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Dali Temple.
Li Yunshan rushed over when he received the news. He ordered men to keep watch outside, and no one was allowed to go or out.
As soon as he opened the room, a powerful yin qi suddenly rushed to his face. For a professional Taoist priest, he is also accustomed to it. If there is yin qi, it means that there are ghosts, but such a powerful yin qi is rare, Li Yunshan calculated, what a powerful guy this is.
When I entered the room, I heard "muttering...... Shuffle...... The sound of "chirp ......" is like something is eating. Two more steps, the smell of blood began to mix in the air, could it be a bloody corpse? Li Yunfeng took out the tongue of fire from his arms and lit the oil lamp on the wall.
The lights were blown by the yin wind, and the fans were flashing, and they looked like they were going to go out at any time.
Seeing this, Li Yunshan pinched the formula with his right hand, and recited the mantra of Tianyantong on his mouth: "Nothingness sees the light, three o'clock notes the hall, slightly rotates the mirror, adds meaning and brightness, and the old man is as anxious as the law!" "Finish reading a wipe of your eyelids.
Following the sound, Li Yunshan continued to move inward, and finally saw a scene of astonishment in the corner. A bunch of unknown bugs were gnawing at a corpse, and the smell of blood was beginning to stench like a stomach-upside down. Look closely at the worm, the head and tail are round, like an enlarged version of the maggot, lying on the corpse and squirming, each wriggling makes the previous sound, and each wriggling body will increase a little.
"Corpse maggots?" Two words popped up in Li Yunshan's mind. This insect is a kind of Miaojiang Gu worm, which is usually as big as an ant, but once it starts eating, it will quickly gnaw on flesh and corpses, making its body as thick as a human arm. This kind of insect was used in Miao Jiang to remove the internal organs when it was used for embalming corpses, and Li Yunshan had seen it when he traveled.
Why is it in Chang'an? What exactly are these people going to do with it?
Looking at the corpse that had been gnawed and disfigured. Hey, why don't you have a head? These corpse maggots don't eat bones, so where did the skulls go?
Unexpectedly, the maggot seemed to smell anger, and suddenly poked its head excitedly and began to squirm towards Li Yunshan. Some of the big ones even jumped up with eagerness, and the scene was weird. The blood stains on the corpse maggot's body, flickering under the lights, were chilling, and he planned to treat Li Yunshan as a meal.
Li Yunshan took two steps back, and then murderous intent appeared in his eyes.
Suddenly, there was a burst of shouts, and the peachwood sword in his hand was sacrificed, and he fell sharply. A flash of fire came from the head of the sword, and quickly flew towards the swarm of insects, hitting the target with a snap, and the fireball exploded in response, scattering in all directions, spreading and sweeping in all directions, forcing the corpse maggots to retreat again and again, and finally curled up in the corner of the wall, waiting for the flames to burn.
"Bang...... Syllable...... Boom...... ......"The burned corpse maggots, the gas in the body burst out, making a series of explosions, the less the fire became bigger and bigger, the scorched air wave rose, and there was no way to treat people in the room.
Uh, I can't imagine that my flame talisman is so powerful! One move ignited such a big fire, which really shocked Li Yunshan himself. And the smell of corpse maggots became heavier and heavier, and he finally couldn't control it anymore and vomited......
Exit the workshop and go to the main hall of Dali Temple.
"Lord Li, what clues have you found?" Dali Temple Qing asked Yu Weiran.
"Corpse maggots, there are Gu worms from Miao Jiang here." After Li Yunshan finished speaking, he asked again: "What are the characteristics of the previous corpse?" ”
"Headless!" Yu Weiran's short two words shocked Li Yunshan.
"Did this corpse come with a head?" Li Yunshan asked again.
"It's there when it comes, but after you put it in the workshop, it's gone at some point." Yu Weiran was a little shocked, and even felt that this matter had become bizarre to the point that he could not imagine.
"Will the head run on its own? How many cases have there been so far? Li Yunshan then asked.
"Six cases," Yu Weiran said simply.
"If it's not what I expected, three more people will die." Li Yunshan seemed to have thought of what this guy was going to do.
"Why?" Yu Weiran had obviously seen that the living immortal Li Chunfeng in front of him might already know the answer. But he didn't know that Li Chunfeng was not forcing Li Chunfeng.
"Dao Technique and Miao Jiang Witch Gu practiced together, and there was once a kind of evil cultivation, which the decent people called Netherworld. They seal a special talisman in the human head drum, and by striking the human head drum, they ingest the three souls of the person, which are used to cultivate magic weapons or train as ghost servants. Li Yunshan said what Miao Jiang had seen before. I was afraid that Yu Weiran didn't understand and explained simply: "To put it simply, they are killing people now, and they need a total of nine skulls of people with four pillars of life and all yin." Nine is the extreme number, which means the extreme yin, and the person who took the nine life grids and four pillars of all yin is even more enhancing the effect of this person's head drum. So, I said three more people to die. Li Yunshan explained to the layman for a long time.
"According to what you say, three more people will die, and it will be fine?" Yu Weiran suddenly had such an idea.
"No, not only will it not be fine, but it will get worse! This person's head drum is completed, and when he plays in unison, he will die when he hears his voice, so how many people can live in Chang'an City? Li Yunshan emphasized the danger of human head drums again.
"That'...... So what to do? The enemy is dark and I am clear, we can only know when they kill people, we will always lag behind the murderer, and after three times, there will be no power to return to heaven! Yu Weiran seems to have realized the seriousness of the situation.
"Go get the fortune teller, the murderer is in their midst." Li Yunshan dropped a sentence, and unexpectedly snatched the door out and left.
"Fortune teller?" Yu Weiran was surprised, but suddenly understood what Li Chunfeng meant.
The eight characters of birth are a relatively private matter for a person. If those who are traitors want to find someone who is in the Four Pillars of Life, they must know the person's birth date. Then only fortune tellers and other fortune tellers are the people who have the most contact with the eight characters of their birthdays, so Li Chunfeng told him to catch the fortune teller, in fact, he has locked the movements of this group of people.
Not long after, Yu Weiran ordered the Dali Temple to be garrisoned, and the whole city arrested the fortune teller. But does it really work? Can the murderer really be found? Why did the murderer make such a shady thing as a human head drum that violated the way of heaven? These later words were left to Li Yunshan to think about.
But one thing can be confirmed, the open gun is easy to block, the dark arrow is difficult to prevent, Dali Temple went to the street to arrest people with such fanfare, I am afraid that the real murderer has long been heard of the wind and hidden.
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Near Wolong Temple in Chang'an.
A group of guards dressed in official uniforms wantonly arrested fortune tellers, as if they wanted to wipe out these people who ate by mouth.