Chapter 26: The Head Drum
For more than a month, there was no trace of Yuan Tiangang and his gang.
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Chang'an West City, Orchid Restaurant.
"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. I saw that Xiao Er, his eyes were completely black, and he didn't see any white, and he stared at him and refused to close it. The blood stasis within the seven orifices has dried up, the silver needle has been tested to be non-toxic, and the death is ugly, adding a bit of weirdness. The official had sharp eyes, and when he saw this, he was surprised, and felt that this case could not be managed by Chang'an Mansion, and the lice on the bald man's head were obvious. When he turned around, he said to his attendant: "Go to report to Dali Temple, and you will commit a crime!" ”
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Dali Temple.
Li Chunfeng rushed over when he received the news.
"Master Li!" Yu Weiran saluted. Li Chunfeng replied politely.
"The envoy of Chang'an Mansion came to report that the second child of the Orchid Restaurant died in the wine cellar." Yu Weiran did a routine job and reported it truthfully.
"Is there a first autopsy?" Li Chunfeng asked.
"There was some blood stasis in the seven orifices, but it had also dried up. The most surprising thing is the eyes that are already completely black. Yu Weiran said as he pointed to his eyes to show the difference from normal people.
"Listen to you, the deceased is afraid that the soul of someone has been drained!" Li Chunfeng was suspicious and didn't dare to be completely sure.
"Take me to see it!" Then Li Chunfeng begged, wanting to see is believing.
At the door of the room, Li Chunfeng opened the left and right, let Yu Weiran stay in front of the door, and entered alone.
As soon as he opened the room, a powerful yin qi suddenly rushed to his face. For a Taoist priest, he is also accustomed to it. If there is yin qi, it means that there are ghosts, such a powerful yin qi is rare, Li Chunfeng 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 Chunfeng pinched the formula with his right hand, and recited the mantra of Tianyantong on his mouth: "Nothingness sees sexual light, three o'clock notes the hall, slightly rotates the mirror, adds meaning to brighten, and the old gentleman is as anxious as the law!" "Finish reading a wipe of your eyelids.
Chasing the sound, Li Chunfeng 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 Chunfeng'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 Chunfeng had seen it when he traveled.
Why is it in Chang'an?
Looking at the corpse that had been gnawed and disfigured. Even those weird eyes can't be viewed at the moment, which makes Li Chunfeng a little breathless. However, in the Heavenly Eyes, wherever he looked, he did not see the soul of the dead body, which confirmed Li Chunfeng's conjecture.
Just when Li Chunfeng was thinking about it, the maggot seemed to smell anger, and suddenly poked its head excitedly and began to squirm towards Li Chunfeng. 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 they planned to treat Li Chunfeng as a meal.
Li Chunfeng took two steps back, feeling bad!
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 Chunfeng himself. And the putrid smell of the corpse maggot was mixed with the fishy smell emitted by the corpse, and the smell became heavier and heavier, and he finally couldn't control it anymore and vomited......
Exiting the work room, Li Chunfeng was a little embarrassed.
"Lord Li, what clues have you found?" Yu Weiran asked, and asked when he came up.
"Corpse maggots, there are Gu worms from Miao Jiang here." After Li Chunfeng finished speaking, he couldn't help but vomit a few more times.
"I didn't see you when I came!" Yu Weiran's short two words shocked Li Chunfeng.
"That's right, I didn't see it, this little insect is a kind of Gu worm, and it was just hidden in this corpse before and didn't see the light." Li Chunfeng added.
"When you came?" Yu Weiran was a little shocked, and even felt that this matter had become bizarre to the point that he could not imagine. He had heard of Miao Jiang's Gu technique, but it was a new thing that a small insect could burn such a big fire.
"Yes, and it's bloodthirsty and carnivorous, and grows up very quickly. So be sure to clean it up so that you don't run away and harm others. Li Chunfeng explained.
"Thank you, Master Li, for reminding me, and I'll give the order later." Yu Weiran said gratefully.
"If it's not what I expected, there will be more deaths after that." Li Chunfeng 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.
"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 Chunfeng said what Miao Jiang had seen and heard before. I was afraid that Yu Weiran didn't understand and explained simply: "To put it simply, they are now killing people and making heads, extracting living souls for their use." The person who takes the four pillars of the life grid and the whole yin is even more enhancing the role of this person's head drum. So, I said that I guess someone else is going to die at his hands. Li Chunfeng explained to the layman for a long time.
"According to you, a few 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 Chunfeng 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, they will always lag behind the murderer, and there will be no power to return to heaven! Yu Weiran seems to have realized the seriousness of the situation.
"Which people do you think have more contact with people's birthdays on weekdays?" Li Chunfeng dropped a question, his face was expressionless, and he actually rushed out of the door.
"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 Chunfeng 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.
And Liu Wusheng, who was squatting in the dark, was all in his eyes. It seems that someone has already been eyeing them, Liu Wuming's dog's nose sniffing spirit, naturally understands that this is greasy, Xu is those officials who already know the usefulness of the four pillars of the life grid and the whole yin, so they have to catch the fortune teller, because these magic sticks, they have always seen more characters than eaten, and they are looking for them to start, and they can be regarded as a heart.
But Liu has no life to walk the rivers and lakes, bullying men and women, over the years, whenever the wind and grass are revealed, he will take a group of brothers to hide, so he can have a life to live to this day, otherwise he would have been taken by the government to try the knife and cut off his head. is the so-called 360 lines, and the line is the champion. Liu Wuming may be the little king in his industry, and he is quite capable.
Yuan Tiangang still has two brushes, and he is really lucky to be able to accept a reckless hero like Liu Wuming for his own use.