Chapter 15: Surrender
[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that just before Mu Qingming was about to go out, Uncle Tie Hua, the new dragon keeper sent by the Mu family, took his wife to visit the Mu family's small courtyard. Mu Qingming took this opportunity to humbly ask Tie Hua for advice on the recent charred corpse case. Tie Hua also agreed with the direction and idea of his investigation, and reminded Mu Qing that after the dragon lock people used their own methods to investigate the case, the dragon lock people took the fox demon to climb Yuantong Mountain at night, and wanted to find the mountain god to ask for clues; Led out, Mu Qingming showed the Mu family token in front of the mountain god Jin, the mountain god showed his true body, after answering Mu Qingming's question, and told the other party that there was an ancient monster around Yuantong Mountain, which seemed to be related to human brain porridge, and told Mu Qingming to be careful. At the same time, a middle-aged woman stood in front of the police station at the foot of the mountain, claiming that she was the murderer of the charred corpse case and wanted to turn herself in. 】
The night breeze caressed the mountains and forests, like an active and lively elf running through the mountains, blowing the grass and trees around the clearing, making it make a roaring sound.
In Mo Han's demon eyes, the small tower made of cobblestone was covered with a blue glow no bigger than the size of a fingernail.
And these ghosts are not visible to the naked eye of ordinary people; It was the traces left by the soul and spirit after they had stayed again.
But Mo Han was still extremely surprised; There are no temples, no fruit and no incense to worship. Even the golden body was a few stones, which made Mo Han's eyes suspicious, and he couldn't help but wonder if Mu Qingming was in the wrong place.
"Brother Qingming, I don't have much knowledge and experience, don't lie to me." After Mo Han was stunned, he raised his hand and pointed to the small tower made of stones, and asked in a shouting, "Is such a broken stone really a mountain god?" ”。
And according to what Mu Qingming said, the mountain gods are all transformed by spirits, and there should be demonic energy here; But Mo Han never noticed that there was a non-human aura here.
"Don't point your finger at it, that's an insult." Mu Qingming hurriedly pressed her hand, and scratched her head with a hint of embarrassment: "This is definitely the mountain god; It's just a poor mountain god. ”。
"Which one is making noise in front of me?" Immediately after, a crisp, loud but gentle female voice echoed above their heads and echoed in the silent mountain forest.
"Mu Qingming of the Heizhugou Mu family in Leshan County came to visit." Mu Qingming replied unhurriedly, staring at the golden body of the mountain god in the darkness and slowly said: "Just because I encountered a problem, I came to ask for advice, and I hope that the mountain god will appear and talk about it." ”。
"Heizhugou Mujia?" The voice above his head sounded again, but it was a little less displeased, but a little more suspicious: "Is it the Mu family of the Dragon Lock family?" ”。
The shadows of the trees swayed in the cool breeze, but they were still only heard and their shadows were missing.
"Exactly." Mu Qingming replied indifferently.
"Is there any evidence?" After a pause, the voice sounded again in the wind.
When Mo Han heard this, a little displeasure suddenly appeared on his face; Mu Qing's polite attitude was exchanged for the other party's suspicion, which made her feel a little unhappy in her heart, and she couldn't help but let out an angry snort in her mouth.
And Mu Qingming silently raised his right hand, his thumb stretched out, and the other four fingers bent on the palm, showing the wrench he was carrying on his fingers, and said slowly: "The token of the eldest son of the Mu family's grandson is here." ”。
It is a wrench with an emerald green color, carved on the emperor Jun Feitian, and the pattern of the body ring 28 stars, lifelike and vivid, there is a sense of imminent call. The whole wrench is carved with Kunlun 10,000-year-old shadow beads that resemble stone and jade; It is said that this shadow bead is a stone thousands of feet underground in the Kunlun Mountains, and after absorbing the aura of the dragon vein for 10,000 years, it turns into a whole round thing.
It is an excellent treasure of yin and yang in this world; Not only can it restrain evil spirits, but it can also make the wearer feel calm and smooth.
As Mu Qingming spoke, he injected the Qi in his body into the wrench finger in his hand, and when the wrench finger ascended, a soft blue light emitted from the wrench, splashing out in all directions like water waves, reflecting the faces of him and Mo Han a little blue, illuminating the three inches around the two of them.
The soft blue light flowed, and the surrounding plants and trees suddenly refreshed, and Mo Han also felt a burst of warmth in his body, and he felt very comfortable.
"Sure enough, it's a child of the Mu family." When the voice, which had disappeared for a moment, sounded again, a gust of wind suddenly blew around the golden body of the mountain god, and it swirled around the small stone tower.
But in the blink of an eye, the golden body placed on the top of the tower disappeared out of thin air in the gale, and the gale also stopped at this moment.
Mu Qingming also accepted the true qi, and the wrench in his hand dimmed.
Immediately afterwards, I saw a mandrill with a long arm with a human face and a hairy black body, appearing in front of Mu Qingming and Mo Han out of thin air.
And on this mandrill, which looks like a monkey, is still wearing a dress as white as snow; If it weren't for the fact that she had a colorful monkey face and was covered with long hair, she would really look like a woman in white at first glance in the dark.
The moment the mandrill appeared, Mo Han suddenly sensed that the demonic aura around him was pervasive, like a rushing river, seemingly weak but actually strong; It's even more powerful than Mo Han's demonic aura.
And under the eyes of Mo Han's demon, it can be seen that this mountain of spiritual energy is continuously gathering from the earth's veins, and it is injected into its body along the soles of the mandrill's feet.
Now she really believed it, Mu Qingming definitely didn't find the wrong place.
The mandrill, or the mountain god, bowed to Mu Qingming slowly, and after returning the salute, after looking at Mu Qingming and smiling, he said very politely: "Carefully calculate, since the Jiajing period, your Mu family's dragon lock people quietly entered Yunnan, and secretly pointed out the monk name Ah Ah Li in the Panlong Temple outside the south of Kunming City, and after reciting the Fulong mantra in ancient Xia to calm the flood, I have never seen the dragon lock people again." ”。
But from beginning to end, the mountain god's gaze stopped on Mu Qingming, and he didn't look at Mo Han; It seems that a little demon like Mo Han can't get into her divine eyes.
"At that time, the dragon lock who came to help secretly was my grandfather's high apprentice, I also heard my family talk about it when I was young, and you also helped back then, and you used the aura of Yuantong Mountain full of grass and trees to bless the curse Jiaotai seal." Mu Qingming also smiled slightly, and asked: "Now I am bored at home, so I go to live in Yunnan, and I encounter some difficult questions, I don't know if the mountain god can answer them for me and other juniors." ”。
"But it doesn't hurt to say it." The mountain god then blurted out.
The dragon lockers have subdued demons and subdued demons for generations, and the mountain god is also a spirit who keeps a peace, so the two sides often work together. After confirming Mu Qingming's identity at the moment, the mountain god naturally no longer embarrassed the other party.
"The recent cases of charred corpses in the city have all happened near the territory under your jurisdiction. You are connected to the mountain qi veins, I wonder if you can feel anything unusual? Or do you see someone suspicious? Mu Qingming no longer greeted and said bluntly.
"On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I saw a suspicious person." After nodding without thinking, the mountain god slowly spoke, telling what he had seen and heard: "At that time, I saw a man coming from a village on the east side of the Great Mountain, on the side of the Panlong River, and after walking to the northern foothills, he threw the corpse on his shoulder into the cracks of the stones. When I saw that the dead body this man was carrying was brainless, and his face was covered with blood, I suddenly knew that the person who had come was not a good person, so I blew a demonic wind like a ghost crying wolf and tried to scare him away. Unexpectedly, the man panicked, poured liquor on the corpse, lit the fire, and left in a hurry. I saw that the flames were rising, and I was afraid that it would affect the creatures in the mountains, so I went out of my body, overtook a man nearby, and took the child to the foot of the mountain to set off firecrackers, and by the way, I saw the burning corpse. ”。
Speaking of this, Mu Qingming finally knew why the second charred corpse was not burned thoroughly, it turned out that it was done by the mountain god, not by some murderer as Zhao Liang speculated. But because of this, a clue was left for Mu Qingming and Zhao Liang.
"The man who burned the corpse, can you see his face?" Mu Qingming nodded thoughtfully and asked again.
"No, he covered his face with a black cloth. Although I have demon eyes to see at night, I can't see through the black cloth. The mountain god shook his head and said, "But he is a cripple, a cripple who cannot bend his right leg." ”。
As soon as these words came out, Mu Qingming seemed to see a glimmer of light in the darkness, which made his heart suddenly surge with a little joy.
The clues of the mountain god coincide with the information of the Nine-Fingered Trickster and the Ghost City Lord, indicating that his direction must be correct.
"You're checking on him?" The mountain god asked with a little curiosity.
"Yes." Mu Qingming nodded his head and said, "I suspect that his family is crazy, so he killed people to take his brain and gall, boiled human brain porridge to treat his family, and then burned the body." ”。
"Then you need to be careful." Hearing this, the mountain god frowned, and solemnly reminded: "This person is contaminated with a powerful and ancient demonic aura, from an ancient and mysterious demon; This thing has existed for a longer period of time than you and me, and it should be a monster that has been formed since ancient times. ”。
When Mu Qingming and Mo Han heard this, they were all stunned for a moment, and their eyes were a little suspicious......
Just as Mu Qingming and the mountain god were talking about monsters, a middle-aged woman dressed in a patched cotton jacket also walked on the silent street at night, heading towards the provincial police station next to the Yuantong Temple.
She was not tall enough, but under her gray and messy hair, she had a thin yellow face with rough skin like sandpaper and full of fine wrinkles.
In the deep-set eye sockets, the slightly cloudy eyes were full of decisive color.
She opened her skinny legs and walked slowly in the cold night wind for a long time, and finally came to the door of the provincial police station.
The woman suddenly stopped, stared at the brightly lit office building not far ahead, and then walked in the direction of the gate without saying a word.
As soon as she reached the door, she was stopped by the guards guarding the door.
The doorman quickly looked the visitor up and down a few times by shining the light from the duty room, and then asked with a little vigilance, "Who are you?" Are you here to report the crime? ”。
The night breeze blew and ruffled the women's sideburns. I saw that she turned her head slightly after hearing this, stared at the doorman's chapped lips, and said slowly, "No, I turned myself in." ”。
After speaking, he smiled faintly at the doorman.
"Turn yourself in?" Muttering, the doorman, with surprise and incomprehension in his eyes, re-examined her and asked, "What surrendered?" What have you done? ”。
"Murder, craniotomy." There was not the slightest hint of panic in the woman's eyes, only the determination was a little stronger; Word by word, he spit out words that were a little colder than the night wind: "Take people's brains, take people's gall, and burn corpses." ”。
Is the woman who inexplicably turned herself in really related to the charred corpse case? What did the mountain god tell Mu Qing to be? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.