Chapter Eighty-Nine: It Turned Out That I Was Stupid
"Tang Rui turned out to be a wizard?" Su Ye was a little surprised.
"That female soul is called Tang Rui?" Qingfeng muttered, "Embroidering a witch on a soul is not something that ordinary strong people can achieve!" β
When it came to his grandfather's matter, Su Ye became cautious, he changed the topic, and the two chatted and walked until it was dawn, only to find that he had gone around in a big circle, and he had returned to the most primitive place - the cemetery.
The coffin remained in place, with a thick layer of soil, and no one cared about the lid when it was open, and it is not difficult to guess from the shoe prints on both sides that many people had come here to look for treasure.
"Tonight is the night of the full moon, so it's better to leave early just in case." Qingfeng said.
Su Ye was a little puzzled, thinking to himself, didn't he go to see the yin eye? Why come back here? Could it be that the coffin is the yin eye?
Qingfeng read Su Ye's eyes, and then said, "This is an ordinary coffin, Grandpa Guiguzi has a way to let you go back to the place before you came." β
"Well... Where is he? β
"I don't know." Qingfeng took out a jade bottle from his pocket, "Just have it." β
"That's... What do I need to do? β
"Lie in."
Su Ye lay down in the coffin, his head was cold, and he thought of something, "Oh yes, Qingfeng, if the princess asks about me, just say-"
Before he finished speaking, the coffin lid closed with a "clang".
"Su Ye, you must come back alive..."Qingfeng bit his lip, took a breath, and gently opened the jade bottle...
I don't know how long he lay in the dark, and when he opened his eyes again, Su Ye saw an endless line of white bones.
"Whew... This is the fourth layer of the crack, the entrance of the Yin Eye is no longer there, and it seems that I am still in the trial land of the Yuankai crack. β
Su Ye clenched his fists.
This short journey to the underworld has raised his understanding of the world to a new level, and the responsibilities and missions on his shoulders have become heavier and heavier.
"Go ahead."
Su Ye muttered to himself and stepped into the fifth door.
"This??"
As soon as he entered the door, Su Ye tensed his whole body, he was afraid that his appearance would be on some cliff, or in mid-air, but right now...
A pure land,
As far as the eye can see, except for white, it is still white.
It's like a boxy white box with no end, I don't know the distance between heaven and earth, I just feel that the world is so clean.
"It's like heaven here..."Su Ye muttered, just took a step, suddenly, ten meters away from him, a black hole the size of a fist appeared in mid-air.
This black hole seems to have a gravitational pull.
Su ambition tightened, and took two steps back to observe.
I saw that the center of the black hole was like a bottomless whirlpool, and a woman was spit out twice? There is also a table.
There are two bowls of ravioli on the table.
"This woman...?" Su Ye squinted his eyes, feeling that this face was very familiar.
As he was thinking, a huge curtain was pulled down from the sky.
Twenty meters long, vertically descending, a sentence is written on the curtain:
"What is a worm, what is a Gu, the source starts from here......"
Then, a huge curtain began to play.
The beginning of the story begins with a bowl of ravioli.
Tian Niu sucked a few wontons floating on the soup into his mouth, "Dao Chief, tell me the truth, are there any ghosts in this world?" I mean the one who can walk without a head?"
The wonton soup was steaming, and the young man sitting opposite was groaning with chopsticks.
This Su Immortal Daoist is very knowledgeable and interesting, and he can only smile and respond to all changes with a short hand, so he put on a deferential demeanor.
Tian Niu was like a water balloon that had been pierced with a needle, and the trickle broke through the mouth, and poofed out and began to spray bitter water...
At the beginning, it was the Guo family who reported the case.
This small town is also quite prosperous. Although the situation is turbulent, and the law and order here has always been good, there are basically no serious cases of a serious nature, and it has not been seen for a long time that a bloody man cries and runs to the gate of the government such a terrifying battle. Tian Niu is a squad leader as he says now, and immediately led a group of people to follow him to Guo's house.
When I came to the scene, I saw that the matter of the party was really big, and it was a grand mansion in the past, but now it is a bloody cave.
The corpses lying on the ground were dead from east to west; Those who are not dead cover their heads and arms, and hold themselves together in twos and threes. There are more than 50 people in the family, and there are few who don't hang the lottery. The old housekeeper wrapped his head, and finally he was not hacked to death, but he could still take care of things, and stood at the gate to greet people.
After a rough round, the officials were still counting, and the report said that five or six helpers had died, and the murder weapon was a knife taken from the kitchen, which was usually used to kill pigs and cut bones.
Tian Niu stood in the courtyard to understand the situation: "This is a house robbery in broad daylight?" It's not like ah, I've never seen such a fierce robber!"
The old butler said, "The official is wise, this is really not a robbery. This is what our master did!"
"Your lord? He has a solid family background, a former Qing Jinshi, a well-known Sven person, who doesn't talk about, only talks about Gong, he will copy a pig-killing knife and cut people in his own house? Unless it's crazy. β
The housekeeper burst into tears: "Isn't it crazy!" I don't know anyone anymore. Even the little master was rammed to death with his own hands!"
The people in the yamen didn't listen to him beating his chest and stomped his feet, and went directly into Master Guo's study.
The study room can be described as the important place of the Guo family, in the past, no one was allowed to enter, and the cleaning was all done by Mr. Guo himself, and it is said that his collection was all hoarded there, and few guests had this honor to see the treasures inside.
Tian Niu buttoned the goosebumps on his body: "The fart of antique gold, it is strange that people have to look at it!"
There was only a dying paper lamp in the study, and Tian Niu walked a few steps and kicked a soft object, cold and round. took two steps back, and waited until his eyes adjusted to the darkness, only to see that it was actually a large spotted python with a thick bowl mouth.
Fortunately, he has been dead for a long time, and his tail is still hanging in a box, otherwise there would have been two more lying corpses in the dark and hurting people.
There is no need to wonder why there are pythons in the study.
Tian Niuyu instructed people to open the windows to let in the light and ventilation, and then it was released, and on the beams of many treasures, books, and houses, more than 20 cages of different materials of different sizes were all closed with strange things, such as lizards, bats, and scorpions, which were disgusting and novel to see, and there were many four dissimilarities that could not even be named. As soon as the sun shone, the strange beasts in the cage seemed to be pierced by thousands of steel needles, and they became agitated. Dare to love, this is Master Guo's collection that is not for outsiders.
The housekeeper was angry: "Young Master Guo was seven years old, he was lying in a cage, and his skull was shattered, Master Guo must be crazy, otherwise how could he smash the little son Tianling Gai who was in pain to the heart?"
Tian Niu wiped his forehead, "Can the pig-killing knife smash the Tianling cover?" It is someone else who kills the pig with a knife. Young Master Guo was killed by a sledgehammer, and the hammer was thrown next to the corpse.
"Are you saying that when Master Guo killed his son, he went to the kitchen to change a murder weapon? In other words, after he stoned his son to death, he felt that the hammer was too heavy and it was not easy to use, so he replaced it. β
Tian Niu thought thoughtfully: "Then it seems that he is still sober and not crazy." The crazy manpower is infinite, and the cold and beautiful saw that is afraid of eighty-two catties can dance. And what is creepy is much more than that. There's not just a corpse in the study!"
Not far from Young Master Guo, a head also fell.
This head is not much better than the young master. At best, Young Master Guo is half flattened in the upper part of his head, but the lower half of his face and neck are broken, and his flesh and blood are blurry and sticky to the ground, mixed with black ash and debris, almost a mess.
Tian Niu immediately instructed the officials to re-count and see if a headless corpse was missing. The result was the same as before, the deceased were all limb intact and did not turn around. The most important thing is that no one knows this face one by one.
That is to say, the owner of this head is not anyone in Guo's house.
The officials looked at the old butler.
The housekeeper hurriedly swore to the sky: "We didn't dare to stop the master when he rushed out, but his eyes were not blind, he ran alone." I'm sure no one will ever go out again. Unless hell, or one by one or the headless corpses got up and ran on their own!"
Recalling this, Tian Niu pressed the small wine glass on the oily tabletop, smacking his lips and worrying: "Daochang Su, you are a person with real skills, show me, isn't this hell?"
Su Xiandao put the chopsticks horizontally on the edge of the porcelain bowl: "After eating your bowl of wontons, I don't know whether to say something or not?"
Tian Niu vomited quickly, his chest was clean, of course he didn't mind exchanging and discussing, and patted the table and said happily: "Speak!"
Su Xian leaned closer, his voice was extremely soft, but he threw out a thunderbolt: "The murderer is not Master Guo."
Tian Niu was first blown up, and then laughed: "How can you say this!" The Guo family has so many pairs of eyes to see it with their own eyes, do you want to say that it is fake?"
"They saw it. But that person at that time was not Master Guo. β
Tian Niu looked at the other party, and at this moment, he finally realized that there was a god stick sitting opposite: "Then how to explain it?" Ghost upper body? Transfiguration?"
"If you want to know the ins and outs, go back and do two things. First, put together Young Master Guo's skull, examine it carefully, and if you find a strange wound near your temple, do the second thing. β
"What?"
"Catch the murderer."
Tian Niu said stupidly: "If I catch the murderer, I won't spit bitter water with you here for a long time."
"Wait for the rabbit, I guarantee you, in the next few days, the murderer will definitely go to the Zhao Mansion."
Tian Niu listened a little interestingly, and felt as if he had become the protagonist of the popular Dali Temple unsolved case, playing the role of pressing step by step and peeling off the cocoon: "But how do I know who is the murderer?" There are many serious people and idlers who come to the government every day to report the case. β
Su Xian chuckled: "How tall is Master Guo?"
Tian Niu gestured his nose: "Come here."
He opened his mouth to speak, but he stopped and smiled: "You are only listening to a joke now, but you don't know what to do if I say everything?"
Tian Niu said: "In this way, if I really talk to you about it, how about I invite you to a bowl of wontons next time?"
Su Xian looked up more: "Then the murderer is a little taller, woman, dressed very tightly, she doesn't speak, she only laughs." Su Xian paused, and said, "I have to go to Yizhao Shiyan recently, I'm afraid I can't accompany the murderer in person, please be careful, don't pay attention to other places, she only has one weakness - her head." β
Tian Niu was troubled by curiosity, and secondly, he had no new clue about the development of the case, so he really went to Zhao's morgue.
After a check, he really found something.
On both sides of the young master's head, there are four symmetrical rows of holes, eight holes. The hole in the temple was the thickness of a thumb. Originally, it was difficult to get a party because of the broken skull, but he endured the nausea and asked someone to put together a few pieces of broken bones and rotten flesh, which he discovered.
Tian Niu immediately reported it, and was confident: "The hammer is not a mace, how can it be possible to bring a few eyes with a hammer?" This suggests that there are other murder weapons; Since there is a murder weapon that we haven't found, there may be a murderer that we haven't found!
The county magistrate's possession of the murder weapon did not mean anything, and he disagreed with the description of the murderer who was "slightly taller than him, a woman, and well-dressed", and educated: "Xiao Tian, you have always been very sensible. Tell me, how can a woman cut a bloody path among so many strong men in the Guo family? Still taller than you, do you know how tall you are? A woman taller than you, can you see it? It's time to cry and laugh! !"
And the oxen rolled away.
In the evening, this time was very leisurely, and several officials on duty had nothing to do and yawned.
Tian Niu looked at the gate of the government for a day, but there was no harvest, and he almost squinted his eyes, and finally couldn't bear to touch the fish. He got up and was about to look for dice among the mountains of files and miscellaneous items, when a long, thin figure staggered in.
It was a woman of great stature, half a head taller than him, wearing a long gown that was tightly buttoned from chin to knees. With a smile on his face, without saying a word, he walked straight to the inside of the yamen. Several officials hurriedly put down the boots on the table, Tian Niu popped out of his seat, stepped forward, guarded behind him with his right hand, and intercepted with his left hand: "Who are you looking for?"
The woman didn't speak, looking at him with an unchanging smile.
He leaned closer, and the middle-aged woman's smiling face gave rise to a disgusting feeling of sullenness. The face is sallow, and the muscles are stiff, like this is not actually an expression, but a natural muscle that grows like this.
Tian Niu's heart was pounding frighteningly, and he was a little lightheaded. He found that the woman's hair seemed neat, but it emitted a foul smell and knotted in pieces, like a black footwrap that hung down for many years.
"This..."
When the words fell, I saw a flash of cold light, Tian Niu had already taken precautions, and intercepted the woman's hand, which was holding a bone-cutting knife in his hand, and the tip of the knife was aimed at his lower abdomen, still approaching. Tian Niu suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, her hands were so strong that she didn't look like a woman at all!
Tian Niu's forehead burst out with green tendons, and he roared: "Look at a fart!" Don't come and catch the current yet!"
Several officials pounced on the women, grasping the grippers and pressing the legs, pressing the women to the ground.
In the chaos, the woman's smiling face turned out to be as if it were really on the flesh, but her neck began to twist restlessly.
Tian Niu looked at it more, and was terrified: "Has her neck grown?" Did it suddenly grow up just now?"
A sentence was sent from afar: "It's useless to press the body, scratch your head."
When Tian Niu heard this voice, he immediately turned his head to look.
The window was wide open, Su Xian leaned back to whisk the dust, carried a rattan cage in his left hand, and held the hem of the robe in his right hand, carrying a gust of night wind, and entered through the window.
Tian Niu opened his mouth: "Niubi, didn't you go to Shiyan yesterday?"
Su Xian said: "I'm done, I took my things, and I'm back."
He leaned down, grabbed the woman's rag-like black hair, pulled it twice in his hand, and pulled it out, pulling the woman's head off alive.
The officials present were dumbfounded!
After a long time, someone finally reacted, trembling to touch the gun path chief, raised his left hand, and ripped off the gown with his right hand.
"I'm not killing someone, look closely."
Underneath the robe, the two shoulders turned out to be empty. And where it should have been the neck and ribcage, a head was exposed, and it was the head of a big acquaintance.
One by one, Master Guo!
Before, these two heads have always been like rock sugar gourds, tightly together, and after being "pulled out", there was no blood spilled on the ground, not a drop of blood.
The Taoist raised his head again for them to see. At this time, everyone noticed that the woman's head, where it should have been her neck, had only a wriggling suction cup. On the left and right sides below the suction cups, there are eight thin, thin, well-defined legs with sharp fronts.
Ignore the human head that is integrated above, and get rid of one aliveββββ
The officials were struggling to find adjectives, and Daoist Su Xian intimately reminded, "Spider."
He opened the cage and the monster was stuffed inside. The eight spider legs, covered with barbed black hair, staggered and trembled wildly, and jumped up and down the cage with great agility, their eyeballs rolling around, still looking at the people outside.
The Taoist lifted the cage and looked at it for a moment before speaking.
"Speaking of which, this matter can be regarded as Master Guo's own doing. When you enter the study and see his collection, you should know what he likesβscavenging for exotic beasts from all over the world.
This kind of ghost-headed spider may have been brought back from the west by his people. This creature is very evil, and it is unknown how it grows, but it is mostly related to spells and resentment, and it is not a good thing in short. The most experienced hunters and explorers would also take a detour, but he dared to keep it at home! Of course, there was no headless corpse to be found, because the extra human head was just a head, not a body.
That was probably the case that day. Young Master Guo sneaked into the study, he was small and ignorant, and when he saw that the things in the cage were making human sounds, he opened the cage door to tease it for fun.
How can the ghost spider be funny? It has a violent temperament and a hideous face, and can make a baby's cry to lure its prey closer. Once the prey is close, the sucker under the head will firmly suck the prey's celestial spirit, and the eight legs are extremely sharp, which can be directly inserted into the skull cap and suck the brain marrow of the living creature. The Guo family said that in the past, Mr. Guo had to buy a large number of fresh pig brains every day, and sometimes monkey brains, only to feed the picky eaters of the ghost head spider. But how can the taste of a dead brain compare to a living brain? This is the cause of Young Master Guo's death.
At this time, Mr. Guo entered the study, just bumped into the child and was killed, and in a panic, he hit the male spider violently, so the male spider's sucker and legs were broken, and it looked no different from an ordinary human head.
But he forgot that there was something even more terrible behind him.
If you guess correctly, Master Guo actually raised two, one male and one female.
To talk about female spiders, they are much more terrifying than male spiders. The latter is only aggressive, while the former is born with a smiling face, can make a woman's rude laugh, and has learned enough of man's insidious cunning. In addition to sucking the cerebral marrow and injecting venom, it can also lay eggs in the cranial cavity and control the behavior of the host. To what extent? It's not okay to thread needles and embroidery, but it's okay to cut people with a knife.
The female spider is already smart, and after raising it in the human house for a while, I am afraid that it is about to become a sperm. When it saw that the male spider had been killed, it hunted Master Guo and manipulated him to smash the young master's head in order to hide the wound caused by the spider's feet and cover up his existence. Then he lays eggs in his skull, making him go crazy and slashing in the house. In the end, he fled with himself.
Everyone is busy protecting themselves, who will notice that Master Guo is still holding something in his arms?"
The officials turned pale when they heard this.
Tian Niu looked at the dead body pressed by his subordinates, then looked at the female spider, and said stubbornly: "It's not that powerful!"
Su Xian said: "You won't see how powerful it looks." The reason why it was so easy to get caught was because of this. β
Su Xian waved the cage in his hand, the cage seemed to be made of kudzu vine, and it was also decorated with oily leaves, exuding a rich medicinal fragrance.
"If there is no senior in Shiyan who knows how to soak this medicine cage, so that it smells the medicine and is listless, this female spider is not as good as the male spider in terms of bouncing power, but it is so flexible that people can't guard against it."
Tian Niu asked in horror: "Since this mother is fine and can crawl, why did she send it to the door by herself?"
"It's not that it wants to do it, it's that it has to do it. It must retrieve the male's head. Su Xian sighed: "This kind of thing, like people, knows the meaning by nature, but can be bewitched and turned into evil things.
It takes a while for the egg to hatch, during which time it infuses venom to keep the body from rotting and the female from leaving the host's body. Therefore, it has to come to the door and eat the body of the male spider to replenish its nutrients. If you cut open Master Guo's head now, you will see that the original brain marrow inside has been eaten up, and only the eggs of countless little ghost spiders are wriggling."
The officials had numb scalps and looked at each other.
If you wait until the eggs hatch, break out of their shells, and scatter and lurk in the city, the consequences are simply devastating. If it weren't for Su Xianti, there would be so many people in this city, I'm afraid that sooner or later they would all be the reserve food for this mother spider.
On the way back, Tian Niu leaned tightly on Su Xian: "Daoist Su, when will the group come back this time?" β
"I don't know."
"How could you not know?"
"The source of this spider is here, but the minions behind it are not yet clear."
Tian Niu was in awe, stopped, and led the officials to stand at the head of the city and bow deeply, watching the figure disappear at the end of the field of vision...
The picture ends, and the curtain slowly closes.
"It turns out that the spiders of this Gu Soul Hall have started from the generation of Su Immortal Ancestor..."
Su Zhi's heart sank into his lower abdomen.
Everyone distanced their gaze from an old man in white, and Su Xian Ancestor, the head of the Dao Dharma Troupe, sighed with a smile, "This Tian Niu seems to owe me a bowl of wontons..."
"Hehe, what about later, since this scene can appear in the crack, there must be a reason, didn't the ancestor solve the source of spider cholera?"
Su Xian sighed, "No." β
Su Ye didn't ask again, in his opinion, although the ending of these two words was not perfect, the bitterness and bitterness during the period were naturally self-evident.
Meet in the water and save the life of a city,
Alone. Knowing that it is gone.
Open your eyes,
Suddenly it snowed heavily in the white world.
The winter wind is like a knife, the woman is wearing a red robe, a black ghost car embroidered with silver thread on the robe, carrying a pennant and swaggering in the wind, and the long hair and the dust stuck in the neck are blown away.
She came to the table, looked at the two bowls of wontons on the table, and asked softly,
"It's cold, can you use a bowl of wontons together?"
Su Ye looked at the woman's makeup, the corners of his mouth raised slightly,
He remembered.
This woman,
It was the proprietress who was torn off her scalp by an egg beater when she first met Qi Hitomi and died suddenly on the spot!!
"Hehe, so that's the case..."
Su Ye suddenly,
The childish little girl seemed to appear in front of her again, she stubbornly pointed to the bowl and said stiffly,
"This bowl is mine!"
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"It turns out that you have been protecting me from the beginning,"
"It turns out that the real meaning of the marrying mound is to slay ghosts."
"It turns out that I'm so stupid."
The table top shook, the wontons were broken, and the dense eggs swelled rapidly.
The white world is spread by black, and countless spiders crawl out of the bowl, become bigger, and become more fangs and claws...
The smile on Su Ye's face became brighter and brighter, and his mind was full of that innocent face,
"Daughter-in-law, you have such a good appetite."
After that,
With a fierce light, he clenched his fists and rushed into the sea of spiders without looking back...