Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Secret of the Shadowy Man
March 1982
At the end of March, there is already the breath of spring, and the El NiΓ±o phenomenon is not serious, so the north is still a little cold at this time, but this spring cold will not reduce people's enthusiasm for morning exercise.
At six o'clock in the morning, a group of people gathered in the small open space east of the Quanmin community. I don't know who picked up a box from the woods and put it in the middle of the clearing.
People are curious and imaginative to guess what's inside.
Some of the bold ones pulled the box open and looked at it, but they all gasped and bounced their bodies open, thinking that there was something extremely terrible inside.
Someone went to call the police, and after a while, a burly and uniformed public security comrade came to the scene, followed by a man with a square face and a broad forehead.
The box was opened by this public security comrade, and he couldn't help frowning.
Inside was a baby, with only a towel quilt on its body, the skin on its face was black, and its eyes were closed and motionless.
When I opened the towel quilt, it was also black, and it looked like it had probably been frozen to death, otherwise it could not be this color.
The public security comrade let the square-faced man next to him take a look, and the square-faced man pressed the baby's heart with his hand, and suddenly the child's closed eyes slowly opened.
"The child is alive, hurry, go to the hospital first."
March 1998
Out of nowhere, an old house, smelling of mold, had no windows in it, but it was early in the morning.
The moment Yuan You opened his eyes, he saw Luo Baifan's frowning and eager face, and a little boy standing behind him.
"Lao Yuan, Lao Yuan, you finally woke up, thank God.. Thank goodness. β
Yuanyou retracted his gaze and closed his eyes, he felt a little dizzy, and a sadness surged in his heart, the figure huddled in the dark, he felt that Su Yi might be dead, and the words that Xu Junfang said at the end.
"Where am I? I have to go to my daughter, she's in danger. Yuanyou's voice was dry, and he sat up slowly, and he didn't feel a lot of pain in his body.
Luo Baifan's face was very pale, thinking that it was caused by being too anxious.
"Lao Yuan, he is the director of the Sixth Bureau."
Yuanyou just woke up, and he didn't react.
"Director of the Sixth Bureau?"
"What do you mean, how did you end up together?" Yuanyou looked at Luo Baifan and the little boy, a little confused.
It turned out that that night, Luo Baifan was afraid that something was wrong with Yuanyou, so he drove straight to the old building of Beihan No. 3 Middle School, intending to break in.
Before the door could be touched, the little boy pulled it back. Before he could say anything, the little boy asked him if Yuanyou was inside?
Although Luo Baifan did not answer, his restless behavior was enough to explain everything. The child told him that only he could go in and save Yuanyou.
How could Luo Baifan believe the child's words, he was still impulsive, at this time, he suddenly couldn't move, and he was uncontrollable, and his body followed the little boy quickly to the dark.
He was quite frightened at the time and didn't know what was going on, and the little boy told him not to speak, because two people came out of the old building, and one of them was Xu Junfang.
Luo Baifan couldn't move at that time, and the little boy told him that he was a member of the Liuxiao Bureau, so let him stop being impulsive, as long as he was obedient, he would definitely find Yuanyou.
Luo Baifan didn't believe it, he knew that the little boy was not an ordinary person.
Waiting for Xu Junfang and another person to go away in the car, the little boy asked Luo Baifan to wait outside, he went in to find Yuanyou, and told him that if Xu Junfang came back, don't startle the snake, Luo Baifan agreed with a worried heart.
Not long after, the little boy came out with Yuanyou, Yuanyou fainted, and the little boy went back again and carried Su Yi out.
When Luo Baifan saw that such a young child could carry an adult, he was even more shocked and speechless.
This is what happened, after listening to it, Yuanyou looked at the child in front of him in confusion.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a child, but who can say this kind of thing, isn't Xu Junfang also a teenager.
They are all people who are very hidden!
"Isn't Su Yi dead?"
The little boy nodded at him.
"The little policeman is fine, it's just that heβ" The little boy stopped talking before continuing.
"Yuanhuaxing is very important to Xu Junfang, Xu Junfang wants to kill you precisely because he is afraid that the matter will be revealed, which is very complicated and involves many things.
But I've already arranged for someone to bring them back, but one thing, you have to be clear, after Yuan Huaxing is brought back, I'm afraid it will be impossible to live an ordinary life in the future. β
Yuan You was confused when he heard it, he knew that things were complicated.
"Are you really the director of the Sixth Bureau? My daughter, you know? That person said she was a man, what the hell was going on? β
Yuanyou was puzzled, he was a little messy, and the clothes on his body looked terrifying, full of blood, but the wound was sure that it had healed.
The little boy looked at Yuanyou.
"Actually, we met a long time ago, Tangshan Railway Station, Dharma Instruments, do you remember?
Also, I know that your daughter was adopted by you and not your own, but you don't know who she really is. β
Yuanyou's throat is very dry, these things are difficult to digest for a while, the child in front of him, when he saw it in Beihan No. 3 Middle School, he had a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu, it turned out to be the same person, but it doesn't matter if he looks different, how can he always be a child.
And his daughter, what else will he be?
Yuanyou's puzzled look was seen by the child.
"Didn't you think it was special when you adopted her? There are black lines all over the body, hidden under the skin. β
These words made Yuanyou startled, it was sixteen years ago, but it was still vivid.
Sixteen years ago, that is, in March 1982, in the activity space near the Quanmin community, I don't know who threw a cardboard box, and there was a baby girl lying all over black spots.
Luo Baifan received the report, took Yuanyou to bring the baby girl back, and asked around to find it, but it was also found.
In addition to skin problems, the baby was not sick after being checked in the hospital for a long time.
Yuanyou looked pitiful, and he didn't freeze to death on such a cold day, he felt that there must be a blessing, and he was the life of his wife, so he had the heart of adoption, Luo Baifan went through the procedures, Yuanyou took the baby home and raised it like this.
Yuanyou put away his memories and said slowly.
"I thought it was fetal poison, but I came back and found a home remedy from an ancient book, and it didn't take long to cure, and the dark spots on her body have faded, no different from ordinary children, if there is any difference, that is, it is more naughty than ordinary girls."
The little boy couldn't help but laugh, and then his face returned.
"The origin of Yuanhuaxing is a bit peculiar, her biological mother first came back from the dead, and then she was pregnant, and she was pregnant for two years before giving birth to her.
This kind of asexual viviparity, who has been conceived for so long, meets two of the characteristics of the Yang Yao person, but her own mother has now passed away, and there is no way to verify whether it is a sexual viviparity, so there is only one condition now, and she needs to wait until she has passed the sixteenth birthday before she can judge whether she is a real Yang Yao person.
But now, there is no need to wait for her to finish her birthday, she must be a yang person. β
In the little boy's mind, the picture of the deep pit under the old building appeared, and those traces were clearly who had used the Yuan family magic weapon, except for Yuanyou, there was only a Yang Yao person who also had Yang blood.
"Who is the Yang Yao?" Yuanyou was a little confused, and he had a lot of questions in his heart.
How many kinds of such special people are there in this world, what are those magical stones, who are the Yang people, what is the daughter, what is himself, what is the little boy, he needs to figure it all out, but he doesn't know where to start.
"You, you're a zombie, aren't you?"
The little boy looked at Yuanyou and said.
"What is a zombie?"
"It's the kind of people who are fused into their bodies by a stone, who don't change their appearance, and... In the end, you will go crazy and suck blood. β
The little boy's eyes lit up.
"I thought you didn't know anything, but you know a lot, that's not called a stiff person, this kind of person is called a Yin Person, and that kind of stone is called a Yin Stone."
Yuanyou looked at Luo Baifan, Luo Baifan's eyes knew something, they both knew that the person in front of him knew all the truth, and he was a hidden old-timer.
"I also melted one, did I also become a bad person?" Yuanyou somewhat understood why there were changes in his body, self-healing, and seeing the outline in the dark, it must have been caused by the Yin Stone.
The little boy looked at Yuanyou.
"When I rescued you, I knew that you had melted the Yin Stone, but you were not a Yin Stone."
This answer surprised Yuanyou, so what could he be?
"You have yang blood, how can you become a yin person.
The Yuan family with yang blood can only melt the Yin Stone once in their lifetime, and we are also studying this change mechanism, but this kind of people are temporarily collectively referred to as "dynamic people".
Dynamic means change, and this variable makes the people of the Yang bloodline change.
It must also be noted that the yin and yang I am talking about here are not the yin and yang we know, this is just a pronoun, because yin and yang are unique to the earth, but they are not necessarily completely applicable to the entire universe.
For example, Yang is generally used for men, but Yuan Huaxing is a girl, but she has Yang blood, which you need to distinguish.
The movers I just talked about are also a little different.
After becoming an active person, some are yin, some are yang, and yours is a little yin, because in the dark, I can see your outline, and I am yang, and you can't see me in the dark.
So when I could see you, I knew you had melted through the gloom. β
Yuanyou remembered, no wonder in the stone room, the child knew a lot, knew that his eyes could see things that belonged to yin, and knew that he could heal himself.
"I also melted it by accident, I don't know what this thing is, but you also have yang blood? Are you a member of the Yuan family? "Yuanyou wants to know too much.
"I'm not a Yang Yao, if I am related by blood, I am half a member of the Yuan family! These things are very complicated, and it will be unclear for a while, but I will tell you these secrets when I have time in the future. The little boy said slowly.
Yuanyou listened in a fog, but right now, it seems that this is not the time to seek answers.
"Xu Junfang has my Yuan family's magic weapon, what does he want to do with Huaxing?"
"The Yuan family's magic weapon is specialized in killing ghosts, you should know this."
"I know, the mission of the Yuan family for generations."
"But you must not know, what is a luke?"
"I really don't know, the situation of the Yuan family, I think you can recognize me as the Yuan family, you must know that the Yuan family is ruined, and I am the only one left, and I still have the life of a wife.
But what does all this have to do with Xu Junfang? β
Luo Baifan also wanted to know, leaning against the wall and listening nervously.
The little boy looked at the watch in his hand, frowned slightly, and continued.
"Lu is actually a deviant person."
Yuanyou was taken aback, he couldn't have imagined that it would be a bad person.
The little boy ignored his surprised look.
"You know about the existence of the Shadowy Man, but you don't know about the condition of such people.
If there is such a stone nearby, it will automatically find and adsorb it, and as long as it is next to the wound, it will melt into the body.
Ordinary people will become Yin people after melting the Yin Stone, although they can live for a long time without changing their appearance, and even have special abilities beyond ordinary people, but the origin of the name of the Yin Bad People, with the word Yin, is naturally not a good thing.
Yin people only think that they can live forever if they are not old, and there are no white benefits in the world.
There are four stages of the Shadow Man.
The first stage, called the vitality period, in the first five years of becoming a yin person, in addition to not being able to eat and drink, the face remains the same, there is healing effect, there are no other problems, and there are also some random abilities, such as strength, speed, hearing, smell, reflexes, etc., are different from ordinary people.
In the fifth year, the Shadow Man began to enter the second stage.
In the second stage, it is called the period of delivery, and there will be no symptoms and symptoms will begin to appear, most of them will be leg diseases, and there will also be problems with the five senses.
During this period, if there is no guidance from a master, most of the yin people don't know what's going on, so they will be very confused, because the disease is not cured well, and it is still painful.
The degree of deterioration is different for each yin person, and the approximate range is one year to five hundred years, that is, some yin people have deteriorated into the next period in less than a year, and some yin people have leg pain, and the pain has lasted for five hundred years before entering the next period.
The third stage is called the bloodthirsty phase
With the deterioration of the lesion, from the intercourse period to the bloodthirsty period, this time period is just one to five hundred years, but no matter how long, once you enter the bloodthirsty period, you will have a desire for blood, your behavior will be out of control, and you will bite and drink blood.
But they don't know that drinking blood can only temporarily relieve themselves and make them sober up a little, and it won't be long before they need to drink more blood to satisfy themselves, until the more they drink, the more useless they become.
Temporary remission also has a short period of time, with the shortest being 3 days and lasting up to 20 years. Until it doesn't work, move on to the next issue.
The fourth stage, the final stage,
When drinking human blood doesn't work, the yin people of this period are basically irrational at all, and if they can't drink the blood of a higher level, they will go crazy and bite people everywhere, until they become a first-order monster like Da Hu.
You've seen this monster before, it's the one in the stone chamber. β
Yuanyou gasped, that kind of monster appearance, he couldn't imagine that it was a human change.
"But the stiff looks like a monster, how can a man become like that?"
"The Yin Stone is not a product of the earth, probably fused with the earthlings and mutated!"
Yuanyou's knowledge of this kind of extraterrestrial civilization only stops at the description of aliens on TV.
The little boy continued.
"The formation of the zombie is not necessarily the change of the bloodthirsty period, there are two possibilities.
One is the change of the Yin people who never drink blood, this kind of people, who are full of backbone, really don't want to become monsters, they generally seal themselves with iron tools, take charms to suppress, if no one feeds blood during the period, they will really die in about a thousand years.
But if someone discovers it during this period, and the blood has been sacrificed, then this naturally formed zombie will still be alive, and unless the suppression charm is removed, it will generally not wake up.
Another kind of formation is to directly use the Yin Stone for the Yin Illustrative People, but this is also very rare, after all, the Yin Stone is very rare. β
Yuanyou remembered what Xu Junfang was holding in the stone room, so who did he use it for?
The clothes on the monster's body, the thoughts that flashed in Yuanyou's mind, made the cold sweat oozing from his face, could it be Shen Yuan?
The little boy continued.
"When it is useless for a person to drink human blood in the bloodthirsty period, he must drink a higher level of blood, and the blood that is higher than human blood is the blood of the Great Stiff, and the blood that is higher than the blood of the Great Stiff is the blood of the Dead.
And the formation of the spree is made by eating the yin people and eating their flesh and blood. β
The little boy's words once again shocked Yuanyou and Luo Baifan.
This is a cruel and terrible truth.
The big beard stiffens and eats the flesh and blood of the Yin people, and in order to survive, the Yin people have to sacrifice their own kind without humanity, this is no longer a human being, they are all monsters.
And Yuanyou suddenly understood what Xu Junfang said, Lu was all made by Xu Junfang, so he had to sacrifice three Yin people to create one.
Xu Junfang just wanted Lu blood to cure his illness, that is to say, every Lu destroyed by the Yuan family was serving Xu Junfang.
Yuanyou's face turned pale when he thought of these.
And the little boy didn't know what he thought, and his face showed a look of pity.
What is the purpose of immortality, is it to live more like a monster?
In this whirlpool, how many yin people have struggled.
The little boy continued gloomily.
"If you want to live, you have to become more cruel than a monster, more like a monster than a monster.
In order to live, for the so-called immortality, they can do whatever it takes, life and death, evil and good, but this is very contradictory, people will always have the desire to survive.
In order to protect oneself, give up all principles and sacrifice all relatives and friends, but in exchange for real happiness and real peace of mind?
Yuan You's blood was surging at this time, and the Yuan family was really just a tool of Xu Junfang.
"Then isn't my Yuan family helping to abuse from generation to generation? It's really someone else's tool, so Xu Junfang has the confidence to make it and release it casually. β
The little boy looked at Yuanyou.
"How can you think so, the magic weapon was born to kill monsters, if there is no Yuan family, after the birth of the Yuan, it will bring many disasters, affecting ordinary people, although he is borrowing the blood of the Yuan family to kill the Lu, but this magic weapon is by no means for him."
"But the mission and bloodline of the Yuan family, and the use of magic weapons, have really become tools that others can use." Yuanyou suddenly understood something again.
"That is to say, the purpose of his use of Huaxing is also to kill and extract blood?"
The little boy didn't answer, he looked at his watch, and suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Say."
The man outside the door answered.
"We were one step late, and Yuan Huaxing was taken away first."
The little boy was stunned.
"What about Chen Xiao?"
"Chen Xiao heard that the mission was revoked, but he couldn't find Yuan Huaxing, so he took advantage of our inattention and acted alone, and he didn't know where to go."
This time the little boy's face changed suddenly, he thought to himself.
Chen Xiao didn't know anything, and he definitely didn't know the danger.