Chapter 10: The Means of the Lord of the Willows
The body and guitar were fished out of the fishing net, and as soon as they were dragged ashore, Xie Wenyuan began to direct the guards to disperse the people at the scene. The quarantine area expanded to a hundred meters away, and the curtain quickly rose around the corpse.
I'm here to confirm the guitar, and now that the guitar has seen it, I'm ready to leave with the dispersed populace.
At this moment, a Taoist priest walked briskly towards me.
"Little donor, please come over."
"Looking for me?"
"Mr. Yuan didn't come, there is something you have to trouble him to bring back."
The people inside the curtain were Xie Wenyuan, two policemen, a forensic doctor, Lord Liuguan, and the six Baiyun Temple Taoist priests he brought.
Seeing me come in, Lord Liu Guan didn't say anything but nodded slightly, signaling me to wait on the side first.
Now that everyone was looking at the salvaged bodies, I looked at them secretly with fear in my heart. It was the first time I had seen a human corpse, and the first time it was so disgusting and unforgettable.
Liu Xingxing's body was already highly decomposed, and when it was salvaged out of the water, the rotting flesh fell to the ground, and bones were exposed in many places. The bones are dark cyan and somewhat blackened.
The eerie guitar was held tightly in the corpse's left arm, and the five skeletal fingers of the right hand were clasped to the strings, as if they could be played at any moment.
It reminds me of that night's terrifying bass E string, perhaps played by the skull's fingers.
The guitar was filled with a lot of water and kept flowing out.
Suddenly, a black serpentine creature came out of the sound control of the guitar, and I was already nervous, so I shivered in fright and almost screamed.
When the thing came out, it fled into the water like lightning.
At this moment, Lord Liu Guan's reaction was almost like Superman in the movie, we only felt a flower in front of us, and the next moment we saw that the peachwood sword in his hand had been pierced on the head of that thing.
The serpentine creature writhed in pain, and soon turned into a fishy black smoke, which dissipated with the wind and left no slag.
"Michicho Yanagi, what is this?" Xie Wenyuan's voice was quite calm.
"People have souls, and after death, the soul leaves the body as soon as possible, and the soul will not leave until the vitality is cut off. This thing is called a snake, and it is the embodiment of the spirit of a person who died from drowning. Lord Liu Guan said.
"Drowning? So the corpse was suicidal? ”
"Not bad."
According to normal post-mortem standards, the medical examiner takes the hair from the body and returns it for DNA testing. As for the appearance of the deceased before his death, in view of the severe decomposition of the face, only the skull could be rubbed, and the plaster cast was used to reconstruct it.
But due to the appearance of the snake, the forensic doctor did not dare to touch the corpse at all. In this regard, Xie Wenyuan didn't say anything, and directly asked him to take a few photos and wait outside the curtain first.
"What now?" Xie Wenyuan asked.
"The corpse can't move now, the water ghost is staring at it in the lake, and then wait for the poor road to collect the water ghost first. Director Xie, in order to prevent accidents, you and the two comrades should leave first. ”
"Okay." Xie Wenyuan didn't ask much, and left directly with the two old criminal policemen.
Xie Wenyuan didn't look at me from beginning to end, completely ignoring my existence, which was also the case in the Witchcraft Pavilion before.
Xie Wenyuan should have remembered me, he had seen me when Xie Qingqing and I had trouble in the class.
After I got along with Xie Qingqing, it stands to reason that she should explain the original oolong to Xie Wenyuan. Although he didn't look at me, I still felt a kind of hostility and contempt in him.
Thinking that in the future, I will have to rely on marrying Xie Qingqing according to the ancient rites to survive, which makes me feel more stressed.
When he left, I felt a lot more relaxed, so I asked Liu Guan what he wanted me to bring back.
"Don't be in a hurry first, wait for the poor road to overtake the water ghost first." Lord Liu Guan said.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and the yang energy is still strong. It is very difficult to superordinate the water ghost at this point, because the water ghost must be hidden under the water and cannot come out, which makes me very curious about what method Lord Liu Guan used to summon the water ghost.
The last time my uncle used a paper figure with eight characters, Liu Guan used a paper figure that was also a paper figure. First, after chanting a long incantation around the corpse, Bugang took out the yellow paper and began to cut.
Lord Liu Guan cut out the paper figure, wrote Liu Xingxing's birthday and placed it next to the corpse, and then replaced the peach wood sword in his hand with an iron Zhai dipping mage sword, directly cutting off the limbs of the paper man.
His approach reminds me of a charlatan trick taught to me by my brother-in-law, killing ghosts and seeing blood.
The uncle himself is not a real wizard, and the witchcraft he knows is also nine false and one true. When I studied with him, I not only learned all kinds of theories about gods and ghosts, but also learned a lot of tricks of charlatans to deceive people. For example, seeing the charm on white paper, burning the snake demon, frying the ghost, killing the ghost and seeing the blood, etc.
Killing ghosts and seeing blood is similar to what the Lord Liu Guan in front of him did, cutting out a paper figure with yellow paper, and then cutting it off with a sword. Paper figures with severed limbs will be red, just like blood. The mystery lies in the fact that the yellow paper is dyed with turmeric and then dried, and the sword is also soaked in alkaline water in advance, and the turmeric chemical reaction with alkali is red.
Now, the severed limbs of the paper man that Lord Liu Guan had killed were also showing red, and I secretly laughed in my heart, there is nothing here, why should outsiders do such a deceitful thing.
However, soon a shocking scene emerged.
The paper man beheaded by Lord Liu Guan was not only red, but also began to bleed!
Blood was gurgling from the severed limbs, the air was filled with the smell of blood, and I even felt like I could hear screams.
Then the facial features of the paper figure began to distort, and a black line appeared in the eye area again. I've seen it once, and I know that this is the prelude to its opening of its eyes, and my scalp is numb again, and I can't help but say in a voice: "The paper man is about to open his eyes!" ”
However, to my disappointment, although the black lines gradually thickened and became slits between the eyes, and even the eyelashes appeared, the eyes never opened.
"It has been injured by your brother-in-law's eyebrows, and I don't want to open my eyes again in this life." Lord Liu Guan said.
After saying this, he struck again, and a sword was inserted into the heart of the paper man.
At this time, everyone could hear the screams of the paper man, the voice was extremely resentful, and there was also black qi constantly rising out of the paper man, all of which were winding towards the Lord of Liuguan.
"Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, Wan Qi Root. Extensive cultivation of ten thousand calamities, prove my supernatural powers. Inside and outside the Three Realms, only the Tao is the only one. There is a golden light in my body, covering my body...... Demons are frightened, and spirits are dead. ”
With Lord Liu Guan's spell, his body, which was still old, suddenly became erect, and a faint layer of golden light seemed to appear outside his body. When the black gas meets the golden light, it disappears instantly, and the black gas becomes thinner and thinner, but the golden light is getting brighter and brighter.
The terrible screams continued, and when the incantation was finished, the black qi completely dissipated, and the golden light outside the main body of Liu Guan was also hidden in his body again.
The paper figures no longer bleed, and even those that had been shed were all hidden on the ground, and there was no trace of them again, as if what had just happened was my hallucination.
In the end, Liu Guan took the sword out of the ground, and the paper figure was strung on the tip of the sword, and with a shake of his wrist, he spit out a word with a loud shout: "E!" ”
The paper figure burned instantly, and soon turned into ashes.
At this point, the water ghost is overdone. Although I can't see what the power is, I can also see that Liu Guanzhu's ability is much higher than that of my uncle, and the two are not on the same level at all.
Not to mention anything else, let's take the ghost summoning as an example, the uncle was busy for a long time to make a bunch of magic weapons, and Liu Guan only recited a spell to let the water ghost transformed by Liu Xingxing attach to the paper figure. The ensuing killing of ghosts and blood, the golden light protecting the body, and the incineration of black qi made me even more eye-opening.
After the supernatural water ghost was completed, Lord Liu Guan called Xie Wenyuan in.
"The water ghost has been exceeded, you can rest assured that the corpse can be taken away for identification. It's just that this guitar is the weirdest, I suspect that it is the real body of Wei, don't move the guitar and let Qin Huan take it back to the Wudao Pavilion to give it to his brother-in-law. ”
After saying this, Liu Laodao ruthlessly cut off the skeletal hand on the strings, and cut off his left arm, asking me to take the guitar away.
What?
Let me bring the guitar back to my uncle?
Damn, if I knew that the old bullshit asked me to give this thing to my uncle, the bastard wouldn't run away. I instinctively wanted to refuse, but at this time, Xie Wenyuan was staring at me. There was indifference and contempt in his eyes, and there was no disguise.
"Why, you don't dare?" Xie Wenyuan frowned and said.