Chapter 27: The Man Who Lost His Soul
I didn't know what to do, I didn't know whether to believe his words or not, but I asked, 'So, what are the final results?' ’
The young man said: 'The final findings? You see, it's in this ancient tomb, and the man died in the end, and they sealed him in this ancient tomb, and that's the final result,' I think the young man obviously didn't want to say much about what happened at that time, and he didn't go into much detail about the process.
'So, who are?' I asked at this point, for it was only then that I realized the question of who this young man really was, why he knew so many things, and why he was in this ancient tomb, which could not but make one wonder.
'Me? I'm just an innocent person, I was innocently arrested back then, I've been locked up here, I've been locked up for so many years, I just want to get out and get free, it's as simple as that, I have such a simple request, you should always agree, right? The young man smiled wryly.
I couldn't believe my eyes at the time, a man who has been living in an ancient tomb since the Qin Dynasty? How is this possible, I don't believe that there is such a thing in this world.
The young man said, 'I know you don't believe it, but I'm a cultivator, so it's understandable that I'll live a little longer than you, and you don't have to have any doubts about that. The young man looked at me after he finished speaking, there was no one on his face, I was also very conflicted, I looked at the coffin dripping with blood, and thought that if I didn't agree, maybe I wouldn't have such good luck next time, and the young man wouldn't save me, if he agreed, no matter what conspiracy he had, he would deal with it then, and save his life first.
Thinking of this, I agreed to him. Then things went well, I took it out of the tomb, and strangely enough, under its guidance, the way back was no longer met with any resistance, and we were able to return to the surface without any problems. When I came out of the tomb, I felt as if it had been a long time, and I almost couldn't see the sun again, and my mood at that time, the feeling of escaping death, was really very comfortable.
The young man had no intention of leaving, he said that he had nowhere else to go anyway, so he followed me, and he also taught me a kind of thaumaturgy of detachment, relying on this thaumaturgy, I was invincible in the trial of the case, and at many critical moments, it was he who gave me advice, but the strange thing is that in the days to come, many years have passed, but he has never been old, I know that he is a strange person, so I have never asked again, but I have always respected him very much.
Originally, things were going well, and I didn't think too much about it, but slowly, as time passed, I realized that something was wrong with this young man, and it didn't seem to be as simple as I thought it would be. Every month on the night of the full moon, he would disappear, I don't know where he went, and he never told me, no matter how much I looked, I couldn't find him. And usually he rarely lives in the place where he lives, he will always disappear for a while inexplicably, and then reappear, at first I was not surprised, but then I found out that something was wrong, because during the time of his disappearance, I discovered a secret.
Originally, this is a secret that is difficult for people to detect, this secret was discovered after I did Kaifeng Mansion Yin, I found in an unintentional case file collation, found that every once in a while around my rule, there will always be one or two strange cases, in the case, every time there will always be a man and a woman, and it is a boy and a girl, from the scene of the exploration, it seems to be some kind of beast, there are no scars on the body, but people are inexplicably dead. Originally, it happened once, it was a headless unsolved case, and no one in the local area cared, but this kind of thing happens every once in a while, but the place where it happens is different each time, so it has not attracted the attention of others, but I don't think much of it, because from the perspective of the modus operandi, the cause of death of the deceased in these cases is the same, that is to say, the modus operandi of the deceased is the same, although the location and time are widely distributed.
I didn't suspect him at the time, but only made a preliminary investigation of these things, of course, the place where these cases happened was not in my jurisdiction, and I just did an investigation very casually, but after the investigation, I found that from the perspective of time, these cases happened to be the days when he disappeared, I felt that it might just be a coincidence, so I made some speculations about the cause of their death, and strangely, when I used his soul technique to find their ghosts, But I found that I couldn't find it at all, there are only two possibilities, one is that their yin spirit is not in this world at all, and the second is that their yin spirit does not exist at all, no matter which one it is, this is very strange.
I was puzzled at the time, there was no way, so I asked him for advice on these cases, because in the past, once I encountered any difficult cases, I would ask him, and he would also help me analyze it very happily, I have to admit that he was a master, but this time his attitude was completely different, I could see it, very angry, and asked me why I should be nosy, tell me to just take care of the things under my rule, these things are not within my jurisdiction at all, tell me not to meddle in things. I don't know why he's so angry, and when I have to ask what happened, he never sees me again.
I thought about this for a long time, and finally I had a speculation, and I myself was frightened by these speculations at that time, because first of all, these cases happened at the time when he disappeared, which means that he had the time to commit crimes, and when I asked him about this case, he behaved very abnormally, which had to make me doubt, and thirdly, and most importantly, the way those people died was closely related to the soul, and these are what he was good at, judging from these traces, It seems that he may be the murderer.
At that time, it was the third year that I brought him out of the ancient tomb, and at first he behaved normally, but in those three years, in the surroundings under my rule, there were more than a dozen such inexplicable headless cases, and the victims reached dozens, of course, due to the dispersion of geography and time, it did not attract official attention, and after I came to that speculative conclusion at the time, I looked back and thought about this matter, and my heart was very heavy, if this matter was done by that young man, So what exactly did I bring out of the tomb, a murderer?
Since I brought him out of the tomb, it is my duty to stop him from doing so. But so far, these are just my speculations, and they can't come true, and I need to have solid evidence. I had no choice but to wait silently until the next time he disappeared, follow him and see what he was doing. I didn't have to wait long, and soon after, one day, when he was talking to me, he seemed to be explaining something, and I realized that he might be disappearing for a while, and I was silent at the time, but I was ready. In the past, I didn't care where he went, because it was his private matter, and I wouldn't care, but now the situation is different, and it involves a murder, so I can't help but ask, I pretend not to know, and deal with it as usual. Until he didn't have any suspicions, I quietly followed him in the form of a living soul.
This kind of soul generation technique is still taught to me, and now I use this spell to follow him, I am still very careful, do not dare to get too close to him, that night, I quietly followed him, found that he was very fast, and after a while appeared out of my sight, I immediately followed, he went out of the area under my rule, towards a place in the neighboring county. I had an ominous feeling in my heart that this was the place where such murders had never happened before, yes, if he didn't want to attract attention, then he wouldn't dare to commit too many crimes in one place, and he had to be transferred, and now this place might be the goal of today, although I thought so in my heart at the time, but I still had some hope.
But what happened next made me completely shatter this hope: I saw him come to a house with my own eyes, and then walked in, I was afraid that he would find out, and I didn't dare to get too close, but I still watched from a distance There seemed to be a sound in it, I heard a few people shouting, and then there was no sound, and after a while, he came out, and seemed very satisfied, I had a bad heart, and when he left, I went in, and I saw a family of three lying on the ground, without any scars, There doesn't seem to be anything else out of the ordinary, but the breath has long since stopped. I know he's probably done it.
Then I chased after him in the same place where he had left, and after a while, I found that he had entered another house, and this time it happened exactly the same as before, and this time there was a child among the deceased, who was only about eight years old, and when he came out, I could even feel the joy and satisfaction on his face. I only now realize what I brought out of the ancient tomb, this is a man-eating thing, without I knowing, actually caused so many killings, for a while, I blame myself and regret it, if I had known these things earlier, maybe these tragedies would not have happened, but now it is too late.
I didn't follow up, because I knew it wouldn't be any different, and I crept back to where I lived, and thought carefully about what I should do with this murderous demon in the future. At that time, I felt that I shouldn't let him go on like this anymore, I couldn't get by in my conscience, a scholar, I couldn't even keep the people under my rule, what else could I talk about. But I knew that I couldn't act rashly, I had to get to know him first. Only then can we know what method should be used to trap him.
After figuring it out, I put up with it, and nothing happened, and three days later, he came back, as if nothing had happened, and I didn't behave in front of him in any way, but I became more and more concerned about the ancient tomb, and I secretly sent someone to investigate the ancient tomb. In the past, when I was a white ding, there were many things that I couldn't touch, but now it's different, I can use a lot of power to investigate, even the power of the royal family, I want to find out what is inside that ancient tomb.
Soon after, I finally found out, in a royal secret book, I found the description of this ancient tomb, he was the first emperor used to seal a certain thing in an ancient tomb, it is said that in order to seal that thing, the first emperor lost a total of more than 30,000 people, before the thing was sealed, as for what the sealed thing is, the secret book did not say, just said that it was a visitor from outside the world, but why it was sealed, it did not mention anything, just said that this is a demon king, a murderous demon king. Of course, this incident is not recorded in the official history, which is why later generations do not know about this ancient tomb.
Although it wasn't said above, I can imagine that he must have done a lot of murder in this way back then, which attracted the attention of the royal family, and finally sealed it, so he will be so sneaky after coming out this time. When I thought that what I had brought out of the tomb was such a thing, I couldn't help but feel cold. But if this young man is the demon king back then, then what is inside that coffin? I couldn't figure out what kind of existence needed so much blood to be sealed, and when I thought of the blood that covered the coffin, and the lamp made of the corpse in the tunnel, I believe that it was very possible that 30,000 people died that year.