Chapter 20: The Sinking Corpse at the Bottom of the River
"That's right, we shifted our focus to Xue Baihe, but at present, apart from knowing about the corpse, there is no direct evidence that Xue Baihe is related to that living corpse." Bai Ling suddenly realized under the guidance of the black wolf.
"You're saying that there might be someone else refining corpses?" Xie Xiaolou finally understood the reason and couldn't help asking.
"Not possibly, for sure!" The black wolf said categorically, "You forgot what Xue Baihe said when he was in the warehouse, the three evil techniques he learned when he came to Xiangxi, that is to say, his corpse refining technique was taught by someone!" ”
"And Xue Baihe's motive is clear, he wants to rob you of the two evil scrolls, but we don't know anything about the motives of the people behind the scenes who created this case." The black wolf is a senior senior special police officer of the M team, and he naturally has excellent points in the investigation of the case, and he has seen too many examples of cases, and the difference between ordinary police officers and senior police officers is whether he will be misled by the quiet of the branch line and forget the main case.
"In my memory, my father only had a good relationship with Uncle Wu, but he never mentioned some things about chasing corpses to me, so I don't know if there are still those people who can refine corpses." Xie Xiaolou thought that his father was also a member of the "corpse chasing circle", if he could find some other former corpse chasers, maybe he would be able to find something, but after thinking for a while, he found that there was no one who knew him well.
"At present, we can only wait, waiting for Xue Baihe's sunken body at the bottom of the river to be arrested, hoping to ask for some clues from him." Bai Ling said as he looked at the recorded information.
The black wolf nodded.
Back at home, Xie Xiaolou boiled medicine for his mother as usual, and made some simple meals for his mother, it seemed that as soon as Xiaoyu left, his mother's spirit was not as good as those days, and she was a little sluggish, Xie Xiaolou was bedridden and couldn't go out, plus Xie Xiaolou was often outside, no one accompanied him, so he was naturally a little depressed.
Xie Xiaolou secretly thought about the 100,000 bounty in his heart, and believed that it would not be long before he could take his mother to the provincial capital to see a doctor.
After a month of peace, Xie Xiaolou returned to the ranks of the black tour guides, and in his spare time, he studied and cultivated the "Corpse Sutra" and "Soul Book", during which he made several phone calls to the black wolf, and they all replied that there was no news of Xue Baihe.
On this day, Xie Xiaolou was soliciting customers by the Tuojiang River as always, and suddenly he was photographed behind his back.
"Tour guide, how much does it cost to go to Peach Blossom Island?"
Xie Xiaolou was overjoyed in his heart, he didn't expect that there would be business to take the initiative to come to the door, so he hurriedly turned around and said: "It's not expensive, 20 per person, take a 'luxury' cruise ship." When he saw the two of them clearly, Xie Xiaolou's face showed disappointment, it turned out to be the two of M group.
Bai Ling looked at Xie Xiaolou's rotten face, and said with a smile: "What? We don't make money? ”
Xie Xiaolou had a bitter face: "Of course you have to make money, but you have to make a big one." "Naturally, I'm still worried about the bounty.
A smile appeared on the black wolf's swarthy face: "Okay, this money will be counted in the bounty together, with interest of five thousandths per day." ”
Xie Xiaolou thought that it was good for Guang Bailing to come alone, and it would not be a big surprise to have an uncle, so he immediately said with a straight face: "Words count." After another pause, he asked, "How do you have time to come out?" ”
Since Xie Xiaolou came into contact with the two, he felt that the two of them had been busy all day long, and they had basically never seen them rest.
The black wolf unceremoniously jumped onto Xie Xiaolou's so-called "luxury" cruise ship, which was a small wooden boat that could accommodate five or six people, and said, "We are also people, why can't we enjoy the mountains and rivers?" I've been in Phoenix for so long, but I haven't had a good time. “
Xie Xiaolou helped Bailing onto the boat, and when he heard the black wolf say this, he introduced the attractions of Phoenix "professionally", focusing on the Peach Blossom Island where the two were about to go sightseeing.
Peach Blossom Island is located in the lower reaches of the Tuojiang River in Phoenix, there is an endless stream of tourists during the day, the island is full of bright red peach blossoms, it is really a good place to send a circle of friends, and on the way to Peach Blossom Island by boat, you can also watch the green mountains and green waters on both sides of the Tuojiang River, and occasionally there are Miao girls and Tujia elder brothers singing love songs on both sides of the strait, which makes people suddenly have the artistic conception in "Border City".
There are not many people who go to Peach Blossom Island today, and Xie Xiaolou rowed for a long time before he saw a few tourists returning by boat.
At this time, it was almost 10 o'clock in the morning, and there was still some thin fog on the river, which seemed to be hazy and hazy on both sides of the Tuojiang River, and there was a flavor of straying into a fairyland.
"Xiaolou, this Peach Blossom Island doesn't seem to be as hot as you boasted?" Seeing that the banks of the Tuojiang River were quiet and quiet, and there were no boats going downstream, Bai Ling couldn't help but ask.
"Well, maybe it's the weather today, you see that the fog hasn't cleared yet, so there are fewer people." Xie Xiaolou improvised a reason.
The black wolf sat in the bow of the boat, feeling that the fog was getting bigger and thicker the further he went.
"Stop!" The black wolf suddenly stretched out his hand and gestured, "Something is wrong. ”
Needless to say, Xie Xiaolou also had some feelings, after more than a month of study, his Taoism has improved, he closed his eyes, sniffed the mist vigorously, and frowned: "This is not an ordinary fog, it is condensed by evil qi!" ”
As soon as the words fell, a figure suddenly appeared from the water and shot towards the three of them!
The three of them staggered, barely dodging, and the figure jumped into the air, drew an arc in the air, and plunged headlong into the river.
"Let's go!" The black wolf shouted, now jumping into the river is undoubtedly a self-defeating net, so he grabbed an oar and rowed with Xie Xiaolou to the shore with all his might.
Bai Ling suddenly glanced at someone on the shore in a panic, and after taking a closer look through the mist, she shouted: "Xue Baihe! Xue Baihe is on the shore! ”
The two who only cared about rowing were suddenly shocked, and when they looked up, they saw a tall and thin man standing on the shore, expressionless.
"He's still in Phoenix." Xie Xiaolou said to himself, there was no movement from him for a month, and he thought that he had escaped from Phoenix, and even escaped from the province.
It is recorded in the "Book of Corpses" that people who drown in the water are more wronged, and the water is yin, if the bottom of the water is used as a place to raise corpses, not only will it get twice the result with half the effort, but it is also very easy to refine the "sunken corpse". If it reaches a certain amount, in an environment where there is no sunlight on a cloudy day, the evil qi can condense into fog, or even into ice and snow. Due to the long period of immersion in water, it is more suitable for moving in water than ordinary walking corpses.
But Xie Xiaolou didn't care about explaining to the two of them at the moment, and saw the ripples in the water, and the sunken corpse swam back again.
Fortunately, Xie Xiaolou was afraid that there would not be enough toilet paper when he went out today, so he brought a few more pieces of rune paper to prevent a "dilemma" when he was large.
Since the sunken corpse is an extremely yin thing, then the fiery masculine energy is its nemesis.
Xie Xiaolou took out the rune paper and said to the black wolf, "Stick out your tongue." The black wolf didn't know what to do, but when he saw that the situation was critical, he immediately did so.
"Ah, phew~" The black wolf screamed in pain, only to see Xie Xiaolou slap his chin up when he stretched out his tongue, and the black wolf's upper and lower teeth closed together, biting out a large canopy of blood from the tip of his tongue.
The most masculine of the few was Officer Black Wolf, at least it seems.
The black wolf was just about to scold, when he saw Xie Xiaolou with a serious face, he dipped the blood on the tip of his tongue in his fingers, and wrote and drew on the yellow rune paper.
"Bang~" The sunken corpse was indeed as Xie Xiaolou expected, and pounced on the three of them again.
"If you accept it, you will arrest Mr. Xue." After this month's growth, Xie Xiaolou's inexplicable confidence in himself has greatly increased, and it seems that the bonus is within reach.
The sunken fish jumped and pounced, and the three of them all leaned against the plank of the ship, and fell to the sky.
Only then did he see the appearance of the sunken corpse, because he had been soaking in the river, his whole body was already swollen, his skin was blue and purple, two sharp fangs were exposed between his fat lips, and the nails on his hands were sharp and long.
The three of them looked up and watched the sunken corpses fly by, and a fishy smell of decay mixed with the splash of water hit their faces, making people dizzy and almost vomiting.
Xie Xiaolou was waiting for this moment, and the spirit rune pinched by the tip of his right finger hurriedly swung out, hitting the head of the sinking corpse.
"Yang rushes and yin scatters, breaks."
As soon as Xie Xiaolou finished reciting the incantation, the whole body of the sunken corpse burst into flames, and the fire was faintly blue, and the sunken corpse fell into the river and was not extinguished.
After a while, the three of them smelled a pungent smell of rotting and burning, and Bai Ling couldn't bear it anymore and vomited on the side of the boat.
"He's still here, hurry up!" Xie Xiaolou got the sunken corpse, and when he saw Xue Baihe on the shore standing still, he hurriedly shook the oars and rowed towards the shore.
Seeing that Bai Ling was still lying on the side of the boat, hunched back and trembling slightly, the black wolf was about to go over and help her up, and a weak voice came from Bai Ling without raising his head: "There is ...... Lots ......"
The black wolf hurriedly looked around, and sure enough, several ripples appeared on the river, and it was rushing towards the boat of the three.
Xie Xiaolou stopped the oar, and then remembered a sentence in "The Book of Corpses": Sinking corpses...... There are certain quantities...... to condense into fog!