Chapter 21: The Red Charm
Yuan Changming briefly explained what happened last night, and Su Mo didn't find anything strange.
According to the foreign envoy of the Jade Dragon Gang, Lanxiang Pavilion is just a pavilion where people go to empty buildings.
There really wasn't much useful information to be obtained from such an inquiry, so Su Mo decided to solve this bloody case according to his own ideas.
So in the morning, he went out with Wang Dahu, and went all the way to inquire about those who had lived in the Lanxiang Pavilion.
As for going to the pavilion by the Wei River to check, Su Mo felt that it was better to go at night, and he planned to go there alone.
Assuming that there are really demons and ghosts in the Lanxiang Pavilion, then it is useless to go to as many people as possible.
The most critical point is that as long as ordinary people have not cultivated to the realm of concentrating, then there is no true qi in their bodies, and without true qi, there is no way to fight against demons and ghosts.
Take some small yin spirits, for example, they will erode the human brain through yin qi and then attach to a person's body.
If you are slashed by a sharp weapon such as a sword, you can at best destroy the body it occupies, but you can't hurt the Yin Spirit itself. Even if the body they occupy is destroyed, as long as they find another ordinary person to possess them, they can continue to do evil.
Therefore, the most fundamental place is to completely disperse the ghosts.
Of course, there is one most important thing, that is, if the demon ghost is defeated, Su Mo will suck out the demon ghost's yin qi. Such a scene must not be seen by outsiders, and once the secret of his body is exposed, he will definitely be worried about his life.
In the morning, Su Mo and the others asked a total of five people, one of whom was the old bustard of the Lanxiang Pavilion before.
It's just that after asking like this, he didn't gain anything at all, and he even made some strange discoveries.
The five different women all looked a little blank, not so much like they had been sleep-deprived for a long time, but more like they had been sucked out of their energy by contact with something weird.
In his opinion, these women were in a trance, and when they answered inquiries, they were also secretive. I don't know if it's intentional or something else.
At noon, Su Mo and Wang Dahu simply ate some stir-fried steamed buns in a restaurant.
The two planned to ask the last person in the afternoon, and if they still couldn't ask anything, then they would not continue to dwell on this matter.
Walking through the South Street of Peony Town, I soon found a small house on the corner of the street.
Lived here was a subordinate who had worked in the Orchid Pavilion.
Su Mo pushed the door directly in, and saw an old man taking a nap in the sun under the eaves.
When the old man saw that the two people were actually wearing black suits that only gang members would wear, their faces immediately changed.
But now that the doors are blocked, he has nowhere to go.
"I don't know what the two adults are doing here?" the old man hurriedly stood up and said respectfully.
"This old man, I heard that you once worked as a subordinate in the Lanxiang Pavilion?" Su Mo walked in front of the old man and got straight to the point.
"That's right. ”
"Then I have something I want to ask about, and I hope the old man will not hide anything. ”
"My lord, but it doesn't hurt to ask. ”
"In the past few days, has the bloody incident in Peony Town been related to the people of Lanxiang Pavilion?" Su Mo stared at the old man.
He could already see that the old man's eyes were a little flustered, which was obviously different from the five women in a trance, and he knew that this old man was definitely strange.
"Decay is also ...... I don't know. ”
"Old man, I hate being deceived the most in my life, why did you come to deceive me?" Su Mo made a cold face, and with a 'brush' sound, he directly pulled out the knife.
"Let me ask you again, do you know anything about this?" as soon as he finished speaking, he directly put the knife on the old man's neck.
The old guy felt the cold of the blade, and trembled in fright, "Don't mess around, the old man doesn't know ......" Before the old man finished speaking, he felt a drop of warm liquid slipping off his neck, and knew that if he concealed it again, he was afraid that his head would really fall to the ground!
"The old man knows...... I know! The old man has said it...... It's all said!"
"Then say it quickly, don't grind!"
"There are haunted ghosts in the Lanxiang Pavilion, and the dead people are all related to the demons. That thing is attached to some Meiji, and when you finish doing that with the man, you will take advantage of the man's vigilance to let down his guard and kill and eat it!"
Su Mo said in his heart that he was really right. But the other people didn't find out about it, why was it discovered by this old guy?
"Then how did you find out that there are demons in the Lanxiang Pavilion?"
"Because I'm ...... I've seen it drink human blood. ”
"You found it, but it didn't find you, I'm really so confused, explain it to me!" Su Mo said sharply.
"Yes, at that time, the old man was in the courtyard behind the pavilion, and it was the time to deliver drinks to Xiaoxiang Garden. Because I heard something strange, I looked through the crack in the window for a while, and in the room a woman with a bloody face was biting a man's neck!"
"Then why didn't it find you?"
"The little brother doesn't know that when he was young, he used to dig people's graves with his family. Xu is body was also contaminated with some yin qi, so the thing didn't notice it at the time, and the old decay was actually outside the house. ”
Su Mo touched his chin and thought for a moment, if he said so, it would not be strange.
It's just that he can't be sure which kind of demon in the Lanxiang Pavilion is.
"Old man, let me ask you again," he sorted out his thoughts, and said, "In this Lanxiang Pavilion, have there ever been people who died unjustly or tragically?"
"Yes, there were," the old man seemed to remember something, with a look of pity on his face, "About a month ago, there was an envoy who came from Beilu City for the matter of paying tribute. The man took a fancy to a beautiful girl named Liu Yun in Lanxiang Pavilion. But that man was a freak who liked to play strange tricks, and Miss Liu Yun didn't obey him, so he threw him into the ancient well. ”
"Alas, by the time they were fished up, they were all dead. ”
"And then, the Ombudsman was not punished?"
The old man's face was full of indignation, and he shook his head and said, "Liu Yun is an orphan who grew up in Lanxiang Pavilion since he was a child. Now that the family is gone, after the tragic death, there is not even anyone to beat the drum for her. The overseer paid some money to the bustard, and the matter was revealed. ”
Su Mo listened to the old man in silence, and he didn't feel strange.
The way of the world is like this, not only demons and ghosts will eat people, but people will also eat people.
"Just ask that," Su Mo turned around to leave, and at the same time left the last sentence lightly, "Old man, do you remember what the name of the inspector is?"
"He seems to be calling ...... Tao Xiangrong. ”
"Let's go, Brother Wang, it's time for us to go back. Su Mo didn't look back, and left directly.
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In the guest room of the prefectural office.
Su Mo was flipping through the books he got from the old black wind, and he himself gave the book that recorded the demons a 'demon catalog'.
"According to what the old man said, there is no doubt that the demons in the Lanxiang Pavilion are the injustices of Liu Yun. And this demon catalogue also has a record of this kind of demon ghost, whose name is Red Ghost. Because the deceased was too angry, this red charm was reborn as a sneaky grade. ”
"I am now above the Bone Forging in terms of the martial arts realm. I just don't know...... Can you kill this red ghost?"
He pondered for a long time, and the night gradually spread from the horizon.