Chapter 205

"Fengmen Village is not yellow earth, and the color of this footprint is wrong...... Qi's mother exclaimed, we rushed over and found that Qi's wife was weird. ”

"At the time of the incident, Qi was 36 years old, wearing turmeric linen, and when she saw the Demon Suppressor intruding, her expression remained unchanged, and her eyes were cold, like a dead person, standing in the same place."

Ordinary people are afraid of officials.

The status of the Demon Suppression Division is extremely high, and even the local officials will tremble with fear when they see it, let alone ordinary peasant women.

Qi Wife was not surprised when she saw the person from the Demon Suppression Division appear, she should have already encountered an accident.

Zhao Fusheng then looked down:

"The most bizarre thing is that she wears a strange pair of shoes under her feet...... The shoes are gray and red, one big and one small! ”

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, his pupils shrank.

According to the clues recorded before, she can almost be sure that in this ghost case 43 years ago, this 'shoe' may be an important clue to the ghost case.

Sure enough.

The later file goes on to record: "Qi's wife has a pair of big feet, at least eleven inches long. ”

(Approximately 40 yards.) ）

"The gray shoes she wore were tattered at the tips, sewn in layers of old cloth and hairy at the edges, while the other red shoe was new, much smaller, ten inches at most, and his wife's big feet were squeezed into them, and the instep was arched."

Looking at it this way, Zhao Fusheng became more and more convinced that the red shoes of this ghost case were related to the ghost case.

She moved in her heart and secretly guessed: The footprints of this red shoe may be just ten inches, which is the same as the footprint left by Qi Erniu before she died.

"Qi's wife stood on tiptoe and stepped on the ground with one foot, after we entered the house, her expression remained unchanged, and she was scolded by Li Neng from afar but did not move."

"I looked closely at her red shoes, and only the toes touched the ground slightly, and after about three breaths, Qi's wife's head shriveled and fell, like boiling water melting ice, and disappeared without a trace in front of us."

Through the words, Zhao Fusheng could imagine the frightened expressions of several people in the Demon Suppression Division when they were dealing with this case.

After Qi's wife disappeared, the last place she stood before her death left a footprint as red as blood. We ordered Qi Da Niu to take rice paper to expand the footprints, the footprints were reddish-brown in color, with bloody gas, and there was evil qi remaining in them. ”

The subsequent records involved key data and verified Zhao's guess:

"After testing, this footprint is ten inches long, which is the same size as the footprints left by Qi Erniu before she died, and I speculate that the mother and daughter of the Qi family died at the hands of the same ghost!"

The ghost of the closed door village has appeared!

and appeared in front of several case-handling personnel of the Demon Suppression Division.

From Qi Daniu's wife and daughter having accidents one after another, Zhao Fusheng relied on a few lines in front of him, and preliminarily estimated that this powerful ghost might kill people in the way of the 'principle of proximity'.

The so-called 'proximity principle' includes, but is not limited to, people in Qi Daniu's family, and those who witnessed the murder of the ghost, as well as those who have touched the mark of the ghost, and those who have touched objects related to the ghost—such as the envoy who measured the bloody footprints left by Qi Erniu and Qi's wife after their death.

In addition, because the file records the previous circumstances of this ghost case are relatively brief, Zhao Fusheng cannot deduce whether the death of people in Fengmen Village before reporting the case to the local town and county is whether there are men, women and children, or only dead women.

She looked down patiently, and then sure enough, she saw that not long after Qi's wife died, Chen Hao suddenly had an accident.

Case Records:

"After discussion, everyone thought that Qi Da Niu's family was very likely to be shrouded by the law of ghost killing, so they decided to temporarily withdraw from Qi Da Niu's family and lock his family at home."

The situation at that time was not recorded in the file, but Zhao Fusheng guessed that things should not be going well.

Just as the people from the Demon Suppression Division were about to leave the Qi family, "...... Chen Hao suddenly froze in place, Li Neng shouted him twice but he didn't, Wang Xian stepped forward to pull him, but found that his palms were cold and his fingers were stiff. ”

His face turned pale, and a large number of corpse spots began to appear on his cheeks, the sides of his neck, and the backs of his hands. At the same moment, his body was crooked, the instep of his foot arched in the shape of a pig's hoof, the toes and heels fell to the ground, the metacarpal bones of his feet were broken, the skin was punctured, blood gushed from the wounds, and a small red shoe was placed on his foot. ”

This unlucky envoy who followed the head of the Lingji to Fengmen Village to deal with the ghost case 43 years ago became a victim of the ghost case.

After Chen Hao's accident, at least Zhao Fusheng confirmed that the law of this ghost case in Fengmen Village was not only aimed at women, but indiscriminately killed men, women and children.

The carnage that followed was not over.

Subsequently, Qi Daniu and his old mother, as well as the eldest son and second son, did not escape, and were killed by the ghosts one by one.

Now everyone panicked.

No one dared to measure the bloody footprints left by these people after their deaths, and everyone was worried about the ghosts asking for their lives.

At that time, the commander made a decision and ordered the house of Qi Daniu's family to be burned down, and everyone in the village did as they were instructed one by one under fear to pile up firewood to burn Qi's house.

The fire burned for two days, and the Qi family was burned to ashes.

In the past two days, I have not heard of anyone dying again in Fengmen Village.

"But I know it didn't end so easily." The dossier reads:

"The common people don't know what is so powerful about the ghosts, and they think that no more bad news is the best news, but the ghost domain has not been lifted, which proves that the ghosts are still killing people."

The village is not small.

47 years ago, the imperial court checked the household registration, and the village had a population of thousands at that time, such a large village was not a clan system, each was the main one, and the prestige of the village chief was limited, and no one was convinced.

After someone in the family goes missing, the villagers may not be able to report it in time, which gives the spread of ghost cases an opportunity to expand.

"I realized that I can't let the ghosts kill people like this, I have been staying in the Closed Gate Village for four days, the ghost domain has not been lifted, and there is a tendency to expand, the speed of the ghosts killing people is fast, the interval is short, and if it goes on like this, the ghosts will advance at an extremely fast speed."

"Gotta get it away!"

When this sentence was written, the pen and ink on the parchment file were thicker, which shows that the person who recorded the case was not at peace at that time.

"If the ghost doesn't show up, I will take the initiative to attract the ghost."

"I need to pick someone to lure the ghost to do this."

"I chose Li Neng, I asked him to light the ghost incense, and the ghost quickly smelled the incense, and Li Neng quickly became the next target of the ghost."

“…… The ghost was trapped on Li Neng...... I asked Wang Xian and Yang Chong to ...... Several people wore linen and filial piety, opened the way with paper money, lured the ghost forward, and finally lured it away from Fengmen Village. ”

“…… The companion order made them die one by one, and the power of the ghost magic was exhausted, and I witnessed Li Neng burrow into an old tomb deep in the mountains, and the ghost domain of the closed door village was lifted. ”

As soon as the ghost domain is removed, it means that the ghost case in Fengmen Village is officially over.

A total of nine people went to deal with this ghost case back then, including one commander and eight envoys, but in addition to the large number of villagers who died in Fengmen Village, the eight envoys of the Demon Suppression Division did not have a lifetime!

Even if Zhao Fusheng is accustomed to the weird danger of ghost cases, seeing this ghost case that has been separated by decades at this time, he still has waves in his heart.

Although this ghost case has been dealt with temporarily, it is not perfect in Zhao Fusheng's eyes.

The end of the ghost case ended with the ghost being ordered to make Li Neng lure away, the ghost domain was lifted, and the ghost went into the old grave in the mountains.

Literally, it seems that the ghost has returned to the mountain grave, and the ghost case has been solved.

But Zhao Fusheng knew in his heart that the ghosts were immortal and immortal, except for the opening of hell on the god list and the opening of the god list to collect it, and the activation of the god list to seal the gods, there was no way to completely eliminate future troubles.

(In fact, the solution to the god list is not really a complete solution, in Zhao Fusheng's view, the existence of the god list is only to restrain the wandering ghosts to a person's side, and the hidden danger is always there.) ）

In Zhao Fusheng's view, the solution of luring the ghost into the grave was more like the method used by the head of the Ling Division at that time to make the ghost fall into a deep sleep temporarily, but the ghost would eventually wake up.

Once the ghost thing recovers, it may cause a new round of killing.

And on this 43-year-old ghost case record, the method of killing ghosts is recorded, but there is no key information.

For example, the origin of the identity of the red shoes was not investigated by the director of the Lingsi at that time, and the way the ghost marked the victim was not clarified.

Now, after decades, it is not easy to find out the identity of the red-shoeed ghost again.

After all, this ghost case happened on the territory of Wan'an County, although it has been safe and sound all these years, but once it breaks out, I am afraid it will cause a large number of casualties among the people.

If Zhao Fusheng didn't know the hidden danger of this ghost case, it would be okay, now that she has understood the previous situation, she naturally wants to nip this hidden danger in the bud.

- You must not let the god list deduct your merits!

Zhao Fusheng's eyes sank, closed the file again, and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to go to Fengmen Village this time, just to let people look for the local survivors who were over sixty years old and had experienced the ghost case back then, and then inquire about the whole story of this ghost case.

It would be great if she could find the location of the old grave that Li Neng had gotten into after being possessed by a demon from the mouths of these survivors, and she could find a way to make a seal of such a grave so that the ghosts would be suppressed for a longer time.

She made up her mind, put down the file in her hand, thought for a moment, and opened the parchment roll again with her fingers.

The dossier that was rolled in a circle was swept away by her, and gently spread it out to one side, and her eyes fell on the row of small words:

"I chose Li Neng...... Let him light the ghost incense, and the ghost will soon smell the incense...... Wang Xian, Yang Chong...... Wear linen and filial piety, open the way with paper money, and lure the ghosts forward......"

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, he became deeply interested in the law of powerful ghosts that the head of the Ling Division controlled forty-three years ago.

"43 years ago, who was the director of the Ling Division at that time?" Zhao Fusheng's fingers pressed on the handwriting of the file, moved it lightly a few times, and then put the file away again to check the information of the Ling Division.

The miscellaneous servants of the Demon Suppression Division were worried about touching her head, so the files of the past commanders and envoys of Wan'an County were placed in the innermost corner.

Compared with the sparse case files handled by Wan'an County over the years, there are a lot of files of the Ling Division and the Ling Envoy, which are enough to press several huge case file cabinets.

These dossiers were also put away in different categories, and Zhao Fusheng found the roster of the Han Dynasty for 203 years according to the year.

These 'death lists' of the Demon Division of Wan'an County are not available every month, but according to the time of the case.

Just as there were only three volumes of the ghost case in the same year, there were only three records of the time of death in this year.

In March, July and November.

This time is very regular, and each case is handled at an interval of four months, and Zhao Fusheng suspects that the same Ling Si is handling these cases.

Because the ghost case happened in November of that year, it seems from the records that this Lingji did not die in the Red Shoes ghost murder case.

Coupled with the law of Dahan's ghost case in 203, if she wants to find the information of this Lingsi director, she can find it from the end of Dahan between 202 and 203, or the first personnel change in early 204.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fusheng's eyes fell on the list of dossiers in the 202nd year of the Han Dynasty.

This year, the list of files has not changed much, it is still three times, but the number of files has increased - that is to say, in this year, many people died in the Demon Suppression Division of Wan'an County.

She randomly extracted a copy of the September 202 file, which densely recorded the life of the death warrant.

Zhao Fusheng's gaze swept over the information of these envoys, and then quickly changed a volume of information, and it was still the list of envoys.

……

It seems that this ghost case in Wan'an County in September 202 was a big murderer.

Zhao Fusheng changed four or five volumes in a row, and when he finally picked up the sixth volume, it was recorded:

In September 202, the original commander Xu Jun died in a ghost case, which led to the resurgence of ghosts.

In September 202, when the general of the Demon Suppression Division heard the news, he urgently dispatched Xie Jingsheng, the deputy commander of Guangling County under the rule of Xuzhou, to be transferred to the Commander of the Demon Suppression Division of Wan'an County.

From county to county, although it is said that it has been transferred from a deputy commander to a county commander, such a dispatch can be regarded as decentralization.

However, Zhao Fusheng had a hunch that this transferred Xie Jingsheng might be the director of the Ling Division who finally solved the out-of-control ghost disaster in Wan'an County.

In the dossier, there is usually a brief record of the newly transferred commander.

Xie Jingsheng: A native of Dijing, 26 years old, his uncle Xie Kui is also a member of the Demon Division.

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: It seems that this emergency worker in Wan'an County 43 years ago turned out to be a person with a background.

Xie Jingsheng: Harness the disaster-level ghosts, and be good at funerals.

Characteristics of ghosts: You can light ghost incense, when the ghost incense is burned, it will attract ghosts to eat, where the ghost incense goes, the ghosts will be sealed by the breath of incense, the fragrance will not disperse, and the ghosts cannot get out.

The law of ghost killing: After the ghost incense is lit, the ghost will enjoy the messenger as a tribute.

……

The record of the ghost objects on the dossier about Xie Jingsheng's envoy is not extraordinarily detailed, only a general one, after all, the power of the ghost envoy controlled by the ghost rider is also a personal secret, and it will not be completely unfolded to the public.

However, Zhao Fusheng can probably guess from this few lines of record, combined with the record of the Red Shoe ghost case in November 203, and probably guess the ability of Xie Jingsheng's ghost.

Funerals, light ghost incense to lure ghosts to the upper body-

From these records, Zhao Fusheng concluded that Xie Jingsheng should be good at handling ghost cases in the way of 'handling funerals'.

First, give a special ghost incense to an envoy to light it, and when the ghost incense is ignited, the revived ghost will smell the incense and kill the incense-holding envoy with a murderous method.

But after killing the envoy, the ghost was immediately sealed on the body of the incense-wielding envoy.

This is the time to really do the 'funeral'.

In the record of the Red Shoe ghost case in November 203, after the death of the incense envoy, there will be another order to lead the way in front of the envoy who wears linen, wears filial piety, cries and mourns, and sprinkles paper money, leading the evil ghosts who are controlled in disguise to leave.

This set of trips ended until the last ghost 'went to the grave'.