Zhong Bai looked up and down, there was still a warm male corpse on this body, stared at his face for a while, and said, "This face was not dug by others, it was himself." ”

Lord Chengfu asked: "Yourself, unlikely, who will dig their own skin well, isn't it crazy?"

Zhong Bai shook his head, pinched the handkerchief with one hand and pointed to the root of the man's ear: "My lord, I can see some small wounds at the root of the ear, these wounds are turned inward, not outside, which means that the skin on these faces is not picked by others, but by himself, so the deceased's fingernails are full of minced meat." Moreover, the place where the deceased died was the most lively street market here, not to mention during the day, and there were often people walking around at night, and the murderer did not use anything like *, so he pretended to say that the deceased was sober when he died. That is, when the deceased died, he said that he knew and understood what he was doing, but he couldn't control himself. ”

Lord Chengfu was confused when he heard this: "Kill yourself and take off the skin on your face, this doesn't make sense." ”

"If it doesn't make sense for man-made nature, but if it is made of other things......"

"Daoist Zhongbai, what do you mean by this?"

"Zhong Bai doesn't mean anything else, the lord will definitely strengthen the guard of the northern city at night, so as not to let the thieves take advantage of it again. ”

Zhong Bai said euphemistically: "It's still early, Zhong Bai will go back first, if the adult needs Zhong Bai's help, the adult can give him any orders." ”

Recently, there have been three deaths in Beicheng, and every two or three days, a man dies on the street, either without arms or without face, in short, his facial features and limbs are not complete. This incident has been going on for some time, and more and more people have died, and the government has not seen the murderer for a long time, so it has invited Zhongbai Daoist, who is exiled at will around, to investigate the matter.

Because of this incident, the people of Beicheng were panicked, the woman was fine, and no one dared to go out all day long, for fear of being targeted by thieves and killed.

Zhong Bai returned to the inn and his face was not very good, the house where he lived was splashed with blood, all over the place, all over the wall. The heavy, pungent smell of blood almost made him vomit.

Zhong Bai's lips twitched, he pulled out the silver sword, and scolded: "Beast, you are really getting more and more bold. It seems that if I don't give you some color, it's really unknowing. ”

As he spoke, the silver sword slashed neatly around him, and the room was filled with white light, and the red and bright blood seemed to have seen something most terrifying and untouchable, and it was actually wriggling.

"Good Taoist, you can't hurt me, you see I'm not afraid of your sword. "I don't know when there was a woman in the room, the woman smiled beautifully, her facial features were gorgeous and lovely, but her legs were off the ground.

"Brutes are brutes, and today I will accept you for the way of heaven. ”

Zhong Bai let out a loud sigh, drew his sword and wanted the female ghost to stab him, the female ghost sighed, and said disappointedly: "I gave you a chance, but you don't cherish it, so don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

The female ghost's figure disappeared suddenly, leaving only a room where the cold aura had not dissipated, and Zhong Bai stared around vigilantly, because he clearly felt that the blood was grabbing him little by little......

The Taoist priest of Beicheng died, this matter is a big trouble, the person in the city government buried Zhong Bai's body alive, there is no way to invite the Taoist immortal of Qingshan Palace, and I am afraid that I can't solve it, and I have the experience of Zhong Bai's previous car and cheekily went to invite the spirit clan.

Qingshan Hall knew the cause and effect, and knew that a Taoist priest who had not practiced shallow died two days ago, so this matter was a little complicated. Liu Yanren sent Liu Qingzhou and Chu Mu to go, after all, Beicheng is closer to Qingshan Palace, and they also have some friendship.

Tianya Pavilion, here Chang'an knew that Buya was going out to do errands, and after asking Elder Yan carefully, he had to follow him alive or dead.

"Just let me out, I promise I won't run blind. Chang'an pleaded: "Mother, you see that Buya and Qing'er are here, you can rest assured, even if I don't take care of myself, the two of them will." ”

Chang Yan poked Chang'an's head, hating iron and steel: "Play, play, you know play, there is really nothing in your mind except that kind of thing, a few days ago, I and Elder Yan and I have chosen the wedding date for you, you are so good that you don't want to marry." Tell me, what's wrong with people's cliffs, you look down on him so much. ”

"Mother, mother, mother, it's not that I don't look down on him, but I don't feel it, I don't feel it. Chang'an coquettishly said: "Don't mention these, mother, you just let me go out to play for a few days, you see I've been stuffy here for so many days, but I'm very well-behaved." ”

Chang Yu couldn't stand Chang'an's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and it didn't take long for her to be defeated: "Okay, okay, hurry up and go back to sleep, what time is it." ”

Chang An said happily: "Then mother, you agreed." ”

"I don't agree to don't want to sleep all night, I'll tell you tomorrow that I'll be on the cliff, and watch you on the road. ”

"Yes, my mother. Chang'an pulled Chang Yan's arm and blinked: "Mother, I want to sleep with you tonight." ”

"No matter how old a person is, he still can't leave his mother. The eldest woman also smiled, got up and said, "Go, my mother is sleepy." ”

Early the next morning, a few people in Chang'an left, because the distance was farther than the Qingshan Palace, and they arrived at noon.

Several people met at the house of the city lord, and they were all confused.

Chang'an saw Liu Qingzhou, who had not been seen for many days, surrounded by men who were much taller than her, so she jumped up and hooked her little head to say hello: "Sister, sister." ”

Liu Qingzhou heard the sound and looked at it, and two points of joy crossed his eyes, but he was extremely quickly pressed down and bowed his head.

Chu Mu smiled and said: "Tut-tut, this time it's really fateful, it seems that Chang'an should come out of the last incident." Hehe, this old city lord is really good at doing things. ”

Qingshan Hall thought that the city lord had only invited them, and Tianya Pavilion also thought that it was just their spirit clan, and the two factions didn't know that each other existed.

Buya's whole expression was distorted when he saw Liu Qingzhou, and he couldn't help but sink his face, and glared at the city lord viciously.

The city lord suddenly passed by a cold wind behind him, he shrank his shoulders twice, and couldn't help touching the tip of his nose.

All the people who came, the city lord took the shelf, and said: "Today, please all the Taoist immortals, the spirit body is here, there is indeed something to ask for in the next, recently Beicheng has been broken one after another living people have been cut off facial features, limbs, and even the skin of the face has been taken away, its crime is not tolerated, Beicheng is even more troubled because of this, people are panicked, no one dares to go out during the day, and every household is completely lit up at night." A few days ago, the Taoist priest Zhong Bai was specially invited, and he was also cut off by the Adam's apple and died in one night, and there was no way to summon everyone to come here to help in the next two, so as not to kill anyone again. ”

After listening quietly, a few people bowed their heads and said, "Since we are here, we will help the city lord solve the matter, and the city lord can rest assured." ”

"Thank you, Lord Lingxi. ”

In fact, he wanted to say in his heart why he didn't forget to help, why did he have to let people from both factions find him.

Buya looked at Liu Qingzhou again, and couldn't laugh anymore.

Because it was noon, the city lord specially prepared a banquet, and the group had a meal, and when the banquet was over, Liu Qingzhou asked the city lord if he could let them see the corpse of Zhongbai Taoist.

Because Zhong Bai had no father or mother, he often lived nearby, and after his death, the city lord only ordered someone to put the body behind his courtyard and send someone to take care of it, and he was not buried.

"Absolutely. ”

Buya also came, his thoughts were the same as Liu Qingzhou's, and he also wanted to see Zhong Bai's body.

"The matter of Chang'an, we haven't settled this account yet, and we'll talk about it separately later. Buya passed by Liu Qingzhou's side, and his shoulder touched him lightly, and said in a deep voice.

Liu Qingzhou's face did not fluctuate, and he only nodded.

The city lord walked past the two of them, and immediately felt a cool breeze sweep around his back, and he shivered all over his body, and he couldn't help but look at the two of them again.

His face was not good, and his eyes were shining with a fierce light.

Not good, not good.

He touched the tip of his nose, deliberately quickened his pace to bypass a few people, and led the way.

Zhong Bai's whole body was tinged with a strange cyan, his face was as pale as paper, and his whole body was stiff because he had been dead for a few days, and even emitted a faint stench.

The lord of the city government lifted the white cloth and was almost choked by the strong smell of corpses: "It's been three days, the weather is warm again, and the corpse is a little seriously decomposed. ”

Liu Qingzhou's first glance was not Zhong Bai's corpse, but the four small jade bracelets placed in Zhong Bai's coffin: "What is this for?"

The lord of the city government replied: "This is a jade bracelet that locks the ghost, and there is a custom in our place, after the death of a person, the soul of the unjust death is afraid that he will come out in the middle of the night and dare not resent and harm others, so he will put four small jade bracelets around the coffin to lock the soul of the deceased, so that he will not come out and harm people." ”

"In the past, I just heard that jade has the effect of driving away evil spirits, but I didn't expect it to be able to lock ghosts like this, it's really a long experience. Chu Mu smiled: "Does everyone who dies here do this?"

"Yes, everyone. ”

Chu Mu smiled and didn't say anything more.

Since it is a custom, a few people didn't take it too seriously, Liu Qingzhou reached out and touched Zhong Bai's body, "click", as if he touched a stone, it shook like a stone, there was no sense of flesh, although the whole body was stiff, but it would not become like this, at least the skin is the skin, even if the whole body is frozen, it still does not change. It's just that the sound just now obviously doesn't seem like the sound that a stone body can make.

"What's going on?"

Liu Qingzhou pursed his lips and said, "The internal organs, liver and lungs, and sanity have all been taken away, and now he just left everything that was left on him before he died." ”

He stretched out his hand again and nodded Zhong Bai's forehead: "Here, it's completely blank." ”

Everyone gasped, and Chang'an said: "What a ruthless heart, it's not done by people." ”

Liu Qingzhou shook his head: "It's true that it's not done by people, even if a person's cultivation is high, it is difficult to take away everything inside without hurting the outer body and scaring it away, even the human body's cultivation and thoughts." ”

"It's not human. The city lord's legs were weak, and he said, "A few days ago, Zhong Bai Daoxian was not tragically killed, which means that the murderer is not necessarily a person. ”

Several people looked at each other silently, and nodded silently.

"Indeed, it wasn't done by people, what is it, please wait for the light boat to investigate clearly. ”

"But it is said that he has been dug into his senses, Zhong Bai is a Dao Immortal, and his cultivation should not be low, even he can't avoid the poisoning of this thing, it should be very laborious, at least it is a thing. ”

This thing is not another thing, everyone knows it in their hearts.