Chapter 64: Strange
Seeing the grandmother walk to the door, Tuchen was extremely nervous, and slowly retreated to a corner of the house to scan the house again by the moonlight, and a simple coffin by the wall suddenly came into view.
There was no furniture in this room, except for the piles of dead bodies on the floor, and the only place where people could hide was the coffin. Since he didn't know the details of the grandmother now, Tuchen didn't dare to do it rashly. So he clicked on his toes and flipped lightly, lifted the coffin lid with one hand and got in!
As soon as the lid of the coffin was closed, the door was pushed open again silently, and Grandma staggered in, standing beside a pile of corpses and rummaging for a moment, and finally took a leg bone in her hand.
Tuchen slowly lifted the lid of the coffin three inches and stared at Grandma through the cracks.
The grandmother took the leg bone and flipped it in her hand, and seemed not very satisfied, so she squatted down again and continued to rummage.
With one arm carrying the heavy coffin lid, Tuchen soon became a little overwhelmed, so he slowly moved his body and squatted down in the coffin to adjust.
Just as he adjusted his posture, his right hand swept from the bottom of the coffin, and suddenly brought up a lot of cotton.
Looking down, I saw a corpse lying flat at the bottom of the coffin, and the corpse was wrapped in cotton from head to toe, forming a figurine that was two circles larger than a normal person.
Pulling the cotton wool hard, a large hole immediately appeared in the head of the figurine, and suddenly a foul smell emanated. The corpse wrapped inside the figurines had completely decomposed, and only a few white bones with carrion remained, which seemed to have been dead for a long time.
The smell of rancid smell was unusually strong, and it was so smoked that Tuchen's stomach turned over and his head hurt, and even his nose felt slightly numb!
Grandma was still watching the leg bone carefully, and she didn't look like she was leaving. As the minutes passed, the rancid smell in the coffin became stronger and stronger, and Tuchen was almost fainted from the smoke. In desperation, I had to raise the lid of the coffin as high as possible, and put my nose close to the gap to breathe in the fresh air outside.
Fresh air entered the coffin, and at the same time, the smell of rancid smell came out, and after a while, Grandma finally made a decision, got up and left slowly.
However, when she walked to the door, she seemed to smell the rancid smell that diffused in the air, stopped and put the leg bone in her hand under her nose and sniffed, then turned slightly and looked at the coffin in the corner of the room!
Almost about to meet Grandma's eyes, Tuchen chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly held his breath to close the coffin lid again, and stuffed the cotton wool that had been torn off before back into place with one hand, trying to stop the smell from continuing to emit.
Dwelling in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, and holding his breath, all of his senses were closed. He waited quietly for a moment, and found that there was no sound outside, so he lifted the lid of the coffin again with a little force.
Just showed a little gap, and abandoned the limit of Tuchen, immediately leaned his head over, but saw that it was indeed Grandma's pair of pearl yellow eyes!
This strange and terrifying scene was completely unexpected, and the unprepared Tuchen was so shocked that he gasped, and the stench in the coffin suddenly burrowed into his throat along his nose and mouth, diffusing between his internal organs.
The feeling could no longer be described as disgusting, and Tuchen's entire chest cavity felt as if it was about to explode, and he couldn't bear it anymore and jumped out of it with a complete lift, and then retched twice and took a big breath of fresh air.
The grandmother was also startled when she saw a figure suddenly jumping out of the coffin, took a few steps back, and then looked at Tuchen with a frightened face.
Now that it has been discovered, there is no need to hide it, Tuchen immediately recited a spell in his heart, and drew a talisman with one hand to knock a bolt of lightning into the air from the door of the room.
Receiving this signal, Mao Hu and the others were also extremely fast, and they rushed into the courtyard almost at the same time. Mo Erha shouted loudly: "Tuchen, we are here, where are you!?"
Hearing this, Tuchen also flashed to the courtyard, stared at the door after the round with the three of them, and prepared for battle.
Then Grandma's appearance was not the expected demonic aura and swift phantom, but still staggered out, standing opposite the four of them with a confused expression. When her eyes fell on Tu Chen's face, the whole person suddenly became excited, and she sped up and rushed over.
Tuchen immediately raised the dagger vigilantly, and was about to jump up to meet it, but who knew that the grandma actually knelt on the ground with a 'plop', and two lines of old tears slid across her wrinkled cheeks: "Doctor Tu, you ...... You're back...... It's back......"
This scene made everyone dizzy, and the four of them were stunned in place, Mao Hu looked at Grandma and then at Tuchen and asked, "What, do you know each other?"
Tuchen was also a little confused, and shook his head blankly. walked up and helped Grandma up: "You...... Know me?"
Grandma nodded, wiped away the tears on her face, looked at the other three and continued to ask: "Doctor, how is Miss Lingxi's body, why didn't she come? Where have you all been in the past six months? But it's good to come back, it's good to come back, Yangcheng, it's saved!"
Zi Ning stared at Grandma for a moment, then took a deep breath and said softly, "It's not her, we found the wrong one!"
"There are demons in this city, you must help, Doctor, otherwise more and more people will die!" said Grandma and knelt down again.
Tuchen hurriedly stopped her again, frowned and asked, "Grandma, do you know me? and Lingxi, how did you know me?"
Grandma was also slightly surprised, stabilized her excited emotions and continued to explain: "Doctor, you forgot, there was a plague in Yangcheng half a year ago, and it was you and Miss Lingxi who saved my son's life. It's just that...... It's just that my son's life is too soft, and in the end he still met with this catastrophe......" she cried again.
Mao Hu put away the exorcism cone in his hand and stroked the thick beard on his chest: "I said old lady, can we explain the matter before crying, you have two big iron pots in this courtyard, and you are holding a human bone in your arms, what's the situation?"
Grandma didn't stop crying, and it could be seen that this sadness had been suppressed for a long time, and it was only now fully exploded. She lifted the leg bone of the person in her arms and pointed to the iron bone in the distance, sobbing and saying three words: "Soul Soup" and then closed her eyes and fainted.
Mo Erha leaned in and swallowed: "This grandma...... No...... It won't be ...... Dead, right?"
Tuchen sighed and shook his head slightly: "It's just that I've fainted because of the sadness, and it's good to rest tomorrow morning." This grandma has no demonic energy on her body, and there is no black lotus mark on the back of her neck, so she is indeed not a demon. It seems that there are other demons hiding in Yang City to do evil!"
"The analysis is indeed correct, but this old lady can't be completely out of suspicion!" Mao Hu walked into the room and walked around, covered his nose and walked out again: "Normal people don't hide so many dead people's bones at home, she can't run anyway, let's go back for the time being, and make a decision after discussing with Master Li tomorrow!"
Investigating all the way to Grandma, all the clues are broken, and no one else has a better way. So I had to carry Grandma into the house and settle down, and then left Grandma's room and returned to the inn.
The next day, because the night before climbed over the wall to mobilize the true qi, Zi Ning's old injuries were somewhat aggravated, so he had to stay in the inn to recuperate. Mo Erha's two eyes have never left Zining, so naturally he wants to stay with him desperately. In desperation, Tuchen had no choice but to visit Li Yan with Mao Hu.
Entering the house, Mao Hu went straight to the point: "I followed the old lady last night, she walked through most of the streets of the city in the middle of the night, although nothing happened, but her appearance was very suspicious. In addition, there are two large iron pots in her grandmother's workshop, and the cauldron is boiling the soul soup with human bones!"
After hearing this, Li Yan immediately slapped on the table, and said angrily: "I have long felt that the grandma is not quite right, it turns out that the missing people in the past few months have been divided and hidden by her, it is really vicious!
After that, he got up and waved his long sleeves: "Come on, quickly arrest Grandma Li from Grandma's Workshop, and at the same time thoroughly search Grandma's Workshop!"
Recalling the excited look of the grandmother when she saw her yesterday, Tuchen still felt that something was a little strange, and was about to continue to elaborate, but was stopped by Li Yan: "After a hard investigation last night, the two must be very tired, and Li once again thanked the two for the people of Yangcheng." After Grandma Li is arrested and brought to justice, I will hold a trial, and the two of you can rest assured that you can go back and rest, your health is important!"
Since Li Yan had already said this, Tuchen had no choice but to swallow back the words that had reached his throat and left the official mansion with Mao Hu.
On the way back to the inn, Tuchen was silent, always feeling as if something was not quite right. Mao Hu also frowned unusually quietly, walking through a street, he suddenly stopped, stared at Tuchen with round eyes: "Just now, I didn't seem to say that there were corpse parts hidden in Grandma Li's house, how did Li Yan know!?"