Chapter 59: Beyond Common Sense
The news that the Taoist follower had broken through to the fourth stage spread like wildfire, and when Chen Xuan found out, he showed an expression of astonishment.
Watching the Taoist immortal's shadow appear again in the video and influence thousands of people to become Taoist believers, he realized that this was another huge disaster and thousands of people were heading for death.
This also indirectly reflects the correctness of Chen Xuan's plan. It is the "recapture" plan that greatly reduces the threat of the "Taoist Immortal Phantom". Otherwise, once the Taoist believers step into the "Taoist Immortal Phantom" stage, the entire city will fall.
Although the news is sad, as mentioned before, the dead cannot be resurrected, and the living continue to move forward. This is the only solution in this world. Chen Xuan only hopes that the thousands of people who died were the last bloom of Taoist immortals.
As the days passed, the Pen Fairy incident and the Taoist Fairy incident became the most concerned issues for the people of Xia Country. At the same time, various cities were secretly conducting experiments to fight against "evil spirits".
All cities are working hard to compete for the position of preacher, to increase their weight in the fight against evil spirits, and to gain real power.
But why is it done secretly... Because most of these experiments cannot be seen in public.
Tang City alone has violated ethics and humanity.
Zhang Qifeng was determined to make money from the Pen Fairy, and he kept recruiting the Pen Fairy's victims and various volunteers to join his experiments.
They are called volunteers, but most of them are death row prisoners.
From organ transplants to limb transplants, Zhang Qifeng has transplanted all the transplantable parts of the Pen Fairy's body. His obsession with human experiments may be related to his being a biologist.
The experiments in other cities also all use the method of ghost fighting ghost to study. The specific content is difficult to know before the results are confirmed.
As for Chen Xuan, he also had his own ideas.
He believes that there must be a current solution at this stage, which will be handed over to the research institute in the future. As a police officer, he must first have the ability to stop the damage to the situation.
To date, he is still constantly researching the solutions of Pen Fairy and Taoist Fairy, hoping to find a way to completely stop the deaths and turn the increase into stock. For this purpose, he has almost taken root in the laboratory and continued to study related content.
Chen Xuan also often chatted with Zhang Qifeng about the progress of various cities. For example, Bincheng, which they had passed by before, allowed Chen Xuan and Zhang Qifeng to chat at length.
Chen Xuan was very surprised by the peculiar appearance of the people inside. He didn't expect that the people in a city would be so weird, with hairy bodies, bent arms, and empty eye sockets.
But they did not realize the strangeness of this matter at all. Instead, they talked about it with relish. It seemed that common sense was completely distorted as soon as Bincheng was discussed.
Taoist immortals and pen immortals became Bincheng's best cover.
At this moment, there is only a young policewoman who is still struggling between clarity and decadence.
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At Bincheng Police Station, Lu Xin is sorting out files.
It was the third day after Zhang Ruliang’s death.
Although the murderer has not been caught yet, there are too many cases in the world where the murderer cannot be found, especially random murders like this, where there is no clue at all.
It is possible that the murderer simply came out to take revenge on society because all his family members had died. He had no clear motive and it had nothing to do with social connections. Moreover, the number of deaths nowadays is really too high. It is even possible that the murderer had died at the hands of Taoist believers.
They still have to save the living first, and seek justice for the dead after things calm down.
Lu Xin sighed. She felt that she had been having nightmares recently, but after waking up, she remembered nothing. Only the confusion was still lingering in her heart.
She has been very busy recently, but she is always busy with some unimportant cases.
She sighed again, thinking that maybe she should get back on track...
Lu Xin shook her head, hoping to get rid of the discord in her head, but the next moment, her name was called.
"Officer Lu!!"
An old voice came, Lu Xin looked up and was stunned.
The man in front of him was hunched over, his whole body lying on the ground. His body was covered with black hair, and his limbs were twisted strangely, but finally returned to the ground to support him. He crawled into the room stiffly, his hair shaking, and a dog's face was revealed among the thick hair.
It really was a dog's face, his mouth was open, his tongue was spitting out rough breaths, and his old eyes raised their heads and stared blankly at Lu Xin.
And Lu Xin was stunned, thinking wrongly for a moment——
Is this a human or a dog?
"Officer Lu!!"
"Help me."
The old voice came out of the dog's mouth again, and Lu Xin realized that the person in front of her was a human. She immediately felt sorry for her prejudice. She actually thought that the human was a dog. This was too contrary to the qualities of a police officer.
"Hello, sir, how can I help you?"
Lu Xin continued, picked up a pen and wanted to take notes.
But what the gentleman said next turned Lu Xin's life upside down.
The old voice echoed in Lu Xin's ears, like a memory engraved in Lu Xin's mind.
"Officer Lu, this is our fifth meeting."
"You still don't remember it now, so I can only tell you from the beginning—"
"I saw a ghost."
Lu Xin frowned, writing down words that she found difficult to understand on the notebook in her hand, then looked at the man on the ground and wanted to speak, but was interrupted by the man.
"Please listen to me first. We don't have much time. I will prove what I said in the end. Before that, please listen to our experience first."
The man spoke, and a hint of despair spread between the two of them:
"At first, you thought I was being bewitched by religion, but later, we tried various methods to eliminate the influence of the photos."
"PS, fake the scene, do nothing, be alert to possible danger, or even... kill me."
"We've all done it."
The man's voice gradually faded. He sighed many times before saying a word. Finally, he collapsed and said:
" Honestly , even I have given up. Maybe no one can save me."
"I don't think there's anything else you can do."
"I was ready to commit suicide."
"But yesterday, at the moment of final failure, you asked me to come to you one last time."
"Yesterday you said you had figured out a solution, and then you said... today you will know how to do it."
"Let me trust you again."
Lu Xin put down the pen in her hand. There was no need to record anything at the moment. Everything the man said made her confused and she had no idea where to start .
"But...how can I trust you?"
"If it's as you said, did I teach you yesterday how to verify what you said?"
The man paused, his eyes uncertain, but he still said:
"have."
"But it's not a very good method. You tried leaving scars on your body, but soon your cognition would change and you wouldn't think it was strange. You also tried setting up codes and telling me your childhood secrets, but nothing worked. It's as if you think I should know these things."
"Finally you taught me another method."
"That's blackmailing you."
Lu Xin pointed at himself and said doubtfully:
"Blackmail... me?"
The man nodded his head:
"That's right."
"Let me tell you..."
"You are a police officer, and I am the people. As a police officer, you must believe that the people are suffering. If there is even a slight possibility that I am true, you must verify it."
"So, do you believe me now?"
Lu Xin was stunned, her eyes flickering as she listened to these words.
After a long moment, she sighed and nodded heavily.
"I see."
"Let's go. I can't help but trust you."
