Volume 1 Chapter 8 Investigation
Liu Kun turned on the flashlight and ran over. I was surprised to see that there was no trace of Shen Bing among the group of people. My little white flag had not returned yet. Where had they gone? Even if Shen Bing was killed by the living corpse, there should be a body left behind, and it would not leave this cemetery.
I thought of this and hurriedly ran to the depths of the cemetery. It was pitch black at night, and it was Ghost Festival tonight. It was not even three o'clock yet, and there was still some time before the ghosts were collected. Therefore, no matter how brave a person was, he would not dare to come here. After what happened just now, I was also scared. This was different from my shop, where there were magic tools to exorcise ghosts. The ghosts themselves came for requests, just like my grandson, but in the cemetery, it was their territory.
Wisps of black air, emitting a chilly aura, rose up everywhere, as if they were about to surround me. I hurriedly unbuttoned my clothes, revealing the ghostly peach wood sign, and shouted, "Ghostly people, all ghosts stay away!" This is a phrase handed down from our shop, similar to the ancient escort agency's shouting of "trips", and both the black and white people would give face and stay away.
The black gas then dissipated to the sides and gradually disappeared into the graves.
I turned around and looked around. I saw a small white flag flying on a grave. I ran over and saw Shen Bing fainted on the grave, motionless. I checked her breath first and found it was even, so I was relieved. Ermao slipped out of the flag, revealing a pale ghost face.
"This is my family's ancestral tomb. If it weren't for my ancestors' hard work in protecting this elder sister, I'm afraid she would have died."
"It's okay now. I've dealt with the ghost." I nodded. I could tell without him telling me that this was their ancestral grave, otherwise this kid wouldn't be so bold as to stick a flag on someone else's grave.
"There are two." Ermao said with his eyes wide open, "There was one here just now, but it ran away when you came."
I was stunned. There were actually two of them. Come to think of it, it was impossible for a living corpse to be pregnant with an egg corpse. If it was pregnant, it would be a human fetus. Only a ghost with spiritual energy could breed an egg corpse. I picked up Shen Bing and looked at the police who were still chattering in the distance. I thought that judging from the situation tonight, the evil ghost was coming for Shen Bing. If I handed her over to the police station, I'm afraid it would cause trouble.
Thinking of this, I said to Ermao, "We'll go back to the store. Your ancestors have worked hard this time, so I'll give them some Yin-boosting pills someday." Ermao immediately rolled back to the Little White Flag happily. Yin-boosting pills are medicines for nourishing the Yin fetus, just like the aphrodisiac medicines in our world. People with weak Yin fetuses often have their teeth pulled out because of taking this medicine. I'm giving it to their ancestors for free, so of course he's happy.
When I walked back to the town, it was already three o'clock in the morning. A group of black air came towards me and went west. The Ghost Festival ended here, and a large number of ghosts were taken back to the underworld by the steward. I thought to myself that I didn't need to go to the store and just went home, because I still had a ghost tooth that needed to be processed. If I delayed in the store, I was afraid that a ghost tooth would be wasted.
I got home at three o'clock. My mother was still sleeping. No matter how loud I made noise, she would not wake up. This was a habit that my father had developed since then. I threw Shen Bing on the bed and took out the alchemy furnace, which was passed down from my great-grandfather. The whole copper furnace was antique and covered with copper rust.
Open the lid and put the ghost tooth in, then pour the potion and burn it with charcoal underneath.
While fanning myself, I called Ermao out and asked him why they had ended up in the cemetery. Ermao said that I had told him to protect Shen Bing, and he flew out of the house and headed straight for the meeting room. As a result, everyone had already run to the yard, busy looking for the murderer who had killed Old Zhang. Suddenly, a beautiful woman came in, holding a bundle of spirit banners and waving them in front of everyone. They all followed her as if they had lost their souls.
Ermao followed behind to watch the fun. When they left the police station, a female ghost appeared and took the corpse of Old Zhang to the outside of the door to block the way. Ermao knew that something was wrong, so he covered Shen Bing's eyes with a small white flag to wake her up. At this time, the female ghost was about to kill her, and Ermao barely blocked her, saving her life. However, when Shen Bing saw the female ghost and Ermao's faces, she was so scared that she ran away. She ran into the cemetery for some unknown reason, and encountered wild ghosts wandering around, and immediately fainted.
Then Ermao brought out his ancestors to help him deal with the ghost. Soon, the beautiful woman, the living corpse, arrived with a large number of police officers and was about to join the battle. Fortunately, I came, otherwise, his ancestral grave might not be saved. The living corpse and the female ghost whispered to each other, and the two separated. One went to the graveyard to stop me, and the other continued to entangle with Ermao's ancestors.
After listening to Ermao's narration, I thought that my guess was right. The evil ghost was coming for Shen Bing. Maybe they came across the secret of raising corpses on the way from the provincial capital, so they were chased all the way to Shangcheng Town.
About half an hour later, Shen Bing coughed a few times, got up from my bed in a daze, fanned her nose with her hand, frowned and complained: "Why are you lighting the stove in the middle of the night? It choked people to death."
"If you feel choked, go out and remember to close the door." I turned around and said to her.
"Where is this? You're chasing me away. Is this your home?" She raised her head and looked around.
"Nonsense, is it my house or yours?" I said angrily.
"What's so great about your family? How can you talk to a beautiful woman like that?" She jumped out of the bed, gave me a stern look, put on her shoes and was about to go out.
"No thanks." I continued to fan the fire with my head down.
As soon as she opened the door, she probably remembered what happened before she fainted, and she uttered a "uh" in fear, then shrank back and closed the door. Her high heels made a crisp sound of "click, click", and she ran back to the bed.
"Why don't you leave?" I asked.
"I, I'd love to."
Hey, she is quite stubborn and doesn’t care who she is talking to or whose house she is in.
"Comrade police officer, this is a private residence, not a police station. If you want to show off your power, go find your subordinates. I won't buy it. Besides, it's very late, and we are a single man and a woman in the same room. If any gossip gets out, even if you can bear it, I can't. I advise you to go back to the police station first. They are looking for you all over the world." I said, trying not to laugh.
Shen Bing looked out the window. It was still dark. Fear flickered in her eyes. It was obvious that she was scared and didn't dare to go to the police station alone. She patted herself again and muttered that her phone was missing. I was just watching coldly, thinking, let's see how you perform next?
"How about...how about you take me there, and then you don't have to gossip about it."
I almost fainted. She was really thinking about me. I tried to hold back my laughter and said to the stove, "Why should I send you off? I'm not your boyfriend."
"Bah, you're trying to take advantage of me, aren't you?" Shen Bing put her hands on her hips, her eyebrows raised in anger, "By the way, it seems that you haven't finished recording your testimony as an eyewitness at the scene, who released you? Come back to the police station with me quickly and obediently."
She is not completely stupid. She actually thought of this. So I am considered to have fled for fear of being punished. Damn it.
I put down the fan, looked back at her and said, "No one released me. I ran away from the police station by myself. If I hadn't run away in time, you would probably have lost your life."
"Like this." Shen Bing wilted when she heard this, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. My cell phone is on the table. If you need just get it. If you want to go back to the police station, I won't have time to take you there until daybreak." I continued to fan the fire with the fan.
Shen Bing ran to the table and dialed 110 with my cell phone , saying that a man named Xi Feng from the town had rescued her and was now in a safe place and would return to the police station at daybreak.
After she finished the call, I joked, "You look like a female ghost. You weren't in the interrogation room, so how do you know my name?"
Shen Bing's face immediately turned pale with fear, and she said with her beautiful eyes wide open, "Stop talking about ghosts, okay?"
"It's okay if you don't mention it. Just tell me, why are you looking for me here?" I turned around and stared at her and asked.
Shen Bing looked at me strangely for a long time, then shook her head and sighed, "You are too smart. Nothing can be hidden from your eyes. It's a waste for you not to be a police officer."
"I'm afraid that if you become my partner, I won't even know how I died."
"I won't argue with you, but I can't beat you." Shen Bing pouted her lips, which were red and cute, making me want to kiss her. "We are here for a murder case. The deceased was an antique dealer. His death was very strange, and several black pearls disappeared from his hands after his death. We initially determined that the murderer was a robber. After our multi-faceted investigation, we found that these black pearls were supplied by you, so we rushed here overnight."
"Do you suspect that I sold him the black pearl, then killed him and took it back?" I asked with a sneer.
Shen Bing stared at me for a long time before saying, "No, we just want to know where your black pearls came from."
Judging from her tone, she hadn't said it all yet. This case must be more complicated than she said. The victim lost the black pearls, so we should investigate the murderer, not the source? Even if it was to find clues, tracking down the murderer was the top priority. After traveling hundreds of kilometers to another place, the source of the pearls undoubtedly became the top priority.
I thought about it. My identity and the fact that I was selling black pearls were exposed. I couldn't hide it anymore. Besides, I didn't do anything that was against the law. I might as well tell her the truth. I pointed at the stove and said, "This is the source of black pearls."
Shen Bing leaned over, and I opened the stove cover, and a strange medicinal aroma wafted out. She frowned as she looked at the dark, sticky liquid inside and asked, "What is this?"
I closed the furnace lid, took out a large jar from the cabinet and said, "This is full of raw materials for black pearls. Together with what's in the furnace, a total of eighty-seven ghost teeth are used. If I add thirteen more, I can make a black pearl."
