Chapter 73: First Blood

Watching Feng Tianning's back disappear inside, Fu Ruxuan gritted her teeth and followed.

When the other agents saw someone go in, they also walked into Fengmen Village one after another.

"Brother Ying, we..."

He Ying looked a little unhappy and walked in without saying a word.

Damn it, that woman is really haunting me. It’s bad enough that she embarrassed him in the car, but now she’s trying to steal his limelight.

The scene inside the village was similar to the dilapidated one outside, except that the resentment was stronger.

The old locust tree at the entrance of the village had long since died, and the rotten beams were exposed where the tiles had fallen, with several broken rafters slanting into the cracks in the wall.

Feng Tianning walked to a thatched house on the right side of the front. The copper ring on the door was covered with rusty green copper. There were countless cracks in the door panel, which made intermittent creaking sounds in the wind, like the laughter of some animal.

"Tianning!" Fu Ruxuan's voice sounded behind her.

Just as Feng Tianning was about to turn around, she felt a surge of resentment rapidly approaching her.

She rarely resisted and let the resentment hit her.

Sure enough, the moment she touched Feng Tianning's body, the resentment was sucked into her body.

Feeling that there seemed to be an extra spiritual energy in her dantian, Feng Tianning smiled with satisfaction. It seemed that her guess was correct.

Although she cannot absorb spiritual energy from the heaven and earth now, she can transform resentment into spiritual energy.

Feng Tianning turned around and saw an evil spirit with half of its head dragging on the ground staggering towards him, calling "Tianning" in Fu Ruxuan's voice.

The scene was so weird that Feng Tianning couldn't help but shudder. He used the spiritual energy he had just transformed and struck out with a palm.

The evil spirit seemed to want to dodge, but its movements were extremely slow, and it was knocked to the ground by Feng Tianning before it took two steps.

A shrill scream instantly resounded throughout Fengmen Village, and the evil spirit turned into black smoke.

The watch vibrated, and the original 0 became 1.

Feng Tianning was speechless. Aren't the evil spirits in Fengmen Village said to be very powerful? Why do they all seem... quite stupid?

The other detectives of the special case team also heard the screams of the evil spirit and hurried to where Feng Tianning was.

Seeing her standing here safe and sound, they were already filled with shock. The assessment had just begun, so how could this woman have killed an evil spirit?

"Tianning, are you hurt?" Fu Ruxuan hurried to Feng Tianning.

She finally understood that Feng Tianning was the hidden boss, and she was being foolish to think of protecting Feng's family.

This time she must hold Feng Tianning's thighs tightly.

Looking at the words above Fu Ruxuan's head, Feng Tianning smiled at her soothingly.

"Okay, everyone, let's go find the evil spirit."

"After all, there are more monks than porridge here. Don't let it all be snatched away by one person." He Ying looked at Feng Tianning meaningfully.

"you……"

Fu Ruxuan was about to refute when Feng Tianning stopped her. Seeing her shaking her head at him, he had no choice but to give up.

The Feng family is good in every way except that they are too soft-hearted and easily bullied.

After hearing what He Ying said, everyone felt a sense of crisis and hurriedly scattered to look for the evil spirit.

He Ying walked to Feng Tianning and whispered viciously in her ear:

"We'll see."

Seeing He Ying leave, Fu Ruxuan looked at Feng Tianning with a look of disappointment:

"Tianning, why don't you fight back?"

"I don't even bother to argue with a child." Feng Tianning smiled faintly, and looked towards the depths of Fengmen Village with a complicated expression:

"What He Ying said just now about too many monks and too little porridge is wrong. There are at least several thousand evil spirits here, and they are all very powerful."

"How many thousands?" Fu Ruxuan raised her voice unconsciously.

There are less than fifty trainee detectives here. If these evil spirits attack us en masse...

Fu Ruxuan didn't dare to think about it, as if she had already seen them becoming food for evil spirits.

"Don't worry. Since the special case team dared to let us in, they must have a backup plan."

"It's only seven days, the casualties shouldn't be too great."

Fu Ruxuan looked at her with tears in her eyes. It would be better not to comfort her. After hearing Feng Tianning's words, she felt that these seven days would be even more difficult.

"Come on, let's go in and take a look."

Feng Tianning didn't notice Fu Ruxuan's fearless expression, and put his hand on the door knocker but paused.

"What's wrong?" Fu Ruxuan looked at her with some confusion.

Feng Tianning was stunned not for anything else, but because Xiaobao suddenly spoke.

Xiaobao said that there was an evil spirit attached to the iron ring on the door, and the door could only be opened by knocking the correct number of times. No matter whether you knocked more or less, the door would be devoured by the evil spirit.

Feng Tianning glanced at Fu Ruxuan thoughtfully and said:

"Should we kill the evil spirits?"

"Ah?" Fu Ruxuan was a little confused.

After listening to Feng Tianning's explanation, her expression became serious.

"kill."

Fu Ruxuan secretly felt lucky that she had followed the right person, but this was a bit too exciting. Before she could even react, the action started.

Feng Tianning lifted the iron ring and knocked it more than ten times without stopping.

"Tian Ning, the way you knock is probably enough to knock the evil spirit inside unconscious."

Feng Tianning touched her nose awkwardly. She didn't know how many times to knock, so she just knocked more, hoping to knock out the evil spirit inside.

Sure enough, the iron ring on the door suddenly spun rapidly, and a distorted human face could be vaguely seen.

When the human face saw them, it was as if it saw something delicious. It stretched its neck and rushed towards Feng Tianning's face.

Feng Tianning dodged and signaled Fu Ruxuan to take action.

Fu Ruxuan did not hesitate. She took out a long whip in her hand and swung it down, and the air seemed to be broken.

The evil spirit could only stay on the iron ring, with no way to escape. It took the whip head-on and turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared before it could even scream.

Fu Ruxuan's watch also vibrated twice, and the number turned into 1.

"Let's go."

Feng Tianning walked forward and opened the door. The dust inside instantly flew up and made them cough uncontrollably.

Besides a bed and a table, there was only a bamboo chair in the room.

"Tianning." Fu Ruxuan pointed to the bamboo chair in the middle of the room.

Feng Tianning looked in the direction she pointed, and found that the bamboo chair was shaking by itself, as if it had noticed their gazes, and the shaking was getting stronger and stronger.

It looks like... someone is sitting on it and it's shaking, and the swinging range is definitely enough for more than one person to sit on it.

"The Records of Strange Instruments in Southern Fujian" records that during the Qing Dynasty, bamboo craftsmen in Zhangzhou used bitter bamboo from cemeteries to make chairs. These bamboo rocking chairs would rock on their own, and the spirits of those who had died unjustly were attached to them."

"There are only three sources of this kind of evil spirits: one is that the objects have been in contact with corpse qi for a long time; the second is that filthy things were mixed into the materials during the production process; and the third is that the dead died unjustly on the bamboo furniture.

The "Zhenwu Pu" (Paragraph of Treasures) handed down by the Daoist priests of Guangxi also records that if a bamboo chair creaks for no reason and there is no wind, human-shaped sweat stains appear on the chair surface, and scarlet juice oozes from the bamboo joints, it is a bad omen.

Feng Tianning walked closer to the bamboo chair and saw that there were indeed sweat stains on it, which formed a human shape, and there were also some red bloodstains on the bamboo backrest.