Chapter 30: Thirty Days After Retiring from the Circle - Sang - Hiding His Achievements and Fame - Qiqi. ...
Before today, Tongxuan had also guessed Sang Qiqi's identity.
When Qiao Tianyi heard Sang Qiqi tamper with the surveillance footage, his first reaction was that Sang Qiqi was some kind of official, and that the footage had been altered. After all, he had heard that some Taoist temples and sects collaborated with the authorities to specifically handle incidents caused by non-humans.
It was precisely because of this speculation that he ran so fast.
Officials generally don't act alone; Sang Qiqi definitely has helpers behind her. And if he goes it alone, even if he can take down Sang Qiqi, he won't necessarily be able to escape the encirclement and suppression of Sang Qiqi's team.
But the current situation overturned all his previous speculations.
"You are not a human!"
Only evil spirits can easily possess human bodies.
But why would Sang Qiqi, an evil ghost, help Fu Rui and why would she repeatedly ruin his plans!
Sang Qiqi scratched her ears, then remembered that she was still forcibly possessed in Tongxuan's body. She raised an eyebrow at Tongxuan and asked with a smile, "Are you surprised?"
The fingers moved back to the neck, and this simple action made Tongxuan's eyes burst into tears.
No, no, nothing must happen to his body!
If his body loses vital signs at this moment, even if his soul returns to his body, it will be of no use. He will not be able to use the talisman paper at that time, and will have no power to fight back when facing Sang Qiqi. He can only run away and become Sang Qiqi's food.
But his body was occupied by Sang Qiqi, and Tongxuan couldn't think of any way to stop her.
He gritted his teeth, his sight suddenly catching sight of a slightly portly figure peeking out from the quiet room. Without a second thought, Tongxuan immediately flew towards it. Unfortunately, just as he reached Xujing, who was observing from the shadows, a black cat suddenly leaped down from the rooftop. Its slender body instantly expanded countless times, transforming into a majestic tiger, and it roared loudly at Tongxuan.
The roaring wind blew the unsuspecting Tongxuan dozens of meters away, and frightened Xujing so much that he stepped back and fell to the ground.
It took Tongxuan several seconds to recover from the loud noise. He touched his ears, which were still buzzing, and a slight stinging pain spread from his ears, nose, and head. But he had no time to care too much at the moment. He endured the splitting headache and nausea, turned around and ran deeper into Anqing Mountain.
Unfortunately, before he could run two steps, a crow fell from the sky, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, and threw him back in front of Sang Qiqi.
Sang Qiqi lowered her eyes to see him curled up on the ground, trembling all over, and blinked: "My performance hasn't even started yet, why are you running?"
Why are you running?
How dare she ask such a question!
My body is controlled by Sang Qiqi, and I can't escape. Is my soul also staying here to die?
Tong Xuan clutched his palm tightly, the hatred in his eyes like a raging fire, wishing to burn Sang Qiqi to ashes. Unfortunately, no matter how deep the hatred was, it was useless in the face of absolute power suppression.
Sang Qiqi looked down at the body and said with a smile, "I suddenly feel that breaking the neck directly is boring. How about we try something else first? How about I ask you a question and you answer it?"
Although it was a question, Sang Qiqi didn't give Tong Xuan a chance to refuse and spoke directly: "Which part of your body are you most satisfied with? Your hands? Your feet? Or your face?"
What a weird question!
Tongxuan cursed in his heart, is he an idiot for asking such an idiotic question at a time like this?
He lowered his head, refused to answer, and only thought about how to escape from this tight encirclement.
Seeing Tong Xuan remained silent, Sang Qiqi sighed softly and turned her gaze to the black cat that had transformed into a vicious tiger. The tiger growled softly and opened its abyssal maw to bite down on Tong Xuan's calf.
The moment the sharp teeth touched the calf, an extremely crisp sound of bone cracking was heard, and Tongxuan let out a heart-wrenching scream. The intense pain made him break out in cold sweat, and his whole body trembled wildly.
Sang Qiqi asked him again: "Which part of your body are you most satisfied with?"
Crazy woman, Sang Qiqi is a crazy woman!
Tongxuan howled inwardly and replied through gritted teeth: "Legs, legs!"
OK.
Sang Qiqi nodded, casually picked up the broom beside her, and immediately with a bang, the broom handle hit her knee. The sound was duller than the sound of the tiger biting off her leg bones just now, but the effect was the same -
Tongxuan staggered and knelt on one knee.
Sang Qiqi asked again, "Who is the second most satisfied one?"
Because the body and soul were separated, the physical pain could no longer affect the soul, but the voice still frightened Tongxuan's soul and made it tremble. He stared at Sang Qiqi in astonishment, as if he couldn't believe that she could be so bad.
She didn't think about killing him, but about torturing his body!
"Why do you look so surprised? I just did what you did to others." Sang Qiqi still had that impeccable sweet smile on her face as she urged, "Answer quickly."
But Tongxuan, who already knew Sang Qiqi's malicious intentions, chose to keep his mouth shut again.
Sang Qiqi: “…”
She hooked her finger, and the tiger bit her again.
So Tongxuan could only spit out another part in a cold sweat, and then it was broken by Sang Qiqi again.
This cycle continued for nearly ten minutes, and Sang Qiqi finally had her fill of fun, emerging from Tongxuan's body. As she left, Tongxuan's body collapsed to the ground, unable to support itself. At the same moment, Sang Qiqi approached Tongxuan's soul, picked up the paralyzed Tongxuan, and roughly and forcefully stuffed him back into her body.
The pain in his soul and body overlapped, causing Tongxuan so much pain that he could hardly make a sound.
Sang Qiqi didn't look at him again, but turned her gaze to the other quiet rooms.
The Taoist priests who had watched the entire horrific process suddenly retreated when they noticed Sang Qiqi looking at them, their eyes filled with fear and anxiety.
Sang Qiqi smiled at them: "Sorry, I didn't mute myself properly, so everyone just pretend you didn't see or hear anything, okay?"
The gentler the tone of the last two words, the more scared Xu Jing and his group were.
After all, that was how she spoke to Tongxuan just now.
Although he was smiling gently, he broke Tongxuan's limbs without changing his expression. He was indifferent to Tongxuan's painful groans and even smiled more brightly.
She's just like a female devil!
During the silence, Xuan Mingzi, the abbot of Lingzhen Temple, stepped forward, bowed to Sang Qiqi, and said, "Fellow believer, could you please tell me what exactly Tongchen has done wrong?"
Sang Qiqi pointed at the Taoist priest who was barely breathing on the ground and explained simply, "His original Taoist name was Tongxuan, and he came from the Chengjiang Yunhe Temple."
Hearing the words "Chengjiang Yunhe Temple", everyone present's expression suddenly changed.
Thanks to Shouyi's constant chatter, they all knew that five bodies had been unearthed in the backyard of Yunhe Temple. Rumors suggested that these five bodies belonged to five former Taoist priests of Yunhe Temple, murdered for unknown reasons and buried in the backyard. Netizens speculated that the murderer was Tongxuan, the later abbot of Yunhe Temple.
Now Tongxuan has fled for fear of crime and has not been caught by the police yet.
It turned out that he had changed his name and was hiding in their Taoist temple!
Xiyi suddenly recalled what Shouyi mentioned, that the scriptures recited by Uncle Tongchen were different from theirs, and he also remembered Tongchen's gloomy and meaningful eyes during the day. He seemed to have thought of something, his heart tightened, and his gaze suddenly turned to Shouyi's quiet room.
Without caring about anything else, he rushed in and saw Shouyi huddled in the corner of the bed, covering his neck pitifully.
Seeing him coming, she burst into tears with grievance: "Senior Brother."
The other Taoists noticed Xiyi's reaction and finally realized why Shouyi hadn't appeared despite all the commotion. Obviously, according to Shouyi's personality, he loved to join in the fun.
Several Taoists rushed into the quiet room. Shouyi cried out to his uncle with tears in his eyes, looking extremely pitiful: "It hurts so much, uncle, I was almost strangled to death..."
Xu Jing had just witnessed Sang Qiqi scolding Tongxuan, and now, seeing the marks on Shouyi's body, her fingers trembled as she raised them. She touched his neck distressedly and quickly soothed him, "It's okay, it's okay. I'll let you play on your phone for an extra hour tomorrow."
Shouyi's eyes lit up, and he ignored the pain in his body and asked in a loud voice, "Really?"
Xu Jing nodded repeatedly: "Really, really."
Xiyi: “…”
It seems that everything is fine.
He turned and looked outside the door. Master Xuan Mingzi and Sang Qiqi were still standing face to face. They seemed to have said something. Xuan Mingzi bowed again, and then Sang Qiqi dragged Tongxuan, who was covered in mud, away without looking back.
More than ten minutes later, at the gate of Chengjiang Public Security Bureau.
The police officer on duty lowered his head to sort out the documents in his hands. When he was about to complain to his colleague and buy a cup of coffee to sober up, a loud "bang" suddenly rang in his ears, scaring him so much that he was stunned.
He murmured, "Earthquake?"
"It doesn't seem so." The colleague frowned and looked outside the glass door. He could vaguely see a shadow under the dim light.
"What is this?"
"It seems to be moving, like a person."
The two exchanged glances, their expressions becoming exceedingly serious. They strode toward the edge of the shadows, only to find the other man huddled in a ball, his face facing the ground, his back arched and trembling. A pained, yet weak, sound emanated from his throat, his arms swung backwards in a strange position behind his back.
The bizarre scene made the two policemen gasp on the spot.
"Hurry, hurry, notify Captain Kang and the others! I'll call the hospital."
Lao Kang, captain of the Chengjiang Public Security Bureau's Criminal Investigation Detachment, is responsible for the Yunhe Temple five-person homicide case. The case was surprisingly easy to solve, as all clues pointed to a Taoist priest named Tongxuan who had resided at Yunhe Temple for the past two years. However, Lao Kang was frustrated by the fact that despite checking all surveillance cameras near Yunhe Temple and questioning passersby, they still couldn't find any trace of Tongxuan.
He disappeared without a trace.
"Could this guy be invisible?" A team member rubbed his swollen temples angrily, wailing in despair. "It's been so many days! Is the deadline we were given almost here? Help! I'm practically blind and I can't find him on the surveillance camera!"
"Two more days." Lao Kang picked up the cigarette box and took out a cigarette to wake himself up.
The comrades in the criminal investigation team have been working tirelessly these past few days. Besides visiting people outside, they've been huddled in their offices. Some have back pain, some have cervical spondylosis, and there are a few with frozen shoulders. There's a room full of disabled patients. But even so, the search for the missing person remains at zero progress.
This also left Lao Kang puzzled.
How could this person suddenly disappear?
Yunhe Temple is on the mountainside. Could he be hiding in the mountains? But there have been many people searching for Tongxuan in the mountains these past two days. They have searched almost the entire mountain but haven't seen anyone.
There is also one thing that makes Lao Kang feel weird and unreasonable -
The timing of Tongxuan's disappearance is so strange.
According to the information received, Yunhe Temple had been closed for several days before the heavy rain. This meant that Tongxuan had fled first, and the five corpses were discovered only later. If Tongxuan hadn't fled, even if the rain had been severe, he would have had time to clean up the scene and cover up all his crimes.
Is Tongxuan...prescient? Or has he offended someone?
He took a deep drag on his cigarette, writing something on paper with a pen in his hand. After a while, he heard hurried and heavy footsteps coming from outside. The figure of the police officer on duty appeared at the door of the Criminal Investigation Office, knocked hard, and pointed outside and said, "Captain Kang, there's a man who was beaten half to death and was left at the door of our Public Security Bureau."
Beaten half to death?
And left it at the door of their public security bureau?
Isn't this a blatant provocation?!
Lao Kang immediately stood up, put out the half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray, and ran towards the door with big strides.
Several uniformed policemen had gathered outside the door. Seeing Lao Kang approaching, they stood up and greeted him. One of them said, "Captain Kang, we're checking the surveillance footage."
"Okay." Lao Kang nodded and asked casually, "The ambulance was called——"
Yeah.
The last word caught in his throat, Lao Kang's hand still pausing to push the head away from the ground. His gaze was fixed on the face before him. Although the expression was ferocious and there were many bloodstains on the face, the familiar features were clearly Tongxuan, the man they had been searching for for the past two days!
The others also obviously recognized Tong Xuan, and their breathing suddenly became heavy:
"Fuck, why is it him!"
The person they had spent countless hours and efforts to find inexplicably appeared at the gate of their Public Security Bureau that very night!
At this moment, while everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a bigger question arose:
Who did it?
Who beat Tongxuan like this?
Who threw Tongxuan over here?
"Captain Kang! Captain Lin!" Someone hurried over from the direction of the monitoring room, their loud voice interrupting everyone's speculation. Old Kang and the others turned their heads to see the young man nervously saying, "The surveillance didn't detect anyone else. This person must have suddenly fallen from the sky."
Falling from the sky? Still haven't found the person?!
Countless questions filled his mind. Just then, the ambulance arrived. Lao Kang raised his chin to signal Team Lin. Team Lin gave him an OK sign and followed the ambulance with a few others to the hospital. Lao Kang then headed for the monitoring room. Passing by the office, he saw his companions still desperately staring, trying to find any trace of Tongxuan. He quickly knocked on the door and shouted, "Rest. Tongxuan has been found."
What!
The policemen, who were originally groggy, suddenly shuddered, as if a stream of fresh water was injected into their bodies, and they became awake in an instant.
Several people looked at each other, pushed their chairs aside and followed Lao Kang, asking curiously: "Found it? Really found it? How did you find it? Where is the person? Who found it?"
Questions kept popping out of his companions' mouths, the chatter making Lao Kang's head buzz. He gestured to them to stop and said, "We did find him. As for how we found him? He fell from the sky and landed right in front of our Public Security Bureau. That's how we found him."
Comrade from the Criminal Investigation Team: “?”
The comrades from the Criminal Investigation Team, who thought Captain Kang was telling a joke or mocking someone, fell silent after watching the surveillance video with Captain Kang.
It turns out that it really was something that fell from the sky.
"this……"
Someone opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Lao Kang took out another cigarette, but didn't light it. He just held it in his mouth and watched the video over and over again seven or eight times. Finally, he saw a blurry figure in a corner.
His eyes widened and he quickly said, "Zoom in, zoom in!"
The back of the figure was magnified, and one could only vaguely make out the slightly thin figure of the person, resembling a woman. At the same time, as if anticipating that this surveillance footage would be replayed, the figure actually waved at the camera.
Then he stepped into the darkness.
Hide your achievements and fame.
Lao Kang: “…”
Other members of the Criminal Investigation Team: "...quite handsome."
Lao Kang: “…”
He rolled his eyes and let out a heavy breath. "Forget it. Don't worry about who left the person behind. I'll go to the hospital to check on the situation. You should go home and rest early. You've been exhausted lately. We'll meet again tomorrow at nine o'clock."
Chengjiang First Hospital.
Lao Kang came to the emergency department at the suggestion of his friend Lin Jian. Lin Jian waved at him, and the two of them went to the smoking area together. Lin Jian immediately asked, "What did the surveillance say? Didn't they really capture anyone?"
Lao Kang: "I did take a picture, but it's blurry. I can only vaguely make out that the figure doesn't look like a man, and the other person was waving goodbye arrogantly at the camera."
He turned around and asked, "What's going on with Tongxuan?"
Lin Jian: “…Uh.”
Lao Kang looked at him: "What?"
Lin Jian's mouth twitched as he thought of the long diagnostic report the doctor had handed him. He could only bite the bullet and explain, "His limbs were struck by external force, resulting in comminuted fractures. His chest and other parts of his body were also impacted. He has severe internal injuries, and a host of other ailments. The doctor said if he had come a little later, he could have been prepared for a coffin and funeral. But...he's just hanging on for dear life now. He won't live more than two days."
After a pause, he continued, "Fortunately, on the way here, we found an envelope on Tongxuan's body. It listed all of his crimes over the years. And there was some key evidence."
"Then let's investigate first."
"become."
Tongxuan died on the second night.
He was conscious for a while before he died, but the severe pain all over his body made him tremble. He opened his eyes and stared at the pale ceiling above his head. Sang Qiqi's disgusting and desperate face seemed to be still in front of him. Thanks to her, the god he worshipped was shattered, and he became this useless paralytic.
Sang Qiqi...
If possible, he would definitely skin her alive and tear out her tendons!
Anger made his blood rush backwards, and before he could imagine the scene of relief, something in his head seemed to snap. When Tongxuan regained consciousness, he had already sat up from his body. The shadowy soul had escaped from his body, and chaotic footsteps could be heard inside and outside the ward.
Is he dead?
Instead of the fear and anxiety he'd imagined, Tongxuan was overwhelmed by a wave of ecstasy, shaking him uncontrollably. He hurriedly climbed off the corpse and, without a second thought, floated out the window.
The time when Sang Qiqi broke his limbs and forced his soul back into his body was the most painful moment in Tongxuan's life.
The damage to his soul and the pain in his body combined made him unable to live or die. The pain lasted every minute and every second, and even breathing seemed extremely difficult.
But it doesn't matter.
Now that he is dead and has become a ghost, he will say goodbye to the physical pain and have a chance to escape!
After that, he can lie dormant, gradually become stronger, become a ghost as powerful as Sang Qiqi, and then usurp the human body!
As the window drew closer, Tongxuan's fingers touched the night breeze outside, and the smile on his face grew wider. After a very light click, he finally squeezed out from the gap in the window, took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, turned around and was about to walk away.
However, what he never expected was that when he turned his head, he saw Sang Qiqi folding her arms, yawning and looking at him with raised eyebrows.
There was a hint of obvious amusement in her bright almond-shaped eyes. She smiled and asked, "Where are you planning to go, Taoist Master Tongxuan?"
Tongxuan's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
Seeing his expression that looked like he had eaten shit, Sang Qiqi shrugged her shoulders: "You can tell with your toes that I definitely won't watch you run away, right?"
Glancing at the lifeless human corpse through the glass window, Sang Qiqi said, "Since your body can no longer endure torture, then... it's time for your soul to suffer."
A wisp of black mist floated on the long, white fingers, and then the black mist condensed into a thick and long chain at a rapid speed.
Seeing this, Tongxuan ran away without saying a word.
Unfortunately, the chain seemed to have self-awareness. After it jumped out of Sang Qiqi's hand, it followed Tongxuan closely like a tail, sometimes hitting Tongxuan's already injured calf, and sometimes jumping in front of Tongxuan to block him for two seconds, just like teasing a monkey.
Tongxuan's rationality gradually faded, and as he gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, the chain came forward again, but this time, it did not fight, but quickly wrapped around his calf.
With a thud, Tongxuan fell to the ground without any resistance.
In the distance, Sang Qiqi picked up the other end of the chain, as if she was leading a dog, and slowly dragged the man to the gates of hell.
Noticing Tongxuan's shocked expression as he looked at the three large characters 'Ghost Gate', Sang Qiqi smiled and said, "You still don't know what evildoers go through after they die in the underworld, do you? Of the ten halls of the underworld, with the exception of the first and tenth halls, which are slightly different, the Yamas in the other eight halls are responsible for different hells. These include the Ice Hell and the Avici Hell that humans often talk about. Once you enter hell, you'll be subjected to punishments including but not limited to severing tendons and removing bones, having boiling water poured on your hands, having your skin locked and drugged, having your mouth stuffed with flying ashes, and being beheaded and having your intestines ripped out. How's it going? Are you happy?"
Every time Sang Qiqi spoke a word, Tongxuan sweat dropped a drop.
Just hearing about those punishments makes me feel like I can't breathe.
He opened his mouth to say something, but Sang Qiqi didn't give him any more chances. She threw him into the First Hall for trial. She curled her eyes at Tong Xuan and said, "Good luck."
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