Lu Qing checked their condition one by one, and there was no change at all. They were still completely mannequins with a heartbeat, breathing and body temperature.
"What happened? Logically, the evil energy should have been burned away, and they should all have returned to normal!" Lu Qing frowned.
Gu Xicheng used the Nine Nether Lotus Flame to probe their bodies, but found nothing unusual.
So he went to ask the deities in his sea of consciousness.
The deity lowered his eyes and replied softly:
"It's Yayu! Their essence has been drained by Yayu, and they will never recover unless Yayu is found."
Gu Xicheng relayed the god's words to Lu Qing.
Lu Qing suddenly realized: "It's actually Yu Yu! How come I didn't think of that sooner!"
"What is Yayu?" Gu Xicheng asked.
Lu Qing: "The Yayu is an ancient mythical beast that resembles an ox, has a human face, horse hooves, a naked body, and a voice like that of an infant. It eats people."
"Legend has it that it was originally a celestial deity during the time of the Yellow Emperor. The second celestial deity, Erfu, was instigated by the celestial deity Wei to remove its internal organs, drain its water, and make it into a living doll."
When the Yellow Emperor learned of this, he was furious and severely punished Erfu. He then sent Yayu to Kunlun Mountain and revived it with the elixir of immortality. However, Yayu accidentally fell into the Weak Water and became a monster.
After that, Yayu began to eat people. When it was full, it would extract the essence of the remaining prey and make them into living dolls just like itself. Some people say that Yayu did this as revenge, while others say that it was storing food.
In short, those whose essence is extracted by the Yayu will be immortal, neither born nor dying, remaining unchanged like dummy figures forever.
Gu Xicheng: "She's the one who turned into this from Youmeng, so she must know where Yayu is!"
Lu Qing and Gu Xicheng immediately went to find Youmeng.
Wang Yanjun has already reviewed it once.
Youmeng's real name is Shi Xin, and she used to be a huge fan of Zhao Xing.
Since Zhao Xing first emerged, Shi Xin has never missed a single event or airport pickup.
None of her clothes cost more than 200 yuan, but her house was filled with Zhao Xing's posters and magazines, and even some products that she didn't need at all, just because Zhao Xing endorsed them.
She even took out a loan to get plastic surgery for Zhao Xing. She got surgery to look like the girl Zhao Xing said he liked in an interview, just so he would look at her more.
Unfortunately, the cosmetic surgery failed and cannot be repaired.
But Shi Xin has no regrets; everything she did for Zhao Xing was done willingly.
But she never expected that the person she had liked for so long was actually a beast in private.
After Zhao Xing was exposed for leading the bullying of his fellow students, Shi Xin's love turned into a frenzied hatred.
She liked Zhao Xing because he came from a good family, had loving parents, a harmonious family, and a cheerful and sunny personality—qualities that Shi Xin lacked most.
She projected all her deepest desires onto Zhao Xing.
So when the truth was revealed and Shi Xin discovered that Zhao Xing was not the person she had imagined at all, her life was plunged into darkness.
At that moment, evil spirits took advantage of her vulnerability and possessed her.
With the help of evil energy, Shi Xin turned Zhao Xing into a dummy, imagining that he was still the same as before the house collapsed.
Having acquired Zhao Xing, Shi Xin was not satisfied.
On the one hand, she needs money to live, and on the other hand, she feels that those packaged idols are really hypocritical.
So she wants to turn all the idols into mannequins to obediently fulfill the fans' wishes.
And so, that group chat, filled with sasaeng fans, appeared.
She exploited the affections of her illegitimate children, making them pay for the services they wanted, even though their brothers were mute and immobile.
In addition, Shi Xin also confessed to having several accomplices who were also obsessive fans.
Once someone places an order, they will use a car to take the corresponding idol to different locations, and then bring the idol back after the service is finished.
Covered by an evil aura, their actions remained undetected.
Until that day, when they were transporting the mannequins back, they were discovered by the Sky Eye system, and Wang Yanjun tracked them down.
The two accomplices escaped, leaving behind the seven victims who had been turned into dummies, which led them to discover the truth.
"Brother, did she explain how she turned those victims into dummies?" Lu Qing asked.
Wang Yanjun shook his head: "No."
"I'll go ask her."
Lu Qing walked into the interrogation room, looked at Shi Xin's botched plastic surgery face, and sighed silently.
Shi Xin: "I've said everything I need to say, what else do you want to ask!"
Lu Qing looked her over. She didn't have any demonic aura and didn't seem to have been in contact with Ya Yu.
"Shi Xin, how did you turn those people into what they are now?"
Shi Xin lowered her eyes slightly and said, "It was that thing that was parasitizing my body that did it for me. Didn't you all take it away?"
Shi Xin was hiding something. Lu Qing frowned slightly and said sharply:
"Shi Xin, if you confess now, you might still have a chance to atone for your sins!"
"Atonement?" Shi Xin sneered.
"What crime have I committed! Fans have spent money, time, and energy to promote him. Shouldn't they give us something in return?"
"I was just helping those sisters who were in the same boat to get some compensation from them. What crime have I committed?"
Lu Qing's face showed sarcasm:
"You're good at putting on a good show. If you didn't take their money, I would think more highly of you!"
Shi Xin awkwardly smoothed her hair.
“I don’t want to take their money, but I need the money to fix my face.”
Lu Qing: "I'll ask you one more time, how exactly did you turn those people into what they are now?"
Shi Xin: "I told you, it's attached to me..."
Before she could finish speaking, Lu Qing slammed his hand on the table:
"No! I can tell you definitively that the evil energy has been burned away, but those people have not returned to normal."
"Tell me, do you know Yayu?"
Shi Xin's eyes flickered, and she lowered her head, saying, "I don't know him."
Lu Qing: "You're lying."
Shi Xin: "I said I don't know him, and I don't know him. I was just unlucky to be caught by you. I admit it. Just sentence me quickly. I plead guilty!"
Seeing that Shi Xin was starting to give up, Lu Qing stopped being polite to her.
"Shi Xin, do you think this is an ordinary interrogation room?"
"You're wrong! This is the Bureau of Abnormal Cases Investigation, which means that we can use some abnormal methods to deal with uncooperative prisoners."
As he spoke, Lu Qing opened the door to the interrogation room:
"Brother, take her to the eighteenth floor until she tells the truth."
Shi Xin's expression changed drastically: "What is the eighteenth floor? Where are you taking me?"
A sinister smile curled at the corner of Wang Yanjun's lips:
"The eighteenth level is definitely hell!"
Wang Yanjun grabbed Shi Xin by the hair and led her to the elevator. Before they even reached the eighteenth floor, she became obedient after only seeing the demons and monsters through the glass window of the elevator.
"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"
"Someone controlled the Yayu and helped me turn those people into dummies!"
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