Chapter 293: The Widow of the Ghost Master
Lin Zhi entered Lian Qing's study, hoping to learn some clues from it, but there were so many books that he didn't know how long it would take him to find useful content.
Lin Zhi: [Can you scan the books here into your database and then perform a keyword search? 】
01I feel excited: [Yes! 】
Lin Zhi nodded: [Let’s start, and tell me when you’re done entering. 】
Although its own artificial intelligence sometimes seems like artificial intelligence, its framework and algorithm can support this world and are enough to demonstrate its superiority.
01The books were scanned quickly. In order to avoid missing important information, Lin Zhi gave dozens of keywords.
01The regional map was magnified in Lin Zhi’s mind, and the books were marked in red.
Lin Zhi took out more than twenty books and began to browse according to the page numbers provided by the system.
Most of these are about the various damages that Yin Qi can cause to the human body. Some of those cases can be saved while others cannot. After reading all the marked places in the study, Lin Zhi had a general understanding of the situation.
If people want to coexist with ghosts without getting hurt, most of them adopt the method of raising ghosts.
Use their ashes or organs and various suppression objects to force them to submit, and determine the dominance of people through slavery or manipulation. However, if this backfires, the situation will be very serious.
Another thing is that some people are born with yin bodies, or through the secret blood methods of their tribal groups, they are able to raise ghosts in their own bodies.
Lin Zhi couldn't take either of these two paths. The former would hurt the ghost, and the latter required innate hard conditions.
Some are outright sorcery, and the language used in the ancient books is unclear.
Based on these fragments of information in the ancient books, Lin Zhi asked 01 to conduct another keyword search.
This time, I found some unexpected things, which came from Lian Qing's notes.
Lian Qing's handwriting is beautiful, with a sharp edge hidden within the rules.
However, these notes were probably written in his early years, and his handwriting was not as mature as it was later, revealing a bit of immaturity.
He probably didn't write fast, and certain pauses in his writing expressed his state when he wrote these words.
After his family suffered misfortune, Lian Qing was cursed by an evil spirit and had to recuperate in a temple. After the curse was eradicated, he left the temple, but did not quickly join the Special Department. Instead, he traveled alone for a while.
He was still a teenager at that time, and a tomb-raiding lieutenant who had an accident while digging a grave came to him for help and asked him to go and take a look.
The situation was indeed a bit tricky, but Lian Qing was not helpless at the time. However, after dealing with it, he found that he had misjudged the situation. After escaping death, he took a lot of time to record everything that happened at that time.
Leaving aside the mechanisms and rice dumplings in the tomb, the biggest problem arises in the gravekeepers' village.
There was a center of the formation that gathered yin, and inside it was a woman who was pregnant with a baby spirit.
Lian Qing originally thought that it was a dead pregnant woman. Because of this judgment, he suffered the first loss. He tried his best to fight against the mother, but found that the baby spirit was not affected by the mother-child bond. They seemed not to be closely connected individuals in the same flesh and blood.
After being injured, Lian Qing immediately adjusted his plan.
Since it is not a female corpse that was pregnant during her lifetime, it is possible that she had conceived a ghost fetus after her death. The ghost baby absorbs the yin energy of the mother's body to grow, and the female ghost is rather resistant to this, so the relationship between them is a one-way one.
This time Lian Qing was not sure. After setting up the formation more cautiously, he found that his guess was wrong again.
After going deep into the center of the formation and using up half of his blood to gather the killing formation, Lian Qing discovered that what was in the woman's belly was not a fetus at all, but a ball of ghost energy with only an empty shell.
That woman was not a corpse either, she was actually a living person.
Even for an old master, this kind of situation is probably something he has never heard of or seen before.
After settling the situation, Lian Qing figured out the trick.
The tomb raiders were robbing a large royal tomb. The tomb owner was the most trusted brother of a certain emperor. So after the prince was buried, he ordered the villagers living around the tomb to guard it.
At that time, a famous Feng Shui master was also placed here by him, and he became the first generation of shaman in this village.
The eye of the formation was originally intended to gather Yin energy to nourish the king's tomb, but as the people in the village began to be disturbed by the Yin energy, they had to fill the eye of the formation.
Generally, those who fill it are dying people. When they have absorbed enough negative energy and are about to turn into corpses after death, they will be eliminated.
Decades ago, it was that woman who filled the eye of the formation. At that time, she was just a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. She was born weak and sickly, and was destined not to live long.
But she was not an ordinary person, she was the daughter of that witch doctor.
This village surrounded by towering mountains is backward, feudal, and hierarchical, but at certain times it is extremely fair. She is a dying person who can be recycled, and even if she is the daughter of a witch, she must enter the center of the formation.
The witch didn't want to see this situation. He didn't want to see his daughter forced to absorb Yin energy and eventually die beyond recognition, so he made a bold decision.
He searched through ancient books and saw a possibility in the manuscripts of his ancestors.
He wanted to create a parasite for his daughter, and let that thing absorb the ghost energy in her body to protect his daughter and allow her to die with dignity.
Talent is extremely important in this line of work, and he happens to be a very talented person.
Without anyone's knowledge, a 17 or 18-year-old girl was placed with a thing similar to a fetus, which absorbed a constant supply of negative energy for her.
Her mother would secretly send her food so that she could have a full meal before her death.
She also thought she would die, but gradually, her body seemed to be assimilated by the ghost. She had powers different from those of humans, and she was still alive.
This made the witch and his wife ecstatic. When his daughter's belly became so big that it looked like she was about to give birth and the things inside her body could no longer absorb Yin Qi, he immediately took out the container for his daughter. But at the same moment, his daughter's body quickly deteriorated, and he was so scared that he immediately put a new container in.
Living half human, half ghost is better than being completely dead.
From that day on, the girl walked out of the formation and returned to the village.
The villagers had no objection, not only because they were afraid of this girl who had become inhuman, but also because as long as she existed, their loved ones could die with dignity.
They didn't know the inside story and didn't dare to ask more questions.
All they watched was the girl's belly growing bigger day by day, and then becoming flat again ten months later, over and over again, but no one ever saw her child.
It was not until the tomb was discovered by the tomb robber that the tomb was locked after touching the mechanism. The people involved were half dead and half crazy, the feng shui of the tomb was changed, the village guards' array was also affected, and the woman whose life had been extended for more than ten years had to return to the array with a big belly.
Lian Qing did not kill the woman. She was a living person who had never committed any crime. Lian Qing had his own principles and would not do it.
This legacy issue was very thorny and concerned an entire village, so Lian Qing did not intervene.
He and the witch doctor dealt with the feng shui problems of the king's tomb, then left, leaving a promise for thirteen years.
This method of prolonging life will ultimately damage one's virtue, and in the long run it may lead to serious harm. He will give the woman another thirteen years of life, and after thirteen years he will come here to completely eliminate the hidden danger.
At the end of the notes, Lian Qing wrote four words in a sharp pen to conclude.
——The course of nature is constant
Lin Zhi looked at the date and closed the notebook.
"Thirteen years, isn't that this year?"
He looked at the box of severed fingers and asked, "Did you ask someone to take care of this?"
The ghost naturally didn't answer him, and Lin Zhi didn't think he would hear a reply, so he picked up his notebook and prepared to leave.
He saw a possibility in this, but he was not sure whether to do it.
There was an unread message on the phone placed aside. It was from Xu Xiaoyu. Their preparations had been completed, and she told him that they could set off at noon tomorrow.
Lin Zhi placed the notebook in his hand on the altar and called the other party back.
"I've seen the information, no problem."
"Ms. Xu, can you please check one thing? Check if Lian Qing had anyone go to Mòling Village this year before he died."
There was silence for a while, and then someone responded: "Mr. Lin, this is confidential. I'm sorry, I can't answer you."
Although it was a refusal, it was undoubtedly an answer, which meant that Lian Qing did arrange someone to go, and this matter went through Xu Xiaoyu's hands. Maybe the person arranged by Lian Qing was Xu Xiaoyu.
"Thank you," Lin Zhi curved her lips, looked at the twilight outside the window and continued, "I want to go there too."
It was just a decision, and Lin Zhi didn't waste too much time.
He has always been a person who values interests and pursues maximizing interests.
Among these, nothing is irreplaceable, including himself.
As long as the final result is good, he doesn't care about the process.
As long as he can piece together the broken pieces of his lover, he can bring him back to reality.
He needed Lian Qing, so he needed a way to get close to Lian Qing safely without hurting each other.
Although the current method is a little strange, he wants to go and see it in person and make the final decision then.
Xu Xiaoyu's voice was a little hesitant: "...Did something happen there?"
A few months ago, Xu Xiaoyu did receive a secret work arrangement. At that time, she had not considered that the team leader would leave. Later, when she thought about it, she realized that the team leader might have been prepared for sacrifice.
If it was someone else who made the call, she would not have asked too many questions, but this was the team leader's partner. Could something have happened? She didn't want to mess up the last thing her team leader had given her before he died.
Lin Zhi turned and walked towards the altar, looking at Lian Qing's portrait and said, "There are some things to do regarding him. I hope you can contact me before you take action."
Thinking that he knew the location of Lian Qing's body, Xu Xiaoyu did not reject Lin Zhi's words outright, but she did not agree quickly either.
Lin Zhi knew that she needed to think about it and ended the call.
He would go even without Xu Xiaoyu, but Lian Qing must follow him. However, he also knew that Lian Qing would follow him.
After a person dies, ghosts that exist by relying on obsession are, in most cases, completely rational and cling to one another, making endless demands.
With love, Lian Qing will definitely follow him.
Lin Zhi stroked the edge of the tablet with her fingers, tapping it lightly and rhythmically with her fingertips.
The room was empty and quiet, and the lover was silent and invisible, but Lin Zhi could feel his strong presence, transcending time and space.
In this kind of solitude, the answers about feelings will be particularly clear.
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