Chapter 11
When I got home and looked at my phone, I found that car accidents had occurred in several places, all at intersections.
It seems that what I encountered is not an isolated incident, and I can't help but worry.
At this time, I received a call from Yuan Li, and from this call, I learned the inside story.
There were a total of seven locations in Shi City where car accidents occurred for unknown reasons, and the scenes were extremely tragic. Just like where I was, it was obvious at first glance that they were not caused by simple car accidents.
I explained to Yuanli the situation I had just encountered. I thought that the situation in other places in the city should be similar to what I encountered.
Yuanli told me to gather immediately, and I hung up the phone, thinking it might be too late to gather now.
After talking to Xiaorong and Li Fei, I hurried out of the house. Before leaving, they both asked me why I was going out so late.
I told them to go home directly after get off work in the evenings these few days and not to wander around outside. I drew talismans to ward off evil spirits on both of them. After all, without talisman paper as a medium, the talisman cannot be preserved for a long time. The talisman can only be effective for three days.
Xiaorong knew that something must have happened. After all, when we first rented this house, she saw a ghost with her own eyes.
I drove to the agreed location. Yuanli and Sister Ma had already arrived. When they saw me coming, they asked me in detail what happened.
When they heard that I had used the clan's sacred artifact, the Feather Stone, to eliminate the soul-devouring monster, they both realized the seriousness of the matter and quickly asked their superiors for help.
While the three of us were discussing, Shi City was already in chaos, because among the seven places where the ghost gates were opened, only the one where I opened had dealt with the soul-eating monster, and I'm afraid that a large number of ghosts had escaped from the remaining six places.
"We have to quickly catch those wandering souls who are taking the opportunity to cause trouble, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable," said Yuan Li.
Sister Ma frowned and said, "If it's really as my little sister said, I'm afraid even if we transferred all the people from the Xuanzhen Bureau here, it wouldn't help."
"Just catch as many as you can. Hey, why did such a big mess happen this time?" Yuan Li said dejectedly.
I also feel powerless. If all those wandering souls were locked up in one place, we could make them all return to the underworld with some effort, but how could they possibly stand together obediently?
Once they escape from the control of the ghost catchers and flee to the human world, no one can predict what they will do.
"Then let's go now. It has been almost two hours since the gates of hell opened. Those wandering souls should still be wandering around based on instinct. If we take too long, if they absorb enough yang energy and regain consciousness, it will be even harder to catch them!" I said.
The three of us set off immediately, splitting into three groups. We pursued the capture in the east, south, and west directions. As for the remaining northern area, Yuan Li contacted another Taoist disciple, Zhang Lei, who was said to be from the Laojun Temple.
I headed south, using the feather stone's ability to sense ghosts to collect them. Along the way, I encountered many unconscious wandering souls. My face became increasingly ugly, because I discovered that as time went on, these wandering souls had begun to develop self-awareness.
I collected them quickly, driving through the streets of Shishi City to capture them. This was because I had the Feather Stone to help me, so I could basically do it seamlessly. Sometimes I would encounter four or five on the same street, and I would just purify them all.
Even so, I stayed up until three in the morning, looking at the area on the map, and I hadn't even seen half of it.
I was so efficient that I could only clean up such a small area, you can imagine how difficult it was for the three of them.
I sighed and continued driving to the next location.
Mingbei Street is the main road in the south of Shi City. At this time, there are not many vehicles passing by, and even fewer people.
I was driving along Mingbei Street according to Yuhaoshi's instructions. When I arrived at the destination, I saw a woman in the park.
The woman also saw me. She had no expression on her face. Then she put her neck on the straw rope hanging from the branch and hung on the rope with her legs.
I quickly got out of the car and first shot the rope with my golden-feathered arrow. The ghost was half clinging to the rope it had used before it hanged itself. I first destroyed its main body and then rescued the person.
The woman was now conscious, holding onto the rope with both hands and kicking frantically. I quickly ran to her and took her down from the tree.
It seems that what I was worried about has happened. Some wandering souls have begun to develop independent consciousness and started to disturb the world of the living.
This won't work. I have to find a way.
I racked my brains and an idea struck me.
I've come up with an idea, but I don't know if it will work.
I remember when I was a kid, I used featherstone to summon the night wandering spirits.
The Night Wandering God was responsible for patrolling the world at night, and his counterpart was the Day Wandering God, responsible for patrolling during the day. Now that such a big thing had happened in Shi City, if he was summoned, there would still be two hours before sunrise, so there should be enough time.
I held the feather stone in my palm and chanted the Night Wanderer's name, hoping to invite him out. But although the feather stone shone in my hand, I didn't feel the Night Wanderer's presence.
It seems that this method doesn't work, I really don't know what else to do.
Just when I was feeling dejected, I suddenly saw a ghost official with a red face, fangs, bulging eyes and a ferocious look appear in front of me. He wore a golden hoop on his head, a red embroidered robe and exuded a lot of ghost energy.
He came from the south and met me right in the face.
When it saw me, it waved its sleeves left and right, and a huge shackle appeared in the sky. The scattered wandering souls were imprisoned by its shackles, as if it was completing the finishing work.
After he finished, he came over and bowed to me.
Judging from the ghostly aura around him, he is an official of the underworld at the same level as the Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
I didn't dare to accept the gift and quickly dodged it.
"Thank you for your help, it saved me a lot of effort," he said.
"This is also my duty. May I ask, sir, have all the people in the south been captured?"
"They have all been captured. I will go help my third and fourth brothers first. They are still being captured in other places. This is our underworld's way of thanking you." He opened the shackles, and a lot of good karma flowed into my body.
Then he disappeared.
If my guess is correct, he should be one of the golden shackles and silver chains.
I immediately drove west to see how Sister Ma was doing.
I called Sister Ma and her location was displayed all the time. She was indeed much slower than me and had walked less than one-third of the distance.
This is indeed a bit of a stretch for Sister Ma. Their Ma family in Northeast China mainly engages in rituals and is not very good at catching ghosts.
But even so, Sister Ma still rushed over without hesitation, and I suddenly felt a sense of responsibility, which was a feeling I had never had before.
I took out the Xuan Detective Bureau ID from my pocket, looked at the ID with my name printed on it, took a deep breath, put it back in my pocket, and drove at full speed straight to where Sister Ma was.
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