☆, 64 more than a thousand lives
The two team members, facing death so closely for the first time, were practically paralyzed. They had indeed learned some Daoist techniques from Luo Qiu before, but those superficial skills were completely useless in this situation.
So they could only wait to die.
Closing their eyes, they had already given up. But at this moment, a sudden burst of warmth came from behind them, and then a ball of fire suddenly rose from under their feet, and the cheongsam turned into burnt and smelly ashes.
"Tsk, what a shame it's not a beauty." Yu Jiuyin came around from behind the shelf, the spell in his hand still clenched. The two team members suddenly felt like they had seen a savior.
"Mr. Yu"
"Um"
"Thanks."
Yu Jiuyin didn't respond, but instead looked in the other direction. Sure enough, there was a loud bang, and a nearby shelf in the Duobao Pavilion, where porcelain jars were placed, shattered into pieces. A powerful ghostly aura domineeringly overran the entire space. Sure enough, it was Rongqing, slowly approaching in a wheelchair.
The moment he saw Yu Jiuyin, the coldness on his face finally melted away. However, the three members of his group were in a rather miserable state. Their pants were torn to pieces, and bloody wounds were clearly visible among the shredded fabric.
Yu Jiuyin saw this and went up to pat each of them on the forehead. With just this pat, the three people, who were originally not quite awake, suddenly regained consciousness.
"Thank you, Mr. Yu." They understood that it was Yu Jiuyin who did something to make their discomfort disappear.
"It's okay." Yu Jiuyin shook his head, walked to Rongqing and asked him, "Rongrong, what did you find out?"
"It's similar to what you found out. These jars are the urns of dead children." Rong Qing handed the notebook in his hand to Yu Jiuyin.
Yu Jiuyin took it and took a look, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
Although it was well preserved, the yellowed edges showed that it was several decades old. However, the truly terrifying thing was not the book itself, but the contents inside.
Birthday.
Bai Luo, December 3, 1964
Xiangyang, December 5, 1978
Hu Yimeng, December 10, 2001
Mu Peiyou, December 7, 2003
Ke Quanming, December 9, 2004
Deng Jugang, December 11, 2004
Qiang Yujie, December 13, 2004
Gehangyi, December 6, 2004
It is densely packed with records of many children's birthdays, more than a thousand in total. Regardless of the year of birth, all of these children's birthdays are between December 1st and 15th.
"Crazy!" Yu Jiuyin saw the whole story at a glance.
Bai Luo is Bai Zhiqiu's father and the first ghost child raised by Wang Zhenjun, and the one he raised the longest. However, after he turned into a fierce ghost and escaped, Wang Zhenjun lost the ghost child who was most suitable for accumulating wealth for the Wang family, so he could only win by numbers.
At first, he was very restrained, but by 2004, perhaps because he was greedy, or because the situation of the Wang family had become very critical, he began to look for targets in large numbers, reaching out to those children in poor mountain villages who were eager to get out of the mountains, as well as orphans who had no one to rely on and envied the warmth of family.
He collected children who met his criteria like a stamp collector, constantly adding them to the list, seducing them step by step, using so-called kindness and love to lure them into the terrifying dark cage.
As if a switch had been flipped, the temperature in the air plummeted as the roster unfolded. The overwhelming resentment was suffocating.
A soft child's cry came from somewhere, and then it became louder and more shrill.
"Dad, help me, I'm in so much pain."
“It’s so scary here, I want to go home.”
"Mom, Mom, where are you?"
"I don't want to, I don't want to go to school, let me go home, let me go home"
The cries from all directions almost drowned them out immediately, floating back and forth in this dim basement, making people collapse to the extreme.
"What is this?" The five members of the special case investigation team all looked pale.
However, Rong Qing didn't intend to respond, as his eyes were fixed on Yu Jiuyin. Rong Qing noticed that when the voices first appeared, Yu Jiuyin listened very attentively, but now, he seemed to be completely immersed in these sounds, even his eyes became unfocused.
Something was wrong. Rong Qing noticed Yu Jiuyin's abnormality at the first moment and pulled him hard.
"Yu Jiuyin"
Ever since returning from Juehu Village with Yu Jiuyin, Rongqing rarely addressed him by his full name, and her tone was unusually harsh. But even so, it was useless. Yu Jiuyin's current state was simply not one Rongqing could call back.
You have to know that Yu Jiuyin is a natural born ghost master, who can listen to the voices of evil spirits even before he can speak. Therefore, in this case, this ability becomes his biggest weakness, and can even directly cost him his life.
After all, when one person cries, you can offer comfort. When two people cry, you can offer warmth. But when a thousand people cry, what else can be left except despair?
The copper coins in Yu Jiuyin's hand fell to the ground in an instant, and even his usually firm eyes suddenly showed a hint of confusion.
Jiuyin Rongqing didn't care about anything else and completely released the ghost energy in his body, trying to shock the ghost children who had already erupted. However, at this moment, Yu Jiuyin seemed to suddenly come to his senses and shook his head gently at Rongqing.
"No, let them talk." Yu Jiuyin said this with great difficulty. The constant flow of information in his mind almost instantly overwhelmed his rationality. But even so, Yu Jiuyin was still able to maintain a trace of clarity and not be lost in these tragic memories.
Rongqing looked at him and finally chose to believe Yu Jiuyin.
The waiting time always seemed incredibly long, and Yu Jiuyin's face grew increasingly pale. He looked like he'd just been pulled out of the water, his clothes drenched in cold sweat. But at that moment, Yu Jiuyin's fingers formed a spell, and the copper coin that had fallen to the ground instantly returned to its place. Then, as he flung the coin out, the entire scene in the basement completely changed.
Going back in time, Yu Jiuyin used the memories of these ghost children to completely restore the whole story.
This time, they had truly witnessed what hell on earth was like at the Wang family's house. And the mysterious jade token that could exchange lives finally revealed its true identity within these fragmented memories.
Even Yu Jiuyin didn't expect that the evil ghost's exchange of life seemed to be due to the clothes used to find a substitute, but the actual culprit was the poisonous insect hidden in the jade token by Wang Zhenjun.
Gu Shu is a mysterious witchcraft inherited from ancient China. Originally used by witch doctors to save lives, it gradually became a weapon of harm. Wang Zhenjun used a special insect similar to the love Gu used by Miao women to control their lovers.
They live in jade, and anyone poisoned by it will lose consciousness and become completely subservient to the person who cast the spell, even protecting them at all costs. This is why those children died without any resentment, and even initially believed that Wang Zhenjun was their benefactor.
It wasn't that Wang Zhenjun was so successful as a person, but that those children were deceived by the witchcraft, and instead used up their luck to bless the murderer who killed them. This was also why, after they woke up, they were so resentful that they wanted to kill everyone related to the Wang family.
As for the 24-hour convenience store, it was not unrelated to the Wang family case as Yu Jiuyin and the others had imagined.
The convenience store was located on the roadside, not far from the Wang family's old house. Wang Zhenjun had been maliciously raising ghost children for years, and it was inevitable that he would make mistakes. However, when the convenience store staff came into contact with the children, they deliberately ignored their distress signals. This was simply because they had already been secretly managed by Wang Zhenjun.
Otherwise, it is just a 24-hour convenience store. How could the same clerk not be changed for decades? It seems normal, but it is actually very strange.
As for the attack on Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing today, it was only because they misunderstood that Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing were bad guys who were upholding justice for Wang Zhenjun.
Tragic scenes kept replaying in front of everyone, and the shock of watching a child go from fear to death also changed from heartache at the beginning to numbness in the end.
When the last scene of the dead child ended, the lingering, mournful cries finally faded. As for the doors in the Wang family mansion that had been unable to be opened, they finally returned to their original state.
Following the message passed to him by these ghost children, Yu Jiuyin walked to the deepest part of the basement, where there was a door with a particularly special pattern.
Yu Jiuyin immediately recognized the patterns on the item as the totem representing Gu magic. He had finally traced the source of the strange odor he had been vaguely aware of. Most importantly, the long-missing Wang Zhenjun had finally appeared.
Yu Jiuyin opened the door, and the rustling sounds inside were all the result of the flapping of insect wings. At this moment, these poisonous insects were greedily gnawing on the owner's corpse, even drilling into the mouth and out from other fragile parts of the skin.
"Fuck!" One of the team members couldn't help but vomit. As for the rest of them, their faces were also extremely ugly.
Rong Qing usually despised these things, and the moment he took one look at the demonic energy on him, he began to stir. Seeing this, Yu Jiuyin casually drew a talisman, and then, a sudden burst of flames completely burned these harmful objects. In the end, only the jade token that Wang Zhenjun had obtained first remained.
Yu Jiuyin picked up the jade token and looked at it carefully, and found that it was covered with densely packed small characters, which looked like micro-carvings.
"I'll ask someone to carve it out when we get back." Rong Qing took the jade token from Yu Jiuyin's hand.
"Yes." Yu Jiuyin handed over the jade token. Then he turned back to where the urn was and set up a grievance-clearing formation there.
These auspicious ghost children had become extreme beings, unable to be liberated immediately, so Yu Jiuyin could only release their resentment first. While this was the beginning of their nightmare, it would also be its final destination. Rather than taking them all away, it would be better to leave them here and entrust them to the care of Rongqing. Once their resentment was completely purified, they would naturally be reborn into bliss.
All the situations had been resolved, and the people Rongqing had called over quickly came to clean up the mess. Watching the bodies of Wang Zhenjun, his grandson Wang Lin, and the servants being carried out one by one, Yu Jiuyin's eyes were filled with a complex mixture of irony and sorrow.
If Wang Zhenjun had known this would happen, why would he have let his greed ruin his family and even lose their good reputation? He would be cursed and despised by the world.
The Wang family case came to a temporary end here, and the once prosperous and wealthy Wang family completely collapsed with the death of the Wang family members.
On the way back, Yu Jiuyin leaned against Rongqing and fell into a deep sleep. He had almost exhausted all his energy in the Wang family's old house to appease the resentful ghost children. Now that he relaxed, he was so tired that he could hardly open his eyes.
"Are you okay, Mr. Yu?" The secretary was also shocked when he saw it.
Rongqing shook his head, indicating that it was nothing. However, his arms around Yu Jiuyin were even more gentle than usual. Yu Jiuyin seemed to sense this, and his arms around Rongqing's waist tightened a bit.
Yu Jiuyin and Rongqing were affectionate and warm, but outside, everything was in chaos.
The Wang family was one of China's most renowned business families, renowned for their kindness. There was no way they could conceal what had happened. Reporters, upon hearing the news, arrived almost simultaneously with the special case team Rongqing had summoned to deal with the aftermath.
The public has the right to know, so after removing some subtle traces that are not suitable for public release, the reporters were allowed to take some photos related to the case.
The Wang family's case also appeared in front of the public for the first time through online media.
The benevolent family turned out to be a devil in human skin
The killer hiding under the lights
Calling for attention to the safety of orphans and children in the mountains, the piles of bones bring not only shock, but also an examination of human nature.
Wang Zhenjun's case was almost completely restored and reported by reporters, and the number of victims, as high as one thousand, was even more staggering.
After all, the Juarez murders that shocked the world back then saw as many as 5,000 missing persons over a 20-year period, but only a little over 400 victims were actually found. Yet, Wang Zhenjun alone, in just a few decades, murdered over a thousand children. He even managed to live a glamorous life, basking in the praise of others, while cloaking himself in a veneer of hypocrisy.
The entire internet exploded instantly, with Weibo, and other highly trafficked political forums, nearly all on the verge of collapse due to the overwhelming traffic. Weibo was particularly strong, with seven of the top ten trending searches related to the Wang family case.
"From the moment I saw the news until now, I've been completely stunned. City S is arguably one of the safest cities in China, yet now it's become the burial ground for over a thousand innocent children. Just thinking about it gives me chills."
"Why did we only find out now that the first victim, Bai Luofen, had appeared decades ago? Why did the police at the time rule the child's death an accident without any suspicion?"
"The above is too extreme. Rather than saying that the police at the time did nothing, it's more that today's society pays too little attention to children and orphans in the mountains. Let me give you the simplest example. Take those beggars who make a living by begging under the overpass. If one of them is missing, can you notice it?"
"What the above person said does make sense, but I'm more concerned about those children from the mountains, especially the girls. They clearly have biological parents, but they are far more pitiful than these orphans wandering around the city. They can exchange children for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan and not care about them at all. What's the difference between this and human trafficking?"
"After all, the culprit is Wang Zhenjun. He killed so many people. I wonder if he dreams of being hunted down by wronged souls. It's too easy for him to die so easily now. He's not worthy of being a human being."
"Not only are they unworthy of being human, even being an animal is an insult to animals."
The internet was ablaze with abuse, and everyone gnashed their teeth at the mention of Wang Zhenjun's name. The special case team could only actively cooperate to calm the public's anger and condemnation.
All those in the S City system suspected of being connected to Wang Zhenjun or his family were suspended for investigation, and the director of the S City Municipal Bureau resigned directly. The mayor and deputy mayor were also unable to escape the connection.
In just three days, the internal personnel of City S underwent a major reshuffle. Meanwhile, Yu Jiuyin, who was resting at Rong's house, stared blankly at the micro-carvings on the jade plaque that Rong Qing had copied.
Yu Jiuyin always felt that this jade token gave him a very familiar feeling.
The author has something to say. Yu Jiuyin counted with his fingers and the feeling was not good.
Just have a good sleep and you'll be fine.
Updated, forty little red envelopes dropped in the comment area. After finishing writing last night, I mysteriously clicked on the wrong button and put it in the draft box. I just opened the P at work and realized that I had not updated it. I don’t care, I finished writing 9,000 qaq yesterday, I won’t gain 10 pounds 1551
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