☆, 98, the culprit was caught
Yu Jiuyin didn't say anything, but from Rongqing's perspective, one could clearly see the sadness in his eyes.
This was a trap set by Yu Jiuyin. If they had been able to maintain even a shred of their original conscience, they might have had a chance of survival. Unfortunately, each of them was lost in lust and jealousy. As for the vengeful ghosts, they too disregarded cause and effect. Of the over eighty dead, not a single one was innocent. Even in the end, these dead, vengeful spirits devoured each other, lost in madness.
Just like Xiyan said, it's all what he deserves.
But even so, Rongqing didn't think Yu Jiuyin would get his hands stained with blood unless there was another reason.
Rongqing thought this as he walked closer to take a look. Then, he suddenly noticed something writhing inside the blood-soaked corpses. Especially around the chest, where, without the covering of skin, the wriggling beneath the flesh was clearly visible, and Rongqing's proximity seemed to frighten the creature, causing it to suddenly cease its struggles.
Rong Qing instantly realized what it was. He casually picked up a pair of chopsticks from the table and stabbed them into the corpse's chest, pulling out a long, white object.
The slender creature rolled twice on the ground before slowly crawling away from Rongqing, its head raised warily. Its cold, slippery surface, the gaps between its scales stained with shredded flesh, and a pair of tiny black eyes atop its head looked particularly malevolent and sinister.
"Snake?" Rong Qing turned to look at Yu Jiuyin, seemingly not understanding why this thing would appear in a person's heart.
"It's a snake." Yu Jiuyin sighed and turned to look at Xiyan beside him, "Go."
"It's a waste of effort." Xiyan was a little unhappy.
"It's not because of those people, but because once these things get out, they will hurt innocent people."
"That's none of your business. Where are all the people from the Metaphysics Association?" Xiyan refused to listen. She tilted her head and stared at Yu Jiuyin for a long moment. Yu Jiuyin's attitude of neither forcing nor compromising was too much for Xiyan to handle. Finally, she had no choice but to nod and agree.
"Do it according to your ability. If you faint, I will call Zi Yang back to beat you up." After glaring at Yu Jiuyin fiercely, Xiyan shook the human skin umbrella in her hand and floated up from Yu Jiuyin's shoulder.
Yu Jiuyin took out Xiyan's soul-calming talisman. The sharp talisman paper instantly cut his left wrist, and the bright red blood stained the entire soul-calming talisman.
The umbrella in Xiyan's hand changed color, as if blood-colored rain had fallen from nowhere. The room was then filled with a unique floral fragrance. Looking again, she saw vines spreading out from the ground, enveloping the bodies. The corrosive liquid they secreted gradually melted the bodies, causing them to vanish.
Xiyan returned to Yu Jiuyin almost at the moment the corpse disappeared. Before entering the soul-calming talisman, she looked at Rongqing worriedly. After receiving Rongqing's affirmative reply that he would take good care of Yu Jiuyin, Xiyan reluctantly returned to the soul-calming talisman with peace of mind.
Rongqing pulled Yu Jiuyin over, let him sit on his lap, and took out a bandage to wrap his wound.
"Aren't you curious about those snakes?"
Rong Qing shook his head, as if Yu Jiuyin’s injury was the only important thing now.
Yu Jiuyin sighed and took the initiative to tell Rongqing about what he had sensed.
"Actually, I noticed the presence of monsters the moment I entered the building. As you know, there are only a few common monsters: weasels, snakes, hedgehogs, rats, and..."
"Fox demon." Rong Qing finished the last sentence for Yu Jiuyin.
"Yes." Yu Jiuyin nodded, "And the monsters that are parasitic on these people are snakes."
"Even back when I was investigating the Cheng family, I've had a vague suspicion. Changing one's luck is something Heavenly Dao doesn't allow, no matter when. Forget about enjoying it for a few years. Even if you carry that concealing talisman constantly, you can't escape Heavenly Dao's punishment. Unless there's another reason."
"You thought of monsters?"
"No. At first I thought it was a problem with the talisman. But when I entered this apartment, I immediately understood why those people were able to survive."
"Because they're not human?"
"Right." Yu Jiuyin paused, then continued, "There's only one way to completely escape the Heavenly Path, and that's to abandon human life and descend into the demonic path. Otherwise, even if you become a fierce ghost, you're still subject to the constraints of cause and effect and can't escape judgment. So then I understood: the owner of this apartment must have used some method to turn them into demons, and it worked. It's just that the human body can't withstand this transformation, so they died within a few years."
"The fact that the Cheng family has survived until now might be an accident. I've seen enough photos of the Cheng family before, and I realized that if they had followed their normal trajectory, Cheng Tian's mother would have exploded from her repression, eventually killing her husband and chopping off her daughter's hands and feet. And after seeing that so-called hide-and-seek game, I understood his thoughts."
"Are you saying that person suspected that only an extremely evil soul could successfully merge with the monster, so he set up this trap and chose the most evil one?"
"Yes. Because only this can explain why the Cheng family only replaced the family at that time, but when they came to the other family, they robbed the family for money and killed them, even slaughtering the entire family, not even sparing the housekeeper."
Rong Qing gasped, and a strange thought suddenly flashed through his mind, "Then how did you survive, Jiuyin?"
Yu Jiuyin also devoured the demon blood, and it's very likely that he even gave his life back to the Yu family's beloved younger brother. So how did he survive in the end?
Yu Jiuyin was silent for a while, then whispered into Rongqing's ear, "I was born with a Taoist body. Even if I lose my qualifications as a human, the Heavenly Dao will eventually let me go."
Rongqing's heart sank instantly.
He had always known that Yu Jiuyin had an excellent talent in the ghost way, but he never expected that Yu Jiuyin would actually be a natural Taoist body.
This meant he was a favored child of the Heavenly Dao. As long as he was not wrong, no matter what kind of magic it was, as long as it involved the Heavenly Dao, Yu Jiuyin could easily learn it. Even the sinister magic of exorcism, which could shorten one's lifespan, would have no effect on Yu Jiuyin. Unless he was maliciously harming others.
But Yu Jiuyin was stripped of his human status and degenerated into a half-demon. Just like a favored child of heaven who fell into disgrace and was despised by everyone, what difference was there?
Rong Qing immediately understood the reason for the occasional world-weariness in Yu Jiuyin's eyes. It wasn't that he wanted to abandon her, but rather that he had already been condemned to the law of nature.
"So what price did you pay for surviving?"
Yu Jiuyin closed his eyes. "I will never grow old. Even if I am the only one left in the world, I will still be alive until everyone around me is gone."
Rong Qing stared at Yu Jiuyin in shock, and after a long while, she hugged him in her arms. "Then aren't we a perfect match? I'm a natural-born ghost. While I'm alive, my appearance will remain fixed at seventeen. When this shell can no longer sustain me, I'll transform into a fierce ghost. You're the immortal half-demon, and I'm the fierce ghost who can't be liberated. Don't you think we're a perfect match?"
Rongqing rarely speaks so many words at once, but this time, every word he said made Yu Jiuyin feel at ease.
Yu Jiuyin originally thought he would live out his life alone. Even with good friends, they could only stay together for a dozen years before they had to separate. He would move on to another place and continue his wandering.
After all, for ordinary people, immortal monsters, no matter how much they resembled humans, would ultimately be unacceptable to the world. But now Rongqing had made a promise to him, giving Yu Jiuyin a sense of security that he would not be alone.
He even felt somewhat fortunate that the person he liked was Rong Qing, and Rong Qing also happened to fall in love with him. Thinking of this, Yu Jiuyin smiled softly.
He leaned against Rongqing and extended his invitation, "Rongrong, this year you must come back to the mountain with me to see Master. He has a way to cure your leg."
"Well, we'll prepare after the case is concluded." Rongqing agreed seriously.
"Then we can end it now." Yu Jiuyin's eyes showed a rare hint of pride, "Zi Yang has caught the culprit."
"When?" Rong Qing recalled for a long time, but he didn't know when Yu Jiuyin arrested people.
"There are four soul-calming talismans. The vine is Xiyan's pet, and the other two are Ziyang and his sword." After Yu Jiuyin finished speaking, a wave came from the void, and an extremely serious tall man walked out from it, holding a human-shaped object in his hand.
The moment Yu Jiuyin saw him, he subconsciously hid behind Rongqing, and then heard the man snort coldly.
"Zi Yang, I'm not hurt." As if a little afraid of him, Yu Jiuyin rarely spoke without confidence.
The man named Zi Yang didn't say anything. He just checked his wounds and made sure that Yu Jiuyin was not seriously injured. Only then did he restrain his terrifying aura.
Yu Jiuyin also breathed a sigh of relief and introduced him to Rongqing. "This is Ziyang. He was the one who took care of me when I was little. Rongrong, you know that Ziyang. He's the partner I chose."
"Yeah." Zi Yang nodded at Rong Qing without saying much, and then reminded Yu Jiuyin, "Don't be stubborn." Then he disappeared into the air.
Yu Jiuyin exhaled, feeling as if he had escaped a disaster. Rongqing was curious about Ziyang's identity, but the criminal had already been apprehended, so the only thing left to do was to close the case.
With this in mind, the two looked down at the culprit that Zi Yang had captured. Just as Yu Jiuyin had guessed, he was not human, but a half-demon with a snake's tail as his lower body.
And now, he was caught and had no intention of resisting. Instead, he kept staring at Yu Jiuyin, his eyes full of greed and desire.
"Tell me about it." Yu Jiuyin didn't waste any time and asked him directly why he wanted to build this apartment.
But the man didn't answer the question, instead he asked Yu Jiuyin a question, "You are also a half-demon, why can you still live like a human?"
The author has something to say: Yu Jiuyin: Because I look good~
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