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Cui Yongle exclaimed in disbelief: "Solved? Really solved? The Mother and Child Demons?"
Zhou Ziqiu nodded.
Cui Yongle never expected that the combination of Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su would be so powerful.
Wen Su looked up and told Cui Yongle about the scenes that appeared after the Mother and Child Evil Spirits were destroyed. Then he stood up, took out the diagram he had drawn yesterday from the car, and circled it with a pen: "I think there's a problem here."
The circle he drew was located in the very center of the mountains, and also in the southeast of Changnan Village, which is near the crime scene!
Cui Yongle nodded: "I will tell Lao Ding and the others that you should rest first."
With that, he took the diagram from Wen Su's hand, turned around, and left, presumably to find the old Ding he had mentioned.
Fatty and Glasses then said to Wen Su, "Boss, you don't need to keep watch tonight. We'll take over. You just focus on recovering."
Wen Su smiled and said, "Thank you."
It was a new day. Wen Su and Zhou Ziqiu were eating breakfast in the SUV. Fatty and Glasses were called to do hard labor, which meant they were sent to dig up the graveyard that Wen Su and Zhou Ziqiu had discovered the day before.
Zhou Ziqiu rubbed his neck and stretched.
"Did you get a stiff neck?" Wen Su asked. They had been sleeping in the car for several days in a row, so body aches were inevitable.
Zhou Ziqiu nodded: "Maybe, I'm much better now."
"Just hang in there, it'll be almost there."
Most of the men were called to dig graves, so they made a quick progress. They went up the mountain early in the morning and came down around noon. However, Zhou Ziqiu noticed that Cui Yongle, who was in charge, did not look well.
"What's wrong?"
Zhou Ziqiu asked curiously.
Cui Yongle didn't speak, but simply handed him a small jade pendant. Zhou Ziqiu took it and found that the pendant was smaller than two of his fingers. He chuckled and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Take a good look," Cui Yongle said coldly.
Wen Su, who was standing to the side, also curiously leaned over. Zhou Ziqiu was turning the jade pendant over and saw a very small line of characters on the side of the pendant. The characters were not the common script of today and were written in an extremely complicated way. Wen Su could not understand the characters. He looked up at Zhou Ziqiu and saw that Zhou Ziqiu's face was pale and his fingers were gripping the jade pendant so tightly that they turned white.
Seeing Zhou Ziqiu's expression, Cui Yongle knew he understood and sighed, "Where was this found?"
Zhou Ziqiu did not hear Cui Yongle speak; a buzzing sound filled his ears, making it impossible to hear anything.
Why?
Why would there be something like this here?
Probably not.
A wind rose from the ground, and Zhou Ziqiu heard what sounded like a dragon's roar in his ear. The roar was not clear; it was filled with pain.
What did Wen Su say before? The Dragon Trapping Trap, but what kind of dragon is trapped?
Now, Zhou Ziqiu clearly understands that what is trapped is a dragon that yearns to soar into the sky.
"Little beauty?" Wen Su frowned, waved his hand in front of Zhou Ziqiu's eyes, not understanding why a jade pendant would elicit such a strange reaction from Zhou Ziqiu.
Wen Su's wave of his hand brought Zhou Ziqiu back to his senses. The dragon's roar disappeared, and the surrounding noise entered his ears. He smiled slightly, and although his face was still not good, it had regained some color.
"I'm fine." Zhou Ziqiu shook his head. "It's time to go to the crime scene."
This was decided late last night: dig up the grave in the morning and dig up the crime scene in the afternoon.
Wen Su glanced at Zhou Ziqiu with concern, then stood up and said, "Then you shouldn't join either. Just watch from the sidelines."
Zhou Ziqiu laughed and said, "Alright, it's up to you guys now."
After lunch, everyone gathered in the courtyard of the crime scene and began digging around the muddy ground, shovel by shovel.
With everyone working together, things got done quickly. Around 3 p.m., they dug a large pit in the yard where the crime scene was located, and then sent several people down into the pit to dig.
About an hour later, a police officer's shovel seemed to have struck something, making a dull "clink" sound. He quickly called out to the people around him, "We found it! We found it!"
"What did we find?!" the person on the ground shouted to the bottom of the pit.
Wen Su was also sent to the bottom of the pit. Hearing the sound, he turned around and walked to the police officer's side: "I'll do it."
The police officer immediately made way for Wen Su, who then dug a few more times at the spot where he had said he had found something, until a large black unidentified object was revealed. The object was large, its edges were still covered by soil, and the exposed material did not look like stone. It was pitch black, and the sunlight shone on it with a faint glimmer.
Everyone hurriedly started digging around again until all the blackness was exposed. Only then could they see that it was a square black object that was three meters long. After brushing away the soil, the runes carved on it with a knife were also revealed. Wen Su looked down and carefully examined it and found that it was a corpse-suppressing talisman.
Since it's a corpse-suppressing talisman, the contents inside must be something bad. It's already nighttime, and the yin energy is heavy at night, so it's not suitable to open it. They left a few of the employees with the green lamps behind and went back to their cars, planning to open it during the day tomorrow.
"Xiao Qiu, come here for a second." Cui Yongle beckoned to Zhou Ziqiu. Zhou Ziqiu knew what he wanted to say, so he got up and went to a secluded place.
“We’ve found it, haven’t we?” Cui Yongle asked.
Zhou Ziqiu didn't answer immediately, but nodded after a few seconds, adding, "Probably."
Cui Yongle breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that we found it. All these years have been worthwhile."
Zhou Ziqiu recalled the words written on the jade pendant and fell silent again.
During the day, Shi Wensu asked him what was written on it, but he didn't say. He only said it was ancient script and that he couldn't understand it, but in reality, he could.
"Let's talk about it after we open that tomorrow," Zhou Ziqiu said.
"That's true, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Back at the car, Zhou Ziqiu's expression remained calm, but Wen Su noticed the unusual feeling in Zhou Ziqiu's heart. He reached out and handed the teapot filled with tea to Zhou Ziqiu: "Want some? I bought this tea from the villagers at a high price."
Zhou Ziqiu took the kettle, the delicate fragrance of tea wafting into his nose, inexplicably reminding him of the scent he had smelled on Wen Su's coat that day: "Thank you."
"Stop looking so long-faced. Once that thing is done tomorrow, this will be all over." Wen Su sat down next to Zhou Ziqiu, casually taking out a cigarette and putting it in his mouth.
If I activate that thing, will the problem really be solved?
Zhou Ziqiu lowered his eyes and remained silent.
During the day, the exciting moment of opening the lid finally arrived. Everyone gathered at the edge of the pit, and several strong police officers stood at the bottom of the pit, ready to push open the lid. But when the lid was only pushed open a crack, everyone present changed their expressions. Zhou Ziqiu quickly moved closer to Wen Su, and Wen Su's expression also changed, and he also reached out to cover his nose.
It stinks!
It wasn't the usual stench of a rural septic tank, nor the stench of a garbage dump, but a rotten, decaying, and filthy stench that was unbearable for both of them.
"Damn it! What the hell did they bury here?!" someone muttered under their breath.
The people at the bottom of the pit looked even more pained.
After a while, the smell dissipated a little. Together, they pushed the lid open, and the secret buried inside for who knows how long was finally revealed—
Inside was a corpse that had long since turned into a mummified corpse!
What shocked everyone present even more were the items surrounding the mummified corpse!
The underground space is also square, about one and a half meters high, and is fully exposed under the sunlight. The mummified body is dressed in ancient burial clothes, with its hands clasped together on its abdomen, lying in the center.
The ground around the mummified body was inlaid with crystal spheres, with yellow agate in front, followed by white agate, black chalcedony, red chalcedony, and pink agate arranged in a counter-clockwise direction, forming a six-star pattern. The surrounding walls were inlaid with several copper coins, arranged in the shape of the "Twenty-Eight Mansions".
All the police officers present looked at the people from Qingdeng, and the people from Qingdeng looked at Cui Yongle, Wen Su, and Zhou Ziqiu, who were the three people who knew the most about this.
"This...this is!"
After Zhou Ziqiu took in the layout of his surroundings, a look of shock appeared on his face. Then, with a solemn expression, he looked up at Wen Su and Cui Yongle, who were also looking at him.
“Thunder Pool, and the incomplete Reverse Seven Star Array,” Wen Su said, and Zhou Ziqiu nodded.
Thunder Pool, the common name for the Ghost-Locking Formation, is a method specifically used to imprison evil spirits. According to the theory of the Book of Changes, the day belongs to Yang and the night belongs to Yin. Ghosts can only be active at night. When the ancients observed the stars, they divided the entire night sky into twenty-eight star regions, called the "Twenty-Eight Mansions." Each mansion contains several stars. The method of setting up the "Thunder Pool" is to place twenty-eight copper coins around the evil spirit, artificially defining a false "Twenty-Eight Mansions." Since the number of copper coins is Yang, it creates the illusion for the evil spirit that if it crosses the "Thunder Pool," it will enter the "Yang Realm."
As for the Seven Star Array, its full name is the Wealth-Attracting Seven Star Array. It is arranged with crystal spheres in the order of the Big Dipper. After the array is formed, it generates the magnetic field energy of the Seven Star Array. After forty-nine days, the overall magnetic field is combined, at which time the energy is extremely strong, and the prosperous energy and wealth-attracting fortune are completed.
However, using the Seven Star Array here violates the air circulation rules required for such an array, and the Seven Star Array is used in reverse, abruptly transforming it from an array for attracting wealth and prosperity into one for trapping wind and imprisoning water. Furthermore, its interaction with the Feng Shui "trapped dragon" formation here turns this place into a veritable "gathering yin basin."
This is probably why the series of murders here have occurred, such as the seemingly controlled killer and the increasingly irritable husband.
Why do this?
But now is not the time to think about why; they should be thinking about how to break this formation.
Breaking the formation isn't actually that difficult; all you need to do is destroy the formation's core. Wen Su looked at Zhou Ziqiu and Cui Yongle and asked, "Then, where is the core of the formation?"
Zhou Ziqiu pointed to the inverted six-star array on the ground: "The seven-star array has yellow agate, white agate, black chalcedony, red chalcedony, and pink agate, but it is missing the final positioning sphere: the fluorite sphere. Without one of these, the array cannot be formed, so the key to the array should be that fluorite sphere." After a pause, he looked up at Wen Su: "It's right here. It won't be placed too far away."
Wen Su frowned slightly. After the policeman next to him finished taking the photos, he jumped into the pit. He pointed to the mummified corpse on the ground, which was lying in the center of the inverted six-star formation: "It should be on this corpse."
Because the fluorite sphere is the main stone sphere in the very center of the Seven Star Array, and the mummified corpse lies in the center of the array.
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