After going upstairs and putting all the talismans that had been drawn and stored at home into his bag, Gu Zhisang went downstairs again.
Zheng Ruyu was standing by the tree and talking to his superior on the phone. When he saw her coming down, he glanced at her backpack and said:
"Miss Gu, please wait a moment. A special car has been sent to pick you up and will take you to the airport soon. We are already arranging a temporary ticket for you."
"Don't bother. It's too slow."
Gu Zhisang shook his head and said, "Tell me what the disappearance of people is first."
Zheng Ruyu was stunned for a moment, and said, "It's like this. The people of that generation in the southwest of Hunan Province are quite special. The person in charge of the branch of the Spirit Group there is a colleague of the Miao ethnic group, who is a descendant of the ancient village."
Hunan Province has been a very mysterious region since ancient times.
The methods and techniques of the Taoist scholars in that area were completely opposite to the yang, righteousness and strength advocated by orthodox Buddhism and Taoism. They mostly made use of yin energy and raised poisonous insects.
The most famous of these are "corpse driving" and "poisoning".
More than a hundred years ago, the Taoist masters who came out of Hunan Province were very ostracized. People thought they were not decent people but evil.
Because of this, the relationship between the hermit scholars in Hunan Province and the Xuanmen is not good, and they have never accepted the discipline of the Xuanmen. They are one of the few factions in Xia Kingdom that dare to confront the Xuanmen.
After the country established the spiritual group, it had friendly exchanges with the Xuanmen faction in Hunan Province and jointly controlled the local area. The head of the branch was also a famous "Great Witch" of the Wujiang lineage, and had a good relationship with Zheng Ruyu.
Zheng Ruyu: "Around 3 o'clock this afternoon, the first missing person report was made in a city on the edge of Hunan Province. According to eyewitnesses, the two girls who were abducted looked to be only 15 or 16 years old. They were probably two students who were out shopping on holiday. Suddenly, a dark figure rushed out from the alley and abducted the two people. It happened so fast and so suddenly that no one could take a picture of the figure."
"According to eyewitnesses, the creature looked like a very strong adult male. At first glance, it seemed to be covered in hair and it was unknown whether it was wearing any clothes. After receiving the report, the local police did not think it was a special incident but a common kidnapping case. They checked the surrounding surveillance and mobilized police forces to carry out the arrest."
"Who would have thought that just over an hour later, another street robbery broke out in the neighboring city. The kidnapped person was a six-year-old boy. This time, many people saw something that looked like a monster and moved at an inhuman speed, which caused some panic..."
By this time, the local police department had already noticed that something was wrong.
Because of the prevalence of local customs, they were more or less aware of the existence of the special department, so they reported the two cases to the Hunan Provincial Spiritual Group.
The person in charge of the branch is a descendant of the Miao people. Among the older generation he knows, there are "corpse raisers" and "corpse drivers". After checking the surveillance footage, he discovered that the thing that broke into the city was actually a zombie of a fairly high level!
It's the hairy zombie that the Spirit Team just issued a wanted notice for.
She immediately contacted the headquarters, and the spiritual team then determined the exact location of the Feng Shui master.
As of just now, a total of 4 women and 6 men have been missing around Hunan Province.
The females were almost all between twelve and sixteen years old, while the males were between five and eight years old.
Among the missing people, there was a young girl who was abducted from the vicinity of the ancient village. She was the descendant of the "witch" in the village and was abducted by a hairy zombie while she was collecting herbs on the top of the mountain. Also appearing at the edge of the ancient village was the missing Feng Shui master.
He injured the "great witch" beside the girl and fled into the mountains with the hairy zombie.
According to the "great wizard" who escaped death, the Feng Shui master was carrying a black coffin more than one meter high on his back, which did not look like the size of an adult coffin.
Moreover, the hairy zombie beside him was clearly a corpse that had not been refined, but for some reason it was very obedient to the Feng Shui master's words.
Hearing this, Gu Zhisang frowned, and she nodded and said, "I understand the situation. I'll go over now."
Zheng Ruyu was just wondering how she was going to get through when her eyes widened and she was so shocked by the scene in front of her that she was speechless.
Gu Zhisang stomped the ground under her feet with a calm face, and the aura around her changed instantly. The next second, a tall and dark ghost gate rose from the ground and appeared behind her out of thin air.
The negative energy of the underworld overflowed from the ghost gate, causing the surrounding temperature to drop instantly, making Gu Zhisang look like a Shura in the underworld.
Zheng Ruyu stammered: "This, this is... the ghost gate?!"
Gu Zhisang nodded, walked closer to the ghost gate, and seeing that she was still in a daze, he asked in confusion: "Why don't you come over? It will be faster this way."
Zheng Ruyu: ...
"No, I have to stay in Rongcheng and can't leave. I originally arranged for a few team members to go with you, and planned to let you meet at the airport."
Of course she knew it was so fast, this was the legendary ghost gate!!
The Ghost Gate is the medium connecting the Yin and Yang worlds.
It can appear in any corner, and generally only the underworld's evil spirits have the ability to open the ghost gate at will.
There are also Xuanmen masters with sharp spiritual perception and pure yin attributes who are chosen to be the Ghost Gate, but opening the Ghost Gate consumes their energy, and secondly, only souls can travel through the Ghost Gate.
Zheng Ruyu had never heard of anyone who could summon the ghost gate with a wave of his hand and enter with a physical body.
Who on earth is this Gu Zhisang? !
After Gu Zhisang found out the location where Mao Jiang last appeared, he waved his hand to Zheng Ruyu and said:
"No need for companions, I'll go ahead. If you have any questions, please call me."
As she spoke, she plunged into the ghost gate, allowing the dark energy in the gate to swallow her.
Zheng Ruyu was still in shock and unable to recover until the ghost gate disappeared and the surroundings returned to peace.
She called her superior and told him what had just happened. The person on the other end of the phone was obviously a little shocked, and after a while he said:
"This Gu Zhisang is not simple. Don't make enemies with her. You must pull her into the spirit group."
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At the intersection of Huangquan Road, a bull with a steel fork on his shoulder was chewing on the Yinsha grass beside the Sanzu River. He was bored and watching the ghosts moving slowly forward on Huangquan Road, sighing roughly.
The little ghost at the side flattered: "Why are you sighing, sir? If there is anything that makes you uncomfortable, let me share your worries."
"Go farther away and don't interfere with my supervision."
The bull stared with impatience.
There are no contestants to follow and no shows to watch. How can a little ghost help it solve this problem?
Although the technical ghosts in the King of Hell's Palace are quite efficient and have introduced some skits from the mortal world into the underworld, the response has been mediocre.
Most of the ghosts are counting the days with their fingers, waiting for the release of the new episode of "Spiritual Affairs".
Niu Tou took out the new Tiandi brand mobile phone that the little ghost had just presented to him, and sighed again. The new show would not start until one day later, and he couldn't wait to see Sangsang.
After turning off the screen, Niu Tou raised his eyes and saw a familiar figure appear at the Huangquan intersection.
Bullhead:? ! !
"Sang...Gu Zhisang?"
Hearing his name, Gu Zhisang Niutou glanced at Niutou and nodded to it, "Master Yincha, I have something to ask for help from the underworld."
After saying this, she flashed and disappeared at the Huangquan intersection.
Niutou, who was eager to talk to his favorite contestant, disappeared before he could even start talking. He could not help but beat his chest and stamp his feet, feeling even more depressed.
Soon the news that Gu Zhisang appeared in Huangquan and borrowed a road from the underworld spread throughout the underworld. Even though many ghosts knew that she was gone, they still swarmed to the Huangquan intersection, trying to see if they could ambush her.
…
In western Hunan Province, at the foot of a mountain
Faint ripples appeared in the empty air, and a spooky ghost door suddenly appeared.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Zhisang, the new top figure in the underworld, walked out.
She held a compass in her hand and looked around after stepping out of the ghost gate. She frowned slightly as she looked at the mountains not far away.
This is Fubai Mountain in western Hunan Province. Most of the people living at the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountain are Miao people. According to the news received by the Spirit Group, the last place where the Feng Shui master and the Mao Jiang appeared was here. The descendants of the "witch" who abducted the ancient Miao village have fled into the mountains again.
Because there were no objects related to the two, nor anything that carried their scent, it was difficult for Gu Zhisang to accurately locate their position in the mountains.
Fortunately, the Ling Group officially notified the head of the Hunan branch in advance. Ten minutes later, a young Miao woman wearing Miao clothes and silver ornaments on her head and neck met Gu Zhisang.
She had a slightly round face, cute features, plump cheeks, and not very fair skin with a healthy blush.
She was wearing flat embroidered cloth shoes, but she was half a head taller than Gu Zhisang, probably over 1.75 meters tall.
The first time she saw Gu Zhisang, she was amazed, then stepped forward and shook her hand, saying, "Ms. Gu Zhisang? Thank you for coming to help us with the case."
"My name is Ge Liao Chan. You can call me Chan Nu like everyone else in the tribe."
Ge Liao is one of the twelve major surnames of the Miao nationality. Nowadays, there are not many Miao people who still retain this ancient surname, and only the Wujiang lineage has passed it down from generation to generation.
After a brief greeting, Ge Liaochan handed her a headscarf embroidered with patterns and said:
"The missing little 'witch' is my distant descendant. This is the headscarf she used to wear. I brought it to you. I hope it will be of some use in finding her."
After Gu Zhisang took it, she carefully felt the scent on the headscarf. After searching, she found a strand of hair. After twisting it up, she said:
"It's much easier to find with this."
She pinched a cluster of spiritual fire and set her hair on fire, and a faint smell of burning egg white emanated.
Rubbing the black ash of the burned hair with his fingertips, Gu Zhisang looked up at the towering Fubai Mountain in front of him and said, "The person is still in the mountain. I'll go in and take a look."
Ge Liaochan said hurriedly: "How about I go with you? There are hairy zombies around the thief, I'm afraid you can't deal with it alone, and I don't feel comfortable letting you take the risk alone. Don't worry, I have been traveling through mountains and rivers for many years, I am very strong and fast, I won't hold you back!"
Ever since she heard that the younger generation of the tribe was captured, she has been angry and anxious.
But what she was good at was raising Gu, and she knew nothing about searching for people.
The damn thief had used some unknown method to conceal his own scent and the scent of others, and ordinary police dogs were of no use in this special incident.
Gu Zhisang wanted to refuse, she was not used to traveling with others;
But Ge Liaochan, a girl taller than her and perhaps older, begged her in a very familiar and soft manner, her pair of dark eyes staring straight at her.
The refusal that comes to your mouth becomes "it's up to you".
Ge Liaochan smiled and said, "Great! How should I call you? Sangsang? Zhisang?"
“Sangsang, did you use this compass to locate the position of the thief? To be honest, the magic tools used by the masters in your Central Plains are too difficult to understand. If there were no Gu that was good at positioning among the ones I raised, I would have rushed into the mountains and captured the thief long ago! How dare he touch the people in our village and capture so many civilians…”
Ge Liaochan was more talkative than Gu Zhisang had expected, and the two of them travelled very quickly from the foot of Fubai Mountain to the halfway point.
During this period, they also met some men and women from the Miao village. All of them had serious expressions and were searching for missing tribesmen in the mountains.
Seeing Ge Liaochan and Gu Zhisang beside her, she greeted them in Miao dialect:
"Cicada girl, you brought outsiders back?"
"Am, you go back. This sister is here to help find Dada." Ge Liaochan replied.
Gu Zhisang sprinkled some of the missing "witch's" hair on the compass needle, and as the needle drifted slightly, she also changed direction.
When she reached a pine and bamboo forest, she suddenly stopped.
The compass needle in my palm has stopped moving.
Feeling the wind and air flow in the forest, a deep look appeared in Gu Zhisang's eyes.
She calmly held down Ge Liaochan's arm and lowered her voice: "Can you protect yourself?"
Ge Liaochan's expression became serious, and his baby face looked quite imposing. "Not only can it protect itself, it can also kill people. Have you discovered anything?"
"Right here." Gu Zhisang said firmly, "The breath of the owner of the hair stopped here. I can feel that she is still alive, but..."
There was a chill in her dark pupils. "There is a bloody smell in the air. Although that person used a Feng Shui formation to cover up the smell and the surrounding scene, it can't hide from my senses. He and the hairy zombie should be inside the formation. I'm breaking the formation now, so be careful of a sneak attack."
Hearing the smell of blood, Ge Liaochan's pupils shrank slightly, and he couldn't help but feel angry.
You know, the thief took away ten hostages!
I'm afraid something bad has happened to them...
Knowing that the fleeing Feng Shui master and the hairy zombie were nearby, Ge Liaochan became alert, watching the leaves rustling in the wind all around him, and felt that they were like the hairy zombies that were about to pounce on him at any time.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw some red dots hanging on a tree and suddenly stopped. After careful observation she discovered that it was indeed a piece of red satin tied to the tip of a branch!
Ge Liaochan's expression gradually became serious, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Sangsang, do you think that bastard is going to cause trouble here?"
Gu Zhisang: "What's wrong?"
"I suddenly remembered that there is an abandoned stone forest not far ahead. This place is known only to the 'pooches' and 'witches' in the nearby villages. It is very hidden and has special significance to the Miao people."
"Did you see the tree on the right, diagonally above it? I just discovered that there is a red rope tied to the branch."
Gu Zhisang looked in the direction that Ge Liaochan said, and indeed saw a shadowy red mark among the rustling trees. "What is that?"
"That's the 'fetal paralysis rope', a unique magic of the Miao people."
As the name suggests, 'parasitic fetus' is related to the fetus.
In the Miao villages, a newly-pregnant bride usually has to work and can only lie at home to take care of the fetus. However, there are many gravels in the mountains and forests, and landslides are easy. If a bride falls or is hit by livestock, she may easily have a miscarriage.
For this reason, the experienced old "witches" in the village will use the "fetal preservation technique" passed down by their ancestors to help pregnant women protect their fetuses.
Ge Liaochan said: "I have seen my master use this kind of red string to transfer fetuses to others."
As she recalled, the Miao girl who came to her master to seek surrogate motherhood was a very shy villager who was only a month pregnant at the time.
The master burned incense for this ritual, and burned the peach charms and hemp rope that he had cut in advance into ashes. He put them in a bowl and made a bowl of charm water, which he let the pregnant Miao girl drink.
Then she cut a red rope into two halves, and used one half to wrap a medicine bag. The medicine bag would be filled with peach leaves, talismans and the like, and would be worn on the pregnant woman, and must not be taken off except when taking a bath.
The other half of the red rope is used as a medium for the fetus and is tied to the object to be deposited.
In Miao villages, the fetus can usually be placed in a foster home when it is in its forties or fifties.
The "Gu Po" will first rub the pregnant woman's abdomen repeatedly with her palms, which is to draw out the soul of the fetus, and then place it on a relatively stable object and tie it with a red rope, such as a stone pillar, a house or a big tree.
Pregnant women with stable fetuses only need to be reborn once. Pregnant women with unstable or weak bodies need to go to a "Gu Po" to protect their fetuses every two or three months until the fetus grows to eight months in the womb. Then they need to go to the "Gu Po" to retrieve the soul fetus and put the child back into the pregnant woman's belly.
Otherwise, even if the fetus is full-term, it will not be born or may be stillborn.
Ge Liaochan looked at the red string on the tip of the leaf and pursed his lips and said, "Like the parasitic fetus, it must be that the pregnant woman's family was not polite and respectful to the 'Gu Po', or the 'Gu Po' she hired was malicious and deliberately did something bad. You see, the red string is on the branch, it's not stable at all."
"If the wind blows and the red string on the branch flutters, the baby in the pregnant woman's belly will be uneasy, causing her to have cramps day and night. In the long run, it will be more likely to cause miscarriage!"
"But this is just an isolated case. When I saw this rope, I suddenly remembered that when my master was performing a fetal transfer, she would tie the rope in a stone forest not far away. She said that the mountain air there is good and is good for the fetus. All the 'Gu Po's' who perform fetal transfer would choose this place as their first choice!"
"Do you think that thief has good intentions when he lured the hairy zombies here?!"
Gu Zhisang sneered, "Of course it's impossible. You take two steps back and I will break the formation immediately."
As she spoke, she took out a box of black and white chess pieces, held them with two fingers together and threw them towards a fixed direction.
The chess pieces spun very far away like darts. They clearly landed on the open space, but it was as if they hit a barrier, causing ripples in the surrounding air.
Seeing this, Ge Liaochan took out a small golden cup from his bosom and tapped the outer shell of the cup with his fingertips quickly and rhythmically, as if he was trying to awaken some creature. "Sure enough, there is a formation!"
When the third chess piece was thrown, the surrounding bamboo forest had already begun to change subtly;
This is the most superficial deception and has been broken by Gu Zhisang.
She began to move, hitting the chess piece at the breaking point while moving forward.
Ge Liaochan could only see that every step she took was very rhythmic and the air around her would tremble when she stepped on it, but he had no idea of the danger involved!
How could a Feng Shui master who could set up a double dangerous formation in the Gao family with just a few strokes be an ordinary person?
The formation he set up in the forest contained the "Qi Men Dun Jia" technique, and the technique was extremely sophisticated and complex. It was a formation set up by the interlacing and changing of the four plates of "Heaven, Earth, Man and God".
The "Human Plate" of "Qi Men Dun Jia" has eight gates: Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Jing, Si, Jing, Kai.
The Feng Shui master used the Tianchong Star and Tianrui Star of the 'Sky Plate' as a cover, and used the changes of the Eight Diagrams of the 'Earth Plate' to reverse the number of gates, turning life into death and good into bad. If an ordinary master of Xuanzang entered this formation, he would be confused by the superficial gate of life and directly step into the gate of death and be strangled to death!
He himself was extremely confident in his ability to set up formations. After watching Gu Zhisang step into the formation in the dark, a twisted and complacent smile appeared on his face.
It was as if he had already seen Gu Zhisang stepping into the gate of death and dying.
The cloth-robed man touched the dark coffin behind him, his face showing kindness, "My son, your father will avenge you soon. If you can eat that woman, you will definitely be able to advance to the level of 'Unbreakable Bones'..."
However, before he could finish his words, his expression suddenly changed, and he suddenly jumped up and rolled to the side in embarrassment.
A pitch-black chess piece with a sharp momentum brushed his cheek and slammed into the ground where he had just been. Because he dodged so poorly, the man didn't even have time to grab the coffin.
The door of the black coffin was cracked by the airflow, and a small corpse that had been decayed beyond human form rolled out.
□□Black and purple festering, with a huge hole in the chest.
Gu Zhisang had broken the formation at some point. He looked directly at the Feng Shui master, looking down at him with a sneer on his lips. "Eat me? Without turning my bones into flesh?"
"You're quite daring in this daydream?"
"My son!" The Feng Shui master's eyes were red with anger, and he cried out as he looked at the corpse that fell out of the coffin.
At the same time, he was filled with resentment and shock beyond words.
This woman!
How could she possibly break through her own life and death formation? !
Gu Zhisang flicked the fallen leaves on his shoulder with his slender fingertips, his cheeks as white as snow, "You don't think that you are the only master of the Qi Men Dun Jia in the world, right? It's just that the life and death are reversed. There are flaws everywhere in your show-off skills, and you are confident."
Her expressionless face and even somewhat contemptuous tone were learned from the "No way, no way..." literature from the haters in the live broadcast room.
Now seeing that Feng Shui master's face is ferocious and he is so angry that he has difficulty breathing, the effect should be good.
Gu Zhisang's gaze fell on the corpse of the child that was so rotten that it could no longer be seen as a human. He then looked at the surrounding formations and environment. The corners of his lips were still curved, but his gaze and tone were extremely cold.
"So you went to so much trouble to steal so many things and capture so many innocent children as sacrifices in order to 'resurrect' your son."
After the sleight of hand of "Qi Men Dun Jia" disappeared, the scene two hundred meters away was exposed exactly as it was.
Ge Liaochan's pupils shrank, and his voice trembled: "Tada!"
In front of the vaguely visible stone forest not far away, there was an extremely sinister scene.
A large square hole was dug out on the open ground, which was estimated to be two meters long and wide. The hairy zombie was lying quietly in the pit, with a white jade finger bone half embedded in its chest.
There are six racks standing on all four sides of the pit.
Six boys aged 5 to 8 were tied to a rack, their hands and legs were tied with ropes and their mouths were sealed with tape.
There was a small round pit under their feet. Six thin tunnels were dug along the pit to connect to the big pit where the hairy zombie was lying. There was an opening for each child's arm or ankle.
The gurgling blood will overflow from the wound, drip into the hole beneath the body, and then flow into the big pit along the small tunnel.
In addition, the surrounding area was covered with strange and evil runes painted with cinnabar.
This is a very vicious blood sacrifice formation. The six little boys who were used as substitute sacrifices were similar in gender and age to the Feng Shui master's son when he was alive.
Because of the pressure of the ropes, their wounds would not be able to clot and would slowly bleed until all the blood in their bodies was drained and flowed into the hairy zombies.
Fortunately, Gu Zhisang came through the underworld, and he found him and broke the formation at an extraordinary speed. At this time, the Feng Shui master had just finished drawing the formation, and the children had only been injured for a few minutes.
Their faces were pale and their eyes were filled with tears of fear and pain.
If any other Xuan Master came, it would take a long time just to break the formation. By the time it was broken, several young and weak children would have bled to death, and the blood sacrifice of the hairy zombie would have been completed.
With the sacrifice of six boys, the hairy zombies that were already on the verge of advancement can become flying zombies in one fell swoop!
In addition to the boy who was sacrificed alive, there were four girls who were tied up and lying motionless next to the hairy zombie. One of the girls had fainted due to fright.
As soon as the flying zombie, which had sucked enough blood, opened its eyes, the first things it would bite to death would be the four girls. Then its ferocity would increase drastically!
The only girl in the pit who was still calm was wearing Miao clothing. She was the missing "witch" Ge Mi Dada.
When she heard the sound of Ge Liao Chan, her eyes lit up and she raised her head and tried to look outside the pit.
Gu Zhisang narrowed his eyes, "You are worse than a pig or a dog. It's not enough to use your own son as a substitute to ward off evil. You also want to refine his corpse into a vicious creature to bring disaster to the world on your behalf."
"If your son, who should have been reincarnated long ago, saw you in the underworld, he would probably come back to the world of the living and kill you with his own hands!"
The Feng Shui master was exposed for his false kindness and became furious, "Bitch! I'm going to kill you!"
He made a hand gesture and muttered something, then suddenly shouted, "Zombies, tear them apart for me!"
As the voice fell, the hairy zombie that had been lying quietly in the pit suddenly opened its eyes wide, and used all four limbs to jump up from the pit. Under the horified gazes of several boys and girls, it roared and pounced towards Gu Zhisang and Ge Liaochan.
Ge Liaochan held the golden cup in both hands, and his fingertips moved faster.
There were bursts of buzzing sounds coming from the cup. She pressed the top of the cup to open the lid. A golden-red poisonous insect with wings as thin as a cicada's wing flew out of the cup. It was as big as a human palm.
The rhythm of her fingertips playing the golden cup was like a call, "Go!"
After a sound, the golden-red poisonous insect went straight to the hairy zombie.
Gu Zhisang's eyes swept across the half-submerged jade finger bones in the hairy zombie's chest and its wide-open mouth and tongue. When she saw a hint of dark red, she finally understood the purpose of this Feng Shui master stealing the master's relics from Huicheng Temple.
She hurriedly said, "Don't! There's a flesh relic under the tongue of that hairy zombie!"
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