After Aunt Li told Lao Liu that his son was in the coffin, Lao Liu completely collapsed and became stupid. He held Yue Ya madly and refused to let go, believing that Yue Ya was his son.
"My dear, you are finally back. Daddy missed you so much!" Old Liu hugged Yueya, crying: "Don't leave daddy again in the future, wuwuwu..."
The Liu family members came over to persuade them, but Old Liu glared back, "Are you trying to steal my son? You bad guys, get out of here!"
The Liu family was helpless, and the townspeople were even more helpless. They asked Aunt Li, "Who is this child? We have never seen him before. Could he really be Old Liu's son who wandered around?"
Lao Liu’s wife inexplicably raised her head and glared at them fiercely: “You can tell with your toes that Lao Liu can’t give birth to such a fairy baby. Besides, the child is so young. Don’t talk nonsense here! Lao Liu just refused to accept that his son was gone, so he became like this... After hearing the bad news, we old couple haven’t slept a wink... Our son is gone, my wife has gone crazy, my life is so miserable... What should I do in the future!”
"Aunt Liu, don't cry, think positively!"
As soon as Aunt Liu started crying, Liu's relatives also started crying. The townspeople were infected by the crying and started crying too. The situation suddenly got out of control.
The mayor rushed over, but was helpless in the face of this chaotic scene.
Yue Ya was so upset by the noise that he pushed Lao Liu's face away with his hand: "Stop crying, I'm not your son."
"You are my son!" Old Liu sat down on the ground and hugged him tighter.
"Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to tell you the truth," Yue Ya took a deep breath, patted Lao Liu on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "Actually, I am your father."
Old Liu: “?” He was stunned.
Yue Ya said seriously: "I know it's hard for you to accept, but you are indeed my son who is living away from home."
Old Liu stared at him blankly, then suddenly shouted, "Dad!!"
Yue Ya: “…” You don’t have to accept it so quickly.
The townspeople were nearly knocked down by the thunder.
Where on earth did this kid come from? And...Old Liu was really dumbfounded!
"Dad! Dad, Dad, Dad!" Old Liu shook Yueya's hand and looked at him expectantly: "Take me out to play! Take me out to play!"
Yue Ya took another deep breath and said, "Son, do you listen to what your father says?"
"listen!"
"Then go to bed first. Dad will take you out to play tomorrow."
"Okay! I'll be good!"
Old Liu finally calmed down. No one dared to disturb him. They just watched Yue Ya take the well-behaved Old Liu into the house to rest.
Old Liu's family thanked Yueya profusely. Aunt Liu might have had some thoughts and asked Yueya all sorts of questions. Yueya answered with a few words and pointed to the mourning hall: "I want to go and burn some incense."
The farce is over, but a lot of time has been wasted, and Yue Ya has not made any progress so far.
Aunt Liu wiped her eyes and said, "Good boy, I'll take you there."
The mayor was standing guard at the door of the mourning hall. When he saw Yue Ya, he immediately came forward and said, "Child, you are the one Aunt Li mentioned..."
Yue Ya: "Wait a moment, I will burn incense for the deceased first."
The mayor nodded: "Okay, we'll talk about other things later."
Aunt Liu went to get the incense. Yue Ya looked around. The mourning hall was simply decorated, with tablets and incense burners on the table. In the middle of the hall was an open coffin. Because the corpse was too horrifying, the family covered the body with a layer of white cloth that was stained with blood.
Yueya walked to the side of the coffin, used his spiritual energy to transform into a wisp of wind, and lifted the white cloth.
Yue Ya had known for a long time that this was a headless corpse, but he did not expect the state of the corpse to be so tragic. The deceased was probably just an adult, and his head seemed to have been bitten off by something. His neck was bloody and his white bones poked out. Even his shoulders were not spared and were pierced by several teeth marks.
Yue Ya pursed her lips and used the wind to lift the white cloth to the chest of the deceased. The deceased was only wearing a coat on his upper body. Three long and thin penetrating scars could be seen on the deceased's heart and wrists, like blood marks left by a sharp weapon. The method was completely inconsistent with the rough scars on the neck.
The townspeople said that the murderer was the Lion-awake Demon, but judging from the wounds on the deceased's body, the penetrating wound to the heart could also be the fatal wound, but the two fatal wounds to the neck and heart did not seem to be caused by the same murderer.
Is there another hidden murderer besides the Awakening Lion Demon?
"How come the white cloth was blown away? This is unlucky!" Aunt Liu handed the lit incense to Yueya and hurriedly tidied up the white cloth.
There was no evil spirit or resentment on the deceased, so Yue Ya felt that he would not rise again. However, he had already seen everything that needed to be seen, so it didn't hurt to cover it up.
"Ah!" Aunt Liu screamed and fell to the ground. The bloodstained white cloth rose up and slowly covered her head.
"Why are you so careless?" Yue Ya helped Aunt Liu remove the white cloth and found that her face was full of fear and even her pupils were trembling.
Aunt Liu bit her lower lip hard, then uttered a trembling sound: "My goose's four limbs... bang bang bang!"
Aunt Liu's pronunciation was very unclear, and she was nervous with a rural accent. Yue Ya didn't hear clearly: "What's dong dong?"
Aunt Liu became more and more anxious and could not speak. She pointed at the coffin with a shaking finger.
Yue Ya looked up and saw that the headless corpse suddenly sat up!
Isn't there no evil spirit or resentment? How come the corpse came back to life? Fortunately, I didn't start the live broadcast, otherwise the Pixiu sign would have fallen on my hand today.
If you are going to die, just lie down. Why are you doing sit-ups or exercising your abdominal muscles?
Aunt Liu was terribly frightened, but she quickly took on the responsibility of an adult, grabbed Yue'er's hand and ran out: "The corpse has risen! Everyone, run!"
Everyone reacted and ran out of the door.
The corpse jumped out of the coffin with a muffled sound.
Aunt Liu took Yueya and ran to the yard before stopping. Yueya looked towards the mourning hall. The corpse was like a headless fly, running around in the mourning hall, and its body made a "clacking" sound as if its bones were moving.
Yueya felt that this newly-awakened zongzi was not very threatening—it had no head, so it did not have blood-sucking teeth.
But the townspeople didn't think so. They were terrified and fled in all directions.
"It seems that he died unjustly and is now reborn. What should we do now?"
Someone said, "What else can we do? Go get an exorcist!"
"I can run fast, I'll go!"
"No need to invite me, I'm here." A steady male voice sounded in the yard. Yue Ya looked back and saw a man in black walking towards her through the crowd.
The man looked to be about thirty years old, tall and thin, wearing a half-face mask with his left eye completely covered by the mask. His skin was as pale as paper, and he was holding a skull-shaped cane in his hand.
This is the exorcist? He's younger than I thought.
After the exorcist appeared, the townspeople had someone to rely on and their emotions stabilized a little. They greeted the exorcist and were as respectful as if he were a real God.
"The zombies are rushing out!" Someone shouted, and everyone looked towards the mourning hall, and sure enough, they saw the zombie with a hideous look of death rushing out!
The townspeople were frightened and fled wildly. Yue Ya was also dragged away by Aunt Liu. He looked back hurriedly and saw the exorcist using a skull-shaped cane to release a cluster of black fire, burning the zombies into ashes.
The ashes fell to the ground, leaving only a small handful. Aunt Liu let go of Yue Ya, stumbled over, and gathered the ashes with her hands. As she gathered them, Aunt Liu suddenly burst into tears: "My poor child... My poor child..."
Yueya found a jar to hold Aunt Liu's ashes and patted her back comfortingly: "My condolences."
The exorcist came to Yue Ya and looked down at him: "I haven't seen you before."
Yueya nodded: "I haven't seen you either."
"..." The exorcist pursed his lips: "Where are you from?"
The mayor ran over and answered for Yueya: "Master, this child is lost. Aunt Li said that he can't explain many things clearly. He asked us to take him in for a few days. Maybe he has some unspeakable secrets."
The exorcist didn't look at the mayor, but stared at Yue Ya without blinking: "You have nowhere to go?"
The pupil of the exorcist's right eye is cold gray, giving people a feeling that he is difficult to approach.
“Not yet.”
The exorcist thought for a moment and said, "I see that you have good roots. If you have nowhere to go, just follow me first."
Yue Ya didn't react, but the mayor was very excited: "Master, are you finally going to accept a disciple?"
"Let's see how he understands first," the exorcist said without comment. He asked Yue Ya, "What do you think?"
Following the exorcist, it would be easier to get closer to the truth of the copy, so Yue Ya said decisively: "I'll follow you first."
The exorcist nodded in satisfaction.
The mayor was also very satisfied with this arrangement, with a smile on his face: "Master, it's a good thing you arrived in time today and stabilized the situation, otherwise something serious would have happened."
Yue Ya blinked her innocent eyes and asked curiously, "Master, how come you came so timely? Do you have the ability to predict the future?"
Everyone looked at the exorcist eagerly, wanting to know the answer.
The exorcist said simply: "The skull staff smelled something evil, so I came to check it out."
Yue Ya touched the tip of his nose. Why didn't he smell any evil even though he was so close? However, his Pixiu bloodline was not active recently, so it was normal that he couldn't smell anything.
"The Awakening Lion Demon has resurrected. If we don't get rid of it in time, more innocent people will die," the exorcist said with compassion, "I will do my best to strangle the demon and let Exorcist Town return to peace as soon as possible."
"Very good!"
"We are saved!"
"Thank you, Master, for saving us! Thank you, Master, for saving us!"
The townspeople were overjoyed, with happy smiles on their faces, which was out of place in the mourning hall with paper money floating in the air.
Yueya glanced at Aunt Liu who was holding the urn and frowned.
Yueya pulled the mayor's sleeve and asked in a low voice: "Mayor, didn't you say there were two victims? Do we need to go to the other house to check, in case there is a corpse there too?"
Yueya mainly wanted to see if the other deceased had any penetrating wounds.
“Well…” The mayor looked a little embarrassed, and said carefully: “The other family didn’t hold a funeral. If a corpse really came to life, the deceased’s father might not let us in.”
Yue Ya was a little surprised: "Why not hold a funeral?"
"The deceased's father said he wanted to keep the body until his son came home."
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