The body of the third victim was intact, indicating that the penetrating heart wound was the real cause of death of the three victims, that is, the heads of the first two victims were bitten off after their deaths.
Yueya thinks the exorcist is very suspicious. First, the talisman he used was very sharp, so it was suspected that it was a weapon that caused the penetrating wound. Second, the exorcist did not dare to enter the Chen family, which had a protective spell, and even knocked on the door by Yueya, so it was suspected that there was evil spirit. Third, the bodies of the two victims had no resentment but suddenly resurrected, and they were both burned by the exorcist, so it was suspected that he destroyed the bodies and covered up the real cause of death of the victims. Fourth, Yueya felt that the flame of the skull staff was not strong enough to burn zombies in seconds, unless the zombies were fake.
The third point can also explain why the exorcist was able to arrive at Liu's house in time to control the zombies, because he directed and acted in the whole thing from beginning to end.
First, he used the horrific death of the headless corpse to draw the townspeople's attention to the Lion-Awakening Demon, then used a fake corpse-raising incident to stir up the townspeople's fear and anger towards the Lion-Awakening Demon, then appeared again to calm everything down, gain the townspeople's trust, and by the way, completely destroy the corpse evidence.
Finally, two witnesses were arranged to see the scene of the Lion-Awakening Demon "eating people". One thing after another, the exorcist cleared himself of all charges.
Unfortunately, he treated Yue Ya as a child who could be fooled, and he was completely unaware of how many flaws he had revealed.
As for the Lion-awakening Demon, Yue Ya couldn't tell for the moment whether it was an accomplice or a scapegoat.
Whatever it is, the answer will soon be known.
The cold wind blew through the alley, picking up the poor boy's ashes and sending them to the end of the alley, leaving only a miserable whimper.
There will be another funeral in this town tomorrow.
"Poor child, rest in peace..." The mayor sighed, rubbed his hands as if he had caught a cold, and said respectfully to the exorcist: "The Awakening Lion Demon was almost caught by the master just now, and it should not come out to cause trouble in the short term. It is too late now. The master should take the child back to rest first and make plans tomorrow."
The exorcist said "hmm" coldly and turned away.
"Master," the mayor hurriedly followed with Yue Ya by the hand, smiling flatteringly, "From what I saw today, the Awakening Lion Demon is no match for you. I think you will be able to kill this evil beast soon. After the task is completed, I will definitely hold a banquet for you. This child... please take care of him."
The exorcist hummed again, this time with more interest.
Yue Ya thought to herself: Mayor, the exorcist's house is the most dangerous place in the whole town. You are sending me to the Tiger School, but I am quite happy to go to the Tiger School.
The mayor said goodbye to the exorcist and went home alone.
The exorcist carried Yueya and used the speed magic to hurry on his way.
Halfway through the journey, the exorcist suddenly stopped and started walking.
Yue Ya had already adapted to his speed running technique, which could save some time, so she calmly scratched the broom head and asked, "Why did you change to walking?"
Exorcist: "You are too heavy. I am so tired."
"?" Yue Ya looked at her body which was less than ten years old and slowly asked a question. You were accompanying the mayor before, why didn't you complain of being tired?
After walking for a full half hour, the exorcist stopped and pointed to a house and said, "My home."
The house was ordinary, except that it was a bit remote, and there were only some abandoned houses overgrown with weeds around it. The two big red lanterns hanging at the door of the exorcist's house swayed in the night wind, emitting faint candlelight.
A deserted house, big red lanterns, a suspected murderer, and a hazy moon in the sky. It would be hard for a horror story to not happen on such a night.
"Squeak..." The exorcist pushed open the door, pointed to a room and said to Yue Ya, "You sleep in that room. The kitchen is next door. Go find something to eat when you're hungry. I have no experience in taking care of children. You can do whatever you want."
The exorcist suddenly bent over and approached Yue Ya, sniffing: "I'm very hungry, you should stay in the room after eating, don't walk around."
Every time the exorcist said he was hungry, he would look at Yue Ya with eyes as if he was looking at food, which made Yue Ya feel creepy.
Yueya nodded obediently: "I promise I won't wander around." Of course I won't wander around, how can investigation be called "wandering around".
As soon as the exorcist left, Yue Ya quietly released a puppet and asked it to follow the exorcist quietly with the video pendant.
Yue Ya went to the kitchen. Although he was very hungry, he knew it was best not to eat the exorcist's food, so he went there to find props.
He pushed open the door and found that the kitchen had rarely been used, and the stove was covered with dust. There was a large food box on the dining table, which gave off a faint aroma of food. The townspeople loved the exorcist very much, and perhaps they sent him food every day.
Yue Ya was about to open the food box, but recalling his experience in "Warm Family", he withdrew his hand and summoned the puppet out.
Feifei also came out from the player's backpack and rubbed Yueya's neck affectionately.
The puppet opened the food box, took out the contents, and placed them neatly on the table.
Sweet and sour pork ribs, ginger and scallion chicken, a side dish, rice and a pot of wine. The food was cold, but it was obvious that it was carefully prepared. Yue Ya thought: The exorcist said he was very hungry, but he didn't touch the food here. What does he want to eat? He doesn't really want to eat me, right?
After the puppet had placed all these, it very consciously turned around in front of Yue Ya and showed its intact hands, indicating that it was okay to touch these things and the owner could touch them at will.
As long as you don't eat these dishes, there will be no problem. Yue Ya nodded, and suddenly realized that the state of his puppet was not right: "Do you remember what happened last time?"
The puppet was a little confused, then took off its arm, put it back on, and nodded cutely.
Now Yue Ya was sure that his puppets had become smarter and had started to have memories! But they could remove their own arms without blinking, which showed that they still had no sense of pain.
Yue Ya touched the things on the table one by one and found what he wanted - the pot of wine was a prop, and a rare prop at that.
【Truth Wine: A wine that forces you to tell the truth after taking a sip. The wine lasts for five minutes. It is a delicious peach wine.】
Yue Ya put the truth wine into the player's backpack, and searched the kitchen again, where he found an axe that had been used to kill evil spirits and a heavy rope that could tie up evil spirits. The rope had been soaked in blood and turned dark red, and a shrill cry could be heard when holding it in the hand. No one knew where it came from, so Yue Ya took a look at it and stuffed it into the backpack.
With a puppet staring at the exorcist, Yue Ya boldly went to open up a new map. He first went to take a look at the room designated for him by the exorcist. This room was ordinary, with no props and no hidden dangers. The only problem was that the orientation was not very good and it was a bit cold and gloomy.
Yue Ya decisively closed the door and went to the main room quietly. In order not to disturb the exorcist, Yue Ya was even cautious when opening the door. He took out the eternal lamp, turned the light to the dimmest, and began to look around the living room of the main room.
The living room was also deserted, with only some furniture and ornaments, and even few sundries. Yue Ya searched around and found a scroll that seemed to be a clue in the cabinet. Just as Yue Ya was about to open it, a hand reached out from the side and held the light for him.
Yue Ya thought it was a puppet and whispered, "Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"?" Yue Ya quickly turned his head to look to the side. Where was the hand? The eternal lamp he had let go of was floating in the air.
Yue Ya looked at the puppet, and it pointed at the cabinet.
It seems to be a ghost who doesn't like socializing. The other party has no ill intentions, so Yue Ya doesn't bother him anymore. It's normal to have a few indigenous ghosts in such a gloomy old house.
Yue Ya wanted to open the scroll, but found that the jade buckle wrapped around it was a delicate little lock that could only be opened by finding the corresponding key.
The box that required the key in the previous copy contained the key fragments, so this scroll must be extraordinary.
Yue Ya put away the scroll, searched around again, and after making sure there were no clues here, he left quietly. From beginning to end, he only disturbed a vengeful spirit that didn't like socializing but was super polite.
Yueya returned to the room and there were only 19 hours left in the countdown.
The night was long and the copy showed no sign of speeding up. There was no news from the exorcist's puppet, so Yue Ya simply checked the other houses as well.
If the exorcist could get a map of Yue Ya's route tonight, he would find that Yue Ya was running around in his house, running around, going to every place he could go, and not missing a single precious prop while passing by, and he put into practice what he had promised before, "never wandering around randomly."
When Yueya returned to the room again, there were only 18 hours left in the countdown.
"Although I made little noise, I turned over everything I could. Why didn't the exorcist react at all? Is he planning a big move?"
Yue Ya was thinking hard, at this moment, the puppet sent to follow the exorcist came back.
Yue Ya let the puppet turn around in front of him and made sure it was intact and not injured before letting it hand over the video pendant.
"The exorcist didn't notice you?"
The puppet shook its head, put its palms together on its cheeks, and made a sleeping posture.
"Asleep?"
The puppet nodded frantically and pointed at the pendant. There is something good, Master, look!
The video pendant is controlled by the mind. It can be used to call up the video and view it directly with consciousness. In order not to alert the exorcist, Yue Ya directly uses his mind to view the second video.
"It's too difficult. It's so difficult to pretend to be decent!" The exorcist's crying almost deafened Yue Ya.
The exorcist who looked unapproachable during the day was lying on the table, with a wine jug in his left and right hand and a wine glass in his right hand, his eyes full of tears. It turned out that the exorcist was not planning a big move, he was just drunk and didn't notice what Yue Ya had done.
And he blew himself up without any preparation because of a pot of fake wine.
Yue Ya curled the corners of his lips and thought: This saves me a lot of trouble. The exorcist cried so loudly, but I didn’t hear it just now. It seems that this room is hidden very deeply. I will let the puppet take me to see it later.
"It's so tiring to act like a big boss every day!" The exorcist cried and poured another glass of wine, complaining: "Today I subdued the zombies and pretended to force the lion dance to retreat. I'm so tired that I can't even eat a little brat! Speaking of... I get angry when I talk about this little brat. I almost sprained my waist while running with him."
Yue Ya: “…” Fake wine harms people, and the exorcist really wants to eat me, the way he looks at the food is real.
The exorcist drank a few more glasses of wine, his eyes became more and more erratic, and his speech became lisp. "If I hadn't been here for a long time, I would have left long ago. I just want to be a pure... villain! I don't want to be like him... who eats people and pretends to be... a good person, and wants me to pretend to be... a good person too."
The exorcist fell on the table, the wine jug fell and rolled on the ground, and the scarlet blood wine spread on the floor tiles.
"he"?
who is he?
The exorcist cried and said that it was tiring to pretend to be a big boss, so the real big boss was someone else, and this person was the culprit who planned everything.
Awakening the Lion Demon?
No, the Lion Demon has fallen from the altar, and is definitely not a "good guy" in the eyes of the townspeople. To be precise, the exorcist used the "evil" of the Lion Demon to highlight his own "goodness", and thus became a god in the hearts of the townspeople.
Yue Ya read it through from the beginning and suddenly thought of a good guy who had a lot of roles!
Yue Ya sucked in a breath of cold air. His attention had always been on the Lion Demon and the exorcist, and even on the deceased and their families, but he had never paid attention to this "good guy".
Now think about it, this person has a low presence, but he has not missed any important occasions. He was at the funeral of Old Liu's family, he was the one who suggested that the exorcist go to Old Chen's house, and he was also present when he witnessed the "awakening lion eating people". When he was there, the dog exorcist could easily carry two people for a thousand miles, and when he left, the exorcist could also hurt his waist with Yue Ya.
Since a conviction cannot be made based on mere conjecture, Yue Ya immediately called up the first video, set it to slow motion mode, and checked it frame by frame.
"He was so young... but was killed by the Awakening Lion Demon... What a poor... child..." The mayor said this with a compassionate look on his face. At the same time, a small human-shaped talisman floated out from his sleeve, and its speed was still very fast even in slow motion mode.
The talisman paper drilled under the corpse, and then the corpse stood up with a "whoosh".
It turned out that the only witness who was arranged to see the "awakening lion eating people" was Yue Ya, and the mayor was the real murderer who cleared himself of all charges.
And the exorcist is just a noob who drinks fake wine.
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