Chapter 491 Above the Posa (26) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
[Damn, this old guy has something.]
[Did the old man see the dark shadow on the immortal? ]
[Then why didn't he see that the immortal was not a human? ]
[The one in front, because the immortal has already transformed. ]
[Is that black shadow a human? ]
[Could it be those figures in the shallows last night? ]
[Evil... like a ghost lying on the back of the immortal? ]
[Stop talking about it now. It's already a visual. 】
There was a lot of discussion on the barrage.
"Ah...ah?" Zhao Yinglai felt a scare on his back, "What do you mean there's another person on top of me?"
She didn't think of it in a supernatural way, but she suspected that the old man might have discovered her true identity.
A few days ago, the old man always mistook her for a paper doll, but today he suddenly said that there was another person inside her. Could he be referring to herself other than "Jiang Jie"?
Her eyelids twitched, and she subconsciously changed the subject: "Doctor Fan, don't scare me. I'm a timid person."
"Brother Jiang Jie," Wen Qi said softly while sitting next to him, "You are particularly unlucky this morning. Could it be that..."
"Yes, I was particularly unlucky this morning," Zhao Yinglai immediately followed up, "Doctor Fan, this can't be related to it!"
The old man looked her up and down, and did not answer their questions. Instead, he looked in the direction of Huai Jiamu and said, "Let me take a look at the patient's wound first."
Xu Ke quickly stepped aside. It didn't matter to him whether there were people or not, Huai Jiamu's injury was the most important thing.
Doctor Fan squatted beside him and stretched out his hand: "Scissors."
Xu Ke quickly handed over the scissors.
Doctor Fan reached out and used a pair of scissors to cut open some of the gauze, and the wound that Xiao Guo had stabbed yesterday finally came into everyone's view.
"Hiss..." Several members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau who heard the sound took a deep breath, "This wound..."
This wound doesn't look like a normal knife wound at first glance.
Yesterday, because of the clothes covering the wound and a lot of blood flowing, they did not notice the abnormality of the wound. However, after the doctor treated and bandaged the wound and wiped away the blood around it, the strangeness of the wound became apparent.
"Doctor Fan, why does it look like a burn? Isn't it a knife wound?" Xu Ke blurted out.
The shape of these wounds was identical to the dagger in Xiao Guo's hand, but the skin around the wounds was not like normal skin. Instead, it was black and red, curled up to both sides, and looked like it had been burned.
There are some light green ointment residues around the wound, which should be the ointment applied yesterday.
The barrage was also shocked:
[This wound is so scary. 】
[It looks painful. What stabbed him? A soldering iron?]
[It doesn't look like a simple one-time injury. Look at this wound. Only the outer part is burned. The part where the dagger was stabbed is just an ordinary knife wound. Are there any medical students who can take a look? ]
[At this time, my medical students are either at work or school, or catching up on sleep after their night shifts. Who would watch the live broadcast?]
[Poor medical student... But this medical student can't see it either. I remember that Jiang Jie Daxian relayed what Dr. Fan from the pharmacy said yesterday, saying that this was caused by some evil thing, not a physical attack, but a magical attack.]
【God TM magic attack. 】
[Don’t you feel any pain? My waist hurts just looking at this wound…]
[Phantom Pain +1]
[Those with back pain should be careful of kidney deficiency. ]
"Hmm." Xu Ke was almost dying of anxiety, but the old man didn't show any intention of explaining. Instead, he reached out and scraped off some ointment and poked the edge of the wound.
Huai Jiamu took a deep breath of cool air. Bai Jinshu frowned and lowered his head to blew on the wound a few times.
There was no more blood flowing out of the wound, but a lot of blood seeped out from the area around the wound as the old man moved.
"I'll go get some medicine?" Zhao Ying looked at the wound with a bit of surprise on his face.
She remembered that this was the wound she saw yesterday. After a night, there was no sign of healing.
"The medicine should be useless," the old man shook his head. "My medicine is different from others. Logically speaking, after applying the medicine yesterday, there should be no more bleeding today."
Normally, a wound would form some scars at shallow locations after one night. However, this wound showed no signs of scarring or healing after one night. Instead, it looked exactly the same as when it was brought in yesterday.
"Oh, there's a problem," the old man sighed, "your wound has been tampered with, it won't heal on its own."
"It must be Xiao Guo," the hot-tempered team member blurted out, "He must have done something."
Bai Jinshu looked at Xu Ke and asked, "Is there anything that can achieve this effect?"
Xiao Guo probably knew that the wound would not heal, so not only did he stab it so deep, he also left a seriously injured Huai Jiamu behind and let his teammates take him to the hospital while he escaped back alone.
If they hadn't decisively sent people to the pharmacy yesterday, Huai Jiamu would have undoubtedly died given the amount of blood loss and the severity of his wounds, as well as the fact that they would not heal at all in the later stages.
"It's hard to say... There are too many things that can achieve this effect." Xu Ke couldn't help but start walking around again. "There are so many ways to harm people in the world. It's impossible to judge based on just this one condition."
"Is there any way to solve this problem?" Wen Qi looked worried. "It must be very painful if the wound doesn't heal?"
“To crack it… the best way is definitely to find the person who tampered with it, or the thing that tampered with it, but now…” Xu Ke stopped talking halfway when he suddenly realized that there were other people present, so he quickly stopped.
But now the people and things that did the trick are in another world. It’s hard to say whether we can find a solution, but how to get back is a problem.
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Although he didn't know much about these things, he knew a simpler way -
As long as the person who did the tampering dies, what he did will definitely become ineffective.
Doctor Fan didn't know what the people around him were thinking. He turned around, walked to the table, picked up a pen, and wrote a house. He handed it to William Chang next to him and said, "Get the medicine first."
"Are we going to endure it now?" Chang William quickly stood up from his seat.
“Now,” the old man nodded, “drink it while it’s hot after it’s boiled.”
"Do it while it's hot...torture." Chang William muttered in a low voice.
He stayed here for a few days and boiled medicine for a few days. The taste of Chinese medicine was not good. He almost vomited just by smelling it. He could not imagine what would happen if he drank it.
"Let me get the medicine," Chang William was not familiar with the layout of the medicine cabinet. Bai Jinshu took the initiative to stand up and took the prescription from him, "You go and prepare the medicine."
"Go get the powder under the cabinet," the old man turned to Zhao Ying and said, "and get a new roll of gauze."
The three exploration team members here each had their own things to do, while the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau who stayed here could not continue exploring in the warehouse because the boss had come. They could only sit beside the captain anxiously, staring at each other.
Xu Ke, on the other hand, paced back and forth even more anxiously.
"Stop walking around, Captain." After a few minutes, someone finally couldn't help it. "Sit down for a while, Captain. I feel uneasy when you walk around."
Xu Ke sat down angrily: "I'm not in a hurry."
But there is obviously no use in being anxious.
As the Chinese medicine entered the water, an indescribable smell spread throughout the pharmacy. Doctor Fan finally finished changing the medicine and stood up from the seat next to him.
"Oh, my old waist." He held his waist and relaxed.
"Let me help you." Zhaoying saw the right moment and went over to support Dr. Fan. He turned sideways and winked at Scario, asking him to come over quickly.
Bai Jinshu sat on the edge of the bed, threw the towel in his hand into the basin with a smile, and nodded back.
Zhao Yinglai shrugged.
It looks like Skao is very angry.
She had almost figured out the pattern of Scarao's anger. In extreme cases, the more friendly, gentle and good-natured he acted, the angrier he would be. If he was given the two buffs of [Whispering] and [Smile], then anyone who provoked him would face a life-and-death situation.
Now the eighth member of their organization entered here and not only did he not offend anyone, but he was also stabbed several times for no reason because of the indigenous people. He can only lie in bed and recuperate for the rest of the exploration. If it were her, she would be angry too.
Zhao Yinglai helped the old man sit on the chair behind the counter. After waiting for a few minutes, Skao also came over.
"Doctor Fan," Zhao Yinglai asked in a low voice, "You said there is another person in my body..."
After such a long time, she finally realized that Dr. Fan probably didn't realize that her true identity was a shadow puppet, and that the shadow puppet was controlled by the real body in another world. But her inexplicable bad luck in the morning was definitely related to what Dr. Fan mentioned, "there is another person on my body."
"Where did you go last night?" The old man looked up at her.
"Shoal," Bai Jinshu did not repeat what they did last night, but answered directly, "There is a shallow beach on the edge of the city. We went out last night and accidentally entered the shallow beach. We stayed there for a while before coming back."
Last night they only went to two places: the warehouse where Fang Sha and Cai Hong were, and the shallows they had mentioned.
It is more likely that the problem is the shoal rather than the warehouse.
As expected, when the old man heard the word "shallow beach", a hint of understanding emerged in his eyes: "Where did you go... Then it's normal for Jiang Jie to be targeted."
Zhaoying came and blinked, where is the normality?
Why is it normal for her to be targeted?
Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "Doctor Fan, is there another person in me?"
It sounds like Doctor Fan has some hidden agenda.
Isn't it something that is inconvenient to say again like yesterday?
"You? No." The old man answered decisively.
"There was another man who went to the shallows with us yesterday. Can I call him over to show you?"
"You can shout." The old man nodded.
Bai Jinshu opened a temporary group chat: [@Qiu Zihan, come to the pharmacy. ]
After more than ten seconds, Qiu Zihan quickly replied: [Okay, Brother Faye! ]
It seems there is no need to ask Doctor Fan to see him. Qiu Zihan's tone is so lively, and he didn't complain in the group about how unlucky he was today, so he must be fine.
Doctor Fan said that it was normal for Zhao Yinglai to be targeted. To paraphrase, does he imply that it is normal for the "paper man" to be targeted?
Bai Jinshu looked up and exchanged a glance with Zhao Yinglai, and the other's eyes revealed similar information.
If it was normal for the "paper man" to be targeted, then the shallows were most likely directly related to the substitute, and were the souls wandering around in it the same as in the legend? Or was it something else?
"Doctor Fan," Zhao Yinglai thought for a moment, "In my situation, do you know how to get rid of the person on me?"
"Your problem..." The old man hesitated for a few seconds, "It's easy to solve, but..."
"But?" Zhao Ying asked.
"But they are all poor people there," he sighed reluctantly, "Let me do it, I can't do it."
Poor guy…another key word.
Doctor Fan obviously knew where the shallows were and who the figures in the shallows were. However, due to some inconvenient reasons, he could not tell them the truth directly and could only hint at them in circles.
If we follow the idea that this is the underworld, the river in the underworld can only be something like the Forgetful River, and the ones wandering in the Forgetful River must be the souls of the dead.
Doctor Fan said that those were all pitiful people and he couldn't do it, which meant that the solution he mentioned was most likely to directly disperse the soul that was entangled with Zhaoying.
The legend of Wangchuan River says that this river will devour souls. Those who do not want to drink Mengpo soup and reincarnate will jump into the Wangchuan River, waiting for another soul here until they are swallowed by the river. Some souls that fall from the Naihe Bridge will also be swallowed by the Wangchuan River and become a part of this place.
Whether it is the former who is obsessed with not wanting to reincarnate, or the latter who accidentally fell into the river, they both fit the definition of "poor person".
"Doctor Fan," Zhao Yinglai asked in a different direction, "If I can't solve this problem, will I continue to be unlucky?"
Was her bad luck this morning due to the fact that she was entangled by the soul that had not dissipated in the Wangchuan River?
I've only heard that being haunted by ghosts in the world of the living will bring bad luck, but I've never heard that being haunted by ghosts in the world of the dead will also bring bad luck.
"It won't take long, just wait until you get back." Doctor Fan nodded and said ambiguously, "They...are not quite complete and don't have clear thinking, so they just want to be in control."
"You'd better leave here as soon as possible," he added vaguely, "If you leave early, everything will be fine."
"We don't have to get rid of him," Bai Jinshu suddenly interrupted, "Can we ask the people on Jiang Jie to leave?"
"Just another Jiang Jie will do." Doctor Fan's answer was very vague.
The implication is that breaking it up won't work, but adding another paper figure will be able to move the soul out.
Bai Jinshu lowered his head thoughtfully. He could probably piece together what was going on.
The souls in the Forgotten River are incomplete, so normally they cannot defeat these complete living souls and other complete souls in the underworld. They can only wander in the Forgotten River day after day until they are gradually swallowed by the river water.
During this process, if a soulless paper body is brought in by someone, the souls will try to enter this body and leave the river that imprisons them.
Although Jiang Jie is remotely controlled by Zhao Yinglai, in fact her soul is far away in another world outside this unknown space, so in their eyes, "Jiang Jie" should be an empty shell.
This is also the reason why souls can enter into it.
However, the soul did not expect that this paper man's body was controlled by something other than the soul.
After years of being washed by the water of the Wangchuan River, the souls in the river had already lost most of their rationality. He was unable to fight against the original body that controlled the shadow puppet, so he could only try to "kill" the other soul that controlled the body.
This was why Zhaoying had been unlucky all morning.
I think those wanted criminals who escaped to this world and looked for scapegoats probably used the same method.
Make a "paper man" and carry it into the Forgetful River. At this time, the souls that are about to be swallowed by the river will rush to occupy this body and leave the river that imprisoned them. Then the maker can take the shadow puppet back to another world and let them die for him.
Bai Jinshu looked up and made a gesture towards Zhao Yinglai. The two men stood up and whispered to the side, "So this is how they make a substitute?"
"It should be," Bai Jinshu nodded, "If Fang Sha hadn't bumped into the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau yesterday, she would probably be ready to return to another world now."
She has reached the last step and discovered the souls in the Forgotten River. Given enough time and the information she has, she will sooner or later piece together that this is the underworld, and then successfully make a paper man and find a substitute who can die in her place.
"But in this case..." Zhao Yinglai thought, "How can they ensure that the substitute they bring with them will not reveal that it is not the real one?"
The souls in the Wangchuan River all have their own identities and memories. How can they guarantee that these shadow puppets will not sell themselves out?
"There are two possibilities," Bai Jinshu pondered for a moment, "either the executor is deliberately letting it go, or there is some way to ensure that the substitute does not tell the truth."
If it is the former, then there must be an industrial chain in the world of the living that is intentionally shielding death row prisoners, from guiding them to find substitutes, to turning a blind eye and executing these paper substitutes after they have found the substitutes, to allowing them to escape legal sanctions and become illegal residents, living in hiding.
However, judging from the performance of Fang Sha and Cai Hong, these two wanted criminals who learned that they could find a substitute by entering another world did not know that this was the underworld. In other words, the information they obtained was incomplete, and they had no idea what to do when they came in. They had to wait until they actually arrived in this world before they could explore step by step.
It can be seen from this that even if there is an industrial chain, only a few people are told the process of making paper figures, and most people who come here still have to explore on their own. If this is the case, then why can those who have not been turned a blind eye be able to use substitutes to escape punishment?
"There is a way to make the stand-in unable to speak..." Zhao Yinglai guessed casually, "They can't seal the stand-in's mouth, right?"
An idea suddenly flashed through Bai Jinshu's mind: "Why not?"
"The first day we entered here, the butler without a mouth," he suddenly raised his head, "what if the substitute has no mouth?"
The facial features of the paper figure are all drawn on. What if you don’t draw the mouth, or don’t draw a complete mouth?
Then wouldn’t the soul that enters it be unable to speak?
The butler they met on the first day also had no mouth. It was possible that when the relatives in the world were burning paper figures for the deceased, there was a printing error on the paper figures, and the mouth was not printed during the printing process, resulting in the paper figures being unable to speak.
Then if we intentionally don't draw the mouth when making it, wouldn't we be able to achieve the same result?
Zhao Yinglai: "...Yes."
In this way, it is normal for death row inmates who are on the verge of death to do strange things. By sealing the mouths of the substitutes, these substitutes will not be able to pass on information to the outside, and naturally will not reveal information that is unfavorable to them.
"Brother Faye!" At this moment, Qiu Zihan's energetic shout suddenly came from the side, "What's the matter with you calling me here?"
Zhao Ying was startled and subconsciously took two steps back. As a result, he sprained his ankle and fell straight towards the threshold of the drugstore.
On the threshold, facing her temples, there was a nail gleaming brightly.
If the current trend continues, in another second, Zhao Yinglai will fall on the threshold of the pharmacy, and this nail will directly kill her.
"Be careful," Wen Qi quickly ran forward a few steps, quickly caught Zhao Yinglai, and the two of them rolled to the side together, "Brother Jiang Jie, are you okay?"
"I'm fine..." Zhao Yinglai was silent for a moment, but couldn't help but get up from the ground and slapped Qiu Zihan hard, "Are you going to kill me here?"
This unlucky child.
"No... I'm sorry, Brother Jiang Jie," Qiu Zihan apologized angrily, "I just wanted to scare you, but I didn't expect to scare you like this."
Zhao Yinglai held his forehead with his hand: "...Forget it."
It wasn't Qiu Zihan's fault in fact, it was just that she was too unlucky this morning. If there wasn't a soul in her that wanted to kill her to fight for control, she wouldn't have sprained her ankle at such a coincidence.
If Wen Qi hadn't pulled her back, she would have to perform a ghost story for everyone here today, with her head cut open and the whole place bleeding and still alive.
The important thing to do is to quickly make another paper man and remove this living devil in her body who wants her dead all the time.
I just don't know if it would be okay to just draw a random paper figure.
"Thanks to Wen Qi," Zhao Yinglai sighed and reached out to Wen Qi, "Help you up?"
Wen Qi nodded, followed Zhao Yinglai's arm and stood up: "Brother Jiang Jie."
"Huh?" Zhao Ying turned his head.
"Did you discover the key to creating a double yesterday?" she whispered. "Does it have anything to do with your bad luck this morning?"
Wen Qi is a very smart girl.
Bai Jinshu and Zhao Yinglai went back and forth last night. When Zhao Yinglai came back, he was fine. But the two of them went to the shallows at night. This morning, Zhao Yinglai had bad luck.
It would be strange if her bad luck had nothing to do with the shallows and the double.
Bai Jinshu crossed his arms and said, "You want to know?"
He asked this question knowingly.
Wen Qi came here to find a way to create a substitute and fake death, so she definitely wanted to know.
Wen Qi's eyes turned slyly: "Brother Faye, I don't know this for nothing. I'll trade the information with you."
"I know what the captain inside had done to offend the person," she threw out a new piece of information, "Brother Faye, you have a grudge against him, right? I'll trade this information with you."
Wen Qi's behavior clearly showed that she knew something. The deaths of Fang Sha and Cai Hong made her realize how important Huai Jiamu was to Skao, and she also understood Skao's attitude towards the person who had hurt the captain. Now that Huai Jiamu's serious injury was related to this big shot whose secret he had learned, Wen Qi immediately came over.
But she was still a little anxious.
If he hadn't been keeping an eye on them, how could he have rushed over the moment Zhao Yinglai fell?
When she heard the news just now, the expression on her face was probably intentional, trying to attract the two of them to come over and ask.
However, they didn't expect that Dr. Fan's arrival time was so coincidental that it drew their attention to other places, and Wen Qi's performance was wasted and left aside.
As the saying goes, there is no gain without pain. Without being sure whether the information they got about the substitute was accurate, Wen Qi couldn't wait to exchange it for another piece of information. That could only mean one answer -
Bai Jinshu chuckled and looked at her slowly: "Don't you have a grudge against him?"
Knowing the information about the substitute is not the point; the point is to tell them the secret of this "big shot".
Does this girl want to use him as a gun?
The author has something to say:
Wen Qi (trying to play tricks on Aoshen): (pretending to be pitiful) (exposed on the spot) (pretending to be ignorant) (exposed on the spot to be a substitute) (getting more courageous and trying to kill again with a borrowed knife) (exposed on the spot to have a grudge against a big shot)
Zhao Yinglai (handing over the microphone): Let’s interview Scaro. What’s the mentality behind always bullying children?
Skao: She is not as skilled as others, I am just teasing her for fun
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