Chapter 716: Do it yourself
Gong Mengbi laughed: "You are not afraid, so why should I be afraid?"
Liu Dapan's spirits lifted. He crossed his arms and chuckled, "Let's go, let's discuss this."
Liu Dapan brought Gong Mengbi into the cell and inserted the Soul-Suppressing Nail between the eyebrows of the Ghost King of the Juliu Tribe. The Ghost King woke up in agony and said with a smile, "You are lucky! Your Ghost Concubine is going to help you reduce your sentence."
The Juliu Tribe Ghost King's veins, bulging with pain, hadn't yet subsided when Liu Dapan's words diverted his attention and he asked, "Commutation of sentence?"
Gong Mengbi said, "She no longer has any attachment to the world and wants to surrender herself to the police and help the Yue family catch the murderer."
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe frowned, as if he wanted to say something but didn't say it.
Gong Mengbi saw it clearly and said, "See for yourselves."
He blew on the lamp in his hand, and the dark green fox fire suddenly burst out. The waves of flames surged and filled the entire cell, but there was no heat. Instead, it gave people a sense of clarity as if they were sinking to the bottom of the water.
Be it Gong Mengbi or Liu Dapan, even the pain and disgust that penetrated the bones and locked the body and suppressed the spirit all disappeared.
The ghost king of the Juliu tribe fell into a state of emptiness, half asleep and half awake, and continued to sink to the bottom of the empty sea.
Just when his mind was distracted, a golden pendant lit up in the darkness, leading him out of the water to meet the Ghost Queen.
The Ghost Concubine did not appear in the appearance of Madam Chen, but returned to her original form.
"My King." Her black skirt spread out in the water like a black lotus, her eyes filled with love and longing.
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe walked up to her, looked down at her, and sighed, "Yan Niang, don't be willful. The world of the living has distinct day and night, the five elements rotate, and everything is prosperous. Why do you have to return so early?"
The Ghost Concubine's figure was much smaller than the Ghost King of the Juliu Tribe. She stretched out her hands to hold his face and said, "No matter how good it is, it's not mine. The more I see, the more I want to go home."
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe reached out and covered her hand, then wrapped her hand completely in his palm and said softly, "What about the child? Don't you want it either?"
The Ghost Concubine withdrew her hand and said, "You miss him, but he doesn't miss you."
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe frowned and asked, "Why do you say that?"
The Ghost Concubine said with a hint of sneer, "He only cares about the 100,000 ghost soldiers who were lost with you, that he once had the opportunity to seize the throne, and his identity as the King of Linchuan."
She raised her head, tears in her eyes, and said, "As for who you are, as for who I am, what does it matter?"
"If your son had been born in the netherworld, you would have been on guard against him overthrowing your throne and usurping your title of Ghost King. But he's in the human world. He has nothing but ambition, no capital, and refuses to settle. He only begs me to help him. How can I help him? In the human world, I'm just a woman, without a mother clan or power. I have to be wary of being seen through, so I can only live cautiously."
The Ghost Concubine looked at the Ghost King of the Juliu tribe and asked, "Do you know what he said?"
She repeated the words of the King of Linchuan to the Ghost King of the Juliu Tribe, tears streaming down her face as she spoke, "Selling one's own mother for fame and fortune is a joke for all eternity. It wasn't enough for me to give birth to him, to raise him, to endure this humiliation, to be implicated by him, and to bear his guilt for the rest of my life?"
The ghost king of the Juliu tribe's hair and beard stood on end, his anger was as solid as substance, his eyes gleamed coldly, and he shouted, "Evil creature! Evil creature!"
The Ghost Concubine wiped her tears and said, "I don't care. I want to come back and bring him back with me."
"We have violated the laws of the underworld. We must confess our crimes and accept our punishments. You don't need to bear the responsibility, and I won't bear it for him either." The Ghost Concubine needed both hands to hold the hand of the Ghost King of the Juliu Tribe. She said, "The punishment at the Yue Mansion is difficult. Even if you are a man of iron and stone, how long can you hold out?"
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe said, "I originally sent you this dream to ask you to make meritorious contributions while you are serving your sentence and to avoid punishment."
The Ghost Concubine said, "Aren't you afraid that I won't be able to see the day when your sentence is completed? I can't say I'll share the joys and sorrows with you, but I will at least accompany you for a while."
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe had nothing else to say. He hesitated slightly, but finally took off the gold pendant hanging from the Ghost Concubine's waist and placed it in her palm, saying, "This is your chance to escape."
The Ghost Concubine said, "I know."
The Ghost King of the Juliu tribe stared at her, but she did not complain at all. She just said, "Wait for me for a few more days."
Then the entire dark world, like the deep sea, surged, and turned into flames all over the sky again, and finally condensed into a tiny firefly in the bean lamp.
Liu Dapan praised: "It's really exquisite. I'm not good at this."
Gong Mengbi said, "If my dream illusion technique can be considered exquisite, then Dapan's craftsmanship can be called unparalleled."
Liu Dapan was happy in his heart, but naturally declined.
As he spoke, his gaze finally fell on the Ghost King of the Juliu tribe.
The soul-suppressing nail between the brows of the Juliu tribe's ghost king was still glowing. He raised his head, then lowered it deeply and said, "Your Excellency, the Juliu tribe pleads guilty and is willing to cooperate fully. We only pray for a lighter punishment."
Liu Dapan was actually somewhat relieved and said, "Okay, if you are willing to cooperate, that would be great."
Coming out of the cell, Judge Liu sighed, "These ghostly people often believe that success is the king and failure is the bandit, and they will never repent. Little do they know that repentance often leaves a way out for themselves."
Gong Mengbi said, "Some people will go all the way to the end. Asking them to repent means they will deny everything they have done. Naturally, they would rather die than repent."
Liu Dapan said, "Yes, it's troublesome to deal with these old stubborn people."
Liu Dapan shoved the death certificate of King Linchuan into Gong Mengbi's hands and said, "Originally, I wanted to discuss how to quietly capture him. Now that the Ghost King and Ghost Concubine of the Juliu tribe have already made plans, that saves us the trouble. Since you are in Gusu now, I don't need to trouble two masters for one thing. Please bring him back."
Gong Mengbi asked, "What about you, the great judge?"
Liu Dapan excitedly said, "I'm going to wait for the Ghost King of the Juliu tribe to finish his confession before comparing it with the memories I extracted from his mind. You have to know that the memories I extracted are ultimately just what he saw from his perspective, and they often deviate from the truth. Since he's repented, there are bound to be differences between his confession and what I saw. More comparisons will help me improve my skills."
"If only every sinful soul could be so easy to talk to. I'm leaving now."
Gong Mengbi watched him roll up his sleeves and go into the cell on the side. He took a look at the death certificate in his hand and couldn't help but let out a "tsk".
"How did this job become mine? I'm not a priest of Yue Mansion! Don't hurt me."
But Gong Mengbi had no choice. The death record of Prince Linchuan was of great importance and could not be passed on to others. He had to keep it in his sleeve and do it himself.
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