Chapter 71: Nightmare Demon
The flying sword of Zhenbei Hou just stopped in the air.
He stared at the black mist for a while before gritting his teeth and putting the knife back.
Wen Ling took the opportunity to use the Soul-Locking Technique to hit the black fog. The black fog screamed, then condensed together and turned into a human head.
However, this time there was an extra thin golden chain on the head, which bound it tightly. It fell to the ground and could not move.
Wen Ling put one foot directly on the man's head, bent down and asked: "Tell me, who are you and what are you? Who sent you here!"
The head struggled and twisted hard, and its mouth made a lot of noises, but it didn't say anything.
Zhenbei Hou lost his patience: "Why waste so much time talking to it? If it doesn't say anything, just chop it apart with one sword!"
Compared to Wen Ling, with whom it could still communicate, the human head was obviously more afraid of the Marquis of Zhenbei, who would chop off its head with a knife if they disagreed with him.
It stopped barking and begged for mercy: "I'll tell you everything. Please don't kill me! I haven't had the chance to hurt anyone yet!"
Wen Ling stepped on its foot a little harder: "If you had gotten on the right track earlier, wouldn't you have avoided suffering?"
The Marquis of Zhenbei frowned and said, "Princess Chen, I think your strength is still a little weak. How about you let me step on it instead? If it dares to play any tricks, I can also watch it directly."
Wen Ling thought about it and realized that it was quite tiring to keep stepping on such a dishonest thing. It would not be able to escape if he used the Soul Locking Technique to step on it, so it was not impossible to let the Marquis of Zhenbei step on it.
"Okay, then please, old marquis, come and step on it."
Wen Ling readily gave up her seat.
Marquis Zhenbei immediately took over Wen Ling's foot from stepping on the human head.
He stepped on it but still felt unsatisfied, so he stepped on it and crushed it twice.
The force was so strong that the originally round human heads were stepped on into oval shapes.
Wen Ling shook his head, thinking that the head was a bit miserable, but it was deserved and not worthy of sympathy.
Wen Ling crossed her arms and asked, "Tell me, who are you, where are you from, how did you get involved with the Marquis' wife? Tell me everything, otherwise I won't protect you."
Bargaining for the head: "As long as you promise not to kill me, I will tell you everything. Otherwise, I will die anyway, so I might as well not tell you anything."
As soon as it finished speaking, the Marquis of Zhenbei stepped on it even harder, flattening it even further.
Zhenbei Hou chopped off half of its hair with a big knife: "Then stop talking, and die now!"
The head begged for mercy again and again: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"
"I am a nightmare demon. I specialize in creating nightmares for people. I feed on the fear and terror that people experience in their dreams.
I don't know how I ended up on Madam Hou's head. I remember that I was sealed in a hairpin before.
I had been buried underground as a burial object. When I suddenly woke up ten days ago, I was on top of Madam Hou.
Then I went back to my old job..."
It turns out that the human head is a nightmare monster, which Wen Ling has never heard of.
In the world of her previous life, there were few monsters and they were of different species. In addition, after the founding of the country, people could no longer become monsters, so she knew even less about this.
Obviously, what this nightmare monster meant by returning to its old ways was to trap people in nightmares from which they could not wake up, and then feed on the emotions of fear and panic as nutrients.
The nightmare demon begged for mercy again and again: "But I didn't succeed in the past few days. In the past seven days, the hamster spirit has been using magic to prevent Madam Hou from sleeping at night, and in the past three days, there has been that evil-repelling talisman.
I finally waited until today and chased the hamster away, but the talisman for exorcising evil spirits is no longer effective.
I just put the Marquis's wife to sleep, and you guys came.
I really didn't have time to do anything bad. Can you please forgive me this time because this is my first offense here? I promise to run away as far as possible! ”
It was not lying, it really hadn't had time to harm anyone.
At the same time, everyone suddenly realized.
Madam Hou's personal maid opened her mouth wide: "It turns out that the big rat that ran away was not a mouse, but a hamster. Madam couldn't sleep because of its magic. It was protecting Madam from being controlled by the nightmare demon when she was sleeping at night..."
No one could have imagined that the big rat, whom everyone believed to be the culprit, was actually helping the Marquis's wife.
Zhenbei Hou quickly shouted outside: "Hurry up and get those who dug the rat hole back. We wrongly blamed them!"
Wen Ling, Gu Chenran: "..."
Wow, the action of Marquis Zhenbei is so quick that he even dug a rat hole while saying he didn't believe it.
Wen Ling asked again: "According to what you said, you possessed the Marquis' wife, wasn't it someone else's fault?"
The Nightmare Demon said quickly: "Of course, I have been sealed in a hairpin. When I woke up, I found that I was on the head of the Marquis, and the seal of the hairpin had been lifted.
I didn't even see anyone else from beginning to end. ”
Wen Ling: "Then you must still remember the hairpin that possessed you, right?"
"Remember, remember. Even though I can't describe it, I can recognize it when I see it." The nightmare monster's desire to survive was overwhelming.
Wen Ling signaled to the maidservant beside the Marquis' wife: "Take out all of the Marquis' hairpins and let the nightmare demon identify which one it is.
If we can identify which hairpin it is and then find out where it came from, we will know who harmed the Marquis's wife. ”
The head maid hurriedly took out all the hairpins from the marquis's dressing table and laid them out in a row.
As expected, the nightmare demon recognized the hairpin that it had possessed at a glance.
It is a very delicate hollow gold hairpin, inlaid with a dark green gem the size of a pigeon egg. The color is so dark that if you don't look closely, you would think it is a black gem.
But the overall look is indeed very delicate and beautiful, with a unique exotic feel, and it can be seen that the craftsmanship is also very high.
The Nightmare Monster said, "It is this hairpin. After I was sealed inside, I became a burial object with it and have been underground for who knows how many hundreds of years. I will definitely not make a mistake!"
Wen Ling also discovered a strong yin energy on this hairpin.
Zhu Hongtao was very angry after hearing this: "This is actually a burial object?! Xiaoyun, do you know where this hairpin came from?! How can a burial object be worn by someone?!"
Xiaoyun also recognized the hairpin when she saw it: "I remember it, it was given to Madam by Mrs. Xu, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, at another camellia party ten days ago!"
"At that time, this hairpin was on Madam Xu's head. Our Madam praised it as very unique, so Madam Xu gave it to our Madam and even put it on her personally, praising the hairpin as being even more suitable for her!"
The Marquis of Zhenbei frowned. "Mrs. Xu, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice? If I remember correctly, weren't his son and Hong Tao classmates who lived in the same dormitory at the Imperial College?"
Zhu Hongtao's face was very ugly: "Yes, Xu Fulin is indeed a very good classmate of mine. Not only that, Mrs. Xu is also my mother's childhood friend.
There has never been any conflict or grudge between us, and we even have a very good relationship. Why did Madam Xu give this hairpin to harm my mother? ”
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