Chapter 23: Detoxification of Corpse Pieces, Secret of the Altar
Wisps of smoke rose from the charity hall early in the morning, and from time to time there were a few shouts, which swept away the eerie atmosphere of last night and brought a bit of the smell of human life.
When Bai Zhixing and Ji Ci came in, the cool breeze brought a waft of sweet osmanthus fragrance, and their tense nerves subconsciously relaxed.
When she looked up, she saw a harmonious scene in front of her. Yan Shiman's hand was on Yin Zhiyi's hair, and the two were very close.
The man was tall and slender, with black hair tied up high. He was wearing a green robe and a loose belt around his waist. His tall back almost covered the woman in front of him, leaving only a corner of goose yellow exposed.
From a distance they looked like a perfect couple.
Bai Zhixing's eyes fell on the two of them, he coughed violently, then reached out and knocked on the wooden door to alert the people in the yard.
Yan Shiman noticed the two of them, but did not respond. He reached out and brushed away the osmanthus flowers that accidentally fell into Yin Zhiyi's hair.
"Just fallen flowers."
Yin Zhiyi's heart was beating faster. She was just thinking deeply when this person suddenly came close to her, so that her eyes were a little vague when she looked at Yan Shiman.
Fortunately, the timely arrival of the male and female protagonists broke the weird atmosphere between the two.
Yin Zhiyi quickly came up to the heroine, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "How are you guys doing?"
Yan Shiman looked at the person leaving him with an unpredictable look in his eyes.
This was the second time she had said to him in her heart that he was... cute.
It seems that she likes his appearance very much.
Yan Shi showed a standard smile on his face. Coincidentally, he also liked her appearance.
However, he now seemed more interested in her inner self.
If possible, he would definitely use puppetry to search all her memories before making her into a human-skin puppet.
But thinking of this, he couldn't help but recall last night when the puppet technique didn't work on her.
I suddenly felt a little more restless.
Ji Ci's eyes wandered over Yin Zhiyi and Yan Shiman, as if he had noticed something, and he said sarcastically, "You two seem to have the leisure time."
He sneered in his heart, a city lord's daughter from a small family was only worthy of mixing with such unpresentable guards.
But on second thought, this guard would have no time to hang around in front of Ah Xing. Although he didn't want to admit that he needed to compete with a guard, looking at his face, he still felt a sense of crisis.
Yin Zhiyi looked at the male protagonist's changing eyes and felt puzzled: [What's wrong with this male protagonist again? 】
Bai Zhixing immediately said, "Ms. Yin, we found the Moon-Seeing Grass."
She took out the breastplate from her chest and made a simple gesture.
A plant with oval leaves and purple petals immediately emerged on the mirror surface.
Yin Zhiyi's eyes lit up and she immediately forgot about the male protagonist.
He took it carefully, feeling excited: [Now that the Moon Grass has been found, the plot of Forget-Sorrow Villa should be more than halfway through. It seems that the hero and heroine have discovered a lot of things in the paper-making factory. 】
Yan Shiman cast his gaze on the Moon-Seeing Grass without leaving a trace.
Who would have thought that the next second, Yin Zhiyi frowned slightly and asked, "Smell of blood? Are you injured?"
"No, I think I got it last night."
Speaking of this, Bai Zhixing's face became solemn. She pinched her brows and said, "There is an altar in the paper-making factory. Ah Ci and I found a human sacrifice in the altar last night. There are countless body parts hidden in the cave."
Bai Zhixing paused here, as if thinking about how to start. Ji Ci took over and said, "The bodies inside are almost all children, used to worship the goddess."
The goddess here naturally refers to the fertility goddess in the previous talisman.
Under such circumstances, there is an inexplicable sense of irony.
"There were only 300 households in Wangyou Villa. Where did all these children come from?" Ji Ci's eyes fell on the four big characters in the center of the main hall of the charity hall, "Be compassionate". "What a compassionate heart, tut tut."
Yin Zhiyi frowned as she listened, rarely agreeing with the male protagonist's sarcasm.
[Are these villagers planning to raise evil spirits? 】
It is extremely dangerous to worship the statues with corpses in this extremely dark place, and now, these villagers are actually using corpse parts to worship the statues.
How can this be considered as inviting God? It's obvious that he wants to bring evil.
Normal people would avoid these things, so why would they want to build an altar specifically for this? Things in this village are really weird.
A hint of deep meaning flashed across Yan Shiman's eyes. The corpse pieces breeding evil spirits seemed very familiar to him. He had seen a lot of them before.
It does give me a bit of the feeling of "seeing the object reminds me of someone".
He said in a gentle voice: "I wonder what the two Heavenly Masters should do now?"
Bai Zhixing said in a deep voice: "Wait."
"The only thing we can do now is to wait. The altar is only opened at the beginning of the month and on the fifteenth day of the month. We suspect that this matter is also related to Xianyun County. Li You said before that there would be carriages and horses coming to the paper-making factory on the fifteenth day of every month in Xianyun County. We went to investigate.
What they pulled were not goods at all, but people, and these people were selected from charity halls.
After He Xi returned to Wangyou Villa, he joined forces with the village chief to set up a lottery system. The lucky ones who won the lottery would be sent to Xianyun County. In their opinion, this was to send people to enjoy a good life.
But after comparing the ruts left by the previous horse-drawn carriages carrying people, we are sure that there were not so many children in the carriages going to Xianyun County.
To be even more absolute, perhaps there are no children at all. ”
Yin Zhiyi's mind was racing: "So He Xi didn't send anyone there at all, but used them as food to feed the ghosts. But why are there so many carriages and horses traveling back and forth from Xianyun County?"
For a moment, there was silence.
Yan Shiman, who was standing by, said casually, "Maybe it's to get rid of the evil spirit."
"It's much more cost-effective to directly send the already-cultivated ghost demon instead of transporting the corpse."
His voice was gentle, but the words he spoke were chilling.
Obviously, this was an extremely bad incident, but three words suddenly popped up in Yin Zhiyi's mind: [Value for money. 】
Bai Zhixing pursed her lips and nodded: "It is indeed possible."
But if this is the case, this matter involves more than just a little bit. Bai Zhixing felt a little heavy-hearted. She could even foresee that the victims revealed in front of her by an organized conspiracy would only be the tip of the iceberg.
Yin Zhiyi naturally thought of this as well.
But she was not very surprised. After all, when she first read the book, there were four big words "草蛇灰线" written on the cover. Although the stories in the book were divided into several copies, they were interconnected.
However, she remembered that Xianyun County seemed to be under the jurisdiction of the Northern School Heavenly Master.
In the setting of this novel, the Northern and Southern schools of Taoist priests are almost in a three-way competition, managing supernatural events in different regions respectively.
Later, the male protagonist Ji quit his job and also went to Xianyun County.
It can be regarded as the main battlefield where the climax of the plot unfolds.
She was not worried about the main storyline, she was more worried about her mission now.
In the original plot, the two factions had been at odds for a long time, and the love rivals were extremely jealous when they met, so Ji Ci and the third male Zhu Qingshan had a fight.
During the fight between the two, Yan Shiman abducted the heroine. Some unknown events occurred and the relationship between the two heated up rapidly.
Yin Zhiyi had a hard time expressing her feelings, but she was still a little skeptical. She found it hard to believe that Yan Shiman and Bai Zhixing could spark a romance.
After all, she had been traveling for so many days and hadn't seen the second male lead and the female lead have much communication.
Bai Zhixing said, "Miss Yin, these are the six-star grass and cloud-time flowers that the city lord entrusted to me for safekeeping."
As he spoke, a bunch of herbs appeared on the breastplate.
"Let's detoxify first."
After all, this is the most important thing right now.
It would take a long time to decoct the medicine. Before leaving, Yin Zhiyi briefly told Bai Zhixing what happened last night.
The daughter's grave and the female ghost in the back mountain are obviously clues as well.
But she skipped the part where she was unconscious... She remembered the black lines she saw in her dream... She couldn't help but look at Yan Shiman with some hesitation.
After all, she wasn't sure yet and needed to verify it.
Yin Zhiyi was about to turn around when Bai Zhixing suddenly stopped her: "Wait."
She frowned slightly, as if she remembered some important information, and looked at Ji Ci beside her: "Ah Ci, do you remember when we were talking to one of the villagers?
He said that when sending those children to Xianyun County, a pregnant woman would be sent to accompany them, in order to express gratitude to the goddess of fertility.
But as soon as he said it, he denied it, and when we asked him again, he did not admit that he had said it.
If what he said was true, combined with what Young Master Yan just mentioned about transporting evil spirits, it did give me a direction. ”
Ji Ci: “What?”
Bai Zhixing calmly said two words: "Container."
As soon as these words were spoken, everything suddenly became clear.
"This kind of container has very high requirements. It must be a pregnant woman, or..."
Yin Zhiyi met her gaze and understood, then continued: "Or it could be an extremely yin body, right? They want me to be the next container, and they asked me to volunteer at the charity hall to make it easier for them to do it."
Bai Zhixing said coldly: "Yes, so, those female ghosts before were probably also their conspiracy. They failed last night, so maybe they will do it again tonight."
"So, be careful."
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Noon.
In order to remove evil spirits, the Moon-Seeing Grass needs to be boiled into a decoction and taken orally. In the process, several detoxifying herbs need to be added separately, such as: Six-Star Grass, Cloud Time Flower... Fortunately, these detoxifying herbs are very common and have been prepared in advance.
Yin Zhiyi sorted out the herbs he needed. One of them was a bright red plant, the Yunshihua, which had densely packed small thorns on its rhizome. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it at all.
Several red bean-sized blood beads appeared on her hand, causing her to feel a sharp and intense pain. She put her fingertips in her mouth and held them.
She sighed in her heart, as expected, the more beautiful something is, the more poisonous it is.
She continued sorting until she had found all the herbs, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
When she handed the herb to Yan Shiman, she originally wanted to remind him that the herb had thorns, but she forgot about it while sharing it, and when she wanted to speak, it was too late.
I just went over the words in my mind: [Wait, there are thorns! 】
Yan Shiman went straight to the handful of herbs without any pause.
Yin Zhiyi subconsciously reached out to grab his hand.
"Let go."
The next second, a cluster of red bean-like blood beads appeared like small buds popping up in spring, bright red and very dazzling.
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