Chapter 87 Chapter 87 Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles...
Did he sew these body parts together?
What is he sewing this for?
Bai Qingqing's head buzzed, as if something was beginning to connect, but upon closer inspection, the connection was broken.
The little wooden figure used in Ao Teng's Five Ghosts Fortune-Tangling Formation is not easy to make. Once the formation has drained Ao Teng's luck and blood, Ao Teng's soul will enter the formation and into the puppet.
What about this one now? What is it used for?
Whose soul are you waiting for to come in?
After discovering that the Feng Shui master in the corpse stitching case was the same person as the Feng Shui master who attacked Ao Teng, Bai Qingqing felt that something was amiss.
In particular, the method of sewing corpses into tools is much more troublesome than making puppets.
Bai Qingqing didn't take these two things seriously at first. She thought the former was Ao Teng's bad luck, and that someone had stolen his luck for no reason in order to fulfill the plot of the original book. The latter was just an ordinary case to be investigated.
Now the two are connected... Bai Qingqing took a few steps back, a little further away from the people who had gathered around her, took out the copper coin from her body, untied the red string on it, and flipped it over in her palm.
Although Zi Wenbin was focusing on the formation, he was also keeping an eye on Bai Qingqing.
Seeing her take out a copper coin, as if she was going to tell fortunes, he focused his attention, took two steps away from the crowd, approached Bai Qingqing and asked in a low voice, "You want to tell fortunes?"
She had seen Bai Qingqing perform divination.
Ordinary people in the Taoism would tell fortunes by counting with their fingers or tossing coins to predict the outcome.
Bai Qingqing would also tell fortunes when she encountered a case, and she did it quite frequently. But she didn't count with her fingers or use coins, but would tell fortunes at any time and place.
That is, everything that is seen with the naked eye, every flower, every blade of grass, every tree, every heart and every feeling, can be included in the hexagram.
Perhaps because of her deep skills, Bai Qingqing never used paper or pen when calculating. Instead, she simply tapped her fingertips a few times to calculate. It was obvious that the hexagrams were all in her mind.
This can be seen from the fact that when she was telling fortunes at the tomb, she threw the coin again almost as soon as it hit the ground and formed an image.
Zi Wenbin had specially observed Bai Qingqing's daily life. It had become her habit to tell fortunes and think with her fingertips. If she hadn't been in front of the camera, she would have probably just used her fingertips to guess about the cemetery.
But today she took the copper coins on purpose.
Zi Wenbin had no intention of watching the residual souls being attracted over there. He tried to guess Bai Qingqing's motive for fortune-telling at this time, but when he saw her nod in response, he held his breath, a serious look he had never seen before on his face.
Throw the coin up, and when it falls to your chest, fix your eyes, raise your hand to catch the coin, and then repeat the action.
What a quick eyesight!
While she was throwing the hexagrams, several wisps of broken souls gathered together, gradually found their location, and went underground along the direction of the incense path.
Bai Qingqing had already made the first hexagram. She held three copper coins in her slender palm and looked toward the southwest, feeling the aura she had attached to it getting closer and closer to their location.
The hexagram refers to the country's destiny.
He used the corpse's essence to cultivate vessels. Was it for the sake of the country's destiny?
Zi Wenbin had been standing beside Bai Qingqing, watching her toss the coin. He could only roughly see two or three of the lines and had no idea what the hexagram looked like.
Seeing that she was silent at this time, it was obvious that she was thinking. Just as she was about to ask, Bai Qingqing suddenly asked, "Director Zi, have you ever promoted the country's destiny? What do you think?"
Zi Wenbin was stunned.
The National Destiny Special Investigation Bureau must have pushed it, but... Zi Wenbin pursed his lips, thinking about how to respond.
Seeing Director Zi's serious expression, Bai Qingqing had some ideas about the national destiny they were promoting. She smiled and, without waiting for her to answer, she circled her hands in front of her chest and tapped her fingertips slowly.
She knew about the country's destiny without Zi Wenbin telling her.
In the original novel, the heroine Bai Mu Ning is the girl of destiny, and the hero is a cold and aloof Buddhist in Beijing, and also a person with a special fate.
In addition to Li Qingqing, the real daughter of the control group, who is the villain who insists on seeking death throughout the whole text, there is another villain who also wants the life of this girl of destiny.
In the second half of the book, he joins forces with Li Qingqing to provide strong support for Li Qingqing's suicide.
The author's writing intention is very clear.
This is a story about a group of real and fake daughters, and the real daughter in the control group needs to run through the entire text.
After all, the Bai family is just a wealthy family in the East Province. After Bai Muning changed his surname back to the Jiang family, Li Qingqing's ability to commit suicide was not enough to face the hidden big families in Beijing.
Therefore, the author added a metaphysical line, creating a villain who wants to steal the country's destiny, change the world, and become a god himself. This villain uses Li Qingqing as a pawn, and the two hit it off and kill the heroine Bai Mu Ning again and again.
In the end, the hero and heroine are led to be sacrificed by the villain, completing the climax of the ending.
Bai Qingqing paused in her tapping movements, lost in thought.
If the theft of Ao Teng's luck is related to the current corpse sewing, and the Feng Shui master behind the corpse sewing is aiming at the country's destiny, then can she guess that the metaphysical line in this novel world has begun to unfold?
She had never thought in that direction before, but now that she had connected all the things together and compared them with the content of the original book, the more Bai Qingqing thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible.
The second half of the metaphysical chapter begins when Bai Muning returns to the Jiang family in Jing City. Li Qingqing fights for a long time, and even when she is exhausted, she still cannot win over this real little princess of Jing City, and her defense is completely broken.
The villain's name was Wushang... or Wudang or something like that. It was at this time that he found Li Qingqing and offered her help.
There is not much description of this Xuanmen villain in the original novel. His main role is to provide metaphysical assistance to Li Qingqing and to make the hero and heroine separate from each other in the finale.
In total, he only has a role in the 200,000 words of the finale.
Bai Qingqing read the novel too quickly and didn't remember the villain's name. Now she thought about it but still couldn't remember it.
But the name is not important.
Bai Qingqing decided to call him "no party" and continued to think:
The entire plot and timeline of the original novel have been disrupted by her, so it is not surprising that Wudang will appear earlier.
In this way, the ultimate goal of this Wudang is to take Bai Muning's life. Ao Teng is just a by-product, and even the stitched corpse in front of him is just one of the processes.
Bai Qingqing suddenly felt that everything she had encountered in the past two days was developing in the direction of the original novel. She felt as if even if she knew her fate and struggled hard, she could not escape the original arrangement.
Zi Wenbin was still quietly waiting for her to finish thinking. Bai Qingqing glanced at her and expressed her guess without reservation: "His goal is the country's destiny. He is rushing over here now. Judging from the speed, he seems to be driving a car."
"I don't know the specific purpose of the sewn corpse yet. There must be a big game behind it. Anyway, you should pay more attention to it. The simplest thing is to capture him and question him."
Zi Wenbin's eyes trembled. What Bai Qingqing said was completely beyond her expectations.
Without any doubt, she sent the action code on the intercom. The communicators of everyone present vibrated at the same time. After checking the code, they looked at each other and turned to look at Zi Wenbin and Bai Qingqing.
Zi Wenbin said: "Ms. Bai, you should..."
Before she finished, Bai Qingqing smiled and said, "This is a matter for your Special Investigation Bureau. It should be handled by your bureau. I have something else to do. I'll leave now."
Zi Wenbin nodded and said "OK".
Several colleagues at the scene did not expect Bai Qingqing to leave so soon.
Someone just noticed their conversation and whispered to several other colleagues that the Feng Shui master who was sewing the corpses was coming this way.
The expressions of the other people changed subtly.
What else could you do in the middle of the night? Why are you leaving now? Bai Qingqing probably didn't want to confront the Feng Shui master who was about to arrive, so she wanted to slip away early.
But it is true that this is indeed the business of their Special Investigation Bureau. What's the big deal about letting a citizen rush to the front?
Several people thought that Bai Qingqing was good at fortune-telling and might be a little bit lacking in fighting, so they all said, "It's getting late, Consultant Bai, go back and rest."
"Yes, I have kept you for so long today. Thank you, Consultant Bai."
Bai Qingqing smiled and looked to the southwest without explaining to them.
What she just said was not just an excuse, she really had something to do.
Now, do it immediately.
…
Bai Qingqing did not ask the people from the bureau to escort her. She walked out of the door by herself and went to a dark and secluded place. When there was no one around, she gathered her spiritual power at her fingertips and made a thousand-mile sun-traveling talisman in the air, then disappeared into the darkness.
Previously in Zhou Hao's memory, she had sent a talisman to the Feng Shui master, so she could sense it as soon as he used his vital energy.
Now the Feng Shui master was being led to the East Market by the corpse sewing. The security at his original location was just relaxed, so she could go and investigate.
As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy ensures victory in a hundred battles. Regardless of whether the non-partisan is going to cooperate with her or compete with her in the future, it never hurts to get to know the other party in advance.
After a moment.
Bai Qingqing appeared in a restaurant box.
There were leftovers on the table, and judging by the dishes and chopsticks, three people had eaten. Everything on the table and chairs had been taken away, leaving only a restaurant lighter on the table. There was some cigarette ash next to it, and it looked like the lighter had been used.
Why are you eating at this time in the middle of the night when you're not sleeping?
She took the lighter from the table, exited the restaurant through the window, climbed over the wall and landed on a dark path.
There are few lights and people around this area, and it looks like a run-down third-tier town. If they can eat in the restaurant here, it is very likely that they live nearby.
I just don’t know if it’s a permanent place for non-partisans.
Bai Qingqing gathered her coat, polished her lighter, followed the faint scent across the street, and finally found a three-story building.
There was a large patch of weeds at the entrance and the ground was wet and muddy, as if it had just rained. A three-story gray building stood alone behind the weeds, with a faint smell of burning incense lingering around it.
Bai Qingqing looked at the entire wasteland, her eyes narrowed in the night, and she felt a faint fluctuation of vital energy.
Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation?
How could that non-party person set up the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation on a field of wild grass?
What a huge treasure there must be in this room...
Bai Qingqing thought about it and decided not to go into the formation. Wudang's cultivation level could be seen from the formation. Entering the formation would cause fluctuations in his vital energy and would definitely leave traces.
She stood outside the formation, took out her cell phone, opened the map, put a location mark on it, and by the way saw the message on her phone that was sent at around five o'clock yesterday afternoon, which was still unread.
Bai Qingqing turned back while checking the pictures that Ao Teng had sent her.
He went to the hospital to see Zuo Xingchi. The background of the picture is the hospital.
The child sat on the white hospital bed, turning his face away from the camera, pulling the collar of his hospital gown down with both hands, revealing a purple-red mark on his neck.
[Qingqing, this is the mark left on Xingchi’s neck. It wasn’t there when I left yesterday. When I went to see him again today, there was suddenly a mark on his neck.]
[The child said that it might be the string of the pendant on his neck that made him get hung up, and the pendant moved to the back when he was sleeping in the middle of the night]
[I asked the child, he didn’t feel uncomfortable or anything]
[The trace pattern is exactly the same as his necklace lanyard]
[But it looks wrong to me. How can a pendant be tied like this? The angle of the rope is wrong too. The mark is straight. There is no angle where the pendant is turned to the back and the two ends are tilted downward.]
[Qingqing, don’t you think there will be another supernatural incident? (crying)]
Bai Qingqing stood still with her back to the wasteland.
After scrolling back to the long text and clicking on the picture, I saw a red rope around Zuo Xingchi's collar. The rope was slightly long, and only half of the pendant was exposed at the collar, with the rest hidden in his shirt.
The jade base of the pendant can be seen in the exposed part, and a Buddha head is half exposed in the collar, showing the fleshy bun on the top of the head and a pair of compassionate eyes.
Around the wasteland, the scent of burning incense seemed to be carried by the wind.
Bai Qingqing suppressed her gaze.
The red mark on Zuo Xingchi’s neck is definitely wrong!
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The new message was sent at around nine o'clock in the evening. Ao Teng probably didn't wait for her reply, so he left the hospital first and sent her a message saying that Zuo Xingchi was fine now.
Bai Qingqing stretched out her hand and drew a spiritual talisman in the air, then returned to the East Market and wrote back to Ao Teng:
[The child will not die. He has survived the brink of death. I will go to the hospital to see him at dawn.]
If it was before she found the stitched corpse, she might not have known the purpose of the red mark, but she understood it after meeting Zhang Minda.
This red mark was originally meant to be used to cut off the child's head evenly, so the mark left behind is straight without any twists or turns.
Now that Zuo Xingchi's face was disfigured, the head was not chopped off.
It was almost one in the evening and Ao Teng was still awake. He called her directly to ask where she was and why she hadn't returned home yet.
How is the matter going? Have you had dinner?
At this moment, Ao Teng was chattering and seemed like a middle-aged elder.
Bai Qingqing said they were almost there, so she stopped a car on the roadside and headed towards Bai's house.
Go to the workshop and touch your belly.
She slept so much in the afternoon that she missed dinner. Now that she had used up some of her spiritual energy, she felt a little hungry.
But she didn't tell Ao Teng, for fear that Ao Teng would wake Aunt Qiao up in the middle of the night to cook for her, so she decided to wait until she got home and go to the small kitchen to make something to eat.
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