Chapter 39
"Speaking of soul swapping, I remembered something." Lu Jueqiu suddenly said, "I had a competitor named Lei Yunfei. His son went to an ancient village with some friends a while ago, and when they came back, they were all seriously ill. The person who organized the event had already died in the rental house."
A group of people who usually love all kinds of fantasy stories and go on ghost hunting. When they come back this time, everyone thinks everything is fine. It is not until a neighbor complains about a strange smell next door that they find out that the person next door is dead.
"They just came back from the ancient village not long ago, but the body died a week before they set out." Lu Jueqiu has been too busy recently. At first, he thought they were just injured by ghosts and didn't take it seriously. But when Xie Que mentioned it, he remembered this.
"Have you been to see it?" Jing Xiebai frowned. Lu Jueqiu was not the kind of person who would give up the opportunity to win over others. There must be some trouble.
"Tsk." Lu Jueqiu irritably adjusted her hair and tied it into a low ponytail. "I've snatched a lot of projects from that guy. He'd roll his eyes at me. How could he possibly let me see it?"
"Maybe he's still secretly suspecting that I cast a curse on his son." Lu Jueqiu rolled his eyes with disdain. "He's incompetent, yet he's still suspicious. Sooner or later, he'll kill his own son."
"Is my son more important than money?" Xie was puzzled.
"There are also two illegitimate sons and one illegitimate daughter." Lu Jueqiu showed them the man's photo, "Here, it's him."
Xie took the phone. The man in the photo was wearing a suit and had a beer belly. He took the toast with a lewd look on his face and had his arm around a girl.
"This guy." Jing Xiebai looked at the photo on his phone with a bit of gloating. "When I was taking a commission before, I accidentally caught him being caught cheating by his wife. He was afraid that I would spread the news, so he treated me to a meal."
"You know him? That's great, go check it out." Lu Jueqiu took back his phone. "I'll send you his number. Find some time in the next few days to deal with this. I don't think his son will live long."
Jing Xiebai nodded: "Okay."
Xie hurriedly said, "I'll go with you."
"Of course I would. How could I dare leave you alone?" Jing Xiebai picked up an apple from the fruit basket and took a bite. He puffed his cheeks and said sourly, "You don't know. My mother almost beat me to death when she heard you were missing. I don't even know who his son is."
Xie felt a little embarrassed and raised his hand to touch his nose: "I'm sorry, I will pay attention next time."
"Don't listen to his nonsense. He's the one who's clearly the most nervous." Lu Jueqiu exposed Jing Xiebai without hesitation. "He almost scolded to death those people who were assigned to protect you."
Chen Shan took action when those people he specifically selected were not around. It seemed that he knew their movements very well.
"Okay, okay, your soul is back. Pack up and get ready to go." Jing Xiebai threw an apple into Lu Jueqiu's arms, and when Xie wasn't paying attention, he gave him a look, signaling him not to talk too much, and took out his cell phone.
Xie Que saw Jing Xiebai call that man and quickly arranged a dinner date for the evening. He couldn't help but feel curious: "Isn't it just because he caught him cheating? Is his attitude so respectful?"
Jing Xiebai embraced Xie Que and said proudly, "Don't think that Lu Jueqiu is the only one who has a company. I am also a small Jing boss, okay?"
Jing Xiebai's family became wealthy early and was involved in various industries, but he was focused on exorcising ghosts and didn't care much about family affairs.
When I drove to Lei Yunfei's house, Lei Yunfei was already waiting at the door. When he saw Jing Xiebai get out of the car, he hurried to greet him.
"Mr. Xiao Jing, it's been a long time since we last met. I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person."
Lei Yunfei noticed Xie Que lagging behind, and the smile on his face froze. He looked at Jing Xiebai and asked in a low voice: "Uh, Mr. Jing, who is this?"
Jing Xiebai patted Lei Yunfei on the shoulder and looked at him with a look of "you are so lucky" on his face: "I know that your family has had some troubles recently, Mr. Lei, so I asked a master to help you solve the problem."
Lei Yunfei became unhappy when he heard this, and his expression changed. "Mr. Jing, please don't talk nonsense. What could have happened in my family? Did someone get drunk and tell you something?"
Jing Xiebai didn't indulge him and said bluntly, "Don't try to cover it up or make random guesses. Your son wasn't cursed, he was possessed by a ghost."
Lei Yunfei was startled, and dropped his previous humble tone. He said sternly, "I asked a doctor to take a look at my son, and he said that he was just frightened. Mr. Jing, please don't make fun of me."
Jing Xiebai didn't explain to him anymore and rushed in with Xie Que.
Lei Yunfei has no aesthetic taste and has not read many books. There are all kinds of antiques in his house. At first glance, it looks like a museum with luxurious decoration.
Xie Que followed Jing Xiebai and found that the energy of this place was not right as soon as he entered the door. He thought that there was a ghost in the house.
"Where is your son?" Jing Xiebai was a head taller than Lei Yunfei, and looked very dangerous when he looked down at people.
But when Xie saw him like this, he suddenly felt that they were like the rent collectors in the movies.
"That room is right opposite the stairs on the third floor." Lei Yunfei saw that Jing Xiebai was like this and it was not easy to stop him. Anyway, he didn't care about his son's life or death, so there was no need to create a rift with the Jing family over this.
Jing Xiebai nodded, took Xie Que upstairs, and left Lei Yunfei behind.
"Lei Mingzhe." Jing Xiebai didn't enter the room, but leaned against the door and shouted inside.
No one answered.
"What's going on? No one is inside?" Xie poked his head out of the door and saw a man who looked to be about twenty years old lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
"He can't hear us talking." Jing Xiebai walked into the room, stood beside the bed and waved his hand in front of Lei Mingzhe.
"Hey? Stop daydreaming."
Lei Mingzhe looked at Jing Xiebai blankly without saying a word.
"It's over, I'm stupid." Jing Xiebai sighed, took out a few pieces of talisman paper and threw them on the table, and said to Lei Yunfei who had just come up: "Find a Taoist priest to perform a ritual to summon his soul, and also get a talisman. Don't look for ghosts in the future."
After saying this, he took Xie Que down the stairs and out the door without caring whether Lei Yunfei heard it or not.
"Just leaving like that?" Xie Que didn't react until he got in the car. "We haven't found out anything yet. Why don't we go back and ask more?"
Jing Xiebai started the engine: "There is no way to find out. Except for the one who died, the rest of them have lost their souls and become stupid. It's still not too late for us to go to that ghost village and take a look." The soul is trapped in the ancient village, they have to hurry to rescue him.
"Chen Shan chose to blend in with this group of people. Maybe there's something wrong with that village. It might be a good idea to go check it out."
As for the dead person, after so long, the body had been cremated and there was no evidence left.
"Lu Jueqiu sent the details over, take a look." Jing Xiebai unlocked his phone and handed it to Xie Que.
Lu Jueqiu was very efficient and directly organized the matter into a document and sent it to Jing Xiebai.
Xie lowered his head and took a few glances before quickly realizing something was amiss. "Lei Mingzhe and his friends usually like to read ghost stories and visit haunted houses, but the most remote places they go to are small third- and fourth-tier cities. I've never seen them go to a village."
"Not to mention that Lei Mingzhe is a pampered young master." Jing Xiebao naturally continued, "The exorcists have been catching ghosts very aggressively lately. Most places are supervised, so they can only go to the village."
Some remote mountain villages are not very popular, and such places are prone to being haunted.
"And the place we went to was that person's hometown."
"Do you think those people really encountered ghosts or were they harmed by Chen Shan?" It doesn't make sense that a group of people went to look for ghosts and ended up with someone dying.
Xie frowned, thinking about what had happened recently and not jumping to conclusions: "We have to go to the village first to find out."
However, Chen Shan must have come to West City by borrowing someone else's body. The data showed that this group had just returned not long ago. Thinking about it carefully, that was the time when they started checking people coming in and out.
"I think so too." Jing Xiebai stopped the car on the side of the road. "Let's buy something to eat on the way. We'll drive to the ancient village tonight."
"OK."
The ancient village is a seven-hour drive from Xicheng, but Xie Que and his team didn't arrive until midnight.
"Don't go into the village tonight. Find a place to rest."
The ancient village is deep in the mountains. The tourism industry has developed well in recent years, and many guesthouses have opened on the road leading into the mountains. Xie Que and Jing Xiebai found a guesthouse and stayed for one night.
The next day, they got up early. There was no road in the mountains, so they drove the car to the bottom of the mountain, picked up their luggage, and walked into the mountain.
The mountain road was rugged. Jing Xiebai took Xie Que's luggage and signaled him to go ahead and not fall behind.
Xie Que was exhausted, so he gritted his teeth and climbed to the top of the mountain. He leaned against a tree and waved to Jing Xiebai, "Take a break."
"Have you noticed that the feng shui here is unusual?" Jing Xiebai stood on the top of the mountain, opened a bottle of water and handed it to Xie Que, then took out a telescope. "The mountain in front of the village is a cemetery, and there's a river behind it."
There is a grave in front of the door and water behind the house, the family will be ruined, people will die, and the sons will never return.
"No wonder this village is so dilapidated. Even the surrounding land is uncultivated. There must be no people left."
Xie, however, felt much better after drinking some water. He took the telescope and asked, "Is there such a thing?"
"Of course, but now that fewer people are talking about it, it's normal that you don't know." Jing Xiebai put away the water and said, "Let's go. If we can't solve it during the day, we'll have to stay here overnight."
Xie, however, thought of the mountain of graves he had just seen, and was suddenly startled, unconsciously quickening his pace.
The road in the mountains was winding, and although the ancient village looked right at their feet, it took Xie Que and his friends an hour and a half to arrive.
The houses are concentrated together, all of them are earthen houses, with faded couplets pasted on the doors.
"Where do I even start?" Xie Que looked at the large area of houses in front of him, feeling a little apprehensive. It was summer, the sun was blazing, but the house was dark. Even from a distance, Xie Que could sense the chill inside.
"Take a look around first." Jing Xiebai felt a headache looking at these houses. The yin energy was too concentrated, and he couldn't see a single ghost as far as he could see. It seemed that he would have a tough battle to fight today.
The houses were spread out in a long strip. They hadn't noticed it from the mountain, but when they got down, they discovered a well by the river. The well had dried up so long ago that the rope hung beside it, worn and broken at the slightest touch.
"Pull out the rope and take a look." Jing Xiebai looked at the river not far away with a serious expression.
Xie nodded and carefully pulled the rope out. The rope was only two meters long, and the rest probably fell into the well after it broke.
"Why is this rope red?" Xie Que looked at the rope in his hand, lowered his head and smelled it, "It's blood!"
There was a faint smell of blood, I wondered if it was left by Lei Mingzhe and his group.
"There's a water ghost in this village." Jing Xiebai pulled Xie Que back two steps, away from the well.
"How did you tell that?"
"The well rope is stained with blood, and the water ghost is asking for shoes." Jing Xiebai looked around and walked towards the river with Xie Que, "Let's go catch the water ghost."
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