Merchant of the Underworld

When I heard this, I got the general idea.

This Wu Dachuan was greedy. He offended a Taoist priest who had done a great favor for a piece of jade, thus attracting the poison.

The cause and effect of this incident are extremely clear, but there is still an unsolved mystery that is very strange.

This Taoist priest does not seek money, nor is he greedy for wealth, but why does he care so much about this piece of jade?

He had intended to help Wu Dachuan enter a wealthy jade family more than 20 years ago. Did he have expected that such a piece of jade wrapped in a centipede would reappear in the world?

"Where is he from?" I thought for a while and turned to ask Wu Dachuan.

"This... I'm not sure." Wu Dachuan shook his head: "But he spoke with a Sichuan accent."

I took the box and looked at it. There was no valuable information left on it, so I walked out of the bedroom and looked around.

Why did this guy put on such a big show of cheating his death before stealing the jade?

Obviously, this was performed for Wu Dachuan - when the jade is lost, there will be no suspicion on him.

He was able to make a spell of bitterness more than 20 years ago, and now he can cause jade to break out of the cabinet and drip blood to activate the poison. Obviously, his ability is extraordinary. The purpose of doing this is not to fear that Wu Dachuan will avenge his kindness and then murder him. he.

But I want to cover up something.

right!

He must have been prepared to prevent Wu Dachuan from finding another expert to spy out something, so he faked his death first and set up a Gu formation here to keep the secret strictly.

"How long has he lived here?" I asked casually, looking up and around.

"About a month or so. He was here before he came to see me. I went to Myanmar for almost 20 days."

"Well, tell me more about the defenders, the more detailed the better." I said while looking back and forth inside and outside the room.

He first pretended to die here, and then led Jade to fly here. Even if he had the idea that "the most dangerous place is the safest place," why did he block that door again? Isn’t this ‘there is no three hundred taels of silver here’?

All the doors and windows in this house were closed tightly. How did this guy get out after locking himself in?

"He doesn't seem to like eating fruits." Wu Dachuan racked his brains for a long time and finally squeezed out this sentence: "When I handed out fruits back then, he would only take them and not eat them. He would smell them in his hands. , changed hands and gave it away to someone else. I even asked him with a smile if he thought the fruit was rotten, and he replied seriously that there are many ways to eat it, is it only called eating if it is swallowed? "

"Well, go on." I responded and continued to check.

The house is not big, but it is very complete. It has two bedrooms, one living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. Everywhere in the house is covered with dust. Especially the bathroom, it seemed that it had never been used. Not to mention the toilet seat and wash basin, even the door handle was covered with a thick layer of dust.

"By the way, he doesn't like looking in the mirror either." Wu Dachuan followed me and suddenly saw the mirror in the bathroom. He seemed to be deeply inspired and said: "Back then, when he was wandering on the street, he always looked slowly and leisurely. , but whenever there is a mirror in front of any shop, he will rush past it, and even... a little scared. When he came to my house to look at jade a few days ago, he asked me to cover the mirror hanging on the wall. "

"Oh? What else? Think about it again." I became energetic.

This guy is really weird. He has lived here for more than a month and has never even used the bathroom?

Even if he never takes a shower, does he never urinate or defecate?

Suddenly I thought of something, turned around and shouted, "Have you ever seen him eat?"

"Eating?" Wu Dachuan scratched his head, thought hard for a long time and shook his head: "No, I seem to have never seen him before."

"I understand." I suddenly woke up and told Wu Dachuan, "Go get a basin of water quickly." I ran into the bathroom, kicked the mirror to pieces, picked up a larger lens and ran away. come out.

Although Wu Dachuan didn't know what I was going to do, he still brought out a basin of water from the kitchen and looked at me in confusion.

At this time, hundreds of centipedes emerged from the big rooster's body, and they were scrambling to crawl out. I took out cinnabar and sprinkled it in the basin, and the whole basin of water turned bright red.

"Spill it in!"

Wu Dachuan hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth suddenly, and poured the entire basin of water into the bedroom with a splash.

After being washed away by the cinnabar water, the centipedes fled in all directions in fear, and instantly filled the entire bedroom, leaving only an open space in the opposite corner.

"This is it!" I suddenly raised the mirror high and looked at the open space.

The light and shadow of the mirror shone on the ground, and a pair of black footprints suddenly appeared.

"What, what's going on?" Wu Dachuan looked at me in shock.

I didn't bother to explain anything to him. I kept moving the light and shadow forward step by step. Then, a pair of extremely clear black footprints appeared on the ground. I walked out of the bedroom and headed straight for the kitchen. He stepped on the stove, stepped on the window, and finally disappeared near the exhaust fan.

"That's it!" I had just seen this kitchen. It was exactly the same as other places. There was thick dust everywhere, but the exhaust fan was removed very strangely, and a small window with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters was exposed on the window glass. I didn’t pay much attention to the round hole at the time, but it wasn’t until now that I realized that this was his exit.

Wu Dachuan, who had been following me, became more and more confused. He asked with surprise and fear: "Master Zhang, these footprints..."

"It's what the defenders left behind!" As I said that, I opened the latch on the window and jumped out.

Sure enough, under the light of the mirror, two black footprints were also visible on the ground outside the window, going straight forward.

The other party did not take the sidewalk, but clung to the corner, deliberately avoiding the camera, and walked out of the alley very carefully.

"Master Zhang, are you saying that he climbed out of that small round hole?" Wu Dachuan followed closely behind me, still somewhat puzzled and asked: "Isn't this impossible? Although the Taoist priest is very thin, But the skeleton is bigger than me, so it’s impossible to get out of there.”

"What do you know?" I snorted coldly: "This is the ghost technique he uses. Not only can ordinary people not see it, but it can also pass through all the gaps like the wind. If he hadn't brought that piece of jade, he wouldn't even be able to see it. There’s no need for small holes, you can escape directly through the crack in the window.”

Not eating, not going to the bathroom, and afraid of mirror light, all of these are very consistent with the characteristics of ghosting.

The "Yin Fu Sutra" written by Zi Zi and Gray Pigeon contains all the evil magic in the world, and there is a method for practicing this magic!

(ps: Three updates today.)