The Exorcist

"In this way, try not to let it know what you talked about with us. And don't believe any of its words or illusions. Be firm in your faith. You must save your son, and you must firmly believe that we can help you. In the end, you will definitely Get rid of this harmful thing." Xiao Xia encouraged him, "As for your case, I will help you apply for a judicial psychiatric evaluation after the trial."

"But it has already been identified!" Li Jingming said.

"You can apply for re-appraisal. You don't need to worry about this. Leave the legal matters to me. You just need to cooperate."

"How to cooperate? Pretend—pretend to be crazy?"

Xiao Xia didn't know how to answer this question.

Being found to instigate the client to commit fraud or give false testimony is not a matter of revoking the lawyer's license, but serious criminal prosecution. Rather, this is not what she wants, and her creed has always been to "look up to the sky and bow down to the ground".

"Maybe—" she said in embarrassment, "that ghost didn't become anything, it just made your brain hallucinate. If you have hallucinations—it should be a kind of mental illness!" Her morality struggled , Finally, the idea of ​​saving lives prevailed.

"That's right. It makes you hallucinate, otherwise it can't explain what you see during the day. Have you seen its changes during the day?" After getting confirmation from Li Jingming, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued: " Ghosts are intangible things, so hallucinations are more believable. In this case, you just need to tell the truth when appraising it.”

"That'll be fine?"

"Yeah, you saw a ghost transform into various forms and try to kill your whole family!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Lawyer Yue." Li Jingming held his head in pain, "You must help me! Lawyer Yue, I beg you!"

"Don't worry, I'll do what I say -- what's wrong with you? Mr. Li? Mr. Li? Mage, Mage, help me." Li Jingming's strange appearance made Xiao Xia involuntarily ask Ruan Zhan for help.

"It's coming out." Ruan Zhan said calmly, "Mr. Li, you don't have to be afraid if you remember Lawyer Yue's words. If you are not afraid, its momentum will be weaker."

"I will definitely do it." Li Jingming continued to struggle, "Hurry up and leave, it hates Lawyer Yue to death, and will hurt her."

"You go first." Ruan Zhan said.

"No." Xiao Xia turned pale with fright at Li Jingming's distorted appearance, but still sat still, "You wake up this policeman first, then the appearance of 'Li Jingming' attacking me will be seen by many people. It will be to his advantage that experts will hear the prison guards' account of his behavior while in custody."

"You sure you want to do this."

"Sure." Xiao Xia gritted her teeth, and simply refused to look at Li Jingming, whose face was already ferocious.

Ruan Zhan's heart softened for a moment when she was weak but trying to be strong, "Hide behind me," he said.

When Xiao Xia heard this, she immediately jumped behind Ruan Zhan as if she had received an amnesty.

"Why are you pretending to be so timid?" Ruan Zhan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still let her hide for nothing, and let the police wake up before the 'Li Jingming' attack. Moreover, this police officer had no chance to think about why his head was dizzy, and his memory was still blank for a period of time. Just calling other people to subdue this suspect who had another seizure was enough for him to be so busy. .

Sitting in the sunny coffee shop, Xiao Xia still had lingering fears about the appearance of 'Li Jingming' having an attack.

"I didn't instigate Li Jingming to give false testimony." She hated the bitterness of coffee and drank juice with a straw in her mouth. "That ghost must have made him hallucinate."

"You are getting darker and darker." Ruan Zhan was about to end Xiaoxia's self-comfort, "Actually, what you said is very reasonable. Ghosts are invisible things. They can't directly kill people and set fires. They can only use people's fear to scare people to death. , or control things and other people. Even if the shape changes, it must appear at night, and the image should be nothingness, and physical contact is impossible."

"That is to say, everything happened because it attached to Li Jingming's body and caused him to hallucinate? Because if there is no physical contact, his wife can only scold him, not beat him!"

"It may also be attached to other people. For example, his wife, and then attached to other people to follow suit."

"This can also explain what the witness said in the testimony. More than a month before the incident, he publicly had conflicts with his family. It must be that ghost who changed and sowed discord."

"Very likely."

"God, I hope I won't be possessed by a ghost. It's too scary." Xiao Xia thought of Li Jingming's tragic situation, and sympathized with him. "If you hurt your relatives and friends under control, how will you face this when you wake up?" everything!"

"You don't have to worry." Ruan Zhan looked at the Jade Bodhisattva on Xiao Xia's chest and said, "Wear it, don't take it off."

"So it was this that was protecting me? So, it tried to hurt me several times but failed. Tch, if I knew this, why would I be afraid of it!"

Seeing her confident face, Ruan Zhan suddenly understood that the person who knew her best in the world was probably Wan Li. I forgot Wan Li's instructions for a while, and telling her about it, really made this super optimistic lady think that everything will be fine from now on, exactly as Wan Li expected.

"It's just an amulet, it only has a certain power to ward off evil spirits, but it can't protect you." He frightened Xiao Xia, "It can't hurt you because it's incomplete now."

"What do you mean by incomplete?" Xiao Xia was startled by the new news before she was happy for a few seconds.

"Didn't Li Jingming say that it never left? And you know that it is attached to your landlord now. How can it change hosts in broad daylight?"

"Why?"

"In fact, I suspect that it is a ghost that has had a hundred years of grudges. To be precise, it is no longer as simple as a ghost, but a 'sha'!"

"Shadow?" Xiao Xia parrot imitated his tongue.

"Or half evil."

"Can you not speak your special professional terminology!"

"That is to say, it is more powerful than ordinary evil spirits, and it can be attached to several people separately. The most common is to divide it into two, and the more powerful ones can be divided into more. Although its power will be weakened a little, but it It can control more people at the same time, and there is a sense between them, and they can cooperate with each other to achieve the goal." Last time he was at Xiao Xia's house, he was very puzzled about the incompleteness of the black air, and he found out after meeting Li Jingming today It turned out to be such a thing. But he was already very reluctant to deal with the half body, and he had to use the blood curse to suppress it. If they were allowed to merge into one, he would definitely be at a disadvantage. If it returns to its own territory, its ability will increase greatly, even if he tries his best, he may not necessarily win. Of course, I can't tell Xiao Xia about these things, she can't help her, it can only increase her troubles.

"You mean it didn't do anything to me because it split in two, and I'd be wrecked if it came together?"

"Very insightful."

"Hey, can you stop talking to me in such a sarcastic tone?" Xiao Xia was furious.

"I try my best."