White Bone Monkey King

Jin An's words made several people present gasp in surprise.

Indeed, it is natural for dogs to pick up bones.

There is also a saying in folklore that old dogs become spirits and learn to walk upright on two legs. For this reason, folk have also found a quick identification method, which is to throw a bone on the ground and see if the dog will lie on the ground. Grab the bone.

People will definitely not lie down on the ground when they see bones, only dogs will.

The old Taoist priest's rhetoric made Commander Zhang and Fatty Li stunned for a moment, while sighing that the world was full of wonders.

Jin An kicked out a stone. The stone made a loud sound, cut through the night sky at high speed, and disappeared under the night.

Not long after, they heard the dog's squealing in pain as its foot was pinched by the door. When they caught up with the old dog digging the grave, they saw an old dog lying motionless on the ground with an extra lump on its forehead. There was a lot of blood from the newly injured wound.

"Will you die like this?" Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest found a branch and poked the old dog on the ground.

The old dog was motionless.

Fatty Li found a human leg bone stick with some suspicion and threw it at the old dog's mouth, but there was no reaction.

The largest number of mass graves are all kinds of human bones.

Fatty Li was shocked: "Is he really dead? If he is pretending to be dead and doesn't react when he sees the bones, isn't this a real dog but a real person?"

Then he looked at the old Taoist priest doubtfully, wondering whether what the old Taoist priest said before was true or false.

The old Taoist priest rolled his eyes and said: "Although it is a dog, it can't chew all bones. People are divided into three, six, nine, and dogs are also divided into three, six, and nine. You see that its fur is shiny and it can wear clothes. It shows that it has a master. The bones you throw at your dog are bad, they are smelly, rancid, and don’t even have any minced meat. You throw fresh braised rabbit legs or beef leg bones into hot pot and see if it wakes up.”

Fatty Li blinked: "Where can I find fresh braised rabbit legs or beef leg bone hot pot for this fat man in the wilderness..."

The old Taoist priest rolled his eyes, sneaked around behind the butt of the old gravedigger, and then used the branch in his hand to poke hard between the two wrinkled bells, oooh!

With a scream, the old dog clamped its tail, jumped up as high as a person, and then barked at the old Taoist priest with his teeth bared.

Fatty Li's eyes flashed: "It turns out he was really pretending to be dead."

Seeing the old dog resisting violently being pinned down by Fatty Li, the old dog kicked his legs crazily on Fatty Li, making Fatty Li scream in pain. The old Taoist priest rolled up his sleeves and rushed to help, holding down the old dog's hind legs in excitement. .

"Daozhang Chen, do you think this old dog's eyes are glowing green? Could it be that he is the same thing as the dead monkey we encountered when we went down to the Yinyi River in Wuzhou Prefecture, a thing refined by corpse exterminators?" Fatty Li said Still holding the old dog firmly down.

The old Taoist priest frowned and said, "No, it's not normal for these cats and dogs to have green eyes at night."

Fatty Li asked Jin An again, could this dog-like old dog be a man who knows how to build animals and wear dog skin to dig graves?

Jin An, who was inspecting the grave dug out by the old dog, shook his head and said no.

After the old dog was tied up, Fatty Li, who was covered in dirt, came over and said, "Taoist Master Jin'an, what did you find?"

Then I heard Fatty Li exclaiming: "The coffin and grave soil here are full of blood! Why did the bottom of this blood coffin collapse!"

Jin An thought for a while and then said: "That night, the bone collectors, Master Yang and Liu Yun, probably came here to collect bones. Fatty Li, can you check the information about the owner of the tomb here?"

Fatty Li said with a troubled face: "I'm afraid there's nothing we can do. This place itself is a mass grave, and the government can't control it."

Just at this time, the Criminal Investigation Department found several tomb robbing tools nearby. Well, now that we have the tools and the personnel, let’s start digging.

The criminal inspectors present were all martial arts practitioners. They were originally very strong, but now that they had tools in their hands, they could dig up the soil at an incredible speed.

The first thing to be unearthed was the blood coffin. After a simple cleaning, it was found that the inside of the blood coffin was filled with scriptures. However, these scriptures were not modern writing, but seemed to be written thousands of years ago.

"It's strange. Although there are many ancient tombs stacked on top of each other in Daheishan, how come the coffins from thousands of years ago ended up on the top layer closest to the ground?" Fatty Li was surprised.

"Could it be that the descendants have moved the graves of their ancestors?"

"I see!"

Fatty Li suddenly yelled, and then he became more and more excited as he spoke: "You need to pick up bones to move the tomb. Could these bone pickers be invited by the descendants of the people in the coffins to pick up the bones for them, identify the bones, and then move the tomb to In the new cemetery!”

Jin An took a look and said, "Does it take killing so many people to move a grave?"

Fatty Li languished. Indeed, if he had to kill so many people every time he moved graves and picked up bones, wouldn't it be chaos long ago?

But Fatty Li quickly regained his energy, and he had a new idea: "Could it be because it was old and he couldn't confirm whether it was the corpse the employer was looking for, so the bone picker secretly refined a ghoul?" , to increase the success rate of bone picking. For example, the employer’s status is not low, and the conditions offered are so tempting that even the bone picking master and his grandson cannot refuse, so they are so dedicated to the job... In fact, even the employer does not know The three bone collectors have done so many evil things."

It’s not like the collision of two civilizations like the Central Plains Civilization and the Western Region Civilization, so no matter how the writing evolves over the millennium, there will always be similarities. The old Taoist priest took some leaves from the locust tree, swept them around inside the blood coffin, and recognized them. After reading a few characters, he was surprised and shouted: "What is written here seems to be the Book of Salvation?"

The old Taoist priest wrote the few characters he recognized on the ground. After Jin An read them, they were indeed scriptures from the "Book of Saviors".

"It seems that the bone collectors and grandson are very unlucky. When they encounter a dead person who pretended to be a corpse from a thousand years ago, the coffin can be used to save people. It is also a blood coffin and blood and soil. The person being buried has been buried a thousand years ago. There are signs of corpse fraud, but it has been suppressed by the "Book of Saviors" and lived peacefully underground all these years. All these changes happened a few months ago. The popularity of the coffin caused the sleeping ancient corpse inside to be raised, and then the bones were collected. Both the master and the grandson ate it, and only Liu Yun escaped."

Fatty Li curiously asked: "Why didn't the blood coffin pretend to kill Liu Yun?"

The old Taoist priest thought about it and said: "This may be related to Liu Yun being a ghoul. Just like Fatty Li, you threw dead bones on the roadside to the old dog and it didn't eat it. Try throwing braised rabbit legs and beef leg bones in hot pot to see if it would eat it. "

Gululu——

Fatty Li's stomach was pounding like thunder. He covered his stomach with a frown on his face: "Master Chen, please stop talking about braised rabbit legs and beef leg bone hot pot. You have mentioned it several times in a row. I am tired and hungry after working on it for so long in the middle of the night. I am now All I can think about is braised rabbit legs and beef leg bone hot pot.”

Sure enough, there are many people and broad thinking. Fatty Li and the old Taoist priest analyzed the case almost completely with each other.

The only thing left now is to find the remains of the bone picker and then follow the clues to find out the real employer behind it.

Jin An and Commander Zhang discussed it and decided to continue digging to see if they could find other clues.

But after digging for a while, I didn't find any valuable clues. I just dug out some rotten bones, including those of adults and children.

During this period, Jin'an tried to detect his spiritual consciousness several times, but the burial aura here was too thick, and his spiritual consciousness was like a stone cow entering the sea, making it difficult to move even an inch.

After digging for a while, Jin An asked everyone to stop, and then jumped into the cave to personally investigate the situation below.

Boom!

Roar!

A creepy corpse roar came from the bottom of the cave, and everyone felt a shaking sensation from the earth and rocks under their feet. The next moment, the cave collapsed several feet deep, and was buried by countless earth, rocks and dead bones.

"Little brother!"

"Taoist Master Jin'an!"

The few people had just dug for a while when the earth and rocks beneath their feet shook again. Jin An returned to the ground carrying a bloody corpse and two mutilated corpses.

The two mutilated corpses, one old and one young, had some vague suspicions in everyone's mind.

As expected, Jin An said: "When I found this bloody corpse, two highly decomposed corpses that had just been dead for a few months fell at its feet. They should be the two bones collectors we are looking for."

"This bloody corpse should be the dead person buried in the blood coffin. After it ran out of the blood coffin, it has been hiding in the underground palace master's tomb that has not been discovered by the tomb robbers."

This thousand-year-old blood corpse is not a disaster in the third realm, but it is not far away from a disaster, so it has been dormant in the underground palace, waiting for the opportunity to break through. It's a pity that it met Jin'an, a martial arts immortal, and was sacrificed to heaven as soon as he met him.

Just when Jin An finished speaking, he looked up at the sky and snorted coldly: "How dare any wandering spirit peek at me!"

The martial artist's immortal energy and blood exploded, like a sea of ​​red fire rising into the sky, frightening several out-of-body souls to leave in a hurry. These souls could not be seen by ordinary people, only Jin An could see them, and they all fell towards the big black mountain on the ground.

"What's wrong with Taoist Priest Jin'an?" Commander Zhang and Fatty Li looked concerned.

Jin An said it was okay. He saw that it was getting late and it would be dawn in less than half an hour, so he asked everyone to stop working and go back first.

"What should we do with the exhumed bones and blood coffin of Taoist Master Jin'an?" someone asked.

Jin An thought for a moment and then said, "Take them all back first."

After saying that, Jin An pointed to the old dog on the ground: "Take this back too. Since it belongs to an owner, someone will come to claim it sooner or later."

Jin An took one last look at the Dahei Mountain opposite, and ultimately did not go there, but took his people directly back home.

There are masters from Yujing Golden Tower in Daheishan. He has already understood the situation in the underworld, so there is no need to join in the fun.

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As soon as we returned to the watchtower of the Criminal Investigation Department, someone immediately came to inform us that Yujing Golden Tower, Zhenguo Temple, and Tianshi Mansion were visiting one after another. They all came to visit Jin'an, but Jin'an was not there. He sat there for a while and could not wait. Jin An went back first, leaving a visiting gift before leaving.

After finishing speaking, the people in the Criminal Investigation Department looked at the dog leash in Fatty Li's hand with strange expressions. At one end of the dog leash was an old dog with a white beard who dressed like a scholar and dressed like a dog.

Someone joked that Li Tou was going to treat everyone to eat fragrant meat to ward off the cold and strengthen yang, which attracted more people to watch.

Old dogs understand human nature and sit on the ground and won't move away.

No matter how hard Fatty Li pulled him, he just wouldn't leave.

It wasn't until Jin An said he wouldn't eat you that the old dog stood up again like a human spirit and took the initiative to enter the Criminal Investigation Department.

Fatty Li was stunned on the spot. He didn't even react when the dog leash slipped from his hand. The old dog actually took the dog leash and put it in Fatty Li's hand. Then he turned around and raised his head towards Fatty Li, meaning "Let's go, go to jail." Chasi.

This scene made Fatty Li even more depressed. Did he lead the dog into the Criminal Investigation Department, or did the dog lead him into the Criminal Investigation Department?

On the other hand, the people from the Criminal Investigation Department were surprised. Didn't they go out to investigate the case of bone-picking and cannibalism? Why did they bring back an old dog that looked like a human? The key is that this old dog is too understanding of human nature, and he can even walk on a leash by himself.

After returning to the Criminal Investigation Department, Jin An asked Fatty Li to bring him paper and pen, then drew a portrait and handed it to Fatty Li.

"This is the employer who hired three generations of bone collectors to pick up bones. If you find this employer, you can find out whose bones they want to pick up."

"Although the real culprit of the cannibalism and bone-picking case has been found and the body of the real culprit has been found, the case can be closed. But I have always been curious about whose bones the employer behind the scenes wanted to pick up. Maybe this is the reason why Dali Temple The real reason for treating it as a hot potato."

The portrait shows an ordinary middle-aged man, slightly overweight, with a black mole at the corner of his eye.

Jin An reminded: "This person may be able to disguise himself and not walk around the world with his true face. He may not be easy to find, but don't worry, you can send it to all the yamen in the capital. Pay more attention to whether there are people with similar looks."

"As for the cannibalism and bone-picking case, the bones of the real culprit have been found, and the motive for the crime has been investigated clearly. The case can be closed first. The case can be reopened after the employer behind it is found."

Fatty Li looked at the portrait in surprise: "Is Taoist Jin'an a ghost again? Is the employer's face seen through the dead man's obsession?"

"When did Taoist Jin'an become so evil? I didn't even notice it."

Jin An smiled and said, "Just now you handed me the banknotes and I went into the room to draw portraits."

While Fatty Li happily took the scroll and left, the old Taoist priest who took the dog leash quietly asked Jin An: "Little brother, have you really closed the case?"

Jin An nodded: "The case is really closed."

In fact, the case itself is not complicated. Someone paid a bone picker to pick up the bones. The bone picker was not sure, so he killed people and dumped the corpses, and refined the living people into ghouls. As a result, a thousand-year-old bloody corpse was dug up in Daheishan, which caused the whole world to The army was wiped out, and only Liu Yun escaped because of the ghoul. After escaping back, Liu Yun, without the control of the bone picker, frequently cooked and eaten other people and threw their bodies away. Later, because he ate too many people, the evil spirit attacked his brain, he had hallucinations and reported himself to the official, which implicated this string of bone pickers. Human case.

The employer behind the scenes was not a bone picker. He didn't know about the ghouls, and it was even less likely that he would actively participate in killing people and cooking corpses. Otherwise, the obsession on the iron pot for cooking corpses would be reflected when he went to the underworld.

Although the real murderer was found, the case left a suspense. Whose bones was the employer looking for? Can Dali Temple?

"The case has been closed, what should we do with this old dog?" The old Taoist priest pointed to his feet.

Jin An: "Tie it at the door, waiting for the owner to come and claim it."

Soon, details about Jin'an's exorcism, walking underworld, and compass bone search were spread in the Criminal Investigation Department. Those who did not follow felt regretful and hated themselves for their lack of vision; those who went out with Jin'an walked with their toes. He is high-spirited and popular wherever he goes. I hope to tell more details about the night...