Old Nine Gates · Vice Eight——Damn

Qi Tiezui was awakened by a nightmare. He stared at the gorgeous crystal chandelier on the ceiling with cold sweat and panting. The lights seemed so insignificant under the sunlight.Qi Tiezui gasped for a while before realizing that he had returned home, but this was not his home, but Zhang Qishan's.Immediately, he felt unbearable pain in the palm of his left hand. He wanted to see what happened, but found that his arm was completely out of control, and he couldn't even move his fingers. Paralyzed, the frightened body sat up reflexively, only to realize that it was just a false alarm.

The quilt slipped off, and Qi Tiezui immediately found that his left arm was covered with gauze up to his fingertips. At the same time, a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine rushed into his nostrils. He suddenly realized that when he remembered how he set up the formation, he completely forgot about it. It was at the bacterial experiment base of the Japanese army, the air was full of leaked bacteria and viruses, and I cut my palm without hesitation, and it was already considered a blessing if I didn't die.

Qi Tiezui sat in a daze for a while, when he saw the butler come in with a servant carrying a tray on which was placed a porcelain bowl. Seeing that he had woken up, the butler happily said, "Baye! You finally Woke up, Lord Buddha is in such a panic, I almost kicked Lord Jiu out of the door yesterday, oops~ I'll tell Lord Buddha right now!" The butler was in a good mood, rubbing his hands and turned to tell the servant, "You must Waiting on Ba Ye to take the medicine, there is not a single drop left."

The servant immediately nodded yes.

"How long have I been sleeping here?" Qi Tiezui asked, he recognized this servant, the one who often served Zhang Qishan tea.

"Counting today is the fifth day."

"Where is Adjutant Zhang?"

"Adjutant Zhang has long been well. I heard that the Buddha sent an errand to go out these few days." The servant put the tray on the bedside table while talking, took a porcelain bowl and scooped up a spoonful of black Chinese medicine, and was about to feed it to Qi Tie. Qi Tiezui looked at the color of the medicine, which was darker than those produced by his own Hui ink that had been developed for hundreds of years. He was really shocked, and instinctively retreated a lot.

"Baye, you must drink this medicine. It is the elixir that Jiuye took a lot of effort to find that can bring people back to life." The servant persuaded patiently, "The Buddha will bring you back that day , You are seriously injured. Your whole arm is so rotten that you can even see the bones, and your body is covered with red sores. The doctors you invited said they couldn’t be cured, so the Buddha drove them all out in a fit of anger. Finally, Thanks to Master Jiu who has a way, I don't know where to get this medicine, most of the sores disappeared the next day after taking it, Master Jiu came to see it yesterday, and said that in a few days, even the rotting flesh on his hands would be healed cured."

Hearing what he said, Qi Tiezui expected that this medicine must be a thousand times more valuable than the deer live grass, and it can turn rot into a living. Since it is all for his own good, then he has to drink it with a smile even if he is suffering. So he took the medicine bowl by himself, with a slump in his heart, he held his breath and poured down the pitch-black magic medicine.Qi Tiezui was thinking that after taking the medicine and holding his breath for a while, the bitterness should pass, but he would be choked by the strong bitterness in his stomach as soon as he let go , Coughing in a mess while pressing his chest, the servant turned pale with fright, immediately fetched a sugar cube from the tea table and fed him another one.

After Qi Tiezui managed to get over the pain, but he was a little sleepy, the servant helped him to lie down, and told him that he could not eat anything else until two hours after taking the medicine, and told him to just rest until the time came Just bring him food.Qi Tiezui didn't actually feel hungry. He thought that when he fell asleep, he didn't miss a single meal of the food like medicine. He suddenly felt that it was better to fall asleep than to wake up. At least he would not be afraid of suffering when he fell asleep.

Counting it, Qi Tiezui has been asleep for nearly five days, and it is not easy to fall asleep again. After tossing and turning for more than half an hour, he finally turned over. His clothes were placed on the couch at the foot of the bed, a new set. The gown I wore that day must have been burnt to ashes.

Zhang Qishan's mansion is always empty, clear and cold. Qi Tiezui wandered in this ice city for a long time, not to mention meeting people, not even a ghost. He suddenly felt a little bored, so he simply went straight to Zhang Qishan's bedroom go.At that moment, Zhang Qishan was sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, in a daze of thought, he didn't think about anything, but he thought of something over and over again.The coffee table in front of him was full of case reports sent in the past few days. When he put these cases together, he became more and more sure that the murderer was in the Japanese secret base that day. The female ghost who took the life of Qi Tiezui.

"Buddha." Qi Tiezui saw that Zhang Qishan was thinking about something when he entered the door, so he knocked on the door to remind him to come.When Zhang Qishan saw him, he immediately asked him to come and sit down. Qi Tiezui suffered from a serious illness, and lost two rounds of weight, almost out of shape.

"how do you feel?"

"Thanks to the Buddha, anywhere is good," Qi Tiezui smiled, as always, "What is the Buddha thinking, so preoccupied."

"I have a clue about the serial murder case." Zhang Qishan turned over a stack of files and handed them to Qi Tiezui. The latter opened the top one with an inexplicable expression. throw it out.

"The victim of the first homicide case was the Minister of Criminal Affairs of the Headquarters. After careful investigation, one of the people he contacted was a major suspect." Zhang Qishan gestured for him to read the document with his chin, "Reiko Okita is a person who wants to seduce important government officials. The main method, the Japanese spy who obtained the party-state intelligence, was declared to be executed by the Japanese side for treason two months ago. In the files of the Minister of Criminal Justice, he has obtained the Japanese spy information from a woman named Chen Tianli many times. intelligence."

"It's really feng shui turning around, and the world is sad." Qi Tiezui pursed his lips and shook his head helplessly, "In this way, it will make sense."

"What do you mean?"

"Buddha, you don't know something. At first I thought that female ghost was just an ordinary ghost," Qi Tiezui threw down the document and said to Zhang Qishan. You can’t reincarnate for a day. If you want to enter reincarnation, you must either find an expert to dispel your grievances, or let him and your enemies appear on the road to Yinsi at the same time. But living people have yang life, ghosts have yin life. Years are so long, so ghosts usually take the initiative to claim their lives in order to reincarnate," Qi Tiezui couldn't help opening up the chatterbox as soon as he talked about the things he was good at, and he almost beamed. At that time, I felt strange, I used the most powerful one in the subdue demon array, if it is an ordinary ghost, it must be able to trap the enemy until the death, and even before that, the ghost will be scattered. But the female ghost is extremely fierce, It's not bad if she can be trapped for seven days, and then I concluded that she is not an ordinary ghost."

"Get to the point." Zhang Qishan got a little impatient with his nonsense, and his brows were furrowed.

"Look at these autopsy reports." Qi Tiezui pushed the documents on the table aside, and arranged the autopsy reports in front of Zhang Qishan according to the number, "The first one, the man's heart disappeared, The hearts of his wives and concubines were found in the stove and torn into pieces, which shows that her hatred for her wives and concubines was like a burning fire; and all that happened after that was that the man's heart was still missing, while the woman's was stuffed. In the man's mouth, this kind of behavior just fits a kind of ghost style."

Zhang Qishan felt that his patience was at the limit, but the other party was seriously injured, and it was really not easy to attack him. He could almost feel that he had crushed his anger and swallowed them forcefully. Looking at himself, he could only grit his teeth and continue the conversation as he wished, asking, "What the hell."

"There is a kind of ghost in China, called painted skin ghost (note ①). This kind of ghost is not born after death, but directly transformed from a human into a ghost. In Japan, they call it a born ghost (note ③). Because of jealousy Or it arises out of love-hate, specially seduces a man with a family, digs out his girlfriend's heart and stuffs it in the man's mouth when he loves him, it is regarded as being infatuated with a woman In these cases," Qi Tiezui patted the autopsy reports as he said, "except for the first one for revenge, the others are typical style of painted skin ghosts. According to my guess, this Japanese woman It was only after being caught by one of my own people that I realized that I was being used, was deceived by my loved one and abandoned by my own country, and directly turned into a ghost in resentment."

"That is to say, the so-called female ghost turned into a ghost when the Japanese were about to execute her. In fact, she is a human being."

"Uh...not really a human..." Qi Tiezui really didn't know how to explain the embarrassing status of the Painted Skin Ghost to Zhang Qishan.For a while, the two fell into silence, each having their own concerns.Qi Tiezui always felt that he missed some clues, until Zhang Qishan picked up the phone and dialed: "Notify Adjutant Zhang, retreat immediately."

"Buddha, why do you think that female ghost tried to take my life so many times?" Qi Tiezui said inexplicably, no matter how hard he thought, he still had no idea, "I have no grudges or enmities with her."

Zhang Qishan was silent for a moment, then took out a piece of paper from a book and handed it to him. The piece of paper was incompletely soaked in blood that had turned black, but half of the person on it could still be seen clearly—it was Qi Iron mouth.

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The author has something to say: an explanation of several easily confused ghosts.

Note:

①Painted skin ghosts, from the Chinese ghosts, are ghosts that are transformed directly from living people, not transformed after death, and like to eat people's hearts.Ugly because of jealousy and resentment, she often wears a beauty's skin to cover up her face, seduces a man with a family, and eats his heart when he loves him.Beauty is not maintained by people's hearts.I especially like the heart of flirtatious men, so I often appear beside flamboyant men.

② Li Gui, from the Hundred Ghosts of China, is the ghost that the murdered person becomes after death. As long as the hatred is not reported for a day, the resentment will increase day by day.A ghost can only be reincarnated if it eliminates its grievances, and the method of eliminating grievances is already in the text.If the ghost's resentment persists and the yin is stronger than the yang, then he can mix with people during the day (there is a saying that hiding in human skin allows him to walk in the sun).

③Chengsheng ghost, from the Japanese hundred ghosts, is also a ghost transformed from a living person. It has black horns and fangs on its forehead. It is mostly transformed from a woman who was abandoned by a loved one. There is no record that it has a good appetite and seduces men. .

④Bone girls, from the Japanese Hundred Demons, are mostly women who have been raped to death. Because of their anger, they turn into ghosts and demand their lives. They will use a piece of human skin to disguise themselves.

⑤The living soul comes from the Japanese Hyakki. At night or after a person falls asleep, the soul leaves the body to do something that the body cannot do. It is mostly formed from excessive obsession or resentment.If the living soul has resentment and obsession, it may become a ghost.

The ghosts used in "Damn" are Chinese ghosts, but they have been slightly changed according to needs (for example, the female painted skin ghosts can't kill women...)