Chapter 39: The Living Dead

  The old Taoist priest on Bamboo Mountain told us that the man just now was indeed Zhang San. However, Zhang San's own soul had clearly been extracted and then replaced with a wild ghost's spirit in his body. In other words, the current Zhang San is actually an "undead person".

  The "living dead" in the mouth of the old Taoist, is that when a person is still alive, through some soul-calling and soul-gathering means, the person's own soul is called out, and then let the fierce ghost tear the soul into pieces and swallow it into his belly, so that the soul can no longer return to its original position. In this way, the person who has been deprived of his soul will become a "living dead" because he has lost his soul.

  "Living dead man" although lost his soul, also thus didn't have thoughts. However, that body of his is still there, thus he has instincts. Just now Zhang San, was because he had his own instincts, therefore would steal food from the cupboard to eat.

  A person with deep Tao, not only can extract a person's soul and turn them into an "undead", but also infuse the spirit of a wild ghost into the body of the "undead". In this way, they can control the body of the "undead" by manipulating the already domesticated wild ghost.

  The black shadow that just appeared is the soul of the wild ghost in Zhang San's body.

  Zhang San appeared in my family's kitchen, not driven by his own instincts, but controlled by the wild ghostly spirit inside him.

  As for why everyone thought Zhang San was dead earlier, it's because he had been cursed by a superior being. You should know that a living dead person who has been cursed can instantly become a dead person or instantly come back to life.

  From various signs, it should be the Exterminating Grandma who turned Zhang San into a living dead person.

  However, what Master Zhushan didn't understand for the time being was that, whether from the perspective of Zhang San's birth date and eight characters or his destiny, he wasn't the best candidate to be an "undead" controlled by the Extinction Witchcraft. It must be known that even if a cultivator had extremely high attainment, in their lifetime they could only create and control one "undead".

  According to Zhushan Laodao's understanding, Mie Men Po is a person who, even if training a wild ghost, would be carefully selected. Creating an "undead" is much more troublesome than training a wild ghost, so why did she choose Zhang San so casually?

  For Mie Men Po's choice, Zhushan Lao Dao felt a bit suspicious, but since it wasn't an urgent problem to be solved at the moment, he didn't think much of it.

  Now, what needs to be figured out urgently is that the wild ghost hiding in Zhang San's body just now, was looking for something in my family's cabinet. Only by figuring this out can all the problems be slowly unraveled and solved.

  Zhu Shan Lao Dao struck a match, lit the kerosene lamp on the stove, and then took the lamp to the cupboard. Zhu Shan Lao Dao searched in the cupboard for a while and found two strands of women's hair. These two strands of women's hair were stuffed into the gap between the wooden boards of the cupboard.

  Because my mother also has long hair, there are two strands of women's long hair in the cupboard, which should be very normal, after all, my mother may have dropped her hair on it.

  However, my master, the old Daoist of Bamboo Mountain, said that this hair would absolutely not be my mother's because it had corpse energy on it. Only hair pulled from a dead person could have corpse energy on it, so these two strands of women's long hair were definitely pulled from a dead body.

  At this time, the old Taoist of Zhushan handed the kerosene lamp to my father and took out a small blue-and-white porcelain bottle from his body. The old Taoist of Zhushan put the small blue-and-white porcelain bottle on the stove, then opened the stopper at the mouth of the bottle. After opening it, the old Taoist of Zhushan hung those two women's hair over the mouth of the bottle.

  After a while, the two strands of hair in Zhu Shan Lao Dao's hand suddenly turned dark green.

  "The owner of these two hairs should have died in July and was from Shimaba Village," said Bamboo Mountain Taoist.

  In July, someone died in Shimawan Village. In July, only one person died in Shimawan Village, and that was Zhang Xiaolan. As soon as they heard that the two strands of hair belonged to Zhang Xiaolan, both my father and mother looked a bit uncomfortable.

  My parents are well aware that the people of Shimǎ Village, anyone who has a connection with Zhang Xiaolan, whether it's direct or indirect, will encounter some evil things. Now, those two strands of hair from Zhang Xiaolan have appeared in my home, and what's more, that living dead man Zhang San has also arrived, and even more seriously, there is still the vengeful spirit that was domesticated by the exterminated witch inside Zhang San's body.

  "Will our family suffer any disaster?" My mom asked subconsciously. After asking, my mom quickly spat a few times with a "pffft".

  "It doesn't seem so for now," said Zhangshan Lao Dao.

  It hasn't shown up yet, which means a disaster might be coming. As soon as my mom heard this, she couldn't help but become very tense. "Then please ask the Taoist priest to take a look at our house!"

  Bamboo Mountain Old Dao held the two dark green hairs, and carefully examined them. Bamboo Mountain Old Dao looked at them for a while, and suddenly a look of surprise appeared on his face.

  "This hair was put in your house by Zhang San, unless something unexpected happened, it should have been placed there on the day Zhang Xiaolan's body was stolen." Bamboo Mountain Old Dao suddenly blurted out this sentence.

  If what Old Man Bamboo Mountain said wasn't nonsense, then at the time when Zhang Xiaolan's corpse was stolen, Zhang San's soul had already been extracted by Mie Men Po.

  That is to say, Zhang San who stole Zhang Xiaolan's body was controlled by Mie Men Po. If so, then Mie Men Po must have known where Zhang Xiaolan's body was.

  After stealing Zhang Xiaolan's body, Zhang San directly carried her back home. Then, Li Tianzhen went to sneak a peek outside Zhang San's house and was caught by Zhang San, who then took him inside, where those things happened.

  At that time, Zhang San was controlled by Mie Men Po. Zhu Shan Lao Dao was also invited by Li Tian Zhen at the behest of Mie Men Po. As a fellow practitioner, Mie Men Po naturally knew what Zhu Shan Lao Dao would ask her daughter Li Tian Zhen to do.

  In other words, it was Mie Men Po who manipulated Zhang San, letting him get involved with Li Tian Zhen. And afterwards, Zhang San's sudden death was also Mie Men Po's doing. In other words, the whole thing with Li Tian Zhen was a trap set by her mother, Mie Men Po.

  What made Zhangshan Lao Dao puzzled was that Li Tianzhen, no matter what, was still the biological daughter of Mie Men Po, why did Mie Men Po want to frame her? As the saying goes, a tiger does not eat its own cubs!

  As for why the exterminated family's wife framed Li Tianzhen, Zhushan Lao Dao didn't think deeply about it because he didn't have much information in his hands and couldn't figure out a clear thread.

  Now, for Zhang Shan Lao Dao, the most urgent thing is to figure out why Mie Men Po wants Zhang San to put Zhang Xiaolan's hair in my family's bowl cabinet, and what exactly Zhang San came for twice.

  Zhu Shan Lao Dao was very clear that Mie Men Po would never be bored to the point of wasting her own power, manipulating Zhang San to come to my house just to get two mouthfuls of rice.

  It was at this moment that my master, the old Daoist of Bamboo Mountain, seemed to suddenly understand something. With the skills of that evil woman, if she really wanted to use a small ghost to do evil, it would be absolutely impossible for me, a little kid, to discover her plan.

  In other words, the voice last night was deliberately made by the exterminator so that I, this little kid, could hear it. The exterminator deliberately let me discover something unusual, and following my childish nature, I would definitely run to call my dad and mom.

  As soon as I call out, my parents will definitely get up and follow me to the kitchen house to see. In this way, all three members of my family have arrived at the kitchen house.

  "Sound east and strike west!" My master, the old Taoist of Bamboo Mountain, said with a smile, then took up the kerosene lamp and walked towards the main house.

  As soon as I walked into the main room, my master Zhu Shan Lao Dao put the kerosene lamp on the ground, so we could see the floor very clearly.

  At this time, the ground was floating with some faint and vague cyan smoke. Those cyan smokes were thick and thin. However, whether they were thick or thin, I looked at them all like human footprints.

  "There are ghostly footprints, some from yesterday and some from today. It seems that many ghosts have entered this hall." said Bamboo Mountain Old Dao.

  My master, the old Taoist of Bamboo Mountain, found many ghostly footprints in the main hall, but after investigating for half a day, he couldn't figure out what these ghosts, brought by the Door-Closing Witch, wanted to do in my house.

  It's easy to dodge an open spear, but a hidden arrow is hard to defend against. Now that I know the Exterminating Grandma has begun to take aim at my family, I still don't know what she's aiming for, and this situation is undoubtedly the most difficult to deal with.