Chapter 20: Flying Head Beheading
Through the investigation of the police station, we caught Wang Ermao who was gambling in a small casino. This guy is very stubborn, but finally heard that Wang Meili was dying and felt that he might have caused big trouble, so he told the truth.
It turned out that at the beginning of this year, when the village developed tourism, Wang Meili's father, Wang Gang, took advantage of his position to set up a tourist mountain villa in the town. Wang Gang was the town secretary, and the tourist mountain villa obtained a part of land, but it was relatively remote, and even if an advertisement board was set up at the entrance, it would be difficult to find.
Wang Ermao's uncle and aunt had a piece of land, which was originally prepared for their son who worked outside. Unfortunately, the son got into an accident last year and lost his ability to work, and the fiancée he was about to marry also ran off with someone else. The land was left idle, so Wang Gang thought of buying it to invest in a mountain villa.
This piece of land is close to the foot of Mount Fushan, and there are also hot springs underground. Most importantly, it's close to the highway, making it a great place for developing tourism. Just think about it, tourists from afar come to enjoy the wild game in the mountains and soak in the hot springs - what a wonderful thing!
But this land is the heart disease of Wang Erma's uncle and aunt, how can they not sell it. Wang Erma's uncle is called Wang Dafu, although he has a name that sounds rich and noble, but his family is very poor, and this person is particularly emotional, with good relationships in the village. Wang Gang repeatedly found people to discuss buying land, but ultimately didn't succeed, so Wang Gang had some anger in his heart.
This small village of Fushan, with a population of less than 2,000 households, is entirely controlled by the village secretary and village head. The village head is an outsider, a university graduate appointed from above, who hardly takes care of anything, so the village committee is essentially controlled by Wang Gang. Wang Gang immediately convened an emergency meeting at the village committee on behalf of the town government, took out the protocol signed between the village committee and villagers regarding the land contract, confiscated Wang Dafu's land into the collective ownership of the village, and then used his authority to sign a ten-year lease contract with the village collective.
The next day, Wang Gang called the police station and said that Wang Dafu had forcibly occupied the village collective's Zhuangzi base. The police station then detained Wang Dafu. Wang Ermao knew that this must have been done by Wang Gang, so he went to reason with him, but was instead beaten up by a group of idle young people led by Wang Gang.
Uncle went into the police station, and he himself had no ability to uphold justice, so Wang Ermazi found a distant relative of his own. Wang Ermazi's feelings for his uncle and aunt were very deep, as he was raised by them since childhood without parents, and when he saw this distant relative on the phone, he burst into tears.
This relative was Wang Ermao's cousin who worked in Myanmar, and this cousin had been abroad for seven or eight years, living a prosperous life overseas. It is said that he was engaged in the antique business, but Wang Ermao did not know that his cousin actually made a fortune by robbing tombs, a professional tomb raider.
Older brother Wang was very distressed when he heard about the ordeal of Uncle and Auntie Wang Ermao, so he immediately sent a sum of money to Wang Ermao to bail out his uncle and aunt. Then, he found a Taoist priest he knew and gave him some benefits, asking him to take revenge for his younger brother.
The sorcerer found Wang Gang, but Wang Gang's yang energy was too strong, and he had a semi-official position, so ordinary lonely ghosts couldn't get close to him. So the sorcerer observed for a long time and decided to start with his daughter Wang Meili, which led to what happened later.
The sorcerer also understood the law and would not use knives or guns to kill people, so he bought a doll, inquired about Wang Meili's birth date through connections, and borrowed her hair to make a ghost fetus.
Facing the ghost infant and performing a spell can control Wang Meili's body, extracting her soul from her body and storing it in the ghost infant. Then, reciting incantations for 49 days will bring the ghost infant back to life, making it look exactly like Wang Meili, all under the command of the降头师 (a type of shaman).
The sorcerer is preparing to turn Wang Meili into a ghost baby, and then use the power of the ghost baby to kill Wang Meili's family. The sorcerer is quite evil, this kind of person will stop at nothing once they accept a task, and are not much different from some cults.
We found the residence of the sorcerer through Wang Erma Zi, and Wang Meili's birth date was asked by this sorcerer through Wang Erma Zi, so they knew each other. Due to my cousin's relationship, the sorcerer was also enthusiastic about Wang Erma Zi.
The sorcerer lived in a small inn in the town, police armed with real bullets ambushed outside, Wang Meili's father Wang Gang kicked open the door with one foot, a middle-aged man wearing all black clothes, including his head and face covered by clothes, sat on the floor of the room, holding a doll in his hand and casting spells, the doll had already grown flesh and blood, just without skin, the doll let out a mournful cry, the voice was terrifying and gloomy, it was a woman's voice, somewhat like Wang Meili.
I followed Wang Gang, and saw a vengeful spirit standing behind the fortune teller's back, with blood flowing from the corner of its mouth. Wang Gang walked in, but the fortune teller didn't turn around, only saying indifferently: "I knew you'd come, but once you promise someone something, you must do it! Your whole family will die!"
As he spoke, the Taoist priest closed his eyes and continued to chant his spell. The vengeful spirit behind him stretched out its hands and pounced towards Wang Gang. Wang Gang didn't have ghost-seeing eyes and couldn't see ghosts, but I could see clearly. My heart suddenly tightened, and I bit my tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood at the vengeful spirit.
The vengeful spirit had just pounced on Wang Gang's body when a jet of blood shot out from the tip of its tongue, splashing Wang Gang's face. The vengeful spirit let out a mournful and piercing cry as it separated from Wang Gang's body, with white mist rising from its face, looking somewhat weakened. Its gaze was sinister as it stared at me, but I wasn't afraid of it. I took out the peach wood sword that I had carved myself yesterday afternoon using a knife, which had been smeared with black dog blood, and stabbed it towards the vengeful spirit.
I was very brave when I was young, before I was afraid of ghosts because they were mysterious. Now that I'm a Taoist successor, I naturally can't lose face in front of my master. One sword stabbed into the air, this vengeful spirit is really fast, and I still underestimated him.
Right after that, "Bang---" a sound, the light bulb in the room suddenly shattered, and white fog appeared in the room. I saw Wang Gang being pierced through the heart by that vengeful spirit, and the vengeful spirit with blood flowing from its mouth swallowed Wang Gang's heart whole.
I suddenly felt a gust of cold wind behind me, and subconsciously swung my sword out. Immediately after, I heard a pained cry. The Taoist had been knocked to the ground by my sword. Seizing the opportunity, I held the blood-red peach wood sword and stabbed it towards his chest.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and my peach wood sword was broken in two. The remaining half flew out, the bullet hit the cement floor, and a burst of sparks splashed out.
"Stop, you're crazy, killing your own people!" I saw a policeman from the police station standing at the door, with smoke still coming out of his gun barrel. I turned my head to look on the ground, and there was Wang Meili's father, Wang Gang, the Taoist priest.
Looking back, which Taoist priest was still casting spells, the doll's body had already grown skin, and that mournful cry slowly subsided. I knew my soul-locking charm had lost its effect. If I didn't catch one of the Taoist priests, Wang Meili would really become a ghost.
But which vengeful spirit was standing in the distance, smiling at me with a sly grin. I only then realized that I had just entered his illusion and almost killed Wang Gang. As for Wang Gang, he was frightened by me and, added to the eerie atmosphere of the room, he couldn't see ghosts but still trembled with fear.
"Shoot him, kill him!" I suddenly pointed at the sorcerer and shouted to the police at the door, "He's a sorcerer, he can harm people." Knowing that I couldn't do anything about this vengeful spirit for the time being, I shouted towards the police at the door.
The Taoist priest finally turned his head to glance at the door, and the policeman at the door suddenly became stunned. I saw that his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his eyes were a bit dull. I took three steps in two strides towards him, and at the same time, the vengeful spirit also moved.
He stretched out his long fingernails and rushed towards my back, if this hit me, I reckon I wouldn't die but would be seriously injured, and might even become a living dead person.
In a flurry, I bit through the index finger of my right hand and pointed it at the policeman's brow, whereupon he instantly came to. The half-length peach wood sword in my left hand also chopped backwards.
"Bang!" The police fired, the bullet with sparks hit the back of the Taoist priest, I saw him fall down. The vengeful spirit was blocked by my sword and no longer cared about killing me, rushing towards the Taoist priest instead.
The sorcerer is just an ordinary person, who knows some evil techniques. He can control the vengeful spirits and evil ghosts to secretly kill ordinary people. However, if he encounters bullets, he will also get hurt, and a gun can also kill him.
The police officer stood still after firing the shot, he was still thinking about what had just happened, I had already rushed over and grabbed the doll from the sorcerer's hand, and threw the red candle in front of him.
"Poof——" The doll caught fire, let out a shrill cry, and a ghostly shadow flew out from its body. I hastily pulled out a Soul-Calming Charm and muttered to myself: "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands, spirit return to your place!" The shadow was instantly absorbed into the charm. Before Master left, he gave me three Soul-Calming Charms and two Five-Thunder Charms, saying that I would need them. Originally, I didn't know why, but now I finally understand - these charms are truly the weapons of us Taoist priests.
I put on the Town Soul Symbol and pulled Wang Gang to go out, but suddenly the Taoist priest who was lying on the ground with a face full of blood crawled up, took out a curved knife and cut his own neck, and the vengeful spirit behind him let out a mournful scream.
I suddenly realized something was wrong, pulled Wang Gang and shouted, "Not good, run fast!" One foot kicked the small policeman who blocked the door out, I pulled Wang Gang to the stairs, just saw a black shadow flying over, the dark head of the Taoist priest actually rose into the air, bringing a gust of black wind that suddenly rushed into Wang Gang's body.
"Crunch, crunch, crunch..." The sound of chewing food came out. The headmaster's mouth was biting a bright red thing with blood flowing from Wang Gang's back. I took another look and found that Zha Dian didn't die, but Wang Gang's heart had mysteriously disappeared, and the headmaster's head flew back again.
I let go of Wang Gang's hand, and with a "thud" he fell to the ground. The little policeman scrambled up in a panic, shouting something I could no longer hear, but just grabbed his hand, and we ran out desperately. Behind us came a shrill cry of despair, as well as the thick and ominous voice of the Taoist priest: "You can't escape, you're all going to die."
