Chapter 8: Wu Hero

  Just now the situation was urgent, I didn't have time to take a closer look at him. Now he's walking towards us, and only then did I realize that he's really young, looking like he's just in his early twenties.

  This man is very handsome, with thick eyebrows and white skin on his face, but it's an unhealthy pale. His eyes are very black, looking like a deep pool of water, as if there are many secrets inside.

  This person must be someone with a lot of things on his mind. When I saw those eyes of his, I made up my mind about him.

  His face was pale, but the lines on his face were as if carved out with a knife, sharp and angular, making him look extremely cold and unapproachable, just like the black dagger in his hand.

  As I watched him walk up to us, I smiled at him and said sincerely: "Thank you."

  Although he looks like a block of ice, if it wasn't for him just now, I and Captain Liu would still be in trouble, so we should thank him, this is the most basic courtesy.

  Captain Liu also said thank you to the man, but his eyebrows immediately furrowed and he asked in a tone full of doubt: "Who are you? Why would you come here at this late hour?"

  This is the police station's morgue, ordinary people can't get in at all, but this person actually broke in, although he saved us, Captain Liu still has to ask clearly.

  "My name is Wu Yingxiong." The man listened to my and Captain Liu's words of gratitude, his facial expression didn't change at all, he just gave us a faint glance, and replied in a low voice.

  His tone was as cold as the others, but when I heard his name, I almost burst out laughing, and even Captain Liu's face twitched slightly.

  My name is Li Daxia, this name was casually given to me by my master back then, and because of this name, I have been secretly resentful of that old man in my heart.

  I always thought my name was weird, but I didn't expect this cold-as-ice guy's name to be even weirder than mine.

  Great hero, our names really have a similar sound, I clicked my tongue and thought randomly in my heart.

  At this time, the man had already walked to our front, and casually threw the woman's head on the ground. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small red booklet, which seemed to be some kind of certificate, and showed it to Captain Liu for a moment.

  Captain Liu, who had been full of doubts, saw the document and his face stiffened, then he dryly laughed twice and said to Wu Yingxiong: "So it's you, I didn't expect you to come at this late hour, thanks to you just now."

  Captain Liu smiled somewhat cheaply, as if trying to curry favor, but the man didn't even acknowledge him and instead took the black knife from his hand, carefully wrapping it in a cloth strip and slinging it over his back.

  Taking advantage of this opportunity, I walked up to Captain Liu and nudged him with my arm, asking in a low voice: "What's the story with this guy?"

  Captain Liu leaned in close to my ear, lowering his voice and saying: "This isn't reported yet, he's been sent down by the higher-ups, their department is very mysterious..."

  After hearing his words, I nodded secretly. There are many unknown and mysterious things in this world, which is not nonsense, but really exist. So every country will have some mysterious departments, the people inside these departments all have abilities beyond ordinary people, specializing in handling some inexplicable and bizarre events that are unknown to others.

  I've heard these things from Master before, although he didn't say it was about himself. However, Captain Liu has looked for Master several times, I guess Master must have some kind of connection with this mysterious department.

  I gazed at Wu Yingxiong in front of me, and my heart was secretly wondering. This person is not old, yet he can enter that mysterious department, he must have abilities beyond ordinary people, which made me look up to him even more in my heart.

  At this time, Wu Yingxiong had already put his black knife on his back, turned his head and asked me: "Do you know the way?"

  This guy was asking me, but his facial muscles didn't move at all, and even his tone of voice was very flat. It sounded like he wasn't asking someone else, but rather talking to himself.

  This guy is quite interesting.

  I nodded and said, "A little."

  After hearing what I said, he also nodded and said to me: "This is good, I don't know the way of Taoism. The yin souls of these two things are sealed in my head, they must be refined, otherwise it will be troublesome if they run out."

  Captain Liu was startled by his words and quickly moved a little further away from the two men.

  I also find it strange, although I know the method of refining and eliminating yin souls, which is to use extremely yang objects to slowly eliminate the yin souls, letting them disperse and disappear without a trace.

  But Wu Yingxiong had just sealed the female corpse's yin spirit, so why was he saying he didn't know any spells now? This was what I found strange. I lifted my head and looked at him with a questioning gaze.

  It seems like he knew what I was thinking, Wu Yingxiong, this person who was as cold as an ice block, spoke to me: "My blood is special, so I can seal these things, but I don't know any spells."

  After hearing his words, I became even more curious. He didn't use any magic spells, but was able to seal the yin soul with just his own blood. How is this possible? What's so special about his blood? I've never heard Master mention anything like this before!

  Although it's strange, I didn't ask him about it. Even if I did, this guy is as cold as a stone and might not have answered me anyway. This might be one of his secrets.

  I couldn't help but take another two glances at him, only to discover that this guy was exuding a thick and mysterious aura from head to toe.

  He turned around and casually grabbed an unused body bag, threw the two heads in, and said to Captain Liu, "It's all clear here."

  He immediately turned his head and said to me: "I'll go with you, let's refine this thing."

  I didn't expect him to take the initiative to follow me, I was stunned for a moment, thinking that it's just me living alone now, so I nodded and agreed.

  We walked out of the morgue, Captain Liu seemed to want to say something, but Wu Yingxiong turned his head and said to her: "It's safe here now, this woman is not human, just burn her body and I'll investigate what happened later."

  When I heard him say that the woman was not human, my heart skipped a beat again. Without a heart, she could still live and even get pregnant, which is indeed impossible for humans. But what exactly is this woman?!

  After hearing his words, Captain Liu's face turned even paler. He bid us farewell and quickly ran out of the police station. I guess he was scared stiff today and probably won't be able to sleep soundly tonight, maybe he'll even have nightmares...

  All the way back, a lot of things happened today, my heart is messy, I have to sort it out, so all the way didn't say a word. As for Wu Yingxiong beside me, this guy is just a stone, I guess even if I kicked him a few times, he wouldn't make a sound.

  We walked back to my place in silence, the dead baby's black blood splattered all over me, the smell making me feel nauseous the whole way. As soon as I got inside, I greeted Wu Yingxiong: "I'm going to take a shower, make yourself at home!" and then rushed into the bathroom.

  The dead baby's blood was sticky and had a strong smell of rotting fish. I scrubbed my whole body red, and the skin almost fell off before I felt a bit better. After changing into a clean set of clothes, I came out of the bathroom to see Wu Yingxiong sitting on the stool like a stone statue, his two eyes fixed tightly on the two human heads placed on the table, his eyebrows furrowed as if thinking about something.

  As soon as I saw those two bloody heads again, I felt a wave of nausea. I quickly took out a wooden box, pulled up a white cloth, and rushed to the table.

  "Hey big brother, this is the table I eat at!" I complained to Wu Xiong who was sitting on a stool, while wrapping the two heads in white cloth and putting them into a wooden box.

  Looking at my tense appearance, Wu Yingxiong's mouth corners, cold as stone, actually twitched slightly, seemingly smiling, but quickly returned to its original state.

  Look at this guy's expression, I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't expect that this guy could still smile, which shocked me no less than seeing that woman's head.

  "How is this thing refined?" Wu Yingxiong coughed and asked me.

  "Put it in the box, I have a way." I replied to him, then I covered up that box.

  Don't underestimate this box, it was made by my master using the wood of a hundred-year-old peach tree. Taoists say that peach wood is the wood of the west, with a pungent flavor, so it can overcome all evil spirits. It has always been a treasure for driving away evil and breaking curses. Ordinary people like to plant peach trees in their homes to ward off evil spirits, and even ordinary Taoist priests use peach wood swords.

  And this box is not simple, the master said that he used to travel the world with this box to hold some poisonous things. The box was painted with a layer of cinnabar and covered with a soul-refining symbol carved by the master himself. Once something evil is put in the box, it can't come out again, and after seven days, it will be completely refined.

  "Put them in here and they can't escape, so don't worry. Tomorrow I'll add some chicken blood to it and we can refine them."

  Although this box is a treasure, the two human heads inside are somewhat strange. I decided to apply a layer of rooster blood on it every day, adding an extra layer of insurance, and they should be able to refine quickly.

  Who knew that as soon as I finished speaking, the peach wood box on the ground suddenly shook with a loud thud, scaring me half to death. Immediately after, a mournful cry came from inside the box, and by the sound of it, it was the woman's head and the dead infant making the noise.

  I spat on the ground and cursed, unexpectedly these two guys were so evil, being sealed in a box still wouldn't calm down, looking at their appearance they seemed to want to rush out.

  I lifted one foot and stepped on the box, which finally stopped shaking, but inside there were still endless eerie screams that made my hair stand on end.

  I'm secretly suffering in my heart, it seems that I have to get some rooster blood first, otherwise forget about calming down, but where can I go to get it at this late hour?

  I raised my head and looked at Wu Yingxiong beside me, he also looked at me with a puzzled expression.

  "It seems we need to get some rooster blood first to subdue these two things."

  After hearing my words, Wu Yingxiong was slightly stunned, then he took off the black knife behind his back, held the knife in his hand, and said to me: "No need, just use my blood."

  He finished speaking and stretched out his left hand, the black blade edge swiped across his wrist, instantly a blood mouth appeared, fresh blood dripped onto the peach wood box cover, soon filling up the symbol lines carved by his master, at this time there was no longer any sound coming from inside the box.