Chapter 6 The Dark Mastermind Behind the Scenes

  You say, having a beautiful woman in your arms and a pet by your side, isn't this one of life's greatest pleasures? I look at Momo curled up into a small ball at my feet, thinking about the beauty in the fridge, it feels like I already possess the best things in the world. A sense of satisfaction washes over me. What is life all about? In the end, it's all just death, the only thing we can experience is the process. The satisfaction I have now, for now, I'm pretty content with that.

  It's just that beauties and pets are all brought out from a gloomy and terrifying morgue. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little down again.

  I shook my head, I couldn't be so down. Just exploded a Jianghu scammer, I still have some confidence in myself. Oh, right, there are still some gray residue left in the big sea bowl. I remember Mao Bin said that he is not an ordinary Taoist priest, I do what he says, maybe it's not useless.

  Thinking of this, I walked into the living room, boiled a pot of water, took out that large ocean bowl from the cabinet, and poured the boiling water in. After stirring it a few times, the water became dark and murky, with the black being the ash of the symbol paper and the gray being the ash of the incense burner soil and sandalwood ash.

  The problem is, how am I going to get her to drink this ash soup?

  She had no pulse, indicating that the blood was not circulating. In this case, let alone forcing her to drink the ash residue, she couldn't absorb it at all; even if I opened up a vein for her and directly injected the ash residue soup into her bloodstream, the blood wouldn't circulate and it couldn't be transported in.

  And besides, burning the talisman paper and injecting the remaining ash into the blood vessels? This sounds absurd just by listening to it.

  What's wrong?

  I walked towards the ice cabinet. If I looked at her icy and pure appearance, would I gain some inspiration?

  When I saw her, I was surprised to find that her head was tilted to one side!

  What's going on? I just put her in the freezer with her face up, and she never changed position inside, so how did her head end up tilted this time?

  Could it be that the Soul Summoning Spell really worked?

  I was so excited that I hastily pulled open the glass door and went to feel her neck pulse.

  Still no news.

  I shifted her to the side and examined her carefully. It turned out that the reason her head was tilted was because there was a white object like a peach pit under her head, which was slightly soft. However, if her head was placed directly on it, it would tilt to one side due to not being flat. I took this thing out and smelled it, giving off a strange and pungent odor.

  What is this thing?

  I bought this refrigerator and wiped it clean after unpacking, then put things in it, but I didn't find anything like that!

  I've never put anything in here before. Could it be... that Xiao Luqi herself put it in?

  Is this a peach pit? It doesn't look like it. Peach pits are brown, but this thing is white... Hmm, even if it were a peach pit, that wouldn't make sense! Did Xiao Luqi eat a peach while I was away and then throw the pit next to her own head?

  I'm going, this possibility is not big, right? Moreover, where did the peaches come from in my house? I'm a person who doesn't like to eat fruit, usually don't buy fruit, at most drink some vitamin C juice. Xiao Luqi didn't even go out to buy fruit...

  So... who put this peach pit in here?

  I was suddenly stunned——

  The only person who could have put this peach pit in the freezer is Wang Yongshun, the mortuary administrator I beat up yesterday!

  When he first entered my home, he did indeed open the glass door of the refrigerator and must have put the peach pit inside at that time.

  From this, I suddenly felt that Wang Yongshun was a big problem.

  He said he was a Xiangxi corpse master, able to control the actions of corpses. But making Xiao Luqi's corpse dance for him was probably just an idle boast, not necessarily true. The only thing I could be sure of was that when he muttered to himself, Xiao Luqi suddenly crawled out of the freezer.

  He said all this because he put that bellyband - " Kontrol Spirit Bellyband" on Xiao Luqi. As long as he recites the incantation, Xiao Luqi's corpse will obey him.

  But what if all of this is just an illusion?

  Actually, the truth might be that Wang Yongshun put this peach-pit-like thing into the ice cabinet, and the smell it emitted affected Xiao Lüqi, which is why she crawled out of the cabinet. Wang Yongshun's incantation was just a performance to match the time needed for the peach-pit-like thing to take effect - this is a typical magic trick: making people mistake cause and effect. Wang Yongshun's incantation was no different from a magician snapping his fingers - it concealed the real cause-and-effect relationship, making the audience think that the final result was caused by the magical snap of the fingers.

  If that's the case, then Wang Yongshun's later treasuring of the bellyband and his pretentious movements when taking it off were all just an act - at the time, he was even holding a mirror to reflect the golden characters on the bellyband, and I saw those characters flashing and thought it was some kind of magic! In reality, if anyone held a mirror and shone light onto those reflective golden characters, then gently shook the mirror, they would all sparkle and shine! What the heck is this supposed to be? This trick is even worse than cheating kids!

  I was deceived. Wang Yongshun's deception is much higher than Mao Bin, not only did he make me, an atheist, believe in those nonsense statements, but also almost fooled me into believing in Mao Bin.

  Just now I was still congratulating myself on deceiving Mao Bin, but unexpectedly, this Wang Yongshun turned out to be a more sinister and cunning guy than me! He actually performed such a good show in front of me! He used all kinds of behaviors and words to create an atmosphere, from start to finish creating a complete "dream" that deceived me into deep belief!

  Suddenly, I became fearful. Such a deep and profound guy really made me fearful.

  What's truly terrifying in this world isn't ghosts and monsters, but human hearts.

  As for Mao Bin, I was half-believing and half-doubting, so I kept a hand back. In the end, not only did I manage to retreat completely unscathed, but I also swindled him out of 5,000 yuan.

  As for Wang Yongshun, I used to have some "sympathy" for him, but now I hate him to the bone. He has absolute beastly desire towards Xiao Lüqi, without a shred of reverence in his heart. Corpse-refining? Ha ha, Wang Yongshun, I advise you not to use this trick of manipulating those corpses that have no ability to resist on living people!

  I bought a watch last year! Wang Yongshun, do you dare to fool me? You're pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth, you're digging soil on Tai Sui's head, you've found the wrong person!

  I want revenge! I'm going to pull out this son of a bitch by the roots and take him down completely!

  Maybe you wonder why I suddenly got so angry.

  Have you ever thought that if Wang Yongshun's trick wasn't some kind of "corpse-refining technique" but just a simple trick used by ordinary people, then he might know the reason why this peach-pit-shaped thing can control Xiao Lüqi's corpse because he was the one who "killed" Xiao Lüqi!

  Dead people don't move, this is common sense. No matter what those grave-robbing writers come up with, such as zombies or whatever, it's all nonsense. Who has seen it? Have you seen it? Anyway, I haven't seen it. Those stories that are passed down through hearsay are all exaggerated and distorted, I don't believe them. Absolutely do not believe them.

  Actually, as early as the first time in the thoracic hospital's morgue, when I saw Xiao Luqi's corpse move, I had already thought of the possibility that she was in a state of suspended animation. However, Wang Yongshun gave me psychological suggestions - he used red paper charms, combined with the phrase "Lian Shi Hu", and repeatedly emphasized the word "corpse", making me unknowingly think that Xiao Luqi really was dead, and had become a "corpse".

  What is Wang Yongshun trying to cover up by misleading me like this? It's obvious that since the dead won't move, and the only reason Wang Yongshun can make Xiao Lüqi move is: she isn't dead! She was in a state of suspended animation for some reason, and this state of suspended animation would be triggered by a certain smell or factor, making the "dead person" move! This is what Wang Yongshun wants to cover up.

  Although I was misled, it's not all bad.

  Because, Xiao Luqi was indeed still alive, and the hope of saving her had increased a bit.

  I gently straightened Xiaolu Qi's head, pulled up the glass door and gazed at her quietly.

  Luqi, wait for me, I will definitely save you, I will find out the truth and give you justice!

  I collected my emotions and sat back down in the chair in my bedroom, thinking calmly. I didn't want to think about it, but once I did, I got a fright:

  Previously, Wang Yongshun and I each had our own victories, with neither of us able to gain the upper hand.

  I have a video of his confession and fingerprint evidence on my phone, he knows Xiao Luqi's body is in my house. To put it bluntly, we are holding each other's weaknesses, no one dares to betray the other, otherwise it will be a situation where both sides perish together.

  But now it's different.

  I took out my mobile phone, flipped through the video taken by Wang Yongshun, and pressed the play button.

  His slightly feminine face appeared on the screen——

  "I am Wang Yongshun, after a girl named Xiao Luqi died, I put on her a belly band to control her soul. This belly band is called " Kontrol Soul Belly Band", after wearing it, as long as I hold the "Kontrol Soul Symbol" in my hand, I can manipulate her corpse. Using this belly band to control Xiao Luqi, I made her dance a sexy dance for me, and I also wanted to take possession of her corpse. This video is my personal testimony about the incident."

  This is the video that Wang Yongshun recorded for me, and I was very satisfied with it at the time. Although he didn't control Xiao Luqi's body, this video can still be used to convict him of desecrating a corpse. However, now I realize that all of this is just nonsense. If I take this video to report the case, Wang Yongshun will not be convicted anyway.

  Perhaps you would think, since Wang Yongzhi himself has admitted it, why can't he be convicted? This is related to the evolution of China's criminal justice tradition. In the past, a suspect's confession was extremely important evidence, and even if there was no physical evidence, as long as there was a confession, the court could still convict the suspect. In earlier years, some courts in certain places would use special methods to prevent suspects from retracting their confessions in court. For example, they would tie an iron wire around the suspect's neck, and if he showed any intention of speaking, the bailiff would immediately pull it tight from behind, constricting his windpipe so that he couldn't make a sound.