Dragonfly breaks small ghost

  "First let me introduce myself, my Chinese name is Zhou Li, and I am a Black Miao person." Zhou Li spoke in standard Mandarin with a pretentious elegance, revealing a smile to me.

  This kid must have watched too many Hong Kong police and gangster movies, his smile is just like those big shots in the underworld. I'm so fed up with this pretentious act of his. As I rubbed my neck, I gave him a disdainful look.

  "Mr. Zhou, what can I do for you? First of all, let me declare that I only deal with medicinal materials, not narcotics." Anyway, they were blocking the entrance, and I couldn't possibly jump from the sixth floor, so I sat back down on the sofa.

  Zhou Li didn't mind my attitude, he chuckled and said: "We're all business people, so let's not beat around the bush. I came this time to discuss a 'transaction' with you."

  "Who are you kidding? We're both businessmen. What I sell saves lives, what you sell takes them."

  I said to Zhou Li: "I'm doing small business, I don't see anything that's worth 'exchanging' with you."

  Zhou Li still didn't get angry, he pointed at my belly and said: "A wise man doesn't speak in riddles, I know that the last dragonfly of the 'Hua' Miao tribe is inside you."

  This time it's my turn to be nervous, this guy is making such a big deal out of it, isn't he trying to get me to spill the beans about Long Pi? But I'm the only one who knows about Long Pi, and at most, it's just my master and those old folks from Shuiniubao who know, how did it spread to Zhou Li's ears?

  Zhou Li seemed to have noticed my confusion and said, "Since you can tell that I'm a Black Miao person, you should also be able to guess that I'm from the Hei Dong Miao village."

  "It's Pusong Old Lady! What is she to you?" If Zhou Li hadn't reminded me, I almost forgot about this. That day at Shuiniubao, Pusong Old Lady was bitten by a dragonfly, although we didn't admit it, but if she still can't guess that the one who bit her is a dragonfly, then she's really stupid.

  Zhou waved his hand, indicating that I shouldn't get excited, and said: "I have no relationship with Pu Song at all. Pu Song is a highly respected Da Gu Shi in the village, while I am just an ordinary tribesman. All my relatives are dead, so I was sent out by the village to do this kind of beheading business of drug trafficking."

  It is said that people who are hated must have a pitiful side, but I didn't expect the notorious drug lord Zhou Li to have experienced such suffering from class oppression in his village. However, Zhou Li has the blood of over a dozen people on his hands, and I certainly can't let my guard down against someone as ruthless and crazy as him.

  "Zhou Li, I don't know what you wanted to do by finding me tonight, but with such a big commotion just now, the police might be arriving soon. Aren't you going to run?"

  Zhou Li simply shook his head and said, "I knew the dragonfly matter was important, so I had already laid down a sleeping spell. Everyone in this entire building is asleep, you see I didn't even bring one of my men, so don't expect any neighbors to notice anything unusual here."

  This Zhou Li is indeed an old hand, doing things with absolute ruthlessness. However, I heard that he didn't bring any of his men, which made me feel a lot more at ease. Since he's alone, I'll have the chance to escape. As for this woman, I've already thought of a way to deal with her.

  I asked Zhou Li, whether Wuzha was killed by him, and what's the situation with the Gu in his body that can cause resurrection.

  Zhou Li shook his head and said that he was only in charge of contacting Wu Zha, while the Gu worm in Wu Zha's body was planted by the Gu master in the village a long time ago, which was used to control subordinates. People who have been implanted with Gu worms need to take a "medicine" every three months, otherwise the Gu worm will wake up and bite through the internal organs of the person, killing them alive.

  Because Wu Zha couldn't hand over the dragonfly to Zhou Li intact, Zhou Li only gave him half of the antidote this time. As a result, when Wu Zha secretly returned to my door and searched for the dragonfly, he failed to find it after a long search, leading to his death from anger and frustration, which woke up the worm and ended in a tragic death with his intestines bursting out.

  It turned out to be like this, I sneered at Zhou Li and said that the Black Miao people were really ruthless enough, even their own people would do such a vicious thing.

  Zhou Li, however, was not surprised. He said that in the eyes of the witch doctors and sorcerers in the Black East Miao Village, ordinary tribespeople were nothing more than disposable tools at any time, and only those like him who could learn witchcraft or sorcery had status.

  It doesn't surprise me at all that these people have such a perverted and cold-blooded mentality based on my understanding of the Pu Songling's old lady.

  I suddenly remembered what Jin Haicheng told me, so I asked Zhou Li, since his men all had their timed antidotes, why did they suddenly rise from the dead and attack the police that time?

  Zhou Li said: "The Corpse Wasp is a special wasp in the Black Dong Miao village, even other Black Miao villages don't have it. In fact, the use of this thing is to control corpses and make them rise, but this kind of wasp likes blood and flesh normally, and that so-called 'secret medicine' only makes the wasp hibernate by force, the longer the wasp hibernates, the more ferocious it will be when it bites people."

  "The corpse worm on Wuzha's body was planted since the year he was sent to Shuiniubao, think about it, a worm that hasn't eaten for twenty years, how hungry must it be? You've also seen Wuzha's dead appearance, useless tribesmen, in the eyes of those village elders, not even worth as much as a dog."

  Those people were so ruthless that they scared the cold sweat out of me, but when I thought about Zhou Li's words carefully, I discovered something even more terrifying - how did he know I had seen Wu Zha's corpse?

  Zhou smiled slyly and said that if the public security could plant an undercover agent by his side, it wouldn't be difficult for the village elders to plant one in the public security as well. They had known about the previous siege long ago and the underlings they sent out were just to give the public security a warning shot.

  Zhou Li also said that even if the "secret medicine" was taken, the corpse could still be forced to wake up through Gu sorcery, and there was a Gu master from a nearby village who had this skill. On the day when the public security forces surrounded and cracked down on them, the reason why his subordinates were able to immediately revive the corpses was actually because they were controlled by that Gu master; otherwise, it would have taken several more days for the Gu worms to wake up.

  The Hei Miao people have actually set up a mole within the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and they've also made a fortune through large-scale drug trafficking. What exactly do they want to do?

  Zhou Li spread out his hands and said to me: "I've already told you all the secrets in the village, shouldn't that show my sincerity?"

  "I have another question, what kind of curse did you put on my landlord?" I asked intentionally.

  "It's not a Gu, she was just possessed by a small evil spirit." Zhou Li's answer confirmed my speculation.

  I asked him again: "What exactly do you want to 'exchange' with me?"

  "I want a dragonfly." Zhou Li stared at me and said word by word.

  "Yuck." I spat with force.

  Zhou furrowed his brow, muttered something in Miao language that I didn't understand, and the "woman" standing beside him suddenly pounced on me with a whirlwind.

  It was just the right moment, I opened my mouth and the dragonfly that had been waiting for its chance suddenly flew onto the woman's face and bit her lip hard.

  Just now I used a dagger and couldn't stab through this woman's skin, but it was bitten open by the dragon leech. The principle is very simple: the dragon leech had swallowed the centipede wasp and possessed its wasp venom, which I had experimented with on Ma Jian before. And the wasp venom of the centipede was "yang poison", a highly concentrated yang energy, this venom not only can cause people to dehydrate, but also has a significant killing effect on pure yin-attribute ghosts, so it easily broke open the woman's yin energy.

  The woman who was bitten by the poisonous centipede suddenly fell to the ground, trembling violently as if she had been electrocuted. I knew this was a symptom of her yin spirit leaving her body, so I quickly applied another Inner Lion Seal to her forehead.

  A dull thud, a burst of black mist spewed out of the woman's mouth, then transformed into a whirlwind that rushed out of the window. The woman lying on the ground at this time fainted with her eyes rolled back and passed out.

  That loud noise is called "Tian Po", and whenever a ghost is expelled, it makes this sound. The gust of evil wind just now was the little demon that had attached itself to the woman's body earlier.

  It should be exciting to have exorcised a ghost for the first time in my life, but I recalled Long Piao and then held the watermelon knife in my hand again. Zhou Li was frowning at me with his eyebrows twisted, wondering what I was thinking.

  "Old brother, since you understand Gu sorcery, you should know that the dragon leech and I are symbiotic, it can't live without me either. I advise you not to waste your effort." Although I've dealt with the little ghost, facing this ruthless poison master still makes me feel uneasy.

  Who would have thought that Zhou Li would smile and say, "I don't intend to offend the 'Hua' Miao people or your master for the time being. I came today just to meet you, and there's no other meaning behind it. Since we've seen the wonders of Long Hui, it wasn't a wasted trip after all. Let's part ways for now."

  Having said that, Zhou Li swung his hand and turned around to walk out of the 'door'.

  I guess I've been through the ghost gate, I was lying on the window and watched Zhou Li walk out of the entrance of the community and disappeared from my sight, only then did I feel a little relieved, and then, no matter it's already more than 3 o'clock in the morning, I hurriedly called Jin Haicheng.

  I roughly told Jin Haicheng about what happened, but I hid the part about Long Zhenbei. I just said that Wuzha seemed to have "privately" swallowed something of Zhou Li's, so he was silenced by Zhou Li. Now he's come to me again asking for it, how would I know?

  Can't blame me for lying to Jin Haicheng, if I told him everything, he would definitely take me back to the police station to assist in the investigation, but there are traitors in the police station, isn't this just jumping into the net?

  "Brother Jin, I absolutely can't stay in this house anymore, and I also can't stay in Kunming. Tonight, I'll go out and make do for one night, and tomorrow morning I'll leave Kunming to avoid the storm." I poured my heart out to Jinhai City.

  "Xiao Xu, or I'll send a few brothers to protect you. You know that Zhou Li's case has many things we don't understand either, and we want to consult with you at any time." Jin Haicheng hesitated.