Chapter 18: Car Accident 18

  The zipper of the travel bag was pulled open halfway, revealing the upper half of a child's corpse. The red jacket was crumpled, with stains on its face that were indistinguishable from what they originally were, stuck to the rotting skin, and the wide-open eyes were an ominous crimson, without visible eyeballs...

  Gu Wenkai and his two colleagues, who were responsible for digging the pit, saw the exposed body of a young child in a travel bag at first glance, and they all took a cold breath.

  "My goodness! These eyes..." Song Meng rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and took two steps back.

  After Song Meng retreated, a vacancy was left at the edge of the pit. Qin Fei approached and when his gaze fell on those scarlet eyes, he felt that those eyes which seemed to have no pupils turned their line of sight towards him. Qin Fei's breath caught, and uncontrollably stared at those scarlet eyes, a cold and gloomy feeling spreading from within his body, then suddenly the whole person seemed to fall into a piece of darkness, five senses instantly stripped away, consciousness becoming murky and unclear.

  "Don't look!" At the first moment, Gu Yin discovered Qin Fei's unusual behavior, stretched out his hand and pulled Qin Fei back, covering his eyes with his palm. His face suddenly turned gloomy, "Wen Kai!"

  Gu Wenkai also noticed Qin Fei's abnormality at this time, and seeing Gu Yin's appearance, he immediately understood that Qin Fei's abnormality was caused by the child's corpse in the travel bag. He quickly pulled the zipper of the travel bag back, picked up a thin bamboo branch nearby, and drew a circle around the shallow pit where the child's corpse was placed.

  Just as Gu Wenkai finished that circle of talismans, Qin Fei's originally stiff body suddenly went limp and almost fell to the ground, fortunately being caught in time by Gu Yin.

  "It's all right." Gu Yin said softly in Qin Fei's ear as he supported him.

  Qin Fei's empty and distant eyes stared ahead without focus, seemingly not having heard Gu Yin's words. He remained stunned for a long time before slowly closing his eyes.

  "How is Qin Fei?" Gu Wenkai finally rushed over to ask Gu Yin. Just now, Qin Fei's appearance looked like his soul would escape at any moment, so Gu Wenkai didn't dare make a sound at the time, fearing that making a sound would scare away the originally unstable soul.

  Gu Yin glanced at Qin Fei in her arms and said, "She's fainted."

  Gu Wenkai let out a sigh of relief and immediately asked: "What just happened?"

  The living cannot stare into the eyes of the dead, or they will be affected by the yin energy, and those with unstable souls are especially susceptible. Gu Wenkai knew this. However, Qin Fei's reaction was a bit too extreme - at most, the yin energy would make one feel weak and faint, but passing out was a bit of an exaggeration. Still, there was something unsettling about the corpse's eyes, that crimson color like bloodshot eyes, it made one's scalp tingle just to look at them.

  Gu Yin adjusted Qin Fei's position in his arms to a more comfortable one, gazing at the pit with the child's corpse with a gloomy expression: "Had their souls forcibly taken by the vengeful spirits."

  Gu Wenkai was shocked and exclaimed: "Ren Family's Corpse Formation?"

  Gu Yin didn't answer, and carried Qin Fei towards the exit of the bamboo forest.

  When Gu Yin found Qin Fei, he saw the smooth gray rock and immediately recognized that the material of the gray rock was often used in the Yīn Shī Zhèn (Shadow Corpse Formation). In conjunction with the unusually thick yin energy throughout the bamboo forest, Gu Yin suspected that a Shadow Corpse Formation had been set up here. However, since there were other formations that could also condense yin energy, he didn't dare to confirm it. It wasn't until later, when following Qin Fei to find the young child's corpse and seeing the arrangement of some gray rocks along the way, as well as the appearance of the young child's corpse, that he dared to confirm - the formation in this bamboo forest was indeed the Shadow Corpse Formation, which was a specialty of the Ren family.

  The Ren family's Yin Corpse Array, takes an intact corpse and buries it in the array's eye, gathering yin energy to refine the corpse. When the corpse in the array's eye undergoes a strange transformation, the fierce ghost is placed inside the transformed corpse, borrowing the yang lifespan of a living person, thus becoming a yin corpse. Before the corpse undergoes its complete transformation, any ghostly spirit cannot approach the Yin Corpse Array, this is the reason why that little ghost couldn't enter the bamboo forest. However, the transformed corpse has an extremely strong craving for souls, the soul of a living person is like sealed food, and Qin Fei's unstable soul is like an open bag of food, so among the five people present, only Qin Fei's soul was targeted.

  Yin corpses and zombies are different, yin corpses have a pulse and body temperature, as long as they don't use their strength, it's hard to distinguish them from the crowd. Therefore, the art of creating yin corpses was also known as "Returning Yang Technique" in ancient times. However, creating yin corpses is a matter that greatly damages one's yin virtue, so although the Ren family is skilled at creating yin corpses, they won't easily create them.

  This yin corpse formation in the bamboo forest may have been set up by the Ren family, but it's not necessarily the Ren family that created the yin corpse. This yin corpse formation is already very old, and some of the walking array stones have been damaged. Moreover, the place where the corpses were buried was not even at the array eye position. The mutated corpse was also a failed product. A genuine mutated corpse used to create yin corpses would have skin that doesn't rot, but the child's skin had clearly rotted severely. This is also why the little ghost's power amplification was so abnormal - the yin energy gathered on her corpse affected her, and being unable to rest after death made her harbor resentment.

  Watching Gu Yin's receding back, Song Meng opened his mouth and asked: "What about this corpse?"

  "It's getting late today, so I can only temporarily leave her here for now. Tomorrow, I'll come back with a colleague from the appraisal department to take her away." Although Gu Yin's casual attitude seemed to suggest that this corpse was not a big deal, Gu Wenkai still drew another circle of stone arrays around the talisman he had drawn earlier, just in case the corpse continued to mutate.

  "Is this a homicide case?" Song Meng looked at the travel bag that had been buried again, which contained a young child.

  "Hmm, otherwise how would the corpse end up in a place like this? Now they're all cremated." Zhou Jun lit a cigarette, "It's just that I don't know who is ruthless enough to not even spare such a small child."

  Gu Wenkai took a look at Song Meng and Zhou Jun, who had completely fallen into the wrong thought process, and said: "This girl was killed in a car accident, and she is the missing girl Jiajia you are looking for."

  "What?!"

  "What?!"

  "Moreover, the person who knocked this girl to death is also a suspect in a bank robbery case that happened several months ago. Old Zhou, I mentioned it to you before, but Song Baozi might not be very clear about it, let's walk and talk at the same time, I'll tell you the whole story again."

  After leaving the bamboo forest, Gu Wenkai bid farewell to Song Meng and Zhou Jun, then rushed to Gu Yin's residence. Qin Fei, who was unconscious, was taken directly by Gu Yin, although Gu Wenkai didn't like being under the same roof as his elder brother, he was worried about Qin Fei, so he reluctantly went to Gu Yin's place.