Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The next day at work, Jiang Lan took the apples to the office to distribute them. He saw that Zhang Tianxing had a calm and cool face, but his eyes were a little blue and black, and there was a scratch on his cheek.
Jiang Lan was surprised: “What’s wrong with your face?”
Zhang Tianxing: “Caught by Fang Qiushui.”
Yesterday, he drove Fang Qiushui to the Special Administrative Bureau. Unexpectedly, she woke up halfway and started to frantically try to jump out of the car. He pulled over urgently to catch her, but she accidentally scratched him.
Jiang Lan took a look at his wound. Fortunately, it wasn’t deep and there shouldn’t be any scars.
Then he asked: “Has the Special Administration Bureau decided how they would deal with her?”
Fang Qiushui was a human being after all, and the Monster Bureau could assist in her arrest, but the actual conviction and punishment must be decided by the Special Administration Bureau.
Zhang Tianxing had discussed this in an overnight meeting last night. Originally, he rarely participated in the affairs of the Special Administration Bureau, but he was the one who sent people there yesterday. He was the only one who knew the situation, so he could only stay for the meeting.
People from the Special Administration Bureau used instruments to test Fang Qiushui. Ying Qiao was right, she was indeed very qualified. If the human body was compared to a bucket and spiritual energy was water, the body of an ordinary practitioner could only hold half of the bucket at most, while Fang Qiushui’s body could fill a bucket.
Of course, this was the ideal state for her to enter spiritual practice. But even if she didn’t enter cultivation, she still had a lot of spiritual power gathered in her body.
The cultivation world had not seen such a talented young person for many years.
So the people in the meeting started arguing about how to deal with Fang Qiushui.
Some people cherished her talent and thought they could take her under their wing and teach her well to correct her character. The opposing faction believed that Fang Qiushui was now mentally confused and had a paranoid personality. If such a person entered the path of spiritual practice and made a mistake, she may cause a catastrophe which could not be ignored.
When the two sides were arguing, the opposition contacted Fang Qiushui’s parents overnight to explain the situation, but learned another shocking news——
Fang Qiushui’s parents found more than a dozen diaries hidden under Fang Qiushui’s bed.
Each diary was filled with information about the so-called “gods” that Fang Qiushui had collected from various places over the years. She had even researched many ways to summon the gods, some were ridiculous, but some were spine-chilling.
Fang Qiushui carefully analyzed the feasibility of such appalling practices as “blood sacrifice” and “human sacrifice” in her diary and had even experimented with livestock.
The reason why she didn’t attack anyone in the end was just because she found the “Cave God” and felt it was no longer necessary.
In the diary, she placed herself above ordinary people and even her family, believing that she was different from others. She was just practicing in this ordinary mountain village, and when the time came, someone would pick her up and she would leave.
Her eyes that could see things that ordinary people couldn’t see, and her little spells that sometimes worked but sometimes didn’t, were proof that she was extraordinary.
Fang Qiushui firmly believed in this.
According to Fang Qiushui’s parents, Fang Qiushui was more precocious and sensible than her peers since she was a child. In addition, she was pretty and cute, so her family favored her very much. The only thing that bothered her family was that she often said she saw gods or monsters.
The Fang family was superstitious. They only thought that children had clean eyes and could thus see things they shouldn’t. It would be fine when she grew older.
But who knew that the older Fang Qiushui got, the more obsessed she became. They didn’t know where she heard about the practice of Luohua Cave Girl in the village, but she began to believe that she was also favored by the Cave God. From then on, she refused to leave the house and dressed herself up beautifully at home every day, just waiting for the cave god to come to pick her up.
It didn’t matter if it was just like this, it was not like the Fang family couldn’t afford to raise a daughter.
But when Fang Qiushui turned sixteen, she insisted that the cave god was coming to marry her and asked her family to prepare for the wedding.
Naturally, the Fang family disagreed. Forget about her usual mischief at home. If outsiders got to know about it, the Fang family would be embarrassed to see anyone in the village.
Fang Qiushui made a big fuss over this, threatening them with her death. In the end, the Fang family had no choice but to comply with her wishes, thinking of just holding a wedding to coax her beforehand. However, a series of strange things happened during the wedding on the mountain. The wedding could not continue, and the villagers who helped were so frightened that they worshiped gods at home for several days.
But Fang Qiushui insisted that it was because she was not old enough that the Cave God stopped the wedding.
What happened that day was too weird, and the Fang family members were a little bit murmuring in their hearts. With half-belief and doubt, they gradually became less daring in taking care of their daughter.
After living together peacefully for several years, one day Fang Qiushui suddenly brought down a handsome young man from the mountain, saying he was the cave god, and asked her parents to prepare for the wedding quickly.
The Fang family’s parents thought their daughter was finally back to normal, but as soon as they started planning the wedding, something unexpected happened. First, the groom suddenly disappeared, and then Fang Qiushui also took the family’s money and ran away.
Fang family was angry and worried. They called the police and searched their house. Unexpectedly, they couldn’t find the person, but they dug out the diaries written by Fang Qiushui over the years.
The Fang family’s parents had noticed something unusual about their daughter before, but they were just muttering in their hearts. It was not until they saw the diary that they finally confirmed their suspicions.
As per the diary, Fang Qiushui not only had no affection for her parents, but regarded them as servants. She even thought of using her younger siblings as sacrifice to the “gods.”
Looking at the sacrificial steps clearly written down, the Fang family felt chills in their hearts and the hairs on their backs stood up. In grief, they finally gave up on their daughter.
Now that they heard that she had caused trouble outside again, they just told the people from the Special Administration Bureau that they should handle the matter as the law required. They would just pretend that they had never given birth to this daughter.
The phone call was on speaker. After the Fang family’s parents hung up, everyone in the meeting fell silent. The small group of people who had previously insisted on giving her a good education no longer tried to fight for Fang Qiushui. After all, a person who was so indifferent to her family couldn’t be expected to have a true sense of right and wrong.
In the end, the Special Administration Bureau unanimously decided to deal with her severely. First, disperse the spiritual power in her body, and then seal her meridians. By this time, Fang Qiushui had already gone crazy, so the Special Administrative Bureau simply sent her to the Chengnan Sanatorium.
The Chengnan Sanatorium was affiliated with the Special Administration Bureau, and most of the patients there were people like Fang Qiushui. Their crimes were not serious enough to lead to death, but if they were left alone, they may cause disaster. So they simply imprisoned them together and kept them under guard.
“It’s best to lock her up.” Jiang Lan said: “Such a lunatic will give anyone a headache if they get involved with her.”
Zhang Tianxing nodded in agreement.
Then he asked casually: “Did you have a good time yesterday? It’s a pity that my ticket was wasted.”
Jiang Lan was a little embarrassed when he said it: “I was very happy. We just bothered you yesterday. If we go again next time, I’ll call you.”
Zhang Tianxing looked regretful: “Well, I just can’t buy VIP tickets, so I might have to queue up.”
“The VIP tickets this time were given by Ying Qiao’s boss.” Jiang Lan said with a smile: “They should only be available internally. I have read a lot of guides on the Internet, but I rarely saw the mention of VIP tickets.”
Zhang Tianxing frowned slightly: “Boss? I thought Ying Qiao himself was the boss.”
Jiang Lan didn’t realize that he had been lied to, so he still sighed: “Yeah, I thought so too at first. But he is really just a small assistant, but since he often goes out with his boss on field trips, he is more respected.”
Zhang Tianxing said “oh” meaningfully.
With Ying Qiao’s dress and imposing manner, he didn’t look like a nobody.
He lowered his eyes in deep thought and ended the conversation.
When he went to work in the afternoon, Director Cheng came over and informed him of the sad news – on June 7th, that was, next Monday, they would start taking turns going to the countryside to carry out poverty alleviation work.
The location for the poverty alleviation work had been decided long ago, it was in Sanshui Village and it would last for eight days.
The participating members were Xue Meng, Xiao Xiaoyu, Jiang Lan and Zhang Tianxing. Director Cheng and Uncle Zhou would appear at the beginning and end to take publicity photos, which was called giving the opportunity of experience to young people.
Director Cheng happily completed the mobilization work for them with a teacup in his hand, and then asked them to form their own teams and prepare in advance. When the time came, they could take turns going to the countryside and relax.
Xue Meng and Xiao Xiaoyu were still crying and fighting, but Zhang Tianxing was the first to speak: “I’ll be on the same team as Jiang Lan.”
Xue Meng wailed artificially: “No, Brother Jiang’s thigh is mine.”
Xiao Xiaoyu also immediately said: “I strongly refuse to team up with Xue Meng, I can’t lead a weakling.”
Xue Meng rarely retorted and admitted quickly: “Yes, a weak chicken like me needs a big man to lead me.”
Zhang Tianxing: ……
He glanced at Suan Ni, then his face became solemn but he said nothing.
It was finally decided that Jiang Lan and Xue Meng would team up, and Zhang Tianxing and Xiao Xiaoyu would team up.
Xue Meng was so happy that he wanted to buy a bunch of firecrackers and set them off. He also said to everyone: “My mother is going to the temple to burn incense soon. I will ask her to come back with four peace charms, one for each person.”
Ever since Jiang Lan had forced him to open the door to the new world, he had become very superstitious and no longer objected to his mother going to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.
Xiao Xiaoyu despised him: “Wake up, you are here to help the poor, not to catch ghosts. If you take the lead in engaging in feudal superstition, be careful that I don’t report you.”
Xue Meng was unconvinced: “Where am I being superstitious? You haven’t checked on Sanshui Village, have you? I searched on the Internet and found a few posts and found that the village is very evil.”
As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and sent several post links to the group.
Jiang Lan clicked on one at random and saw the title of the post, “Live broadcast of Sanshui Village adventure, revealing the truth about the baby tower to everyone.”
He exited and clicked on a few more, each title more sensational than the last.
“The living graves in Sanshui Village are real! There are pictures and the truth”, “Has anyone heard of Sanshui Village? A cursed village”, “Looking at the strange events in Sanshui Village, are there really any living people in this village?”…
The latest post was posted half a year ago in a forum called “There Are No Ghosts in the World.” The post was titled “Sanshui Village is just an ordinary mountain village. Today I will broadcast live to smash the faces of those who throw money away by saying there are ghosts in the village.”
Jiang Lan browsed quickly and found that there were really many weird legends related to Sanshui Village. The poster first took stock of the relevant legends that could be found on the Internet, then packed his bags and set off for Sanshui Village.
At first, the direction of the post was normal. Later, the tone of the poster became more and more weird. In the end, he just posted “I can’t get out” and then there was no news at all.
There was a huge commotion in the post. Almost every day there were top posts calling the poster, but the poster never showed up again.
Seeing them finish reading, Xue Meng said: “I didn’t lie to you, it’s really evil, isn’t it?”
Xiao Xiaoyu never believed in this: “Do you know Fengmen Village, which was said to have more evil sects than this one? It was said to be so scary when it was posted about on the Internet, but then it appeared on a TV show. Wasn’t it just a deserted and uninhabited village? Don’t scare yourself.”
Xue Meng thought that it is because you don’t know. There are really ghosts in this world!
He tremblingly hugged Jiang Lan’s thigh and howled, “Dad, it’s up to you whether I can drink house water and play games for the rest of my life.”
Jiang Lan pulled him away without saying anything, patted his head and said kindly, “Don’t worry, Erha.”
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