Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Based on Cheng Xin’s experience, if it was just an ordinary skeleton, his expression would not change after seeing it, but this skull looked strange, exuding a gloomy aura that made Cheng Xin feel cold in his bones.
In particular, how could there be skulls buried in a family’s garden? The pit dug by the pig was not too shallow, but not too deep either, so it didn’t look like an ancient artifact.
Unexpectedly, just chasing the murderer pig led to a strange thing.
The murderous pig was still grunting at Cheng Xin’s feet. Cheng Xin was about to take out his cell phone when the door opened. A middle-aged man came out with an old man and said, “Sir, how dare you break into my garden without permission? Please take your pig and leave, okay?”
This place was monitored by surveillance cameras. Cheng Xin guessed that they must have discovered that someone outside had come in. He took out his ID and said, “I’m from the Criminal Police Team of the Municipal Bureau. What’s the matter with this skull in your house?”
He looked at the two men’s faces carefully but found that there was nothing unusual in their expressions. Instead, the old man said calmly, “Mr. Policeman, what skull are you talking about?”
Cheng Xin lowered his head and was about to ask them to take a closer look when he discovered that there were no bones under the plants, only a piece of white stone. He rubbed his eyes and found that it was really a stone with some roots wrapped around it.
Cheng Xin was stunned for a moment. What was going on?
The middle-aged man chuckled and said, “You ran into someone else’s house without permission and insisted that there was a skull. Are you a policeman or mentally ill?”
Cheng Xin was speechless. He even squatted down and touched it. Then he said, “… I’m sorry, I made a mistake. I was just eager to catch the pig. I’m leaving now.”
At this time, the pig grunted and suddenly ran towards the two people. It had run out of the pen and weighed at least three or four hundred pounds. It rushed over with its fat body, and was quite agile, rushing left and right.
The two men were startled. The old man was old and his legs and feet were not very flexible. The middle-aged man thus stepped forward to protect him and was knocked upside down by the pig.
This pig was ferocious when it was with its companions, but it didn’t expect it to be able to hurt people. So Cheng Xin quickly put a rope around it and forcibly dragged the pig away.
Cheng Xin was very strong and managed to pull the pig so hard that its four hooves were scraping on the ground. He was struggling, so the middle-aged man quickly called a few people to hold the pig down together.
Cheng Xin heard others calling the middle-aged man Mr. Wang and the old man Mr. Bao. Mr. Wang looked disgusted, but he didn’t bother Cheng Xin. He looked like he couldn’t wait to send him away – although he concealed it very well, Cheng Xin was in his profession, so how could he not see that he was hypocritical.
Cheng Xin pressed the pig onto the car and reported the address of the market in front of them. After getting on the car, he said, “Let’s go to Baoyang Temple.”
– What was buried in the soil was clearly a skull. Others might think they were seeing things, but Cheng Xin didn’t think so. If his eyesight and observation skills were so poor that he would have hallucinations, he might as well just resign.
….
After Cheng Xin left, Shi Changxuan came and saw Xie Lingya still smiling. He felt particularly happy when he thought that Cheng Xin had gone to catch pigs.
Shi Changxuan probably had a high sense of humor and he just smiled at Xie Lingya.
Xie Lingya couldn’t laugh much when being stared at. “Let’s learn swordsmanship?”
He and Shi Changxuan had made an appointment to learn swordsmanship.
Xie Lingya had always been a wild person before, and Shi Changxuan corrected him from the beginning. There were still people in the Taoist temple at this time, and although it was in the backyard, there were also a few people watching, so Xie Lingya was not nervous at all.
These people stood apart, leaving some space, and watched while gesticulating with their hands and admiring. Shi Changxuan didn’t have any hidden thoughts, but of course there were some things that he couldn’t understand even if he saw them.
However, teaching sword skills inevitably involved physical contact. Shi Changxuan was quite serious about it. It was his first time teaching someone. Although he had drawn the sword manual, some things could not be understood just by looking at them. He grabbed Xie Lingya’s wrist and said, “The Qi comes from the Dantian and is directed upward to…”
He pressed Xie Lingya’s hand on his abdomen, letting him feel how to use the Qi and strength correctly.
Xie Lingya immediately looked around and thought, those audience members didn’t notice anything wrong at all and even tried to touch their stomachs themselves. Seeing Shi Changxuan’s serious face, Xie Lingya felt embarrassed to look crooked. Why was he the only one who was not upright… Obviously, Shi Changxuan was the gay one! But it made him look uncomfortable!
Shi Changxuan held Xie Lingya’s hand, moving it all the way up to his chest. With his other hand, he held the sword and let him feel the changes in his muscles and how his hand moved.
Xie Lingya felt his muscles through the thin summer shirt. They were not exaggerated but very flexible and solid. They had all the necessary features and were warm under his hands.
Too gay, too gay, why are the onlookers so upright. Xie Lingya sighed again, wondering if he was the only one with problems in his thinking? There was no way. But before Shi Changxuan confessed his love, he was as naive as everyone else!
After touching Xie Lingya so much that he could hardly keep a normal expression, Shi Changxuan let go. However, the next moment, he put his hand on Xie Lingya again and said seriously, “You try it.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
Xie Lingya: “…I’ll drink some water first.”
Shi Changxuan saw Xie Lingya slip away with a hint of unnaturalness, and thought to himself, so this was what Reporting God was referring to that day… He savored the feeling for a moment, and at this moment, the tips of his ears turned red.
….
“Teacher Xie, Officer Cheng brought a pig to thank you.” Liu Bohe informed Xie Lingya, full of random guesses.
“What is he thanking me for?” Xie Lingya frowned. He was drinking water. So he took the cup and went out to take a look. He saw that Cheng Xin was indeed leading a big fat pig. He smiled and said, “Is this the murderer? Has he been arrested?”
Cheng Xin nodded. After the pig left that family, it calmed down a lot and stopped struggling. He led the pig to Baoyang Temple, almost like leading a dog, and the pig was willing to walk.
Cheng Xin even felt that it was somewhat spiritual.
Xie Lingya asked: “Then why don’t you send him to the market and bring him to justice?”
“Mr. Xie, can I have a word with you?” Cheng Xin asked.
When Xie Lingya saw that something was wrong, he immediately said, “Okay. So the pig… let’s tie it up outside first?”
Cheng Xin tied the pig up and went to the backyard with Xie Lingya. He then said, “When I was looking for this pig, it somehow slipped into someone else’s yard and started digging the soil inside. It dug out a skull. I saw it clearly. But for some reason, after the owner came out, the skull turned into a white stone. It’s a pity that I didn’t take a photo earlier.”
“This can’t be a murder case. Are they using sleight of hand again?” Xie Lingya pondered, “Sleight of hand is not a profound magic, but you are so righteous that ordinary sleight of hand can’t deceive your eyes. If you are sure that you have seen it clearly, then the other party is still capable.”
“Sleight of hand?” Cheng Xin nodded thoughtfully, “No wonder they were in a hurry to let me leave later. There must be something fishy. How do I break this sleight of hand? I have to go back and check it out immediately, otherwise they might have moved the thing away.”
“Don’t worry. If they really want to move against you, there’s nothing you can do. When you know the identity of the deceased, you can prove the connection by doing a reverse investigation.” Xie Lingya said, “The City God asked you to find the pig, but you found bones. And why did they hide the body in the garden? Why didn’t they bury it deeper? There are a lot of doubts. I’ll ask my senior brother later.”
Xie Lingya went to call Shi Changxuan over. He felt that not only was he used to him in life, but he also couldn’t do without Shi Changxuan in this aspect.
Cheng Xin repeated the story to Shi Changxuan, who quickly figured out the key points, “The skull was buried in the garden? Was there anything special about the appearance?”
Cheng Xin remembered it clearly, “It was very strange. There was soil inside, and many plant roots were entangled.”
Plants were originally a symbol of vitality, but when they took root in the skull, the picture was extremely strange.
Shi Changxuan’s face darkened and he said, “What a vicious family! The skull is where the human spirit resides. This technique is to torture the dead body in order to predict what will happen next. It is the same prediction technique as Liu Ren’s prediction technique, but it is more unscrupulous.”
It was like Liu Lingtong, Pei Xiaoshan indeed killed children to make them Reporting Gods, but at least he still worshipped them every day. This kind of skull prediction technique was different, it was just pure torture.
To understand how important the skull was, you could see it by how the foxes needed it to practice.
Planting plants on the skull and allowing their roots to grow and pierce inside the skull was a great torture to the soul. Moreover, the body would be incomplete and unable to be reincarnated, so the soul could only waste its spiritual power day by day and serve as a warning to others.
To a certain extent, this method had a wider range of prediction than Liu Lingtong because it required more “effort”. However, Pei Xiaoshan, this inhuman guy, deemed it useless. It was not that he thought it was too cruel, but Liu Lingtong was more convenient to carry around, while he had to go around doing things.
Xie Lingya suddenly said: “Since they can perform sleight of hand, they might have cast a spell to put the skull in the garden without any hesitation, and it was just broken by the pig. Cheng Xin, this must be the test from the City God.”
“Yes,” Shi Changxuan said again, “There must be a soul in the skull. The soul leaves the body after death. When they perform skull surgery, they must wait until the person dies and then perform the surgery immediately. There is a certain possibility that the deceased did not voluntarily promise to hand over the bones to them after his death.”
He spoke more tactfully, but everyone knew what he meant.
Only then did Cheng Xin realize that the plant roots that he had not paid attention to before were important details, and he got extremely angry. And he also believed it. In this situation, it must be the City God who was giving the instructions!
Xie Lingya said, “We don’t know whether it complies with the laws of the world of the living or not, but since the City God has hinted at it, it must have violated the laws of the underworld. The soul may have been forcibly detained… This is snatching people from the underworld.”
This was the first time Cheng Xin had handled such a case. So he calmed down, went over it in his mind, and said, “I’ve noted the address. Let’s go check the owner first.”
Cheng Xin called his colleagues and asked them to check on the computer. After a while, he said, “It’s been found out. The owner, Bao Yuesheng, is the old man I saw. He is an entrepreneur in this city. His business has been growing in the past two years, and he has even expanded to the provincial capital.”
Cheng Xin also found some news and showed it to the two.
Xie Lingya was very sensitive and said, “Now that it has come to this, do you think there may be other skulls that have not been dug out?”
Cheng Xin felt a chill, thinking that people’s hearts could be so sinister. He clenched his fists and said, “Teacher Xie, how can we break his illusion?”
Only by finding the body could they know what the truth was and whether they could file a case. Otherwise, they won’t even know who the deceased was.
“He must have a ‘fellow Taoist’ who is giving advice and executing the magic. The old man can’t do it himself. To break the magic, it’s equivalent to fighting with that person.” Xie Lingya thought about it and said, “Let’s find out who he is first. He’s so vicious.”
Zhuyang was so small. Now that Xie Lingya knew that the owner of the family was Bao Yuesheng, he could ask his fellow Taoists if they know which master his family usually interacted with.
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