Jin Yu was stunned for a long time, and his body seemed to have its own consciousness and moved forward autonomously.
After more than three thousand days and nights, she had almost forgotten this face. She never thought that she would see this person again twelve years later.
"Brother." She called out softly, her steps getting faster and faster. She could hear her heart pounding, felt her blood rushing at the thought of seeing her family again, and heard the memories of her brother that were hidden in her mind reviving again.
But when she was only a few meters away from the other person, all the laughter and joy in her mind suddenly fell silent.
She suddenly woke up and realized that her brother was dead.
What is in front of us
Jin Yu felt cold all over, and her vision suddenly became several times clearer. The tiny wounds on that familiar yet unfamiliar face, the thick black blood, and the sharp teeth exposed in the other person's open mouth...all of this was extremely detailed in her eyes.
She subconsciously took a step back, and the kitchen knife in her hand fell to the ground with a snap.
"Go away!" Someone from the Special Investigation Department spotted her and waved their hands to chase her away.
Jin Yu suddenly came to her senses and met the evil ghost's eyes with extremely small pupils. There was madness and murderousness, but there was no love and affection that she was familiar with.
Her cheeks felt slightly cold, and she raised her hand to wipe them, only to find that she was crying.
"Brother..." Jin Yu cried out with sobs, responding to the fierce howl from her evil ghost's mouth.
Brother Jin Yu is no different from other ghosts. After years of suppression and stimulation, he has long lost his mind. Now all that is left in his heart is a desire for blood.
Attacked by the talisman paper, he growled, his neck suddenly cracked, and his head turned backwards.
The member of the Special Investigation Department standing behind him was stunned. In the blink of an eye, the head broke off from the neck and flew directly to the man, opening its mouth and biting his Adam's apple.
With a loud scream, the man fell to the ground with a hole on his neck.
"Fuck!" A curse came from behind my ear.
Jin Yu turned around and found that it was the man who had snatched her talisman paper before.
The man glanced at Jin Yu and rushed past her from behind, wanting to take advantage of the time when the special investigation department was restraining the evil ghost to quickly pass through and drive to the parking lot to leave this haunted place.
Perhaps it was the blood from somewhere on his body that stimulated Brother Jin Yu. When he passed by, Brother Jin Yu licked the blood on his lips, moved quickly and followed him, like a shadow, sticking to his back at a distance of twenty or thirty centimeters.
Jin Yu yelled at the man, "Watch out behind you!"
The man didn't hear clearly and thought Jin Yu was asking him for help, so he ran faster.
The Special Investigation Department personnel who caught up were dumbfounded and yelled, "Why the hell are you running? I can't catch up with you!"
There happened to be a fork in the road ahead, and another person said he wanted to go rescue his colleague.
The remaining Special Investigations officer was left on his own, but by the time he reached the parking lot, the man was already inside the car.
He quickly started the car and stepped on the accelerator as if he was risking his life.
The sports car flew out like a sword from a bow, passed through the gate of the guild hall, and quickly got onto the mountain road.
Jin Yu also followed, and she tried to open her eyes wide, trying to see the ghost in the back seat of the sports car more clearly. But the more she did so, the more blurry her vision became.
The special investigation officer glanced at her awkwardly and consoled her, "I just heard you call him brother... Humans and ghosts have different paths, please accept my condolences."
Jin Yu bit her lips tightly, trying not to cry out loud. Tears in her blurry eyes condensed into drops and rolled down her cheeks.
"I know." Jin Yu sobbed, feeling as if her heart was stabbed by something.
But apart from being sad, she also felt a little bit fortunate.
Fortunately, she did not tell her parents about her return, otherwise they would be so sad if they saw the current situation with their own eyes.
"Oh no!" The special investigation department personnel shouted and ran towards the mountain road.
Jin Yu came to his senses and followed him. As he ran, he saw that the sports car seemed to suddenly lose control, swaying left and right on the mountain road, and finally crashing into the mountain wall on the left.
The front of the car was dented and the people inside died on the spot.
But Brother Jin Yu, who was sitting in the back seat, was nowhere to be found.
The man from the Special Investigation Department was experienced and knew that ghosts were cunning and cunning. He protected the gold and jade behind him and stared around vigilantly.
A cold wind suddenly blew around me, crawling up along my ankles.
Jin Yu suddenly felt something gripping her calf. She looked down in horror and saw a pair of pale hands reaching out from the back door of the car.
She raised her eyes and saw a face slowly rising from behind the car door.
She and her brother had similar eye shapes, both with round almond eyes. The moment their eyes met, she was suddenly not afraid of anything.
The special investigation officer noticed her abnormality and turned around suddenly, discovering that the evil ghost had climbed onto the girl's shoulder without her knowing when! He was shocked and took out an eight-diagram bronze mirror. Just as he was about to chant a spell to illuminate the ghost, the ghost shrank behind the girl, stretched out its nails, and grabbed the girl's neck tightly.
Brother Jin Yu slid out of the car door like a reptile, stuck closely behind Jin Yu, sniffed her scent with the tip of his nose, and then opened his mouth.
"Brother!" Jin Yu shouted, her whole body shaking violently. She was scared and sad. All the emotions mixed together, making her voice sound particularly sad. "Don't you remember me? And mom and dad, they have always kept tablets at home. Every morning they would light a few sticks of incense in front of the tablets and say a few words, asking why you didn't go to see them."
The evil spirit's movements were frozen.
The special investigation officer was also stunned. He said in surprise, "He still has a reaction to the past. Go on and hold him back. I will find a way to save you!"
"You don't know, I have secretly come back many times, but I only dared to look down from the top of the mountain. Many times I wanted to go to the bottom of the ancestral hall, steal your bones, and take them outside for burial."
Jin Yu felt so uncomfortable that her chest ached. She subconsciously grabbed the clothes in front of her and cried, "Brother, do you remember what you said before? You said that when I grow up, you would personally tie my hair, put a silver phoenix crown on me, and carry me out of the house..."
Brother Jin Yu's hand on Jin Yu's neck loosened a little, and his breathing was heavy, revealing his impatience.
The people from the Special Investigation Department hesitated. Since he was conscious, they should not kill him directly. Instead, they should first remove the evil spirit from his body and then find a way to help him reincarnate.
Jin Yu realized that the crisis was over, and she turned to look at the face that looked 70% like her when she was alive. After a moment, she lowered her brows and reached out to touch the bony hand opposite her.
It was obviously terrifying, but she didn't feel scared at all.
As soon as the black blood touched his fingertips, Jin Yu hissed in pain. The Special Investigation Department warned him, "Don't touch him! His soul carries evil spirits and yin energy. If you touch them, they will penetrate into your body!"
Jin Yu seemed not to hear, her tears fell down, she asked: "Does it hurt? It must be very painful, I'm sorry brother, it should have been me who went, it should have been me..."
Except for the family members and the village chief, no one knew that Jin Yu was supposed to be the human sacrifice.
Her brother felt that she was too young, and was always delicate and afraid of pain. He was afraid that she would cry and be scared if she was put under the ancestral hall, so he went against everyone's opinion and persuaded the family to let him go instead of her.
Over the years, her family has never blamed her for this past event, but she herself could not let it go. Every time her brother's death anniversary came, she would always wonder why it wasn't her.
The ferocious expression on Brother Jin Yu's face seemed to fade a little, his shrunken pupils gradually enlarged, and his eyeballs, as black as ink, soon occupied the entire white of his eyes.
Without any warning, he suddenly raised his hand and stabbed Jin Yu's heart with his nails!
Jin Yu closed her eyes and stifled her cries behind her teeth. She raised her hand and chopped the kitchen knife right into the center of the evil ghost's forehead.
This operation stunned everyone in the Special Investigation Department.
He reacted quickly, and taking advantage of the moment when Brother Jin Yu was intimidated by the evil spirit of the kitchen knife, he bit his fingertip to draw a talisman on the Bagua bronze mirror, and pressed it hard on the evil ghost's back.
A pungent smell floated in the air, and the evil ghost's body kept twitching. With the burned part as the center, a bagua appeared on his entire back, completely covering him.
The golden light of Bagua made him unable to resist. He soon fell to his knees on the ground, scratching his flesh in pain.
Jin Yu fell down in front of him, covering her mouth and looking at him.
Before their brother came back and told them that there were monsters under the ancestral hall, every household in the village believed that sacrifice was a beautiful and great thing, sacrificing one person in exchange for peace and well-being for the entire village.
Even after their brother entered the ancestral hall for the first time, they were only shaken out of fear.
And now, for the first time, she deeply realized what a terrible thing the so-called sacrifice to the Yellow God was. It broke up families one after another and bound living souls underground to torture them.
Jin Yu released the hand that was covering her mouth and reached out to hug him.
She put her lips close to her brother's ear and whispered, "It's too late in this life. I'll be your brother in the next life and you'll be your sister, okay? Let me protect you, okay?"
The power of the Bagua bronze mirror was quite great. When the golden light completely disappeared, Jin Yu's arms were empty, with nothing left.
On the empty mountain road, a fishy wind blew, and from afar a girl could be seen kneeling on the ground, her weak shoulders shaking, crying heart-wrenchingly.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise like a cracking sound between heaven and earth.
Several purple lightning bolts fell from the sky, striking straight towards the center of the valley.
In the main building, Chen Ling's face was pale, with cold sweat gathering on his forehead and dripping down the corners of his eyes.
The Five Thunder Talisman in his hand stood upright. As the Five Thunder Spell ended, the gloomy sky was torn apart, and five bolts of lightning fell from the east, west, south, north and center, surrounding the building where they were.
Li Daoxuan held the Seven Star Sword in his hand, and with a wave of his hand, the evil spirit disappeared in an instant.
He raised his eyes and looked towards the main building. Lightning flashed across his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips. He turned to Li Hongyu, who was fighting the evil spirit with him, and said, "The Five Thunder Talisman requires a high level of spiritual power. I didn't believe you last time, but now I do. However, your friend's Taoism seems to have improved since coming here."
Li Hongyu remembered clearly that the first time Chen Ling summoned the five thunders, they struck the ground one after another, but this time they fell at the same time.
He nodded: "Chen Ling's growth rate is indeed very fast."
Li Daoxuan grabbed a fierce ghost with one hand, tightened his fingertips, and crushed it to death. He wiped his hands, threw it to his subordinates who came over, walked behind Li Hongyu, and watched him exorcise a fierce ghost that still had a trace of remnant spirit.
After the other party finished exorcising the evil spirit, he whispered: "You were born a child of destiny, but you were surpassed by a wild way. This is indeed a very infuriating and unwilling thing. But Junior Uncle wants you to remember that there are always people better than you. You should keep your original heart and remember your mission. Don't slack off and give up on yourself just because you fall behind temporarily. You must not be jealous and dirty your heart of Taoism."
Li Hongyu had never thought of this before. Hearing this, he was grateful for the teachings of his junior master: "Hongyu will remember this."
Li Daoxuan looked at him deeply and hummed, "I'll go somewhere else to see if there's anything I missed."
"I'll go with you..." Li Hongyu was interrupted.
Li Daoxuan said: "There are still some evil spirits heading towards the village. Although some team members have already rushed over, I am still worried. You can go and take a look."
Li Hongyu nodded, thinking that Chen Ling and the others had been to that place before, so he might as well call them along.
After saying goodbye to his junior master, he rushed all the way to the main building. When he saw the crumbling building, he was stunned for a moment.
Although the evil spirits roaming around were not hacked to death thanks to the resistance of the buildings, they still lost almost half their lives.
He collected several dying evil spirits along the way. As soon as he reached the main building, he saw Chen Ling taking the ink line net from Wu Weiwei in the inner hall. After taking it apart, he connected those evil spirits one by one with the ink line and dragged them all the way to the northeast direction of the hall.
There were quite a few ghost messengers standing there. They showed up openly, all dressed in suits and holding soul-catching chains.
Li Hongyu looked down at his clothes, which were the same as those of the Yinchai, and was silent for a few seconds before walking in.
Wu Weiwei had bruises on his face and he didn't have the energy to greet anyone he saw. He turned around and sat on a chair beside him, fiddling with his slingshot.
Chen Ling raised his hand to greet him and put one end of the ink line into the hand of the ghost.
The Yinchai pulled his hand back, saying in a strange tone: "Fellow Daoist Chen, I'm afraid this ink line is not suitable for us to grasp."
Chen Ling then remembered that although the Yinchai was a civil servant of the underworld, he was essentially a ghost. If he touched something like the ink line, he would get burned.
Jiang Yu looked over and frowned slightly. When Yinchai met his gaze, his legs trembled and cold sweat broke out. Just as he was about to change his words, the ink line was pulled away by the man who was walking over.
The chain came out from the man's sleeve and quickly stuck to the ink line that trapped the evil spirit. The thin black line and the silver chain with a cold glow snuggled up to each other and entangled tightly.
Chen Ling blinked twice. It was not that he thought too much, but he really saw some ambiguity in this series of actions.
He quickly stopped his inappropriate thoughts, and when the chain was wrapped around the last evil spirit, he grabbed the ink line and pulled it hard, pulling it off the evil spirits.
Wu Weiwei quickly went up to take over the ink lines, wrapped them back on the ink fountain, and reminded: "Li Hongyu is here."
Li Hongyu's image was not much better than his own. Chen Ling greeted him and got straight to the point: "How are other places doing?"
"It's basically under control, but I don't know what's going on in the village." Li Hongyu was worried. "I'm planning to go there now. Do you want to come with me?"
Chen Ling was undecided, and a ghost came forward and said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, go and do your work, and we will do the cleanup work later."
The final work is to capture the ghosts. The people in the Yang world should have completely subdued the ghosts and monsters before handing them over to the ghost messenger. However, since the ghost messenger took the initiative to offer help, only a fool would not be lazy, so Chen Ling immediately agreed.
He remembered that Wu Weiwei was slightly injured, so he patted his brother on the shoulder and said, "If your foot is inconvenient, don't come with me. I will go with your brother Jiang."
Wu Weiwei refused. This hot spring trip was too exciting and he didn't want to miss any scene.
Li Hongyu suddenly said, "If you want your leg to be crippled, let's go together."
A vicious ghost's nail cut a long gash on Wu Weiwei's leg. Although his brother Chen had temporarily removed the evil spirit, the wound on his flesh was still there and it would take at least a week for it to heal.
For some reason, Wu Weiwei felt a little scared when he saw Li Hongyu speaking coldly. He stiffened his neck and looked at the other party, but was quickly defeated.
He whispered, "Okay, but Brother Chen, you have to tell me the situation over there when you come back."
Chen Ling: “No problem.”
While they were talking, Jiang Yu had already gone to the parking lot and drove the car to the door of the main building. As soon as the two got in the car, it drove out quickly.
It took only twenty minutes to reach the destination, which was dozens of kilometers of mountain road. Before the car stopped, Chen Ling pushed open the door and jumped out.
The village was not as chaotic as he had imagined; on the contrary, it was very quiet, with almost no one there.
Jiang Yu parked the car, got out, and closed his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and said, "In the ancestral hall."
The ancestral hall was crowded with elderly villagers, and outside the hall, people from the Special Investigation Department were knocking on doors and lobbying, and among them happened to be the fat and thin brothers.
Seeing Li Hongyu coming, the fat senior brother hurried to greet him: "Those villagers just won't open the door, we have been trying to persuade them for more than an hour!"
Li Hongyu asked: "Why did they hide in there?"
"We were scared by ghosts." Senior Brother Shou stepped forward and nodded to Chen Ling when he saw him. He continued to talk to Li Hongyu, "When the evil ghosts came, they all hid in the ancestral hall, saying that there were gods enshrined in it who would protect them. A few of us wanted to climb over the wall, but as soon as we got to the top, they knocked us down with bamboo poles."
"There are no gods in there, only ghosts." Chen Ling looked up and saw black smoke hovering over the ancestral hall.
The fat and thin brothers were stunned: "It wasn't like that just now..."
"The evil ghosts that rushed to the village are probably the villagers who were once sacrificed. Their purpose must be revenge. They know the villagers here well. They only need to scare them to force them into the ancestral hall, and then sneak into the jar to catch the turtle." After Chen Ling finished speaking, he walked over the fat and thin brothers and knocked on the door hard, "Village chief! Open the door first."
The village chief was still wearing his black coat. He immediately recognized who it was and raised his head to shout, "How dare you come here! It was you who took the gold and jade away, causing Huang Shen to think that we played a trick on him, and that's why he was unwilling to suppress these evil spirits!"
In the past twelve years, the Yellow God has withdrawn his protection, and life in the village has become increasingly difficult. Every year on the 19th day of the lunar month, ghost fires fill the sky and no one dares to go out.
Although the two years since they moved to the new village have been more peaceful and they are no longer troubled by ghost fires, their crop yields are worse than before, and some of their pigs, ducks, cattle and sheep always die of illness.
The villagers knew that this was a punishment from the Yellow God.
Now those evil spirits that were suppressed by the gods actually came to their doorstep. After hearing what the village chief said, everyone became more and more convinced that this was the gods' anger and punishment for their betrayal and refusal to offer sacrifices.
The village chief ignored the people outside the ancestral hall and led the villagers to kneel on the ground and kowtow devoutly: "Please don't blame us, God Huang. We know we were wrong. Please remove the evil spirit first, and we will go out immediately to find a sacrifice for you."
The people behind him chanted, "Please don't blame me, God."
Everyone outside the door smacked their lips when they heard this. Chen Ling couldn't help but sneer, "What a bunch of crazy people who refuse to change their ways."