"How can you say such a thing!" Mrs. Sun was shocked at his shamelessness.
Looking at Sun Jiayu who was still in a coma, Sun Zhi felt only a twisted sense of pleasure in his heart, without any regrets at all.
He turned his head and stared at Sun Peifeng who was so close to him, with a weird smile on his face. "Your good son has emphasized 'our family' and 'my parents' in front of me countless times. He told me that I can't get a penny of your family's things, no matter how hard I try to please him!
"He doesn't even consider me as a family member! He treats me well in front of you, but in private, he only considers me as a guest staying here, no, a poor beggar!"
Sun Peifeng frowned, "It means he has seen through your greed and shamelessness a long time ago!" Jiayu is indeed not as smart as Sun Zhi, but he is a sensitive child. He doesn't believe that his son would have such great malice towards Sun Zhi for no reason.
Sun Zhi was furious. "So what if I saw through it? Isn't this what I deserve?! Who in this world would be nice to you for no reason? Even you asked me to work hard for the company, didn't you? Aren't you paving the way for your own son? You want me to be a loyal dog who only knows how to wag his tail and beg for mercy?"
"Your second uncle has never thought of this!" Mrs. Sun was so angry that she almost lost her manners. She swore a few times but didn't say it in the end.
As things developed to this point, Sun Zhi knew that he had no chance of recovery, so he simply vented all his dissatisfaction.
"Uncle, I used to want to be kind to you guys, but as Sun Jiayu got older, your attitude towards me and him became more and more different. If you could really treat us equally, I would not have done something so extreme today. Is it my fault? No, it's your fault, your fault! Since you treat me as a family member, why can Sun Jiayu get a supercar and a villa before he graduates, but I have nothing; why did you transfer part of the shares to his name when he was 18, but I have nothing; why did your family of three go abroad to travel, but I stayed behind to guard this empty house!"
"Sun Zhi, please speak with conscience. It was you who said you didn't want to go out! Didn't we try to persuade you?!" Mrs. Sun walked forward excitedly, but then stepped back in fear when she thought of the terrible things Sun Zhi had done.
The person who was brought back with good intentions and treated sincerely will become a permanent scar on this family in the days to come.
Mrs. Sun thought sadly that she and her husband would never dare to bring someone home out of kindness or consideration for human feelings in the future. Who could predict whether the person they brought back would be a poisonous snake or a dog that could not be fed enough
"I didn't expect that you have always thought this way." Sun Peifeng had a sad face, but he did not let go. The hand that was holding Sun Zhi's collar kept tightening, as if he wanted to strangle him to death.
"I'm not going because I can't fit in with your atmosphere! The sight of your family of three together is so jarring. It makes me feel disgusted, nauseous, and jealous." Sun Zhi's teeth creaked. "I'm always an outsider. In order to become a real family, you can only have one son, and that's me!"
"I must have been blind to bring you back!" Sun Peifeng couldn't bear it anymore and punched him.
He roared angrily: "I threw this punch for myself, this punch was thrown for your second aunt, and these are thrown for Jiayu!"
Sun Zhi's glasses were broken, with spider-web-like cracks hanging on the lenses, but this did not attract sympathy from others. A hand grabbed the back of his head and slammed it against the wall, causing his head to bleed. His already blurred vision was stained red with blood, and he fainted on the spot.
In the bedroom, Sun Peifeng was breathing heavily, his fingertips trembling, and the anger in his heart was still growing.
Whenever I thought about the fact that I had let the wolf into the house, I felt a strong sense of regret in my heart.
He squatted on the ground with his face covered. In front of his dark eyes, he saw the scene of the family of three loving each other before Sun Zhi came. Then he saw the scene when Sun Zhi came to his house for the first time, with his head lowered, staring at his toes stiffly... Sun Peifeng could no longer tell whether Sun Zhi's heart was inherently dirty and greedy, or he was tempted by the affluent life in recent years and gradually lost his original intention.
However, these are no longer important. What remains in front of my eyes is the strange image of my son's pale face, looking nervously at the ceiling.
He kicked Sun Zhi hard in the stomach. The man lying on the ground rolled over and soon opened his eyes in pain.
Sun Peifeng wiped the sticky sweat with his hand, stepped over Sun Zhi, and walked in front of Chen Ling. "Mr. Chen, people who make mistakes should pay the price, but according to the current law, people like Sun Zhi who use evil methods to harm others cannot be punished. Is there no other way?"
Chen Ling thought of Li Hongyu and asked Wu Weiwei, "Will the Special Investigation Department take over similar cases?"
Wu Weiwei: "Yes, I will contact Li Hongyu immediately."
"Can I get through to him?" Li Hongyu's phone was always turned off. Chen Ling wondered if he was in seclusion.
"It was just connected the night before yesterday. He also returned the money I transferred to his account. But don't worry, Brother Chen, I transferred it back and convinced him to take the money." After Wu Weiwei took credit, he hid in a corner to contact Li Hongyu.
Li Hongyu replied that the third group of the Special Investigation Department was specifically responsible for similar cases, but there was a prerequisite, which was that a detailed description of the crime process needed to be prepared.
After this message was sent, another one followed, saying: Send me the address, I will be there in thirty minutes.
Wu Weiwei showed his phone to Brother Chen, replied, looked up at Sun Zhi who was struggling to sit up from the ground and said, "He definitely won't tell."
"Isn't there another suspected ghost?" Chen Ling took the five-zhu coin out of the ink line and said fiercely, "Tell me everything you know, or I will immediately ask the ghosts of the Seventy-two Departments to come up and take you away."
"No, no, no!" The five-zhu coin was lying in the soil of the imperial tomb. The ghost in the underworld was afraid of the emperor's dragon energy and would not enter the tomb to take the soul, so he had already slept past the time for reincarnation.
If he were caught now, there's no telling how he would be treated.
The five-zhu coin bounced anxiously in the young man's palm, defending himself: "Before I met Sun Zhi, I had never harmed anyone!"
It was clearly a copper coin, but Chen Ling felt as if he had cried, and the heat from his skin was transmitted to its texture, turning cold.
The corners of his mouth twitched, and he warned, "Stop yelling, my ears hurt. Turn down the volume and speak slowly and clearly."
Jiang Yu couldn't help but glance at the young man who was concentrating on communicating with a copper coin. The next second after he looked away, he couldn't help but look back. There was a strong interest in his eyes, and he felt that this person was more and more interesting.
Chen Ling has many sides: gentle, timid, fierce, and also like now, communicating with evil spirits with innocence and concentration, patiently.
There was no disdain or disgust, it was just like... treating a person.
A living person.
Sun Peifeng and Mrs. Sun were also stunned. They were surprised, scared, and found it extremely unbelievable.
The copper coin rolled back and forth in the young man's hand, as if he was reciting a plan in his mind.
"I am a sacrificial victim. I don't remember anything about my life. I only remember the fear of being buried alive in the mud before I die..."
The five-zhu coin had been dormant until it was dug out from a tomb by an archaeological team some time ago and woke up. It was hidden by someone and sold to the antique market.
It was at this time that Sun Zhi appeared.
His purpose of going to the antique market was very clear, he wanted to find funerary objects, or in layman's terms, burial objects. Not only had to be very old, but also had to have been recently unearthed.
After the funerary objects are separated from the grave and exposed to the outside for a long time, the negative energy on them will become less and less.
If you want to attract ghosts, you must use newly unearthed objects. However, with the crackdown on tomb robbery, illegally unearthed objects are becoming less and less, and those that can be circulated in the market are even more rare.
But that day, Sun Zhi was extremely lucky. After visiting two or three stalls, he found an ancient bronze coin.
The Wuzhu coin has been sealed in the soil for a long time and is well preserved and cold to the touch.
Funeral objects are unlucky and normal buyers are unwilling to even look at them. The buyer in front of him is obviously not a normal buyer.
The boss whispered tentatively: "Brother, you bought it to attract ghosts, right?"
Sun Zhi's face changed immediately when his true feelings were touched. He tried to leave but was called back by his boss.
"Little brother, this kind of new funerary artifact is rare. Look at this five-zhu coin of mine. It is in excellent condition without any rust or damage. If you need it for special purposes, this copper coin is perfect."
Sun Zhi also knew that he was doing something wrong, so he was very cautious and looked with inquiring eyes at the stall owner in front of him who obviously wanted to sell to him at a high price.
The boss looked at him and said, "Copper coins were minted by the ancient government. They carry the fate of the country and the people's belief in and emphasis on money. Stringing them with red thread can ward off evil spirits. Of course, this refers to copper coins that have been circulated and touched by people, not copper coins used as burial objects. Copper coins like this that have been buried in the soil for hundreds or thousands of years will only be entangled with bad luck and the negative energy from the dead. You just need to put it on the balcony and light three incense sticks at midnight, and naturally there will be ghosts willing to attach themselves to it."
Seeing that the buyer was interested, the boss began to boldly bid the price.
Before coming to this antique market, Sun Zhi had been to other places but found nothing. This five-zhu coin was the most suitable one he could buy.
Without much thought or bargaining, he paid three times the normal price to buy the copper coins in order to shut his boss up.
That night, following the stall owner's method, at midnight, Sun Zhi placed the things he had prepared in advance on the balcony and performed a small ghost-summoning ceremony.
The ritual was not standardized and should not have worked, but after Wu Zhu Qian knew that Sun Zhi wanted to use him to harm people, he became uneasy and planned to escape.
He struggled to jump from the balcony to the handrail of the guardrail. Just as he was about to jump to the lawn below, a hand reached out from behind and grabbed him tightly.
Wuzhu coin was a new unearthed ghost with no social experience. He was so scared that he begged for mercy. Before anyone asked him anything, he confessed everything in a cowardly manner.
With excitement flashing in his eyes, Sun Zhi deliberately moved the blessed jade Guanyin closer to force the object hidden in the five-zhu coin to come out, and then quickly put the copper coin and the Guanyin pendant together.
The wild ghost has lived in the Wuzhu coin for many years, and the two have long become one. If the Wuzhu coin is a shell, then the wild ghost is the snail carrying the shell.
Once the shell is broken, the snail will not live long.
Sun Zhi seized his weakness and ordered him to forcibly possess Sun Jiayu's body.
The first time, the Wuzhu coin failed.
Although Sun Jiayu's complexion was not very good at the time and he seemed to be sick all over, he was still young after all. As soon as he approached, he was burned by the excess yang energy of the living person.
During that period, Sun Zhi was in a very bad mood and always deliberately tortured the ghost with things that he was afraid of.
Recalling this, Wu Zhuqian's soft voice trembled, "It's too scary outside. If I had known earlier, I would have buried myself in the ground and continued to sleep."
After knowing that he didn't harm people out of malice, Chen Ling's attitude softened, "There are many beautiful things in this world. You are just unlucky. You met a bastard when you were unearthed."
Wu Zhu Qian groaned, "Hmm," and continued, "I remember it very clearly. On the last day of June, Sun Zhi suddenly took me to an empty house in the suburbs where a murder was said to have occurred. In addition to him and Sun Jiayu, there were a few other people I didn't know. After chatting for a while, one of them suddenly suggested playing a game of summoning spirits, the Ouija board."
I don’t know when it started, but the Pen Fairy, the Plate Fairy, and the Chopstick Fairy suddenly appeared from unknown corners and became a form of entertainment for young people seeking excitement.
This type of game actually has no specific origin, and the official magic community has also stamped their seal on it, saying that these games cannot summon souls at all, but can only attract passing ghosts.
But some people are not afraid of death and insist on risking their lives on games.
Sun Zhi and his group were one of them, but they were lucky and did not attract any evil spirits, but only a game agent.
On the way there, Sun Zhi warned Wu Zhu Qian that he should follow his gestures when the time comes.
The order of asking questions to the Ouija board was decided by drawing lots. Sun Jiayu was the last one, and his question was, what do you want to do
The five-zhu coin quietly controlled the disc to move in a circle on the newspaper. Sun Zhi, with a frightened look on his face, used the words pointed by the notch on the disc to form a sentence -
I want to borrow something from you.
Sun Zhi deliberately provoked him: "Jia Yu, are you scared? If you are, it doesn't matter. Just kneel on the ground and tell me 'I am a coward', and then you can pretend that you have never played today's game."
Sun Jiayu was deceived into coming here that day.
Sun Zhi took Sun Jiayu to the suburbs on the pretext that Sun Peifeng had sent him to pick him up. He knew how much his cousin hated him, so he deliberately hinted to his friends who had already arrived to stir up trouble, and used provocation to keep Sun Jiayu.
Now, the same approach is working again.
Although Sun Jiayu was afraid, he thought that he had the blessing of "Ji Ye" and nothing should happen. He said with anger, "Okay, what do you want to borrow?"
The plate stopped moving, and the horrifying scenes before seemed like just an illusion.
In order to make the scene realistic, Sun Zhi did not tell his friends that the Ouija game was fake. So when they heard Sun Jiayu's answer, everyone present thought of some horror movies.
What can a ghost borrow? Limbs, torso, eyes, and life.
They were panicked and wanted to stop but didn't dare to. They subconsciously turned their eyes to the organizer of this summoning game.
Today, all the people who came were trustworthy friends. Sun Zhi was too lazy to pretend. He looked at Sun Jiayu with an ambiguous sneer and said, "Jiayu, let's stop playing. It's getting dark soon. It will be difficult to send the Ouija away by then."
"I don't care." Sun Jiayu said stubbornly, but he was already starting to feel uneasy inside.
He always felt that after he said "OK", something got into his skin from behind...
The description of the five-zhu coin ends here. "I really don't want to hurt anyone, but Sun Zhi holds the copper coin, and I can't resist him. By the way, Sun Jiayu's previous extreme behavior was also ordered by him to act. I actually don't like it. He looks like a madman and his behavior is not elegant at all."
As he was talking, he suddenly turned into complaining.
Wu Zhuqian's narration was smooth, but some parts of it seemed childish. Chen Ling asked him, "Do you remember how old you were when you died?"
"I don't remember..."
Chen Ling thought that it should be a relatively ignorant age.
If an adult sacrificial victim had experienced every bit of life, he would definitely feel resentful and unwilling. How could he sleep in a daze until now and not even be able to form a human form
He folded his five fingers together, put the five-zhu coin into his pocket temporarily, and turned to look at Wu Weiwei who was pressing the paper against the wall and taking notes quickly: "Have you finished?"
"Right away." Wu Weiwei's hand speed increased and he put a period on it. "Okay."
Chen Ling nodded and was about to ask him to urge Li Hongyu, but Sun Peifeng, who had just been quietly listening to Wu Zhuqian's story, suddenly spoke up: "No, Jiayu started to sleepwalk in mid-June."
Mrs. Sun, who was wiping the cinnabar mark off her son's forehead, also looked up and said, "I saw Jiayu squatting on the balcony eating raw mice in mid-June." But from the wild ghost's confession just now, we know that he clearly possessed her son on June 30th!
He also mentioned before that his son was suffering from illness.
"Mr. Chen, could that wild ghost be lying?" Sun Peifeng said excitedly, "He must have something he hasn't explained yet!"
Chen Ling took out the five-zhu coin again.
The wild ghost had obviously heard the conversation outside, and before the young man could question him, he shouted, "It's not me! It's really not me, I'm not lying!"
Chen Ling took out the Huang Shen Yue Zhang Seal hidden in his clothes, with an obvious warning in its meaning.
The five-zhu coin trembled and made a buzzing sound. "It's the Buddha statue in the Buddha cabinet. He made it. He is very powerful. I usually walk around him."
Sun Peifeng had indeed said before that since Sun Jiayu was possessed, he no longer went to the Buddhist cabinet to burn incense in person.
At that time, Chen Ling thought that it was out of fear of gods and Buddhas.
Now it seems that there is something else involved in this whole thing.
Chen Ling picked up the five-zhu coin and shook it in the air. "Tell me the truth. From the beginning to now, what exactly did you do?"
Wu Zhu Qian kept on talking in a muffled voice, explaining everything clearly. Perhaps because he didn't want to take the blame for other ghosts, he showed an amazing memory at this moment.
After listening, Chen Ling repeated solemnly, "You said that Sun Jiayu's sleepwalking and eating mice were not done by you?"
"Of course! I won't do such a bloody thing as eating rats." Wu Zhu Qian's tone was a little arrogant. Since he saw the light of day again, he has not touched a drop of blood, not even from animals.
Chen Ling looked at Sun Peifeng and said, "Mr. Sun, where did you get the Buddha statue from?"
"Yes, I got it from Hengxingzhai on Qingfeng Road." He shuddered and said with a sallow face, "Could it be that this Buddha I got back is also a funerary object?! But since I got the Buddha statue back, Jiayu's health has really improved, and my business is also going well... If he wanted to harm us, why didn't he do it in the past 20 years?"
It's really unreasonable.
Chen Ling frowned, puzzled.
Jiang Yu approached from behind, "Whether it is a grudge ghost or an evil ghost, they are all born out of hatred or evil spirits. Those who actively eat flesh and blood are mostly spirits."
"Because they can't change their nature." With just a little hint, Chen Ling knew what was going on.
He turned to the people in the room and said, "Go downstairs immediately. If that thing hears our conversation, it will run away immediately."
The macaw, which was almost asleep on the clothes rack, immediately flew to Chen Ling's shoulder upon hearing this, and its body swayed back and forth as the young man walked.
It clenched its claws, spread one wing, and idly stroked its beautiful feathers with its beak.
A group of people had just walked down the stairs in an orderly manner when a loud bang came from the corner of the living room where the Buddha cabinet was placed. The parrot stretched out its neck, tilted its little head slightly, and opened its mouth to shout, "Chase it! Chase it!"
A small yellow shadow flashed from a corner of the living room to the entrance at lightning speed.