I asked in a deep voice: "When did he leave the country and where did he go?"
Xie Wanhua shook her head and said, "I don't know. My colleagues there said that he took a long vacation and revealed that he was going abroad for vacation before leaving, but he didn't say where he was going."
"Sure enough!" I said in a deep voice, "Let's make a guess."
"After the diary fell into Tom's hands, he kept trying to figure out the secret of the diary. At a loss for words, he used Western witchcraft, or accidentally broke the restrictions of the diary, and at the same time, he discovered the secret in the diary."
"I don't think Tom would be interested in your sister's life, but the way the diary is sealed is a fatal temptation to him. Because, in Tom's cognition, he always regards the ban on the diary as a hypnotic technique. Hypnosis also belongs to the category of psychology."
I stopped talking here and looked at Xie Wanhua. The latter knew that I wanted to verify whether my guess was correct, so she nodded and said, "As far as I know, Tom has been in contact with a Chinese psychology master and has heard of Zhuyou. Unfortunately, the psychology master is not a descendant of Zhuyou, and Tom has never seen the real Zhuyou, and he has always been worried about it."
Xie Wanhua said seriously: "If Tom mistook the prohibition in the diary for a Zhuyou technique, he would most likely come here to look for the Zhuyou technique in the legend."
Xie Wanhua is not a practitioner of the art of Zhuyou, nor does she know the secrets of Zhuyou. The Zhuyou art she talked about is probably just a little bit of the inheritance of Zhuyou. You should know that most of the Zhuyou inheritors are not in hospitals or colleges. Because the government can allow psychological intervention and hypnosis to be used in medical treatment, but will not support the use of spells and magic talismans to treat diseases. Therefore, the real Zhuyou masters, as part of the art of Zhuyou, are mostly hidden among the people.
After listening to it, I said, "Since my first assumption is true, then my next inference will also become inevitable. That is, the person who cast the spell is still alive."
I looked at Xie Wanhua and said in a deep voice, "That person is either your sister Xie Wanqiao, or the person who taught Xie Wanqiao to cast the curse."
"impossible!"
"You said Wan Qiao is still alive?"
Xie Wanhua and Lao Du screamed out almost at the same time.
I waved my hand and said, "I'm just speculating. After all, none of us has read the contents of the diary. Assuming that the person who left the prohibition in the diary is dead, what's the point of Tom traveling all the way to China?"
Before they could speak, I said, "Actually, this speculation is easy to verify. As long as Lao Du checks the entry and exit records, he will know where Tom is."
"I'll check it out right away!" Lao Du turned around and tried to leave, but I stopped him: "Wait a minute. Let's clean up the murder scene across the street first. Then, you can call the police."
Although Lao Du is a policeman, he cannot explain the two deaths in the house opposite. After all, we can't produce evidence of ghost murder to prove our innocence, so we can only clean up the scene before the police come.
Fortunately, Lao Du is a criminal policeman, and the monk and I were able to handle the scene, so we cleared up all traces of us in the shortest possible time.
It's not surprising that the monk and I have the ability to clean up the scene. Since ancient times, people in the underworld have always been afraid of the government.
Like the knights in martial arts movies who kill people and then walk away, or directly kill the public detectives, that is all due to the plot. In ancient times, people in the martial arts world might kill people and then leave, but they would never go against the public unless it was absolutely necessary.
In ancient times, killing officials was equivalent to rebellion. Once the government was determined to arrest a person in the underworld, unless it happened to be a chaotic time, otherwise, they would never escape. The same was true for sorcerers as part of the underworld. Moreover, sorcerers were easier to be captured than those big names in the underworld.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, various methods of erasing traces have been passed down in the art of magic, especially for sorcerers like us who slay ghosts.
The monk and I had learned how to erase footprints, fingerprints, remove bloodstains, and even destroy corpses, but we had never really used them, so we were a little immature. As for the monk, he was not much better than me. However, with Lao Du's guidance, we were able to conceal the truth in the shortest possible time.
After I cleaned up the scene, I told Lao Du, "When you call the police, just say that you suddenly wanted to come back to pay respect to your deceased wife, so you burned paper in the hallway. Later, you smelled blood in the house, so you felt something was wrong and called the police. Don't say anything else."
I was afraid that Lao Du would not be able to get over it, so I warned him again: "If you tell the truth, the police may not be able to catch the murderer. What we are doing now is to track down the murderer. Although the way we do things is different from yours, the nature is the same, so you don't have to think too much."
When I saw Lao Du nod, I took Xie Wanhua back to the clinic.
Not long after I sat down, the monk started talking: "Wu Zhao, it seems like you didn't finish talking when you were at Lao Du's house?"
"I really didn't say anything."
While I was talking to the monk, my eyes were fixed on Xie Wanhua who was sitting at the dining table. "Tom went abroad and we encountered the ghost almost at the same time. It can even be said that they were arranged together like a plot. Is this a coincidence or deliberate?"
Xie Wanhua immediately asked back: "Wu Zhao, what do you mean?"
I said in a deep voice: "My meaning is very simple, that is, you are hiding something."
"What did I hide?" Xie Wanhua obviously seemed a little lacking in confidence.
I said in a deep voice, "You keep saying that you have inherited the Zhuyou School, but you panicked when you saw the ghost. You didn't even have the most basic reaction of a sorcerer. Is this what a sorcerer should do?"
Xie Wanhua argued: "I... I haven't seen a ghost... It's understandable that I'm panicking."
I sneered and said, "The art of Zhuyou, to put it bluntly, is also about exorcising evil spirits. Didn't the person who taught you Zhuyou take you to see a ghost beforehand?"
For a sorcerer who exorcises evil spirits, his master will lead him to deal with ghosts from the very beginning. If a sorcerer is frightened and at a loss after seeing a ghost, how can he exorcise demons and catch ghosts? Isn't that a big joke
Xie Wanhua argued again: "The person who taught me the art of incantation only taught me hypnosis, not ghost catching."
"Really?" I stared at Xie Wanhua and said, "So you haven't learned the advanced art of incantation, right?"
"Yes!" As soon as Xie Wanhua said the word "yes", I shouted, "Then explain to me, how did you hypnotize me in an instant?"
Xie Wanhua forced herself to remain calm and said, "That's the secret hypnosis technique my master taught me. I can't tell you!"
"Oh, really?" I said slowly, "I can tell you responsibly that hypnosis is a Western term. Chinese magic has soul-stirring, soul-bewitching, soul-separating, and soul-shocking, but no one has ever said hypnosis. If you dare to say hypnosis, you are betraying your teacher and ancestors, do you understand?"
"I don't understand!" Xie Wanhua simply stopped talking.
I ignored his silence and continued, "You are a smart person. I don't think I need to say much about some things. You should be able to think clearly. Before I touched this diary, you and Lao Du had already encountered ghosts."
"At that time, I had not completely taken over Lao Du's business. So, the person the ghost was looking for was you, not me. Let's not talk about whether the other party is a human or a ghost, he regarded you and Lao Du as his first targets."
"After I showed up, the other party used secret magic to set an ambush for us. This means that the other party has already noticed that a real warlock has intervened in this feud, so they thought of killing us with one strike. So, you are almost under the other party's surveillance."
I turned to look at Xie Wanhua, whose forehead was covered in sweat. "Think about it carefully. Lao Du is Xie Wanqiao's husband. He has not been harassed by ghosts in the eight years since her accident. Why is he being treated as prey now?"
I didn't wait for the other party to answer and said, "I can only say that the other party's target is you, not Lao Du. For your own sake, you should also tell me the truth!"
Xie Wanhua bit her lip for a long time without saying anything. When I urged her again, she shook her head and said, "I don't understand what you are saying!"
I couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Xie Wanhua had clearly wavered, but why did she suddenly change her mind at the end
I know that Xie Wanhua has reached the brink of telling the truth. As long as I find the right direction and put a little pressure on her, Xie Wanhua will tell the truth. But where is Xie Wanhua's psychological breakthrough
If I change someone, I might try another method, but Xie Wanhua is a psychologist! According to her, the tolerance of psychologists is much higher than that of ordinary people. If I can't find the right direction and let Xie Wanhua relieve the psychological pressure, my previous pressure will not only be in vain, but I won't be able to use the same method to force Xie Wanhua again.
Just when I didn't know what to say, Xunhua said, "Even if you are not afraid of death, you should think about Lao Du, right? Even if the two of us will not withdraw, can we still watch Lao Du for the rest of his life? The more things you hide from us, the more dangerous Lao Du will be. What do you think is the chance of Lao Du surviving when he faces the ghosts himself?"
Yes, Lao Du! Why didn’t I think of that
I can see that Xie Wanhua seems to have a special feeling for Lao Du, but neither of them has crossed that line. But how did Xunhua Monk know all these things
Xie Wanhua was indeed anxious: "You can't..."
"Why can't we?" the monk said sternly, "When our employer doesn't tell us the truth, it's reasonable for us to withdraw."
I added: "Once we leave, Lao Du will never find the warlock again. Even if he survives, he will blame you for the rest of his life. Do you believe it?" (To be continued)