According to legend, there was an eminent monk who spent his entire life trying to study the Dharma of becoming a Buddha. Unfortunately, when he realized the true meaning of Buddhism, he was exhausted. It is of course unwilling to be able to become holy and become a Buddha just one step away. In order to get a taste of his wish, he moved his crooked thoughts, trying to avoid reincarnation and continue his life against the sky.
When he was dying, he instructed his disciples to cast a golden body for him after he passed away and place it on the Buddhist altar for worship. The reason why he did this was to protect his soul, so that he would not be scattered after death due to the death of the corpse. To put it bluntly, it is to give the soul a place to hide.
Once the golden body is infused, his soul will be preserved, but this is only the first step of the plan. Afterwards, his soul resided in the golden body, and he absorbed the incense on the Buddhist altar every day to gather spiritual energy. After decades of accumulation, his soul has been transformed from virtual to solid. If he continues to absorb incense, it will be transformed in a hundred years. Be weird. At that time, he can practice again, and after a hundred kalpas, there is still the possibility of becoming a sanctified Buddha.
The process of entering the Dao from spirit monsters is dangerous and arduous, and he does not want to wait another hundred years. Therefore, he chose an evil shortcut - to absorb the blood of the living! There are hundreds of monks in the monastery. As long as they drain their blood, they can reshape their bodies and become human again.
He is a half-real, ghostly figure who can move freely in the monastery without being noticed by the monks. And he acted cautiously, only when the night was quiet, he chose sleeping monks to start. Therefore, at the beginning, no one noticed his existence at all. However, after the monk was drained of his essence and blood, he would be seriously ill, or suddenly die on the spot. No matter how cautious he was, things would come to light one day.
The monks in the temple fell one by one, and they were either dead or seriously ill. The monks were very nervous. Everyone knew that something must be wrong, but they didn't know where the problem was. Fortunately, the presiding officer of the monastery was not a generalist either. When the monks in the monastery fell more than halfway down, he finally found out the problem and destroyed the golden body of the eminent monk.
It is a pity that it is too late at this moment. With the blood essence and blood that the monk has absorbed for days, he has been able to transform into a human form, and he no longer needs to rely on the golden body to reassure his soul.
Seeing that the matter has been exposed, the eminent monk no longer hides his head and shows his tail, revealing his half-empty and half-truth body in front of everyone, and he starts a killing spree, trying to suck up the essence and blood of the monks in the temple in one fell swoop, reshape his body, and be reborn as a human being.
In order to save all the monks in the academy, the presiding officer was willing to sacrifice his life, asking the gods and the Buddhas to come down to earth to relieve their troubles. His performance moved the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, manifested in front of everyone, and subdued the eminent monk.
Avalokitesvara is merciful, and the eminent monk is sincere to the Buddha when he recites it, but it was only a single thought that he strayed into the devil's way, and he could not bear to disperse his soul. However, the eminent monk was already half-human and half-ghost at this time. He was not contained by the six realms, and there was no other place in the Three Realms. The Bodhisattva took him as his seat and gave him the name "Rakshasa of Falsehood". The long-cherished wish of becoming a Buddha...
After listening to the legends told by Liu Nian, Zhen Zhen asked: "You mean, the Mirror-Hidden Ghost is a 'False Rakshasa'?"
Liu Nian shook his head and said, "It is said that the False Rakshasa is the envoy of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Although he has committed heinous crimes, he has changed his mind, converted to the orthodox religion again, strictly abides by the rules and regulations, and will never attack you. It is possible for this kind of individual to exist between humans and ghosts.”
According to Wu Wei, the ghost in the mirror would arrest people to be her maid every once in a while. Perhaps the person she killed was not her maid, but her blood was sucked out. If this is the case, then she may have a half-virtual and half-real body like a false Rakshasa. This can explain why she is an ethereal ghost, yet she can cause tangible harm to me and Zhen Zhen.
If this is the case, and the murderer of the eight children surnamed Cai is the ghost of the hidden mirror, then the case is close enough. No matter how we can catch her, even if we take her back to the police station, what kind of punishment can we give her? She killed at least eight people, and in accordance with normal legal rulings, she would have to be sentenced to death no matter what. But she was already dead, how could she be killed again
However, my concerns seem to be overstated.
Although Zangjing Ghost once said that she "acquired a few little ghost heads" not long ago, it does not mean that she is the murderer of eight children surnamed Cai. The seven children in Wangliang Second Village are hard to say, but at least Cai Shaomeng will not be killed by her. After all, Cai Shaomeng lives in the county seat and is a little far away from Wang Village. If the scope of activities of the Mirror-Hidden Ghost can be so large, I am afraid that the city will be full of troubles by now.
Although the ghost of the hidden mirror may not be the murderer, she cannot be allowed to continue to wreak havoc. From last night's fight alone, it can be judged that she is a dangerous "character" with a violent temperament and a high degree of aggression. You have to think of a way to subdue her, or sooner or later, there will be more trouble. However, how can we deal with this ethereal ghost like her
Just when I was about to scratch my head, Liu Nian's assistant had already handed Zhen Zhen's blood test report to Liu Nian. After Liu Nian took the report and checked it carefully, the expression on his face became more and more serious, and his brows became more and more wrinkled. I felt a little bad, and quickly asked him if something was wrong
"Oh, I have a heart. It's actually nothing, it's just that the hemorrhoids are getting worse recently, and now the chrysanthemum is a little itchy." He gave me this disgusting answer extremely calmly.
I almost fell to the ground and couldn't help yelling at him: "Damn, who cares about your hemorrhoids! I'm asking about Zhen Zhen's blood test report!"
He scratched his butt in disgust before answering: "No problem, everything is normal, Zhen Zhen's body is five times better than yours."
When I heard him say "everything is normal", I suddenly felt relieved, and no longer cared about his subsequent ridicule, I just wondered, am I caring more and more about Zhen Zhen
After a busy morning in the forensic department, Zhen Zhen and I came to Wangcun Primary School again in the afternoon. Through Teacher Lu, we found Wang Xi who practiced calligraphy in the reference room alone. On the surface, we were here to give the "Dean of Education" an explanation for the breaking of the glass last night, but in fact, of course, we wanted to use his words.
Teacher Lu briefly introduced our names, and told Wang Xi that it was us who accidentally broke the window glass last night, and then hurried to teach the students, seemingly unwilling to stay here. After he left, Wang Xi continued to practice his calligraphy as if we didn't exist, without even looking at us.
Ordinary people who practice calligraphy usually use water to write on thick paper, or use bamboo poles to write on the sand surface, so that they can practice repeatedly and will not cause waste. Even if it is extravagant, at best it is to use old newspapers, or even ordinary white paper. However, the paper that Wang Xi used to practice turned out to be expensive rice paper!
The paper is high-quality rice paper, and the brushes and inkstones are also quite delicate, so they must be of great value. It is a pity that the characters written with expensive pen, ink, paper and inkstone are not of the highest grade, and probably a beginner of calligraphy is not necessarily inferior to him. It seems that Mr. Lu is not lying, he must have bought the certificate of merit in the calligraphy competition.
I wasn't interested in appreciating his poor calligraphy, so I started the topic with compensation and asked him what to do with us breaking the glass in the school.
He continued to practice calligraphy, and said without raising his head: "I have already asked someone to re-install the glass in the morning. After they come over, you can go and negotiate the price with them! If you have nothing else, don't bother me again. , I'm busy."
No wonder Wu Wei gave him such a bad evaluation, and Teacher Lu didn't want to have too much contact with him. His temperament was really unpleasant. Unfortunately, we had to get a confession from him, and no matter how bad his temper was, I had to endure it first. After all, the evidence so far is not enough to prove that he had any direct connection with Cai Shaomeng's death, let alone the seven children in Wangliang's second village. Although we can directly take him back to the police station for questioning, he will definitely be wary of us, and it will be much harder to tell him what to do.
Although he has issued an eviction order, it is my housekeeping skill to be stubborn, and of course I will not be expelled by him so easily. "Anyway, the workers who install the glass haven't come yet, so we'll just wait here for a while." I used this as an excuse to continue my stay.
"Just do what you want, just don't get in my way." He still didn't even look at us, this attitude was really disgusting, I found Zhen Zhen's fists clenched, as if she wanted to rush forward and kick him.
I gave Zhen Zhen a wink, motioned her to take it easy, and then said to Wang Xi, "These rice paper are of good quality, they must be expensive, right?"
"Without the best rice paper, how can I bring out the silver hook of the iron painting I wrote!"
Hearing what he said, I almost spit it out, but I still managed to keep talking to him: "I have a friend who also likes calligraphy, but I don't know where I can buy good rice paper."
"I made a special trip to buy these rice papers for me from the proprietress of the stationery store opposite the Tuoxian Experimental Middle School. A small stack costs hundreds of dollars. Can your friend afford it?" He finally glanced at me. In his eyes, I saw a dazzling look full of superiority.
"Of course he can't be like you, even using expensive rice paper for practice." I pretended to be embarrassed and smiled, and then said: "Not long ago, a child died across from the county experimental middle school. You often go there, you should have heard of it. Have you been?"
He suddenly stopped practicing calligraphy and looked directly at me, his tone slightly changed from before: "I just heard that I happened to go to the stationery store to buy rice paper that night, and it was I who first discovered that the girl committed suicide."
I saw that this topic had caught his attention, so I continued to say: "Suicide? Impossible, how can a child who is only a few years old commit suicide?"
"The forest is big, and naturally there are all kinds of birds, so nothing is impossible. I saw this with my own eyes, and she committed suicide." He seemed to be afraid that we would not believe it, and immediately gave us a detailed account of the situation at that time—
I drove a Hummer into town that night, the one parked outside the playground, you should have seen it! Parking is not allowed on the road in front of the county experimental middle school, and my Hummer is relatively large, so I managed to find a parking spot on another street.
After I parked the car, I walked directly over, and when I turned into the street of the County Experimental Middle School, I saw the little girl playing in the phone booth. She was crawling up, as if trying to take the microphone off.
At that time, the whole street was deserted, and it was just me and her. I wondered how she would play on the street alone, and there was no adult beside her. You also know that these days, there are no less human traffickers than vegetable traffickers. As long as the parents of those poor families are not careful, the next half of their lives will have to travel across the state and across the province to post a message to find people. Our school organizes parents to listen to anti-abduction lectures every three or five years. I hear calluses, but some people are so careless, and the child deserves to be abducted.
However, it's none of my business, but she's not me, who cares about her!
After that, I went into a small shop to buy cigarettes, and when I came out, I saw the little girl standing motionless in the phone booth. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but until I walked to the door of the stationery store, she didn't move, I felt strange, so I told the proprietress. Who knew that the proprietress ran over and cried when she saw it. It turned out that the girl's neck was tied to the telephone line and she was hanged...
"You lied!" Zhen Zhen was probably extremely dissatisfied with Wang Xi's attitude, she suddenly pointed at him with wide apricot eyes and cursed: "You didn't buy anything at the stationery store that night, and you went there only to kill Cai. Little cute!"
Wang Xi was taken aback by her actions, changed his arrogant attitude before, and replied cowardly: "What are you, what are you saying, who is that Cai or something? I just went to the stationery store, how could it be possible? Kill her?"
Zhen Zhen suddenly became furious. Although it messed up my plan, it also frustrated Wang Xi's arrogance. I motioned her to stop talking, and then said to Wang Xi, "Cai Shaomeng is the little girl who was hanged in the phone booth that night. If you didn't go there to kill her, then why did you go there?"
"Buy rice paper!" Although he said it confidently, he didn't know if it was because he was overwhelmed by Zhen Zhen's momentum just now, and he had not calmed down for the time being, so he seemed a little lacking in confidence.
"But you didn't buy anything at the stationery store that night." I had already taken control of my words, and there was no need to continue to pretend, sitting across from him and lighting a cigarette, staring sternly at every change in expression on his face.
He was probably furious when I saw him, and shouted at me angrily: "What's the matter, who do you think you are! Treat me as a criminal, why should I tell you so much nonsense!"
"We treat you as a prisoner. To be more precise, we suspect that you killed Cai Shaomeng." I showed him the police ID card leisurely, "You don't have to talk nonsense with us, but we can also arrest you in the detention center and put you in a half-lock first. I’ll talk to you in a few months. Don’t think that if your father has money, everything can be solved. The crime of beheading is not a petty official and a small official.
After he was taken by me, his arrogance disappeared immediately, his attitude became cooperative, and he replied weakly: "At that time, a life was killed, and the proprietress was still in the mood to do business. After waiting for a while, she did not return to the store. Of course I'll go first."
His answer was not what I expected, and it wasn't the point of the question, because I found an important doubt from his statement just now: "You saw Cai Shaomeng in the phone booth before you went into the store to buy cigarettes. Climbing, that is to say, she was still alive at the time. But when you left the store, you said that she had not moved at all. Hanging a person is not a momentary thing, but a certain process. During this process, she will instinctively Struggle, even incontinence. It takes two to three minutes from the time the neck hangs on the phone line to the complete inability to move. I would like to ask you, does it take so long to buy a pack of cigarettes? Or..." I suddenly increased my tone, "Or you're lying at all!"
"You're wronged!" His arrogance just now vanished without a trace, replaced by a sense of panic, "I was buying a pack of Zhonghua for one hundred yuan in a small shop, and that stinky mother-in-law gave me change. In the middle, there was a piece of 50 yuan Jia coin. Although she immediately exchanged it for me after I found it, I scolded her for a while, and the delay might have been three or four minutes! If you don't believe it, you can go Ask her, I also kicked over a box of instant noodles on the ground, and she will definitely be impressed."
He speaks with conviction and can provide witnesses, not like a lie. However, if he was telling the truth, when he entered the store to buy cigarettes, there was only Cai Shaomeng in the whole street, so how did the lump on the back of her head come from
I suddenly remembered the Ghost of Hidden Mirror. If she was the murderer, it would be too easy to kill Cai Shaomeng without knowing it. As long as Cai Shaomeng was about to take off the microphone, she could knock the other person's neck firmly into the telephone coil and hang herself.
Could it be that the murderer was not the prodigal Wang Xi in front of him
In order to confirm my inference, I will ask Wang Xi another key question, that is, where were the seven children surnamed Cai in Wangliang No. 2 Village when they disappeared and drowned
"I was in a hot spring in Japan in those days. My passport has entry and exit records, and the travel agency can also testify for me."
Cai Shaomeng's death could not prove that he had anything to do with him. When the other seven Cai children had an accident, he had alibi, which means that his suspicion was eliminated at once.
Since it can't be proved that he is related to the murder of the child named Ba Cai, it is just a waste of time to continue to ask questions. I gave him a business card and told him to send the bill after the glass was installed, and I would send him money.
Afterwards, I plan to go to the air raid shelter with Zhen Zhen to investigate the ghosts with hidden mirrors.
"Are you going to the air raid shelter to find the ghost who hides the mirror? Hahaha..." Wang Xi laughed out loud when he heard our conversation.
Zhen Zhen glared at him and shouted: "What are you laughing at!"
He immediately stopped his laughter, but his tone was still mocking: "The ghost of the mirror will never appear in the air raid shelter. Even if you turn the air raid shelter upside down, you won't be able to find her."