The souls of Xu Sanhan and the strong man disappeared.
Chen Xian didn't notice this at first, but it wasn't until about an hour after Xu Sanhan and the others died that Chen Xian gradually felt that something was wrong.
The souls of both of them are gone.
According to common sense, after a human being's bodily functions are completely stopped, the soul will leave the body within a certain period of time, thus becoming a spirit body in a broad sense, which is the so-called bardo body in religion.
Chen Xian, like most other people, has a large degree of variation in the eye tissue. In layman's terms, his naked eyes can see yin and yang, so this change from a living person to a bardo body can be seen with his own eyes. I have witnessed it many times, so I have a better understanding of this change, and I know the approximate time required for this process.
It can be as long as half an hour, or as short as an instant. There are no exceptions to this kind of thing, and it is also the consensus of the Inhuman world.
But it's just that.
Last night, in order to ensure that there would be no "witnesses" other than himself, Chen Xian deliberately guarded the corpses in the yard behind Xu Sanhan and the others for a while, only waiting for the souls of the two to leave their bodies. Just swallowed them cleanly.
In order to wait for the souls of the two of them to come out, Chen Xian waited all night, but he couldn't see them until dawn.
"So... the souls of those two people really disappeared..." The old liar muttered on the phone, and his tone seemed puzzled, as if he didn't expect this to happen.
"you sure?"
"Sure." Chen Xian replied, with a strange expression on his face, "When the logistics department came over for the autopsy, I also looked at it, and the two corpses were indeed empty shells, and their souls had disappeared."
On the other end of the phone, after listening to Chen Xian's narration, the old liar couldn't help but fell silent.
Soul gone
The old liar recalled with a confused face that he and Wang Bi were squatting on the roof of the old house last night. They had witnessed what happened in the yard with their own eyes, so many details can be remembered now.
From the beginning to the end, the old liar and Wang Ren never saw Xu Sanhan's souls.
"The disappearance of their souls has something to do with that evil weapon?" The old liar frowned and asked, "How did you know for sure?"
"Feel."
Chen Xian couldn't help scratching his head when he said this, and felt that what he said was too metaphysical, because it is currently difficult to prove the authenticity of this speculation.
"I found that the blade is a little moister than yesterday, as if I was full." Chen Xian muttered, his face was also full of doubts, "But it doesn't seem to be able to eat any spirit, the Sha I met before, It’s okay to be hacked so many times by me, but in the end I gritted my teeth and swallowed it.”
"Then you will try again when you have a chance..." the old liar smiled maliciously.
"Try again?" Chen Xian was taken aback, and asked him funny, "I can't find someone to kill again, can I?"
The old liar just laughed and didn't speak.
"Anyway, I am very satisfied with this evil weapon now. To be honest, Master Ge, it always gives me a strange feeling, as if I have seen it in my previous life, and it is very familiar."
As Chen Xian said, he carefully wiped the dishes with a clean towel.
The girl squatted beside him and stared at Chen Xian. The way she watched him work was exactly the same as the way she watched cartoons. Her eyes were shining brightly. She didn't know what was going on in her mind, so she didn't say a word.
"Familiar? Maybe you think too much?" The old liar smiled, but he didn't care about Chen Xian's words, "I called you not only to ask you about last night, but also one more thing .”
"One more thing? What is it?" Chen Xian asked curiously.
"Didn't you ask me to apply for the certificate for you? I have already compiled the materials here, but the problem is that there is one thing missing, so these materials have not been submitted in time." The old liar said helplessly.
Chen Xian frowned, wondering if there was something wrong with this matter
"Master Ge, what's missing?" Chen Xian asked tentatively.
"Name!" The old liar asked him angrily, "You can't let me make up the name too?"
"Oh, it's so bad..."
Chen Xian put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, turned his head and glanced at the silly girl, his eyes became serious, and various names flashed in his mind instantly.
Zhao Qiansun, Li Zhou, Wu Zhengwang... Which one should she choose from a hundred surnames? You can't follow my surname Chen, can you
But she was picked up by me, so it doesn't matter if she has my surname, but the question is, if the surname is Chen, what should she be called
Thirteen Chen
Chen eh
Chen Fantong... No... This name is a bit vulgar...
Seeing Chen Xian staring at her endlessly, the girl became more and more curious. What is he looking at
"Chen Xian!" The girl got up and moved closer to Chen Xian, blinking her eyes, and asked curiously, "What... what's wrong?"
"What's your name?" Chen Xian covered the microphone with his hand and asked her tentatively.
The girl looked at him innocently, blinked and said nothing.
"Forget me asking." Chen Xian sighed.
Suddenly, Chen Xian let out a "tsk" in disgust.
Maybe it was because she was in a hurry to eat, there were still a few grains of rice left on the girl's mouth, Chen Xian didn't notice it before, but now that she saw it suddenly, Chen Xian felt very uncomfortable, like seeing flies flying and circling on the cake General diaphragmatic response.
Chen Xian hurriedly found a tissue to wipe her mouth, and while wiping her mouth, she muttered like an old woman: "Eating a meal can't save me some snacks!"
Coincidentally, when Chen Xian was frowning and wiping the girl's mouth, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.
Girls' names are up!
"Master Ge? Are you still there?"
"Aren't you fucking talking nonsense?" The old liar was cursing on the phone, very dissatisfied with Chen Xian's sudden drop of his phone, "What did you do?"
"I've thought of a name."
Chen Xian repeatedly made sure that the girl's face was wiped clean, then crumpled up the used tissue and threw it into the trash can next to the stove.
"What's it called?" asked the old liar.
"Muhe." When Chen Xian said this, his eyes kept turning around the girl, and he felt that there was nothing more suitable for her than this name, "Mu for wood, He for seedlings."
The old liar on the other side of the phone was quiet for a while, as if he was wondering if the name had any deep meaning, why did the name sound familiar... as if he had heard it somewhere.
"You gave this name?" The old liar was a little curious, and couldn't help asking, "Is there any special meaning?"
Chen Xian smiled and said it didn't make any sense.
"OK, are you sure you won't change the name?"
"Well, no change."
"Then I will hand over the materials here, it's really troublesome..."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Xian put the phone in his pocket, rolled up his sleeves and continued to wash the dishes, turning his head to look at the girl from time to time, seeing that she was still staring at him stupidly, the corners of Chen Xian's mouth inadvertently Showed a slight smile.
He once saw a strange plant in the ancient book "Shan Hai Jing".
That plant grows on the top of Kunlun Mountain, and it is the largest rice in the world.
It's called Muhe.
"The sky of Kunlun is 800 miles wide, ten thousand ren high, and there is Muhe on it... Since you like rice so much, then from now on you will be called Muhe."
"Muhe?"
Hearing that the girl's pronunciation was quite standard, Chen Xian couldn't help laughing, and there was a little tenderness in his eyes that was rarely seen before.
"Yes, Muhe."
Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch.
Different from the warm atmosphere in Chen Xian's house, the atmosphere in the old liar's grocery store was particularly dignified at this time, and there was even a feeling of tension.
The old liar is on the phone.
The old liar is also swearing.
"My surname is Zhou, why is it so hard for me to do something with you!" The old liar held his mobile phone and put his feet on the counter in the front hall. The old man said, "This is not for me, but for that bastard Xiao Chen!"
"I know." The old man on the phone sighed, "If it wasn't for him, I would have hung up on you long ago. When will your mouth stop being so stinky?"
If Chen Xian was present, he would definitely be able to tell that the old man on the phone was none other than Lao Zhou, his contact person in the Bureau of Secrets.
"You don't care about me." The old liar muttered, "You know Xiao Chen's temperament. He doesn't like to ask for help, and he doesn't like to owe favors. Over the years, he just asked me to buy things, and didn't ask me to help him. Over other things... I finally have a chance to show love to my child, you won't give me face, will you?"
Lao Zhou sighed, feeling a little headache: "I'll try my best."
"It's not a question of whether you try your best or not, you old man must get things done!" The old liar said angrily, "Chen Ba told us both before he left, and the child will be entrusted to you in the future." We two, you have to help me with his affairs!"
"Where did that girl come from?" Lao Zhou couldn't help asking, his tone full of curiosity, "What's the relationship between her and Xiao Xian?"
The old liar smacked his lips and said, "I don't know about that either, but the two of them have already lived together, you can guess for yourself."
"Fuck!" Lao Zhou exclaimed, "Really?"
"Don't you not swear?" The old liar seemed to have caught Lao Zhou's tricks, and smirked sinisterly, "You are a gentleman, and you haven't sweared for so many years. Today is a break, huh?"
"Get out!" Old Zhou scolded angrily, but suddenly, as if he remembered something, he lowered his voice very abruptly, "Be more careful in Ningchuan, I heard The people above said that there was movement in the Xu family, especially the branch of the Xu family..."
As soon as the voice fell, Lao Zhou paused for a while, as if he was phrasing.
"In addition to these, I also heard an interesting thing."
"What's the matter?" the old liar asked, his brows were tightly frowned, and his attention was still on the movements of the Xu family.
"The Detective Department has been making big moves in the past few days. It seems that there have been a lot of job transfers. I heard that the superior is planning to open branches in second-tier cities in China, and the first branch of the branch is in Ningchuan." Lao Zhou said. Here, the tone suddenly becomes meaningful.
"Maybe Xiaoxian's life will be rough in the future..."