Not long after dawn the next day, Jin An was sitting on the roof of the earthen house, facing the rising sun and exhaling the vigorous life essence, when he was interrupted by a quick knock on the door, interrupting his practice.
He just opened the door.
I saw Uncle Keremu grabbing his palm anxiously and running outside in a panic with an ugly face.
“What’s wrong with Uncle Keremu?”
Jin An did not resist, and let Uncle Kremu grab his wrist and follow Uncle Kremu out.
"Taoist Jin'an, he's dead, he's dead, Kama is dead, Kama is dead..." Uncle Kremu couldn't help crying as he spoke.
Although there are not many people on the street now, and almost everyone is still sleeping and not getting up, there are still some people on the street. Everyone looks at the two big men holding hands and crying in public, and they all pay curious attention to them.
If the gender of one of them is changed to female, it will be like a scene where a man messes with a woman and abandons her, and the woman comes crying and asks for an explanation.
Jin An took the time to pay attention to the outside world's attention. When he heard about the dead person, his eyes darkened: "Is Kama from Uncle Kremu's caravan?"
“How did he die?”
Since one inn could not accommodate so many people, the three caravans stayed in three separate inns. The two of them chatted while traveling.
Uncle Kremu's eyes were red and he said: "Kama is a sixteen-year-old boy in my caravan. This year he did business with me for the first time and he died in the desert. How should I tell him when I go back this time?"
His Apa Ata account.”
Apa Ata means mother and father.
"I don't know how he died. His body was found by several other people who lived in the same Datongpu building. He was found hanged in the house early in the morning. After his death, his whole body turned black and blue, and his tongue was sticking out.
, their eyes were wide open, and the few people who stayed with Kama for one night are now very frightened."
“Kama would never have committed suicide by hanging himself, because he was a man who liked to talk and had a cheerful personality. There was no reason for him to seek death.”
“His biggest wish in this life is to make a lot of money and go back to honor Apa Ata, so there is even less possibility of committing suicide.”
"Taoist Master Jin'an, you must help Kama find the real culprit. Kama must have been killed and hanged in the house. Kama died in the desert the first time he followed me. If I can't catch the real culprit, I will
I really don’t have the shame to go back to my hometown to meet Kama’s parents.” Uncle Kremu became more and more sad and sad as he spoke.
"I have ordered others to control the people who live in the same house. If I dislike them the most, they should be the people who live in the same house, but I have never heard of any conflicts or unhappiness between them.
"
When we arrived at the inn where Uncle Keremu lived, there were already many people gathered on the three floors inside and outside. They all heard that someone had died here. People from the Yueqiang Kingdom and other nearby business groups gathered around, and the innkeeper's head was full of people.
He was sweating profusely and stood at the door to block the troublemakers from breaking into the inn and watching the fun.
When the two arrived, the soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom had not yet arrived. When the innkeeper saw that Keremu had brought a Taoist priest back, he was like a man who was about to die of thirst grabbing a camel in the desert, and hurriedly let the two people in.
Jin'an soon saw Kama's body.
Karma died in a tragic manner. Uncle Keremu’s adjective on the road was considered very gentle, and his tongue was half a foot long out of his mouth.
The person with the longest tongue in the world can only spit out about three inches.
After Kama hanged himself, he vomited up half a foot long, and the horror hung on his chest.
The protruding eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, as if they would be squeezed and exploded if they hung up for a while longer.
Kama's body still remained in the hanging position, no one dared to touch it, and his eyes that were about to burst were looking straight in the direction of Datongpu.
No wonder Uncle Kremu would say that the person who slept in the same house as Kama was so frightened that he woke up early in the morning and found a hanging man in the room with a long tongue sticking out and staring at the bed with bulging eyes.
I'll scare myself crazy.
Jin An stretched out his palm and touched Kama’s calf with her toes facing the ground. Part of her body had already developed rigor mortis, and the time of death should have been around midnight.
He frowned.
There is no Yin Qi on the corpse.
Karma’s death was in a very miserable state, and it looked like he had been possessed by an evil spirit and was killed by evil spirits.
But there is no Yin Qi on the corpse.
It should be that the sun shines into the house at dawn, and all the filthy and yin energy in the sky and earth are burned away by the sun's essence fire.
Jin'an asked someone to find a ladder, take down the body first, and let the deceased die in peace.
But everyone was pushing me and pushing you, and no one wanted to enter the house, let alone get close to Kama's body and remove Kama's body.
In the end, Uncle Keremu borrowed a ladder from the inn and held the ladder himself, while Jin An climbed up the ladder himself and took down the hanged man.
When climbing up the ladder to retrieve the body, Jin An paid special attention to the lower beams. The old Taoist priest once told him that people leave their reputations when they are alive, and they will also leave their names when they die.
Became a dead man's beam.
To determine how many people have been hanged from a beam, you can check how many black marks there are on the beam.
This is like the same principle as the evil among people.
After a person is possessed by evil spirits, a black mark will appear on the whites of his eyes, which proves that the person is possessed by evil spirits. The same is true for the beams of a house where someone has been hanged.
Or the black seal of the dead man Liang, they are actually a manifestation of the possession of resentment.
The more people are hanged on a death beam, the more black marks there are of resentment. A black mark means that one person has been hanged.
And the heavier the resentment, the deeper the black mark will be.
But there is only a black shadow on the beam in front of me, indicating that only one person has been hanged, and this person should be Kama.
“Isn’t it the haunted house that kills people...”
“Is it really man-made?”
Only one person has been hanged here, which rules out the possibility that this house or inn is a haunted house.
“Jin, Taoist priest Jin’an, what were you talking about just now?” Uncle Keremu asked nervously while holding the ladder at the bottom.
The dead man's stiff vertical toes were always hanging in front of his eyes. He forced himself not to look at the dead man's toes, and could only keep trying to raise his head to look at Jin An on the ladder.
“It’s nothing.” Jin An shook his head, and the next process of removing the body went smoothly.
After finishing all this, he walked to another room to meet the person who slept in the same room as Kama last night.
There are ten of these people.
If you add Kama.
That’s a big shop with eleven people crowded into it.
However, these people were all frightened, their faces were pale, their eyes were unresponsive, and their bodies were shaking uncontrollably. Fortunately, they just had not recovered from the fright, and they were not frightened out of their wits, otherwise he would still have to try.
Call the soul and help them gather three souls and seven souls before they can ask questions.
There must have been a dozen or so people crowded together on a big bunk. They were very energetic, so apart from being frightened, they were not frightened out of their wits.
But even so, none of these people could recover for a day or two. In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, what happened last night, Jin An took out the Six Ding Liujia Talisman to warm the bodies and souls of the ten people one by one.
Finally, these people finally calmed down and answered his questions.
To ordinary people, the Liuding Liujia Talisman, which has been sealed four times by imperial decree, is easier to use than any consecrated magic weapon obtained from temples and Taoist temples. For ordinary people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a divine weapon, and the effect is surprisingly good.
Since the accident, Uncle Keremu has followed Jin An all the way without leaving even a step. He watched Jin An deal with it calmly and calmly throughout the whole process, and even his panicked heart couldn't help but calm down.
It seems that Jin An has a very special contagious temperament.
He is like the backbone. As long as he is calm and calm, he can influence other people around him to calm down as well.
Taoist priest Jin'an is indeed a very capable person. It is indeed the right thing to invite Taoist priest Jin'an this time, Uncle Kremu thought excitedly.
“Let’s start from the beginning, when we entered Yueqiang City. Tell us everything that happened yesterday in detail. The more detailed the better, don’t miss any detail.” Jin An sat in the room and asked in a deep voice.
Next, the ten people in the room began to talk slowly and hesitantly, and occasionally someone helped to add some details. Although the ten people's narratives were a little confusing, Jin An still sorted out his ideas, but there were no suspicious clues.
These people slept very hard after entering the city yesterday. After being woken up at night, they ate a few hasty meals and then went back to their houses to sleep.
After dinner, Kama went back to the house to sleep, and there was nothing unusual about Kama. Kama was still alive at that time.
"You are lying." Jin An sat calmly, looking at the ten people standing in a row in front of him.
"Ah... No, no, it's already this time. How dare we lie? We also want to find out who killed Kama so that we can be innocent." The ten people cried, and then looked towards him for help.
Kremu.
“Boss, you must believe us. Kama’s death has nothing to do with us. We really did not kill Kama.”
Keremu glared at the ten people standing opposite him with some hatred for iron. Then he turned to look at Jin'an and spoke for the ten people: "Taoist Jin'an, Doliku, Maisutu and the others."
Although the boys are usually lazy and do things slowly, I still trust their character. The shortest among them has been with me for three to five years, and the longest, Maisutu, has been with me for almost seven years.
You are not the kind of evil person who has the guts to kill people, you must help them."
"Only by catching the real culprit can we clear their suspicions. Otherwise, when the Qiang soldiers arrive next month to arrest them, no one will be able to save them."
咚,咚,咚.
Jin An's fingertips slowly tapped the handle of the knife at his waist, with a sullen expression and did not speak. But the more Jin An remained silent, it was a long ordeal for the ten people standing opposite, and their throats were jumping and breathing.
Not smooth..
It seemed that he had been thinking for a long time, and finally, Jin An spoke: "If there is a black mark on the white of a person's eyes, it is called a collision. A common collision only brings bad luck to a person for a day or two, such as tripping over a threshold when going out.
You will definitely lose and so on. No matter how serious it is, it will be an evil encounter, or something unclean will catch up with you. At this time, it is not simply unlucky, but it will kill people."
“If you don’t tell me the truth, I won’t be able to prescribe the right medicine.”
After hearing what Jin An said, Keremu said with a shocked expression on his face: "Taoist Master Jin An, are you saying that there is a devil sneaking into our team?"
“However, white salt was sprinkled outside Yueqiang City, and Hekmati Shaman checked us. How did the devil follow us into Yueqiang City?”
Jin An’s fingers were still tapping the handle of the knife, and he explained: “There is a saying that it is easier to invite gods than to send them away.”
"When you do something willingly or inadvertently, you may invite gods into your home. As for whether the god you bring into your home is a righteous god or an evil god who cannibalizes people, you will only know after you have suffered a loss."
Keremu thoughtfully observed the whites of the eyes of the ten people opposite him. This sight made him pale with fright. He found that these subordinates who had been with him for several years, without exception, all had a black mark in the whites of their eyes.
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His hands and feet were trembling with fear, so he quickly found a small earthen bowl, poured some water from the water bladder, and then asked the ten people to look at the reflection in the water one by one.
Plop!
Some people were so timid that they were so frightened that they sat on the ground with their legs paralyzed.
Others were not much better, their faces were pale and their teeth were chattering.
“Taoist Master Jin’an! Please save us!”
All ten people knelt in front of Jin An and kowtowed heavily to Jin An with their foreheads banging.
But this time Jin An did not take the initiative to help them up. He said calmly: "A Karma died last night. This is just the beginning. There are eleven people living in a house, and all eleven people are evil. This
It’s about killing them all.”
"There must be something that all eleven of you did and didn't tell me truthfully. You guys should continue to try hard in the house to remember whether you did the same thing yesterday, which led to the murder...I'll go outside the house to take a look first.
Let’s see if other people are also guilty.”
After Jin An finished speaking, he stood up and left without looking back.
“You, you guys...hey!”
Keremu was so angry that he followed Jin An out of the house, leaving only ten people in the house scared and at a loss.
“Taoist Priest Jin’an…”
Keremu was stopped by Jin An before he could speak. The most important thing at the moment was to send people to notify the other two caravans, so that everyone could check for themselves whether there were more evil spirits.
Fortunately, no one from the remaining members of Uncle Keremu's caravan has done anything wrong.
Only the people who lived in the same Datongbu with Kama were possessed by the evil spirit.
Next, Jin An returned to the room again and asked the ten people, but the ten people still couldn't think of anything else. Jin An looked at the ten people's eyes one by one. Although there was fear, sadness, and despair in their eyes, they did not avoid him.
review.
Jin An pondered.
Perhaps the ten people did not lie and they really did not know the truth. It seems that the truth of the matter has to be found from Kama’s body.
As a result, a major discovery was made.
It was an old gold bracelet. It was very heavy, weighing several ounces. It was carefully wrapped by Karma in several layers of soft cloth and kept close to his body.
Looking at this gold bracelet, Uncle Kremu was shocked: "How come Kama has such a valuable gold bracelet? Did he pick it up from somewhere or..."
When he said this, he hesitated for a moment and did not say any more. There is a saying: Don't criticize the dead, because he will also look back at you.
Jin An narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the gold bracelet in his hand: "Kama is dead, but his most valuable possessions have not been taken away. It seems that the people who live in the same house with Kama are indeed not suspicious."
“As for this gold bracelet, it’s strange. If Kama’s death is related to this precious gold bracelet, why is there no Yin energy left on it?”
At this moment, a chaotic sound came from outside. It turned out that soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom had arrived. These soldiers looked at Kama's body and investigated it for a long time. Finally, they concluded that Kama had hanged himself, which was not a homicide. The case was closed, and then they started again without stopping.
Rush to the next reporting location.
Even the body was not taken away, and the caravan was allowed to take it out of the city and bury it on its own.
It is true that Kama’s death was not caused by anyone, and it is natural that the soldiers, who are ordinary people, could not produce any results after investigation.
After the soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom left, Jin'an immediately asked Uncle Keremu to make arrangements. Since he could not find out the reason why Kama and the other ten people were possessed by the evil spirit, he decided to wait and wait tonight. Kama's death was just the beginning. What will happen next?
Those ten people died, maybe after everyone in Datongpu died, it would be the turn of others.
The other party is clearly rushing to kill them all.
As night falls gradually.
Jin'an did not go back to his residence tonight, but decided to sleep in the same big bunk with Mesutu and the others. He slept in Kama's place tonight and came to keep vigil in person.
For safety reasons, Jin An gathered all the three caravans in the same inn, so that if anything happened tonight, he could take care of them.
With no camels and only people, we can barely fit in an inn.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, I've heard about it." Just as the sun was setting in the west and it was almost dark, Uncle Keremu suddenly came to find Jin'an.
"I just entered the city yesterday. When I was booking a room at the inn... I asked the guys to wait for me outside the inn. During this short period of time, someone saw something falling on a passerby. It happened to be
It was picked up by Kama, and then Kama chased it out with the object to return it to the owner... Later, my clerk thought that Kama had returned the object to the owner, so he didn't take it to heart."
“Now, it seems that Kama did not catch up with the owner and he brought the thing back. The thing Kama picked up yesterday should be the gold bracelet..."
Uncle Keremu was out of breath from running and said anxiously that he also wanted to help Jin'an as much as possible to resolve the caravan crisis.
This is helping Jin'an, himself, and even more, Kama.
"There is a saying in Kangding country, which is called buying life and wealth. This gold bracelet was bought by Kama in exchange for his life. Uncle Kremu, please collect it for Kama and bring it back to Apa who is far away in his hometown and is waiting for him to come home.
Atta." Jin An's eyes were cold.
Looking at the gold bracelet handed over by Jin An, Uncle Keremu was a little at a loss, like he was holding a hot potato, with a troubled look on his face.
“Uncle Keremu, don’t worry, this bracelet is cleaner than a human being.” Jin An smiled and reassured the other person to take it, saying that nothing would happen.
Uncle Keremu accepted it carefully.
“Taoist Master Jin’an, you should be more careful tonight.”
"Um."
First the swarm of corpses, and then the money to buy life. You don’t need to think about it to know that the murderer must be from the same group of people. Since the other party was playing cat and mouse with him in Yueqiang City, Jin An will catch them all tonight.
Yueqiang City is not a prison that those people drew for themselves.
He will not only keep vigil tonight.
More importantly, you should take the initiative to hunt and clear all obstacles, so as not to be always worried about by villains behind your back.
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Ps: This chapter has 5k words. It’s late. Sorry, sorry, this chapter was written yesterday. Yesterday, there were 9k words in total. It was 1k more words than expected, so this chapter is updated late.