Chapter 190 Black Iris
"Brother, you are truly the most despicable person I have ever seen!"
Xiao Zhang gave a thumbs up.
"Huh?" Yin Xiu glanced at him sideways.
"Ah, no, no..."
Xiao Zhang quickly pressed down his thumb with his other hand, "I mean you are so resourceful and invincible!"
"That's pretty much it."
Yin Xiu closed her eyes and nodded to express her satisfaction, "We are all good brothers. I will teach you a few tricks from now on. If you use them, you will benefit a lot in the future whether you are traveling in the world or traveling at home."
"Then I will ask you, big brother, to be my life mentor! But if you can teach me how to exchange objects through space, then I will really treat you as my ancestor!"
"Easy to say, easy to say. I will teach you when I have the opportunity in the future!"
Ma Xiaoyu stood aside and rolled her eyes at the two people's complicit behavior. She quickened her pace and walked over.
But as soon as she passed through the dim corridor, she stopped and stopped in place.
"What's wrong?"
Yin Xiu took a few steps forward and was stunned when she saw the dark crowd in front of her.
I saw these people holding torches and lanterns in one hand, and spears and swords in the other hand. Some people also brought out hoes, sickles, and rakes for farm work.
They range from young to old, the youngest looks to be in his early teens, and the oldest is probably in his sixties.
All of them stared at Yin Xiu and the others with red eyes, either wary or indifferently.
"Say something quickly and use your flexibility!"
Ma Xiaoyu quietly tugged at Yin Xiu's clothes a few times.
Yin Xiu had a professional smile on her face and was about to show off her skills and greet everyone when she heard an angry shout.
"These people are not from our village!"
"Is he a spy, or is he an accomplice of the demon?"
"What accomplices? I think they are those monsters. Look at that woman, dressed like this. What is she if she isn't a monster?"
Yin Xiu's smile suddenly froze on her face, she looked at the two people behind her who were at a loss, and sighed.
"What are you arguing about! Who is coming?"
As the angry voice of an old man came, the noise of the crowd calmed down and a path was made.
The person who came was an old man with white hair, eyebrows and beard. He was very short and stocky. His eyes were like bells staring at the three of them. They looked sparkling in the firelight.
"Who are you?"
Yin Xiu pushed Ma Xiaoyu with her elbow and said, "We are Taoist priests. We heard that a strange thing happened here, so we came to see if we can help."
The old man glanced at the certificate handed over by Ma Xiaoyu, then looked at everyone, and then nodded with a hint of suspicion.
"I am the chief of Hepingli. The villagers here call me Uncle Gen. You three, uh, Taoist chiefs, did the news of what happened here reach your ears so quickly?"
"You two are two Taoist priests, I'm just a follower."
Xiao Zhang stepped aside at the right time. As long as those monsters and ghosts got involved, they would not end well.
He doesn't know what Ma Xiaoyu's strength is yet, but a ruthless person like Yin Xiu is very cautious when encountering these things, which makes him have to be careful and stay away from these taboos. . Ignoring him, Uncle Gen continued: "As soon as the accident happened, we blocked the news. So far, it has only been three hours. How did you know about it?"
Yin Xiu said calmly: "Uncle Gen, there is no airtight wall in the world. Someone will always know, it's just a matter of time. We just go in and take a look, and then we leave. How about it?"
Uncle Gen hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay, we have no clue anyway! Please follow me."
After he said this, no matter how others didn't believe them, no matter how doubtful they were on their faces, they could only obediently make a way out and stand aside.
The inner hall of the ancestral hall is a place for worshiping ancestors. Three sacred tables placed high and low are filled with tablets of the gods.
Several people from the security team were sitting in a side hall, drinking wine and eating meat, while "discussing the case" with a few squires. Among them, the person who seemed to be the captain was already drunk and lying on the table.
Uncle Gen glanced over there, shook his head, and then said to Yin Xiu: "The body is in the back hall, please go this way."
Xiao Zhang couldn't help but trembled when he heard this.
He had experienced the zombie wave in Hong Kong a few months ago. He was a dead person, so dead that he couldn't die any more. In the middle of the night, he crawled out of the morgue, home inspection, or the soil, biting people everywhere. Just thinking about him I was sweating profusely.
Now that Uncle Gen said that the body had not been disposed of and was just left behind, he couldn't help but feel weak in his legs and was ready to escape at any moment.
"Don't worry."
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "If it is a vampire, the corpse will rarely be raised, because if a vampire wants to transform a person into a companion or blood slave, it will not suck the person dry."
"What if it's not a vampire, but a zombie?"
"Zombie?"
A smile appeared on Ma Xiaoyu's face, "How many moves can it take from me?"
Uncle Gen was leading the way and couldn't hear clearly, but he still heard words like vampires and zombies coming from the two people's mouths, which made his face look even more ugly.
Yin Xiu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, it's just a quick look. Maybe nothing happened."
Uncle Gen somehow had a faint trust in Yin Xiu, but he couldn't tell what was going on.
So I could only nod and move on.
When they entered the inner hall, they saw a corpse wrapped in a straw mat, lying on a temporarily removed door panel with two long benches underneath.
"Let me see?"
"Whatever." Uncle Gen stretched out his hand and said.
Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu looked at each other, and then walked towards the corpse together.
After taking a deep breath and holding her breath to prevent possible corpse air from being sprayed on her face, Yin Xiu pulled away a corner of the straw mat.
Under the straw mat, the appearance of the corpse appeared in front of him at a glance.
It was a woman's body, with fair skin, bulging veins, faint freckles under the eyes, and the two holes on her neck.
Yin Xiu finally knew why they had to block the news here, and also made Lingding drunk, the security captain who was originally called to do the work.
The person who died here was a foreigner, and judging by his attire, he might have been a noble lady or a young lady from a big family.
Ma Xiaoyu grabbed the almost dry hand and looked at it. On the back of the hand, there was a black mark caused by burning, which was the pattern of an iris.
"Black Iris, the vampire I'm looking for has been here."
(End of chapter)