At night, because of the arrival of a person, Yi Ba and I's peaceful little life was broken.
"Is Daochang Yi here?" It was a man who came and looked very strange. Anyway, I had never seen him before.
"That's me." Yi Ba stood up and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Something evil has happened in the village, and I would like to ask Mr. Yi to take a look." the man said.
After Yi Ba’s cross-examination, we roughly figured out the situation. The man in front of me is named Wu Song, and he is from Yinmagou. Yinmagou is a small village on the outskirts of Chongqing.
The people there used to live a peaceful life, but recently, something evil happened in Yinmagou, and several people died. The dead people looked miserable after death. Their skins had been peeled off and they were all covered in blood.
When the first person died, the villagers reported the case. After the police went there, they determined it was murder. But after searching for a long time, there were no clues at all.
That night, another one died. In order to prevent further deaths, the police sent police officers to guard Yinmagou. Who would have thought that on the first night of the police station, one of them died, and he died in the same condition as the villagers, with his whole body skinned.
After one policeman died, the police withdrew and stopped caring about this matter. During the evacuation, an old policeman found Wu Song and asked him to come to Yiba Pavilion on Guquan Old Street to ask for Taoist Master Yi.
As for the old policeman’s name, Wu Song said he didn’t know and didn’t ask at the time.
Because of Song Xi's relationship, Yi Ba and I are somewhat famous in the official circles of Chongqing. The old policeman knew about Yi Ba, probably because of Song Xi.
Human life is at stake, so it’s no time to delay. Yi Ba and I quickly packed up our things and followed Wu Song towards Yinmagou.
This is already the eighth day since the accident. According to Wu Song, one person dies every night. So far, a total of seven have died.
In the courtyard at the entrance of Yinmagou Ancestral Hall, there are seven coffins, each with a corpse inside. Yi Ba opened it and took a look. Every corpse was bloody and exuded a foul smell.
"Not only did it kill people, but it also cut off their skin. Isn't that thing a little too cruel?" I frowned and said.
"It's a little too cruel." Yi Ba paused and said, "Seven people have died. We must restrain that thing tonight, otherwise people will still die."
"Drink Everything was fine here in Magou. How could something so evil suddenly happen?" I looked at Yi Ba with some confusion and said, "What's going on? There are precursors to everything.”
“It’s still early, and even if that thing comes out, it will have to wait until after midnight.” Yi Ba took the words and said, “Let’s ask Wu Song. Ask, did anything unusual happen in Yinmagou before the incident?"
We called Wu Song over and asked him.
“Did anything happen in the village before the first person died?”
"No!" Wu Song gave us this answer without hesitation.
"Is it true? Think about it carefully." Yi Ba asked.
Wu Song frowned and thought about it. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said excitedly: "There is really one strange thing. But that thing looks like a dead person It doesn’t seem to matter much!”
“Tell me, what is it?” I asked anxiously.
"There is a crazy woman named Xie Sifen in Yinmagou. Her husband has been dead for decades. Before the deaths started in the village, she said that her man was back." Wu Song hesitated and said : "When her man died, Xie Sifen was so stimulated that she went crazy overnight. Since then, she has been talking crazy. She said that her man came back, which is probably the case. Crazy talk.”
"Has she ever said that her man is back?" I asked Wu Song.
"Who is going to listen to the nonsense that a lunatic says? I don't know if she has said it before." Wu Song said.
"What's her man's name?" Yi Ba asked.
“This is strange to say. No one in the village really knows the name of Xie Sifen’s man.” Wu Song paused and said, “According to the old people in the village, Xie Sifen’s man only lives in the village. He showed up a few times.”
“Then how did he die?” I asked.
"I don't know." Wu Song shook his head and said, "The man didn't die in the village. No one knows where exactly he died. It was only after Xie Sifen went crazy that everyone knew her man was dead."
"How about we go see Xie Sifen?" I said to Yi Ba.
"Yeah!" Yi Ba nodded and said, "Although I'm not sure whether the dead people have anything to do with Xie Sifen, there should be something wrong with her."
Xie Sifen lives On the edge of Yinmagou, it is a single-family house, a little far away from other villagers' houses.
Wu Song took us to Xie Sifen's house. The door to her small courtyard was closed.
"Is there anyone there?" Wu Song knocked on the door twice and shouted inside.
After a while, the door opened. A crazy old woman with hair as messy as a chicken coop and dirty clothes appeared in front of us.
"Shh!" Xie Sifen put her index finger in front of her mouth and said in a low voice: "My man is back, you should leave quickly, otherwise he will skin you."
Yes. Peel our skin off? Could it be that Xie Sifen and her man were responsible for what happened in Yinmagou?
"Why does he want to skin us?" Yi Ba asked.
"One day, one day." Xie Sifen was crazy, and her words were somewhat inconsistent. But what she said about one per day is quite consistent with the facts.
"Where is your man? We have to see him."
Yi Ba was about to go through the door, but Xie Sifen stopped him.
"You can't go in, anyone who goes in will have their skin ripped off."
"I'm not afraid of being skinned." Yi Ba pushed Xie Sifen away and broke into the house.
Of course Xie Sifen, this crazy old woman, can’t stop the three of us! After Yi Ba entered the house, Wu Song and I quickly followed him in.
In the main room, there is a brazier with burning paper money inside. In front of the brazier, there is half a radish with incense and candles on it. As for everything else, there was nothing unusual in the room.
Yi Ba walked around the room and said: "There is nothing in the room, not even the slightest ghost spirit."
"There is no ghost spirit, isn't that proof? Are there no evil spirits in the house at all?" I said.
"My man will peel off your skin, peel off your skin!" Xie Sifen started talking crazily there again.
"Let's go!" Yi Ba came and said, "Maybe this Xie Sifen is really just a crazy woman and has nothing to do with the death of people in Yinmagou."
Yi Ba has always been He is a cautious person. It is obviously not normal for him to make a decision so quickly! Intuition tells me that Yi Ba must have something planned.
“Okay!”
I nodded, and then walked out of Xie Sifen’s house with Yi Ba.
"Is there really no ghost spirit in her house?" I asked Yi Ba.
"No." Yi Ba gave me a very definite answer and said: "Even if her man does come back, he is not at her home."
"Do you have any ideas next?" I ask.
“Let’s take a look at those corpses first!” Yi Ba frowned and said, “Xie Sifen’s clue is not of much use value at the moment. Let’s look for it on those seven corpses. Can you find some useful information? "
We returned to the ancestral hall, and the seven coffins were still arranged neatly as before.
Yi Ba took out seven talismans from his green cloth pocket and, with a bang, affixed one to each of the seven coffins in front of him.
After finishing affixing the talisman, Yi Ba sat cross-legged on the ground. I saw that he raised his hands, crossed his fingers, used the index finger of his left hand to hold the middle finger of his right hand, the index finger of his right hand held the middle finger of his left hand, the big finger of his left hand pressed the little finger of his right hand, the big finger of his right hand pressed the little finger of his left hand, and the two ring fingers stood up, and it was tied. A seal of the Five Mountains.
After completing the seal, Yi Ba immediately began to read the scriptures in a gibbering manner. Accompanied by Yi Ba's chanting, the seven talismans burned at the same time, and smoke rose. The smoke from the burning talisman turned into thin hairsprings and wrapped around the coffin.