Chapter 35 Beheading
“Lei’er, thank you for your hard work.”
Watching Jiang Lei washing clothes for the two children, cleaning up all kinds of messes they made, and rushing Go cook.
Li couldn't help but feel pity for the girl in front of her.
"I will go to the market to buy some vegetables and meat later, and we will eat something good tonight."
"Madam, why..." Jiang Lei seemed to hesitate, but Li smiled and said:
"I just learned some time ago that today is your birthday, and it is really worth celebrating."
Although Jiang Lei was nominally the maid signed by Li to sell herself, Li never treated her as a servant.
Just think that I have an extra daughter to help me with housework.
We usually sit at the same table when eating, regardless of superiority or inferiority.
After bidding farewell to Jiang Lei, Li also came to the county town and bought a basket of fresh meat and vegetables.
He went to a jewelry store to pick out a silver hairpin, wanting to give it to Jiang Lei as a surprise as a birthday gift.
However, because she was so focused on picking out silver hairpins, Mr. Li temporarily forgot about the time outside.
By the time she came out of the jewelry store, it was already approaching evening outside.
“Oops, it’s getting late, I have to go home quickly.”
Li Sheng has not returned home for several years, and the savings he left before have been spent less and less.
Therefore, Mr. Li lives a relatively frugal life, and does not spend lavishly if he can.
So Li did not hire a carriage to travel, but traveled alone on the official road.
As the sky gradually darkened, Li was anxious, worried about whether she would encounter any bad people on the remote roads after dark.
My steps couldn't help but become much faster.
Just when there was less than a mile away from home.
Li Shi suddenly heard shouting from behind...
Li Shi subconsciously looked back and saw a man stumbling out of nowhere.
He scratched his neck, which was so bloody that he couldn't bear to look at it.
“Help! Save me!”
Mr. Li was originally a kind-hearted person.
Seeing such a bloody scene, although I was frightened, I still couldn't help but want to step forward to see if the other party had any strange disease.
Unexpectedly, in the middle of his roar, the man suddenly strangled his neck.
My face also turned from red to purple.
The next moment, the other party suddenly tore off his head.
Not to mention the blood splattering everywhere, the man grabbed his head with both hands and touched the half of his neck.
Because of the inertia of kneeling on the ground, he actually made a strange appearance of kneeling on the ground and raising his head to the sky.
But such a weird and terrifying scene naturally frightened Ms. Li to the point where she couldn't even scream.
He fell to the ground with a thud, temporarily losing consciousness.
After a while, Jiang Lei, who discovered that Li had not been home for a long time, came out with a lantern and followed the road to find her.
They happened to find Mr. Li who had fainted, and then saw the headless body kneeling on the ground not far away.
The panicked screams quickly attracted the people who happened to be passing by.
When Mrs. Li woke up, she found that she had been carried back to the bedroom.
After confirming that he was not injured, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Told the police the entire incident.
Afterwards, Li paid homage to Xu Ke's shrine and burned a few sticks of incense.
Drinking another soothing medicine, I finally recovered.
Although the death of that man is truly terrifying, weird things are rampant in this world and evil things are everywhere.
It is nothing to die.
Li Shi just thought that she was too unlucky and happened to encounter an unlucky guy who was killed by an evil thing.
The police officer was just doing it as a matter of routine and didn't take this matter too seriously.
Write this incident down, just treat it as some wandering evil thing that occasionally kills people.
But Mrs. Li still lamented that she unexpectedly encountered such bad luck. Not only did she miss Jiang Lei's birthday, she also didn't have the chance to give her this silver hairpin on her birthday. But Jiang Lei was really frightened by Li's sudden fainting.
She thought that her bad destiny had hindered the death of someone who was kind to her.
It wasn't until Mrs. Li regained consciousness that Jiang Lei laughed with tears in her eyes.
Giving the silver hairpin to Jiang Lei, Li also expressed her apology.
If she hadn't grasped the time well, she wouldn't have missed Jiang Lei's birthday.
Just when Jiang Lei was inexplicably moved, Tianhu County, which was originally a backwater, was in trouble again.
Since the beheading incident that Li encountered, in just about half an hour, there have been at least five similar sightings.
When several detectives responsible for registering the incident gathered together, they discovered such a shocking anomaly.
Not counting this alone, for the next seven consecutive days, there were as many as seven or eight, and as few as three or four deaths every day.
They all died with their heads cut off, holding their own bodies in their hands.
But it is different from the oral accounts of numerous eyewitnesses.
After the county government conducted an autopsy, they confirmed that the neck fracture of the corpse was extremely neat.
It was definitely a neck that had been severed by something sharp.
No matter how strong ordinary people are, it is absolutely impossible for them to cut off their own heads so neatly.
Even if there are weird factors, there is definitely something wrong here.
But now the county government has no time to care about the cause of death. This weird thing is too tricky and cruel, and there is no sign of stopping at all.
If nothing is done to deal with it, once it accumulates and leads to a vicious incident, the county magistrate will definitely be the first to bear the brunt of execution in order to express the anger of the people.
The county government quickly organized a team composed of all kinds of strange people and experts from the government.
Start investigating clues around the entire Tianhu County, eliminating demons when encountering them, and destroying evil when encountering them.
As a result, there was no clue about the strangeness of the severed head, but instead a large group of 'harmless' low-level evil things were uprooted.
Even Xu Ke was troubled by repeated searches.
He has no interest in killing ordinary practitioners who maintain law and order.
Therefore, they had to use fog to disorient them, thinking that they had searched the jungle.
After repeated attempts, several groups of search teams that had been entangled with each other were finally sent away.
However, Xu Ke is very interested in this weirdness. In Tianhu County, a remote and remote place, there are not many weirdnesses that can make it to the forefront.
At this time, Xu Ke is employing people, but almost all of his subordinates are evil creatures and weird ones that focus on defense.
When it comes to frontal offensiveness and lethality, the evil thing that can easily decapitate a stranger was immediately listed as a target by Xu Ke.
Therefore, even if it is just to recruit troops, this evil thing must be brought under control.
“I heard that most of the people who were attacked by this strange thing were alone.”
“And most of the deceased were taller in life.”
Xu Ke After thinking for a while, he shifted his target to Shiyi, who was sitting on the ground in a daze.
“Being bored at home all the time is not good for your physical and mental health. It’s time to go out and take a walk.”
"It would be bad if there is mold on the body."
Although Shiyi has the ability to protect herself, her height is not outstanding among women.
If it were placed among men, it would not be considered a tall man.
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Ke asked Shiyi to remove two wooden stakes.
Under my own guidance, I tried to make it into stilts.
Let Shiyi step on her feet and pretend to be a tall man.
But unfortunately, Shiyi was obviously not an ingenious evil corpse. He could break the wood with just a little force with his palm.
And the barely made stilts swayed left and right when stepped on, without any balance at all.
As long as Fanfan has a little bit of brain, he can see the weirdness of Shiyi from dozens of feet away.
After much thought, Xu Ke had to find a way to ask someone to help...
(End of this chapter)