American Celestial Master

Chapter 2, Boarding School

A few people naturally dare not move at all. You must know that this is an order issued by the American police. The American police tell you not to move. One clip.

Everyone stopped moving. Two policemen came forward and saw the corpse and Remington who fell on the ground not far away. They immediately pulled out the Glock 17 from his waist and looked around, Shouting to the back: "Shooting incident!" Then several policemen came over, some of them put the Remington in plastic bags, some took cameras and took random pictures of the scene, and one The police, picked up the mobile phone that fell on the ground, and found that the mobile phone was still live broadcasting.Occasionally, there are one or two subtitles drifting slowly:

"What are you doing? It's been several hours and nothing has happened."

"The phone fell on the ground. It sounds like the police are coming. It really looks like it."

"Sheriff Anderson, there's a cell phone here, and it's streaming TikTok!" the policeman yelled at a sheriff.

"Turn off the live broadcast, and show me the content of the live broadcast." Sergeant Anderson, who was questioning witnesses on the other side, responded.

After saying this, he turned his head and said to everyone: "Whoever reported the case, come out and tell me the situation."

Everyone turned their attention to Lin Qiusheng.

Lin Qiusheng looked at Li Weimin. After all, Li Weimin was the farmer, and he was hired by Li Weimin to exorcise the demon.But Li Weimin shrank back quietly, and looked at Lin Qiusheng with pleading eyes.

Lin Qiusheng knew that Li Weimin had been troubled by the FBI and the Immigration Bureau, and he already had some trauma syndrome for people like the police.Of course, a corrupt official like Li Weimin deserves it no matter how unlucky he is.However, considering that he got a lot of money from Li Weimin, Lin Qiusheng still stood up: "Officer, let me speak."

Sergeant Anderson turned on the law enforcement recorder, and said to Lin Qiusheng: "Sir, please tell me your name, and I need to ask you some questions. Of course, the Constitution requires me to inform you of the following rights: You have the right to remain silent , everything you say to any of the policemen may be used against you in court.  … Knowing and understanding your right to be explained to you, would you be willing to answer my questions without an attorney present? "

"Officer, my name is Lin Qiusheng. You can ask questions, and I will decide based on the questions whether to answer your questions without the presence of a lawyer." Lin Qiusheng replied first, and at the same time thought to himself: "I don't even have a mask Dai, don’t you know it’s the epidemic period now? Fortunately, I’ve passed the sun.”

"Very good." Officer Anderson nodded, and then said, "Mr. Lin, can you tell me what happened here?"

Lin Qiusheng thought for a while, nodded and said:
"Officer, I can answer this question. Officer, I am a Taoist priest, um, a priest of a traditional religion in the East - our religion has a history of almost 900 years. The farmer of this farm Mr. Li Weimin is our believer. After he bought this farm, he found that there were evil spirits here, so he invited me to come and perform an exorcism ceremony. Just like the Catholic exorcism ceremony...

At about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, our bait lured it out. At first it was a scarecrow. We used some traditional magic tools. play too big a role.It happened that those young people drove by here, and they were also involved.

Then we managed to set the scarecrow on fire, and the straw burned out, leaving a small, charred hobbit-like monster.We fired at it with various firearms, introduced it into a magic circle, and trapped it, just like how Faust trapped Mephistopheles with the six-pointed star circle.And then……"

Lin Qiusheng briefly described what happened that night, and then said: "Officer, this sounds hard to believe. Maybe the so-called evil spirits are just some kind of beasts that we don't know. But I believe that your people You can get similar answers from other people, and if your men look around in the middle of the field, they should be able to find the shotgun that bounced off the ghost.

A little south of the house, you can find the SKS that was broken by that guy.That guy is immune to most of the weapons we've used, at least last night, including the . Both have been proven ineffective against this stuff.I don't think any wild animal has such ability.Of course, you can also think that we missed a single shot in panic.I just talked about the latter situation, because of an accident, the exorcism ceremony failed. "

Sergeant Anderson first looked at Lin Qiusheng with the eyes of a liar, and then at Li Weimin with the eyes of a fool, and said, "We will pay attention to what you mentioned."

After finishing the conversation with Lin Qiusheng, Sergeant Anderson communicated with the police officers who questioned several other people separately. Everyone said the same thing, they were all monsters, but Sergeant Anderson was not surprised—— He has seen a lot of people like this, whether it is mass use of narcotics or participation in certain religious activities, they can all create this effect similar to mass hysteria.

"Sheriff, according to their answers, they are two groups of people, including the original farmer Li, Li's workers He, Zhao and Wang. And the priest Lin they invited to exorcise, Lin's assistant Zhang—they all They are of Chinese descent. Among them, Lin and his assistant Zhang are from New York, while those on the farm have only come to the United States in recent years.

As to their origins, all but Lee have asked to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights.As for that Li, he is on a political asylum visa, and it is said that China is pursuing him on charges of embezzlement and embezzlement.He insisted that he was persecuted. ’ a young policeman reported to Sergeant Anderson.

Sheriff Anderson smiled knowingly.The so-called right to invoke Article [-] of the Constitutional Amendment mostly refers to "not to be compelled to testify against oneself in any criminal case."In other words, the workers on this farm must be illegal immigrants.But this is a matter for the Immigration Bureau and has nothing to do with the police system, so the few policemen don't bother to take care of this kind of thing now.

"As for the exorcist, we also have his records in our system. His situation is very special. Until now, he still needs attention." The young policeman said again.

This caught Sergeant Anderson's attention. He looked at the tablet handed over by the young policeman and nodded, but he didn't show anything on his face. He just asked, "How is the scene investigation going?"

This time the young police officer's answer made him frown. The judgment he made just now that these people have mass hysteria seems to be untenable.

"There were signs of gunfire around the farm buildings. We found a broken SKS rifle that had been broken in two and the barrel was bent over [-] degrees. We also found evidence of other weapons firing. In addition, when the deceased died, TikTok was broadcasting a live broadcast, and I tuned out the content of the live broadcast, Sheriff, I think you should watch it." The police officer said while handing him the phone.

Sheriff Anderson watched the video silently, and then asked, "Sheldon, do you believe this is a supernatural event?"

The police officer named Sheldon froze for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Sheriff, although it looks very similar, I still don't really believe in these things, unless..."

"'I would not believe it until I saw the nail marks on his hands. I put my finger into the nail marks and put my hand into his side.' ("John's Gospel") Is that so? In fact, I am also like this. Um, the 'monster' headed for the woods?" Sergeant Anderson said.

"Yes, we found some traces, like the footprints of some animals. Shall we go and have a look?" Officer Shelton asked.

"Take a few people in and take a look. Be careful. You must be back before three o'clock." Sergeant Anderson said.

"You still say you don't believe it." Officer Shelton laughed.

"I'm more worried about some large animal. Something that can break an SKS one by one," said Sergeant Anderson.

Sheldon knew that Sheriff Anderson was talking about brown bears, which are not uncommon in Washington State.Although this is an agricultural area and there are no large forests, it is not entirely impossible for brown bears to wander around and come here.

Shelton called two policemen, one took a loaded Remington M870 shotgun, and the other took an HK416 automatic rifle.Compared with the semi-automatic small magazine version that can be legally bought by the people, the police use the regular version of the fully automatic large magazine.

The three policemen followed the path into the woods.This is a small western hemlock forest, the forest is mainly tall western hemlocks, just like most forests composed of overly tall conifers, the trees are actually quite open, and because of the tall conifers The sun is shining, so there are not many shrubs and vines on the ground, only a thick layer of fallen leaves, which looks quite clean.

The woods are not too big, and there is nothing there.There was a ruin behind the forest, only one or two broken walls remained, and nothing else remained.

The three policemen wandered around there for a while, but found nothing of value.By the time they came out of the woods, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon.The latitude of Washington State is relatively high, and it is winter now, the sunset is very early, and the sun is already westward at this time.

At this time, the work of the police on the farm was coming to an end.Everyone packed up all the evidence that needed to be packed up. As for Lin Qiusheng and the others, they naturally wanted to take them back as persons involved in the case to continue assisting in the investigation.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, the police were in the car.Lin Qiusheng and the others, as persons involved in the case, were also taken into the car.It was a modified Chevrolet Subaban.The middle of the car is blocked by bulletproof glass, the front is a normal seat, and the rear is a modified, opposite seat.Obviously, behind this is the place for prisoners or crowns to be called criminal suspects.

Sitting in the back with Lin Qiusheng was his apprentice Zhang Feng and two other policemen.Apparently, their mentor and apprentice have been regarded by the police as "key figures" in this case.

As for the others, they were taken into another police car.

When Katie was taken into a police car, she complained to the police because there were all men in the car: "Can't you arrange a female police officer to sit with me?"

"Damn, how dare you guess the gender of my colleague?" Sheriff Anderson, who was passing by, replied.

After saying this, he ignored Katie who had fallen into logical confusion, and walked directly to the Saabban where Lin Qiusheng and the others were sitting, got into the car, and sat in front of Lin Qiusheng and the others.

The two policemen did not talk to Lin Qiusheng and the others, and Lin Qiusheng and the others did not take the initiative to talk to the police in line with the principle of talking too much.Perhaps it was the first time he was sitting in the back seat of a police car, Zhang Feng was still a little nervous, but Lin Daochang did not take it seriously.

"Master, they're only starting now, and they won't be able to enter the city before dark. There won't be any problems, right?" Zhang Feng was a little nervous, so he asked in Chinese.

"Don't panic, they are officials after all, and officials are protected by luck in the world. Generally speaking, all kinds of ghosts dare not do anything to officials, unless..."

"Unless what?" Zhang Feng asked quickly.

"Unless these ghosts are not only ghosts, but also enemy countries or traitors. Even so, they will be suppressed to a certain extent, but the suppression will be much weaker." Lin Qiusheng replied.

A ghost also needs to be a political enemy or a traitor. After these two conditions are selected, there are very few ghosts who meet the requirements. In terms of probability, they really don't need to worry about it.

After saying this, Lin Qiusheng closed his eyes and meditated, and stopped talking.

The convoy continued along the country road. At this time, the sun had already set, and the surroundings suddenly darkened.In the vast wilderness, except for this group of cars with their lights on, there is nothing shining anymore.

The convoy ran for about 10 minutes, and a light appeared in front of it.

"We went the wrong way? How come there are lights here?" Sergeant Anderson, who was sitting in front, was taken aback.

"Probably not?" said the policeman driving the car.

"Turn on the navigation and have a look." Sergeant Anderson said.

The policeman sitting in the co-pilot seat lowered his head and operated: "Head, there is no signal, and the signal cannot be searched."

"Damn it, this shit!" Sergeant Anderson scolded, but he didn't really care too much, because the navigation problem on this car didn't happen once or twice.Since switching to the expensive all American made nav, the signal drop has become the norm.

At this time, the convoy was already close to the building with many lights on.It was a large yard with a high wall, with an iron gate facing the road, and above the gate there was a line cut out of black-painted iron: "Omak Indian Agricultural Boarding School. "

(End of this chapter)