I become a god in another world

Chapter 344: Dead Childbirth
Chapter 344

The evil spirit in the dilapidated house has disappeared, and the ghost domain that had just formed is gradually dissolving.

But this does not mean that the ghost disaster has disappeared. Instead, a more troublesome thing has occurred - the evil ghost that has just revived has moved away.

"It seems that your initial guess was wrong." Zhao Fusheng said:

"The baby Zhou Wang was carrying must be a ghost baby. She was already dead when Zhou Laojiu reported something wrong."

Her words made everyone else feel horrified and uneasy, and they subconsciously covered their stomachs.

"Ghosts control people?" Liu Yizhen looked at Zhao Fusheng and asked.

However, she did not answer Liu Yizhen's words first, but turned her head to look at Fan Bisi.

At this time, Fan Bisi was feeling very uneasy and had an extremely ugly expression on his face.

Zhou Wang's situation was similar to the birth of the two brothers he mentioned that day.

Zhao Duan, who adopted the two brothers, once suspected that Fan's mother was also half corpse, half ghost, and that the two brothers she gave birth to must also have something strange about them.

He even put forward a conjecture in a letter he left to his son later: the Fan brothers had special origins, and their ghosts would surely be resurrected after their death.

These two brothers do have problems.

Zhao Fusheng moved her fingers, and a pitch-black ghost order appeared in her palm.

There was a simple picture of a horse-drawn carriage sketched on the Ghost and God Order.

As Zhao Fusheng's fingers stroked the Ghost and God Order, the edge of the picture suddenly lit up with an evil dark red blood light.

Zhong Yao, Wu Shaochun and others in the Demon Suppression Bureau hall sensed the cold and evil aura at the first moment, and they all looked up at her at the same time, their eyes full of fear.

Zhao Fusheng didn't pay attention to the gazes of those people, her mind turned to the list of ghost cars.

The names of the two Fan brothers cannot be recorded in the evil ghost list.

"Fusheng--" Liu Yizhen didn't get a response from her. Seeing that she was frowning slightly and staring at one place as if in a trance, he couldn't help but call her.

"Hmm?" Zhao Fusheng put away the Ghost and God Order, and the terrifying red light disappeared.

The aura of the calamity-level ghost god that made several people feel uneasy also dissipated, and Zhong Yao and others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"What did you just think of?" Liu Yizhen keenly realized that she must have thought of something, and these things should be related to the Zhou Wang case - it is very likely that it has something to do with the Fan brothers.

“I have thought of some, but I am not sure.”

Zhao Fusheng was not prepared to reveal the life stories of the Fan brothers at this time, and then brought the topic back to the ghost case in Changping County itself:
"You can understand that Zhou Wangshi's fetus died in the late stage of pregnancy, but after the fetus died, the evil spirit revived and killed the mother."

However, the evil ghost's laws were not violated at that time, so the ghost did not break out of the belly.

Until the time comes, the ghost fetus is born, crawls out of the belly of a dead body, and then starts killing people.

"From what Yu Ping just mentioned, the rule of the ghost fetus killing people should be to use sound as bait." Zhao Fusheng analyzed calmly:

"The crying of babies acts as a medium. Children who hear the crying will also cry. Once children cry like ghosts, it means that these crying children have been marked by evil spirits and will die at the hands of evil spirits."

She did not experience the Changping County ghost case in March, but based on Yu Ping's narration, she could describe the case almost exactly.

"Your Excellency is truly wise and powerful!"

Yu Ping exclaimed in praise with all his heart, and even the most unruly Xia Misheng showed an expression of sincere awe on his face.

"That's absolutely true!" Yu Ping said seriously.

"When the ghost disaster occurred in the Zhou family, no one in the Zhou family died except Zhou Wangshi."

Zhao Fusheng suddenly asked:
"Does the Zhou family have any children?"

Yu Ping was stunned for a moment, then he understood what she meant.

He suddenly felt extremely comfortable. It was easy to communicate with smart people. There was no need to say much and both parties could understand each other.

"Yes." He nodded vigorously.
"There are quite a few members of the Zhou family. Among Zhou Laojiu's brothers, only the third and seventh are unmarried. The others all have children, and the youngest is nine years old."

Zhao Fusheng sighed deeply:

"Since the nine-year-old child didn't die, it proves that older children are not subject to the evil spirit's killing rules, and the scope of the evil spirit's marking rules is narrowed."

Yu Ping responded:
"Within one year."

It was not until dawn that Changping County received reports from people that a ghost had appeared near Liuxi Alley in the city last night, and the children in the family suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and cried loudly.

Babies in swaddling clothes cried the loudest. When a mother got up at night to breastfeed or comfort her child, the child in her arms suddenly mutated and was killed by an evil spirit.

……

"From the beginning of the Yin hour (around 117 a.m.) to dawn, there were 36 children under the age of one in Liuxi Alley, and of them died in the end." This was the statistics collected by the Changping County Demon Suppression Office afterwards.

Zhang Chuanshi rubbed his arms involuntarily.

He is now considered an experienced ghost case investigator. He has seen many evil spirits and escaped death several times.

But perhaps this case in Changping County was related to infants and children, which made him feel very uneasy and he trembled instinctively.

"This ghost is very fierce." Liu Yizhen frowned and said:
"The evil spirit just revived. It will kill so many people in a short time."

Wu Shaochun also nodded:

"And the method of killing is also special, using sound markings."

This move was really hard to guard against, and Zhang Chuanshi immediately thought of the case of Gui Ling's resurrection.

"Children are the most uncontrollable, especially babies." They are not yet savvy and can only rely on instinct. If they cry at night, they will attract evil spirits.

Liu Yizhen thought for a moment, then held up the coffin and said:
"Although things are a bit tricky, it doesn't sound difficult." He looked at Zhong Yao and the other two:

"Changping County is at least one of the three major counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou. The commander you mentioned is at the general level. Even if the ghost he controls is not a disaster-level ghost, it should be close to the disaster level."

Zhong Yao nodded:

"Ding Datong controls a calamity-level evil spirit."

Liu Yizhen said:
"If that is the case, why did this case come to us for help?" he said:

"Ghost babies use their cries to mark children. Children are uncontrollable, but adults can think. They can reversely use the rules of evil spirits marking people and wait for the opportunity. The ghost controllers can select families that meet the rules of evil spirit marking in the ghost domain and set up defenses."

Yu Ping said that evil spirits kill people between night and dawn - that is to say, the evil spirits' code of conduct is subject to certain limitations.

The killing was done at night, the target was a child under one year old, and the evil spirit had just revived, so it was confined to a ten-mile radius of Liuxi Alley. In this way, it was not difficult to catch the ghost.

Zhong Yao and the other two had been monitoring Zhou Wangshi the entire time. They realized something was strange the moment she gave birth, and they showed up just in time.

When the ghosts just revived, their rank was lower.

Liu Yizhen said:
"You can catch the evil ghost while it's growing. There's no need to come to Wan'an County with such fanfare."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Ping and the other two looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

“It’s not that easy.”

Before Yu Ping could say anything, Zhao Fusheng spoke first.

She shook her head:
"I think this case is not that simple. Let's not talk about other things first, just the evil spirit itself--" Having said this, she paused for a moment, her eyes inadvertently swept over Er Fan, and then continued:

"Ghosts themselves grow." She added seriously:
"It's not that the ghost's level has grown, but that the evil ghost is born in the form of a ghost fetus."

Although the delivery method was wrong and rough and simple, the ghost did follow the principle of "ripe melons fall off the stems" in some ways.

"Full-term delivery." She reminded everyone in Wan'an County's Demon Suppression Division.

"I think the initial statistics of Changping County were relatively simple and rough," Zhao Fusheng said.
"It is very likely that the ghost baby is not targeting children under one year old, but infants of a few months old." After she finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at Yu Ping and the other two:

"And on the day of the incident, the 36 infants on the list of dead should have been no more than six months old." And there is a high possibility that they were even younger than she estimated.

Yu Ping stood up hurriedly:

"My lord knows things like a god."

Zhao Fusheng's words made the people of Wan'an County Demon Suppression Division realize the seriousness of the problem. Wu Shaochun stood up suddenly:

"Your Excellency means that while this evil ghost kills people and advances in rank, it will also grow like a 'human'?"

Liu Yizhen also said:
"As a ghost grows up, the targets of its killings are likely to change—"

Zhao Fusheng corrected his statement:
"No, the idea that the evil ghost marks and the targets of murder have changed is not accurate enough. The correct statement is that the target audience of the ghost law has increased."

Liu Yizhen nodded:
"At first, the ones marked by the crying sound were children, and the ones killed were babies of a few months old. Once the ghost grew up, the range of its killings became wider, and the number of marked infants and children also increased accordingly."

"Yes, the targets of the ghost marking include not only small-aged babies, but also older children." Zhao Fusheng responded, and Liu Yizhen immediately thought:
"If it grows to adulthood, won't its killing targets expand further? Then the entire Changping County will be in trouble!"

"Yes!" Yu Ping finally found the right time to speak, and he nodded quickly: "We didn't think of this at first, but we also did what the gentleman mentioned earlier."

Ding Datong initially thought it was just a minor mischief, and was secretly delighted that once the case was completed, there would be one less task to do this year.

He ordered Zhong Yao and the other two to compile a list of all the survivors with babies in Liuxi Lane, and then randomly pick one to ambush.

At that time, the evil ghost had just revived and its rank was not high. According to common sense, the ghost domain formed by low-ranking evil ghosts has a limited range.

Ding Datong named this ghost case "Night Crying Ghost" and inferred based on common sense that the ghost's domain would only cover the area around Liuxi Alley.

While the Demon Suppression Division of Changping County was handling the night crying ghost case during the day, they had already counted the number of children under one year old in Liuxi Alley.

In Ding Datong's opinion, this ghost case can almost be considered closed.

But it was this self-confidence that cost Changping County a heavy price.

"You can be brave and bold when handling ghost cases, but you must be careful and cautious when collecting clues." Zhao Fusheng shook his head when he heard this:
"Any negligence or mistake could lead to serious consequences."

'Ugh. '

Yu Ping heaved a long sigh after hearing what she said:
"Ding Datong also understood this principle." It's just that he was too confident at the time.

A general-level commander who controls a disaster-level evil spirit. His situation was stable at the time and there was no sign of him losing control. This made him extremely arbitrary and difficult to listen to other people's opinions.

"Afterwards we deployed defenses according to the evil ghost's rules at the time." But the ghost disaster was eventually promoted, and the few people were particularly unlucky that day, so the evil ghost did not appear in the house where Zhong Yao and the other two had ambushed in advance.

That night, the baby's crying was unpredictable.

At dawn the next day, the three men returned empty-handed, but after dawn, countless people from Baihe Street swarmed into the Zhenmosimen Street of the county government and reported to the local authorities that a fierce ghost had appeared in their home and killed their children.

The evil ghost has been promoted.

"In one night, the evil spirit killed 96 children."

Yu Ping recalled the scene at that time with lingering fear:

"Liuxi Alley is a hutong under the jurisdiction of Baihe Street. It originally had 121 households, and Baihe Street governs a total of five such alleys."

The ghosts grew rapidly, and the ghost domain they covered expanded further.

Not only that, the scope of its killing and marking rules has also changed.

"Initially, only infants six months old were killed, but by the second day, all children under three years old had died."

Things suddenly became difficult.

Ding Datong, who originally thought that the case was very simple, also realized the horror of this ghost case.

According to his original estimate, the ghost fetus "born" when Zhou Wang died should have been a Sui-level ghost at first. Zhong Yao was controlling a Sha-level evil ghost at the time, and the situation was stable, so it was not difficult to suppress such an evil ghost.

But the evil ghost had quickly advanced in level after killing someone on the first night, and should have reached the vicious level.

On the second night, Zhong Yao and others missed the opportunity to capture and kill the evil ghost, which caused the evil ghost to kill more people. If it were to advance, it would not only grow to the evil level, but the range of its ghost domain would also expand further, making it even more difficult to capture it.

Most importantly, with the speed at which evil spirits kill and their marking rules, the entire Changping County will probably become a ghost town within ten days or half a month, and a disaster-level ghost disaster will occur.

After realizing the seriousness of the problem, Ding Datong immediately put away his initial contempt and redeployed his defenses.

Having suffered a loss once, he dared not be arrogant again. He took advantage of the daytime to impose martial law throughout the city, and with Baihe Street as the center, he besieged and blocked the entire west side of the city, strictly prohibiting people from entering or leaving.

"At the same time, he ordered people to vacate a house and mobilized all the county government's guards to gather all the children under ten years old in the houses in the west of the city and send them to the house."

When Yu Ping said this, Zhao Fusheng said:

"It seems that this general of the county government is not stupid either."

Yu Ping nodded and said:
"When Ding Datong personally took charge that day, all the county envoys were dispatched."

When he said this, he paused for a moment, as if recalling the scene of that day.

Liu Yizhen waited for a while, and seeing that he was still in a daze, he broke the silence and took the initiative to ask:
"Did the ghost come at last?"

"The ghost trouble in Liuxi Alley has been solved." Yu Ping came to his senses after hearing his question and said:
"Finally, the ghost came and had just killed two children when it was discovered by the envoy. Afterwards, everyone worked together to subdue the evil ghost, and finally my eldest brother swallowed it into his stomach."