I become a god in another world

Chapter 345: The Ghost Case Continues
Chapter 345

Yu Ping sighed:
"My eldest brother has only been controlling ghosts for a short time. His condition had been very stable before, but after swallowing this night-crying ghost, his situation became very dangerous."

After Zhong Yao swallowed the night cryer that had grown into a child of five or six years old, the lower half of his face was quickly occupied by the revived ghost face, turning him into a half-human, half-ghost.

From then on, his temperament began to change drastically, the "human" aura in him faded, and the ghost aura became more obvious.

Yu Ping's words were somewhat beyond Zhang Chuanshi's expectations:
"According to what you said, the ghost case in Changping County has been solved?"

"It's not that the ghost case in Changping County has been solved."

Zhao Fusheng shook his head:
"The ghost disaster in Liuxi Alley has been solved."

"Isn't this the same——" Zhang Chuanshi wondered. As soon as he said this, Liu Yizhen frowned and said:

"Different."

"What's the difference?" Fan Wujiu was also puzzled. For the first time, he felt that he and Zhang Chuanshi had the same idea:
"Aren't they all talking about a ghost disaster?"

Zhao Fusheng did not speak, but Fan Bisi, who had looked a little strange since he heard about the strange ghost disaster in Changping County, said: "The ghost born by Zhou Wang, the ghost fetus..."

When he mentioned the word "ghost fetus", his tone was hesitant for a moment, and then he took a deep breath:

"The casualties caused by this evil spirit belong to the ghost disaster of Liuxi Alley."

Fan Wujiu didn't understand what he meant and nodded blankly:
"Yes! This is the case we are talking about! The Night Crying Ghost in Liuxi Alley."

If someone else said this, Fan Wujiu might think that the other person was stupid; but the person who said this was his brother, and he knew that Fan Bisi never said stupid things.

Fan Wujiu turned his head and looked at Liu Yizhen:
"Yizhen, isn't this the same case?"

"Not necessarily." Liu Yizhen shook his head.

"I don't understand." Fan Wujiu scratched his head, feeling even more confused.

"The problem in this case may not lie with the Night Crying Ghost." Liu Yizhen's heart moved:
"Zhou Wang's situation is special, and I still don't understand the reason."

"Yes." Zhao Fusheng also nodded:
"This ghost case itself is not about the night crying ghost. I think the pregnant woman turned into a 'living dead' and was carrying an odd baby. This is the real source of the ghost disaster."

Zhong Yao and the other two nodded vigorously, and Yu Ping said:

"You all are right. After my eldest brother swallowed the 'ghost' born by Zhou Wang, we all thought that the night crying ghost incident had come to an end, but who knew——"

When he said this, an unconcealable look of fear appeared on his face. Obviously, what happened next was far beyond Changping County's expectations.

Yu Ping lost his voice for a moment due to extreme fear, so Zhong Yao had no choice but to continue:

"After the Night Crying Ghost incident, the city was peaceful for three months. In July of this year, someone from the local government office in Zhengyang Street, Changping County reported a case, saying that something happened at home."

Because of his ability to control ghosts, Zhong Yao's expression was stiff and his tone of voice was cold, but the slight tremor in his pupils still showed that he was afraid of the case.

The living dead appeared again in Changping County.

The person who reported the case was named Zhang Hong. His family was considered a scholarly family and he himself worked as a clerk in the government.

This man's vision and knowledge are much better than Zhou Laojiu, who reported the case in advance in March. Moreover, he is a government official and can know more details about things that ordinary people are not clear about.

Yu Ping was not an ordinary person after all. After a brief adjustment, the fear in his heart was suppressed again, and he took over the conversation:

"He said his wife at home seemed to be 'dead'."

This time, no one in Wan'an County's Demon Suppression Division found fault with his words.

Even Fan Wujiu, who was the most reckless person, realized after listening to the whole story from beginning to end that this clerk's wife named Zhang Hong might have turned into a terrible living dead like Zhou Wangshi in Liuxi Alley.

He was a little scared, but when he saw Liu Yizhen and the others' serious faces from the corner of his eyes, the fear immediately turned into excitement, and he spoke hastily:
"Is Zhang Hong's wife also pregnant?"

Yu Ping turned his head to look at him and nodded slightly:
"Yes, his wife is pregnant too."

Zhang Hong is a government employee.

When the Liuxi Alley Night Crying Ghost Case occurred, Ding Datong mobilized government personnel to investigate the household registration files in the west of Changping County. He also summoned officials to gather children who met the marking rules.

Zhang Hong was among the people handling the case at the time - so in a way, Zhang Hong also had some understanding of the Night Crying Ghost Case.

He knew that someone in Liuxi Alley had reported that his pregnant wife was suspected to be dead, and then this living dead wife gave birth to a ghost fetus, which then caused a ghost disaster.

This ghost disaster caused a lot of uproar at the time, and it was only settled about three months later, leaving a deep shadow on people.

Maybe it was the lingering fear from the ghost disaster, but Zhang Hong later felt that something was not right with his wife.

"The couple were childhood sweethearts. Their mothers were aunts and uncles, so they had a close relationship. The two families lived not far from each other and visited each other. They grew up together and were very familiar with each other's words and deeds."

Yu Ping calmed down and continued to narrate:
"According to Zhang Hong, Zhang's wife is a lively and innocent person. Since she was diagnosed with pregnancy in March, she has suffered from severe morning sickness and likes sour food. She can't eat anything else. But since July, something has been wrong with her."

"What's wrong?" Zhang Chuanshi asked curiously.

Yu Ping said:

"Zhang Hong said the biggest problem was that he didn't like to laugh anymore."

Zhang’s wife has a good temper. She smiles at everyone she meets. When she smiles, two dimples appear at the corners of her mouth. Everyone in the family likes her.

But after July, she gradually stopped smiling and became stiff and numb.

"The couple has a very good relationship. The mother-in-law is also open-minded and likes this daughter-in-law. Since she became pregnant, the couple has not slept in separate beds. They are as close as honey and oil." Therefore, Zhang Hong discovered that something was wrong with his wife at the first time - Zhang's wife's body gradually became stiff, and she exuded a cold feeling.

Although July is already past summer, Changping County is still under the threat of the autumn heat and it is still very hot at night.

One night, Zhang Hong was sleeping with his wife in his arms, and he was shivering from the cold and needed a thick quilt to cover himself with.

When he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, he felt as if he was holding a lump of ice in his arms.

His wife slept with her back to him, resting her head on his arm, motionless.

For some reason, Zhang Hong, who always felt that he did not love his wife enough, suddenly felt an inexplicable fear of his wife's back.

He carefully pulled his arm out from under his wife's neck, turned around like a thief, curled up his body and tried hard to fall asleep again, but the more he wanted to sleep, the more he couldn't fall asleep.

A kind of horror that originated from the heart slowly spread to every part of the body.

Zhang Hong's consciousness began to diverge and he started to have wild thoughts.

The moonlight shone through the skylight in the corner of the room. The room was dim, and the faint light shone through the gaps in the mosquito net into the bed curtains.

The bed, which should have made him feel comfortable and safe, suddenly became extremely quiet, so quiet that he could hardly bear it.

There was a chilling and strange feeling that slowly spread in the silence, making the atmosphere oppressive. He didn't know when he started to control his breathing intentionally.

When the rhythmic breathing stopped, he noticed something strange - his wife didn't have the faint sound of snoring.

Zhang's wife has become sleepy since she became pregnant.

She was sleeping soundly, and usually would make soft, rhythmic snoring sounds. But when Zhang Hong listened carefully, there was no snoring, no heartbeat. Zhang's wife was lying on the bed like a dead person.

"The living dead!"

As soon as this thought flooded into Zhang Hong's mind, it was like a ball of seaweed that tightly entangled all his thoughts.

Just as he was feeling terrified, there was a sudden rustling sound beside his pillow. His wife seemed to have moved. Then her cold voice rang out:
"hug me."

These two words sounded suddenly, and Zhang Hong was almost scared to death.

……

He did not hug his wife. In fear, he ran out without even having time to put on his shoes.

He initially did not dare to report the case.

He was well aware of the terrifying nature of the Demon Suppression Division. In some ways, ghost riders were no different from ghosts.

The ghost case in Liuxi Alley happened not long ago. If a similar incident happened again, Ding Datong and others would rather kill the wrong person than let him go.

Thinking of this, he suppressed his inner fear.

He went back home during the day and found his wife sitting in front of the camera putting on makeup. She seemed to have no recollection of what happened last night and did not blame him for leaving without saying goodbye.

She stiffly took a silk flower and asked him to help her put it on the pin.

The two had a deep affection for each other, and they often enjoyed such boudoir pleasures as drawing eyebrows and combing hair. But at this moment, looking at his wife's pale face and hearing her ask him to put flowers in her hair, Zhang Hong felt indescribable fear in his heart.

There was a faint stench coming from his wife's body, the smell of a broken egg that had gone bad - or the smell of a person rotting after death.

We can’t deceive ourselves anymore!
He suffered for a few days and felt more and more that something was wrong with his wife.

She seemed to no longer have morning sickness and her appetite had improved. She could now eat things she couldn't eat before.

The servants in the house were whispering, feeling that this delicate young lady seemed like a different person recently.

Zhang Hong did not dare to delay any longer, and finally in mid-July he mustered up the courage to report the case to the Demon Suppression Bureau.

When Ding Datong heard about this case, he was so shocked that his scalp went numb. Even in the hot July weather, he felt cold all over.

"Afterwards, a total of four ghost riders, including the Changping Prefecture, Ding Datong, and my eldest brother, went to the Zhang family and found that Zhang Hong's wife was no longer alive."

Zhang's wife is dead.

"And while we were at it, she unexpectedly gave birth prematurely—"

The "premature birth" in Yu Ping's words is not a good thing.

Zhao Fusheng, who had been silent for a long time, looked up at Yu Ping:

"The ghost fetus revived ahead of time?"

"Yes." Yu Ping, sweating profusely, directly stated the result:

"There were many of us there, but we were unable to subdue the evil spirit at first. The evil spirit was not 'full term' and could still possess other people at random."

At that time, a traveling envoy was not careful and was marked by the evil spirit.

"He is obviously a man, but he suddenly has a big belly. A ghost is taking care of the baby in his belly."

The ghost becomes more difficult to deal with than the night crying ghost, and can possess and kill people.

The victims, regardless of gender, will die if they come into contact with the ghost.

Fortunately, the Demon Suppression Division of Changping County did not act rashly this time, and with more ghost handlers and a larger presence, they eventually cut the ghost fetus out of the possessed person's body and gave it to Zhong Yao to "swallow".

This is Zhong Yao’s special innate ability—devouring evil spirits.

"Evil ghosts are difficult to deal with. Most of the time, ghost cases are mainly solved by breaking the rules and exorcising them. It is rare to have an ability like my eldest brother among thousands of people, but this special ghost case happened to be unlucky for my eldest brother."

Yu Ping smiled bitterly:
"After devouring two evil spirits in succession, the evil spirit controlled by my eldest brother is about to lose control."

It was also from that time that Yu Ping and the other two became extremely resentful towards Ding Datong.

This person didn't care about Zhong Yao's life at all. After these two ghost disasters occurred, he made Zhong Yao swallow ghosts every time.

"It would be fine if he swallowed one, but he ate two as well. There's still no clue in the case of the living dead. It's impossible for me to let my eldest brother swallow the fetus every time we find that the living dead are pregnant with a ghost fetus, right?" Yu Ping said dissatisfiedly.

Whether it was the ghost disaster that occurred in Liuxi Alley or in the home of clerk Zhang Hong, it was just the beginning of this ghost case.

"Until last month, a bizarre case suddenly occurred in Fengning County."

Although Yu Ping was angry at Ding Datong's coldness and was worried about Zhong Yao's situation, he knew that the ghost case was more important, so after complaining a few words, he quickly shifted the focus of the topic to the ghost case itself and continued to talk about this strange incident:
"There was a nunnery in the area, called Guangci Nunnery. It initially housed homeless women, and later women abandoned by their husbands. Soon after, it received some believers from the surrounding people, and it also gained some followers. There was a nun named Huizhong who suddenly became pregnant overnight."

He said:
"There are no men in the nunnery, and they don't allow male guests into the inner room on weekdays. Once this nun became pregnant, the abbot ordered her to be strictly guarded. She cried out loudly that she was innocent, saying that she absolutely did not commit adultery and violate the precepts."

At that time, some people in the nunnery were whispering that Huizhong's pregnancy came suddenly, and some said she seemed to be pregnant with a ghost baby.

For ordinary people, this kind of gossip is just a way to satisfy their desire to talk.

But it is a scandal if someone breaks the rules and gets pregnant in a nunnery. If the news gets out, no woman from a decent family will dare to go there to burn incense in the future.
The host thought about it and came up with a vicious plan: have Huizhong strangled to death and throw her body into the well.

They announced to the public that Huizhong had committed a crime and was put in solitary confinement, and after a while they said that her family had taken her away - after all, most of the people in the nunnery were women who had been abandoned by their families, and it was not a big deal for her to go back with her husband afterwards.

If things had gone smoothly, there would be no subsequent cases.

The people in the nunnery did as the abbess said. They strangled Huizhong to death and threw the body into a deserted well in the back mountain.

All this should have been done without anyone noticing.

But something strange happened.

The corpse thrown into the dry well came back to life, climbed out of the well by itself, and returned to the nunnery.

Huizhong lives her daily life as usual.

He chanted, meditated, and even did the chores in the nunnery. He ate and slept with everyone else.

This almost scared the nuns in Guangci Temple to death!