dragon hunter

Chapter 424
I stood on the side of the street in a daze, ignoring Fatty Wang's questioning, and lowered my head to think about my thoughts.

The mysterious man in the bamboo hat has left, and the eldest lady has also left. I have a lot of questions, which I hold back in my heart, and I have never found a chance to ask them.

But before returning to the underworld, the mysterious senior called Uncle Zhang told me something about Shen Yuan.

Speaking of which, the recent series of murders are all related to cursing antiques.

When it comes to cursing antiques, one has to mention Shen Yuan and the mysterious young master.

Through Uncle Zhang's narration, I learned that Shen Yuan refers to a big family named Shen during the Republic of China.

The Shen family is a scholarly family. It used to be very famous on our side.

The most famous one is the Shen family's library, which has a collection of many ancient and rare books, and even some priceless cultural relics.

During the period of the Republic of China, the Shen family produced a magnificent figure, knowledgeable and intelligent, at a young age, he had a profound attainment in antique appraisal.

It was also this magnificent figure who sacrificed blood to the entire family with one hand, and created a batch of cursed antiques that everyone talked about.

He is the young master mentioned by that strange woman, and the series of murders that are happening now are also related to this young master.

The root of the whole incident has to start with a tragedy that happened to the Shen family after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

According to Uncle Zhang, in the third year when the war broke out, the flames of war that swept across the country spread to our small county, and the rich Shen family was not spared.

The war not only created a lot of joys and sorrows, but also exposed many ugliness of human nature. Everyone will have different choices when facing death.

At that time, the head of the Shen family was the young master's father, a respectable old man.

In order to keep the precious ancient books in the Shen family library, the old man faced the bayonet with iron bones, and finally blood stained the stone steps.

After the death of his father, facing the hatred of the country and the family, the learned and romantic young master made a decision that surprised everyone. He took refuge in the Japanese and became a traitor.

Just because of this incident, the old lady of the Shen family was pissed to death on the spot, and that young lord's reputation became bad on the street and became a street rat.

After taking refuge with the Japanese, the young master frantically collected antiques and national treasures, plundered them by force, and did everything he could.

At that time, everyone thought that the young master collected antiques to please the Japanese, but everyone guessed wrong.

The young master's true purpose was revenge, but the method he used was a kind of sorcery that no one had ever heard of.

This kind of sorcery is very cruel. It will forcibly bind the soul of a living person to an antique, and use the aura of the antique to artificially create a demon.

On a dark and stormy night, the young master, whose reason was swallowed up by hatred, used a pack of poison to kill more than 100 members of Shen's family.

Among them were the young master's three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter.

The Shen family extermination case was once a sensation in the local area, but because of the young master's reputation as a traitor, most people applauded.

After his death, the antiques he collected were divided up by the Japanese.

After more than a month, everyone has forgotten about this incident, but the Japanese army stationed in the small county town contracted a strange disease.

This strange disease has no characteristics, but it will continue to take the lives of Japanese soldiers. No matter what methods they use, they cannot stop the spread of this strange disease.

This incident caused great panic to the Japanese army. They frantically searched for nearby doctors, trying to control the spread of this strange disease, but everything was in vain.

In the end, it was a Japanese businessman named Ichiro Komura who saw something strange.

This Komura Ichiro was born in a family of yin and yang. His apparent identity is that of a porcelain merchant. In fact, he shoulders the mission of collecting information about the Chinese dragon veins.

Komura Ichiro discovered through screening and comparison that the first people who died of the epidemic all had one characteristic, that is, they all collected antiques from the Shen family.

Through investigation, he found that the disease that caused the Japanese army to talk about it was probably a curse that he had never seen before.

So, he invited his own teacher, a great master of yin and yang.

The master discovered the secret of the antiques at a glance, and bluntly said that the epidemic that plagued the Japanese army was caused by the evil spirits in the antiques. To completely get rid of the epidemic, the batch of antiques must be destroyed.

The antiques that drifted out from the Shen Garden were gradually collected, but when preparing to destroy the antiques, the master of Yin-Yang Dao encountered another problem.

Because he found that he could not destroy the batch of antiques with his own strength, he quickly thought of a poisonous plan.

Later, Uncle Zhang didn't elaborate on how that master sealed the antiques, but he mentioned that in order to seal those antiques, the master of Yin Yang Dao slaughtered the entire village.

In the end, the epidemic was brought under control, but the Japanese army also paid a heavy price. They had to evacuate the small county because of too many casualties.

Bai Yuncanggou, vicissitudes of life, the past has been buried in dust, but Shen Yuan's tragedy did not end here.

Before leaving, Uncle Zhang told me that the master of Yin-Yang Dao used the cruelest blood sacrifice secret technique to seal and curse the antique.

And that young master also used the cruelest secret method of blood sacrifice when making those cursed antiques.

This kind of coincidence will have a disastrous consequence, that is, once the seal of the year is loosened, a catastrophe will sweep across the entire county.

There is no doubt that the series of murders related to cursing antiques that are happening now are the harbingers of the catastrophe.

At that time, I asked Uncle Zhang, what exactly did he mean by the catastrophe? Could it be that the ancient evil spirits harmed people?
Uncle Zhang was silent for a long time, sighed, and said that was not the case, the real catastrophe was the young master, because of various coincidences, he achieved the indestructible body of the blood demon, and once he woke up, no one could stop him.

I asked unwillingly, the young master's enemy was the Japanese army back then, now that things have passed so many years, why would he harm irrelevant people?
Uncle Zhang smiled wryly, saying that the young master has been blinded by resentment, no one can predict the thinking of a lunatic, and when he wakes up again, he will become a complete killing machine.

I asked where the young master was, and if there was any way to prevent him from waking up in advance.

Uncle Zhang replied that the other party does not exist in the two realms of Yin and Yang, and no one knows where he is before the other party wakes up.

When I heard it, I felt heavy in my heart, like being crushed by a boulder.

It was originally planned to ask that Uncle Zhang about his relationship with the Zhang family, but because of this sudden bad news, the plan was disrupted.

Uncle Zhang told me some things in a hurry, and then returned to the underworld with the eldest lady.

The only good thing is that he said that this matter has something to do with the underworld, and he will not let it go.

Before the eldest lady left, she glanced at me, hesitated to speak, and finally only said a word of caution.

The bald man who was suppressed by the talisman, because his real identity was a ghost, died at the moment his master disappeared, completely turning into nothingness.

The young policewoman was protected by a talisman. After being awakened by me, she was fine except for some frostbite on her hands and face.

Just at this time, Ghost Detective Xu and Fatty Wang arrived, opened the door of the cold storage from the outside, and we were reborn.

The first thing I did when I got out of the cold storage was to look for the security guard who framed us.

But Ghost Detective Xu told me regretfully that the security guard died, bleeding from his orifices, and died inexplicably.

I inquired about the time of the security guard's death, and I was pretty sure that the security guard was probably also a puppet controlled by Huoxin. When the master died, he would naturally not be spared.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Fatty Wang's murmur interrupted my thoughts.

I lit a cigarette and looked at the traffic coming and going, with melancholy flashing in my eyes.

Before leaving, Uncle Zhang told me that according to the current development process, it won't be long before the young master who turned into a blood demon will wake up, and the small county will usher in catastrophe.

I am not a savior, nor do I have the ability to turn the tide, but there are my lovers, relatives and friends in the county, and it is impossible for me to watch them die.

"I can't let him absorb nutrients anymore." I muttered to myself.

"What are you talking about?" Fatty Wang looked at me confusedly.

I didn't explain, but Uncle Zhang said that the cursed antique has harmed everyone. After death, the soul will become the nourishment of the blood demon. If you don't want the young master to wake up early, you must stop the cursed antique from harming people again.

The phone rang suddenly. I frowned and took out the phone. The number on the caller ID was a little strange.

"Hello, who is it?" I answered the phone and asked in a deep voice.

"Xiaofan? I'm your third aunt. Your second uncle told you to come back quickly. Something serious happened in our village." A somewhat familiar voice came from the phone.

Hearing the words "Third Aunt", a skinny rural old lady quickly appeared in my mind, who was my distant relative.

The village where my second uncle lives now is called Zhangjiacun. I also lived there when I was a child. The entire village is basically surnamed Zhang, and most of them are relatives.

I hurriedly asked on the phone what happened.

But the third aunt's ears were a little hard, and the signal was not good. The other party said a few words, but I didn't hear them clearly, and then hung up the phone.

"What's the matter?" Ghost Detective Xu saw that my face was not right, so he came over and asked with concern.

"Something happened in the village, I have to go back quickly." I replied with a frown.

After finishing speaking, I took out my mobile phone and called my second uncle. After waiting for a while, no one answered.

Worried about the safety of my second uncle, I greeted Ghost Detective Xu, and hurried to Poussin who was parked by the roadside.

"Hey, where are you going, the case still needs your help." The young policewoman greeted behind her.

"It's not as simple as a murder case. If you believe me, don't be reckless." I didn't have time to explain to the other party.

Although Ghost Detective Xu didn't know what happened, he didn't ask any further questions. He hurried over and opened the door of the driver's cab.

Fatty Wang was confused, and greeted him a few times, but I didn't respond, so I ran over and squeezed into the car.

(End of this chapter)