White Bone Monkey King

Bang bang bang!

Not long after dawn the next day, Jin An, who was sitting on the roof of the earthen house, breathing out the vital energy of life in front of the rising sun, was interrupted by a rapid knock on the door.

He just opened the door.

He saw Keremu grabbing his palm anxiously and running outside in a panic with an ugly face.

"What's wrong with Uncle Keremu?"

Jin An didn't resist, letting Uncle Keremu grab his wrist and follow him out.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, dead, dead, Kama is dead, Kama is dead..." Kremu couldn't help crying as he spoke.

Although there are not many people on the street now, and most of them are still asleep, there are still some people on the street. Everyone looks at the two big men holding hands and crying in public, and they all pay curious attention to them.

If the gender of one of them is changed to female, it will be like a scene where a man has an affair with a woman and then abandons her, and the woman comes crying and asks for an explanation.

When he heard about the death, Jin An's eyes darkened. He didn't have time to pay attention to the outside world for the time being: "Is Kama from Uncle Kremu's caravan?"

"How did he die?"

Because one inn could not accommodate so many people, the three caravans stayed in three separate inns. The two of them chatted while traveling.

Kremu's eyes were red and he said: "Kama is a sixteen-year-old boy in my caravan. This year he did business with me for the first time and he died in the desert. How should I tell him this time when I go back?" Apa Ata explained."

Apa Ata means mother and father.

"He, I don't know how he died... The body was found by several other people who lived in the same Datongpu. He was found hanged in the house early in the morning. After the death, his whole body turned black and blue... his tongue was sticking out. The elder... his eyes were wide open... Those people who stayed with Kama for one night are now frightened, very frightened..."

"Kama will never hang himself! Because he is a person who likes to talk and has a cheerful personality. There is no reason to seek death!"

"His biggest wish in this life is to make a lot of money and go back to honor Apa Ata, so there is even less possibility of committing suicide!"

"Taoist Master Jin'an, you must help Kama find the real culprit. Kama must have been killed. Kama died in the desert the first time he followed me. If I can't catch the real culprit, I have no shame in going back to my hometown to see Kama. Parents!" Keremu said sadly.

"I have ordered others to control the people who live in the same house. If I dislike them the most, they should be the people who live in the same house, but I have never heard of any conflicts or unhappiness between them. "

When we arrived at the inn where Keremu stayed, there were already many people gathered on the three floors inside and outside. They all heard that someone had died here. People from the Yueqiang Kingdom and other nearby business groups gathered around, and the innkeeper had a big head. Standing at the door in a sweat, blocking anyone who wanted to break into the inn to watch the fun.

When the two arrived, the soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom had not yet arrived. When the innkeeper saw that Keremu had brought a Taoist priest back, he was like a man who was about to die of thirst in the desert grabbing a camel, and let the two people in in a panic.

Jin An soon saw Kama's body.

Kama's death was tragic, and Kremu's adjective on the road was considered very gentle.

His tongue sticks out of the mouth half a foot long. The person with the longest tongue in the world can only stick out about three inches.

But after Kama hanged himself, he vomited up half a foot long, and the horror hung on his chest.

The protruding eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, like a pair of dead fish eyes, as if the eyeballs would burst if they hung open for a while longer.

Kama's body remained in the hanging position, no one dared to touch it, and his eyes that were about to burst were looking straight in the direction of Datongpu.

No wonder Kremu would say that the person who slept in the same house with Kama was so frightened that he woke up early in the morning and found a hanging man in the room with a long tongue sticking out and staring at him on the bed with bulging eyes. , will be scared crazy.

Jin An stretched out his palm and touched Kama's calf with her toes facing the ground. Part of her body had already developed rigor mortis, and the time of death should have been around midnight.

He frowned.

There is no yin energy on the corpse.

Kama's death was in a miserable state, as if he had been possessed by an evil spirit and was killed by evil spirits.

But there is no Yin Qi on the corpse.

It should be that the sun shines into the house at dawn, and all the filthy yin energy of the world is burned away by the sun's essence fire.

Jin'an asked someone to find a ladder, take down the body first, and let the deceased die in peace.

But everyone was pushing and pushing each other, and no one wanted to enter the house, let alone get close to Kama's body and remove Kama's body.

In the end, Uncle Keremu borrowed a ladder from the inn. He held the ladder himself, and Jin An climbed up the ladder himself to take down the hanged man.

When climbing up the ladder to retrieve the body, Jin An paid special attention to the lower beams. The old Taoist priest once told him that people leave a reputation when they are alive, and they will also leave a name when they die.

A beam becomes a dead beam after someone has been hanged on it. To determine how many people have been hanged on a beam, you can check how many black marks there are on the beam.

This is like the same principle as the evil among people.

When a person is possessed by evil spirits, a black mark will appear on the whites of his eyes, indicating that the person is possessed by evil spirits. The same is true for the beams. A black mark will be left on the beams where someone has been hanged. Whether it is the black mark on the eyes of an evil queen or the black mark on the beam of a dead person, they are actually a manifestation of the possession of resentment.

The more people were hanged on a dead man's beam, the more black marks there were of resentment. A black mark meant that a person had been hanged.

And the heavier the resentment, the deeper the black mark will be.

But there was only a black mark on the beam in front of me, indicating that only one person had been hanged, and that person should be Kama.

"Isn't it a murderous house?"

"Is it really man-made?"

Only one person had been hanged here, which ruled out the possibility that this house or inn was a haunted house.

"Jin, Taoist Master Jin'an, what were you talking about just now?" Kremu asked nervously while holding the ladder at the bottom.

The dead man's stiff vertical toes were always hanging in front of his eyes. He forced himself not to look at the dead man's toes, and could only keep trying to look up at Jin An on the ladder.

"Nothing." Jin An shook his head, and the next process of removing the body went smoothly.

After finishing all this, he walked to another room to meet the person who slept in the same room as Kama last night.

There were ten of these people.

If you add Kama.

That's eleven people crowded into a Datong store.

However, these people were frightened, their faces were pale, their eyes were unresponsive, and their bodies were shaking uncontrollably. Fortunately, they just had not recovered from the fright, and they were not frightened out of their wits, otherwise he would still have to try. Call the soul and help them gather three souls and seven souls before they can ask questions.

There must have been more than a dozen people crammed into a big bunk bed. They were full of yang energy, so apart from being frightened, they were not frightened out of their wits.

But even so, none of these people could recover for a day or two. In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, what happened last night, Jin An took out the Six Ding Liujia Talisman to warm the bodies and souls of the ten people one by one. Finally, these people finally calmed down and answered his questions.

For ordinary people, the six-digit-liujia talisman that has been sealed four times is easier to use than any consecrated magic weapon obtained from temples and Taoist temples. For ordinary people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a divine tool, and the effect is surprisingly good.

Ever since the accident, Keremu followed Jin An all the way without leaving even a step. He watched Jin An deal with it calmly and calmly throughout the whole process, and even his panicked heart couldn't help but calm down.

It seems that Jin An has a very special contagious temperament.

He is like the backbone. As long as he remains calm, he can influence others around him to calm down as well.

Taoist priest Jin'an is indeed a man of great ability. It is indeed the right thing to invite Taoist priest Jin'an this time, Kremu thought excitedly.

"Let's start from the beginning, when we entered Yueqiang City. Tell us everything that happened yesterday in detail. The more detailed the better, don't miss any detail." Jin An sat in the room and asked in a deep voice.

Next, the ten people in the room began to speak slowly and hesitantly. Occasionally, someone helped to add some details. Although the ten people's narratives were slightly confusing, Jin An still sorted out his thoughts, but there were no suspicious clues.

These people slept very hard after entering the city yesterday. After being woken up at night, they ate a few hastily and then went back to their houses to sleep.

After dinner, he went back to the house to sleep. There was nothing wrong with Kama. Kama was still alive at that time.

"You are lying." Jin An sat calmly and looked at the ten people standing in a row in front of him.

"Ah... No, no, it's already this time. How dare we lie? We also want to find out who killed Kama so that we can be innocent." The ten people cried, and then looked towards him for help. Kremu.

"Boss, you must believe us. Kama's death has nothing to do with us. We really did not kill Kama."

Keremu glared at the ten people standing opposite him with some hatred for iron. Then he turned to look at Jin'an and spoke for the ten people: "Taoist Jin'an, Doliku and Maisutu." Although the boys are usually lazy and do things slowly, I still trust their character. The shortest among them has been with me for three to five years, and the longest, Maisutu, has been with me for almost seven years. You are not the kind of evil person who has the guts to kill people, you must help them."

"Only by catching the real culprit can we clear their suspicions. Otherwise, when the Qiang soldiers arrive next month to arrest them, no one will be able to save them."

Boom, boom, boom.

Jin An's fingertips slowly tapped the hilt of the knife at his waist, with a sullen expression and did not speak. The more he remained silent, it was a long ordeal for the ten people standing opposite. His throat was also jumping and his breathing was not smooth. .

After seeming to ponder for a while, Jin An finally spoke: "If there is a black mark on the white of a person's eyes, it is called a collision. A common collision only makes a person unlucky for a day or two, such as tripping over a threshold when going out. You will definitely lose and wait. No matter how serious it is, it will be an evil attack, something unclean will catch up with you. At this time, it is not simply unlucky, but it will kill people."

"If you don't tell me the truth, I won't be able to prescribe the right medicine."

After hearing what Jin An said, Keremu said with a shocked expression on his face: "Taoist Master Jin An, are you saying that there is a devil sneaking into our team?"

"But white salt was sprinkled outside Yueqiang City, and Hekmati Shaman checked us. How did the devil follow us into Yueqiang City?"

Jin An's fingers were still tapping the handle of the knife, and he explained: "There is a saying that it is easier to invite gods than to send them away."

"When you do something willingly or inadvertently, you may invite gods into your home. As for whether the god you bring into your home is a righteous god who protects you or an evil god who eats people, you will only know after you have suffered a loss."

Keremu looked thoughtfully at the whites of the eyes of the ten people opposite him. This sight made him pale with fright. He found that these guys who had been with him for several years, without exception, all had a black mark in the whites of their eyes. .

His hands and feet were trembling with fear, so he quickly found a small earthen bowl, poured some water from the water bag, and asked the ten people to look at the reflection in the water one by one.

Plop!

Some people were so timid that they were so frightened that they sat on the ground with their legs paralyzed.

The others were not much better, their faces were pale and their teeth were chattering.

"Taoist Master Jin'an! Please save us!"

All ten people knelt in front of Jin An and kowtowed heavily to Jin An with their foreheads banging.

But this time Jin An did not take the initiative to help them up. He said calmly: "A Karma died last night. This is just the beginning. There are eleven people living in a house, and all eleven people are evil. This It’s about killing them all.”

"There must be something. All eleven of you did it and didn't tell me the truth. You continue to try hard in the house to remember whether you did the same thing yesterday, which led to the murder... I will go outside the house to take a look. Let’s see if others are also guilty.”

After Jin An finished speaking, he stood up and left without looking back.

"You, you...hey!"

Keremu was so angry that he followed Jin An out of the house, leaving only ten people in the house scared and at a loss.

"Taoist Master Jin'an..."

Before Kremu could speak, he was stopped by Jin An. The most important thing at the moment was to send people to notify the other two caravans so that everyone could check whether there were more evil spirits.

Fortunately, none of the remaining members of the caravan in Kremu had any trouble.

Only the people who lived in the same Datongbu with Kama were possessed by the evil spirit.

Next, Jin An returned to the room again and asked the ten people, but the ten people still couldn't remember anything else. Jin An looked at the ten people's eyes one by one. Although there was fear, panic, and despair in their eyes, they did not dodge. His scrutiny.

Jin An pondered.

Maybe the ten people didn't lie. They really didn't know the truth. It seemed that the truth had to be found from Kama's body.

The result was a major discovery.

It was an old gold bracelet. It was very heavy, weighing several ounces. Karma wrapped it carefully with several layers of soft cloth and kept it close to his body.

Looking at the gold bracelet, Kremu was shocked: "Why does Kama have such a valuable gold bracelet? Did he pick it up from somewhere or..."

When he said this, he hesitated for a moment and did not say any more. There is a saying: Don't criticize the dead, because the dead will also look back at you.

Jin An narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the gold bracelet in his hand: "Kama is dead, but his most valuable possessions have not been taken away. It seems that the people who live in the same house with Kama are indeed not suspicious."

"As for this gold bracelet, it's very strange. If Kama's death is related to this precious gold bracelet, why is there no Yin energy left on it?"

At this moment, a chaotic sound came from outside. It turned out that soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom had arrived. These soldiers looked at Kama's body and investigated it for a long time. Finally, they concluded that Kama had hanged himself, which was not a homicide and ended the case. Then they continued without stopping. Rush to the next reporting location.

The body was not even taken away, and the caravan was allowed to take it out of the city and bury it on its own.

Kama's death was indeed not caused by anyone, and it was natural that the soldiers, who were ordinary people, could not find any results in their investigation.

After the soldiers from the Yueqiang Kingdom left, Jin'an immediately asked Uncle Kremu to make arrangements. Since he could not find out the reason why Kama and the other ten people were possessed by the evil spirit, he decided to wait and wait tonight. Kama's death was just the beginning. What will happen next? Those ten people died. Maybe after everyone in Datongpu died, it would be the turn of others.

The other party was clearly rushing to kill them all.

As night falls gradually.

Jin An did not go back to his residence tonight, but decided to stay in the same inn with Maisutu and the others. He would come to keep vigil in person tonight.

For safety reasons, Jin An gathered all the three caravans in the same inn, just in case anything happened, he could take care of them.

Without camels and only people, it could barely fit into an inn.

"Taoist Master Jin'an! I've heard about it!" Just as the sun was setting in the west and it was almost dark, Keremu suddenly came to find Jin'an.

"I just entered the city yesterday. When I was booking a room in the inn... I asked the guys to wait for me outside the inn. During this short period of time, someone saw something falling on a passerby. It happened to be It was picked up by Kama, and Kama chased it out with the object to return it to the owner... Later, my clerk thought Kama had returned the object to the owner, so he didn't take it to heart."

"Now, it seems that Kama did not catch up with the owner, and he brought that thing back. The thing Kama picked up yesterday should be the gold bracelet..."

Kremu was panting from running and said anxiously that he also wanted to help Jin'an as much as possible to resolve the caravan crisis.

This is helping Jin'an, himself, and even Kama.

After listening to Uncle Keremu's description, Jin An's eyes were cold: "There is a saying in Kangding country, which is called buying life and wealth! This gold bracelet was bought by Kama with his life. Uncle Keremu, please keep it for Kama. , brought back to Appa and Atta who are far away in their hometown waiting for him to return home."

Looking at the gold bracelet handed over by Jin An, Uncle Keremu was a little at a loss, like he was holding a hot potato, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Uncle Keremu, don't worry, this bracelet is cleaner than a human being now." Jin An smiled and reassured the other party to accept it, saying that nothing would happen.

Only then did Keremu carefully accept it.

"Then Taoist Jin'an, you should be more careful tonight..."

"Um."

First the swarm of corpses, and then the money to buy life. You don’t need to think about it to know that the murderer must be from the same group of people. Since the other party was playing cat and mouse with him in Yueqiang City, Jin An will catch them all tonight. Yueqiang City is not a prison that those people drew for themselves.

He didn't just have to keep a vigil tonight.

You should also take the initiative to hunt and clear all obstacles, so as not to be constantly shot in the back by villains.