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Chapter 39 - Water Ghosts

That night, everyone was brought to the city's criminal police force. It was destined to be a sleepless night …

"Hey, wake up! It's dawn!"

I felt a kick and almost fell off my chair.

Ma Li's hands were in the pockets of her white coat, she glared at me and said unhappily: I was hoping that you would help me out, yet you ran over here to sleep for the entire night!

I rubbed my eyes and laughed dryly: "Li-jie, I also want to help you, but I have not graduated yet. Without the permission of a teacher, I cannot touch the corpse."

I looked at the two bodies on the autopsy table and asked her what the results were.

She pointed to Li Rui's corpse and said, the time of her death should have been on the day of the bus accident. The corpse showed signs of being refrigerated and had even been smeared with some kind of non-mammal oil.

As for the shriveled old man Mitch, she summed him up with a single sentence: "Sudden death from a heart attack."

She didn't ask me anything about Li Rui and only chatted with me for a while. She also warned me to do my best to not let the Professor Lin know.

I gratefully said to her, "Senior sister, you've treated me so well, I don't know how to repay you anymore. You also know that I'm poor, so poor that I'm the only one left …"

Scram!

Get out of the Forensic Laboratory, I sent Ji Yayun and Sang Lan back home, so they can have a good night's sleep.

I first went to the hospital to visit Zhao Qi, then went to the fishing gear shop and the candle shop to buy some things. Then, I returned to Ji Yayun and the others' homes.

"Xu Huo, you're back." Sang Lan greeted me.

I nodded and turned around to find two unfamiliar middle-aged men and women sitting on the sofa.

Sang Lan said to the two of them: "Dad, Mom, he is Xu Huo. It was he who has been helping Little Aunt and me."

"Hello, Mr. Sang, Mrs. Sang."

Sang Lan's parents finally made it here, but for some reason, when I looked at her mother, I had a very strange feeling.

Sang Lan's father was an extremely benevolent middle-aged man. She first expressed her gratitude and then asked me to start a meal with him.

At the table, he asked: "Xu Huo, what's the situation with Lin Hansheng?"

I said, "He's a madman. He found a man who knows evil, and traded the lives of a train of people for the lives of his daughter, but only for the life of an undead. I don't know about witchcraft, but from what I saw last night, if you want the body to stay intact, you'll have to change it into a new set of human skin. He wants Sang Lan's skin. "

After Sang Lan's father finished listening, her face ashen, as she drank her wine without saying a word.

I took a sip of my drink and accidentally looked towards Sang Lan's mother. I saw her giving me a strange look.

I avoided her gaze and just as I was about to eat, she suddenly called out softly, "Fu An."

My body jolted, and my chopsticks fell on the table.

Ji Yayun looked at me and said: "Sister Ru, his name is Xu Huo."

I trembled again … Sister Ru.

Sang Lan's father put down her chopsticks, looked at me, and asked Sang Lan's mother in a low voice, "Ya Ru, could he be …"

"No!" I stood up abruptly, rushed into the room, picked up my bag, and rushed out without looking back.

Just as she put her bag in the car, Sang Lan and her parents, Ji Yayun chased after them.

"Xu Huo, what's wrong?" Sang Lan anxiously pulled me back.

Sang Lan's mother walked in front of me. With tears in her eyes, she looked at me and said with a trembling voice: "Xiao Fu, are you still blaming mother?"

"Mom?" Sang Lan and Ji Yayun opened their eyes wide.

Sorry, you got the wrong person, my name is Xu Huo. I threw Sang Lan off, said coldly, turned and got into the car, and rushed out with one foot on the throttle.

My name used to be Xu Fuan, but other than the people from our village, no one else knew that I had been called this name before.

I forget what my parents looked like, but I remember their names.

My father is called Xu Ronghua, my mother is called Dong Yaru …

"Huohuo, did you get infected by someone from the Huohuo?" Sun Lu opened his eyes wide and looked at me carefully.

"Get in the car. Come with me and find someone."

After getting on the car, Sun Lu looked at me again: "You have bruises on your body, and you're fighting with someone? Wait a moment, I'll take the guy. "

"No need. I found Li Rui. "

On the way, I told him about Li Rui.

When he arrived at porcine nasal alleyway, Blind Liu was already waiting for him at the entrance of the alleyway.

He took off his sunglasses and looked at me through the window. "You can't drive today. Get in the back."

Sun Lu drove the car along the national road to the river where the bus had met with problems.

Not only was Li Rui's substitute pulled by Lin Ning, her body had also been stolen. If no one had surpassed her speed, she would forever be stuck at the bottom of the river, unable to reincarnate.

What Zhang Xi has always wanted me to find, is his soul.

Blind Man Liu carried the compass and slowly walked along the river bank.

He stopped, looked at the sky, then looked into the water, pointed at the river, and said: "This is it!"

The three of them lit three joss sticks each and bowed towards the four directions. Then, they stuck the joss sticks into the steamed buns and placed them beside the river.

I took out the paper I had prepared and burned it. Then I threw the pork, mutton, and fish into the river.

The water ghost was different from other ghosts. It was under the River Deity's control. If one wanted to replace the water ghost by exceeding its limits, he or she had to sacrifice the river god first.

What I learned was limited, so I could only follow the instructions on the tattered book and do it meticulously.

"Will this ship do?" Sun Lu showed me a boat made of lotus leaves.

I nodded, lit a wax head, and placed it in the lotus leaf boat. Then, I carefully placed the lotus leaf boat into the river.

The Lotus Leaf Boat spun on the surface of the water and actually floated towards the middle of the river.

"It's done, Lord of the Rivers has granted it!" I slapped my thigh, anxious to throw the spirit tablet with Li Rui's name on it into the river.

"abattoir, quickly throw the net!"

Sun Lu quickly threw the fishing net I bought in the morning into the place where he threw the Spirit Board.

When the fish net was thrown out, Sun Lu turned around and asked me, "Are we going to take them all in now?"

"Withdraw!" I wiped the sweat from my forehead and jumped over to collect the net with him.

"Damn, why is it so heavy?" Sun Lu was shocked.

I was also shocked. This weight isn't right.

A human's soul is only three dollars, there's no reason for Sun Tuzi and I to waste so much energy.

"Hurry up and pull up the net!" Blind Liu also put down the compass and came over to help pull it.

The three of them exerted all their strength to pull the net up.

After calming down, the three of them were dumbfounded.

Inside the fishing net, besides the Spirit Board that had been thrown into the river, there was also a large bundle of water grass wrapped around it.

I ignored the item and took out the spirit tablet from the net to take a closer look at it.

Seeing that Li Rui's name had turned from red to white, she let out a long sigh of relief, "Success, Li Rui has finally reincarnated."

"Thank you brother." Zhang Xi's voice sounded beside my ears.

Just as I was about to put away the spirit tablet, Sun Lu suddenly shouted: "Damn, what I got out was a coffin!"

I jolted and turned around to see that he had used a branch to pry the grass from the bundle.

Twisted by the water grass was a black colored small coffin!

"Don't move!" Blind Liu pulled Sun Lu to my side and took off his sunglasses as he looked at me in shock.

I took the branch from Sun Lu's hand, and went forward to take a closer look at the coffin, but upon closer inspection, I couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

Although the coffin was small, it was made of iron!

"Iron coffin?" Blind Man Liu widened his eyes.

He looked around, then looked at the river, "Xu Huo, quickly look, the candle is out!"

I looked towards the river. There was still more than half of the wax on the lotus leaf boat, but it had already been extinguished. The lotus leaf boat had already entered the water and was gradually dispersing.

Looking at the fragrance on the steamed buns, the three of us had actually lost it all!

"The incense and candles are gone, and the things can't be thrown back into the river." I murmured.

Blind Liu pointed at the coffin and said: "What about this coffin? Huohuo, you should know how evil this iron coffin is! "

I glanced at the sarcophagus. My mind was in a mess.

If the iron coffin did not connect the Yin and Yang, and was buried under the iron coffin, then the person in the coffin would definitely never be able to reincarnate. Most of the people in the coffin would have ghosts and evil spirits.

He was originally just a water ghost, how could he come up with such an evil thing?

I gritted my teeth and said, "Forget about it. Let's go."

The three of them looked at each other, packed their bags and ran back to the main road. They drove back to the city.

Because I was distracted by what had happened during the day, I ate skewers by the roadside with Sun Lu and Blind Liu and drank beers furiously.

He only wandered back to his residence after he was drunk.

I don't know if anyone else has ever felt like I wanted to cry, to cry, to scream.

Sang Lan's family was well-off. If something were to happen, no matter if it was true or not, they would throw money at others to protect their own lives.

I almost lost my life trying to make money.

But her current mother was …

Hehe, I seem to have forgotten how to write the word 'fair'.

As the alcohol turned over, I held on to the wall and vomited.

"Are you okay?" a voice asked softly.

I threw up again and looked up to see a girl in a white dress with long hair.

Drunk eyes, I also can't see her appearance, only that this girl is very pure and beautiful.

"I'm fine." I shook my head, straightened up, and stumbled back.

Seeing that my steps weren't steady, the girl actually caught up and supported me.

"Thank you, but there is no need to help me. I can walk by myself."

"No need to be polite, let me help you." The girl said softly.

I drank too much, was helped back to the house by the girl, and then I didn't know anything.

The next morning I was awakened by a knock on the door.

Supporting his head that was splitting open from the headache, he opened the door and saw Ji Yayun and Sang Lan standing outside.

I walked over to the desk, holding my head. There was a piece of paper on the desk, so I picked it up and looked at it.

The handwriting was very delicate, but the content was very strange:

If I help you, you have to help me.

What do you mean?

Thinking about the girl who helped me back yesterday, my head hurt even more.

Seeing Ji Yayun and Sang Lan enter, I put down the piece of paper and sighed: "You two should find someone else as soon as possible, I really can't help you two anymore."

The two of them were silent for a while, then Sang Lan said: "We didn't come to ask for your help, Xu Huo, so you're actually my mother … It's Aunt Ru's son. "