18. Chapter Eighteen
Abao covered his nose and took two steps back.
Tan Muen pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and slowly opened it, about five or six feet square, covering the pile of meat. The smell was suddenly covered and slowly faded. After a while, the raised paper flattened bit by bit, and he picked up the paper again and folded it slowly.
Abao's mouth became O-shaped and he said for a long time: "You, don't touch me casually in the future."
Tan Muen frowned and said, "When did I touch you casually?"
Abao stared at his hands and the pocket where the paper was placed, "I'm preventing any trouble!"
Lian Jingfeng walked towards Zhang Jiajia.
Zhang Jiajia's eyes, which were crying silently, suddenly opened wide and she looked at him in fear.
"Who are you?" Lian Jingfeng asked in a deep voice.
"Wait." Abao reached out to remove the amulet before he continued.
Zhang Jiajia turned around and wanted to run away, but was blocked by Lian Jingfeng's sword. His expression was cold, and the hostility in his eyes did not fade away with the man's death, but instead became even more gloomy and ferocious.
"Who are you?" he asked again word by word.
Tan Muen came over and said, "Can you see her?" He seemed particularly dissatisfied with the fact that he could not see Zhang Jiajia alone.
Zhang Jiajia shook her lips and said, "Hu Xiutao, Gu Yuehu, the delicate and beautiful, the peach of Taozi." Zhang Jiajia's voice was originally low and pleasant, with an innate generosity, but when she spoke the same voice in her tone, she became a lady in the boudoir who could not leave the door, shy and timid.
Lian Jingfeng said: "Where did it come from?"
Hu Xiutao said: "A native of Guangzhou, Guangdong."
When Tan Muen heard her voice, he gradually saw her appearing slowly in front of Abao. He blinked, and after confirming that he had indeed seen her instead of hallucinations, he asked calmly: "How many years have you been born?"
Hu Xiutao said: "I don't know much about your algorithm, I only know it was the 32nd year of Guangxu."
Abao shouted, "Wow, he is another ancestor!"
Tan Muen said: "Who is that man? What does it have to do with you? Why didn't you reincarnate and take other people's bodies instead? Did you kill other female stars?"
Every time he asked, Hu Xiutao's body trembled. After asking, she almost shrank into Abao's arms.
Abao held her shoulder and said softly: "Don't be afraid or not, just talk carefully."
Tan Muen glanced at him coldly.
Abao laughed and said, "There must be someone's face."
Hu Xiutao was indeed much calmer and said timidly: "His name is Wu Tiesheng, and he is my distant cousin. I have been living in his house since I was a child, grew up, joined the opera troupe, and went to Shanghai together..." She suddenly stopped and showed a look of pain. "If I hadn't been thinking about big stars, I wouldn't have implicated Tiesheng's cousin to spend all his wealth, owed a lot of debts, and finally beaten to death in the wilderness."
Tan Muen said: "How did he become a zombie?"
"Zombie?" Hu Xiutao shook, "I don't know he turned into a zombie. I only know that he went to another place to escape debts and avoid disasters. There was no news all day long. I couldn't survive alone, so I had no choice but to marry a businessman selling groceries. After marrying him, I realized that he was a cigarette ghost and could not live without cigarettes for a day. If he had no money, he would use me as a fight. In those days, he lived worse than a prostitute and a girl, so he took me back and locked up after he was ruined. He was afraid that I would find a short-sighted view, so he locked me in a breathable box... only two winds a day." At this point, she was crying.
Abao said hatefully: "How come there is such a hateful person! Give me his birth date and horoscope, hum, let him be reincarnated as a pig or a dog in the next life! No, it's too cheap, he's a cockroach! No, this is too insulting Xiaoqiang!"
"I ran away a few times and were caught back. Every time I went back, I missed a beat. The last time, he beat me hard and finally beat me to death. I originally thought I could be reincarnated and reborn, but I was killed in vain. No ghost messenger picked me up, so I had to wander around the house as a lonely ghost. The smoker had really become a ghost not long after, but fortunately died elsewhere. I heard that he was entangled by other evil ghosts and could not come back. I just stayed in the house alone. After a while, Tiesheng's cousin came back. He was still human, but I knew he was different. The evil and yin energy on his body were very heavy. He heard about me, so he put me in a can, then went to find the smoker, and ate him in front of me. When the other evil ghosts saw him, they all hid far away. He saw me scared and said that he had learned powerful magic and could live forever. I believed it."
Tan Muen said: "He said he could help you take over the body and make you angry, so you don't reincarnate."
"No," Hu Xiutao shook his head in panic, "He didn't say that. He said he was afraid that I would not remember him after reincarnation, that he would not find me, and that we could not meet again, so he agreed to live like this together. I wanted to escape from the ghost mission, and he was afraid that others would know that he would never live, so we often changed places to live, and this hiding took many, many years."
"Then why are you in Zhang Jiajia's body?" Lian Jingfeng asked.
Only then did Abao realize that he had put away his sword and his anger at some point and returned to his previous gentle and kind appearance.
But his fierce appearance when he killed Wu Tiesheng was already deeply engraved in Hu Xiutao's heart. Even if he was gentle at this moment, he was a murderous devil in her eyes. So when she heard him speak, her body kept trembling, "I, I didn't mean it. Later, a man found Tiesheng's cousin and said that he could resurrect me and fulfill my dream of becoming a star in the past, so..."
"So I will kill other female stars and let you get into their bodies?" Tan Muen asked sternly.
Hu Xiutao shrank in Abao's arms, tears kept falling, "I didn't know that it would kill them, I didn't mean it."
Lian Jingfeng said: "If you take over the body, one is enough. Why do you want to harm so many people?"
Hu Xiutao didn't know much about taking over the body, but it made so many people understand. She whispered: "The man said that I had been with Tiesheng cousin for so many years. The yin energy was too heavy and the ordinary body could not bear it. He must find someone with a strong life and a high fortune to refine it with magic. He had never seen anyone use this magic before. In order to ensure that everything was safe, he found those three people to experiment..." She saw that Tan Muen and Lian Jingfeng looked ugly and dared not say anything.
Lian Jingfeng said: "The jar is empty."
Hu Xiutao was confused.
Lian Jingfeng said: "If I'm right, those three jars are used to hold the souls of three female stars, right? But they are empty."
"Impossible." Hu Xiutao said, "My cousin Tiesheng has never moved canned food. He promised me that he would let them go in the future."
Abao said: "Who is the man who told you the method of taking over the body?" It sounds like that man is the culprit, right?
Hu Xiutao said: "I don't know what his name is, Tiesheng's cousin called him Mr. Yun."
"Qiu Jingyun?" Tan Muen's eyes flashed.
Abao retorted: "Maybe it was Yun Jingqiu."
Tan Muen said: "Who is Yun Jingqiu?"
Abao laughed dryly and said, "It's nonsense."
“…”
Abao suddenly said seriously: "Three cans contain three souls, where is Zhang Jiajia?"
Tan Muen said: "Her body is not dead, she is still a soul!"
Lian Jingfeng said: "Can you still feel your soul?"
Tan Muen nodded dejectedly and said, "Yes. But it keeps moving, and the route is very familiar."
Abao said: "What does it mean?"
Tan Muen said: "It seems to be running around the city."
Tan Muen's soul was soon found on a bus driving the city-ring route. They were packed in cans - cans like the souls of three female stars.
Previously, Lian Jingfeng found a cottage hidden by illusion in the underground garage. After describing it, Tan Muen and Abao agreed that the room was the house where Zhang Jiajia stayed when she first disappeared. Lian Jingfeng found three cans there and confirmed it by Abao, which was indeed the same as the small security room in the underground garage. At this point, the clues about this matter can finally be worn.
Hu Xiutao admitted that the place where she and Wu Tiesheng were settled was the underground garage next to the cafe, which means that the security guard Abao met was Wu Tiesheng. The soul out of his body described by Zhang Jiajia should be that Mr. Yun and Wu Tiesheng wanted to take over the body for Hu Xiutao, but were interrupted by Abao halfway. In a hurry, they had only time to transport Zhang Jiajia away and left three cans. Wu Tiesheng was afraid that Abao would find the soul in the can, so he could only turn it back and knock him away, and then remove the can.
But there is a problem here. Why did Zhang Jiajia return to the shooting scene later?
Hu Xiutao confirmed that she had not yet joined Zhang Jiajia at that time, that is, the real Zhang Jiajia went back. So, who sent her back?
A person immediately flashed through Abao's mind—
Yin Xuan.
From the current perspective, there are two strange characters in this complex story, one is Qiu Jingyun seen by Tan Muen, and the other is Yin Xuan seen by Abao. Lian Jingfeng believes that both of them may be Mr. Yun. But if one of them is Mr. Yun, then what kind of role does the other play in this story?
Tan Muen said: "The most important thing at the moment is to find Zhang Jiajia's soul!" His three souls and seven spirits returned to his body, and his confidence in speaking was much greater than before.
Lian Jingfeng said: "The sea of people is vast, how can I find it?"
"Look from the underground garage." A Bao said, "Although the cunning rabbit has three holes, its living habits will not be changed. Rabbits will not change their nests into bird's nests on trees."
Lian Jingfeng said: "What we are going to find next is not Wu Tiesheng, but Mr. Yun. His living habits may be completely different from Wu Tiesheng."
Abao said: "Ah, his name is Mr. Yun. Will he like to live in a high-rise building?"
“…”
Abao consciously continued: "There seems to be a lot of high-rise buildings in this city."
Tan Muen said: "I'll try the soul search curse again."
"Who is it? Zhang Jiajia?" Abao asked, "but her soul may be in canned."
Lian Jingfeng said slowly: "So, where is Qiu Jingyun?"
"Who knows his birth date?" Abao replied after asking, "My master. Ah, you can also search for my uncle and flushun."
Chapter completed!