The moment I saw the paper crane fall, I knew I was at the right place.
He bent down to pick up the paper crane on the ground and stuffed it into his bag.
Only then did I see clearly where I had arrived.
This is an abandoned factory building in the suburbs. Looking at the dilapidation, it seems that no one has been here for a long time. It is overgrown with weeds and feels desolate.
Did that ghost escape here?
Taking a look inside the factory, it was pitch black. This darkness alone was enough to persuade many people to retreat.
But I can't retreat. Once I retreat, more people may die as a result.
I squeezed the Tai'a sword in my hand tightly to give myself more courage, and then I bravely entered the abandoned factory in front of me.
After entering, the first thing I felt was the smell of dampness and rancidity, which made people feel nauseous.
I tapped my eyebrows with two fingers, and my eyes opened in an instant, allowing me to see in the dark.
As I groped my way forward in the factory, I was extremely nervous, because I didn’t know what would happen in the next second, and my hand holding the Tai’a Sword was sweating all the time.
After walking for about ten minutes, I finally reached the deepest part of the factory, but then I saw a shocking scene that didn't belong here.
An altar appeared here inexplicably, standing suddenly in the deepest part of the factory.
Staring at the altar in front of me, I thought of something that Zhang Sanqing told me for no reason. Looking at the arrangement of obscure runes on it, it seemed to be that thing without a doubt!
At this moment, all the guesses in my mind were confirmed.
Why does the murderer kill people in different places, and why does he take away the body parts of the deceased after killing? There is no other reason, it is refining the body! !
The murderer divided the entire city of Tai'an into a huge hexagram, with each corner of the hexagram corresponding to a district. Then he killed people in each district according to the drawing method of the hexagram and took away a part of the deceased's body.
They are the left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, heart and head!
It was also for this reason that I deduced that the murderer's next place to commit the crime and the parts that would be removed after the crime were completely determined by the closing method of the hexagram.
Zhang Sanqing once said this when chatting with me. This method is called the Hexagram Body Refining Technique. It uses the power of the stars to refining a body that can accommodate the soul, and this altar is used to refine it. The place of the body.
But this should be a method from Sakurajima’s Onmyodo, so why does it appear here?
And those who can use this method are definitely not ordinary evil spirits. Without the technical support of experts behind the scenes, it is extremely difficult to succeed just by relying on that murderous ghost.
Just as I was staring at this thing in trance, a sound of tearing the air suddenly interrupted my thoughts.
Sudden!
The long-term life and death wandering and fighting experience allowed me to react in an instant. With a cleave from Tai'a Sword, I dodged aside.
Because there was too much movement, there was a splash of water on the ground, and the smell was really not good.
After the general dodged, I saw clearly that the thing tearing the air was not something else, but the ghost thing that had just escaped.
At this time, it originally wanted to knock me down, but failed. It was squatting on the altar, with its body showing an attacking posture unique to animals, its back bulging high, and one hand in front of it making a tentative gesture. It's so weird to go up there.
I also squinted my eyes, looked at the things in front of me carefully, and asked tentatively: "Why don't you run away?"
The ghost in front of him still had the same half-dead voice as before, and replied: "Because this place is very good and remote enough. Even if I kill you, no one will find out?"
Although I was a little nervous, I still chuckled: "Don't be ridiculous, just because you kill people in public, I'm afraid it won't be long before your whereabouts will be completely exposed to people."
The shrill voice sounded again: "So what, with human power, can you do anything to me?"
"But your plan is about to be interrupted?" As I said that, I pointed to the altar behind it.
"It doesn't matter. By the time they find out, I will have succeeded long ago." Gui Dongzi replied seriously.
I asked with great interest: "I'm curious, who are you? And the fact that you can kill people in broad daylight shows that you have the ability to act on your own. I'm afraid you don't really need this body. I guess you are You're refining it for others, right?"
In fact, when I discovered this altar, I had this conjecture: What is the function of refining the body?
It means that the owner of this body cannot move on his own, so he needs such a body to accommodate himself.
In other words, some things must be done with the help of the physical body.
And this ghost can kill people in full view of the public, and its actions will not be affected, so I speculate that the real user of this body may not be it.
But just when I asked, the ghost in front of me suddenly became anxious: "What a cunning human being, but you have too many questions. I don't have the patience to answer them for you. I'd better wait until you die and find out by yourself." !”
As it said, it suddenly stretched out its hand, slowly lifted the linen hat on its head, and said: "However, I can let you know what I am, because you are different from those ordinary people. You are qualified." See what I look like!”
I couldn't help but smile bitterly. I didn't expect this thing to praise myself so highly, but it was just what I thought. It also needed to kill people in such a naughty way. In any case, it was definitely not that kind of advanced person!
But as it slowly pulled down the robe on its head, I saw clearly what it was.
A face like an old lady, with gray hair and a face full of grooves, but strangely, the lower part of the face surprisingly looks like a cat...
