Hao Shun's words made Zhu Xuanyang's eyes flash with golden light.
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"
He looked at Hao Shun: "Young man, what you just said solved my doubts for more than ten years. I finally understand."
"Is that true?" Hao Shun actually just said it casually, but he didn't expect that he guessed it.
"It's most likely what you said."
Zhu Xuanyang even started to get a little excited: "I have read the investigation report on the Internet, and I have never figured out why the stool under the child's feet was one meter away from the place where he hanged himself. It turned out that the murderer kicked it away in panic.
Something terrible must have happened at that time, which caused a Taoist master to lose his hands and feet, and then ran away without even taking the Soul Falling Stone. "
Chen Xuanran also understood: "Master, what you mean is that the murderer failed to retrieve the soul!"
"It's very possible." Zhu Xuanyang nodded.
"What will happen if it fails?" Hao Shun asked.
"If the soul leaks out during the soul retrieval process and is not trapped by the magic weapon, what everyone often calls - the soul will be scattered."
Hao Shun and Chen Xuanran were shocked on the spot, and Hao Shun even blurted out.
"You're not going to tell me that the child has turned into a ghost, are you?"
These words sent a chill down Chen Xuanran's spine.
Zhu Xuanyang waved his hand. "I didn't say that. We are in the age of science and technology. ChatGTP has come out. How can we still be so superstitious? I have never seen this thing. You must talk about science, you know?"
Hao Shun was stunned. You are a Taoist priest from Maoshan. Just now you were talking about taking souls to cultivate immortality with me, and now you are talking about science with me about ChatGTP?
"If our guess is true, then in the Xinxingyi case, is it because the murderer was unwilling to commit the crime again because of the previous failure?" Chen Xuanran put forward an idea.
Hao Shun simply took out some photos of the Xinxingyi case and handed them to Zhu Xuanyang.
"Master, please help me see if there are any similarities between these two cases."
Zhu Xuanyang took those photos and looked at them carefully, and finally came to a conclusion.
"It's definitely a parody."
"Imitate?" Hao Shun was surprised: "How did you tell?"
Zhu Xuanyang pointed at the photo and said, "Look carefully, didn't you find two pinholes on his forehead?"
"Two pinholes?" Hao Shun was surprised and picked up the specially printed high-definition photo and looked at it carefully.
Indeed, next to the bloody pinhole found by the police, there was a less obvious small hole. Because there was no blood, only a small needle mark was left.
"I understand. The murderer inserted the wrong needle the first time, so he injected it again." Hao Shun suddenly realized.
"Yes." Zhu Xuanyang said: "And it is obvious that he did not use a corpse oil needle. Corpse oil needles will not bleed so much."
"Also, the weight under his feet is obviously wrong. It doesn't weigh enough."
Hao Shun quickly picked up the photos of the two children and compared them. Sure enough, he found that the soul-falling stone in the new dress case was smaller.
"Is this important?" Hao Shun asked.
"Of course, the Soul Falling Weight weighs eight pounds and eighty taels, which is barely enough. So the Soul Falling Weight for the first Xie Yi case was homemade, and this Soul Falling Weight looks like the kind of weight that farmers usually use. .”
"Sure enough, everything needs to be checked by professionals. In other words, this case is just a very poor imitation." Hao Shun understood.
"He can deceive a layman, but it's not that easy to deceive me." Zhu Xuanyang said with a smile.
Hao Shun began to ponder.
After a while, he asked again: "Master, what do you think the murderer of the Xingyi case fifteen years ago had the purpose of taking the soul? Is it to cultivate immortality or to avenge the dead?"
Zhu Xuanyang thought for a while: "Let's put it this way, if you are cultivating immortals, according to our Taoist methods, just one Zhiyin soul is far from enough. If you want to succeed in cultivating immortals, you must use 13 souls with the same destiny. "
"Are the subsequent child deaths that occurred in succession related to this?" Chen Xuanran interjected.
Hao Shun also echoed: "Yes, those twelve children plus our boy in red clothes, there are exactly 13."
"We don't know that." Zhu Xuanyang said: "Besides, there is not only one soul-retrieval technique. The children died in different ways. As for whether their souls were taken out, it is unknown."
"By the way, Master, you said before that there are no more than five people in the country who know this kind of magic. Do you know who they are?" Hao Shun asked.
Zhu Xuanyang replied: "I also heard Master say this. Of course I don't know who the specific people are."
"Then besides you, who else in Jiangcheng knows this kind of magic?" Hao Shun continued to ask.
Zhu Xuanyang paused for a moment.
"Forget it, let me tell you what I am talking about." Zhu Xuanyang said: "Besides me, there is only one person in Jiangcheng who can do it."
"Who?" Hao Shun asked.
"My senior brother." Zhu Yunyang said this person, and was instantly brought back to decades ago by his memory.
"When I became a member of the Zhengyi Sect, my senior brother had already been studying magic in Taoism for many years. It stands to reason that he is the 38th generation successor of our Zhengyi Sect.
But later he got close to a younger junior sister, broke the Taoist rules, and was expelled from the school by his master. "
"In other words, he may know more about soul-taking than you?" Hao Shun asked.
"That's for sure." Zhu Xuanyang said: "Later I heard that he returned to his hometown of Pujia Village and became a Taoist priest. He usually helped people with their daily affairs and made a lot of money."
Hao Shun chuckled and said, "I think I still don't make as much as you, right?"
Zhu Xuanyang laughed on the spot: "You know, I have a lot of expenses!! Just going to the hospital during this period cost me hundreds of thousands."
Chen Xuanran thought to himself: Don't you deserve this? You are old and immoral.
"My senior brother has a weird personality, and he will retaliate for his evil deeds." Zhu Xuanyang continued: "But he should have no contact with the Kuang family. If he was responsible for the Xingyi case fifteen years ago, he is very likely to become an immortal."
"Why?" Chen Xuanran asked.
"Because he was obsessed with this matter when he was in Taoism. In addition to our Zhengyi sect's cultivation techniques, he even studied the immortal cultivation books of other sects such as [Taiyi Essence Principles]. Gaining Taoism and being promoted has been his goal for many years. , which is also the motivation for him to learn Taoism.”
"It's a pity that we were abducted by junior sister in the end." Hao Shun laughed and said, "No wonder you rejected us before because you were afraid of his revenge?"
"My senior brother is very profound in Taoism. I am really not afraid of your jokes. When I meet him, I will only be crushed."
"Hahaha, that's not your hobby." Hao Shun said with a smile.
Zhu Xuanyang also smiled bitterly and said: "I know you look down on me, saying that I am old and disrespectful, and indulge in drinking and sex at an early age, but do you know what I went through back then?
As the saying goes, don't persuade others to be kind if you haven't experienced others' suffering.
I'm not afraid to tell you that I was already forty years old when I came out of the Taoist temple. At that time, I blushed when I saw a woman. The first time I had sex with a woman, I got slapped twice because I entered the wrong place. I swear, I will get back everything I have lost! "
Hao Shun laughed and said: "It's understandable, it's understandable!!"
Chen Xuanran could only be speechless at the side. This old man really couldn't talk about anything.
Don’t you know there is a yellow-flowered girl here?
What a shameless old man! !
Zhu Xuanyang warned Hao Shun before leaving, telling them to be careful when investigating this case.
Of course, Hao Shun is not a person who does not know how to repay kindness, so he specially asked Sister Meilian to entertain him well.
