Chapter 105

The skin and flesh completely fell off, and the skeleton turned into powder.

Granny Yu was completely suppressed and killed.

The Dragon King back then started it, and now Li Zhuiyuan came to finish it.

She must have died very aggrieved.

Before fully reviving, and being insane throughout, she almost didn't have any performance; in the early stage, she was like a crazy cow, and in the later stage, she was like a defeated dog.

But she really didn't have anything worth empathizing with.

Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't feel the slightest bit that his victory was unfair.

Back then, she stood outside the threshold holding two curse lanterns specially written for A Li.

A thing that only knows how to bully children, what qualifications does it have to talk about being worthy or not; it really thinks it's something.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up a branch nearby and began to rake Granny Yu's corpse ash.

He didn't care if anything fell out; just the process of raking was a kind of enjoyment of reward.

"Bang!"

The Bai He Master Master Tongzi punched and exploded the old woman's head, completely ending her last breath.

He did it on purpose.

He controlled the rhythm, deliberately letting the old woman go a step later, letting her see the end of Granny Yu.

At this time, the boy faced Li Zhuiyuan, looked at Li Zhuiyuan's actions, and disdain appeared in his eyes again, as if he didn't expect him to do such a low-level act.

Li Zhuiyuan was too lazy to pay attention to him and continued to enjoy his happiness of touching the corpse.

Every emotion that can rise is very precious to the teenager, and it is this kind of happy and positive one.

He can quickly learn many things, but only this kind of emotion and feeling, he worked hard for a long time, but could only experience it and could not replicate it himself.

The kind that has no inner self but only outer appearance is called acting.

"Hmm?"

Li Zhuiyuan really raked out something.

Hidden under layers of thick corpse ash, he hooked it out; it was a bone, the size and shape like a chess piece, with a simple and round texture, with uniform bone joint bumps around it, possessing extreme symmetrical beauty.

Li Zhuiyuan took out a talisman paper he drew himself from his pocket.

The talisman papers drawn by A Li all have targeted effects, while the ones drawn by the teenager himself are more like pH test paper.

Fortunately, it is really sensitive.

Pasting the talisman paper on the bone, the talisman paper didn't change color.

Granny Yu was really dead; there was no accident, and even less was there any remaining.

Reaching out to touch it, one could perceive a clear smoothness, as if it possessed some kind of characteristic that could amplify emotions, because after touching it, the joy in Li Zhuiyuan's heart increased a little.

This is a real effect, definitely not any psychological effect, because the teenager lacks this function.

Li Zhuiyuan wrapped the bone and put it into his pocket.

After going back, he could hand it over to A Li, give it to the girl as handicraft material, and it could be considered as helping the ancestors of the Qin and Liu families reduce their burden.

Turning sideways, facing the reservoir, squatting down, Li Zhuiyuan began to wash his hands, then scooped up a handful of water and patted it on his face, beginning to wash his face.

"Whoo..."

Comfortable.

Although he hadn't reached the point of exhaustion, he was really tired.

In the reflection of the water under the moonlight, the Bai He Master Master Tongzi appeared beside him.

He knew he was very angry, but he really didn't care.

Now, he has officially walked the river, inherited the Qin and Liu families, and represents the Heavenly Dao to suppress evil spirits.

It's not that night on the school playground; at that time, he could still attack him with the excuse of raising ghosts.

Now, if he dared to do so, he would have to risk losing everything he had; the Heavenly Dao is watching.

Official establishment identity is so precious; he must cherish it.

Li Zhuiyuan shook the water droplets in his hands; when he turned to the Bai He Master Master Tongzi, the boy lowered his head slightly, his vertical pupils staring fixedly at Li Zhuiyuan, as if he was issuing a warning.

"Sorry, this time was an accident, it won't happen next time."

Hearing this, the boy stood up straight again.

He knew there were some things he couldn't do; since the teenager in front of him changed his previous attitude, he would just stop while he was ahead and maintain some decency.

But in reality, what Li Zhuiyuan meant was that the work this time was too rough, because Zhuangzhuang, as a temporary operator, was not familiar with the business.

Next time, he would operate it himself, and he would definitely be able to increase the intensity level by level and achieve sustainable overfishing.

Of course, the premise is that Lin Shu can still be saved.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and first pulled out the four Breaking Evil Talisman needles.

The talisman paper had changed color, and the needle tips had also corroded; they couldn't be reused and were simply discarded.

When pulling out the Sealing Talisman needles, Li Zhuiyuan hesitated for a moment, but after seeing Tan Wenbin's figure rushing over in the distance, he didn't hesitate anymore and pulled them out directly.

In an instant, the vertical pupils in Lin Shu's eyes dissipated, and his whole body went limp on the ground, like a balloon that had been punctured and quickly deflated.

The good news is that he didn't bleed anymore;

The bad news is that there wasn't much blood left in his body.

His skin color presented an extremely serious sallow yellow; generally, when an old person at home appears in this situation, if the family members haven't prepared white cloth and black gauze, they will be called unfilial by relatives and neighbors, making the old person uneasy before leaving.

Tan Wenbin ran over out of breath; seeing Lin Shu in this state, he thought the person had already passed away.

"Is he gone?"

Li Zhuiyuan said indifferently, "Not yet."

"Does that mean it's soon?"

Li Zhuiyuan pulled open Lin Shu's sleeve and saw two red ropes on his wrist.

"He can't die; someone is praying for him."

Tan Wenbin said in surprise, "Is praying really useful?"

"Does he have a tattoo on his body?"

"Yes, I saw it when I sent him to the infirmary to change into a hospital gown last time; it's under his ribs and above his navel, drawn with a face painting; I even said he looked simple and honest, but I didn't expect him to have such interesting tastes in private.

He told me it was tattooed by his grandfather himself, and it hurt for a long time when it was tattooed."

"Hmm, then that's right; it's not just praying; when suffering from illness or disaster, as long as one breath doesn't die directly, the other end has a chance to extend his life."

"So powerful, can it even extend life?"

"It should be a characteristic of the Guan Jiang Shou lineage; they really are too prone to accidents."

Li Zhuiyuan felt that those who were invited down were all fighting in their own style, not caring too much about the spirit medium's physical condition, and over time, it forced the spirit medium to have to research some means of life-saving and life-extending.

However, in the current situation, it seems that it can't be extended anymore.

Li Zhuiyuan's eyes narrowed, his fingertips first grabbed the two red ropes on Lin Shu's wrist, and after rubbing them gently, the two red ropes became brighter.

"Brother Binbin, roll up his top."

"Okay."

Lin Shu's top was rolled up, revealing a damaged face painting above his navel.

Li Zhuiyuan pressed his fingertips down, tracing the strokes to complete the face painting; his fingertips actually had no paint, but with his tracing, the color of the face painting in the original position faded, and it was distributed into the cracks, which could be considered as taking from Peter to pay Paul.

Although the whole thing had faded a lot, it was indeed mended and usable.

After doing all this, although Lin Shu still had a sallow face like a serious illness, his breath finally returned to normal.

Li Zhuiyuan returned to the side of the reservoir to wash his hands and asked, "Brother Binbin, can you still carry someone?"

"No problem."

Tan Wenbin was already exhausted tonight, but at this time, if he didn't carry him, should he let Brother Xiao Yuan carry him?

Gritting his teeth, Tan Wenbin grabbed down with both hands and carried Lin Shu on his back; although his figure was a bit staggering, he finally stabilized.

The three of them walked slowly all the way back to where the acrobatic troupe was located.

In the inner circle formation, those people were still trapped there.

The outer circle formation was still there, which could effectively prevent the spread of the movement here and also prevent irrelevant personnel from approaching.

Many ghost wall stories circulating in society are encountered when going to secluded places late at night; sometimes it's not that you encountered dirty things, but that you accidentally entered a formation someone had just set up.

Li Zhuiyuan originally came back to get his bag, but as soon as he lifted the bag, he noticed movement ahead.

"Thump."

Tan Wenbin directly threw Lin Shu to the ground.

Then he picked up the Yellow River shovel and approached slowly.

He suspected it was a fish that slipped through the net of the acrobatic troupe, didn't step into the formation, or managed to break free from the formation by various coincidences.

At this time, there was no need to show mercy; anyway, they were from a human trafficking gang, so killing them was just killing them.

But as soon as he pushed aside the bushes in front, a little boy poked his head out, staring at Tan Wenbin who raised the shovel with big eyes.

"Eh, it's a child?"

Tan Wenbin put down the shovel.

Liangliang was scared by Tan Wenbin; at this time, he instinctively cast his gaze on Li Zhuiyuan, who looked younger; he felt that the big brother in front of him was so fierce, and that little brother must be very gentle.

"Brother, save my dad, my dad is inside, my dad is inside."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't pay attention to him and sorted out his mountaineering bag on his own.

Tan Wenbin asked, "Little friend, where is your dad?"

"There." Liangliang pointed to the acrobatic troupe's supply tent, "My dad used his teeth to help me bite open the rope, and he told me to run."

"Brother Xiao Yuan, it seems they are not accomplices of the human traffickers; should we help?"

"Brother Binbin, as long as you are happy."

Li Zhuiyuan took a can of Jianlibao from his mountaineering bag, opened it, and drank it.

Tan Wenbin took the shovel and brought Liangliang to the supply tent, lifted the curtain, and saw extremely exaggerated battle traces inside; no need to guess, he knew it must have been left by the Bai He Master Master Tongzi and the old woman.

Inside, there was a batch of iron cages; the cages had long been deformed, and a man was lying on the ground with his hands and feet tied, his mouth full of blood.

The rope for tying children was not that thick or tight, so he could bite it open with his teeth, but the rope on his own body was not something a child could help with, and he didn't dare to let the child continue to stay here, urging the child to run quickly just a moment ago.

Tan Wenbin squatted down and used the sharp side of the Yellow River shovel to help him cut the rope.

"Dad, Dad." Liangliang threw himself in front of Xu Dong.

"Liangliang, didn't I tell you to leave?"

"Dad, I brought Brother Binbin to save you."

"The police are here?" Xu Dong breathed a sigh of relief, "Comrade Police, I am guilty."

"When the real police come, you can tell them again."

After helping the person untie the rope, Tan Wenbin didn't delay any longer, went back to find Brother Yuan, and left here with Brother Yuan.

When passing by a telephone booth on the roadside, Binbin first put down Lin Shu on his back, let him sit against the telephone booth pillar, and then walked in himself to call his father's pager.

After hanging up the phone, Tan Wenbin said to Li Zhuiyuan, "Brother Xiao Yuan, let me carry the backpack."

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan was carrying a huge mountaineering bag, holding Lin Shu's bag in his right hand, and holding a half-drunk Jianlibao in his left hand.

"No need, I can carry it."

From this, it could be seen that the teenager's physical foundation had already been built.

However, usually with Runsheng around, he didn't need to do any work, and he preferred to be on Runsheng's back because it was easier.

"It's really not tiring to carry people; it's equivalent to resting, heh, if it's tiring to carry people, then what kind of corpse-salvaging person are you."

Tan Wenbin said while trying to take the bag from Li Zhuiyuan.

At this time, Lin Shu, who was sitting against the telephone booth pillar, tilted his body and fell; there happened to be a stone on the road, and with a "thump," his head hit it directly.

Li Zhuiyuan pointed at Lin Shu with the Jianlibao and said:

"Brother Binbin, you'd better take good care of him; don't let him die here while you're trying so hard to perform a ritual to extend his life."

"Oh, right, right, right."

Tan Wenbin helped Lin Shu up again, and at the same time kicked away the stone that dared to actively attack Lin Shu.

"I think, it won't be long before someone from Lin Shu's hometown comes to the school."

"Brother Xiao Yuan, I know."

Lin Shu suffered two serious injuries in a short period of time, and this time it was even more outrageous and exaggerated.

His hometown would definitely send someone to check the situation afterward.

I guess they are also wondering there, how come their own child came here to go to college and has to initiate spirit possession and fight to the death with evil spirits every few days? What kind of dragon's den and tiger's lair is this Jin Ling City?

Li Zhuiyuan meant to let Tan Wenbin stabilize Lin Shu to deal with the people coming from his hometown and not cause trouble.

Tan Wenbin signaled that he understood and that he would be responsible for "taking care" of him.

Although Lin Shu was unconscious and couldn't hear, some things would be meaningless if said too clearly.

However, the problem with this matter was not big; Li Zhuiyuan believed that Tan Wenbin could handle the affairs there, and the pure Lin Shu was also easy to coax. I guess when he wakes up, the first sentence won't be questioning, but self-blame: Sorry, it's my fault for not solving that old woman in time.

"Ding ling ling!"

The phone in the booth rang; it was Tan Yunlong calling back after receiving the pager.

Tan Wenbin went back in to answer the phone:

"Hello, may I ask if you are Officer Tan?"

"It's your dad."

"Officer Tan, we are talking about business, please be solemn."

"Name."

"Tan Wenbin."

"Gender."

"Male."

"Family situation."

"Raised by mother."

"Heh."

Tan Wenbin covered the receiver and shouted to Li Zhuiyuan standing outside: "My dad drank, drank quite a bit."

Tan Yunlong did drink; it was a celebration banquet held by the department for him, and he drank a lot.

At this time, Tan Wenbin heard several consecutive slaps from the other end of the phone.

Immediately after, the voice on the phone returned to the calm style of the past:

"Comrade Tan Wenbin, have you discovered the location of Granny Yu's criminal gang?"

"Yes, Officer Tan, it's at the acrobatic troupe station in the western suburbs of Tong'an Town; the entire acrobatic troupe is human traffickers."

"Okay, I know."

The other end of the phone hung up; Tan Wenbin shrugged, walked out of the telephone booth, and happened to see Lin Shu falling to the other side; he took a step forward and kicked away a stone on the ground there.

"Bang!"

Lin Shu's head just hit the ground.

"Whoo, Brother Xiao Yuan, my reaction was fast this time, ha ha."

"Why didn't you just support him?"

"Uh..."

"You are exhausted, hurry up and take a taxi back to rest well."

"Brother Xiao Yuan, we really need to get our own car, even if it's a second-hand one."

It's really inconvenient to take a taxi in the suburbs late at night.

"You guys go get your driver's licenses first."

"Oh right, I really forgot about this; then I'll go take it first, they don't have time now. By the way, Brother Xiao Yuan, don't those formations need to be dealt with?"

"No need, the effect will dissipate before dawn, and by then the police will definitely have arrived long ago."

"But if my dad and the others are trapped inside, then..."

"No, that little residual formation power will be broken as soon as the police badge hits it."

"It even has this effect?"

"Guan Jiang Shou, to put it bluntly, isn't it also a police station in the underworld?"

"Eh, a car is coming, good luck today."

The taxi came, pulled over, and rolled down the window; it was actually the driver who sent them over at noon.

"Hey, it's really you guys."

"That's right, what a coincidence, this is fate, pay attention to having a beginning and an end to have long-lasting good fortune, Master, don't you think?"

Tan Wenbin saw that the driver was getting off work and going home; he had said that his home was in this town, so he had to block his mouth in advance.

The driver clearly showed a difficult expression on his face, but considering the auspicious words Tan Wenbin said, he waved his hand: "Okay, get in the car, I'll send you back to school, then we won't use the meter?"

"Okay, then we won't use the meter; how much was it during the day, send us back for how much at night."

"I didn't mean that..."

"Then Master, you mean to send us back for free, that's also fine."

"Then let's go by the original price, the original price during the day."

With few cars at night, the taxi drove all the way and finally dropped the three of them at the school gate; Tan Wenbin paid the fare.

The driver counted and said: "Sigh, I have to return empty-handed."

After speaking, the driver restarted the car; as soon as he started, he didn't know if it was an operational error or if something was wrong with the car, but he actually rushed directly onto the flower bed, and the front of the car was raised high.

The movement was a bit big, and the security guard at the school gate also came out to help.

Tan Wenbin said: "Brother Xiao Yuan, is it because he really shouldn't have collected our fare?"

The driver had passed by; he would take his child to watch the acrobatic troupe performance tomorrow; if Li Zhuiyuan and the others hadn't solved it first tonight, then his smart son would have had a great risk of being abducted tomorrow.

If this report couldn't be returned well, it would be thrown out from other aspects.

When a child breaks a bowl or plate, the old man will recite "peace in fragments," which is also this reason.

"Perhaps."

Tan Wenbin continued: "But he sent us back by the meter normally, which is already quite good; who knows what to do in normal times, this is too difficult."

Li Zhuiyuan: "So in reality, who can always have prosperous good fortune?"

After the teenager finished speaking, he thought of his great-grandfather.

Walking into the campus and coming downstairs to the dormitory, the new dormitory aunt had already locked the door.

"Brother Xiao Yuan, I'll climb in."

"No need, anyway, it's almost dawn, you send Lin Shu to the infirmary, I'll go sleep over there."

"Okay."

Tan Wenbin carried Lin Shu toward the infirmary, and Li Zhuiyuan carried his big and small bags toward the family building.

Pushing open the courtyard door, it was very quiet inside.

Until Li Zhuiyuan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, there was no movement inside.

The girl didn't open the window actively as before, standing there barefoot.

The floor-to-ceiling window wasn't locked; Li Zhuiyuan opened it gently and walked in.

The girl was lying on the bed, sleeping.

Li Zhuiyuan stood by the bed, borrowed the moonlight that came in, and watched for a while.

The quilt was beside her.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and picked up the quilt, perceiving the residual temperature inside, knowing that the girl had originally covered herself with the quilt and had just gotten out of bed wanting to open the window to welcome him as usual.

But she remembered what he had said, so she lay back down and played the role of sleeping.

It was just that this quilt was folded according to the teenager's habit to cover her stomach, and it was too late to refold it.

After Li Zhuiyuan folded the quilt, he gently covered the girl's stomach.

Then he put down all the bags on his body, lay on the carpet under the bed, and closed his eyes.

He was tired, and he wanted to sleep.

Granny Yu being solved in advance meant that he would have a period of stability, and he could sleep without distraction.

After a while, the girl slowly sat up, carefully lifted the quilt that the teenager had folded for her, and put it aside.

Then she turned sideways to the edge of the bed, supported her chin with her left hand, and just watched the teenager sleeping soundly on the carpet.

The moonlight also sprinkled on him, as if he were dyed with a layer of radiance.

As for the stars, they were all in the girl's eyes.

Police cars were dispatched on a large scale, entering the western suburbs of Tong'an Town, and there were many green trucks, from which armed police with live ammunition came down.

After completing the encirclement, they carried out a breakthrough arrest.

The whole process was much smoother than imagined.

Because all the acrobatic troupe members were sitting in place waiting to be arrested, one by one they were more wilted than grasshoppers after autumn, completely unable to jump.

The entire acrobatic troupe, except for the old woman and Rou Jie, were all ordinary people, authentic human traffickers.

Therefore, many people had symptoms of mental breakdown in the "ghost wall," and when they saw the police rushing in front of them, they were like seeing "saviors," crying bitterly while actively telling their criminal facts.

Tan Yunlong stood by the police car and lit a cigarette; he was very sleepy now and was trying hard to stay awake.

Because he had a day off tomorrow morning, he let go and drank some wine, who knew something would happen again.

At the celebration banquet, the leader was still praising his excellent performance, saying that he had continuously solved cold cases after arriving at his new job, and called on everyone to learn from him.

When he received the pager and went out to call everyone to gather and set off, the leader himself was surprised and said: "Going to solve a case again?"

He didn't want to be so conspicuous, but who told his son to keep calling one after another, lighting up his father like a light bulb.

"Officer Tan, a corpse was found in that performance shed."

"Male corpse or female corpse?"

"I... I can't tell."

"Take me to see."

Tan Yunlong walked into the performance shed and saw that corpse with a very unique shape, bone and flesh separated.

And the human flesh part was obviously beaten on a large scale for a long time, and it was completely bloody and blurred.

Tan Yunlong walked closer and observed for a while, saying: "It's a female corpse."

Xiao Zhou beside him asked curiously: "How did this get done?"

"Smashed with stones."

"Ah?"

Tan Yunlong pointed to the large amount of blood-stained stones near the corpse.

Xiao Zhou clicked his tongue: "Just how much hatred is there, smashing even after the person is dead."

"Unless the murderer rearranged the scene after killing, otherwise, looking at the distribution of stones on the ground and the blood traces on the floor, the deceased should not have been dead yet when it was smashed; she was still moving."

"Smashed with so many stones and still not dead, this deceased is too outrageous, right?"

"Protect the scene first."

Tan Yunlong and others walked out of the performance shed; outside, the armed police were escorting acrobatic troupe members onto the cars one by one.

Officer Xiao Yun from the same department asked curiously: "Officer Tan, how did you know this was a human trafficking group again?"

"My son is studying in Jin Ling."

Everyone was originally in the same office and now all in Tan Yunlong's team; they all felt this opening was a bit familiar.

Tan Yunlong continued: "You have all seen Binbin; he came to our office last time and brought you breakfast; he went to play here with his classmates today and noticed something wrong with this acrobatic troupe, so he told me."

Everyone nodded.

Only Xiao Zhou, probably because he drank too much, dared to be bold and said: "Officer Tan, it's your son again... I don't quite believe it."

They were all police, in this line of work, not so easy to be fooled; it's just that they were too embarrassed to say it before.

At this time, an armed policeman walked over, pointed to a man and a child standing in the distance, and said: "That person wants to surrender."

Xiao Zhou: "Also a human trafficker?"

"No, he said he originally wanted to sell his son here, but regretted it; when he wanted his son back, he was refused, and the other party beat him and locked him and his son in a cage.

That child said it was a brother named Binbin who saved them."

Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed; it was actually like this, Officer Tan didn't lie.

Xiao Zhou immediately said: "Officer Tan, I was wrong."

"Heh, it's okay."

Tan Yunlong waved his hand, showing a look of: You see, what I said was the truth.

But what he thought was:

Why was the brat's hands and feet so unclean this time, being seen by people when saving someone.

I'll have to go to the police station to go through the process later, don't delay Xiao Yuan's affairs.

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This chapter is 7,000 words; plus the chapter at noon, today it counts as 14,000 or 15,000 updates; mainly because the basic word count updated every day is over 10,000, and adding more is relatively difficult; my typing speed is not fast, and I have to think about adding some fun points, which requires more time to find the feeling, so it's not that I split the original 10,000 words into two chapters, please everyone be clear.

I will write a little more for the ending plot of this dungeon tomorrow.

Finally, asking for monthly tickets again, I will try my best to type more!

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