"Dead? This is impossible!" Xia Yuyang's pupils trembled. His first reaction was to deny Old Man Wu's statement. Qiu Hui had a shadow, could breathe, and could move freely. This proved that her soul and body were compatible. It was impossible for an external soul to possess her. If one were to say that she had changed from her core to her appearance, the people around her were very familiar with her, so there was no doubt about it. Old Man Wu said that such a person was dead. Xia Yuyang was puzzled.
"Master Wuchang, I don't dare to lie to you!”Old Man Wu bowed repeatedly, trembling like a leaf.
"Let me ask you, where did you see her?”
"At the foot of Oxtail Mountain! I lived in the village next door. When I found her, she was probably dead for two days. No one came to look for her, so I buried her.”Old Man Wu strongly emphasized that he did not let Qiu Hui's corpse be exposed in the wilderness, indicating that he was a kind person.
However, Xia Yuyang was not so easily fooled." Since you found her, why didn't you call the police? Also, what did he mean by she was someone else's arranged marriage?”
" This…This is…" Old Wu stammered to avoid the question, his eyes filled with guilt.
"Tell me honestly! Lying would lead to the hell of tongue pulling!”Xia Yuyang took advantage of Sheng Wuchang's identity and reprimanded him in a dignified manner.
When Old Man Wu heard this, he immediately knelt down and explained what he had done.
"I was just blinded for a moment. I've been regretting it ever since! My ancestor was a heavenly master. Those special skills have almost disappeared in my generation. I only learned a few tricks. I usually read people's fortunes in the village, look at feng shui, and sometimes match the deceased with their yin relatives.”
"Before I picked up this little girl's body, there was a rich family in my village with the surname Wang who wanted to arrange a netherworld marriage for his son who died early due to illness. But during this period of time, there were no women of the right age in the village who died early. I was just worrying about where to find this marriage when I happened to meet this little girl at the foot of the mountain. Seeing that no one came to look for her, I was greedy and picked a good day to let the Wang family lift the coffin for their son and bury the two of them together.”
"Since you're already in-laws, what have you been up to recently?”
"Master Wuchang, I'm really innocent! Ever since I buried this little girl with the Wang family's son, it was peaceful for a period of time. The Wang family also said that they didn't dream of their son crying about loneliness. Who knew that in just a few days, the tomb that had just been closed would be dug up. The little girl's corpse was missing, and the Wang family's son cried in his dreams every day, saying that his wife had run away.”
"I was wondering if another old man in the village was jealous that I had accepted a big order and deliberately tripped me up. He thought that it would be fine if he brought this girl back, but I was not good at it. Every time, I carried her back at night, and she ran back the next morning. I spent all the money the Wang family gave me, so I could only come back every night to welcome her back.”
"Master Wuchang, please be clear. I didn't mean to play tricks!”
Xia Yuyang saw that Old Man Wu really didn't know anything. Although he felt that his act of casually matchmaking someone with a yin relative was despicable, he also knew that the crux of the matter wasn't him. It seemed that the only solution now was to go to the underworld and ask!
"You go back first. Don't make this matter known. I'll go back to the underworld to check the Book of Life and Death.”
Xia Yuyang left this sentence for Old Man Wu and walked away.
He found a place nearby where there was no one and no surveillance cameras. He lit some incense and summoned Xie Bian.
After a moment of silence, a foot in a pair of long boots stepped out of the void in front of him, followed by Xie Bian's iconic strange face and red lantern.
"You called me in the middle of the night. Do you have any clues?”The Impermanence Ghost adjusted his slightly crooked hat.
"Yes, I think we might need to check the Book of Life and Death in the Netherworld.”
Xia Yuyang succinctly relayed what Old Man Wu had just told him. He felt that Qiu Hui's " resurrection from the dead " was not as simple as Old Man Wu thought. If it was really a warlock who used unorthodox methods to activate the corpse, then Qiu Hui would not look so much like a living person.
Although there were ways to resurrect people, such spells were not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao. It was extremely difficult to use them. At the same time, the caster needed to have excellent skills, or else they would easily be counterattacked by the spells.
According to Old Man Wu, the other warlock in his village was the same as him. Moreover, the two of them did not have any deep hatred. There was no need for the other party to take the risk to fight against the Heavenly Axiom for a single order.
Aside from this method of reviving the dead, other spells that could control corpses could not give the dead a soul, breath, or shadow. From Xia Yuyang's contact with Qiu Hui during the day, Qiu Hui was no different from a living person. After thinking about it, he suspected that there was a problem with the Book of Life and Death in the underworld.
"The Book of Life and Death has always been in Lord Judge's hands. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any problems.”Xie Bi 'an was skeptical.
"But there are no other clues at the moment. We can only try our best. If this matter drags on, it will probably cause even greater panic in the human world.”
"What you said is reasonable. There's no time to lose. I'll take you to the underworld now.”As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Bian hooked his arm around Xia Yuyang's collar and dragged him away.
"…There's no need to be in such a hurry." Besides, I'm a ghost officer after all. Do you think I don't want my face when you grab my collar like this? Xia Yuyang's face was paralyzed as he cursed in his heart.
As the saying went, it was better to arrive early than at the right time. Unexpectedly, Xia Yuyang's last-minute decision accidentally allowed them to stop the judge who was about to clock out.
"…Qiu Hui? I have an impression of this name. A pure Yin Life Providence. She is indeed dead.”
The Judge, who was forced to work overtime, took out a pair of presbyopic glasses from his sleeve and picked up the Book of Life and Death to read carefully.
"This is Qiu Hui, a citizen of the capital. She has no parents, no husband, and no children. She fell off a cliff twenty-three days ago and has already ordered the messenger of death to retrieve her soul. What was going on? Why wasn't her soul in the netherworld?”The judge was shocked and finally realized that something was wrong.
Xia Yuyang and Xie Bian were also very surprised. They had come to check the Book of Life and Death because they had no other choice. Who knew that they would really find a problem?
The judge flipped through the duty roster and called over the ghost officer who had been ordered to steal souls that day.
"Let me ask you, 23 days ago, you were in charge of collecting souls in the human world. Is Qiu Hui on the list of undead?”
The reapers were suddenly called over for questioning. They did not know what they had done wrong and wondered if they had been reported by the ghosts when they dozed off on duty.
"Ah! I have an impression, I have an impression!" Hearing Qiu Hui's name, the reapers slapped their heads." The name list I received that day had a total of 951 souls. In the end, 950 were locked up, and the last one was Qiu Hui. I couldn't find her at all when I went there. I stayed there for the whole night and only returned to the underworld at dawn. When I came back, I was called to replace her, so I forgot to report this to the judge.”
"But I made a mark on the list of undead to say that there was no such soul. I thought the list was wrong.”The reapers saw that Xie Bian and the judge's expressions were not right, so they quickly added.
Hearing the reapers 'words, the judge's expression became even more gloomy. He dealt with so many souls every day. He had to judge people's lives and arrange suitable souls to be reincarnated. He was busy every day. At first, he would carefully check the list of souls to see if all the souls had been counted. Later on, he gradually neglected it.
This time, the person behind the scenes clearly knew the situation in the underworld like the back of his hand, so he easily took advantage of the loophole in the underworld.
"Um, excuse me." Xia Yuyang said.
"According to this person's understanding of the underworld, now that the matter has been exposed, I believe he will know immediately. I think something might have happened to Qiu Hui.”
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