Day and night tour

Chapter 22 Blood Dream

There is a finger-sized hole between the eyebrows of the Jinwu Nuo mask, as if it was pierced by some external force.

The force after the perforation was not completely removed, and radiated to the surrounding area of ​​the hole, tearing out dozens of intricate spider silk patterns.

After the electric sound disappeared, Zhou Xuan heard a shattering sound, which was the sound of the Nuo mask breaking into pieces.

The broken Nuo mask indicates that the stage has lost its defense against evil spirits.

Sneaky, about to cause trouble.

"hehe."

A strange laugh clearly fell into Zhou Xuan's ears.

Laughter came from the mouths of six corpses of death row prisoners sitting in the main seats of the audience.

They are laughing!

The six corpses who had been listening to the opera peacefully without making any noise,

After the Nuo mask was broken, they began to laugh.
Their smiles were very stiff, as if "someone had used an iron hook to hook the corners of their mouths and forced them to laugh."

The audience also disappeared in Zhou Xuan's eyes.

It wasn't that the one-eyed villagers who were tiptoeing and invisible disappeared, but the normal audience disappeared.

The figures reflected in Zhou Xuan's pupils only included the one-eyed villager, the laughing death row prisoner, and Mr. Dai who couldn't make a sound or move his legs...

And Mr. Dai's appearance also changed.

“I was just making a metaphor, I didn’t expect…” Zhou Xuan was a little surprised by Mr. Dai’s image at this moment.

Not long ago, Zhou Xuan secretly complained that Mr. Dai couldn't make a sound - it was as if someone had stuck a small stick in his mouth.

Now it seems that there is indeed something stuck in Mr. Dai's mouth, but it is not a small wooden stick, but a pair of hands.

Two pale, slender arms grew out of the ground and crossed the stage, one on each side, with their fingers hooked onto the corners of Mr. Dai's mouth and tore it apart.

The force was too great, and Zhou Xuan noticed that there were many small cuts on Mr. Dai's lips caused by the external force.

Tears welled up in Mr. Dai's eyes.

"Hehehe."

The six condemned prisoners laughed much louder.

It was Mr. Dai's painful look that seduced them into laughing.

Their laughter seemed like a horn guiding the people of the one-eyed village.

After hearing the laughter, the one-eyed villagers in the audience looked at Mr. Dai with more hatred in their eyes. They became restless and moved slowly towards Mr. Dai, but due to some kind of deterrence, they dared not move too big.

However, among these hundreds of people, there was always someone brave enough. A shirtless man moved his body and floated to the side of Mr. Dai. He opened his mouth and bit Mr. Dai's nose.

When one person is brave, the others will also become braver.

If one person takes action, the others will naturally follow.

After the first bite, is the second bite far behind?

An elderly woman bit Mr. Dai's ear.

The wrinkled cheek of the gentleman was bitten by a man wearing a straw hat.

More and more people,
They surrounded Mr. Dai tightly, and in Zhou Xuan's eyes, they looked like a bunch of leeches sucking blood.

Zhou Xuan had only had a premonition that the one-eyed villagers would harm Mr. Dai, but he never expected the scene to be so bloody.

"Hahaha, hahaha!"

The six death row inmates laughed even more wildly, staggering forward and backward.

The laughter became the villagers' drumbeat, encouraging them to bite Mr. Dai even more frantically.

The six people were completely satisfied and laughed so hard that their bodies shook. Then they rolled off their seats, fell to the ground, and broke their bodies.

The first death row prisoner had his eyes knocked out, and his two eyeballs rolled all over the ground.

The second death row inmate lost his left hand.

The third one lost his left leg...

Six people, each of them had a body part broken off, no more, no less, just one.

At this moment, it is finally quiet.

All the one-eyed villagers disappeared from Zhou Xuan's sight. Zhou Xuan could see normal things again. He saw the Zhou family members on the stage, surrounding the bones of Mr. Dai, each with their own posture.

Some people were scared and cried.

Some people don't know what to do.

Yu Zhengyuan held the broken Golden Crow Nuo mask in his hand and stamped his feet continuously, his face looking very anxious, but he would wipe the saliva from the corners of his mouth from time to time.

"Hey, why is Senior Brother wiping his saliva? The scene he saw should be very different from what I saw." Zhou Xuan felt that what he had just seen was both like reality and a blurry bloody dream.

The two sides see things differently.
In the eyes of the Zhou family, they were just watching Mr. Dai on the stage, with blood holes appearing one after another on his body, and then under the sun, the flesh and blood on his body gradually disappeared.

"Mr. Dai, it's like a watermelon-flavored popsicle melted in the sun."

This is the tacit association that many opera troupe masters have in common.

Zhou Xuan didn't want to think too much, he just felt too tired. He gathered all his strength, took lead-filled steps, moved to the side of the stage pillar, leaned against it, and slowly sat down. He looked at Mr. Dai's skull with a dazed look.

"How strange... Why do I feel like Mr. Dai is smiling?"

Zhou Xuan tilted his head, looked a few more times, and then smiled.

Zhou Xuan finally understood the bracelet made of a series of strange phenomena and saw it clearly.

After seeing the truth and thinking it through, Zhou Xuan stopped thinking about it and fell into a deep sleep.

……

Pingshui Prefecture is not peaceful, or rather, the entire Jing Kingdom is not peaceful, and supernatural events often occur in various places.

Therefore, in addition to setting up a convenience bureau, epidemic prevention station, fire department, and arrest team, the police station also established an investigation bureau.

The investigation bureau handles cases that are strange and bizarre.

Liu Tianen is the deputy director of the Investigation Bureau.

After receiving the report, he was overwhelmed.

"Mr. Dai got into trouble? How could he get into trouble? And it happened in the Zhou Clan!"

Mr. Dai is a well-known figure in Pingshui Prefecture. If something happens to him, we can't be careless.

But... when dealing with strange and bizarre cases, you need to be circumspect.

In supernatural cases, it is not just evil spirits that harm people. In many cases, human will plays a dominant role.

There are many gangs in Pingshui Prefecture, and there are many gods and evil people. Naturally, there are also many people who use the power of ghosts and gods to harm people.

Some gods and shady people are not very skilled in Taoism and have few teachers. If these people commit crimes, we should just do what we should do and enforce the law impartially.

But some gods and treacherous people have very complicated sects behind them, so they are difficult to deal with... This is where carelessness starts.

Liu Tianen has been handling cases for many years and has learned one thing from experience - ghosts are much easier to deal with than humans. Ghosts have no background, but humans do!
"I hope it doesn't involve too much."

……

Liu Tianen and his assistant Qiao Yu arrived at the stage.

After the two men revealed their identities, Liu Tianen saw the body of Mr. Dai.

He was a little bit unconvinced, and pointed at the skeleton on the ground and asked, "Is this really Mr. Dai?"

"Yes." Yu Zhengyuan had not yet recovered from his shock. His mind was a little numb and he was only focused on answering questions without thinking about introducing the situation on the scene.

Xu Li was bolder and told Liu Tianen, "When the underworld play was almost over, Mr. Dai was suddenly possessed by an evil spirit. Without anyone touching him, his flesh and blood disappeared piece by piece."

"It just disappeared out of thin air?"

"Well, not only did we see it, but the audience also saw it. If you don't believe me, Director Liu, you can ask them."

There's no point in asking.

Liu Tianen walked around Mr. Dai's body three times and said, "It must be a sneak crime. We need to find out what kind of sneak it is!"

He raised his head and asked Xu Li, "Oh, right? The Zhou Clan performs ghost plays. Before a ghost play begins, they have to hang up something to ward off ghosts. Where are your ghost-warding items?"

"Oh, at..." Xu Li was about to point to the broken Nuo mask on the table.

As soon as he said that, he was interrupted by a deep male voice.

"Director Liu, the Zhou family performs during the day and never invites ghost-suppressing creatures!"

(End of this chapter)