Day and night tour

Chapter 23 Scapegoat

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

Liu Tianen's question was interrupted. He felt a little impatient and glanced at the man who spoke.

He knew this man, his name was Yu Jia, and he was the fourth senior brother of the Zhou family.

After Yu Jia received the news that something happened to Zhou's group, he hurried to Huilang River. His suit was covered with dust and dirt, and he had no time to clean it.

After a long journey, he finally arrived at the stage. Seeing Xu Li almost made a big mistake, he quickly interrupted him.

"Yu Laosi, you're pretty quick." Liu Tianen rolled his eyes at Yu Jia as a greeting.

Yu Jia had a smile on his face.

There may be a hint of flattery in his smile, but it is mostly a smile that makes people feel comfortable, minimizing his aggressiveness and making him look harmless.

"Director Liu, have a cigarette."

Yu Jia held the cigarette in his right hand and handed it over, protecting his right hand with his left hand. Combined with his slight hunchback, his posture could be described as humble.

"Yeah." Liu Tianen didn't give Yu Jia any face. He took the cigarette and let the other party light it. He said, "Yu Lao Si, we are old acquaintances. We often see each other. Mr. Dai is dead, and the higher-ups don't know about it yet, but they will know it soon. They will be furious and urge me to handle the case. I am under a lot of pressure. Don't play tricks."

"Who dares to show a false face in front of the real person? I..."

"I've already told you not to use those tricks from the underworld here. Do you really think I don't know anything about your Zhou Clan?"

Director Liu blew a puff of smoke towards Yu Jia's face and said with a hint of admonition, "The Zhou family is famous for being cautious. No matter day or night, they always use ghost-suppressing items when they perform! Don't hide it, take it out quickly..."

"Haha, nothing can be hidden from Director Liu's sharp eyes." Yu Jia pretended to be discouraged and said to Xu Li, "Sister-in-law, go and get the ghost-suppressing item."

As he spoke, he gently waved his right hand at his waist, speaking in code.

The meaning is to tell Xu Li not to take out the real ghost-suppressing item.

After Xu Li nodded woodenly, he did not pick up the broken Golden Crow Nuo mask. Instead, he turned and went backstage to find another Nuo mask to hand over.

On the way to get the Nuo mask, Xu Li gradually realized Yu Jia's intention of stopping her and felt a little scared.

She had little experience in handling similar matters, but Yu Jia had close contacts with all the major gangs, police stations, and theater companies for many years, and was the lubricant between the theater troupe and the real power.

Yu Jia understood too well the behavior of people like Liu Tianen - chasing the murderer was secondary, giving an account was primary.

Mr. Dai's case is of great importance. Perhaps Liu Tianen has already prepared himself for the possibility that he will not be able to handle the case and give an explanation.

Not being able to give an explanation is definitely not a good explanation. If you want to put an end to the matter, finding a scapegoat is the safest option.

Maybe, he has already made the Zhou family the scapegoat in his mind.

Under this premise, if the Zhou Clan wants to protect themselves, they must not cooperate too much. For example, the Golden Crow Nuo mask has been shattered by the evil spirit, and the evil spirit's aura must remain on the mask. Once it is handed over, it would be easy for Liu Tianen to tamper with it and then throw dirty water on the Zhou Clan.

"Luckily, Lao Si came back in time. If he wasn't here, we wouldn't be able to deal with that bad old Liu Tianen if we were clumsy."

Xu Li took out a fire dragon Nuo mask from a sealed box backstage and handed it to Liu Tianen.

"Is this the one?" Liu Tianen grabbed the mask and handed it to his assistant Qiao Yu without looking at it.

In front of everyone, Qiao Yu bit her middle finger and pressed the wound on her finger against the tip of her nose. Her nose seemed to come alive, her pores opened, and two lumps of soft flesh like worms grew on the wings of her nose, wrapping around her finger.

Then the soft flesh sucked the blood from the finger like a baby sucking a pacifier...

Xu Li and Yu Jia, who were standing by, looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

It seems that Liu Tianen is really serious about this time. As soon as the case started, he brought a sinister person over.

"Which gang are you from?" Xu Li secretly pointed at Qiao Yu and asked Yu Jia in a low voice.

Yu Jia shook his head.

The Yin people learned their methods from the White Walkers, and most of them use blood, flesh, skin, and bones as the medium. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are considered seven parts cruel, two parts disgusting, and one part unlucky.

With this feature, it is not difficult to distinguish whether the other party is a god or a ghost through the means used, but it is difficult to accurately tell the ghost's hall. There are many ghost halls, and the inheritance is deeply hidden. Even the old Jianghu who has traveled all over the country finds it difficult to recognize all the ghost halls.

After the soft flesh on the wing of his nose had absorbed enough blood from his finger, Qiao Yu held the mask in front of him and sniffed it a few times. The blood-red soft flesh twisted a few times in vain, but to no avail.

He shook his head at Liu Tianen.

"It has no spirituality, no scent of incense, no smell of death. This Nuo mask is not used by the underworld opera troupe to exorcise ghosts..."

Although the ghost-suppressing items in each hall are different, the process of requesting them is similar.

Among them, "raising and offering" are steps that every family undergoes.

To raise means to raise the things that can suppress ghosts in advance.

As for how to raise the ghosts, each sect has its own way. Some sects use blood to raise the ghosts, while others sew ghost-suppressing objects into the stomachs of livestock to raise the ghosts...

The purpose of raising something is to allow the object used to suppress ghosts to develop spirituality.

If a spiritual ghost-suppressing object is raised, it will be worshipped and incense burned.

The surface of the ghost-suppressing objects that have been offered is covered with a layer of incense aroma.

The Zhou Family Troupe is a ghost theater troupe that performs for the dead. They hang ghost-suppressing objects on the stage, and during a play, the ghost-suppressing objects will also be tainted with the smell of the dead to some extent.

Spirituality, the smell of incense, and the smell of the dead, these three smells are difficult to fake. The Nuo masks that Xu Li found to get the job done naturally did not contain these three smells.

"Humph!"

After hearing what Qiao Yu said, Liu Tianen raised his right hand high, then swung it down fiercely, breaking the Nuo mask into six pieces and poking Xu Li's nose: "You are so brave! I warned you not to play tricks, but you still lied! Lied! Lied!"

"Director Liu..."

Qiao Yu suddenly smelled a familiar scent and her body swayed involuntarily. The soft flesh on the tip of her nose kept moving and even secreted a sticky liquid, like a cat drooling at the smell of fish.

He pulled at the corner of Liu Tianen's clothes, pointed at the broken Golden Crow Nuo mask on the table, and said, "That one... has a very strong smell. It is the object that can suppress ghosts. It not only has the scent of the recently deceased spirit, the smell of incense, the smell of the dead, but also the remaining smell of evil spirits."

“Really?”

The interval between the two words was forcibly lengthened by Liu Tianen's emphasis, and his tone revealed an unconcealable joy.

Unexpectedly, there was the aura of a fierce ghost in the Zhou family's ghost-suppressing items. Once we get this mask, the case will be easy to solve - at least we have an alternative explanation.

The Zhou family colluded with the evil spirits and worked together to kill the financial sponsor Dai Gentleman - business murder, or murder for money? Well, it sounds very believable.

He walked towards the Golden Crow mask, and with every step he took, Xu Li and Yu Jia's hearts sank a little. But they could do nothing but watch Liu Tianen's fat hand reach out for the mask.

call!
Liu Tianen was about to get the mask, but he missed it. The mask was snatched away by a young man.

"who are you?"

Liu Tianen looked at the young man who was trying to grab the mask in front of him and asked.

"The purpose of investigating a case is to find out the truth. No matter how many clues there are on the mask, it is just a tool to find the truth. I just need to tell you the truth. What's the point of the mask?"

"Wow, you are so arrogant. The truth is like a movie, with each scene in front of you, waiting for you to make a cup of good tea and hug a singer to watch it slowly."

"You described it quite realistically... In my opinion, the truth is exactly the same as in the movie. Mr. Dai's death had nothing to do with the Zhou Clan. He was the one who killed him."

"suicide?"

"no!"

"The person who killed him was himself. If not suicide, what else could it be?" Liu Tianen was a little confused about what the young man wanted to express.

Zhou Xuan put the broken Nuo mask on his face, stared at Liu Tianen through the eye holes of the mask, and said, "Blood sacrifice ceremony!"

"Mr. Dai is both the host of the ceremony and the sacrifice of the ceremony!"

(End of this chapter)