Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 605 What a coincidence, I happen to know how to do it.

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Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran suddenly realized, "Oh, sorry, you're too thin, I didn't recognize you at first."

Xiao Ran thought to herself, "I've heard this kind of talk a lot, but this is the first time I've actually heard it."

Xiao Ran looked the thing up and down and asked, "Are you a spirit worshipped by the Zhao family's great-grandmother?"

Upon hearing Xiao Ran's question, the raccoon fairy looked up at Xiao Ran in surprise, quite shocked that Xiao Ran could actually tell its origin.

"Hmph, you wretched child, I know your background perfectly well, otherwise why would I have saved you? Tell me honestly, how did you end up here?"

Xiao Ran snorted coldly, staring intently at the raccoon fairy and pressing for an answer.

This time, the raccoon fairy was really frightened, and for a moment, she was even less able to judge Xiao Ran's true strength.

He immediately explained without any hesitation: "Thank you for saving me, sir. As you said, I am a spirit worshipped by the Zhao family. After the old master passed away, I was brought here by the young master. Later, some trivial matters occurred, and the young master ordered me to suppress evil spirits. However, I did not expect to lose contact with the young master in the end. I was smeared by those beasts and brought here to be suppressed by an evil god. If it weren't for your help, sir, I would have been doomed."

The raccoon briefly recounted everything he knew.

Actually, this matter dates back at least seventy years.

How could it have been so long ago? Because this story needs to be told from the beginning.

At that time, Los Angeles also benefited from the era's development. Experts from Big Bear came to support Los Angeles' development, and industries such as tractors and White Horse Heavy Industry were established one after another.

The city was slowly being replanned. At that time, some areas were difficult to plan. Why? Because those places would be prime locations in the city center now, but back then they were wastelands or even cemeteries.

In the end, no one knows which brilliant person suddenly decided to allocate this mass grave to the Fifth Hospital.

There's a long-standing belief that building schools or hospitals on cemeteries will suppress the yin energy.

Therefore, most horror stories take place in these two places.

That's not entirely wrong, but the people who made that decision on a whim didn't consider whether sending a group of mentally ill people to this place would actually help them recover.
These mentally ill individuals are inherently weaker than normal people, possessing the three, five, and seven vital essences.

Once you get splashed by the filth here, wow, things really get really funny.

Every few days, someone commits suicide at the hospital. It's not just patients who commit suicide, but also doctors, and even a nurse who cut off her own head.

The matter had escalated to such a great extent that the hospital leadership had no choice but to try to find someone to help them. After making inquiries and asking around, they finally found the Zhao family.

Zhao Qingming came to the hospital in person and immediately knew where the problem lay.

With Zhao Qingming's skills, catching demons and exorcising ghosts would be a piece of cake, but the situation at this hospital is somewhat special.

It turns out that there was originally a female corpse buried in this mass grave. The woman was nine months pregnant when she died.

The death of two lives, one unborn and one unborn, is already a great taboo, as the mother and child ghosts are extremely resentful. Moreover, they were buried in this mass grave, which happens to be a place where yin energy gathers. Over time, the female corpse transformed into a vengeful ghost, with resentment soaring to the heavens.

In order to build a hospital, they dug up her grave, which made her resentment even stronger, and she actually cultivated to the level of a ghost king.

She was responsible for almost all the murders that have occurred at the hospital recently.

Even Zhao Qingming couldn't do anything about this mother-and-child ghost for the time being.

So they set up a shrine on the fourth floor of the hospital and moved the spirits from their home there to suppress evil spirits.

Zhao Qingming also had his own ideas, and in exchange for it, he got a private room in the hospital.

Originally, Zhao Qingming's idea was to move the shrine here so that he could also perform rituals to help the departed souls in the hospital and cultivate himself.

In the following years, with Zhao Qingming there, things returned to normal at the hospital. But who would have thought that what happened next would completely exceed Zhao Qingming's expectations?

As the saying goes, one bad teammate is worse than ten good opponents.

A huge scandal suddenly broke out at the hospital.

A middle-aged doctor at the hospital fell in love with a patient and had a relationship with her, resulting in the patient becoming pregnant.

As the patient's belly grew larger, the matter could no longer be kept secret. First, the patient's family caused a scene at the hospital, and later the doctor's family also joined in, hurling insults at the female patient, calling her a mistress.

With both sides making a scene, the doctor actually ran away, leaving the female patient caught in the middle, unable to bear the shock, and ultimately committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Now the evil spirits that were originally suppressed have found an opportunity. These corpses, with one dead and one unborn, are perfect targets for possession.

After the woman jumped off the building, he immediately possessed her body, taking over the corpse of the woman and the body of the child in her womb.

Upon hearing the news, Zhao Qingming rushed over and immediately noticed that something was wrong with the woman.

Realizing that things were going terribly wrong, and that if the woman were to give birth to the child, things would be in serious trouble.

In his haste, he immediately decided to take action against the woman, intending to eliminate her first to prevent future troubles.

The hospital staff were terrified. The incident had escalated to such a degree that the hospital was also partly to blame. Fortunately, they were relieved to see that the woman seemed to be alright, when Zhao Qingming came running over with a knife, shouting that he would kill her now or the hospital would never have peace.

Now, Zhao Qingming was actually treated as a mentally ill person and locked up by the hospital staff.

After the evil spirit possessed the woman's body, the hospital dared not be careless and took meticulous care of her. Not long after, she gave birth to a ghost baby.

On the very day the ghost baby was born, the hospital was shrouded in immense resentment, and the raccoon spirit found itself there in a daze. At first, things were alright; although the place was eerie, it was also a treasure trove for the raccoon spirit to cultivate.

Since we can't get out, we might as well stay here and cultivate.

As a result, when the people from Changchun arrived, they used evil magic to defile the shrine, knocked down the position of the raccoon spirit, replaced it with the position of an evil god, and suppressed it under the shrine.

If it weren't for Xiao Ran, who knows when it would have been able to struggle free?

After the raccoon fairy finished recounting the whole story, Xiao Ran suddenly realized what had happened.

"I see. That explains why Grandpa Zhao's spirit wasn't with him when I saw him last time."

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran turned to look at the rooms behind her, and asked with a sudden thought, "Then what's the deal with these rooms, and who is Zhang Jingmin?"

“Zhang Jingmin is that evil spirit.” The raccoon fairy revealed a cold, anthropomorphic smile as it explained to Xiao Ran, “As the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes. After this evil spirit possessed a body, it gave birth to a ghost fetus. It thought everything would be fine, but unexpectedly, the ghost fetus took away most of her power, causing her to fall into a long slumber.”

After saying that, the raccoon spirit frowned again: "But now it seems that this evil spirit has been revived, and these rooms are actually the result of her distracting thoughts materializing."

"She is definitely looking for that ghost baby from back then, and most likely she wants to devour it. Sir, you must not hesitate. You must find her as soon as possible. Once she finds that ghost baby, I'm afraid few people will be able to subdue her."

The raccoon fairy shook its head and urged Xiao Ran on.

"That's it."

Xiao Ran squinted, her mind racing.

“Zhang Qi, Zhang Jingmin… I understand now, so that’s how it is. No wonder this woman insisted on finding that girl. It turns out that after all this, Zhang Qi is Zhang Jingmin. As for the girl with all her limbs amputated that I saw in my dream, she was probably the so-called ghost baby.”

After gathering her thoughts, Xiao Ran turned and asked, "Do you have a way to get me off this floor first?"

"This one……"

Upon hearing this, the raccoon immortal said with a somewhat troubled expression, "I have a way to leave, but I can't take you with me."

"What's the meaning??"

“I am a spirit immortal, but not an old immortal. The old immortals in the Northeast have the ability to borrow people to act, but spirit immortals are the opposite. They need someone to urge them on. You don’t understand the Zhao family’s methods. I have all the skills, but I can’t do anything about it.”

Lingxian and Laoxian are different.

Without the Zhao family's skills, even a spirit that has been worshipped for a hundred years is merely a facade.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran thought carefully and asked, "Does it mean that as long as it's something from the Zhao family, it will be fine?"

"Yes, anything that comes from the Zhao family is fine. What? You know how?"

The raccoon fairy looked at Xiao Ran with a puzzled expression.

The Zhao family's skills are not something anyone can learn; they are passed down through generations by a single member and never taught to outsiders. Could this kid possibly be a member of the Zhao family?

Just as the raccoon fairy was puzzled.

Xiao Ran took out a sachet from her spatial storage and pulled out three yellow incense sticks.

"What a coincidence, I actually know one of the Zhao family's skills."

As he said this, Xiao Ran held three sticks of incense in his hands, moving back and forth four times while silently chanting incantations.

"you!!"

Seeing this familiar technique, the raccoon fairy's face showed shock, and she looked at Xiao Ran with disbelief: "You...you...you are a descendant of the Zhao family?"

Xiao Ran raised one eyelid and rolled her eyes at the raccoon fairy.

His legs stomped the ground with a peculiar rhythm, then he picked up a stick of incense and chanted, "The essence of the mysterious darkness, the Kan trigram reveals the nature, stand!"

As Xiao Ran chanted the incantation, he produced a yellow incense stick from his hand and placed it upright on his shoulder.

"The metal element of Qian (乾) is the foundation of Qi (vital energy), thus it is established!"

These two incense sticks, one on each side, rest on the shoulders. The one on the left, burning smoldering, represents kidney fire, while the one on the right, burning brightly, represents lung fire.

The last incense stick was placed above Xiao Ran's head.

He chanted the incantation: "Life essence converges, the three lights of the sun and moon, nature and life transform into spirit, stand!"

A candle stood atop his head, its flame flickering like a dream, dazzlingly bright.

The raccoon fairy's eyes lit up, and it roared, "Here I come!"

After saying that, his body transformed into a wisp of green light and merged into the incense and candles behind Xiao Ran.

In an instant, Xiao Ran was surrounded by flashes of light. A raccoon beast the size of a calf, its feet treading on crimson light, leaped out from the clouds and carried Xiao Ran on its back. With a leap, its four claws ripped open a large gash in the air...

(End of this chapter)