Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 312 is definitely not Sixth Aunt.
To be on the safe side, Ran Qing also inquired whether there was a red gate on the road to the head.

Old Sheepskin also inquired about this matter.

At least so far, there has been no news of a red gate on the road to beheading.

The fact that the gates of hell were wide open is no longer a secret after these two days of speculation.

It seems that everyone in Moonlit City connected to the Yin-Yang Dao knows that the Ghost Gate has been opened in the city.

As a result, informants like Old Sheepskin were able to get wind of things very quickly.

After confirming the latest situation over the phone, Ran Qing shared the news with her companion.

Hearing that the slaughterhouse had opened its red gates, Long Zongshu hesitated: "Then it seems we have no choice..."

Once the Ghost Gate appears, those practicing unorthodox metaphysics must get away from it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, at midnight when the gates of hell open, any unorthodox practitioners who appear near the gates of hell will surely die.

Now that a "ghost gate" has appeared at the slaughterhouse, Ran Qing and his group's best option is naturally the midnight minibus on the "cut-head road".

Faced with this situation, Mo Li stopped speaking, seemingly acquiescing to the idea of ​​going to the beheading road.

But Ran Qing suddenly said, "Even if the red gate is open, it doesn't mean we can't go. When we were on Longchang Street, didn't we catch the female ghost of Longchang Street before midnight?"

"As long as we time it right and catch the ghost and leave before midnight, we can still escape unscathed... What do you think, Mo Li?"

Ran Qing looked at Mo Li and earnestly asked for his opinion.

Under the sunlight, Ran Qing's gaze was intense, as if she were trying to gain some kind of affirmation from Mo Li.

But at this moment, facing Ran Qing's bright eyes, Mo Li subconsciously looked away, lowered his eyes and said, "...I don't know, I'm just worried that the person who wrote the booklet is up to no good."

“But Zongshu is right, there’s nothing wrong with the contents of this booklet. They haven’t harmed us before, so there’s no reason for them to harm us only in the last few times.”

"It's also possible that it was really arranged by the old woman. Since she arranged for us to go to the midnight minibus instead of the 857 slaughterhouse, she must have had her reasons..."

Mo Li, who had previously tried to persuade Ran Qing to go to the 857 slaughterhouse, was now wavering.

The fact that Hongmen appeared at the 857 slaughterhouse seems to have had some impact on her.

Mo Li seems to be afraid of the Red Gate...

As long as you leave before midnight, there should be no danger.

But the news that the red gate had been opened at the slaughterhouse immediately clouded her judgment.

Faced with Mo Li's sudden wavering, Ran Qing gave her a deep look but didn't say anything more.

Ran Qing calmly accepted the reasons given by Mo Li.

"Okay, then let's go to Headless Street tonight and find that midnight minibus."

Long Zongshu suddenly said, "Actually, we don't have to be in such a hurry. Before we catch the last ghost, perhaps we can catch the person who wrote the booklet..."

Ran Qing was taken aback by Long Zongshu's words.

How do you catch them?

There's no target at all; we have no idea who wrote it. Does the Long family possess some ancestral secret technique that allows them to trace the writer's whereabouts through handwriting?
If such a secret technique really existed, it would be too sinister...

Ran Qing was confused.

Long Zongshu then looked at Ran Qing and said, "Ran Qing, you've been ignoring someone... Don't you think Li Hongye is strange?"

Ran Qing was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "What do you mean?"

Long Zongshu said, "First of all, it seems that Li Hongye can monitor your every move. Last night before we set off, she made an emergency call to warn us, which means that she can keep track of your situation through some means."

“If we hadn’t listened to her last night and had gone straight to Xiong Dacheng, we might already be captured by that ghost-raising man. Your aunt also said that Xiong Dacheng is a trap they’ve set in plain sight; whoever touches him will die.”

"But Li Hongye knows this secret. This proves that she knows a lot about the secrets of these ghost breeders. She even instructed you to steal the life tablets of the ghost breeders before."

“Your aunt also said that Li Hongye’s mother’s death was closely related to this group of ghost breeders. Li Hongye’s mother was clearly in cahoots with these ghost breeders, or at least on the same side.”

"However, Li Hongye did not want to harm you. On the contrary, she let you go at the crucial moment and allowed you to kill the ghost she left outside."

"But the problem is, if she wanted to help you, she could actually do much more, right?"

"Based on the way of death with the red coffin lid, the blood corpses and vengeful ghosts created by burying the family of three would be extremely fierce and powerful evil spirits."

"Before her ghost form was severed, the resentment of the three blood corpses of her family of three was superimposed on her, so she should be able to do more."

"But after she died, the only thing she did openly was to come and scare you, and then make you cut off her ghostly form..."

As Long Zongshu spoke, he unconsciously scratched his head: "After her ghost body was severed, she completely vanished from the face of the earth without any trace. I thought she was haunted by her mother's resentment."

"But the fact that she called to warn you last night proves she still has a way to find you. Yet all this time, she's just been watching you, doing nothing..."

Long Zongshu shrugged and said, "How about we go to the back of Plum Blossom Mountain tonight and try to suppress those two bloody corpses of her parents?"

"Although those two blood corpses are ferocious, since you have prepared to invite the ancestral tablets of past masters, inviting the ancestral tablets once should be enough to subdue the blood corpses."

Long Zongshu's reminder silenced Ran Qing.

After a few seconds, Ran Qing slowly said, "...So you think this booklet might have been copied by Li Hongye?"

Long Zongshu nodded and said, "I think it's possible... Her family of three were buried in red coffins at the same time. That kind of burial method, combined with her father's corpse-refining technique, using so many dead people in the entire Plum Blossom Mountain Cemetery as a furnace, plus the blood relatives of the three of them being buried together as a catalyst, would create an extremely ferocious ghost."

"Her ghost form at that time was probably not much weaker than those ancient evil ghosts deep in the Wujiang ghost realm."

"Even a skilled spirit medium like Aunt Liu had a hard time dealing with it, and that was only because Li Hongye deliberately let her win."

"So, given that Li Hongye didn't want to harm you, and even wanted to help you, and she was so powerful at the time, why didn't she do anything else to help you? She didn't even leave you any clues. Wasn't she afraid you'd accidentally run into other ghost breeders...?"

"At that time, you knew nothing. If you accidentally bumped into the ghost keeper or failed to obtain the Ghost Luo Gu Coin, you would die."

Long Zongshu said, "And this booklet, with its order of ghost-catching, just happens to guide you to the safest and most reliable route for catching ghosts, in a strong-weak order. At the same time, it avoids all ghost-raising people and also gets you a lot of Ghost Luo Ancient Coins."

"So much so that we now know many details about the ghost breeders, and have even killed a human-faced demon, yet the ghost breeders know nothing about us..."

"Excuse me for speaking frankly, but if all of this was planned in advance, Aunt Liu certainly couldn't have done it so perfectly, nor would she have done it this way."

"If Aunt Liu knew so much about the ghost breeder, she would have just told you before she died. Why would she leave clues for you to dig out little by little?"

(End of this chapter)