Chapter 100

At this moment, it felt as if all the previous paving and preparation had become a joke, and the painstakingly earned points and array setups had all turned into useless efforts.

Lin Shuyou was about to tear off the Qingxin Talisman from his body to initiate the spirit medium for god descent; Tan Wenbin, holding an umbrella in his left hand and a shovel in his right, also wanted to stand up and protect Xiao Yuan.

A strong sense of frustration can lead some people into negative decadence, but it can also stimulate desperate struggle in others.

Since they’ve been discovered, let’s just do it directly!

At this moment, Li Zhuoyuan’s hands fell on the shoulders of the two men, gently pressing them down.

The two who were about to leap forward immediately ceased their actions.

An excellent team can conduct full democratic discussion beforehand, but during an event, there can only be one will.

It wasn’t that the teenager couldn’t accept being played with, but he couldn’t understand the old woman’s intention in doing so.

Yu Popo had discovered their presence long ago, yet she deliberately watched them set up so many arrays under her nose, only to appear at the critical moment and let out a mocking laugh.

Even if she wanted to deliberately tire them out, it didn’t make sense because she still gave them enough rest time.

If the opponent was truly powerful and terrifying enough to arbitrarily do such meaningless things, then was there any difference between attacking proactively now and passively waiting for the opponent to strike first?

Most importantly, Li Zhuoyuan discovered that the opponent was not an undead but a living person, meaning that although her appearance was almost identical to that of ‘Yu Popo’, she was not the real ‘Yu Popo’.

No matter what, Li Zhuoyuan’s first strike had to fall on Yu Popo’s body; no one else was qualified.

It was precisely this brief calm at the critical moment that led to a new turn in the situation.

In front, the sound of children’s laughter suddenly came.

“Hee hee……”

“Ha ha……”

“He he……”

It was the voices of many children, all laughing, but the laughter was very mechanical and formal. You could even imagine in your mind the scene of them laughing skin-deep, as if it were a forced emission following a rule.

In the current line of sight, there wasn’t a single child’s figure.

Li Zhuoyuan knew that if he were to enter the underworld (zou yin) now, he would be able to see a large group of children gathering towards the old woman.

That is to say, the object the old woman just shouted at was not the three of them.

Lin Shuyou, being able to keenly perceive dirty things, understood.

Tan Wenbin could enter the underworld, and although he didn’t have Xiao Yuan’s keen non-underworld perception, he also heard some illusory sounds. Coupled with Xiao Yuan’s attitude, he could somewhat understand.

Lin Shuyou and Tan Wenbin both lowered their heads, pressing their foreheads against the ground, quickly digesting their nervous emotions while calming their rapidly beating hearts.

This wasn’t fear, but the rapid change in identity from night attacker to under the bright light and then retreating back to the night – a normal person couldn’t handle such a rapid shift in roles.

Only Li Zhuoyuan continued to observe the changes ahead.

The old woman’s legs were very long now, and she was holding a lantern, constantly looking around, not searching in the distance, but rather like a kindergarten teacher caring for a group of children surrounding her.

“Do you… miss your dad and mom yet…”

It was still the children’s mechanically styled laughter, and no one answered this question.

Or perhaps, these ‘children’ no longer remembered their birth parents.

“Let me tell you… your dad and mom… miss you very much…”

The old woman began to swing the lantern in her hand, like swinging two leather whips.

Vaguely, Li Zhuoyuan could feel a slight pain in his eardrums.

This was in a non-underworld state. If he really entered the underworld, he would see the cruelty of the old woman’s methods.

No wonder when he showed Beibei the image of Yu Popo, Beibei was immediately scared and cried, and even when he hypnotized Beibei to recall things about Yu Popo, Beibei could be shocked awake.

Wounds left on the body can be gradually smoothed by time, but spiritual whipping is likely to leave permanent trauma.

Beibei had already been sold to Wang Chao Nan’s couple for half a year. This couple was definitely not good people, but in treating this ‘son’, they actually didn’t commit any illness.

This also meant that even if these children had been sold, the old woman could still use some means to imprison a part of them.

Normally, it wasn’t obvious at all, and they could live normal lives; the fear only existed deep in their sealed hearts.

But there would eventually be an impact in the future, similar to a curse. As these children gradually grew up and matured, this kind of fearful experience that even they couldn’t articulate would slowly influence their character and even cause their personalities to begin to distort.

Under the whipping, the ‘children’s’ laughter stopped, replaced by the choking sobs of adults, one after another.

This was the grief of the children’s parents.

She was stimulating the parents’ inner sorrow and tears by tormenting the children.

And for those parents who had lost their flesh and blood, this was possibly just another ordinary night, when they washed their faces with tears in dreams because they missed their children.

Water stains appeared in the old woman’s two white lanterns, and they grew more and more, gradually shaking with the lanterns.

But suddenly, she paused for a moment.

She reached out, dug a hole in one lantern, and released a half-black, half-white liquid.

Then, she smoothed the hole with another stroke.

She seemed very angry, her eyes revealing dissatisfaction and anger, as if she had received unqualified dirty goods that had almost contaminated other good products.

The old woman turned around, taking her harvest from tonight, and walked back.

The ‘children’s’ movements and the adults’ crying sounds gradually dissipated as well.

After her figure returned to the white shed, everything returned to quiet, as if nothing had ever happened.

Li Zhuoyuan knew that he had just witnessed a ceremony, or rather, a harvest.

He suddenly understood why the people of the acrobatic troupe were so attentive to parents who brought their children to play together.

Because harvest needed to be efficient.

Due to objective reality, many parents’ love for their children was no less than others, yet they were unable to always be by their children’s side as they grew up.

But from the perspective of the acrobatic troupe, their harvest also had a cost, so they chose the raw materials with the highest ‘oil yield’.

Furthermore, although the proportion was very low, parents who didn’t love or simply didn’t care for their own children did exist in this world.

After parents divorced and started new families, it was not uncommon for them to view their original child as a burden.

And also like himself…

When it came to himself, Li Zhuoyuan found that he didn’t really belong to this category.

Although his father had left his life, Li Zhuoyuan could understand him.

As for Li Lan…

Even Li Zhuoyuan couldn’t say that Li Lan didn’t care about him.

She refused to talk on the phone with his birth parents and let her secretary take over, but when her son took the microphone, she came back and took the microphone again, although the words she said were very unpleasant.

She would rather participate in extremely dangerous projects, rather show a hysterical attitude, and also want to cut her son out of her life. Seen from the opposite angle, even facing life and death, even being painfully crazy, she couldn’t erase her son from her consciousness. Just say whether she cared or not.

After falling back to the slope, Li Zhuoyuan said to Lin Shuyou: “Open your face (kai lian) then.”

“Alright, okay.”

Lin Shuyou opened his makeup box and began to apply makeup to himself.

In fact, without opening the face or wearing a costume, one could also initiate the spirit medium.

If it weren’t for Li Zhuoyuan’s own special reasons that made inviting gods difficult, he could have just pinched a red mark on his face on the night school playground and successfully initiated the spirit medium.

This wasn’t essential, but a sense of ritual, to enhance one’s confidence and immersion, just like Taiye doing rituals. Rationally speaking, it was useless, but it could give him personally and his family great emotional value.

Lin Shuyou had the same reason; he needed to switch personalities through opening his face.

And the more he relied on this method, the easier it was to intensify personality division. It could be said that his later mental problems were almost inevitable.

“That old woman just now wasn’t Yu Popo. Yu Popo’s true body should still be in that white shed. Our first target is still there.

When we launch the attack, we’ll rush the white shed together. You two are responsible for helping me clear the way and block interference. I’ll go destroy her true body.”

“Okay.” Tan Wenbin nodded forcefully while touching his pocket and waist.

Lin Shuyou, with half of his face painted, then only lightly asked: “Exactly what kind of evil spirit is it? Listening to it feels a bit strange.”

Tan Wenbin raised an eyebrow. If the environment weren’t suitable, he estimated he would directly hit Lin Shuyou on the head and curse: are you still pretending?

Li Zhuoyuan answered: “A mud fetus of fallen emotions (duoluo qinggan nitai).”

Lin Shuyou was stunned for a moment, lightly smacking his lips: “So it’s replenishing itself.”

Earlier, Li Zhuoyuan had only vaguely judged. Now, after witnessing the scene just now, he could confirm.

The mud fetus of fallen emotions recorded in Wei Zhengdao’s book wasn’t a type of undead but referred to a method of self-repair for an undead.

Undead were born from resentment. Some powerful undead, after developing intelligence, would try to heal themselves like people.

The mud fetus of fallen emotions was a method of plundering human emotional ties as raw materials to repair its own damage. This was an evil technique that severely harmed heaven and earth.

The Yin family genealogy recorded that during the mid-Ming Dynasty, a person from the Yin family, while traveling, accidentally met two fishing experts by a lake. After knowing that he was a descendant of Yin Changsheng, the two experts also invited him to sit down and chat together.

Of course, essentially, he just relied on the fame of his ancestors to gain the qualification to listen.

The two experts were chatting about Lingxiao Shangqing Tong Lei Yuanyang Miao Fei Yuanzhen Jun.

One expert said that Zhenjun was deceived by some evil daoists and believed in the saying that two dragons cannot see each other.

The other expert smiled and said: perhaps that evil daoist was sculpting a mud fetus of fallen emotions for some venerable evil spirit.

This Yin family ancestor ended his travels and after returning to Fengdu and docking, he wrote down this experience and included it in the genealogy.

In his tone, he described this as hearing two experts discuss matters of heavenly immortals.

Li Zhuoyuan didn’t know whether the opponent was deliberately avoiding taboos or truly didn’t know that the emperor with such a long prefix was none other than the Jiajing Emperor.

But from this record, it could be seen that the method of the mud fetus of fallen emotions had a very long inheritance time, and someone even once set their sights on the heavenly family father and son. It was also unknown exactly which venerable and terrifying undead was being repaired.

However, very obviously, Yu Popo didn’t receive that kind of treatment. She could only rely on trafficking children and intercepting the emotional ties of parents to their flesh and blood to heal herself. She walked the path of winning by quantity.

She was like a heavily injured wild beast, hibernating in a dark corner, silently licking her own wounds.

The introduction of the Yu family acrobatic troupe printed on the acrobatic troupe’s poster stated that their troupe was established in 1950.

A very subtle year. The Dragon King Liu and Dragon King Qin families had just interrupted their inheritance due to various reasons. She had just crawled ashore from the dark corner and began to heal herself with this sinister method.

In the end, it was because there was no Dragon King in the river that various filthy things from below gradually crawled ashore.

Her true body should have been suppressed by some Dragon King of the Qin and Liu families back then. This is why she felt she was okay again and began to come to A Li’s front to hold a lantern and send curses.

Especially after he issued a grand vow warning, the next day, other filthy evil spirits all retreated far away, yet she still dared to stand in the forefront, at the edge of the threshold, showing off.

It really fit her behavioral style: doing unseen shady things while still happily wanting to be the leader.

Li Zhuoyuan chose her as his first self-selected question after formally entering the river. It wasn’t an impulse. A truly terrifying and powerful undead would probably disdain to take advantage of someone’s decline and entangle a lonely girl.

This batch that came to entangle him were, in Liu Yumei’s words, ‘bullies who fear the strong and prey on the weak trash’.

And this one was still the most brainless one among this group that couldn’t make it to the stage.

But wasn’t that just right for him to choose?

Lin Shuyou’s face was painted. This time, he couldn’t see the original simple purity anymore. Between his eyebrows overflowed a kind of high-spirited confidence.

“When the Official General Leader is possessed by a spirit, he only kills evil spirits and does not ferry them. You two, especially you, stay away from me. I’m afraid the child still remembers you deceiving Him last time and holds a grudge against you.”

Tan Wenbin was about to open his mouth but was stopped by Li Zhuoyuan.

The teenager’s face showed a smile. He very calmly said: “Okay.”

Lin Shuyou: “I respect your identity, but you have to wait until you formally enter the river before you can truly help.”

Teenager: “Correct, you are right.”

This guy’s personality contrast was even more severe than last time. Perhaps it was because he had opened his face again and recalled the humiliation from last time.

However, although he said he knew he was a descendant of the Dragon King family, he didn’t know he had already entered the river.

This was his first tribulation after formally entering the river. Even if Yu Popo was stupid, her injury was not recovered now. At least she was an undead that was personally suppressed by a Dragon King back then.

Go ahead, you can do it! I hope you, this Official General Leader, can help me solve this question directly.

Not to mention you haven’t officially started the spirit medium yet, even if the White Crane Child (Baihe Tongzi) descends, when He is beaten and cries out, he will still have to seek cooperation and help from him.

Li Zhuoyuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him now. He knew that Lin Shuyou was divided into three stages: Lin Shuyou, him after opening his face, and White Crane Child.

This ‘him after opening his face’ was arrogant in personality but hadn’t enhanced his strength because he hadn’t started the spirit medium. He belonged to the stage of being both arrogant and weak.

There was nothing good to talk about with this kind of person.

“Squeak……”

The door of the white shed in the distance was opened again. The old woman from earlier seemed to have removed her makeup and changed into ordinary clothes. Apart from her appearance and posture being a bit like Yu Popo, she looked more like a hunched old hag.

The old woman walked out, making a light sound like a cicada. Soon, the young woman who was performing ‘talking love with a python’ during the day walked out from the tent next door.

The young woman supported the old woman, and the two walked together to the very end, where there was a larger tent, presumably storing the troupe’s materials and equipment.

Li Zhuoyuan said in a deep voice: “The opportunity has come, take action!”

Lin Shuyou tore off the Qingxin Talisman from his body, took out a trident half an arm long from his backpack, then twisted his neck, chanted some incantations in his mouth, and his entire temperament changed with it.

“Evil demons and crooked ways, only kill and not ferry~”

As soon as the words fell, his eyes turned into vertical pupils, and White Crane Child was possessed.

White Crane Child lowered his head and looked at Li Zhuoyuan.

Li Zhuoyuan met His gaze.

Perhaps because there was a proper big evil spirit in front of him, White Crane Child didn’t settle the account of being deceived last time. Instead, he took three steps, praising two and feigning one. His figure alternated like afterimages, going straight to the location of the old woman and the young woman.

Tan Wenbin said in surprise: “Not there, it’s……”

“Binbin brother, same, let’s go!”

Li Zhuoyuan ran towards the white shed, and Tan Wenbin followed closely.

According to the original plan, the three of them should have rushed the white shed together, but when making this plan, Li Zhuoyuan had already planned for contingencies.

Anyway, White Crane Child would find the most powerful evil spirit on the scene by himself, so let Him go. Whether actively attacking or passively defending, He could at least play the role of holding the opponent.

As a tool person, it was fine as long as he could play his role.

Running to the front of the white shed, Li Zhuoyuan lifted the blanket curtain and went in, facing the mud fetus of Yu Popo on the water jar.

Instantly, Yu Popo’s mud fetus seemed to start trembling.

“Does it recognize me?”

The mud fetus’s trembling became more intense, as if seeking help.

“Binbin, smash her jar!”

“Coming!”

Tan Wenbin threw down the Luo Sheng umbrella, switched to holding the Yellow River shovel with both hands, and smashed it towards the water jar with all his might.

“Umbrella……”

Li Zhuoyuan didn’t expect Binbin to throw away his umbrella, but it was too late to remind him. He could only move a bit behind Binbin.

“Bang!”

The water jar was smashed, and some of the black water inside inevitably splashed out, a little of it falling on Tan Wenbin’s body.

Tan Wenbin was suddenly filled with sorrow. He, whose first love was still there, felt as if he suddenly had many, many children, and all these children were being trafficked away from him.

His heart ached, felt bitter, and uncomfortable.

Tears flowed out unconsciously.

“Xiao Yuan brother…… why…… so sad…… woo woo……”

“Guard the door.”

The water jar was smashed, but the mud fetus-like figure had high stilts on its feet, still maintaining a standing posture without moving.

Li Zhuoyuan came in front of her, his eyes widened, and he entered the underworld.

In his new vision, the entire body of the mud fetus-like figure in front of him was surrounded by black fog, covered in cracks, like a porcelain object that had shattered on the ground and then been carefully put back together piece by piece.

She was already mostly sewn up, only lacking her eyes, which were still black and empty.

Give her a little more time, and her eyes could also be filled in. At that time, even if broken, at least it would be put together as a whole.

No wonder she couldn’t resist standing up first to provoke; she felt she could stand up again soon.

Li Zhuoyuan deeply realized how correct it was to choose his own question and follow the causal link.

This not only gave him the initiative but also struck before the opponent had completely recovered.

He put both hands in his pockets, pinched a seal mud, and then painted curses on each of his arms.

Subsequently, he cut his ring fingers with his thumbnail, drew fingertip blood, and painted another layer of curses on both arms.

Immediately after, the broken evil talismans personally painted by A Li were spread out and stuck all over his arms.

Finally, Li Zhuoyuan forcefully bit off the tip of his tongue, and a mouthful of fresh tongue tip essence blood sprayed out, sprinkling on the talisman paper.

Since it was a sneak attack, and since he had this one chance to strike, he had to use all his strength.

Ordinary people couldn’t even stack these methods together like this. Only a teenager would lie in bed at night while sleeping and research this in his mind.

Done neatly, the blood vessels in Li Zhuoyuan’s eyes were dense. He pinched a seal with both hands, first sliding his right thumb to his left fingertip, then sliding his left thumb to his right fingertip.

Then, he pressed his two thumbs towards Yu Popo’s empty eyes! This was her weakness, her biggest flaw now.

“Boom!”

A strong air wave rolled out, and an ear-piercing scream came from inside the mud fetus-like figure. More fresh blood seeped out from the body of the mud fetus-like figure.

So many years of repair, so many years of forbearance, accumulated step by step, at this moment, all were forcefully ignited by the teenager.

“Patta…… patta…… patta……”

The mud fetus began to fall off, gradually revealing the rotten and wriggling meat inside, like a humanoid monster.

She opened both arms and grabbed forward.

Li Zhuoyuan dodged to the side. The moment her hands touched the ground, a pit was grabbed out of the ground, and soil and stones from the shed flew and splashed.

When she swept her arms horizontally again, Li Zhuoyuan predicted her action and went around to her back.

Her hand touched the shed wall, and with a “hula”, the entire shed was flipped over and pulled out.

She was blind, and she was seriously injured now, but even in her current state, she still had terrifying destructive power.

She was looking for Li Zhuoyuan, looking for the teenager who made her efforts in vain.

The moment she was about to turn her body again, Li Zhuoyuan pulled with both hands and kicked with both legs, directly climbing onto her tall back.

Benefiting from often being on Runsheng’s back, Li Zhuoyuan was very familiar with this set of actions.

For this blinded wild beast, the most dangerous place was instead the safest place.

More importantly, he still had to continue to bleed her!

Li Zhuoyuan tied a seal with both hands, the twelve laws of Fengdu, burning undead with karmic fire.

Last time, when dealing with that corpse demon at the construction site, Li Zhuoyuan used this move at the end to send that snake thoroughly on its way.

At this moment, seen in reality, the line of sight at the position of the teenager’s hands appeared bent and twisted. Subsequently, the teenager’s hands probed down, and his fingertips dug into the opponent’s eye sockets.

“Ah ah ah!!!”

Screams came again, and this time they were more tragic than before.

Because earlier Li Zhuoyuan destroyed her healing accumulation, now, Li Zhuoyuan was attempting to fundamentally exterminate her!

Previously, when the Dragon Kings of the Qin and Liu families suppressed her, they couldn’t clean her up because even though her flesh was broken, her resentment hadn’t dispersed, which gave her a chance to make a comeback.

But this time, she had already consumed a large amount of resentment to regroup. This time, if scattered again, she would be completely wiped out.

Perhaps, the Dragon King back then was thinking of letting himself or his descendants clean up the aftermath later, but he didn’t expect his family to encounter such an accident, which instead gave these trash a chance to rise again.

Under the burning of karmic fire, Yu Popo was already mad, no longer even bothering to find the teenager on her body, but howling like crazy, turning in circles.

This kind of big movement naturally woke up the entire acrobatic troupe.

Many people came out from the trucks, from the sheds and tents.

But after these people came down, some started circling in place, some started fighting each other, and some knelt on the ground shedding tears.

The inner circle array arranged earlier played a role at this time. For ordinary people who didn’t understand the array, it was equivalent to encountering a very high-level ghost wall as soon as they got out of bed.

……

Inside the materials tent.

The old woman stood in front of the cages imprisoning Xu Dong and Liangliang. Two cages, one large and one small, imprisoned this pair of ‘father and son’.

Their hands and feet were all tied, and their mouths were still stuffed with cotton plugs. They could only make some sounds through their noses.

Rou Jie reached out and took away Xu Dong’s mouth plug, sternly asking: “He’s not your son?”

Xu Dong turned his head to look at Liangliang in the next door cage. His eyes revealed heartache, then he said viciously to Rou Jie: “He is.”

“Bang!”

Rou Jie kicked Xu Dong over.

She gritted her teeth, angry to death.

When collecting today, one wisp among them had a problem. Although it could change color, the texture was impure.

This meant that although it had the emotions of parents, it wasn’t from their own blood.

In short, this wisp was not only useless but also contaminated the same batch of collection.

It was fine yesterday, but today there was a problem. Today, this was the new collection.

For Rou Jie, children could be trafficked, and parents could not love them. At most, they were resold as defective products. But this kind, which could clearly change the color of water but was not related by blood, was the most annoying.

“You’re not this child’s birth father. His birth parents have no concern for him at all. What the hell are you worrying about here!”

Rou Jie kicked Xu Dong in the cage non-stop, kicking him until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he vomited fresh blood.

Earlier, she had thought of sending this Xu Dong to a black coal mine so that he could continue to provide concern and nourishment while alive. Now, she wanted him to die.

Suddenly, the old woman standing beside her began to tremble. She suddenly reached out and grabbed Rou Jie’s arm.

“What, something happened?”

Rou Jie was also greatly shocked. She no longer dealt with Xu Dong, who had ruined her plans, and walked out of the tent with the old woman.

But just as they came out, a trident appeared in front of them, stabbing directly towards the old woman.

The old woman, who had originally been hunched over, instantly straightened up. She first pushed Rou Jie away, then grabbed the trident with one hand. After a struggle, the trident stopped an inch in front of her brow.

A Rou saw the situation and wanted to come and help, but was glared at by the old woman.

She immediately understood and ran outside.

White Crane Child’s vertical pupils swept towards her, just about to intercept her.

But then he saw the old woman crouch down. While dodging the trident, she flipped both hands, and two lantern sticks appeared in her palms, striking swiftly towards White Crane Child’s chest.

White Crane Child’s figure was shocked, and his hands loosened. The empty stabbing trident fell downwards. He quickly grabbed it with both hands again, followed the momentum and exerted force, stabbing the trident into the old woman’s back, then ruthlessly pulled it to the side.

“Shh la……”

The robe, along with a layer of skin and flesh, was directly pulled down, exposing the body the old woman was hiding underneath.

All the flesh on her body seemed to be gathered on her face. Below her neck, she was actually emaciated like a mummy. Even old men on their deathbeds, with exhausted oil and dried lamps, were not this skinny.

The two bones in the old woman’s back began to dislocate, clamping the trident.

She straightened her body again, hitting White Crane Child’s arms hard with her shoulders to push them open, forcing White Crane Child to lose control of the trident.

Immediately after, the old woman prepared to flash away. Something had happened with the mud fetus, and she had to go there now.

The weaponless White Crane Child still pressed forward, punching and blocking her.

The old woman struck him with the sticks in her hands. White Crane Child didn’t dodge and took the two blows head-on.

Along with a “kacha” sound, his arm hung down.

But his other hand also probed out, grabbing the old woman’s body, or more precisely, grabbing a section of bone, and pulling it back.

This posture was like a person lifting a humanoid spider.

Immediately after, White Crane Child threw the lifted person ruthlessly towards the ground.

“Bang!”

A humanoid pit was smashed into the ground.

The old woman lay there motionless.

Just as he was about to reach out and pull out the trident to conduct the next step of cutting the prey, the old woman’s legs suddenly extended, extending under White Crane Child’s feet.

She instantly exerted force to hook and pull, and White Crane Child’s figure swayed backward, but he still strongly maintained a steady posture.

But the old woman took this opportunity to borrow force and flip up, standing up completely, and smashing the two sticks towards White Crane Child’s head.

White Crane Child seemed to know that he couldn’t avoid it, so he didn’t avoid it. He simply controlled the one arm that was still usable, clenched his fist, and smashed it towards the old woman’s chest.

“Bang! Bang!”

“Bang!”

The old woman was smashed flying out.

White Crane Child stood in his original spot, fresh blood gushing from his head. His figure swayed, and the vertical pupils in his eyes began to dissipate.

His chosen target was indeed correct. Before Li Zhuoyuan broke the real Yu Popo’s turtle shell, this old woman in front of him, who looked very similar to Yu Popo, was indeed the most powerful one in this acrobatic troupe.

When she was sixteen years old, she was sold to a landlord by her own parents and suffered all kinds of torture. After the landlord died, she was even required to be buried with him.

Benefiting from their reluctance to give her a good coffin, she dug herself out of the grave with her own hands after being buried. Dragging her bloody hands, she ran to the riverbank like a lonely ghost, picked up an earthenware jar, and a gentle voice came from inside the jar, soothing her at that time.

From then on, she became His servant.

She didn’t care about becoming more and more like Him. She thought this was her own glory and reward.

Reviving Him was her greatest obsession in this life.

“No one, can destroy Popo’s revival, no one can!”

While roaring in a low voice, she reached out and tidied up her chest, which had been hit and fractured, digging out the remaining fragments and throwing them to the ground.

This was to ensure that it wouldn’t affect her next action.

At the same time, she also expressed her inner doubt:

“Why here, will there be an Official General Leader?”

White Crane Child’s body was already swaying.

He took out three joss sticks and inserted them into his crane crown. The incense and candles ignited by themselves, leading the way to the Yellow Springs.

Fresh blood flowed from his forehead and quickly solidified. His limp arm also slowly lifted.

At this moment, an ear-piercing shrill whistle came. At the same moment, Li Zhuoyuan had already destroyed Yu Popo’s true body, and even attached karmic fire.

An anxious look appeared on the old woman’s face. She wanted to go, but as soon as she had the intention, White Crane Child also stepped across, blocking her.

……

Tan Wenbin was very uncomfortable now. He was still crying tears for those children he had never owned but had already lost.

He had originally obeyed orders and guarded the door of the white shed.

Then, the shed was flipped over, and he, who was guarding the door, suddenly had no door to guard.

He saw Xiao Yuan brother climbing onto the head of that bloody monster and digging out the monster’s eyes. He wanted to go and help, but that monster was really fierce. Just a casual wave could stir up an air wave, and a deep pit would appear under its feet.

Tan Wenbin felt that as long as he got a little closer, if he was scraped by the monster, he would instantly turn into a pool of meat paste.

Immediately after, the people in the acrobatic troupe woke up, and Tan Wenbin prepared to fight a group.

Then the array played its role, and this group of people were one by one trapped in their original places and couldn’t come out.

Tan Wenbin struck a pose for nothing and could only watch Zi brother in the distance continue to act as a Spanish bullfighter while shedding tears alone in the wind.

In his heart, he even thought about how he would describe his contribution to Runsheng and Yinmeng when he went back after this damn thing was over.

Tell them he just smashed a water jar?

Fortunately, fate didn’t disappoint the tears.

Tan Wenbin saw a figure staggering and rushing in from outside.

It was Rou Jie.

Her face was covered in palm prints, the corners of her mouth were split, and blood was flowing from her nose.

Compared to the other people in the acrobatic troupe, she was really ruthless to herself, using this extreme method to break the array’s influence and enter here.

Unfortunately, she didn’t know the array, and neither did her Popo. They only copied the gourd from the diagram given by ‘Yu Popo’ in her dream.

Mainly, they used this method to traffic children during performances. The parents who lost their children would go back home themselves in a daze, forgetting where they went and what they did today.

When Li Zhuoyuan watched them set up the performance shed in the afternoon, he already saw the level of this troupe’s array and would not hesitate to secretly arrange an array at their doorstep.

Seeing the bloody body roaring and circling on the spot like crazy, Rou Jie’s eyes were splitting with anger.

According to the progress, success was supposed to happen not long after. At that time, she would be blessed by ‘Yu Popo’ like her Popo.

But she didn’t expect that tonight, all her past efforts were wasted. This meant that even if she had to restart, she would have to walk the path her Popo had taken for decades.

She didn’t want to, she wasn’t willing. She was still young, and she didn’t want to become the way her Popo was now!

Rou Jie noticed the teenager on top.

“It’s you?”

She prepared to go forward and pull the teenager down because ‘Yu Popo’, for some reason, was only painfully turning in circles on the spot and completely disregarded the teenager on her body.

“Buzz!”

A Yellow River shovel blocked Rou Jie’s way.

Tan Wenbin cried and said at the same time:

“Woo woo…… woman…… your opponent…… is me.”

As soon as the crying sound fell,

Tan Wenbin didn’t wait for the opponent to respond and directly swung the shovel past.

Rou Jie dodged to the side, supporting herself with both hands on the ground.

Tan Wenbin held the shovel and cut horizontally again.

Rou Jie bounced up on the spot. While dodging the shovel, she also fell towards Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin lifted the shovel to try to swat her away, but as soon as he lifted the shovel, the edge was grabbed by the woman’s left hand.

She lifted the shovel head, then moved her shoulder forward along the shovel handle, and her right hand clenched into a fist and smashed it towards Tan Wenbin’s face.

Tan Wenbin retreated while reaching out and pressing a mechanism on the shovel handle.

Sharp saw teeth appeared at the shovel rod.

“Pu……”

Rou Jie’s shoulder was stabbed, and her whole body stopped in place.

The Yellow River shovel was originally a set of precise multi-functional assembly tools, with many small tricks inside. Runsheng could use it to directly swat people, breaking skill with force, but Binbin had meticulously read Zi brother’s design manual.

It was just that this wound wasn’t deep. While grabbing the shovel with one hand, Rou Jie lifted her leg and kicked towards Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin originally wanted to pull the saw and cut her open, but the problem was that this woman was very strong. He used all his strength, but couldn’t pull the shovel a bit.

Seeing the woman kicking, he could only loosen the shovel and retreat, falling to the ground in a very awkward manner.

In the end, although Rou Jie was not as powerful as her Popo, she walked the same path as her Popo. This kind of person no longer counted as an ordinary martial artist.

In the end, she would also become like her current Popo, neither human nor ghost.

Rou Jie pulled the shovel out of her shoulder, disregarding the wound, and swung the shovel, intending to swat Tan Wenbin, who was lying on the ground, to death.

Just at this moment, Tan Wenbin reached into his pocket, grabbed a handful, and sprinkled it towards her, immediately creating a white area in front of him.

Rou Jie was greatly shocked and dodged to the side.

When she touched the wound, a stinging pain transmitted.

“Lime?”

Tan Wenbin didn’t feel despicable at all. As an ordinary person, when facing a group of monsters, shouldn’t he find some means for himself?

“Go die for me!”

Rou Jie let out an angry shout and rushed through the white area with the shovel. But just as she was about to lower the shovel, she stopped her figure again.

Because a young man had already stood up in front of her, holding a gun and aiming at her.

“Woo woo…… don’t move…… move again and I’ll shoot…… woo woo……”

Rou Jie’s gaze noticed the direction of the gun muzzle.

Then, with a downward press, when she saw the gun muzzle also pressing downward, she raised the Yellow River shovel in her hand and blocked it in front of her.

Immediately after, a painful expression appeared on her face. Many bones in her whole body began to dislocate, in exchange for an instant explosive force.

Tan Wenbin only felt his eyes flash, and the woman disappeared, then the woman appeared in front of him.

Damn it!

This ghost speed, the gun could only be used for suicide!

At this moment, Binbin experienced the feeling his old father had when shooting Lin Shuyou initially.

At that time, Lin Shuyou did not directly confront and did not initiate the spirit medium, so he could rely on a martial artist’s instinctual reaction to evade bullets as much as possible. If he had initiated the spirit medium and planned a direct assault, it really wouldn’t have mattered whether Officer Tan brought a gun or not.

Tan Wenbin didn’t even have time to turn the gun muzzle. He only felt his wrist being pinched by a force and could only loosen his hand. Then he himself was kicked open and fell to the ground.

Rou Jie reached out and took the gun, turned around, and aimed the gun muzzle at Tan Wenbin’s brow.

“Bang!”

“Ah!”

Tan Wenbin let out a scream. A yellow plastic bead fell from his forehead, leaving a small red mark.

Rou Jie stared at the gun muzzle in disbelief.

A toy gun?

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