Divination

"Let's use rocks," I said calmly from the side.

Hearing my words, the sturdy man snapped back to reality, grabbed a rock from beside him, and swung it at Zhang Kaifu's head. With a bang, Zhang Kaifu's head split open, blood splattering all over his face.

The unconscious Zhang Kaifu finally quieted down. The woman knelt on the ground, coughing non-stop, tears and snot streaming down her face.

"Qian! Are you alright?!" The sturdy man patted the woman's back, checking her injuries.

"I'm fine... I clearly drove away... the dirty things attached to him, but..." The woman shook her head, pulling out tissues to wipe the snot and tears from her face, still looking disbelieving that she had failed.

"Tian Ge, if you hadn't reminded me, she would have been dead by now." Yu Xiao Xue was a little annoyed. I had saved her, and her first instinct wasn't to thank me, but to fix her makeup.

I didn't say anything, just watched quietly, finding it a little amusing in my heart. I thought, Yu Xiao Xue, Yu Xiao Xue, you never even wore makeup in the hamlet, how would you know how much girls in the city care about their appearance? They'd sacrifice their lives for beauty! You've never seen them getting Botox injections to slim their faces, have you? You see reports about it every day. So, you can't expect a beautiful woman to apologize to you with snot and tears, can you?

Yu Xiao Xue didn't know what I was thinking, but seeing me smile at her made her blush a little.

After the beauty wiped the snot and tears from her face and listened to Yu Xiao Xue's sarcastic remarks, she said awkwardly, "Thanks to this friend's reminder, otherwise I, Zhao Qian, would have been done for this time. You saved my life, and I will definitely repay you."

She glanced at Yu Xiao Xue. Although Yu Xiao Xue's expression didn't change, even though she hadn't seen much of the world, she knew that was a blatant provocation. She immediately shot Zhao Qian a glare.

"Heh, no need to thank me just yet. I was just being nosy. Also, you'd better have this police officer handcuff the person on the ground. Otherwise, I don't know if you'll even have the chance to thank anyone later." I didn't have a good impression of these two siblings, so I wasn't very polite.

Zhao Qian glanced at the unconscious Zhang Kaifu with lingering fear, then looked at Captain Huo. "Captain Huo, it's been three months since last time, hasn't it? You're well, I assume. You've seen the situation now, so, is it...?"

"Little Zhao, don't be so formal with me, Huo Dadong. I'll handcuff Little Zhang first." With that, Captain Huo took out handcuffs and cuffed Zhang Kaifu's hands.

"May I ask, Captain Huo, what crime did this friend commit to be handcuffed by you?" Zhao Qian asked me.

"Oh, you mean him. You must have seen the body outside the hamlet just now, right? When I saw him, he was digging a hole to bury the body. So I arrested both of them as suspects and was planning to take them back to the station for questioning. When I caught him, he said there was a plague in the village and everyone was dead. Neither he nor I believed it. And then, there was no signal, so I couldn't call for reinforcements. I was planning to go into the hamlet with them to check the situation. Unexpectedly, something happened, and then you guys arrived."

"So that's how it is." Since he was a suspect, Zhao Qian couldn't say much.

Huo Dadong finished speaking and patted the sturdy man's shoulder. "Zhao He, you're amazing! After retiring from the army, Uncle Huo can't keep up with your skills anymore!"

"Captain Huo, you're too kind. I was just helping my sister, I can't compare to you." Zhao He rubbed his head, smiling a little bashfully, but he was secretly very happy.

Ghosts appear in broad daylight, this bridge is quite sinister now.

I watched as the souls under the bridge finished eating the offerings and were about to rush up again, so I said, "I don't want to die yet. I advise you to leave quickly. This is no place for casual conversation."

The three of them looked at each other. It seemed that after what had just happened, they believed my words to some extent.

Huo Dadong wanted to turn back, but Zhao He and Zhao Qian were walking towards the hamlet. Huo Dadong thought for a moment and felt that the Zhao siblings were knowledgeable about these things. Although they had been scared by Zhang Kaifu's madness just now, it didn't mean they were incapable. Having been a criminal police officer for over ten years, he knew some things couldn't be solved with just a gun.

He immediately escorted me and Yu Xiao Xue back to the hamlet, carrying Zhang Kaifu on his shoulder.

"Captain Huo, you're going to investigate if everyone in the hamlet is dead, right?" Zhao He asked.

"Yes," Huo Dadong replied, sweat beading on his forehead as he carried an adult on his back.

"We've already crossed the bridge. It's daytime, you can put him down now and focus on your investigation. We'll go check if Witch Zhou is at the house on the mountainside. My father needs to talk to her about something." Zhao He said, helping Huo Dadong put Zhang Kaifu down. This was an indirect reminder to Huo Dadong that there were no ghosts during the day, and that they had important matters to attend to and didn't want to travel with him.

"Eh, you don't know either? Witch Zhou has passed away. I saw the white mourning decorations on the mountainside, and I was just about to go offer her some incense." Huo Dadong looked surprised. He wasn't stupid. He had almost seen a ghost in broad daylight just now, so how could he be fine? It was better to stick with these two.

"What?! You're saying Zhou Xian is dead?!"

Zhao Qian stopped using "you" and directly asked. Looking at her grandmother's house on the mountainside, her eyes were filled with a hint of solemnity. Then, she pinched her fingers, calculating something. Her face instantly turned pale, and she looked at me.

It seemed Zhao Qian did have some abilities; she could actually figure some things out.

I pretended not to see her calculating and said, "Since you know my grandmother, let's offer some incense before we go."

"You're Witch Zhou's grandson?" Huo Dadong looked at me in surprise, then thought of some terrible things.

Zhao Qian and Zhao He were also surprised, looking at each other as if it made sense. It seemed they had already connected it to what happened at Si Bridge earlier.

"What? Do you think anyone can just claim to be Tian Ge's relative?" Yu Xiao Xue said with a cold laugh.

All three were very surprised. Huo Dadong was even more surprised that he had handcuffed Witch Zhou's grandson. However, he had indeed seen me digging a hole to bury someone earlier. Such a body, clearly not dead of natural causes, couldn't just be buried casually. As part of his duty, he couldn't let me go first.

"Since Witch Zhou has passed away, let's go offer some incense and then leave. Also, Captain Huo, I think it's better to put your case aside for now." Zhao Qian reminded him.

"Mmm, Little Zhao is right. However, we police officers have our own procedures for handling cases. We still can't let him go. How about this: when we get back to the station, I will handle it justly. If it's confirmed that this young man didn't kill the person, of course, he will be released." Huo Dadong wasn't an ignorant fool. After Zhao Qian's hint, he knew this was probably a big trouble, but he couldn't directly ignore the procedures. He still had to maintain appearances.

I sneered and said nothing.

"Don't burn incense, it will attract dirty things. Although Grandma is dead, her body is actually not in the coffin. You should let us go. Brother Dan wasn't killed by Tian Ge and me; it was a Ghost Infant that killed him. We were planning to bury Brother Dan and escape Xiao Yi Hamlet. You guys, on the other hand, ran in here to seek death." Yu Xiao Xue said dejectedly when she heard they weren't going to let us go.

"What did you say?!" Zhao Qian looked at Yu Xiao Xue with some alarm.

Huo Dadong pinched his chin, staring at Yu Xiao Xue's eyes and expression. He had interrogated countless people; he could tell with near certainty if someone was lying. Yu Xiao Xue's changing expression made him certain this was not a lie. Even if what she said wasn't entirely accurate, it was based on something she had seen, not fabricated out of thin air.

"The person who died was my brother, Zhang Yuan Yi, Zhang Yi Dan. He died unnaturally. Do you understand what that means?" I added, looking not at Huo Dadong, but at Zhao Qian, the meaning clear: Miss Zhao, this is no place to linger!

Zhao He hurriedly asked, "Died unnaturally? You mean...?"

"It's not that I look down on you, but I think the things here are beyond your capabilities. When night falls... no one will be able to leave." I was still looking at Zhao Qian because she was the only one with some ability here. If we wanted to escape Xiao Yi Hamlet, we would probably need her. As for Zhao He and Huo Dadong, one was a subordinate, and the other was a police officer who was useless when encountering ghosts, just a burden.

"Hmph, scaremongering," Zhao He snorted, seeing that I looked down on him.

Zhao Qian said nothing further. She immediately took out several talismans from her box, along with a bundle of incense. She arranged the talismans in a Bagua pattern, lit the incense, shook a bell, and muttered incantations. Then, she took out a Feng Shui compass from her luggage and began to divine.

Zhao He didn't dare to speak again, and Huo Dadong held his breath.

After a short while, the incense burned down unevenly, as if chewed by a dog. The needle of the Feng Shui compass spun wildly. Zhao Qian had never seen such a bizarre phenomenon. Sweat poured down her face, and she broke out in a cold sweat.

"This place is not suitable for lingering! We leave immediately, not a minute more!" With that, Zhao Qian lit several talismans she had taken out from her pocket and poured water from her kettle into several cups, intending to distribute them to us. "Brother, Captain Huo, and the two of you, drink the talisman water first."

Zhao He drank it down without even looking, and although Captain Huo was a criminal investigator, after seeing what just happened, he knew it wasn't the time for atheism anymore and immediately drank it down as well.

"Tian Ge, I don't want to drink it, it's so disgusting. Can Xue not drink it?" Yu Xiao Xue turned her little head away as Zhao Qian handed her the talisman water, intending to feed her.

"Then don't drink it." I sighed inwardly. As expected, when beautiful women meet beautiful women, if they aren't best friends, they're enemies.

Yu Xiao Xue had already drunk Grandma's Spirit Communication Talisman, which was much more powerful than this "Ghost Repelling Talisman." What did it matter if she drank it or not? Anyone could draw a Ghost Repelling Talisman.

Zhao He had originally held the cup to feed me, but after I said that, he immediately put on an expression like a dog biting Lu Dongbin, repaying kindness with enmity. He flicked his hand and threw the cup away, probably killing me a hundred times in his heart.

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