I have a master who is a powerful figure from the Maoshan School, specializing in dealing with zombies.
He once told me that zombies are the most unnatural existence in the world. They are not humans, not even beasts.
Once you see them, you must get rid of them quickly.
However, this Lu Dayong clearly still has human thoughts and consciousness. He even feels guilty after eating people!
So I'm going to give it a try and see if I can extract the wisp of his living soul trapped in this corpse.
"Miss Du, thank you."
Lu Dayong originally thought he would be burned to ashes. Unexpectedly, I was really trying to find a way for his soul to move on. "My hands can no longer repair things. I'm afraid I won't be able to do anything about your compass..."
"Oh!"
I already knew the final result, so I wasn't overly disappointed. But Lu Dayong leaned closer to me and whispered softly, "I have a compass. I can give it to you."
"Thanks, but no thanks."
I helped him not for any reward. Besides, my grandfather's compass is an inherited antique. If I wanted a new one, why would I travel all the way here and fall into someone's trap?
For the moment, Lu Dayong didn't insist. He just waited obediently for me to come up with a solution.
"What are you doing here?"
Suddenly, a shadow loomed over from behind. Si Jiangchen's hand naturally wrapped around my waist.
The hairs on my back stood on end instantly, and my legs felt weak.
My body stiffened as I was held by him. I didn't even dare to look up at him.
"I'm thinking about how to get his living soul out of his body."
I shrank my shoulders and whispered, "It would be a bit pitiful to just burn him like this."
Si Jiangchen smiled. "It's not that difficult."
With that, he casually reached out his hand and instantly pulled out Lu Dayong's soul from between his eyebrows.
"Wait! Wait!!"
I was wearing the clothes sent by Si Jiangchen's assistant. I didn't bring any of the soul bottles that I usually kept in my pocket. Si Jiangchen's act of easily pulling out Lu Dayong's soul caught me completely off guard.
"Umbrella!! The umbrella! Give me that umbrella!"
I spotted the three - fold umbrella hanging outside the villa's entrance at a glance and immediately shouted at the village head, Lu Erzhong.
Lu Erzhong quickly grabbed the umbrella and trotted over to hand it to me. I immediately opened the umbrella and chanted the soul - collecting incantation as I covered the wisp of living soul in Si Jiangchen's hand.
The black umbrella closed smoothly, and the translucent soul of Lu Dayong was no longer in Si Jiangchen's hand.
A stench of decay quickly spread through the yard. Lu Dayong's body was rotting away at a visible speed.
My stomach churned. I least wanted to deal with zombie cases!
They were dirty, smelly, and the visual impact was too strong!
No matter how perfectly the case was resolved, the final scene would always make me feel nauseous for a long time. In this situation, I probably wouldn't have any appetite for meat for a month or two.
I put away the folding umbrella and just let out a sigh of relief.
The frowning Lu Erzhong came over again.
"Little master, could you please save my wife and daughter too?"
Only then did I remember that there was an old ghost in Lu Erzhong's house, suppressed by my yellow talisman.
"What about the weasel spirit on you?"
Before I lost control last night, Lu Erzhong's body was still being controlled by the weasel. Judging from his current situation, he seemed to have regained his consciousness.
"... It, it went back to torment my Xiaojuan again."
Lu Erzhong grimaced and said, "You have such high - level magic. Please save them..."
Two out of his family of three were possessed by ghosts and affected by yin energy. They were not only going to fall seriously ill.
Lu Erzhong's wife had her face bitten and was disfigured. His daughter, Lu Xiaojuan, was even more pitiful. First, she was deceived by that lecherous old ghost, and then the weasel took over her body in the name of repaying a kindness. She might have more serious mental problems in the future!!
Lu Erzhong now regarded me as his last hope. He saw with his own eyes last night a large group of terrifying "uncles and grandfathers" kneeling on the ground.
He didn't know it was the power of a single drop of Si Jiangchen's blood. He thought it was the power of my spells!!
"Sure, I can go and take a look."
I nodded and then turned to Si Jiangchen. "There are two women in the village head's house. It's not very convenient for you to go. That weasel spirit should be here to repay a kindness, so it should be easy to talk to. As for that lecherous old ghost, since I could seal it with a yellow talisman, it won't be a very powerful character... I'm absolutely sure I can handle it."
"Okay."
Si Jiangchen looked down at me slightly. "Are you sure you don't need my help?"
I met his gaze and said calmly, "I've been a spiritual master for so many years, and I've never asked anyone for help."
"Alright."
Si Jiangchen's hand gently pinched my waist imperceptibly. "I just need to deal with some work. After you're done, we'll go back to the city."
"Okay."
President Si was extremely busy. He had accompanied me on a crazy adventure for a whole day and night yesterday. Today, he should return to his huge business empire and continue to give orders.
When Si Jiangchen's assistant brought the clothes this morning, I caught a glimpse of the nearly mountain - like pile of documents and seven or eight USB flash drives on the coffee table.
That's why I was so "understanding" when I put forward my own idea.
I could handle the mess in Lu Erzhong's house by myself.
When I came to Lu Village with Wei Yuan, I only carried a backpack, which contained all my magic tools for catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits.
When I went back to the bedroom to get my bag, Si Jiangchen was already buried in that pile of documents, and his assistant was tidying up the messy bedroom.
I didn't even dare to look at their expressions. I sneaked into the living room like a little thief, grabbed my backpack, and rushed out as if I was fleeing...
I followed Lu Erzhong on the cement road in the village.
From afar, I saw thick black smoke billowing into the sky from the direction of Lu Dayong's house at the end of the village.
"... What's that?"
I squinted my eyes and looked at the constantly changing evil aura rolling in the black smoke, like a series of unwilling faces surging and gradually dispersing with the wind.
"Corpse burning."
Lu Erzhong answered my question, his heart still pounding.
Last night, when he regained consciousness, he was standing in the yard in front of the broken cave of Lu Dayong's house.
All the zombies that had been kneeling outside his house were now standing neatly in the yard, one by one, as orderly as the wind - breaking and sand - fixing forest outside the village.
Several young men from the village were holding torches made of pine branches, waiting for his order.
Lu Erzhong knew that zombies had to be burned to ashes to prevent them from causing trouble again.
Those things weren't like the ones in foreign TV shows that would die after being shot in the head.
In China, there was Xing Tian, who, even after having his head chopped off, still used his nipples as eyes and his navel as a mouth, and held a shield and an ax to challenge the Yellow Emperor!
There were too many "old folks" in the yard, so they had to be burned in batches.
By the time I saw the thick smoke, there were still a hundred or so waiting in line.
The situation in Lu Erzhong's house was actually quite easy to solve.
I didn't even waste a soul bottle on the lecherous old ghost sealed in his wife's body. I just summoned the ghost messengers from the underworld to take him away. As for the weasel on Lu Xiaojuan, it was just here to repay her for a meal. Since it had taken a fancy to Lu Xiaojuan, it just stubbornly stayed in her house and became a little guardian spirit.
After finishing all this, it was only a little after ten o'clock.
I took the payment for my hard work from Lu Erzhong. Then I glanced at a scooter parked in his yard and asked, "How much is this motorcycle?"