Si Jiangchen immobilized those fully zombified lamas and Lin Ruhu, then told me to stick talismans on Officer Xue's wife and Master Zheb.
Just when I thought we had the situation under control, Xue Shuo made an unexpected move!
The consciousness of the One - Eyed Buddha Mother was in his body. In this Hongluo Temple, influenced by all kinds of desires offered by Danba, he naturally saw the additional illusion cast by Si Jiangchen in the illusion.
While letting out a childish scream, he showed a strange smile and plunged headfirst into the wall of the illusion.
In fact, all kinds of illusions are just ideological imprints left by the spell - caster on people, making them think there is really an insurmountable wall there. Now that Xue Shuo had broken through, the indestructible feeling of the wall naturally dissipated.
Noisy voices came in from outside.
My face instantly turned ugly. I had a terrible premonition, as if we had fallen into a conspiracy of "the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole is behind".
"Here! We've found them!!"
The blinding searchlights instantly lit up the entire basement like daylight. A group of uniformed police officers rushed in with loaded guns.
"Uncle Zhao, wuwuwu!! They... they killed my mom!"
Xue Shuo had already run over crying and threw himself at a leading police officer, hugging his leg and sobbing loudly.
"What's going on?!"
The man Xue Shuo called "Uncle Zhao" was a former comrade - in - arms of Officer Xue. Now he was the chief of the police station in the suburban county where Hongluo Temple was located. "Shuoshuo, why didn't you call Uncle earlier?"
"My mom wouldn't let me play with my phone."
Xue Shuo pretended to be an innocent and well - behaved child. Pouting and wiping away his tears, he said, "I could only call when she wasn't looking at me... wuwuwu. If I had been braver and called you earlier, Mom wouldn't have been killed by them!"
"Quick, detain them." Uncle Zhao lovingly picked up Xue Shuo, glared at me, then walked to Officer Xue's wife, reached out and tore off the talisman I had just stuck on her, scolding, "Playing tricks on people!!"
"Don't move!"
My ghost - suppressing talisman on a person was to prevent the zombie poison from invading their brains. As long as they could maintain a clear mind and then use glutinous rice and rooster blood to draw out the zombie poison, they should be fine!
I never expected that as soon as the police officer came over, he tore off the yellow talisman.
"Don't move? I think you should be the ones who don't move!"
Under the bright lights, Officer Zhao finally saw the bloody scene in this small secret room clearly. He was greatly shocked! This was the capital, under the feet of the Son of Heaven! During an ordinary police operation, four people had died at the scene, and their deaths were extremely tragic. This would cause great panic!
All the police officers pointed their guns at Si Jiangchen and me.
"Arrest them!"
Officer Zhao was already shouting angrily.
"You'll kill her!"
There were already three or four people who couldn't be saved here. I didn't want Officer Xue's wife to lose her life.
"Uncle Zhao, quickly arrest the bad guys. They just flicked their own blood like this..." Xue Shuo imitated Si Jiangchen and flicked his finger. "Then those monk uncles started biting people!"
"Shuoshuo is so smart. You can even identify bad guys." Although Officer Zhao said so, he thought what Xue Shuo said was just a child's exaggerated imagination.
"Officer, I can testify! They really hurt people! They killed our abbot and disciplinary lamas!"
Suddenly, a younger monk stood up beside the two possessed iron - rod lamas. He was the direct disciple of Master Zheb. Fortunately, Si Jiangchen had immobilized the zombies in time. Otherwise, this young monk would probably have been torn to pieces by the extremely powerful zombies!
However, in his eyes, we were the culprits of all this!
In the face of this great change, the young monk's finger pointing at us was shaking violently. Hongluo Temple, known as the place where the gods resided and prayers were most effective, had seen the deaths of pilgrims, disciplinary lamas and the abbot in one day. For a devout child, this was simply the collapse of his faith.
We were the villains who had destroyed the faith of the devout. The young monk wished we were dead!
Shaking, he tried to help his master.
Master Zheb had been bitten by a zombie on his palm in a half - moon shape while trying to save Officer Xue's wife. Now the wound was swollen, and a layer of black qi was lingering around it.
The young monk tried several times but couldn't drag the stiff Master Zheb up from the ground. Then he also imitated Officer Zhao and tore off the annoying yellow talisman.
Suddenly, the black qi hovering over Master Zheb's wound seemed to suddenly lose its restraint and quickly got into his body. The capillaries on his wrist were like being filled with thick ink, and the blackness instantly climbed up to his shoulder.
"Ugh..."
Master Zheb's face twitched. He turned to look at his disciple. Seeing the black qi on his arm, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head, saying, "Silly disciple, Layman Du is trying to save... save me."
Then, his lips began to murmur the scriptures. It seemed that he wanted to rely on his faith to resist the almost unsolvable zombie poison.
"Master!! Master?!"
The young monk was a little at a loss because of Master Zheb's words, but I had already stepped forward again and directly stuffed a talisman emitting a faint cyan glow into Master Zheb's mouth.
Although this great monk was not very capable of managing the temple and let the evil god take over Hongluo Temple, he was a good man. He clearly saw the horror of those zombies but still was willing to sacrifice himself to save Officer Xue's wife.
He deserved one of Si Jiangchen's cyan talismans!!
"Repeat after me!"
I reached out and patted Master Zheb on the shoulder. When I stuffed the cyan talisman into his mouth, the black qi suddenly stopped at the position of the major artery in his neck. Master Zheb knew I was trying to save him, so he nodded vigorously.
"The great star of the high platform responds to changes without pause, expels evil spirits, binds demons, protects life and safeguards the body..."
My voice clearly reached Master Zheb's ears. With the cyan talisman in his mouth, his face showed a bit of difficulty. As a disciple of Buddha, he really couldn't recite our Taoist incantations.
"Stubborn!"
Although I said so, I understood his thoughts. Decades of faith couldn't be changed overnight!
Since he was unwilling to recite the Taoist incantation, I might as well help him!
I pointed my right hand in the shape of a sword finger precisely at the intersection of the black and normal skin. I whispered the Mind - Clearing Incantation, and Master Zheb also closed his eyes and began to recite, "Namo sada namah. Samyaksambuddha..."
Our voices were low, but they seemed to have supreme magical power. The black qi on Master Zheb's neck, pressed by my finger, was forced back continuously by this sacred coercion and had almost returned to his wrist...