I never expected that Du Peilin would come up with such a lie to cover for us.
I don't believe there's any hallucinogenic drug that can make people act like zombies, grabbing others and biting them everywhere, and then infecting those they bite!
Does he think Officer Zhao is a fool?
There's no way he'll believe it!
I was silently complaining in my heart that Du Peilin was so bad at lying. Unexpectedly, Officer Zhao, who was holding Xue Shuo, let out a long sigh and finally managed to say with some difficulty, "Recently, the police station issued a notice for joint investigation, saying that a new type of drug has been smuggled in from overseas. It seems that the effects after taking it are similar to... similar to what's going on in there."
"I knew it!"
Du Peilin walked over with a beaming smile, gave Officer Zhao a hard pat on the shoulder and said, "Comrade Lao Zhao, you've worked hard! Our brothers inside are all okay. My men have already taken control of the situation. Do you want to go and have a look?"
"I do! I want to go and have a look!"
I struggled and finally crawled out of Si Jiangchen's arms. Afraid that he would grab me again, I immediately hid behind Du Peilin.
"Hehe!"
Du Peilin looked at Si Jiangchen standing up slowly from the ground with a teasing tone in his voice, "I said, Mr. Si, there are times when you can't control the situation too!"
Si Jiangchen casually dusted off his clothes, glanced at my hand holding onto Du Peilin's sleeve, and smiled, "But I've got it under control now, haven't I?"
For some reason, I felt a chill run down my spine under his gaze, and my fingers involuntarily loosened from Du Peilin's clothes.
Du Peilin was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Si Jiangchen meant. Immediately, he jumped up in anger and shouted, "You, you old fox! You made Ji Chen call me. So you were just using me as a pawn! Treating me like a fool!"
"You said it yourself."
Si Jiangchen squinted his eyes and said calmly, "I didn't call you a fool."
"I'm really... really!"
Du Peilin rubbed his hands, looking as angry as a monkey scratching its head and ears. Finally, he simply grabbed me and shook me hard, "Look at your taste! This old guy is so vicious and cunning, yet you still treasure him. Dump him quickly and find a young and handsome man. He'll definitely have better stamina than him!"
Saying that, still not satisfied, he put his arm around my shoulder and turned towards the secret room, saying as he walked, "Xiao He, you don't know. There are plenty of handsome guys in our Qingwei Sect. Any one of them is tall, handsome and in great shape!"
"Hey hey hey!"
I had already caught a glimpse of Si Jiangchen's face darkening. I quickly broke free from Du Peilin's arm and jumped two steps away, then shouted, "Don't go too far! Won't your fellow disciples arrest me to uphold the Heavenly Way?"
"Uh!"
Du Peilin was so angry at Si Jiangchen that he really hadn't thought that I was a natural enemy of his fellow Taoist disciples.
I had already walked to the door of the secret room and was looking inside. I saw several uniformed policemen lying side by side on the ground, and several others were stuffing the shredded bald lamas into body bags.
"Wait! You can't just put them in like this!"
I shouted and rushed over. Several plain - clothes special agents under Du Peilin immediately tried to stop me. Du Peilin made a gesture behind me, and they stopped their actions.
I bent down and squatted to take a closer look at the dead, who were like bloody gourds.
Lin Ruhu was the most miserable one.
He was originally the first living person to be backfired by Danba's evil sorcery. He had a single - eye cut on his face with his own magic pestle. Now there were more than a dozen bullet holes in his body, and his chest was almost blown to pieces. Lying in a pool of dirty blood, he no longer looked like a rich local at all!
Danba and the two iron - rod lamas beside him were no better. I didn't know who had bitten several blood holes in their faces and necks. Now their skin and flesh had shrunk and become like rotten meat.
These four people had a bluish - iron complexion, and each of their foreheads was painted with a Taoist corpse - suppressing talisman in red cinnabar. The corpse qi in their bodies was suppressed in their throats, so now they were just ordinary corpses.
After I finished examining these corpses, Du Peilin waved his hand to signal his subordinates to put those guys back into the body bags and vacuum them.
"Xiao He, these are nothing to worry about."
Du Peilin pulled me up and said, "The half - dead ones are the real trouble. Come and take a look."
I followed Du Peilin's finger and looked under the offering table against the wall. There were a man and a woman tied up there. The man was the little disciple of Master Zhebu, with half of his ear bitten off. The woman was Officer Xue's wife. Both of them stared with wide eyes, and their pupils were covered with a thick layer of white film. Because their eyes were wide open, the corners of their eyes had burst and were oozing bright red blood.
"Venerable Du, Master Du, please save my disciple and this female layman."
Master Zhebu had been forced out of the corpse poison by my green talisman. Except for the half - moon - shaped wound on his hand and a hole in his shoulder from the random gunshots, he was now sitting on the ground with a policeman bandaging his wound. When he saw me come in, he immediately struggled to get up from the ground.
Master Zhebu knew that I had an effective countermeasure against the corpse poison of zombies.
"Master Zhebu, please sit down."
I stopped the old monk from getting up.
Du Peilin whispered to me, "Those policemen also need your help."
I was stunned for a moment, and then quickly looked at the policemen lying side by side. Only then did I find that the human souls among their three souls and seven spirits had been extracted. They were standing stupidly beside their own bodies, swaying slightly with the flow of air.
"Did you do this?"
I never expected that in order to quell the riot, Du Peilin would actually extract people's souls. This was an evil act that violated the Heavenly Way!
"What else could I do?"
Du Peilin didn't seem to care at all. He shrugged indifferently and said, "If their whole souls were bitten by zombies, they would all turn into zombies. I extracted one of their souls. Even if they were bitten, the corpse poison couldn't trap their three souls, and they wouldn't turn into zombies! Look, there are quite a few who were bitten here!"
Saying that, he paused for a moment and then said, "When choosing between two evils, choose the lesser one. Losing one soul is better than turning into a rotting zombie!"
Du Peilin's words stunned me. It seemed that Si Jiangchen had also done something similar...
"Moreover..." Du Peilin leaned closer to my ear and whispered, "Their human souls are in charge of memory. When we put their human souls back into their bodies later, they will lose this memory. They won't remember anything about Si Jiangchen and you!"
I checked the seven or eight policemen lying on the ground. Sure enough, three of them had been bitten to varying degrees. I'm afraid that if Du Peilin hadn't extracted their souls in time, they would have already mutated and started biting their comrades!