"Miss Du, don't try to fool me. I'm not well - educated."
Seeing me casually gloss over such a miraculous spell, Ji Chen shook his head repeatedly, expressing his disbelief. "Do you have any other useful and interesting spells? Teach me later."
As he said this, he neatly overturned the original sacrificial table in the secret room. Then he helped me place all the necessary items on the table as I instructed. A small altar for my spell - casting was thus set up.
"Your boss is a pretty amazing guy. Hasn't anything strange ever happened to him?"
I glanced at Si Jiangchen and whispered to Ji Chen. Considering how well he understood Si Jiangchen, he must have been the assistant to the general manager of the company for a long time. I didn't believe that Si Jiangchen could hide his inhuman nature so well without showing any clues.
"Of course, the boss is amazing. Every time he predicts which project will be profitable, it's as if he has divine help."
Ji Chen's admiration for Si Jiangchen was clearly visible.
Seeing that I had finished setting up, he quickly grabbed the rooster that had been immobilized on the ground. Once it was lifted up, the rooster woke up as if from a dream and began to struggle with its two feet.
"Let me do it!"
Judging from Ji Chen's clumsy movements, I could tell that he was a young master who never did any hard work. I grabbed the rooster's wings and lifted it up. Then I picked up the small knife on the altar and quickly made a cut on the rooster's bright red comb. Immediately, thick red plasma gushed out from the wound. I grabbed the rooster's head and squeezed its comb to let the blood drip into a small white porcelain dish filled with cinnabar.
Ji Chen thought I was just a weak and petite girl, but I could be so ruthless to a living creature. He took the rooster I handed back to him. Glancing at the deep wound on the rooster's comb, he couldn't help grimacing.
The little black dog, which Ji Chen had bought from somewhere, was so frightened by the rooster's miserable crowing that it was trembling. I grabbed it, drew its blood in the same way, and then threw it back to Ji Chen.
"You can go out now."
Si Jiangchen didn't waste any words on him. He just tilted his head towards the passageway. Immediately, Ji Chen put away his curious look in front of me and resumed his calm and intelligent assistant demeanor. He put the two small animals back into the sack and carried them out of the secret room.
At this time, Du Peilin had also managed to put the messy secret room in order.
Now, except for several policemen who had had their souls taken away and were lying side by side on the ground, and two people suffering from corpse - poison attacks, only the three of us were left. Even Officer Zhao, who had been in charge here before, had been asked to leave the passage. He was waiting in the Main Buddha Hall with the already - conscious Xue Shuo for the final result.
For those living people who had corpse - poison in their brains, both Buddhists and Taoists usually burned them to prevent future troubles.
I believed that those dead people with talismans drawn on their foreheads by Du Peilin would be immediately sent to the crematorium after leaving Hongluo Temple!
However, I felt a bit reluctant to do the same to Officer Xue's wife and the little monk.
Officer Xue's wife always picked on me. I didn't have any good feelings for her or her son, Xue Shuo. But I owed Officer Xue a debt of gratitude. If he hadn't helped me out at Lvwan Apartment back then, I'm afraid I would have been involved in Song Yixuan's case at the police station.
... I've always been a person who repays kindness with even greater kindness.
I mixed the cinnabar with the blood of the two extremely yang creatures, and it turned into a dark red color. In the white dish, it faintly showed a golden halo. Officer Xue's wife became even more restless. The corpse - poison in her body seemed to sense the threat. It made her struggle towards the direction of my altar and stretch out her claw - like hands to try to overturn the table in front of me.
"Roar..."
She let out a howl like a trapped animal. Her mouth with four newly - grown fangs clicked.
I wasn't intimidated by her at all. I dipped my writing brush in the cinnabar and pointed it at her glabella. Officer Xue's wife immediately seemed to see something extremely terrifying and tried to dodge backward. But unexpectedly, a foot was pressed on her back, making her stand upright in front of me like a statue.
Taking this opportunity, I quickly drew a heart - calming talisman on her forehead. She was still alive, so I couldn't use a corpse - suppressing talisman!
The heart - calming talisman with the extremely yang cinnabar blood was imprinted on Officer Xue's wife's glabella. A faint golden light immediately appeared at the place where the talisman was drawn and extended along her forehead to the rest of her body.
"Hiss!"
Faint green smoke rose from Officer Xue's wife's pupils covered with a white film, as if they had been burned. She shook her head desperately as if she could get rid of the restraint of the heart - calming talisman in this way.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, I drew four "block" characters on her armpits and behind her knees, cutting off the retreat of the corpse - poison hiding in her limbs.
I saw that the green - black aura on Officer Xue's wife's body was steamed by the yang energy of the cinnabar and was rising. It was dissipating at a visible speed. I knew this was the most critical moment!
The corpse aura on Officer Xue's wife had been eliminated by the cinnabar blood, but the remaining corpse - poison might have penetrated into her internal organs. This was what I had thought of from the beginning. So I grabbed a few handfuls of glutinous rice from the bag and spread it thickly on the ground.
Officer Xue's wife had lost her shoes during the struggle. Now, when the glutinous rice rolled to her feet, she struggled to avoid it as if she had been burned by a red - hot iron. But as she lifted her feet, more rice grains slipped under her feet. She couldn't help but scream.
I naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. I picked up a glutinous rice grain that had fallen on the altar with two fingers, dipped it in the cinnabar, and flicked it. It just fell into Officer Xue's wife's mouth.
Her scream became even more shrill. It was as if she had swallowed a piece of charcoal. She stretched out her hand to dig out the rice grain from her mouth.
"Hold her tightly!"
I thought it was Du Peilin standing behind her, so I quickly shouted.
Officer Xue's wife had already stuffed all ten fingers of her hands into her mouth. I couldn't just watch her tear her mouth apart!
"Okay!"
With a faint response, a pair of big, well - jointed hands reached out from behind Officer Xue's wife and firmly grabbed her wrists. Without much effort, her arms were bent behind her back.
"Th - thank you."
I never expected that it was Si Jiangchen standing behind Officer Xue's wife. He was a guy with a cleanliness fetish and always hated this kind of environment full of blood and sweat.
"You're welcome."
Si Jiangchen raised his eyebrows. "Hurry up. There's still one more..."
His words woke me up. Now was not the time to say thank - you. There was still a little monk to be treated!
I raised my hand and picked up two more glutinous rice grains, dipped them in the cinnabar blood, and threw them into Officer Xue's wife's mouth. These represented the spiritual consciousness of the Three Pure Ones in Taoism, which would help me, the spell - caster, drive out the corpse - poison in Officer Xue's wife's body!