Du Peilin's panicked voice left me stunned.
The only people killed by Danba in the underground secret chamber were Lin Ruhu and a few lamas. Their bodies had already been put into body bags and carried out. How could there still be someone underground without our notice?
"Fu Ning!!"
Suddenly, Si Jiangchen behind me changed his expression. He had previously instructed Fu Ning to keep an eye on the Xue mother and son. Now, one of the Xue mother and son was injured and sent to the hospital, and the other had been sent to the Lin family. Only this Fu Ning had lost contact after the WeChat communication!
I sprang up from the steps and dashed towards Du Peilin like the wind.
Two police officers were carrying out a young man with his eyes tightly closed and a pale face. It was Police Officer Fu Ning!
"Hey!! How are you?!"
A pang of guilt welled up in my heart. I reached out to feel for Fu Ning's pulse on his neck. The two police officers were about to stop me, but Du Peilin beside them shook his head and interrupted them.
My fingers were slightly cold. When they touched Fu Ning's skin, I could feel a trace of warmth. His pulse was weak but still beating gently. I felt a little relieved. I opened his eyelids and saw that his pupils were normal. There was no mutation like when the One - Eyed Buddha Mother attacked. Only a red blood vessel on his sclera was like a red nematode stretching across the eyeball.
"Where did you find him?"
I was still worried. I looked up at the two police officers who had carried Fu Ning out.
One of the young police officers glanced at me. He didn't understand how a little girl like me could have such privileges and directly question the police officers.
"Tell her," Du Peilin, who was in charge of the overall situation, still kept an eye on my situation at any time. "She is a consultant invited by the special task force."
Du Peilin made up a temporary title for me.
The special task force of the police was originally an organization full of capable and extraordinary people. Not to mention a little girl like me in ordinary clothes, there were often Taoists wearing celestial crowns and monks in gray robes in their office.
The police officer finally said, "Everyone had already searched the secret chamber where the dead were first found. Both the living and the dead had been carried out. The two of us were in charge of the follow - up. We don't know how this guy appeared under the offering table."
"Yes! We had clearly checked the offering table, and he seemed to appear out of thin air."
Another police officer continued, "We just turned around for a moment, and he was lying under the offering table."
"Fu Ning!! Wake up!"
I pressed my thumb hard on Fu Ning's philtrum and then slapped the center of my palm hard on his glabella.
"You don't have to bother. This guy can't be woken up," the young police officer sighed. "We had already given him first - aid treatment as soon as we found him."
I pursed my lips and reached into his pocket. I remembered that he had put the life - saving talisman given by A Wen in his pocket.
My fingers finally touched the thin talisman paper. I was overjoyed and quickly took it out.
The light - yellow talisman paper was between my fingers. The red cinnabar talisman on it seemed to come alive and flow on the paper. In an instant, it had climbed onto my finger like a red nematode.
Suddenly, the red blood vessel in Fu Ning's eyeball flashed through my mind. I immediately shook my hand to shake the red line off my finger, but it seemed to be growing in my flesh!
These were the talismans from our shop. Each one was drawn by me with great effort. The talisman Du Wenzhong gave to Fu Ning was a soul - calming and life - saving talisman. How could such a strange situation occur?
Now, the wriggling blood line on the talisman was more like a Gu worm that could control people's minds.
"Give me your hand."
Si Jiangchen behind me grabbed my hand as he spoke. With his other hand, he twirled the talisman paper and gently shook it. Immediately, the talisman paper turned into a small flame. Along with a faint "squeak" scream, the talisman paper quickly turned into ashes and scattered on the ground.
"Mind - confusing Gu," Si Jiangchen grabbed my wrist. The red - nematode - like thing had swum under my skin to the back of my hand. Si Jiangchen's voice showed no sign of nervousness. He just brought his mouth close to the back of my hand. As soon as I felt a little pain, he let go of my hand. Only a faint red mark was left on the back of my hand, and the red line was gone.
"Trifling skills," Si Jiangchen still had that faint sneer on his face. He looked far away at a certain place in the main hall of Hongluo Temple and said in a low voice as if talking to himself, "Come here in person next time."
I looked in the direction Si Jiangchen was looking at in confusion. I saw many lifelike statues hidden among the ancient flying eaves and brackets. Just as I blinked, all the statues, whether they were figures or birds and beasts, stared at us fiercely!
"What's going on?!"
Although it was broad daylight, I was shivering with cold because of this strange scene. "Are there still evil spirits here?"
I had clearly captured the One - Eyed Buddha Mother and sealed her in the demon pill. Why was Hongluo Temple still so evil?
"The One - Eyed Buddha Mother was also guided by someone to come here," Si Jiangchen casually spat out a little vermilion from his mouth. It turned out that the red - line Gu worm had been bitten into pieces by him and turned into a little cinnabar mark.
"There's still a mastermind behind this!"
I felt absolutely exhausted. I had thought that after dealing with the One - Eyed Buddha Mother, everything would be over and I could live a carefree life.
However, now the people I knew were constantly in life - threatening situations. How could I stand by and do nothing?
I gritted my teeth and opened Fu Ning's eyelids again. I picked up the red thread in the sclera with the tip of my little finger and pinched it with the pad of my thumb. The touch on the pad of my thumb was as slippery as a little snake. I dug hard and pulled out the thin thread all at once.
"Clearly, it's a divine spell for calming the soul. How could it turn into an evil thing?!"
I whispered the incantation for expelling demons and evil spirits. I felt the wriggling Gu worm in my hand finally stop moving and turn back into a little cinnabar color.
The mastermind behind this who could turn the talisman with the divine consciousness of the Taoist celestial being into an evil thing must have a great background!
Moreover, he could openly show his abilities in the temple to try to intimidate us. It seemed that he was even more powerful than the One - Eyed Buddha Mother who could only hide like a rat in the underground secret chamber!
I didn't have time to think too much. I did the same to Fu Ning's other eye. As the Gu worm turned into a cinnabar dot, Fu Ning finally yawned widely and opened his eyes.
"Hey...?! Miss Du, why are you here?"
His question made me not know whether to laugh or cry. His expression was just like waking up from a sweet dream!