Chapter 89: Wood Mound Turns Red, Nine Deaths and One Life

Kuang Tianyou was not surprised that Wei Ziqing knew the name of the deceased. After all, not only him, but everyone within a few miles of the Jiajia Building already knew.

Therefore, when Wei Ziqing asked if there were any discoveries, Kuang Tianyou replied in a low voice, “None. All the belongings on the victim were still there, and the clothes were intact. There were no signs of sexual assault!”

At this point, Kuang Tianyou added, “Moreover, the killer left no clues on the victim. Based solely on the bruises on the neck, it would be very difficult to find the killer!”

It was the eighties and nineties, and technologies like fingerprinting were not yet widespread, so Kuang Tianyou was not wrong to say this.

“Is that so? According to you, the victim didn’t even struggle before dying? That is quite abnormal!” Wei Ziqing said calmly, but then he suddenly changed the subject: “Do you think it could have been caused by something… unclean? After all, it seems the Ghost Festival is in a few days!”

“Pfft, you say it’s something unclean, so it is? Even I, the Xuanwu Boy, didn’t notice it, so how would you know? In my opinion, the killer was just a big, tall man with a large beard and a mask. Don’t ask me why I know, because I am the Xuanwu Boy!”

Jin Zhengzhong already disliked Wei Ziqing, and hearing this, he immediately seized the chance to mock him, but no one paid him any attention.

Instead, upon hearing Wei Ziqing’s words, the expressions of Ma Xiaoling and Kuang Tianyou changed instantly, as if they remembered something. Ma Xiaoling walked directly to the body, squatted down, and prepared to open the body bag.

“Wait, who are you? This is a crime scene, you…”

A police officer who was maintaining order saw Ma Xiaoling’s movement and tried to stop her, but he was stopped by Kuang Tianyou.

“It’s fine, she is my friend. She might find something!”

Seeing that no one stopped her, Ma Xiaoling opened the body bag and carefully examined the bruises on Xiaoqian’s neck. Then, she took a small spray bottle from the small bag she carried on her back and sprayed it a few times on the bruises.

The next scene caused the expressions of Kuang Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling to change drastically. As soon as the spray hit, the bruises, which were originally pale, suddenly became as black as ink. Not only that, but a hint of green could also be seen within the bruises.

“As expected…” Ma Xiaoling took a deep breath, stood up without saying a word, and looked toward Wei Ziqing. Kuang Tianyou stopped talking as well, but his eyes glanced toward Wei Ziqing.

“Xiaoling, what’s wrong? Did you find something?” Wang Zhenzhen looked at Ma Xiaoling nervously. She still didn’t know exactly what Ma Xiaoling did, but she noticed that Ma Xiaoling had become very serious.

“Hmm, I’ll tell you later!” Ma Xiaoling nodded but did not answer directly. Since there were many people around, she did not want to say anything shocking.

Originally, they wanted to investigate further and dared not disturb the scene, but after the discovery, Kuang Tianyou directly ordered the body to be taken back to the police station. However, he did not go back himself. Instead, he found a quiet place and said to Wei Ziqing in a low voice, “How did you know?”

Wei Ziqing sighed slightly in his heart. He originally disliked attracting trouble, but if he wanted to save PIPI, he had to be direct. After all, once Xiaoqian died, Ping’s Mother would kill PIPI within two days!

Of course, the reason he was being direct was that he wanted to get into the eyes of Ma Xiaoling and Kuang Tianyou. Only in this way could he gain their attention.

To use an old saying, he wanted them to “let him in on the action.”

Only by being involved would he have the chance to obtain Zombie Blood. Otherwise, if he encountered it on his own, let alone obtaining it, it would be hard to say if he could even survive.

“I saw something I shouldn’t have seen yesterday, and today I heard someone died, so I wondered if it had some connection to those things!” Wei Ziqing made up a random excuse.

This reason seemed flimsy, but Kuang Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling showed expressions of “as expected.” Ma Xiaoling quickly asked, “Then do you mean you saw what the thing looked like?”

“Yes, but I’m not entirely sure. She moved too fast. I only vaguely saw a shadow enter the Jiajia Building, but I know it was an old woman. However, the Jiajia Building is so large that I don’t know exactly who it was!”

“Inside the Jiajia Building?” Hearing this, Kuang Tianyou’s expression became complicated. “I didn’t expect that kind of thing to appear inside the Jiajia Building. It seems things have become troublesome!”

He had come to the Jiajia Building to hide himself, but he hadn’t expected that there would be one of his own kind nearby!

Of course, Kuang Tianyou did not think this “kind” was the killer, but rather a zombie that had turned the killer into that kind of thing.

“Yes, it seems we’ll be busy lately!” The Sanpo Day was approaching, and this damn thing had appeared here. Just thinking about it gave Ma Xiaoling a headache.

“No, what are you talking about? I can’t understand a word. You can’t possibly believe what Wei Ziqing said is true, right? Sure, he’s a bit older, but your words are too ridiculous!”

Jin Zhengzhong was actually a bit scared in his heart, but he still didn’t believe it. It was a joke; he had spent years pretending to be a mystic and had never encountered such “unclean” things. Now they were telling him there was such a thing in the Jiajia Building, and he simply didn’t believe it!

“Aren’t you the Xuanwu Boy? What are you afraid of?” Ma Xiaoling glanced at Jin Zhengzhong and then added, “Besides, shouldn’t you be very busy right now? Your Wood Mound is black with a hint of red, meaning nine deaths and one life. Instead of going to solve that quickly, you still have time to talk nonsense here!”

“What do you mean by that?” The Wood Mound was black with a hint of red—what on earth was that? Jin Zhengzhong was confused, but beside him, Wei Ziqing’s brow suddenly furrowed, before returning to a calm state.

“As expected, has the plot changed again?” In the original story, Jin Zhengzhong’s Wood Mound was gray with a hint of yellow, indicating a disaster involving blood. That was because the deceased Xiaoqian would haunt him soon to ask for help, but it only caused a bit of trouble.

Now it had become black with a hint of red, meaning nine deaths and one life. This clearly meant that Jin Zhengzhong was very likely to die!

But what did that have to do with him? As long as he didn’t die, he had no intention of caring about Jin Zhengzhong!

Ma Xiaoling looked at Jin Zhengzhong and ignored him, directly pulling Wang Zhenzhen away. Watching Ma Xiaoling leave, Wei Ziqing and Kuang Tianyou followed her up, and they could still faintly hear Jin Zhengzhong complaining behind them.

“Um, Xiaoling, what did you mean just now? What thing that shouldn’t appear? It’s not really a ghost, is it?” On the way, Wang Zhenzhen looked at Ma Xiaoling and the others with confusion. Having seen ghosts in Japan, she wasn’t very afraid, but she was still worried. After all, the thing Wei Ziqing mentioned was in the Jiajia Building!

And the Jiajia Building was her family’s property!

“Ghost? No. Just some things that neither live nor die. They are much more troublesome than ghosts!” Ma Xiaoling took a deep breath and stopped explaining. Instead, she gave instructions to Kuang Tianyou and Wei Ziqing.

She told them to take Wang Zhenzhen back. After all, she needed to go to Uncle Qiu to get some things, not only for that thing that neither lived nor died, but also for the Sanpo Day in two days!