C13 Corona Meridian
I laughed and didn't tell what I had just seen to Chen Jianshan. As for the corpse of Song Zhen`er, Seventh Uncle had friends at the funeral home. As long as there were sufficient materials, cremation could be done.
After dinner, Seventh Uncle left me alone. I didn't know what was going on and just stared blankly at Seventh Uncle. The old man didn't say anything and gave me a cigarette from Egret Island.
The two of them didn't say a word and just silently smoked the entire cigarette. In the end, I couldn't hold it in anymore and finally opened my mouth and said:
"Seventh Uncle, let's get straight to the point. Why did you keep me here?"
"Haha, if not, I could have kept you here." Seventh Uncle stood up from the bed and sized me up before saying,
"You're Lin Mo's grandson, right?"
My grandfather passed away very early, and even I had only seen his photo before. If he was still alive, he should be eighty-six or seventeen now. Could it be that Seventh Uncle knew him?
Facing Seventh Uncle, I didn't lie. I only nodded my head. Seventh Uncle seemed to be very satisfied with my honesty.
"If Lin Mo was still alive, I would have addressed him as Martial Uncle. Unfortunately, he died too early. He previously worked at the Heron Island sub-bureau, do you know about this?"
I nodded. When I was young, I heard that there was a serious shortage of police investigators before the founding of the country, especially in the field of forensic science. My family had many years of experience in coronation, so my grandfather worked at the Egret Island sub-bureau for forensic medicine until after the founding of the country.
Compared to the forensic science, coroner was not considered a regular profession in the past, but it was better than nothing in the past.
When Seventh Uncle and I talked about this, he nodded. It turned out that he was also a police officer of the Hai Dong branch. Seventh Uncle seemed to be recalling something as he said somewhat dejectedly:
After the founding of the country, I worked under them for two years, but two years later, Mr. Lin Mo was suddenly transferred away one day. I heard from my master that he went to 808 places, and there was no news of him since.
At 808, I was a stranger to the name and had never heard it mentioned by my family. Seventh Uncle told me about a time line.
I was a little taken aback by the time, because the date of birth and death in my grandfather's photograph was 1966.
"What kind of place is that?" Would there be any relationship between the two? I asked Seventh Uncle, but Seventh Uncle also shook his head. He didn't know much about this place either.
"There are many things in this world that are difficult to explain with science. Perhaps they are as mysterious as the 808."
Seventh Uncle's words had some meaning, but my intuition told me that there were some things that we commoners shouldn't ask, so I was more interested in what happened during the day.
Why did these two demoness avoid the heavenly tribulation? And why did Wu Yi, a monk, go to help these two demons?
Just tell me directly, Seventh Uncle is not an ordinary person, he definitely understands.
As expected, he didn't make my plans. After thinking for a while, Seventh Uncle told me.
In the past, there were five kinds of Hu Bai, Huang Liu, Hui, and Hui Diremonsters, also known as the Five Great Immortal Families. They were the fox, hedgehog, weasel, python, and mouse.
After I listened to it, I couldn't help but recall the saying that there was something in the ancient times that had always been refined, or that everything had a spirit. It seemed that the saying that there was a will that had always been there wasn't false.
Seventh Uncle went on to tell me, although the people call these things immortals, they are just ignorant villagers who have suffered from a lot of ignorance before giving these things up. If these monsters really want to become immortals, they have to go through a tribulation of thunder before they can be reborn.
This wasn't something that could be crossed just because he wanted to. If a virtuous and virtuous demoness were to undergo her tribulation, as long as she relied on the blessings or the statue of Buddha within the temple hiding beneath her, she would be able to escape danger.
However, there were countless evil spirits. They relied on food and blood to cultivate. The heavens and earth could not tolerate this. Blessed men and statues of gods simply could not allow him to approach them.
The two people we met earlier probably belong to this category, so we have to rely on the five element baleful corpse of Song Ying'er to survive the thunder tribulation.
I finally understood why Thoughtless had interfered in this matter. After thinking for a while, Seventh Uncle asked me if there was anything special about Thoughtless' body.
After hearing what he said, I nodded my head and said, "There is a wooden tablet on this monk's waist with nine black dragons engraved on it. That should be it. After all, no one still has a identity token these days."
After hearing what I said, Seventh Uncle frowned and looked at me.
It's the Yinyang Merchant, who specializes in dealing with the Three Paths of Human-Demon. No wonder the two of you didn't do anything after destroying his business. If these merchants want to kill people, they only want to earn money.
"Then I am relieved. I was afraid that he would come looking for me." I took a deep breath.
In any case, he probably wouldn't have anything to do with this anymore, so he definitely wouldn't have any chance to interact with Thoughtless, so he didn't have to worry.
Asking about these two matters was merely to dispel the curiosity in my heart. It was already late in the morning, and I had no intention of staying here with Seventh Uncle, so I prepared to leave.
I didn't expect that before I left, Seventh Uncle would ask me to wait a bit. He turned around and took out a metal box made of White Horse Wind Chasing Ointment from under the bed and handed it over to me.
"This item was left behind by Mister Lin Mo at the Heron Island Division and has been kept here since the beginning. It should be returned to you now. Back then, Mister Lin Mo was a very powerful coroner, I hope you can continue to follow Mister Lin Mo."
Seventh Uncle's eyes were filled with determination and seriousness. I was too embarrassed to say more as I nodded my head and accepted it.
I opened the box on the bus back. The contents were carefully wrapped in a piece of cloth. When I opened the box, I found that it was actually a book on coroners that had turned yellow.
I had one with me too, but it was clearly two-thirds thinner, and when I looked through it carefully, besides the first half that dealt with the autopsy, the rest were actually all charms and scriptures.
"Aiya, I'll go. Strange." I was a little surprised, but I felt that this book was a little different from my own book. There were a lot of things I didn't understand, so after a cursory glance, I wrapped it up and put it back in the box.