C3 Symbol
The next morning, just as the sun rose, Dong Tao called the company's leader to request a day of leave. He went to Anyang Street with his remaining savings.
Anyang Street was as quiet as it was during the night. Red brick houses lined up beside the old bluestone sidewalks, just like the sewers of every city. Anyang Street from the last century was silently located underneath the bustling city.
The street was extremely quiet. Under the warm sunlight, the sounds of cicadas chirping and birds chirping filled the air with a sense of leisure. The corresponding Dong Tao had a deathly haze brought about by the cold winter on his face.
Dong Tao walked up to the wooden door from yesterday and, just like before, he looked left and right before pushing open the door and entering the hall. The Taoist was still kowtowing devoutly to the bronze masked man, Dong Tao lightly called out, "Taoist, I'm coming."
The Taoist priest had expected Dong Tao to come. His tightly shut eyes widened slightly as he said, "Follow me." With that, he stood up and led Dong Tao to another room.
After entering the room, the Taoist closed the door. There was no window in the room, only the incandescent light above his head gave off a faint glow. Dong Tao looked around and found that the walls were filled with all kinds of inscriptions he couldn't understand.
The Taoist let Dong Tao remain where he was and walked up to the mahogany table. He waved the brush on a blank yellow talisman a few times, then handed it to Dong Tao. "This is yours." Dong Tao took over the talisman paper and looked at it. There was a word written in the middle of the talisman, "Dao leader, this talisman is different from the previous one."
The Daoist said, "If you use the previous talisman again, it will be discovered by the person last night. This time, you must hide this talisman. I will draw another talisman to complement your talisman." With that, he drew another talisman. It was the same as the previous talisman, except that the middle character was changed to "Substitute". The Taoist picked up the talisman and said, "Dong Tao, if you use this talisman, you will have to bear the consequences in the future."
Dong Tao was a little confused, so he asked, "What will happen?"
The Taoist said, "This character represents yourself, and this character is the symbol that blurred Liu Fan's vision. The person who holds this character will be considered you, Dong Tao. As long as the rune is kept on your person, it will take effect. "
When Dong Tao heard this, he thought to himself, isn't this asking others to be the scapegoats? He hesitated. "Daoist leader, is there any other way?"
"Dong Tao, you've already killed so many people. What are you afraid of? That rune from before transferred your fate of death to someone else. "
"But …" Dong Tao seemed to want to say something.
The Taoist priest interrupted Dong Tao and asked, "Do you want to die or live?"
"Want to live!" Dong Tao said affirmatively.
First, fold it into a triangle, and then drip a drop of your blood on it, directly giving it to someone else as a gift. If others accept it, then Liu Fan will assume that that person is you, and as long as that person dies, Liu Fan will believe that he has already killed you! The Taoist had a confident smile on his face. It was obvious that this was not the first time he had done this.
Finally, the Taoist took the bank card from Dong Tao and sent him out. When Dong Tao left the old house, the Taoist stressed to Dong Tao once again, "Dong Tao, this symbol must not have any problems. This is your fate, remember it!"
Dong Tao nodded and put away the two talisman papers. Then, he returned home. Following the Daoist's instructions, he folded the talisman into a triangle and dripped a drop of blood on it. Then, he began to search for his target.
After Old Xie met with Zhang Wu Ming yesterday, he made a new plan of action, he wanted to look for the mystery of Liu Fan's corpse disappearing, but Zhang Wu Ming needed to continue monitoring Dong Tao's movements, and before Liu Fan gets surpassed, he would definitely find Dong Tao to take revenge, and as long as he caught Liu Fan's spirit body, half of the mystery would be solved.
Of course, this was only if Liu Fan's spirit body hadn't turned into a monster.
As Liu Fan's corpse disappeared into thin air, Old Xie didn't have too many clues, so he started searching from the villa in front of Liu Fan.
His parents were doing business in Africa, and they only came back a few times a year to strike money on Liu Fan's account. Liu Fan himself also did not often contact his parents, and their family relationship was not that good, and the friends beside them were mostly friends made of wine and meat, so now that Liu Fan had been dead for more than a month, no one paid attention to her disappearance.
After wandering around the villa for a bit, Lao Xie finally found a diary in Liu Fan's room. In the instant he flipped open the diary, a strong wave of resentment assaulted him, and the entire diary began to exude a gloomy aura. Lao Xie was in the middle of this resentment, reading through the diary's contents one page after another.
The first half of the diary was normal, but in the recent past, in April of this year, Lao Xie noticed Dong Tao's name.
4 April 2017
Dong Tao confessed to me again today. I've already rejected him a few times, but he really hates being pestered like this. Didn't he know that he and I are people from two completely different worlds?
9 April 2017
He seems to know his place today, and it's not that I look down on him, it's that he's asking for it. If he knew better and gave up early, I wouldn't have said those words.
Seeing this, Old Xie knew in his heart that Liu Fan must have said something that had hurt Dong Tao's self-esteem, and that was why he ended up getting himself killed. Just as Old Xie was about to close the diary, he discovered that there was something written at the end.
16 April 2017
Today is my first day of rebirth, so I taught him a little lesson.
18 April 2017
You dog! You actually found a helper to play hide and seek with me. Let's see how long you can hide from me!
April 22, 2017
Kill! Kill! All must die!
Old Xie had already confirmed that the last few pages were written when Liu Fan died. On the night of Liu Fan's death, Old Xie and Zhang Wu Ming were at the scene and witnessed the entire process of Dong Tao's murder. After Dong Tao cleaned up the scene under the redbud tree where Liu Fan was buried, they waited until Dong Tao left Old Xie and began to supersede Liu Fan's spiritual body.
The matter that was mentioned later in the diary, he had a bit of understanding towards Zhang Wu Ming last night, the first time Liu Fan's spirit body came into contact with Dong Tao, it caused him to suffer a little injury and recuperate for half a month, and on the second day, Dong Tao found the spirit body of the evil Taoist and transferred his fate of dying to another person using a talisman.
It could be seen that Liu Fan's diary would update once every three or four days, but on April 22, it stopped updating. Liu Fan's diary would update every three or four days, but on April 22, it stopped updating.
Old Xie seemed to have found a clue. Liu Fan's body disappeared, perhaps after April 22nd!
After closing the diary, Old Xie quickly left the villa. When he passed by the redbud tree in the backyard, he subconsciously looked at the burial site. Other than the redbud tree gently swaying, there was nothing strange about the burial site.
At this moment, Dong Tao, who was lying on his bed, opened his WeChat to search for his scapegoat in the contact list. In the contact list, Dong Tao found a girl with the name Ying.
Opening the chat with He Ying, he found his chat logs with He Ying. Dong Tao was shocked as he flipped through the chat logs. The contents told him that he had known this girl for a long time, and the two of them were not a couple, but very good friends. Even Liu Fan's matter was told about this girl who was a mystery.
Dong Tao tightly gripped the triangular symbol in his left hand. When he had just decided to target He Ying, the chat log in his phone formed memories in his mind like a roller coaster. A purple-natural face appeared in his mind.
"Do I know her?" Dong Tao mumbled to himself as his eyes dimmed. Then he repeated, "I know her!"
The day quickly passed, and night gradually arrived. The night sky was covered with stars, and the business street of Liang Tian City was bustling with noise and excitement. Zhang Wu Ming walked down this street alone, and stopped at a corner café.
The moment he stepped into the coffee shop, a girl's gaze locked onto him. "Nameless, come this way." The girl gestured.
Zhang Wu Ming walked over and sat in front of the girl, and asked her the first question, "Zhuo Jin, how is the matter that I asked of you?"