This basic knowledge of San Yin Ming, Sun Baozi actually knows that people born in the month of Yin, day of Yin and time of Yin are all San Yin Ming. However, as for Yang Jiao's "nourishing corpse", you have to ask him about it. Although these two words seem to be seen by Sun Baozi somewhere in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and they often appear together with other words in various documents of the Five Houses. But with Sun Baozi's temper, he is absolutely not likely to come and memorize such things hard.
Sun Baozi blinked his eyes and looked at Yang Xiao, saying: "Old Yang, what are you talking about with this 'raising corpses' business? Didn't you just say it wasn't raising corpses? How can there be any tricks to deceive the eye? I'm not the one who said it, but can you please explain clearly?"
Yang Xiao looked at Sun Pu with a hint of helplessness, paused for a moment, and said: "At the beginning, those two corpses played a trick on us. Although San Yin Ming is rare, it's not to the point of being scarce. Moreover, in the case of stealing corpses, other corpses were matched, making it easy to overlook. Ouyang Pianzu must have been blinded by this, if he and Qiu weren't so nosy, this incident would have slipped through our fingers."
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Yang Xiao paused for a moment, handing over the file in his hand to Sun Baozi, before continuing: "However, the person who stole the corpses seems to be clearly aware of the Civil Affairs Bureau. He doesn't want to go against the Civil Affairs Bureau either, so the people in rooms 2 and 5 were only confused and didn't dare hurt them. This person may have known that we had arrived at Xuanhu, and took advantage of the opportunity to release the people from rooms 2 and 5 again."
Yang Diao was speaking, Sun Baozi had been narrowing his eyes to look at him. Until Yang Diao finished speaking, Sun Baozi said: "Then what about raising corpses? Old Yang, let's get straight to the point, what's going on with raising corpses?"
"There are many types of corpse cultivation" Yang Xiao explained to Sun Wu, feeling a bit helpless himself: "Some cultivate corpses to accumulate corpse energy, while others do it to refine their souls. And then there are those who do it for the corpse itself. You've seen my puppets, they can also be considered a type of corpse cultivation. However, no matter what method is used, nine corpses with three yin destinies are required. Currently, we only have three... recently..."
"You spoke too early," Sun Baozi suddenly interjected, then pulled out his phone and had Director Xie contact the Anping City side to have both places compile detailed information on missing persons over the past few days. As long as there were reported cases, even if it was a case that was just reported this morning, they all had to be reported.
At this time, Yang Xiao also understood what Sun Baozi meant. He furrowed his brow and said: "It shouldn't be that direct, if he directly harmed a living person, then there would be no need for him to go through the trouble of stealing corpses."
At this time, Sun Baozi's smile on his face converged, and he looked at Yang Yu and said: "If he hadn't startled us, he might have been able to slowly collect the corpses. But now that we know we've arrived, we must guard against him going crazy. Not me saying, Old Yang, if it's really like you said, raising corpses, apart from Anping and Xuanhu, will that person hide with another corpse somewhere else?"
Yang Xiao didn't think twice and said directly, "No way, Xuan Hu and An Ping are a natural yin-yang pulse, this is the best place to refine and nurture corpses. Except for here, you'd have to go thousands of miles further to find another yin-yang pulse. Compared to here, that other yin-yang pulse is not just slightly inferior, it's far worse."
Sun Baozi heard the problem from Yang Xiao's words, and he looked at Yang Xiao with a smile that was not quite a smile, asking: "Huh? Old Yang, have you been here before?"
Yang Xiao looked out the window and said, "It's been a long time ago. At that time, in order to avoid my uncle, I basically traveled all over the country. There aren't many places I haven't been."
Just as Yang Dian finished speaking, the little nurse who had just delivered the fax came over again with a stack of fax documents. As before, she handed them to Yang Dian, chatted for a few words and then left with three steps and one glance back. Sun Pangzi looked at the nurse's back and said to Yang Dian: "Do you believe it or not, this little girl knew long ago that the fax was for me..."
As soon as Sun Pangzi finished speaking, Yang Xiao handed him the fax file he had glanced at roughly, his face somewhat gloomy, and said: "It really was as you said, two more San Yin fate people have gone missing, plus there are still two or three cases that haven't been reported yet. It seems that the nine San Yin fates are almost complete."
Sun Bao took over the fax, which was about the missing persons in Xuanhu and Anping areas in recent days. He couldn't distinguish between the three yin fate times, so he let Yang Xiao point out the names of the two missing people with three yin fate on the fax. Both of them went missing last night, one was a female worker who worked the night shift, she didn't return home until dawn and her phone was turned off, her family reported to the police. The other was a young man who had just become a father not long ago, he disappeared suddenly when he was making milk powder for his son in the middle of the night, at dawn his wife took their child to report to the police.
Yang Xiao looked at the fax in Sun Wu's hand and said, "Both missing cases occurred in Anping. It seems that person wants to avoid us and doesn't want a direct confrontation either. But he can't help it, if he doesn't come to Xuanhu, then we'll go to Anping."
"Wait a minute, Old Yang, I still don't understand something," Sun Baozi suddenly stopped Yang Xiao, his eyes narrowed and said: "You said that raising the dead isn't something that can be done in just one or two days, right? Such a big project, with several lives lost, it's impossible to raise them in just a few months, right?"
Yang Xiao was taken aback, he couldn't think that at this time, Sun Baozi would ask him such a question. After a pause, Yang Xiao replied: "It depends on the purpose of raising the corpse, if it's just to make the corpse look lifelike, seven days is enough. For a puppet, it takes forty-nine days, and for borrowing a corpse to nurture the soul, it takes the longest time, almost eighty-one to ninety-nine days."
"Time is not short, Old Yang. We don't go anywhere, just wait for him at Xuanhu." Sun Baozi suddenly sneered and said: "I'll make a bet with you, tonight, that bastard will appear in Xuanhu..."
As soon as Sun Pangzi finished speaking, he saw Old Mo wiping his hands and walking over from a distance. After learning that Ximen Chain and the others were not seriously injured, Old Mo returned to the underground morgue. He stopped the mortuary administrator who was about to move the body of the person who had been frightened to death last night, explained his identity as a special agent of the Ministry of Public Security, and surprisingly asked people to take the deceased back to the morgue. At the scene, together with Dr. Xuan Hu, he performed an autopsy on the deceased.
To be precise, the one doing the autopsy was Old Mo. However, just as he had dissected halfway through, the local forensic doctor had already covered his mouth and gone out to vomit. Old Mo's strong stomach for his work method really wasn't something that a small place like Xianghu's forensic doctors could accept.
After seeing Sun Wu and Yang Xiao, Old Mo said: "Just now I dissected the deceased from last night, his cause of death was a massive hemorrhage caused by cardiac rupture. However, in his left ventricle, I found something interesting. This little thing I've never seen before, you two take a look, what is this thing?"
As he spoke, Old Mo opened his palm and revealed a metal ring the size of an earring stuck in a thin piece of flesh. Since it was found on the heart, the thin flesh above should be the deceased's cardiac tissue last night...
Lao Mo wanted to hand over the thing in his hand to Sun Baozi, but Sun Baozi felt nauseous just by looking at it and didn't dare take it. He frowned and said: "Just give it to me, you hold it for me to see..."
His words had not finished, when Yang Xiao had already taken the metal from Old Mo's hand one step ahead. After a careful examination, he said to Old Mo: "This thing is put on the aorta, it was the rupture of the ventricle below that caused the massive bleeding, right?"
Lao Mo nodded, looking somewhat surprised at Yang Xiao and said: "Fortunately you are on our side, otherwise just by what you said so carefully, the first person to suspect would be you. However, there is no surgical scar on the deceased's chest, how did this small thing get in?"
"Will it be hung on the heart, and will manual surgery be required?" Yang Xiao looked at Old Mo for a moment, then suddenly inserted his hand holding the metal ring into Old Mo's chest. This action was too fast, by the time Old Mo reacted, Yang Xiao's hand had already withdrawn, but now his hand was empty, and the metal ring had gone who-knows-where.
Lao Mo took a step back, and he clearly felt a foreign body sensation in his heart. Covering his chest with his hand, he stared at Yang Xiao with wide eyes and said, "You put that thing inside my heart?"
Yang Xiao looked at Old Mo with a slow and leisurely gaze, then said: "It's hanging on your heart's main artery. Originally, there was another ring just like it hanging below this one. If I'm in a bad mood, I can make that other ring explode at any time and place. You'll die the same way as last night's ghost."
At this time, Old Mo's face had already turned from white to red. He stared at Yang Xiao for a while before suddenly turning around and walking away without saying another word. Sun Baozi shouted behind him: "Old Mo, where are you going? Yang Xiao is just being used as an example, there's no other meaning to it. I'm not the one who said it, but come back first and let him take that thing out for you..."
Lao Mo didn't turn his head, directly answering: "I'm going to take an X-ray, this is something that no one would believe if I said it out loud. I'll take a picture as proof." Lao Mo walked very quickly, and by the time he finished speaking, he had already turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs.
After seeing the back of Lao Mo disappear, Sun Baozi looked at Yang Diao with some helplessness and said: "It's not me saying you, Old Yang, but if you don't thoroughly offend the people in Room 2, it won't be too late. The whole Room 2 is just him and a few people like Ximen Da Guanren who have somewhat improved their relationship with you, now you've offended one of them. Wang Ziheng is not around anymore, are you trying to cultivate him into Wang Ziheng's successor, leading the people in Room 2 to oppose you?"
"You're wrong about this one" Yang Xiao suddenly pursed his lips and smiled, looking at Sun Baozi: "How many people have you seen who still have the mind to take pictures at a time like this? In the entire second room, I only think Old Mo is pleasing to the eye. If it weren't for the fact that the Ghost Path Sect has already been destroyed, I'd even want to recruit him. Unfortunately, he's under Qiu Lao's command and has been delayed..."
"I really can't understand the way you express your emotions," Sun Wukong said, pausing for a moment and chuckling before continuing, "So now, shall we talk about what's going on with that ring?"