Volume 6: Xiangxi Ghost Witch Chapter 3: The Fearsome Ghost Witch

  Night.

  Xiangxi Airport

  Ouyang Xuan sat in the helicopter belonging to Long Zu, looking at the vast airport below with its dazzling lights, and thought of the phone call he made to Huangfu Yiling just now...

  "Hey, Lingling, it's Ouyang," Ouyang Xuan paused and said hesitantly: "There's a task in the department, I have to secretly go to Western Hunan. Sorry, the situation is urgent, I left directly without saying goodbye to you!"

  Huangfu Yiling fell silent for a moment before speaking softly, "It's okay, you take care of yourself. By the way, there's an English exam at university in a few days, can you make it back?"

  "I'll try my best!" Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly: "Worst comes to worst, I can just take it again next year. With my abilities, this is just a piece of cake!"

  "Hmm, be careful yourself, I'll wait for you in BJ!" Huang Pu Yi Ling said reluctantly.

  "Alright, you take care of yourself too. The weather is cold, wear more clothes! And tell those two good-for-nothings to take care of themselves and not spend all their living expenses in a few days. Now I'm away, no one will be spoiling them!" Ouyang Xuan said with a smile.

  "Haha——" The person on the other end of the phone also burst out laughing. Huangfu Yiling held back her laughter and said: "Mm, I know, see you later!"

  "Goodbye!" Ouyang Xuan hung up the phone with a complicated expression.

  ……

  Suddenly, "Boom!" The aircraft shook violently. Ouyang Xuan was shocked awake: Landed!

  "Rustle..." The cabin door slowly opened, and airport service personnel quickly came forward to drive the ladder down.

  Ouyang Xuan picked up his own luggage and walked down from the ladder.

  "Are you Comrade Ouyang?" Immediately, two middle-aged men came over: one was a police officer and the other was in plain clothes.

  "I am Ouyang Xuan, who are you?" Ouyang Xuan stretched out his hand.

  "I am Zheng Zhou, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee!" The casually dressed middle-aged man hastily extended his hand and warmly shook hands with Ouyang Xuan.

  "I am Ren Changming of the Municipal Public Security Bureau!" The middle-aged policeman also came forward immediately, but his face was somewhat flustered and unnatural.

  "Secretary Zheng, Director Ren, what's the current situation? Has the evacuation of the small town been completed? Is the nearby mountain area completely sealed off?"

  "As soon as I received your call, I immediately reported to Secretary Zheng. Secretary Zheng immediately dispatched a large number of troops and police to complete the blockade! An hour ago, all the residents of the town had also completed their evacuation." Ren Changming almost blurted out, seemingly with a hint of trying to make amends.

  "What's the excuse? You've sealed off the mountain. There must be some excuse for evacuating the residents, right?" Ou Yang Xuan asked.

  "Don't worry about this, we are just using the appearance of ferocious beasts in the mountains as an excuse. There is no social unrest!" Secretary Zheng said with a lot of experience.

  Ouyang Xuan let out a sigh of relief: "Great, fortunately you guys were relatively fast, otherwise tonight might have seen someone else get hurt!"

  "Yes, yes," Secretary Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with some pain: "It's all because of our local government's ineffectiveness. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been any casualties last night. Our city government is responsible for this!"

  "Never mind, now is the time to investigate!" Ouyang Xuan was most annoyed by this kind of official rhetoric, and waved his hand: "And you also don't have experience in handling such matters, it's understandable if there are some problems! Now, take me to the murder scene immediately, I want to see what's going on!"

  "Alright, alright, the car is over here, please!" Secretary Zheng saw that Ouyang Xuan didn't seem to be probing any further and let out a sigh of relief. He nodded repeatedly and immediately invited Ouyang Xuan to get in the car.

  The car approached the mountainous area, and the number of sentry posts along the way gradually increased. There were large numbers of armed military police everywhere, with exceptionally tight seals.

  Before long, the car drove into a small town and stopped in front of a private residence with its own gate.

  There were three or four police cars parked at the entrance of the residential building, and more than a dozen police officers had sealed off the area.

  Ren Changming turned his head from the front seat: "Comrade Ouyang, we've arrived, it's right here!"

  Ouyang Xuan opened the car door and jumped out, Ren Changming led the way into the inner house.

  Secretary Zheng hesitated for a moment, seemingly unwilling to leave another cowardly impression in front of Ouyang Xuan, and also followed him in with a stiff upper lip.

  The deceased were a family of three: the master and mistress, both over thirty years old, and a young boy over ten years old. All of them fell to the ground with two sharp tooth marks on their necks and a pool of bloody footprints under their bodies!

  Seeing all this, Ouyang Xuan's eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, and his sharp eyes revealed a fierce killing intent: not even sparing small children, how detestable!

  Secretary Zheng saw this bloody scene, his face changed, seemingly holding back from vomiting, but his expression was very strange.

  It's a normal reaction for a scholar! Ouyang Xuan just furrowed his brow, then bent down to examine the wound on the deceased with his hand.

  Ren Changming beside him hurriedly said: "Ouyang comrade, wait a minute, put on the gloves!"

  "It doesn't matter, I'll take the poison for you!" Ouyang Xuan said, carefully examining the wounds of the three people, furrowing his brow in concern.

  Ren Changming and Secretary Zheng both dared to speak up, fearing that they would disturb Ouyang Xuan's train of thought.

  After a long time, Ouyang Xuan's face turned strange and he stood up, saying in confusion: "Looking at the wound of the deceased, it was indeed caused by a zombie. But according to Huang Xiaoming's words, it doesn't seem like a zombie either. What kind of thing is this ghost?"

  Ren Changming and Secretary Zheng stared at each other in dismay, Ou Yangxuan didn't know, so they knew even less.

  "Alright, Secretary Zheng, Director Ren, notify all the checkpoints: except for military police and personnel on official business, anyone who wants to pass through the checkpoint must confirm their identity, otherwise they will be killed without exception!" Ou Yangxuan couldn't help but feel a little worried, and suddenly added a sentence.

  "Alright, I'll notify you right away!" Ren Changming nodded hastily.

  "Also, has the ancient tomb excavated by Huang Xiaoming been located yet?" asked Ouyang Xuan.

  "The location has been roughly determined based on what Huang Xiaoming said. It's in the west, not far from Fog Hidden Mountain, but the exact location still needs to be verified. We've already sent a team of armed police to search for signs of digging by Huang Xiaoming and others, so we should have news soon!" Secretary Zheng said with confidence, suppressing his feeling of disgust.

  As soon as the words fell, Ren Changming's mobile phone rang. Ren Changming hastily answered: "Hello, I'm Ren Changming. Hmm, found it!? Good, great! You wait, I'll ask!"

  Ren Changming covered the phone and said with joy: "Comrade Ouyang, that ancient tomb has been found, it's on the seventh ridge of Fog Hidden Mountain. However, the entrance to the tomb seems to be sealed off. The soldiers are asking whether they should break in?"

  Ouyang Xuan was startled and hastily said, "Don't, absolutely don't break in." He looked up at the sky. It seemed to be midnight already, so he hastily said, "Also, have them retreat immediately. Now that it's midnight, if that ghost thing is hiding in the ancient tomb, it might come out soon!"

  "Hello, this is Ren Changming. Whatever you do, don't break in! And immediately retreat! Turn the horse back!"

  "Yes!" The other end of the phone responded, and suddenly a loud explosion seemed to come. Ren Changming was stunned, shouting: "Hey, what's going on? What's the explosion?"

  "It's no good, that thing has come out...... Oh heaven......" A terrified voice came from the phone, followed by intense gunfire.

  Suddenly, a loud explosion sound came from the mobile phone again. After the explosion sound was over, the mobile phone was already in a busy tone.

  "Damn it!" Even the stupidest person now knows that this team of warriors is probably in trouble. Ouyang Xuan's eyes turned red with rage, and he shouted: "How far is Qidao Kan from here?"

  "It's far, at most five or six miles!" Ren Changming said with a pale face.

  "You all withdraw from here immediately, I'll deal with that ghost thing!" Ouyang Xuan's expression turned stern as he took out a 'Crane Seeking Talisman' with his right hand.

  "Peng——" A fierce flame burst forth from Ouyang Xuan's hand, igniting the talisman.

  In an instant, a golden paper crane flew out of the flames, let out a clear cry, and then flew into the night sky through the open window.

  Secretary Zheng and Ren Changming were both stunned, their eyes wide with amazement, and they couldn't utter a word for a long time.

  "Still dazed? Leave here quickly!" He said, striding forward like flying, and chased after the paper crane in a flash.

  Secretary Zheng and Ren Changming finally came back to their senses, the two of them felt a chill on their backs, and they hastily called out to the police to withdraw quickly.

  Early winter mountains and forests, solemn and majestic.

  The cold wind howled through the quiet mountain valley at night, making a terrifying roar, and countless fallen leaves danced wildly in the mountains with the cold wind.

  Ouyang Xuan's footsteps were like flying, jumping and leaping quickly through the mountains and forests, although the cold wind was piercing to the bone, but he was anxious and his whole body was hot.

  More than ten lives in a class, how can Ouyang Xuan not be anxious?

  Suddenly, a paper crane in the sky softly cried out and flew towards a small hill, leaving behind a fine golden trail.

  Ouyang Xuan's eyebrows rose: Xi He sought the symbol, since he could find this ghost thing, it means that this ghost thing is not a ghost but a zombie. But, do ghosts have blood-sucking? However, do zombies know magic?

  Ouyang Xuan was at a loss for what to do, but quickly quickened his pace, rushing towards his goal like the wind.

  Through a small forest at the waist of the mountain, suddenly, Ouyang Xuan's eyes opened up, and a flat mountain top appeared in front of him.

  At the same time, Ou Yang Xuan's sensitive nose also caught a pungent bloody smell, he hurried over and immediately discovered the gruesome scene.

  On the empty mountain top, more than a dozen armed police soldiers wearing green camouflage uniforms were scattered all over the ground. As far as the eye could see, there were human limbs and fragments everywhere, with an exceptionally bloody scene.

  Among the chaotic corpses, however, there was a crouched figure quietly lying on top of a warrior's corpse, making a terrifying "hulu, hulu" sucking sound.

  He's late!

  "Monster!" Ou Yang Xuan's eyes turned red in an instant, and he roared: "Your time of death has come!"

  The crouching figure froze for a moment, then suddenly stood up, slowly turned its head around, and coldly sneered in a shrill voice: "Are you talking to me!?"

  Under the bright moonlight and with his keen eyesight, Ouyang saw clearly this strange figure: an emaciated, aged face, a weird, short beard, sinister, bloodthirsty eyes, a slightly hunched back hidden in a large black silk robe, a withered right hand tightly grasping a ferocious snake-headed staff, the whole person exuding a strong aura of evil.

  This was also Ouyang Xuan; if others had seen this strange scene, they would have been frightened to death.

  Ouyang Xuan was stunned: It can talk, it has no fur, this is a zombie! He looked again at the old man's feet and saw that he also had a shadow, so he wasn't a ghost either! Ouyang Xuan was stunned: Not a demon, not a ghost, not a zombie, what exactly is this thing?!

  "What are you? Why did you kill so many people?" Ouyang Xuan shouted sternly.

  "Heh heh heh," the old man sneered: "I am not a demon, nor a ghost, nor a corpse. I am myself, the one and only Xiangxi witch god in the world - Meng Cai!"

  "Witch god!? " Ouyang Xuan furrowed his brow: "Never heard of it!"

  "Hmph, of course you've never heard of it!" Meng Cai said proudly: "But in the Chu State many years ago, I was a renowned great witch doctor!"

  "The Chu State has been gone for over two thousand years, which means you've been dead for a very long time?" Ouyang Xuan raised an eyebrow, somewhat perplexed: "But why are you still alive today?"

  "In this world, except for gods, no one can escape death. But I can, I can!" Meng Cai sneered: "At the time of my death, I chose this place as my tomb. Because it is suitable for preserving corpses, after hundreds or thousands of years, I will become a zombie and revive. However, zombies do not have true wisdom, but I am different, so I cast a powerful spell on my coffin to seal my three souls and seven spirits, preventing them from leaving my body. Finally, thanks to the touch of a few grave robbers and a spark of anger, I woke up from my slumber. I revived, and it's a perfect revival! Hahaha..." Meng Cai let out a triumphant laugh, laughing somewhat hysterically.

  "No wonder you want to suck blood, because you are a zombie. But you also have three souls and seven spirits, with wisdom, so you can cast witchcraft, making you look like a human!" Ouyang Xuan sneered, "What a good trick, in all these years, I've never heard of such a thing! But what's the point of living like this, neither human nor ghost?"

  "Winter generation, what are you, dare to come and lecture me!" Meng Cai was furious, brandishing his snake-headed staff, his blood-red eyes overflowing with murderous intent.

  "I'm from the Dragon Squad of China, well, you might not understand if I put it that way, it's the former Yamen! Huang Xiaoming intentionally activated you, so let me take responsibility for sending you back to hell!" Ouyang Xuan's expression turned sharp and his tightly clenched fists crackled with energy.

  "Hahahaha... " Wei Cai sneered coldly: "You think you can take me down? Don't be ridiculous! Now that I'm invincible to blades and guns, have infinite strength, and possess boundless magical powers, who in this world can kill me?"

  "Hmph, I don't know how far you've evolved as a Jiao Hua, but what about Mao Jiao? He was still cut into pieces by me!" Ouyang Xuan sneered and slightly bent down.

  "Can you kill the corpse?!" Meng Cai also raised an eyebrow in surprise, seemingly disbelieving as he looked at Ouyang Xuan, then paused and coldly sneered: "Fine, I'll see just how capable you are!"

  A strong cold wind suddenly rose, and the air on the seven Kan lines became tense in an instant.

  The great war is about to unfold.