At the intersection of the main road, in a small house with bright firelight.
Jia Qing shouted anxiously, "Brother Feng, just call my name! I'm afraid if we wait any longer, these two ghosts will attack you—"
Beheaded!
Jia Qing was so anxious that sweat covered his forehead. He choked up and said, "Brother Yang and Brother Jing should be here soon. What we need to do now is to try to delay them. Let me and Zheng Shu hold them off for a while!"
Zheng Shu also nodded frantically with red eyes.
Just now, the Ghost Brothers once again said the line from last night while interrogating Bian Ya and Feng Shi - as long as they identify the devil, they can be released.
Of course, everyone knows now that this is a lie.
But according to last night's experience, as long as Bian Ya and Feng Shi identified Zheng Shu and Jia Qing, the monster would leave Bian Ya and Feng Shi aside for a while and deal with Zheng Shu and Jia Qing first.
In this way, they can successfully delay time!
They believed in Song Yang and Xia Jing, and believed that these two people would be able to find the key clues to crack this copy as quickly as possible, and what they had to do was to try their best to keep everyone alive!
On the throne, Feng Shi and Bian Ya were hanging upside down.
The two men were in tattered clothes, covered in blood, and looked in a very miserable state.
Because he was lying upside down, all the blood rushed to his head, and Feng Shi was already feeling dizzy.
He glanced out the window.
Outside the window, the night was dark, hundreds of ghosts were partying, and no one knew what progress Song Yang and Xia Jing were making.
Feng Shi panted, turned around and looked at Bian Ya.
Bian Ya twitched the corner of his lips and said softly, "I'm sorry for getting you into trouble."
If he hadn't made that joke during the day, saying "I didn't expect you to pay so much attention to me", Feng Shi wouldn't have subconsciously replied "I don't".
Although now it seems that this decisive denial seems a little cute.
Feng Shi was silent for a moment, then said, "No, I was too talkative during the day."
If he hadn't started the conversation first, asking the man next to him if he was interested in the punishment in this dungeon, the man wouldn't have denied it...
Although the facts now prove that this man is pure and thorough.
The two of them sat in silence.
Then they all laughed helplessly.
Seeing that they were still in the mood to laugh, Jia Qing and Zheng Shu widened their eyes.
Feng Shi whispered, "So, masochists don't like erotic games, so what exactly is it?"
Bian Ya smiled and said, "People like us only enjoy the pure pain. It has nothing to do with whether it's a love game or not."
Feng Shi was stunned.
"Very perverted, isn't it?" Bian Ya looked into the void and said softly, "People like us are no different from monsters in the eyes of ordinary humans."
As soon as he finished speaking, the ghost brothers suddenly spat at the same time.
They said viciously, "It seems we can't get any more out of you!"
The whips in the hands of the ghost brothers turned into two huge machetes. They smiled sinisterly and said, "Just die like this!"
They came to the left and right sides of the seal and the cliff, and raised their machetes high.
As long as these two knives fall, Feng Shi and Bian Ya will be beheaded immediately!
Jia Qing and Zheng Shu's expressions changed suddenly.
"Brother Feng!"
"Brother Bian!"
It's reached its limit.
If they wanted to delay time any further, they could only turn to Jia Qing and Zheng Shu for help.
Feng Shi and Bian Ya sighed and compromised at this moment.
They really didn't want to implicate these two people, but it wasn't worth dying at this time. If Song Yang knew about it, he would be so angry that he would die looking at their corpses.
They moved their lips, intending to "identify" at this moment.
But at this moment, the ghosts suddenly stopped moving and stopped making any noise.
The noisy sounds stopped at the same moment.
The whole house and the entire main road became deathly silent, a deathly silence that was extremely eerie.
Feng Shi and the other four were all stunned.
The next second, they realized that Song Yang and Xia Jing must have discovered something!
*
Five minutes ago.
"Why would a kind and gentle mayor want to build a place designed to torture others?"
When Xia Jing raised this question, a thought flashed through Song Yang's mind.
At this moment, the two stood by the desk, staring at each other, and many clues they had found earlier emerged in their minds.
There were some clues hidden in those clues, and at this moment they were all dug out and quickly connected together!
Song Yang said quickly, "The mayor proposed to build this torture chamber a month before his death. It happened that the Lal brothers pushed him into the river a month before his death."
Xia Jing said thoughtfully, "The mayor fell into the river after being pranked by the drunken Lal brothers, but he didn't die. However, after this accident, the mayor's temper became very unpredictable."
Song Yang frowned and said, "During the court debate that Elizabeth participated in, some townspeople pointed out that—"
Mayor Is once burst into laughter in front of me. He must have been possessed by a demon!
Xia Jing and Song Yang said at the same time: "—This sentence did not appear on the corpses of any townspeople!"
During the day, in the forest on the other side of the river, the two of them carefully read the words on all the corpses.
Most of the accusations against the mayor appeared on the corpses of the townspeople, which meant that they were all lies. Only this sentence did not appear from beginning to end!
This sentence is true!
The townspeople who said this were not lying!
Xia Jing walked around the back of the desk and looked at the three lines of words written by the mayor on the open page of the book again.
At first glance, these three lines of words seem to be very ordinary teachings from a father to his daughter, but now it seems that these three sentences have a very strong misleading meaning.
"Always believe in your own thoughts and feelings, trust your intuition, and be an independent thinker."
"Your mind won't deceive you, so you should never be fooled by what other people say."
——Elizabeth firmly believed in her intuition. She knew that her father must have been killed and framed. She would never be shaken by any words!
"Humans can achieve anything if they work hard enough."
——Even if it seems very difficult to clear the stain on her father, she still has to grit her teeth and persevere, because as long as she perseveres, she can do anything!
There is nothing essentially wrong with the teachings of these three sentences. Anyone who follows this belief can become an outstanding person.
The premise is that—
Take these three sentences in moderation.
Is human intuition always infallible?
Are other people's words necessarily false?
Is it true that as long as you work hard, you can achieve anything?
People should have faith, but they must never blindly "believe" in any words and must not go to extremes.
If Elizabeth thought about it more, she might have discovered that her father's temperament had become a little strange after he fell into the water.
If Elizabeth had thought about it a little longer, she would have realized that her mental state had been completely shattered by the thought of revenge.
Before she even stepped into the prophet's house, she should have realized that she was doing something stupid and that her decision would lead to her own destruction.
Xia Jing's thoughts shifted, and he said, "Jia Qing and the others said that during the day, this father and daughter stood here and had a fourth conversation."
"Therefore, there are no gods in this world. The only ones who can control our lives are ourselves."
"That's true, but—"
"It's not that I completely disbelieve in the existence of gods, but it's not so easy to get gods to bless humanity. If we want gods to hear our voices, we must be devout enough and make enough efforts."
Song Yang's face sank.
It was the mayor who made Elizabeth believe that as long as she was "pious" enough and put in "enough effort", she would be blessed by "God".
This is probably the reason why Elizabeth would rather accept the condition of "spiritual and physical communion" with the prophet and try to make a wish!
She believed everything her father said.
The fact is, under her extreme emotional outburst, her wish did come true in the end. This kind of metaphysical power driven by "piety" does exist in this copy, just as fantastical things like demons do exist.
But she was also killed, stuffed naked into a wooden box, and died in such a miserable way.
But is all this she did really what the real mayor wants?
Xia Jing suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some black marks on the back of the page of the book.
He turned the page.
The two shocking lines on the next page pierced his and Song Yang's eyes.
"Don't believe what I say!"
"The devil is in me!"
The two lines of words were written very messily, and the last stroke was drawn straight out, almost tearing the paper.
Mayor Is's anxiety and frustration were evident when he wrote these two sentences.
And when did he write these two sentences?
It's not hard to imagine.
——When "he" sits behind the desk, playing the role of a gentle and kind father, educating his daughter with a smile.
——When "he" instilled all the planned plans and steps into Elizabeth's head in a teaching manner and brainwashed Elizabeth.
The mayor couldn't control his mouth or his body.
He could only say those words that were like a spell to his dear daughter with a smile, and at the same time, he tried his best to drive his hands, tremblingly turned the page, and wrote down these two silent cries.
His soul prayed that Elizabeth could see.
Unfortunately, Elizabeth was looking out the window at the time, wondering if there really was a God in the world who could uphold justice for everything.
She didn't notice anything, let alone the despair in her father's eyes.
——All of them players had been misled before, the real devil had indeed befallen the mayor!
And where did the demon in the mayor's body come from?
Song Yang thought quickly and said in a deep voice: "The problem lies in the drowning accident. Everything started from that accident. The devil must have entered the mayor's body at that time."
Xia Jing lowered his eyes and said, "The mayor did not die in that accident. Facts have proven that his soul is indeed still in his body, but it is imprisoned."
"Could it be possible that when he fell into the water, he was in a state of near death, and the devil found an opportunity to sneak in at that moment?"
It turns out that later, everyone in the town of Grameis was killed by Elizabeth's curse.
If all this is the result of the demon in the mayor's body, through various inducements—
He first used his identity as the mayor to build a torture chamber, reserving a place where townspeople could torture, suspect, and kill each other in the future.
Then he induced the Lal brothers to kill him, and had the two brothers disguise his death as an incident of demonic possession and destruction.
Finally, the "seed" that He had planted in Elizabeth's mind earlier began to sprout, and the "spell" began to work completely.
These "curses" eventually drove Elizabeth mad, and she sought out the prophet and sacrificed her own life, bringing a curse upon the entire town with the strongest hatred from her soul.
——The fact that the devil needs to harvest lives in such a complicated way is enough to prove that his ability is limited.
If He wants to possess a human being, He must meet certain conditions.
Song Yang and Xia Jing worked their brains quickly, and after combining various signs, they quickly came to a conclusion.
One of the conditions for a demon to possess a human being is that the human being must be on the brink of life and death at that time.
The second condition might be... that human being must be within the reach of the devil at that time!
After all, "dying but not dead" is a very simple condition and very easy to achieve.
Although Mayor Is's identity can provide many conveniences for the devil, it is not necessary for him to be Mayor Is in order for the devil to achieve his goal.
So, why did the devil finally find Mayor Is, and only Mayor Is?
That's probably because only Mayor Is truly meets the requirements of a "container".
Mayor Is fell into the river—
That river is the birthplace of the devil!
Thinking of this, Xia Jing raised his eyes and said, "Over the years, many corpses have been thrown into that river by the townspeople. Those corpses were all people who were labeled as 'demons' by the townspeople during their lifetime."
Song Yang frowned and said, "Those are all wronged souls. They are not demons themselves. But these wronged souls have been gathering in that river for years. I am afraid that they will eventually give birth to real demons."
This real demon is probably the real main monster of this copy!
...In the end, the story that happened in this copy was still a bloody retribution.
At this moment, Song Yang and Xia Jing finally got the devil's real name.
Xia Jing: "The name of that river is also recorded in the town's event record book. It's called—"
"The River of Washing!"
The moment the words fell, the cheers of the ghosts in the distance stopped abruptly.
The small town under the night sky suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.