The interrogation room door suddenly burst open, and Captain Lin rushed in with a group of police officers. Some carried chairs, others carried flowerpots, while Captain Lin himself wielded a fire extinguisher. The way they stormed in was like preparing for a major confrontation.
The bloody creature looked like a large worm, as thick as a thumb and about the length of two fingers—resembling a spring silkworm. It crawled toward the middle-aged man lying face down on the floor.
When the middle-aged man saw the worm, he was startled too, and quickly tried to scramble backward.
“Could it be a venomous gu worm?”
Shui Miao’s heart stirred, and he quickly shouted, “Quick! Cover it with something!”
Hardly had Shui Miao finished speaking when the worm seemed to understand human language. It actually stood upright and hissed softly toward the middle-aged man. Instantly, the man appeared bewitched, his expression dazed as he slowly leaned toward the worm, even opening his mouth. Seeing this, the worm suddenly sped up, rushing straight toward the man.
“Whoosh!”
Lin Xue suddenly threw the pen in her hand, which pierced the worm’s body.
Needless to say, Lin Xue was a martial arts champion, skilled in all sorts of combat techniques.
The middle-aged man suddenly snapped out of his trance and scrambled backward again. Seeing this, Chu Miaoyi quickly took out a key and unlocked the man’s handcuffs. Meanwhile, a male officer grabbed an ashtray and placed it over the worm. However, the worm had already been pierced by the pen. After a few convulsive struggles, the ashtray fell off. The worm then suddenly unfurled a pair of blood-soaked wings and was about to take flight when Captain Lin blasted it with the fire extinguisher!
The worm was dead.
But as it died, it let out a series of pitiful shrieks.
After the shrieks, the middle-aged man clutched his stomach in agony and frantically asked where the restroom was.
Officer Li quickly led the man to the restroom.
But before they even reached the door, the man let out a “plop” and soiled himself.
Everyone felt a wave of nausea.
Looking at the ground again, where the man had run past, many wriggling white worms were rolling about. Those with weaker stomachs immediately covered their mouths and ran off, dry-heaving all the way.
Shui Miao and Wang Yong also hurriedly stepped outside—not because of the worms, but because the stench was simply unbearable.
The middle-aged man had actually defecated out numerous worms!
Was this guy even human anymore?
Everyone’s skin crawled, and no one wanted to clean up such a mess.
Helplessly, Captain Lin had to pull out a flamethrower and go on a spraying rampage.
Outside the Public Security Bureau, the evening glow of the sunset reflected on everyone’s faces. Yet even under the warm light, their pallor was unmistakable.
Chu Miaoyi vomited the most violently—just thinking about it made her want to throw up again.
Lin Xue and Shui Miao were slightly better off, though Wang Yong was also vomiting badly.
As for the other dozen or so officers, there was no need to mention—they were vomiting their guts out too.
How strange! Passersby were all astonished. What kind of wind was blowing today that caused a line of police officers to vomit collectively? Could it be that they had overeaten at a public expense banquet?
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Half an hour later, the Public Security Bureau was finally cleaned up.
However, the middle-aged man had already been sent to the hospital.
Could someone full of worms still be detained at the police station?
The man had become very weak. Upon examination at the hospital, holy cow—he was practically a human worm! His entire abdomen was full of worm eggs!
That night, the doctors were in for a rough time.
Everything was tried—stomach washing, enemas, anti-inflammatory deworming medication, intravenous deworming treatments—and the middle-aged man was left even weaker.
It wasn’t until past 11 PM that a group of exhausted doctors finally exited the ward, each one grimacing as if they had swallowed worms themselves.
Shui Miao wasn’t sleepy anyway and entered the ward with a few officers. Wow, the man had completely changed appearance—his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off, his entire body smeared with medicine, wearing only a large pair of underwear covering his lower body while the rest of him was completely bare. The hospital bed was specially designed too—with a toilet directly under his butt, flushing automatically as he went. IV drips were attached to both arms, working from both sides simultaneously.
When the middle-aged man saw everyone enter, his lips slightly twitched and he weakly said, “Thank you.”
He actually said “thank you”?
That single phrase stunned everyone present!
Since this guy had entered the Public Security Bureau, it was the first time he had spoken like a normal human being.
However, Lin Xue didn’t take his thanks seriously and simply scoffed, “You really should thank Shui Miao properly. All the hospital expenses were paid by him. You messed with his ancestral grave, with such sinister intentions, willing to do anything for money—you’re rotten to the core. And you’re narrow-minded too, even trying to kill Shui Miao. If I were him, I wouldn’t waste money to save someone like you.”
“Lin Jie, stop already. Everyone is inherently good. It’s not that big of a deal. If I can help a little, I will. I believe he was just blinded by greed.”
Shui Miao felt a bit embarrassed. Actually, it wasn’t that expensive—less than ten thousand yuan.
Moreover, Shui Miao wanted to use this opportunity to reconcile with the middle-aged man, to prevent him from harming his family in the future.
“Thank you, thank you so much!”
The middle-aged man looked at Shui Miao with deep emotion, his eyes gradually moistening. “Shui Miao, you’re the first truly kind person I’ve met in my life. Because of your kindness, I’m willing to confess everything…”
It was unexpected—the group was deeply surprised.
This guy, moved by gratitude, was actually willing to cooperate.
Chu Miaoyi quickly found a chair to sit down and took out paper and pen to record the statement.
Shui Miao smiled slightly at the middle-aged man, “Uncle, go ahead. Expose the mastermind behind this, and you can atone for your crimes.”
“Hehe…”
The middle-aged man lightly waved his hand and said, “Actually, I’m not that old. I just endured a lot while living in the mountains, which made me look older. In fact, I’m only twenty-six. My name is Long Xingyun, and I was hired by a man named He Nan. I was the one who set up the Evil Insect Formation at the ancestral grave of the Yao Jun family… Hehe, Young Brother Shui Miao, you probably thought you defeated that Evil Insect Formation, but in reality, you never truly broke it. The reason I pursued you was because you killed my carefully bred flying centipede, not because you defeated the Formation.”
“What? I… I don’t quite understand. Did you set up any formation back there?”
Shui Miao was confused—he hadn’t seen any sign of a formation at all.
“Hehe…”
Long Xingyun smiled faintly again. “My grandfather was a top Feng Shui master from the Tianfu Sect in Sichuan. I inherited his true techniques. With just a little arrangement, I can easily set up a Feng Shui formation. And with just a slight interference, I can dismantle even the best Feng Shui formations and replace them with evil ones—it’s practically child’s play for me. If you don’t believe me, go back and check those tombs. The land there has all turned black, filled with heavy negative energy. Even if their family relocates the graves, that negative energy will follow them, relentlessly haunting their descendants until their entire bloodline is wiped out.”
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