monster's bride

Bai Ji lowered his eyes, his sticky gaze fell on her face, admiring her caring expression, and said gently: "It doesn't hurt, it just itch."

"What about the face?"

Lu Zhizhi stood up and took out the mask from his bag, "Do you want to take it off?"

Those layers of gauze were stuffed on top and looked very airtight.

Bai Ji lowered his head and said, "I can't see where to remove it. Please help me untie it."

"it is good."

Lu Zhizhi carefully touched his head, found the spot, untied the medical mesh, and gently took off the gauze.

There was no expected nauseating feeling of sticky flesh and gauze. The suture incision under the gauze was smooth, the black thread was tightly bitten by the new white skin, and the remaining blood dried and solidified on it.

Lu Zhizhi held up his face and observed it, a little surprised.

Because this face looks very beautiful, the black lines running through the corners of the lips are like closed zippers, and the already beautiful facial features look even more weird and handsome.

"Isn't it ugly?"

She stared for too long, so long that Bai Ji, who had extremely low self-esteem about her appearance, could not look directly into her eyes and glanced to the side.

"As expected of the doctor's skills." Lu Zhizhi took out his phone and turned on the selfie function, and bent down to show it to him. "The sutures are very smooth, and the flesh is completely together."

She took out a tissue and moistened it with water, and simply wiped the blood off his face, making his skin look even whiter.

Bai Ji touched his face. The black line separated his face, like a doll being sewn together.

"Isn't it ugly?"

"looks good."

Lu Zhizhi praised him, "It looks good this way, not ugly at all."

Bai Ji heard these words in his heart.

He thought that since she seemed to prefer the stitched look, she could just leave it on and sew it up if it cracked. Anyway, his sewing skills were pretty good.

The accident in the cave quickly made the news.

Avalanche incidents and low-quality tour groups eating similar things in order to survive are still very popular. Everyone is discussing whether the measures taken to survive in this situation are suspected of illegal crimes.

The mall manager and tour group who had previously organized this event were also summoned by the police for this.

No one reported the matter of Lu Zhizhi and Bai Ji, and they could continue to work safely after returning to the capital.

Many teachers had heard about her taking bereavement leave to travel. They really couldn't understand her operation and only dared to talk behind her back.

Shi Yu has been investigating the incident in Fox Village and has not contacted Lu Zhizhi for a long time. He only heard about her accident from his colleagues.

He called her to greet her and told her some good news, "I think I know the origin of Fox Village. I'm in the library's collection room now. Do you want to come over?"

Lu Zhizhi had no classes in the afternoon, so he nodded in agreement, "Okay."

When she arrived at the library and found Shi Yu, he was at a table with his head buried in a pile of thick books.

"What did you find?"

She walked over and sat down and asked softly.

Shi Yu put a photo of an old newspaper in front of her and clicked on a picture inside, "Fox Village."

Lu Zhizhi took the photo and his eyes narrowed slightly.

Shi Yu: "Have you been there before? Does it look familiar to you?"

Lu Zhizhi couldn't deny it, "Yes, I have been there to pray for blessings, and Bai Ji took me there."

Shi Yu noticed the stone hanging on a red string around her neck, "I don't remember that you liked wearing these stone accessories before."

"Bai Ji went to the temple on the mountain to ask for it for me." Lu Zhizhi touched the stone and pretended to be calm and asked: "What's wrong? What does it have to do with it? What did you find out?"

"I didn't tell you what happened before, but now I feel I must."

Shi Yu handed her a report and said, "I have been investigating the fox village in the past few days while you were away. They all have the habit of cutting off their little fingers and molding them into stone statues to worship the fox god. All the villagers are disabled."

Lu Zhizhi flipped through the report page by page.

It is a coincidence that the finger-cutting tradition in Fox Village appeared shortly after something happened to the Bai family and the items enshrined in the shrine were actually lost.

In order to have good weather and good harvest in the new year, everyone voluntarily went to the temple to dedicate their souls with their little fingers as a contract.

"They didn't even let go of the children's fingers." Shi Yu said in a deep voice, "No decent believer would do such a thing."

Lu Zhizhi said after a while: "You think it's a cult, and the protective stone around my neck is not a good thing either."

"Yes."

Shi Yu handed her a few more newspaper photos, "This is the time when the temple was built, this is the death list of local dignitaries in charge, and this is the income and expenditure status of the villagers in Zeng Village."

They seem to be several completely unrelated things, but after comparing the timelines, it becomes a bit confusing.

Not long after the accident at the Bai family, people in Fox Village began to die one after another. A list was placed in front of Lu Zhizhi. Except for two people from the village, the rest were all people with important positions, and many of them were from across regions. One night died together.

If there wasn't a team and an organized murder gang, how could one person achieve such a flash killing technique?

Moreover, the investigation results of everyone's death were all suicides. If this was a premeditated and carefully planned murder case, how could they possibly do it if the villagers, who make a living by farming and have limited knowledge and have not attended school for a few years, could do it? .

Lu Zhizhi knew very well that there was a connection, and there were far more things involved than imagined.

Her eyes continued to scan the contents of the next photo.

It is the average annual income and expenditure of each household in Fox Village.

Before the temple was built, everyone relied on fields and orchards for a living. Their income was about the same for more than ten years in a row. The statistical charts produced were also within a reasonable range, as prices increased.

Only after the construction of the temple was completed, the average income of every household skyrocketed, eventually maintaining the current income status.

Lu Zhizhi took out his cell phone to check and found that there was no problem with the current income and expenditure of the fruit farmers.

After coming out of the library, the two went to the coffee shop together.

Shi Yu: "American style?"

Lu Zhizhi: "Yeah."

He ordered two cups of coffee and a small cake, and chose a chair by the window to sit down.

Lu Zhizhi asked Shi Yu: "So what do you think? Do you think all this is caused by the possessed Bai Ji causing trouble in the village, letting him spread superstition among these simple villagers like the leader of a cult?"

That's what he said, but considering Bai Ji's character and behavior, it really goes against his character.

But indeed, there is another possibility that she is not willing to think about. The thing in his body is a bad seed, and the bad seed can do anything, but if it really does whatever it wants, why does it only kill some people according to the rules? ?