Steward Liu swung the axe, veins bulging on the back of his hand, showing a terrifying sense of power. The clothes on its body have been torn into shreds, and because of this you can see that the muscle patterns on its body are no longer those of a normal human being.
It seems that Butler Liu is quite diligent in exercising on weekdays, Shi Yu thought.
Another axe came towards Shi Yu. She tiptoed and leaped up. She was like a nimble little animal, directly flipping over the cold edge of the axe. She jumped on the spot without relying on any pedals and landed steadily behind Butler Liu.
By the time Butler Liu reacted, Shi Yu had already run behind the door of the east wing.
Ying Zhuo then quickly closed the door, blocking Butler Liu outside.
Butler Liu was not quiet outside the door. The sound of the axe sliding on the floor could be heard through the door.
——"Second Madam, obey your father at home and obey your husband after marriage. This is your fate, why bother fighting against it?"
Shi Yu leaned against the door, letting her heart, which was beating wildly after the exercise, calm down a little. This height was nothing to her. As a professional parkour athlete, she has mastered step jumps and somersaults to perfection under the training of her devilish agent.
But after I got sick, I rarely exercised.
Now I feel quite excited when I move around.
But the scene just now left a deep mark in the hearts of the other three people.
Ying Zhuo thought, no wonder Liu Su was fooled by her.
From what Butler Liu said just now, Shi Yu grasped several pieces of information: "Second Madam did not marry into the Liu family voluntarily."
"Why would she marry against her will?" Ying Zhuo didn't understand.
He really seemed to be a wealthy lady who was out of touch with the world, exuding a noble temperament, but he was completely ignorant of some social ways.
Shi Yu explained: "In the feudal period, women not only had no say but also had a very low status. Many times they could not even control their personal freedom. What Butler Liu said just now about obeying your father at home and obeying your husband after marriage is the most typical feudal idea that restricts women."
"Feudal idea?" Ying Zhuo was puzzled.
"Well... this is a general term for ideological terms, which refers to various very decadent regulations that restrict people's thoughts and behaviors. For example, the game we are playing this time is probably based on the theme of favoring boys over girls." Shi Yu said as he looked at the newly opened environment.
Hu Fang said: "Brother, you don't know this? It means that in ancient times, women did not have the right to choose their own marriage partners. They had to marry whoever their parents told them to marry. It didn't matter if he was blind, deaf, lame, fat, or thin..."
Ying Zhuo seemed to be thinking about something and said nothing more.
It was still pitch black all around, with only the flashlights in the four people's watches and the candle in Ying Zhuo's hand providing some light.
Fortunately, there were several candlesticks in the corner of the room.
After Ying Zhuo shared the fire, the whole room became much brighter.
Opposite the door there is a bookshelf and desk with carved beams and painted rafters. On the desk there is an elaborately carved fertile tree. The bookshelf is also carved with a gourd pattern symbolizing fertility, and there are many miscellaneous books placed on it.
On the left side of the desk was a tripod and eight-treasure exquisite incense burner tower. Something seemed to be burning inside, with some residue left inside, emitting a smell like burnt books.
Shi Yu looked straight ahead and immediately saw a piece of letter paper pressed under the ink tray on the desk.
There were two words written on the exposed corner.
——[Xuan Ling]
"This is the letter sent to Liu Dafu by the Master Xuan Ling that Butler Liu mentioned." Shi Yu pinched the envelope, and a golden chain fell out from it. There were strange patterns carved on the chain, and it looked like a special artifact made to suppress some evil creatures.
Hu Fang took the gold chain and smiled: "Wow, it's pure gold, it's worth a lot of money. My dad has one..."
Shi Yu didn't care how much the gold chain was worth, she just wanted to know what the chain was used for.
"There seem to be a few pieces of paper here." Ying Zhuo pointed at the ashes of the tripod incense burner tower and pulled Shi Yu over to study it together.
There were four or five long pieces of unburned paper in the ashes.
According to normal game rules, players will never be allowed to see the complete envelope, but they will not be given any clues at all.
There weren't many words on the pieces of paper, and by forcing them together, one could only piece together one sentence.
——[Children’s fate is predetermined by heaven… why bother obsessing over it… injustice is born out of the seeds… hope you respect yourself…]
“What is written here? It’s so jumbled and I can’t read it clearly.” Hu Fang lost interest and began to worry about his own life. "I didn't do anything bad, I just drank a little bit of wine. I can stop doing this next time. Help me, I really want to go home..."
Shi Yu glanced at him and said, "Do you think you are right for drunk driving?"
"I was wrong, I repent, I deserve to die." Hu Fang slapped him in the face. "Damn it, if anyone asks me to drink again, I will beat him to death."
Shi Yu snorted, "You even killed someone in the bucket game."
"..." Hu Fang.
Ying Zhuo looked at Hu Fang meaningfully: "Karma will always come back, so you'd better be careful."
"..." Hu Fang.
No one knows what retribution Hu Fang will receive in the future.
But Master Liu's retribution really came.
Although the content of Master Xuanling's letter was incomplete, Shi Yu could guess most of it: "The Liu family wanted to have a son, so they prepared many pregnancy-promoting medicines, but they didn't expect that a daughter was born. So..."
"So, Master Liu killed his own daughter?" Ying Zhuo was a little puzzled. "Is this possible?"
"There's another one here." Leng Xinyu glanced at a palm-sized piece of paper dropped beside the stove, and quickly picked it up and handed it to Shi Yu.
Judging from the paper, it should be a letter. This piece of paper outside the stove said so.
——[…Don’t have any more murderous thoughts…]
And then there was nothing more.
Shi Yu paused slightly, as if something was pressing on her heart, making her breathless: "Eating children and killing female sacrifices, nothing is impossible."
"..." The other three.
Born in modern society, they seem unable to understand how much people in feudal times desired to have sons.
But this doesn't mean that this kind of thing has never happened before.
Ying Zhuo turned his head to look at the back of Shi Yu's hand that was hit by the door panel. There was a layer of red flesh swelling on it, which was quite eye-catching against the fair skin. He looked at Shi Yu's hand and asked, "Just because it's not a boy?"
Shi Yu looked up at his otherworldly appearance and said, "Such a situation still exists in some backward areas of modern society, not to mention the feudal society in ancient times."
“But... they are my biological children after all..."
Shi Yu snorted coldly: “Even brothers kill each other, let alone people with desires.”
Brothers kill each other.
These four words were like a knife, cutting into Ying Zhuo's heart, causing the blood in his body to flow backwards and his face to turn pale. His previous carefree calmness and playfulness were gone, as if Shi Yu's four words had dragged him into a very unpleasant past.
Shi Yu also felt deeply touched by these four words.
When my father was alive, he helped my aunt's family a lot. After my father passed away, my aunt took away my father's inheritance on the grounds that she was still a minor at the age of seventeen.
Fortunately, Shi Yu at that time was not a softie who could be bullied at will. On the day she turned 18, she sent her aunt to prison.
At that time, everyone said that she was deceiving the world and was too cruel to her aunt.
But Shi Yu didn't care about those rumors. Some people didn't care whether you were as bad as they said. They just wanted to see you being dragged into hell when you were at the top.
"Xiao Yu, do you hate those who have hurt you?" Ying Zhuo stood beside her and asked softly.
He is like a student seeking knowledge, eager for the teacher to tell him the correct answer.
Shi Yu looked at him, and his smile was like a white rose stained with morning dew, delicate and pure: "I'm not a saint, why shouldn't I hate them?"
"That's it." Ying Zhuo smiled even more.
So, this is where the turbidity of her soul lies.
"I believe in the existence of God, otherwise we would not stay in this place." Shi Yu turned around and patiently searched on the bookshelf, speaking as he searched. "But I don't want to ask God for anything. If God really has the ability and willingness to save everyone in the world, then there wouldn't be so many births, old age, sickness and death in this world, and there wouldn't be so many innocent souls who died in vain."
Believe but don't ask.
Ying Zhuo felt that she had a very unique aura, which could cleanse his soul.
He also didn't know why his ability was related to this mortal, but now it seemed that this tiny human was indeed different from others.
Yes.
god.
It is indeed not omnipotent.
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl's round and pink fingertips stopped on an ancient book.
——【All Evils】
When Shi Yu touched this book, the master's voice suddenly rang out in the whole room.
Master - "Master Xuanling, our Liu family has only one son for generations. We must have one son."
Xuanling - "Alas, I have told you the consequences of this method before. Why are you doing this?"
Master - "Please help me again. I, Liu Dafu, am willing to pay any price."
Xuanling - "I really can't. I have worked hard and given everything I have to help you give birth to a son. The disaster is coming, and I can't escape it. I can only go to my master for refuge. You... wish you good luck."
Master - "Here are three hundred taels of gold, which is a little gift from me."
Xuanling - "Okay, I will give you a book that I have created throughout my life, called "A Hundred Evils". It records many illustrations of demons and monsters and how to deal with them. If evil things appear in your house in the future, you can deal with them yourself. When I arrive at the master's Taoist temple, I will get a few magic weapons for you. But all the disasters and blessings are caused by your evil thoughts in the past. Whether you can escape this disaster depends on your own luck."
The voice seemed to simulate a conversation between Liu Dafu and Master Xuanling in the study.
Shi Yu clapped his hands and cheered: "Liu Dafu really did what he said. He paid all the prices and even his family was destroyed."
"..."Hu Fang, Leng Xinyu.
Opening "The Complete Book of All Evils", one can see that the things recorded there are extremely detailed, with not only words but also pictures.
——[The Demon Binding Rope: Made of pure gold chain, smeared with human blood, recite: "Spirit of heaven and earth, all things are me, the souls of the earth are gone, all evil spirits are eliminated." The Demon Binding Rope will automatically wrap around the evil creature and restrict its freedom of movement, but the control time is only half a cup of tea, and can only be used three times. 】
——【Soul-calling Bell: Hold the object that the evil creature loved most during his lifetime and shake the soul-calling bell to attract the soul. 】
——【Soul-devouring Talisman: There are two runes in total, which need to be used together with the Soul-Severing Axe. Stick the Soul-Severing Talisman on the face or back of the head of the evil creature to dispel the evil creature's resentment, and then use the Soul-Severing Axe to make the evil creature disappear. 】
——【Money pattern: Money pattern rune, carved on the stone, can suppress evil spirits. 】
The money pattern looks very familiar, and is very similar to the runes on the stone pressed on the crystal.
So in other words, there is an evil spirit in the well that Liu Dafu wants to suppress.
There were traces of tearing at the end of the book, with a page missing.
Shi Yu smacked his lips and said: "I'm so angry. Why would you tear up the book that someone has created throughout his life? Liu Dafu, you are so ungrateful."
"..." Hu Fang and Leng Xinyu.
They already have the magic rope.
Shi Yu pointed at Butler Liu who was patrolling in the main hall and said with a smile: "The axe in its hand couldn't be the soul-slaying axe, right?"
Leng Xinyu: "...Who dares to take it?"
"Easy." Shi Yu shook the demon-binding rope in his hand. "Use this."
Hu Fang quickly held on: "Auntie, this magic rope can only be used three times. Shouldn't we be cautious?"
Shi Yu ignored him, held his hand and rubbed it on the magic rope.
When human skin touched the Demon Binding Rope, it seemed to be cut automatically. Hu Fang screamed in pain, but in fact, the wound was not as big as a cut by a hair.
A few drops of blood fell on the Demon-Binding Rope, and Shi Yu also felt that the Demon-Binding Rope began to gradually become hot and shiny, indicating that the human blood on it had begun to take effect.
Then Shi Yu stood at the door holding the demon-binding rope and exchanged glances with Ying Zhuo.
Ying Zhuo nodded in understanding and prepared to open the door.
Hu Fang muttered, "Is it enough? If not, my gums have been bleeding recently. Can you give a little more?"
Shi Yu smiled and said, "It's enough. Be careful not to let the wound heal. We may need it again later."
"?" Hu Fang.
The door opened a crack, and Shi Yu held the demon-binding rope in his hand and pointed it at Butler Liu who was patrolling in the main hall with an axe.
She whispered: "The spirits of heaven and earth, all things are me, the souls of the earth are dispersed, and all evil spirits are eliminated..."
With a "whoosh", the demon-binding rope was like an automatic locking skill, and it went straight towards Butler Liu.
The rope emitted a red luster in the air, tightly tying up Butler Liu from head to toe.
Butler Liu struggled a few times but to no avail. A roar similar to that of a wild beast came from his throat, but he did not move at all.
The demon-binding rope can only trap the evil creature for about five minutes, and every second is precious. Shi Yu ran over quickly and took the soul-slaying axe out of Butler Liu's hand.
Butler Liu struggled desperately and screamed hysterically at Shi Yu. A strong stench came out of his mouth, like the gas that had been stored in a corpse for too long, and the stench was overwhelming.
The axe was very heavy, and Shi Yu could only drag it with both hands, which also limited Shi Yu's speed.
The time for the demon-binding rope would soon expire. Butler Liu stared at Shi Yu without blinking, and his vicious eyes seemed as if he wanted to eat Shi Yu alive.
Ying Zhuo hurried over to help Shi Yu drag the axe. As soon as the two of them returned to the house, the magic rope lost its power and fell to the ground.
Butler Liu, who no longer had his axe, stood where he was and did not chase after them, but just stared at Shi Yu and Ying Zhuo.
——"Master, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. All these sins and crimes are caused by you."
Shi Yu followed Butler Liu's line of sight and looked at Ying Zhuo. After he said this, his whole body gradually began to shake and twist. Then, Butler Liu seemed to have accomplished his mission and became
gradually transparent like dispersed mist, until he finally disappeared.
In the last second before disappearing, Butler Liu's voice was like a ray of white light suddenly released in the darkness, lingering in everyone's ears.
——"You all must die."
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