The Mysterious Files 2 - The Bizarre and the Real

Chapter 11

Xuan Tan smiled sheepishly and said, "Even saints make mistakes, let alone me, who is not a saint and occasionally makes mistakes as well."

"Not occasionally, but frequently," Seven Seeking Immortal suddenly interjected. Xuan Tan glared at him and continued, "After Master left, Junior Sister continued her cultivation, but in order to achieve quick results, she actually chose to cultivate the Ghost Path. The Ghost Path is inherently an evil cultivation method, and with no one to guide her, she suffered a qi deviation not long after she started practicing, and even destroyed her physical body."

"About two years ago, my junior sister used her Soul Devouring Technique to forcibly seize a girl's body. However, because her spell was incomplete, she couldn't fully control the girl's consciousness, ultimately causing the girl to commit suicide. Later, she seized another girl's body in the same way, the girl named Jingyuan..."

I said, "Since you know she repeatedly takes over other people's bodies, why do you turn a blind eye to it?"

Xuan Tan sighed helplessly and said, "She is still my junior sister. She has already suffered enough by losing her original body. Am I supposed to kick her while she's down?"

"Even if he wanted to kick someone when they're down, he wouldn't have the ability. He's no match for his junior sister," Seven Seeking Immortal mocked. Xuan Tan glared at him again.

I said, "Since you don't provoke her, why would she imprison you?"

“She needs my help.” Xuan Tan said solemnly, “She has encountered a very serious problem. As her senior brother, I should help her, but she actually asked me to help her activate the ‘Fierce Soul Nether Spirit Movement’, which is a forbidden formation that requires killing thousands of people at the same time to activate! How could I possibly agree? So I was locked up by her.”

I asked, "What's wrong with her that requires activating such a terrifying formation?"

Xuan Tan said, "She was infected with a very strange virus. The virus combined with the ghostly energy on her body and caused a mutation, which increased her cultivation level but also gradually corrupted her body. Moreover, her soul is sealed in her current body. If her body dies, her soul will be imprisoned in the corpse forever. If the corpse is cremated, it will be even more terrifying, as her soul will also be cremated, meaning her soul will be scattered."

"Actually, besides the 'Fierce Soul Netherworld Spirit Movement,' there is another way to solve her problem, which is to disperse her cultivation and abandon her physical body through 'disintegration,' so that her soul can leave her body and enter the cycle of reincarnation. However, she insisted on preserving her cultivation and did not hesitate to kill indiscriminately for it."

I said, "How much longer can her body hold on without your help?"

Xuan Tan said, "I don't know about that, but given her personality, if she can't find me in a few days, she will definitely think of another way and will never sit idly by and wait for death."

Jingyuan, or rather, Jingyuan manipulated by an evil spirit, what heinous things will she do to protect her own interests? Perhaps the answer will come soon.

[End of File 25]

Chapter 36 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 36 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

File 26: Drugs

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

Late at night, in the quiet park, a furtive figure could be seen—it was Leo. He was hiding behind a large tree, secretly watching a girl, a strange girl carrying a large bamboo basket.

The girl put down the bamboo basket in front of the drinking fountain, looked around, and murmured, "Since there's no one here anyway, I'll just take it out and wash my face." With that, she took out a pair of contact lenses from her eyes, revealing a pair of noble and mysterious purple eyes.

Leo, hiding in the darkness, couldn't help but chuckle to himself, muttering, "It wasn't a waste of time after all; she's the one we've been looking for."

The girl, who was washing her face, suddenly twitched her ear, and then a small black snake, about the thickness of a chopstick, poked its head out from her beautiful, glossy black hair. The snake was like a tuft of hair sticking up, almost impossible to spot without close inspection; at least Leo, a hundred paces away, hadn't noticed it. After poking its head out, the snake opened its mouth and flicked its tongue, then quickly retreated back into the girl's hair and hid.

After washing her face and drinking some water, the girl put on the contact lenses that concealed the original color of her pupils and said in the direction where Leo was hiding, "Come out, stop sneaking around."

A hint of surprise flashed across Leo's face, but he immediately put on a cunning expression, slowly walked up to the girl, and said, "The descendants of the Jiuli tribe are indeed no ordinary people."

The girl said coldly, "You know a lot, but that's not a good thing."

Leo chuckled slyly, “If we have common interests, then understanding each other is absolutely beneficial.”

The girl sneered and said, "Although I have a lot of poisons to sell, I never sell drugs. I don't necessarily have any business dealings with a drug addict like you."

Leo suddenly burst into laughter and said, "I thought the Jiuli tribe would be so powerful, but it turns out they're nothing special. They're not much better than some unlicensed quack doctors."

The girl's face darkened, and the little snake in her hair poked out again, flicking its tongue. After the snake disappeared back into her hair, she looked puzzled and said, "You seem to have contracted a strange illness."

Leo said, "It's a strange disease that can promote human evolution, and you should be interested in it."

"Evolution?" the girl laughed. "Do you think you're an insect?"

"Believe it or not!" Leo said, kicking the drinking fountain between the two of them, deforming the stainless steel casing and causing tap water to gush out from the broken pipe like a fountain.

The girl remained silent, walked around Leo once, and said, "It's not you who's evolving, it's the virus inside you that's evolving, but the direction of that evolution doesn't seem ideal."

Leo said, "That's why I came to you."

The girl sneered, "Why should I help you?"

Leo laughed smugly, "Because you and I are both outcasts who can only live in the darkness, monsters in the eyes of ordinary people. If we can turn everyone into monsters, then you will no longer feel lonely and alone."

The girl gave a wicked smile and said, "My name is A-Cai, nice to meet you!"

“This is a huge problem. The Jiuli tribe are the inventors of Gu magic, and they possessed advanced biochemical technology that surpassed modern civilization thousands of years ago. If A Cai has inherited the secret techniques of her ancestors, she will definitely have a way to solve Jing Yuan and Leo's problems, and she may even help them spread the virus, which would really turn everyone into monsters.” After Ghost Eye “saw” the previous scene, Heavenly Book expressed everyone’s doubts.

Because Jingyuan can detect Guitong's divine sense, we have been monitoring Leo's every move recently. While gathering evidence of his crimes, we also hope to eradicate his entire cult organization.

Leo, the vice leader, had been following this Jiuli girl named A Cai for several days, which shows how much they valued her.

"Should we take action?" Linglong asked impatiently.

I said, "Although we know Leo's whereabouts, at most we can only put him in jail, not take down the entire organization. Moving out now will only alert them."

"When will we have to wait? Are we going to wait until they kill someone before we take action?" Linglong said dejectedly.

Ghost Eyes laughed and said, "It doesn't necessarily take someone's life to arrest them. In the past few days, in addition to tracking Ah Cai, Leo has also been actively contacting drug dealers, seemingly intending to purchase a large amount of drugs."

The Heavenly Book said, "The main members of their organization are drug addicts and prostitutes, so their demand for drugs must be enormous. Perhaps drugs are the main factor in their recruitment of new members."

I said, "They acquire large quantities of drugs, but they don't necessarily have enough funds."

The spirit dog said, "Doesn't Xuantan know how to attract wealth? Jingyuan should know it too!"

I said, "Have there been any cases recently of large sums of cash suddenly disappearing?"

The dog scratched its head and said, "It doesn't seem so."

Everyone's attention turned to Xuan Tan, who, instead of sitting on a chair, leaned against the wall and sat on the ground. He said, "Junior Sister only knows some spells that harm others for her own benefit. She disdains spells like the Wealth-Attracting Spell, which are mainly used to help others."

Linglong murmured, "Is the Wealth-Attracting Technique meant to help people? I think it's meant to harm people."

Xuan Tan pretended not to hear Linglong's words and said, "Given Junior Sister's personality, she would just grab whatever she wants instead of going through the trouble of buying it with money."

I nodded and said, "If all their members are infected with the virus, then they certainly have the ability to double-cross each other. However, there's something I've never been able to figure out: although there are no obvious symptoms in the early stages of infection, without the injection of antibodies, one gradually turns into a skinless monster. Putting aside the other members, Leo has been infected with the virus for quite some time now, so why is he still able to maintain a normal human appearance?"

After a moment of contemplation, Tian Shu suddenly spoke up: "Drugs! It is drugs that suppress the side effects of the virus, and may even cause the virus to mutate."

I laughed and said, "Then drugs are no longer just for recruiting new members. If they lose their drug supply, they might turn into monsters, so they will definitely do anything to obtain large quantities of drugs. Maybe I should talk to Captain Liu of the Narcotics Division."

In the early hours of the morning, in a secluded, abandoned warehouse, Leo was chatting with two of his men, a cigarette dangling from his lips. Suddenly, beams of light shone through the broken doorway, and the screech of brakes shattered the silence of the night as three cars pulled up outside.

Six burly men in black, each with a pistol concealed on their waist, emerged from the two cars in front and quickly surrounded the Mercedes behind, warily scanning their surroundings. The drivers of all three cars remained at their posts, inside their vehicles, with the engines still running, seemingly ready to leave at any moment.

A glamorous young woman carrying a black travel bag and a middle-aged man smoking a cigar emerged from the Mercedes one after the other. Seeing nothing amiss, the group of eight slowly entered the warehouse. Leo approached the middle-aged man, presumably the leader, to greet him, but the man coldly asked, "Did you bring the money?"

Leo grinned and spread his hands, saying, "Do you see any money on me?"

The middle-aged man snorted coldly, turned and left, followed closely by the girl and three burly men. The other three burly men drew their pistols and pointed them at Leo and his companions. Suddenly, three screams rang out from outside. The middle-aged man's group immediately tensed up, and the six burly men gripped their pistols tightly, forming a human wall around the middle-aged man and the girl.

Six skinny thugs walked in from outside and, together with Leo and his two companions, blocked the other party's escape routes. The middle-aged man said disdainfully, "Hmph! Newborn calves, daring to mess with the big boss. If the King of Hell asks how you died, just say you died because you provoked Brother Sang Xiong."

The man who called himself Brother Sang Xiong had barely finished speaking when gunfire erupted. Six burly men raised their guns and opened fire on Leo and his companions. These nine unarmed, thin men showed no fear, standing tall and facing the deadly bullets with their heads held high.

After a round of gunfire, all six pistols ran out of ammunition. With a look of bewilderment, Brother Sang pointed at Leo, who had been hit by at least three bullets and whose head had been half blown off, but who was still able to stand, and said in a trembling voice, "How come you're not dead yet?"

"Your men didn't hit me, how could I die!" Leo's voice came from outside. At the same time, the nine people in the warehouse who had been hit by many bullets gradually became blurry and disappeared in a moment, leaving only yellow paper talismans in their place.

Leo walked into the warehouse with eight of his men, still wearing a grin, and said, "Aren't you going to change your magazine?"

The six burly men, recovering from their shock, frantically tried to reload, but Leo's eight henchmen pounced like eight hungry wolves, their speed almost matching the bullets fired. Brother Sang, a seasoned veteran of the treacherous underworld, hadn't even grasped what was happening before he lay dead in a pool of blood…

"Captain Liu, we've gotten rid of a thorn in your side, shouldn't you treat us to a meal?" After revealing the situation inside the warehouse, Ghost Eye took the opportunity to scare Captain Liu.

Captain Liu laughed and said, "It doesn't seem to be your doing. If I hadn't had my informant deliberately leak the information, the two groups wouldn't have made the deal tonight. But I'll still treat you to dinner."

I said, "Now is not the time to discuss treating people to dinner. The thorn in the side of the Narcotics Division has been removed, but the thorn in the side of our team is still alive."

Captain Liu asked, "Do you want them to live or die?"

I said, "I'm afraid the bullets won't kill them."

Captain Liu used a walkie-talkie to issue a kill order to the ambushing personnel, and then used a megaphone to tell Leo and the others who had just walked out of the warehouse: "You are surrounded. Raise your hands and surrender immediately, or you will be killed on sight..."

Before Captain Liu could finish speaking, deafening gunfire erupted. Having witnessed three of his colleagues brutally murdered by a drug addict, Captain Liu hated drug dealers and addicts more than anything. Moreover, Leo and his associates not only engaged in drug trafficking but also had eight lives on their hands, which alone was enough for him to issue a kill order.

Three of Leo's men were knocked down while they were off guard. Leo and five others immediately retreated back to the warehouse. Captain Liu immediately ordered the warehouse to be surrounded and sent some elite armed police to rush into the warehouse.

After a fierce battle, seven of our armed police officers were wounded, but none of the injuries were fatal, while the enemy suffered six dead and two wounded.

"Damn it, we surrounded the area perfectly, and Leo still managed to escape, taking the drugs with him." When he discovered that Leo was nowhere to be found, the hound couldn't help but curse.

I immediately asked Shiya to help Ghost Eye search for Leo's whereabouts, and the result was that he was not within a three-mile radius. After thinking for a moment, Shiya said, "He may have used an earth escape talisman."

I asked, puzzled, "Can Leo use magic too?"

Shiya said, "Some talismans can be used even by ordinary people without a foundation in cultivation, such as the Substitute Talisman and the Earth Escape Talisman. Jingyuan must have made a lot of talismans for Leo beforehand."

The spirit dog said, "If Jingyuan were to give all the henchmen a stack of talismans, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"

Shiya said, "Refining talismans consumes a lot of magic power, so it's impossible to refine them in large quantities, so there's no need to worry too much."

I said, "I'm more worried about the drugs Leo took. If they use drugs to spread the virus, the consequences will be terrible."

[End of File 26]

Chapter 37 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

Chapter 37 of "The Mysterious Files 2 - The Critical Point Between the Bizarre and the Real"

File 27: The Final Battle

Author: Seeking No Desire

First published on: Tianya Ghost Stories (Reposting should be done responsibly)

Leo, his shirt stained with dark red blood and carrying a black travel bag, stumbled into a filthy back alley. He knocked three times on an iron gate, then knocked again on a small window that opened, revealing a pair of cunning eyes.

"Open the door now!" Leo roared angrily, and the thugs guarding the door immediately opened it.

The door led to a small, cluttered room, littered with empty bottles, cigarette butts, used syringes, and condoms. The stuffy air was almost suffocating. Six or seven men and women were squatting or lying down; some were drinking, some were injecting drugs, and one couple was even engaging in sexual activity in public. Leo roughly kicked aside those blocking his way, walked to the back of the room, and lifted a sofa with one hand, revealing a hidden door.

Leo pulled a packet of white powder from his travel bag, tossed it to the thug who opened the door for him, and then slipped into the hidden door. The thug was overjoyed after catching the powder. He moved the sofa back to its original position, immediately opened the packet, dipped his fingertip in a small amount, and put it in his mouth to try it. After a moment, he exclaimed, "Good stuff, not a single impurity!"

After passing through a narrow corridor, Leo arrived at a spacious hall. There were nearly a hundred men and women lounging around, just like in the small room at the entrance, all brazenly engaging in their sordid activities.

As soon as Leo appeared, everyone shouted "Boss!" and several glamorous women rushed forward to fawn over him, but he impatiently pushed them away. A few thugs saw that he was covered in blood and went up to greet him, but after he threw out a few packets of heroin, they excitedly dispersed.

Leo pushed through the crowd and entered a dimly lit room. "Close the door!" He heard the commanding voice as soon as he entered. Although slightly annoyed, he closed the door anyway. The room was filled with bottles and jars of various sizes, and a strange but invigorating fragrance permeated the entire room, a stark contrast to the stale air outside.

As A-Cai was taking herbs and insects from various bottles and jars and putting them into the medicine mortar, she said to Leo with her back turned, "Your blood smells terrible."

A flash of anger crossed Leo's face, but he immediately put on a grin, tossed the travel bag to the ground, and said, "I got hurt trying to get this for you!"

As A-Cai smashed and mixed the contents of the medicine mortar, she said, "She's always scrambling to take credit for every little thing she does; she's not outstanding at all."