Seeking immortality in a deceitful way starts by making oneself into a puppet

People's first impressions are often incomplete and incomplete, but for most people, they easily ignore this and often insist on believing in their first impressions.

He Zhongheng is a person with a straightforward personality. His first impression of He Ping was very good. Coupled with He Ping's family background, he did not have too many doubts about what He Ping said.

Chang Fugui, the "Tianjiu Master" of the gambling gang, had a rivalry with him in the past. Chang Fugui's gambling gang was even more dominant in Longhe County. This man ignored the ban and set up a gambling house privately, and even secretly set up a gambling house. We don’t know how many families have been harmed by loan sharking.

The first thing that happened to He Zhongheng when he took office was that he picked a few hidden gambling houses, which made "Tian Jiuye" lose face, and the two sides formed a feud.

On the scale of He Zhongheng's heart, compared with Chang Fugui, the Mi family's young master is undoubtedly the standard of a good family. One is a big evil person, an evil force entrenched in Longhe County; the other is a businessman with an innocent family background. , first came to Longhe County, and was entangled by local ruffians. Anyone who thinks about it will find the former more suspicious.

He Zhongheng had made up his mind about the matter. He stood up and said goodbye to He Ping before leaving in a hurry.

Seeing the background of He Zhongheng's departure, He Ping laughed softly.

"Master, why are you laughing?"

He Fusheng couldn't help but ask.

"I laugh at the fact that He Zhongheng is about to die but doesn't know it."

He Ping suppressed his smile and spoke indifferently: "The gambling gang's 'Tian Jiuye' Chang Fugui is the magistrate of Longhe County and a big financial backer and god of wealth for many officials in the county government. Chang Fugui relies on the gambling house He made a fortune in Longhe County by lending money and collecting loans. It can be said that he is making money every day. Since He Zhongheng took office, he has not dealt with the God of Wealth and repeatedly made trouble for him. How could the people in the county government let him go? He doesn’t care.”

"what do you mean……"

He Fusheng asked cautiously.

"In the next few days at most, He Zhongheng will be in trouble. Let Qi Baiyi and his men keep a close eye on this man. He can still be useful to us."

He Ping gave an order.

He Fusheng nodded, turned and left.

…

Sure enough, He Ping received the news soon, and He Zhongheng went to confront the "Tianjiu Master" Chang Fugui that day, and the two sides became very unhappy.

According to some rumors, He Zhongheng even got into a fight with Chang Fugui's guard martial arts in person. In the end, it was the county government's arrest squad, Liu Captou, who came forward to stop the situation from getting serious.

"This move of 'throwing bones on the ground, throwing food and bait' really hit the passenger car, further deepening the conflict between He Zhongheng and the government office!"

He Ping held the tea and sipped lightly, thinking that his plan was half successful. In fact, Chang Fugui from the gambling gang didn't know about the disappearance of Wu San and others. He Ping ordered his people to spread the information about the disappearance of Wu San and others. , passed to Chang Fugui’s ears.

Chang Fugui's gambling gang was very powerful. He planned to buy a few shops with good locations in the downtown area and open a few more gambling houses. However, when he went to negotiate with the shop owners, he lowered the price extremely low, resulting in the loss of those few shops. The owner of the shop is also unwilling to sell.

Master Tianjiu was not in a hurry. He had many ways to slowly force the shop owners of these shops to take action, but he did not expect that the He family would intervene midway.

The He family made a very generous move. They seemed to be eager to get the shop, and they didn't care too much about the price. They just bought it with their free money.

Those shop owners were originally worried about being targeted by the gambling gangs, and their shops had become a hot potato, so they were anxious to take action. The He family intervened at this time. The owners of several shops couldn't help but rejoiced and quickly destroyed the shops. The real estate deed is handed over, the money is paid and you leave.

Chang Fugui was very angry about this. Naturally, he was jealous of the unruly He family. Hearing the gossip from outside, he thought he was getting a convenience and asked the county magistrate to send a Yamen agent to investigate the matter. .

As a result, He Zhongheng, a stubborn man, went to Chang Fugui and asked him for personal and material evidence. "Tian Jiuye" was also blind. If he wanted to have this evidence, he would directly ask the county magistrate to arrest everyone in the Mi family. Catch him, why bother...

"He Zhongheng's recklessness, the arrogance of these local gangs, and the greed of those in the county government will all accelerate the conflicts between them. As long as the fire is raised skillfully, it will naturally be of great convenience to me when the fire burns!"

He Ping put down the tea in his hand and turned his mind to another aspect. During this period, he did not find any trouble with the gangsters in the county. Instead, he got a few people from Black Flag Village and threw them into the "haunted village" at night. "The village is used for testing.

As a result, there were a few more figures "into the painting" on the wall. However, using these human lives to test it was not without results. At least He Ping had a deeper and deeper understanding of the "magic restrictions" on the painting wall, and he also pondered from it. A lot of stuff came out——

"On the surface, it seems that these people were sucked in by the paintings on the wall, but in fact this is not the case. The real cause of this abnormal phenomenon of 'living people entering the paintings' should be due to other reasons..."

He Ping held the "Puppet Eye Spiritual Ball" in his hand, and through the power of his soul, his vision reproduced the scene where the gangsters and bandits from the Black Flag Village who had been in the cabinet for several days were swallowed up by the painted wall.

Without exception, during this process, the bodies of these people softened as if they had lost their bones, melting into white and soft pieces of corpse-colored flesh. Then, the sticky mud-like flesh melted again, quickly dissolving into The colorful liquid was absorbed by the ground and further transferred to the wall.

"Colors, colors have changed!!"

He Ping seemed to have grasped something important.

"Could it be that the true identity of this thing is paint, paint for painting."

He was very pleased with this discovery. He continued to stare at the pool of liquid in his field of vision, and found that there was a light sheen like an oil film on it, and there were countless tiny squirming particles in it. No, they were even tinier than ordinary particles.

"Insects? No, they should be things that are even more subtle than bugs. What I saw should be the conditions when these things reproduce rapidly and move violently. These things are even more subtle than imagined, just as big as microorganisms... …”

He Ping clearly understood that the real trouble in this haunted pavilion should be this thing. In other words, the truth behind the haunting in the backyard pavilion is a layer of "paint" on the surface of the mural.

This kind of pigment is very special. It is not a dead thing, but composed of countless microorganisms as fine as dust.

"As small as dust, it can harm people invisible. Speaking of which, doesn't it sound like some kind of evil magic?"

This also reminded him of something——

"By the way, Gu insect?"

The art of witchcraft exists in this world. He Ping has heard that most of the poisonous insects like yin and hate yang, which can also explain why the strange phenomenon of "living people entering the painting" only occurs at night.

"I finally understand! This is not a magic spell, but a kind of 'pigment' made from Gu insects. Masters of fairy painting use this kind of pigment to put it into paintings and seal it into the four walls. No wonder that after nightfall, The living person will be sealed into the painting!"

He Ping was extremely excited, but soon, his mood calmed down again, and his thoughts were swirling.

After he guessed this, he had another doubt in his heart, that is, why did the master of fairy painting put this kind of "paint" in the pavilion, and what was the reason for the other party to do this?

"Perhaps I need to test it myself!"