274 Two demons

After Mo Jingzhi finished speaking, she seemed even more agitated as she looked at Song Yan and continued, " Can you believe it? A six feet tall man with a sturdy and muscular body vanished into thin air just like that leaving nothing but a pile of clothing behind him. What's even more frightening is that all the villagers who went to save that girl started to vanish one by one and that too in some sort of sequence my father was the first one who found Wu Genji in front of those doors and was the first one to go missing after him, was Uncle Tong, he was the next to arrive after my father found that girl … in short, everyone who went up the mountain went missing in a month and a half as if they have been long marked by something."

Till today Mo Jingzhi could remember the terror that was running through the villagers but what was even more surprising no one said a word about that girl, Wu Genji. In fact, all the villagers seemed to be under some sort of charm, they all said that Wu Genji was weak and frail and that the family of those who vanished were simply trying to make trouble for a weak girl for no reason. What was even more surprising, many villagers came to stand up as Wu Genji's alibi, saying that they were with her when the incident took place and that Wu Genji did not even have the chance to do something that horrible because they were with her all the time. The villagers were won over by the Wu family and Wu Genji who stopped hiding in seclusion and started roaming around the village laughing and giggling—— they all said that she was a good girl. But Mo Jingzhi didn't believe her to be any good, if she was really good then how come such incidents started happening after that girl came down the mountain?

After she was accused of making their husbands and fathers vanish Wu Genji would often righteously say that she was willing to leave the village and go back to her Wu mansion, but didn't she stay here for more than three years? She not only stayed in this village but she ate half of the villagers! Many villagers might have been brainwashed by the charm of that girl but Mo Jingzhi wasn't, she could always see what Wu Genji really was, maybe it was because she lost her father and all her suspicions were directed at that girl, she didn't find Wu Genji likeable as the rest of the villagers. Even her grandmother would warn her, telling her not to ever meet with that girl alone, she said that something dirty and ugly seemed to be latched on Wu Genji.

Song Yan hasn't paid any attention to the Wu family before and naturally, she didn't know about this exciting past that was well hidden by the Wu family. After listening to Mo Genji, she narrowed her eyes and asked, " The villagers didn't try to ever complain about the missing people?"

Almost at once, Mo Jingzhi's face turned stiff as she said, " Of course, we did try to report it to the police."

She paused for two minutes before she sucked in a breath and then continued with a very solemn expression, " When the villagers who lost their family members went to look for the police, no one knows when and how Wu Genji contacted her family, but the police officers never took our complaints seriously. Later on, when some villagers tried to make trouble they were scared away by the police officers who said that they will lock them up for spreading feudal suspicions…the villagers had no choice but to come back. Later on, the Wu family completely covered up the entire matter and took Wu Genji away, they were afraid that the rumours would bring bad publicity to their daughter …the Wu family's patriarch looked like he is an honest man but he chose to save his daughter over us poor villagers."

After she was done saying that, Mo Jingzhi took another sip and added, " And what's even more the girl named Wu Genji, when she came to the village, she looked like she was going to die at any moment but then nothing happened to her. When she returned home, she seemed as if she has been cured completely and her cheeks were rosy as if she was never sick! The Wu family said that it was because their daughter had a peaceful recuperation in the village but I don't believe it! I am sure that the one behind the incident of the villagers vanishing was the spoiled daughter of the Wu family. I am certain that she went inside the tomb and brought something out of there…" then she lowered her voice and added, " most probably a demon."

Song Yan couldn't help but admire Mo Jingzhi, she wasn't a celestial master but with the facts provided to her… she was able to hit the bullseye.

" You are here to take care of that demon aren't you?" asked Mo Jingzhi with a sharp glint in her eyes.

" I am," Song Yan didnt hide anything, after she handed Mo Jingzhi the talisman, her reason for the visit was clear.

" Then you have to be careful because that demon … it's not alone."

After Song Yan was done collecting the information that she was looking for she stepped out of the tea store and then turned to look at the mountain where the excavators found the underground tomb.

' The demon is not alone.'

This was something that Song Yan already knew, the second she stepped inside the village, she saw the portraits hanging outside the houses. In the portrait two beings were sitting on the throne, one was the Emperor and the other was the woman lying on his feet, most probably the demon has something to do with that portrait but now she needed to figure out which demon exactly was Wu Genji raising.