Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 86 We Need a Reasonable Explanation

Gao Shan led the team, quietly cordoning off the residential block inhabited by the suspect, and then checked the household registration from door to door without raising any suspicion.

It was a quite routine task for police to examine household registrations. Even though they were requiring everyone to step outside their homes for the registration, there was nothing peculiar about it.

This had always been the procedure when tracking down notorious bandits or searching for murderers in the past.

There was even a special term for it: "closing the four gates, conducting a thorough search throughout the city."

Compared to the danger and difficulty of apprehending notorious bandits in the past, the search and arrest operation this time was relatively easy and straightforward. They didn’t need to chase clues; they just had to see who wouldn’t dare to come out, or who, once they came out, couldn’t withstand the scorching sun.

This was a crude method and not applicable in all situations.

If Wang Yunxiao had not inflicted damage on the mutant demon in the Outer Dimension, Qin Xiangdong would not have made up his mind to initiate the capture operation.

He knew better than anyone how difficult these mutant demons and evil spirits were to deal with.

This time, Wang Yunxiao also brought two younger brothers. With the Garrison Soldiers forming an array, Qin Xiangdong felt more confident with this trump card in hand.

Standing at a distance, he watched the search operation proceed in an orderly manner, gradually approaching the suspect’s front door.

Qin Xiangdong stubbed out his cigarette and whispered to Wang Yunxiao, "Ordinary people can’t withstand the pollution. If Gao Shan can’t control it later, you guys will have to go up."

"No problem, I came here today to deal with it."

Wang Yunxiao assured with a slap on his chest, then asked quietly, "Director Qin, you’re a combat veteran. What do you think this pollution is really about?"

Qin Xiangdong looked perplexed and asked in return, "Didn’t your teacher explain it to you?"

"He did, but...it’s a bit... hard to understand."

Wang Yunxiao shrugged and said, "After actual contact, it seems to make some sense, but it’s not quite right."

"Normal."

Qin Xiangdong nodded, "You learned from the military introductory manuals, right? They’ve told you, haven’t they? What you’ve been given is only the explanation that you can understand for now, not the real answer. It’s sufficient for use; there’s no need to study it in such depth like scholars and experts."

"It’s not that I want to research it that thoroughly, but I come across things that can’t be explained..."

"That’s because you’re overthinking it!"

Qin Xiangdong looked at Wang Yunxiao with a surprised expression, "Why do you need to explain it? Even if you could explain it clearly, what good would it do you? You think some things seem unreasonable, but there are too many bizarre and unreasonable occurrences in this world. Are you going to delve into every one of them? Then what are you doing as a Garrison Soldier? Go study and become a scholar!"

"So, shall I go back then?"

"Wait!"

Qin Xiangdong looked exasperated, "What I mean is..."

"I know what you mean."

Wang Yunxiao motioned towards the neighbors gathered around watching the commotion with a nod of his head, "But this isn’t a battlefield, and these people aren’t soldiers. If you don’t give them a reasonable explanation, they will find their own answers, and then the demons and evil spirits will take advantage of that."

Before his words were finished, they heard a woman’s scream from ahead, "Don’t touch my son! Get out! All of you, get out!"

Following the scream, two police officers were thrown from the top of a wall.

A monster, no longer recognizable as human, leaped onto the rooftop.

Its limbs were elongated and twisted to an extent that resembled arthropods, and sharp bone spurs grew from its skull and spine. Under the sun’s rays, it emitted billowing smoke and a nauseating stench.

Sunlight was the greatest weapon against demons and evil spirits.

"Fire—!"

With the command from Gao Shan, the surrounding police who were prepared began to shoot. Although they were only using ordinary pistols and bullets, under the sunlight, they were able to inflict effective damage on the monster.

Amid the crackling gunfire, the monster screamed and fell to the ground, bursting into a huge, combustible mass that burned fiercely.

Judging from the voice just now, that probably was Madam Zhangliu, the widow. That meant there was likely another demon inside the courtyard.

This was a civilian area with no high-rise buildings and no underground sewers. With the noon sunlight pouring down from overhead, it had nowhere to escape.

Gao Shan stood to one side of the door, watching the inside of the courtyard’s decrepit house intently. He called out tentatively a few times, but there was no response from inside.

This guy was still stubbornly resisting.

The police held the advantage under the sunlight, while it was unrestrained in the shadows.

"Push the wall! Tear down the house!"

Gao Shan, a man of military background, made a decisive judgement of the situation and ordered the wall to be pushed down without hesitation.

Some of the onlooking crowd, not knowing the truth, cheered loudly at the scene, while others, timid and cowardly, hid to the side, pressing their hands together in prayer repeatedly, only hoping that the evil spirit would not come to their homes.

Wang Yunxiao’s gaze roved through the crowd and finally rested on a reporter holding up a camera.

This reporter... arrived a bit too quickly, didn’t he?

Is there really no need to control the public opinion, to let them fabricate stories at will?

With a thunderous crash, the rammed earth courtyard wall collapsed under the collective effort of the people. Sunlight streamed into the courtyard, casting light on the broken windows of the house, and strands of black smoke immediately surged out from the tightly closed window gaps.

"You idiots! Fools!"

A hoarse voice came from the broken house, filled with anger and venom.

"You have no idea about the truth! You’d rather drown in your dreams than wake up!"

"You... You’ve all been deceived! You’ve all been fooled! This place is not reality at all!"

As the creature roared in despair, it burst from the broken house, and the moment it touched the sunlight, its body instantly ignited into a ball of fire.

Wang Yunxiao did not see its face clearly, but it saw Wang Yunxiao in an instant; the face, blurred and oozing with greasy flesh, revealed a cruel smile.

"Wang Yunxiao! You dead bastard! Doomed fool! You saw it too! You saw it, didn’t you! Do you think they will let you go? You won’t end well either, I’ll be waiting for you down there!"

What did I even see?

If you’ve seen something, spit it out!

Dragging someone down with you when you’re about to die, without any technical skill.

Wang Yunxiao silently watched as the human torch stumbled towards him for a few steps, and then it could no longer support itself and fell to the ground. Even though its face was burnt to the point where only an eyeball remained, it still stared fixedly at Wang Yunxiao as if he had some sort of blood feud with him.

In broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of the public, the creature called out Wang Yunxiao’s name just before dying. After today, his reputation in the Jianghu World might climb even higher.

Those who knew the inside story wouldn’t say much.

And those who didn’t know the inside story? Take these onlookers, for example; such scenes of roasting a person alive in broad daylight would be too stimulating for ordinary people who had never seen much of the world.

Would it cause Echo Erosion, giving rise to more demons?

Wang Yunxiao looked at Qin Xiangdong, and Qin Xiangdong also looked at him, the expression on his face solemn.

"We must find a way to explain this, otherwise, if rumors spread unchecked..."

"You are the Director, and you’re asking me to come up with a solution?"

"He just called your name."

This was unreasonable; just now when I asked you, you didn’t want to explain.

Being a leader seems pretty good.

Wang Yunxiao scratched his head, looking at the remains of the creature’s body, now reduced to a skeletal frame, and sighed, "Spontaneous human combustion, truly bizarre!"

Qin Xiangdong was almost amused, "Does spontaneous human combustion make any sense? Are you fooling a fool?"

He was about to speak when he saw Wang Yunxiao walk over to the corpse, kick around the still smoldering humanoid charcoal on the ground with his foot, and then he kicked it over and picked up a black notebook from the ground.

At first glance, the notebook didn’t look very remarkable, but everything else had been burnt to ash, and it was left completely unscathed, which was not very normal in itself.

Wang Yunxiao tapped the dust off the notebook and, without opening it directly, turned back to ask Qin Xiangdong, "Have you ever heard the story of Han Libo and the secret chamber?"