My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 122: Conquering the Music Zombie

Jiang Li cried and laughed, "What else can we do? We can only go back to the Ren family and ask them to intercede for us. We can buy a few more days!"

Uncle Jiu had no other choice, so he returned to Ren's house with Jiang Li and explained the situation in detail to the Ren family. Only then did Ren Youfu agree to give the three of them a chance.

He asked them to find their father's body within three days, and then he went personally with Jiang Lijiu's uncle to get the three people released on parole.

After returning to the Ren family, Ren Youfu asked, "I wonder how Uncle Jiu plans to start looking. If there really are bad guys involved, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to find them!"

Uncle Jiu heard this and said, "I have a secret technique in Maoshan called the Guiding Light. As long as you have the old man's birth date and eight characters, you can use it. Then you will naturally find it!"

Mama asked in confusion, "What is a guiding light? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Uncle Jiu heard this and said, "You are so lazy all day long, how could the master pass on this secret technique to you?"

Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Jiang Li quickly interrupted and said, "Then Master, you should quickly prepare. Uncle, please write down the old man's birth date and horoscope first. Find him in broad daylight and avoid more casualties."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Jiu stopped arguing with his mother and quickly prepared the materials needed to make the Kongming lanterns.

While Uncle Jiu and the others were preparing the materials, Jiang Li found Ren Zhuzhu and said, "Zhuzhu, your pocket watch is very beautiful. Can you show it to me?"

Upon hearing this, Ren Zhuzhu felt that Jiang Li was deliberately looking for an excuse to get close to her. After all, her father and cousin had been saying a lot of weird things in her ears over the past two days.

But she couldn't help but answer Jiang Li's question, so she could only blush and say, "Sure...Sure!"

As she said that, she handed the pocket watch to Jiang Li, and Jiang Li opened it and started playing with it. As soon as it was opened, it began to play clear music.

Ren Zhuzhu saw Jiang Li smiling happily and thought that Jiang Li wanted it, so she immediately said, "Cousin, if you like it, I can ask my father to buy one for you, but this one is not okay because it was given to me by my grandfather when he was alive."

Jiang Li smiled and said, "That's great. This is your grandfather's relic. It may be helpful for this arrest. I will borrow it for a while and return it to you after I'm done with it, okay?"

Ren Zhuzhu heard this and said, "Okay, but you can't break it for me."

Jiang Li quickly put it away and promised to compensate her with a new one if it broke.

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Finally, after an hour, everything was ready, and Uncle Jiu quickly began to cast a spell. Two fireballs followed the talisman paper and the red rope to ignite the wick of the Kongming lantern.

The Kongming lantern with Old Master Ren's eight characters written on it slowly rose into the sky. Uncle Jiu extended his sword and injected a stream of magic power into the lantern, and it slowly flew towards the northeast.

Uncle Jiu immediately called for people to follow, and Jiang Li also gathered the Taoist soldiers to set off together.

After following the Kongming lantern for more than an hour, we finally found Old Master Ren in a forest by the river.

Seeing this, Mama was about to grab a weapon, but Jiang Li stopped him, saying, "Uncle Master, wait a minute. Look at him wandering around in broad daylight, unaffected by the sun. I'm afraid someone has done something to him."

Uncle Jiu and Mama both frowned when they heard this.

"That's true, what should we do now?" Mama asked.

Jiang Li said, "We might as well try some long-range means first to see how deep it is."

Of course Jiang Li knew that he just had to open the pocket watch to make it become dull and then release its corpse gas, but he couldn't say it directly now, otherwise he would not be able to explain it later.

Upon hearing this, the two men used all sorts of methods, including the Bagua Mirror, the Five-Shaped Flag, the Copper Coin Sword, and even the Corpse Suppression Talisman using special techniques.

But it didn't work. Instead, it enraged it and jumped straight towards the crowd. Jiang Li immediately ordered people to throw out the corpse rope.

But this zombie has mutated after being injected with hormones. Although it is still a zombie, the corpse-suppressing bell and corpse-binding rope are of no use to it.

So Uncle Jiu Jiang Li had no choice but to go forward and fight him, but after fighting for a long time he was unable to cause much damage to him.

So Jiang Li found an opportunity and "accidentally" dropped the pocket watch on the ground, and "accidentally" played some music, and when Old Master Ren heard the sound, he immediately calmed down.

Uncle Jiu and his mother looked at each other in bewilderment when they saw this. Jiang Li watched for a while and then "plucked up the courage" to take a bamboo tube and walk forward to release the corpse gas on him.

But the pocket watch had to be wound up after all, and the sound stopped within a few minutes. Jiang Li had expected this and jumped away quickly when the music stopped.

Uncle Jiu immediately stepped forward to fight with him when he saw this, while Jiang Li quickly picked up the pocket watch and wound it a few times, and then the music started playing again.

Old Master Ren, who was entangled with Uncle Jiu, calmed down again when he heard the music, and Jiang Li said to his mother, "Uncle Master, go and release the corpse qi from it. It seems to be interested in the music in this pocket watch."

Mamada frowned upon hearing this and said, "How is this possible? Where can there be such a zombie?"

Jiang Li frowned upon hearing this and said, "The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things. You just saw it. As long as you leave when the music stops, there will be no danger."

Upon hearing this, Mamadi had no choice but to go forward and do as she was told. However, within a minute the pocket watch music stopped again, and Mamadi was so scared that she ran away.

Seeing this, Uncle Jiu went up to harass him again. Jiang Li quickly wound up the spring, then went forward again to release the air. He repeated this seven or eight times, and finally all the corpse gas in Old Man Ren's body was released.

Without the support of the corpse qi, it immediately fell backwards.

Seeing this, Mama said, "It's finally solved. Let's quickly transport him back to report to the task, so as to avoid any more trouble."

Jiang Li said to Uncle Jiu, "Master, I think the zombie is acting strange. How about you give him a finishing blow? Otherwise, I'm afraid he will do something weird again."

Uncle Jiu heard this and said, "That's true." Then he took out a large Guandao from the car and cut off Old Master Ren's head with one stroke.

But Jiang Li knew that beheading was useless, so he suggested, "Why don't we go back and talk to Master Ren and burn him directly, so that nothing will happen after a long time!"

Uncle Jiu nodded and said, "The zombies should indeed be burned to avoid any future troubles."

Mama said angrily, "Why are you two so fussy? The head has been chopped off, so how can there be any trouble after that?"

Jiang Li frowned and said to his mother, "Uncle Master, don't think about the reward this time. I think the zombies are very evil. It's possible that some evil spirit is causing trouble. Otherwise, how could there be zombies that are not afraid of the corpse-suppressing talismans, the corpse-suppressing bells, and the corpse-binding ropes?"

Mama waved her hands randomly when she heard that, "Forget it, forget it. I don't want the money. It's really annoying to keep talking about useless things."

Uncle Jiu was about to scold him when he heard this, but Jiang Li immediately stopped him and said, "Master, don't be angry. Let's do the business first and talk about the rest in private."

After hearing this, Uncle Jiu calmed down and did not lose his temper.

Soon, the group dragged the old man's body and head back to Renjia Town.

The foreigner's laboratory was also found, but the hormones were scattered all over the floor and were of no use.