Criminal Investigation: Criminal Investigation, #2

By Esme Allan

The reincarnated immortal Li Liang was reborn as a child in modern society. He practiced martial arts with the memory of his past life and adhered to the way of immortality in the family ties and the troubles of the world. He taught the young girl Liu Man martial arts and fought against human traffickers and the Yellow River zombie Ba.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Esme Allan
• Release date: Mar 23, 2025
• ISBN: 9798230977261

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Chapter 51: The Yellow River No Longer Has a Water God

Xue Wenhua had a very long dream.

In the dream, Xue Wenhua turned into another person. Everyone called him Gongzi Lu. What a strange name, he thought in a daze.

The Yellow River is flooding and causing disasters. Today, I will make you the Yellow River God. You will be stationed on both sides of the river and bring blessings to the people.

Lu, I obey your orders.

The hazy dream made Xue Wenhua unable to see clearly. There seemed to be voices of people talking in the sky. When he was trying to find the source of the voice, the scene changed and he saw a raging river rushing towards him.

The overwhelming flood can take away the life of any non-flying person. Facing the flood requires tremendous courage and determination. Facing the flood that destroys everything, Xue Wenhua has only fear in his heart, but his body is out of control and he rushes forward towards the flood.

He saw himself standing on the ground with his hands apart, and the surging river water was actually divided into two torrents by his bare hands, rushing to both sides. However, the flood was unstoppable, and the waves still pressed down on him. Xue Wenhua wanted to struggle, but his body moved by himself, breaking through the waves and rising straight up. He stepped on the crest of the flood and saw with his own eyes the half-naked people being drowned while fleeing.

Xue Wenhua rescued people who were caught in the flood one after another, but he was alone and more people died in the flood.

I am the Yellow River God sent by Heaven to guard this place.

Facing the gathered people, Xue Wenhua announced his identity. He saw these pale and thin people kneeling before him, praying to him for good weather. Next, he led the people on both sides of the river to expand the river bank, dig canals to release water for the Yellow River. The frequency of floods in the Yellow River became less and less, and people's lives gradually became better.

Xue Wenhua saw that he was sitting on a stone at the entrance of the village, with many people gathered around him to listen to his teachings. From him, the people learned a lot of knowledge about fisheries, irrigation, water conservancy, and farming, and applied them in their lives.

The people built a temple for Xue Wenhua, and used mud from the Yellow River to build a statue for him, and engraved his name on the base.

【Prince Lu】

Every year, people from both sides of the Yellow River would come to the Water God Temple, singing and dancing, offering sacrifices to the Yellow River God, thanking him for his blessings and praying for good weather. Through Prince Lu's eyes, Xue Wenhua watched the lives and deaths of generations of people, and the people also remembered the kindness of the Yellow River God and never forgot the day of sacrifice.

In the name of Heaven, the Water God accepts your order.

Lu is here.

The evil demons from outside the domain have been coveting the Three Realms for a long time. We may find it difficult to defeat them unless the Golden Immortal appears in the world... to suppress this place, seize the fortune of heaven and earth, seal the essence of the sun and moon, and cut off the spiritual roots of mortals... From now on, there will be no more immortals in Jiuzhou.

Lu, I obey your orders.

Five hundred years passed in a flash. During these years, Xue Wenhua saw that he had built a mausoleum for himself with his own hands. It was located in the waters of his hometown, at the bottom of the Yellow River. The location was just right at the water gate. The Yellow River God changed the feng shui within a radius of 100 miles, causing all karma to flow into the mausoleum. Without karma, there would be no disputes in the mortal world. This method would allow him to continue to protect the people after his death.

The life of gods also has an end. When the Yellow River God was about to die, he did not wait for the arrival of the next Water God appointed by the Heavenly Court. So in the endless waiting, the Yellow River God slept forever at the bottom of the river.

Xue Wenhua saw the world getting dark. He thought it was the end, but it was actually another beginning. The mausoleum had taken away the creation of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon. Over the years, the body of the water god had not decayed and a remnant soul had been left behind, waiting for destiny.

Over the past two hundred years, there have been constant wars on land, countless killings, and the greed, anger, ignorance, and hatred in the mortal world have been entangled endlessly. Karma has poured into the Yellow River. The huge negative energy has corroded the body of the water god, causing his body to gradually become twisted and deformed. Evil spirits have entered his body, and another consciousness was born in his corpse. This consciousness was filled with bloodthirsty bestiality, which gradually engulfed his remaining soul.

He turned into a zombie.

One day, the boundless hunger broke free from the cage and could no longer suppress its animal nature. One night, the beast in the corpse escaped from the mausoleum and went ashore to start a killing spree. However, it was suppressed by the remaining soul of the Yellow River God. The zombie finally ran to the place that he remembered most deeply during his lifetime, the Water God Temple in Zhuolu.

For hundreds of years, people on both sides of the strait have followed the traditions of their ancestors and still retained the tradition of worshiping the water god. Dried cattle, sheep, fruits and cakes are placed on the altars in the temples. The zombies ate up the offerings from the people and returned to the water.

Whenever the zombies could no longer bear their bloodlust and hunger, they would come out of the water, go to the temple to devour the offerings of the people, and then return to the water. However, the offerings of the temple were decreasing day by day, and the zombies' bestiality became increasingly difficult to suppress.

Finally one day.

After the zombie came ashore, it came to the former temple, but could no longer find the temple of the water god. It stood in the rubble for a whole night and returned home at dawn.

About twenty years ago, the trend of eliminating superstition reached this historic temple. People toppled the statue of Gongzi Lu, the god of water. From that day on, zombies no longer came ashore.

Without offerings, it spent the past twenty years in endless hunger, and its remaining rationality was finally devoured by wild beasts. Until today, twenty years later, when mortals intended to open the floodgates and destroy the Feng Shui of heaven and earth, the zombie woke up from its slumber. It originally wanted to follow its animal nature and devour those mortals, but the muddy smell of the people on both sides of the strait finally awakened some rationality in it.

The zombies chose a successor from among them, brought him back, and locked him in the center of the formation. However, the water level dropped the next day, and the tomb at the bottom of the river was exposed to the mortal world, attracting thousands of mortals to watch.

The beast in his heart lost control, and the zombie finally wielded the butcher knife at the people he was protecting, committing a sin of killing in vain. When he killed who knows how many local people, the blood with the familiar fragrance of earth woke it up from its confusion. Knowing that he had violated the will of heaven and committed a heinous mistake, he sought out a powerful mortal who frightened his animal nature, hoping to use his hand to destroy himself.

When all the nightmarish evil spirits were driven out of the body, the zombie's mind regained a brief clarity. It recalled its identity and realized its grave sins. When it saw the mortal, it saw the other person's true body through the zombie's unique visual sense.

Daluo Jinxian!

Fate has finally given me what I've been waiting for.

Xue Wenhua slowly opened his eyes.

He was already in tears.

In the special ward of the Fourth Military Medical Hospital of Qingyang City, as Xue Wenhua woke up, the nurse on duty immediately ran out of the ward to inform the doctor. Soon, a group of local government officials, public security representatives, Zhulu County cadres and colleagues rushed into the ward.

And downstairs in this ward.

In the intensive care unit, the nurse pushed a bunk bed and took Li Liang out of the ward. Since the injured patient had not yet regained consciousness, the nurse solemnly instructed the accompanying police officer to keep a close eye on the heart rate displayed on the monitoring equipment and to call for help immediately if there was any problem.

This oxygen poisoning incident seemed to be just a small-scale accident caused by inhaling too much oxygen. There was no unknown virus. At least that's how the police explained it. The only thing was that the kid named Li Liang was strange. He was obviously seriously injured, but he was not given an IV or a tetanus shot.

I don’t know what the hospital leaders think.

Chapter 52: On the Possibility of the Disappearance of the Earth's Extraordinary Realm

The ICU, an abbreviation of Intensive Care Unit in Western medicine, is specially prepared for patients with serious conditions or who need isolation treatment. In this collective oxygen poisoning incident, there was a very special patient, who was only eight years old and had both arms comminuted fractures. Surprisingly, the patient's broken bones were not dislocated and did not require corrective treatment at all.

Three days later, after confirming that Li Liang was not in danger of death, the hospital transferred him to a general ward.

After extreme tranquility, the power of the mind will be infinitely magnified. Not only can one sense the meridians in the body, but the yang spirit will also be able to listen to messages from the outside world. After Li Liang's body entered deep sleep, his yang spirit still remained awake and heard the rhythm projected from the fourth realm to the third realm.

Most of them are radiant sounds produced by the movement of energy. Of course, in addition to these, there are occasionally super life forms that mortals cannot imagine, which radiate their will to the universe in a unique way. Only life forms with a certain level of perception can hear the whispers beyond the sky.

For example, a message like this.

Deer Hunt Revelation.

I lost a high-speed male deer in the Oguleye plane at the end of the last century. It is a male deer that likes to butt people. It has white fur. If anyone finds it, please report it to my temple nearby. I will reward you handsomely. The brave man who was butted to death by it can pray to me before he dies...

If anyone heard this, please reply.

Here? I'm going to sleep. If no one tells me where the Seven-Colored Deer is when I wake up, I will kill everyone present.

When this divine will radiated out, the void outside the universe suddenly stopped responding to energy and became a place of absolute silence. It was not until the afterglow of the divine will disappeared that the indescribable things in the void that were frightened away by the divine will became active.

Including Li Liang, when his Yang Shen heard the whispers of this god, he also immediately remained silent, unwilling to have any intersection with such an existence. If it was just a divine creature, Li Liang could still retreat safely, but if he was facing a god, his mortal body would have no power to fight back at all.

Gods are always moody and without a certain level of confidence, it is best not to come into contact with such beings.

The projection of the fourth Taixu world descending to the third world has turned this universe into a huge vortex full of information turbulence. The mortals on Earth are so lucky that they cannot sense the malice outside the Earth, so they will not be distorted, will not be tempted, and will not encounter disasters. The evil from outside the Earth cannot know that there are such a large number of living beings on this planet.

Li Liang began to understand why there was no energy reaction on this planet.

There is a logic that can explain this, which is that the indigenous peoples of the earth do not have enough power to protect themselves and cannot fight against the unknown life outside the earth. Therefore, in order to protect their powerless descendants, ancient humans used this method to completely erase the earth's presence from the universe.

Ancient ancestors cut off the path for their descendants to become saints, but they did not expect that later generations of human beings would embark on another path of evolution in the confrontation with nature. Li Liang woke up from a deep sleep. He opened his eyes in the ward, looked at the ceiling, and whispered: It's time, it's fate.

Escaping cannot solve the problem, it can only delay the problem for a period of time before it erupts again, and eventually the same outcome will befall the human beings on Earth. Sooner or later, human beings on Earth will explore the universe through technological means. It is time and fate. What is to come will come and cannot be avoided.

Li Liang sat up from the bed and looked at his arms wrapped in plaster. The nurse outside the door heard the noise and walked closer to the ward. He glanced at the tight combat trouser legs exposed from the hem of the nurse's uniform, and the bulge of fabric on the right side of her thigh. Li Liang raised his head and looked at her pretty face with light makeup on.

Are you awake? You've been in a coma for three days. How do you feel? Are you feeling unwell? The nurse quickened her pace and came to the bedside. She touched Li Liang's forehead with concern to check the temperature, then pressed the call bell. A moment later, another nurse walked into the ward.

The one who came in this time was a real nurse, unlike the one next to her, who was obviously in her thirties or forties, with muscles hidden by clothes, and she was not ashamed to wear a skirt like a little girl to act cute.

Where are my parents?

The fake nurse said softly, They came when you were unconscious, but they didn't stay long before going to work. They may have to wait until the evening before they can come to the hospital to see you.

Li Liang suddenly felt disgusted with the fake nurse. During the three days he was in hibernation, this fake nurse peeked at Li Liang from outside the door more than a hundred times, and stared at him openly in the ward without any scruples. Twice, she tried to stab him with a knife. Of course, she didn't really stab him because there was no malice in her eyes, so Li Liang ignored her nonsense.

Li Liang knew that she was testing him.

However, Li Liang would not tolerate her touching on matters of principle: Where are my parents?

Seeing that something was not right, the fake nurse sent the real one away and looked at Li Liang with deep eyes: Where did the mistake go... She sat on the bed opposite Li Liang, crossed her legs, and immediately revealed her multifunctional military boots and tights: ...My disguise is so perfect, who on earth leaked my identity...

Click.

Just as she crossed her legs, the tactical dagger hanging on her thigh fell off.

In the ward, both of them looked at the weapons on the ground at the same time.

Oh, sorry. The fake nurse picked up the knife on the ground and explained to Li Liang: I am a nurse. This is my scalpel. There is nothing strange about it.

When the fake nurse stood up, the small pistol hanging on her other thigh fell off. The fake nurse looked at the ground and couldn't help shaking her head and laughing. She picked it up and said, As you can see, I'm a nurse. Some patients need anesthesia before surgery, so it's logical for me to carry a gun with me.

If you keep talking nonsense, I'll beat you to death.

...

Where are my parents?

The fake nurse held a knife in her left hand and a gun in her right hand. After she stopped smiling, her temperament suddenly changed: Li Shuangyang's symptoms are relatively mild and he has already woken up. Su Qin is still in a coma, but it's not a big deal. As she spoke, the nurse raised the gun in her right hand and pointed it at Li Liang: Aren't you afraid that I will shoot you?

It seems like you are the one I'm afraid of.

You have to be afraid. The fake nurse's eyes showed incredible admiration. You chased a four-wheeled car out of the city at a speed of 100 meters in 4 seconds, chose a perfect place to kill and silence four people, and then went to the east bank of the Yellow River and shot to death an alien creature that is not afraid of bullets and has skin that even knives can't penetrate. You used your bare hands to beat more than 20 fist-sized flesh pits...

At this she put down the gun.

I really want to believe that you are an innocent child, not a creature in human skin.

Chapter 53: The First Conversation between a Mortal and a Supernatural Being

He killed four robbers and was able to get away with it by relying on his age. He also beat a zombie's lower body to pieces in front of so many witnesses. If they still don't realize the threat posed by Li Liang, it can only be said that the domestic security forces are not only stupid but also blind. If such a person loses control, it can cause serious casualties in the downtown area in minutes. That's why Bai Yingqi came and communicated with Li Liang despite the pressure from the radicals.

It seems you don't like chatting with me very much.

Bai Yingqi sat opposite Li Liang and said with a headache: Since you don't want to speak, let's communicate in a different way. If I'm right, you can remain silent. If I'm wrong... you can also remain silent.

What followed was a one-sided conversation between Bai Yingqi and Li Liang.

Superhuman speed, superhuman strength. Although you haven't shown the third trait yet, I think your abilities are more than that. Bai Yingqi observed Li Liang's reaction and continued, Your punching force exceeds five tons, your speed is over twenty meters per second, you have super endurance, and can support long-term extreme exercise. Your reflexes can dodge three semi-automatic guns' continuous bursts of fire at the same time. In one minute, you can kill at least hundreds of people with your bare hands.

You are very experienced in killing, but you are not bloodthirsty. You are a human being, because you have mature moral and ethical concepts as a human being. You are born with extraordinary talents and have inhuman physical qualities. You like to practice martial arts, but you have never learned kung fu from anyone.

You care about your family, you care about the dog you have in the backyard.

You like to dwell on trivial matters. You think you are always right. You have mature values, world views, and outlook on life, and refuse to accept external indoctrination.

No matter what Bai Yingqi said, Li Liang's face remained calm, and she was not disturbed by her words. Just when Bai Yingqi felt that the situation was about right, she suddenly changed her way of speaking, from stating to asking: What would you do if someone threatened you with your family?

In psychology, this is a hypnotic method that can break down psychological defenses. It collects all kinds of known information about the patient in advance, and then orally tells the patient's privacy, psychological shadows, preferences, dreams, etc. during the conversation. People have 360 sides, and not everyone's heart is as hard as a rock. There will always be a word that will hit the patient's heart, and then he will confess to the hypnotist. However, some idiots have completely turned this hypnosis method into a violent interrogation. For example, they start reciting the patient's resume without saying hello as soon as they enter the door, which only increases the patient's panic and achieves their goal.

Bai Yingqi used orthodox hypnosis methods. She said both the good and the bad. Li Liang liked to practice martial arts. She praised Li Liang for his strong martial arts skills. She praised more than criticized him throughout the process. She also mentioned Li Liang's family and implicitly threatened Li Liang. Finally, she suddenly changed from a statement to a question, intending to make Li Liang's thoughts follow her rhythm, taking advantage of the inherent inertia of human thinking.

But she was disappointed.

Under Bai Yingqi's fixed gaze, Li Liang thought seriously for a while. It was obvious that he was very concerned about this issue and didn't care whether Bai Yingqi would witness his hesitation. However, he did not change his decision in the end and shook his head gently: You can go.

Bai Yingqi's heart trembled.

She cursed inwardly, this kid is so difficult to deal with.

China is a great country, not a small country next door that has no tolerance for others. I know you are not an ordinary citizen, and I hope you understand the country's legal system. We will not deprive you of your rights as a citizen because of your individual strength, but we also hope that you will not do anything that crosses the line and embarrass the country.

A knight breaks the law with force. This is not only a reminder from Bai Yingqi to Li Liang, but also a verbal agreement she made with Li Liang, this supernatural life, on behalf of the national organization behind her: I won't mess with you, and you don't mess with me. We will keep to ourselves and as for the future, we'll talk about it later.

It's all acting.

This woman's awkward acting that was deliberately exposed, her cold jokes imitating crosstalk, and her later change in temperament to be dignified and solemn. Finally, she realized Li Liang's attitude of retreating to advance. From the moment she said the first word, she was full of intentions. How could Li Liang not notice such scheming? Li Liang was destined not to travel with such people, and would never have any intersection with the national organization behind her in this life.

If Bai Yingqi knew how far Li Liang would advance in ten years, there would probably not be this meeting without fireworks today. A country's tolerance has its limits. It can tolerate a super soldier wandering the streets, but it will never tolerate a humanoid nuclear bomb walking around freely in its territory, even if this nuclear bomb says, I will not explode.

When facing extraordinary individuals, the mortal group wants to control the extraordinary power in their own hands, but is also afraid of losing