“That’s a special talisman for tracking ghosts. It can sniff out yin energy like a dog. Wherever the ghost stops, the talisman will follow. I have a connection with the talisman. I know where the next ghost is better than anyone else.”

Old Liu Tou hesitated, “Then why didn’t you chase the ghosts in the first place?”

I shook my head slightly, “Chasing ghosts is useless! Even if I kill the ghosts, I can’t find who’s helping the water ghosts in the village. Now that we’re leaving, it’s time to stir things up in the village.”

As soon as I finished speaking, a ghostly wail came from the village. Dazzling green flames shot into the sky like fireworks in the village, then burst open in the air.

Immediately afterward, clusters of phosphorescent flames burst open one after another from different locations in Fish Basket Village, and the mournful wails of ghosts echoed throughout the village.

Old Liu Tou’s eyes widened, “You killed all six ghosts without even going over there?”

“My talismans aren’t thrown away for nothing. Being stuck with a Bu Hun Fu (Soul-Catching Talisman) is like losing half your life, even if you don’t die.” I stood up and said, “Did you notice the locations where the spirit symbols exploded?”

I pointed to Fish Basket Village, “Every place where the green fire exploded is near the seven trees. That means there’s still something suppressing the water under the seven trees.”

“The ghosts entered the village through the underground waterways, and their target should also be the seven trees. However, they didn’t dare to directly touch the roots, so they chose to go around them, like the corpse in front of the Wang family’s house.”

“What if I kill all seven trees?” I said to myself, but scared Old Liu Tou half to death, “Mr. Li, don’t mess around! If you blow up the trees, the villagers will be finished.”

I turned to look at Old Liu Tou, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Old Liu Tou felt a chill in his heart, but not a complete one.

Did he hate the villagers? Yes! But not to the extreme, he couldn’t bear to see Fish Basket Village destroyed.

I said softly, “Old Liu, I’ll ask you something. Have you ever seen your ancestors return home all these years? Or seen other people’s ancestors return home?”

Old Liu Tou’s face turned pale.

Ordinary people only burn incense and offer sacrifices during the Spring Festival to honor their ancestors. Warlocks' Spring Festival ancestor worship is different from ordinary people, precisely because they can see, so they must set up another table of wine and food to worship their ancestors. The warlock himself must also serve beside them.

Old Liu Tou was a warlock who could see ghosts. He knew better than anyone whether the Liu family’s ancestors had returned.

I put my hands behind my back and said, “Especially your family’s Old Master, have people of that generation returned?”

Old Liu Tou shook his head, gritting his teeth. It seemed that I was right. The only warlock who truly had his soul destroyed back then was the Liu family’s ancestor.

Looking at it this way, the six warlocks conspired to kill the Liu family’s Old Master, but left Old Liu Tou’s grandfather behind, using him to protect the village from disaster.

However, how should we explain the large number of warlock deaths in Fish Basket Village at that time?

I turned to look at the graves all over the mountains and plains, “Old Liu, I know you might not seek revenge on the villagers. But don’t you even want to ask the truth? Whether to take revenge is one thing, whether to ask the enemy is another.”

Old Liu said with red eyes, “Ask! I must ask! If it’s really them who joined forces to harm the Liu family, then… then I’ll make sure they all die a horrible death.”

Some things are scary to think about, and the more you think about them, the more terrifying they become.

If the villagers had been plotting against the Liu family before the sudden deaths of the warlocks in Fish Basket Village, then it would be equivalent to the villagers forcing the Liu family’s ancestors and descendants to death step by step. Old Liu Tou’s father and son both died in the villagers’ conspiracy. This was an irreconcilable hatred!

On the other hand, if the villagers were just afraid and unwilling to stand up and help Old Liu Tou resist the water ghosts, then perhaps there was still some reason to forgive them. It would depend on what Old Liu Tou himself thought.

My words were equivalent to opening the floodgates of hatred in Old Liu Tou’s heart. Deep-seated hatred is easy to ignite but difficult to extinguish.

Old Liu Tou roared with bloodshot eyes, “Mr. Li, what do you say we should do?”

I thought for a moment and said, “First, we have to nail down all the graves here to prevent them from coming out and causing trouble.”

“Second, I want to get rid of the trees in the village, especially the one at the entrance. I’ll go down to cut down the trees at night, and you wait for me on the mountain.”

Old Liu Tou said in a hoarse voice, “It’s not that troublesome to uproot the trees. We can do it from this mountain. Come with me!”

Old Liu Tou led me around to the last tomb on the mountain ridge, “Come, help me push away the soil here!”

I had an engineer shovel in my backpack, and it didn’t take long for the two of us to cut off most of the grave mound. What I didn’t expect was that there was a rotating base hidden under the grave mound, which looked like a gun turret at first glance.

Old Liu Tou took the engineer shovel from my hand and chiseled hard on the mountain wall behind the grave mound. The mountain wall, which was originally covered with gray soil, collapsed under the heavy blow of the engineer shovel. Inside, a cannon suspended in the air with iron chains was revealed.

Old Liu Tou reached out and stroked the cannon a few times, “The Old Liu family didn’t leave nothing behind. This cannon was left by my ancestors. It was to leave a line of defense for the village when it couldn’t be defended. Hehehe…”