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The blade was as solid as a mountain. Chen Yu pressed his gun against Old Barber's temple. "On the night of the fire in '96, you shaved Zhou Fulai's head, didn't you?"
The barrel left an indentation on the old man's withered skin, but Xu Wenshan noticed a flash of green light behind his ear—reflected from a Jade Thimble.
Old Barber let out a hooting laugh and pulled an iron box from the bottom of the charcoal stove. Inside were forty-nine hair ties, each wrapped in police uniform fabric. The latest tie, made of dark blue polyester, matched Li Xiuyun's work attire perfectly.
As he shook out the hair ties, Gray-White Strands automatically wove themselves into a map of Qinghe Town, with each crime scene marked by Razor etchings. "Zhou Huaisheng is not human." The old man suddenly slashed open his own abdomen with a Razor; instead of blood, Gray-White Strands poured out. "He is a living corpse sewn together from forty-nine Yin Shus. Each time he shaves a head, he changes his skin..." Hair suddenly wrapped around Chen Yu's wrist, pulling the gun into the charcoal basin. The heated barrel ignited the hair ties, and within the flames appeared Zhou Huaisheng shaving heads in the funeral home—countless miniature wooden combs emerged from the shorn roots.
Xu Wenshan kicked over the charcoal basin, sparks igniting the Hair Net on the wall. Old Barber danced wildly in the fire, rotting skin revealing remnants of a Republican Era Police Uniform. "Chen Guohua also came to shave heads back then!" He tore open his scalp, revealing a star chart engraved on his skull that depicted the Rebirth Formation, with North Star Position pinning Chen Guohua's Police Badge.
Chen Yu suddenly raised a fire axe and struck the floor tiles, revealing a Lipstick Coffin beneath the shattered bricks. As the Coffin Lid was flipped by Hair, forty-nine Razors hovered in formation, their blades weaving into a vast Rebirth Knot.
Xu Wenshan grabbed Old Barber's Ceramic Pot and smashed it against the blade array. Eyeballs exploded between the edges of the knives, and from the pus and blood crawled seven Headless Corpses, each clutching a bloodied Razor in their right hand.
"The Three-Quarter Hour of the Dog has arrived." Zhou Huaisheng's voice echoed from every Razor, each blade reflecting his face.
Chen Yu's police uniform suddenly tore apart, revealing a Rebirth Knot sewn into his chest; a Razor tied to his hair was aimed at Xu Wenshan's throat. Old Barber lunged toward the blade array; his decaying body was shredded into Blood Mist but coalesced into a Bronze Razor marked with Rebirth Knots amidst the ashes.
Xu Wenshan seized the Bronze Razor and sliced open his palm; blood-stained blade suddenly elongated by three feet. As the edge severed Chen Yu's chest hair tie, forty-nine girls' anguished cries erupted from within the Rebirth Knot.
Zhou Huaisheng's Virtual Shadow shattered in the knife light; each fragment reflected images of the Lipstick Coffin exploding. The flames spread across East Street as Chen Yu knelt in the ashes, holding onto a Police Badge pried from Old Barber's skull.
Xu Wenshan used the Bronze Razor to lift a charred Huang Mu piece; embedded within its growth rings was a yellowed photograph—twenty years ago, Chen Guohua was awarding Old Barber with honors, and astonishingly, the medal on his chest was forged from Yin Shu.
The wail of fire truck sirens grew closer as Xu Wenshan dug out half of a charred Shaving Ledger from the ruins.
Amidst the latest scorched marks, the faint bloodied words "Bing Shen Year Hai Time, shaved head forty-nine, paid Nirvana Formation Eye" could be seen.
As his blood dripped onto the inscription, the charred marks suddenly writhed and reformed, spelling out a bloody GPS coordinate—pointing directly to the deepest part of the Zhenxi Huai Tree Grove, the Republican Ancestral Hall.
The roof of the Republican Ancestral Hall was jagged like beastly teeth, with moonlight filtering through the Tile Gap into the main hall, weaving a massive Rebirth Knot on the Azure Brick floor.
When Xu Wenshan pushed open the peeling Lingxing Gate of Vermilion Lacquer, the creaking of the door hinges startled a Corpse Crow perched at the eaves. The fallen feathers glimmered with Phosphorescence, illuminating the courtyard where forty-nine Lipstick Coffins formed the Big Dipper Formation.
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