Is this what a zombie is?

146. Five Organs Refining Elixir

He went to the newly piled-up mound of earth and started digging.

He quickly dug the black plastic bag out of the pit.

Inside the bag was Jin Peilin's body.

The body had already been disposed of; apart from its deathly pale face, it looked as if the person was asleep.

Jiang Chen's gaze fell on the suture line on the corpse's chest.

He crouched down and examined it carefully.

The stitching technique was quite professional, although it was still inferior to his.

Jiang Chen gently traced the suture line.

The stitched-up wound reopened.

He parted his arms to the sides, revealing his empty chest.

The lungs inside were gone.

Jiang Chen frowned; he immediately saw the problem.

If this involves removing organs for transplantation, then the kidneys and heart are more valuable and easier to sell for a higher price.

As for the lungs, to be honest, there are relatively few, and it's really a thankless task.

But the other party only removed Jin Peilin's lungs and didn't touch anything else. Is it because his lungs are special?

Jiang Chen quickly came up with a direction.

The five internal organs correspond to the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; and the five elements are heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

Is there a connection between the Five Elements and the Five Internal Organs in the opponent's Five Ghosts Transporting Technique?

There is no answer to this question at the moment, but it should be a direction to take.

He put the body back into the pit and covered it with soil.

He couldn't go into that tenement building and alert the enemy, so what he needed to do now was to report the information he had seen to the foundation and let them start an investigation.

The more they investigate and the more detailed their knowledge, the easier it becomes for them to respond.

……

Inside the presidential suite of a five-star hotel.

Ai Yi was lying listlessly on the sofa, while Youxi was sitting on the carpet, engrossed in playing a new game, holding his handheld console.

"You're back?"

Ai Yi raised her eyelids slightly.

"How's it going? How's being a tagalong going? Any discoveries?"

Jiang Chen didn't speak, but walked directly to him and succinctly explained his speculation.

After hearing this, Ai sat up straight on the sofa.

"It's that organ harvesting thing again."

"Although it's still organ harvesting, this time it's a little different." Jiang Chen's tone was calm. "I need more information to verify my suspicions."

He looked at Ai Yi: "Contact the foundation right now and have them check the missing persons records from recent years to see if there's a match."

"it is good."

The foundation's intelligence department is extremely efficient, after all, Dongfang Liang is the minister, and the incident in the urban village is a relatively high priority.

Within ten minutes, the investigation results were available, and an encrypted file was sent to the phone.

The documents contain information about each missing person: name, age, photo, and brief biography.

In recent years, there have been many missing people in urban villages, and many of them have been missing for several days without being reported to the police. It is only when relatives, friends and colleagues come to them for help that they discover that they have been missing for a long time.

If you don't even have relatives, friends, or colleagues, it's really difficult to find any traces.

Based on the information relayed back by Jiang Chen and Ai Yi, Dongfang Liang specifically highlighted several pieces of information in red.

Jiang Chen's gaze quickly swept over the documents.

"Zhou Mu, 35 years old, a lumber mill worker, whose birth chart indicates he belongs to the Wood element, had contact with Zhao Hongyuan before his disappearance, and his whereabouts remain unknown."

"Yan Yan, 28 years old, barbecue stall owner, both parents died of serious illnesses, born in the year of the fire element, had contact with Zhao Hongyuan before disappearing, and his whereabouts are still unknown."

"Huang Tusheng, 42 years old, a construction site porter, whose birth chart indicates the element of Earth, had contact with Zhao Hongyuan before his disappearance, and his whereabouts remain unknown."

"Ren Jiang, 31 years old, a food deliveryman, whose birth chart indicates he belongs to the water element, had contact with Zhao Hongyuan before his disappearance, and his whereabouts remain unknown."

……

As Jiang Chen looked at each name, his expression grew increasingly grim. The names of Dongfang Liangbiao and the others in red corresponded precisely to the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in their birth charts.

Just as Jiang Chen finished reading, Dongfang Liang called.

"Are the five ghosts in the Five Ghosts Transporting Goods all made in this way?"

"Obviously not. To create the Five Ghosts, you need to kill them according to the Five Elements, such as by burning, burying, or drowning. You don't need to take their kidneys or for their birth date and time to match the Five Elements."

"In a situation like this, it's more like a ritual is being performed. If I'm not mistaken, that Venerable One is probably using the Five Elements and Five Organs to refine pills, but his method is different from what I know."

Looking at the messages sent back by Jiang Chen and Ai Yi, and combining them with his own family's inherited documents, Dongfang Liang felt something was wrong. He even suspected that the other party had not mastered the art and had made mistakes in refining the Five Elements and Five Organs alchemy.

Jiang Chen's gaze fell on Jin Peilin's information on the screen.

"In other words, he has collected all the offerings and only needs to complete the final step of alchemy to finish."

Jin Peilin was the last offering that belonged to the metal element.

"Yes, normally, if he succeeds in refining it, he can extend his life, but this one is different from what I know, so I can't say for sure right now. You should be careful."

"Hmm, you're at the airport now?"

"right!"

"Where are you planning to fly to first?"

"Nanyang!"

Jiang Chen nodded and handed the phone to Ai Yi, "Ai Yi has something to tell you."

Ai Yi spread his hands, "What's there to say to him?" But the phone was right in front of him, so he had no choice but to say something.

"Be careful, don't die out there. Otherwise, it'll be difficult for us to collect your body."

"I know you guys are just going to act according to the situation, and call for reinforcements immediately if things get bad."

"Do you even need to tell me?"

Ai Yi hung up the phone impatiently, while Dongfang Liang and the others prepared to board the plane.

……

This is the tenement building.

After disposing of Jin Peilin's body, Zhao Hongyuan did not leave immediately, but returned to the Venerable's room to report back.

"Your Excellency, everything has been taken care of."

He stood respectfully at the door, not daring to go any further inside.

"Um."

The Venerable One remained seated at the table, leisurely sipping his wine without even lifting his eyelids.

"Your Excellency, we will be worshipping the Five Gods tomorrow, and I plan to bring a few people to participate in the worship," Zhao Hongyuan continued to report.

He slowly put down his wine glass, raised his head, and looked at Zhao Hongyuan.

"Can."

The Venerable One nodded, then coughed violently again.

This time, he coughed even more violently than before, curling up in his chair as if he might stop breathing at any moment.

He covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed for a long time before stopping; the handkerchief was now covered in a glaring black stain.

"My body... I'm afraid it won't last much longer."

The Venerable One sighed, his voice weak and carrying the weariness of someone nearing the end of their life.