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He broke free from his restraints, seizing the opportunity to quickly grab the Formaline solution and splash it onto Chen Yu. The moment the liquid touched his skin, it evaporated into a black mist, and from the decaying subcutaneous tissue emerged forty-nine Acupuncture Needles, each adorned with intricately carved Rebirth Knots.
"Let’s see your true face!" Xu Wenshan pressed Chen Yu down onto the dissecting table, revealing the skull of Zhou Mingde beneath the rotting flesh. As he shone a laser pointer on the skull's sutures, hidden inscriptions appeared: "Bing Shen Year Hai Time, possession is complete." Suddenly, Chen Yu surged up and smashed through the glass window; in the moonlight, his shadow lacked a head, with torrents of Gray-White Strands pouring from his neck.
When Xu Wenshan reached the rooftop, Seven Red Lacquer Coffins hovered above a grove of Sophora Trees. Chen Yu stood at the center of the Coffin Formation, holding not a sidearm but Zhou Huaisheng's Wenwan Walnut. As the walnut cracked open to reveal a fetal heart, all the coffins simultaneously shot out bloodied Police Badges, which formed a portrait of Chen Guohua in midair.
"It’s time to renew the formation." Chen Yu's voice overlapped with Zhou Huaisheng’s as he tore open his police uniform to reveal a Rebirth Knot sewn into his chest. Each Hair was connected to a Lipstick Coffin. Xu Wenshan threw the Carved Wooden Comb; as its Teeth pierced the formation's core, Forty-Nine Cocooned Infants leaped from their coffins and exploded into a rain of blood in midair.
The Barber Shop on East Street in Qinghe Town still displayed an enamel sign from the Republic of China era. When Xu Wenshan pushed open the creaking wooden door, a copper bell shook loose a layer of dust. The Old Barber dozed in a rattan chair, beside him a charcoal stove simmered with a copper basin, where several Gray-White Strands floated on the surface, slowly coiling into shapes resembling Rebirth Knots.
"Haircut or shave?" The old man suddenly spoke, his voice like a rusty Razor scraping against sharpening cloth. Chen Yu nearly fired his sidearm—everyone in town knew this deaf-mute barber hadn’t spoken in seventy years.
Xu Wenshan slammed the Carved Wooden Comb onto the counter; Hair caught between its Teeth suddenly stood upright, pointing toward seven Razors hanging on the wall. The rightmost Razor, rusty and worn, bore dark red Bloodstains that formed the character "Zhou."
The Old Barber's murky eyes shifted slightly as his gnarled fingers suddenly jabbed toward Chen Yu's throat: "Xu Time's Criminal Investigation is woven into the Rebirth Knot."
The Old Barber trembled as he took down a leather roll from the corner of the room; unfolding it revealed forty-nine Razors from different eras. Each blade was engraved with Bazi symbols; on the most recent one, its chrome surface reflected Chen Yu's Badge Number. "The Zhou Family comes for haircuts every year during Zhongyuan Festival Midnight," he said as he used the tip of his knife to pry open some charcoal dust, revealing a Ceramic Pot buried beneath the floor tiles. "It’s not just hair that gets shaved."
Inside the Ceramic Pot floated seven eyeballs, their pupils threaded with Gray-White Strands. When Xu Wenshan picked up one of the eyeballs with tweezers, its vitreous body suddenly expanded, projecting a holographic image of Zhou Huaisheng getting his haircut. Wherever the Razor passed, sweat hairs along with Blood Beads in their pores were precisely excised.
What was even more horrifying was that on Zhou Huaisheng's nape, a circle of Braids was stitched, with each hair tip tied to a miniature model of a Lipstick Coffin.
"He is shaving off his Yin Debt," the Old Barber said as his Nail scraped across Chen Yu's nape, lifting a layer of transparent gelatinous substance to reveal the rotting seal script beneath. "To prolong life through Yin Marriage, one must shave off all emotional hair; otherwise, the Rebirth Knot will backfire."
Suddenly, he tore open his shirt, revealing a Razor sewn into his chest, its blade etched with the patterns of the Rebirth Knot.
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