Chapter 70
As soon as I saw the big tooth pushing out the door, I secretly screamed.
When I saw him sleepyly recognize the ghost as me, he walked over staggeringly, which scared me silly. I had never seen anyone who hit a ghost so calmly and chatted and laughed.
When I realized that it was not good, the big teeth on the other side had already walked behind He Tiancheng. He raised his hand and patted the ghost on the shoulder. The hand actually slashed directly from his body, causing the big teeth to stagnate, and suddenly woke up. The big teeth widened his eyes and looked at his hand, then looked up at the ghost in front. Then he realized that it was not me who was standing in front, and he was stunned for a moment.
I quickly ran out and waved my hand at Daya, signaling Daya to dodge quickly. Then I suddenly hugged the ghost and clasped my fists at the ghost. I didn't know if he could hear me, but I still forced a smile and said respectfully: "Mr. He, we have met again. We have no intention of disturbing you, and there is no malice. After all, we rescued you from the thatched hut. However, humans and ghosts have different paths and go their own way. I hope you can be reincarnated as a good family in the next life and stop suffering. This place no longer belongs to you, so there is nothing to be reluctant to let go. Let's go on the road earlier."
After I finished talking in a divine manner, when I looked up, the ghost disappeared. I couldn't help but look back at Liu Ye, and Liu Ye also looked at me with confusion, not seeing how the ghost disappeared. Daya woke up at this time, scratched the back of his head, and looked at him with a question mark on his face, not understanding whether he was an hallucination just now.
The three of us stared at each other with big eyes and looked at each other. No matter what, today is He Tiancheng's soul-returning night. We would rather believe that there is than not, or let the old man drink some water before going on the road. We made up our minds and asked Daya to look at some willow leaves. We carefully entered the house and scooped a bowl of water. Originally, the water was to be placed on a white cloth, but now there is no such condition to find the white cloth, so we had to put the bowl of water directly on the snow, then retreat to Daya and the others, waved our hands, and we gently exited the yard.
In the countryside, on the night of the first seven soul-returning night, the family must prepare about seven meters of white cloth in advance, pull it down from the chimney on the roof, and pull it all the way to the yard. A bowl of water will be prepared on the white cloth at the end of the chimney, so that the soul of the deceased will come back and drink a sip of water first, and then prepare some food in the yard. Generally, a gust of wind will arise when the soul returns, and the white cloth will tremble rhythmically. Most of the time, the soul after death will not appear, but generally the soul that dies suddenly or dies unjustly may appear to form a ghost body.
After retreating to the gate, we looked over the side through the gap through the moonlight. The yard was quiet and there was nothing, and the silence was like death. Suddenly, we saw the bowl of water shaking a few times. Although the amplitude was not large, we could see it very clearly. Now we were stunned, just like dreaming.
At this time, a whirlwind suddenly roamed around the yard several times. Just as it was about to disappear, a black shadow suddenly fell from the sky and rushed into the whirlwind like lightning. It had not seen clearly what it was. With the protection of the night, it "swooshed" in the night at a speed that the naked eye could not distinguish, and disappeared without a trace. These things happened between lightning and flint, and we did not see clearly what was going on. In the blink of an eye, we returned to peace, as if nothing had happened.
I felt something was wrong in my heart, so I quickly pulled Daya and Liuye to go back to the house, but suddenly I found that it suddenly became dark and the yard was covered with a layer of black cloth, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
I realized that it was not good, so I quickly pulled Daya and Liuye and ran out the door. Daya and Liuye didn't have time to ask me the reason, so they followed me desperately. But after running less than a hundred meters, I stopped and felt a chill in my heart. Looking back at Daya and Liuye who were following me, they saw that I suddenly stopped running again, and they all looked at me for no reason, gasping for breath.
I told them pantingly that if I had guessed right, the whirlwind that had just begun in the yard should have been formed when the ghost of He Tiancheng was about to leave. The thing that rushed out was not known as the beast that had become a spirit swallowed He Tiancheng's soul. I don't know what the beast had become a spirit, I don't know if it was coming to us or the ghost of He Tiancheng. But seeing that the situation was not good just now, I ran out in a hurry, but now it seems that 80% of the person who came to the person who was not good.
After I said this, Daya and Liuye Siwa looked at it and realized the seriousness of the problem. At this time, the sky was already stained with ink, dark and dull, and gloomy. You could vaguely see the thick, low turbid clouds pressing upwards from top to bottom towards our heads, making us feel breathless.
The most incredible thing is that the surrounding scenery seemed to be covered by a magician in black brie. Nothing could be seen, and even a house could not be seen. It was dark in the front, back, left and right, and there was no light or road. For a moment, the three of us were as wilted like melon seedlings that had fallen off the gear in autumn. Big teeth couldn't help but curse the sky and curse her.
I can't think of any other way now, even if the beast is, I don't know where it is hidden. In fact, even if I know, what can I do? With my ability as a Yin-Yang, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with it. Now I can only respond to changes with the same change. No matter what, we are three living people, and we can still be afraid of a beast that becomes a spirit. We are back to our backs and pay attention to our surroundings carefully.
I was about to remind Daya and Liu Ye to be vigilant, but before I could say anything, my neck was pinched by an invisible big hand. The big hands were very powerful, with ten fingers tightly pressing me up, and I couldn't get angry. My face turned red, and my hands were scattered and my feet were pedaled.
Big Ya felt something was wrong when she heard my movements. She looked back at me with my head tilted and her limbs dancing around. She was stunned for a moment and asked me stammeringly: "Come on...Lu Liang, what are you doing? What are you talking about?"
After my neck was pinched, I couldn't speak at all. I barely pointed at my neck with my fingers. Only then did Big Teeth see a black mark on my neck, and it became deeper and deeper. Seeing this, Big Teeth was scared to the point of her hand. It was probably because of this strange thing that made him unable to accept it for a while. I forced my fingers to point out my tongue and spit out blood, hoping that Big Teeth would bite the tip of her tongue and try to see if it could be effective.
This method is an emergency life-saving trick in Maoshan Taoism. I use tongue blood to mix saliva, which will shock the resentment after being sprayed out. Because the yang energy of the blood on the tip of the tongue is extremely heavy, ordinary evil spirits are more afraid of resentment, and if it is a boy, it will be even more powerful. Now I am being pinched, and my mouth is wide open and I can't close my mouth and bit the tip of my tongue.
Daya looked at my gesture and his face changed suddenly: "Light, don't be unwilling to think about it, you can't bite your tongue and commit suicide!"
Looking at the big teeth looking anxious, I was so angry that I almost wanted to bite my tongue and commit suicide, but I couldn't bite it. I was scolding the pig's head in my heart, and suddenly I remembered a sentence: I'm not afraid of a tiger-like opponent, but I'm afraid of a pig-like teammate!
In the blink of an eye, my neck seemed to be about to break, and I couldn't get angry, and my vision blurred. In a trance, I saw Daya and Liuye began to tilt their heads almost at the same time, and their hands and feet were moved randomly. I guess I was strangled by a ghost like me. Daya probably knew how I felt this time, but it was too late. It seemed that we had a companion on the road to the underworld and were no longer alone. I sighed in my heart and felt that I was already in the sky.
Just as the consciousness was about to disappear, I felt my hand squeezing my neck suddenly loosened. I covered my throat and coughed hard, my face turned red, and my big teeth and willow leaves were squatting on the ground and covering my throat, with my expression very painful, and tears of coughing came out.
I opened my mouth wide and took a few breaths. Finally, I regained my consciousness. I really couldn't figure out why we were all already on the chopping board meat and were bound to die, and why did the beast let us go again?
The surrounding scenery gradually became clearer again, and the moonlight shrouded on the land again. The familiar villages and familiar houses could be seen clearly. Only then did we realize that we were still standing outside the yard gate. We just felt that we had run far away, but now we realized that we had never left this gate. It is probably the ghost trick that evil spirits often use to complain about it.
"Shrinking the ground into an inch" is a trick. It can be simply assumed that by distorting the space, people have an illusion that they normally run about one meter, and in this twisted space, every centimeter is pulled into infinite length, so no matter how fast or far you run, you may not actually run a distance of one step in reality. Of course, you can also turn one meter in reality into one inch length. You obviously feel that you have only taken a few steps, but you have actually walked a few miles.
This phenomenon of supernatural and beyond cognition is actually not difficult to understand. It is like a piece of paper. You draw a dot on it and a dot below it. According to human cognition, the closest distance is a straight line drawn between two points, but the reality may not be so. The closest distance is to fold the paper in half and make the two points overlap, so that the distance between the two points can basically be infinitely close to zero. This method of origami is distorted in space, but we humans can only do origami and cannot distort space. But it does not mean that what humans cannot do does does does not exist. If you really think that humans are the spirit of all things and the master of nature, you will be a little blind and arrogant.
Now we have experienced this kind of space twist in person, and it feels like we have run a hundred or eighty meters away. But now it seems that we have moved a little within one meter. Thinking about the old man He Tiancheng, he woke up and arrived at the Niangniang Temple a hundred miles away. It seems that it is not impossible. It is certain that what he experienced back then should be similar to what we just experienced.
I immediately realized that the beast should be nearby, maybe it hadn't walked away yet, or maybe it hadn't left at all. I turned my head and looked around for a long time, and finally found the thing squatting on the eaves, with a faint green light flashing at us, staring at us intently.
Chapter completed!