Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

In an instant, the candle in front of him was extinguished, the light in the room dimmed, and a circular halo appeared in the corner of the wall, like the light from a flashlight, and a transparent figure appeared from inside, huddled under the wall and weeping... When he was about to get off work in the afternoon, Wu Bingbing called Zhang Qun again and wanted to meet her. Half an hour later, the two of them were sitting in a coffee house near the park.In the orange glow that shines through the window, the coffee in the cup is steaming, just like Wu Bingbing's thoughts gradually stretching as he narrates.Zhang Qun forgot to stir the coffee and listened intently.

"...In this way, I fell into a predicament and danger passively, like an inextricable mess, and like a fog that I couldn't get out of. I watched my family suffer one by one, and I didn't know what to do." "You say this, I have no reason not to believe it, it's really unimaginable." "I can't let you see it with your own eyes, I can't decide on her, as long as she doesn't want to..." "I know. But, you are looking for me, what can I do for you?" "Yes. I once heard you say that you have a relative who is engaged in the study of "Zhouyi"?"

"Oh yes, my uncle! He may be able to help you, yes!" "Last time, you said that he can predict good and bad luck. Does he still have psychics?" "Yes, he will predict. As for psychics, his colleagues will, he said. They are engaged in soul research, and some of them are among the top masters in the country." "I want to ask them for help, can you introduce them for me?" "Of course. I think they can clear up your confusion." "Thank you. Can we go now?" "Now? It's more than 30 kilometers away from here - okay then!"

Soon, they took a taxi to the old town in the east of the city, and drove around a corner into a remote street.Zhang Qun opened the car window, looked out the window, and finally found the dilapidated building.Zhang Qun said that the building was half a century old, and it was built when the Japanese were building an arsenal.After decades of wind and rain erosion, this small four-story mixed-structure building is unkempt, with mottled walls, and is very ugly.On the left side of the building is a factory that has been closed for many years, and on the right side is a mental hospital, so it is very quiet here.Zhang Qun took Bingbing straight upstairs, and opened a door in the dark corridor.

An old man with white hair was reading a book. He held a magnifying glass in one hand and a large open-book thread-bound book in the other. When he saw someone walking in, he looked up and asked, "Looking for someone?" "I'm looking for you!" Zhang Qun laughed, "Uncle, have you forgotten me?" "Oh, oh - I thought it was someone, it was a little rabbit!" Zhang Qun said to Bingbing: "It's my nickname." Then he walked over. "Hey, uncle, how are you? Grandma asked me to come and see you!" "Very well." The old man said loudly, "Is my little sister in good health?"

"Grandma is in good health, she misses you every day!" The old man was very happy, let them sit down, and said: "I see there is something delicious for the little rabbit." After searching in the house for a long time, he found nothing.Zhang Qun hurriedly said no, uncle, we will buy you something to eat.The old man took what she handed and opened it: "Then I'll treat you with it!" When Zhang Qun was talking to the old man, Bing Bing looked around the room and saw three wooden plaques of different sizes hanging on the wall, in primary colors, with engraved words on them, such as Southern Research Association, Research Southern Headquarters, Taishang Wuji Kung Fu Guidance , Bigu meditation guidance, supernatural research, predictive research, mysterious phenomenon research... several plaques are fully engraved.Zhang Qun came over and saw this, and said quickly, "Grandpa, what kind of research do you do? Look at what is written on it, some are Taoism, and some are Buddhism, which makes us puzzled. "

The old man stretched out two fingers and said: "One is life and death, and the other is the soul. This is what we pay attention to. Any religion is an external mantle, but what we study is the essence of man, man's life, death and soul. In this way, we have assembled masters from all sides to focus on and discuss this issue, no matter from which angle they start." Wu Bingbing and Zhang Qun asked in unison: "Where is the person?" But before the words finished, both of them were stunned, because Zhang Qun opened a door casually, and saw many people standing in a row inside, obviously doing some ceremony, None of them spoke.She hastily closed the door.Then, she pushed open another door, and saw that there were also many people sitting around, buzzing and chanting scriptures.Then, she pushed the third door open a crack, and the smoke in the room rushed out, and she heard a voice shouting, "Go there!—"

Soon, they sat neatly in front of the old man and asked him for help. After listening to Wu Bingbing's narration, the old man brushed back his white hair, stroked his beard, squinted his eyes and thought, and said with a distant gaze: "We have noticed the frequent murders in this city recently. There are many people who don't know The cause of death, but I can't find the connection between these murders. My junior sister Master Hongtai has been pursuing this matter, I think she can help you, wait a moment." The old man stood up from the chair and pushed open the side cabinet. It turned out to be a hidden door with a deep corridor inside.The old man walked in, only to hear his footsteps from near to far.Both of them were stunned. They didn't expect the old building to be so big. It seemed that these people had created a multi-dimensional world, making the originally limited space into something unique.

After a while, the door opened, and the old man led a woman in a gray robe.Wu Bingbing felt familiar, and suddenly remembered, she opened her mouth wide. It was the strange woman who followed her half a month ago. "You are the--?" The woman also recognized her and nodded knowingly. "That kind person?" "Yeah, not the nasty stalker. Sit down." After sitting down, the woman said, "Is there anything you want to tell me? Maybe I can help." Bingbing said: "Yes, since I had heart surgery, I have had constant nightmares. That ghost has been following me, pestering me, driving me to do things I don't want to do, and making me unable to distinguish between dreams and reality."

The woman named Master Hongtai listened quietly and motioned her to continue with her eyes. "All the patients who underwent heart transplants died, and I was the only one left. I don't know when they will kill me. Also, many people who have undergone heart transplants died inexplicably one by one. I know, It was all killed by that female ghost. But I can do nothing, she threatened me again and again, and set up a situation step by step to push me into a situation where I couldn't extricate myself. Driven me to kill and become a murderer like her. Now my father is being She framed him, and the Public Security Bureau arrested him for murder. How can I uncover the truth and save my father and my family?"

Master Hongtai said: "This is a wronged soul with strong magic power. I have discovered the traces of her walking all the way, and I have followed this trace, but I have never had direct contact with her. I think I should talk to her first and see Her past and present situation. You come here tomorrow afternoon, and I will summon her soul, and bring two things that belong to her past. There is her own information there, so I can see her past." At this time, someone came to call Master Hongtai.She said that it was settled like this, come back tomorrow, and then left with that person.When Bingbing and Zhang Qun bid farewell to this small building, they suddenly found that it was already dark outside.It was clear that there was plenty of light in the building just now, why did it get dark when I came out?Looking up at the building again, all the windows were not lit, and the whole building was plunged into darkness.Thinking of so many rooms and so many people in the building made them feel that these people were too mysterious to understand. The next afternoon, because Zhang Qun was busy with other interviews, Wu Bingbing came to this small building alone.She brought a red leather handbag that belonged to Jiang Lan and put it in front of Master Hongtai.Master Hongtai picked it up, looked it over and over again, and said, "Two of her things, I want at least two of them?" Bingbing said: "There is one more thing, on me - her heart." Master Hongtai took her to a room, which was closed with black curtains, and a square platform was placed in the middle. There was a hole in the middle of the platform, and there was water in the hole, and a ball of stone was rolling in the water.The mage sat on a chair next to her, asked Bingbing to sit in front of her, holding the small red bag, and kept silent.The mage opened his eyes and looked at her for a while, then closed his eyes and meditated, chanting words. Bingbing suddenly felt her heart beating faster, and sadness hit her like a tide. At this time, the mage was drawing amulets on the altar, and continued to mutter something. Bingbing's heart ached, and she seemed restless, her nose was sore, and she wanted to cry. The mage stared at the rolling ball in the water of the altar, and shouted: "I saw it, I saw this ghost, she wandered around, sometimes gathered together, sometimes scattered, it was full of grievances and could not be condensed. Floating among the underworld, relying on hunting other people's souls to nourish oneself and increase magic power." Bingbing said: "That's why she killed so many people, and she will continue to kill." The mage said, "Let's see her past, and what's in the background of this wandering spirit... well, I see mountains, covered with dark clouds, and large thickets of trees with large flowers—" "It's oleander, I've seen it in my dream too." "There are countless prying eyes in the woods, and there are many beasts and people hidden in it." "Can you tell me exactly where that mountain is? It must be where she was born." "I only saw a small river, which flowed down the mountain and into the distance, and then flowed into a big river. The water was muddy and yellow. The banks were full of low houses—" "I also dreamed of a house. What kind of people are in the house?" "I heard the cry of a child. A naked baby girl was held in the arms of a young woman. The woman was very beautiful and had long hair. She put the child down, took out a pair of scissors, and cut her hair She cut a strand and stuffed it into something shiny. Well, it was a silver longevity lock. Then, she cut off the blood from the palm of her hand and dripped the blood on her hair; then, she used fire to I lit that hair, and I couldn't hear something in my mouth, as if I was casting a spell..." "I saw this scene once in a dream." "The ceremony in the black smoke was over. The woman closed the lid of the longevity lock and hung it around the baby girl's neck. The crying baby girl stopped crying soon." "Who is that baby girl? Is it Jiang Lan? Was it when she was a child?" "Troubled childhood! You can see clouds of misfortune and death everywhere. There are menacing eyes, eyes of men and beasts, circling the girl, but unable to approach her. Evidently, they are afraid of the enchanted Longevity lock." "I want to know what happened to her later, what happened to her when she grew up?" "There was a lot of fog, nothing but fog. It was so chaotic that people couldn't see her clearly. She was completely surrounded by fog... A pair of faces appeared, overlapping each other, like a painting. The person in her life is constantly changing, they are her incarnations one by one, you go and I come and go. There is a voice saying that she is someone who has died several times..." "How did she leave her hometown? Where did she go? Can you see it?" "I could see her running. There were wild animals chasing her. She ran desperately... There were groups of wild beasts, tearing and eating small animals. There were bones on the road. She fled to the mountains... There was a forest, and a road came out of it. A wolf blocked the way in front of her, and that wolf pounced on her, pinning her down. The pair of longevity locks flashed a dazzling light, and the wolf backed away in fear." "You said, she died several times, what do you mean?" "I saw her commit suicide by jumping into a river, and I also saw her commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. There was a frightening light of blood, and a shadow behind her. It was the devil following her... She was covered in scars and blood. He kept falling down, got up again and ran forward, with a wobbly body...running from one city to another, shuttling and hiding in the woods of high-rise buildings, full of sadness in his heart, but forced a smile on his face. I saw There are still many wild beasts chasing her and attacking her... The amulet—the silver longevity lock is no longer on her body. She is powerless to resist, so she has to escape, but the wild beasts still scratched her body with countless wounds. She still hugs her chest Moaning: Pain, pain—” Master Hongtai picked up a long-necked bottle beside her, poured a mouthful of water into her mouth, and spit it forward, spraying out a large green mist. She continued: "...I saw fire, burning blazingly. The light of the fire In the middle, she is painting with a paintbrush, the clothes on her body are burning, revealing her naked body, she is as beautiful as an elf. And the painting knife in her hand is shining dazzlingly in the fire—well, I saw She stuck a drawing knife into a man's chest, and the man fell down. The flames rushed to him and devoured him hungrily. In the end, only a bone remained. She kept killing people, and hordes of ghosts crouched on the ground. Under her feet. In the ferocious flames, you can vaguely see bones lying here and there, with many heads and skeletons." "Did she kill it while she was alive? Or did she kill it after she died?" "I don't know the difference between her being alive and killing after death, but I can see that it is a crazy soul, wrapped in a ball of fire, full of resentment, hatred, venting as she pleases, cruelly hunting one after another Life, enjoying the pleasure of bloodthirsty and the excitement of revenge... She must be controlled, otherwise, this fire will burn more and more fiercely, spread more and more people will die." "I just want to ask how can I stop her?" "To extinguish the fire on her body, use the longevity lock." "Longevity lock? The longevity lock she wore when she was a child?" "Yes, her mother put it on her after she was born, not only when she was a child, but all the time. Her mother was a witch, and she cast a spell in that long-life lock, which locked her daughter's soul , and injected half of her own soul into it, to accompany her... Since then, she has always worn it around her neck. Because once she loses it, she will lose her soul, lose her mind, and find no direction. She cannot do without it. The Longevity Lock... Now, only by finding the Longevity Lock can the evil spirit's resentment be calmed down, her split soul reunited, and the fire of mad revenge be extinguished." Next, Master Hongtai began to summon the spirit.Holding the yin-yang compass in her hand, she closed her eyes and chanted mantras. In an instant, the candle in front of me was extinguished, the light in the room dimmed, and a circular halo appeared in the corner of the wall, like the light from a flashlight, and a transparent figure appeared from inside, shrinking under the wall, unable to see her body clearly. Face and clothing, only to hear her cry like the wind. Master Hongtai said: "She is talking, I can hear her crying... She said that she hates men, that she has been chased and bitten by men like beasts all her life, and she doesn't know when she lost her mother. Her talisman, the long-life lock to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, lost her mother’s spell to follow her, lost the shelter of her mother’s soul, and also lost the ability to protect herself. From then on, she began to lose herself. She no longer had the humility of ordinary people, and no longer had the duty and warmth of a woman. Wildness and evil came to her body, and she began to take revenge and kill... She wanted to balance her psychology, Her excessive behavior is equal to the harm others have done to her. She said that she is very tired now, she wants to have a home, to see her mother, to be with her mother, to be like when she was a child, wearing the cotton clothes her mother made for her, wearing The updo made by her mother, wearing the longevity lock that rang with the bell, ran freely on the hillside in front of the old house—" Master Hongtai stopped talking, and sat there with his eyes closed for a long time, as if immersed in that sad emotion.Finally, she raised her face, let out a breath, shook her head, and looked at Bingbing. "Everything in the world is restrained by water and fire, and yin and yang complement each other. Against this resentful soul, confrontation and suppression will only backfire, and the trouble will become unmanageable, causing more people to fall into the trouble of revenge. The best way is to settle the grievances. Guidance. Find out her past, find out the grievances, and untie it. Find the longevity lock that has been with her all her life, and then she can lock her scattered souls, recover her unrestrained soul, and calm her down. The resentment in the world makes this restless soul rest in peace." Bingbing said: "If this is the case, I believe I will find out her past and find the longevity lock, but you have to tell me where she is from and where is her home?" The mage said: "I can only tell you so much, but I can't see where she is from. I am the same as you. I see her background is full of fog, and her past is covered by clouds. Even I feel mysterious. I just I saw a big mountain in front of her village, a small river in front of the mountain, and a big river flowing in the distance..." Bingbing thought about it and said: "There is a big mountain in front of the village, and that small river flows to a big river?... I have seen that mountain many times in my dreams, and the front of the mountain is covered with endless oleanders... I have also done it. A winter dream, still in front of that mountain, there is a lot of snow... First of all, it must be in the north, such heavy snow can only be found in the north of the Yangtze River. That big river should be the Yellow River. Yes, I I flew there with her in a dream, and she said it was 3,000 kilometers away from home. Is the big river 3,000 kilometers away from here the Yellow River? As for the small river that flows out of the mountain and flows to the big river, it is in front of her house. River. Follow the big river to the little river, and you'll find her home." "You and her are in the same heart. I believe that you will find her hometown." "If you find the longevity lock, can you guarantee that she will calm down from now on?" "As long as there is the longevity lock, I will take her soul into it." Afterwards, she took out a string of peach pit collars from her waist and hung them around Bingbing's neck, saying, "I believe you can do it. Just go, God will help you!" Bingbing was very moved, suddenly she said: "I think of something, I'll make a phone call." At this time, she thought of Teacher Li Qin. When she asked Jiang Lan why she wanted to kill Teacher Li Qin, Jiang Lan seemed to say casually that Li Qin spoke too much like a girl in her middle school. She hated that girl, so she killed her. her.To say that a person speaks like another person, first of all, it should be the similarity of voice, including accent and pronunciation habits, and secondly, the similarity of expression. No matter how you analyze it, it is likely to be a relationship with fellow villagers.Only two girls from the same hometown can have a lot of similarities in speech characteristics, so that people who have lived for decades can recall the memories of the past, and even imagine that they are the same person.Thinking of this, Bingbing called her mother and asked where Aunt Li Qin's hometown is.My mother recalled that when she was with her in the past, she saw her resume, which seemed to be Jiyuan County, Henan Province. Bingbing called out: "Isn't that county on the bank of the Yellow River?" "About dozens of kilometers away from the Yellow River, in the northwest of Henan." "By the way, it must be somewhere." After she hung up the phone, she turned to Master Hongyi, trying to tell her her own judgment. Jiang Lan's hometown must not be far from Li Qin's hometown.But the mage had gone away at some point, and she couldn't find it after searching for a long time. Wu Bingbing left the small building and walked on the road. She was the first to call Zhang Qun, told her about the situation just now, and told her that she was going to find Jiang Lan's hometown. She asked Zhang Qun: "Can you go with me?" The other party said: "I'm afraid not, I'm too busy." "Aren't you going to write about her? Find out together to understand her past experience?" "No one knows where she is from? Didn't she run for nothing?" "No, listen to me—" She told her her guess again. "This is interesting. I really want to go—but I still can't do without it. Our newspaper office is now quantitatively assessed, and we have to submit 100-point manuscripts every month. I went to Sichuan last month, which delayed the submission of manuscripts, and only completed one-third of the tasks. .I’m leaving this month, and I’m running out of tasks, so I can only get a few cents in salary for two months. Besides, that old guy, the president, is picking on me, so he won’t fire me if he gets angry?” "Then you ask the president for leave, and he may agree. As for the salary, I will make up for you, and I will pay all the expenses. How about you go with me?" "Hey, it's very tempting - but it still doesn't work. The president won't agree to me. He's an old pervert. If you ask him, you have to pay the price. Do you want me to make unnecessary sacrifices?" "That—whatever. In a way, I know I'm taking a risk this time." "I'm so sorry, I have to keep a job. I'll wait to hear the story you bring back." "It's all right. I'm sure I'll be back soon." Wu Bingbing hung up the phone, feeling a sense of sadness.As she walked, she thought, I will find her hometown, find the longevity lock, and I will rescue Dad.I can do it, for sure!