Is it really possessed by a ghost?
But according to Jiang Yue's experience, surveillance cameras cannot capture ghosts coming and going. Ghosts move silently and without a trace, which cannot be captured by surveillance.
Fundamentally speaking, ghosts are not entities. Generally speaking, they have gods but no physical form. Those who can see the shape of ghosts without relying on external force basically have their eyes opened.
"Xiao Jiang, I'm pretty sure this is caused by ghosts, right?" Old Han sighed.
Science can't explain it. The surveillance couldn't capture how she entered the kindergarten. It can only be explained by ghosts.
"Ghost?" One of Old Han's subordinates had an objection, "Director Han, my family lives near here. Our area is also a famous place. This kindergarten area was a True Lord Hall hundreds of years ago. There is a Celestial Master who is very popular, and there are many moral people in the temple. It is said that the master of the temple is an old immortal who has received the true biography of the Celestial Master and has lived for hundreds of years. This place can't be haunted, right?"
"True King's Palace, isn't that in the south of the city?"
"The one in the south of the city was moved later, and the Zhenjun Palace in the south of the city was a hundred or two hundred years ago. This is the former site of the Zhenjun Palace, and the old Celestial Master also attained enlightenment here. This is the treasure land of Feng Shui. A kindergarten was built at that time, and everyone They all feel it’s a pity for such a good Feng Shui treasure land.”
Lao Han, a subordinate, talked about old things in his hometown in a clear and logical manner.
Jiang Yue had never heard of this.
If it is a geomantic treasure land, generally speaking, it is difficult for dirty ghosts to breed.
This is what makes Jiang Yue extremely confused. The first time he came here, he could see that this place was covered by a formation.
This Feng Shui formation has a faint evil aura, much like the work of a Feng Shui sorcerer.
But now various details clearly point to the evil spirit.
Undoubtedly, these two directions are obviously in conflict and difficult to understand.
Jiang Yue suddenly said: "Old Han, that group should have been established, right? You can send a notice in the group and ask all parents to search for it at home. Take a picture of these hairs for everyone's reference. If you find the same things at home, have them all be sent here. By the way, let’s find some local chronicles from past dynasties to see where the True Lord’s Palace is located?”
Lao Han immediately complied.
After the group message was sent out, it didn't take long for many parents to say that they had actually found the same two hairs.
Basically, any child with symptoms must have the same two hairs.
The issue of local chronicles was not a big problem, and someone would take care of it soon.
Jiang Yue suddenly said: "Old Han, your operations bureau should know a lot of monsters during this period of time, right? In addition to evil ghosts and evil spirits such as replicators, have you ever thought that maybe there are more than just these monsters?"
"There must be more than just these monsters. Xiao Jiang, who are you? Are the monsters this time different from before?"
Jiang Yue picked up the weird hair: "In ancient times, there were many legends about fox demons and snake spirits. If I am not wrong, maybe this is a fox demon causing trouble?"
Fox demon?
This is even more legendary.
Old Han opened his mouth wide: "That Teacher He, is he transformed by a fox demon? Teacher He appeared in the middle of the night, it can be said that he was transformed by a snake demon. But the other teachers are obviously in the class, even if the fox demon can transform into them, all of a sudden It’s always a bit unexpected when two identical people show up, right?”
"Maybe the fox demon can not only transform, but also possess people and control humans?"
This rhetorical question left Lao Han speechless.
If so, that seems to make some sense.
"But, you said that there is an evil Feng Shui formation around the kindergarten. How to explain this? You can't say that the fox demon can arrange the Feng Shui formation like humans, right? Then this fox demon is too scary."
This is also what puzzles Jiang Yue the most.
It stands to reason that no matter what animal becomes a monster, it will still be a monster. Logically speaking, they shouldn't be able to do things like Feng Shui formations.
Could it be that this fox demon is colluding with human evil warlocks?
"Let's go out and have a look."
Jiang Yue and Lao Han once again arrived at the northwest corner of the playground.
After watching for a moment, Jiang Yue said: "Old Han, maybe we should take a gamble."
"How to bet?"
"Send an excavator over and dig up all the greenery. I always feel that if an evil spirit is at work, its cave may very well lead to the kindergarten from this area. In fact, its stronghold may even be nearby. .”
"How sure are you?"
"If I say half of it, will you dig it?"
If it was Luo Chu, he would definitely dig it without hesitation. Lao Han thinks more about things and takes care of all aspects.
"Let me ask for permission."
In order for the excavator to come in, the wall must be knocked down. Although this process is not big, it is always particularly sensitive when it comes to campus.
However, with Lao Han's connections, it is not difficult to coordinate such a small thing. After a while, Lao Han completed all the procedures.
dig!
Within half an hour, the excavator rumbled in.
In the surprised eyes of Director Hao and others, a hole was directly opened in the wall and pushed in.
When the excavator stopped on the playground lawn, Director Hao and others jumped up.
Blocked in front of the excavator.
"Director Han, what are you doing?"
Director Hao didn't know the seriousness of the matter. When she saw the excavator tearing down the wall and preparing to break ground for the kindergarten, she immediately panicked.
"Director Hao, I have opened up the joints on this matter, and someone will call you soon. You just need to cooperate with the work." Old Han said coldly.
"Why dig up the school?"
"This is an operational secret. It's best not to ask if you shouldn't ask."
Someone from the Action Bureau had already stepped forward and blocked Director Hao and others from outside.
"Start digging here."
Jiang Yue led the excavator and started working.
A rumbling mechanical sound sounded.
When they dug for the third time, there was a cry of surprise from the scene, and bright red blood came out of the ground, gurgling out, which looked extremely scary.
Even the excavator master hesitated when he saw such a strange situation.
Jiang Yue shouted: "Continue!"
If he kept digging, nothing unusual would happen, and he would have to doubt his own judgment. Seeing this strange situation, Jiang Yue became even more determined that there must be something evil here.
The excavator master was in a bit of trouble. He is both the master and the boss of this excavator. Naturally, I feel sorry for my own machinery.
If you encounter something evil like this, it looks unlucky. How can you start work in the future?
"Keep digging." Old Han stepped forward and said.
I have to say that Lao Han's uniform is much more convincing than Jiang Yue's. Although the excavator master was reluctant, he still had to continue driving.
"What a sin!"
Director Hao looked at the blood gurgling out, his face turned pale with shock, and he was trembling. She is not a fool and knows that there must be something wrong with this kindergarten.
How could there be blood and water coming out of a beautiful green belt when dug into it?
Even if the groundwater seeps out, it cannot be this color.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Jiang Yue frowned and let out a light sigh.
He saw several secret passages appearing in the dug holes. This secret passage can just accommodate a small animal, but it is absolutely inaccessible to humans.
"Dig along these holes!"
As the hole appeared, the blood that had been gurgling before suddenly disappeared. Including the previous blood, it seemed that it had completely seeped into the soil.
"Xiao Jiang, why is the blood missing?"
"This is the evil method. What you see may not be true."
Old Han was secretly surprised. These days, what you see with your own eyes is unreliable, and what you see on surveillance is unreliable. What else is reliable?
He was really afraid that one day, everyone around him would no longer be reliable. What a hopeless world it would be?
As the excavator dug deeper, everyone became more frightened.
The winding secret passage seemed to have no end, and it was twisting and turning, and I didn't know where it was going.
The excavator dug all the way to the north wall, and beyond that was the road outside the kindergarten.
On the other side of the road are residential buildings.
The surrounding area is a residential area with many private houses around. And they are all very old self-built houses. According to today's standards, they can actually be regarded as shantytowns.
It is obviously impossible to operate an excavator in such a densely populated area.
If you demolish someone's house for no reason, they will fight you to the death.
The excavator master looked at Jiang Yue and Lao Han helplessly, meaning that I had tried my best. If you dig further over there, you have to dig down to the road surface.
Not to mention Old Han, even the Lord in charge of Star City would never be able to do this.
The demolition and reconstruction of shantytowns is a big problem. It is an extremely complicated task to persuade the shantytown residents to relocate. Without all kinds of compensation, not a single tile can be moved.
This is by no means something that can be accomplished in a day or two.
For a while, the situation fell into a stalemate.
"Xiao Jiang, is there any other way?"
Jiang Yue sneered and said: "Of course there are ways, smoke and fire. According to my guess, its home base should not be far away."
At this moment, many parents had already rushed to the kindergarten.
At the same time, they also handed over two hairs found at home.
"With the same two hairs, why do some people have mild symptoms and some have severe symptoms?" Lao Han was also full of curiosity and couldn't help but ask.
"It's very simple. For people like Xuanxuan and Shangguan Jialuo, the time is long enough. For those with mild symptoms, I estimate that it will take them two or three days to take the hair home."
"Does it have anything to do with the length of time?"
"Probably so. These two hairs should be the monster's token to locate its target. And this monster probably knows some magic that can absorb the mental power of these children and take away their souls. As a result, these children's symptoms They are all distracted and drowsy."
Of course, this is still Jiang Yue's guess.
"Then if this token is destroyed, wouldn't the monster be able to locate these children?"
"Most likely, so we need to gather all the tokens first."
"Then why do some children with mild symptoms gradually get better, while others slowly develop into severe symptoms?"
"Perhaps the hairs carried by some children are lost or dropped in other places. For example, if a child has two homes, and the token he carries is accidentally placed in place A, but the child lives in place B, then the monster will naturally The child cannot be located. Gradually, the mild symptoms disappear naturally. Of course, there is also a possibility that some children are born with strong blood and strong mental power, and have natural resistance to this kind of evil. This is not impossible. .For example, Sangou, I guess this method will be absolutely ineffective against him."
Sangou's Qi and blood are super strong, and the evil energy that invades might be directly resolved by his powerful Qi and blood. Since the effort is in vain, the monster will naturally not waste its mana. Anyway, if you have more children, there are many options to choose from, so just change to another one.
Because Lao Han spoke very seriously in the group, the parents were very cooperative. Of the more than 100 symptomatic families, only five or six said that they really could not find any hair.
All other families were found.
These two inconspicuous hairs can actually be found, which shows that parents are really working hard for their children, no matter how difficult it is, they can do it.
Coincidentally, most of the five or six families whose hair could not be found were children whose symptoms were very mild or even disappeared.
This further confirmed Jiang Yue's guess.
And Sun Bin also came to the kindergarten again, and he found the pair of socks. What made Jiang Yue unbelievable was that the two hairs were actually woven into the socks. If you didn't look closely, it would be impossible to see them.
However, these two hairs have obviously withered, and unlike other hairs, they can no longer sense any evil energy.
Jiang Yue guessed that this evil spirit should have been suppressed by the spiritual energy of the evil-repelling talisman.
This is also the reason why Xia Xia's symptoms are getting better.
Jiang Yue gathered all the hair together.
Lao Han also mobilized a large amount of charcoal according to Jiang Yue's request. If charcoal is not fully burned, a large amount of carbon monoxide will be produced.
Jiang Yue wasn't sure if it would have any effect on the monster, but at this point, it didn't matter whether it was useful or not. As long as it was a method, he had to use it.
If smoke and fire didn't work, Jiang Yue was also prepared to attack with water.
Jiang Yue collected all the hair together, wrapped it in mulberry paper, piled a pile of charcoal on the spot, and burned it in the open air.
After the charcoal was fully burned and the flames rose, Jiang Yue threw the mulberry paper into the fire.
The mulberry paper burned quickly when exposed to fire. The mulberry paper was burned away, and when the hair encountered an open flame, it immediately scorched and rolled up, and was soon swallowed up by the fire and burned to ashes.
At this moment, everyone seemed to hear bursts of mournful wailing. The sound came from no one knows where, but it faintly entered everyone's ears.
The sound was so shrill that just hearing it made one's hair stand on end.
It feels like someone is being tortured, like screaming or screaming.
Jiang Yue listened intently, trying to determine where the sound came from, but he had no clue.
But it is certain that this must be coming from that monster. Burning these hairs obviously caused some damage to the monster's body, otherwise it would never have made such a terrifying sound.
Then, it can be judged that this monster is probably in the surrounding area.
Just because it was in an underground cave, it was difficult to determine the source of the sound.
Seeing that all the hair was burned to ashes in the fire, Jiang Yue said solemnly: "Those with mild symptoms are basically fine and should recover slowly. Those with severe symptoms should not get worse. They just need to recover as before. But we still have to find the source of the harm.”
Burning charcoal was continuously sent in along the secret passage.
However, no one knows where the end of this secret passage is. It is also difficult to say whether the charcoal will have any effect after being sent in.
However, the current situation can only continue.
At this time, local chronicles were also delivered.
Jiang Yue mobilized all the intellectuals present to search for any records related to Zhenjun Palace.
Local chronicles are generally revised once every twenty years, but this large pile of local chronicles can be traced back a long time. It's just that some long-standing local chronicles may have disappeared.
The further time goes forward, the more records there are about the True King's Palace.
Pushing back to two or three hundred years ago, there are many records of the True Sovereign Palace. At that time, the True Sovereign Palace was even one of the landmark buildings in the entire Star City.
Various records about Zhenjun Palace are very rich.
"Jiang Yue, look at this..."
Sun Bin flipped through an ancient book and approached Jiang Yue. Although it is written in traditional Chinese characters, for a top student, traditional Chinese characters are not a problem for him.
This is a record of several rumors about the Taoism achieved by the temple masters of Zhenjun Temple at that time. According to legend, the temple masters of that generation were true moral men. They often gathered their disciples to discuss Taoism, and developed Zhenjun Temple into an extremely prosperous place. He was prosperous, famous all over the world, and had hundreds of disciples.
Whenever there were lectures on scriptures and Taoism, people from all over the world would gather to listen to the master of the temple talk about Taoism. This was a particularly lively event in Star City at that time.
This article is to describe the grand occasion of the temple host’s sermon.
There are only a few hundred disciples under his sect, but there are also people from all over the world. At the most exaggerated time, there are thousands of people.
None of this was unusual, nor did it attract Jiang Yue's attention.
What moved Jiang Yue's mind was another description. It was said that when the temple master was preaching, there were even more birds and animals wandering around, as if they all came to listen to the temple master's sermon.
There is also a golden-haired fox, who always speaks the truth no matter how big or small he talks. Hearing the wonderful thing, he grinned even more excitedly.
When the meeting is over, they also follow the example of the disciples and listen to the audience, bowing their heads and thanking the master of the temple.
This was originally an exaggerated anthropomorphic description, but it left Jiang Yue stunned.
Based on this time, it should be four to five hundred years old. Is it true that Jin Hu listened to the scriptures and became a demon spirit?
The clue is not just about Sun Bin, other local chronicles also mentioned this detail. And the description is even more mysterious.
It is said that this fox listens to the scriptures not in vain. He often collects things from the mountains, such as mushrooms, bamboo shoots, mountain melons and wild fruits, and offers them to the mountain gate as a token of gratitude.
According to this description, this should be a good talk.
So hundreds of years later, if this fox really became enlightened, wouldn't it be a moral demon? Why would he become so cruel and attack a group of children?
Could it be that the master of the temple did not enlighten it when he lectured on the sutra? In the end, it became a monster and brought harm to the world?
According to local records, the Zhenjun Hall at that time covered a huge area. Although the kindergarten was located at the location of the Zhenjun Hall, it was probably the backyard of the Zhenjun Hall, not the main hall.
Nowadays, it is very difficult to find the monster's cave based on local records. Even if the local chronicles describe it in such detail, it is impossible to be specific to that level.
For a time, the situation fell into a deadlock.
