The mouth of the miniature gas flame gun shoots out a slender blue flame. Only a flame with a higher temperature than an ordinary candle can ignite the incense.
Qin Xuan took out three incense sticks, each one half a meter long and as thick as a thumb.
There was a crisp beeping sound, and the three incense sticks lit up with orange sparks. She inserted the incense into the incense cauldron, and three lines of green smoke slowly rose. Jiang Jinjiu smelled a smell similar to roasted bamboo mixed with burnt meat. Overall, it was not a pleasant smell.
When the smoke rose above the head, a little was blown away by the breeze from nowhere, and more than half of it drifted up to the roof of the shed and dispersed.
He didn't know if this situation was normal, but when he saw Qin Xuan sitting upright with her eyes closed, he had no choice but to remain silent and continue to wait, but his eyes could not leave her face.
I think I only saw half of him in my panic that day. Even though we met again by chance, the makeup didn't match the image in my memory.
Qinxuan went into battle without makeup today, exactly as he remembered. And the distance is less than two meters, and the three hundred and forty-six eyelashes can be clearly counted. Although the close-fitting blue long-sleeved T-shirt covered the white and tender skin, the eyes of the printed big-headed frog were right on the chest, rising and falling with the breathing, and there was an indescribable attraction. Jiang Jinjiu couldn't even blink his eyes. .
It's a pity that Qin Xuan closed her eyes and couldn't see her crystal eyes. But the scene before him still made his heart beat like a deer, and his head was filled with random thoughts. It seemed... Jiang Jinjiu had fallen in love.
A slim woman wearing a veil will arouse men's desire. Women add a mysterious charm that fascinates men.
If the condition for marrying Qinxuan was to kill a few people, he probably wouldn't even blink an eye.
However, a woman who is too good will make a man feel inferior. Jiang Jinjiu thought to himself, what is her status? The president’s daughter, what about you? Children of workers, proletariat. He's not very handsome, and he doesn't belong to the right family. Besides, Qin Xuan's ability to make money was beyond his reach in this life. How could a rich, beautiful and superwoman fall in love with a poor loser?
I am a toad who wants to eat swan meat, so I can only daydream.
Although Qin Xuan had her eyes closed, her five senses were beyond ordinary people at this moment. Not only could she feel Jiang Jinjiu's movements, she could even hear his heartbeat.
At this moment, Qinxuan noticed that he was motionless, but his breathing was getting heavier and heavier, and his heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and he decided that he was looking at her and thinking about some obscene things.
Qi said, "Hey! Why are you staring at me? Do you have any evil intentions!?"
Jiang Jinjiu was surprised, but felt relieved when he found Qinxuan still had his eyes closed.
She quibbled, "It's unfair, sister! Who do you think I am! You didn't tell me why you asked me to stand here. Of course I can only watch what you do, just for a look, nothing else!"
"Hey! You are still reasonable! You are so shameless."
Qin Xuan secretly opened a slit in his eyes and saw Jiang Jinjiu, whose face was red, and really wanted to poke him again. I can't sit still and move around, otherwise I'll do a flying kick first.
Jiang Jinjiu tugged on his face with a smile and said, "You're really right. Men are really thick-skinned these days. I used to be thin-skinned. I just pull it dozens of times every day. Look now, you're calling me shameless." It’s not thin, I can tell you seriously, it can’t be penetrated by a whip.”
"Hey! I'll have to give it a try when I find time." Qin Xuan suppressed a smile and said, "Stop quickly and pay attention to your surroundings!" In fact, she was afraid that she would be distracted by being teased.
"yes madam!"
Jiang Jinjiu put away his smile, straightened his waist, put his feet shoulder-width apart, and crossed his arms, looking righteous and awe-inspiring. I wanted to show Qin Xuan the score, but unfortunately she had already closed her eyes.
Half the time for the incense stick passed calmly, and the five-meter-square and sixty-centimeter-high groove formed by beams on the roof was filled with smoke.
Qinxuan chose this location because he wanted to use this groove to better condense the smoke.
There was no movement around, but Jiang Jinjiu was very tired. During this period, he frequently peeked at Qin Xuan, but he was afraid of being discovered by her, so his nerves were always tense. In addition, he has a "handsome stance", which makes him tired easily.
In the end, he couldn't help it any longer, so he quietly stretched his muscles and twisted his neck. His eyes glanced at something red, but it didn't attract his attention at the moment.
When I noticed it and went to look after a while, I saw a man in red standing behind a black car in the distance. I couldn't tell the male and female from a distance, and he was watching him motionlessly.
Jiang Jinjiu became nervous and wanted to call Qin Xuan, but he only turned his head a little, and when he turned his eyes, the man in red disappeared!
He knew he had seen a ghost, and was about to speak when a spark suddenly lit up, the smoke column suddenly thickened, and the smoke on the roof of the shed surged like a tidal wave.
He guessed that Qin Xuan was exerting his power, so he thought he shouldn't disturb her, so he continued to remain silent and watch while remaining vigilant.
The waves of smoke gradually became calmer, and the previously watery smoke seemed to be mixed with flour, gradually becoming concentrated and tangible.
In about ten minutes, the area of the smoke was reduced by nearly half, and its shape gradually condensed into the shape of pure white and rich clouds in the sky. And if it sinks a little, Jiang Jinjiu can reach it by straightening his arms.
At this time, Qinxuan stood the three incense sticks together, waved his sword and shouted "duh!".
The rising smoke column instantly became as thick as Qin Xuan's arm, and the smoke cloud grew larger at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye. The growth stops when it almost covers a car, and the color changes from bluish-white to gray.
Jiang Jinjiu looked like a dark cloud, and he thought to himself that she was trying to make artificial rainfall?
He couldn't help but blow on the edge of the "dark cloud". The smoke moved with the wind as if a ball of cotton wool was torn out of it. A roll of tobacco was pulled away from it without even flying away and dissipating. In the blink of an eye, it rolled back into the smoke cloud.
Only then did he realize that the smoke and clouds seemed to be still in the sky, but in fact there were undercurrents surging inside. He sincerely lamented the unique magical things in China and had long forgotten his mission.
At this moment, Qinxuan changed his posture, and his two palms were hovering in a ring shape in front of the burning point of the incense. The red sparks suddenly burned bright yellow, and the rising smoke column became thicker. It seems that what is burning is not incense, but a chimney!
Jiang Jinjiu was dumbfounded, thinking that Qin Xuan understood the internal strength in the novel, and he admired it in his heart.
Little did they know that this was the effect of "vigor" - the air exhaled from Qin Xuan's mouth could be concentrated on one point, which could not disturb the smoke body, drive more oxygen, and make the incense burn more vigorously.
In the blink of an eye, several ribbon-shaped cigarette rods sprang out of the smoke, as if playing around the clouds, leaving arc-shaped trajectories.
At first the movement of the tobacco rod was irregular, but later it focused on one direction. The number of cigarette rods increased from the first few to more than 20, and finally concentrated in the west and circled. The circle became smaller and smaller, and just when it was about to submerge into the clouds, the tobacco rods gathered towards the center of the circle, twisted together to form a tobacco rope three fingers wide, and flew towards the two o'clock direction in front of Jiang Jinjiu.
However, that was not the direction where Jiang Jinjiu saw the ghost, and he was puzzled by this.
The tobacco rope stretches slowly, and the smoke becomes thinner and thinner with distance.
After flying out for almost twelve meters, the smoke cloud as a whole shrank significantly. It was obvious that the smoke rope consumed a lot. The smoke at the tip of the tobacco rope dissipated like steam, and it seemed that it had reached its limit.
Qin Xuan frowned as if refusing to admit defeat. He increased his strength to raise the smoke body, but the effect was not satisfactory. The tobacco rope crawled forward as if desperately trying. In the end, it only moved forward less than two meters and then stopped moving.
Not long after, the three sticks of incense were burned at the same time, and the smoke quickly dissipated.
Qinxuan stood up after adjusting his breathing, and looked at the direction where the cigarette rope was flying with his waist, and said to himself, "How unjust is this sister's death? It's strange that she hasn't appeared for so long..."
Jiang Jinjiu walked over and asked, "What's going on? Do you mean that people have died tragically here?"
"Hey." Qin Xuan rolled his eyes at him and said impatiently, "I'm telling you you don't understand."
This disdainful attitude hurt Jiang Jinjiu's self-esteem. Qinxuan looked down on him again and again, which made him very frustrated.
He complained, "You didn't tell me how you know whether I can understand or not. I'm not a three-year-old child and my IQ is not that low."
Qin Xuan noticed the change in his tone, turned around and saw that his face was elongated, comparable to a donkey's face, and he must be very unhappy.
Although she didn't know why Jiang Jinjiu was unhappy, she realized that it was her fault. In order to lighten the atmosphere and prevent his resentment from causing unnecessary trouble, Qin Xuan used a woman's special skill - acting like a baby.
Qin Xuan bent down and tilted her head so that Jiang Jinjiu could look down at her face. Staring at him with a pair of bright big eyes, he said in a cooing voice, "Hey, what's wrong with the handsome guy? Are you angry?"
"No, no... I'm not angry."
No matter how angry he is, no one will stop talking when faced with Qin Xuan's whispers. When he was stared at by her crescent-shaped smiling eyes, the feeling of looking down as if he were holding his face in his hands, Jiang Jinjiu's heart rate soared and he was about to explode at any moment.
Qin Xuan looked at Jiang Jinjiu, who was blushing, and laughed, "Yes - you are a man, with a big heart."
"Then why are you laughing!?"
Qinxuan said in a baby voice, "It's not okay to laugh at you for being childish!"
Jiang Jinjiu couldn't refute, he really had no intention of refuting, Qin Xuan's coquettish look was too lethal.
Seeing him like this, Qinxuan stopped entertaining him and explained the situation to him.
The incense burned before was a special soul-calling incense, which was only used in closed and semi-closed spaces.
It is said that traditional soul-calling incense was not invented by decent people, but is a witchcraft product.
It uses corpse oil and human fat as the main ingredient, and produces colorless smoke when burned. The smell is extremely disgusting to living people, and even if you smoke it for a moment, you will be poisoned and die. It is extremely delicious to ghosts and is an irresistible temptation.
Therefore, it is used to attract wandering ghosts, elves and ghosts within a certain range, and trap them to practice evil arts.
Until the Sui Dynasty, there was a master named Zhang Tianshi who loved alchemy.
One night, a fire broke out in a warehouse in Guanzhong, and the smoke caused ghosts to appear within a ten-mile radius. This led to the creation of Zhao (Zhao) soul incense, but due to folk misinformation, it became the Taoist version of the soul-calling incense.
Although its smoke is not harmful to people, the materials are many, expensive and hard to find, so it is not widely spread and few people use it. Later, the method of summoning spirits became available, and this incense became a dead letter.
The principle is to use special components in the smoke to turn the invisible yin energy in the space into a visible state, which greatly increases the conditions for ghosts to appear.
To explain it from a scientific point of view, if enough positive ions are added to a fixed space, the positive ions will outline the shape of a ghost during the discharge process.
Qinxuan's special soul-calling incense is different. It is based on polysmoke incense, mixed with trace amounts of lithium compounds, and a variety of medicinal materials, and pressed into powder made from tree bark containing oil. After forty days, add the spiritual guide and you're done.
When incense is burned, lithium compounds can produce a large number of positive ions, and medicinal materials and spiritual substances can produce cold smoke.
Although visible smoke is slightly toxic to the human body, it does not pose a hazard unless smoked intentionally.
Due to the high temperature generated when the incense burns, an upward airflow is formed, and the air flows through the smoke body, causing positive ions to diffuse throughout the space.
During the intervening period, it is equivalent to the whole space being filled with hot air. If a ghost appears, the negative energy in the location will become heavier, which is equivalent to a sudden appearance of a cold air mass in the space. Under the thermal effect, the target position is enlarged, and the cold-tending smoke will accurately drift to that position. Coupled with the synergistic and guiding properties of spiritual guidance, the more ferocious the ghost, the more effective Qinxuan's special soul-calling incense will be.
This is true in theory, but in fact Qinxuan's soul-calling incense is still an experimental product.
For example, the current exhaust system in the underground parking lot allows good air circulation here, so the effective substances in the smoke body continue to lose, and the smoke condensation cannot be maximized.
She now regrets very much why she didn't borrow a few magic weapons before coming here. Now I only have Linglong and Soul-Calling Incense. If it can be used in a place half the size of a parking lot, I can only rely on luck.
He thought that if he didn't settle things tonight, he would be laughed at by Jiang Jinjiu, and he couldn't afford to lose face. What's more, this business has been accepted, and he boasted that Haikou will solve it tonight. If he makes a small mistake or breaks his promise, he will suffer from it.
Qinxuan talked for a long time and Jiang Jinjiu couldn't understand it at all, but in general he understood.
But now Qinxuan noticed that Jiang Jinjiu's expression had become worse. He felt more like a ghost. The strange thing was that he didn't show any signs of abnormality.
Little did Qin Xuan know that this was Jiang Jinjiu exerting his "characteristics" and changing the aura in his body according to the environment.
He had stayed in the underground parking lot for so long, and the yin energy in his body had already exceeded the yang energy, so he naturally looked very bad.
What's funny is that Qinxuan thinks it's due to Jiang Jinjiu's indulgence in drinking and having a cold constitution, so he doesn't pity him.
Not only was he not pitiful, but he also had a terrible thought in his mind: "Since his face is so bad, he must be very weak and has weak yang energy, so he can be easily targeted. Why not use him as bait?"
Thinking about it, Qinxuan looked at the direction in which the smoke was drifting, which was the north side of the parking lot, which was farthest from the entrance and exit. There are a total of eleven cars parked there, concentrated in the northeast. The northwest corner looks the gloomiest and darkest, and there is not a single car there.
Qin Xuan had an idea, turned to Jiang Jinjiu and said gently, "Now let's split up. You take the incense and go to the northwest corner, and I'll go to the northeast corner and have a look. If anything happens, just scream, okay?"
Jiang Jinjiu put on a bitter look and said, "Of course, do we want to leave separately?"
"Of course!" Qin Xuan pouted and pointed at his watch and said, "Look what time it is now. Beauties can't stay up late. How can you still have time to look at it? Stop talking nonsense and hurry up. I don't like timid people. man."
Regardless of Jiang Jinjiu's reaction, Qin Xuan trotted away.
Jiang Jinjiu stared at her back blankly, thinking about the last words Qin Xuan said in his heart: "I don't like timid men, I don't like timid men..."
He thought that if he was willing to take this step today to overcome the fear in his heart, he might still have a chance.
With a rush of blood, Jiang Jinjiu strode toward the northwest corner.
