The scope of the ghost's escape was always limited to the No. 2 isolation room, but even though it moved extremely fast, it still deliberately avoided me. I held the cymbal in my hand and stretched out my hands to protect Master with my back. The master was holding his chest and gasping for air. I think this ghost probably used this method to kill the other four people. It just penetrated my master's chest with its hand. If I hadn't saved him, he would have died of heart failure and suffocation at this moment. The way and cause of death would be exactly the same as the four people before.
After gasping for breath for a while, the master knelt on his side, supporting his upper body with his hands, and suddenly vomited. I asked Master if you were okay, and Master supported me and stood up behind me. I think he must have taken advantage of the action of helping me to wipe the vomit on his hands on my body. Master said it was okay, but he was attacked by surprise. His voice was hoarse and thin.
So Master took off the handful of incense I had pinned on my pants and lit the whole handful. He told me that from now on, whenever that ghost rushes towards us, don’t hesitate, just hit it with a cymbal. I agreed, because although the ghost was running around in the house, it kept avoiding me, which showed that it was very afraid of the weapon in my hand, and it also knew that if it came close, I would beat it. The master asked me to follow him. Perhaps the fight just now made the master a little exhausted, and his walking posture seemed a little staggering. Every time he took about a step or two, he would bend down and place an incense stick on the ground.
I followed the master all the time. He started from a corner of the room and moved counter-clockwise against the corner. After walking around in a circle, he moved one step towards the center of the room and placed incense in a counter-clockwise circle again. As he walked, he kept repeating:
"Go away from the true and evil generals, and the evil soldiers, ghost generals, and evil soldiers and evil generals will go out. They will be chained and bound. The mind is crazy and chaotic. I don't know how people and things are burning all over my body. They are spreading their power all over the world. The seventy thousand Yin soldiers are unfettered. I entrust you Ancestor of Yinshan Mountain. Be as urgent as the law!"
The word "huan" in "the heart is crazy and chaotic" here has the same pronunciation as "huan". This is the Five Ghost Soul Locking Curse, which is one of the Taoist formation secret spells that is more binding and powerful. If the disciple's cultivation level has not reached a certain level, the master will not teach the disciple to learn this formation. Strictly speaking, it borrows the method of Taoism, but uses the methods of folk teachings. It needs to set up an additional altar door, and the altar can only be buried in the ground and cannot be removed from the ground. Don't ask me why I know it, because I haven't learned it yet.
Master has said that the so-called soul locking is not just for ghosts, but for all souls, good or bad. The power of the five ghosts is extremely great, and they often disown their relatives. The reason why the master circled in the opposite direction and gradually moved toward the center was to use the power of formations and incantations to force the ghost's range of action smaller and smaller. Those individual incense sticks thrown or inserted on the ground, in the eyes of the ghost in the array, are the boundaries that it cannot touch, so even if it dodges, it can only dodge in smaller and smaller circles. After the formation incantation is recited and the formation is sealed, it is like having many circles of rope wrapped around a person. As long as the two ends of the rope are pulled together, the person will be tightly tied by the rope.
The master had just received an attack and was relatively weak, but he still persisted and completed all the formation arrangements. Because the area left for the ghost to move is too small, the ghost flashed so fast that I could only see a shadow, but now due to the constraints of space, it turned into a kneeling person again. The difference from the first is , it no longer lowered its head, but looked around, and a vague feeling of fear could be seen from the distorted facial features.
After the master sealed the formation, he took me back to the door. While patting the vomit and dust on his body, he told me that this guy has been caught now, and it cannot leave the house, so It was tortured and beaten during its lifetime and died in this room with resentment. For some reason, the souls of grievances gathered together and became a ghost, but it could never leave. This formation of the Five Ghost Soul Locking Curse not only locked it, but also locked the ghosts of the four people who had died before.
I don't understand what Master said. From the beginning to the end, I only discovered this ghost. I couldn't detect any trace of the people who were killed. Master said, as you just saw, the power of this ghost is very huge. Even if it dies with resentment and becomes an evil ghost after death, it will not be so powerful. And just because you didn't notice the ghosts of the four dead people before, the ghosts who died in this room can't leave. This means that the guy kneeling inside now not only killed four people, but also absorbed them. The power of other people's ghosts.
I asked Master, why is this room said to be able to trap the souls of the dead? Master said that this probably has something to do with this place. The rooms here only have one opening, and the prisoners here are all unconscious people. There are serious problems in living independently. You have also seen the environment in these isolation cells. Not only was it damp and dark, there was no electric light. The walls were covered with water-damaged mold and the floor was covered with feces and urine. This place created an excellent shelter for ghosts who originally liked the shade. So this place not only trapped the ghost, but also trapped the four people. They might want to leave, but they might not be able to escape, at least before the ghost swallowed them up.
I nodded. Master used this formation to trap the ghost. The only remaining task was to deal with the ghost properly and that would be it. But the master said that this ghost killed four people in a row, which was an unforgivable crime. Even if it itself died due to injustice, it cannot impose such resentment on others for no reason. Therefore, it must be punished. Since it is always a pitiful person, I will take it away for the time being. After I recover from the injury, I will report it to the City God and let them be punished. When Master said these words, his expression was very calm. Master has never advocated destroying ghosts at every turn, but in the current matter, I don’t know whether he did anything wrong or not. I agree with his way of dealing with it, leaving it to the city god to punish him. This is the principle of killing someone to pay for his life, but how should those who killed him repay this debt?
Master returned to the corridor, took out his tools, and set up a small altar at the door of isolation room No. 2. Master said he wanted to take it away, obviously not to include it in his own troops, but to take it away like a prisoner. Because I don’t know the original name of this ghost, I can only use high-pressure spells to force it to bind it to the soul-calling flag, burn the soul-calling flag, leave some ashes, put it in a bottle and seal it, and it will be regarded as a ghost. Took it away.
After the master's rituals were completed, he sat down on the ground to rest a little exhausted. There is not much work left. I need to perform a purification ritual on all the isolation rooms here. This was relatively time-consuming, so I asked Master to go to Long Jiyou's office to rest first, while Long Jiyou and I emptied each isolation room one by one and transferred out the containment personnel. When I opened the women's dormitory, I felt lingering fear. I was afraid that the crazy woman would pounce on me again, but since Master took away the ghost in isolation room No. 2, the woman didn't seem to be so aggressive anymore. When she passed by me, she didn't even look at me. Have a look.
After the cleaning of the nine isolation rooms was completed, it was already close to two o'clock in the morning. Although the matter was completed, if Master and I were to leave the shelter at this time, we would not be able to stay in a hotel. So Long Jiyou asked us to spend the night in the office, and he would wake us up at dawn and send us out.
So I put back the information I stole from the webmaster's room intact, then reinstalled the small window on the door, and then lay down to rest for a while.
Early the next morning, Long Jiyou took us out and thanked us profusely. He said that he had not prepared anything as a reward. After all, this was what he wanted to do, and in fact he didn't need to worry about it. I originally thought it didn't matter whether I received payment or not, but I still didn't dare to violate the principle of not giving away the law, so I only accepted a few food stamps and a meat stamp from him as payment.
I followed Master to the dining room to have breakfast. Master had hardly spoken since last night and looked a little depressed. I know that he has been involved in the world for so many years. The time last night when he almost had his hair cut off was still a big blow to Master. However, I firmly believe that if Master were ten years younger, this small problem could be easily solved. So I don’t know whether he is worried about where the ghost is going, or whether he is lamenting that he is getting old.
I am a sensible person, so I didn’t say much. I should have returned to the village after finishing this matter, but when Master followed me to the city gate, he suddenly said to me that he would not go back to the village with me today and asked me to bring a message to Aunt Xu and Uncle Zhou. , I’ll see you all again in a while. Master decided not to follow me at the last minute. I knew that even if I asked, I wouldn't have an accurate answer. Maybe one day in the future, Master would be willing to tell me, and that's when I should know.
So I went back to the village alone. I had walked this road back and forth for the second time. The first time was when I was fleeing, and I felt depressed and depressed. But this time we successfully completed the instructions of others, and we were not fleeing. But because of my master, I was quite depressed along the way. If I relied purely on foot strength, I would be walking like a dog on the way back to the village, so when I saw oxcarts, carriages, and tractors along the way, I would hitch a ride. Before dark, I hurried back to the village.
After telling Master what he said, I lay in bed that night and couldn't fall asleep for a long time. We learn Taoism to help those who are weak, but in today's world, what kind of people are weak, and what kind of way to die is not... Victimized?
I don't understand, and I don't want to understand.
