Before Li Jianguo could react, Huang Si exerted force on his palms, stood up, turned around, and leaned over in one go. He pressed his right hand down on the girl's shoulder, drew the knife in his left hand, and pressed it against the girl's neck with a "scandium" sound. He pinned the girl down, unable to move, and asked in a low voice: "Who is he? Why are you approaching Mr. Li?"
The girl struggled desperately, waving her hands and feet wildly: "Let me go, I won't go with you! Let me go!"
Huang Si looked carefully at the girl up and down. The girl was about twenty years old. She wore a light blue and white sweater on her upper body and light gray jeans on her lower body. She looked like a student who had just entered society. Her hair was frizzy and scattered, as if it had not been taken care of for a long time. There were a few light freckles on both sides of her nose, but they did not cover the delicate proportions of her face. The one that fell on my hand is...a whisk?
Huang Si looked at the surroundings again. Apart from the girl's struggling screams, there seemed to be no trace of anyone else. Huang Si raised his head and glanced at the sky.
There is nothing in the sky.
Strange... From the sound just now, the girl should have fallen from the sky, but there were no too tall buildings around her.
Was it thrown here on a trebuchet?
Huang Si slowly took his hand away, and the girl immediately sat up from the ground. She looked around at the surrounding environment with innocent eyes, then glanced at Huang Si and Li Jianguo behind him. She struggled to move back, trying to communicate with him. Huang Si's blade distanced itself: "Stay away from me!"
"Who are you?" Huang Si did not get closer to the girl. He just held the handle of the knife tightly and gently turned it. The blade shone with the faint light of a distant torch.
The girl grabbed the fly whisk and held it in front of her. She leaned against the pillar tightly and stared nervously at Huang Si in front of her. Her lips twitched involuntarily and she murmured something unknown.
Huang Si narrowed his eyes, looked at the girl up and down a few more times, and slowly put the knife into its sheath.
Turning his head to the side, Li Jianguo was still lying on the ground.
Huang Si quickly held Li Jianguo's waist and helped Li Jianguo up. Li Jianguo grinned at the girl in front of him and was about to curse a few words when he heard Huang Si whisper in his ear:
"This girl, she is not dead."
Li Jianguo was stunned.
Not a dead person?
Can even a dead person come to Fengdu?
It turns out that Fengdu is a tourist attraction that anyone can visit? Then why did they charge me a ticket for my life?
Li Jianguo then replied in a low voice: "How do you know she is not dead?"
"She is not a soul," Huang Si replied in a low voice: "There are three souls and seven souls in the soul. Professionally trained ghosts like us can clearly see the composition of the three souls and seven souls. This girl's soul is not complete now, or she is a physical body It's still there, part of her soul is still in her body; or her soul was torn apart, but her consciousness is intact now, so her soul shouldn't have suffered any blow."
"...can living people come to Fengdu?"
Huang Si replied seriously. "If the soul leaves the body, it can be done. This is not difficult, but for people like us who are already souls, it is not possible."
Li Jianguo was distraught and felt that he had stepped into a big trap.
Obviously the problem can be solved by leaving the body, but the boss still has to let himself die before coming back.
I didn’t even have time to delete the browsing history on my mobile phone…
"Is this... the underworld?"
The girl who had been silent seemed to have finally calmed down. She asked Li Jianguo and Huang Si in a low voice, her lips still pouting uncontrollably.
Li Jianguo and Huang Si looked at each other.
Forget it, let’s first take a look at the background of this living girl from the earth.
Li Jianguo took a step forward: "Yes, this girl, who are you? How did you get here?"
The girl held her head in her mouth and raised her eyelids with difficulty to look at the two people in front of her. Her lips were bitten slightly purple by her teeth. She held the fly whisk tightly with her fingers and said tremblingly: "I am Lin Ling, I am a... college student. , and also... Onmyoji."
Onmyoji! ?
Li Jianguo was not unfamiliar with this concept at all, and he immediately understood what the whisk in her hand was. It was probably a precious tool she used to cast spells, right?
In other words, she uses this to travel between the Yin and Yang realms?
Huang Si did not seem to be convinced by Lin Ling's words, and asked in a serious and skeptical tone: "Why are you here? You said you are an Onmyoji, but it seems that you are not familiar with the underworld?"
After listening to Huang Si's words, Lin Ling lowered her head and glanced at the ground uneasily for a long time. Her mouth opened and closed several times, but she did not utter a single word.
Upon seeing this, Huang Si slowly approached Lin Ling, keeping his eyes on Lin Ling's hands to prevent her from making any unexpected moves, and whispered: "In this case, it seems that I can only hand you over to other Hades guards. , we still have important things to do, please stand up now."
Li Jianguo nodded in agreement.
Yes, the most important thing is to go back to the guest house and sleep!
Lin Ling finally whispered something, but unfortunately the voice was too low and neither Huang Si nor Li Jianguo heard it clearly.
"What did you say?"
This time Lin Ling's voice finally reached the lowest standard that her ears could receive: "I...I was sold..."
"Sold?" Huang Si asked doubtfully and glanced at Li Jianguo. Li Jianguo shook his head, not knowing what he meant.
Sold to the underworld?
Could it be...that it was a shady marriage?
But Huang Si said that Lin Ling was still alive and her body was still there.
There was a loud bang in Li Jianguo's head.
Could it be that... Lin Ling was thrown into the coffin and buried alive while she was still alive?
"No, no, no," Lin Ling hurriedly explained: "I was...sold by human traffickers...sold back to my hometown..."
Seeing Li Jianguo's interested expression ready to continue questioning, Huang Si stopped Lin Ling who was about to explain, and took a cautious look at the surrounding environment: "It's not safe here. Let's go to Mr. Li's residence first, and then explain the whole story in detail." .”
After a while, Li Jianguo opened the door of the guest house in the Hades Palace and led Lin Ling in.
Lin Ling looked at everything around her with a face full of surprise, her eyebrows raised high above her eyes, and she asked Li Jianguo in surprise: "You...you live in the Palace of Hades?"
Li Jianguo asked Lin Ling to sit down and wanted to make a cup of hot tea for Lin Ling like a gentleman, but he remembered that he knew nothing about tea art, so he simply poured a glass of water and handed it to Lin Ling.
"You... know about the Palace of Hades?"
Lin Ling nodded: "I came down with my parents a long time ago. We are Onmyojis. It is common to travel between the Yin and Yang realms, but we have never entered the Palace of Hades. I haven't come down for a long time. This This is my first time in ten years.”
Li Jiangguo gently rubbed the back of his hand with his fingers. He was burned when he poured hot water just now. He endured the pain and continued to ask calmly: "Oh? If you are an onmyoji, you should often do it even if it is necessary for work. Come down, why haven’t you come down in the past ten years?”
Lin Ling sighed: "Because... I don't want to be an Onmyoji anymore."
Li Jianguo thought for a while: "As for Onmyoji, except for a little krypton gold, everything else is pretty good. Why don't you want to be an Onmyoji?"
Just as Lin Ling was about to explain, Li Jianguo took out a bag of melon seeds from the drawer, poured them onto the dinner plate, grabbed a handful and started eating them, and said leisurely, "It's okay, just tell me slowly."
Here's the thing.
Lin Ling comes from a remote mountainous area in the central province. He has been an onmyoji for generations and can communicate directly with souls. He usually works part-time in the village to prepare and preside over some rituals, and is respected by many villagers in several surrounding villages. Lin Ling has been dealing with souls since she was a child. Most of these souls are lonely ghosts who still care about the world. My parents have a good relationship with the Ming Chai in this land. Under the protection and dealings of my parents, many lonely ghosts have also escaped the pursuit of Ming Chai. They live in Linling Village and help the Linling family complete their mission. Onmyoji's mission.
There are several souls among them who help Lin Ling's parents take care of their children. Among them is a middle-aged man named Yixuan. He usually looks pot-bellied and unshaven, and he doesn't speak so politely. He is not popular with others, but his parents treat him very well. It's respect.
I heard from my parents that after the teacher who came here to teach died of illness, he wanted to watch his children grow up and graduate, so he stayed here. Lin Ling's mother was also his student.
Lin Ling has been afraid of Yi Xuan since she was a child, because he always urged her to study hard, pass the exam in the future, and go outside to see.
Always listening to Yi Xuan's sincere teachings, Lin Ling secretly made up her mind to pass the exam.
For no other reason than to stay away from Yi Xuan, who can stand it when he keeps humming around you like this every day?
So Lin Ling worked extra hard and successfully passed the exam, finally becoming the first college student in the village to pass the exam. Although her college career was full of ups and downs, Lin Ling was not discouraged and spent every semester conscientiously. Like every college student, she was unexpectedly pushed into the society as graduation approached.
It coincided with a sluggish job market.
In the first semester of her senior year, she couldn't find a job, and her parents always urged her to come back and "inherit the family business." Lin Ling was very depressed. There was nothing in her house except ghosts who kept chatting all over the house. Parents’ nagging is like prickly heat on a newborn’s body. It clogs and stings in the heart and makes me unable to cry or laugh: I have studied for so many years and come back like this, so aren’t all my efforts for so many years in vain?
A few days ago, my parents complained to themselves that it was not easy to work as an onmyoji now. The souls that had previously stayed in the world of the world suddenly disappeared without saying hello. They went to the underworld and searched around, but could not find those souls. . It is probably because he is getting old and his abilities are not as good as before. There is no young person around him, so I am afraid it will be difficult to make a living in the future.
What about me? This is? And even the soul has disappeared? Are you afraid that I won't go back?
I don't! I must make a career and then go back!
At this time, Lin Ling happened to encounter a high-paying job. Faced with the fear of returning home and inheriting the family business, Lin Ling resolutely chose this high-paying job.
Then as soon as they got in the car, they found out that the other person was a human trafficker.
The trafficker was threatening and intimidating, and the car drove out of the province far away, and turned into a remote mountain road. The driveway was bumpy, and Lin Ling regretted her mistake and fell asleep in the car, exhausted both physically and mentally.
After waking up, Lin Shun was lifted out of the car by the trafficker and found that the environment around him was very familiar.
Isn't this my hometown?
The trafficker led Lin Ling to a dilapidated courtyard. Lin Ling looked up at the buyer.
Isn't this the old bachelor king from the east end of the village?
Was I sold back to my hometown?
Old man Wang was confused at first sight.
what happened? Isn’t this the daughter of an onmyoji in the village? Didn’t she take the exam outside the province? I spent a lot of money, how did the trafficker get her back?
The two looked at each other in confusion, but the trafficker kept urging Old Man Wang to settle the bill.
Suddenly there were gusts of dark wind, flying sand and rocks, and a black wind flew over the head in circles. Lin Ling glanced at the door and saw four ghosts walking through the door with a series of souls locked in them.
Lin Ling stared at them carefully.
These underworld warriors... no, they are not underworld warriors. Although these people are wearing underworld clothes, I have never seen them before. They are not the underworld warriors responsible for their land at all.
There were many familiar faces in the group of souls locked behind. Their hands were trapped, tied to a rope, and they lined up to move forward.
No wonder my parents said that all the spirits near their home were gone.
Several familiar souls in the team saw him and were about to open their mouths to say something. Yi Xuan coughed and shook his head gently at everyone, and everyone looked back and stopped talking.
Those people who looked like ghosts also noticed the scene in the courtyard. Lin Ling heard one person say: "This is... a human trafficker? A transaction site?"
Several other people also looked at it carefully, and they were sure that it was a human trafficking scene. Several people exchanged glances, and one of them took out a yellowed booklet from his arms, flipped it through and said, "This human trafficker is also a local, and his name is on this book of life and death..." According to the book of life and death, the buyer and the trafficker have 26 and 19 years to live respectively."
Several underworld officers looked at each other: "What do human traffickers do for so long? Take them away, take them away!"
After saying that, he rushed in and put a hook on their necks. Old man Wang and the trafficker fell to the ground immediately.
Lin Ling was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground with her legs weak. She quickly lowered her head and stared at her shoes, not daring to stare at the underworld agents anymore, for fear that they would discover her yin and yang abilities:
Although it was great that he had been rescued, how dare they not follow the book of life and death to seduce their souls? Isn't this murder?
Several men who looked like ghosts pulled out their soul-beating whips and swung them at Old Man Wang and the trafficker, and called them into the soul team that was locked outside the door. The two people complained endlessly, and several people waved their whips vigorously, angrily. He yelled: "How dare you traffic people! Go to hell!"
Old man Wang knew that Lin Ling had the ability to communicate with souls. When the soul was trapped, he quickly asked Lin Ling for help: "My dear, it was your uncle Wang who was wrong. Please tell the brothers quickly, isn't it?" Hooked up with the wrong person?"
The messengers were shocked when they heard this, and they all looked at Lin Ling who fell to the ground.
"Are these the children of that Onmyoji family?"
"It shouldn't be. My news is that she went out to study? She studied for six or seven years, and now she's back? As a trafficked person?"
"None of this is important. The problem is that we were so careful to avoid them, and now she sees us, what should we do?"
Several people's eyes darkened:
"Although this is not our intention, we should take them away together and leave it to the superiors to make a decision. If she spreads the news and ruins the plan, it will be troublesome."
Seeing a person take off the hook from behind again, Lin Ling was sweating, stumbled up, and took a few steps back.
From the team of souls who were locked at the door, a shout suddenly came out: "Girl, run!"
It's Yi Xuan's voice! The group of souls at the door rushed up and blocked the few people at the door. A few people were so angry that they drew out their soul-beating whips and hit everyone on them. Bloody stains appeared on the souls' bodies.
Lin Ling had tears in her eyes. She turned around, climbed out of Old Wang's courtyard wall, and ran away along the fields behind.
I ran all the way home, tremblingly took out the key and opened the door, but there was no one at home. The few people outside were able to pass through the wall and were chasing after Lin Ling. Lin Ling knew that as long as she was caught by the soul lock, it would be over.
It is impossible to wait for parents to save themselves, and it will also bring danger to their parents. In a hurry, Lin Ling suddenly remembered that if the soul locked by the soul lock was not a complete soul, there was no way to separate the soul!
These people are definitely not evil. Hurry up and escape to the underworld, maybe you can find help!
Lin Ling was left behind in the family business and had not learned onmyoji for ten years. She picked up the fly whisk that her parents usually used in the ritual from the altar table in front of the family hall, quickly recited the incantation, and finally succeeded in leaving her body at the moment before the soul lock was put on. , came to the underworld.
Due to the hasty spell, Lin Ling did not plan the landing point well, and smashed her body towards Li Jianguo.
Everyone knows what happened next.
Li Jianguo listened carefully to this twists and turns and bizarre story, sometimes frowning, sometimes lowering his head in thought.
He looked up again and looked at the girl huddled in front of him with tears in her eyes.
Li Jianguo felt that he had grasped the ins and outs of the matter.
In short, it probably goes like this:
A sister Lin fell on the ground.
