A strange group of people came to the Wang Hotel.
Most of this pair of people looked evasive, always paying attention to the troublesome government officials around them, but the leader was a young Taoist priest who was wearing a robe outside his Taoist robes.
This Taoist priest was naturally Li Changan. Before he left the city, he picked up some armors and weapons from the treasury in Yulin. The Wangzhi County simply sent a gang of Yamen servants to assist him.
"Wang Shen?"
"It's Xiaomin."
A man with a sad face and gray hair answered with his hands raised.
Li Changan was very surprised. He had heard before that Wang Shen was clearly no more than 30 years old. Now it seems that it is not an exaggeration to say that he is 60. Grief can actually torture a person to such an extent!
"My son!"
A shrill shout suddenly sounded.
The nervous officers behind Li Changan suddenly became frightened. One by one, they either pulled out their knives or picked up sticks, and screamed like headless flies.
"who?"
"who?"
"come out!"
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Then Wang Shen quickly said: "Gentlemen, don't panic, that's my mother-in-law."
Go ahead, he sighed, the look of sadness on his face getting thicker.
"After my son was eaten by that ghost, my mother-in-law... alas!"
Li Changan waved his hand and asked the officers to put away their embarrassing array and asked Wang Shen for clues about the ghost.
Unfortunately, although Wang Shen gritted his teeth when he mentioned the ghost, there were no useful clues.
Li Changan didn't have much hope, so he couldn't say he was disappointed. He directly stated his main intention of coming here.
"Can Pindao check the room where my son was killed?"
For some unknown reason, Wang Shen sealed the room directly.
After prying off the wooden strips sealing the doors and windows, and opening the door, a musty smell hit his mouth and nose. After the smell dissipated, Li Changan stepped into the house.
The house was in a mess, with large black stains on the bed and floor.
It seems that Wang Shen did not clean up the house after the incident, but this happened just as Li Changan cast a spell.
For ordinary people to learn Taoism, it takes more than ten years to achieve Taoism and another ten years to refine their magic power. After Li Changan traveled through time, he actually had some superficial magic power. After discovering this, the old Taoist also taught him some simple Taoist skills.
Li Changan took out a talisman, and the one he wanted to cast was the Dragon Chong Jade talisman that the Taoist was most proud of.
Not a few seconds passed.
Li Changan covered his nose and ran out of the room, all the way out of the yard.
Smelly!
It stinks!
Li Changan took a deep breath of fresh air.
A smile appeared on his face.
I smell that ghostly scent!
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Li Changan twitched his nose and followed the scent left by the ghost.
The road ahead is getting narrower and narrower, and the terrain is getting more and more remote.
Until the sky was dark, we chased all the way to the foot of a small mountain. Apparently there had been no trace of people here for a long time. The road between the mountains had been submerged in weeds. If we wanted to continue moving forward, we had to go down one foot at a time to explore the depth.
Once here, the smell left by the ghosts became fresher and fresher, but suddenly dispersed.
Li Changan sniffed the air carefully for a while and nodded.
"It seems like this evil spirit is nearby."
After saying that, he lifted his feet and started to go up the mountain.
"Taoist Master."
Suddenly a shrinking voice sounded from behind him. Li Changan turned around, and it was the leader of the gang of government officials.
"It's not too early now, and brothers are also tired. Can we come back tomorrow morning?"
Li Changan looked at them with squinted eyes.
The dozen or so men looked frightened, and some of them were even more miserable, trembling like quails.
Rather than being tired, he was clearly scared.
But then I thought about it, when I first arrived, I was frightened by the ghost market. No ordinary person is afraid of ghosts. If he hadn't seen a lot of monsters and ghosts with the old man in January, how could Li Changan have the courage to come to find some blue-skinned guy? Evil ghost?
What's more, this time I risk my life for myself. It's easy to say if I win, but if I lose... why bother involving these ordinary people.
So, Li Changan said with a smile: "Dear gentlemen, I want to hang out here for a while, so I would like to trouble you to bring a message to my master to say that you are safe."
"Okay, okay." The class leader nodded repeatedly, "I will definitely bring him."
After that, he and a group of government officials disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After sending the yamen away, the sky became darker and darker.
Li Changan was the only one left in the wilderness, and the only sound in his ears was the rustling of the thatch.
Once it gets dark, it's too dangerous to search for ghosts alone at night.
Fortunately, Li Changan found an abandoned temple at the end of the mountain road.
I don’t know where the head of the clay statue in the ruined temple fell, and I can’t tell which deity it is.
He bowed to the statue, cleaned the altar, laid thatch, and lit a bonfire with ease. After all this, night had fallen.
Suddenly, a loud noise exploded from my ears, and then a bright white light briefly illuminated the sky and the earth. Then I heard only a continuous roar, a "swish" sound, and the sky was hanging upside down. The smell of water, the smell of soil, and the smell of dead branches and leaves. The smell and wind rushed in.
Li Changan kept silent and added fuel to the bonfire.
Staying at the ruined temple at night, a sudden rain came.
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After a tiring day, Li Changan couldn't bear it anymore and finally fell asleep on the altar, but he was worried about the evil ghost in his heart and couldn't sleep well.
While half asleep and half awake, I suddenly heard a movement.
"who?"
Li Changan woke up immediately, and he immediately stood up and stepped off the stage.
There was no response from outside the door, only an exclamation of surprise was heard.
Li Changan frowned and shouted: "Come out."
In the dark wind and rain outside, a woman shivering with cold slowly walked in.
Li Changan glanced at the warning talisman posted by the door, but there was no change at all.
He breathed a sigh of relief and called the woman in.
By the light of the fire, Li Changan could clearly see the woman's appearance.
She seemed to be in her twenties, with a delicate appearance and a graceful figure. Her whole body was wet from the rain, and her clothes clung to her body, making her look even more enchanting.
Perhaps she was severely frozen, but even by the firelight, the woman was trembling slightly. Her messy hair hung down and stuck to her face, making her look even more pitiful.
Li Changan didn't care about his own enjoyment. He quickly took off his Taoist robe and handed it to the woman.
The woman took the Taoist robe and changed her clothes behind the statue. She came out and bowed to Li Changan Yingying and said, "The little girl is the daughter of the Wang family from Yulin. This time, she went out for an outing with some of her friends, but accidentally got separated. I lost my way in the mountains...fortunately I met the Taoist priest."
"Fortunately, the young lady met Pindao first. If she had met the evil ghost first..." Li Changan smiled, not wanting to scare her with words.
"Evil ghost?"
Miss Wang exclaimed and patted her chest with her hands, but the Taoist robe was finally wider, revealing a small patch of pink that trembled slightly.
Following a man's instinct, Li Changan's eyes slipped in unconsciously.
"Taoist Master."
Miss Wang covered her chest and moaned.
"I can't help myself, I can't help myself."
Li Changan smiled.
"Is there really a ghost?" Miss Wang seemed to be very curious about this question.
"Of course!" Li Changan knocked on the armor he took off, "I am the one specially invited by Wangzhi County to get rid of this evil spirit."
Miss Wang wanted to ask again, but Li Changan stood up.
"Okay, it's getting very late. Miss Wang, go to bed early. I'll take you back to Yulin early tomorrow morning."
Li Changan gave the altar to Miss Wang and made a bunk on the floor in the fire pit.
The two of them fell asleep separately.
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The night is getting darker.
The firewood in the fire pit was about to burn out, leaving only a faint tongue of fire, which illuminated the temple dimly.
Outside the temple, there was still the sound of wind, thunder, and rain.
In the temple, the only sound was Li Changan's gentle snoring.
suddenly.
Miss Wang quietly got off the altar.
She looked at Li Changan's sleeping figure, and a smile slowly appeared on her face. The smile grew bigger and bigger until...
"Pfft."
The skin around the corner of Miss Wang's mouth actually tore a crack.
"Boom."
A loud thunder.
A brief flash of lightning illuminated the blue flesh under the crack and the slowly burning yellow talisman beside the door.
