After seeing Lu Li being called away by Sheng Xuanyuan, Yang Xiaosi followed Qiong Yi to the inn to help pick up the luggage. The two of them hurriedly packed it up, paid the bill, and walked back together with the packages on their backs.
Qiong Yi fell deeper and deeper into the sleepy state just now. She felt that her footsteps began to wander, and the stone road under her feet became as soft and floating as the clouds. Her mind became muddier and her eyelids became heavier and heavier as she walked. I almost fell asleep on the way.
Seeing Qiong Yi swaying slightly, Yang Xiaosi supported her on one side and asked, "Senior sister, what's wrong with you?"
She shook her head quickly, trying to stay awake, "I'm fine."
Yang Xiaosi looked at her gray face: "Senior sister, something doesn't look right about your face?"
"Really...I seem to..." Qiong Yi held his forehead and heard a buzzing in his ears: "I seem to have been hearing someone talking in my ear..."
All the sounds in her ears became very hollow, including Yang Xiaosi's concerned questions. She forced a smile: "...It's okay, let's go back first." After that, she led her junior sister to the school dormitory. Walk everywhere. Yang Xiaosi looked at Qiong Yi's staggering figure and frowned worriedly. She could tell that something was wrong with Qiong Yi's state, but she couldn't see why something was wrong with her.
"Senior sister, did you catch a cold due to the cold weather in the past two days?" Yang Xiaosi supported Qiong Yi and asked, "Or are you acclimated to Yize?"
Qiong also shook his heavy head.
The dormitory of the school is in front of you.
Qiong Yi's vision had blurred into a patch of white, and he vaguely caught a glimpse of a slender figure standing in front of him, leading him forward step by step.
The fear in her heart seemed to indicate what it was. She didn't want to move forward, but her body moved forward uncontrollably, one step, one step, and another. This feeling was very much like last night's nightmare.
...It’s so difficult to breathe.
Qiong also felt that something was strangling her neck, and the upward force from her neck was tightening her tightly. She couldn't break free, or in other words, her body was no longer her own at all, like a walking zombie.
"Xiao Si, hurry up..." Qiong Yi tried her best to save a trace of consciousness from her chaotic mind. She spoke, but her lips and teeth did not move at all. She just made a slight breath from her throat: "You hurry up..."
"Sister, what did you say? I didn't hear you clearly."
Yang Xiaosi helped her into the dormitory. Seeing Qiong Yi's forehead breaking out in cold sweat, he quickly laid her down on the bed.
Qiong Yi no longer had any strength to move. She roughly guessed what happened to her, but she was so confused that she turned into a mess. Yang Xiaosi helped her lie down on the bed, but little did he know that this was adding more firewood to the fire, causing Qiong Yi's already groggy consciousness to slip directly into coma.
Yang Xiaosi was still busy wiping Qiong Yi's sweat and checking her pulse, completely unaware of the inexplicable appearance of an old long rope on the otherwise empty table.
*
When Lu Li arrived at the dormitory, half an hour had passed since Qiong Yi fell into coma.
"Lu Li! You're here. Mr. Sheng just called you over. Did you hear anything important?" Yang Xiaosi asked quickly when she saw Lu Li pushing the door open and coming in.
"Where's Senior Sister? How is Senior Sister?" Lu Li didn't answer her question. The first thing he said after pushing the door in was asking about Qiong Yi's condition.
"Senior sister is a little sleepy, I helped her to rest." Yang Xiaosi walked to the bed to see how Qiong Yi's face was getting better, but Lu Li's face changed drastically: "It's bad, it's bad! I'm afraid this is sneaky. I really have my eye on Senior Sister, and I’ve found her now!”
"Don't talk nonsense, I haven't noticed any ghost energy at all." Yang Xiaosi replied. When he sat on the edge of the bed, he saw that Qiong Yi's face had turned a dead white, his lips were black, and his brows were furrowed. , with a very painful look on her face, she suddenly panicked and quickly explored Qiong Yi's body. Fortunately, her body was still warm.
"Lu Li! Lu Li! Come and see Senior Sister, what is going on!" she shouted in panic.
Lu Li walked over to take a closer look, and the panic on his face was well concealed: "The elder said that this sneaky was once a Taoist like us. Maybe it was because of this that we couldn't detect it. It has such a ghostly aura that even the senior sister didn’t notice that it was targeting it.”
"Xiaosi! You go first, don't stay here!" Lu Li said, pushing Yang Xiaosi to leave, "Leave this place to me first! Go find the elders of the Su family. They should still be in the yard to the north. You can go all the way Run over, hurry up!"
Yang Xiaosi was pushed by him and took two steps back towards the door: "Then you...then senior sister..."
"Go find someone! Quick!"
Yang Xiaosi was stunned for a moment, turned around, opened the door and ran out.
Seeing her leaving, Lu Li breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Qiong Yi. Her breath was getting weaker and weaker, but he didn't notice even the slightest bit of strangeness or ghostly aura.
If you can't notice anything strange, you won't be able to do anything.
how so? Do you want me to watch my senior sister being tortured by ghosts and evil spirits?
Lu Li gritted his teeth reluctantly, and his eyes suddenly stopped on the red mark on Qiong Yi's neck. It was a very complete strangulation mark, with a faint red circle printed on the snow-white neck, which was very eye-catching, as if it had been strangled not long ago.
Lu Li seemed to have found a clue. He stood up and looked around the room. He soon noticed a very long straw rope on the small wooden table by the window. It was old and dry, as if it could be broken with a single tug. He held the rope and circulated his true energy. Blood gradually oozed from the end of the rope, and the rope gradually turned into ashes, leaving a pool of blood on the ground.
At the same time, the marks on Qiong Yi's neck disappeared like snow melting.
The moment the rope disappeared, a very strong and impactful ghostly aura filled the entire room. At that moment, Lu Li felt like his breath was being taken away.
"Finally...discovered..."
*
Qiong Yi was in a trance and heard a hoarse female voice saying over and over again in her ears:
"...spiritual soul..."
"……I want……"
"...Give me your soul..."
"...so that I can...see him..."
"...Get it...I will no longer be trapped in the land of death...I can...find him..."
"……give it to me……"
Qiong also felt a pair of cold and old hands strangling her neck, feeling suffocated and cold: "...cough...let go!..." She opened her eyes suddenly and found that she was not lying on the bed, but Standing in a blank place, she paused for a moment and realized that this was her state of mind.
The master once told her that every monk has his own state of mind. The objects in the state are the incarnation and projection of the mind, and are also the home of the soul.
Why am I here? Could it be that my body has...
Or was it that I was forcefully brought in by something? …
While I was thinking about it, the scary voice of a female ghost came from behind me: "...I've been here for a few days...it's very quiet here...it's all pure white..."
Qiong Yi was shocked: It said it stayed in my mind for a few days. Has it been attached to me since that night? !
Her throat was being grabbed and felt uncomfortable. Qiong Yi struggled hard, but her acupuncture points seemed to be fixed and she couldn't move. The thing behind her raised its arm and touched Qiong Yi's hand. She suddenly felt a chill and her hair stood up. She was obviously frightened. In the extreme, Qiong Yi was still afraid that she would collapse immediately when she saw the terrifying appearance of the female ghost.
The ghost's raised hand passed through Qiong Yi's body, or in other words, melted into it.
In an instant, the world seemed to be spinning. She knew that this female ghost was trying to steal her soul, so she tried to hold on to her soul.
"...no relatives...no reason..."
Just listen to the hoarse and inhuman voice constantly hovering in your ears, "...no father...no mother..."
"...Sad, sad..."
"Why, you will know..." Qiong Yi's mind moved slightly, and he was stunned for a moment, and everything after that was swallowed up.
*
"Is this thing really useful?" Su Ye turned over the talisman in his hand and looked at it, but couldn't see anything. "Have you ever used it?"
Sheng Xuanyuan held a thick stack in his hand, "...Of course I have used it."
"Isn't it? Your family will teach you to use this to catch ghosts? Isn't this a little trick in the world?" Su Ye threw the talisman in his hand to Sheng Xuanyuan, and Sheng Xuanyuan rolled his eyes at him after taking it. Mr. Sheng only teaches people how to get rid of ghosts, not how to catch them, let alone such strange gadgets. He just teaches them what he finds interesting and tinkers with.
In the past, Sheng Xuanyuan's method of getting rid of ghosts and subduing evil was straightforward, just kill him, but today's situation was a bit special, so he had to worry more.
"The master and the elders said that the living ghost is tying ropes in the woods to cause trouble. Tomorrow they will do some magic in the woods to drive out the evil spirits. We..."
Su Ye waved his hands repeatedly, "What are you waiting for? Wait until the day lilies are cold tomorrow! Didn't you say that Guixie is not a patient thing? Besides, I think it's Lu Xiyan who is fishy, not the little broken forest." His voice As soon as she landed, she saw a female disciple running in front of her with an anxious look on her face, as if she had seen a ghost: "Mr. Sheng! Mr. Su! Do you know... which way is the north? Are Mr. Su and the others in the North Courtyard?" She was angry. asked breathlessly.
"Are you Lu Xiyan's junior sister? Why are you looking for an elder? They may have just left school." Su Ye saw her anxious look and said with a smile: "Take a breath, take your time, don't be so anxious about anything."
"...No, no! I have to go find the elder!...There is a ghost. That ghost is haunting my senior sister..." Yang Xiaosi was out of breath: "You...do you know where the elder has gone?"
Sheng Xuanyuan and Su Ye looked at each other, their expressions changed drastically, and they realized what had happened. Sheng Xuanyuan asked, "Where is your senior sister?"
"Over there...at the old dormitory building, Lu Li said that this ghost was unusual and very fierce in life. Don't go there..." Yang Xiaosi said, seeing Su Ye randomly pointing her in a direction, she hurriedly ran over there.
Seeing her running away, the two of them ran towards the disciple's dormitory. It was not too late at this time, but the clouds made the sky look unusually gloomy. The two people standing at the wooden door had clearly noticed something strange. Sheng Xuanyuan asked Su Ye to stick the talisman on the door and window, and lock it quickly after entering.
Sheng Xuanyuan's right eyelid twitched slightly: This sneaky guy was so quick to attack, even daring to do it in the daytime!
The room was pitch dark and nothing could be seen.
"The ghost spirit is so strong." Su Ye lit a talisman and looked around the room. He immediately saw Lu Li lying on the ground and Qiong Yi lying on the bed.
"Lu Li!" Su Ye quickly stepped forward and helped him up. His face was deathly pale, and he had the same symptoms as Qiong Yi on the bed.
"What a vicious evil ghost!..." Su Ye supported Lu Li against the cabinet with one hand, his expression gloomy.
Sheng Xuanyuan walked towards Qiong Yi: "You guard, don't let it escape."
Su Ye lit the candlestick with the nearly burned out talisman, and there was a little more light in the room. The pendant was about to go out, "Is it here?"
"Yes." Sheng Xuanyuan said with a complicated expression, "...it's on her."
"I can't exorcise evil spirits. Hurry up. It's important to save people." Su Ye urged, "I will protect you."
"Um."
Sheng Xuanyuan sat next to Qiong Yi and held her upright. She was cold all over, like a dead person. He looked at her cheeks through the candlelight, her face was as pale as snow. He stretched out his hand to feel for her pulse, which was weak. Sheng Xuanyuan wanted to sit her down in the cross-legged position to inject some energy into him, but he didn't expect her to hold the hand that was feeling her pulse with her backhand.
"...Don't...go." Qiong Yi whispered: "Don't...leave me..."
Sheng Xuanyuan was shocked and wanted to take his hand out of hers, but she held her hand tighter.
Those were a pair of very cold hands, small and slender, holding his hand as if grasping a life-saving straw: "...please...don't leave me..."
Sheng Xuanyuan looked at Qiong Yi. Her eyes were closed, her eyelashes were wet, the corners of her eyes were red, and her brows were slightly raised. He muttered it in a low voice over and over again, pleading: "...you can't do this to me...you said you only have me...in this life..."
"...You said you would always be with me..."
"...don't go...I beg you..."
"……don't want……"
Qiong also floated in the room with a cry of begging.
The voice was sad and sweet, and Sheng Xuanyuan knew very well that these were not Qiong Yi's words, but the female ghost's words through her mouth, but it still made people feel pity.
The dark room became a little darker with the rise and fall of the sound, and a faint black air surrounded them from unknown time.
Something seemed to be dispersed in the hand that was tightly holding Sheng Xuanyuan, making him forget where he was and who he was for a moment. He no longer wanted to take his hand away, but just looked down at her. , as if it was true as she said, she was the one in his heart.
There was no sound for a long time, and Su Ye, who was protecting the law at the side, felt that his ears were being softened by the sound, and he wanted to go forward and comfort Qiong Yi, who seemed to be talking in his sleep.
"Okay." After an unknown amount of time, Sheng Xuanyuan responded. He raised his other hand to wipe her tears and promised, "I won't leave. I won't leave you."
