Mystery Leaks

Chapter 87 Floating Soul Lamp

As time went by at night, Jinpen Township closed its doors early, and when it got dark, not even a single person could be seen.Door gods are pasted on the gates of many houses, and various gods and Buddhas are enshrined in the house. The worst ones have to hang a handful of mugwort leaves on the doors and windows, as if they are facing an enemy.

The three old people "died" at the same time, which not only contagious and fermented the fear of the villagers, some timid ones dragged their families out to seek refuge during the day.

Even my third uncle told me to be careful recently after work, and not to go out at night, because there might be something dirty in the village.I agreed with my mouth, but I smiled wryly in my heart. I fell down three at once. Is it because of grandpa, is it appropriate to hide at home by myself?

I asked Hu Lai, and Hu Lai said that according to my intuition, I should hide in the store to avoid those messy things, but rationally, I must face what should be faced, otherwise the more I hide, the more trouble I will have.

There is a saying about this in Dharma practice, it is called karma robbery.

Everything that happens to me belongs to catastrophe. At first glance, this kind of catastrophe seems to be the safest to hide, but in fact, the more you hide, the more troublesome and dangerous you are.The best way is to face the catastrophe and take the initiative to resolve it. You can escape when you encounter danger, but there is no way to hide when you encounter the catastrophe that is destined in the dark.

You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime.

I don't really understand the mysteries of these so-called tribulations. What I want is to unravel this tribulation as soon as possible and live a peaceful life.

After eleven o'clock in the evening, Huang Mao took us to the largest intersection in the village. According to Huang Mao, the intersection leads to all directions, and it is the easiest to sense the soul that has been hooked away, and the easiest to succeed in summoning the soul.

I originally thought that the spiritual summoning ceremony should be very complicated, just like the performances in TV movies, singing and dancing, setting tables, bathing and burning incense, adding spells, burning some runes and so on.

As a result, Huang Mao simply carried three lanterns in his hands, and nothing else. The lanterns were made of unknown, gray and dirty looking, a bit like Kongming lanterns.

"Is this lantern the way to summon souls?" I asked strangely, thinking that Huang Mao would definitely be able to borrow a lot of things when he went to Xiaohonglou.

Hu Lai nodded, and explained: "Actually, it is more accurate to call souls than to find souls, because it is actually very difficult to call back souls if they are detained; soul summoning is suitable for frightened souls, not seductive souls. The biggest difference between the two is that the former's soul is Free, and the latter is very likely to be trapped, so the method of summoning the soul is also different."

I didn't understand what I heard, and said: "Then how to find the soul?"

Hu Lai said again: "There is a mutual induction between the human body and the soul. You can understand it as magnetic force. If there is no obstacle between the human body and the soul, then the human body and soul will automatically and slowly approach each other, and finally merge into one. One body; summoning the soul is to use this sensory force, if the soul can move freely, then call the soul back, if the soul is detained, then use the direction of the sensory force to find the soul."

"You mean, use this lantern to find it?" I understood a little bit.

"Yes, this lantern is covered with human skin, framed with human bones, and burned with human oil. Just burn a little hair on the top of the lost soul's head, and it will be able to communicate with the soul instead of the person." Hu Lai said.

"Human skin, human oil and human bones?!" My scalp tingled when I heard that, this lantern is actually made of human body parts, it's too scary.

"Scared?" Huang Mao looked at me contemptuously.

"Get out." I said angrily, seeing him standing still, I asked again: "It's almost midnight, what are you dawdling about?"

Huang Mao looked at the dark night sky, and said in a somewhat deep voice: "Wait for the wind to stop!"

I felt it, and there was indeed a wind, blowing slowly on the person, cool.

After that, I don't know how Huangmao was sure that Night Breeze would stop. After a while, it really stopped. I checked the time, and it was exactly twelve o'clock.

Huang Mao immediately squatted down, lined up the human skin lanterns on the ground, took out a small bottle, poured a little black and yellow oil into the oil pan of the lantern, it was human oil, picked the wick and lit it, and then The three locks of hair cut during the day were put into human skin lanterns and burned separately.

At this time, a strange thing happened. What came out of the hair was not black smoke, but a mist-like thing that condensed and did not disperse, slowly wrapping the lantern.

Immediately, the flames that were originally only as small as soybeans became denser, exuding a milky white halo, getting brighter and brighter.

"This lantern has another name, it's called the Floating Soul Lamp!" Hu Lai explained to me in a low voice, "Human skin, human oil, human bones, and human hair make up a complete human body. It now replaces the bodies of the three people. Inspired by the soul, to find the soul."

I nodded, this method was incredible, but after hearing the explanation, I felt it made sense.

His hair was gradually burnt, and Huang Mao was muttering something, suddenly waved his hand, and said in a low voice: "Floating soul leads the way, get up!"

With the strength of the hand and the wind, the three floating soul lamps suddenly floated up slowly like Kong Ming and others, suspended at a height of three feet, and slowly drifted in one direction.

I was very surprised. According to common sense, the heat generated by a flame as big as a bean is not enough to push the lantern up, but this one can, and it can also be suspended in mid-air, and will not float up all the time.

"Chasing, three souls are detained in one place!" Huang Mao immediately took the lead in chasing him down.

We hurriedly followed and ran after the Floating Soul Lamp, heading east. The more troublesome thing is that although the Floating Soul Lamp is not in a hurry, it walks in a straight line and will not stop and wait for us because of any obstacles on the ground. .

We were at a crossroads, walked along the road for a while and then jumped into a rice field. We went up a slope through the rice field. After going downhill, there was a small forest, and then a river. swim over.

After crossing the river, there is another large paddy field.

After just half an hour, Cao Nan and I were both panting and sweating profusely, our legs were covered in mud, and Cao Nan lost a shoe.

The yellow hair is not bad, but there is faint sweat on the forehead; Hu Lai is the most relaxed, walking like flying in the rice field, if you listen carefully, you will find that he twists and turns when he is running, and the sound of hitting the rice seedlings is hardly heard. Like me and Cao Nan, the "crash" is like a cow rampaging in the field.

When we rushed to the edge of the rice field, the Floating Soul Lamp stopped in the distance, quietly suspended in mid-air, and kept spinning.

"Found it!" Huang Mao said.

I took a closer look, and my heart skipped a beat. Under the Floating Soul Lamp, there was a deserted house of the three brothers of the Tu family.

My first reaction was, could it be that the gang of tomb robbers did the seduction?

Huang Mao was also a little suspicious, and said, "Be careful!"

We hooked our waists as much as we could, and leaned over with hands and feet, and leaned against the wall of the deserted house after we entered the paddy field.

"How could it be the home of three mad dogs?" Cao Nan asked in a low voice.

"This house is ominous." Hu Lai muttered.

My heart skipped a beat, this desolate house is a solid haunted house; back then, the fathers of the three brothers of the Tu family tortured and killed their mothers, and then they themselves were quartered by five horses and their bones were smashed to pieces.

The case caused a sensation at the time, but there was no definite statement. It was widely circulated that the fathers of the three Tu family brothers hanged their mother and cut them to death one by one. Heads were smashed.

Since then, the house has been abandoned, and the three brothers of the Tu family did not live in the main house after being released from the labor camp, but lived in the cowshed next to it.There are often haunted rumors that spread like wildfire, and now it has been counted. In the first few years, people were panicked.

"The soul should be inside, let's go in, be careful!" Huang Mao glanced at the floating soul lamp spinning in the sky, and said.

We took out our self-defense mahogany swords and walked inside step by step.The old house is a standard two-storey adobe house. The roof tiles are falling everywhere, and weeds have even grown into the house. Only one of the two gates is left, which is broken and crumbling by insects and ants.

Walking into the house, green moss is crawling everywhere, leaving large green spots on the walls, and mold grows on the tables, chairs and furniture, most of which are rotten, leaving only a few wreckage, and a strong smell of rot and damp is lingering.

I tightened the peach wood sword in my hand, and for some reason, I felt a strange feeling in my heart.

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(End of this chapter)