I'm catching tricks in the Hong Kong variety show world

Su Hao glanced at Uncle Feng next to him, hesitated for a moment and pushed the door open directly.

He held a shield in front of him with both hands, a butcher knife holster hanging on his waist, a flashlight in one pocket of his coat, and a backpack on his shoulder.

Behind the door is still a long corridor.

It's just that the decoration of this corridor is older than the one outside, just like a progressive copy of the game. If the corridor outside is decorated around 1960, then the decoration of the corridor inside seems to have returned to 1940. .

Su Hao's pupils suddenly tightened and he saw two puppets wearing costumes and masks hanging in the middle of the corridor.

Both of these dolls are dressed as men, and they are all dressed up in costumes, just like those Cantonese opera actors performing on the stage.

The feet of the two puppets are one meter above the ground, and a wire hangs above their heads. They sway slightly with the wind blowing in from the dilapidated window, not much.

This is why Su Hao can tell it's a puppet at a glance.

If it were a normal person's body, this little breeze would not move at all.

And there was no corpse smell in the surrounding air.

There were many doll body parts made of plastic abandoned in the previous production workshop outside.

Uncle Feng from behind also followed, "This is a doll."

He held up a flashlight. As the two of them continued to move inside, the surrounding light became increasingly dimmer. It was impossible to see clearly even a few meters away without the flashlight.

Su Hao nodded, "It's a doll. Do you feel that the temperature around you has dropped several degrees?"

Uncle Feng also understood what Su Hao meant. He glanced at the yellow talisman attached to their shoulders and said, "There is no danger at the moment. If there is, my yellow talisman will warn you in advance. Even if there is dirt in it, I hope it will." If you can come out early, don’t let us go in and look for it little by little.”

This is also because he is talented and bold.

The evil ghost Hei Ge that they dealt with a few days ago is already considered an elite level among the ghosts. It is impossible for them to encounter another ghost like this in the short term.

Encounter earlier and call it a day.

The two adjusted their mentality and continued to move forward.

When they passed by the puppet hanging in mid-air, Su Hao took a closer look curiously and found that the feet and fingers exposed under the puppet's costume were made of bamboo.

The face that hangs downward has been transformed into a large painted face. Because of the age, the paint on it has become semi-faded due to the corrosion of time, which looks a bit seeping.

There are two male dolls, one dressed as an ancient landowner and the other dressed as a scholar. Both have their eyes closed and their jaws clenched.At the end of the second corridor is a hall with an area of ​​about two hundred square meters. It is scattered with abandoned tables and chairs. There is also a line of intermittent paint words on the wall, "Ming Yuebai Drama Club Rehearsal Room." "

There is also a blackboard in the corner.

Su Hao looked around with a flashlight, as if he had returned to the scene 70 years ago. The rehearsal room was bustling with people, and sounds were coming and going. Many people in costumes were walking around on the ground, and from time to time they would burst out laughing or scolding. .

The rehearsal room was quite large, so Su Hao and Uncle Feng searched separately.

With the yellow talisman on their shoulders, both of them became a lot more courageous.

So far, this rich opera house has only given people one impression, and that is that it is weird. Every table, chair and furnishings inside, and every photo and message in it all tell the story of what happened that year.

Su Hao slowly walked to the blackboard and was surprised to find that there were still a few lines of chalk writing on the blackboard.

"I recently lost a hairpin at the drama club. The hairpin is made of wood and decorated with pink petals."

"Although this item is not a valuable item, it is very precious to me. If you find it, please contact me."

"My little lady is deeply grateful and will definitely thank you again."

——Ming Yuebai Theater Company, Chen Lianyiliu

A flash of realization flashed in Su Hao's mind, "Is this the handwriting left by the Hua Dan named Lian Yi?"

He looked at the handwriting on the blackboard again, and found that there was a trace of elegance in the handwriting, which should have been left by a woman, but he always felt a little strange, and for a while he couldn't remember what was wrong.

"Ah Hao, look what I found?"

Uncle Feng's voice suddenly came from a room in the corner of the rehearsal room. Su Hao walked over and took a look. It turned out that there was an office covering an area of ​​about 15 square meters in the corner of the rehearsal room. The furnishings inside were the same as those he had signed before. At the time of the contract, the office of the editor-in-chief of the ghost-hunting program was similar, except that it lacked some modern equipment.

Uncle Feng held a hairpin with a weird look on his face.

This hairpin is made of wood and is decorated with pink petals. The workmanship is very exquisite and it looks like new.

A flash of lightning flashed in Su Hao's heart, "Isn't this the hairpin left behind in Ling Yi's message on the blackboard?"

Su Hao took the hairpin and felt a hint of coldness in his fingers.

Uncle Feng searched inside the desk for a while, and unexpectedly he pulled out an old-fashioned notebook with a black plastic cover from the drawer.

The style of this notebook would definitely be outdated now, but if it were placed 70 years ago, it might have been a high-end product that kept up with fashion trends.

Uncle Feng also looked a little strange. He opened the notebook and found a blurry paragraph on the yellowed page inside.

"The class leader said that this puppet show is temporarily canceled because the organizer feels it is a bit outdated. Times have really changed. In the past, everyone would give a thumbs up when they saw my puppet show."

"But I didn't expect that Lian Yi would be appreciated by the class leader soon after joining the crew. It's not surprising. Who wouldn't like such a good singing voice?"

"Now Lianyi always wears the hairpin on her head during rehearsals. She told me that the hairpin is a testimony of our relationship. No matter what, I will just be an ordinary audience member this time."

Uncle Feng and Su Hao returned to the blackboard outside together and compared the contents on the notebook with the contents on the blackboard. A blurry picture emerged in their minds.

Decades ago, in the Ming Yue Bai drama club.

The puppet master and actress Chen Lian Yi were in love with each other and secretly had feelings for each other. The puppet master gave each other a hairpin as a token of love. Chen Lian Yi accepted it happily and cherished it very much.

Chen Lianyi not only has a beautiful singing voice, but is also very good-looking. After taking the stage, she was loved by the audience and valued by the head of the drama club.

At the same time, the puppet master's show was canceled by the class leader on the grounds that this kind of puppet performance was a bit outdated and the audience didn't like it.

So much so that the puppet master had to sit alone in the audience, watching Chen Lianyi perform on stage.

As for the tragic dismemberment of Hua Dan that happened later, the process can actually be boldly deduced through these details.

If this puppet master's surname is He, and he is one of the He brothers who obtained the fragments of the evil canon, then why did he use the soul-returning technique in the evil canon fragments on Chen Lianyi?

The purpose of the soul-returning technique is to resurrect Chen Lianyi.

In other words, Chen Lianyi was already dead when he used the soul-returning technique.

So why did Chen Lianyi die?

According to the information about the missing hairpin, it is speculated that such a valuable thing, which is regarded as a token of love, and it is a wooden hairpin, will have no value even if others take it.

It only seems significant to certain people.

For a woman who is deeply in love, she regards love tokens as more important than her own life. She will definitely keep them well, so how can she lose them casually?

Suppose it was not lost, but stolen intentionally...

Who would steal a worthless hairpin worth not much?

Su Hao's mind flashed with the image of a fat-headed, big-eared class leader with an appreciative look on his face. The class leader in a drama club is similar to a contractor at a construction site, or the boss of a brokerage company. They directly lead their artists and theaters Cooperation can be said to have the power of life and death in treating its artists.

Suppose he fell in love with Chen Lianyi and deliberately stole her hairpin. After work, he used the hairpin as bait to lure Chen Lianyi to his office or dormitory. After confessing his affection, Chen Lianyi rejected her. The class leader became so angry that he directly Use strong.

After being humiliated, Chen Lianyi chose to commit suicide.

She did not tell the puppet master the reason for her suicide because she knew that the puppet master was not the opponent of the class leader.

After learning about Chen Lianyi's death, the puppet master secretly paid homage to Chen Lianyi in his dormitory, and was forced to choose to use his family's ancestral soul-returning technique on Hua Dan.

At this time, Chen Lianyi should have just passed away for less than 49 days. According to the Buddhist theory of reincarnation, he belongs to the bardo body.

As for the dismemberment of Hua Dan, it is also related to the bardo. Resurrection of the bardo must meet a prerequisite, that is, the 'six sense organs' are present, that is, the resurrected bardo must have all six senses present. .

From a medical perspective, only people who have died within 15 minutes will meet this condition.

Because the body of the dead person is not completely dead at this time, the brain waves in the brain are actually still there, and it is a state of suspended animation.

Similar examples abound in real life. For example, a person who has fallen into water and drowned can be saved through artificial respiration and other means after being fished out in time.

There are also people who suddenly fainted on the street. They had to squeeze their chests with both hands and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation before being sent to the emergency room.

Similarly, there is a custom in rural China that after someone dies in his or her hometown, the corpse must be left at home for three days.

This is also due to the fact that in ancient times, when medicine was not so developed, it was common for people to suddenly come back to life during the burial process after death. They could not explain this situation. In order to avoid similar tragedies from happening in the future, there was the idea of ​​post-death home care. The custom of burying a corpse for three days.

The great wisdom of the ancients is often hidden in these seemingly pedantic customs.

As a puppet master, the He brother obviously misunderstood the meaning of "six root organs" in the ancestral secret book, so after he got back Chen Lianyi's body, he brutally dismembered Chen Lianyi's dead body into Six parts were made and hidden inside the puppet's body. In order to increase the success rate, six legs were made for the puppet.

Was Chen Lianyi resurrected in the end?

Currently unknown.

Su Hao took out the old piece of paper he found in the puppet master's dormitory from his backpack and shined a flashlight on the writing.

One passage emerged clearly.

[If the person who casts the spell is not talented enough, it will definitely come back to bite him/her]

Su Hao suddenly shouted, "No, these are all illusions that the other party wants us to see."

Uncle Feng looked puzzled. He was not stupid. Through the information he discovered one after another, he also guessed the tragic story hidden in it.

This may be the truth behind the Hua Dan dismemberment case.

Seeing Su Hao speak out at this moment, he asked in confusion: "What's wrong, Ah Hao?"

Su Hao finally understood why he felt something was wrong when he was standing in front of this blackboard. It turned out that this was the reason why something was wrong.

He suddenly reached out his hand and wiped it hard on the blackboard.

A ripple-like wave rippled from all sides, and his hand actually penetrated the blackboard directly.

When he looked at the hairpin in his hand, he squeezed it hard, and the wooden hairpin in his hand suddenly turned into a ball of powder and fell down.

Su Hao took out a lighter and lit a cigarette, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "Uncle Feng, we were deceived."

At this time, Uncle Feng also noticed something strange in Su Hao's hands.

When Su Hao used a lighter to light a cigarette, the light screen in front of him seemed to fluctuate, just like the screen of a movie theater playing a movie. Suddenly, a naughty child came forward and poked a hole with a knife.

As soon as the lighter flame went out, the hole quickly healed.

Although Uncle Feng noticed something strange, it was hard to tell him at this time. After all, he was an exorcist hired by Su Hao with money. If he accidentally got into the trap like this, speaking out would make him appear to be incompetent.

Su Hao took a puff of cigarette and his thinking became clearer, "I was surprised before. If this was the dismemberment site, it was at least 80 years ago. Why are the chalk words on the blackboard still there?"

"Uncle Feng, look at it. None of the windows around here are intact. Although the rain can't get in, the wind can easily blow in. In other words, the air inside is circulating and the air also contains moisture."

“How could the chalk writing remain so clear after 70 years of constant corrosion?”

"And this hairpin..."

Su Hao opened his hand, and there was clearly a pile of broken things in his palm.

"This hairpin and the chalk writing on this blackboard may have existed 70 years ago, but they have long been corroded, and everything we see now is what the other party wants us to see."

"The puppet master simply misunderstood the meaning of 'six roots'. The barbaric beauty whom he tried to resurrect with the soul-returning technique may or may not have been resurrected, but he must have suffered a backlash."

"That is to say, there may be only one ghost in this theater, or there may be two ghosts, and one of the ghosts must be the puppet master."

This was the price he paid for being backlashed.

Uncle Feng understood the meaning of Su Hao's words after a moment's thought, and couldn't help but take a breath of air at this moment.

"You mean, we have now entered the ghost world created by the other party?"

Uncle Feng was at a disadvantage because he didn't have yin and yang eyes, so he had to use magic to see the ghosts, and casting spells would require a certain amount of consumption, so he fell into the trap unknowingly.

There is another reason, that is, the yellow talisman on the shoulder did not warn, which meant that the danger did not appear, which made the two of them relax for a while.

(Note that this is Uncle Feng in Exorcist Police, not Uncle Jiu in Zombie Taoist Priest. Their abilities are slightly different)

The so-called ghost is an illusion created by the ghost using its own soul power to numb people's five senses.

The ghosts hitting the wall that ordinary people encounter are one type of illusion, but they are just some low-level illusions.

Ghosts, on the other hand, are the most advanced form of illusion. They can manifest things in front of you that do not exist or once existed.

You can also create something that doesn't exist.

Almost close to the stage of making something out of nothing.

Chapter 120 Purple Hairpin Story

"I was careless."

Uncle Feng quickly took out a talisman from the diagonal bag and tried to light it with a lighter.

This is the Open Sky Eye in Maoshan's magic. It relies on talismans and magic to temporarily borrow a pair of eyes from the ancestor.

Because the Maoshan lineage's first priority in accepting disciples is character, followed by talent. As for having yin and yang eyes, it is not a prerequisite for accepting disciples.