Urban Witcher

Xie Yuqing asked what should be done next, and Ye Shaoyang told her without hesitation that the only clue now lies in Li Xiaoqiang. Right now, he can only investigate according to the trajectory of his life: check the files he has turned through before, and go to the building Check it out, what's wrong.

Xie Yuqing nodded, glanced at her watch, and said, "It's getting late, should we go back to Shicheng first, or rush to the school to investigate?"

Ye Shaoyang shook his head, looked at Li Xiaoqiang's body, and said, "I'm not going anywhere. Today is the night of his soul-returning, and I want to stay here to guard his spirit." Facing the doubts of the two, he said, "He is a mage. Afterwards, no one was buried, since I met him, according to the rules, I have to see him off."

Xie Yuqing immediately frowned and said, "Isn't he already out of his wits? If you give him a ride, he won't know."

"The funeral is a kind of sustenance and mourning for the living. According to you, even if his soul is still there, it has nothing to do with his body when he went to the Y department to report. Why do he have to burn paper and so on? It is still there, and it can be regarded as a part of his soul body, and sending him away safely is a kind of respect for the dead from the living, and it is only related to his present life, and has nothing to do with his soul itself."

After a pause, Ye Shaoyang went on to say: "Furthermore, I always have a feeling that something will happen at Huihun Night today. This feeling existed in the mourning hall before. I can't describe it well. It must be a mage's intuition."

Xie Yuqing frowned and said, "He's gone out of his wits, what else could happen?"

"I just don't know, that's why I have to stay. Seeing his ashes cremated, I can rest assured."

Xie Yuqing nodded and said: "Then I can't accompany you anymore, I have to go back and go through a formality to help you confirm your identity."

"My identity?"

"You will know later." Xie Yuqing smiled mysteriously.

Pushing Li Xiaoqiang's body back into the freezer, Ye Shaoyang and his party came out of the morgue. As soon as they got outside the door, they saw Lin Yongchang and the female classmate presiding over the funeral standing at the corner looking this way. When he arrived at Ye Shaoyang, the girl immediately came over and said to him, "Why are you here? I bought what you wanted, and we dare not mess around. We are waiting for you."

Ye Shaoyang nodded, but before he could speak, the female classmate communicated with Liu Yinshui again, asking him if there was any procedure to follow, and if there was no problem, he wanted to send Li Xiaoqiang's body to the mourning hall for a farewell ceremony.

Liu Yinshui said there was no problem, and took Lin Yongchang to go through the procedures. Ye Shaoyang sent Xie Yuqing away, and then followed the female classmate to the mourning hall, found a piece of paper, and wrote down the things needed for the farewell of the body on it, and then The girl asked two male classmates to buy them.

Ye Shaoyang arranged the three offerings including chicken eggs, made a long-burning lamp, lit it, and placed it in front of Li Xiaoqiang's portrait. Although his soul is gone, the procedure still needs to be followed, and it is also a kind of respect for the deceased.

After a while, Lin Yongchang and Liu Yinshui pushed an ice coffin and entered the memorial hall through the back door. The ice coffin is a crystal coffin with a freezing device. As long as the C power is running, the corpse will not rot.

Because there is a local custom of keeping vigil next to the corpse, the funeral home is also willing to do this business.

Liu Yinshui was not in the mood to deal with the dead, so after saying goodbye to Ye Shaoyang, he left on his own. Not long after he left, the sky darkened and it started to rain.

Ye Shaoyang asked Lin Yongchang and another classmate to help open the ice coffin, then took a basin of cold water and put it next to the corpse, and then started the procedure: Ye Shaoyang first stuffed a Five Emperors coin into the mouth of the corpse, dipped a towel in water, folded it into a In the shape of three knives, it covered the face of the corpse, and then began to change the shroud of the corpse.

This process seems very simple, but it is actually very particular, because after death, the whole body is hardened, coupled with freezing, the joints are stiff, the clothes are difficult to take off and put on, and according to the custom, the face cannot be lifted during the dressing process. Towels, lest the deceased see his unseemly body and feel resentment. Although Li Xiaoqiang's soul is dead, but for his body, it is still necessary to follow the traditional customs to show respect for the deceased.

This invisibly increases the difficulty.

In this matter, there are skills but no shortcuts. Ye Shaoyang holds one arm of the corpse, pinches the muscles, activates the tendons, pushes the joints. After a set of procedures, the joints are finally opened.

Then simply wipe the body from the half body, put on the clothes, and then tie the feet and hands of the corpse with a white cloth, put the five fingers together, the thumbs inwards, clasp the hands, and put them on the lower abdomen, with the left hand on top and the right hand on the bottom, because according to folk It is said that the left hand is good, the right hand is evil, and the left hand wraps the right hand, implying a new life in the next life, abandoning evil and promoting good.

After finishing all this, Ye Shaoyang took off the towel covering the corpse's face, took out the copper coin from the corpse's mouth, looked around at the students who were watching, and said, "This corpse coin can keep you safe. Who will take it?"

Everyone didn't dare to ask for it. After all, they were a bit taboo about the things of the dead, so Lin Yongchang later asked for them.

Afterwards, a farewell ceremony was held for the body... After the end, most of the students went back in the rain, and only a few students who had a good relationship with Li Xiaoqiang stayed to watch the night for his first seven days.

Ye Shaoyang didn't know them well, so he borrowed an umbrella from them, left the mourning hall, and walked around the crematorium in the rain. On the mountain, there is only one road leading to the city, and on the mountain next to it is the cemetery, which is the most popular feng shui for lonely ghosts and wild ghosts. There are many people during the day, but at night, it is definitely not so peaceful here.

Moreover, Ye Shaoyang looked at the rain curtain in front of him and thought worriedly, today is still a rainy day.

Because people often keep vigils, the funeral home also has a cafeteria. Ye Shaoyang walked to the entrance of the cafeteria, went in and had lunch. When he came out, he was surprised to find that the light rain had turned into a heavy rain, and it was pouring down.

Ye Shaoyang ran to the mourning hall in the rain, and was dumbfounded when he saw it: the water outside the mourning hall was flowing into a river, continuously pouring into the hall, and a layer of water had already accumulated, and several male students were sweeping the water with brooms.

Ye Shaoyang turned his head to look, only to find that the terrain of the memorial hall is lower than the outside, so it will be flooded with rainwater. It's supposed to be okay. But from the rain under his feet, Ye Shaoyang smelled an unusual smell. While everyone was draining water, he drew a talisman to test injustice, threw it into the water, picked it up a few seconds later, and saw that the talisman had turned into Black, pitch black as ink!

Ye Shaoyang looked at the talisman paper, his expression froze. There was such a strong corpse aura in the rain!

After thinking for a while, he understood where the corpse aura came from! ——

The third watch is over, thank you for waiting alone and the rest of you for your rewards, happy reading everyone.