Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Fire Centipede
There were nightmares at night, but Chen Muqing couldn't really wake up. By the time he woke up, it was already early the next morning.
There was a strong stench in the room, and he didn't know how he could sleep so well yesterday under that smell.
I called him to wake him up, and after he connected, I asked him for the address, and then took my things to Ah Xiu's house. I went by taxi because without further ado.
When I arrived, Chen Muqing was trying to wake up Ah Xiu. But no matter whether he pushes or calls, Ah Xiu just can't wake up, which makes him anxious.
I went to open the window to ventilate the stench, and at the same time, I lazily said to him, "Don't scream, lose your soul." ”
"Lost your soul?" Chen Muqing was slightly startled, remembering what happened to Ah Xue before. But he couldn't figure it out, Ah Xiu didn't play with the pen fairy, and he didn't provoke resentful spirits, why did he suddenly lose his soul?
I saw that he was a little confused, so I reached out and picked off Ah Xiu's eyelids. I saw that her eyes were white and lifeless, and the bloodshot protrusions in the whites of her eyes were particularly terrifying.
"How could this be?" Chen Muqing was taken aback, and at the same time asked me suspiciously, "You guessed?"
"A little guessing, but I'll wait until she wakes up. I stopped and said, Ah Xiu's condition confirmed my suspicion, this girl really had something to hide.
I found the overturned bamboo tube next to the bed, the lid of the tube had been opened, and there was nothing inside. Then he looked around again, asked Chen Muqing to jump on the bed, and then took out another bamboo tube from the cloth bag, opened it and put it on the ground.
At this moment, the room resounded with the sparse sound of something crawling last night, which made people's scalp tingle and extremely uncomfortable.
Chen Muqing was a little uncomfortable, but seeing that I was calm, she also put her mind at ease and looked down at the bamboo tube. At this moment, he was stunned to see a centipede more than three feet long actually come out from under the bed!
The centipede's whole body was bright red, as if it was dripping blood. The sparse sound came from the movement of its hundred legs.
An ordinary centipede that is more than a finger long can make people feel numb on the scalp, not to mention these red centipedes that are more than three feet long, blood-red all over, and obviously weird?
Chen Muqing swallowed nervously, and then saw the centipede's tentacles continue to shake, and finally slowly got into the bamboo tube I put down.
I watched the centipede's movements, and when I saw it get in, I quickly covered the opening with a red cloth, and tightened the edge with a loop of rope to make sure it didn't slip out.
The ordinary hundred-legged insect is already an extraordinary poison, and this kind of three-foot-long insect can already be called a 'strange'.
It took a lot of effort to find it, and besides, I didn't tame it, but I put something in the tube that would attract it, which made it enter the tube on its own.
There were a few 'clucks' in the bamboo tube, and it quickly settled down. And when Chen Muqing saw this scene, where could he not understand what I put in his bamboo tube yesterday?
"Little pillar, are you so relieved to let me carry such a thing with you?"
I sneered and said, "Well, didn't I say it? Something terrible can save a life, and as long as you don't open the lid, it won't just drill out, unless it finds something that makes it unbearable." For example......"
I said as I crouched down and reached out to lift the sheets. Suddenly, a stench that was even more choking than before poured out of it, and the smell was disgusting.
In order to train my courage, I have been forced by my grandfather to volunteer in funeral homes and crematoriums in the past three years. I actually smell a lot of all kinds of rancid odors, but today this nose still makes me retch.
"Gan, it stinks worse than I thought!" I said, squinting my eyes, and smoked tears flowed out. Chen Muqing was also stinky, jumped off the bed, and said, "What stinks so much..."
As he leaned down to look under the bed, under the light of his mobile phone, he could see clumps of things together. The stench was from the thing, and judging by the colorful scales, there was no doubt that it was a snake.
Thinking that he had not only spent the night with a centipede more than three feet long, but now he had to add a snake, Chen Muqing's face was not to mention how ugly it was.
I wanted to laugh and was embarrassed, so I coughed twice and pulled the snake out with my broom.
Seeing my bold move, Chen Muqing was startled at first, and then saw that the snake was motionless, and also reacted: "Dead?"
"Well, if it didn't die last night, you'd have to die. I said solemnly, "Or rather, it was led out by you." However, I didn't expect you to bring a fire centipede with you, and instead you gave your own life. ”
As I spoke, I had pulled the snake out from under the bed. The stench was even stronger, and it was all emanating from the seven-foot-long yellow-green worm.
It can be seen that there is a bloody hole on the top of the head of this long snake, and the brain marrow inside is empty.
"Eaten by that centipede?" asked Chen Muqing.
I nodded, and then took out a stack of boxy paper from the cloth bag, and spread it out to reveal a circle, in which was the totem pattern of the ancient Suzaku bird.
"The southern Vermilion Bird is a fire, and the earth is a six-fire alkyne evil spirit. "I recited the Suzaku mantra in the "Mantra of the Pavilion" in my mouth, and put the dead snake in the middle of the Suzaku totem pattern.
Then he took out a red pen from his bag and pointed to the four spirits of the heavens and the seven houses in the south.
Then take the incense burner, light three sticks of incense and insert them into it.
"Heavenly Master Dao disciple, please ask the Lingguang Divine Monarch to eliminate demons and destroy evils. ”
I sat cross-legged, staring, and bowed.
As soon as the words fell, an unbelievable scene happened in front of my eyes. In the middle of the Suzaku totem, where no one went to light the fire, a trace of white smoke was generated!
The dead snake seemed to be scorched by an invisible flame, its skin quickly dried up and then turned black, emitting a strong stench. And in the black gas, there was a trace of white smoke mixed with it.
The scene lasted about fifteen minutes, and a stinking dead snake turned into a puddle of snake bones. The Suzaku totem also disappeared in the process, and in the end, only a crumpled white paper remained.
"That's... Ah Xiu?" Chen Muqing said suddenly, his eyes looking at the corner of the room.
I guess he probably saw Ah Xiu's soul, because the dead snake was burned by the 'real fire', and the soul imprisoned by it was liberated.
"I help her calm her soul. I wiped the sweat from my forehead, don't look at the ease it just now, it's actually quite exhausting.
After breathing a sigh of relief, I tied a sleeve with a red rope, and according to Chen Muqing's instructions, I put the rope sleeve in the corner, and then put it on Ah Xiu on the bed.
Suddenly, her chest bulged, she coughed dryly several times, and opened her eyes weakly.
"Good morning, Miss Axiu. I smiled as I rolled up the noose and put it back in the bag.
"You..."Ah Xiu looked a little uncomfortable when she saw me, and looked at Chen Muqing beside her with uneasy eyes, "That... What's wrong with me?"
Chen Muqing wanted to speak, but I stopped her.
I smiled and said to her, "You faint and don't wake up, Miss Axiu." Brother Aqing was worried, so he asked me to take a look. But as soon as I got here, I caught a very interesting thing, I wonder if it's your pet Miss Xiu? This pet is quite peculiar. ”
Before my words fell, Ah Xiu's face suddenly turned blue, and he shouted in panic: "No, no, I don't have any snakes! Take it away!"
Ah Xiu screamed in panic, helpless.
"Ah Xiu, Ah Xiu. Chen Muqing hurriedly comforted her, but he also noticed that something was wrong, I didn't mention that it was a snake, "Ah Xiu, you... Know the snake?"
"Snake... Snake?" Ah Xiu's face was covered with sweat, his lips were pale, and he realized that he had lost his words.
Seeing Chen Muqing, she hugged him like grasping a life-saving straw and wailed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all my fault! I don't want to die......"
It was like last night's experience and my words finally broke her tense nerves, and Ah Xiu buried her head in Chen Muqing's arms and cried.
Chen Muqing looked at me at a loss, I raised my eyebrows, and stupidly wrapped the snake bone that I wanted to show her in paper and threw it into the trash.
Let her watch this now, I'm afraid it will irritate her to the point of madness.
After a while, she seemed to be tired of crying, and her spirit stabilized a little.
I called Chen Muqing out and said to him, "Brother Aqing, she should trust you a lot, you go and ask what's going on." I'm walking around the house, the layout of the house... It seems that Feng Shui has been deliberately manipulated. ”
I had this feeling from the moment I walked through the door, a strange screen, and a goldfish bowl that was too large compared to the room, with dim light and poor airflow.
I walked around the house a few more times, using the measurement steps of the "Staying Earth Stargazing Method" to calculate, and after careful consideration, it seemed that the small feng shui pattern inside the house had been set up as an image of 'removing yin and evil'.
This evil image pointed directly at Ah Xiu's room, but what struck me as strange was that there was a mirror hanging on the door frame of Ah Xiu's room to 'block the evil'.
What is this trying to do?
I don't understand a little, if you want to say that it hurts people, it's strange that it harms people by half.
To be said to be a coincidence, the various furnishings in the house do not seem to have been bought and placed unintentionally.
...... Strange.
I'll admit, I'm a little curious.