Chapter 33: The Staircase Incident
At that time, I was still very busy, in addition to meditating and praying every day, performing mantras in the way of "Meditation on the Heavens of Great Freedom", I also had to deal with my mother's urging and try my best to find a job.
I had to juggle two days, busy from morning to night, fortunately I had the little gadget of God Devouring Gu in my body, and after his blessing, my physical strength and energy were undoubtedly much stronger than before, even if I only slept three or five hours a day, I would not feel sleepy.
In my spare time, I try to communicate with it, but strange to say, since it settled in my body, it seems to have stopped quite a bit, and almost half of the time it sleeps, except for the occasional awakening when it senses my calling, and at other times, it has little interest in the outside world.
At first, I didn't quite understand what was going on, but it wasn't until later that I gradually figured it out, the God Devouring Gu is also a living being, as long as it has a mouth, it has to eat, right? For most of the past half a month, I have only cared about calling it, but I have never thought of letting this little guy eat a mouthful of hot food, and in the long run, even if the iron body is beaten, it may not be able to stand it.
In this way, I really don't think I'm a qualified master.
With this in mind, I set about "raising" the little thing, first by buying a few bags of cat food at the pet store downstairs, putting them on a plate, and chanting a mantra in an attempt to wake the little creature out to eat.
Who knew that it didn't appreciate it at all, and it was "buzzing" and singing in my mind, expressing extreme dissatisfaction, I thought about it and remembered what the second uncle once said, this thing belongs to the product born in the Nine Polar Regions, and the things it eats are not the same as ordinary people, relying on blood sucking and dark energy to survive.
Insert a digression here, in fact, whether it is a practitioner or an ordinary person, there is a certain amount of essence blood in the body, but the essence blood is divided into two kinds, one is the innate essence blood, commonly known as "heart blood", this thing is extremely difficult to cultivate, can only be acquired through the day after tomorrow and practice, a little bit of accumulation, with a little less.
The second is the acquired essence blood, which is often called "middle finger blood", because of the ten fingers connected to the heart, the blood vessels on the middle finger of the person can go straight to the heart vein, so the Taoist priest dips the altar to draw symbols, most of the middle finger blood is used.
Speaking of serious, I don't have much in my own body, so I am naturally reluctant to squeeze out and raise this little thing, and once the essence and blood of a person is short, the body is bound to weaken, not as good as before, and in serious cases, it may even die violently, so I don't dare to let this little thing go outside to suck indiscriminately, and I have no choice but to use another way to supplement him.
In those few days, as soon as I was free, I would take the God Devouring Gu to the hospital to collect the Heavenly Soul of the dead, and use this method to nourish its increasingly depleted physique.
The so-called heavenly soul is one of the "three souls" of people, according to the Taoist yin and yang numerology, the human spirit can be called the soul, and its soul has three, one is the heavenly soul, the second is the earth soul, and the third is the life soul. There are seven spirits, one is the sky, two are the wisdom, three are the qi, four are the force, five are the center, six are the essence, and the seven are the Ying.
Once an ordinary person dies, the heavenly soul will dissipate in a very short period of time, and the earth soul will enter the secluded mansion and die in bliss, followed by the life soul, which is often called "ghost", where all the memories of a person before his life are stored, if the person has a greater grievance before death, then the life soul will be condensed and dispersed, reunited, and exist in the world in the form of a spirit.
Of course, the conditions for becoming a ghost are extremely harsh, and not everyone can become a ghost after death.
After the death of ordinary people, even if there is a greater resentment in their hearts, they can only form some negative magnetic fields, once someone passes by, accidentally exposed to the radiation of this magnetic field, it will affect and damage the brain waves, and this person will also have some illusions and see many things that should not be seen.
But this kind of magnetic field can only be regarded as a negative grievance, and it cannot be called a real ghost.
Real ghosts, generally exist in the form of spirits, can suck the essence and blood of human beings, but they cannot exist for too long, every first day and fifteenth day of the new year, the door of the yin is opened, and they have to suffer the punishment of the yang fire, and suffer the pain of the yin wind.
Most of the ghosts will be blown away by the first round of yin wind, and those who survive can be called "ghosts", but at this time, because of the pain of the washing of the yin wind, the ghosts will become extremely violent, jealous, and even harmful.
And the energy needed by the God Devouring Gu came from these souls that had not yet disappeared. During that time, I took the God Devouring Gu to and from the major hospitals every day, but whenever I heard that there was someone who had just died, I would rush there immediately, and sometimes I was lucky, and I was able to collect some remnants, but I didn't find any ghosts in the true sense.
From this, we can imagine how difficult it is for a person to become a ghost after death, and the case of a ghost that can be encountered by casually shopping on the street on TV cannot exist in the real world.
But as soon as this person is unlucky, even if he drinks cold water, he has to stuff his teeth, when I take the God Devouring Gu all over the world to "look for ghosts", the ghosts don't appear, once I relax, that thing really comes in......
I went to a class reunion that day, and I was a little in a high mood during the banquet, and I drank a lot of alcohol, and I was confused.
By the time the reunion ended, I took a taxi back to the community alone, it was already late.
My family lives in an old unit built in the last century, there is no elevator, my house is on the eighth floor, is close to the rooftop, usually do not feel that climbing the stairs is difficult, but once drunk, the legs are a little floating, forced to lie downstairs, just hope to be able to go home quickly, take a hot bath and sleep beautifully.
But God seems to be against me, I usually climb the stairs, I always climb to the floor of my house as soon as I slip through the smoke, but tonight is different.
I grabbed the staircase with both hands, moving up step by step, my head was dizzy, I couldn't remember how long I had climbed, this broken staircase still had no meaning to the end, unconsciously, it seemed that I had been climbing for five or six minutes, but when I looked up, there were still empty corridors around me, as if there was no end.
At this time, I didn't realize that the situation was wrong, and I felt a little uncomfortable in my stomach, so I squatted down, rubbed my stomach with my hands, and whispered in my mouth, "Damn, why is this staircase so difficult to climb today?"
Driven by my voice, the voice-activated lights in the corridor flickered brightly and dimly, and before I knew it, they were all extinguished.
As soon as the light dimmed, I didn't scold anymore, shook my head vigorously, forced myself to wake up from drunkenness, and then looked around at the surroundings, and gradually felt that something was wrong with this corridor.
The first is that I have been climbing for so long, and according to my past experience, I should have returned home a long time ago, and secondly, the voice-activated lights in this corridor have not turned on, and no matter how hard I stomp my feet, it is still dark around.
I instinctively tensed my back, and just then, I sensed a cool cold air behind me, as if something was behind my ear, blowing non-stop.