Chapter 196: The Conjuring Bell
Tong Yao lowered her head and thought for a while before she said, "It's nothing to tell you, you know why I said that!"
Zhou Tian nodded and changed his legs slightly, sitting in this position already made his legs a little numb.
"Our forest is too big, and there are not only wild beasts in the mountains, but also people who are more dangerous than wild beasts, and those people are similar to poachers, who have been entrenched in the forest, and have connections with poachers and smugglers. Tong Yao said.
Zhou Tian remembered the group of poachers he met in Tianchi before, and he also rescued the little tiger family and caught the poachers.
And there is also a windfall as a result.
"These people, long ago, we called them beards or bandits. Tong Yao said.
"Are there still bandits?" Zhou Tian said in surprise.
Tong Yao smiled, "It's all the time, it's just that the times are different, and their means of doing evil are also different, the people in the city call them criminals, and here, because the place is too big, and they are elusive, they have almost been forgotten!"
"Don't the police care?"
"The power of the police is also limited, they live here all year round, even if the police come to find them, it is difficult to find them!"
"I really didn't expect it!" Zhou Tian sighed, the word bandit had been seen on TV, but he didn't expect it to exist in real life, "Then why did they target you and Uncle Zhang?
"Do you actually know the Soul Bell?" Tong Yao looked at Zhou Tian with a smile, "That's just the magic weapon of the legendary shaman! For ordinary people, it is of no use at all, hanging under the eaves to listen to the ring?"
This was a half-joke, and Zhou Tian couldn't help but be happy, "Maybe they just want to take it and listen to it!"
"You kid!" Tong Yao also smiled, sighed slightly, reached out and took out a cloth bag from his arms, "This is it!"
Zhou Tian was a little surprised, he didn't expect Tong Yao to believe him so much, and actually show him what those bad people wanted.
The navy blue cloth slowly opened, revealing a bell with a handle inside.
This bell is different from what I have usually seen, about thirty centimeters long, with a handle on it, the bell is engraved with complex patterns and incomprehensible words, and there are several skeletons on the bell, and the back of the skeleton is pasted with a pattern symbolizing the sun, and the bell hanging down inside is also engraved with patterns.
The whole bell emitted a thick halo, and there were a few colored feathers on the handle, which were tied to the handle by a leather rope with a smooth surface and some wear, which looked like it was about to fly in the halo.
"This is bronze?" Zhou Tian asked, looking up.
Tong Yao looked at Zhou Tian with a smile, "This is the earliest magic weapon handed down from our shamanic sect!"
"How early is it? During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bronze was prevalent, could it be said that it ......," Zhou Tian said.
"That's right, maybe it's even earlier than that!" Tong Yao said, looking at the bell in his hand.
Zhou Tian also looked down at the bell, the bronze with its heaviness, there was no green rust all over the body when it was unearthed, but it seemed like someone else had been holding it for a long time, with a dark red color on it.
"It has a long history, it is said to be the stuff of the first generation of shamans, and it has been in my hands for more than a thousand generations!"
More than a thousand generations of shamans!
Zhou Tian was shocked and speechless, but he still couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what did those people want this bell for!
"Those people want this, not only because it's an antique now, but also because he really has the power to summon spirits!" Tong Yao said.
"Could it be that the legend is true?" Zhou Tian, who had received a strict materialist education, had already been immune to the mysterious things of these gods after receiving the inheritance of the old god in the jade gourd.
"You don't believe it?" Tong Yao looked at Zhou Tian with a smile, "Many people don't believe it!
Zhou Tian can still understand things like the ascension of immortals, but it is difficult to believe the theory of ghosts.
After all, the ancients cultivated to become immortals, in a sense, it was an ordinary person who turned himself into an existence higher than ordinary people through a means, and he was still a human being.
But ghosts are different, they can't be touched and seen, where are they usually located? Is there really a netherworld?
"It's not that I don't believe it, but what you said is really hard to believe!" Zhou Tian said a little dryly, "Is there really a ghost?"
Tong Yao smiled and looked out the window, "Many things can't be explained! Of course, the conjuring spirit exists, and the price paid is also very large, so of course, such things rarely happen, and it is difficult for people outside to see them!"
This is unclear, what Tong Yao means is that ghosts must be there, but ordinary people can't see them, only by using the soul bell to summon spirits, and the same price to pay is very large, even if they don't do it easily.
Zhou Tian unconsciously remembered what Liu Shun had told him.
"Is it true, my master used this ...... back then," Zhou Tian asked tentatively.
Tong Yao smiled, this time he smiled extremely happily, "Don't ask! You bring this back to your master, it's not safe to put it here with me, besides, until the shaman teaches me, there will be no more in the future!"
"Won't there be?" There were too many questions on Sunday's night, and his mind couldn't turn around, "Don't you still have Tong Shun?
"He's better to be an ordinary person he likes! Being a shaman isn't something anyone can do!" Tong Yao smiled and shook his head.
Also, shamanism seems to be difficult to find in the outside world, even if Tong Yao is a shamanic wizard, doesn't he still stay in this deep mountain and old forest?
It's really hard to change someone with a formal education from the outside world to accept what everyone thinks is superstitious.
"That's no problem, then you haven't told me yet, what exactly do those bandits want this soul bell?"
Before, when he asked, he was changed the topic by Tong Yao.
Tong Yao sighed when he saw that he was still chasing after this question, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I don't want you to get into trouble!"
"I'm not afraid!" You tell me, I listen, I will decide the pros and cons, and I won't get burned!" Zhou Tian said.
After listening to the reassuring pill given by Zhou Tian, Tong Yao nodded, "You have a virtue with your master, and you want to take care of everything you see!" Her smile carried a hint of relief, "Didn't I tell you? This is the soul bell, he can summon spirits!"
Zhou Tian nodded, "That's right......! Who's going to be called back?"
"That's right!" Tong Yao nodded, "Their biggest bandit leader, who was seriously ill more than ten years ago, thought of this, they may have some taboo methods! Use the soul bell, it must be a living soul, the person who has just died, you can save it with human blood, after three days, you have to sacrifice livestock, after seven days, you have to sacrifice it alive, and if you have been dead for a long time, you don't know how many people want to sacrifice, they have to go against the sky, I will not let this kind of thing happen if I give up my life!"
Zhou Tian was really frightened, the living sacrifice, he had only seen the burial pit in the dungeon, it was more than 3,000 years ago, and it was shocking to look at it at the time, not to mention the current society, with living people, there are still a lot of living people!
"Aunt Tong, don't worry, with me, I won't let them succeed!" Zhou Tian said solemnly.
"They are so obsessed with summoning spirits, they must have used some secret method to find a person who is suitable for possession!" Tong Yao sighed and said, "What a sin!"
Possess?
What is that?
"When you say possession, is it like a ghost?" asked Zhou Tian.
"It's not the same, if it's a Taoist or a Buddhist, you may encounter a temporary ghost, and what the shaman said is a lifetime of possession!"
"What?" Zhou Tian couldn't help but exclaim, isn't this what is written in the book?" "There really is?"
Tong Yao looked at the shocked Zhou Tian, and couldn't help but smile again, "I don't want you to be scared if I don't tell you, what's the matter?"
"No, no, I just knew it too suddenly, I didn't expect such a thing to really exist!" Zhou Tian quickly explained.
Everything I knew tonight was really upsetting.
"Don't worry, you bring this to your master, he knows how to deal with it, and when it comes to him, those people will have no choice, and what you are worried about will not happen!" Tong Yao wrapped the bell and handed it to Zhou Tian.
Zhou Tian looked at the blue cloth bag in his hand in a complicated manner, "Aunt Tong, have you really decided?"
"It's decided! In this world, I only believe him!" Tong Yao said.
Zhou Tian exhaled, "Then you really don't want to go to Kyoto with me?"
Tong Yao smiled and shook her head, "Can't go!"
"Then let's do it! I'll make a call, can you say a few words to my master? I don't want him to be old, what regrets do he have!" Zhou Tian looked at Tong Yao with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
He also knew that none of their older generation had told him what their relationship was like, but now he really had only one thought, that is, he couldn't leave Liu Shun with a trace of regret.
After the death of his parents, only Liu Shun took him like a parent, which is why he tried hard to make this matter a success.
Tong Yao thought for a while before nodding.
Zhou Tian hurriedly took out the phone, no matter what time it was, Liu Shun slept or not, and made a phone call.
"Zhou Tian, it's so late, what's the matter?" Liu Shun's voice came out of the phone.
I don't know why, Zhou Tian was a little excited, "Master, I found Uncle Zhang and Aunt Tong!"
"What did you say?" Liu Shun on the other end was even more excited than Zhou Tian, and Zhou Tian heard the sound of something landing on the phone.
"I'll give the phone to Aunt Tong now, you wait!" After speaking, Zhou Tian handed the phone to Tong Yao, while he himself went to the ground and put on his shoes and went to another room.
"Uncle Zhang!" As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Tian saw Zhang Linsheng sitting on the kang with Tong Shun and Black Eagle and talking something, "Aunt Tong and my master are talking on the phone, I'll let you talk to him later!
"Your master?" Sure enough, Zhang Linsheng was also very excited, and glanced at the other end, "What did your Aunt Tong tell you?"
"I didn't say anything about the previous things, I just talked about the bandits!" Zhou Tiandao.
Zhang Linsheng nodded, "That's the personality she is!"
Zhou Tian didn't know if he was talking about Tong Yao or what Tong Yao said, so he nodded.
On the other end, Tong Yao and Liu Shun didn't know what they said, they said it for a long time, and after an hour, Tong Yao's voice came from there, "Zhou Tian!"
Zhou Tian hurried over, and saw Tong Yao's eyes slightly red, she handed the phone to Zhou Tian, "Go rest!
Zhou Tian nodded, took the phone, and helped Tong Yao take the door back to the house over there.
The mobile phones were a little hot, and there was only one grid left for electricity, so Zhou Tian took the phone of the Black Eagle and called Liu Shun again.
"Master!" Zhou Tian shouted.
"Zhou Tian!" Liu Shun's voice was a little weak, with a hint of unspeakable hoarseness.
"I'll give the phone to Uncle Zhang now, you can talk to Uncle Zhang!" After Zhou Tian finished speaking, he handed the phone to Zhang Linsheng, and gave Tong Shun and Black Eagle a look.
"Tong Shun, take us to the toilet!" Black Eagle said.
"Oh, it's coming!" Tong Shun was slow for a second to react, and quickly got off the ground, and the three of them put on their coats and went out.
In the room, Zhang Linsheng and Liu Shun were left talking.
"Brother, I didn't expect to hear your voice......