Early the next morning, Zhou Tong took a taxi to Long Street.

Long Street is the name of the people of the old A city, just like the old street, the reason why the long street is called the long street is not because of its length, but because of its long history, the long street is ancient and ancient, and the seniority is a well-deserved first street in the city of A.

The Municipal Museum is located on Long Street, and the city's No. 1 university, that is, the university where Zhou Tong originally studied, is also on Long Street.

There are three roads in the long street, with the monument mentioned by the female earth fairy as its center, extending in three directions, Tian Xiaozhen's studio is in the northwest direction, one bus stop away from the monument.

Zhou Tong went to the monument first.

This monument was established in the early sixties, more than 50 years of wind and rain, has been on a lot of historical movies, there are photos about it all over the world, countless, for the city of A has symbolic significance, many outsiders to travel to the city of A often the first stop is the monument. This monument has witnessed the development of the people of City A in the new era and gathered many people's beautiful aspirations.

Zhou Tong still remembers that when they were freshmen, Teacher Sixiu specially organized them to come to the monument to listen to a piece of old revolutionary history, which was too impressive.

When Zhou Tong went, there were still many people taking pictures next to the monument, and in order to protect the monument, a cordon was pulled around the perimeter. Zhou Tong walked to the cordon and looked at the stone monument.

The stele has gone through wind and rain, there are many traces on the stele, Zhou Tong looked around, and sure enough, he found the string of words that the female fairy said under the stele.

Ling Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "This isn't Sanskrit, right?"

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "It's really not, it's Tibetan." ”

"Tibetan?" Ling Yuan raised an eyebrow and asked, "What is written?"

Zhou Tong said: "...... It's a bit difficult to translate, but I know a little bit of Tibetan. After carefully identifying it for a while, he said, "I can't translate it specifically, but I can understand the general meaning, it should be 'my heart is immortal, my body will live forever'." ”

"Pray?"

"Possibly. Zhou Tong attached his palm to the Tibetan text, feeling that his palm was a little hot, he took his hand back and said, "I can't get rid of it, let's go and see the situation of Tian Xiaozhen first." ”

Ling Yuan was a little reluctant: "Oh. ”

Tian Xiaozhen had been waiting for Zhou Tong and them at the door for a long time, and when she saw Zhou Tong coming, she trotted all the way over, pulling Zhou Tong inside: "Senior brother, you are finally here, I hope you have been looking forward to it all morning." ”

Zhou Tong smiled: "Why are you so impatient?"

"Eh, isn't there a joy that you're about to get it done?!"

"Poor mouth. ”

Tian Xiaozhen brought Zhou Tong all the way into the house, and there was a tall and thin boy in the room, he was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and he looked very gentle, like a scholar.

Tian Xiaozhen introduced Zhou Tong: "This is my fellow disciple, who followed the boss in the first phase, Gao Xu, this is my senior brother, Zhou Tong." ”

"Hello. Gao Xu spoke very steadily, not like Tian Xiaozhen, after Zhou Tong said hello to him, he listened to Tian Xiaozhen say: "Originally, the antiquities here can't be shown to people in the 'society' casually, but I secretly revealed to the boss that you were coming, and he 'forgot' the key to me." ”

Tian Xiaozhen took out a small bunch of keys from her pocket and said triumphantly: "There are gloves over there, I prepared a new one for you, senior brother, you can wear it." ”

With a soft click, Tian Xiaozhen opened the safe and took out the cultural relics inside, Tian Xiaozhen changed her previous impetuous style, her eyes were serious, and she carefully took out the long-handled bronze mirror and put it in front of Zhou Tong, "Senior brother, look." ”

Zhou Tong put on his gloves and carefully observed the mirror, and finally fixed his eyes on the groove at the handle, Tian Xiaozhen said: "This is it, we can't make up for it." Whenever we thought it was finished, and when we looked at it the next day, the bronze would automatically crumble, and we would have to start all over again, but three or five times. ”

Gao Xu added: "The fragments were so cracked that they were almost shaken to the end, as if they had fallen from a height, but this artifact has been kept in the safe and is unlikely to be damaged." ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong nodded and said, "It's the same as what I saw yesterday, there was originally a groove here." He paused and glanced back at Gao Xu.

Tian Xiaozhen saw Gao Xu with Zhou Tong's gaze and said, "Senior brother doesn't care about him, he also understands." ”

Zhou Tong continued: "There is a remnant aura here, and there is a strong rejection of external objects. ”

"Reiki?" Gao Xu pushed his glasses and said in disbelief, "How can you prove it?"

Zhou Tong looked behind Gao Xu, where a thin down jacket was wrapped in a plastic bag, and Zhou Tong said, "Lend me the clothes?"

Gao Xu was stunned for a moment, unable to understand what Zhou Tong was doing, he nodded, took the clothes and handed them to Zhou Tong: "Please." ”

Zhou Tong pulled out the collar of the plastic bag, pulled out two feathers, stuffed the clothes back and put them back in place.

Gao Xu watched Zhou Tong's movements nervously, a pair of eyes under the glasses did not blink, Zhou Tong put the feather in the groove, and the feather that should have fallen slowly floated, Gao Xu's eyes widened, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

Seeing this, Tian Xiaozhen rolled her eyes at Gao Xu and said, "You still don't believe it?"

Gao Xu looked at the feather without saying a word, and always felt that Zhou Tong had done something.

The next moment, the fluttering feather suddenly cracked, as if it had been caught in an extremely dense net, and it shattered into slag little by little.

Gao Xu was speechless this time.

He looked at the feather crumbs that landed on the table, dumbfounded, and his mind was full of this unscientific, unscientific, unscientific......

Zhou Tong put the mirror back in place and said, "Now in this case, either give up and continue to repair, or find a gemstone magic weapon with comparable spiritual power to inlay on it." ”

"Zhou Tong. Ling Yuan suddenly stopped Zhou Tong, "Look at the back of the mirror." ”

Zhou Tong paused as he took off his gloves, put them back on, he turned the mirror over, and a little starlight shone on a corner of the handle, where the text was faintly written a string of words.

Zhou Tong asked, "Is there a magnifying glass?"

"Yes. Tian Xiaozhen handed over the magnifying glass and said, "Senior brother, there is a text there?"

"Hmm. Zhou Tong asked for a pen and paper again, holding a magnifying glass in one hand to look at the text carefully, and transcribing a string of words on the paper with the other.

Tian Xiaozhen looked at the words that were transcribed on the paper by Zhou Tong, and turned around and asked Gao Xu: "Did you have this Tibetan sentence before?"

"Nope. Gao Xu said affirmatively, "I and the teacher have carefully read it, and there is no text on it." ”

"Then this text ......" Tian Xiaozhen looked at Zhou Tong suspiciously, puzzled, "Senior brother, what's going on?"

"Obscured by gas. Zhou Tong intently compared the words on the mirror and the paper, and finally read: "My heart is immortal, my body is eternal......"

"What a cult. Tian Xiaozhen muttered in a low voice.

The words on this mirror are exactly the same as those on the stone tablet.

Zhou Tong sank his eyes and said to Ling Yuan, "What do you think?"

Ling Yuan said: "The stone tablet is newly engraved. ”

"Yes...... Zhou Tong turned around and asked Tian Xiaozhen, "Has anyone else touched this mirror besides us and the teacher?"

"No, no......" Tian Xiaozhen recalled carefully for a moment, and suddenly remembered, "Yes, yes, there is a teacher!"

"Which teacher?" Before Zhou Tong could ask, Gao Xu asked.

Tian Xiaozhen showed doubts on her face, she looked at Zhou Tong blankly, there was a person's shadow in her mind but she couldn't remember it, Zhou Tong looked helplessly, and asked, "Do you remember what day it was?"

"Which day......" Tian Xiaozhen looked down seriously and thought about it, pushed back her memory, and finally said vaguely, "It seems that it was around two or three o'clock in the afternoon last Wednesday, I took a nap in the studio, and when I got up, I saw that teacher." ”

Gao Xu showed his mobile phone in front of Tian Xiaozhen, "Look, this is a few teachers from our hospital, and all those who can come here have been deleted, which teacher came that day." ”

Tian Xiaozhen took the phone, as if she had lost her memory, she carefully swiped it little by little, her fingers paused, she suddenly remembered, and said, "It's this teacher!"

Gao Xu poked his head over, looked at the position of Tian Xiaozhen's finger, and said in a deep voice: "It's Teacher Wu, he passed away last month." ”

Tian Xiaozhen: "......"

Seeing Gao Xu's suspicious eyes, Tian Xiaozhen looked wronged, and she said, "Senior brother, you believe me, it's really Teacher Wu." ”

"Good. There are many possibilities, Zhou Tong didn't dare to draw a direct conclusion, he asked Tian Xiaozhen, "Then what did this teacher do after he came that day?"

"I didn't do anything...... Tian Xiaozhen recalled, "he came for a few minutes and left." ”

"A few minutes?" Gao Xu, who recalled something, sneered and said, "I told you earlier that the teacher had an urgent matter to find you that day, and asked me to call you, I called you more than thirty times and no one answered, and you also said that I spread rumors, and you didn't hear the phone ring at all." ”

Tian Xiaozhen took out her mobile phone unconvinced, tuned to last Wednesday, and sure enough, when she saw more than 30 missed calls from Gao Xu, she was stunned all of a sudden.

In those days, her mind was a little confused, and she almost had a car accident, could it be that what really happened after the teacher came that day? But something is wrong......

Tian Xiaozhen touched the obsidian on her wrist, this obsidian is a magic weapon, if she encounters something unusual, she should be reminded of it.

Now, Zhou Tong probably understands what is going on.

I am afraid that it was the words on the mirror that were copied and carved on the stone tablet.

But who is it...... The inscription on that stele was so delicately carved that it was difficult for even a top craftsman to prostrate on the ground and carve such a fine inscription at the bottom when the stele was placed like that.

"I'll find a way to cover the aura in Tibetan first. Zhou Tong thought about it, he could only do this kind of treatment first, he returned the mirror to Tian Xiaozhen, and then gave Tian Xiaozhen and Gao Xu two Liuding Liujia talismans, Tian Xiaozhen carefully put it away, and said: "Senior brother, is this mirror weird?"

"Yes, yes, but it doesn't seem to be an evil at the moment. He advised, "If anything happens again, you should contact me in time." ”

"Hmm. Tian Xiaozhen also knew that she had made a mistake, and nodded seriously.

Zhou Tong returned to the stele, he squatted in front of the words, looked carefully at the aura on the words, reached out and touched the first word, and there was a burning sensation on his fingertips, which was ironed to his heart, Zhou Tong sank his eyes and said: "There is qi hidden in the words." ”

"What's the gas?"

"Willpower. Zhou Tong stood up, swept his eyes over the crowd around him, and said, "It's the desire of pedestrians here to make a pilgrimage." ”

As the old saying goes: robbery and fire cannot invade the power of wishes, and it is like the spiritual light of the Han Dynasty.

The power of the wish refers to the power of the prayer.

Just like the golden statue of the Buddha placed in the temple and the statue of the god of wealth and the god of the stove in the home, the statue inherits the culture of a city and the power of the people's prayers of the whole city.

"This is tricky...... Zhou Tong sighed and said, "If you destroy it without permission, it will be like smashing the statue in the temple, offending the monk is a small matter, and angering the believers is a big thing." ”

He had a terrible headache and frowned in embarrassment.

At this moment, a strange aura suddenly came from behind him.

Zhou Tong swept through the crowd and immediately aimed at the target.

The woman was wearing a trench coat, standing on the corner of the street, carrying a handbag, waiting for the traffic light to cross the street, looking no different from ordinary passers-by, but she exuded a kind of evil aura that was out of place with the people around her.

Zhou Tong pretended to be a tourist who was here to play here, wandering around the stele casually, and it didn't take long for the woman to walk near the stele.

She looked up at the tall stele, the corners of her mouth slightly hooked, and then circled around and went around the back of the stele, as if she was reading an introduction.

Zhou Tong walked up to her and said, "This stele was built in 1965 to commemorate the great martyrs who guarded City A in the XX Campaign. Nowadays, it is a famous architectural landscape, and tens of thousands of people come to the monument for the next New Year's Eve every year. For the people of City A, many people will be accustomed to praying under the monument, whether it is praying for the health of their families or praying for the success of their careers, they always feel that the martyrs who have guarded the city will hear their voices. ”

The woman's body froze, her expression was covered by big sunglasses, and she smiled reluctantly at Zhou Tong, but did not speak.

Zhou Tong smiled at her and said, "It seems that I haven't taken a group photo here, are you willing to help me?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded nervously, she stretched out her hand, and Zhou Tong put the phone in her hand.

Zhou Tong stood under the stone monument, looking at the camera with a slight smile, Ling Yuan walked over quietly, standing beside Zhou Tong, with a calm face and an expressionless face.

Zhou Tong: "What are you doing?"

Ling Yuan ignored it, still looking at the camera indifferently.

The woman picked up the phone stiffly, and after a long time, Zhou Tong asked, "Miss, what's wrong?"

The woman was silent and didn't speak, and fiddled with herself for a while, and finally got it done, she raised the camera and gestured to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong's gaze crossed the camera and kept looking at the woman steadily.

The woman hurriedly finished taking the photo, returned the phone to Zhou Tong, then looked left and right, and left in a hurry.

Zhou Tong looked at her back and said with a smile: "A kitten." ”

"There are too many people. Ling Yuan said, "Let's go." ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong nodded.

The two followed the woman not far behind, and the woman was flustered as she shuttled through the crowd, not seeming Zhou Tong following them. The woman looked back around the corner, she didn't see Zhou Tong and them, her heart was a lot more settled, she walked through the bustling city center, turned into a small alley into a less crowded place, and finally shuttled all the way, and drove to a secluded corner.

Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan followed behind her unhurriedly.

When they came to one of those alleys, the woman stopped there.

She's undressing.

She slowly took off the clothes that almost covered her limbs, and after taking it off, she was wearing only a skirt inside, and her upper body was empty.

Ling Yuan frowned slightly and looked at Zhou Tong, only to find that Zhou Tong was staring without blinking.

Ling Yuan: "Hey. ”

Zhou Tong: "?"

Ling Yuan: "......"

After she took off her clothes, she began to bend down to take off her skirt, and the long woolen skirt that fell to the ground fell down, revealing two extremely thin legs.

The two bamboo-like legs supported the woman's thin upper body, and her breasts were almost flat, with no sign of bulge.

The next moment, she began to peel her skin.

A huge hole burst from the inside out of the middle of the chest, from which something sharp protruded, and the woman with outstretched arms was like a scarecrow placed on the field, motionless, while a cut was made in her chest.

The sharp claws slid down the hole in the front of the chest, resting on the woman's flat belly, and then leaped out of which a cat was half a man tall.

After the cat jumped out of the woman's body, the woman stood there, not moving.

The cat stepped on the woman, knocking the woman to the ground, he dragged the woman's hair all the way to the corner, and suddenly touched something, and the whole cat was stunned.

It seemed to remember something, and hurriedly turned its head and ran in the other direction, but who expected that somewhere in that direction there was also a wall of air, and in a panic, it threw the body of the woman in its hand on the ground, and rushed in all directions it could with a strange scream, and in each direction there was a wall in front of it.

It slammed left and left for a long time, but it still refused to give up trying.

Zhou Tong walked out of the shadows, he looked at the puppet cat trapped in the formation, and said: "I thought that the puppet cat was extinct, but I didn't expect to see it again, Sansheng is lucky." ”

The puppet cat's pair of gray standing pupils stared vigilantly at all of Zhou Tong's actions, and her back arched, guarding against Zhou Tong strictly.

The puppet cat is a cat that is very easy to cultivate into a spirit. These cats have a very high IQ and extremely clever hands, and they have an intelligence that surpasses that of ordinary people before they become spirits, and their hands can make the most exquisite dolls in the world, carving the most detailed patterns and words.

Occasional cats that have become spirits like one thing.

Skinning people in the graveyard and putting them on themselves to wander through the crowd, pretending that they are ordinary human beings and learning about human culture.

It is precisely because of the super high IQ of the puppet cat that it was once rounded up.

The things that come out of the puppet cat are precious magic weapons, whether good or bad, and as early as more than a hundred years ago, this creature has disappeared and only appears in books.

Zhou Tong was very curious when he looked at the puppet cat's every move, and the puppet cat would use the appearance of a human woman to prove that it had become a sperm.

But what is it stealing the wish power from the stone tablet?

The string of "my heart is immortal, my body is eternal" is obviously to turn the power of prayer into the method of eternal life, it is seeking eternal life?

The puppet cat was trapped in the game and couldn't move, Zhou Tong thought about it, walked in front of the puppet cat, and was only a short distance away from the puppet cat, "Everything has a balance, you want to live forever but you exchange other people's things for it, have you ever thought about what price you will pay in the future?"

The puppet cat looked at Zhou Tong with a snort, it meowed, and a sound came into Zhou Tong's ears, which was extremely clear.

The puppet cat was a female puppet cat, and it was also a female voice that came into Zhou Tong's ears, and she said, "Then did you humans think about the price you will have to pay in the future when you humans kill us?"

Zhou Tong: "......"

The doll cat said, "Everything is for survival, and I naturally have my reason for collecting these prayers, so why should you meddle with things." ”

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "Then I'll answer your first question first." The decline of the righteous path, thousands of years ago, almost everyone could cultivate, but the high and low levels were staggered, and they were different. And now, there are very few people who can step into the inner door, and this is the price we pay for not abiding by humanity. Moreover, because of the time when a human cultivator occupies the heavens, he will be limited by the five disadvantages and three deficiencies from the moment he enters the Dao, and the higher the ability, the greater the limit, and this is the balance. ”

The puppet cat's eyes flashed, and there were signs of being moved by Zhou Tong's words, and her expression was a little flustered, but she was barely calmed.

Zhou Tong's expression was as usual, as if he was as immobile as a mountain and as steady as a rock, as calm as an old gentleman who preached and taught and solved doubts, and he said with a kind face: "Then the second question, you have collected other people's wishes and converted them into the words you want, but have you considered how many things the people here will lose once their wishes cannot be absorbed by the stone tablet?" The desire to pray for the health of his family is gone, and the desire to pray for a smooth career is gone, and the old man travels in the snow, hoping that everything will go well for his children and grandchildren, but he can't reach the heavens. What you have stolen is not a bit of Reiki, but the wishes of other people. As for what ...... matter to me" Zhou Tong smiled kindly and gently, his eyebrows were crooked, and he said softly, "I'm sorry, I'm a native of City A, and I come here to pray for blessings every Chinese New Year, you stole it, but it's mine." ”

The puppet cat was speechless, it could no longer hide the panic in its expression, so it had to change the topic, "I didn't know that the female earth fairy was sleeping under the stone tablet, and it was understandable for you to help her, but I also had a reason to force it." If you are willing to promise me not to meddle in this matter, I can also pay you a certain amount. ”

"Yes. Zhou Tong nodded, "Then tell me your purpose, what are you collecting so many prayers and transforming them into immortal power?"

The doll cat fell silent for a moment, she looked at the ground, her eyes full of struggle, and a pair of paws tightly hooked.

Zhou Tong waited quietly for her answer.

Time passed little by little, both parties were very patient, and neither of them disturbed the other party's thinking, but Zhou Tong's side was very firm, but the puppet cat side had already wavered between confessing and not confessing.

"I transform this nature for the sake of immortality......

"For whose immortality?"

"Puppet cat!" The scream sounded, Zhou Tong followed the prestige, and a young man in his twenties suddenly ran over from afar, he looked at the puppet cat trapped in the formation in surprise, and after understanding the puppet cat's predicament, he glared at Zhou Tong angrily, "You people still want to hunt puppet cats, it's too shameless, right?!!"

Zhou Tong: "......"