58. The fifty-eighth talisman

Zhou Tong slept very deeply this night, and was woken up by the phone call the next morning, and his biological clock for more than 20 years failed to wake him up.

As soon as he answered the phone, he asked nervously on the other end of the phone: "Xiaotong, are you okay?" I'm scared to death, it's almost eleven o'clock, and you haven't replied to my text message, it's not normal." ”

Zhou Tong was blindsided all of a sudden: "What time is it?"

"Eleven o'clock. He said.

Zhou Tong turned his head to look at the wall clock, and sure enough, it was almost eleven o'clock, he leaned on the head of the bed all of a sudden, a little surprised: "I actually slept so late......"

"Sleep?" "It's a shame, it's the first time I've seen you sleep so late! Why did you go last night? Aren't you happy?"

Zhou Tong: "......"

It's not right to say it's happy, it's really happy to say it's not happy, he really can't answer this question.

Just wanted to tease, someone over there urged him to do the right thing, and he hurriedly said: "I sent you all the information you want to check, Zhao Jingshan has always been very mysterious, I haven't found much, you make do with it first, if there is any other information, I will make up for you!"

Zhou Tong: "Well, thank you." ”

"Thank you, I still have something to do, hang up first, see you later." ”

"Goodbye. ”

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Tong went to wash his face and brush his teeth.

Open the mailbox, the correct email is in the first, Zhou Tong clicked on it, and all the information was down, there were only five pages in total, most of them were similar to what he found, and only a small part was what he didn't find.

Zhao Jingshan has a group of feng shui sorcerers under his hands, he is a person who advocates metaphysics, and almost every once in a while he has to go to various places to listen to the metaphysical explanations of different schools, and the various industries under his hands are developed through strict feng shui control.

This coincides with Zhou Tong's understanding of Zhao Jingshan.

If the old man colluded with Chen En, what could Zhao Jingshan get from the old man? The secret recipe for Gu control, or something else...... Zhou Tong looked at the pages of information repeatedly, but still couldn't come up with any valuable answers.

Zhao Jingshan is too mysterious, and there are very few clues, far away in the north, he is really beyond his reach.

After thinking about it, Zhou Tong put Zhao Jingshan's information into Wen Jiàn folder for the time being, and waited to see if he could send him other information in the later stage.

What he was more concerned about now was how to summon Zhou Da's soul.

Zhou Tong supported his head with one hand, simulating the formation on the table depressedly, and muttered: "Tong Yin Lotus Lamp, Soul Summoning Incense, **, my father's clothes...... None of these things can summon his soul over, is he really in an important position in the underworld, but ......" Zhou Tong's eyes were a little uneasy, the last time he saw Black and White Impermanence, Bai Impermanence said that his father was living well in the underworld, but Black Impermanence's expression expressed a completely different meaning from him.

He was worried that Bai Wuchang was lying to him, and his father was not very good in the underworld.

Moreover, Zhou Da's death was too strange back then, and he died violently, at that time, Zhou Tong had not yet entered the Tao, and he couldn't see any clues, and now that he has entered the Tao, he still can't find the cause of his father's death, he always feels that it will not be as simple as just committing a lack of life, after all, a person who has committed a lack of life, although his life will be shortened, but he will not die without warning.

He'll have to figure it out again.

Zhou Tong cheered up, fished out a few books from the bookshelf behind him and continued to look at them, his father had a large collection of books, and he must find a way to summon the souls of the dead.

After two hours of searching, Zhou Tong sat at the table and read intently until he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Yo, what about learning? It turns out that I am still only a scholar. Duanmu Qiu stood at the door with a smile and asked, "Did I disturb you?"

"Don't bother. Zhou Tong smiled happily, and hurriedly stood up to welcome Duanmu Qiu into the house, "Aunt Qiu come in and sit." ”

Duanmu Qiu walked into the house, still holding a small box in her hand, she handed the small box to Zhou Tong, and said, "Aunt Qiu got some good things and gave you a little bit, and I just asked Qi Qing for your address." ”

"Aunt Qiu said I'll go to you to get it, I don't need you to send it over. ”

"I've always been curious about your shop, it's time to come and have a look. Duanmu Qiu looked around, touched the jade Ruyi and looked satisfied, "The feng shui in your store is indeed good, look at these jades, they all look bright." ”

She casually glanced at Zhou Tong's table, saw those books on spiritualism, and said, "What's the matter?

"Hmm. Zhou Tong thought for a moment and said to Duanmu Qiu, "My dad died strangely, I want to call his soul over to ask about the situation." ”

"Your father?" Duanmu Qiu was stunned, "Isn't your father Zhou Da? Didn't he die when you were seven or eight years old?"

"Yes. Zhou Tong nodded, "But I still want to give it a try." ”

Duanmu Qiu glanced at the soul rejuvenation incense placed on the table, and after opening it, a small piece was dug up inside, obviously used, she closed the lid and put it back again, and asked, "The soul rejuvenation incense is useless?" ”

"Probably not. Zhou Tong said, "There was a reaction, but I couldn't summon it." I don't think the rejuvenating incense is enough. ”

"Soul Rejuvenation Incense is not enough?" Duanmu Qiu looked at Zhou Tong with a surprised expression, as if he had misheard it and couldn't believe it, "If the Soul Rejuvenation Incense is not enough, then I really don't know what else can attract ghosts." ”

"It's not just rejuvenating incense. Zhou Tong smiled bitterly, and he took out the Tongying Lotus Lamp, "Plus this Lotus Lamp." ”

Duanmu Qiu: "......"

Duanmu Qiu was taken aback for a while before he said: "This is weird, both of these two things are the only magic weapons for soul conjuring, but they can't attract Zhou Da's soul, Zhou Da's soul shouldn't be trapped, right?"

Zhou Tong was silent, his eyelashes drooped, and a small fan-like shadow fell.

Seeing this, Duanmu Qiu comforted: "Okay, okay, since the two of them are not enough, let's find something else, and we will definitely be able to attract Zhou Da's soul." ”

Zhou Tong said: "It's hard. Originally, the Lotus Lamp and the Soul Summoning Incense were two extremely domineering Yin Vessels, and I used well water as a concoctor to regulate them, and if it was the same again, it would be difficult to reach a balance that would not corrode each other. He patted the pile of more than a dozen books and said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have had to look for so many days." ”

Duanmu Qiu thought for a moment and said, "I know something. ”

"What is it?"

"The Stone of Latent. ”

Zhou Tong: "Aunt Qiu is talking about the hidden stone that Fang Shi Dong Zhongshu brought to summon the soul of Mrs. Li. ”

Duanmuqiu: "That's right. ”

It is recorded in "Collecting Memories" that Mrs. Li, the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, has the reputation of "taking care of the city and then the country", but she was jealous and died unfortunately. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fell ill with lovesickness, and he never forgot to fall in love with Mrs. Li, so he asked the priest Dong Zhongshu to summon Mrs. Li's soul back from the underworld.

The thing Dong Zhongshu used was the Hidden Stone.

There is a land named "the capital of the wilderness" in the north of the Heihe River, which is rich in "the stone of the hidden Ying", which is cyan, light as white feathers, warm in winter and cool in summer. If you want to use this stone to summon the soul, you can carve the soul into the appearance of a villain, at this time, you can use the stone statue to call the soul, let the soul into the body, not like ordinary people have breathing, but can speak like ordinary people, in order to communicate yin and yang.

If it is used with the Lotus Lantern and the Soul Rejuvenation Incense, it is not only likely that there will be no rejection, but it will also make the two work better.

The Hidden Stone Zhou informed, but he didn't expect that the Hidden Stone had a reason.

No matter how accurate the writing in "Collected Memories" is, it is just a novel written by predecessors, and no one will take such a mysterious thing written in the novel seriously.

Duanmu Qiu saw Zhou Tong's thoughts and said, "Xiaotong, you don't know this, this matter is indeed true, and what Wang Jia wrote is true." Dong Zhongshu really has this latent stone, and I happen to know the whereabouts of this latent stone. ”

"Aunt Qiu?" Zhou Tong heard and looked at Duanmu Qiu in surprise.

Duanmu Qiu said, "However, it will be a bit of a problem to use it for you." Duanmu Qiu sighed and explained, "The Qianying Stone is in the hands of one of my guests, her daughter had a strange disease when she was seven years old, the main soul wandered, I don't know where she went, and the other souls were scattered without the main soul, so she put the Qianying Stone in her daughter's mouth to calm the soul, and has been looking for a way to make her daughter return to her soul for the past few years. ”

That's the problem......

Zhou Tong frowned.

There are many possibilities for the loss of the main soul, the most common is the frightened soul, most people who are frightened and become demented fools are because of this reason, and there are other possibilities that they have been hooked by someone.

The main soul is the root of the soul, which is in charge of people's feelings and integrates the essence of other souls, and naturally many people will covet it.

Zhou Tong asked, "Can you take me to see it?"

"Of course you can. Duanmuqiu said, "I originally wanted to ask you to show her daughter." ”

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "That...... Without further ado?"

Duanmu Qiu glanced at Zhou Tong: "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"It's just time to finish reading and invite Aunt Qiu to dinner. ”

"I'm not going with you. Duanmuqiu said, "I still have something to do later, I'll give you the business card, you go to her with this business card, and she will know that you are the person I found." ”

"Good. Zhou Tong accepted the delicate gold card, "Thank you, Aunt Qiu." ”

"Silly boy, thank you, if it's cured, I should thank you. Duanmuqiu said, "It's not early, I'm leaving, I'll come back to you another day to sit down." ”

"Aunt Qiu walks slowly. ”

After sending Duanmu Qiu away, Zhou Tong packed up his things a little and went out.

The other party lives in a small high-rise in the city center, and the door card has to be swiped when entering and exiting, and Zhou Tong troubled the security guard to swipe the door card to the door of the other party's house, and after knocking on the door, a lady opened the door.

She looked at Zhou Tong suspiciously and asked, "Are you?"

Zhou Tong said: "It was Aunt Qiu who asked me to come." He handed the card to the other party, the lady took the card and checked it carefully, relieved, she looked at Zhou Tong and said, "You are Zhou Tong, right?" I heard Xiaoqiu mention you, come, come into the house and sit." ”

Zhou Tong took off his shoes and entered the house and walked in.

This small high-rise is about 100 square meters, the living room is spacious, and there is a deep corridor inside, Zhou Tong glanced at it, the feng shui is not very good, but it is not too bad, and the light transmission is not a little weak.

Sun Meiping led Zhou Tong into the house and introduced the situation to him: "Xiaorui has been in a coma for almost ten years. During the period, I found almost a hundred warlocks, the rune water was also drunk, the rune paper was also pasted, the incense was burning all day and night, and I worshipped the gods and Buddhas all over the country, and there was no improvement at all, even Xiaoqiu had no way, alas......"

"Ms. Sun, don't worry, I'll take a look first. Zhou Tong comforted.

Sun Meiping nodded tiredly, she pressed her forehead, she hadn't slept well for ten years since her daughter fell into a coma, and she felt that her life was coming to an end.

There was a girl lying on the bed, her soft body sunk into the quilt, her exposed face looked thin, her cheeks were sunken, her complexion was also very dark, and her whole face was full of death.

Zhou Tong probed her breathing, it was too gentle, and there was no vitality at all.

The qi around the girl's body was also lifeless, not yin qi, but there was no spirit at all. After Zhou Tong looked around, his eyes stayed on the girl's arm and asked, "Can I look at her wrist?"

"Yes. As soon as there was something unusual, Sun Meiping was full of anticipation, she pulled the corner of the quilt, dragged the girl's wrist out, and put it in front of Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong took a closer look, and found a small tooth mark there.

"It's a mark. Zhou Tong said, "Did she meet any strange people when she was a child?"

"Strange people?" Sun Meiping had no impression at all, her daughter was in a coma ten years ago, who remembers what happened ten years ago......

"It's a sign left by a wanderer. Zhou Tong knew that she couldn't think of anything when he saw Sun Meiping's expression, and explained, "Wandering ghosts are a kind of ghosts that wander in the world, this kind of ghost is not threatening, but likes to play pranks, and targets those children who don't know the world." They will appear in front of children in the form of normal people, seduce them with toys, and when the children are very happy, they will suddenly turn into hideous ghosts, scaring their main souls, and then they will lead the main spirits that have no self-consciousness to play around, until they are tired of playing and change to another target. ”

"Then what should I do!" Sun Meiping heard this, and pulled Zhou Tong's sleeve as if she was holding on to a life-saving straw.

Zhou Tong said: "If the soul has just been lost, then it's okay, you can use the body to retrieve it, but now ten years have passed, and it is difficult to find it." ”

Sun Meiping showed a desperate look, and Zhou Tong comforted: "But she still retains signs of life, which proves that the main soul has not dispersed, just find a way to let that soul come back." ”

"Please, save my daughter. Sun Meiping pleaded.

Zhou Tong said, "I'll try it." ”

There is only one main soul for the girl's soul to disperse, and it has been very fragile after being separated from the body for so many years, it is difficult to sense the summoning of the soul rejuvenation incense and the lotus lamp, Zhou Tong is even more worried that the power of these two is too great and directly disperses the girl's soul.

He hesitated and asked Sun Meiping to summon the soul in the usual way.

It turned out to be of little use.

Such a simple method, it is impossible for Duanmu Qiu not to try, Zhou Tong did not dare to rashly use the soul conjuring magic weapon in his hand, originally the Qianying Stone was a very good soul conjuring magic weapon, and gentle, but it had already been put into the girl's mouth, as soon as it was taken out, the other souls were scattered, and there was no main soul for ten years, and even Zhou Tong couldn't keep it.

After thinking about it, Zhou Tong had no choice but to say: "The time is not right, I'll go back and prepare and help you." ”

Sun Meiping grabbed Zhou Tong's sleeve and said, "Please ask the Heavenly Master to save her, it doesn't matter if I want to go bankrupt......"

"What do I want you to do?" Zhou Tong smiled helplessly, "But if I am lucky enough to save her, I want to borrow your Latent Stone to use." ”

Sun Meiping hurriedly nodded in agreement: "Whatever the Heavenly Master says, it is what it is." ”

Zhou Tong comforted Sun Meiping a few more words and walked out.

He had to go back and study how he could recall the main soul that had been out of his body for more than ten years without harming the girl's soul...... Zhou Tong had a headache, and he felt that the difficulty was not much easier than summoning Zhou Da's spirit.

Ling Yuan didn't have much to do, the main reason was that the girl's main soul was too fragile to withstand the slightest wind and waves, and she accidentally directly scattered the souls of others, which was self-defeating, which was a matter of detrimental merit.

In the elevator downstairs, two girls who had just finished school shared a pair of headphones, their faces were flushed, and they were listening to something excitedly, and one of the girls said: "This is this one, this is so good! As soon as he debuted, I felt that he must be popular, you see, how good the response to this song is!"

"Listen so well, ahh

"Sixteen!" the girl said, gesturing to six, "as old as we are, and everyone is going to be a big star." ”

"Qiu Xiaosoul is really amazing!"

Qiu Xiaosoul seems to be another actor he doesn't know......

As soon as Zhou Tong stepped out of the elevator, he saw a poster posted on the advertising column opposite the elevator door.

The new popular idol singer "Qiu Xiaosoul" uses his soul to interpret - "Empty".

The poster's design style is mysterious, coupled with Qiu Xiaosoul's focused expression of singing with his eyes closed, the whole reveals an eye-catching ethereal inspiration. Zhou Tong took a few more looks, and the young boy in the photo was indeed good-looking.

He stepped out of the elevator and walked all the way out onto the street.

It is not easy to take a taxi in the city center, especially during the rush hour after five o'clock in the evening, taking a taxi is slower than walking, so Zhou Tong simply walked along the bustling commercial street all the way to the subway station.

Suddenly, a pleasant singing voice came, the further he went, the clearer the singing, Zhou Tong walked over to see, not far in front of him someone was standing in the middle of the road with a guitar singing.

He wore inconspicuous shorts and shorts, large sunglasses, and his hair was covered with an inverted cap, which almost covered his entire face.

He is singing a classic European and American song, which once made a singer an instant hit, and has a special flavor in his gentle and obviously youthful crisp voice.

Zhou Tong's footsteps stopped.

This is the most prosperous part of City A, the number of people coming and going is countless, all year round, even if there are many people in this neighborhood during the New Year's holiday, blowing and playing and singing all of them, no matter how good the table is, Zhou Tong has never stopped because of this.

And now, he stopped in front of the boy.

Not because the boy sings well, but because, in addition to humans, the boy's singing voice attracts other things.

For example...... Ghost.

Those souls were attracted by the singing voice of the young Qingyue, and they gathered around the crowd step by step, but fortunately, they were all souls with no malice, just wanting to listen to the song.

Zhou Tong glanced around, and finally landed on the young man, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

This young man's singing voice is very special, it reminds him of the charming merman, I wonder if he can exchange his singing voice for the girl's soul? I feel like I can give it a try......

Thinking of this, Zhou Tong decided to talk to him.

The boy didn't continue after singing a song, he put the guitar on his back and didn't ask for money, turned around and left.

Zhou Tong still wanted to talk to him, but the young man walked fast and the crowd was crowded, so Zhou Tong could only follow him all the time.

Until the boy turned into an alley, put the guitar down, and pulled a bottle of water out of his backpack to drink.

Zhou Tong just wanted to step forward, but saw the young man take off his sunglasses, revealing a familiar face.

"Qiu Xiaosoul......" This name just appeared ten minutes ago, Zhou Tong didn't forget, he was a little surprised, how could a popular star like Qiu Xiaosoul be in a street store, or on the most prosperous commercial street, can the brokerage company allow it?

Zhou Tong was thinking about it, Qiu Xiaosoul, who was drinking water, seemed to see something, he turned his head to look not far away, and picked up his guitar again and walked in that direction step by step.

Zhou Tong hurriedly followed.

Ling Yuan complained, "You don't think you look like a lewd stalker. ”

"I don't want to, I just don't have a good time to speak. Zhou Tongwan, he looked for an opportunity to talk to Qiu Xiaosoul.

As the sun set, in the alley, Qiu Xiaosoul's figure was stretched very long.

Qiu Xiaosoul stopped walking on the edge of an intersection, he put down his guitar bag, took out the guitar and hung it around his neck, tuned the strings, and began to sing.

This time he sang a nursery rhyme.

Red dragonflies in the sunset

Please sue me

I met you in childhood

What day was that

Pick up the basket and go to the mountain

The mulberry trees are green

Pick mulberry fruits and put them in a small basket

Could it be a dream shadow?

Red dragonflies in the sunset

Where are you?

Perched on the tip of the bamboo pole

It's the red dragonfly

This nursery rhyme is sung gently and gently by his light voice, like the wind passing through the alley at this moment.

Qiu Xiaosoul stood at the crossroads, as if caught in the singing, his eyes closed, his slender fingers playing with the guitar, his lips opening and closing, singing this nursery rhyme to his heart's content.

Zhou Tong was also immersed in his singing.

In the brazier on the side, the paper money that had not been burned was blown out by the evening breeze, and the moment the gray paper ash floated past Qiu Xiaosoul, his figure became very illusory.

At that moment, the qi quickly distorted, with Qiu Xiaosoul as the center, it seemed that the space had changed, and the next moment, Qiu Xiaosoul was sucked in by the mysterious power.

Zhou Tong hurriedly rushed over, but he couldn't pull Qiu Xiaosoul, and was pulled in by the force.

After landing on the ground, there is an empty land around, and there is no edge to see up and down.

"What a headache," Zhou Tong said...... "This person's song is so tempting, I patronize and listen to it." Glancing at the time on his mobile phone, Zhou Tong said, "At the crossroads, it is the twilight time that divides yin and yang, and his singing voice is still attracting ghosts." ”

Looking around, Zhou Tong said, "I'm afraid we were pulled into the space he created by something." ”

When they disappeared, passers-by saw the unburned clothes in the brazier and said, "Yesterday a child was hit by a car on this road, what a pity." ”

On the road, there is no shadow of them.