Chapter 302: Redneck

On the train, Master Lin sat in the last row of the carriage, and Kaohsiung sat in the front. When stopping at Nanao Station, there were passengers getting on and off the train, and Kaohsiung was more careful and observed the passengers with his peripheral vision. A passenger with a lot of luggage struggling to pass by Kaohsiung's side fell forward suddenly, and when half of his body pressed against Kaohsiung, he stretched out his hand to support Kaohsiung's shoulder. He quickly dodged to the side, and the man almost fell to the ground. Kaohsiung felt a chill on his shoulders, so he immediately took off his shirt, wiped his shoulders with a handkerchief, and glared at the other party. This is a middle-aged uncle, at least fifty or sixty years old. Kaohsiung tugged at him by the collar and asked who had asked you to come. The uncle's expression was very shocked, and he apologized again and again to explain, saying that he was squeezed out of balance by the people behind him just now.

Kaohsiung didn't give up, raised his fist to fight, and attracted the mediation of the high-speed rail police, Kaohsiung didn't believe what the other party said, so he asked him to let go of the uncle immediately and put on his clothes. In desperation, Kaohsiung had no choice but to let him go, but he didn't wear his clothes, the police were in a hurry, Kaohsiung threw his shirt out of the window, and the policeman couldn't cry or laugh, so he left.

Waiting for the uncle to get out of the carriage, Kaohsiung asked a middle-aged woman sitting in the back seat if she saw someone squeezing the uncle just now. The middle-aged woman shook her head: "I didn't see it, there was no one behind that man at all, where would he squeeze him, it seemed that he fell down by himself." ”

This made Kaohsiung even more suspicious, the train door had not yet been closed, Kaohsiung sat by the window, saw the uncle carrying a lot of luggage slowly walking on the platform, and looked up to see Kaohsiung sitting in the car. The uncle stopped, a strange smile on his face. Kaohsiung immediately raised his heart and subconsciously looked back, but he didn't see Master Lin, the seat was empty. He immediately ran over and opened the doors of the two bathrooms, both of which were empty. Kaohsiung had an ominous premonition in his heart, could it be that this Master Lin was also a member of the same party? But it was impossible, it was his own idea to come to Taiwan to find Ajie, and this could not be a trap.

The train door was about to close, Kaohsiung's brain was running rapidly, seeing that the two electric car doors had been slowly closed, and at the moment when they were about to close, Kaohsiung rushed over, flashed out of the door sideways, and the sleeves were clamped by the door, and he pulled hard to get out. When the train slowly drove out of the station, Kaohsiung didn't see the uncle carrying the luggage, but there was no shadow of Master Lin.

Kaohsiung ran out of the platform shirtless, which was just a small two-story building with a mountain opposite. He beckoned to a taxi and told the driver to start immediately, as far away as possible. The driver asked, "Which direction to go?" Kaohsiung asked where to go in the middle of nowhere, so the driver had to drive west. When he was in Malacca before, the fat master told him that the head lowering technique also has a distance when casting spells, and the farther away the effect, the worse the effect, and the effect of midnight spells is much better than that of daytime spells. Kaohsiung's heart was pounding, and he tried to recall, but he really didn't know if the coldness on his shoulders just now was an illusion. While the taxi was driving, Kaohsiung looked behind him, there were not many people in the township, and he was relieved to make sure that there was no car following.

Taiwan's major cities are concentrated around the edge of the island, the more you go to the center of the island, the more backward the economy, here are basically the countryside, inhabited by Taiwan's aborigines, such as the Beinan people, Ami people, etc. South Australia itself is just a township, and it doesn't take much to get to the mountains. The driver stopped the car, saying that it was too far away from home to collect the car, so Kaohsiung had to come out. I don't know if it's a psychological effect or a hair lowering action, he feels dizzy and uncomfortable. I walked into the village and found a family, saying that it was an overseas Chinese from Malaysia, traveling to Taiwan, and the jacket was scratched and could not be worn, so I had thrown it away, and wanted to buy an old clothes to replace it. The family was very welcoming, and although they saw that Kaohsiung had a lot of tattoos on his body, they still picked out a clean shirt and gave it to Kaohsiung.

He saw a farm truck transporting chickens and ducks passing by on the rural road, and quickly stopped it, falsely claiming that he was a tourist, so he liked to go to the countryside to experience life, and asked the driver farmer to send him all the way west to a more remote village. The farmer is from this village, saying that the village is called Kenyang, and most of the people living in it are the aborigines of the Atayal tribe, and further west is the Nanhu mountain forest area, except for the occasional backpacker, very few outsiders come. Kaohsiung offered to borrow a place in the village for two months to pay rent. The farmer was very happy and said that there happened to be a vacant room in the backyard of his home, and the two sides negotiated the price, so he took Kaohsiung over to settle down.

Kaohsiung followed the peasants to eat coarse tea and light rice at home and wear the peasants' old clothes. There is a small shop selling groceries in the village, and there is a public telephone, and Kaohsiung called Ajie according to the records in the notebook, but no one answered. At night, he lay in bed with his heart beating uncomfortably, thinking about the day. He didn't know when Master Lin slipped away, why did he run away? Suddenly he felt some itching on his nose, wiped the blood with his hand, looked in the mirror, and found that the blood was slowly flowing out of his nostrils, although the amount was very small, but it was also obvious. Kaohsiung was even more panicked, and he basically didn't sleep much this night.

After living in the village for seven or eight days, Kaohsiung would have two or three times a day with trembling hands and could barely hold chopsticks when eating, except for occasional nosebleeds. The farmer's child asked him what was going on, how dare Kaohsiung tell the truth, he just said that it was an old problem for many years, and it would be fine for a while.

Although he didn't understand the head-lowering technique, he also knew that it must have something to do with the middle-aged uncle who was on the train that day. Maybe it was because he took off his clothes in time, or maybe he quickly escaped to this poor country, so he didn't have a major seizure. But it was obvious that it would not work to drag it out, so I asked the peasants if there were any mages in the vicinity who could exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases.

"It seems that there is a master who can catch ghosts, but I don't know if the spirit is effective," replied the farmer's wife, "but there are also many people who call him a charlatan." Gao Xiong thought to himself, this should be the kind of wizard who has no mana, and it will basically not have an effect. After the meal, he walked around the front and back of the village, which was poor but had a good scenery, and the mountains and rivers were beautiful everywhere. When Kaohsiung met the villagers, he inquired, especially the elderly, such old people all spoke Hokkien or Gaoshan dialect, and Kaohsiung could only barely understand Hokkien. There were two old women sitting and chatting, and said to Kaohsiung with a smile in Hokkien that it seemed that there was a young man named Pan Tsai in the neighboring village, who was idle all day long, and he didn't farm or do anything, so he knew what spells to practice, and you should go and see if you wanted to go and see it.

Originally, these two old women were just chatting, but Kaohsiung had nothing to do, so they had to hold the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and went to a neighboring village in the northwest under the guidance of the old woman. There are many fish ponds in this village, and after inquiring about the owner of the pond, I saw two rows of old houses in the remote part of the village, both with red brick walls and sloping tile roofs, and the row on the west side has three rooms, and there are two loquat trees and a small vegetable patch at the door, and there is no courtyard wall, which looks very shabby. Judging from the characteristics, it is the place where the two old peasant women said.