Chapter 16 No up or down
Ghost hitting the wall, also known as ghost wall, ghost retaining wall, is traditionally a folk saying that someone gets lost on the road alone at night or in the suburbs and cemeteries.
The most obvious situation when encountering a ghost hitting the wall is to fall into a circle, unable to distinguish the direction and unable to get out. This phenomenon is real and has been experienced by many people. There are even travelers who like to hike who claim to have encountered similar experiences of ghosts hitting walls during the day.
Most of the ghost hitting the wall occurs when one person is alone, and there are also cases of more than two people, or even group encounters, but the situation of large number of people is relatively rare.
As for the phenomenon of ghosts hitting the wall, the more scientific research results are that if someone walks with their eyes closed or in the dark, there will be a slight difference in the length of their feet. When this difference accumulates to a certain extent, the human body will be attracted by the corresponding magnetic field in the vicinity, and will fall into a circle with a radius of about 3 km centered on a certain location.
This result was studied by some boring scientists, in order to prove that the essence of biological motion is circular motion, and the result is self-evident, and it is of no use to people to really understand that ghosts hit walls.
Who is idle and walks with their eyes closed!
In China, there have been various legends of ghosts hitting the wall since ancient times, and even this legend is quoted in "The Legend of the White Snake", talking about Hu Meiniang's ghost hitting the wall and Xu Shilin's chance encounter.
The ghost hitting the wall I encountered on the ghoul road before, according to Jing Han, was caused by the seven-star corpse, and the ghost hitting the wall was relatively strong, and it could trap a whole carload of people inside.
And at this moment, the stairs of the teaching building of the Ghost College of Tiandao University in front of him are also set up by "ghosts hitting the wall", and in Li Su's words. This is still a more powerful and disgusting "ghost" illusion that can make everyone fall into it.
The so-called "ghost" does not mean that the caster released a ghost to on the road, but that the caster spread the three things from the dead people, such as "corpse oil", "bone meal", and "abdominal remains", on the road, so that the person walking on it inhaled too much yin qi and fell into some kind of illusion, not knowing how he walked.
Corpse oil and bone meal are easy to understand, but the key is that this abdominal legacy, the essence of which is the dirt (mostly feces) left in the abdomen of the dead, is something that even the dead do not want to ask for.
The caster spreads these three things on the road, and the corpse oil and bone meal attach a large amount of yin qi to make it impossible for people to walk out. And the filth of the abdomen itself will neutralize the yin qi. People can only get out if they completely step on the abdomen, that is, step on all the way. This is also the origin of the name "ghost".
It stands to reason that this is an illusion, and the effect of illusion is to confuse people, and it should not leave such obvious flaws. But the purpose of the person who invented "ghost" in the first place was not to control others, but to disgust others. That's why there is such a thing that has been criticized for thousands of years.
Li Su used his mobile phone to find out the photo. The display steps are available in three colors: red, blue, and green. It's three different things: corpse oil, bone meal, and abdominal remains. It's a pity that such a high-tech thing as a mobile phone collides with traditional Chinese magic. The results can only be displayed in the three primary colors, but it does not tell us what each of the three colors represents. So the next road has to be explored little by little by ourselves.
It just so happens that I, the fat man, and Li Su are three people, and if one person chooses one path to go, there will always be one who takes the right one.
Standing at the top of the stairs, I looked at Li Su and the fat man on the left and right, took a deep breath, and asked softly, "What's the matter, will you leave now?"
"Let's go. How can you get out if you don't go! It's just that the thought of stepping on along the way makes me feel unhappy. ”
Li Su shook his head helplessly, while the fat man on the other side grinned and said indifferently: "What's wrong with stepping on, who hasn't stepped on it in his life, just go out and find the person who set this thing, and polish his shoes on him." ”
"Okay, let's go. ”
"Yes, remember, there are three paths, one can go down, one will stand still, and the other will turn around and go up. We just need to stare at the road in front of us, and don't look at the other two people, otherwise the yin qi will be infected, and we will still not be able to get out. ”
Li Su finally explained, and then took the lead.
I didn't say anything more, staring at the steps at my feet, and I didn't even dare to glance at the two people next to me out of the corner of my eye.
Walking up the half-story stairs was like a hard battle, which made me sweat, and when I finally stood in the middle of the two floors, I turned my head and looked again, and I don't know when the fat man and Li Su were gone.
"Hey, buddy, I'm here!"
Li Su's voice came from a certain location in the haze, and I looked around, but I didn't find him, but I suddenly saw the open classroom door behind me. Turning his head suddenly, he was still in the middle of the floor, and the window at the corner of the staircase suddenly turned into a long staircase.
And Li Su was at the corner of the stairs below me.
Unconsciously, I actually stepped on the spot, Li Su walked down, what about the fat man?
"Lao Yan, Li Su, where are you?"
The fat man's shout came from above, and I looked sideways to see that he had run to it.
Now, here's the problem.
Li Su doesn't need to go anymore, if I want to go down, I just need to follow Li Su's footsteps, but what about the fat man, how can he get down from above?
I turned my gaze to Li Su, who was not ambiguous, and threw the phone directly from below.
"Let Shi Dalong take pictures of the stairs, determine the location of the different downstairs paths, and try to walk every time!"
Taking the phone that Li Su threw me, I nodded at him gratefully, then turned around and threw it to the fat man.
Soon, the fat man took a picture to determine the path, and then walked forward, only to see him climb upstairs again without hesitation.
"Damn, fatty, come back, you're on the wrong track!"
I shouted for the fat man, but he turned a deaf ear to my words, and I didn't hear him yell until he completely disappeared from my vision at a certain moment.
"Why did you come up again? Lao Yan, you wait for me to go down, I'll do it again!"
“……”
The fat man's experience tells us that mobile phone photos can only distinguish the path, but they can't guarantee which color of the steps is the right way, so if you want to go down, you can only try one road at a time, and eliminate the wrong options little by little.
In this way, the three of us were like the turbines of the engine, up and down, up and down, playing on the stairs of the school building that I don't know how many stories high.
Of course, if it's always like this, it's only a matter of time before we end up going downstairs. But I never expected that when the fat man accidentally ran upstairs again, and when he came down again, he was followed by two people I didn't know at all. (To be continued......)