At this point, we had no choice but to retreat. After tossing and turning all night, it's four o'clock in the morning, and I still have to go to school at half past seven in the morning. Master made an appointment with Master Zhou to go back to rest first, and continue to go to Kang'an Fang at 11 o'clock tonight to investigate.

I got home, took a few hours of sleep, and went back to school. But it's okay, I usually go to the ghost market to set up a stall, and I'm a young person, so staying up late once in a while is not too big a problem for me. It's just that the effect of listening to the lectures in class is discounted, and I always have to wander several times after class, which makes Han Jie very dissatisfied.

I also feel the need to take a good rest, maybe the matter of Kang'an Fang will have to be investigated for several days, if it is like this every day, I will definitely not be able to withstand it. So, I took the first physical education class in the afternoon in advance, and I had to catch up on my sleep at home at noon, so that I could have enough energy to hunt ghosts in the evening.

Today is the third day in a row that I have been to Kang An Fang. As soon as I finished my evening self-study, Master called me and asked me to go directly, a little earlier than the time I had made before. We met again with Master Zhou in front of the workshop, and as soon as we met, he handed us two red envelopes.

"We caught the Wasted Ghost last night, and it will be effective very quickly. Hehe! Master Zhou smiled, "Then the proprietress went out to play mahjong today and won money immediately." She was so happy that she specially sent three red envelopes just now. ”

I took a red envelope and opened it to see that it was 200 yuan. Well, this can be regarded as an income, and it is not in vain for my hard work of staying up late these two days.

Put away the red envelope. Master Zhou said again: "The proprietress also publicized everywhere and introduced another family to invite us to see." I've taken matters into my own hands and promised her. ”

Master nodded and said, "I'm fine." Last night's clue was broken, and we need to find some new clues. Since someone has invited us to the door, let's go. ”

Immediately, we went to the commissary again. But Master's biggest worry is that he can't escape, and there are already a lot of residents gathered in front of the commissary, just waiting for us to make his debut!

"Yikes! The masters are coming! Look, everyone! The proprietress screamed in a fuss from afar. The residents applauded!

Master Zhou and I felt very embarrassed. In the past, no matter which one we went to do things, we always went quietly and quietly, deliberately keeping a low profile. Ordinary people don't go around publicizing it, after all, it's not a glorious thing to let outsiders know that their home is haunted.

But this proprietress is a person who likes to be in the limelight and gossip, not only does other people's gossip like to chat, but her own gossip is also willing to share it with everyone. Of course, so many people gathered in front of her commissary can bring some popularity and business to a greater or lesser extent. She kept describing to her neighbors how we hunted ghosts last night, adding some "tense episodes". Speaking of motivation, I also personally demonstrated my master's action of catching the wasted ghost from the safe last night.

The master darkened his face and did not speak, and he was particularly disgusted by this. Master Zhou also felt embarrassed, and hurriedly went up to persuade the proprietress to take us to another house she introduced. But the crowd of onlookers had already aroused their interest and refused to disperse, and they hugged us together to the next door to watch the excitement.

The family's surname is Lin, and the situation at home is that the furniture will move by itself in the middle of the night. The owner of the house said that strange things had only started the day before yesterday. He woke up in the morning to find that some of the furniture in the downstairs living room had inexplicably shifted. After he moved back, he went astray again the next day. Later, he slept a little later, and at night he listened to the movement downstairs, and heard the sound of furniture being dragged on the floor. But by the time he went downstairs to look, the sound stopped, but the location of the furniture had changed.

We looked around the house as usual, and carefully inspected the furniture in the living room, but this time we didn't find anything. It seems that this house is the same as Zhao Dayao's house, the troublemakers do not always reside at home, and they will sneak in from outside in the middle of the night. Master Zhou asked my master's opinion, but my master waved his hand and said, "Go!" ”

This confused all the onlookers. The wonderful performance they were looking forward to did not appear, and our three masters seemed to be just here to go through the motions, and they said they were going to leave after less than ten minutes, which is not according to the routine!

They may think that we should also put on Taoist robes like those other masters, shake the peachwood sword twice, and recite a sutra or something!

My master doesn't care, we are not singing, so there is no need to please the "audience". Usually, the master will also play that set of fake tricks, but when he is catching ghosts, he never plays false.

As soon as we said let's go, the three of us ignored the proprietress and tried our best to keep it, and walked straight out of Kang'an Fang. I asked Master, "If they make such a fuss, do we have no trouble tonight?"

The master shook his head and sneered, "Some do! ”

I wondered, "How?" ”

"You calculate the time, this Lin family only started to have abnormalities the day before yesterday, and since we went to Zhao Dayao's house, there have been no ghosts knocking on the door of the Zhao family." Master analyzed to me, "This time is just right, do you think it's a coincidence?" ”

"That's right! That's a coincidence! I slapped my thigh and said loudly.

"So you mean that this ghost breeder is deliberately playing hide and seek with us?" Master Zhou asked.

Master nodded: "He directly destroyed all the little ghosts he raised yesterday, but he didn't want to confront us head-on." But I don't think he'll give up so easily, and he'll have to do something. Let's wait here, and then kill the horse gun later, and go to the Lin family!" ”

Master Zhou and I also felt that Master's analysis was very reasonable. We just turned around and left, maybe we could lower each other's vigilance. Then we go and come back again, and we may catch him red-handed!

As they were discussing, Master Zhou's mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated "buzzing". He stepped aside to answer it, and looked at his expression as if he had received something new.

Master Zhou hung up the phone and walked back to us: "Uncle Zheng called me and said that the next-door neighbor of the Gu family reported to him that he heard some strange sounds coming from the Gu family's yard in the middle of the night last night, as if someone had broken in. I asked what time it was, and he said it was around four in the morning. ”

"Isn't that about the same time as when we went to that real estate company?" I was a little surprised that maybe the two things could be linked.

"Could it be that the Gu family is also a temporary stronghold of the ghost keeper?" Master Zhou guessed, "He drove the little ghost to scare the Gu family away, and he was tracked down by us to the real estate company, so he ran inside to hide?" ”

"Well, it's possible!" I nodded in agreement.

"Still, there's another possibility." Master added, "Maybe he just wants to go back and get that jar." Because we tracked down so closely, he even killed the little ghosts he raised, and took the jar to eliminate the evidence. ”

There is indeed a possibility. Judging from the situation we investigated before, this ghost breeder is thoughtful and ruthless enough, and it is really difficult to deal with.

"So what do we do later? Is it to go to the Lin family or to the Gu family? I asked.

"Why don't we split up!" Master Zhou proposed, "I'll ask Uncle Zheng to take the key to the Gu family, and Master Feng, you go directly to the Lin family, how about it?" ”

The master thought about it and nodded, "That's fine." But Master Zhou, if you meet a ghost, you will catch a ghost, and it is better not to do it alone when you meet someone. Feel free to contact us if there is any situation, and we will rush over. ”

"It's okay!" Master Zhou laughed and said, "You might as well say, I practiced martial arts for a few years when I was young, and it is no problem to deal with individual little thieves!" ”

The discussion was decided, and we quietly entered Kang'an Fang again. By this time it was already past twelve o'clock, and the residents who had watched the excitement had already gone home to sleep, and only the lights of the few houses were still on. Master and I went to Lin's house on our own, while Master Zhou went to Uncle Zheng.

When I got to the outside of Lin's house, I asked Master softly, "Shall we knock on the door and go in?" ”

The master shook his head and said, "This Lin family doesn't have a yard, and if there is movement in the living room, we can hear it outside the window." If there's no movement, we'll be outside and we'll be able to see the ghost when it comes. ”

So, Master arranged for me to hide behind a large garbage can, and he went to eavesdrop outside the window of Lin's house. The garbage can smelled terrible, but there was no other place to hide nearby, so I had to endure it.

Master listened outside the window for a while, and shook his head at me to indicate that there was no movement inside, and that the ghost should not have come yet. He then bent over to the trash can and squeezed with me.

I was so sick hiding there that I was so smoky. If you want to hold your breath, you won't be able to hold it for a long time, and in the end, if you can't stand it, you will breathe in a big gulp, and the smell of inhaling will be even more! I had to adjust the rhythm of my breathing slowly, preferring to take small sips and stink, because some of the things I usually sell at my stall smell like this......

After spending about an hour with the trash can, I gradually found some ways to deal with the smell, which was to think more about other things and take my attention off my nose. I thought about it, and began to analyze the current situation on my own.

Why is the other side so aware of our actions? Where do we go, and where will the ghosts not come?

And when I was tracking down the wasted ghost last night, how could the ghost keeper know in advance that we were going to find him? Could it be that someone is tipping the news?

But this ghost hunting operation has always been involving me, my master and Master Zhou, so can there be ghosts?

Inner ghost?

I chuckled in my heart. It is impossible for Master and I to have a problem, but what about Master Zhou?

I've always had a disagreement with Master's statement. He himself always said that Yin cultivation and Taoist cultivation are not one family, but Master Zhou loved to come to ask my master for help. Not peers, but all ghost hunters, so what is not a competitor? Why does he also introduce business to competitors?

Every time, the master said this in a high-sounding manner, saying that the two of them were "gentlemen's friends". I think the most likely true situation is that Master Zhou's Taoism is indeed not high, but his reputation in the county town is similar to that of my master, sometimes people invite him to go, but he can't handle it himself, and he is afraid of losing face, so he comes to my master for help.

If you think about the "heart of a villain" a little more, will Master Zhou want to take this opportunity to suppress my master's name? In this way, the next time people talk about it, he can say unashamedly: "What my Master Zhou can't do, then Master Feng can't do either!" ”

I turned over and over this little discovery of mine, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was possible!

So, I whispered to Master, "Master, the last time you came here to open the manhole cover and find the shadow puppet, was Master Zhou there?" ”

Master was stunned for a moment, a little unsure of what I meant by asking, "Yes, he found out first!" What's wrong? ”

"Well, that's even more suspicious!" I thought to myself. I told Master what I had just speculated. But Master gave me a blank look and told me not to think about it.

I was not convinced, and said: "Master, think about it, in addition to finding the shadow puppet, then Uncle Zheng said that the first two times he invited Master Zhou to come and caught ghosts, including catching the ghosts of waste, Master Zhou was present when he caught ghosts four times." But why can't other masters catch it, we can't catch it ourselves, and we can only catch it when he's there? Could it be such a coincidence? ”

Master was suddenly stopped by me, and he couldn't refute it for a while.

I continued to speculate: "Could this be his own game?" Or is he trying to use this haunting incident to trick us, so that it seems that he has the ability to do it himself? ”

Master still shook his head and disagreed with me. He said: "Master Zhou doesn't look like such a person!" But he couldn't find any other better explanation to clarify for Master Zhou.

I took advantage of the victory to chase and asked, "We all acted together before, and we didn't have anything to say if we caught it." Why did Master say that he wanted to kill the carbine back tonight, and he proposed to go to the Gu family alone? Maybe he'll know he'll catch a ghost over there, but he'll leave us here and smell stupid! ”

Master was also silent. We've been hiding here for almost two hours, and the ghost hasn't appeared yet, so it's unlikely that we'll come back.

I said, "According to me, let's not say hello first, let's go to his side secretly to see the situation." If there is, there is, if there is none, there is none! ”

Master couldn't help my "brainwashing", and began to loosen my will. After hiding for another half an hour, he saw that there was really no movement, so he took me out of the Lin family and quietly transferred to the Gu family. I finally got out of that disgusting trash can and suddenly felt like the world was still so beautiful! The air is still so fresh!

We went to the Gu family once last time, and we have come and gone a few times in the alleys of Kang'anfang, and we can find the direction ourselves without others leading the way. At this time, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the lights in the shop had long been gone. The door of the Gu family was ajar, and it was even darker inside.

We cautiously pushed open the door and entered. Tonight, the dark clouds half-obscured the moon, and we could only rely on the faint moonlight to observe the situation in the courtyard. The first thing I noticed was a reflective thing on the ground. When I looked closely, most of the vat had been broken, and a little water left at the bottom of the vat flowed out, forming a reflective mirror in the moonlight.

When we got closer, the little jar that had been sunk at the bottom of the jar was gone. Sure enough, just as Master had expected, the ghost keeper deliberately ran back and took it away.

What about Master Zhou? Did you chase the ghost keeper, or did you hide in some corner?

When the master saw this, he didn't hide it, and directly gave birth to a ghost fire to illuminate it, and at the same time shouted in the courtyard: "Master Zhou!" ”

No one answered. I've got a ghost fire on my side, too, and I'm going to look around again. But as soon as the ghost fire in the palm of my hand got up, I was startled, the yin air flow in my hand was broken, and the ghost fire was immediately extinguished!

"What's going on?" Master, sensing my unusual reaction, turned around and asked.

I pointed to another large tank two meters away and stammered, "Why are there hands and feet in that tank?" ”

Master hurried over and shone it with the ghost fire in his palm, and indeed two hands and two feet were exposed outside the mouth of the water tank, which looked as if they had grown out of the water tank! But when I look at it again, it looks like two severed hands and two severed feet have been thrown in the water tank!

The two hands were in the shape of tiger claws, as if trying to grasp something. There were still shoes on those two feet, a pair of black cloth shoes.

"Master Zhou!"

When we saw those shoes, Master and I understood. It's Master Zhou in that tank!

The two of us hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Master Zhou's hands and feet and pulled him out of the tank with all our might. Fortunately, his body was intact, just now his body was underneath, and only his hands and feet came out. But the master reached under Master Zhou's nose, and his face became even more ugly.

"He's dead!"

I exclaimed, "Dead? ”

The master had a gloomy face and said, "His yang energy has been sucked out by ghosts!" ”

I'm blown away again! What the hell is so powerful? Even a Dao cultivator can be directly sucked dry by it!

"It could be a sun-eater." Master saw my doubts and explained in a deep voice, "It's the most common evil ghost. It feeds on sucking the yang energy of living people, and the more yang energy it inhales, the taller it becomes. Ghost cultivators with high Yin Gong cultivation will keep one with them and use it specifically to deal with Dao cultivation. Because Taoist cultivation relies on absorbing spiritual energy, which is the essence of yang energy. When Dao cultivators cast spells, they use aura to mobilize the laws of heaven and earth, and Dao cultivators with weaker mana may even have difficulty casting spells in front of the Sun Devouring Ghost. Master Zhou should have underestimated this and was attacked by it. ”

I looked sadly at Master Zhou's body, who was lying on the ground still in a stiff position, bent over, his hands clenched forward. I can fully imagine the scene when he was killed: the tall Sun Eater grabbed Master Zhou and lowered his head to absorb his Yang Qi, but Master Zhou desperately tried to break the Sun Eater's hand, but he couldn't. In the end, Master Zhou, who had been sucked out of yang energy, was stuffed into the vat by the Yang Devouring Ghost again.