The Taoist priest took us around in detail, and we also asked for some details, such as which room the men and women who lived in the Taoist temple that day, and where he himself lived. After asking them one by one, he followed the car and the team leader back to the hotel first.

The hotel staff called us to the bedroom, the room had been re-cleaned and the bed was made, and we were told to keep the bedding tidy.

After we made promises one by one, the people at the hotel explained the delivery time for three meals a day, and then left and returned to the hotel by themselves.

We were assigned rooms, Zuo Hua and I lived in the big one, Zhuo Yingcai stayed in the one room for the man and woman, and the remaining middle room was reserved for Wan Li.

It was still early in the morning, and the three of us officially met and talked about our findings. The two of them didn't have any clear discoveries, only said that the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and it is a good place to retire. I said two:

1. The Taoist priest lied, according to the dream he said, it should be regarded as an ordinary soul playful, and he harassed him in his dream with words he did not understand, which is also an ordinary supernatural event. If this is the case, the management office can deal with it if it finds a heavenly master, and there is no need to mobilize the people to work hard and lose money. Second, the spring water flowing down from the mountain is extremely cold, and there are not many traces of the soul in the Taoist temple, but there is definitely something wrong with the source of this water.

The two apparently didn't notice the problem with the spring, "Let's go take a look?" ”

I led them to the edge of the pool, where the spring water flowed, and let them test the temperature of the water with their hands.

The two of them squatted down, and as soon as they touched the water, they took a breath of cool air, and they invariably followed the flow of the spring water and looked towards the mountain.

"Shall we go upstream?" Zhuo Ying spoke first.

I thought about the consequences of rushing into the mountains and said, "We didn't have any outdoor equipment, we weren't prepared enough, so it's best to just familiarize ourselves with the mountain trail today." But after a while, we will have lunch, so let's see if we can open a back door in the temple first, and when the soul comes tonight, we will leave a mark and look for it on the mountain tomorrow. ”

Zuo Hua agreed, and he now approves of my idea.

Zhuo Yingcai saw that the two of us agreed, so naturally he didn't have anything to say, and walked along the spring path to the backyard of the Taoist temple together.

Normally speaking, the soul does not need water, and the spring water becomes cold, probably because there are a large number of souls gathered in a cave in the mountains on the way. Or a shallow cave, a shady place for souls to hide from the sun? It's all possible.

When we arrived at the wall of the backyard of the Taoist temple, the spring water continued up the hill along a hole in the corner.

I'm going to follow the wall, find a low place, and set up a ladder in front and back to make a quick passage up and down the mountain. As soon as he finished saying his thoughts, Zuo Hua walked to one of the towers in the backyard, and asked Zhuo Yingcai and me to find a ladder or something that could raise the ground first.

Zuo Hua went to the side of the tower, used his hands and feet together, and went up to the top of the tower in a few seconds, jumped up, and stood firmly on the wall. He was able to walk along the top of the wall that sloped on both sides, looking for a suitable place to build a passage on both sides of the wall.

Zhuo Yingcai and I also did not fail in our mission, I moved a table and chairs, and Zhuo Yingcai really found a herringbone ladder made of aluminum alloy in the view.

After thinking about it, we built a high platform with tables and chairs on the side of the wall, and although it was not very smooth to go up and down, we no longer needed the ability to fly up and down the wall. The ladder was put outside, for fear of being stolen, so the ladder was temporarily put inside. When you need to go out, just move over the fence.

Everything is ready, it's almost noon, it's time to go to the door and wait for the person who delivered us food.

Before twelve o'clock, the business car came with two tour leaders and two waiters in the hotel. The team leader came over, ate with us, and asked us about the progress of our work, or if we had any other needs.

As we ate, we talked about today's discoveries, and after talking about the final plan for going up the mountain tomorrow, let them plan four sets of outdoor equipment, depending on the condition of the soul tonight and the results of tomorrow's expedition to the mountain. Du Jiale responded, saying that tomorrow the equipment is not complete, let's not go too deep, what will happen when we enter the mountains, she knows a little. He also said that tomorrow he would prepare some water and necessary dry food for us at breakfast, so that we could eat in the mountains in the middle of the day. If you confirm that you need to go to the mountain at dinner tomorrow, please call the management office for support.

In the afternoon, the three of us followed the newly built back door, went to the mountain to investigate, and looked up the mountain along the trickle formed by the mountain spring.

About 500 meters away from the Taoist temple, the stream did not disappear somewhere in the recess, but kept walking towards the mountain, but the distance was too far to see the source.

"That's it for today! I'll wait until tonight to see the situation, and tomorrow I'll try the Taoist priest again. ”

I'm afraid that I'll lose track of time and say my advice. Zhuo Yingcai seemed to have a lot of physical strength and wanted to continue to explore, but he didn't rely on the old and looked at Zuo Hua.

"I also don't think there's any need to continue to take risks, it's better to ask the old Tao tomorrow, and let's make a plan."

Zuo Hua followed my advice, I have no doubt about that.

"Well, I can't imagine that two young people can't compete with half an old man with physical strength." Zhuo Yingcai teased.

For dinner, the team leader still came to the Taoist temple, and there was a sense of sharing the joys and sorrows with us, and eating a boxed lunch together. However, although it is a box lunch, the dishes are still good, and they are all fried by the chef of the hotel and divided into several portions. The team leader knew that we didn't have any taboos, and brought some drinks and instant noodles, for fear that we wouldn't have a supper at night.

When the sun went down and the sky began to darken, Zhuo Yingcai seriously suggested: "The soul Dao who comes to the Taoist Temple should not be high, let's not do perimeter protection, wake up a little, and let them enter the room before they start." We each have our weapons ready, and it's best to sleep with our eyes open. ”

"It makes sense, just the three of us, it's a little tiring to arrange a rotation again, it's better to let them in, let's catch turtles." I immediately agreed, and Zuo Hua nodded frequently.

"You're alone, and there's an empty room in between, should we get some code?" Zuo Hua said that Zhuo Yingcai wanted to help.

His worries were quite reasonable, because the room where Zhuo Ying lived was the one where the two passers-by who went crazy lived.

"No, just make it louder when you fight." Zhuo Yingcai is naturally not afraid, this kind of scene of beating souls in a group, Wu Tianshi likes it the most.

Before the lights went out, Zuo Hua and I both chose to meditate, with a peachwood sword beside us and a dry towel to cover it.

"Can you demonstrate how to persuade souls to go back in the evening?" Just posed, Zuo Hua asked.

I scratched my head, indicating that something was wrong, "But Brother Zhuo said that the movement should be bigger, if you choose to persuade, he will not know if there is a situation here." ”

"It's okay, I want to learn how to return the soul to the right path today, I'm going to talk to Lao Zhuo." After speaking, Zuo Hua didn't wait for me to make a statement, jumped out of bed, and went out in slippers.

I shook my head, a soul is good to say, if there are more than a dozen at once, I can't send them away without the Tiangang Mirror, so how can it be good?

was worried, Zuo Hua came back.

I hurriedly expressed my attitude: "I said Brother Zuo, I can try to persuade them." According to the old way, there are a lot of souls here, if there are too many of them for me to be busy, you have to come to help! I open the door of Daci up to 10 times a day, how many times can you open it? ”

"I've really found a place to try, and I've tried it ten times, and I can't break through. In this way, if there are less than twenty, let's send them away, and if there are more than twenty, we will hack them to death. ”

"Alas, this method really doesn't work, so many souls, gossiping, it's hard to convince. If you come too much and don't do what you say, do you know what the effect is? ”

Zuo Hua nodded slowly, looking pity.

"This has the opportunity to go back to Xinxing, and I will ask you to take you to visit twice after receiving the order, and you promise that it will be. Today, let's wait a while and see what happens! ”

In the end, I comforted Zuo Hua with two words.

After hiding the peachwood sword, we all entered the meditation practice, and my phone set up the silent mode and set a vibrating alarm at one o'clock in the middle of the night. If the soul doesn't come to take care of the bedroom tonight, I want to go to the main hall for a walk.

At night, the wind on the hill was a little stronger, and only the sound of whirring outside the house could be heard, and there was no sound of the soul coming. Although the mind is still running in the body, the senses are still there, Zuo Hua and I just quietly closed our eyes and sat quietly, and neither of us spoke.

Two Sundays were about to run to the end, and I thought it should be almost midnight, and the conversation of the soul began to appear in my ears.

"When are they going to sleep? It's easy to come to a few people, and they don't let us play. ”

"Don't say it, in that room over there, the man sat there with his eyes open, motionless, I thought he was just like us."

It seems that the spirits came some time, just peeping at us somewhere, and did not dare to enter the house.

I stretched and deliberately made some noise, "Hey, stop sitting, it's too late to sleep." ”

With that, I lay down on the bed and pretended to be sleepy.

"Okay, I'll sit down tomorrow." Zuo Hua understood what I meant, stretched his waist, and lay down.

"Sleep, sleep, let's take a look at that room and come back." The voice of the soul faded away.

Perhaps, our room is full of souls, or maybe it is just three or five souls. I don't have a strong sense of the soul outside the room, and can only be distinguished by the number of sounds I see with my eyes or hear with my ears.

After lying flat for about ten minutes, a soul's head passed through the door, glanced inside, and with a single effort, the whole body entered the room.

Then one and two came in......

Fortunately, after the fifth soul entered the door, there was no follow-up. They touched here and there, slowly approached the window, and only one soul leaned over to look at Zuo Hua, and came to my side without saying anything. When it saw me staring at it with wide eyes, it jumped back in fright and shouted, "Ahhh He wasn't asleep yet. ”

I sat up suddenly, "You're so noisy, who can sleep?" ”

The five souls were almost scared out of their bodies by me, but they had no shells, so they huddled in the corner. His face was full of horror, which roughly meant: we haven't scared you yet, until we were startled by you.

"Okay, let's talk about it, what are the grievances? This Heavenly Master has never killed nameless ghosts. I sat on my side, drew my mahogany sword from under the towel, and squinted at them. Because the peach wood sword has slashed the soul of nearly a thousand years, I haven't urged the true qi yet, and the sassy aura has already appeared.

There were no lights in the room, but it didn't affect my sky vision, and the five figures shrunk together were clearly recognizable.

The trembling of the five souls became more intense, and a slightly bolder soul trembled and said, "Which onion are you?" We've never heard of you. ”

"I'm the youngest onion in the Heavenly Master, so naturally you haven't heard of it."

"We haven't heard of you, so why should we tell you......"