"Uncle Xie Song helped." Zhang Su walked out of the book area on the second floor of Xinghua Library and thanked Song Yibing outside the library area.

"No, it should be me who thank you, you solved the problem of bullying my little ghost, so that my son would not be devoured by this little ghost, I am grateful." Song Yibing said.

"Soul hunting itself is my duty, and that little ghost has some relationship with me, so I have to make my own move, then again, even if I don't make a move, presumably Uncle Song will not watch his son's soul being devoured by the little ghost, with the two hands that Uncle Song just showed, it should be more than enough to solve an intermediate imp." Zhang Su said modestly.

"I seem to hear you guys talking about the ghost feast, what the hell is going on?" Song Yibing smiled and bowed his hand, and asked with a different topic.

"Oh, here's the thing, I strayed into the ghost banquet with a partner some time ago, and I was lucky to save my life, but my partner died at the ghost banquet, and I am now constantly looking for the ghost ghost who participated in the ghost banquet at that time to take revenge, at that time, there was the intermediate imp just now on the ghost banquet, I didn't expect the two of us to meet here, it can be regarded as a narrow road, and then according to the intermediate imp, there will be a ghost banquet in Qicheng three months later." Zhang Su explained.

"No wonder you have to fight it to the death even if you are injured, this is the first time I have seen you shoot, you can have such strength at a young age, it is commendable, and you have potential than the few soul masters I saw when I was young." Song Yibing listened to Zhang Su's words, understood the reason, and praised with a smile.

Seeing Song Yibing praising himself, Zhang Su scratched his head shyly, and hurriedly responded: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

"I said how often so many dead souls pop up recently, now when I hear you talk about the ghost feast, I probably understand, the ghost feast has always approached like an earthquake, and those dead souls and evil ghosts will be as restless as the fish in the water, one by one they have surfaced, scurrying around in this world." Song Yibing said metaphorically.

"And this phenomenon?" Zhang Su said in surprise.

"It's a time of peace, there are few ghosts and many people, plus the existence of your full-time ghost hunters, it can be described as a peaceful and prosperous era, naturally this phenomenon is relatively slight, but I think of our era, that is, forty years ago, when I was only ten years old, people have just gone through the difficult period of life, after natural disasters and man-made disasters, there are a lot of unjust ghosts and ghosts who died in vain on the earth, ghosts and ghosts are prevalent, you can see it in the daytime, there are more ghosts than people in some places, the ghost banquet at that time was really terrifying, saying that there are few ghosts and thousands of souls, A ghost king banquet can gather tens of thousands of ghosts, and even soul immortals can be torn to pieces when they enter, thinking of that era, I still have lingering palpitations. Song Yibing inhaled as he reminisced.

"Ghost King Banquet? 10,000 ghosts? Soul immortals can ......" Zhang Ji repeated in shock after hearing this.

"Well, at that time, your soul hunting company was not as prosperous as it is now, and there were not many soul masters, but the various factions in the soul territory can be said to be full of flowers, we exorcists, your soul masters, in addition to talismans, spirit detainees, Jiangxing, Tufuzi, Tudao priests, wandering monks, etc., and even foreigners from the West, claiming to be priests, all of these people spontaneously came out to exorcise ghosts, and in the end, most of the factions united to form a group, and it was difficult to get through the days when evil ghosts were prevalent." Song Yibing continued to reminisce.

"And that kind of period? I've never heard adults talk about it. Zhang said incredulously.

"At that time, the soul realm was also secret, ordinary people must not know, at that time, you can often see all kinds of exorcists, soul masters use strange soul skills, exorcists use formations, talismans draw talismans, soul detainees catch ghosts and explore spiritual sense, Tufuzi's Di Hearing Ear can listen to the sound for hundreds of miles, Jiangxing's star technique and healing soul technique, Taoist priests play with various refining tools, the old monks' Pudu technique, the foreigner's cross light, in addition to many unknown exorcists involved, they all have their own unique means, The exorcists exerted their power to eliminate all kinds of ghosts, and the ghosts were not to be outdone. Song Yibing described all kinds of exorcists to Zhang Su.

"And then?" Zhang Su asked as if listening to a story.

"The war between people and ghosts began, people from all walks of life gathered, it is said that the battle situation was extremely tragic at that time, people and ghosts used their own secret techniques, the exorcists fell countless times, and there were not many ghosts left, and finally the exorcists won the victory of the war by a slight advantage, the ghosts died down and lived in secret, most of the exorcist factions declined and disappeared because of heavy casualties, and the soul master faction rose and became the ruler of the soul realm, and some of the surviving exorcist families changed their sects and joined the soul master faction in order to survive." Song Yibing informed Zhang of the results of the year.

"And such a history?" Zhang Su was surprised.

"My father and grandfather are exorcists, I was only a teenager at the time, and I just opened my eyes to enter the cultivation of the soul array, by the way, opening my eyes is what you call the yin and yang eyes, our exorcists are called opening the eyes of the sky, in fact, they all mean the same thing, not long after I opened my eyes, the ghost king banquet of the ten thousand ghosts war broke out, the exorcists prefer to call it the human defense war, my father is hiding from my mother to participate, because he knows that if the defense war is lost, then there will be an era of ghosts raging, and the world will become a prison of ghosts, Or in other words, it is a farm of human souls, a ghost-level ghost can easily kill ordinary people, let alone the ghost king above it, so he resolutely went to participate in the war, and finally died in that war, his soul was scattered, and his soul disappeared. Song Yibing recalled, showing sadness on his face.

"It's a pity, Uncle Song's mourning." Zhang Su comforted.

"There's nothing to regret, this is the duty of an exorcist, or the duty of an exorcist, but I don't want to pass on this responsibility to the next generation, so I didn't pass it on to my son, but I didn't expect my son to be so short-lived, and died suddenly on the street inexplicably, hey." Song Yibing sighed.

"Uncle Song, you said before that I should tell you the cause of your son's death and the reason for coming to this library, right?" Zhang Su looked at Song Yibing in his arms and asked.

"Yes, but haven't you already taken my son's soul? I can't help but wonder about it. Song Yibing said regretfully.

"Yes, yes, but I have a means to find out the soul consciousness of the dead, so I already know the cause of your son's death and the reason for coming to the library." Zhang said.

"Isn't that the unique ability of the Soul Detention faction?" Song Yibing asked.

"Uncle Song, do you know the Soul Monument? Indeed, the soul technique I use to probe the soul of the stele is the soul of the stele, and the soul of the stele is a means of detaining the soul? Zhang Wei looked at Song Yibing in surprise and asked, he didn't expect Song Yibing to know about the Soul Monument.

"That's not called a soul technique, the stele soul extension is the black mound technique of the spirit detainees, this will be said later, the spirit detainees are known for intelligence collection, and the actual combat power is not strong, so there were countless casualties in that ten thousand ghost war, and then they disappeared, and many of their skills have been lost, I didn't expect it to reappear here with you, is it that this stele soul is left in the hands of the soul hunting company?" Song Yibing asked expressionlessly.

"That's not it, I got the Soul Monument from another path, and it doesn't belong to the Soul Hunting Company, but I need to keep it secret." Zhang Su denied it.

"It's good if it's not the Soul Hunting Company, those thieves who sell their friends for glory don't deserve this, forget it, the past is not clear, you can tell me the cause of my son's death and the reason why he came to this library." Song Yibing was relieved when he heard Zhang Su's denial, and said to Zhang Su.

Zhang Su sorted out the content of Song Yanji's spiritual consciousness a little, condensed the sentences, and then summarized it to Song Yibing, Song Yibing listened to it next to Zhang Su and made additions, and Zhang Su learned most of Song Yanji's life experience.

Song Yanji was very ordinary during his lifetime, there was nothing particularly outstanding, and of course there was no particularly out-of-the-ordinary problem, his death was indeed a sudden death from overwork, and there was no ghost involved, nor was it man-made, the main reason was that the spirit caused by long-term overtime reached the limit of fatigue that could be carried, and finally the brain nerve collapsed, and the brain was congested and fell on the night road back from overtime, and the reason why Song Yanji ran to the library after death was completely out of doubt about his life, Or rather, it is a puzzle about what people live for.

Song Yanji was born in an ordinary working family, of course, he didn't know that Song Yibing was an exorcist to think so, he finished elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university in Qicheng, and after graduation, he found a white-collar job in Qicheng according to his parents' wishes, he almost never went out of Qicheng, he was an obedient child from childhood to adulthood, obeyed his parents' arrangements, and never tried to resist this fixed life plan.

This kind of ordinary life has changed after Song Yanji has worked for more than three years, as he grows older, he has reached the age of marriage, under the arrangement and urging of his parents, he tried to find a life partner according to it, but with his ordinary appearance, ordinary family, ordinary job, meager income and other external conditions, directly or indirectly helped him reject a blind date with him, to put it more bluntly, no one looks down on him.

During Song Yanji's schooling, Song Yanji's grandfather was hospitalized and consumed most of the family's savings, so in Song Yanji's economic conditions, Song Yibing and his wife could not give him more support, and since then, he began to doubt his parents' life plan for him, because his parents had told him that the cycle of life is birth, school, work, marriage, childbirth, aging, and after having children, children will also experience birth, school, work, marriage, This pattern of having children and growing old, but when it was his turn, when it came to the stage of marriage, he couldn't go on, he didn't know why, and asked Song Yibing and his wife to get an accurate answer.

Song Yibing and his wife can't answer this question, or they don't dare to answer this question, they planned the most ideal life in their hearts for Song Yanji, and wanted their children to live plainly and unexpectedly for the rest of their lives, but with social changes and economic changes, the old couple found that with the income from their work, they couldn't pay for their son's marriage, and their son's meager salary couldn't hook the hearts of the young girls at all, and even Aunt Song's several blind dates ended up with the woman's refusal.

The problem arose in reality, fermenting in doubt and evasion, Song Yanji began to question the incompetence of his parents, Song Yibing and his wife also attributed the problem to the failure of their son, and the contradictions between the two generations surged, Song Yanji asked his parents aggrievedly: "Isn't my life going according to your plan?" You let me live like this, you don't let me choose for myself, why do you blame me now? ”

In order not to let himself think about these anymore, he threw himself into a busy work, and wanted to forget the complex thinking about life and life, as a result, the accumulation of fatigue for a long time and the lack of rest made Song Yanji die suddenly on the way home from overtime.

After Song Yanji found out that he was dead, he was still a little confused at first, and then he found that he had no need for hunger and food, so he thought he was free, which made him more persistent in thinking about living, he did not stay next to his corpse, nor did he return to the original home, he wandered to this Xinghua library, wanting to find out the secret of life from the book, and wanted to know how to live is right, he didn't want to be so boring and so wronged in the next life.

When he arrived at the library, Song Yanji has been trying to control his soul body, and it took a long time to find a way to read books with his soul, he searched for books that could answer his doubts from various categories, children's literature, classics, novels, philosophy, sociology, economics and other books became his main goal, hoping to draw some insights into life from it, hoping to let himself understand the truth of life, hoping to know what life is for, more like knowing how to live better, in the two years of the library, He read more than 100 books, but he didn't find the answer he was looking for.

Song Yanji found that everyone has their own interpretation of life, novelists have novelists' views, philosophers have philosophers' views, educators have educators' views, and economists and capitalists are another set of views, sometimes these views are complementary to each other, sometimes some views are mutually exclusive, just like some people want absolute fairness, some people propose relative fairness, some people propose individual freedom, some people propose allegiance to the collective, some people say that they live for themselves, some people say they want to live for others, In the "Three Character Classic", it is said that "at the beginning of man, his nature is good", and in the "Bible", it is said that "when he is in the womb, man has sin", and various different remarks made Song Yanji even more confused, and he still did not know what the origin of life was.

And just when Song Yanji continued to flip through the book to find a point of view that could override these remarks, the arrival of the half-body four-pupiled girl and Zhang Su broke his study process, when he saw the half-body four-pupiled girl looking at him like an ant, when he felt the bubbling eyes of the half-body four-pupiled girl emitting a powerful laser towards him, he suddenly understood a truth, at least with strong strength can live better, only strong strength can make the choice of how to live, "live" itself is in the hands of the strong, In the hands of those who stand at the top of the food chain.

These are the general contents of Song Yanji's spiritual consciousness, in addition, a special picture in Song Yanji's spiritual consciousness made Zhang Su deeply impressed and creepy, when Song Yanji saw the half-body four-pupiled girl trapped by the soul array because of her lack of strength, he imagined a picture similar to a zoo, in the picture, time has passed for decades, hundreds of years, there are no animals other than humans on the earth, people began to differentiate, and the cage of the zoo has become a place where superior people are locked up in inferior people, The wise superior brought his wife and children to see the low-intelligence inferior people who were in the cage and were on display, and the superior person pointed to the sign outside the cage and said, "You see, they are inferior creatures that have not evolved again since the differentiation of the apes. ”

This picture flashed in Song Yanji's spiritual sense, but it caused a great mental impact on Zhang Su, although this was Song Yanji's fantasy, but Zhang Su was not sure that it would not happen, based on the theory of evolution, will there really be a differentiation of human races in the future? Is there really a distinction between superior and inferior people with superior intelligence? Hundreds of millions of years ago, didn't basic life also divide between Homo sapiens and lambs to the slaughter, old cows to plough the fields, and juggling monkeys?

"That's about it." Zhang Su did not inform Song Yibing of Song Yanji's fantasy picture, but only informed Song Yibing of the reason why Song Yanji came to the library.

"So that's the case, I have an unshirkable responsibility for my son's death!" After hearing this, Song Yibing said with remorse.

"You can't say that, it's not wrong for the older generation to live through the ups and downs and hope that your children can live in peace." Zhang Su explained.

"But I don't have the conditions to give him a comfortable life." Song Yibing shook his head.

"Who would have thought that the times are changing so fast, who would have thought that prices are skyrocketing, and ordinary laborers are worthless, I remember when I was a child, a house was only tens of thousands of yuan, and one dollar could buy seven or eight steamed buns, and now a house is several million, and one dollar can only buy one or two steamed buns, everyone wants to be stable, but the changes between heaven and earth have never stopped, God will not give anyone a chance to be stable, Uncle Song, you are an exorcist, this truth will not be understood." Zhang said.

"Hey, what's the use of understanding, it's one thing to think about, it's another thing to do, in the end, it's our old couple who harmed their son, since your Aunt Song doesn't know the reason for this, I'll bear this sin myself, don't talk about this, the exorcist inheritance I promised you can be taught to you now, but my exorcism array is not something you can learn in a day, so it's up to you how to learn." Song Yibing first sighed helplessly, and then said.

"There's still two hours left before the library closes, so there's not much time left for today, so I wonder if I can learn a trick first, and then I'll visit you every weekend, how about that?" Zhang Su proposed.

"That's good, I usually have to go to work, and every weekend in the future will be used as a study time, the exorcism array is not easy to learn, I plan to teach you two a week, and you can digest it alone from Monday to Friday, I can give you the method of the formation, but how far you can cultivate depends on your own talent, so now I will use the two hours before the library closes to teach you the introductory formation of the exorcist." Song Yibing nodded.

"Then it's troublesome Uncle Song." Zhang Su bowed respectfully to Song Yibing and said politely.

"Well, this entry soul array is very simple, you have to regard the soul dust of heaven and earth for your own use, and then drive away the dust and turn it into a seal, even if your own soul power is not strong, you can also mobilize the soul dust of heaven and earth to form this entry soul array based on the seal, I know that your soul master has a lot of soul skills that temporarily condense the soul dust of heaven and earth, but it is not the same as the method of our soul exorcist, the soul master is forcibly gathered, and the soul exorcist is a little soul power for green plants, using the seal as soil, taking the soul dust of heaven and earth as light, absorbing light to make the green plants grow, and what grows in this way is the entry soul array." Song Yibing explained.

"This explanation is really clear, what is this entry soul array called?" Zhang Su asked.

"Soul Gathering Array!" Song Yibing replied.