Chapter 4 Chen Ji first seeks ghosts
The woman watched coldly as Qi Lu got up from the ground in embarrassment, and the look of vigilance in her eyes was still not eliminated.
She is petite and wears a face mask. Although Qi Lu couldn't see her face clearly, judging from her big watery eyes, he guessed that she should be a good-looking young woman.
"I, I'm ......" Qi Lu stammered, pretending that he hadn't woken up from the hallucinations just now.
"What are you, what are you, if you don't reply, I'm going to call the security guard!" Looking at this woman's tone, she dared to treat Qi Lu as a thief.
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Accountant Ding, he's the new administrator. It just so happened that Uncle Wang came back, and when he saw this situation, he hurriedly came up to explain.
"Xiao Qi, let me introduce you, this is Ding Xiaolan, the accountant in our museum." Uncle Wang introduced to Ding Xiaolan again: "His name is Qi Lu, and he only came to work today, so you don't know him." ”
"Oh, I'm sorry." Ding Xiaolan said to Qi Lu: "Why was he playing alone just now? ”
"I ...... I just saw a ghost. ”
"Really?" Ding Xiaolan said with a little disdain: "I haven't seen anything, can you see ghosts in broad daylight?" ”
Yes, Ding Xiaolan's words reminded Qi Lu that ghosts are yin spirits, and they are afraid of the sun, so they can only come out at night to harm people, and it must have been an illusion caused by my nervousness just now.
"Uncle Wang, I'll leave first if there's nothing to do." made a big joke, Qi Lu felt embarrassed.
"Why did you invite such a timid person to be on duty?" Hearing Ding Xiaolan whispering to Uncle Wang behind him, a hint of a smile disappeared from Qi Lu's eyes in an instant, because this was the character he wanted to disguise.
"He is not cowardly, on the first day of work, he took the initiative to come to the morgue to see the body."
"No, I was passing by here just now and saw the door open, so I came in and looked at him, and found him alone in the corner, and his legs trembled with fright."
Qi Lu, who was about to leave, was startled when he heard Ding Xiaolan's words, and hurriedly turned around and asked her, "When you came in, the door was open?" ”
"yes."
I obviously closed the door, and I was afraid that the wind would blow it open, so I deliberately locked the door, how could it be open? Thinking of this, Qi Lu's cold sweat was about to flow out.
Could it be that Ding Xiaolan is lying to me, but in fact she opened the door herself? No, it can't be, she's just an accountant, how can she have the key to the morgue!
The more Qi Lu thought about it, the more terrifying he became, and he didn't care about chatting with the two of them, so he pushed the door out in a panic. Because a guy who can easily open the locked door under his nose without alarming others is definitely not an ordinary person. It's sunny outside, and ghosts can't appear, so opening the door and luring Ding Xiaolan in can only have one answer to explain this phenomenon, he is a monster!
Monsters must not be allowed to haunt the funeral home, otherwise the disaster will be great! Qi Lu observed around the door, but he didn't feel the slightest supernatural phenomenon, could it be his own delusion, or was the monster already vigilantly leaving? Qi Lu felt a kind of depression in his heart, which kept surging upward.
"Well, it seems that he is really a little timid." Hearing the voice of Uncle Wang in the room, Qi Lu had no choice but to shake his head with a wry smile, turn around and walk towards the dormitory.
Back in the dormitory, Qi Lu absentmindedly packed the luggage he brought, but his thoughts stayed in the morgue.
Is the ghost I saw really hallucinating? Was it really a ghost you saw yesterday? And why does the door to the morgue open and close automatically? Qi Lu thought about these strange things, and vaguely felt that all this was very strange, and it seemed that there were many secrets hidden.
"Xiao Qi, haven't you left yet?"
A startled cry woke Qi Lu up from his contemplation, and he hurriedly put away his distracted expression and greeted the visitor.
"It's Uncle Wang, I'm packing up my things."
"Aren't you going home?"
"I've been arguing with my parents these days, and I don't want to go home today, so I'll sleep here, and I'll go to work tomorrow."
"Oh, that's right, dinner can be eaten in the cafeteria, which is on the right side of the reception."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Wang." Qi Lu looked out the window, it was dark and it was almost dusk.
"By the way, don't wander around at night." Uncle Wang, who was about to leave, turned around and warned him: "Don't get anything dirty." ”
Qi Lu somehow always felt that Uncle Wang's words had a cold taste, and he looked down at Uncle Wang's cloudy eyes, which seemed to have an indescribable sense of mystery in them.
Qi Lu's brows were involuntarily locked, and it wasn't until Uncle Wang had been gone for a long time that he came back to his senses, quickly took out his mobile phone and made a call, and then went out for dinner.
Ding Xiaolan didn't go home from work today, and when she passed by the gate of the funeral home after eating, she happened to see Qi Lu chatting with a dark-skinned middle-aged man at the intersection. She didn't care about it at first, but when she was about to leave, she found that Qi Lu said goodbye to the person and exchanged mobile phones, and she couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Ding beauty is good!" When Qi Lu turned around, he saw Ding Xiaolan and hurriedly greeted her.
"I can't see that the little mouth is quite sweet." Ding Xiaolan pursed her lips and smiled.
"Who is this?" Qi Lu pointed to the middle-aged man with a backpack next to Ding Xiaolan and asked.
The middle-aged man stretched out his right hand and said to him, "My name is Chen Jixian, and I am Xiaolan's uncle. I don't know your name? ”
"My name is Qi Lu." When Qi Lu shook hands with him, he found that he was looking at himself with blazing eyes, and his right hand moved regularly between his palms, and it took a long time to withdraw it.
Qi Lu suddenly realized from his actions that he had met his peers, because Chen Jixian was also a cultivator.
"Uncle Chen, you have an extraordinary demeanor and a Taoist demeanor." Qi Lu said quietly.
"yes!" Ding Xiaolan smiled beside her: "My uncle is a home Taoist priest who has practiced for many years...... Ding Xiaolan wanted to say something, but when she saw Chen Jixian giving her a cold look, she immediately stopped talking.
Qi Lu had already seen this detail in his eyes, and he asked with a smile: "Is Uncle Chen here to see Xiaoding today?" ”
"Oh, you Curator Zhang have something to do with me."
"If that's the case, then I won't bother you." After Qi Lu finished speaking, he politely retired.
Looking at Qi Lu's departing back, Chen Jixian frowned.
"Uncle, what's wrong with you, you look like you're unhappy?"
"This person, is it your colleague?" Chen Jixian pointed to Qi Lu and asked.
"yes, he just came to work today. Well, it's quite handsome, but it's a pity that I'm a little timid. ”
"Oh, that's right." Chen Jixian said worriedly: "Xiaolan, I'll tell you, don't have anything to do with him in the future." ”
"Why?"
"Forget it, let's go see Director Zhang first."
Qi Lu returned to the dormitory and was boredly shaking his mobile phone to chat with someone, when suddenly he thought of something, stood up with a swish, and muttered, "Looking for Director Zhang, a Taoist priest at home?" As he said to himself, he seemed to realize that something was wrong, and quickly locked the door and left.
The cold moon had risen in the sky, the door of the morgue was hidden, and the dim light shone on the gloomy faces of Chen Jixian, Director Zhang, Ding Xiaolan and Uncle Wang.
In the center of the room was a table with candlesticks and incense burners, and a stack of yellow charms beside it. Chen Jixian had already taken off his coat, revealing the blue-clothed robe inside. He burned a few talismans first, then took out a copper bell from his backpack and shook it up and down while chanting the incantation.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Qi Lu recklessly broke in.
"What are you going to do!" Director Zhang shouted at him: "Xiao Qi, there is nothing for you here, go back and rest." ”
"I saw a light in the morgue and thought there was something going on, so I came and looked." Qi Lu scratched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly.
"Curator, this kid didn't know where he got in, I'll kick him out." A young security guard followed in and talked back.
"You can't guard the door, how did you become a security guard!" Director Zhang wanted to say something, but Chen Jixian waved his hand and motioned him not to say any more.
Chen Jixian said to Qi Lu: "Since you are here, it means that it is also a kind of fate, you can watch it from the side, and by the way, let's start." ”
"Okay, no problem." Qi Lu hurriedly agreed, this was exactly the result he wanted.
"Okay, there's nothing for you here, so why don't you go and sentry outside the door." Seeing Director Zhang waving impatiently at him, the security guard hurriedly retreated and closed the door with him.
Chen Jixian continued to rattle the bell and recite the mantra, and Qi Lu took advantage of the time to whisper to Curator Zhang: "Curator, what is Master Chen doing?" ”
"What can you do, do it!" Director Zhang replied angrily.
Qi Lu wanted to continue asking, but Uncle Wang had already pulled him aside. Qi Lu pretended not to understand anything and asked Uncle Wang: "How can we do things in the funeral home, aren't we afraid that others will say that we are promoting superstitious activities?" ”
"You can't say a few words! Didn't I tell you, the museum is always colliding with evil spirits, how can you ward off evil spirits without doing a magic thing? ”
Seeing that Uncle Wang was also unhappy, Qi Lu couldn't ask any more, so he looked at Chen Jixian with cold eyes.
He found that the handle of the copper bell that Chen Jixian took was in the shape of the word "mountain", and the inscription of Taoism was engraved around the bell body, knowing that it was the Sanqing bell, and the word "mountain" at the end of the handle represented the Taoist supreme god Sanqing, and the inscription on the body of the bell was specially used to suppress demons and exorcise ghosts. Judging from the rust on the bell, it is likely that it is a ritual vessel that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Chen Jixian's spell was only halfway through when the lights in the morgue dimmed, then blinked again, and after a while, the light returned to light.
Maybe it was just a power failure, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Qi Lu found that there was no wind in the room at all, but the curtains automatically floated up. Just when he was surprised, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing towards his face, and there was a fishy smell in the wind. Then Qi Lu heard the woman's desolate cry, which couldn't tell the direction, but seemed to come from all directions.
Uncle Wang and the others also had the same supernatural feelings as Qi Lu, but they were all frightened by the strange sight and stood there a little overwhelmed. Ding Xiaolan is a girl who is even less timid, she leans against the wall, covers her ears with her hands, and her body is trembling slightly. Seeing this, Qi Lu hurriedly stepped forward and took her in his arms, comforting her in a low voice.
Only Chen Jixian's face remained as usual, as if nothing had happened. He continued to chant the mantra rattle, and walked with his feet.
The yin wind gradually stopped, and the woman's crying disappeared, Chen Jixian breathed a sigh of relief and put the copper bell on the desk, and burned a few more pieces of yellow mounting rune paper. Then he said to everyone lightly, "Okay, it's okay." ”
"How does it end?" It was the first time Curator Zhang experienced such an exorcism scene, and he didn't understand what was going on for a while, so he asked cautiously, "Daoist, have you caught a ghost?" ”
Chen Jixian smiled: "How can it be so simple, I just took out the ghost of this demon first and let it expose its whereabouts." So that I can find its hiding place and destroy its true form. ”
"The master's trick is really clever."
Hearing that Director Zhang was patting Chen Jixian's ass, Qi Lu almost didn't laugh out loud.
Ding Xiaolan also regained her composure, and only then did she realize that Qi Lu was holding herself, and she was busy breaking free from his arms with both hands.
"You're deliberately taking advantage of me, aren't you?"
"Hey, I said why don't you know the hearts of good people, just now it was obvious that you were afraid to die, so I came to protect you."
"Still quibbling with me, I'll beat you up next time I make it bad!" Ding Xiaolan raised her small fist at Qi Lu.
"Okay, even if I'm sentimental, I won't care about you next time you're scared to death by a ghost." Qi Lu looked at her fierce appearance and replied angrily.
"Alright, you follow me outside to find the hiding place of the demons." Hearing Chen Jixian say this, everyone hurriedly followed him out of the morgue.
Qi Lu was at the end, he turned off the light in the morgue, and was about to close the door by the way, but at this time his mobile phone rang, so he picked up his mobile phone and answered the call.
After the call, when Qi Lu was about to put the mobile phone back in his pocket, he was stunned, because with the faint light emitted by the mobile phone screen, he actually saw a bloody handprint on the ground at the door!
This surprised Qi Lu, he hurriedly turned on the light to take a closer look, but found that with the light on, there was nothing on the ground.
Maybe I was dazzled, Qi Lu breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to turn off the light, and by the dim starlight, he seemed to see the bloody handprints shaking in front of his eyes again.
Qi Lu didn't dare to be careless this time, he squatted down and looked at the ground carefully, but still didn't see anything.
The mobile phone with the original black screen lit up inexplicably at this time, and Qi Lu really saw the bloody handprint clearly this time!
The handprints appeared on the granite floor at the door, and the palms looked similar to those of a human, but the fingers were twice as long as ordinary people's fingers, slender and straight, not at all like human handprints.
"Xiao Qi, what are you rubbing?"
"Uncle Wang, come and see, there is a bloody handprint on the ground."
"Where?" Everyone heard the sound and came to see what was going on.
"It's right at my feet." When Qi Lu pointed to the floor for them to see, he found that the bloody handprints had disappeared again. No matter how Qi Lu irradiated it with his mobile phone, the bloody handprints never appeared again.
"Hmph, I was scared and hallucinated before I saw a ghost." Ding Xiaolan looked down on Qi Lu's timid appearance very much.
"I'm sorry, maybe I'm too nervous." Qi Lu reluctantly apologized to everyone.
"Don't be nervous, come with me, everyone." Chen Jixian smiled and instructed everyone, this time, Qi Lu followed him firmly, and he didn't want to encounter anything strange again.