Chapter 18: Ancient Memories (II)

Ling Fan looked at Gu Rufeng's face and said busily, "Old Gu, do you know the secret of this ghost game of 'Four Corners Conjuring Spirits'?" ”

Gu Rufeng slowly raised his head, his face was full of horror that he didn't want to mention, and said: "Yes, I know the secret of this 'Four Corners Summoning Spirits' game, in fact, this story starts from ten years ago, at that time, I was only in my thirties, and I was an onmyoji who wandered around the rivers and lakes, making a living by removing spirits and reading feng shui.

I remember that day I came to a small mountain village, and as soon as I arrived at the entrance of the mountain village, I felt a strong resentment, so I pinched my fingers and calculated that something terrible must have happened in this small mountain village. So I hurried into the village to take a look, and sure enough, I saw a white cloth hanging in front of the door of a house, and a voice of grief came from inside.

I was curious and walked in, but the moment I walked into the house, I felt a strong sense of unease, and I saw a dark shadow suddenly disappear from a dark corner of the room, and I couldn't see what he was, because he was all dark, and only his hateful eyes were unusually clear.

When I saw the shadow, I wanted to rush forward and chase after me, but an old lady grabbed me by the sleeve, and she almost fell to her knees in front of me, crying and begging me to save her grandson. I walked up to the little coffin, stretched out my hand to wipe the child's breath, but found that he was dead, not even a trace of life, his face was cold, and his immature face was sharply distorted, and at first glance I knew that he had been terrified to death by extreme intimidation.

I turned back to the old lady and said that this child's anger had completely dissipated, and his dead breath had spread, and he could no longer be saved. But the old lady shook her head and told me that the child she wanted me to save was not this child, but her grandson, who was firmly guarded by her, and that she said that there was an evil spirit that wanted to kill her grandson.

Ling boy, you know, originally begged me to get rid of the spirit, I charged a lot of money, but at that time, because of the old lady's ragged and coarse clothes, my sympathy rose, and more importantly, I was very interested in the evil spirits she said, I am an onmyoji myself, and there are only two things that I am most interested in in this life: money and evil spirits.

I immediately promised the old lady to help her get rid of her spirits, and the condition was that the old lady would have a meal together.

But when I came to the old lady's house, I suddenly felt the familiar resentment again, and when I looked in the direction from which the resentment came, I still saw two resentful eyes flashing by. Immediately I had a sense of foreboding, and I thought the old lady would quickly take me to the place where her little grandson was being held.

It was a well-sealed hut, and even the windows were firmly boarded with a large rusty lock on top of the pitch-black board.

So saying, the old lady took a key from her pocket and walked to the rusty lock, and kept calling her grandson's name, but for a long time there was no echo inside. The old lady also felt bad, and hurriedly pointed the key towards the lock hole, perhaps because she was too nervous, or because she was too worried about the children inside, she did not open the rusty lock more than ten times, and the key fell to the ground many times.

I felt that something was wrong, so I hurriedly strode forward and snatched the key from the old lady's hand, and kicked the door open, only to see the cold breath coming from the house, the dim light coming from behind the window paper, and the wooden planks nailed to the window reflected black shadows on the ground.

"Ah......h

Before the old lady rushed into the house, she saw the mass crouched in the corner, screamed, and stumbled on top of the small mass.

When I looked closely, I realized that the small mass was a little boy who was no more than seven years old, a boy who was supposed to be alive, but now he was curled up like a maggot, his head hung tightly down in his knees, a pair of frightened eyes still looking up from his knees, and his face was also terrifying.

The old lady kept shaking the little boy's body and cried loudly, but the little boy did not react at all, just looked at the roof with a pair of frightened eyes, I followed the little boy's eyes, and sure enough, I saw a black shadow hovering above the roof, black and slimy, but only the eyes full of resentment.

Evil spirits! When I saw it for the first time, I knew it was an evil spirit, an evil spirit full of resentment, and I hurriedly took out a spirit talisman from my bosom and shot it towards the roof, but by the time the spirit rune arrived, the evil spirit had long since disappeared.

The old lady's grief-stricken cries echoed in the little dark room, and even such heart-wrenching cries could not bring back the soul of her little grandson, who was already dead, terrified. Then the old lady fainted, and I used some methods such as pinching people's holes to wake the old lady up, but the first thing she said when she woke up was: self-inflicted, don't live!

Self-inflicted, not living?!

I asked the old lady what this sentence meant, and whether it was related to evil spirits.

The old lady looked at me and sighed before she said slowly, she said that everything started a week ago, it was a moonless night, his grandson and four other children were playing hide and seek in an abandoned little black house at the head of the village, and when it was the turn of one of the little boys to play ghost, the rest of the children suddenly started to joke with the little boy, and they secretly left the black room, leaving only the little boy still groping back and forth in the dark room.

The black house was an abandoned thatched house, with dry comfrey piled up everywhere, and everyone generally did not want to let the children play anywhere, because it was extremely dangerous and prone to fire, but unfortunately, when the little boy was groping for someone in the black house, the thatched house suddenly burst into flames, but the little boy still didn't realize it, and only when his whole body was burned by the flames did he find that he had been deceived by others, so he was so frightened that he couldn't even bother to run towards the door of the black house. But who knew that the door of the black room was locked.

When the villagers saw that the thatched hut was on fire, they hurriedly picked up buckets and ran towards the black house, and when they reached the black house, they heard a boy's hateful voice coming from the fierce flames: I hate you, you have deceived me, I will kill you one by one even if I turn into a ghost...... Haha the villagers heard that there was a child in the thatched hut, they were busy pouring buckets of water in the fire, and it took a long time for the raging fire to be extinguished by the villagers, and when the villagers knocked open the door of the house and rushed in, they found that it was already charred and messy, and there was a black whirring thing squatting in the corner of the wall, and the figure could not be distinguished, but they saw two hateful and resentful eyes shooting out of the black face.

When I heard this, I finally understood what was going on with the evil spirit, so I asked the old lady if his grandson and the little boy I had just seen were playing together in the dark room that day. The old lady said that there were only four children left except for the one who was burned to death and cursed, and two of these four children had already suffered, and the other two children must not have escaped the curse of the evil spirit boy, and sooner or later they would have to be poisoned by him, so the old lady begged me to try to get rid of this evil spirit, otherwise all the children in this village would be robbed.

"Wait, Gu, is all of this true what you said?!" Ling Fan still asked in disbelief.

"Ling boy, soul removal is my profession, will I joke about my professionalism?! And if you doubt my experience again, I won't help you in the future. Gu Rufeng also stared at Ling Fan with a resentful gaze.

"Don't be shocked, I'm afraid, hehe, it's not that I don't believe it, I just think there are too many suspicious points in your case, such as:

First, why did that little dark room suddenly catch fire?

Second, since it was the other four children joking with the boy who was burned to death, why did they lock the door again, as you said, the thatched little black house had been abandoned for many years, and it should not have been locked.

These two points alone are very problematic, didn't you think about it at the time? Ling Fan frowned and looked at Gu Rufeng.

With a muffled sound of "bang", Gu Rufeng tapped Ling Fan's head with his thick fingers, pretending to be angry and said: "Ling boy, I am a great onmyoji, and I am not a little detective, how can I think so much, when I think about it, what I think is that this evil spirit is not simple, if you want to get rid of the spirit, you must eliminate the resentment of the evil spirit, otherwise even if you get rid of it, after a few years, he will still appear again, and then his anger will only be more terrifying."

So, I learned from the old lady the addresses of the other two children, a little girl and a little boy, who were guarded by their parents, for fear that something might happen to their own children. So I went to the nearest boy's house, put a talisman around the boy's neck, and told him not to take it off until the evil spirit was gone, and then I ran to the little girl's house, but when I arrived at the girl's house, I found that I was already a step too late, and the little girl was already dead, and her parents had only been away from her for a moment, and she was terrified to death by the evil spirit.

If you were me at the time, you would have felt the anger in my heart, no matter how strong the resentment of this evil spirit was, it should not kill these ignorant young children, so I ran to the abandoned thatched little black house, and the evil spirits will eventually return to the place where they died, because only there will their spiritual power be the strongest. I used the Yin-Yang Technique to summon the evil spirit out, and after a vicious fight, I got rid of it little by little, thinking that it was all over, but who knew that something more terrible would happen soon after! ”

When he said this, Gu Rufeng's whole person felt unnatural, and his eyes showed that kind of fear and hatred.