The Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, is collectively known as the "Sanyuan Festival" together with the Lantern Festival (Shangyuan Festival) on the 15th day of the first lunar month and the Xiayuan Festival on October 15. It is also known as the "Three Ghost Festivals" together with the Qingming Festival and the Winter Clothes Festival.

Different from the Western Halloween pretending to be ghosts, the festival customs of the Midyear Festival are mainly to worship ancestors, release river lanterns, worship the souls of the dead, and burn paper ingots. It means to celebrate the autumn harvest, give thanks to the earth, report the harvest to the ancestors, etc.

However, in recent years, without knowing its true connotation and being affected by Halloween, many individuals' understanding of this festival is more inclined to a "ghost" word, but it is a bit crooked with the scene we may see on this trip.

Because, on the day of the Midyear Festival, there will indeed be a lot of ghosts in the yang, especially where the ghost gate is located, there is a saying called "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk", the reason is because the day of the Midyear Festival is the day when the yin energy in the yang is the strongest and the weakest yang energy, and the night is even more so, which can be described as "yin flourishes and yang declines". On Qiuchi Mountain, there is a ghost gate.

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The senior brother saw that Dao Fan and I were full of questions and were full of interest in the four words "Hundred Ghosts Night Walking", so he asked me to fetch the food that was hung on the coat hook with only a trace of temperature, and the three of them gathered around the small table and told us about it while eating.

When most of the food on the table was eaten, the senior brother's knowledge had been popularized, so he put down the disposable chopsticks in his hand, looked at me and Dao Fan, who were still looking up to see if he still had the following, and nodded slightly, as if to say, "This is the situation, you should be mentally prepared." ”

"Hyakki? Is it a hundred ghosts? How strong is it? Is there a good baby? ”

I, if it weren't for the fact that I was timid and pitiful in the case of a broken jar, after listening to my senior brother, I would naturally be most concerned about the situation of the "hundred ghosts".

But it's strange to say, although I cherish my life more, but I am not as afraid of death as before, death for me, is the soul out of the body, a different way of existence, can float in the air, fly around like a bird. Thinking of the feeling of leaving the body that night, there is still some unfinished thinking, in layman's terms, I still want to "die" again......

In the face of my instantaneous four questions, Senior Brother was very patient tonight and began to answer them one by one.

"Hundred ghosts are just a rhetorical device, to describe the number of ghosts that day, if it is at the ghost gate, such as Qiuchi Mountain, where we are going, it will be all over the mountains and everywhere. As for the strength, most of them should not be as strong as the little ghost Beibei, the little ghost Beibei has been born with spiritual wisdom, and it can be regarded as stepping into the realm of ghosts. When it comes to the division of the strength of ghosts, the lowest level is the ghosts formed after the death of normal people, who have no autonomous consciousness and only act purely on instinct, which is called ghosts. Once a spirit is born like the little ghost Beibei, it will control the ordinary yin qi, and even touch the threshold of the chaotic yin qi, it will be called a ghost spirit. Further up, the strength has reached the level of black impermanence, not only has he cultivated the chaotic yin qi, but also can be skillfully controlled, and he is called a ghost general. can have the strength of a ghost general, either a ghost official who works in the underworld like Hei Impermanence, or an old ghost who hides in a deep mountain and old forest in the underworld and has been silently cultivating for thousands of years. The strongest ones are the Five Ghost Emperors and the Emperor Xudu who are in charge of the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the underworld. The difference in strength between these four realms is like a chasm that cannot be crossed. ”

"Hundred ghosts walking at night, although it sounds scary, but they are generally ghosts and ghosts, but it is not certain that there will be no ghosts. I just had a bad premonition. The other party used Dao Fan's soul as a bargaining chip, the location was chosen in Qiuchi Mountain, and the time was selected in the Zhongyuan Festival, obviously for the 'Hundred Ghosts Night Walk' that would appear, but what was the purpose? Is it simply for the sake of the 'hundred ghosts' to solve us? may let what he said come through the mobile phone signal, it is obvious that the control of the chaotic qi has reached a terrifying level, and the strength is so strong, it is easy to solve us, why do you need to do so many twists and turns in one move. ”

While explaining to us, the senior brother also began to pick up his own thoughts, and couldn't help but walk around the narrow room of the hotel uneasily, obviously, he couldn't guess the purpose of the mysterious man, that is to say, everything we face is unknown, and it is impossible to know ourselves and the enemy.

I also silently began to digest what my senior brother said, and I always felt that there was a big hole in the hierarchy of ghosts and things he said, but I couldn't remember which sentence was illogical. Helplessly, he could only start to guess the intention of the mysterious person or the mysterious ghost on the phone.

It stands to reason that the person in Dao Xuan's dream should be the owner of the words that came from the mobile phone, and Dao Xuan's ghost told his senior brother......

"No, senior brother, didn't you say that ordinary people only form ghosts when they die, and they have no autonomous consciousness, but how can Dao Xuan's ghost talk to you? Will I be so frightened that I will run away and knock over the mineral water bottle on the windowsill? ”

I grasped the crux of the question at once, and involuntarily asked Senior Brother out loud.

"Involuntary consciousness does not mean that you cannot speak, you have no memory, and it does not mean that you have lost the most basic instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm. It's just that all his actions are based on instinct, on the obsession before death, and he can't think. ”

Senior Brother and Dao Fan were both startled by my sudden loud opening, and after hearing that I was struggling with this question, Senior Brother shook his head with a smile and explained to me again.

After listening to my brother's explanation, I still don't feel very understood, but for me, who doesn't like to use my brain, it is not easy to think so much today, plus my head is chaotic, although the air conditioner is on in the hotel, I still feel very dull.

So I saw that Dao Fan had already put down his chopsticks, so I cleaned up the already messy tabletop, put the disposable tableware into a plastic bag, and prepared to throw it into the trash can outside the hotel. Although the senior brother stopped eating more than half of it, fortunately, Dao Fan and I still deserve praise for cherishing the food, and we can always solve it cleanly.

Of course, there are trash cans in the hotel room, but at this temperature, if it is still in the trash can in the room, it will be sour and smelly for a while. It's not that I'm more diligent than him, it's that I'm really too blind in the room, and I want to go outside to blow the wind and sober up my mind.

Flicking the fluttering plastic bag in my hand, humming the tune of I don't know which song it was, I walked out of the hotel door in a chic manner, slowly looking for the public trash can in the alley, feeling infinitely comfortable.

This may be the only advantage of me as a person, as long as I eat and drink enough, I can forget all my troubles for a while.

But when I threw the plastic bag of garbage into a trash can in the middle of an alley, what happened next is something I will never forget.