Chapter XXXVII—Countermeasures
In his sleep, Shen Bai's consciousness was pulled into a small and dark space.
It's like you're 1.8 meters tall, but you're stuffed into a 1.5 cubic meter box. It's fine to go in, but it's uncomfortable!
Shen Bai's consciousness is now this uncomfortable feeling. Therefore, Shen Bai had some vague consciousness, squeezing around, wanting to leave the small space.
"Are you afraid of death?"
Hearing this voice, Shen Bai's originally chaotic consciousness suddenly became clear—the owner of that voice was Ling Xiao.
Shen Bai heard Ling Xiao's words, looked around, and didn't find where Ling Xiao was. Simply pointed forward and said to Ling Xiao: "I'm not afraid of death, but I don't want to die inexplicably, the last time you appeared, it took a lot of my life, right?" Just because you want to take advantage of the majesty of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, so at the cost of my life? ”
In the darkness, Ling Xiao was silent and did not speak.
Shen Bai waited for an unknown amount of time, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean by not speaking?" Is it default? You say I am you, you are me, so why do you deliberately compromise my lifespan? I'm dead, what's in it for you? ”
"It seems that you are still afraid of death." In the darkness, Ling Xiao sighed.
Shen Baidan, who heard this, hurt, what do you mean I'm still afraid of death? Even if you die, you can't be drained of your life and die violently for some reason, right? What kind of death is this?
So, Shen Bai was in the dark, looking above his head, and said to Ling Xiao dissatisfied-
"I said, I'm not afraid of death, but I can't die in vain, right? I still don't know what the connection is between us. I'm grateful that you can help me when I'm helpless, but the price of your help is too great, isn't it? I was ······"
Ling Xiao's voice interrupted: "You want to say that you have already committed the life shortage of the five disadvantages and three shortcomings, and I have reduced your lifespan since I appeared, so you are very dissatisfied, right?" ”
"That's right, I do have some dissatisfaction with you, we could have said that it has nothing to do with it, and you don't affect me if you stay in my body, but you are doing me like this, isn't it too much?"
"I'm Lingxiao, and I don't care about living in someone else's body. You are my reincarnation, I will not harm you, you can just remember this. ”
Shen Bai's consciousness was silent for a long time, and he responded, "That's what I think. One question, can you tell me, how much life I have left? ”
"Eleven years or so."
After hearing Ling Xiao's answer, Shen Bai breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Ling Xiao would say that he only had one or two years left, or a few months to live, and that would really hurt his eggs.
Just when Shen Bai was secretly rejoicing, Ling Xiao spoke again.
"I can help you get stronger, but it will take ten years of your life in exchange, are you willing?"
"No, never."
Shen Bai didn't even think about it, and decisively rejected Ling Xiao. He thought to himself: What about kidding? Lao Tzu has about eleven years left to live, and if I trade with you for a while, what if I die directly?
Even if he didn't die violently, then TMD would only have about a year left to live, and there was a fart use for becoming stronger? Moreover, how much stronger can it be?
"It seems that it is not time to ······ yet"
Listening to Ling Xiao's inexplicable words, Shen Bai asked in confusion, "When?" What do you mean? Can't I keep this life? Is it because you need to use my life to maintain consciousness that you want to trade with me? ”
"That's it, the time hasn't come, you can go."
Ling Xiao didn't answer Shen Bai's question, but instead said that the time had not come, and he began to pick people up.
"Uh, how do I get there? In which direction? Shen Bai, who was a little confused, asked. He said to himself: I didn't want to come at the beginning, inexplicable.
"I'll send you out."
After Ling Xiao finished speaking, Shen Bai felt that he was being squeezed upward. Within a few seconds, Shen Bai was squeezed out of the small and closed space.
Shen Bai's consciousness wandered in the darkness and gradually blurred. This time I really fell asleep······
At half past eight o'clock in the morning, after Ye Qing had breakfast, he brought one back to Shen Bai Feiyu. Of course, Fei Yu's portion is added, otherwise it will definitely not be enough to eat.
After sending Fei Yu into the house for breakfast, Ye Qing saw that Shen Bai hadn't come out yet, which was a little strange; So I went and knocked on the door—
Knock Knock Knock Knock ·
"Old white? Haven't woken up yet? Get up and eat. ”
After a few minutes of waiting, no one in the house responded. Ye Qing knocked on his hand a few more times, but there was no movement in the room at all.
Thinking that on weekdays, Shen Bai also got up at half past seven at the latest, and no one responded after knocking for a long time, Ye Qing shouted again: "Old Bai? Are you there? ”
Hearing that there was still no movement in the house, Ye Qing thought to himself: Did you go out early? So Ye Qing opened the door and entered Shen Bai's room.
After entering, Ye Qing saw that Shen Bai hadn't taken off his clothes and was asleep on the bed. stepped forward and gently pushed a few times and said, "Lao Bai? Old white? Why are you still sleeping, get up..."
Shen Bai lay down and tossed for most of the night, and inexplicably after falling asleep, he spent a long time with Ling Xiao in his consciousness, so he slept very deeply.
Shen Bai was pushed by Ye Qing, opened his eyes a little vaguely, and saw that it was Ye Qing calling himself, yawned, got up and asked, "What time is it?" Did I sleep for a long time? ”
Ye Qing took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, and returned: "It's 8:43 now." I knocked on the door for a long time, and you slept so badly that I thought you were out. Come down and have breakfast. ”
Seeing that Shen Bai was awake, Ye Qing turned around and walked out of Shen Bai's room after finishing speaking.
Looking at the still bright sunshine outside the window, Shen Bai sat on the bed and rubbed his face, habitually stretched his hand to the pillow, ready to get dressed.
But when I looked into it, I didn't even touch my clothes. Just when he wanted to find out where the clothes were, Shen Bai saw the clothes he was wearing, and then he remembered - he didn't take them off at all last night!
After getting off the bed, Shen Bai scratched his head, went into the bathroom to wash up briefly, and walked to the hall on the first floor.
Seeing that Ye Qing was flipping through something, he grabbed the bun on the table and took a bite and asked, "Ye Qing, what are you looking at?" ”
"I'm looking for a way to deal with Brahsha." Ye Qing didn't raise his head, and after replying to Shen Bai, he continued to flip through the books in his hand.
Shen Bai listened to Ye Qing's words and put down the half-eaten bun in his hand. The thought of encountering such a tricky thing made him lose his appetite completely.
Shen Bai walked to the door of the office, touched his pocket, and took out a cigarette. After igniting it, I took a deep breath and thought to myself: Brahma, snake demon Liu Changqing, how should I deal with it...
Not to mention the brahma, it is not clear what it is, and it is estimated that it will not play a role in dealing with things such as sulfur in ordinary snake demons in the face of Liu Changqing.
After all, people's Taoism is there, what use can you use to deal with the sulfur and rooster of ordinary monsters? Will people be afraid of roosters? Or will it hide from the brimstone?
Shen Bai, who finished smoking a cigarette, threw away the cigarette butt, walked up to Ye Qing, who was still flipping through the books, and asked the doubts in his heart: "Ye Qing, we don't know how deep Liu Changqing is, but at least we know that it is a snake demon." But what is this brahmasha you are talking about? ”
Ye Qing heard Shen Bai's question, put the book on the table, leaned back and said, "There are very few brahsinas in the world, because the requirements for this thing to appear are relatively harsh. First: The precursor of Brahmasha must have a great deal of resentment. Second: the intellect must be very high, at least to understand hatred, feelings, such things. ”
"After talking for a long time, it means that I didn't say it, I want to know if it's a ghost or a demon, or something else." After Shen Bai finished speaking, he stared at Ye Qing and waited for his next words.
Ye Qing sat up straight and said: "Whether it is a ghost or a demon, it can become a Brahmasha, including a living person becoming a Brahmasha, and there is a precedent. But as far as we encountered, it can be determined that it is a monster, and it is definitely not easy to deal with. ”
"You judge by your hair, but how do you know it's going to be a tough one? What if that thing has just become a Brahmasha and is not very capable? Shen Bai wondered.
Ye Qing speculated to Shen Bai based on the fact that someone had an accident as soon as he left Midnight Song City at that time-
One: This brahma is very resentful, but his thinking is very clear, whether it is provocation or seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, this guy is very smart.
Second: After reading the books, it can be determined that even if this brahmasha is not a mandrill, it must be a monkey demon.
On the one hand, there is hair, and on the other hand, there is speculation based on the scene of the crime. It can drag the deceased into the ceiling mezzanine on the ceiling, and the volume is not too large.
Thirdly, until now, the hiding place of the Brahmana has not been found, and there are only two possibilities.
One is the way of this thing, so high that people can't see where it's hiding.
The second is that this monster is proficient in some hidden spells, and ordinary spiritual vision and other methods can't find it.
After listening to Ye Qing's inference, Shen Bai frowned and said, "Then what should I do?" Yesterday, Gu Guoguo said again... Broken! Halfway through speaking, Shen Bai suddenly remembered-
After Gu Guoguo asked him for help last night, he didn't go over, but until now, Gu Guoguo has never contacted him again!
Seeing that Shen Bai was all of a sudden, Ye Qing hurriedly asked, "What's broken?" You mean... Maybe something happened to the deputy director? ”
Ye Qing also reacted, Gu Guoguo called Shen Bai once last night, and Shen Bai said to go immediately, but then ······
Shen Baitie blushed and said, "No, no matter what, I have to go and see what happened." ”
Now Shen Bai is very guilty, and he obviously promised to go to others, but he didn't go as promised.
Thinking that Gu Guoguo was likely to be killed now, Shen Bai felt as if a big stone was pressed in his heart.
Seeing Shen Baitie's blushing face, Ye Qing said: It's no problem to go, but at least you have to discuss the countermeasures first, and you can't just go without thinking about anything. Otherwise, isn't there nothing to be gained in the past?
Shen Bai suppressed his somewhat manic emotions and discussed with Ye Qing. In the end, the two decided to draw out the brahsinas first and observe how strong the other party was.
If the strength is average, use thunder means to kill directly; If the strength is too high, then go back to the office for the time being, and then think about it in the long run.
As for how to quote, Shen Bai means: Aren't you transformed by a monkey demon? Isn't there intelligence? I put a monkey in a cage and a few poisonous snakes in it, and I don't believe you don't come out to save your own kind!
Ye Qing didn't agree with this method at first, feeling that it was too cruel for ordinary creatures.
Anyway, the monkey you caught didn't do anything wrong, in case this monkey demon can't come out, isn't it in vain to take the life of an innocent being?
But when Shen Bai asked him if there was any other way, Ye Qing couldn't say anything else, so he could only agree in the end.
Shen Bai went upstairs to look at Fei Yu who was sleeping on the bed, and after exiting Fei Yu's room, he secretly said in his heart: I will definitely avenge you, no matter what it has to do with this matter, I will definitely destroy them!
Because it has been almost two years since he opened a shop on this street, Shen Bai knows that there is a black shop nearby that is doing an illegal business - selling monkey brains.
Shen Bai took some cash and went to the black shop, saying that he wanted to buy a live monkey. At first, the store owner thought that Shen Bai was sent by the police to collect evidence.
But after seeing the cash that Shen Bai took out, he decisively took out a monkey with his hands and feet tied from the back kitchen.
I saw that the shopkeeper was carrying the monkey's tail upside down, which made the monkey squeak in pain. Shen Bai was a little unbearable, but he didn't say anything. I asked for another cage, put the monkey I had bought, covered it with a black cloth, and took it away.
On the other hand, Ye Qing's work is not so simple. After finding a medicinal herb shop, Ye Qing said that he wanted to buy two cobras and go back to make wine.
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man in his forties, and he asked Ye Qing for a long time, and he was telling and talking to him, so he was afraid that Ye Qing was buying it to do something bad.
Finally, the family was reassured, and they took out two live snakes in a cloth bag. Considering the monkey that Shen Bai got here, he needed to tie his limbs to the cage wall.
Ye Qing decided to buy some more medicinal herbs to make a misty incense, so as not to have a time when the monkey struggled.
After deciding, Ye Qing said to the store that received him just now: "Boss, give me the side medicine." ”
Hearing that Ye Qing wanted to grab the medicine, the shopkeeper pointed to the side: "Grab the medicine inside, someone will help you catch it, and I am only responsible for wholesale here." ”
If you follow the direction of the shopkeeper's finger, you will see that there is a doorway with a curtain hanging on the top half. Ye Qing sighed speechlessly in his heart: In these years, selling things is still so fine...
After entering, Ye Qing saw an old man with a white beard and reading glasses reading a newspaper. He knocked lightly on the door frame and said, "Old man, please help me grab some medicinal herbs." ”
Hearing this, the old man put down the newspaper in his hand, got up and asked, "What do you want to order?" ”
After Ye Qing explained the materials and measurements of the incense, the old man asked Ye Qing to wait for a while, turned around and went to the medicine cabinet behind him to grab the medicine.
After a while, the old man finished grabbing the medicine, holding the wrapped medicinal herbs, and while settling the accounts with a calculator, he asked casually: "Young man, you grabbed the medicinal herbs that dissolve blood stasis, is there anyone in the family who is injured?" ”
Ye Qing was stunned, the medicine to dispel stasis? I'm obviously catching a fan...
Ye Qing was a little puzzled and said, "Did the old gentleman catch it by mistake?" The herbs I caught are used to mix incense, why don't I tell you the recipe again? ”
After listening to Ye Qing's words, the old man looked at Ye Qing and nodded, "It seems that you kid is quite honest." What can be done and what cannot be done, you must know in your heart. Don't go astray..."
As he spoke, the old man threw aside the wrapped medicine in his hand, took out another package of medicinal herbs from behind him, and handed it to Ye Qing.
Seeing this, Ye Qing sighed secretly: This folk is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, if I didn't truthfully tell what kind of medicine I caught, this old man would probably really sell me a packet of decoction to dispel stasis.
Ye Qing assured the old man that he was not doing bad things, and asked, "Old man, how much do I need to pay?" ”
The old man shook his head and waved his hand and said, "That's it, this little thing is not worth a few dollars, I should give it to you." ”
After speaking, the old man sat down in front of the stage again and continued to read the newspaper. Ye Qing bowed down to thank the old man and left the medicinal herb shop.
The biggest headline in the newspaper that the old man read was-
Astound! The deputy director of Yanghu District, City D, and thirteen of his subordinates died mysteriously!
In the picture attached to the title, a corpse covered with a white cloth is being lifted out of the gate of Midnight Song City, where the cordon has been raised.
The white cloth on the picture did not cover the place, revealing an arm in a police uniform, holding something tightly in his hand······
In the office——
Shen Bai looked boredly at the monkey in the cage with his limbs tied. I thought: Ye Qing, this guy, is it so hard to buy things? It's been more than an hour and I haven't come back.
Just as Shen Bai took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Ye Qing, Ye Qing came back.
"Why are you so slow? It's almost noon. ”
"People are afraid that I will buy things and do bad things, so they don't worry, so they keep interrogating me."
"Speechless, really, let's prepare first, and go over in the afternoon after dinner. Be sure to lure this thing out today and see how fierce it really is! ”
As he spoke, Shen Bai looked down at the monkey lying quietly in the cage and being tied.
This monkey saw Shen Bai's gaze, with a hint of ruthlessness, and the monkey showed a look of fear on his face, and struggled desperately!