Volume 5, The Three Realms of the Stars and Moon_Chapter 29, Earthbound Spirits
The black shadow slowly came out of the shadows, it didn't look very big, but it was quite eerie, and there seemed to be some yin qi floating in the air that I couldn't see.
"Brother Shan, here......" Qianli Yulang whispered.
The dark shadow slowly came into my view, and when I got closer, I could see that it was a ghost in the shape of a child. Walking silently on the ground, his eyes looking around sensitively. Then step by step, he walked towards the formation enchantment that Li Yulang had set up in front of him.
"How is it a child?" The former Li Yulang also said with some surprise, "Oh, I remember, there was news a few days ago, that a child accidentally fell on the road while playing near here, and his head hit the fence next to him heavily, causing a severe concussion, and he has been lying in the hospital for several days and has not woken up." I think it may be that child, because he is still young, his soul does not fit into the body, so he has a relatively large impact after the concussion, and as a result, the soul cannot return to the body after the concussion. ”
"People become spirits without dying?" It's rare, and I couldn't help but check it out.
"There is no follow-up report, and I really don't know if the little boy is dead or alive. Brother Shan, do you say that it will be this little boy who secretly pays tribute? The former Li Yulang asked.
"I don't know, but just ask. You keep the formation and don't let the barrier break, I'll ask this kid what's going on. As I spoke, I walked forward. The revenant in front of me apparently didn't notice that I was heading towards it. Ghosts and humans will not touch each other if they cannot see each other, as if there is a pair of invisible hands pulling away those who are about to meet, as if there is an invisible door between them. But if you can see it, the invisible door between you will disappear.
I walked up to the ghost, and the little boy finally sensed it and looked up at me, and at that moment I reached out and grabbed it. The big hand that fell from the sky covered the little boy's soul, and it suddenly felt something looking at me. A pair of gray eyes without focus reflect the deepest fear.
"Ah...... Ah...... "The ghost of the little boy screamed at me, but its Taoism was still shallow, and it was not able to communicate with people normally like Yaya, so I didn't understand a word of the grunt. I let go of my hand, and the little boy's ghost hurried back, but before I could get far was blocked by the barrier.
I pulled a trace of dirt from the ground with my fingernails, rubbed it back and forth on my fingers, then wiped it on my lips, ears and eyes, and said, "You can communicate with me now, I can hear what you say." ”
With me as the medium and the former Li Yulang as the translator, we finally communicated. The boy's story is similar to the news report, the only difference is that he did not crash into the fence and fainted, but was startled by a speeding car, and when he dodged backwards, he accidentally hit the railing behind him and fell, and the back of his head hit the raised stone before he was seriously injured. Of course, the little boy didn't realize that he was out of his body, but he felt that no one around him seemed to be able to see him, and there was a strange feeling in his heart that made him avoid everyone else. So he walked day after day in this unique place, wandering in the dark shadows at dawn and in the dark night after dark, hungry every day. But nothing seemed to whet his appetite. Wandering outside the restaurant, seeing those steaming meals, there is no desire to swallow it. Always starving, unable to find a way home, and returning again and again to the place where he had an accident. That changed after the latest park killing, and after the latest killing, someone brought tribute to mourn and placed it under a roadside telephone pole.
This was the farthest it could reach, and those seemingly ordinary fruits were giving off an enticing aroma at the moment, something he was trying to swallow and want to eat. So it sneaked up on the tribute, but in the end it didn't eat it for some reason.
Generally speaking, ghosts are reincarnated in 100 days, and the subsequent worship and cleaning are actually a cultural way to express sorrow. But during these 100 days, if your offerings have been eaten by ghosts, there will be obvious traces. In the case of fruits, if a ghost touches the tribute, it will be like I found a few small black marks on the apples, as if a small hand had grasped them. And if a ghost has eaten these offerings, the bite will show signs of shriveling. Unlike humans, ghosts don't eat an apple cleanly, and they are satisfied with a painstaking bite. If the rest of the apples are well-hydrated and look fresh, but only one part of the apple is shriveled, then there is no doubt that it must have been eaten by ghosts.
The little boy was already hungry, but why did he not eat when he saw that he had caught all these tributes?
"Why didn't it eat it?" I was muttering in my heart, and I asked as soon as I finished speaking.
"You can relay it for me, I'll ask."
I cooperated with the former Li Yulang and continued to ask the little boy about the tribute, but the little boy hesitated, and at first it seemed that there was something unspeakable and he didn't want to say. But then, under our coercion and temptation, the truth was finally revealed. It's because when it was about to eat the tribute, it saw something it shouldn't see.
"Tell me what it sees?" I said curiously.
The former Li Yulang translated what the little boy told me: "It said that it witnessed the whole process of the murder in the park, and it was very scared at the time, saying that it was a very terrible and evil youkai. Later, when it was eating the tribute, the monster came back, and it was so scared that it didn't dare to run away. ”
"In other words, Yun Jian came back after killing someone? What is this guy doing here? "I had a huge question in my mind.
According to the little boy's account, it happened in the middle of the night, and it wandered aimlessly around the same area. Later, when he heard a noise in the park, he floated over to look, but he didn't expect to see a man sitting on a park bench, with an expressionless face and talking to himself. There was a white shadow floating around the man, and it wasn't long before the man sitting on the park bench killed himself, and the white shadow took his soul away when he died. The little boy was so frightened by the scene of the death that he hid for several days, and then the murder in the park was discovered, and the police and reporters visited him day and night, and it took several days before he finally quieted down.
At this time, the family and friends of the deceased placed tributes under the telephone poles nearby, and the little boy who smelled the fragrance of the tribute couldn't help but approach the tribute and wanted to taste it, but before it could be eaten, the white shadow floated back again. The little boy said that he felt the white shadow seem to have spotted it, and was so aggressive towards it that it was so frightened that it would leave the tribute and flee. After that, the little boy didn't know where the white shadow went.
There are several strange things in my ears, first, we have always thought that Yun Jian is relying on his subordinate to kill and devour souls unscrupulously, but the little boy said that it took away the soul and did not devour it on the spot. Does this mean that it didn't take these souls away for its own consumption? Of course, it is also possible that it was not devoured on the spot, but was stored and devoured in the future. Second, why did Yun Jian return to his old place? I don't know if Yun Jian came back after the previous killings, but this time it came back and was discovered, but why did it come back? People are dead, souls are taken away, is there anything worth nostalgia for? The third is that the little boy said that when he was discovered by Yun Jian, he could feel Yun Jian's strong aggression, does this mean that Yun Jian seems to be very interested in this little boy's earth binding spirit?
The three points before and after make me feel that this whole series of cases is full of doubts.