McQuay and I didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went out to track the traces of the soul continuation mage and others.

Ming Luo said that he wanted to go to the room to find something, so let's search the neighborhood first.

I saw what he meant, and seemed unwilling to let us know what he was looking for in the room, so I didn't say much, and just pulled McQuay out of the temple gate.

But because there is an open space outside the temple gate, the open space is clean and hard, and there are no footprints left at all.

I was at a loss for a while, so I could only look east and west.

Unexpectedly, McVier had a lot of research on tracking techniques, and it didn't take long for him to find a line of messy footprints at the foot of the mountain close to the temple.

It just so happened that the Ming Luo priest also walked out of the temple, and the three of us walked along the intermittent footprints of the line for a while, and the Ming Luo priest suddenly sniffed and said, "This smell is a little strange, it should be around here!" ”

He no longer looked for footprints, and walked directly ahead.

I sniffed carefully, but I didn't smell anything "weird", so I had to follow closely behind Mingluo with McQuay.

After a small half circle along the foot of the mountain, a field of wild vines hanging down from the cliff appeared in front of me.

Mingluo didn't care whether the vine would prick his hand or not, and directly pushed aside the wild mountain vine, but saw that behind the wild mountain vine, a black and swarthy hole suddenly appeared.

"It should be right here!" Mingluo whispered.

It wasn't until this moment that I smelled a strange smell, vaguely like the smell of the Soul Leaving Grass that I had seen again and again.

Mingluo was the first to bend down and burrow into the hole.

McQuay followed, and I followed behind McQuay.

As soon as I entered the cave, the smell became clearer.

But it's just clear, and it's very slight compared to the strong smell after boiling into a decoction.

In addition, at the end of the cave, there is a faint light.

Looking closely, it can be seen that an oil lamp is slightly lit, and several figures are reflected in the light.

However, because of the small opening of the cave, the people inside did not notice us immediately.

It wasn't until the cave got wider and wider, and all three of us straightened up, that the figures jumped up and stared at us with wariness.

"Who are you? Was my master injured by you? ”

The older one of the people asked sharply, but his voice trembled slightly, and he seemed to be lacking in confidence.

Ming Luo continued to walk inside, and said: "Uncle Shi, his old man practices witchcraft, I persuaded him to stop, it was for his good, but unfortunately he was stubborn, and after all, he caused this disaster!" ”

I took advantage of the light of the oil lamp to look inside the cave and found that the inside of the cave was very spacious.

On the ground at our left foot, there is even a grass puddle that has been reclaimed. There is a small dark green grass planted in the Pu, which must be the Soul Leaving Grass that the Ming Luo Shaman said.

At the end of the cave, a dim oil lamp was placed on a platform made of stones.

On the right side of the platform sat an old man with his eyes closed against the cave wall, and he was full of gray hair, and he should be seventy or eighty years old.

There were three men standing next to the old man, one was slightly younger, and the other two were middle-aged people in their forties.

The three of them also recognized the Mingluo priest after he spoke.

The eldest of them opened his mouth and said, "Senior Brother Mingluo, although my master asked us to tie you up, it was just to punish you for speaking against his old man, but his old man didn't want to do anything to you, how could you lead these outsiders into the mountain to hurt my master?" ”

"We weren't brought in by the Ming Luo Shaman!" McQuay sneered and answered, "Your master practices witchcraft and separates his soul from his body to do evil, and he is unlucky to meet me!" If you are not convinced, you can seek revenge from me! ”

The three of them saw that McQuay was so imposing that they all looked at each other and did not dare to say anything.

Mingluo Shaman sighed and asked, "How is Uncle Shi?" ”

"Master just had a sudden headache, we barely carried him into the cave, and he couldn't bear it and fainted!" The older man had a sad face, and while answering the Ming Luo priest, he stretched out his hand and probed under the old man's nose, "The breath is also very weak, we are really afraid of his old man's ......"

He didn't dare to say the last few words.

Ming Luo shook his head, and did not approach to inspect the old man's condition, but carried a cloth bag he had brought out from the temple with one hand, and kept grabbing some powdery things from the cloth bag with the other hand, and sprinkled them one by one on the grass pool.

"Senior Brother Mingluo, what are you doing?"

The older man exclaimed, as if he wanted to rush forward to stop Mingluo. But McQuay, who was eyeing him, stopped.

I leaned closer to the Mingluo shaman, and reached out and grabbed some powder from the cloth bag, which glittered in the light, and with the greasy touch, I knew at once what it was.

"It's salt!" I say.

"Yes!" Mingluo Shaman nodded, "According to my master, the Soul Grass is dry when it comes to salt, and it will not be able to sprout again in the next year!" It's a curse to keep it, so I have to eradicate it all! ”

I didn't have any opinion, but I spilled the handful of salt in my hand into the grass.

McQuay jumped over and shouted, "Mingluo shaman, wait a minute, wait for me to dig up two plants and bring them back to Europe for samples!" This herb is so peculiar that figuring out how it departs the soul is likely to be a great boost to modern medicine and biology! ”

"No way!" Mingluo Shaman refused, "First of all, this is a unique herb of our Tai people, we don't allow foreigners to introduce it to other places, let alone you are still a foreigner!" Secondly, this herb is an ominous thing left by the ancient demon gods, and it will leave endless disasters in the world! Therefore, all the people of our Thai tribe, once they see it, must destroy it! ”

The Ming Shaman was categorical, but McQuay was unimpressed.

"That's not what I said! This herb is a bad thing, but it also depends on whose hands it falls on! If it falls into the hands of bad people, it will definitely be a disaster, but if it falls into the hands of good people, it may become a good medicine to save people! ”

McVier tried his best to argue, but seeing that the Ming Luo shaman ignored him and just kept sprinkling salt into the grass after handful, he simply bent down and directly used his hands to dig up one or two herbs from the soil.

It's a pity that in such a moment, I saw that the Manpu herbs, which had grown vigorously, had begun to roll up their weeping leaves listlessly.

By the time McIvy finally dug up the two herbs and held them in his hand, a few leaves of the two herbs had fallen apart, leaving only two yellowed grass stems, still standing upright in the soil.

As for the herbs that are full of Pupu, they have all become dead branches and leaves. Even the blades of grass that fell to the ground were burnt yellow.

McCquay was very reluctant, but still gathered some yellow, charred grass stalks and leaves and put them in his pocket.

The Ming Luo priest seemed to be sure that these grass stems and blades were useless, so he let him collect them and did not stop him.

After that, Ming Luo stepped forward to probe the pulse of the soul continuation mage, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said: "Although he can save his life, all his abilities are invalid, he is already so old, it is impossible to re-cultivate that harmful demon art!" ”

As a nephew, he inevitably has some compassion. But McQuay and I both felt that this so-called soul mage was purely deserved.

******

McQuay and I waited that day until the Soul Continuation Mage woke up.

It's a pity that after he woke up, he was already a little crazy and stupid.

I guess McQuay's electric shock device was originally designed to deal with ghosts, and the souls of living people are still somewhat different from ghosts, so the souls of living people who are hit by it will not die immediately.

But to put it bluntly, the soul is nothing more than human brain waves, and if the brain waves are shocked, even if that person does not die, it is inevitable that he will become crazy and stupid.

But since the soul mage has become stupid, we can't learn the cultivation method of demon magic from his mouth, and naturally we can't figure out why the so-called demon magic can summon the souls of living people.

We asked the Mingluo shaman, but the Mingluo shaman refused to answer.

However, Ming Luo had said these two sentences before, the first sentence was: "The gray ghost is the soul of my uncle, and he uses the soul separation technique to control the ......soul of the living."

The second sentence is: "My uncle himself was able to perform the Soul Separation Technique, and it was also because of this Soul Separation Grass!" ”

So I guess for myself, this kind of demon magic mainly relies on the Soul Separation Grass.

What a cultivator has to practice is nothing more than how to stay conscious after leaving the soul.

After this point is practiced, the divorce grass is given to the seriously ill patient, and the soul of the seriously ill person is driven out of the body by the medicinal properties of the divorce grass, and there is no independent consciousness at all, so he naturally has to obey the soul call of the cultivator.

Of course, this is just my personal speculation, whether it is accurate or not, I am not sure.

Later, I once asked Zhang Xiaoyun if the reason why the gray ghost could not get on my body and said that I was a monster was because of the influence of those two reliefs, my brain was a little different from other people's.

Zhang Xiaoyun told me: "Those two reliefs must have an effect on your brain, but your own soul is indeed stronger than ordinary people!" Otherwise, how could it be that all the people who were affected by that relief died, but you were the only one who was affected by it, and not only did not die, but sent it back to its original place to prevent it from continuing to harm others? ”

Her words made me shake my head again and again, and I didn't dare to take credit.

"I'm not dead under the influence of that relief, isn't it because you saved me? And in this mountain, it is up to you to save me again and again! ”

I was wholeheartedly heartfelt, but I didn't want Zhang Xiaoyun to shake my head as well.

"I saved you, but do you know how many souls are imprisoned in that relief? If it weren't for the fact that your soul is stronger than the others, I wouldn't have saved you, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to find you! ”

I didn't expect her to say such a thing, and I couldn't help but be stunned when I thought of the existence that was white and couldn't see anything.

But the mystery of the soul is not something that me, a mortal, can peep into, and in the end I can only give up this issue and no longer get entangled.

As for my membership in the Paranormal Investigation Alliance, McQuay returned to Europe and immediately submitted a recommendation to headquarters.

A little more than a month later, he sent me a message saying that the headquarters was very happy with me, but it still needed to go through a series of audits.

In addition, the headquarters also has to tailor self-defense equipment for me.

So it would be a few months before I could become a full-fledged "paranormal investigator".

To be honest, I have expectations, but the expectations are not too high, and it is good for me to be free and comfortable, but it is also good to be safe.

But I wanted to be safe, and another, even more horrific event, once again drove me into a desperate situation before I became an official "supernatural" investigator!

(See Volume 4 of "Sleepy Mountain Town")

November 16, 2018

Bailu Danyang