So Xiushen is right, most of the time demon removal is a brain-using job.

——Excerpt from "Chen Ling's Assistant Diary"

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up in the hall for no reason, blowing away the two sides that were about to clash.

"Enough, the 'inner bathhouse' is a place for everyone to relax, not for fighting." The boss said angrily. "Mr. Raccoon, although you are a guest, but you have repeatedly provoked, I ask you to pay attention to your attitude, all beings are equal in my little bathroom. And Miss Xiushen, putting away your weapon and pulling it out here will be the worst decision of your life. ”

The fox looked at Xiushen angrily, showing his sharp teeth hideously, as if he wanted to choose someone to devour, and the handsome young man next to him hurriedly took out a bottle of wine that he had taken out of nowhere and handed it over.

"It doesn't work, don't give me wine, spread me, throw off your arms and fight! Look who's eating whom... Well, the wine is so fragrant, just take a sip, well, the wine is really good, the taste is mellow, well, this wine is really good, take another sip, take another sip, uh-huh..." Rumor has it that he is a greedy drinker, and if people want to catch it, they have to lure him with wine, although he knows his own shortcoming, but he can't correct it, and the handsome young man next to him takes the opportunity to pull him back to the men's department.

"Miss Xiushen, I apologize to you on behalf of Mr. Fox, he shouldn't have provoked you again and again." Le Cheng said in a deep voice. "But you shouldn't be so irritating Mr. Raccoon, it is precisely because of the words 'food is good to go', human beings have been hunting and killing their clan for hundreds of years, and many of their compatriots are gone, so their clan has always been very hostile to humans, and I also asked him to come out because he was in a good mood today. With his ability to know the past, if he had helped exorcise ghosts, I believe things would have been much easier, but I didn't expect, hey..."

"He can't spread the fire when he's angry. It's okay, he still exorcises ghosts without him, and he drives it beautifully, don't worry, Boss Le. Xiushen also said angrily.

Goblin Fischer and Mr. Hippo Chen glanced at each other, decided not to wade into the troubled waters, and hurriedly said, "Then if there is nothing to do, the two of us will also go back, and the bath is halfway through." ”

"Okay, I'll send you both back." With that, Le Cheng got up and sent the goblin and hippo back to the men's room.

Xiushen didn't speak for a while, not knowing if he was angry or thinking about ghosts. Chen Ling wanted to speak several times, but he stopped talking, not knowing how to comfort Xiushen. After about ten minutes, the handsome young man and the boss Le Cheng returned to the hall together, sat back in the private seat, and discussed the matter of the male ghost with Xiushen again.

"Formally acquainted," said the handsome young man, "Hello, I'm Tree Boy Whirlwood, and I think I can tell you something about ghosts." ”

The tree children are a very wonderful monster, they are the spirits of the mountains and fields, and at first they were just a special aura, and they did not have a form. On the day when they become essences, the first thing they see will be transformed into whoever they see, and when they see a wild beast, they will be called a mound beast, if they see a bird, they will be called a northern bird, and when they see a man, they will be called a tree child.

Therefore, whether it is called a mountain spirit or a wild monster, or a fairy of green sky, their appearance represents the will of a forest, and the tree boy who can transform into a human form represents that the forest has contacted human beings, and is a symbol of harmony between man and nature, so many times, the tree boy is a messenger of communication between people and demons.

"Please be more considerate of the fox, in fact, he is very bitter in his heart." The tree boy's voice was very pleasant, and even if it was plain, it had a profound meaning when he said it.

Xiushen waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.

The tree boy looked up, looked at the dazzling lamp on the ceiling, and remembered.

"As for that ghost, I met him a month ago, in the men's bathroom. I was bathing and felt something staring at me, and when I looked back, I saw him standing there without saying a word, his eyes were strange, and the moon was bright that night, but I clearly remember that night was not a full moon night. ”

"I tried to communicate with him, but he seemed to be trapped in a dying state and couldn't get out, just mechanically saying things like 'I'm so cold, it's so cold, it's snowing, who's going to save me.'"

"So you can't communicate with it at all?" Xiushen asked.

"Verbally, I think so. But..."

"But what?"

"But the way he looked at me didn't seem right."

"What's wrong?"

"He couldn't speak, but there seemed to be greed in his eyes."

As the will of the mountains and forests, it is his instinct to communicate with other creatures, but this ability does not seem to be easy for ghosts, and he can only rely on his keen observation to read some information.

"Does he want to find a body?" Xiushen proposes the possibility that the greed and love represent the dead person's desire for life.

"No, he's too weak to take the hell at all. And if you choose to be bold, you won't look for me, and by nature, I don't really have a body. ”

The Tree Child's physical body is somewhere between psionic and material, cohesive by will, and once the will dissipates, the physical body collapses. On the other hand, if the will is not dispersed, then the tree boy is an immortal existence in a sense.

"That's interesting, he covets an unobtainable body, why? Could it be that there is someone behind him who has made him a patrol necromancer? Xiushen leaned back and began to think.

Necromancy is an artificial ghost created by some mages through dead corpses, and mages control ghosts by controlling corpses, using the ghost's ability to ignore physical obstacles for detection. Although it has no actual killing ability, for ordinary people, the appearance of ghosts alone will have a great impact on the spirit. So who is deliberately here to make trouble for Le Cheng?

After a while, Xiushen denied himself again. "No, it's not, combined with Fei Xiu and Mr. Chen's statement, the male ghost was originally a mess of remnants, and then he had half a body, and then you had a complete body, and the whole cycle lasted four or five months. It is clear that he is gradually growing, which is not a characteristic of patrolling the necromancy. ”

After a while, Xiushen asked again, "And after that?" ”

"I didn't like the look in his eyes, I didn't like it very much, so after the communication was fruitless, I tried to destroy him."

"It obviously didn't work out."

"Yes, although he disappeared at the time, it seems that he was clearly hiding now."

"Hmm... It's really interesting. So Boss Le, have there been any other demon guests who have seen male ghosts after Mr. Xuanmu? Xiushen looked at Le Cheng.

Le Cheng thought for a while, and then replied: "No, the male ghost still appeared after that, but it no longer appeared in the 'bathhouse', but moved to the vicinity of the hot spring villa area." According to the customer's complaint, it did not stand still and talk like Mr. Xuanmu said, and it began to run after people. ”

"So his intelligence is also gradually growing, and he knows how to hide from the 'inner bathhouse'. Because the guests here have the ability to hurt him, they have turned to harassing those who have no spiritual powers. Xiushen paused, "And it seems that the spell has a certain effect on him, but it can't kill him fundamentally, it can only make him dissipate temporarily." ”

Le Cheng sighed and said: "It seems that yes, and it appears more and more frequently, so constantly harassing guests like this is really a big trouble for our business, and it is necessary to trouble Master Xiushen to exorcise ghosts as soon as possible." ”

Xiushen did not speak, but fell into deep thought. The words of several demon clans replayed back and forth in her mind, and the clues reorganized in her mind.

The male ghost first appeared half a year ago.,Body and mind are growing.,Greedy for the body of the whirlwood.,Although he often harasses guests.,But so far,No harm to people.。 And from the repeated words of the male ghost, it can be seen that he should die in the extreme cold of ice and snow. It is also possible that for some special reason, he seems to have received some kind of special shelter and cannot be completely expelled by spells, that is, he can only be sealed, or his bones can be found, and he can do things for him to ascend to heaven.

But no matter how to exorcise the ghost, the first thing is to find him, but now it seems that there are no other special conditions to promote his appearance except that he likes to appear on moonlit nights.

Xiushen kept thinking about clues, Fischer ... Mr. Chen... Spiral wood... And the damn raccoon, when he thought of the fox, he got angry, and actually said that he had no one to want, and let himself go to their clan to be a female and give them children, it's just... Wait, female? Xiushen suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Boss Le, are all the people who meet ghosts men?" Xiushen asked suddenly.

"When you say that, it seems that they are really all men."

"Including humans?"

"Including humans."

What can I say that people who are greedy for a good body and harass male or male creatures? Xiushen had a bold idea.

If it's true, this male ghost is really unrepentant!

Xiushen looked at Xuanmu, "Didn't you already know?" ”

Spiral Wood smiled and nodded.

"Then you didn't say it earlier, look at my blind guessing here!"

"It's not an honorable thing either, and I really don't want to say it if I could. And—" Spirwood smiled happily, "It's also fun to watch the Demon Slayer guess." ”

Le Cheng next to him listened to the conversation between the two, and combined with Xiushen's question before, he seemed to be touched, and suddenly understood something, and couldn't help but shake his head with his eyes closed.

Xiushen couldn't help laughing, and then turned his head to stare at Chen Ling, who was sitting behind him and hadn't spoken. Chen Ling was stared at inexplicably, and he didn't know what was wrong. Then Xiushen turned his head and looked at the tree boy opposite, and motioned for the tree boy to look at Chen Ling, the tree boy followed Xiushen's gaze and looked at Chen Ling, frowned for a while, then lowered his head and smiled, and nodded at Xiushen.

Xiushen gave Le Cheng another look, and Le Cheng looked at Chen Ling with understanding, and then shrugged his shoulders, revealing an indifferent look. Chen Ling was furious by the back and forth glances of several people, and he always felt that something was going to happen, but he didn't know what was going to happen.

"Eh, you don't speak, what are you going to do, what's so bad."

Xiushen turned his head again, put one hand on his cheek and the other on Chen Ling's shoulder, and then said with a smile, "Chen Ling, in fact, it has been the first time for me to look at you seriously, and I suddenly found that you are actually quite handsome." ”

"Huh?"

Looking at Xiushen's brighter smile, Chen Ling felt more and more uneasy.

He has always believed in one principle: if you show off your self-praise, there must be something wrong.