Lin Ran was silent for a moment when she heard this, "What's wrong, isn't it a water ghost?" ”

"Water ghosts are one thing, the key is that there are more than water ghosts now, when Ah Xing was in addition to water ghosts, he found that the children in the homestay where he lived did not sleep in the middle of the night and sleepwalked to the beach, if Ah Xing hadn't pulled it in time, he would have fallen into the sea, and the child was also a little delirious and stupid after waking up."

Lin Ran frowned, "Lost your soul?" ”

"Maybe, but it's useless for Ah Xing to try to summon the spirit." Yu Jiudao sighed softly, "This is indeed a bit strange, but he is in a rut right now, if you are done, go over and see the situation." ”

Lin Ran sighed lightly: "Okay." ”

She hung up the phone, Yu Jiudao sent her the specific location, Lin Ran glanced at the ticket in her hand, and could only go back and buy it again, and turned around and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I have something to go to another place temporarily, and I can take you to Lingyan when this matter is over." ”

Extraordinary understood this, shook his head and didn't care.

It has been trapped in Silversilk Town for a hundred years, and has remained in that town, and has not had a chance to leave to see other places, and it is good to follow Ranran around now.

The location of the small village that Yu Jiudao said was relatively remote, in the coastal area, it was a little inconvenient to go over, and Lin Ran spent two days on the road to finally get to the town.

As soon as I got out of the station, I was dragging my suitcase and was about to find a place to eat, when I suddenly felt someone approaching behind me and was tapped on the shoulder.

Lin Ran reflexively pressed and turned around, cutting the person's entire arm backwards, and the man hurriedly shouted: "Oops, it hurts, it hurts—"

It was a 1.8-meter-tall chubby young man, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, Lin Ran stared at his face for a moment, then let go of his hand and pulled out his mobile phone to look at it.

Before coming, Ruan Xing contacted her, said that he was going to pick her up at the station, and sent her a selfie so that she could recognize people based on the photo.

The selfie on the phone screen has upright and handsome facial features, and he looks like a very energetic young man, but compared with the real person, it doesn't seem to be quite similar.

The system couldn't help but scan it, [Similarity, thirty percent.] ]

Lin Ran: "......"

Ruan Xing twisted his arm and greeted her: "Eh, young lady, when we meet for the first time, you give me such a big gift?" ”

Lin Ran couldn't say anything: "You look like this, it seems to be a little different from the photo?" ”

Ruan Xing winked at her, "Hehe, it's a lie, of course you have to look good!" ”

Lin Ran twitched the corners of her mouth, although she knows that many girls nowadays like beauty when taking pictures, but is it really good for a big man to be like this?

Ruan Xing ran over to carry her suitcase, and said as she walked: "But young lady, your appearance is no different from the photo?" ”

“…… I don't think I remember ever sending you a selfie. ”

Ruan Xing was stunned, and clicked on the scarf to show her: "You haven't sent it to me, but the video about you on the Internet is still circulating very much a few days ago." ”

He was talking about the sword dancing video forwarded by Director Jia, the video was taken by Xu Ziqian, and it was originally only forwarded on a small scale, but Director Jia is a well-known person, so when he turns around, there will naturally be more people who pay attention to forwarding.

Lin Ran casually glanced at the comments below.

[Director Jia was stolen? 】

[I thought it was just a certain martial arts instructor in the crew, was the exorcist or something serious? 】

Lin Ran glanced at Ruan Xing, Ruan Xing still looked interested, "Watching the video, I feel that the young lady is very good, I just tried it and it was really good, and this, it was also widely circulated two days ago." ”

Ruan Xing found another video for her, which was taken by onlookers when she was in the passenger transportation center of Silver Silk Town, when the birds and beasts in Silver Silk Town were saying goodbye to the extraordinary, and the extraordinary was wrapped around her wrist and was blinded, so in the eyes of the public, she became surrounded by birds and beasts.

[, what kind of magic is this?] 】

[What's going on with a little envy inexplicably? 】

[I suddenly had some faith that she was really an exorcist.] 】

[I'll go, why is it her again? Relying on this kind of bizarre thing to fight the gimmick, is it going to debut in a few days? 】

Lin Ran pursed her lips, she doesn't play with the scarf, and she usually doesn't pay attention to this, she really doesn't know about these things circulating on the Internet.

Ruan Xing stuffed his mobile phone and asked mysteriously, "Little sister, what kind of spell is this?" ”

Lin Ran tugged at the corners of her mouth, looked at the extraordinary little head raised on her wrist, and smiled helplessly, "I said this is a coincidence, do you believe it?" ”

Ruan Xing looked like you were teasing me.

But whether he believed it or not, Ruan Xing knew that Lin Ran had two brushes, and even Yu Lao was full of praise for her, and Ruan Xing would not despise her at will.

The two found a small restaurant for lunch, but seeing Lin Ran eating two bowls of rice in a row, Ruan Xing couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and silently looked at his rice bowl, thinking to himself that he is a big man, how can he not eat less than a girl, right?

So he added another bowl, and seeing that Lin Ran had done another bowl, he added another spoonful of rice to himself.

As a result, after eating, Ruan Xing was half-lying on the back chair with his stomach on his back.

, no, my belly is tense.

Lin Ran was a little amused, "If you can't eat it, don't eat it." ”

Ruan Xing wanted to cry without tears: "Little sister, you haven't eaten for a few days?" ”

"I'm just born with a big appetite."

“……”

Several men at the next table were drinking and chatting, and one of them shouted, "Come on, turn the head of this fish!" ”

Lin Ran glanced there, Ruan Xing said with a smile: "This is by the sea, in the past, people here relied on fishing for a living, fishermen went to sea and encountered strong winds and waves, the most afraid is to capsize, Huaxia has liked to beg for praise since ancient times, so usually everyone is very taboo about the word 'turn', so when turning over the fish, they say turn around." ”

Lin Ran nodded, this custom has existed since ancient times, and it is almost the same along the coast or by water.

Ruan Xing came back and continued to give her popular science, "Also, the chopsticks we use for eating, this saying also comes from fishermen, chopsticks used to be called chopsticks, but rowing on the water can't 'live', you must be 'fast', this began to be called chopsticks." ”

Lin Ran smiled slightly, and asked the waiter to pack a few more roast chickens, Ruan Xing's face stiffened slightly, and he couldn't believe it, "No, you still eat it?" ”

Lin Ran was unconscious, she was full, but Extraordinary was still hungry, she couldn't feed Extraordinary in front of Ruan Xing, so she could only pack.

After putting three roast chickens in her backpack and leaving a gap for Extraordinary to get into it and feast on it, Lin Ran decided to get down to business.

"I just heard from Yu Lao before, you can tell me what is going on."

Talking about business, Ruan Xing also put away the previous inconsistencies, and finally got serious, "Before, Yu Lao asked me to come over because there was a haunting ghost nearby, and someone was dragged into the water by something like black hair when he was ferrying from the village to the opposite island, but what he finally fished up became a dried corpse, and the locals quickly called the police." ”

"I was quite close to this place, and I arrived the next afternoon, the body was still stored in cold storage, and the forensic doctor preliminarily identified that there was a large amount of blood loss, but the victim did not find a large wound except for the strangulation marks on the limbs, and later after the forensic autopsy, a finger-thick bloodsucking worm was found in the stomach of the corpse."

Lin Ran raised her eyebrows, "Vampire? ”

"You believe it?"

Lin Ran shook her head, "If the bloodsucking worms can suck people into dried corpses, then we don't need to come over." ”

Ruan Xing nodded in agreement, "There are several such bugs in the victim's stomach, and the forensic doctor is so disgusted that he wants to take out the bugs and send them for testing and comparison, but after the bugs come into contact with the air, they actually turn into a ball of black gas and dissipate, which is seen by several people together." ”

Lin Ran's eyes drooped slightly, "In my opinion, that thing could be a ghoul bug." ”

Ghoul bugs, as the name suggests, are bugs that live in corpses, if there are still unjust souls on the corpse for a long time, then this insect will become a ghoul worm under the nourishment of the unjust soul for many years, and can drill into the seven orifices of people, suck flesh and blood, and suck people into dry corpses.

However, the ghoul insect can only live in the human body or corpse, and once it comes into full contact with the air, it will dissipate, so generally if you do not enter the water and are not attacked by the water ghost, there is no hidden worry in this regard.

Listening to Ruan Xing's description, it seems that this is it.

Ruan Xing seconded: "I think so too." ”

It is not uncommon to have water ghosts in the water, after all, living by the water, it is inevitable that there will be people who die in the water, and water ghosts are often not reincarnated, they can only find a substitute for the dead ghosts to replace themselves, so that the water ghosts can get rid of the control of the water.

Therefore, if someone falls into the water, the water ghost will entangle that person, and when the water ghost is entangled, the ghoul worm that depends on the water ghost will also take the opportunity to burrow into the human body, which causes the result of dried corpses.

Lin Ran asked, "So you found the water ghost?" ”

Ruan Xing scratched his head, "I found one, and I also took it by the way, but on that water ghost, I didn't see the ghoul worm." ”

The water ghost that attacked people had ghoul worms on his body, but the water ghost he caught did not, so there was only one possibility.

There is more than one water ghost in the water.

"I wanted to stay a little longer to see if I could catch a few more, but then something happened." Ruan Xing talked about the child's lost soul again.

"The child in that family is very normal, I asked the child's parents, he has never had a precedent of sleepwalking at night, but that day I don't know how to do it, that is, to the beach, but also to jump into the sea, and when I stop the person, the child will faint, and then he will be stupid, but stupid, at night he still knows that he wants to go to the beach, if his parents don't tie him up, it is estimated that he will jump into the sea again."

Ruan Xing sighed softly, the child is still in the hospital, and the reason cannot be checked, when he first woke up, the child's parents thought that he had done something to the child to make people look like this, and even called the police, but until the police came, Ruan Xing showed his identity documents, and the two sides mediated, and then at night the child showed his "yearning" for the sea, and the child's parents had nothing else to say, thinking that the child had fallen into evil.

Ruan Xing shook his head, "That village is more traditional, and some things are more acceptable, and the older generation in the village have heard that this kid has been confused by the Kraken...... Eh, young lady, I can't see the eyebrows, what do you think? ”

Lin Ran pondered for a moment and shook her head, "I can't say it......" She glanced at Ruan Xing as she spoke, "Aren't you a soothsayer, what's the matter with a hexagram?" ”

"Oh, my sister, if I can figure it out, do I still want to ask you to help me?" Ruan Xing had a bitter face, "Divination is not omnipotent, there are some things beyond my ability, and I can't help it!" ”

Lin Ran was silent and said, "Let's go see the kid first." ”

Ruan Xing nodded, and took Lin Ran to the hospital where the child was.

The child is twelve years old, his nickname is Atai, and he is still in the first year of junior high school, although he is usually naughty and mischievous, and his parents are worried about him, but seeing the child so stupid and stupid, how can he not feel distressed?

Ruan Xing had been dealing with Atai's parents for a few days, and they knew that it didn't matter if Ruan Xing and his child became stupid, but after saving their son, the husband and wife were more polite to Ruan Xing.

Ruan Xing looked at Atai on the bed, Atai was still sitting stupidly, without any expression, turned around and shook his head at Lin Ran, and introduced Atai's parents: "This is my colleague, come and see Atai." ”

Knowing that Ruan Xing was a strange person, both his colleague and the husband and wife were also more respectful, Lin Ran walked to the bed and touched Atai's Tianling Gai, making sure that the child was missing a soul, and took out cinnabar from the bag and nodded it on Atai's eyebrows, asked the parents and the child's name and birth date, and recited the conjuring spell several times but there was no response.

Ruan Xing whispered: "Little sister, I have tried all kinds of methods to summon spirits, but I can't summon his soul, and then I also made a hexagram to calculate where this child's soul went, and the result is also unknown." ”

Under normal circumstances, ask for the name and birth date clearly, even if you lose your soul, you can use the method of conjuring spirits to recruit it back, but if you can't recruit it back, then it may be that this soul is trapped somewhere.

Atai's parents looked at Lin Ran expectantly, but Lin Ran withdrew her hand and wiped the cinnabar off Atai's forehead.

The husband and wife knew that this was the end of the line, and they couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

Lin Ran carefully asked Atai about the place he had been on the day of the accident, what he had done, the couple thought about it, and they were a little embarrassed, "Our family runs a homestay, and they are usually busy, Atai often plays with a few children of the same age, they often take advantage of the low tide to dig mussels and catch sand crabs on the beach, that day is a holiday, they also play as usual, and come back for dinner in the evening, who knows that this kind of thing will happen in the middle of the night......"

Ah Tai's mother choked up a little as she spoke, Lin Ran and Ruan Xing glanced at each other, and asked again, "Has there ever been a situation like Ah Tai before?" ”

The couple shook their heads, "I have never seen it before, but there have been several cases of missing children, parents woke up early in the morning to find that the child was gone, and they couldn't find it anywhere, and it was useless to call the police, they all said that there were kidnappers in the village, but now that I think about it, maybe it was the same as Atai, who ran to the beach in the middle of the night......"

Then these children may not be missing, but dead.