The water spirits in the cloth bag were still a little resistant at first, roaring in the bag, but the movement was much smaller than before, and then after Lin Ran pasted a few more talismans, they were completely silent.

The water ghost has been collected, and it will be good to kill it when he goes back, as for now......

Lin Ran looked at the two crew members who had been scared silly, and thought to herself that it was better not to continue to stimulate their three views.

Ruan Xing leaned over and asked, and Lin Ran gestured, "It's done." ”

The two crew members looked at the two people fixedly, and they didn't know what to do anymore, and the boy with glasses who fell into the water before was still a little weak, lying on the lifeboat and not quite knowing what was happening, but he seemed to hear some strange sounds.

"I probably hallucinated from lack of sleep last night......," it took a while to hear the young crew member mumble to himself.

Lin Ran and Ruan Xing glanced at each other, shook their heads and smiled helplessly.

But it was the middle-aged crew member who reacted, rubbed his hands and said a little helplessly: "Two, two are...... Master? ”

Growing up in a seaside town, he also made a living from the sea as an adult, and became a sailor, about the mystery of the sea and all kinds of rumors, the middle-aged crew has heard a lot, but rarely seen it, although today's events are shocking to him, but not to the point of unacceptability, but the only thing that makes him sure is that these two young people must be masters!

Lin Ran raised her eyebrows and didn't deny it, Ruan Xing smiled and said, "This little brother still has to be sent to the hospital, let's row the lifeboat back first!" ”

"Oh, yes, yes, right away, right away!" The middle-aged male cultivator replied again and again, thinking that a master like them must be hiding his merits and fame, so he didn't ask any more, and quickly picked up the oars and rowed the lifeboat to the ferry.

But there was an indescribable excitement in my heart.

The young crew's oars were lost, washed farther away by the sea, and they couldn't get it back, so they just sat in the lifeboat to save their fragile worldview, and from time to time they cast curious glances at Lin Ran and Ruan Xing.

After a few people returned to the ferry, the driver drove the ferry back to Yutou Village - this ferry was supposed to go to Shenxian Island, but someone fell into the water and needed to be sent to the hospital, Shenxian Island is just a small island for tourism, at most there is a small medical station, and everyone is frightened, also rained, clothes are wet, there is not much opinion on this.

It would take half an hour for the ferry to go back, Lin Ran and Ruan Xing found a corner to sit down, and the middle-aged crew member made them two cups of hot tea, and found a dry towel for Ruan Xing and the bespectacled boy who fell into the water.

The two thanked each other, and the middle-aged crew member was flattered, smirked twice, and didn't know where to swing his hands excitedly.

The passengers were still talking about what had just happened, because they were a little far away, and they didn't see much about Lin Ran and Ruan Xing fishing for water ghosts on the lifeboat, just when they were going to save people, everyone was talking more about the weather at sea.

"The demonic wind on this sea is really terrifying, it sounds like a ghost crying wolf."

"I almost thought the boat was going to capsize on that wave......

"Don't say it, I seem to have seen something like bones moving in the waves......"

"Isn't it wrong, maybe it's a mirage or something."

There are different opinions, there is everything, the boy with glasses looked at the phone, it was in the water before, and now he can't even turn it on.

But what he can be sure of is that he really saw the bones, and he recorded them, but now the phone is broken, and he doesn't know if the contents are still there.

The boy with glasses looked at Lin Ran and Ruan Xing on the side, "Thank you very much, and you went into the water to save me." He remembered the talisman that Lin Ran had pasted on his head, as well as the cinnabar charm drawn on the wound on his leg, and then said, "I feel that something was pulling me in the water before, it shouldn't be some aquatic weed, right?" ”

Ruan Xing squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "I said that it was a water ghost looking for a replacement for the dead ghost, do you believe it?" ”

The boy's face suddenly turned extremely pale, and the whole person was not good.

Intellectually told him not to be superstitious, but subconsciously he actually believed it.

When he was in the sea, and when he was just pulled into the lifeboat, he didn't feel it at all, the cold and damp that seemed to sink into the bone marrow and soul, and he was still afraid when he thought about it.

The boy swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously, "Then I'm okay now, right?" ”

Ruan Xing laughed, Lin Ran also hooked her lips, and said lightly: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”

The boy breathed a long sigh of relief, but because of this incident, he had a kind of sea phobia for a short period of time in the future, and he inexplicably didn't even want to eat seafood.

Back in Yutou Village, the boy who fell into the water was sent to the hospital, Lin Ran and Ruan Xing went back to the B&B to change their clothes, and by the way, Lin Ran also solved the bag of water ghosts.

The cloth bag burned in the tongue of fire, and the water ghosts inside rolled and twisted, crying endlessly, screaming for mercy, struggling to crawl out, Lin Ran looked at it coldly, crawled out and kicked back, and then crawled out and kicked back, after repeating it several times, the water ghost turned into a cloud of charred smoke and dispersed, and the wind blew and disappeared.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for destroying the water ghost group, side quest completed, task reward 200 points, collect a demon bottle, ghost and god affinity +1, current ghost and god affinity: 45, current points: 1190]

Hearing the long-lost increase, Lin Ran really misses it a little.

Ghost and god affinity and points aside, but she was a little curious about the demon bottle, Lin Ran dug into the pocket, and dug out a small glass bottle, the cap of the bottle was a cork, the size was just enough to hold in the palm of her hand, and there was some light blue fine sand in the bottle.

Lin Ran: "...... Dog, are you sure this isn't some kind of wishing bottle drifting bottle? ”

[Please don't doubt the professionalism of the system, the system is produced, it must be a high-quality product!] (づ￣ 3￣)づ]

Lin Ran pulled out the cork and poured some fine sand into the palm of his hand, and found that the fine sand was really useful for driving away evil spirits and evil spirits.

Like today's water ghost group, it is not a very powerful demon in itself, a few trapped spirit charms and exorcism charms can trap them, find a bag and just fill it up, but if you encounter something more powerful, you have to have special props and magic weapons to be able to contain it, such as this kind of demon bottle is very good.

However, a demon bottle can only collect one demon, which is basically a one-time consumable.

But for Lin Ran, who lacks any magic weapon, of course, he won't pick it.

This time I went to sea to solve the problem of the water ghost, and the next thing is to figure out Atai's inexplicable loss of soul and the singing in the sea in the middle of the night.

She said hello to Ruan Xing, and the two decided to go to the hospital again to see Atai.

In the middle of the night last night, Atai made another fuss, but during the day he was surprisingly well-behaved and quiet, sitting obediently on the edge of the bed, his eyes were empty, his eyes were not focused, and he didn't know what he was looking at.

When the two came over, Atai's mother couldn't help but cry to them, the doctor was out of options, and he would be transferred to a psychiatric hospital in two days, and a two- or three-year-old child would be sent to a psychiatric hospital, which parent would want to do this.

Lin Ran pondered for a moment and couldn't help asking, "Does Atai behave uncontrollably every night?" ”

Atai's mother wiped her tears and nodded, "Basically, around twelve o'clock in the evening, he will be like this, and his strength is surprisingly strong, no matter how he pulls it, he can't pull it." ”

At twelve o'clock in the evening, at midnight, this time point is a little delicate.

Zi Shi is the heaviest time of the day, and it is also the time when ghost activities are most frequent.

Lin Ran still decided to go to the beach tonight to wait for the rabbit, but before that, she had to create a "Atai" first, just like a water fisherman, to be a stand-in for Atai.

Lin Ran asked for a few drops of Atai's blood and his birthday, and returned to Yutou Village.

Ruan Xing followed behind Lin Ran, "Little sister, what are you doing now?" ”

"Didn't you say before that there is a family in Yutou Village that does a funeral paper business, and they also have a child named Cui Shi." Lin Ran remembered this.

Ruan Xing nodded, "Yes, their house is in the westernmost part of the village, and the people in the village are a little taboo about this thing, if someone in the family has passed away, the villagers don't have much to do with their family in normal times, young lady, are you going to buy a paper tie there?" ”

Knowing that Lin Ran was going to lure the snake out of the hole, Ruan Xing could basically guess what she was going to do.

Lin Ran nodded, "The paper figure I made myself is too rough, even if I deceive the water ghost, I really can't get on the table at other times, so it's better to find a professional paper tie." ”

Ruan Xing led her to Cui Shi's house, Cui Shi hadn't finished school at this time, and her mother was the only one at home, with a wreath at the door, even when their house was closed.

The two knocked for a while before someone came and opened the door.

Cui's mother is a short, middle-aged woman, with dry hair, haggard, and looks a little old, probably because she deals with funeral items all year round, her eyebrows and eyes are depressed, shrouded in a faint yin aura, and the whole person looks a little gloomy, not easy to approach, so ordinary people are usually reluctant to associate with her.

"What is needed?" Cui's mother invited them into the house.

The gate leads to a small courtyard, lined with rows of wreaths against the walls, some of which have been painted and some of which have only one frame.

A small stool was placed on the ground, and there were a lot of bamboo strips scattered on the side, and Cui's mother sat on the small stool to weave the frames of various funeral items, and after a while, the prototype was made.

Lin Ran looked at Cui's mother's hand, it was very rough, with a thick layer of calluses, and there were many scars on her fingers, all of which were scratched by bamboo strips when weaving.

"I need to buy a paper figure that looks like a teenager." Lin Ran explained the intention.

Cui Mu's men paused, and then stood up again, "Follow me." ”

Lin Ran followed Cui's mother to the inner room, entered a room, the room was full of all kinds of paper figures, there were men and women, old and young, very exquisite, each one was thick and colorful, wearing red and green, flowers and branches, the paper man's cheeks were smeared with red paint, looking at it was full of joy, and the craftsmanship was very good.

It's just that each of these paper figures has no eyeballs, only white and miserable whites.

Ruan Xing rubbed the goosebumps on his arms that didn't exist, at first glance, it was really a little crazy to see so many paper figures looking at him with a pair of eyeless eyes.

But this is actually a conventional rule in the paper people, the paper people can not draw the eyes, the so-called finishing touch, a little painting of the eyes, is to give the paper people aura, there will be lonely souls and wild ghosts on the body of the paper people, the paper people will "live" over, and this kind of thing is very taboo.

Lin Ran's eyes swept over one by one, she saw a lot of paper people, but with the development of the times, some things are also changing subtly, such as dress, the previous paper people must be wearing contemporary popular clothing, that is, the so-called ancient costumes in this era, and these paper people in front of them are wearing T-shirts and jeans, and women are wearing all kinds of beautiful little skirts.

Cui Mu found a young paper figure in a sweatshirt, brought it to Lin Ran, and asked, "How about this?" ”

Lin Ran looked at it, was still quite satisfied, and asked the price.

After the silver and goods were delivered, Lin Ran was about to go out with the paper man, but accidentally kicked a bamboo juju under his feet.

"Do you know how to make a bow?" Lin Ran said with a smile.

Cui's mother looked at it, her expression was still faint, but there was a little more softness in her eyes: "My son likes to play football, and this juju is made up for him to relieve his boredom." ”

Of course, the more people there are, the more interesting the sport, but Lin Ran remembers that Ruan Xing once said that no children in the village were willing to play with Cui Shi, and they all felt that their family was in the dead man's business, which was unlucky.

Cui Shi has no friends, and this kick is about Cui Shi kicking and playing alone.

Lin Ran nodded and asked no more.

After walking out of the gate of Cui's house, Cui's mother closed the door again.

Ruan Xing sighed softly: "Alas, in fact, why be so prejudiced, even if their family is in the funeral business, it doesn't mean that they will bring bad luck to others, it's really superstitious!" ”

The corners of Lin Ran's mouth twitched, "What you are doing now is also a kind of superstition." ”

"How can that be the same!" Ruan Xing patted his chest, as a matter of course, "I am inheriting the fine tradition of our Chinese civilization, taking its essence and removing its dross!" ”

Lin Ran smiled and did not answer.

In this era, many teachings have been assimilated or even distorted by various cultures, and there are many atheists in the world, even if some traditions are still retained in some places, but they are also distorted, so prejudice is formed, just like the Cui family.

Lin Ran took the paper to the B&B and did some preparations, planning to act at night, and Ruan Xing was also ready to make up for sleep, so that he would have a better spirit at night.

At sunset, smoke rose from every house, and a teenager was hiding at the mouth of a lane not far from Cui Shi's house, who was poking his head out and looking at Cui Shi's door.