Chapter 4: The Man Behind the Pier (4).

We walked to the backyard inside the wall of Wanghai Tower, and after standing there for a while, Brother Qiang asked me, "Can you see clearly?" I nodded, at this time, there were already trance figures floating back and forth around us, Brother Qiang had been holding an ancient bronze mirror, constantly shaking, so those ghosts were afraid to get close. I asked, "Brother Qiang, what do you have in your hand?" Brother Qiang smiled a little proudly and said: "This is what people often say about the demon mirror, but one or two spirit runes are added to it, so the ghost can't get close to our body." ”

"Don't brag about it, what's the use of this, it's not that you can only protect yourself and can't save people, to put it bluntly, the ghost seeker is the dog that the Onmyoji chases after the prey." The smiling tiger said with a smile on his face, and it was not obvious from his expression that he was saying disdainful words. Brother Qiang's face was a little ugly, and he ignored him and continued to say to me: "There will be more souls in a while, and then you will see them, I will accompany you to find them, and Narcissus will also follow the two of us, let's use this after we find the female ghost with tearful moles." "As he spoke, he took out a bronze tripod from his bag, and when the time comes, let's recite the fourth sentence of the Great Compassion Mantra together, and you can put it into the tripod, do you know what the fourth sentence is?" "Bodhisattva, right? This sentence doesn't have any meaning, it's just about Avalokiteshvara. I replied.

Brother Qiang looked at the Soul Eater Beast, and then said to me with a smug face: "You can teach, there is a young hero among our ghost seekers, who is not only good at skills but also knowledgeable, and will become a great weapon in the future, so let those beasts who only know how to satisfy their selfish desires be envious." You really give Master Zang a long face, brother, then tell me what the meaning of this sentence is. Don't be afraid to say it's wrong, it's okay, after all, it's not easy to read it at a young age. ”

I just wanted to refute Brother Qiang by saying that he was not a ghost seeker, but thinking of the envious eyes of those Soul Eaters just now, I didn't refute Brother Qiang's address to me and said, "Feel sentient beings, feel the horror and pain of the world." Brother Qiang said again: "Be more detailed." I replied, "Avalokiteshvara is not empty in this life, I understand, the main thing is the Suo. The rope is a rope to catch the prey, and it turns out that Guanyin is called not empty Guanyin. ”

Brother Qiang laughed heartily: "Exactly, it's just that Buddhism is classified as the Four Senses, and we take the meaning of this Qisuo, which is more direct." The smiling tiger smiled but stopped talking, and Narcissus said: "Okay, old ghost, I didn't expect you to be not only a bitter species, but also a learned person." I was displeased when I heard this, my eyes didn't meet her, I turned my head to the side, I saw that the souls were getting clearer and clearer, I could even see the eyes they looked at us, and their expressions, could it be really as Brother Qiang said, as long as many souls gather in one place, they will manifest their souls?

They are getting lighter and lighter, and we don't speak, we just look at the spirits, and they look at us. I found that there were only fifteen or sixteen souls with red and green light sandwiched between them, that is to say, only five or six demons, and the rest were all gray and white, and they seemed to be just ordinary souls. It's just that there are a lot of them, there are two or three thousand souls, they are layered, some of them are half of their bodies in the soil, and some are two souls standing interspersed. They look weird, but they have one action that is the same, which is staring at us.

I used to speak on stage as a student representative when I was in school, but the students under the podium were in the queue either bowing their heads or their eyes were empty, so I wasn't nervous at all, but now I'm not standing there listening to you but staring at you in unison. Moreover, these are not people, but ghosts.

I had a bit of a shrug feeling, but I still behaved very calmly, I patrolled as if nothing happened, in fact, I found the fastest way to escape, although they are not hungry ghosts, but I think so many souls we may have no return this time. Brother Qiang's voice also trembled a little, and he said, "Soul Eater Beast, can you handle it?" Can we safely fight our way through the encirclement and go in and out to find the female ghost? ”

The smiling tiger still had that smiling expression, and I sometimes wondered if his face was fake, only to hear him say, "Of course not, you think we are supermen, stupid ghost seekers." "I know he's cursing in Cantonese again, and although I'm not a ghost seeker, I still can't help but be angry and want to reason with him. Brother Qiang stopped me and said, "Then what can you do?" What old ghost do you feel, is there any other feeling around. ”

I closed my eyes and sensed it with my body, and I sensed a wave of murderous aura, not a ghost, just like a ...... It was like a hungry wolf seeing a wounded lamb with a murderous aura, full of hunger and daring murderous aura that spread behind me. I hurriedly turned my head to look behind me, and I was startled by a thin, twisted, wrinkled old face that had just turned my head.

I hurriedly formed a thousand-armed Guanyin eight-leaf seal and hit the thin old face, and the old face dodged back and shouted, "Okay!" Then he vigorously brushed away my handprints, stretched out his arms through my arms, grabbed my hair, pulled my head down, and kicked me in the face with his knees, and then I realized that this was a human being, not a ghost, and that the ghost did not catch the hair. I hurriedly stretched my hands back to block the menacing iron knee, this man's thin bones were so hard that I was in pain, but my face was not injured, otherwise my face would have become a flat like a photograph.

I didn't care about the pain after blocking the blow, I punched the man in the stomach, pinched the wrist part of the hand that grabbed my hair with one hand, hoping to be pinned down, I punched the man and met him with my palm, but after touching it, I flipped my palm like water, and threw my fist outward, and then grabbed my elbow joint and pulled it in front of me, behind him. At the same time, my other hand had grabbed his wrist and pinched it hard to flip it, but he resisted the pain and pulled me in the same direction. With the force of my right hand, the man finally loosened my hair, but now my center of gravity was unsteady, as if I was carrying forward. A pair of powerful fists smashed hard into my abdomen, I almost vomited out of the stomach juice in pain, but I didn't want to lose too ugly, I knew that I would lose next, then the fish would die and break the net, I unexpectedly hit this small man with my head, right in the face, I used his pulling force and my own head-swinging force to hit him also a few steps back to the right side.

I fell to the ground all of a sudden, my body shrunk into a ball and scolded: "Silly X, bastard, you also deserve to fucking play Tai Chi, Lao Tzu will give you the way to treat him, the one that hit you just now hit you well." "Tai Chi is not the kind of old grandfathers and grandmothers play, it is fitness Tai Chi, as well as the competition for viewing and actual combat, Chinese culture is really broad and profound.

I shrank on the ground and couldn't get up in pain for a while, I knew that I was no match for him, and he didn't feel good when he pinched his wrist just now, and that head probably had to hit him in the face, which was enough. A few big men came over and punched and kicked me who was cowering on the ground, scolding and scolding as they beat me, looking for death, daring to beat our boss and so on. After a few hits, a deep voice said: "Stand down, there are no rules at all, whoever let you go up, go back and clean up a few of you sycophants." An old man squatted in front of me, rubbed his cheeks, and said, "Hehe, I heard that you have mixed knowledge and a little skill, but I didn't expect you to be very slippery, and with the help of my Tai Chi, you hit me unexpectedly." What a good seedling, stand up and speak. As he spoke, he pulled me up.

I've relented, and I've been mixed up by this old man as if I was still in pain. When I first stood up, I pretended not to stand firm, and then slammed him under the ribs, and the old man waved his hand dismissively, and I was carried to the ground. I hurriedly got up from the ground and looked at the old man, who was about sixty-five or sixteen years old, bald and beardless, and his face was full of wrinkles and looked like he was seventy or eighty. I saw the old man with his hands stretched out in front of his chest and made a push-hand gesture, I was completely desperate this time, knowing that I couldn't beat him, I couldn't take advantage of it, I opened my mouth and said: "If you don't fight, I admit defeat, do you know why I can't beat you?" Because your nickname is Neck Water, do you know the origin of your nickname? When it rains, the rain on your face doesn't accumulate at all, and it flows down the wrinkles to the back of your neck, so it's called back of your neck. ”

The old man laughed and wrinkled even more, and I could barely see the nose and the eyes. The old man said: "My nickname is because of the many wrinkles, when I was young, I was called Shar Pei, now everyone calls me Lao Dog, I am an old dog, you are an old ghost, would you like to be my apprentice." I was about to scold, but the old man made a stop gesture and said, "Don't be too busy answering, think about it, at least finish this matter, don't you, brothers." "Yes!" There were a lot of people around me who replied in unison, and then I looked around, except for the few big men who had beaten me just now, there were old and young, men and women, and there were forty or fifty people standing together, and I even suspected that this was an illusion, because I didn't feel anything at all, and I didn't hear the slightest movement from them. I quickly understood how they got in, because Brother Qiang's friends had absolutely no ability to detect these people's sneak in.

I looked at Brother Qiang, maybe Brother Qiang wanted to help when he did it just now, but now he has been held up by several people, disheveled, and it seems that he has eaten some fists. I whispered coldly to the old man, "Let go of Brother Qiang." The old man laughed and said, "Look at my memory! With a wave of his hand, the people let go of Brother Qiang, and I walked next to Brother Qiang. The old man kept smiling at me, and I felt chills all over my body. The old man kept looking at me, and apologized to Brother Qiang. I first whispered to Narcissus, "What's going on, you won't tell me what's going on." Narcissus replied coldly, "It's not up to me to decide." ”

I asked Brother Qiang again, "Who is this old guy?" Brother Qiang's voice trembled a little, and he whispered in my ear: "One of the two leaders of the Soul Eater Beast, nicknamed Old Dog, why is he here too." "I looked at this group of people with fierce eyes, and a sense of oppression came over me.