Episode 3: Experience (Competition)
After a hurried meal at noon, Senior Brother Mao contacted a minibus and prepared to go to Guilianping. Because we couldn't replenish any supplies after leaving Xinhua Town, we made a lot of purchases in Xinhua Town, most of which were for food and drink. As for those things that are used to deal with friends in the spirit world, we have already prepared enough, this kind of thing, it is more convenient to bring it ourselves, and some of the things we buy are not very reliable.
Xiao Ye is a bear on his back, and he is a child who grew up in the village, so he not only carried a part of the public food resources, but also helped Wang Xiaolu get a lot of things, I don't know whether to say that he is a gentleman or has ulterior motives, but it is easy to see that he and Zhang Chuan are fighting openly and secretly, especially in helping Wang Xiaolu, he will never be polite.
The driver of the minibus was very chatty, and when he learned that we were going to Baojiashan, he was surprised and advised us to change our route, saying that even professional expedition teams avoided that place, and it was better for amateur travelers like us not to go. When we asked him why, he replied, "It's so haunted, it's so noisy that no one dares to stay there at night." Last time, two people got lost and strayed into Baojia Mountain, and I heard that they were surrounded by hundreds of evil ghosts, and finally they all became crazy, and they shouted that there were ghosts when they saw people! ”
Everyone laughed and disagreed, if this is the case, then we really went to the right place, but the credibility of these mountain folk statements is not high, and a thirty percent is good. The rumors always spread more and more, and in the end, even I couldn't believe it.
Along the way, the minibus driver was dissuading, saying that if we didn't go, he could pull us back to Xinhua Town, and he didn't increase the price, as if he wanted to do a good deed to keep a few of us. We thanked him for his kindness, and told him that we would not go into the mountains, but would go back after a tour of the periphery, and left a phone number of his, saying that we would trouble him to pick him up when we returned. He sighed and said, "Well, you young people, you are always persuaded by others. ”
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, if he knew that our destination was **, he would probably have called the police.
The mountain road is always not easy to walk, the road is bumpy, it is already four o'clock in the afternoon when we arrive at Gui Lianping, Gui Lianping is already the end of the road, there are only a few families over there, and they are far apart, we have so many people, it is not easy to find a farmhouse to stay. After discussing with a farmer, we had an afternoon meal at a price of 200 yuan, and the meal was very affordable, with two local chickens, two grass carp, and all kinds of fresh vegetables, and they only needed 15 yuan, but in the end, we were not happy to go, and forcibly added 50 yuan to the farmer.
After eating, it is already the treetops on the moon, for us, walking the night road and out of the can't see so much, there is no other obstruction, we are walking while discussing when we go to the sub will no longer go forward, in fact, from Gui Lianping to Baojiashan road is not far, the straight-line distance is only about ten kilometers, but it is a mountain road, and it is a night road, so the speed of walking is very slow, when we go to the sub, the surrounding is already deserted, in fact, we have also crossed three mountains. It's only about half the way.
In addition to Zhou Hong, who drove away the corpse, we each brought two flashlights, one with strong light and one with solar energy. And when walking at night, eight people only use three flashlights, and we are particularly economical in lighting, because we don't know how far we have to go on the next road. By eleven o'clock, we began to stop and look for a place to pitch our tents.
There is no road in the mountains, and there is no direction, but we can tell by the direction of the compass and the direction of the moon. The position of the other party who does this work is extremely sensitive, especially Zhou Hong, and the work is all carried out at night. He was so accurate that he could tell us which direction we should go just by looking up at the sky, and he could even tell what the weather would be like tomorrow, what time it would be windy, and what time it would be drizzling. It's just a super accurate weather forecast and compass.
The place where we camped was a small hill with a slight angle, and it was difficult to find a large piece of flat ground on the mountain, and we were too tired to look for a more suitable spot. Mao Ruiliang's ability to work together with the team is really good, and it is estimated that he usually goes out on hiking. Under his division of labor, we quickly set up our respective tents, and unlike ordinary donkey friends camping, our tents were arranged according to the position of the Seven Star Array, and the extra person gathered to the Tianshu position to strengthen the formation. And outside everyone's tent, there is a piece of their own ritual weapon.
It's not too necessary, but it's always good to be cautious. The supper that night was very simple, a pot of water was boiled, and the pot was brought by Zhou Hong, and they would prepare these things when they walked the corpses. One of us soaked a piece of instant noodles, which is the kind of compressed noodles, because this kind of noodles does not take up space and can be brought in large quantities.
After four or five hours of stuffy travel, everyone was already exhausted. After a little bit of food, they all went into their tents.
Zhou Hong said that after the ugly time of this place, there will be a strong wind, which will last for about half an hour, and asked us not to come out at will. Sure enough, just after three o'clock, I was woken up by the sound of the wind whistling outside, I was not a particularly deep sleeper, and the wind blew the dead branches on the ground and crackled on the tent. It made me sleep very unsteadily, but Zhou Hong also said that it would stop in an hour, so I just kept my eyes open and waited for the wind to stop.
On my right is Xiao Ye, his snoring in this environment can still be loud, I have to admire his sleep quality. The heavenly power seat in the middle of the tent is Wang Xiaolu's tent, where there is a safety lamp hanging on her tent, because this location is on the hillside, and if there is no safety light in the second half of the night, it is darkness that cannot be seen.
I sat up from the ground, and through the thin cloth of the tent, I actually saw a shadow flashing in the direction of Wang Xiaolu's tent. I wondered in my heart, who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, what is running around outside?
Out of professional habit, I took out a compass and a mini flashlight, and began to observe, if it wasn't a ghost or something, I didn't care, maybe someone was in a hurry, and went out to solve it. But when I saw the compass's reaction, my heart suddenly tensed.
The compass's reaction told me that the shadow was indeed a human, but it was very uncalm in the opposite direction of the shadow, and it seemed that there were several wandering spirits over there, and it was still slowly approaching Wang Xiaolu's tent. That is, the shadows are on my left, and the geyers are on my right.
It's normal to have geists in the mountains, even if they are walking in our direction, it's normal, because they need to hurry, maybe our location is their only way, I suggested when I camped or not to camp on the yin side, it may block the path of the geist, but to get to the sunny side, we need to turn over to the other side of the mountain, and everyone seems to be a little unable to walk.
I have been using the compass to observe the dynamics of these spirits, they paused when they walked to the snoring tent of Xiao Ye, and then quickly crossed my tent to Wang Xiaolu's tent, and then paused a little and moved two steps, just when I thought they were going to go far, but I saw that they turned back to Wang Xiaolu's tent and did not move.
I wondered in my heart, I didn't know what these spirits were for, if they were in a hurry, they shouldn't be delayed here. To figure out what they're doing. I took out a vial of cow tears from my bag and opened my eyes, slowly opened the tent a gap, and put my eyes to the gap to look at Wang Xiaolu's tent.
This look made me completely understand that these spirits are not some wandering spirits, because they are not wearing modern clothes, but those wide linen gowns in the late Qing Dynasty. The spirits wearing such costumes are generally not in a hurry, and there is no yin road that needs to be hurried for a hundred years.
They hesitated in front of Wang Xiaolu's tent, and they didn't turn around, just swaying and facing Wang Xiaolu's tent. His hand reached over the tent slightly, but as soon as he touched the tent, he immediately withdrew his hand, and after a moment he began to reach it again.
Wang Xiaolu's tent hung a piece of Ruyi, not a jade Ruyi but a woodcut Ruyi, this is the magic weapon she brought over, it is with this thing that those spirits can't touch the tent.
I wanted to ignore it and wait until dawn for these wandering spirits to leave, but I suddenly remembered that the purpose of this experience was not to send away the souls in the mountains? In that case, I can't sit idly by. Most of these spirits wandering in the mountains can't find their way to the underworld, and if I can give them a ride, maybe they can find their own way to reincarnation.
Thinking of this, I turned around and grabbed the cloth bag, and took out a few pieces of talisman paper for soul fixing and some incense ash cinnabar from it. And took out a few woodcarved appendages, ready to go out to collect a few souls, and wait until the wind stopped before setting up a formation to send them away. There are about four or five spirits over there. Judging from the compass's reaction, they are just some ordinary spirits, so it shouldn't be difficult to put them away, if it really can't be done, I'll call them up to help.
But just as I was about to unzip the tent, I heard all kinds of spells outside, and my heart moved, and I quickly opened the zipper and got out.
As soon as they got out of the tent, the situation outside had changed drastically, and the spirits were gone. Mao Ruiliang, Zhang Chuanzheng, and Liu Zhiqiang all stood by Wang Xiaolu's tent, and Wang Xiaolu himself had already come out. They had all sorts of soul collectors in their hands. Mao Ruiliang was holding a black wooden token more than a foot long in his hand, and Liu Zhiqiang was also holding a token, but the color was slightly lighter. Zhang Chuanzheng was holding a money sword in his left hand and a piece of Chaojian in his right hand. Wang Xiaolu just took the Mu Ruyi she hung outside the tent in her hand and looked at the other three people suspiciously.
I walked over to them and asked with a puzzled look in my eyes, "Senior Brother Mao, what happened?" ”
Mao Ruiliang smiled, raised the wooden token in his hand and said, "A few roadless ghosts passed by just now, and they were accepted by us, and when the wind stops, give them a little over." ”
"You're late, Uncle Liu of the Qia Ling Sect, how can you do this with this bit of vigilance?" Zhang Chuanzheng also raised the Chao Jian in his hand, "I caught two, the same as Senior Brother Mao." His tone was full of pride, and he seemed to have subtly turned the number of transcendent souls into the results of this experience.
"Well, in order to make this experience less boring, how about we set the rules for the competition?" Mao Ruiliang answered.
"What rules?" Maoshan's Meng Biao walked out from behind a tent and said with a calm face. And there was some unhappiness in his words, as if he was a little unhappy that the few spirits just now were accepted but did not have his participation.
Hearing someone talking outside, Zhou Hong also got out of the tent and said with a smile: "Senior brothers and sisters are chatting very happily." ”
All seven people came out, and only Xiao Ye was still snoring in the tent. I sighed, since I want to set the rules of the junior sister's competition, let's call the pig up and discuss it together.
I walked up to Xiao Ye's tent and patted Xiao Ye's tent vigorously, and said loudly: "Xiao xx, Master Pan is ready for you to fall in love!" ”
As soon as I shouted out, Xiao Ye's snoring immediately stopped, and he hurriedly opened the tent and stretched out his head and said, ", Brother Liu, what you said is true?" ”
(There's a lot going on today, and I have to go out in the middle of the night, so I'll change the chapter here first.) )