I struggled to get up, but suddenly a pair of hands came to my shoulders and pressed me to the altar.

"Who are you?" I asked tentatively.

There was no sound around me except for my own heavy breathing.

I chuckled in my heart, why was there no sound?

The thing that was stuck in my vest was suddenly twisted and turned, and my whole body spasmed with pain.

I propped my hands on the jar, bit my tongue hard, and turned my head to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Blood fell to the ground, and there was still a deathly silence around them.

The trick that worked well before didn't work this time.

"Ahh

The hand on my shoulder suddenly became so hard that it went straight into my flesh, and I screamed in pain.

My body was getting softer and softer, and I didn't even have the strength to struggle, and I looked down at my mother's head, and tears flowed down my eyes.

But I wondered in my heart, who was going to kill me?

Could it be the one who calculated me and made me break two rules?

With all my strength, I stretched out my hand to wrap my arms around the altar, carefully pressed my face against the altar, and whispered, "Mom......"

A mouth, and the blood in the mouth flowed down the jar to the ground.

I never dreamed that after five years of separation, I would be reunited with my mother like this.

There were two sudden shocks to the ground, followed by a few rumbles overhead, a flash of white light in front of my eyes, the pain in my shoulder and back vest disappeared in an instant, and a strong wind blew in from outside the door and tossed me to the ground.

My head hit the ground, my ears buzzed, and I saw a rickety figure scurrying out of the room and disappearing into the night.

The man was small, but his hands were large, and his fingertips were as slender as eagle's talons.

"Yuan Congcong, are you okay?" Yu Hao hurriedly entered the door and reached out to help me.

My body hurt a lot, and when he touched me, I shivered with pain, and I quickly said, "Don't touch me." ”

He withdrew his hand and stood beside me in a state of confusion.

I straightened my legs and collapsed on the ground, gasping for air, my vest no longer hurting, but my shoulder ached like I had been stabbed twice.

It took me a long time before I got up and turned on the light.

The door was wide open, but the jar on the ground was gone.

"Where's the jar?" I said in a hurry, and when the figure ran out of the house, it was clear that the jar had not been taken away.

I searched inside and outside the store, but I couldn't find the jar.

I started to cry, "What about the head? ”

"What head?" Yu Hao asked me.

I wiped my tears and said, "There was a jar on the ground just now, and it contained my mother's head. ”

"That's fake." He said helplessly: "Someone wants to kill you, and deliberately creates that illusion to confuse you." ”

So my injuries are also fake?

I hurriedly ran to the mirror and looked back and forth, and there was no injury in front of or back, and there was no pain in my shoulder.

Could it be that I wasn't hurt at all?

I ripped off my collar and looked down at my shoulders, my scalp was numb, and there were black five finger prints on both shoulders, and the fingertips were bloodshot.

I reached out and touched it, and found that the five finger prints looked scary, but I didn't feel it at all when I touched them.

Seeing these five finger prints, Yu Hao's expression became solemn, "This is the mark left by that thing, and he will come to you." ”

I'm twitching in my legs and stomach, will I come back?

"By the way, how did you get out of danger just now?" He asked me.

I was stunned, "Didn't you save me?" ”

He shook his head, "It's not me." ”

Thinking of the strange thunder and white light at that time, my heart moved, and I carefully recalled, and pried up the floor where the altar was placed in the illusion, and found that there was a half-burned rune paper underneath.

Yu Hao exclaimed: "This is a lightning strike talisman. ”

I sniffed, and my voice was unconsciously hoarse: "This is my dad's drawing." ”

"Sure enough, it's the first phase master, he must have calculated that someone would break into the store to kill you, and specially left this talisman paper for you to save your life." He said.

I carefully put the remaining half of the rune paper in my pocket and sat on the floor in a daze.

Although Yu Hao said that what I saw was fake, I still panicked.

During this time, all I heard was my father's news, but my mother didn't believe it at all.

Could something really happen to her?

No, I'm going to my mom.

I took out my mobile phone, and just as I was about to call Uncle Niu, he walked in from outside the door, looked around the store, and instantly became nervous, "Has an evil thing been here?" ”

I nodded and told him what had just happened.

"That's what I'm here for." Uncle Niu said: "It's not safe in this store now, it's just right for you to follow me." ”

I said seriously: "Uncle Niu, I don't want to follow you, I want to go to the Seven Troubles." ”

If you think about it, instead of passively staying in the store, it is better to go out, at least that way you will have more initiative and have a chance to find my parents.

He said, "I know, I'm going to the Seven Tribulations. ”

My eyes lit up, "Uncle, then do you know where the Seven Tribulations River is?" ”

"I don't know, but someone knows, you pack your things, and I'll take you to the city to see him after dawn." Uncle Niu said.

"Okay, I'll go." I answered repeatedly, thinking of packing up a few clothes and leaving, but Uncle Niu still had to bring the pickle jar on the table.

Then I remembered that there was still a little ghost in the jar.

"Uncle, why don't the little ghosts in the jar come out?" I asked, puzzled.

Uncle Niu explained: "Ghosts are angry in order to move freely, and this little ghost has no resentment and is naturally weak." ”

In this way, Yu Hao's anger is not very heavy.

I took advantage of Uncle Niu's inattention to install Yu Hao's finger bones, anyway, the Wuyue Array is not a problem, and it is useless to leave his finger bones.

Before leaving, Uncle Niu suddenly looked at me with a serious face, and I was felt weak by him.

I never mentioned Yu Hao to Uncle Niu, and until now Uncle Niu doesn't know that in addition to a little ghost, there is also a male ghost next to me.

And not only can I hear this male ghost talking, but I can also touch him.

"From the ......" Uncle Niu called me, and stopped talking.

I sighed and tugged at the strap of my bag, "Uncle, if you have something to say, just say it." ”

"Actually, I'm the one you said." He said.

I didn't understand what he meant, "Who? ”

"The one who takes you to do great things." He said slowly.

I froze where I was.

Uncle Niu sighed and explained: "The big thing your father said is to take you to the Seven Tribulation River, but he specially told me that your life is special, once you go to the Seven Tribulation River, some things will be irreparable, so don't take you away until the last moment." ”

He paused, and said earnestly: "Your father has worked so hard, all he wants is for you to be safe and smooth." ”

It took me a long time to come to my senses, "What's so special about my life?" Uncle, you can finish the matter one at a time. ”

Uncle Niu said: "I don't know what the specific special method of your life is, I only know that it is related to looking, which is why your father only teaches you to look at your face." ”

My dad always told me that I just had to learn how to look, and that I could live in peace with this one skill.

Uncle Niu patted me on the shoulder, "It's okay, you can't hide from it." ”

I was even more nervous by his reassurance.

However, he didn't find Yu Hao, I was still relieved, as for what would happen after going to the Seven Tribulations, I could only take one step at a time to see what would happen.

Uncle Niu took me to the Yunhuixiang Hotel in the city, and someone was already waiting at the door of the hotel and led us upstairs.

In the elevator, Uncle Niu whispered to me, "Do you remember when I asked you to do me a favor?" ”

I nodded, I solved the little ghost in Zhou Xuemei's warehouse last time, and he gave me all the remuneration, saying that I don't want money, just let me do him a favor in the future.

"That's what I said that time, I told this man, as long as we settle his business, he will tell me the route to the Seven Troubles." Uncle Niu said: "But I can't handle his business alone, I have to use your appearance skills." ”

I patted my chest and said, "I'm good at looking, don't worry." ”

He said, "This is not good-looking, if you don't look good, don't force it." ”

I looked at him in amazement, it was the first time I had seen him so unconfident.

The two of us were ushered into the innermost box on the second floor, where there was already a man standing with his back to the door.

It wasn't until we went in and closed the door that the man turned around.

Seeing his face, I gasped, and finally understood why Uncle Niu said that this was not good-looking.

The man's face was burned, his muscles were badly deformed, he was blind in one eye, and his mouth was not tightly closed.

I shook my head secretly, ruined like this, I can't see my face at all, I can only calculate the eight characters of the birthday, and coincidentally, I can't calculate.

I don't think it's useful for Uncle Niu to bring me here.

The man pointed to the chair in front of me and Uncle Niu, and said with difficulty, "Sit." ”

After they all sat down, he took out his mobile phone, knocked on it for a while and handed it to Uncle Niu, I glanced at it, and it read: According to what I said before, you can solve my business, and I will give you the route, provided that I will not give you the eight characters of my birthday.

If you want to tell a fortune, why don't you give your birthday?

Uncle Niu gave him the phone back, "Okay." ”

I couldn't help but pull Uncle Niu's sleeve.

He didn't seem to feel it, and introduced with a smile: "This is the niece I was talking about, she came to show you." ”

The man looked at me.

I tugged at the corners of my mouth, the feeling of chasing ducks on the shelves was really terrible.

"Can I take a look at your hand?" I say.

A sneer flashed in the man's eyes, and he placed his palms facing up on the table.

Seeing his hand clearly, I was even more desperate, the skin on the back of my hand was not injured, but the palm of my hand was burned.

"Can you see it from the slave?" Uncle Niu asked me in a low voice.

I exhaled, "I'll try." ”

You can't see the face and palmistry, you can only see the qi, the god, and the shape, and the person is subject to the yin and yang qi, which is in harmony with the five elements, and the person's situation can also be seen through the form, god, and qi.

I first let this person stand up and walk around the house, although this person's face is destroyed, but the intact eye has long eyebrows, round and thick head, long hands and feet, is a good look, but his gait is unsteady, his eyes are divergent, the whites of his eyes are yellow, his chest rises and falls a lot when he breathes, and it looks very difficult, which means that this person is not in good health and is sick.

"Say whatever you want." I say.

He thought for a moment and said, "My name is Jiang Shen." ”

When he speaks, he lacks breath and his voice is harsh, and this person has a bad temper and is easily agitated.

I told him what I had observed, and anger flashed in his eyes, and he quickly typed a line on his phone: This is not looking at the face at all, it is more like seeing a doctor, you are tricking me.

I explained: "Seeing physiognomy is the same as seeing a doctor, both pay attention to observing words and feelings, in addition to palmistry and face, but also look at people's bones, posture, and complexion, but I am not good at learning art, and I really can't see anything else in you." ”

Jiang Shen was silent for a moment, and then typed four more words on his mobile phone: Eight characters of birthday.

"I don't know divination." I apologize.

He looked at Uncle Niu.

Uncle Niu smiled and said, "Mr. Jiang, no one can understand your birthday. ”

I was a little surprised, how could I not solve it?

Jiang Shen's eyes shrank, he reached out and touched his face a few times tremblingly, and said for a while: "I want to know, why am I still alive." ”

I was confused.

"Okay, after the matter is completed, please ask Mr. Jiang to give me the road map." Uncle Niu said,

Jiang Shen nodded.

Out of the hotel, Uncle Niu found a nearby hotel to stay.

"Uncle Niu, Jiang Shen said that he wanted to know why he was alive, what did this mean?" I wondered.

Uncle Niu said: "Jiang Shen should have been a dead man. ”

"What?" I was taken aback.

He said: "I knew Jiang Shen three years ago, at that time he was a young entrepreneur in the city, the scenery was infinite, and then his house accidentally caught fire, he had been burned to death, the body was transported back to his hometown, to be buried in a coffin, but he didn't want to be buried halfway, he woke up again, sick and sick to live until now, here for two years he found a lot of Taoist priests to calculate the fortune, no one can calculate, do you know why?" ”

I was stunned by Uncle Niu's question, "Where do I know?" ”

"Because his life ended three years ago." He said.

I frowned and said, "Then why didn't he give us eight birthdays?" ”

Actually, I don't believe it in my heart, and it's too nonsense to come back to life.

Uncle Niu said: "There was a Taoist priest who had a ghost in his heart, and he wanted to kill him by taking the opportunity of solving the eight characters, although he escaped a catastrophe, but he affected his wife, and since then he has stopped telling people about his birthday." ”

"Then let's go to his hometown?" I asked Uncle Niu that since Jiang Shen woke up after being sent to his hometown, the problem should be in his hometown.

He nodded, "After Jiang Shen was burned, he didn't like to go out during the day, so let's go back at night." ”

"Okay, but Uncle Niu, how can he have a road map to the Seven Tribulations?" I think Jiang Shen is full of mysteries.

"I don't know the specifics, but the sixth master said that what he has in his hand is true."

Speaking of this sixth master, Uncle Niu looked admiring.

I asked curiously, "Who is the sixth master?" ”

He replied: "A person that even your father has to look up to, as long as what he says, it must be true, so you can rest assured, let's solve Jiang Shen's matter, and we can get the road map to the Seven Tribulation River." ”

Seeing that he was so sure, I decided to believe him for the time being.

At six o'clock in the evening, Jiang Shen's car appeared at the door of the hotel on time.

Out of the city, Jiang Shen glanced at Uncle Niu, parked the car on the side of the road, and then the two got out of the car and smoked a cigarette, and when they got in the car again, they had already changed to Uncle Niu driving.

I watched coldly from the side, vigilant in my heart, the two of them got along too well.

After driving for more than two hours, Uncle Niu parked the car on the side of the road and said to me, "It's here." ”

I looked out the window, and there were mountains on all sides, fields of crops on both sides of the road, and there were no houses.

"Uncle, did you stop in the wrong place?" I asked.

Uncle Niu got out of the car and replied, "No, this is it." ”

I had no choice but to get out of the car, and as soon as I stood firmly, I saw Jiang Shen walking towards the crop field with his bag on his back, and Uncle Niu dragged me behind him.

Walking through the crop field, Jiang Shen pointed to the front right and said, "Liangguang is my home." ”

There was a pit in front of it, and there was a faint light coming out of the pit.

When I got closer, I looked over and couldn't help but widen my eyes, the bottom of the pit turned out to be a courtyard, the house was also sitting north and facing south, there were wings in the east and west, there was a well in the yard, and on my right hand was a stone staircase to go down.

Jiang Shen led me and Uncle Niu down the stone stairs, and I glanced at the courtyard wall and found that the courtyard wall was reinforced with reinforced concrete, and the bricks used to build the houses were different from the bricks used to build houses in our village.

No wonder you dare to build a house underground.

Although the lights were on in the house, there was no one, and Jiang Shen typed and explained: "I asked people to pick up my parents, and I don't want them to know about me." ”

Jiang Shen pointed to the west wing and said, "The coffin I was lying on at that time was in the west wing. ”

Uncle Niu took out the three-in-one plate from his bag and said, "Take me to see it." ”

I followed him and whispered, "Uncle, since you know the compass, you must also know divination, right?" ”

Uncle Niu stiffened and turned his head to look at me.

I smiled and said, "Are you like me, just a little?" ”

He pinched the compass for a long time before saying, "Yes, my master taught me to read the compass, but not to divination." ”

"We're both hard-working people." I sighed.

He tugged at the corners of his mouth, looked at me deeply, and said nothing.

I gritted my teeth secretly, eager to slap myself, and asked nonsense.

There were three coffins in the west wing, and Jiang Shen pointed to the coffin near the door and said, "That's it." ”

Uncle Niu stepped forward, walked around the coffin with a triple coil, his expression was a little disappointed, and then put the triple disc away, lifted the lid of the coffin, reached out and touched the coffin board, and looked at it little by little.

I tiptoed into the coffin, and the coffin board was bare, and there was nothing.

After about ten minutes, Uncle Niu suddenly patted the coffin board and said, "Bring a spatula." ”

Jiang Shen immediately looked for it and typed a message on his mobile phone for me to read to Uncle Niu.

"Uncle Niu, Mr. Jiang said that the custom on their side is that people who die unexpectedly should engrave a requiem spell in the coffin board, and then paint it to cover it." I say.

"I know." Uncle Niu scraped the paint down little by little with a scraper, "The last sentence of the requiem spell is wrong. ”

Jiang Shen and I looked at each other and were shocked.

Uncle Niu scraped for a long time, straightened up suddenly, pointed to the line he scraped out, and said, "This is a soul restoration spell." ”

I leaned over and looked, and it read: Resurrection.

This is indeed a Soul Resurrection Curse!

"Where is the cemetery you chose three years ago?" Uncle Niu asked, "There is probably a dojo for resurrecting souls." ”

Jiang Shen turned around and walked out, saying, "It's in the field five kilometers southwest of the country, where is my family's ancestral grave. ”

We hurried to the other side again.

On the way, Uncle Niu asked Jiang Shen: "Where was your coffin made?" ”

Jiang Shen said with difficulty: "The wood was chosen by my father, please let Master Lin, who has the best craftsmanship in the vicinity, rush to make it overnight, and the runes inside are carved by my father to find a Taoist priest, it seems to be called Zhang Wang." ”

"Zhang Wang!" Uncle Niu and I exclaimed in unison.

It was him.

I stared at Jiang Shen, and suddenly had a crazy idea, Zhang Wang's life span taken from An An and the three of them wouldn't be given to him, right?

When he came to the ancestral grave of Jiang Shen's family, he pointed to the grave pit at the back and said, "I was going to be buried there." ”

I stared at the grave, "It's been three years, how is your grave still good?" ”

"I'll come over every few days to sort it out." Jiang Shen typed and said: "Whether you believe it or not, I always feel that I should have died three years ago, and in the past three years, I have often heard women crying in my ear, coupled with my physical condition, living is torture for me." ”

"Is there a woman crying?" I thought about it and confirmed with him, "Is it a woman or a girl?" ”

There were three people in Zhang Wang's courtyard that day, An An and Zhao Hua were still children, and the voices of the two of them must be very different from Liu Qing.

Jiang Shen thought about it carefully for a long time and said, "It's a woman, a middle-aged woman." ”

"It can't be Liu Qing, right?" I looked at Uncle Niu, but Uncle Niu lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Uncle Niu?" I called him.

He sighed, pointed to the grave pit and said: "This cemetery has good feng shui, standing here and looking at it is just surrounded by the mountain behind, the Tibetan wind gathers qi, and the sun can shine during the day, and it will not breed evil energy, it is difficult to arrange a soul revival dojo in this kind of place." ”

As he spoke, he looked at me, "Congcong, there is a saying that the momentum is vast, and the tomb is not close, so many cemeteries built on flat land are selected at the circulation of the tributaries of the great rivers, and if there is no river, it can also be selected in the surrounding places of the mountains." ”

"I remember." I say.

Uncle Niu nodded and walked to the cemetery, never answering my question just now.

He jumped into the grave, groped in it for a long time, and finally found a yellow cloth from the bottom of the pit, and unfolded it, and there was a resurrection rune painted on it.

Uncle Niu only looked at it, then threw the yellow cloth to me, took out the triple plate, and put it on the edge of the cemetery.

The pointer in the golden water floated to the east, and two minutes later, Uncle Niu dug out a bright red cloth from the east corner of the grave, and smelled blood when he got closer.

"The blood is dry, why is it still so red?" I said with a frown.

Uncle Niu replied: "Because this is not ordinary blood, this is zombie blood." ”

I snorted and said, "Don't bully me for not knowing anything, zombies don't have blood." ”

"Ordinary zombies have no blood, so what if they are specially refined blood corpses?" He asked rhetorically, raising an eyebrow.

"And this kind of thing?" I was surprised.

Uncle Niu glanced at me, "There are a lot of strange things in this world. ”

After speaking, he looked at Jiang Shen, "The reason why you were able to survive is because someone used evil magic to revive your soul, do you want to continue to live, or lie in and have a relief?" ”

Jiang Shen stared at the grave, his eyes were red, and he said in a hoarse voice for a long time: "Relief." ”

He solemnly straightened his suit, then strode to the edge of the grave, and when I was about to lift my legs down, I grabbed him.

I said, "Uncle Niu, Mr. Jiang, let's not rush to death first, isn't the top priority now to find the person who gave him a soul?" ”

Jiang Shen broke away from me, lay down in the pit with a calm gaze, and said, "I don't want to know." ”

"You ......" I tried to persuade him, but I was pulled off by Uncle Niu.

He whispered: "From Cong, first help Mr. Jiang complete his wish, and get the roadmap is the most important thing." ”

I retorted: "I don't think it's a contradiction, the person who was robbed of his life is Liu Qing from the bank of the difficult river, since that person attacked Liu Qing, maybe he also knows about the Seven Difficult River." ”

"What if you find it? You and I can't mess with anyone behind the scenes. Uncle Niu stopped giving me a chance to speak and pushed me out of the cemetery, "Don't make trouble for me." ”

I couldn't be angry, "Uncle Niu, you ...... Be careful! ”

While pulling, I saw a shadow crashing straight towards Uncle Niu, I screamed, and subconsciously pushed Uncle Niu away, and I was knocked into my arms and fell to the ground.

Before I could slow down, Uncle Niu directly pulled me up from the ground and pushed me back with his backhand.

In fact...... More like throwing.

I rolled on the ground several times before stopping, and there were several bloody cuts on my arms and face.

Uncle Niu didn't know when he took out a peachwood sword and was stabbing around in the graveyard, but there was no one in front of him.

With a sudden sinking of my waist, Yu Hao helped me sit up and whispered, "I'll open your eyes." ”

He held me very close to me, and as he spoke, his lips touched my earlobe, and I blushed uncontrollably and hummed like a mosquito.

The conscience of heaven and earth, this is not that I flirt with people regardless of the occasion, but it is the first time that I have grown so old and become so close to a man.

The corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and he seemed to be in a good mood, and reached out in front of my eyes, "Don't be scared." ”

"How could I have been scared." I straightened my back, turned my head to look at Uncle Niu, and saw a thin figure with large palms, and five slender people scuffling with Uncle Niu.

The man was agile, jumping up and down, and Uncle Niu was scratched several times by the man.

Seeing the situation of the cemetery, the idea in my heart disappeared in an instant, and I couldn't care about the pain on my body, I stood up and was about to rush into the cemetery, I remember his hand.

He's the one who wants to kill me in the store!

Yu Hao put his arm around my waist with one hand, "You can't help if you go in." ”

"You let go of me, give me my mother's head with this dead thing, I'm going to cut off his head." My eyes turned red.

Who knew that Yu Hao relied on his height and strength advantage to directly lift me up, and I could only kick nonsense with my feet off the ground.

Uncle Niu's body was injured more and more, and gradually fell into the wind, the man found a flaw, kicked Uncle Niu in the chest, and at the same time twisted in the air, opened his five fingers, and grabbed Uncle Niu's face.

At this moment, Jiang Shen suddenly jumped out of the pit and slapped him on the back.

Uncle Niu sat down cross-legged, bit his fingers, quickly drew a talisman on the peach wood sword, pointed at the sky with the sword, and said coldly: "The patriarch's decree, help me punish evil, and be as urgent as the law!" ”

The rune paper burned with a bang, and the thing screamed, rolling around on the ground, and it took a long time before it stopped, and there was no movement.

"Is this thing dead...... Ah......h

Yu Hao disappeared suddenly, I was defenseless, and fell face down into the grass nest.

I slammed the ground in anger, why didn't this dead ghost run away without saying a word.

"Congcong, are you alright?" Uncle Niu said worriedly.

I got up on my waist and shook my head, "I just didn't stand still and threw myself." ”

He nodded, looking at the graveyard.

I walked over and couldn't help but be a little disappointed, the thing had a big hole in the back of the vest, and the skeleton was scattered.

"Uncle Niu, do you know what this is?" I asked, this is roughly like a human, but the fingers are twice as long as a normal person, and the nails are black and thin, and they can be pierced into the flesh at once.

Uncle Niu shook his head, "It's the first time I've seen something like this." ”

Jiang Shen suddenly said: "I have seen it, in the Seven Tribulations. ”