"From Zhang Hui's hands."

I retold Zhang Hui's story to Lao Dao, from the time I met Tang Blind, until he chose to let go of his obsession and leave this world with Xu Liqing.

The old knife's eyebrows jumped: "What? In this way, Zhang Hui is also a dead man?! ”

I nodded: "I didn't think of this possibility until Zhang Hui turned to ashes in front of my eyes." Zhang Hui must still be alive when he left Jinguan City, and after he returned to the countryside, he went to look for death again, this time he succeeded, but he thought that he was resurrected again. ”

"I have heard Master say that after death, some people still think that they are still alive, they will wander in the world, become the so-called 'lonely ghosts', and then gradually dissipate over time, but if he remembers how he died and realizes that he is actually a dead person, then he will instantly turn to ashes and disappear from this world - Zhang Hui should be in this situation."

"That's not right-", the old knife disagreed with my statement, "Look, according to what you said, there are three of these '**', there is one in Zhang Dehai's body (it was later taken out by Xu Liqing in the morgue), Zhang Hui has one in his body, and Xu Liqing has one in his body, right?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Don't you think this thing is amazing? It has three magical functions - to allow people to perform the 'soul crossing' ritual, to resurrect Zhang Hui and also have a body (you also had a fight with him on the back stairs of the Shining Star Hotel), to resurrect Xu Liqing and help him lodge in other corpses. Well, even if it's so godly! So since it can resurrect Zhang Hui directly, why can't Xu Liqing also resurrect directly? It doesn't have to be that complicated. ”

"You're not mistaken, this thing is a rare treasure. Do you know what '**' is? ”

The old knife shook his head and said angrily: "I know everything the fuck, what else do you want this guy to do?" ”

"According to the record in the "Emperor's Inner Canon": 'Yin and Yang, the way of heaven and earth, the outline of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death.'" The description in the "Dadai Li Ji" is more specific: "The essence of yang is called God, and the essence of yin is called spirit." The gods are the foundation of things. 'This essence of yin and yang is the origin of all things and all life in the world, you say, is it powerful? ”

"Sounds awesome. No, didn't you kid even graduate from college? How do you memorize ancient texts one by one, I've never seen you behave like this before...... You say, are you also possessed by the ghost of some ancient scholar? ”

"Isn't that a haven't had a chance to do it before? Although I didn't go to college, I could understand the general ancient texts, and during the period of time my master taught me, I was asked to memorize these ancient books, which was really memorized to death, and I will never forget it in my life. I waved my hand, "To be serious-this ** is not as magical as you said, but it is an extremely strong 'soul fixing' artifact." ”

"Zhang Hui and Xu Liqing's situation is also completely different. Zhang Hui is a wandering spirit, and it is even possible that when he met Tang Blind, he was already a living corpse, and when he took **, it was equivalent to resurrection; And Xu Liqing is a dead soul who has entered the Yellow Spring, and has already detached from her body, so she can't be directly 'resurrected' like Zhang Hui, but must keep changing her body. ”

"And the kind of corpse worm we see in the body of a living corpse is not an ordinary corpse worm, I guess, this should be the legendary 'three corpse worms'! ** gave birth to three corpse insects, and then the three corpse insects controlled the movement of the corpse, and then issued an order by the soul attached to it, that is, it became a living corpse. and the last black gold-ringed bees I saw in the apiary, in fact, all of them were dead bees, and they all had a three-corpse worm hidden in their stomachs. ”

According to the records on "Hug Puzi", there are three kinds of corpse insects, the upper corpse is named Peng Qian, who lives in the head, the middle corpse is named Peng Qian, who lives in the heart, and the lower corpse is named Peng Jiao, who lives in the foot. The ones we see should only be the lowest-level 'corpse insect Peng Jiao', who can only passively control the corpse's movements. ”

The old knife frowned directly into the word "Sichuan" when he heard this, and raised his hand to me and said, "Okay, stop!" I heard what you said, I heard it in a fog, just like the advanced mathematics taught by his mother in college, Lao Tzu has never passed once! You can say something that Lao Tzu can understand! ”

I shrugged, "Okay! With you, the free bodyguard, here, I'm doing something big. ”

Under the curious gaze of the old knife, I reached out and took off the blood jade hanging on my chest, and seeing my movements, the old knife immediately guessed what I was going to do.

"Damn, you wait a minute."

He quickly got up and helped me close the window, and the door and wall of the room had already been shattered to the ground, and I could only ignore it, but the old knife immediately rushed downstairs again, and after a while, I heard the sound of the roller shutter door of the grocery store downstairs being pulled shut.

I waited for the old knife to finish all this, come back and sit down, and then move on to the next step.

After the piece of blood jade was taken off by me, it faintly revealed a red glow, as if sensing something, I slightly approached the two ** pills on the coffee table, and the red glow on the blood jade was even more obvious.

The old knife was also watching attentively, even more nervous than me, he said: "When you fought those living corpses in the Shiqiaopu Funeral Parlor, you also fused a ** into the blood jade, right?" At that time, Cheng Cheng and we only felt a dazzling red light, not only did we not see anything clearly, but we were almost blinded - what happened at that time? ”

I said solemnly: "My piece of blood jade was originally a book, but after fusing the first piece of **, it actually turned back into a book, and it also turned the pages of the book and showed me some words." ”

The old knife asked, "What content?" ”

My desk also fell into the corner of the room, and I found a piece of paper and a ballpoint pen on the floor, wrote on the paper the words I said I had seen, and handed them to the old knife.

"Enlighten the Three Realms Road, illuminate the North Hades Palace, step through the Nine Secluded Gates, and travel to the Drunken Capital Realm......" The old knife finished reading, confused, "What do you mean?" ”

"Let me state first that this is just a guess on my part, a simple personal opinion, not necessarily correct."

The old knife glared: "Don't fucking nonsense. ”

"There are several explanations for the Three Realms."

"Buddhism and Taoism speak of the three worlds, which refer to the realm of desire, the realm of color, and the realm of colorlessness. It's just that the Taoist Three Realms have a total of 28 heavens, which are the worlds where people, ghosts, and all things live, and above the Three Realms, there are four Brahmas and the four heavens of the Holy Realm, which are called the 'heavens of the ten worlds', with a total of 555,555.5 billion weights. ”

"The Three Realms of Buddhism are the world where all sentient beings come and go in life and death, and the place where the clouds and fruits are retribution—the place where the six realms of life and death are reincarnated. There are eight hells, four continents, six heavens of desire, side beings, hungry ghosts, etc.; The color realm starts from the beginning of Zen Brahma, and finally to the Aga Gritta, where there are eighteen heavens; There are also four heavens in the colorless realm, called the four empty heavens, where there is only consciousness and no matter exists. ”

"The Three Realms of Shamanism are best understood, and they assert that the universe is divided into upper, middle, and lower realms. The upper world is the world of gods, the middle world is the dwelling place of humans and animals, and the lower world is the world where death and demons gather, that is, hell. Between the middle world and the lower world, there is an unknowable world, where people go after death. ”

"But no matter how you understand it, the 'Three Realms' refers to the vast world where heaven, earth, people, gods, and ghosts are located."

The old knife rolled his eyes: "Just two words, you can explain so many twists and turns, can you be considered knowledgeable?" But why do you say so much that I don't know what to do? You said directly, the Three Realms are the six realms of sentient beings, the vast world, including the world where Zhang Hui and Xu Liqing are going - don't I understand it directly? What are you doing with that effort? If you still quote scriptures, I'm tired of panicking for you. ”

I was stunned, and I was speechless for a while.

I think Lao Dao's words are very arbitrary, how can you make random conclusions without evidence?

But on the other hand, it's really not very difficult to explain...... Well, saying this to this old fritter and hob meat is tantamount to playing the piano to a cow, and it is purely boring.

"Then I'll put it simply-with this blood jade, you can go to the underworld to meet Zhang Hui and Xu Liqing."

"Gone?"

"It's gone."

This time it was the turn of the old knife to be dumbfounded, he scratched his head and said: "Hey, you are really too simple and straightforward, no head or tail, you can at least tell me the reason." ”

I laughed and said, "Isn't it because you don't like to listen to it?" ”

The old knife leaned back, leaned heavily on the sofa, and puffed a puff of smoke into the sky: "Do you like to talk about it!" I'll count to three, and you're going to sell it again—hey! I don't listen yet! ”

"I've convinced you, can't I admit it? In fact, it is not difficult to understand later. The Nine Shadows and the Drunken Capital both refer to the Netherworld Hell. As the saying goes, "the sky has nine heavens, and the earth has nine layers", this hell has nine layers, which is called 'nine shades', and 'Xudu' is better explained, that is, the so-called Fengdu ghost city. ”

"Only this 'North Hell' is a bit of a problem. In context, it should still be interpreted as 'Netherworld', or at least as much as the 'Three Realms', a general world. However, in the "Zhuangzi", it is clearly written that "there is a fish in the northern underworld, its name is kun, and the kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is", and the underworld should be "ming", and "northern underworld" means "the sea in the north", which refers to a clear place, which is neither a general reference, nor a netherworld hell, which is really puzzling......"

"But no matter what, the gist of these sixteen words should be to say that this piece of blood jade in my hand can enable the holder to have the ability to travel through the Yin and Yang worlds and travel through the underworld."

Just then, my phone rang.

I took out my phone and saw that it was a very unexpected number!

Seeing that my face was different, the old knife asked, "Whose phone is it?" ”

"Shen Tangzhi."

The old knife was also stunned, and then a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Didn't she travel with that British knight?" How can I still call you? ”

"Go aside!"

I gave the old boy a kick directly, but my finger stopped over the answer button, and I didn't have the courage to press it for a while.

It was after hearing about what we had happened in Blackwater Town that Shen Tangzhi suddenly left Jinguan City with the German Yankee Hyde, and since then he has disappeared from the world for nearly three months!

I don't know why, at this moment, I was faintly afraid, I picked up the phone, but what came from the receiver was not the familiar cold tone, but a stranger, who came to tell me what danger Shen Tangzhi encountered.

I couldn't help but recall some details before Shen Tangzhi left.

The day before leaving, Shen Tangzhi used all methods to coerce and lure Li Yi's mouths open, and it could be seen that her visit to Blackwater Town was not entirely to satisfy her curiosity to listen to weird stories, but asked a lot of details - some details, even I didn't notice at the time.

After that, she snatched my blood-like copy of the "Netherworld Blood Book" and studied it carefully.

Even despite my strong protests, I took off my shirt and forcibly observed the tattoos on my back.

I still remember the look on her face when she left my office that day, and I had never seen it on her face.

The next day, I received a text message from her: "Do something, don't contact me." ”

Then, her phone never got through.

If Cheng Cheng hadn't revealed to me that with his father-in-law's rank, he didn't have the authority to investigate Shen Tangzhi, I might have set out to find someone a long time ago.

After all, her sudden departure this time is very likely to be related to me (blood jade and sting).

"Hey, what's the fuss? You're answering the phone—hey, I'll go, I'm in a hurry! "The old knife is urging me.

I finally pressed the answer button: "Hello? ”

"Where?"

Hearing this familiar and unfamiliar voice, my throat suddenly became a little hoarse, and I coughed, but I didn't answer the question: "Where are you?" ”

"I'm in front of your grocery store - you're not home with the roller shutter closed in broad daylight?"

"In, at home."

"Then why are you closing the door? Doing something bad? ”

"How is that possible? The old knife is here. ”

"You...... And old knives? ”

I can even imagine Shen Tangzhi's slightly restrained and incredible expression through the earpiece.

It took me a while to react, and I couldn't help but wonder, "What do you think!" I'll open the door for you right away. ”

Unexpectedly, I haven't seen it for a long time, and nothing else has grown, but she has become an old dirty woman!

I said to Lao Dao: "Shen Tangzhi is downstairs." ”

got up and was about to go downstairs with him, but I just answered Shen Tangzhi's call, and for a while I forgot that I was still holding the piece of blood jade in my other hand, and at this time, the blood jade actually hit the coffee table and collided with the two ** placed on it-

Suddenly, ten thousand red rays suddenly skyrocketed, reflecting the entire room as if it were a stage covered by a red curtain, and I had become a marionette on the stage—

That's right, I suddenly realized that I couldn't move all of a sudden!

"I can't move! Old knife, go and drive-" I spoke very fast, but I still couldn't finish the whole sentence.

The red mangs only skyrocketed for a moment, and the next moment they converged slightly.

** It is once again surrounded by the mist with a faint blue light, like a mirage, the mist presents a layer of flat diffuse, and between the churning, there is a feeling of smoke and vastness.

The blood jade took off my palm, and automatically floated into the air with the two ** on the coffee table, and then slowly rotated around the blood jade with the blood jade as the center......

The old knife moved quickly, and in less than twenty seconds, he returned to the upstairs with two people.

One of them is Shen Tangzhi, who has disappeared for almost three months, and the other is the German Heide. Estori.

Shen Tangzhi saw a slight reduction, and Hyde's beard was even more luxuriant, both of them were wearing quick-drying clothes, hiking shoes, and a huge mountaineering bag on their backs, looking like a dusty servant.

"Don't go over yet." The old knife had an experience in the end, and stopped the two of them out of the room.

Seeing the strange scene in the room, Shen Tang was also discolored at the beginning, but she immediately saw that I didn't seem to be in any danger, and her face was a little pale.

Hyde opened his mouth wide and shouted directly in German in an extremely exaggerated way, although I couldn't understand German, I could tell from the tone that the beard was in extreme shock!

After this period of time, the speed of the two ** has already reached a speed that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and the whole room is covered by a layer of dark blue mist that is high to the abdomen......

And that piece of blood jade is like a blood-red crescent moon above the blue sea at night.