Chapter 32: The Soul Mirror
"Old white! I just fell asleep, what's the matter with you! Tang Tiezui said.
"Don't ask, let's talk about the legends you've all heard about the soul leaving the body or the spirit out of the body."
"Lao Bai, what's going on? Everyone is tired and scattered, but you call everyone up and tell stories, what are you tossing around? Tang Tiezui'er was obviously a little dissatisfied with Bai Hewu's behavior. After a few seconds of confrontation like this, everyone was still frightened by the serious face of the white crane dance.
"I'll start with one!" Fat Dahai was the first to say.
"The age of this story is no longer known. It is said that there is an old couple, and the husband gets up at the same time every day to go out for morning exercises, and has maintained this habit for decades. The elderly are also in very good health, and the number of illnesses is only a handful at the age of dozens of years. ”
"Once, the old man went out and broke his leg, although the injury was not serious and did not affect walking, but after all, he was old, and the doctor asked him to stay in bed to recuperate. The old man was recuperating from his injuries and was uncomfortable at home, but his family was very strict with him, and he couldn't get out. As time went on, his injuries gradually improved, and his family's supervision gradually relaxed. ”
Until one day my son woke up and saw his father going out for morning exercises. When his son saw that he was walking steadily, he did not look like an old wound that had not healed, so he tried to stop him. After the son finished washing, he went to his mother's room to say hello, but as soon as he pushed the door, his mother motioned for him to be quiet, and his father had not yet gotten up. The son naturally didn't believe it, and when he entered his father's bedroom, he saw that there was still a father lying on the bed. It's just that this man is so groggy that he can't wake up. Naturally, the mother would not believe her son's words. In the end, there was no way for the mother and son to go to the place where their father used to exercise in the morning to check, and there was really one more person in this world out of thin air. The mother and son did not dare to follow the morning exerciser back home, and soon the old father woke up, but he knew nothing about the morning exercise. ”
After the story was told, everyone looked at each other, and there was obviously no information about the story.
"I'll tell you about one too!" Tang Tiezui'er broke the embarrassment.
"This story takes place in ancient times, and I don't know when it was ancient. It is said that there is a young man, born in Yushu and erudite, plus his family is well-off, and he has also found a big position in the public family. In short, this person is impeccable. Once, this man went to visit a well-known old Confucian in the local area on business. The two were seen by the daughter of the old Confucian while talking. Since then, this woman has suffered from lovesickness, unpleasant food, unable to sleep at night, and in today's words, she is guilty of nymphomania. But the man in the story had already married, and the old Confucianism was very strict, so the woman did not act politely. The strange thing happened just a few days after the man visited the old man. ”
The man's wife often saw the old Confucian's daughter lying on the wall of her house peeping into her husband's study, although the man had a gentle personality, his wife was a standard woman, after several preparations, she finally caught the old Confucian's daughter, and then escorted her to the old Confucian theory with the others. After they found Lao Confucian and explained the situation, Lao Confucian reprimanded them for making nonsense, and said that his daughter was resting at noon in the boudoir and would never go out. After that, he sent someone to call his daughter out. ”
"The old Confucian's daughter came out with a dull face and a little delirious. And she fainted when she met the woman who was escorted by the. The person escorted by the also disappeared out of thin air, and of course it was not appropriate to say that she was a human being. As for the ending of the old Confucian's daughter, I don't know, but I don't think it will be much better. ”
After the story was told, Professor Lan concluded: "The two stories are almost nothing more than saying that when people are desperate for something, if their bodies are limited and they can't travel, this kind of thing will happen. While most folklore is not groundless, they have evolved beyond the centuries to extract useful information from them. And we don't have anything we desperately desire, so we shouldn't have any soul-losing things, right? ”
Bai Hewu sighed and said, "The things we encountered are much more serious than those two in the story, and if we don't know it, we will all fold here." ”
"Not really! We can run and jump now, and if we can't move forward, we can at least go backward. "Fat Dahai obviously doesn't believe in the White Crane Dance.
"Dahai, don't interrupt, you first let Tsurumai talk about our current situation, and then brainstorm." Professor Lan also apparently had a sense of foreboding.
Bai Hewu settled his tumbling thoughts for a moment and said, "The reason why I called everyone up and asked you to tell stories is because I suddenly remembered the function of those ghost drawing talismans. Bai Hewu said, pointing to the nearby pillar and continued, "That's actually used to seal the soul, it's called the Four Elephants Soul Seal. Those four mirrors are called Soul Mirrors. Inside the mirror is a gloomy wooden ......"
"Wait a minute, gloomy wood has always been regarded as a thing to ward off evil spirits......... Before Tang Tiezui finished speaking, Bai Hewu waved his hand to signal him to stop.
"This gloomy wood is not the other gloomy wood. This gloomy wood is extremely difficult to produce. It is usually made from wood that grows after the coffin wood has sprouted
Target. Sometimes when a person dies and is in a hurry to be buried, a coffin will be made, and if the coffin is also made of freshly cut new wood, the wood will still be alive when it is buried, and it may take root and sprout in the soil as soon as it arrives. In this way, the dead person is covered by the roots of the tree, and if the person dies with a great deal of resentment, the resentment is absorbed by the tree, and the gloomy wood is created. ”
"Because this wood has been sucking cold for a long time, even if it is cut down, this characteristic of him will not disappear. And people do not have any consciousness when they sleep, and they are most easily affected by external things. We slept right in front of the mirror. So I'm sure we're ingested in the mirror. ”
In fact, the other three had already vaguely guessed their situation, and after hearing Bai Hewu's personal confirmation, the three of them couldn't help but look into the mirror, and in the mirror, it was more accurate that there were four people lying outside the mirror. When the three of them saw it, they immediately felt that the world was spinning, and their spirits were almost broken.
After listening to this, Professor Lan brushed his hair with his hand twice, and his restless thoughts calmed down a little: "Judging from our current situation, we must first remove the seal on the surface of this soul mirror before we can escape. ”
"But we're in a situation where we can't do it ourselves." Fat Sea Road.
After listening to this, Professor Lan continued: "The girl in the story told by Tiezui just now still maintains a certain consciousness after her soul has left her body, can we now find a way to wake up our real body left outside the mirror, let them break the mirror and let us out." ”