6. Hell
In the Northeast, it was almost dark at 5 p.m. in January. I, Liu Jingyang, and Qiao Wei went to that wasteland again.
Qiao Wei spent the day preparing a lot of things, including peach sticks, yellow paper charms, masks, and dog blood.
This dog blood is real dog blood, black dog blood. Qiao Wei said that black dog blood can block corpses and ghosts, so he dipped a thin brush in black dog blood and drew a symbol on the mask, wearing this mask can prevent ghosts from spitting into people's mouths.
According to him, the zuihou that a person spits out after death is called filthy in one breath. If a person dies, the filth may not be spit out, and if there is no ghost to send the corpse off, the corpse will turn into a resentful ghost, and the filth will accumulate on the ghost, and zuihou will become a ghost. Ghosts are highly poisonous, and if a living person swallows them, his whole body will be weak and his spirit will be sluggish, and he will die for half a month or three days at least. Therefore, when dealing with ghosts, you must wear a mask with a dog's blood charm painted on it.
Although I came to watch Qiao Wei summon ghosts with a mentality similar to magic tricks, I still put on my mask according to his requirements, and I also held a peach wood ghost fighting stick in my hand.
After Liu Jingyang and I were ready, Qiao Wei began to summon ghosts.
He first drew a circle about two meters in diameter on the snow in the center of the wasteland with a peach stick, and sprinkled dog blood and something like black pepper on the outside of the circle. Then he took out another stack of yellow paper money smeared with gold dust, lit it and threw it into a circle, and began to mutter something in his mouth, which felt like some kind of incantation, and I didn't understand it anyway.
Qiao Wei's incantation had just been recited for a few seconds, and the paper money thrown in the circle suddenly burst into flames violently, and the flames jumped up nearly two meters high, burning the stack of paper money into black paper ashes at once! The sudden change startled me and gave me goosebumps, but the flame quickly grew down again, and my heart rate, which had noticeably begun to increase, gradually returned to normal.
At this time, a black cloud that came out of nowhere covered the moon, and the whole wasteland suddenly darkened, and the only light source was the fire on the pile of paper money, and the flashlight that Liu Jingyang and I were holding.
I felt a chill creep through my neck and into my clothes, and I shivered. I tightened the collar of my coat, but it didn't work at all, and the cool air still ran around me, giving me goosebumps from head to toe and shivering from the cold.
"It's coming, be careful!" Qiao Wei reminded me and Liu Jingyang, and then continued to stand on the edge of the circle and recite the scriptures.
Suddenly, two hands poked out of the ground in the circle where the paper money was burned, and grabbed the burning paper money and black paper ash in the circle.
I almost screamed with a shock all over my body, and the flashlight in my left hand fell to the ground at once, and I quickly picked up the flashlight and shone on the two hands that poked out of the ground, and the light from the flashlight trembled significantly.
The hands were now completely out of the ground, along with the arms, and then a man's head peeking out of the ground, and then his body, legs, and feet......
In a few moments, a living man came out of the ground and stood in a circle, and the strangest thing was that there were no pits or turns of earth in the ground beneath his feet, as if he had floated straight out of the ground.
I don't know if the man is a ghost or not. In my impression, the ghost was probably floating, dressed in white, with a bloodless face, translucent, and a little fluorescent green, but standing in the circle...... That thing...... looks like an ordinary person, dressed like a peasant in an anti-Japanese war movie. If it weren't for the weird way I appeared before, I would definitely think it was an ordinary farmer dressed in retro.
"Ahh!!hh
Just when I was staring at the thing that appeared in the circle, and my brain could barely think normally, Liu Jingyang next to me suddenly snorted.
His shout scared me so much that I even jumped up. I hurriedly turned my head to look at Liu Jingyang, and my head was like exploding, and my scalp was numb!
Liu Jingyang sat on the ground with a blushing face, and next to him stood an old man, who had a white towel wrapped around his head and coarse cloth clothes, looking no different from the old peasant in the mine war. But the old peasant's eyes were lifeless, and he stared directly at Liu Jingyang, his two hands stretched forward as if to pinch Liu Jingyang's neck, and at the same time, there was a yellow-green smoke coming out of his slightly open mouth!
"Hit him with a peachwood stick! Fast! Qiao Wei shouted at this time.
I don't know where I got the courage, but my already stiff body actually moved! I ran over and picked up the more than a meter-long peachwood stick in my hand and swept it across the old farmer who was wrapped in a hand towel.
Whew, the stick in my hand swept directly over the old farmer without any collision, and the old farmer was beaten into a puff of smoke by the stick and drifted away.
I was stunned for a moment and swallowed my saliva before I came back to my senses, and then reached out to pull Liu Jingyang, who was sitting on the ground. But Liu Jingyang didn't come over to grab my hand, his eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, his lower lip kept trembling, and he trembled and reached out to point behind me.
I turned my head sharply, and I was so frightened that I almost didn't lose my breath, for less than a meter behind me was standing a village woman, her mouth wide open, and the yellow-green ghostly breath that came out of her innermost part felt like it was about to touch the tip of my nose.
I screamed, and tried to duck back, but the woman raised her hands and pressed them on my shoulders faster than I did! Suddenly, I felt like my body was sinking to death, as if a big rock was pressing down on me, and I couldn't move at all, and I couldn't even scream.
Seeing that the village woman was spitting out filthy breath and floating in front of me, I quickly closed my mouth tightly and held my breath, for fear of sucking that thing into my stomach! At this juncture, suddenly a peachwood gang swept over with a roar, and the village woman turned into a cloud of smoke and dust and disappeared.
All of a sudden, my body was able to move again, but then I went limp, and I sat on the ground with my buttocks.
Qiao Wei, who had just broken up the village woman, hurriedly came over and dragged Liu Jingyang and me up, then quickly drew a circle around the two of us, sprinkled spare dog blood and black pepper and said to the two of us: "I made a mistake, I didn't expect there to be so many ghosts!" Don't get out of this circle, ghosts can't get in, I'll let them be honest! ”
My brain has basically lost the ability to think now, so when Qiao Wei said to let me not go out of the circle, I immediately stood up straight in the circle, and I didn't even move my feet. When I calmed down a little from the shock just now, I realized that there were still six ...... standing in this wasteland about the size of an acre Ghost! There are two older ones and four young ones, except for their dull expressions and thin clothes, they are not much different from living people.
At this time, Qiao Wei had already taken a peach stick and ran to one of the older ones. But before he could get closer, the old peasant's originally expressionless face suddenly showed a frightened expression, but he was obviously not afraid of Qiao Wei, because his eyes were looking in other directions.
Not only the old farmer, but also the other ghosts in the wasteland were looking in the same direction, and their faces were terrified.
I quickly followed the eyes of the ghosts and shone the flashlight, and found a shirtless young man at the edge of the wasteland. The man had a sharp knife in his hand, and his eyes were red and he ran towards the group of ghosts, and when he caught one, he stabbed him in the chest.
Bright red blood poured out of the demon's chest at once, and in an instant, his clothes were dyed bright red. The knife-wielding man stabbed one and then went on to stab the second and third...... In less than half a minute, the ghosts that suddenly appeared in the wasteland were all stabbed down by the man with a knife.
I pointed to the man with the knife and asked Qiao Wei, "Is this ...... Is this your companion? ”
As soon as I spoke, the knife-wielding man immediately turned his head, stared at me with his bloodshot eyes, and then raised his knife and strode towards me, and in his wide open mouth, I clearly saw a yellow-green filth!