The so-called only treating the symptoms but not the root cause means that Zhang Zhi only suppresses the ghosts and cannot completely eliminate the ghosts and ghosts from the root, which is also the essential difference between shamanic witchcraft and the ghost affairs hall of the Eight Lent Hall.

The handling of ghosts in the hall is to suppress the ghosts first and then find the roots, and zuihou ends with the transcendent ritual, which naturally consumes time. Qiao Wei and I experienced several ghost troubles, each time it basically took several days, if you change the straight to deal with it, it is estimated that it will be over in two or three hours.

Although it is only a town, Zhang Zhi is not irresponsible.

According to Zhang Yupeng, Zhang Zhi has a leather note, and every time after the ghost is exorcized, Zhang Zhi will record the location of the ghost, the technique, the details of related people and things, etc., and Zuihou will also leave the person concerned a corpse wood totem. Once the suppressed ghost has signs of running out, the totem will immediately release the signal, and Zhang Zhi will also carry out a second ghost suppression according to the prompts on the notepad, which can be regarded as a lifelong after-sales service.

The plague fifty-three years ago is also fully recorded in the notebook.

There was a famine, and people were very susceptible to illness when they were weak and unable to eat. Rural people don't believe in doctors and ghosts, so they find Zhang Zhi to ask the gods to drive away disasters. Zhang Zhi saw that this was not a ghost at all, so he asked these people to go to the doctor, and sometimes he even dragged people to the hospital for medical treatment, and it was precisely because of this that Zhang Zhi got acquainted with An Junliang's grandfather.

People who study medicine rarely believe in ghosts and gods, but An Junliang's grandfather is an exception.

When the plague was rampant, in order to prevent the spread of the plague virus, all the corpses were burned and buried, and An Junliang's grandfather was involved in the medical team at that time, so he knew where to bury the corpses. He felt that a place with a large number of dead people might produce ghosts, so he notified Zhang Zhi, and Zhang Zhi followed An Junliang's grandfather to ask God to suppress ghosts in each crematorium.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhi used the bone powder in the corpse pit to make a corpse wood totem and left it for An Junliang's grandfather, and told him that once there was ghost activity in the crematorium, the totem would break and send a signal, but the totem should not be too far away from the corpse pit, otherwise it would be useless. is also because the corpse pit is only half an hour's drive away from Zhang Zhi's house, so Zhang Zhi also made an exception to leave the same totem for himself for the sake of insurance, which is considered a double insurance.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month of this year, the corpse totem left by Zhang Zhi reacted, and Zhang Yuchi immediately rushed to the crematorium to check according to the record in the notes.

Three days later, Mr. Zhang returned home. His clothes were torn, and he had some bruises on his body, apparently in a fight. But no matter how the family asked, Zhang Yuchi didn't speak. Since then, Zhang Yuchi has disappeared every three or four days, and when he comes back, he is always discouraged, feeling like crawling in the wilderness, and sometimes even hanging a streamer injury.

Zhang Yupeng knew that there was a situation on the other side of the crematorium, so he offered to help Zhang Yuchi solve the troubles over there. But Zhang Yuchi disagreed, only saying that the situation was still under his control, and he would ask for help, but no one was allowed to interfere until he asked for help.

Zhang Yupeng understands his brother's temper, knows that his brother is competitive and does not admit defeat, and the most important thing is that Zhang Yupeng believes that his brother will not joke with human life, so he chose to let Zhang Yuchi solve the problem by himself. But after listening to what I said, Zhang Yupeng knew that the situation on the other side of the corpse pit was very serious.

is also because Zhang Yupeng has been talking about his younger brother, so I can't help but associate this Zhang Yuchi with the black hat caught on the surveillance video. So I asked Zhang Yuchi what clothes he usually wears to go out, and what his body shape is, whether he is tall, short, fat, or thin.

As I expected, according to Zhang Yupeng's description, his brother was shorter than him, very thin, and usually liked to wear black hood clothes.

The black hood photographed in the surveillance is indeed Zhang Yuchi!

From this point of view, my initial judgment was also a little off. The hooded man didn't go to cover for the white python fairy, but specifically to find fault. And the white python fairy deliberately asked Li Bald to show the video to the police, the purpose was to use the police's hand to get rid of this shaman who was in the way.

Now things are much simpler, you just need to ask Zhang Yuchi to help, and the problem of ghost fire in the corpse pit will be solved! So I asked Zhang Yupeng where his brother was now.

Zhang Yupeng replied that his brother went out again the day before yesterday and has not yet returned.

I asked for Zhang Yuchi's contact information again.

Zhang Yupeng shook his head and said: "My younger brother has a very strange temper, and he doesn't answer any strange calls." Especially in the last few months, he even picked up my phone and hung up, which meant to tell me that he was still alive and told me not to bother him. So don't expect to get in touch with him. ”

Zhang Yupeng broke the line, but then he took out Zhang Zhi's notes and flipped to the section about the plague crematorium for Qiao Wei and me.

He said to the two of us: "Our Zhang family invited wolf immortals, and my grandfather used heavenly wolves to guard those corpse pits, so they shouldn't be so easy to be broken." If I'm not mistaken, my brother would still be on the other side of the grave. ”

"So you mean to say that the white python fairy actually plans to release all the ghosts, but he can't break the ghost suppression button in the crematorium, and at most he can only release one every eight days?" I asked.

Zhang Yupeng nodded and said, "It may be so." ”

I then asked what the "eight" was.

Zhang Yupeng replied: "This should be regarded as a weakness of our Zhang family's shamanism. Every eight, the effectiveness of the wolf god will be relatively weakened a lot, so our family has passed down a rule since our ancestors - every eight vegetarian food every month to worship the wolf god. It means to sacrifice our meat of the day to the wolf god to replenish the power of the wolf god. ”

"Does it work?" I asked.

Zhang Yupeng shook his head helplessly and said: "Actually, it's useless, it's just a kind of self-comfort, but it becomes natural to get used to it." ”

"So, that white python immortal still has research on your Zhang family?"

"Not necessarily!" Qiao Wei, who had been looking at his notes with his head bored, suddenly raised his head and said: "Any layout of the ghost suppression has its own weaknesses, even if no one breaks it, the effectiveness will gradually lose over time." So we have to find the root of the ghosts, and only if there is really no way to do it, we will set up the buttons of the ghosts, which can be regarded as the next policy. ”

Qiao Wei was telling the truth, but it felt like he was picking on the Zhang family. Fortunately, Zhang Yupeng did not show disgust, and nodded in agreement with Qiao Wei's statement.

Zhang Yupeng said that since he learned shamanism, he has basically been wiping his grandfather's buttocks, and he is completely a victim of "eliminating ghosts and not finding roots". In addition, if we plan to go to the crematorium to completely eradicate the ghosts, Zhang Yupeng said that he is very willing to go with us.

With such a strong reinforcement willing to join the gang, Qiao Wei and I naturally have no reason to refuse.

So when we returned to the city, there was an extra Wolverine shaman in my car, and the next place we wanted to go was the bungalow residential area to the west of the development zone, which, according to Zhang Yupeng, was one of the four large crematories.