Chapter 27: False alarm
What is "ghost hitting the wall"?
The old people in the village say that it is a dark night, and if you take an infrequent path or take a shortcut to go home, there may be an insurmountable "wall" in front of you on the left and in front of you. It's only a few hundred meters away, but walking, walking, walking for two or three hours, you can't walk to the end, where do you go? It turned out that going around there, no matter what, I couldn't get out of that "strange circle".
Even if there are pits and rivers on the "road" sandwiched by the "wall", they will "move forward bravely" until they fall into the deep pit and die, and fall into the river alive and drown, so there are still many people who are directly killed by ghosts hitting the wall.
If you really encounter this situation, grandpa also told me the solution, absolutely don't panic, concentrate a qiē attention, open your eyes wide, see clearly the surrounding objects that can be used as a reference, and then go, if you still can't get out, then stay where you are, don't go anywhere, wait until dawn, this ghost will break the wall by itself, this is also the best way to protect yourself.
But if I stay where I am with Fang Ziyan tonight, it will definitely not work, because Brother Zhuang Zi is still waiting for me by the sarcophagus.
"Left thirteen, what should I do? Are we encountering ghosts...... Ghost hit the wall? Fang Ziyan looked around vigilantly and asked me.
"I told you not to follow, you didn't listen, are you scared now?" I said.
"Humph! I'm not afraid, I'm just asking you what to do when you encounter a ghost hitting the wall, aren't you the apprentice of the Qingfeng Dao Master? This ghost hitting the wall shouldn't be too difficult for you. ”
"That, that's nature, it's hard for me to hit the wall." As I spoke, I took out the "Maoshan Taoist Technique" that I had been carrying, and there was everything in the bag of the Qingfeng Dao Chief, and there was only such a book in this small bag I carried.
When I opened this "Maoshan Taoism", I looked at it with a flashlight, wanting to look inside to see if there was any cracking of this ghost hitting the wall.
Seeing this, Fang Ziyan asked me:
"Zuo Thirteen, why do I feel that you are not very reliable, can you sharpen your gun like this?"
I didn't answer Fang Ziyan, I found the table of contents and began to read them one by one, and sure enough, I found the title of the ghost hitting the wall on the second page, and I turned to the page where the ghost hit the wall according to the prompts.
After reading it carefully, the book says:
When people close their eyes or at night or in the suburbs, there will be a slight difference in the length of the two feet, and then people will fall into a circle with a radius of about 3Km, in this case, don't panic, because this is not a "ghost" to do, but a hazy state of people unconsciously.
It can be explained that if you blindfold a mallard and throw it into the sky, it will start flying, but if it is an open sky, you will find that it must fly out in a circle.
If you don't believe it, you can try again by yourself, blindfold yourself, walk in a straight line on the school playground, and ask a friend to take a picture of it for you, and finally you find that you are walking in a big circle.
In a word, the essence of biological motion is circular motion. If there is no goal, the instinctive movement of any living being is a circle.
These can be done by themselves, and they are absolutely true. ”
Seeing that this "Maoshan Taoism" so comprehensively explains the phenomenon of ghosts hitting the wall, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it turns out that there are not really any ghosts doing evil, it seems that this "Maoshan Taoism" is quite comprehensive, there is everything.
I continued to look down, and below I wrote how to solve the problem of "ghost hitting the wall":
One, you can discern the direction according to the position of the North Star and watch the North Star walk.
Second, when walking, look at the reference objects on the side of the road.
Third, step on the seven-star step before you can walk out.
Fourth, the stupidest method is to wait until dawn.
After I saw this, I closed the "Maoshan Taoist Technique" and put it away, and looked up at the stars in the sky, fortunately, the weather was good and the stars were bright.
The North Star is also very easy to find, and the brightest star in the north of the night sky is the North Star.
"I know how to crack this ghost wall, you follow me." As I said this, I walked along the North Star in the sky, and the sarcophagus we went to was to the north of the village.
After walking for a while, Fang Ziyan pointed to the field in front of him and said:
"Thirteen, look, we're coming out."
"Hmm." I agreed, quickened my footwork, and walked towards the back of the field, and not far away, in the middle of a wasteland, where the sarcophagus was.
When Fang Ziyan and I rushed to the vicinity of the sarcophagus, we didn't see Brother Zhuangzi!
My heart tightened at the moment, and when I looked at the strange and terrifying sarcophagus, a very ominous premonition suddenly surged in my heart, and I hurriedly shouted around:
"Brother Zhuangzi! Brother Zhuangzi! Brother Zhuangzi ......"
Except for the low sound of the wind, no one answered me.
"Thirteen, who are you?" Fang Ziyan's face turned pale, and she looked at me a little gloomy and asked.
Seeing her like this, I reacted, Fang Ziyan didn't know that Brother Zhuang Zi was also here before, she saw me screaming at this sarcophagus, so it was strange that she wasn't afraid.
"My name is a big brother in the village, I originally stayed here with him to watch this sarcophagus, I went back to the village to borrow a lighter, and when I came back, the others disappeared." I explained to Fang Ziyan, and I was even more anxious.
When I said the words "lighter", I suddenly thought of the life-saving incense I gave to Brother Zhuangzi, this is not a fire to ignite dry firewood, if there is any danger, how can Brother Zhuangzi light that incense?!
I'm a stupid X! How can you ignore such a strict question?! Could it be that Brother Zhuangzi really encountered something that could not be done?
I don't dare to think about it anymore......
"Brother Zhuangzi, are you here?!" I shouted over to the sarcophagus.
Still no one answered me, looking at the strange sarcophagus, my heart was completely bottomless, and cold sweat flowed down.
"Thirteen, will that Brother Zhuangzi you said be scared here alone and run back to the village first?" Fang Ziyan looked around and said to me.
I shook my head and said affirmatively to Fang Ziyan:
"Although I have known Brother Zhuangzi for a short time, I can be sure that he will never go back by himself, he is not that kind of person at all."
"What about others? It won't be ...... in that sarcophagus" Fang Ziyan said this, and knew that she had lost something, so she hurriedly covered her mouth and didn't continue.
In our rural areas, there is a widely circulated saying called "don't talk about people during the day, don't talk about ghosts at night", which means don't discuss the rights and wrongs of others behind your back during the day, because acquaintances will be around you during the day, and at night when ghosts are infested, if you talk about ghosts, just let the ghosts hear, the outcome can be imagined.
Misfortune comes from the mouth, that's what it means.
"Let's go, let's look around." As I spoke, I was going to take Fang Ziyan to look carefully around this sarcophagus, if Brother Zhuang Zi encountered something long, I would have to blame myself to death.
Just when Fang Ziyan and I were about to go behind the sarcophagus together and look for someone along the forest, a black shadow suddenly walked out from behind the sarcophagus.
The black shadow that suddenly came out from behind the sarcophagus stopped me in place, and Fang Ziyan, who was following me, was directly frightened and screamed, grabbed my arm and dragged it back.
Could it be that the son and mother in the sarcophagus came out?!
Thinking of this, my legs and stomach almost didn't cramp and turned to the front, while stepping back with Fang Ziyan, I trembled with my hands and took out the "corpse fixing talisman" given to me by Qingfeng Dao Commander from my pocket and held it tightly in my hand.
At the same time, the black shadow walked in front of the sarcophagus, and the flashlight in my hand was just right to shine on him.
I never thought it was him!
"Zhuang ...... Brother Zhuangzi? ...... "I saw clearly that the black shadow that came out from behind the sarcophagus was after Brother Zhuangzi. First the shock, then the surprise!
"What's the matter, brother? What do you see I'm afraid of? Brother Zhuang Ziyan looked at me and Fang Ziyan and shouted puzzled.
I stared at Brother Zhuangzi, and looked at it from beginning to end, and after making sure that the person in front of me was Brother Zhuangzi, I breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him and said:
"I said, Brother Zhuangzi, what were you doing behind that sarcophagus just now? If you don't speak for a long time, and you come out without saying a word, who can not be afraid? As I spoke, I deliberately shone a flashlight on Brother Zhuangzi, and found that there was a shadow, and the last trace of worry in my heart was put down.
Because I grew up hearing from the old people in the village that ghosts have no shadows.
"Oh, I was waiting for you just now, and I fell asleep lying behind the sarcophagus......" Brother Zhuang Zi scratched his head and said.
Listening to his words, I almost didn't fall, and I could still fall asleep next to a zombie sarcophagus with two corpses, how strong does it take to be psychological?!
Anyway, I can't, I can't beat me or not.
"Who's that girl behind you?" Brother Zhuang Zi looked at Fang Ziyan behind me and asked.
"She is my classmate Fang Ziyan, this is Brother Zhuang Zi, the person I just looked for."
After Fang Ziyan and Brother Zhuang Zi got to know each other, the three of us began to light the pile of firewood on the ground, and gathered around, after the firewood was lit, Brother Zhuang Zi sat back intentionally or unintentionally, and then looked at me and asked:
"I said, brother, why have you been back for so long? Only coming back now? ”
I don't know why, since I came back, this Zhuangzi brother called me the title of the little Taoist to the elder brother, but this title is more cordial, I didn't think much about it, so I told Zhuangzi brother before and after we encountered the "ghost hitting the wall" on the road.