It's no wonder that the people on the roadside have run away, a dead corpse can jump up and attack people, and anyone who sees it will be in a travesty and flee. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The drunkard said to me, "It is important to save people first, go up and find a bowl of water, and call them back at will." ”

When I got up to the road, the hut was empty, and the fire was almost extinguished because there was no one to add firewood. I knew that there was a mountain spring in the ditch next to it, and someone had picked a pit and put a bamboo spoon for passers-by to quench their thirst and drink water. Going home to get the bowl is time-consuming, laborious, and alarming, and it seems that it can only be done.

I scooped up a bamboo tube of spring water, returned to the road, and the drunkard took off the talisman paper attached to Zhang Shishan's forehead and burned it in the bamboo tube, opened his mouth and poured it in.

The whistling north wind, the damp and cold mud, can't let the unconscious Zhang Shishan lie on the ground. The two of us worked together to lift him to the messy grass he had slept on at first, so that he could get out of the dampness.

I stood up, looked left and right, and pulled the straw mat that I had just lifted to the side and placed it over the young woman's corpse.

The surrounding is boundless darkness, but I can see the scenery, except for the two of us, the surrounding is a mess of rocks and loess, a little above is the water level mark, and then there are sparse firewood, grass and trees, I can't see ghosts and ghosts, but I feel a little cold, I look inside, as if there are some shadows shaking and rushing, light smoke like nothing.

"Can you see anything?" The drunkard stared at me and asked.

I shook my head. The drunkard said again: "I can't do anything to call you from the hot quilt in the middle of the night." I thought it was just a water monkey, but I didn't expect this mountain spirit to meet. The mandrill confused Zhang Shishan to come down, if Mo found out, there would be a big mess before dawn, and then it would not be an extra life for him, and the gang of people above would suffer a big loss if they didn't get it right. If the families of these dead people come, it will be a big problem. I was so anxious that I almost collapsed, so I had to ask them to call you, so you came in time to finally get rid of this demon and save a bunch of people. ”

"What happens if I don't come?" I'm a little puzzled.

"What's going on? Didn't you just see that? This stone mountain was lost in nature by the mandrill, like a mad dog, extremely powerful, and would not hesitate to do it to the people above. If someone comes down and is caught off guard, can they escape his poisonous hands? I'm so scared to sweat just thinking about it! ”

is already gloomy and terrifying, and if there is a "fraudulent corpse" again, there is no need for Zhang Shishan to hurt people, and the timid ones are scared to death. When the drunkard said this, I was also afraid. I nodded and asked, "So what now?" ”

The drunkard groaned for a while and said, "In this way, you go up to find Fan Zhi and they come back here, you have to send Zhang Shishan back to his house first." I'm burning some paper here and reciting a sutra to appease and guide these spirits. Oh yes, if you find them, you can go home and sleep, so as not to worry about your mother, I will go to your house tomorrow to explain to your mother. ”

I said yes and was about to go up, when I suddenly remembered that he said that the water monkey had been killed, and asked curiously, "Didn't you say that you killed the water monkey?" Where is it? Can you still see it? ”

The drunkard said, "You should still be able to see it." You also know that the so-called ghosts, gods, and monsters are just an illusory image, which is ever-changing, difficult to form, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see them. In fact, very few of us can see it, and most of it is based on experience and feeling. It is precisely because it cannot be seen or touched that it is said to be superstitious. ”

As he spoke, he walked around the two straw mats, walked to the one on the far right, and lifted the straw mats from the bottom to the top.

The straw mat was covered by the corpse of a man, the woodcutter I had seen in the morning. Because he drowned, he was salvaged out, and his face was only a little blue, but it was not too hideous and terrifying. The drunkard pointed to a puddle of foul-smelling sludge beside the man's legs, and I looked at it and saw that there was nothing but a baby-like afterimage and a small pile of hair.

The drunkard covered the straw mat and said, "I will have to burn it later, so that this evil beast will be completely reduced to dust." ”

"What about mandrills? Where is its original form? "I broke the casserole and asked the end.

To be honest, I stepped into this supernatural and fantasy industry in a daze, although I am now convinced and the magic has also been successful, but I have accumulated too many doubts in my heart. Daddy Nan and Daddy Gui didn't have any explanation for me. I've been with the drunkard for so long, and he has never exchanged anything other than teaching me a lot of magic operations and experience, so how can I miss the opportunity to get to the bottom of my business when it's rare to have a time like tonight?

Don't answer me. He lifted the lantern on the ground, and pulled the straw mat that he had thrown aside earlier and covered Zhang Shishan's body to shield him from the cold wind. Then he took out a stack of paper money from his bag, and incense candles, turned paper and burned incense in the open space on the right, bowed down and pinched his fingers, and muttered a recitation, which lasted only three or five minutes, stopped chanting and made a gesture, lifted the lantern and said to me:

"Let's go, go up and bake the fire. I just sweated all over my body, and my body was cold and swishing, and now that I am older, I can't compare to when I was young before, and if I don't go up to warm up, I will have to be sick tomorrow. I know you have a stomach full of doubts, and I was like you back then, let's talk while the fire is baked. ”

We rekindled the bonfire in the hut, and the drunkard told me that the mandrill was different from ordinary ghosts and gods, it had its original form, but it was rare for ordinary people to see it. This mandrill was killed by us, but this is only its original spirit and soul, and its original body is not sure which cave it is hidden in, and it is impossible to find it when you are idle.

The drunkard went on to tell me that the so-called mountain spirits and water monsters are all high-level life forms that have opened their minds, but we humans don't know anything about them. Like us, they practice all kinds of spells. They can use their minds to control the minds of other animals, including humans. In fact, the same is true of ghosts and gods, they are invisible and invisible, and it is difficult to cause superficial harm to people, but they can influence and even control people's minds, causing people to have auditory and visual hallucinations, so as to achieve their purpose of harming human beings. For example, if someone commits a crime or commits suicide by short-circuiting just for a trivial matter, this is completely unreasonable and unimaginable to normal people. In fact, most of these people are manipulated by evil spirits, that is, as the saying goes, the ghost touches the brain and drills the tip of the horns, so it will be so unbelievable. Why is it said that "the devil sends the gods"? Why is there a "difference in thought"? Those are all the consequences of the invasion of external evils.

Seeing that I was still confused, he further explained: "For example, if you hypnotized the Liang father and son to sleep during the day yesterday, you manipulated their minds and robbed their souls. The water monkey made a mistake, at the moment of capsizing, it confused the boat owner and the deceased, and the mandrill did evil, it hijacked and controlled Zhang Shishan's mind, that is, the soul, so there was a bet and the scene just now. ”

Listening to his explanation, I roughly understood this truth. But then an even bigger question baffled me:

Why can ghosts, gods, and monsters control the human mind, just as I can sense things around me and control others to sleep with my mind? What kind of mysterious power is this? How does this power come about?

I fell into deep contemplation.

Zeng Fanzhi saw that there was no movement for a long time, and with a few bold gun-carrying militiamen, he stepped back with fear. Seeing that the two of us were roasting the fire safely, he breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly ran over, and asked tremblingly, "Mo Shi, right?" Uncle Kuan. ”

The drunkard said, "What can be done?" Look at the ones that scare you. It's good to come, hurry down and send Zhang Shishan home. He was frightened and now he is asleep, and I will go to his house tomorrow to help him and tell him that there is no need to be afraid or anxious, and that it is okay to wake up. ”

Zeng Fanzhi glanced down the road, and said with a wince: "Uncle Kuan, go down with us, we ......"

The drunkard stood up and picked up the lantern and walked down the road, Zeng Fanzhi hurriedly followed, I also stood up, and the drunkard turned his head and said to me: "Xianghong, go back, I will return your things to you tomorrow." ”

I answered, watched them get off the road, and turned back and ran towards the entrance of the village.

It's been almost an hour since I've been out, and my mother isn't sure what I'm worried about!