Chapter 12: The Conjuring (Part II)

I never think about the cost of doing the Dharma, if it seems to me to be necessary.

Just like the spell I am using now, once it succeeds, it will be the price to provide three years of worship to the lonely ghosts who provided the news, and I will have to do a ritual for the rest of the lonely ghosts.

Whether it's providing sacrificial cloth food, or giving it to mental power, in short, these things are very serious, and they must not be joked.

If something goes wrong, the cause and effect of God's downfall will be counted on my head.

But I have never had any extra consideration in this regard, if I feel that I should do it, this is what my master evaluated, regardless of the cost, as long as I feel the origin of the words, that is, for what he and my brother will call me the most willing to do it.

Actually, it's hard for me to explain to Master and Senior Brother that this is not the reason for my lack of consciousness at all, but because I don't have a good sense of spirituality, and I don't have an innate anticipation and perception of the good or bad of things, just like a person with short-sighted eyes, people see a pit in front of him from a distance, and he can't see it, so he has to get closer.

Who can be blamed for falling into the pit?

The initial communication was a difficulty for me, but I was not without spiritual sense, and I was only communicating with lonely ghosts, and when the slightest sense appeared, my powerful soul power worked.

This kind of thing was originally like the aunt of the neighborhood committee issuing a notice, and at this time, I kept thinking about the image of Lao Zhou in my mind, and then with the help of strong soul power, I was like a high-powered speaker, and soon this news spread everywhere among the lonely souls and wild ghosts.

Of course, it was at the cost of my promise, but when I felt about the same, I took the spell.

After all, I don't have a specific concept of how strong my soul power is, and what Master often says is to control it, but my own sense is poor, and if it spreads unlimitedly, it is not a good thing.

As for what's not good? After I received the technique, I was a little tired thinking about another of Master's words, within a certain range, there are not only lonely souls and wild ghosts, but in this announcement, we must control the range, disturb the existence that should not be disturbed, and cause trouble that should not be provoked, it will not be good.

But it's hard for me to imagine what kind of unknown existence there is in the city except for lonely ghosts? And I'm a person who will never suffocate myself if I have a problem, so I asked about it at the time.

That was the first time I saw Master and Senior Brother looking at me with complicated eyes, but it was also the first time I felt the silence of avoidance.

After the operation, I was a little tired, and I didn't know what to do when I thought of these things, so I couldn't help but take out a cigarette from my jacket pocket and put it to my mouth.

There are two inescapable wounds in my heart, and the more I forcibly avoid them, the more I do anything, I can't help but think of them through the inextricable details.

This is why people can't 'exert too much force' on their hearts, but must naturally face the origin of everything, because the more they exert themselves, the more counterproductive they are, and the exertion of a certain part of their hearts, whether it is desire, pain, or even anything else, is the most basic origin of obsession.

The taste of smoke is bitter, but the truth is clear, but it is so difficult to do, since it is difficult, it can only be tempered.

The room was quiet, only Lao Zhou's wall clock was ringing, and the thoughts in my mind were chaotic, but I also knew that when I was halfway through a cigarette, I walked over to observe the water bowl.

According to the speed of the spread of the news, after a minute or two at the earliest, the water bowl will have some subtle reactions, but what is the specific reaction, this is not a textbook without a standard answer, but the person concerned will definitely understand.

However, soon five minutes passed, and the water bowl did not react at all.

I thought I was too anxious, so I waited patiently, but after ten minutes, I gradually lost my breath, and again I felt a little irritable and touched a cigarette on the spot.

Fifteen minutes and twenty minutes of water bowl did not respond, this is simply more than the time for this spell to be responded, is it a failure?

My face suddenly became ugly, and it was impossible for me to fail when I carefully recalled every detail of the spell, including the contact and communication with the lonely ghost, and the spread of the news, there was not a trace of what was wrong, so what was the matter with no response at all now?

If I had to explain, there could only be one reason, and that was that what I had promised was not enough to tempt these lonely ghosts to provide news.

However, how could it be that they were just looking for a remnant soul who had been frightened, and that they were not asked to do anything to pay for it? In addition, there is another possibility that I don't want to think about, and that is that these lonely ghosts don't have any news, so they haven't brought me any feedback.

But this possibility is very slim, for what? Just like people living in the world, there are searching eyes everywhere, and the wall will inevitably have ears, as long as Lao Zhou's shocked soul does not stay in Zhang Yang's house, it is impossible to have no news, unless it is a coincidence, it can no longer be a coincidence.

But how many coincidences can be called miracles?

My face was ugly, and the tips of my fingers were a little cold, because of the heaviness and nervousness for the existence of lonely souls and wild ghosts, if the promised price was not enough, then it was not without other ways, that is, to use the magic technique, to invite the existence that they were afraid of, and forcibly ask for news, but in doing so, it would hurt the heavens and the peace, and what bad consequences would be there afterwards, no one could predict?

Although I was stunned, from the bottom of my bones, I still didn't want to do such a thing, not because I was afraid of the consequences, but because I felt unkind.

But someone is rational, it is destined to be emotional, I am rational on the surface, but the heart is very emotional, Lao Zhou is my brother, if it is for my brother, I can't take care of so much, it's a big deal I will bear all the results, and pay more to make up for my reasons afterwards.

I didn't think about what the price would be.

Thinking like this, I was going to cast the spell again, but at this time, the room suddenly became inexplicably cold, and a candle in the northeast corner began to be windless, and it tilted sharply in the direction of the water bowl

I was overjoyed in my heart, and quickly approached the water bowl, water can provide protection for the spirit, so it is easy to gather yin energy, in short, setting up a water bowl is like this, I can go over and communicate without constricting yang energy.

As for the candle, it has also fulfilled its mission honorably, telling me that there is finally an 'informed' guy here.

When I walked up to the bowl, it began to fluctuate slightly without vibration at all, indicating that the spirit had entered, and I quickly sat down cross-legged in front of the bowl.

I tried hard to communicate with the spirits in the bowl, but at this time, I didn't have a very good sense of spirituality, but it was an obstacle, and after a while, I barely sensed the existence of the spirits in the bowl, and it was still vague.

I vaguely knew that it was a female ghost, but the first thing I felt was not that it was trying to tell me anything, but that it was a state of panic, panic, and fear.

What is it afraid of? I'm a little crying and laughing, could it be that I'm looking for news from Lao Zhou, but I didn't find the news, but I found a female ghost seeking protection? But then, I don't know if this female ghost has a lot of mood swings, and the water bowl is also vibrating a lot.

In the midst of this, I felt a very obvious resentment, if this resentment is not resolved, I'm afraid there will be another ghost, right?

I frowned slightly, and wondered, what does this mean?

However, in the next moment, I finally communicated with it smoothly because of the spiritual sense, this communication still seemed a little vague, and I couldn't do a word-by-word conversation, but I could only feel its meaning, just the first sentence, it made my brows furrow deeper.

What it means is that the lonely ghosts of the whole city don't want to cause this trouble, and it has come to tell me that they want me to avenge it.

Avenge? What revenge? I conveyed my thoughts, because this kind of thing cannot be easily agreed to in any way, and if it asks me to kill someone, I cannot do it.

You just need to find out about it, and that's it, you're a cultivator, you're a person who learns the Tao, that's your responsibility. It's communicating with me, but it's inexplicable, saying what is my responsibility? Is it my responsibility to find out about it, or something else?

I have a lot of questions, but at this moment I feel that the female ghost seems to be very anxious and panicked, and the next moment, it communicates with me directly, to the effect that Lao Zhou's remnant soul knows the Tao and is in a doctor

But before it finished speaking, a terrible cat meow resounded inexplicably outside my window, this time not like a cat meow, but like a group of cats barking downstairs in Lao Zhou.

Although Lao Zhou lived on the 16th floor, the cat's meow was like in my ears, and my inexplicable hairs stood on end, and the female ghost screamed miserably, and the water in the water bowl fluctuated violently, and then I clearly felt that it was about to leave from the water bowl.

However, before that, it didn't finish its words. Doctor, doctor what? I suddenly took out the soul talisman in my coat pocket and wanted to say, since it is so scared, it is better for me to put it in the soul talisman and 'live' for the time being, so that I can get the news

And it didn't seem to want to leave, but before I could pinch my hand, I heard a more terrible cat meow again, but this cat meow was really audible, it was in the house.

Then I felt a strong fluctuation of the wind, and before I could react, I felt a pain in my face.

This kind of pain, but it's not the pain of my face really being scratched, it's a deeper pain, I broke out in a cold sweat all of a sudden, and the spell was forcibly interrupted, and I felt that the female ghost had left.

I opened my eyes suddenly, but I saw a black, indistinct presence in the corner of the wall, looking at me with an unusually cold gaze.