Chapter 19: The Last Commandment
The lights on the fifth floor of the library had to flicker every ten seconds, which made Yang Ni feel very upset. There are few people on the huge fifth floor of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info, and she sits quietly on the table next to the reading room writing homework. After a few days of consideration, she decided to return the medical expenses to Zheng Pei, so that she could erase the feeling of regret for him, so that she could forget about this person and complete her studies with peace of mind. But she never saw Zheng Pei's shadow, she was worried that he no longer came to this reading room to borrow books, and she didn't know which grade, which major, and which class he was from, should she keep thinking about him all the time?
Yang Ni didn't have the heart to write homework anymore at this time, she held her chin and looked at the night sky outside the window in a daze, and the pen in her hand drew circles back and forth on the homework book. Her thoughts lingered with a little starlight, from one to the next, one by one gradually connected into a line, she thought of her mother, thought of her brother, remembered her future, and her thoughts drifted farther and farther......
When Yang Ni suddenly woke up from her fantasy with a red face, her homework book was already full of circles, large and small, and to make matters worse, the page was the homework she had already written. Yang Ni pouted and tore off the entire page, so she had to patiently write the homework again.
However, Yang Ni stopped her pen and asked herself silently, can erasing the thoughts of a person be as simple as tearing paper?
Of course it won't be that simple. Ge Jinding had been jumping in place for an hour following the steps Zheng Pei had said, and he felt that his calves were about to cramp.
"Are you kid fooling me?" Ge Jinting gasped for breath.
"Nope!" Zheng Pei couldn't figure out what was wrong. He told Ge Jinyuan every step that Ba Niang taught him as it was, but he still jumped around like a piece of wood and didn't fly out half a meter.
"Forget it, forget it, it's useless for me to learn this thing anyway, don't learn it!" Ge Jinting finally gave up, and sat on the cold concrete floor, gasping for air.
"It shouldn't be." Zheng Pei meditated quietly, carefully felt the flow of air around his body, and silently recited the words that Ba Niang taught him in his heart. jumped up, and landed with both feet with a "pop". But to his great surprise, he only jumped in place for a while, and didn't move half a step.
Zheng Pei felt very embarrassed, he tried again, but he still landed on the spot for half a meter without moving.
"You don't believe I'm going to report it, do you?" Ge Jinting raised his eyebrows one high and one low, looking at Zheng Pei like a charlatan.
Zheng Pei also wondered, why didn't he work today after running all night that night? Maybe just ask Ba Niang.
"You hide first, I'll ask Ba Niang." Zheng Pei said to Ge Jining.
"Oh, where do you say you're hiding?" Ge Jinding got up from the ground with a bone, all the fatigue was gone, and his whole body was full of excitement.
Zheng Pei looked around, thought for a while, pointed to a big tree in the west and said, "It should be good up there, you go up and try it." ”
Ge Jinting didn't say a word, and trotted over. He used his hands and feet like a giant gecko, and it didn't take long for him to climb up.
"How?" Ge Jinding stepped on a relatively thick branch and asked Zheng Pei.
"Well, yes, I can't see you from the outside." Zheng Pei raised his head and said.
"Well, don't stand too far," Ge Jinting found a place for himself to sit, "and if you try to go as far as you can on the side where there are street lights, I can see a little more clearly." ”
"Well, I see, but don't look at it, be careful of falling off. If you can't fall to death like that, your mother will strangle you. Zheng Pei said half-seriously and half-jokingly.
"Oh, you can rest assured, we are the first in the management department, oops! I rub! Ge Jinding slid under his feet in the sitting position, startling him into a cold sweat, "Well, I'm fine, I'll still stand." ”
Zheng Pei saw that Ge Jinting was fine, and turned around and walked towards the guard room. When he pushed the door, he deliberately looked back and again, and found that there was no one on the tree in the dark, so he was relieved to enter the house.
"Uncle Zhang, haven't slept yet?" Zheng Pei saw Old Man Zhang sitting cross-legged on the bed reading the newspaper and said hello.
"Oh, go to sleep right away, what were you doing with that young man? Jumping around for exercise? Old man Zhang asked.
"Oh, that's my friend, who came to play with me." Zheng Pei smiled, "Who jumped higher just now, playing around." ”
"Haha, you boys, you are just energetic." Old man Zhang said to Zheng Pei with a smile.
Zheng Pei also smiled, took a flashlight, and said to Old Man Zhang: "Then Uncle Zhang, you rest, I'm going to patrol the building." ”
"Well, be careful yourself, don't fall." Old man Zhang flipped through a page of the newspaper and read it with relish.
Zheng Pei came out and closed the door, turned on the flashlight and shook it at the tree where Ge Jin's ingots were hidden, and then turned around and walked into the building. Compared to the past, he seemed a little eager to see Ba Niang today, to figure out why the spell didn't work.
As soon as Zheng Pei walked to the sixth floor, he found that Ba Niang was already sitting on the windowsill of the corridor. She didn't seem to notice that Zheng Pei was coming, and still stared blankly at the night sky.
"Ba Niang," Zheng Pei saw that Ba Niang didn't speak, so he could only take the initiative to say hello, "I'm here." ”
Ba Niang slowly turned her face to Zheng Pei, looked at him expressionlessly, and didn't say a word.
Zheng Pei was furious by Ba Niang's eyes, so he could only find a conversation as soon as possible. He subconsciously rubbed his palms and said, "The spell you taught me last time didn't work, it didn't work at all, why is that?" ”
"You're not even a beginner, and of course it's not going to work." Ba Niang came down from the windowsill and stood in front of Zheng Pei, "With your cultivation alone, even if you cast such a small spell, it is simply impossible." ”
"Then why did it work last time?" Zheng Pei asked suspiciously.
"Last time, it was because of my cultivation, although it wasn't that the effect of the real body was reduced by half, but such a simple small spell could still cope with it." Ba Niang replied.
"Then how can I exercise to have cultivation?" Zheng Pei asked.
Ba Niang smiled, "Exercising cultivation is not so simple, it is not something that can be learned by reading cheats in martial arts novels." Now your spirit, soul, and spirit have not been developed basically, and they are not as good as a sturdy ordinary person, let alone cultivate. Besides," Ba Niang's face was embarrassed, "You are not a disciple of my Yunba Sect, you have not gone through the altar ceremony, and the Heavenly Eye has not yet opened, how can you learn spells?" ”
Zheng Pei was very disappointed, it turned out that he was not even a layman now, and he thought that he could save the money for the ticket and often go home to see his mother, but now there is no hope at all.
Ba Niang saw that Zheng Pei was a little depressed, and said: "For the time being, you can borrow my cultivation and help me do something, and when the yin qi is at its peak on the night of the next fifteenth, we will go to see my Eminem." Maybe," Ba Niang sighed slightly, "Maybe Eminem will accept you as her apprentice." ”
"Next fifteenth, this Friday?" Zheng Pei suddenly ignited a glimmer of hope.
"Well, there's no rush on this matter, we still have a lot to do before that." Ba Niang replied.
"So what are you going to do tonight, is it to teach me spells?" Zheng Pei then asked.
"Yes, I'm going to teach you another spell tonight, and you're going to do something with me." Ba Niang said.
"Your cultivation is so powerful, why don't you just do it yourself?" Zheng Pei said the question that had been hidden in his heart.
"I don't have a spirit now, just a divine body maintained by the soul," a chill flashed in Ba Niang's eyes, but she immediately continued helplessly, "If I intervene in the things of the yang world, my existence will be dissolved until the divine body is gone, so I won't make a move unless I have to." ”
"What are those spirits?" Zheng Pei asked curiously.
"I'll teach you this later, and now I still have business to do." Ba Niang replied.
"Then let's hurry down, you can teach me spells." Zheng Pei thought about Ge Jinting and said to Ba Niang.
"That's not necessary, you can do it here." Ba Niang said. "It's just a body control technique, although it's simple, but you have to be proficient."
Zheng Pei thought silently about Ge Jinting in his heart, but Ba Niang couldn't go down, and he was helpless.
Ba Niang continued: "I'm going to see my son tonight, and I'm going to see him for the last time. But I have arranged some small magic weapons and prohibitions in his room before I died, although they are not very strong, but I can't enter them now, so I can only call him out by you when I go in. The Imperial Body Technique I am teaching you now is also aimed at these magic weapons and prohibitions, and you must be proficient in it. ”
"Are those artifacts and forbidden weapons dangerous?" Zheng Pei asked with some concern.
"They're mostly illusions, and they're not as lethal as props. You can rest assured of this, but it is not surprising that you can be careless, illusion, confusion, chaos, and persuasion, as long as you have one of these illusions, don't think about escaping, and then you will wait for the murderer to clean you up. Ba Niang said.
"Oh, okay, I got it." Zheng Pei was a little nervous, he didn't understand what these spells were at all now, but these spells already felt very troublesome just by listening to them.
Ba Niang saw Zheng Pei's worries, so she had to patiently say to him: "The Yunba Sect has always been good at spells, as long as you have the target's spiritual letter or even the spiritual guide, you can cast spells on the target thousands of miles away. But sometimes we need to capture or control the target alive before we can cast illusions through magic weapons or prohibitions. The so-called illusion, confusion, chaos, and persuasion are only primary illusion effects, and will not cause substantial damage to the target, but can trap the target in their own circular thinking, unable to act. So you don't need to be afraid, as long as you practice the Imperial Body Method as I said, plus I will tell you the location of the magic weapon and the prohibition, it will be very easy to crack. ”
"Can't you just make a phone call?" Zheng Pei asked.
"We have a habit of unplugging the phone line after 8 p.m." Ba Niang said.
"What about pagers? Does your son have a pager? Zheng Pei asked.
"No, I was going to give it to him as a birthday gift next month, but I didn't expect it to ......" Ba Niang frowned tightly and did not continue.
Seeing this, Zheng Pei knew that he had inadvertently asked about Ba Niang's sore spot, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Then you can teach me quickly, so that I can practice a few more times." ”
"This technique is called appendage, you remember the terminology first." Ba Niang said to Zheng Pei word by word: "The same unity, no heart, no life." ”
"Inherit the same unity, and there is no life without heart." Zheng Pei repeated to himself.
"Okay, now you breathe out of your mouth." Ba Niang made an exhalation motion.
"Whew~" Zheng Pei exhaled all the breath in his chest, but he didn't notice any change in himself.
But Ba Niang nodded, it seemed that Zheng Pei was doing a good job, "You can't be too anxious when you exhale, it must be even, so that the spiritual field arranged can be evenly strengthened and reach a level without weaknesses." ”
Zheng Pei reread the term and exhaled again. This time, he exhaled the gas evenly according to Ba Niang's guidance, but his body still did not change.
Seeing Zheng Pei looking at himself suspiciously, Ba Niang said, "You don't have a cultivation now, so the formation of the spiritual field has not yet taken shape." After speaking, she put a hand on Zheng Pei's shoulder and motioned for him to do it again.
Sure enough, with the help of Ba Niang's cultivation, Zheng Pei's exhaled breath immediately turned into a transparent film around him, although it didn't look very clear, but with the help of the moonlight, careful observation could still be found.
"Okay, this one is very simple, so it learns quickly." Ba Niang swiped her thumb horizontally on Zheng Pei's forehead, as if she had written a "one" word, "I have attached some spiritual power to your forehead, you can try it again yourself." ”
Zheng Pei silently recited the term and exhaled again. Although the film was not as obvious as it was just now, it could be felt that a protective layer had formed around him.
"Okay, since you already know, then let's go, I'll tell you the specific props and forbidden locations on the way." Ba Niang said.
"Hmm." Zheng Pei nodded, with this protective cover, he was already a lot more relieved. But he still has a layer of concern about those unknown spells, maybe if he is not careful, he will be hit, and finally dealt with by the murderer.
The worried Zheng Pei followed Ba Niang out of the building, and he turned on the flashlight and shook it seemingly inadvertently at the tree where Ge Jinting was hiding.
"What are you doing?" Ba Niang asked with a frown.
"Oh, I'm used to it, go out and turn on the flashlight." Zheng Pei turned off the flashlight, looking a little embarrassed.
Ba Niang sneered, but didn't say anything, turned around and continued to walk outside the gate.
Zheng Pei was laughed at by Ba Niang in a cold sweat, he sent a signal to Ge Jining, but I don't know if the other party saw it. Now he had to follow Ba Niang out of the door, and he secretly prayed in his heart that Ma Daha would not fall down.
Ba Niang suddenly reached out and grabbed Zheng Pei's wrist, this sudden movement and cold feeling startled Zheng Pei. But Ba Niang didn't look back at her, just a pause, and in an instant all the surrounding scenery turned into strips of light, flashing back sharply, Zheng Pei understood that this was Ba Niang using that magic method, he originally planned to find an excuse to let Ba Niang stop under the street lamp, so that Ge Jinting could see clearly, but now it seems that there is no chance at all. The surrounding light gradually returned to the appearance of the scene, and Ba Niang took Zheng Pei to stand still on the ground, and at this time they had arrived in a strange place. At least, this place is very unfamiliar to Zheng Pei.
"Where is this?" Zheng Pei asked. He looked around and saw that it was a residential complex, with buildings about five or six stories high surrounding an artificial lake, and a few houses with sporadic lights.
Ba Niang raised her hand and pointed to a building facing the two of them, and said, "Room 301 on the third floor of this building is our house, you go up and call Xiao Feng down." ”
"Xiao Feng?" Zheng Pei heard this name for the first time, "Is it your son?" ”
"Yes, it's my Ah Zai, Qian Xiaofeng." Ba Niang's answer contained a hint of nostalgia.
Zheng Pei nodded and was about to enter the building, but Ba Niang pressed his shoulder and slashed at his head. "When you go up to the third floor in a while, don't knock on the door first, and be sure to protect yourself with the scaling technique first. The first prohibition is on the door, and it is a persuasion spell, and if you touch the door, you will forget the purpose of your heart. The elimination method is to blow at each of the four corners of the door, and then slap the slap twice, do you remember? ”
"Remember, don't touch the door yet, blow at the four corners and slap twice." Zheng Pei repeated.
Ba Niang nodded and continued: "The second layer is a prop, I have applied blood sand on the inside of the doorknob, this is a spell, you will forget the common sense of how to enter the door if you touch it, even if you have a key, you will not use it." The method of elimination is to wipe the dust on the wall with your hands, and then wipe the dust on the door, and blow on it, so that you will not fall under the spell. ”
"Dust the walls and doors, blow and touch the doorknob." Zheng Pei repeated.
Ba Niang continued: "The third layer is a prohibition, using a magic spell, you must call my name "Ba Niang" when you call the door, don't call the wrong one, otherwise your facial features will all be useless." This forbidden Xiao Feng knows that if you call my name, he will come to open the door for you, remember not to call the wrong one. ”
Zheng Pei nodded, signaling Ba Niang that he remembered.
Ba Niang nodded, and Zhengse said: "The last one is a chaotic spell, which is arranged with my family's entrance mat." After stepping on the footpad, you must put your feet outside the door in turn to knock the soil on the soles of your shoes, and then stand on the feet before entering the house, otherwise the sensations of your torso and limbs will all be confused, and you will be paralyzed on the ground and unable to move. ”
Zheng Pei nodded, but he felt a little funny, "Ba Niang, you have arranged so many things, in case there are guests at home, won't it be troublesome?" ”
"These props and prohibitions won't take effect until after 10 p.m., so even guests won't be in trouble." A trace of helplessness flashed in Ba Niang's eyes, "Besides, after so many years, who will come to visit our mother?" ”
Zheng Pei knew that he was talking about Ba Niang's sore spot again, so he immediately changed the topic, "What if I accidentally fall for the ban and props?" ”
Ba Niang said with a serious expression: "You must keep in mind the scaling technique and cracking method taught to you, you can still run away if you commit the previous three ways, but if you commit one of the last ones, you will be caught, even I have no way to save you." ”
"Why not, why can't you just catch me and use the Divine Method?" Zheng Pei asked suspiciously.
"That's not called the Divine Practice, it's called the Wind Technique," Ba Niang seriously corrected Zheng Pei's statement, but sighed helplessly, "I have drawn a talisman on the door of my house, which can restrain any ghosts, and I can't walk into that building now." ”
"Oh, that's right." Zheng Pei was a little sympathetic to Ba Niang, after all, he also somewhat understood the feeling of not being able to go back to home, "Then leave it all to me, I'll call Xiao Feng down for you." ”
Looking at Zheng Pei's appearance of patting her chest, Ba Niang felt some comfort in her heart, and she carefully instructed Zheng Pei: "Use the scaling technique when you enter the building, remember every step of the solution, don't worry." ”
Zheng Pei smiled and nodded, he didn't think that Ba Niang was worried about him, she didn't think she was a female ghost, but more like a sister, this kind of intimacy also gave him a trace of warmth in his heart.
The corridor was pitch black, but it was not cold, which made Zheng Pei feel relieved. He didn't bother to look for the hallway light, so he turned on the flashlight directly. The light hit the white wall of the corridor, which made Zheng Pei, who was already familiar with the dark environment, feel dazzling. Zheng Pei, who was surrounded by a protective cover of the scaling technique, walked up to the third floor, 301 was on the right hand, there were no couplets or stickers on the door, and it looked unnatural to be bare. Zheng Pei proceeded one by one according to the elimination method taught to him by Ba Niang, and sure enough, he didn't encounter any trouble.
"Ba Niang!" Zheng Pei tapped on the door, and his aftermath echoed throughout the corridor. Zheng Pei put his ear to the door, and didn't seem to hear any movement inside. He had no choice but to pat the door again: "Ba Niang!" Ba Niang! ”
There was a "click" sound, the door lock was opened from the inside, Zheng Pei breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this child named Xiaofeng is at home. But the door only opened from the inside, and no one came out, Zheng Pei pushed the door open in confusion and found that the room was as dark as the outside. He remembered the last spell that Ba Niang said, so he shone his flashlight on the ground at the door, found the foot mat, stood up cautiously, and put his feet out of the door in turn, and then stood still with his feet again, and after confirming that nothing had happened, he took a step into the house.
"Xiao Feng? Xiao Feng, are you there? Zheng Pei asked in the room.
"Bang", the light in the living room was turned on, which startled Zheng Pei. But when he saw the young man with unkempt hair at the door of the small bedroom, he knew that this must be Xiao Feng.
"Are you Xiao Feng?" Zheng Pei asked, after all, this young man was not quite the same as Xiao Feng he imagined.
"Well, I'm Xiao Feng, who are you, how can you get in?" This unkempt hairy head of the same age as Zheng Pei also seemed to be surprised.
"It was Ba Niang who asked me to come to you, she wants to see you." Zheng Pei looked at this Xiao Feng carefully, thin as a bamboo pole, his face was sallow, the clothes on his body were like two pieces of cloth hanging casually, even if his hair was unkempt to the point of a pile of grass, but he couldn't cover his red and swollen eyes.
"Eminem?" Xiao Feng's red and swollen eyes suddenly brightened, and he immediately stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Pei's arm, "Where is Eminem?" Take me there. ”
Zheng Pei took Xiao Feng downstairs, and when he saw Ba Niang standing by the artificial lake, Xiao Feng left Zheng Pei and ran over desperately.
Zheng Pei didn't dare to look at it, although people and ghosts were sparse, but the scene of the mother and son getting together, just Xiao Feng's aggrieved cry tightened his heart. But speaking of which, Xiaofeng's child may be even more pitiful, after all, Zheng Pei's mother is still alive, as long as Zheng Pei works hard in the future and takes his mother over to live with him, there will be no more such differences. Xiao Feng is different, he will never have this opportunity again. Thinking of this, Zheng Pei looked back at Xiao Feng in Ba Niang's arms and sighed sympathetically.
Ba Niang and Xiao Feng chatted for most of the night, and Zheng Peiwan took a nap on the bench on the other side of the artificial lake. Zheng Pei suddenly felt that someone was pushing him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Xiao Feng, he got up and followed Xiao Feng to Ba Niang.
"Xiao Feng, you have to take care of yourself in the future, don't do stupid things." Ba Niang's voice trembled violently, she couldn't control her emotions at all, "You are also older this year, you have to learn to be independent, you have to learn to live away from home......" Ba Niang suddenly remembered something, Zhengse instructed Xiaofeng: "You have to study hard in the future, don't be with the people around your father, they are not good people, they will bring you badly, remember?" ”
Xiao Feng replied very vaguely, and he kept wiping his tears.
"Come, let Eminem hug it again......" Ba Niang held Xiao Feng tightly in her arms, and Zheng Pei felt sad for a while. After a while, Ba Niang let go of Xiao Feng, combed his unkempt hair with her hands, and wiped the tears from his face with her hands. Zheng Pei suddenly noticed that Ba Niang's hand that had wiped Xiao Feng's tears seemed to be burned, and Ba Niang's frowning brows also showed that she was enduring a sharp pain.
"Xiao Feng, you have to take care of yourself, you must be good." Ba Niang took two steps back and put her hand on Zheng Pei's shoulder, "Eminem is gone......"
Zheng Pei saw that the surrounding scenery turned into strips of light again, and he seemed to be able to hear Xiao Feng's reluctant cry......