Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Gathering of Corpses
It turns out that Director Liu is the Chinese teacher who Xiaoyu said before that he knows Tujia dialect!
"What did you do with Xiaoyu!" Seeing Director Liu's indifferent look, Xie Xiaolou became a little nervous......
"You don't need to look like you're facing a great enemy," Director Liu waved his hand indifferently, "Don't you want to know what happened?" ”
"If I'm not mistaken," Long Yan said from the side, "the corpse chaser should be the old lady of the Xie family, and the corpse leader is ...... can't be."
Although he had the answer in his heart, he hesitated whether to say it or not.
"That's it...... Xiaoyu ......" It was Xie Xiaolou who spoke, although it was only a short sentence, but it seemed to have exhausted all the strength of his body, "Xiaoyu, she, do you know?" “
"Yes, she's always known." Director Liu nodded.
"But that's not right, didn't you grow up watching Xiaoyu since you were a child?" Long Yan only played with Xie Xiaolou in high school, so he only saw Xiaoyu occasionally, and he was not sensitive to changes in appearance.
This is also what Xie Xiaolou doesn't understand, he has the impression that he has taken his sister since he was sensible and watched his sister grow up day by day.
"I don't understand either."
"Then how do you conclude that it's Xiaoyu?" Long Yan asked.
"Intuition." Xie Xiaolou realized at this time that the uneasiness in his heart was to regard the little girl in the story as Xie Xiaoyu, because what happened tonight originated from Xie Xiaoyu, which made people unconsciously associate all the weird things with her.
Director Liu smiled: "You guessed right, but as for why you can watch Xiaoyu grow up, I don't know, maybe only Xiaoyu knows." ”
Xie Xiaolou was silent, with mixed feelings in his heart, he realized why Xiaoyu had that kind of expression when he said that he was going to Fengxiang Company, it should be that Xiaoyu felt the corpse qi emitted by Fengxiang Company, and knew that Fengxiang Company was weird, so he didn't want to take risks himself.
If it had been placed in the past, Xie Xiaolou would not have believed it, but the experience of the past two months has made him feel that anything shocking in the world has been taken for granted. But the fact that my sister, who has lived with me for 18 years, turned out to be a century-old corpse, even if I was prepared, it was difficult for me to accept it for a while.
"Xiaoyu was taken away by the dormitory manager?" Long Yan suddenly remembered that the dormitory manager had mentioned that he had learned the ghost raising technique from Director Liu.
"Hehe," Director Liu shook his head with a smile, "You look up to her too much, I taught her the ghost raising technique just on a whim, when I first came into contact with this spell, I didn't dare to try it easily, so I found a replacement first." "It turned out that the dormitory manager inadvertently became a substitute for Director Liu, but fortunately, the process of raising ghosts went relatively smoothly, and he was not eaten by the female ghost's yin qi.
"How could she be the opponent of this corpse leader, and then she called me for help, and I found out that you were here, so I asked her to lure you over."
The two were shocked, it turned out that Director Liu deliberately asked the dormitory manager to lure them here.
"What is your purpose in doing this to us?" Xie Xiaolou asked in a deep voice.
"Actually, the story just now is still a little unfinished." Director Liu ignored Xie Xiaolou and said to himself, "The corpse chaser, that is, your grandfather, although the soul here is sealed on Xie Xiaoyu's body, but the corpses here are like a mountain, and the anger is soaring, so your grandfather later found someone to repair two stone lions at the gate, and arranged this place into a natural 'corpse coffin' with the method of controlling corpses." “
The corpse coffin is originally a method used to gather corpse gas in alchemy, seal the corpse in the coffin, put it in the place where the corpse is raised to absorb the essence of Taiyin, and place the deterrent thing around the coffin, the shock thing is generally based on the stone lion, the ancient people believed that the stone lion can exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits, so it was first used to guard the mausoleum, and later was used by the corpse refiner to suppress the corpse gas before the corpse coffin, so that one is to prevent the corpse gas from being exposed and produce the plague, and the other is to prevent the corpse gas from changing and becoming evil.
"No wonder I didn't feel the corpse outside, it turned out that I was stopped by the lion at the door." Xie Xiaolou thought of the stone lion at the door, "But until now, I haven't figured out what this has to do with Xiaoyu." ”
"In addition to the corpse coffin, it is also a corpse array. The corpse gas has not dispersed for a long time, and the corpse does not decay, this situation has lasted for more than sixty years, and I am afraid that if I absorb the moonlight every day, it will become evil in a few years, and the collective corpse will change. Director Liu looked at the inexplicable expressions of the two and said, "And Xiaoyu is the eye of this formation!" ”
"You're not here to deal with us?" Long Yan exclaimed, there were too many things beyond his imagination tonight, and it would be difficult to accept it for a while.
Director Liu nodded: "I want to explain the situation to you clearly, so as not to cause you bad things." Only when the eyes of the formation were broken and the souls returned to their places could they be reborn. ”
"So you were testing us down there?" Long Yan asked.
"Yes, you can subdue the dormitory manager and the female ghost, I want to see how good you are." Director Liu replied.
Xie Xiaolou asked, "What is the result?" ”
Director Liu stared at him and said, "I originally thought that you had abandoned the corpse scripture, but it turned out that you kid still has some skills, so I didn't want to clash with you head-on, so I decided to explain the situation clearly with you." ”
"So," Xie Xiaolou's face turned cold, "To destroy the formation means to kill Xiaoyu?" ”
Director Liu looked at his expression and had already guessed a little: "You don't want a mouthful of a little rain, she is just the eye of this formation, and she is a corpse leader with infinite strength." ”
"Maybe you think so, but in my opinion, she is my sister, and as an older brother, I will not let anyone hurt her." Xie Xiaolou said slowly.
"What do you say? If you don't break this corpse gathering array, wait for a few years for the corpse to turn bad, and more than 100 people will change at the same time, what will you do then? Long Yan felt that Xie Xiaolou must have short-circuited his head.
"Xiaoyu is my sister, and she will always be my sister." Xie Xiaolou still insisted on his position.
"It's your sister!" Long Yan really wanted to shoot this unenlightened guy with one shot.
Seeing that Xie Xiaolou actually had such an attitude, Director Liu sighed: "I didn't expect Xiaoyou to be a person who values love and righteousness, but at the moment of righteousness, you should think about other people." ”
"Don't deal with me with these high-sounding words, are you not selfish in doing so?" Xie Xiaolou asked rhetorically.
Director Liu was originally a wizard in Xiangxi, during the WG he was raided home, his parents were criticized to death, only he regained the rest of his life, and later went to the countryside to be a young man, after the reform and opening up, he was assigned back to his hometown, and became a Chinese teacher in the city No. 1 Middle School, after all these years of hard work, plus he knows some witchcraft, and finally climbed to the position of the director of the teaching office, and now with the deputy director-level establishment every day is very easy to commute, and parents will come to ask for their own things from time to time, most of the teachers in the school also respect him, He didn't want to suddenly erupt and ruin this beautiful life.
"My selfish desire is to maintain my normal life." Director Liu is not lying.
"To satisfy your selfishness, you have to sacrifice my family?" Xie Xiaolou asked sharply.
"You kid, you can't make sense." Director Liu looked helpless, "She's not your sister, she's a corpse." ”
"What the hell, I still have to see Xiaoyu first." Xie Xiaolou said firmly.
"Brother, thank you for taking care of you over the years." Suddenly, out of thin air, I remembered a crisp female voice, echoing in Xie Xiaolou's ears.
"Xiaoyu, where are you?" When Xie Xiaolou heard his sister's voice, he became excited and looked around.
"You don't have to look for me, I just want to tell you that what Director Liu said was also my own decision. I am already a dead person, it is your Xie family that has allowed me to live for more than sixty years, I am already very satisfied, and now, it is time to end. Xie Xiaoyu's voice came faintly.
"This building is full of corpse qi, and Xiaoyu is using corpse qi to transmit sound." Director Liu explained to the two, "You also heard it, so you don't need to go to her." ”
"Xie Xiaoyu," Xie Xiaolou suddenly turned his head to stare at Long Yan, "Is it also your sister?" ”
Long Yan stared at Xie Xiaolou's blazing pupils, remembering the conversation in the stairwell before, he who was hesitant suddenly became firm: "Yes, it's also my sister!" ”
Xie Xiaolou grinned and laughed happily.
"Good brother, let's go see Xiaoyu together!"