The cigarette man used his skills to look at the top of the dark room to find an exit, but the result was very depressed and depressed, the cigarette man sat on the ground, holding a cigarette roll, and said "I can't get out" with a very flat expression.

The smoke man is the backbone of this team, his words are like a holy decree, he can't say it, that is, there is really no hope of life, everyone can only wait for death slowly in this dark and treacherous dark room, everyone inevitably loses confidence, like a deflated ball, listless and languishing on the ground. And only the fat man was unmoved, still staring at Yue'er's pretty and very haggard face in his arms, for fear that Yue'er would suddenly disappear.

The cigarette man took a strong puff of the cigarette on his mouth, then spit out the cigarette butt, walked up to the fat man, squatted down and said to him, "Let me see Yue'er." ”

The fat man raised his head a little smugly and looked at the cigarette man, who opened Yue'er's eyelids with his hand, then put the lower pulse again, then groped on the top of Yue'er's head, and finally pinched Yue'er's small mouth and looked at it. When the smoke man was observing Yue'er, his cold expression, which had been thunderous, had obviously changed very much, and his puzzled expression was mixed with a hint of surprise.

The fat man quietly watched as the smoke man finished the examination of Yue'er, and then asked in a hoarse voice, "Why is Yue'er unconscious?" Will her life be in danger if she continues like this? ”

The smoke man looked at Yue'er, who was sleeping quietly, and said: "This is the first time I have encountered this situation, she has not suffered any trauma, nor has she been poisoned, she seems to have fallen asleep very naturally, a bit like the situation of losing her soul, but I don't see the specific reason." ”

When the fat man heard the cigarette man say that he couldn't see why Yue'er was unconscious, he couldn't help but ask with some anxiety: "Will Yue'er wake up then?" ”

The smoke man saw the fat man's suddenly haggard and worried face, and replied with some reluctance: "Some people will wake up suddenly without warning after many years of sleep, and some people will never wake up again." ”

After listening to the smoke man's conclusion, the fat man's face became even paler, and his sadness, sadness, guilt, and self-blame suddenly came to his heart, and his heart seemed to be mixed together, and he suddenly felt that his heart was stuffy and painful, and he couldn't help but spray a mouthful of blood directly on the opposite wall, and then his head hung weakly on Yue'er's chest and fainted.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of the fat man, which made the third child lying next to him really scared, the fat man he knew was mixed and irritable, except for eating, he didn't seem to care about other things, I didn't expect him to be so affectionate to the woman in front of him, and it suddenly subverted the first impression of the fat man before the third child. The third child reluctantly got up from the ground at this time, supported his waist with his hands, and slowly moved to the front of Yue'er, then turned on the flashlight taken out of the bag, opened Yue'er's eyelids and looked at it carefully.

The monkey saw that the fat man who vomited blood hung his head and was unconscious, so he sat aside to support the fat man's body to prevent the fat man from falling, he looked at the busy third child, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Little third master, do you know medical skills?" Will you see a doctor? ”

The fat man slowly woke up at this time, he heard the monkey's words, stared at the third child expressionlessly, the third ignored the monkey's question, continued to open Yue'er's other eyelid, carefully checked for a long time, and then gently put his hand on Yue'er's pulse, closed his eyes and quietly diagnosed for a while, he turned around and said to the monkey: "Although I don't know medical skills, I know evil arts." ”

When the monkey heard the words of the third child, he grew his mouth in surprise and asked admiringly: "Little third master, do you know evil arts?" ”

Seeing the monkey's surprised and admiring expression, the third child smiled very proudly and said, "I know a little bit about it." ”

The fat man heard the conversation between the two, and hurriedly asked the third child: "Could it be that Yue'er fell asleep because of the evil arts?" So what do you see the doorway for? ”

When the third child heard the fat man ask him, he turned his head to look at Yue'er, and then said slowly to the fat man, "In ancient times, the art of witchcraft has existed, from the Shundi tribe, and was later divided into two branches: "witchcraft" and "Gu magic".

Witchcraft is a method of influencing and controlling people and things with the help of supernatural mysterious powers, and the dance postures and lyrics of the "dancing gods" in the local opera of Northeast China are based on the evolution of the "séance rituals" and "spells" of witchcraft.

In the "Sayings", it is said: "Wu, Wu Zhu also, the woman can see the invisible, and the one who spawns the gods with dancing is also." Whoever can do things to the gods. In women, it is called witch, and in men, it is called witch. This means that in ancient times, the people who practiced witchcraft were called "witches" for women and "sorcerers" for men, and they were the mediators between the heavens, the earth, the ghosts and gods and the human beings.

In ancient times, witchcraft was mostly used to pray for blessings, pray for rain and add blessings, find objects to summon spirits, drive away ghosts and other acts of helping people. For example, when it doesn't rain during a drought, people will sacrifice and pray for rain from the dragon king, and if the dragon king still refuses to rain, people will invite a wizard to chant spells and cast spells to force the dragon king to rain, which is nothing more than carrying the dragon king's clay sculpture through the streets, exposing the dragon king and so on.

Witchcraft also has a powerful function, that is, to cast spells to make people who have no feelings fall in love with each other, so that infertile women can become pregnant, and to achieve the desire to promote the marriage and add Ding to enter the door. The "conjuring spirits" are mostly children who are frightened or suddenly delirious, and their families will think that their souls are out of the body and lost, so they will take a brass basin and an adult's shoes, and then write a "soul gathering code" with yellow talismans, go to the outskirts of the village, burn yellow talismans in the copper basin, and then knock on the edge of the basin with their shoes, while calling out the child's name to summon spirits. There are also animals and plants used as mediums to summon spirits, such as piglets, cattle and grains, and the different mediums are mostly related to the local customs of the people of various ethnic groups.

Later, due to natural selection, people's ambitions became greater, and witchcraft became a tool of terror for self-interest. In order to eradicate their opponents, some people will use witchcraft, tying straw into human shapes, or wood-carved puppets, writing the eight characters of the victim's generation, and performing needle pricking and burning and flooding after reciting spells, so that people die; There is also the collection of victimized hair, fingernails, or close objects, and casting spells to harm others. In the past, in the Northeast, there was a way of "steaming cat curse", that is, the name and birth date of the person to be harmed were written on a piece of yellow rune paper, and then put it into the cage with a caught wild cat to steam, the wild cat struggled and screamed in the cage drawer, and the spellcaster would recite a curse to curse the victim and the fate of the wild cat.

The most terrifying thing is the witchcraft of spiritualism, which can manipulate the consciousness of the living and the souls of the dead. Manipulating the living is the "head lowering technique", derived from Thailand, is to use spells and spells to directly spell the living, especially the "love spell", the curse is driven by the subconscious, until the death becomes a ghost, will still love the curse of the person, the person who is stalking the curse until the other party dies before free. There is also the witchcraft of manipulating the souls of the dead, that is, "raising little ghosts", within seven days of the child's death, using charms to control his soul, raising it in an urn or a small coffin, usually offering melons and fruits fragrant soup, and sacrificing with his own blood at four o'clock and eight festivals. Most of the people who raise ghosts go astray, and engage in gambling and fraud for fame and profit, the stronger the ability of the ghosts, the more vicious the consequences of the backlash, and the owners will rarely die well in the end, because it is the most damaging to yin morality. Ordinary people can practice this technique through the guò secret method, and the strength of the little ghosts raised has nothing to do with the depth of the cultivator's Taoism. True authentic Taoist warlocks will practice authentic Maoshan magic, and will never come into contact with this kind of vicious witchcraft.

And "Gu art" is a kind of witchcraft that drives Gu worms through guò, which was widely popular among the Miao people in ancient times, and most of the Gu collectors are women, and there are still a few people who are serving Gu worms. Liu Nan's "Miao Huang Xiaoji" said: "Miao's Gu poison is terrifying, and its Gu release does not need special food. Those who use food, and those who use Gu are also. The meaning of this passage is that the Gu poison of the Miao people is very powerful, and when the Gu poison is released, it is not necessary to deliberately put it into the food, the gas that the practitioner usually breathes, or an inadvertent eye, can lightly poison the victim; And putting Gu poison in food to harm others is completely the lowest level of unskilled means.

There are also many ways to raise Gu, such as "Hundred Day Worms", which is to take hundreds of poisonous insects into the urn and bury them under the soil. Later, because this method was very time-consuming and labor-intensive, it was simplified from complexity, and more than a dozen kinds of highly poisonous snakes and insects were selected, sealed in the "furnace altar", and then taken out after being buried in the ground for forty-nine days, which could also become Gu poison. There are also poisonous insects that are dried and ground into powder in the Dragon Boat Festival, offered in front of the plague god, and become Gu for a long time, and put them in people's diets, so that the victims are poisoned and die without knowing it.

But all the homes that serve Gu worms are spotless, and they will never see spider webs on the eaves of the roof, because all the insects will stay away from the highly poisonous Gu worms.

And people who have been poisoned by Gu are generally either swollen in their throat and unable to swallow, or their faces are yellow and their eyes are thin, or their limbs are numb and their chest and abdomen are swollen, and most of the symptoms vary greatly from Gu to Gu, and the only constant common denominator is that there is only a black line standing in the middle of the white eyes and eyes. The treatment methods are also different, if it is suspected to be a simple food poison, you can probe the silver needle as if it is in the mouth to test the poison, check whether the silver needle is black, and then stuff the duck protein or goose protein into the mouth to pull out the poison; After taking the poisoned person to not eat for a few days, put the dish with sesame oil next to the head of the Gu person, heat it to lure out the Gu worms, and then pour decoction for detoxification, and the treatment methods are different depending on the Gu poison in it. ”

The fat man and the monkey sat next to the third child and listened to it very well, and the monkey couldn't help but say: "The little third master knows so much and such a powerful witchcraft, it seems that I still worship you as a teacher and learn the art of "five ghosts and fortune", and then I will have no worries about food, clothing, sleep and food." ”

When the third child heard the monkey's words, he squinted his eyes slightly, stared at the monkey with some mockery and said, "Just now you still wanted to learn kung fu from my eldest brother, why did you change your position so quickly now." You can't even stand the pain of learning kung fu, how can you learn this witchcraft that costs people's lives, I think you should give up as soon as possible. Besides, I don't know how to cast witchcraft, I only know a little about the skin. ”

Hearing that the third child didn't know how to use witchcraft, the fat man couldn't sit still all of a sudden, and hurriedly asked the third child: "Then have you seen what happened to Yue'er's coma?" Is it related to witchcraft? ”