"A talisman, to be exact." Li Yang was not too surprised, and his tone was flat.

"What's written on it?" I swallowed and asked.

The doll full of pins has black jade and yellow talismans hidden in its belly, how terrifying these things look at. To tell the truth, this is Li Yangzai, if I were alone, I wouldn't dare to look at it again.

He pointed to the top word on the talisman and said, "This is the edict." Then he pointed to the following words: "Order." ”

I pointed to the third word: "Ghost?" ”

"No, it's Kui." He said: "You see, there is a 'bucket' hidden here. ”

The words below are even more difficult to distinguish, even Li Yang can't pronounce them, many strokes are sticky and twisted, it seems that many words are written together, which looks plausible.

"There is something interesting to these words." He pointed it out to me.

These words are written at the bottom of the talisman, the word is as small as a fly's head, it is commendable that each word is clearly visible, written neatly and beautifully, it is a rare masterpiece of official calligraphy, and the words above the ghost draw the same character in stark contrast.

I read slowly: "Filthy Demon Heavenless, Li......"

Li Yang snorted and laughed: "Lao Liu, you should really supplement your knowledge of Chinese culture." First of all, ancient poetry is not read in this way, it is read in order from right to left, top to bottom. In addition, this traditional Chinese character does not pronounce Li, pronounce 'dust', dust of dust. The top eight words should be read like this: Heaven and earth are endless, demonic and filthy. ”

I smiled awkwardly, "What does that mean?" ”

"I don't know what to do." Li Yang shook his head and frowned: "It's a little evil." He pulled open the drawer and pulled out a magnifying glass.

Damn, this kid has a lot of equipment.

I stood behind him, I didn't dare to breathe, read the poem below word by word through the magnifying glass, and read slowly: "The head of the dog holds the bow in his hand, and the black horse and white hooves are as fast as the wind." The white lotus fell into the dust, and the ghost followed me into the underground palace......"

The Yin Soul will follow me into the dungeon?! My hairs stood on end.

There are four more sentences below, which may be that the water is wet and you can't see clearly. Li Yang pistled his chin and stared at the first four lines of the poem very attentively. I didn't dare to disturb his thoughts, so I asked for a long time, "Do you see what these four sentences mean?" ”

"I don't understand it, but I can roughly make a guess."

"Tell me about it."

He didn't answer me, but got up and went to the bookshelf, looking carefully for books one by one.

"Hmm...... In this. He pulled a book out of the shelf, quickly flipped to a page, and handed it to me.

I looked at him hesitantly and took the book. It was an ancient book with a yellow glow of time, and the paper was a little broken, and I carefully held it in my hand, for fear that the pages would fall apart if I tried a little hard.

On the page that is opened, there is an ancient painting drawn in black and white, and the subject of the painting is a person. The lines are sketchy, but they are vivid and lifelike.

The person on the painting, to be precise, is a half-man and half-beast, it has sheep's hooves, holds a sharp fork in its hand, and is dressed in animal skins, and the most terrifying thing is that it is not a human head on its neck, but an unusually hideous dog face, especially the pair of dog eyes, outlined by Danqing, lightly, depicting a cruel gaze that sees through the world is extremely expressive.

"What is this?" I was completely shocked and speechless by such an ancient painting.

"This is a description of the ghosts in the underworld in Taoist classics." Li Yang said.

"What the hell?"

"It's a bit like a bull's head and a horse's face, black and white are impermanent. In Western mythology, there are also underworld watchdogs at the gates of hell. Each myth about hell has a different origin and system, so the image of the oni is also different. ”

"Lao Liu, look, the first sentence of the dog head is holding a ......bow," he said, "Could it be that it is about the ghosts of the underworld?" ”

"What about the second sentence?" I asked.

“…… The black horse's white hooves are as fast as the wind. He scratched his head: "Could it be to describe the process of the soul going to hell after death?" Hades let you die on the third watch, and no one dared to stay until the fifth watch. The process of death is like a fast horse, a green smoke. ”

"Okay." I admit it's a bit far-fetched: "What about the third sentence? The white lotus splashes in the dust. ”

"Lao Liu, do you know that there was a very evil organization in our country in ancient times, which was related to the White Lotus......

I waved my hand: "Don't say it, it's unspeakable." We looked at each other and smiled.

This organization related to White Lotus is the same as the case I told Brother Peng about the child hanging upside down the day before yesterday.

"What about the fourth sentence?"

"That's easier to understand." Li Yang took the talisman thoughtfully: "Lao Liu, the main question now is not to discuss what is the use of these talismans and jade plates, but where did Lin Xia get these things." ”

That's right. I scratched my head, this voodoo doll is too mysterious and weird, and the things hidden in it are not something that ordinary people can get, unless there is a superior person to help them.

Li Yang suddenly looked straight at me, I was looked at by him, and stretched out his hand to shake it in front of his eyes.

He came back to his senses from his contemplation: "Old Liu, we must go to Lin Xia's residence to explore. ”

I hurriedly waved my hand: "You can pull it down." We didn't have the key, so if we asked Sister Liu for it, she couldn't give it. How do you get in? Besides, if there are any clues in there, don't talk nonsense. ”

"I have a way to get in quietly, and I won't force you if you don't want to go."

He sat down, took out his phone, flipped out a number, and dialed it directly. The conversation was very brief, but for a minute, I heard Li Yang say, "You come here, bring your tools." ”

Who could that be? It's late at night, and he can call him with no difficulty. I remembered the experience of peeping into Lin Xia's room from the window, and that residence was indeed indescribably gloomy and dead.

The rest of the time we just waited patiently, he was half lying on the bed, and I was sitting on the couch, and I was alone with a book and smoking a cigarette to read.

These books of his are by no means suitable for passing the time, they are all metaphysical, and people who are good can see constipation. I looked at it for a while, bored, put the book aside, and looked up at the sword hanging on the wall.

"What kind of sword is this?"

He knocked the cigarette ash, got off the bed, picked the red sword, and threw it over. The sword was slender and long, and it looked quite imposing, and the head of the sword pointed straight at me, and I was startled: "Damn, don't be kidding." "Get out of the way.

The sword fell on the sofa, soft, and I saw that it was a sword made of wood.

As soon as I stretched out my hand, I copied it in my hand and pulled a sword flower: "How about it, I feel a little like a Taoist priest." ”

Li Yang sat on the bed and said, "This is a peach wood sword used by Taoist priests. It was given to him many years ago by a traveling master when my father went to the countryside. ”

"Oh? So good? I said.

"It's kind of interesting to say. At that time, the production team had to send a few people up the mountain to dig earth, including my father. The six of them went to the Stone Mountain, where it is said that there was not even a single grass to be seen, and the mountains were full of stones. Their daily task is to make large and small stones, and every half a month, the youth point will send a carriage to pull them away. One day, while they were fighting, there was a guy on their team nicknamed Fist, who dug up something strange. Everyone gathered around to take a look, and a corner of a red quilt was revealed in the cracks of several large stones. The quilt had been buried for a long time, had faded badly, and looked dirty. At that time, it was also just in time for the beginning of winter, and it was getting colder and colder day by day, and people were taught not to believe in gods and ghosts at all, so they felt that digging out this quilt was at least a tool to keep out the cold. ”

"And then?" I could hear it.

Several of them dug with shovels and prying, and finally removed the big stones, revealing the whole picture of the quilt. The red quilt was actually rolled into a bucket shape, and a person was wrapped in the middle, and the black hair of that person was scattered all over......"

I gasped: "It's a woman? ”

"Hehe, yes. This woman has black hair and is naked, and she looks like a beautiful person. I don't know what year and month I buried it here. Everyone felt bad luck and was going to dig the pit again to bury it, but who knew that the fist of Lu Dao was lost, and he went back to the shack with the female corpse in his arms, and told everyone, I was bold enough to sleep all night with my arms in my arms, and I will bury it tomorrow. Everyone is a young man in his twenties, and when he sees such a naked beauty, he is also a little tempted, so he doesn't say anything. The next morning, there were six people in the house, all of whom had a fever and a cold, and they had red measles all over their bodies. After taking anti-inflammatory tablets to burn, it didn't work, and they burned one by one, and they were about to die silently on the mountain. At this time, a wandering Taoist priest came out of nowhere. ”

"Saved your dad and them?" I say.

"Yes. At that time, Taoist monks were the targets of severe crackdowns, and that Taoist priest, according to my father, was dressed in a clean Taoist robe, with his hair tied in a bun and walking in the clouds, and holding a whisk in his hand. Not to mention anything else, it is definitely not easy for him to wear this robe to walk the red land of the motherland. The Taoist priest said, "My father, they have been poisoned by corpses." Left the pills and this peachwood sword, and they also divine, they hung the peachwood sword in the shed, ate those pills, and the burn immediately retreated. ”

"What about the female corpse?" I'm more concerned about this.

"Let the Taoist priest take it away, I don't know where to go."

I sighed: "This Taoist priest is a heavy taste. ”

Li Yang smiled: "Don't talk nonsense, Taoist priests have the virtue of a good life, and they will never leave such an evil thing to harm the world, maybe they will be burned." ”

I gently stroked the long sword in my hand: "I didn't expect this thing to have such a legendary origin." ”

"As soon as I moved in, I felt that something was wrong here, the yin qi was too strong, so I hung this sword on the wall to suppress evil spirits." He said.

I thought for a moment: "Li Yang, have you ever thought of this possibility?" It's because you hang your sword to ward off evil spirits that you can't find the secret of this building for a long time. ”

"Oh? How? ”

"This building is overly gloomy, and I think the most gloomy place is on the top floor and the rooftop. You hang such a sword, and the yin qi is all around you, where can you find it? ”

Li Yang touched his chin: "Makes sense." He jumped out of bed, pulled out a rattan box from under the bed, and locked the mahogany sword into the box.

I was joking, and I was about to say that I was joking with you. At this moment, there was a knock on the outside door.

Li Yang looked at his watch: "It's almost, it's fast." He's coming. ”

"Who?" I asked.

"Someone who can let us enter Lin Xia's room quietly." Li Yang smiled evilly.