Chapter XXXIII. Regrettable ending

I told Master Lin that if I cooperated, I might be able to let you feel relieved, and although I might not be able to help you with civil liability, at least you wouldn't be confused because of this. Master Lin hesitated for a moment on the other end of the phone and asked me, "You are not a policeman, what are you doing?"

I told Master Lin that I was eating from the dead.

At first, Master Lin was reluctant to meet with me, so he finally agreed. It was already around 5 p.m., so I suggested that Master Yolin have dinner with him in the evening. Vice President Jiang knew that we were trying to find a way to solve the problem, so he said that he would invite us to eat a very delicious Maoxi dish in the neighborhood, and the location of this restaurant happened to be near the section of the road where Master Lin had an accident.

At 6 o'clock, Master Lin finally arrived. After a brief chat, Hu Zongren directly asked him about some basic information. Master Lin said that his car was attached to a transportation unit in Chongqing, and after the accident, he had been cooperating with the traffic police department in the investigation, so the compensation and other issues were handed over to the company to deal with. Because the shipping company tends to handle it more smoothly. And for more than half a year, I have been staying at home and doing nothing, and I will be tormented by the accident every day. After all, it's two lives.

Hu Zongren asked him if the rear-end collision accident was a trigger, then he had any other circumstances at that time, such as seeing something, except for the inability to move his hands and feet. Master Lin thought about it, then shook his head and said no, because it was noon, there were not many people in this time period, and people were prone to dozing at noon, so it may also be caused by his bad spirits, he said but he couldn't understand that he was a 20-year-old driver, and this situation was the first time he had encountered it. At the same time, he told us that there have always been some unwritten rules in their truck driver circle.

Master Lin said that because the carts are generally pulling goods, most of the time they have to drive night trains. After his car was attached to this company, the company happened to receive the business of slag removal for the expansion project of a large container terminal near Haier Road. In the driver's circle, there are often some strange sayings, such as driving at night and seeing someone waving on the side of the road for a hitchhiker, don't stop, and for example, if there is a car accident, even if you see something that you think can't be explained, you can't tell the truth, you can only admit bad luck. I asked him a little puzzled, what was this for? Master Lin told me that before him, many truck drivers had encountered some situations, that is, they hit a wall when they didn't know what the road was driving by, or they didn't see a pedestrian on the road, but they hit people, etc. I said, this is a kind of ghost hitting the wall, if there is a road thief or a road breaker in a place, this situation is indeed a common occurrence, but I don't understand why you have encountered such a thing, and you refuse to say it.

Master Lin smiled bitterly and said, who will believe it? Who are you talking to? Just like me this time, I don't know what the steering wheel is locked for, and I can't say what my hands and feet can't move but my feet are still stepping on the accelerator. I thought to myself, after all, our profession is too niche and too unpopular.

Master Lin said that when he overturned the car that day, his mind was blank, and it was not until the car had turned over and stopped that he climbed out of the cab and found that he was not injured, and he felt lucky. Master Lin told us that at that time, he didn't even know that the muck in his container had been dumped and buried two people. It wasn't until other passers-by around said that they had buried themselves that they knew about it, and they quickly called the police to help save people, but by the time 120 and the fire department arrived, the people were already dead, a man and a woman.

Hu Zongren and I probably arrived at Haier Road at noon, so I know that there are really not many people walking on the side of the road at noon, so in the case of such a small number of people, after the rollover caused by the rear-end collision, the muck just happened to be dumped on two pedestrians. If it were official custom, they would definitely say that this was a tragedy, a coincidence. But where did there be so many coincidences in the world, and Master Lin couldn't control himself to make some rescue measures after chasing the tail, Hu Zongren and I glanced at each other, and we understood in our hearts that there was no doubt that this was done by the ghost, I don't know if Lu Dao scared Master Lin, or controlled Master Lin's body, but Master Lin didn't see it.

Hu Zongren said to Master Lin, after the rear-end collision at that time, did you subconsciously want to control the direction and step on the brakes? Master Lin nodded and said of course, but no matter how hard he tried to grasp the steering wheel, the steering wheel just couldn't turn right, and it always shifted in the direction of the roadside. Hu Zongren asked again, then when you saw the car suddenly slow down, you also stepped on the brakes, right? Master Lin said yes, he had tried to slow down as much as possible when he hit the car. Hu Zongren said again, that place is uphill again, since you slowed down and hit the rear of someone else's car, at this time your car should be slower, even if the direction is locked, it will not overturn because of this uphill inertia.

Master Lin rubbed his eyes with both hands, shook his head helplessly and said, I don't know what to do, I'm panicking. After a few seconds, he added, but I hit the brakes when I was rear-end, and it stands to reason that I would have stopped the car at most after a short period of coasting, but I remember that my foot was lifted off the brake pad and put on the accelerator.

This quote from Master Lin caught my attention. I know that there is at least one foot between the brake plate and the accelerator pedal of the big car, so if Master Lin wants to lift his foot and put it on the accelerator, then he can't be ignorant of the road. So I told Master Lin, I said that this was just my speculation, considering that it was two people who died, so for the time being, I think that if it was two ghosts looking for a stand-in, these two ghosts must be holding your steering wheel and helping you move your feet.

Hu Zongren nodded, he naturally agreed with me. Then Hu Zongren seemed to suddenly think of something, he slapped the table and said, I know what the Tao is for!

We all looked at him, and Hu Zongren said to me excitedly, do you remember the video we watched before? I said that I should remember, and he said that the person who climbed out from under the truck was a black shadow, right? I'm right, what the hell are you trying to say. Hu Zongren said that although it was night, there were street lights, since the cameras at the entrance of the community can take a rough picture of people's facial features, there is no reason to shoot the ghost only a shadow, besides, the processed video is still a shadow, and you can obviously see the hands and feet, it is a human shape, don't you think of anything?

I thought about it seriously and suddenly understood. Because after Hu Zongren and I inspected Haier Road, we went back to the office and looked through a lot of car accidents, and finally felt that Master Lin's accident was very similar to the client's accident, and the two innocent passers-by in Master Lin's car accident were already stumps when they were dug up, according to the press release. It was an incomplete corpse.

You mean, is there a lack of spirit? Hu Zongren said, isn't it! This kind of death is unexpected, and it is fragmented after death, plus it was killed by ghosts, not what is lacking in spirit. So I quickly recalled in my mind some of the characteristics of the spiritual deficiency that the master had told me at the beginning, the spiritual deficiency is called "residual pockmarks" in the coastal area, and it is also called "broken ghosts" in the north, because he died unjustly, so the anger is heavier than other ghosts, so it is bound to harm people, this has nothing to do with whether to find a substitute or not, and the form in which the spiritual deficiency appears is often invisible to ordinary people, if it is a half-cut body when it dies, then it is also a half-cut body when it appears in the form of a spiritual deficiency, and it is a black mass. When I thought of this, I tried hard to recall the black shadow in the earlier video, although it could be recognized as a human form, but it was indeed missing something, which could only be seen by a layman like Vice President Jiang.

Fortunately, after the spirit lack in the video found a replacement for the dead ghost, he was also freed, so I don't have to bother to deal with it, because it will be really difficult for me to find someone who knows how to channel and is willing to lend his body to the spirit deficiency. But at the same time, new problems have also come out, even if we really solve the ghost of the vest man near Vice President Jiang's community, we can only artificially prevent the possibility of the vest man finding a replacement for the dead ghost again. But this can't solve the problem from the root, if you want to know the people who died on the road of the road, if you want to send them one by one, then I really don't know that the road will be busy until the year of the monkey. So I said to Hu Zongren, I have something to tell you when you come out.

So the two of us left the table and walked to the staircase outside. I told Hu Zongren about my worries, saying that even if we solve the problem this time, it will be a symptom rather than a cure. Vest men don't look for substitutes for dead ghosts, naturally there are other ghosts to find, but since they are looking for them on this road, it means that their death has a certain connection with this road, this road is so long, do you think this is something that the two of us can handle?

When I said this, I remembered the meaningful words of my traffic police buddy before he hung up the phone.

Hu Zongren also frowned and said, in fact, he also thought of this problem, he felt that it must still have something to do with the feng shui in this area, otherwise there would have been deaths on other roads but there were no dead people one after another like this road. I asked him what to do now, if we continue to do it, we will not be able to protect ourselves.

When I said this, I was a little weak-hearted. Hu Zongren thought about it and said that since he promised others, he would do it. At least we have to do what Vice President Jiang did, that is, to find the vest man, there have been no casualties since he died, so it should still be nearby. Although I am very reluctant in my heart, I still think that I must do what I can.

Hu Zongren and I made this decision reluctantly, and felt that we really shouldn't collect money this time, because even if we finish this matter, we can't guarantee that there will be similar situations in this area in the future. After returning to the banquet, I thanked Master Lin and casually found a reason to send him away, and before leaving, I told him that I would help him talk to my friends in the traffic police team about the situation and see if I could deal with it in a slightly reasonable way in terms of extrajustice. And told Vice President Jiang the results that Hu Zongren and I obtained.

Vice President Jiang obviously didn't expect it, and thought that we were going to escape, but I explained to him that because the area covered by this incident was too large, the two of us really couldn't get it. But I still promised to find the ghost of the vest man and send it away, and then do some side remedies to see if I can alleviate the situation.

I'm ashamed to say that this is also the only thing that has no beginning and no end after Hu Zongren and I joined forces. A few days later, we found the ghost of the man in the tank top in the middle of the night, and when we found it, it was looking for a new substitute. After Hu Zongren caught it, we did not treat it brutally, but sent him on his way. All this was seen by Vice President Jiang. In order to express his apologies to him, Hu Zongren specially invited Granny Huang, and on the opposite side of the community, at the small intersection that connects the primary school on the mountain, he found an inconspicuous place and laid a stone stake, which was painted red by Granny Huang and engraved with the words of Nanwu Amitabha.

Granny Huang said that this can only be kept temporarily, and there is no way to last long, when the color of the words on the stone is light, or the stone tablet is cracked, you have to find a master again.

Vice President Jiang is still reasonable, although we personally said that this trip does not cost money, and the matter has not been cleaned up, he still symbolically gave us some remuneration, saying that he may trouble us in the future. For a period of time after Hu Zongren and I went home, we paid close attention to the movements on this road. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the dead to happen again.

Therefore, the incident of Haier Lu replacing the dead ghost has been repeated every now and then, and I don't know when it will be the end. And just one week after that incident, I suddenly received a call with a northern Sichuan accent. I thought about it for a long time and still didn't remember the people I knew in these places, until the other party said to me on the phone, I thought you were all top experts, but you were still a group of self-conscious little babies.

The other party's tone changed, and I was a little puzzled. I asked him who you really were and what you meant by that. The other party sneered and said, young man, go crazy, but don't mess with the generations. You can't do all the little things, and you dare to claim to rely on your skills to eat.

You guys? This naturally refers to me and Hu Zongren. So I asked him, are you the one who will meet the heavens and the earth? He said, "We are the Xuanyuan Society." I said I don't care what you will, I tell you, I don't worship the same ancestor with you, and I'm not interested in your affairs, please raise your noble hand, don't call me again, I don't want to get in touch with you.

The other party hesitated for a few seconds and said, you are not in touch, but what about your friend? I asked him, what happened to Hu Zongren? He must have his own plans if he doesn't want to associate with you, and I, as a friend, support him unconditionally.

The other party snorted and said, yes? It seems that he doesn't have anything to tell you about this "good friend". What an upright partner, I don't want you to help me when I'm in trouble.

I was shocked, so I quickly asked him, what is the catastrophe coming? The other party put away the previous yin and yang weird tone and said, if you really treat him as a friend, persuade him to come to Chengdu to see me on August 15 of the Mid-Autumn Festival.