Chapter 65. Case 11: Unload the equipment
From everyone's screams, I knew that everyone present had seen the old woman. They screamed in panic, and I started to get very upset. Hu Zongren shouted, you all shut up for me, if anyone is afraid, hide to the side! As soon as he finished saying this, a group of men and women began to scramble to squeeze into the corner, where Hu Zongren and I had first sit. Among the many people, only Store Manager Xie retreated a little slower, after all, he is a leader, even if he is a woman, he has to preside over the overall situation, and the other is Xiao Tian, Xiao Tian just took a step back with a slight resistance, but he stood still and did not move, these two people are much stronger in the eyes of me and Hu Zongren, and the bunch of men and women who are crowded in the corner to hold the games.
Hu Zongren turned his head and continued to look at the old woman, she was still in the same position as before, her eyes were still looking at me and Hu Zongren, everything in front of her did not change her state in any way, but the way she looked at us made me feel quite uncomfortable. This is not the first time I have been stared at by a ghost like this, when I was learning art in my early years, my master told me that if a ghost stares at a person and does not shift its gaze, then it is most likely to have the following three situations, one is that it has something to say to you, but it doesn't know where to start, or even forgets the way to express it. The second is that it is demonstrating to you, staring at your every move, telling you that if you get closer, I will kill you, this situation basically appears in the ghost knows what we do, and knows the fundamental purpose of our appearance in front of it, which can barely be regarded as thinking of self-preservation. The latter one sounds chilling, and that's when it analyzes which part of your body is the most vulnerable, and once it has the result, it attacks.
Of course I don't want it to be the third, and although I've always respected the old and loved the young, if the old woman really pounced, I still had a way to subdue it. Anyway, her appearance does look the same as we heard before, at least a person in her 70s, unless such a ghost has been killed by a great grievance, causing resentment to linger, I can still be afraid of a few points, and most of the rest of the persuasion will quietly follow. And the second possibility is relatively small, the previous fake Taoist priest is a proof, if you want to attack, that Taoist priest may not be able to walk downstairs. Besides, Hu Zongren and I were ordered to be in danger, and Store Manager Xie didn't think that he would call the two of us before, so this old woman shouldn't know what we do, let alone what our intentions are, unless it also has the ability to distinguish occupations according to uniforms, but I don't think that's possible. So it was only the first case, and even then, I didn't tell from the look on its face that it wanted to talk to us, but more like it was unhappy that so many of us were looking at her.
But one thing I know for sure is that this ghost doesn't have much of a grudge, as the previous compass reaction has told me, that she must be here for some other reason than to harm someone here. I asked Hu Zongren in a low voice, what should I do now, Hu Zongren didn't look back, just stretched out his palm down to me and pressed it a few times, meaning you don't make a noise I'm thinking or something. So I took advantage of this gap and looked at the compass in my hand again, the reaction on the compass was not violent, but it was a little stronger than when I checked the seat at first, which proved that when I checked the seat, in fact, this scene was seen by this old woman, and it also understood that we were coming for it.
Soon Hu Zongren turned around, facing the direction of the old ***, and then reached over to his waist to untie his gossip bag, as well as his ugly waist bag. I was about to ask him what he wanted to do, because from what I know about this guy, almost all of his treasures are in this waist bag, including the charms that he prepares for emergency purposes on weekdays, and once this bag is removed, Hu Zongren is basically no different from the group of clerks, except that he is a little bigger and will fight a little. Hu Zongren put everything on the dining table, and then opened his arms, with a feeling of wanting to embrace the whole world, and walked slowly towards the old grandmother.
I especially hated Hu Zongren's character of making his own decisions without discussion, and I didn't have time to stop it, so I slowly followed behind him, holding the compass in my hand, paying attention to the distance between Hu Zongren and me, and the movement of the compass. I deliberately let Hu Zongren's back block the line of sight between me and the old woman, because before that, the old woman's eyes repeatedly looked at me and Hu Zongren, so even if I stood still, it was impossible for me to stay out of the situation. Every time he took a step closer, the compass's reaction was a little more violent, and with the landing of Hu Zongren's footsteps, the pointer suddenly bounced a little more violently like a heartbeat, it was a vigilance, absolutely not wrong, and the ability to watch the plate that I had practiced over the years told me that although this old grandmother was puzzled by Hu Zongren's behavior, and even thought that he had no malicious intentions, she was on guard in private.
Just when I lowered my head and looked at the compass again, there was a very hoarse and old cry suddenly from behind my ears, that cry was as if I saw the Eighth Route Army shouting at the comrades in a patriotic movie when I was a child, it was a kind of shout, but it was old and hoarse, I couldn't use an accurate description to describe the cry, at that time I could only subconsciously turn around while reaching into the bag to grab the red rope, but when I couldn't see the back, I suddenly felt as if something was pressing down on my shoulder, I was 175 tall, and the old woman was only 160 when she died, not to mention the possibility that she was old and obscene in her life, and with her hunched back alone, she would not be able to hold my shoulder and press me down. But that force is very large, and the feeling of being directly touched by the ghost is probably a sudden burst of cold from the inside out, and there is a force in the cold, and this force is irresistible to you just by understanding it for the first time.
So before I could react, my knees fell to my knees, and it really hurt to kneel on the tiled floor. When I finally straightened my body and wanted to see what was happening in front of me, less than an inch away from the tip of my nose, the old woman was looking at me face to face, although I was a single eyelid, my eyes were still big in the single eyelid world, at least much bigger than Du Haitao, and my eyes would instinctively open open in fright, so I couldn't seem to see anything else in my big eyes, except for the old face. At the same time, I also noticed that she was really pressing me to my knees, and then she began to frown, and opened her mouth, the center of her eyebrows and the bridge of her nose were stacked layer by layer because of the frowning relationship, like scallion pancakes, and the wide open mouth emitted the first old roar, but I only heard the voice, but I did not detect a trace of breath from her close mouth.
All this happened in just a second, obviously the clerks around also saw all this, they screamed and exclaimed, Hu Zongren also came to save me at this time, I turned my back to Hu Zongren so I couldn't see his actions, I just heard a wind sound in my ears, with the sound of the wind The old woman twisted and deformed in front of me, and then disappeared like smoke and dust, and the sense of oppression on my body disappeared, and at this moment, my right face suddenly hurt hotly, and my ears suddenly buzzed, I realized that Hu Zongren might have been hitting my grandmother with the thunder talisman or the Jiufeng Jun talisman in my hand just now, but in order to save me, I was dodged by the grandmother, so he hit me directly in the face.
When I fell on my side, I saw that the roll-up banner and X display at the door seemed to have been knocked down by something, and then the door was pulled but could not be opened, and then the "under repair" sign that was originally blocked between the first and second floors also fell, and then in the middle of the stairs on the second floor, not far from us, there was a crisp sound of something falling to the ground.
Hu Zongren helped me up and asked me if I was in pain, and I told him that if I said that it didn't hurt, you would definitely think that I was a very hypocritical person, and I would ask you to get it back when this slap was over. There was already a female clerk who was scared to cry by the previous scene, I really don't know why she wanted to cry for Lu, and it wasn't she who was beaten. She shouted to go home, Hu Zongren shouted loudly, she was not allowed to open the door, and when she opened the door, she could never be found again.
Hu Zongren is really better at scaring women than me, and when he yelled like this, the girl didn't cry. Hu Zongren said to me, let's go up, it must have hid upstairs. After saying that, he was about to go upstairs, I grabbed him and said, you don't want to die, do you still want to slap me again, why don't you bring your waist bag and gossip bag? He said I'll try again, and if it still doesn't work, just come down and get it. I asked him what you were going to try? Hu Zongren looked at me and said, I'll try to be like you, try not to be rude, and I can take her away.
I was stunned for a moment, Hu Zongren had already walked in front, I said to Hu Zongren Even if I don't like to be rough, but I won't even bring anything for self-defense, just now I was holding the rope in my hand and was held down, aren't you looking for death when you go up so barehanded? Hu Zongren stopped and said to me, when she held you down just now, did she do anything to you besides roaring?
This is really not, so I began to understand Hu Zongren's intentions, although I hate this guy for using me to make a temptation, but at least we know the Tao at the moment, this old woman is a big deal to stop me from moving forward, because I was very wary in my heart at that time, and the compass and red rope in my hand showed that I didn't trust her. But even so, she was only using her own methods to stop me, and she didn't hurt me excessively, you must know that under that situation, if she was a real enemy, she would have killed me a long time ago.
So, I put down my bag, took out all the red rope rice grains and graves, and put them on the dining table with Hu Zongren's pile of rags, and only took a compass in my hand, because I needed a compass to tell me the exact location of the ghost, considering the appearance of the old woman running upstairs after the last day, I could detect that she was Zhilu Dao Hu Zongren's shot was aimed at her, and Zhilu Dao was not an opponent, and she only had movement and no figure when she went upstairs, which means that she may not intend to let us see her again.
When I followed Hu Zongren and was about to go upstairs, Xiao Tian shouted behind me, let me go up with me, although I don't know these things from you, but I will try to communicate with grandma.
Hu Zongren glanced at me, then nodded to Xiao Tian.