So I asked Ms. Du to find me a pair of iron scissors, and I tied a red rope to the handle of the scissors, wrapped it around a dozen times, and then tied it in a knot. Then I used a nail to nail the door behind Ms. Du's daughter's room near the top, and the nail hammered out an upward corner, and then hung the scissors with the tip down on it, and the place where the nail was hung was the handle of the red rope that I tied to it, and the scissors were open, so that one of the tips was pointed straight to the ground.

This is a move I learned from one of my master's books in my early years when I was studying art, it is specially used in a small and confined area, corresponding to all evil cults, and the red rope on the scissor handle is not the rope that I often use to bind spirits or form formations, but an ordinary one that can have the same effect, to be precise, it actually needs the color of red. The scissors themselves are a particularly common household must-have tool, but it also has a certain degree of aggression, belonging to the dangerous items that are generally not allowed to be touched by children, this method hangs the scissors, basically can ensure that the ghosts in this room dare not enter and exit, especially suitable for families with children at home and children sleep alone in a room, but I deliberately hung the scissors higher, just to prevent Sisi from being able to touch it. And the corner on the nail is so that even under the action of external forces, the scissors will not fall due to shaking, and it is also for the safety of the child, after all, the child does not understand anything.

After all this, I still opened the door of Ms. Du's daughter's room, and then exited to the living room, during which I briefly told Hu Zongren the cause and effect of the incident, so that he would not interrogate Ms. Du once. After all, many of the things Ms. Du told me contained her own speculations, which may not be valuable information for me. Then I found a few of the toys in the toy box that had obvious supernatural reactions, one was an electric train, one was an electric puppy with a battery that could wow you to death, and a small leather ball with colored threads.

Hu Zongren ran to the door of the security door, and according to the position where Ms. Du opened the door that night and hit the ghost, he put a charm on the inside of the door, and added my rope nail on the ground, so that unless the entrance and exit of the ghost was the window of the kitchen and balcony, it must be in our confined space.

Considering that Ms. Du said that she had seen a child under the fire hydrant at the end of the corridor before, although she herself could not be sure whether it was a hallucination or a real one, anyway, it was only a few steps away, Hu Zongren and I still planned to check it out. So I temporarily removed one end of the rope nail, then opened the door and walked towards the fire hydrant at the end with Hu Zongren. In addition to explaining the case to Hu Zongren, the two of us never said a word, and we were unhappy with each other. Although my original intention is to help Hu Zongren deal with this matter, I can say that I am also in the middle of it, and there is no way, if Hu Zongren does not apologize to me, I have made up my mind that I will not take the initiative to show favor to him.

On either side of the hydrant are two other families opposite each other, and Ms. Du told us that one of them was a long-empty house that no one lived in. I haven't had much time since I moved in, and I've never seen my neighbors anyway. I looked at the dust on the doorknob, the house had not been touched for at least a year. I crouched down and searched with a compass near the fire hydrant. The location of this fire hydrant is relatively unscientific, if any of the two families on this side open the door, they can cover half of the opening and closing of the fire hydrant, close to the corner of the house where no one has lived for a long time, that is, the location where Ms. Du saw the child earlier, I found an obvious supernatural reaction.

This place is a vertical pipe, painted vermilion, I don't know if it is a water pipe or something. This is also an old community, which is not equipped with facilities such as property management, and it is estimated that even the water and electricity bills are paid by the residents themselves or collected by the street staff. And every few inches on the pipe, there will be a relatively strong reaction, which proves that after Ms. Du stomped her foot to turn on the corridor light, she saw that the child in the corner with her back to her was really a ghost. So I calculated the approximate height of the child, as well as the height after squatting, and came to the conclusion that the relatively strong reaction on the tube was exactly the position that the child's height could reach with the hand.

In other words, it's as if a child is squatting or standing and grabbing the tube with both hands.

For a while, I couldn't understand the reason why this little ghost made such a gesture, but Hu Zongren began to throw some rice grains into the pipe, which is a more commonly used technique in all walks of life, sprinkling rice is the same as incense, it means that it is to give food to the ghost, and to show his own position, which means that we have no malicious intentions, we just want to help, and we have to listen to my words after eating my food. Then Hu Zongren took out a hand rattle and a gossip mirror from his pocket. He turned to Ms. Du and said, "You leave the door wide open, and then stand in the kitchen first, and don't move when you block the kitchen door, don't block our way back." Ms. Du answered. So I knew that Hu Zongren wanted to dare to get the ghost in the corridor from the location of the fire hydrant into the house, and let it enter the enclosed space before thinking of a way.

So I grabbed Hu Zongren and said to him, why are you in a hurry, there is a staircase passage here! How much time do you have to spend catching up if this little ghost jumps up and down? Hu Zongren smiled and said, yo, it turns out that you are not dumb, I thought you were not going to talk to me. I ignored him, got up and walked to the top of the stairs, crouched down and began to examine it carefully. But the result made me feel a little surprised, there was a supernatural reaction at the staircase, but it only stopped there, there was no trace of going upstairs and downstairs, since there was at the staircase, it means that this little ghost chose the same way of action as us living, instead of floating wherever he wanted. That is to say, at this moment, the little ghost, in this floor, judging from the scope and frequency of supernatural reactions, as well as the degree of newness and oldness, it is at the location of the fire hydrant where Hu Zongren is standing at the moment, all the way to Ms. Du's living room.

It wouldn't be wrong, so I also knotted the rope nail at the staircase to ensure that Hu Zongren would not let it slip away from the corridor during the drive, and I also stood on the other side of the rope nail at the staircase, holding the red rope in my hand and holding the compass. I still didn't talk to Hu Zongren, just nodded to him and signaled that he could start, so Hu Zongren raised his hands to the position of his shoulders, and said something in his mouth, shaking the bell every few seconds with one hand, and shooting the section of the road from the fire hydrant back and forth with the reflection of the gossip mirror with the other hand.

The Bagua Mirror is a commonly used magic weapon in Taoism, not only used to catch ghosts and drive away ghosts, but also sometimes used in daily light opening charms. In the middle is a piece of boiling mirror, which can gather light at a certain distance, and this light, according to them, is combined with the power of Bagua Yin and Yang, which can cauterize the ghost and make it live. Hu Zongren is a formal Taoist family, so compared to many pretending guys, he can be regarded as a real skill, the only light source in the corridor is the sound control corridor lamp that will light up when you stomp your feet, the light is reflected through the mirror surface of the gossip mirror, so as to gather the light at one point, the principle is probably similar to the "solar stove" we made when we were children. And when Hu Zongren moved the pillar of light, I could see some dust raised by someone similar to the blackboard eraser after being slapped, to be precise, it was a kind of smoke, which showed that Hu Zongren's pillar of light had a harmful effect on the little ghost here, and those smoke were ironclad evidence.

I don't think I need to remind Hu Zongren to be measured, because the intensity of this burn depends on the amplitude of Hu Zongren's rattle and the content of the incantation in his mouth. I just moved slowly and step by step towards Ms. Du's room, and when Hu Zongren walked past me, I also stepped over the rope nail and followed him, and I was always ready to prevent the little ghost from sneaking behind us.

Luckily, the little guy seemed to be quite cooperative, and I don't know if Lu Dao was scared or powerless, but it didn't take long for us to take it back to Ms. Du's house and trap it in the small confines of the living room.

Hu Zongren began to ask questions, he almost poured out all the rice in the rice bucket in Ms. Du's house, and arranged the rice into a spell, although I don't know if Lu Dao learned this spell from Fu Yunni in private, because as far as I know, this thing doesn't seem to have much to do with his own family. He lit candles at the four corners and in the middle of the mantra, and then put the Bagua Mirror face up on the top of the mantra, which was also pressed on the rice, and after Hu Zongren recited a mantra, he pointed to the unformed reflection of the Bagua Mirror and said to me and Ms. Du, "Look, now you can see the child in this mirror."

This is the Taoist method, and if it were me, the Bagua Mirror would be used by me to pretend to be a god at most. Ms. Du looked in the direction of Hu Zongren's finger, and sure enough, in the reflection of the concave mirror, she saw the figure of an upside-down child. Although it is not very clear, it can indeed be distinguished that this child is the same as described by Ms. Du at the beginning, thin, with a slightly dirty face, and a mushroom head like a watermelon Taro. I couldn't understand what the expression on my face was, and I was a little panicked, but I stayed there obediently.

Hu Zongren asked Ms. Du, do you recall the little ghost who called in your ear after you opened the door that night, is this it? Ms. Du frowned and looked at it for a long time, then nodded very affirmatively and said, it was him.