Hu Zongren didn't speak at first, so I asked again. Hu Zongren took his foot off the window, then stretched out his right hand and rolled up the sleeve of his left hand, then unbuttoned the wrist of his shirt and stretched out his hand to me. Since I was driving, and I was on the way down the mountain, when Hu Zongren's hand reached over, I habitually glanced at the afterglow of my glasses, but this time, I was surprised.

So I didn't care that neither of us had fastened our seatbelts, nor that the road itself was very narrow, so I hurriedly stepped on the brakes and parked the car on the side of the road. I must admit that I rarely stop and park so ugly. After I pulled the handbrake, I grabbed Hu Zongren's hand and asked him, what is the situation?

On Hu Zongren's left wrist, near the two nut bones, three slender black marks with a little sharp tops appeared. The black color was very similar to the Eight Pole Seal that appeared on his body earlier, but it was darker than the black and red of the Eight Pole Seal. On the inside of Hu Zongren's wrist, there are black marks about three fingers wide, connected together, like a whole birthmark, and the three marks on the left and right on the back of the wrist are the same as a ghost scratch I encountered many years ago, so I can recognize at a glance that this is a handprint caught by a ghost.

Judging from the size of the handprint, it seems to be a child's hand, but the person has 5 fingers, and if the thumb is removed when grasping, there should be at least four, but there are only three on Hu Zongren's wrist. It looked like a child with only three fingers, grabbing Hu Zongren's wrists from the left and right sides and scratching out the mark. Hu Zongren smiled bitterly and said, how do I know what the situation is in Lu Dao, I know that the bastards in Lu Dao will not spare me so easily.

I asked Hu Zongren, how long has you been in this situation, and you haven't said anything about it? Hu Zongren said that since the last time we woke up on the morning of the third day after we finished the case, I found out, and because of this, I scolded Zhao Jing on the phone, and scolded all the swear words, saying that they Xuanyuan would not keep their promises, and when they were approaching the last few cases, they still came to commit crimes, not the children of the rivers and lakes. Hu Zongren said to me, why do you think Zhao Jing went back to the main altar of their Xuanyuan Society? It's not that I'm scolded, and I don't dare to meet with us.

I scolded Hu Zongren and said, why didn't you tell me these things earlier, what symptoms do you have? Hu Zongren began to say impatiently again, don't worry about it so much, I almost understand everything you know, if we can prevent it, we don't have to worry about it at the moment. He told me that when he woke up that morning, he didn't notice at first, but when he washed his face, he looked in the mirror and realized that something was wrong with his hand. However, he looked at Fu Yunni's attitude as if he hadn't noticed this matter, so he kept hiding it for a few days. Hu Zongren said that he didn't feel it at all at first, but after all, it appeared suddenly, and it was obvious that it was a ghost scratching traces, and his hands were still fine when he slept the first night, which can only mean that these marks appeared overnight, which means that when he was sleeping that night, there was a ghost beside him and grabbed his hand.

Hu Zongren also told me that in the first two days, there was nothing abnormal on his body, but on the second night of the imprint, he asked Fu Yunni to sleep first, planning to hide the imprint before going to sleep, at this time, the wrist began to ache faintly. He told me that it wasn't very painful, but a feeling of soreness, as if something was constantly swelling out of my flesh, and it was not continuous, but bursts and bursts, and each time it hurt, the tendon in my hand twitched once. Hu Zongren said with a wry smile, you also know that the tendons and blood vessels in your left hand can connect to the heart, and every time you feel pain, your heart will throb once. And the situation is getting more and more serious, within a few days, every time this feeling appears, I will inevitably be nervous, but I don't want to be discovered by the people around me, so I have been enduring it. And the most terrible thing was that his hands began to tremble.

I have come into contact with some people whose hands are shaking, but they have either done something bad and have been caught, or they are suffering from Parkinson's disease, although we have encountered many cases, but most of them are just bruises or redness, and people themselves do not have this kind of swelling and pain, even including the one I encountered a few years ago, it is just a mark, and there is no very painful feeling.

Hu Zongren told me that when he scolded Zhao Jing that day, it sounded like Zhao Jing didn't know about it, and Zhao Jing told Hu Zongren that she would go back to the Xuanyuan Club to find out about this matter and see if it was their people who did it. But Hu Zongren had a temper, and if he said a few words wrong, he would scold people indiscriminately, in that situation at that time, Hu Zongren was too lazy to care so much, he insisted that someone from Xuanyuan would do it, and it didn't seem so important whether Zhao Jing knew or not. Hu Zongren also told me, do you think our case this time was really transferred to us by Zhao Jing? Since Zhao Jing went to Chengdu, the case was handed over to me in a few days, and the victim called me directly. I asked Hu Zongren, do you mean that since that day, you and Zhao Jing have lost contact, right? Hu Zongren nodded, and he said to me, do you remember that we met earlier today, you asked me why Zhao Jing didn't come, I said she went to Chengdu, and you said that when Bacheng was totaling how to deal with us, I really felt so sad in my heart. Hu Zongren paused and said, That's why I told you, if you really want to continue to deal with us, I can only fight with them.

I asked Hu Zongren, what should you do with your hand now, you can't just leave it alone, what if it gets more and more serious? Hu Zongren didn't speak, just shook his head, and then sighed. I have known Hu Zongren for a long time, and during this period, he has been crazy all day long, as if he doesn't need to take many things to heart, so the number of times I see him sigh is very rare. So I said to Hu Zongren, otherwise, I guess none of us can tell what is going on with your mark, so let's think of a way to suppress the swelling pain in your wrist first. Hu Zongren asked me, how to suppress it? I said, we can't help it, we have to turn to those who have a way. Hu Zongren said, you said to go to Granny Huang, no, she is Fu Yunni's godmother, and this matter will be known to Fu Yunni sooner or later. I said, let's go find Situ.

So when we arrived at Situ's house that day, it was already dark, and Situ was well-informed, but he looked a little entangled about this thing on Hu Zongren's wrist. He asked Hu Zongren almost the same question as me, so after briefly telling Situ about the situation, Situ told us that if we want to completely eradicate this thing, I am afraid that there is no way to find the root cause for the time being, but I can pass on a method to you, you can cooperate with your own Taoist cultivation and suppress it every day, as for what it is, you have to give me more time to understand the investigation. At the moment, this seems to be the most feasible approach. So Master Situ taught Hu Zongren a mantra and asked him to recite it three times a day, in the morning and evening, to suppress what was in his body. Because obviously, it seems that what the ghost left behind is already in Hu Zongren's body at all. Situ also told Hu Zongren that every three days, he would prick a small needle hole in the place of the black mark, put a few drops of blood out, and carefully observe whether the blood was black or red.

After Hu Zongren memorized it, he said to Situ with a wry smile, old man, this time I am really at home, you have traveled south and north in your life, and you have made more enemies than me, I hate myself for not having such a profound ability as you, so I will be bullied again and again. Master Tie Songzi, who had been silent for a long time on the side, walked up to Hu Zongren at this time, patted him on the shoulder and said, Don't be afraid, child, the business of the two of you is the business of the two of us, we were comrades-in-arms a year ago, and we are still now.

Master Tie Songzi's words moved Hu Zongren very much, and thanked him repeatedly, we left Situ's house, and before leaving, Situ told us, during this time, you can do whatever you should do, don't hide, the more you face difficulties, the more pressure will be exerted on the people who want to harm you, and it will also be able to buy more time for our own people.

I sent Hu Zongren home that night, and before getting out of the car, he told me that I should not let Sister Cai know about this matter, she and Fu Yunni are best friends, and I am sure that I will say it that day. I promised him and told him to restrain himself according to Situ's method.

In the following days, I often sent messages to Hu Zongren to understand the situation, and Hu Zongren said that Situ's method was very effective, and he seemed to have suppressed it, but he did not eradicate it. And a few days later, he called me again, saying that a new case had been found, and it was still not Zhao Jing who informed me, so I said that she was tired of being a cat. I asked Hu Zongren what the case was, and Hu Zongren said, that place is not far from me, so you don't have to pick me up, I just take a taxi by myself, and I can get there by crossing the bridge. Of course, I know where he is, but for the sake of the employer's privacy, I won't say where it is, or even which district.

I asked Hu Zongren, didn't the other party tell you on the phone, what are we going to do, what are we going to deal with? Hu Zongren began to laugh again and said, "I can talk to people in person about the specific things when the time comes, I just know that we can watch free movies this time!"