Hearing that her father was still alive and well, Sister Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief. So she asked Hu Zongren again, that person is fine, why are you crying? Hu Zongren said impatiently, who knew that your father was so old, and it still hurt so much when he hit me in the nose, can I not cry? I couldn't hold back my amusement on the side, so I interjected and said to Sister Liang, your father is fine, there was a little situation when we checked just now, and the situation may be more serious than we thought before, for everyone's safety, I suggest that none of us go back to the house until this matter is clarified. Sister Liang asked me, what should I do if my father wants to eat? I glanced at Hu Zongren and said, it's okay, let's feed us.

In fact, I just said that after seeing Uncle Liang's terrible appearance just now, I couldn't believe that I would reach out when I fed him. Then I pulled Hu Zongren aside, intending to discuss it with him.

Because everything happened so quickly after entering the back room before, Hu Zongren and I escaped in a hurry without even having time to communicate. I think that my observation ability is still a little more detailed than Hu Zongren's, so in such a short period of time, I actually discovered a lot of new doubts. And these doubts make me very scared, so there are some decisions that I have to agree with Hu Zongren before I can do it.

The biggest suspicion is undoubtedly the metal sheet in Uncle Liang's mouth, and the tattoo on the ghost's hand later. I had already learned from Sister Liang that it was a tattoo of a lotus flower, but after seeing it with my own eyes, I found that Sister Liang had not depicted it carefully enough. Although it is indeed a lotus flower, there are some differences from the lotus flower that we usually imagine. It doesn't seem very concrete, but relatively abstract, the lotus flower on the tattoo is more like a religious symbol, just like the lotus flower of Guanyin sitting on the lotus in the color paintings we have seen in daily life.

If it is a religious pattern, then the lotus flower should be with Guanyin Bodhisattva, but many people think that tattooing the appearance of a god on the body is a kind of disrespect for the god. Because as mortals, it is inevitable to have seven emotions and six desires, but the gods pay attention to one without desires. Then in the case of intimacy between husband and wife, for example, the tattooed deity will form a kind of blasphemy in the process. I'm glad that my own tattoo is just a mantra of the immovable king, although it is tattooed on the chest, but after all, it is my natal Buddha, plus I was not originally a Buddhist person, this tattoo was just under the guidance of Master Yin in Chengdu, to protect myself from the hidden arrows of the brakes. So I didn't pay much attention to it, but these days, most of the positive things this tattoo has brought to me, so I don't care much about it. But the ghost hand is different, in any religion, there will be more or less some methods to suppress and fight against ghosts, the lotus flower tattooed on the ghost's hand was supposed to be used to deter and suppress ghosts, but now it appears together, which is something I didn't expect at all.

In addition, the metal sheet in Uncle Liang's mouth, I am already very sure that it is actually the lotus flower in the ghost's hand, which also proves that all this is not accidental, but deliberate. And no matter who put this metal lotus flower in Uncle Liang's mouth based on what motive, just that someone in the back notified Hu Zongren and me to deal with the case without going through the subject, think about it, this one seems to be aimed at the two of us. When I was fighting with that ghost hand, I stabbed it many times with a rope nail, and every time I pierced it, Uncle Liang's body would shake with it. In my opinion, it seems that there is an interconnected connection between the ghost hand and Uncle Liang's body, so I have a bold guess, will someone treat Uncle Liang's entire body as a hand, and the lotus flower in his mouth corresponds to the lotus flower on the ghost hand?

In addition, there is another thing that I don't know, that is, from the first time we followed Sister Liang into the house, we found that the whole room was tightly closed, and it was still dark in broad daylight, and I regretted that none of us thought about why we closed the curtains and doors at that time. But when Hu Zongren opened the curtain and opened the door, Uncle Liang's painful expression conveyed a message to us very clearly, he was afraid of the light. If it is really as I guessed, Uncle Liang and the ghost hand echo each other, then in other words, the two ghost hands on the bed, and the ghost behind the ghost hand, should be afraid of light, if we really want to clean it up, maybe, we have to start from the perspective of "light".

After I analyzed these situations and the suspicious points I noticed to Hu Zongren's pig, although he also felt that I was right, it would be difficult for us to solve this problem if we were to stand at the door and think stupidly of us. So Hu Zongren said to me, do you remember what he said to us that night at Situ's house? I said yes, he said that if we have anything, we can ask him, and although he is too old to travel with us, he will still do his best to give us advice. Hu Zongren said a little embarrassed, you know, what I don't like the most is to trouble others, but this time we may really be a little unskilled, so let's ask Situ. I nodded, and then asked Hu Zongren, is that you calling or am I calling? Hu Zongren said, let's fight, I don't think about it as carefully as you, and you can express it more clearly than me.

So I said to Sister Liang, who was standing aside, why don't you go to eat first, we will guard here, there are some things that we can't handle need to ask the old-timers, this is the line, you are an ordinary person, it is better to avoid it. Although she was unwilling, Sister Liang agreed, she said that she would go to the other end to eat something first, and then come back later. After Sister Liang's figure disappeared around the corner, I took out the phone and called Master Situ.

It was already close to 1 o'clock at noon, Situ and Tie Songzi were both old people, and their work and rest time were a little different from those of us young people, so I estimated that this time was just the time when the two of them finished eating and then planned to take a nap. The first thing Situ said after picking up the phone was to ask where we were, as if Hu Zongren and I had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace. I told him that we were in Jiangbei City, and everything was in your hands, but when we were dealing with this case, we encountered some things that we didn't understand, and we needed you to show us the way with your profound knowledge. Then I told Situ as much detail as possible about what had happened since we arrived here.

Unlike usual, usually Situ would only express his opinion after listening to my story. But when I talked about the ghost hand and the lotus flower in Uncle Liang's mouth, Situ suddenly interrupted me in a rare way and asked me in detail about the appearance of the lotus flower. I said that some resemble lotus flowers in religious symbols, and some of the lotus petals resemble the flame of a candle, with pointed horns and olive-shaped. Situ asked me, is the bottom of the lotus flower flat with a seat or is it directly empty? I said it was empty, but the one in Uncle Liang's mouth I just judged it, I didn't take it out and look at it, but I guess it's the same as the one in my hand.

After listening to what I said, Situ didn't say anything for a long time, and then sighed and said, You two children, the real test will only begin now! In fact, what scares me the most is to hear Situ speak to me in this tone, because such a tone usually only appears after Situ knows what is going on, and that kind of reproach with helplessness seems to tell me that you two are really in a huge dispute.

But people are like this, the more foreboding they have, the more they want to know the truth sooner. So I asked Situ nervously, just say it directly, what's going on? Situ said, I think you may have provoked a secret sect, the White Lotus Sect.

I know what the White Lotus Sect says, and I can be regarded as a fan of Mr. Jin Yong's books. However, in Mr. Jin Yong's books, the White Lotus Sect often appears in a more mysterious image. In reality, over the years, I have repeatedly come into contact with some real White Lotus disciples, although they are not as strange and unpredictable as written in the book, but they are often elusive, and will give people a feeling that they are not very accessible. Strictly speaking, they are branches of Buddhism, because they worship Maitreya Buddha, and in the ghost hunter industry, except for the Taoist witches and some Buddhists, they have a well-known name, called Onmyoshi, and most of them are people from the White Lotus Sect.

From the time I was still learning art with my master, my master told me that although the current power of the White Lotus Sect is not as good as it was back then, the Tantra of this sect still left a lot of mystical mastery, which belongs to the "Pure Land Sect", which originally appeared in the form of religious worship at the beginning, but because it has been relatively active in history, it was then used and became a spiritual force of the peasant uprising. At the beginning, the master also told me that in ancient times, people were relatively ignorant, and the peasants accounted for the majority, and they were squeezed hard, so they needed to find a breakthrough, and at this time, some religious ideas gave them a very beautiful vision, so there were not a few turmoil in history because of the call of religion. The most well-known is the Taiping Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty.

Although many years later, I can always find a similar trajectory in any change of dynasty, and even the era we live in today is to overthrow the original system with the help of the power of the people after giving the people a beautiful promise, but who knows, will there be the next one of the same trajectory?

So I asked Situ on the phone, Bailian taught me not to have much contact, why did I suddenly get in again this time, and I had a grudge with us, but Xuanyuan Society, people are all Taoist priests!