Qin Dan sat cross-legged in the magic circle, his hands formed a lotus shape, his eyes closed slightly, and his mouth was full of words. The room was quiet, and the sound of burning candles was audible. None of us spoke, we all hid in the corner and watched silently.

The room was poorly lit, except for the faint glow of candles. Qin Dan's shadow dragged on the ground for a long time, swaying all the way to the wall, reflecting a strange black shadow.

The incantation she chanted was not loud, but it was very clear in the silence of the room. I didn't understand what it was, I just felt that the rhythm was very strong, and the girl's voice was very crisp, as if she was singing. If you listen carefully, there are many broken accents in the mantra such as "ya", "mu", and "ma", which sound very familiar. Suddenly it dawned, is this Sanskrit? Because there are many similar pronunciations in some Buddhist songs.

Just as I was listening attentively, Li Yang touched me and whispered, "Look at the candle." ”

I saw that the candles in a few corners burned very quickly, and the wax oil flowed to the ground, forming an indescribable shape. Suddenly, there was a gust of wind in the room, and the cold air rolled with the wind, and the firelight swayed very violently from side to side. Qin Dan opened his eyes suddenly, gently stroked the body of the straw man, then took it in his hand, stood up and walked to the red-clothed paper man, stretched out a hand to pinch the black nail at the center of the paper man's eyebrows, and slowly pulled it out.

The firelight swayed more violently, and the cold was so strong that I hugged my shoulders and shivered, and my lips were purple.

Qin Dan pulled it out very slowly, and the black needle seemed to weigh as much as a thousand catties, dragging it out little by little, looking quite laborious. Li Yang and I didn't dare to breathe, holding our breath and concentrating, this nervousness. Finally pulled out the black needle, Qin Dan breathed a long sigh of relief, put the straw man in front of the paper figure, and chanted a curse in a low voice.

There was a small sound of shredding in the darkness, and the paper man's head actually moved, slowly raising his head like a doll. Qin Dan pinched the incense stick on the scarecrow's face with his right index finger and middle finger like a cigarette, and slowly inserted the burning incense head into the center of his eyebrows where the black needle had been inserted just now. The straw man and the paper figure are completely connected by this thin incense.

Qin Dan muttered: "Hongchen Hongchen don't be afraid, fairy boy fairy child go home." ”

Because it was far away and the light was too poor, I couldn't see what was going on at all, so I saw a magical scene - Qin Dan slowly let go of his fingers, and the straw man actually floated in the air. Its only focus is the long incense stick inserted on the head of the paper man.

Qin Dan slowly retreated to the back, his hands sealed, and chanted in a low voice. The straw man was still twisting slightly from side to side in the air, like a small man dancing there. I watched with a dry mouth and trembling legs, and there was a chilling sense of oppression in this evil scene.

I don't know how long it took, Qin Dan took the straw man off the head of the paper man, and then squatted on the ground, the incense head was facing down, and it was inserted straight into the black jar.

Although I don't know what she's doing, it's a simple guess that she should be collecting souls. Take the soul of Master Hong Chen from the paper man and the black altar and save it in the body of the straw man.

After a long time, Qin Dan stood up, the girl's face was pale, but she smiled. She wiped the sweat from her head, her bangs were on her forehead, and she looked like a surgeon who had just undergone a major surgery.

Qin Dan nodded at us: "Okay, Master Hongchen's soul is in the straw man." ”

Li Yang and I went over, and we couldn't see a doorway, so we were amazed. Li Yang wanted to touch the grass man, but Qin Dan gently avoided it: "You are yang, you can't touch it." She put the straw man on the table, took a breath, and then pinched the long incense stuck in the paper man's mouth, trying to pull it out.

But after dragging twice, the incense was still firmly inserted on it, and the thread did not move.

Li Yang blinked: "What's going on?" ”

Qin Dan didn't reply, he continued to pinch the long incense stick and pull it out, and pulled it out twice, but he still didn't pull it out. The girl was also a little anxious: "What's going on?" There is only one last process, pull out the incense, and paste the last piece of my family heirloom ancient coin on the face of the straw man, and it is done. ”

Li Yang rolled up his sleeves: "I'll come." ”

"Nope." Qin Dan hurriedly said: "This incense is not taken down by brute force, once it is broken, the consequences are unimaginable." ”

"What then? You can't pull it off. Li Yang was anxious.

Qin Dan wiped her sweat, she stopped her movements, hugged her shoulders to calm down, and quickly returned to normal. She asked me, "Lao Liu, what time is it?" ”

I looked at my watch: "It's only been an hour." It's one o'clock in the second half of the night. ”

Qin Dan said: "We must finish the work before the end of the ugly time at three o'clock, otherwise the rooster cries at dawn, and the sun comes and goes, and the unformed soul will dissipate." ”

At this time, the copper lock also entered the house, and he was really bored waiting outside. Qin Dan looked at the three of us and asked us to hide aside, she continued to chant the spell and try again.

The straw man lay flat on the table, with a high long incense stick on his head, and Qin Dan sat cross-legged in front of him and began to chant.

Now the atmosphere is oppressive and tense, my palms are full of sweat, and the back of my back is soaked. At this moment, the copper lock suddenly shouted: "Get up, get up." ”

I saw the straw man lying down, and suddenly stood up straight, looking like a zombie in a movie.

The standing straw man was particularly eerie, and the incense on his face made it look like a puppet Pinocchio, and it actually swayed slowly on the table.

Because the legs of the straw man are tied together, the so-called "walking" is actually jumping stiffly. It jumped up and down on the table with its arms outstretched, and the scene was so permeable that our faces turned pale and cold sweat slid out.

As it jumped forward, the seven copper coins that had been attached to its body began to fall. First one dropped, and "snapped" on the table. It jumped again, and dropped another copper coin. A string of "pop pops" rang, and the copper coins fell one after another.

Qin Dan stood up, her gloomy face could wring out water, she walked quickly to the table, stretched out her two fingers, grabbed the long incense on the straw man's face, and shouted: "You come back for me." ”

The straw man immediately turned to her, guided by Qin Dan, and jumped back step by step.

After jumping two steps, the straw man suddenly stopped, forcibly turned his head, and there was obviously another force that existed, and Qin Dan twisted the force. Qin Dan held the incense, his hands trembled slightly, and the sweat on his forehead was dripping down. The straw man's head was about to twist over, and the two forces were competing there, and the incense "creaked" slightly, and a pile of yellow powder fell on the table.

Seeing that the incense was about to break, Qin Dan finally couldn't support it, let go of his fingers, and the straw man jumped away and continued to jump to the other end of the table. Jumping one step and dropping a coin, the most sluggish body is only left with a copper coin on the head.

Qin Dan seemed to have made a lot of determination, a thin red thread emerged from his pocket, wrapped around the set, threw it over and put it on the straw man's neck, and gently tugged it, the straw man stopped jumping, just stopped on the table, motionless.

The whole process thundered in silence, and although we were spectators, we also felt that it was thrilling and dangerous to the extreme.

Now we have all guessed that there must be another force controlling the straw man's series of actions. You can figure it out with your toes that the amount of power must come from Wang Dongmei.

The room was quiet, no one spoke, so quiet that a needle could hear it. At this moment, suddenly, in the darkness, a woman's giggling laughter sounded. The sound was so strange that no one was mentally prepared for it, and I was almost half frightened to death by the sudden laughter.

We looked at each other in horror. Qin Dan suddenly shouted: "Northeast corner, flashlight!" ”

Li Yang reacted quickly, took out a flashlight, pressed the light to the maximum, and a pillar of light shot over. I saw a very old-fashioned vanity mirror hanging on the wall in the northeast corner. The mirror is oval in shape, with a mahogany border, antique, and hangs on the wall. This kind of mirror, which I had only seen when I was very young, was very old-fashioned, and now it is almost impossible to see.

We were all stupefied when we saw this mirror, especially the copper lock, and we almost fell to our knees. Because there was a woman in the mirror.

This woman is very charming, not pretty, but round and jade, with raised eyebrows, and natural coquettish eyes. Let's put it this way, if you are a normal man, just by looking at her face, you can be hard.

The woman was dressed in gray and gray clothes from the sixties and seventies of the last century, with long thick hair, and a comb in her hand, and she was combing her hair in the mirror.

Her movements were particularly gentle, combing one after another. I almost screamed at the sight of this action, because I've seen it! Just a few days ago, in the mountains and forests of rural Henan, I saw Master Hong Chen combing his hair like this under the moonlight, and his posture was exactly the same!

The woman combed her hair a few times, put the comb down, smiled in the mirror, and looked at us through the mirror. In her red little mouth, a long incense suddenly grew inexplicably, getting longer and longer. She grabbed the incense stick with her fingers and twisted it slightly, and the incense twisted very strangely, and it was about to break.

Amazingly, just as she twisted the incense, the incense in the straw man's mouth also folded up, sizzling, and was about to break.

We all know that the Tao is over, and the woman in this mirror must be Wang Dongmei. Although I don't know what kind of spell this is, the evil sect is really weird, and it can be controlled from so far away and fight against us.

Once this incense is broken, I'm afraid Master Hong Chen will never have a chance to come back to life.

Qin Dan turned his head to look at us, and said word by word: "How big is your desire to save Master Hongchen?" ”

Li Yang said: "Willing to pay any price. ”

Qin Dan nodded, let go of the red line, walked a few steps quickly, grabbed the front heart of the copper lock, and unceremoniously dragged him to the table. The copper lock was scared, and his whole body twisted: "Xiao Dandan, let go, don't mess around with your brother Tong...... You, what are you going to do? ”

Copper Lock is really not a man, he struggles desperately, but he can't get out of Qin Dan's hand, and let a girl fiddle with it.

At this time, the long incense in the straw man's mouth snapped off. The remaining half of the incense suddenly shot out, and with it fell the last copper coin, which fell from the straw man.

Qin Dan's hand was quick, he pinched the broken incense stick in the air, caught the copper coin with the other hand, and shouted at the copper lock: "Open your mouth!" ”

The copper lock was so frightened that tears came out: "Auntie, what are you going to do?!" ”

"Open your mouth!"

The copper lock reluctantly opened his mouth, Qin Dan inserted the broken incense in his mouth, the copper coin pressed on his forehead, and shouted in a low voice: "Borrow your body!" ”