Chapter 60: Fake Death
"There are always dead people in such a big and small hospital? Why is there such a heavy sinister resentment? "The first time the fat man spoke so seriously, Gangzi also looked at me puzzled.
I put my two hands on one and said helplessly: "You don't need to ask me, I don't know, or I won't come to check, but I just listened to the following, when you come to collect the soul, the soul of the person is gone." ”
"Then you didn't ask about the specific situation?" Gangzi asked with a frown.
"Of course I asked, when I was recuperating from my injuries, I had a yin relationship with Master Li, and he told me to be careful, when those ghosts sent souls to collect their souls, those people obviously did not lose their breath, but the three souls have disappeared, and some can even move." I nodded and said, frowning.
After hearing this, the fat man looked at me with wide eyes, grinned and said, "You're not kidding, are you?" So we should be fools? Can you still act without three souls? You think you're chasing out corpses? ”
Originally, I couldn't understand it, but now when I hear the fat man say this, it's really possible! In other words, there are corpse chasers in this hospital, so that they can move those who do not have ghosts, but where are the souls of those people?
"It's really possible that the corpse chaser did it!" I didn't pay attention to the fat man, but said to Gangzi, Gangzi is thoughtful, the analysis of the problem is more comprehensive, during this time often follow the old man, but also learned a lot of Taoist things, especially to practice a good ability, martial arts attainments are definitely above me!
Gangzi touched his chin and pondered, "I don't think it's that simple! ”
"I'm just casually talking, do you believe this? Again. It's all at night, when did you ask or not? The fat man agreed with Gangzi, then looked at me and asked.
"It happened both during the day and at night. This has happened recently when I've been recuperating from an injury. But "I was halfway through my speech and then I was silent.
"But what?" The fat man saw that I didn't speak, so he pushed me and asked.
Gangzi got up and said, "However, you fat man is too useless, you are always lazy when you study, who will drive the corpse must be at night?" ”
Corpse chases belong to white witchcraft, that is, a series of corpses that have been killed in a foreign country are followed behind the corpse chaser. Returning to his hometown through the state and province. The time to chase the corpse is both day and night, but in order to avoid frightening passers-by, the corpse is mostly carried out at night. This also casts a veil of mystery over the corpses. Imagining a group of dead people wandering under the white moonlight in the middle of a dense forest mountain road is really terrifying.
The corpses were driven out by two mages in Taoist robes, regardless of the number of corpses. They are all driven by masters and apprentices. Master and apprentice. He does not play a lantern, shakes a soul bell in his hand, and strikes a gong as he walks, so that night walkers can avoid it, and those who have dogs lock up their dogs. When there is more than one corpse, they are connected with straw ropes, one every six or seven feet. When walking at night, the corpses wore tall felt hats. A few pieces of yellow paper with talismans on his forehead were pressed and hung down on his face.
In the mountainous areas of Xiangxi. When a foreigner died there, his relatives and friends went to hire a mage to drive the corpse back to his hometown. When the mage came to the place of mortuary, he first checked the birth date and death taboo of the deceased to see if there was any chongke, and then he recited a mantra next to the corpse, muttering a mantra in his mouth for a while, and suddenly, he put the peachwood sword in his hand and forcefully inserted it into the wooden board where the corpse was parked.
However, if the peachwood sword repeatedly failed to penetrate or suddenly broke, the mage immediately turned around and walked away, because it meant that the corpse would not obey his orders, and it was likely that something would happen on the way, so even if the price was higher, the mage would not agree to drive the corpse away.
When a mage takes over the business, he does not leave immediately, but stays for a few days until there are four or five corpses, and some even pick up the corpses on the way.
Strangely, after the mage did it, the corpse would not decompose, no matter what the weather. At the beginning of the journey, the mage gathers the dead bodies to be transported, and after the altar is raised, he puts a talisman written on yellow paper on the forehead of each dead body, and after muttering a mantra, each corpse stands upright, jumps behind the mage, and jumps forward.
Because the joints of the corpse were stiff, the knees could not be flexed, and they could only jump forward. The general journey is day and night, but the corpse is just the opposite of day and night, because the corpse needs to be carried out at night, and the sun cannot be allowed to shine on the dead body, so as soon as the rooster crows, before the day will break, the mage will lead the dead corpses to stay, until the evening, before leaving, the mage will check the talisman on the corpse's forehead one by one, if there is no problem, will continue to drive the corpse.
"Don't tell the fat man, he can't remember, if the passers-by hear about it and arrest you as a mental patient, it will be miserable!" When Gangzi said something about the same, he interrupted him.
"I'll you! What's next? Directly to the hospital to ask? Anyway, we have a letter of introduction from the government! The fat man laughed and scolded.
Gangzi and I looked at each other and shook our heads, and Gangzi whispered: "No, how do you know that someone in the hospital is not a ghost, you can't do this, otherwise you will startle the snake!" ”
"What if that doesn't work? We can't just stay in the ward in broad daylight and watch, can we? The fat man said helplessly.
"Huh? Why do you two look at me like that? Did you pay attention to any of the damage? Why are you laughing so obscenely! The fat man said as he stepped back.
I gave Gangzi a look, and we rushed over with an arrow at the same time, without giving the fat man time to react, I clicked on his numb hole, and the whole person suddenly collapsed to the ground, and Gangzi took advantage of the situation to hold the fat man.
"You guys!" As soon as the fat man was about to scream, he was covered by Gangzi's hand, and then took out a pill from his pocket and gave it to the fat man, and the fat man was unconscious in less than three seconds.
It turned out that we had discussed what to do before we came, but I was afraid that the fat man would not agree, so I didn't tell him that Gangzi gave him a kind of fake death medicine, or he took a lot of effort to get it from the old man, and after taking this medicine, he could fake his death and be like a vegetative person, and his soul was temporarily imprisoned.
Many people will wonder if there is a fake death medicine in the world, I can tell you very responsibly that there is, modern medicine has developed a drug that can make the heart stop beating for a short time after injection, and there is also a record of fake death medicine in Li Shizhen's masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica".
The medicine of fake death is made from mandala flowers. When the Lotus Sutra says that the Buddha said the Dharma, the world rained with mandalas. There is also a Taoist Beidou who has a Dhara star messenger, holding this flower, so the descendants are named this flower. Mandala, Sanskrit variegated also. Solana is in the shape of leaves.
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Mandala is born in the northern soil, and people also plant it. Spring and summer are long, the single stem is straight up, four or five feet high, the birth is not side-bypassed, the green stem is green and the leaves are like eggplant leaves, the white flowers bloom in August, where the six petals are like, the shape is like a morning glory and big. Accumulate flowers in the middle, the leaves are outsourced, and the night closes. Sturdy and round with a ding, there are boys. Flowers are picked in August and fruits are harvested in September. Pick it and bake it with a secret thing, which can become a secret medicine for fake death.
"Come on! Someone fainted! "Gangzi and I shouted when we saw that the fat man's drug had taken effect, and many doctors suddenly came out to help carry him into the emergency room.
After the fat man was carried in, Gangzi leaned into my ear and said, "Let's just wait for the enemy to appear!" ”
PS: Thank you for the reward and the full praise of the book friend Su Tongfa! (To be continued......)