Chapter 43: Continuing the Analysis

It was impossible to get clues from Zhang Zixin, because when Ruan Zhan released him from the broken flag, he found that he was very badly injured, and his spiritual sense was extremely weak, and he could no longer even gather his form, let alone talk.

"Well, you accidentally injured him when you took him, didn't you?" Wanli said sympathetically.

Ruan Zhan shook his head, "It's not me." If you don't activate the scorching spell in the Broken Banner, it will only act as a container, and it will not be possible to hurt the spirit. And that method was so cruel that I never used it. ”

"Then he-"

"Let's help him protect his spiritual sense first!" Ruan Zhan sighed, first waved an invisible spell, fixed the black qi that was slowly fading and almost transparent, and then turned around and turned out a red lacquered wooden box in the depths of the wardrobe, and took out the strange bottles and jars, three pieces of rune paper with special textures, a stack of ordinary rune paper, a pure black brush and seven small wooden swords three inches long, and placed them on the desk.

"Hey, this is Bao Datong's thing, if you turn it over privately, isn't it?" Bao Li looked at Ruan Zhan, "At least you have to pretend to be a little 'forced to be helpless, and you have to do it' to be like words!" ”

Ruan Zhan didn't raise his head to him, as if he was taking it for granted, "The box left by Master Long for me is well hidden in the bookcase in Xiao Xia's room, and he also found it and turned it through unceremoniously, and more than once, I didn't see him half embarrassed." As he spoke, he found out the two bottles, identified them carefully, and began to use the strange pen to dip the contents of one bottle into the rune paper to draw a spell, "I am very worthy of him, I use ordinary rune paper and ordinary cinnabar, I didn't expect him to have a lot of good things." ”

Wan Li laughed out loud, thinking that this might be where Bao Datong's personality charm lies, he can make everyone get along with him easily, even if Ruan Zhan has such a reserved and introverted personality, he can treat each other so casually.

Seeing that Ruan Zhan drew twelve charms in a row, sticking them on the six sides of the vermilion lacquer wooden box, one inside and one outside, and then drawing talismans in the void, still reciting incomprehensible spells in his mouth, he stretched out his finger to the box, and the black gas that seemed to be about to dissipate slowly floated into the box as if it was being towed, and Ruan Zhan then closed the lid of the box.

"Have you even requisitioned the wooden box?"

"This wooden box is not ordinary, there is aura in it, which can help Zhang Zixin gather shape." Ruan Zhan placed the wooden box in the dark under the bed, "His strength is too different from the little banshee, and he almost lost his soul." Blame me, I didn't notice it before, otherwise it might have been easier to rescue earlier. ”

"What a favor." Wan Li sighed lightly, and his heart was clear, "He saved Xiao Xia with his soul scattered, how do you want to pay him back?!" ”

"I can see why he did that." Ruan Zhan's expression flashed with a hint of exhaustion, but in an instant, he returned to normal, "I will do what he wants." ”

Wan Li smiled bitterly, "Look, this is a man, in order to protect his wife and children, he will do everything." However, this at least shows one problem: Lu Yan may really be innocent, and there may be a real child in this world. You see, let's speculate - Zhang Zixin provoked that pair of monsters back then, which not only brought disaster to himself, but also brought disaster to his wife and unborn children. The pair of demon boys died more than three hundred years ago, and they were full of curiosity about the modern metropolis, so they didn't eat Zhang Zixin's soul, but only tortured him for fun, or used him to come to the city. Of course, they had never seen anything here, and they could not even think of it, compared to the loneliness and darkness that had been buried underground for more than 300 years, they must have liked it very much, so they stayed. The big city is full of red dust and smoke, even if there are many dirty and dark places, after all, it is the territory of human beings, and the yang energy is vigorous. Although these two demon boys had profound mana, they still had to find a place to live, so they chose Lu Yan. Even, Lu Yan had a child in her belly, and one of the demon children chose this unborn baby as his container, or parasite, and this parasite was, of course, the later child. ”

Ruan Zhan listened to Wanli's words and paced to the window. Looking out, I saw that the street was bustling with people coming and going, and there was really a sense of red dust that was said to be thousands of miles. But in such a huge and prosperous city, among so many people, there is not much that everyone has to have and protect! Like Zhang Zixin, he just wants to protect his wife and children, but he just wants the woman sleeping in the next room to be safe! At this moment, he suddenly had the idea of trying his best to help Zhang Zixin, even if Zhang Zixin didn't send him such a big favor!

"Makes sense." He said in a low voice, "That male demon has seized the body of a real child, but there is a problem, in addition to the blood of the father and mother, people are also born with souls. The demon boy occupies the child's body, so where is the child's original soul? ”

"No—it's eating, right?" Wanli was a little worried.

Ruan Zhan thought about it for a while and felt that it was unlikely. Whether it is reincarnation or reincarnation, the moment the physical body rushes out of the mother's body, the new life and soul are blank. Although it is extremely weak, it is also pure because it has not been contaminated with the slightest breath of this world. The thing that is weak and pure to the extreme is also the most powerful thing, because it is the most natural innate power, although the demon boy's mana is very high, but he can't fight against this natural force, at most, he squeezes out the position of the new soul, and finds a way to make this soul slowly wither in the days to come.

This can be proven, because last night the banshee said to Xiao Xia: I really want to have my own body like my brother and grow up slowly!

"That is to say, Lu Yan's mother and son are possessed!" After listening to Ruan Zhan's explanation, Wan Li frowned. He is soft-hearted and despises women and children being bullied.

"Xiao Tong must be possessed, but Lu Yan is not." Ruan Zhan shook his head, "Look, there are two monsters. One is a male demon who has been attached to him since childhood; The other is the little banshee, when we met her, she has always been Zhang Jialin's image, and she also said to Xiao Xia that she wanted to seize Xiao Xia's body, and she wanted to find a few more human skin clothes to change at any time. Did you notice, she said to Xiao Xia: I am more than 300 years old, and I can't always look like a child. What does this prove? Prove that she has always maintained the appearance of a child. ”

"I don't really believe that Lu Yan has a problem." Wan Li recalled Lu Yan's actions again, "Because she found us, her performance and eyes at that time could not be pretended." But come to think of it, there's also something a little quirky about her that I can't figure it out. Do you think, will that little banshee occasionally attach herself to Lu Yan? If it will, then it can explain why Lu Yan is sometimes normal and sometimes behaves strangely. ”

"Maybe. However, I tend to believe that the souls of these two monsters were hidden in the child's body at the beginning, except that the male demon is the master, and the female demon is only shallow, similar to the feeling of living in a friend's house. Because the male banshee obviously wanted to experience the feeling of growing up slowly, you must know that they were poured with mercury at the age of five and buried alive, and their lives have huge shortcomings. And it is precisely because the two souls are parasitic in the same body at the same time that the body is very fragile because it is overwhelmed. I remember I asked Lu Yan, and she said that the child had a very serious illness before, and the doctor said that the child's physical function was very bad, and he was notified of critical illness, but later he was miraculously cured. Soon after, children began to go missing. ”

"Ah, that makes sense." Wanli patted his forehead, "I said they came here five years ago, why did they start making trouble recently!" Presumably, they have been staying together for so many years, adapting to the Vermilion Bird Saint together, and even wanting to live well in the human world. It's just that now the child's body can no longer hold the two of them, so the little banshee who lives there begins to look for a new parasite. ”

Ruan Zhan looked at Wan Li, didn't speak for a long time, and finally scolded him, "You are a so-called famous psychiatrist?" Apparently a Mongolian doctor! It's really lucky that you didn't cure the patient's heart, and someone still asks you to give a lecture and follow up on your published papers?! In this world, Lao Tzu really has no eyes! He couldn't help but curse, "Maybe your previous guess was right, but the little banshee's motive is that simple?" So why did she plague so many children? If you really want to experience life, why don't you just find a parasite that is about to be born? Their mana is so high, if they want to live like this, if it weren't for meeting us, maybe they could hide it for dozens or hundreds of years, why make such a big fuss? Is it really full of food? I mean you're innocent or are you an idiot, with thinking about what happened to Xiao Xia, you haven't analyzed any psychological reasons? Didn't you say that no matter whether it is a human being, an animal, or a spirit, there are no rules to follow, and there are also its original and deepest reasons, there is no love for no reason in the world, and there is no hate for no reason, so you don't see any clues?! ”

Ruan Zhan grabbed a rare meal, and he couldn't figure it out for a while, "I didn't go around the corner for a while, you can talk about it." ”

"You want to go yourself!"

"Okay, I'll think to myself." Seeing that Ruan Zhan was a little irritable, Wan Li knew that he must have suddenly remembered the banshee's attempt at Xiao Xia again, so his emotions were slightly out of control, "But you have to at least tell me, why did Zhang Zixin appear at this time?" ”

"It's simple." Ruan Zhan calmed down his emotions for a while, spread his hands and said, "That pair of monsters used him to come to the city, completely immersed in the prosperity of the city or other things, and lost interest in Zhang Zixin, and even didn't want to eat his soul." Zhang Zixin could have gone to reincarnation, but he couldn't rest assured that Lu Yan would not go, so he kept hiding by her side for five years. This is why Lu Yan always feels that her husband is not dead, and she always feels that he is by her side. And although the mana of this pair of monsters is high, there are still many ways for a soul to hide from them. ”

"Then why didn't Zhang Zixin explain it to Lu Yan in his dream?"

"This pair of monsters wants to use Lu Yan to integrate into this society, and even want to enjoy a little maternal love. So under normal circumstances, they wouldn't work against her. But if Lu Yan knows what happened, and Zhang Zixin can't protect him, do you guess Lu Yan is still alive? Lu Yan is dead, what should I do with the child? If you were Zhang Zixin, what would you do? ”

"I understand when you say that, I'm just stumbling over a little problem, and I'm just in the way." Wan Li said, "There was a fragile balance between them, but then the little banshee began to plague the world, and this balance was in jeopardy, and it also threatened the safety of Lu Yan and the real child." And at this time, the powerful Master Bao appeared, so Zhang Zixin frequently found Lu Yan, because he knew that she missed him, and in order to see him, she would look for Master Bao, so we were also involved. And he didn't have to worry that the pair of monsters would know about it, because how could the mother tell such a young son what she was thinking? ”

"But as soon as we appeared at Lu Yan's house, the pair of monsters must have known, so Xiao Xia encountered strange things one after another. And Zhang Zixin hid in the shadows to see if he could help. Xiao Xia encountered danger last night, and he desperately tried his best to save Xiao Xia, in exchange for us to help Lu Yan and Xiao Tong, because he couldn't do it himself. ”

The more the two of them talked, the closer they felt to the truth, and they both had a feeling of sudden enlightenment in their hearts.

"Don't forget Bao Datong." Wanli reminded, "That pair of monsters has a grudge against him. But since he is not the descendant of the old Taoist, there must be other reasons. Also, Lu Yan is a mother, she raised her frail and sickly son alone, it is impossible not to find anything abnormal, why didn't she suspect it? ”

"It's not hard to understand." Ruan Zhan smiled, but Wan Li felt that there was a trace of bitterness and sadness in his smile, "It's impossible for her not to find anything, but you also said that she is a mother, even if she knows that there is something wrong with the child, she will hide it." is like Duan Jin, who may have done a lot of bad things, but he is a real mother who never rejects her children, even if he is the devil. ”

Why? Why doesn't he have such a mother, is he particularly unlucky, or is he particularly terrible? I still remember when he was four or five years old, he didn't know why he didn't like his parents, who only liked his younger brother who was two years younger than him and his sister who was two years older than him, so he had to play alone, and while playing, he went to the cemetery in the town, and saw that there were many strange people there. He is not afraid of them and is happy to be with them. One summer evening, the aunt he often saw standing at the door of his house with her tongue sticking out her tongue and said to him: "People in the yang world are 'not allowed to enter', please invite me in, I will smell the aroma of food." He did, and his mother fainted! He felt guilty and told his parents that he had done all this. So, he was discarded like a stray dog.

Like a puppy, he doesn't know where the power comes from, and he throws it away and then finds it home. The five-year-old child, abandoned again and again, walked back again and again, walked hungry, walked with blisters, and no adult came to ask him about his situation along the way. But soon after he got home, he would be thrown even farther! He thought that he had done something bad to make his parents angry, and he would forgive him as long as he was obedient, and he even lost his temper with the aunt who stuck out her tongue and waved fire from the palm of his hand in front of his parents. Yet he still saw horror and disgust in the eyes of his parents. Until the last time, his father said to take him on a trip, took a long, long train ride, and bought him a lot of delicious food. He was so happy, but when he was thrown into a coal truck in the dark of night, he realized that his parents didn't want him. No one in this world wants him!