Chapter Twenty-Nine: Once Upon a Time

Uncle Bao picked up a flashlight, then walked over and pulled the dress away, and immediately a bead appeared in front of us. As soon as it got rid of its clothes, it rolled around on the ground, as if trying to find a way, but could not find it! Only then did I realize that it was not the clothes that were moving, but the beads under the clothes.

"Sunny Eyes!" Uncle Bao carefully picked it up and put it in the palm of his hand.

Ah Zhan and I looked at each other for a moment, because on the surface, this bead is no longer the same one!

It turned out that the one could not be seen in the sunlight at all, and only in the darkness could its traces be judged by the silver brilliance it emitted. And now, even if you don't look at it in normal light, you can see that it has changed color, from silvery white to blood-like red, with a small black ball in the middle.

I'm more curious, so I couldn't help but pick up a flashlight and take a closer look, only to see that the bead kept trembling in Uncle Bao's palm, when the strong light in my hand came, it shrank back as if stimulated, and the black ball in the middle became a flat line, as if the eyes were avoiding the bright light.

I was so surprised that I wanted to pick it up from Uncle Bao's hand and look at it, but before my fingers could touch it, the bead turned around and looked at me vigilantly, and then I saw with my own eyes that the black sphere in the middle of it was round and big, and suddenly smashed into my face!

I instinctively ducked back, but Uncle Bao grabbed it in the air, took out a piece of talisman paper in his right hand, quickly wrapped it, and put it into the big cloth bag like a treasure bag that he was carrying.

Outside the cloth bag, you can still see a round ball rolling, which looks so restless, but Uncle Bao doesn't seem to feel it.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"That female ghost has been absorbed into her inner dan!" After all, Ah Zhan was born in Taoism, and he saw the truth of the matter on the spot.

"How?" I asked again dumbfounded.

"Uncle Bao designed it!"

"But—"

"Don't do it, let's go up first, and then I'll explain it to you slowly." Uncle Bao returned to the image of an honest and smiling old peasant, and at the same time took out a small bell and shook it while chanting a mantra, until the two black shadows that were sealed on the wall, that is, the souls of Zhao Jiang and the little maid, were 'chirped' into it, and then put away the bell.

Then Ah Zhan and I took a lot of effort to open the heavy wooden door, and sure enough, we saw that the outer tomb was empty, and Bao Datong and those evil classmates were gone!

Seeing Uncle Bao's confident appearance, I didn't want to ask anything, so I had to climb out of the grave along the same road first, and as soon as I came up, I saw that in the open space of the woods, there were people lying on the ground, and Bao Datong was sitting on the big stone on the side, with a look of virtue for the rest of his life.

"It's finally out!" He sighed exaggeratedly, "If it weren't for these burdens, I would have almost gone back to save you." ”

"How are they?" Zhan asked.

"They're evil, you know, but when you shut the door, the monster baby's mother has significantly less control over them. I figured I wouldn't know what trouble I would get if I left them underground, so I used some Soul Charm to get them to crawl out with me, and then I used a Tranquilizer Charm and they fell asleep. Bao Datong explained proudly.

I was not in the mood to listen to his nagging, so I searched around, and at a glance I saw Nana lying under a tree on the left, and hurriedly ran over to see how she was doing.

"Dad, do you want to solve their evil quickly, I heard that if you are evil for a long time, it may damage the body!"

"What did I hear, I didn't teach you, unfilial son!" Uncle Bao reprimanded, but his subordinates were not idle, and he took out a wooden ball the size of a tennis ball from somewhere and rubbed the top of the students' heads one by one.

The small wooden ball was black and white, and it was engraved with incomprehensible incantations.

"Alright." After a while, he said after 'curing' the last classmate, but I didn't see anyone stand up, seeing my puzzled eyes, Uncle Bao explained, "They have been in evil for a long time, and they will only wake up after a while, and they will only remember what happened before the evil spirit." ”

"Can you explain what just happened?" I asked.

"It's all because of her yin and yang eyes." Uncle Bao sat down, and he looked like he would answer all our questions.

"She's a ghost, what kind of yin and yang eyes do you want!" Bao Datong asks us questions.

"This is not the yin and yang eyes in the usual sense, but the yin and yang eyes. You know that cultivators have to cultivate their own magic weapons, and some also cultivate themselves, she just cultivates her own eyeballs, one cultivates yin and one cultivates yang, if it is completed, the power will be great, and probably no one will be able to hurt their mother and son at that time! Uncle Bao patiently explained, "The reason why that weird baby dared to come out in broad daylight was because he took her yang eyes." This is the most yang thing, with it, even the most yin ghost thing, can haunt in broad daylight, but it can't be directly exposed to the sun. ”

"She's a ghost!" Bao Datong said in the same tone, "How can you cultivate something that reaches the yang?" It's still so pure and upright! ”

"I'll ask her funeral maid later." Uncle Bao said, "This is also one of the reasons why you can't kill her, that female ghost is so angry, she will definitely not say anything to us, and all the mysteries will depend on this maid to solve them." Moreover, looking at the qi on her body, she is a kind and timid person in front of and behind her, she should not have done evil, and it is good not to kill innocents indiscriminately. The so-called equality of all beings, ghosts, foxes, fairies and monsters are the same! ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but admire Uncle Bao, sure enough, ginger was old and spicy, and when we were spinning around like headless flies, his old man even thought about such a small thing.

"That female ghost must not be a mortal before she was alive, so she can also cultivate after death." Ah Zhan came up with a sentence.

"That's right." Uncle Bao nodded, "When I fought with her, she not only had the mana of a hundred-year-old ghost, but also a lot of Taoist techniques, although she used them to the point of change!" ”

"Then again, Uncle Bao, why are you pretending to be injured?" I pulled over the topic, "It's so dangerous for me and Ah Zhan." ”

"Huh? What's going on? Make believe? Bao Datong came to his senses when he heard this, "Dad, tell me quickly, why haven't I seen the use of stratagem?" ”

"Well, I had to do it as a last resort." Uncle Bao smiled apologetically, "At first I made a mistake in judgment, because we got her Neidan, I don't think she should have much power to do it." But as soon as I saw her, I realized that the yin and yang eyes of her cultivation and the yin eye in her hands were not easy to deal with, but I didn't have time to talk to you in detail at that time. ”

"Oh, Daddy, if you can't beat it, you'll cheat!"

"This - can't be an enemy, and it's the same with outwitting." Uncle Bao continued, "Besides, it's not like I can't beat her. She has lost her yang eye, and her strength has been reduced, but if she faces the enemy head-on, I'm afraid it will take a little longer. I'm afraid that these evil people will damage your body, and you won't be able to withstand the yin qi emitted by our fighting, so of course you have to fight quickly. ”

"So, after leading us to fight her for a few rounds, you pretended to be a little weaker, and then when we closed the door, you pretended to go to her coffin to fight, and you trapped each other, and finally made a big show to entice her to snatch her eyes. And this yang eye you have already moved your hands and feet, and added extremely strong spells, but instead she has absorbed herself. Zhan concluded.

Uncle Bao nodded appreciatively at Ah Zhan again, but corrected again, "You're right, but I didn't pretend to be a little inferior, because that would make her see that I was just sealing a mana." This also requires you and Wanli to do well, I wasn't all acting just now, if it doesn't work, it's also a bit dangerous. But I believe in you, you are a naturally capable child, with a hard and tenacious personality, and you will not be wrong. ”

"Yang Yan, she must not be allowed to get Yang Yan!" I imitated Uncle Bao's tone and expression, "Which art school did you graduate from?" I even studied psychology at the same time! Not only did she act so vividly, but she also used the reverse method to provoke her not to suspect Yang Yan at all, and she was anxious to snatch us back in one step, so she got started. ”

"My dad is from a folk art school." Bao Datong grabbed the topic, "There is a folk saying that people are old and treacherous, horses are old and slippery, and rabbits are not easy to take when they are old, this is the law." My dad is a lot older, so he's naturally more cunning than us—ouch! ”

Uncle Bao gave his son a slap on the head.

"But if her soul is absorbed into the yang eye, why is her bone gone in an instant." I asked.

"Young man, didn't I just say that the yang eye is the supreme yang thing, although I don't know how she cultivates, but after all, she is also the supreme yin body, so once she breaks the power of her control yang eye, she will also be instantly fused into essence, which is the energy you are talking about, including the yin eye."

Uncle Bao's words immediately reminded me that the black pupil-like thing in the red yang eyes was made of the female ghost's soul and her yin eyes.

"What are you going to do with your sunshine?" Zhan asked.

Uncle Bao pondered for a while, "Yang Eye is a treasure, it is rare for a ghost to cultivate, and there is no anger at all." Or rather, it's more appropriate to call it the yin and yang eyes now, as you should see, the two eyes have become one. As for how to deal with it, I want to see why this female ghost has become what she is now. When I fought her, I only saw the murder in her, but there was no cruelty. Alas, thinking that she has been in that dead hole for more than 100 years, there must be some hardships, so it's better to ask clearly. If she doesn't have a great evil, she can still cross it! ”

Uncle Bao sighed, and then slowly walked to the shady place in the woods, and the three of us followed closely behind him.

I was a little puzzled, and I thought that the interrogation of ghosts would only be done at night, but now it was already afternoon, but the sun was still high, and even if it was in the woods, it might not be possible!

But when I found a shady place, I saw Uncle Bao take out an umbrella from the cloth bag, very old and very small, but when I opened it, I saw that it was also full of charms, and there were many strange tassels hanging down.

He opened the umbrella and stuck it in the dirt, then placed the little bell underneath it and began to chant the incantation.

After a while, I saw a vague shadow under the umbrella, although I couldn't see her face clearly, but from her looming appearance, there was no doubt that it was the funeral maid. However, because of the small umbrella, her body size is also much smaller.

Because of my strong yang energy, Uncle Bao told me to stay away, but despite this, I could hear their conversation clearly.

It turned out that this female ghost died more than 100 years ago, and her name before her death was Duan Jin, and her family was a famous silk merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. Because she was born with extraordinary abilities, she was sent to the mountains by her father who believed in the Tao to cultivate the Tao, and it happened that she also met a master with a high level of Taoism, so her skills progressed quickly, and her father was very proud of her, hoping to ascend to heaven through her Taoism.

It's just that later she fell in love with a man and became pregnant. was going to live and fly together, but this man was afraid of her family's power, so he fled alone. Her father was very desperate when he found out about this, and she also knew that he had disgraced the family and hid at home and did not dare to see anyone.

Later, because of the guilt of her father and family, and because of her extreme disappointment in the man, she proposed to cut herself to thank her family. Her father was also hard-hearted, and he actually agreed to her. So she left the house and found it.

She was originally a filial and kind person, but she came to this point when she met someone who was unladylike, for fear that she would not be able to control her resentment and hurt her family and innocent people after becoming a ghost, so she found this dead hole surrounded by mountains and under the water to calm herself, so that she would never come out. Even for this, she even drew charms on the inner walls and doors of the tomb to prevent herself from becoming a ghost.

When the tomb was repaired, she was already pregnant, but she didn't want to give birth to this child, so she walked into the tomb and chose to be buried alive. It's just that her father couldn't bear it at the last moment, and while she wasn't paying attention, he buried the little maid with her, and when she understood, she couldn't get out.

So, the two poor women died in this underground. It's just that what she didn't expect was that at the moment she took her last breath, the child in her womb was born.

Maybe she was calm on the surface, but she still had resentment and hatred in her heart, so although the child died immediately after birth, she was immediately resurrected, and after she came back to life, she became a monster.

He first ate up the flesh of his mother and maid, and when he was starving, a craftsman who built the tomb brought some men in to rob the tomb because he was greedy for the burial treasure.

This may be the retribution of greed, and instead of receiving the treasure, they became another dinner for the demon child.

And one of these people brought in a small monkey. Because the demon baby wanted to go out, and the baby's body couldn't grow up, it attached itself to the little monkey and ate up its own body.

Duan Jin didn't want his child to kill living beings like this, but because the mother and son were connected, he didn't want him to suffer, so he cast a spell to trap him underground and only let him eat some animals occasionally. And she herself desperately cultivated the Yin and Yang Eye with the abilities she had before her death, thinking that one day she could dissolve the anger of the monster she gave birth to through treasures, so that he could go on the right path and return to the Heavenly Dao.

But she forgot one sentence - a loving mother is a failure!

Many years passed, and the strange baby slowly grew, and although he cultivated the monkey face into his own face, his body shape never changed, but his anger became heavier and heavier, and his personality was cunning and sinister, and he gradually knew how to exploit the weakness of the doting mother.

That's when we, the travelers, broke into his sight. His thirst for human flesh led him to resort to all kinds of tricks and threats to force his mother to help fulfill his desire to eat people.

Duan Jin didn't agree, but the flash flood that night gave the strange baby a chance. The water overflowed the top of the tomb and submerged us, allowing the baby to borrow the water to escape its mother's grasp.

At this time, Duan Jin originally wanted to stop it, so although the strange baby was doing something strange on the water, it didn't succeed, but Zhao Jiang was the first to be killed in order to save Nana. It's just that instead of being eaten, he was used by the monster baby to follow us.

It's trying to eat us all!

But I found it and wounded him with my bloodwood sword, so he took the opportunity to pretend that he would die if he didn't eat anyone. Because he felt sorry for his son and because of his mother's selfishness, Duan Jin finally helped him!

She didn't do it herself, but she used her magic to help the weird baby, and we killed three people! And those evil classmates are the weird babies who want to store and eat slowly.

That's all the reason why we're in such a tragic situation! Just because we're a ghost food!

Whether this woman should be sympathetic or hateful, I can't tell. On the one hand, she was so kind in life, and after she died, she trapped this demon baby for more than a hundred years and didn't let it do evil; On the other hand, she was an accomplice in the killing of my classmate after all!

Three classmates, three friends, three lives that were young and fresh a day ago, and now there are no residues left!

"What are you going to do?" Bao Datong asked me and Ah Zhan.

The two of us looked at each other, speechless.

Kill her? But isn't she pitiful enough? Moreover, she has lost everything and has been punished. Forgive her? Will those classmates who died unjustly agree? She's also an accomplice after all!

"That's it." Uncle Bao relieved our hesitation, "At night, I will go to collect the scattered souls of your deceased classmates, because they are dying, being eaten, and still in the field, their souls must be helpless, let's let them decide, after all, they are the victims." ”

"I guess they'll give Duan Jin a chance to make amends, because after all, it's an accomplice. As the saying goes, you have to be forgiving and forgiving! Bao Datong was obviously more sympathetic to Duan Jin.

And, he guessed right.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the classmate of the evil party woke up, he was arranged to stay in the local town, because there was a murder, and a large number of police officers also arrived. However, the final result of this kind of supernatural event is still inconclusive, so I don't need to go into detail about that process.

It's just that Ah Zhan and I left the hotel in the middle of the night to meet with Bao's father and son, and then we knew that those murdered classmates were willing to let Duan Jin go, firstly because the real murderer had been eliminated to the point that there was no trace left, and it could be regarded as revenge, and secondly, because Uncle Bao promised to let Duan Jin change his ways, and then cultivate blessings for them and bless them with peace and happiness in the next life.

I once asked Uncle Bao where he wanted to take those souls, and Uncle Bao said that there is a boundary in this world, and ordinary people will not know where it is, but it is the place where yin and yang meet, and he wants to put those dead souls there, because all kinds of beings and spirits have their own rules and paths.

I didn't ask any more questions, and after a few days of tossing and turning, the police came up with a so-called 'scientific explanation', and then we left. It was supposed to be a happy trip, but I didn't expect it to turn out to be a tragedy in the end!

I still have a shadow of this incident, so it was a little strange when I got to the mountains.

Wanli finished telling the story and looked out the window.

It was pitch black, the last and darkest time before dawn.

Outside the window, a dark shadow flashed!

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