Chapter 17: Discussion (II)

Ruan Zhan nodded, "That's right, this demon is very arrogant, and probably looks down on me, so he didn't hide it." I saw a red yin qi in the middle of her heart, and I guess it was the original body of this demon. There is no problem with this little girl named Zhang Jialin herself, she is just borrowed from her body, but she doesn't know if she is dead or alive now. ”

"I said, Zhang Jialin and Xiao Xia have no grudges or hatreds, why should they hurt her!"

"The question is, what kind of grudge does the red demon have with Xiao Xia?" Wanli said, "And why did it take away so many children?" Is it a purposeful act? Or is it just a matter of randomness? ”

"Actually, that red gas has some shapes." Ruan Zhan continued thoughtfully, "It's like a red lotus. What I don't understand is that the lotus flower is a holy thing, so why should the demonic qi be cultivated into that shape? ”

"Maybe it has something to do with the place where it lives and cultivates. You know that people are always subconsciously copying what they know or like, and this instinct-like behavior is very real. Wanli said.

"Speaking of where it came from, I have one more piece of information." Ruan Zhan glanced at Yang Yang unconsciously, "This kid was almost captured by that demon, but he said he smelled it." ”

"What does it smell like?" Bao Datong smiled in surprise, "Do you believe it?" Such a little guy. He may be nonsense, or he may be imaginary. You know, kids, they always believe a lot of things that aren't true. ”

"It's okay to make assumptions about possibilities." Wan Li said, "You can't underestimate children, they are often much smarter than adults think." ”

"I think he's telling the truth, too." Xiao Xia carefully recalled Yang Yang's expression at that time, "He said that there was a smell of wet mud. ”

"Okay." Bao Datong shrugged, "We don't want to believe it all and don't believe it." But what I'm most interested in is, is it 'it' or 'them'? ”

"It depends on whether Lu Yan's mother and son are the same as we suspect." Ruan Zhan said, "If they are just a pair of eccentric ordinary mother and son, it is 'it', otherwise, it is 'them'!" ”

"You just said that you saw two 'Zhang Jialin' in the hospital? Could it be—" Bao Datong tapped his chin with his finger and looked at Ruan Zhan.

"I think it's her doppelganger in the morgue, because I can see that she's a virtual body, and she can only defend, not attack. But this also proves how powerful she is, and she can actually do the doppelganger technique. ”

"Is it possible to have more?" Wanli asked.

Bao Datong looked at Wan Li in disbelief, as if Wan Li had asked a very idiotic question, "The demon who can make us unable to detect his true identity must have at least two or three hundred years of Taoism, do you think there will be a lot of this kind of thing on the market?" ”

Speaking of this, Ruan Zhan seriously recalled the state of 'Zhang Jialin' at that time, and couldn't help frowning, "As far as I can see, our previous guess was wrong, and 'she' or 'they' may have existed for a longer time. ”

At that time, he played a newly studied spell, and although it forced the little girl to scramble, it did not hurt her in the slightest, and considering that she was very contemptuous of her opponents at that time, it proved that she was very strong in her own right.

In human society, it is the young and middle-aged who have the advantage in physical strength and intelligence, but for demons, the more seemingly weak things are, the more fierce they are. For example, women, for example, children.

"It's better to be more prepared for difficulties." Wan Li said, "Let's say there are three of them, and the girl Ah Zhan and Xiao Xia met seems to be more arrogant, but what about the other two? As he spoke, he looked at Bao Datong.

Bao Datong shook his head, "I went to help them open early this morning, and I have been secretly observing, and the conclusion is that if they are demons, then they are too powerful." Not only are they not afraid of crowds, but they are also not afraid of the sun, and even Lu Yan is a firecracker that she lit herself. Of course, the child was in poor health, and the morning sun was okay, but at noon he was dizzy and went back to the back. I excused myself that the smell in the store was not right, and I also set up a feng shui array to exorcise demons, but they still didn't show their feet at all. ”

"Could it be that we guessed wrong, and there is no problem with their mother and son?" Xiao Xia proposed a possibility, but was immediately rejected by Ruan Zhan.

"Trust me, Natsu-chan. The mother and son were definitely unusual, at least, the child was not as simple as you thought. It's just that people's personalities are different, and there are many kinds of demons and evils, some are quite arrogant, such as 'Zhang Jialin', some are very cautious, and the latter is even more difficult to deal with. ”

Xiao Xia lowered her face in frustration, how she wished they had guessed wrong, she couldn't believe that such a cute child was actually a harmful thing!

"Sometimes we have to face things that are hard to accept." Wanli patted Xiao Xia on the shoulder, "Think about those innocent children who disappeared, they don't know if they are dead or alive now, but if they are still alive, we can save them by destroying the demon!" ”

"I understand." Xiao Xia nodded, wanting to raise her hand to get the soda placed on the bar, but in a bad mood, her hand knocked on the edge of the bar, and happened to touch the wound on her left hand, and she couldn't help but scream.

"You reckless girl, be careful." Because Wan Li was sitting beside her, he took her hand to check, and didn't expect Ruan Zhan to stretch out a hand in the stab and hold Xiao Xia's hand in his hand.

"Give me scissors." He stared at the gauze on Xiao Xia's hand and said.

"What are you doing?" Wanli was a little stunned.

"He's stimulated today, and he's going to destroy the textiles when he sees them." Bao Datong grinned, "Just now, the wolf tore other people's clothes, and now I have to cut off the bandages that people bandage their wounds." But he said so, but ran upstairs and got a medicine box, scissors, and a wooden box of his own.

Ruan Zhan didn't explain, just carefully cut the bandage on Xiao Xia's wound, and saw that there was a slender wound on the ring finger of her left hand, which didn't look serious, but it showed a strange red, and if he didn't look closely, he would think it was a ketchin on the wound, but he smelled a trace of blood on that small wound.

How could such a small wound have such a heavy bloody gas?

"After so many days, why hasn't it healed?" Wan Li frowned, and also realized that something was wrong, "Didn't you see a doctor?" ”

"What's going on? I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary. Xiao Xia saw that Ruan Zhan and Wan Li were so interested in her fingers,

"If you hadn't touched the wound, I wouldn't have realized it." Ruan Zhan gathered his spiritual power as he spoke, felt it with his heart, and said after a while, "Do you know why that demon can break through my formation and hurt people through mirrors and sounds?" ”

"It's not because of my hand, is it?"

"It's because of the blood in your hands, he only sucks a little bit of your blood, and then he can cast a demon spell to find you, just like a phone line."

"I couldn't be more desperate to hear this." Although Bao Datong said that, he had an indifferent look on his face, "The more we analyze, the more we feel that their mana is really strong, and it stands to reason that pinching us to death is as easy as pinching an ant to death." ”

"Now let's unravel his blood track." Ruan Zhan put Xiao Xia's hand on the bar and pointed to the small wooden box in Bao Datong's hand.

"See? I am the most useful companion, at least to solve all kinds of evil arts, and my faction is the most authentic. ”

Bao Datong opened the wooden box as he spoke, took out a piece of yellow paper from it, and then took out a bottle of things like medicinal powder and a bottle of talisman water. He poured the powder into the center of the paper first, and then poured the talisman water on it. In an instant, the yellow paper, which should have been soaking wet, was centered on the medicinal powder, and quickly expanded outward and turned blood red. And Bao Datong grabbed it and threw it into the air the moment the paper turned red.

The paper immediately burned, Bao Datong stretched out his hand, and silently recited a few words in his mouth, and the paper that had been turned into ashes fell into his palm without any loss. He held Xiao Xia's injured hand with one hand, and put the paper ash on the back of her hand with the other, his eyes closed, and he didn't know what was in his mouth.

Xiao Xia thought that it would hurt as much as when he pulled out the corpse poison just now, but he didn't, but the back of his hand was itchy and he couldn't wait to scratch it, and when Bao Datong finally withdrew his hand, Xiao Xia was surprised to find that the rune paper that had burned to ashes had returned to its original appearance.

Bao Datong took back the red paper, took out another medicine powder and talisman water from the wooden box, and turned the paper back to yellow with the same procedure.

"Amazing, right?" He tilted his head and smiled at Xiao Xia, "Don't think that this paper is ordinary paper, how many or as many as you want, this is made of special things, and I only have three in total." ”

Xiao Xia looked down at his hand and saw that the wound was still there, "Nothing has changed, it must be bluffing." ”

"No, it's not a chemical experiment, and it's not a trick of the sticks. It seems simple, but it is actually very difficult to operate. This time, Ruan Zhan explained to Bao Datong, "Physical injuries need to be recovered by one's own body, but this kind of evil art of controlling others with blood and qi must be solved by spells." ”

"Didn't he save me twice today?"

"yes. Let's make a promise! Bao Datong said with a serious smile.

"Her hand was injured at Lu Yan's house last time, so in this way, it is basically certain that there is a problem with the mother and son?" Wanli led the topic back.

"The question is how to get them out." Bao Datong sighed distressedly, "Ah Zhan and I have been in contact with the mother and son, but we haven't found a place to start. It stands to reason that whether a ghost or a demon is, they all have their own doors, just like practicing golden bell jars and iron cloth shirts must have their own doors. 'Zhang Jialin' is more arrogant, and she looks down on Ah Zhan, so that he can see the red lotus in her heart, which is also her life, but I can't tell what the mother and son are. ”

"So what to do?" Xiao Xia said, "Could it be that Jiang Ziya burned the pipa essence and burned the two of them to force out the demons?" ”

"That's not going to work!" Bao Datong hurriedly said, "Exorcising demons and exterminating demons is the same as imposing the death penalty in law, we must be cautious and cautious, and we must be very certain before we can exorcise demons, and there must be no innocent thing, otherwise it will greatly damage yin morality." ”

"That is, unless we are sure that the mother and son are demons, we can't touch them? But how do you get hold of them? Wan Li spread out his hands, "They are elusive, their magic power is profound, and they have at least three hundred years of Taoism, and Ah Zhan and Bao Datong combined are only fifty years of skill, even if they bring me and Xiao Xia together, it will only be a hundred years, and this data still has moisture." ”

"And. I don't understand the motives of these demons? Why did they take the children? What's the use? Even if they are using illusions to get the children to leave on their own, and the parents don't know about it, why do they hear a child calling 'Mommy'? Does this have anything to do with their past lives or their lifetimes? Why did Lu Yan look for Bao Datong? Deliberately revealing your identity? Another purpose? Or do you really want to get your husband back?" Xiao Xia said.

"It's up to our psychiatrist to analyze this." Bao Datong touched thousands of miles with his elbow.

"As long as there are enough clues, I can analyze, whether it is a person or a ghost, there is a trajectory to follow." Wan Li said, "Judging from the clues we have, we have goals, Lu Yan's mother and son and Zhang Jialin; We have relevant clues, Lu Yan's husband Zhang Zixin incident; We also know a little bit of technical details, red lotus, wet mud smell, retro-style dresses, inexplicable hatred for Konatsu; We even have a preliminary assessment of the strength of the other party - one is arrogant, the other is cautious, the mana has a history of hundreds of years, can do doppelgangers, can track blood, the banshee's life is in the chest, and the other party looks down on us in terms of their attitude towards us. These clues are not too much, but I need some more details before I can make a preliminary analysis and judgment. ”

"That means you have to investigate first?" Bao Datong touched Ruan Zhan with his other elbow, "'Cousin', what do you say next?" ”

Ruan Zhan pondered for a moment, "Now that we have locked our target, we should concentrate our efforts. In this way, we are divided into three ways. went all the way to investigate Lu Yan's husband Zhang Zixin, which may have something to do with the missing children; Erlu continued to stare at Lu Yan's mother and son, I have a hunch that the mystery lies in this mother and son; Three ways to track down the missing children's case, believe me, the child will continue to be lost, so if these clues are found, it will also be quite beneficial to us. ”

Speaking of this, Ruan Zhan looked around at the other three people, and was a little difficult about how to divide the labor. Whether he likes it or not, Bao Datong is a new force for them and the best helper for him. However, as their manpower grew, their opponents became more formidable, leaving him as overstretched as usual in terms of arrangement. Fortunately, Xiao Xia learned some spells, although due to the problem of natural physique, plus the cultivation time is too short to be of much use, but after all, she can protect herself, so that he can worry a little less.

It's just that worrying less doesn't mean not worrying, no matter which task is assigned to Xiao Xia and Wanli, it's dangerous. But if you don't assign Xiao Xia a task and leave her alone, the danger will be even greater, because demons will always attack people who are alone.

The opponent is too powerful, he is very worried about whether the defensive formation in his house is foolproof, and besides, they will use other things, and the defense is always passive. In his absence, accidents can happen at any time.

At this point, everyone else was silent, just waiting for him to speak, and he hesitated for a long time, and finally made a difficult decision.

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