Since I started working part-time at my boss, I have carefully examined all the oracle bone inscriptions on the eighty-one turtle shells several times, but I have not found any correlation between them!

However, I compared the short rune on the crossstone last time, and found some traces on the turtle shell at one time, and understood some meanings and truths from the annotations of the turtle shell text.

The continuous pronunciation of the small rhythm rune, judging from the annotations on the turtle shell, seems to contain two meanings, one is to expel the evil spirit, and the other is to let the listener's own three souls and seven spirits return to the correct position! It can be seen that the people who have been spelled in the temple do not have their souls leaving their bodies, but are only temporarily occupied by evil spirits, so their consciousness is driven by evil.

I didn't expect that just a short spell of nine syllables would have such a powerful effect, and I have to admire the great wisdom of the ancient wizards.

So I had a guess in my heart, maybe these eighty-one oracle bones were just an interpretation of witchcraft, and if this was the case, then I would have to find other witchcraft to verify it.

In today's society, witchcraft is basically gone, replaced by great science and technology, and everything can basically be explained by scientific principles. But now that I understand that modern science about ancient witchcraft is currently unanswerable, it has aroused my strong desire to study and understand the usage and principles of witchcraft thoroughly!

There are many magical legends about the corpse chasers in the mountains of Xiangxi, and I am sure that if they can really drive the corpses away, then there must be some spells in them!

I went back to the institute and discussed with the director and the director, if there was no important task in the short term, I had to go to Xiangxi to continue to study the story behind the words on the parchment scroll. As soon as I heard that I was continuing to study the Western Zhou script, the director naturally agreed that I should go to Xiangxi, and let me go as an archaeologist of the institute, which was considered my business trip!

I was worried that the institute would not allow me to leave Shanghai, but I didn't expect the institute to provide me with all the expenses, and there was still a travel allowance!

Of course, I mainly wanted to interpret the oracle bone inscriptions on those turtle shells, and after leaving the institute, I went directly to the villa in the western suburbs and asked Boss He to discuss the matter together.

After listening to my thoughts, Boss He asked very happily: "Then if I went to Xiangxi this time and got spells from the corpse chaser, and the runes of these spells can be interpreted from the turtle shell, then can the words on the eighty-one turtle shells be on the front, which is a rune interpretation dictionary of ancient spells?"

I nodded and said, "Yes, as long as the spells of the corpse chaser can be interpreted through the oracle bone inscriptions on the tortoise shell, then these oracle bone inscriptions must be equivalent to a sea of ancient spells!"

After hearing this, Boss He was overjoyed, he got up and held me with both hands and said: "Oh Xiao Feng, you are really amazing! We have invited so many experts to interpret, there has never been any breakthrough, I will say that you are more powerful, I really didn't look away! You say, how do you need the company to cooperate with you, everything you need The company will do its best to prepare for you!"

I frowned and thought for a while, then looked up and asked Boss He: "If we find a corpse chaser who can spell, their spells are passed down from generation to generation, and they won't be easily told to outsiders! Maybe we will have to give some rewards to the corpse chaser at that time, if we can't arouse his interest, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for us to get the real spell!"

Boss He smiled after hearing this: "Of course, people live for money, as long as the price is right, it is worth the money!

I nodded, and suddenly I asked with some curiosity: "Mr. He, let me take the liberty of asking! What is the market value of the tortoise shell with the oracle bone inscription in these eighty-one moments? If the meaning and origin of the words are finally proven, what will the market value become by then?"

Boss He coughed after hearing this, then pulled me aside, and whispered to me alone: "Now these turtle shells are worth tens of millions at most in the market, if you can really decipher the meaning of the words and their provenance, this will soon become a priceless treasure! If you have to measure it by money, then you have to ask for at least 100 million, otherwise it is better to let the company collect it by itself!"

After listening to this, I stuck out my tongue, and felt that there would be such a big difference in the value of cultural relics, which was completely beyond my expectations.

Seeing that I was surprised like this, Boss He patted me on the shoulder with a smile and said: "Don't worry, Xiao Feng, I also said before, if you handle this matter and create value for the company, your commission will definitely be indispensable! Go to Xiangxi to visit witchcraft, I will wait for your good news in Shanghai!"

As soon as I heard that there was really a commission, my face immediately burst into laughter! There was no way, I could only survive on my own in Shanghai, and it was naturally a good thing to be able to make more money. Soon I booked a destination, the most popular county in Xiangxi, and then we set off directly.

Huahe Group's treatment is good, and the itinerary to Xiangxi, Hunan is very comfortable!

I also caught up with the good welfare, the first time I took a plane back to my hometown Hunan, after arriving in Changsha, Ge Xiaodong, who accompanied us, rented a Buick business car, bought all the items and began to go straight to Loudi through navigation, and then continued to drive west towards Huaihua City!

Huaihua City is located in the west side of Hunan Province, is a relatively poor mountainous area in Hunan Province, the traffic here is indeed not very developed, that is, there is no airport and no highway, we can only keep bumping along the simple road in the mountains.

It took us nearly a day to drive from Changsha to Loudi, and another day to drive from Loudi to Lipu County in Huaihua City.

We were so tired from the bumps along the way that we had to rest for the night.

The next day, after some inquiries in the county, we decided to visit the countryside deep in the mountains, and the destination was Shenjiawan in Chenxi County, which is next door to the northwest!

After the car drove west to Tanjiachang Township, there was no decent road to the north, so our group had to carry our bags and walk to the direction of Shenjiawan on the north side!

The mountains here are quite straight, and the trails in the mountains are very rugged, and we walked slowly and hard along the way. This time it was my private action, so I only brought Wen Yuan, and even Zhang Xianyun didn't let him come with me. When passing through Changsha, Xiaoge called a person from their Hunan branch to drive to accompany him, while his colleague stayed in Tanjiachang to watch the car, and he also accompanied us on foot.

We were lucky, and before we could reach Shenjiawan, we heard the locals gather at a place called Dwarf Jianshan and say that a corpse chaser would pass by tonight. We were so excited that we decided to stay and wait for the corpse chaser.

We were tired from a long day in the mountains, so we found a family in a mountain village to spend the night and rest.

This is an ordinary Han villager, but since they have lived here for generations, they know everything about the local area very well.

The man was an elderly uncle, and he described it this way: "The people of our place, including all the nearby counties, are very poor, and many of them will take advantage of their youth to go out to work in other places to make money, and many people will die in other places! Fallen leaves always return to their roots, so they must be transported back to their hometown for burial! But we are full of rugged mountainous areas, and we can't transport corpses by car at all! Therefore, the families of the deceased here usually pay for the help of corpse chasers, so that the master can use spells to drive the corpses to their homes on mountain roads!"

I was very curious and asked, "Are these masters really driving real corpses?"

The uncle smiled and said: "Half true and half false, it depends on what kind of master it is, the master who really understands spells is indeed rushing the real corpse, and he can even make the corpse move flexibly like a normal person, and the speed of the journey is faster!"

Hearing this, I looked at the dark mountains and forests outside the door, and goosebumps began to rise all over my body.

Wen Yuan looked at me and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of, it's normal to drive corpses here!"

I looked back at Wen Yuan, and suddenly remembered that he was from Xiangxi, so I asked, "Oh yes, Wen Yuan, where is your hometown, do you want to accompany you back to your hometown at that time?"

Wen Yuan smiled and said: "My hometown is Fenghuang County, it's not very far from here! But I don't have any relatives over there, so it's not interesting to go back, so forget it!"

I have always been very surprised by Wen Yuan's ability, and I have some doubts about his background, and I was just about to ask something more, when there was a sound of bells and people talking on the path outside the door.

"Oh~~~~~, oh~~~! Yin people borrow the way, Yang people avoid it;

As soon as we heard this, we knew that the corpse chaser had arrived, so the three of us immediately got up and walked out of the hut and went straight to see what was going on!

I saw a row of people walking under the gloomy woods in the bright moonlight, the leader wearing a red robe, shouting and shaking the bell in his hand. But the people behind him were all dressed in white, their hands were raised together, and all of them moved neatly, jumping up and down as they walked.

I was very curious, and looked at these people in white intently, only to see that their eyes were deeply sunken, their faces were pale, and their cheeks were also shriveled, which frightened me several steps back.

Oh my God, this, this, isn't this the legendary zombie that jumps around!

Fear filled my whole body, and my limbs stiffened a little, and I wanted to flee into the house immediately, but my legs couldn't move!

Who knew that Wen Yuan was very bold, he walked straight over and looked at it carefully, then turned his head and walked back.

Wen Yuan whispered to me: "Uncle, this corpse chaser is fake! Those people raised their hands flat because they hid two long bamboo poles in their sleeves, and their arms were tied to the bamboo poles, so those people were actually carried by two people in front and behind! Because the bamboo poles carried a lot of weight, they swayed up and down when they walked, so these corpses looked like they were jumping and walking!"

After listening to what Wen Yuan said, I looked at him in a daze for a few seconds, and then frowned and looked at him seriously. I saw that when those corpses were jumping away, their legs felt a little fluttering, and it really felt that there were two weight-bearing poles on their left and right.

All the doubts disappeared immediately, and I immediately took Dong Ge and Wen Yun back to the hut, and after a few words with the male host, I went to the room to rest.

Wen Yuan was lying next to me, and when he saw that I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, he asked, "What's wrong with my uncle?"

I sighed and said, "Wouldn't this corpse chaser all use this kind of deceptive trick? If so, then our trip will be in vain!"

Wen Yuan was silent for a while after hearing this, and then comforted me and said, "Probably not! Anyway, there is Shenjiawan next to it, let's wait until we go to find that old Taoist who is very good at spells and take a look! Since this old Taoist is so famous in the entire county, he should have a little real ability, otherwise he will not be so respected by everyone!"

Wen Yuan's words were always very comfortable to listen to, and soon I regained a trace of confidence, and I wouldn't fall asleep unconsciously.

The next morning, we ate some sweet potatoes at my uncle's house, and after paying for the overnight, we went east around Dwarf Jianshan and went directly to Shenjiawan on the north side!

Shenjiawan lives and is home to many Yao people, and the ancient architectural customs of Yaojiazhai here are well preserved! The clothes of the Yao people are very national, the lower body wears a flower-colored full-foot skirt, the top is all blue, and the top of the head and waist are wrapped with red strips of cloth embellished with yellow.

Under the guidance of the locals, we went around the back of the mountain to the home of a Yao Wu to meet the legendary witch god Yao Lao!

Yao is very old, he looks like he is about eighty years old, he is full of gray hair, and even the handful of beard on his chin is a hundred to the end, just like the old immortal Dao in the mythological TV series!

Yao Lao used to work as a corpse chaser when he was young, and he was famous for a while, and he was the most famous Yao witch with the highest magic skills in several nearby counties! Now that Yao is old, he has not been engaged in this business for a long time, and he usually only occasionally does "deflated conversions" to eliminate disasters and solve difficulties for the people!

We can't ask Yao Lao's real name anymore, we only know that everyone calls him Yao Lao, and we can't ask anything more!

The old man is very kind and kind to us, which is the common merit of all ethnic minorities, and they are so warm and generous to strangers. The people here are very simple, and the old man is even more upright, and soon he told us all about his family without any worries.

The old man had a son and a daughter, and the daughter married in Zhuzhou very early, and because of the long distance, the old man only came back to visit him once a year when he had his birthday. The son took a family of three to work in other places, and every year he would go back to his hometown to accompany the elderly for a few days during the Spring Festival!

In this way, the old man usually lives alone in Shenjiawan, and he is a little lonely.

However, although Yao Lao is old, he is energetic and sharp-minded, as if he has understood our purpose when we first came.

The old man's Mandarin is extraordinarily fluent, and he may have been trained by walking the rivers and lakes to various parts of Xiangxi to drive out corpses! He smiled and said to us: "You three young people know at a glance that they are not locals, how can they come to our mountain nest! Could it be that it is also for those witchcraft that summons spirits and exorcises ghosts?"

I smiled awkwardly and confessed very sincerely: "Yes, grandpa, we are from Shanghai, and I heard that you are a master of Taoism in this regard, so please come over and ask for advice!"

Lao Re waved his hand and said with a slow smile: "Don't dare to be a master, just understand a little!"

I figured I wouldn't have to hide it in front of the old man, so I told him what he had seen, hoping that he would give us an affirmative answer and tell us if there was any real witchcraft to drive away corpses!

After hearing this, the old man sighed and said: "Hey, the young people nowadays don't know how to learn or know, and they always engage in some fake things to fool people to confuse the world! I think that back then, our corpse chasers had their own fixed shops, and their prestige and reputation were extremely high, and if the scum of the same peers as you saw was still in my youth, we would have been beaten to death! It's a pity that the times are developing too fast, and many roads have been built to the entrance of the village, and our line of work has declined!"

After speaking, the old man rubbed his eyes and continued to speak: "My son refused to inherit my family's ancestral business, only his sister has been in the old business for a few years, but after she got married, she will no longer do related things! I have not recited the spell of conjuring spirits for many years, and I don't know if the spirit is not spiritual! Since you are all here, then I will show you again!"

After saying that, the old man got up and was about to go to get the magic weapon, and I hurriedly asked, "Uh, uncle, can you start the demonstration now?

The old man smiled and said, "At night, hehe, those are some people who have no real skills, and they can only do it at night." Why? Because it was dark at night, it was convenient for them to steal beams and change pillars to fool everyone! There is no time limit for real witchcraft, and they can do it whenever they want!"

After speaking, the old man walked into the side room and began to rummage around the room non-stop, probably looking for magic weapons that had not been used for many years.

Dong Ge was bored with our conversation, got up and grabbed a puppy passing by the door, and then hugged it in his arms and played.

The old man quickly walked out of the room with all kinds of magic weapons, including runes, bells, and some artifacts that he didn't know very well! To be honest, I didn't have much research on these things, and I didn't know much about them, so I couldn't name them, and I was so embarrassed!

At this time, the puppy barked twice, broke free from Dongge's grasp and ran out of the door.

The old man immediately pointed to the puppy and said, "Okay, let's use this puppy as a demonstration, go and catch it for me!"

Brother Dong immediately got up and ran and caught the puppy from Xin, but the puppy kept struggling to resist, looking very restless!

At this time, the old man began to raise two fingers, closed his eyes and whispered silently, suddenly he opened his eyes, pointed two fingers at the puppy in Dongge's hand and said, "Dizzy!"

The puppy suddenly closed its eyes and fell directly into Dong Ge's hands, as if he was asleep, only breathing and not responding.

I was dumbfounded, this, this, this, it was incredible! The old man was about two meters away from Dongge's position, and even if he used any psychedelic drugs, he couldn't charm the puppy, because he couldn't use the medicine at such a distance.

Brother Dong was very scared and put the puppy in the open space in the middle, and the puppy was still lying there motionless, still breathing evenly!

The old man smiled and explained: "It's okay, I'm just sealing its soul now, so it's no different from falling asleep now! I'll do it later, I'll summon a revenant spirit to attach to it, but the dog can't speak, and when the revenant soul is possessed, it can only listen to what we say, but it can't speak!"

I nodded again and again and said, "Okay, good, grandpa's witchcraft is really powerful, I can be regarded as an eye-opener! Please continue to practice grandpa, I'll wait to see later!"

The old man pointed at us and said, "No, no, just sit here! Don't worry, I have never missed a beat, I will not hurt you, and I will ensure your absolute safety!"

Hearing the old man's words, we had to move the stool back to its original place, and sit down very close to the old man, and the puppy lay in front of our feet.

The old man began to light the candle, wearing three yellow talismans with an old peachwood sword, and lit the talisman while chanting the incantation! Suddenly the old man opened his eyes, waved his sword and pointed at the puppy on the ground and said loudly, "Get up!"

Something miraculous happened, and the puppy got up from the ground and turned his head to look at the three of us.

In an instant I was terrified, for the puppy's eyes turned out to be the same as those of the evil spell in the temple at that time!

The old man touched his beard, nodded and said, "Don't worry, when you cooperate with me to complete the Fa, I will reincarnate your soul for you, and then you can go to reincarnation!"

The puppy really understood human speech, and the two front legs immediately fell to the ground, and the head kept kowtowing to the old man in thanks.

I was dumbfounded, and I was so frightened that I immediately stood up!

My voice immediately alarmed the puppy, who suddenly got up from the ground, turned his head to stare at me with his two big white eyes, grew his beak very large, and whispered at me.

The old man hurriedly said, "Hugh is rude, sit down!"

The little dog immediately let out a well-behaved snort, and immediately fell to the ground obediently, obeying the old man's orders.

Wen Yuan immediately pulled me to sit down again, comforted me and said, "There is a master here, uncle, you don't have to be afraid, don't affect the master to cast spells!"

I nodded, stretched out my hand to wipe the sweat on my forehead, and my heart began to beat wildly! It turns out that there really exists witchcraft of conjuring spirits in this world, if this is the case, then isn't reincarnation also true? This reminds me of the words recorded in the parchment scroll, which are all the author's descriptions of his previous reincarnations, so how did the author himself know so many of his past lives?

In an instant, my mind was filled with all kinds of doubts, all this in front of me made me have to believe that the ghosts and spells were real, but if this was the case, wouldn't it be possible that there were other more powerful witchcraft that had been passed down by future generations, but where were the others hiding, or had they been lost at all?