Although these words came from a young mouth with baby teeth that had not yet grown, Wei Xiaofeng's hairs stood on end, cold sweat flowed, and there was a chill behind his back. In addition to being afraid, she immediately understood what the breath of the other two spirits mentioned in this little girl's words was, she had been in contact with the souls of Zhong Xiaoye and Liang Yi, and naturally left their spiritual breath on her body. Then Xiao Feng's heart was suddenly full of surprise, how did this little girl know? Can she really see or feel it? Xiao Feng suddenly remembered that Shen Lao had said something similar when he invited them to the village just now. Now she was even more convinced that Shen Lao's previous words were not pretending to be ghosts, and the pair of grandfathers and grandsons in front of her were indeed different from ordinary people. She looked sideways at Wu Yun and found that Wu Yun was also looking at her with strange eyes, and they could see that the thoughts in their hearts were the same.

Looking at the two young people's shocked expressions, Shen Lao explained: "Our ancestors of the Shen family have been different from ordinary people for generations, and we can see and feel the existence of spirits that others can't see and feel. My granddaughter has inherited this trait as well. This is also one of the most important reasons why our Shen family has always been a sacrifice in the village. ”

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng were quickly relieved, after all, they had had a strange experience in the mansion in Dongmingshan together, and they were already immune to similar things.

Elder Shen hugged his granddaughter to his lap and sat down, and introduced to Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng: "This is my granddaughter Sisi, who is four and a half years old this year. My son and daughter-in-law are very busy working outside the home, so I help them with the children. When Sisi is old enough to go to school, they will take her to the city. ”

Wu Yun and Xiao Feng nodded in understanding, after all, this is the current situation of most rural families.

Sisi looked up at her grandfather, and her chubby cute little finger pointed at the two strangers she had never seen and said in a milky voice: "This brother also has a spiritual breath on his body, which is the same as one of the two strands on this sister's body. Who are they? ”

Shen Lao replied with his head bowed like a naughty child, "They are guests who have come here from outside to play. Do you feel the aura of spirit in your little brother? Why can't Grandpa feel it? Sisi is really powerful, better than grandpa. ”

Sisi showed her little white teeth and smiled innocently.

Shen Lao raised his head to face Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng, and said: "My son was born without the ability to see and feel the spirit, I thought this ability was over, but I didn't expect my granddaughter Sisi to have this ability after she was born, and she is much stronger than me." Even I can't feel the spirit in you, young man, but she can see it very clearly. ”

Wei Xiaofeng said: "It shows that Sisi is very inspired. ”

"Inspiration?" Shen Lao was very puzzled by this new word.

"It's the ability to sense the soul, and everyone is different. This is what an old woman who once helped me told me, she is a goddess. ”

Shen Lao smiled and said, "It seems that I really invited you to be a guest, you have indeed experienced some incredible things. I'm very curious about this, can you guys tell me? ”

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng looked at each other, exchanged opinions, and both nodded. As the sacrificial priest of this village, Shen Lao has a degree of inspiration far beyond ordinary people, and he is also a person from the same world as them.

So, Wei Xiaofeng told Shen Lao and the little girl in his arms all the tricks that happened in the 418 girls' dormitory in the second half of last year and in the mansion in the mountains of Dongming Mountain five months ago.

The old man listened to Xiao Feng's narration for half an hour with a calm face, and the little girl in his arms, Sisi, was also very quiet, staring at Xiao Feng's face intently with big watery eyes, as if the strange things said by the sister in front of her were as interesting as a fairy tale.

"Now I finally understand where the breath of the other two spirits attached to your body comes from." Shen Lao took a sip of hot water and said with satisfaction, "To tell you the truth, I actually want to ask you for help when I invite you here, and now I am more convinced that my choice is correct." ”

Wu Yun and Wei Xiaofeng were confused. "Can we help?"

"Hmm." Shen Lao put down the cup and nodded, sighed and said, "You have also seen the current situation of our village, young people have left the village to live a better life in the town, and little babies like Sisi will definitely leave the village to study in the town or city in the future, and there will only be us old guys who are reluctant to leave in the village." By the time we've all buried our old guys, the village is going to disappear, right? The village is gone, and the ritual of worshipping the lake spirit will no longer be performed, and the position of sacrificial priest will no longer exist. Although I really hope that Sisi can go to school and live in the big city, and be a normal and happy child. He lovingly touched his granddaughter's head.

"I have been raised by my father as a future sacrifice since I was a child, and I have been a sacrifice myself for most of my life, so I don't want my descendants to be bound by the title of sacrifice again, but to be able to live a truly meaningful life that they want to live. So maybe it's not a bad thing for the village to disappear with us old things when we old things die. But there is a major hidden danger right now, and I can't be at ease if I can't eliminate it......"

Wu Yun suddenly understood what the hidden danger he was referring to, and asked tentatively, "Old Shen, what do you mean, that fierce spirit in the lake?" ”

"That's right. A few years ago, I wasn't sure exactly how many years it was......"

"Six years ago." Wei Xiaofeng gave him a positive answer.

"Oh, six years ago...... Did the couple you just be with mentioned to you? What was their relationship with this evil spirit during their lifetime? ”

"Uncle Chen, they told us that six years ago, when their daughter came to play in the lake, she accidentally fell into the water by the lake and died, and she should have fallen off the cliff."

"Cliffless?" Shen Lao frowned, "Oh, you're talking about that cliff, right?" Why did you come up with such an incompatible name? The girl who drowned six years ago had such a big grudge, it could never be just a simple stumble and fall into the water, there must be something hidden behind this. ”

Wu Yun answered: "We think the same way, but Uncle Chen, Aunt Yue, they don't say it, we can't take the initiative to ask." ”

"Yes, after all, it is the flesh and blood that is lost. When they want to talk about such things, they will naturally say that other people really shouldn't take the initiative to expose their scars. Shen Lao adjusted his mood and said, "Where did I just go?" Oh, six years ago, the girl jumped off a cliff and threw herself into the lake to her death, and her soul with a heavy grudge did not disperse, and she turned into a fierce ghost and lodged in the lake. I'm sure I could sense from the resentment emanating from the spirit that she died for love. Since then, the ritual of sacrificing to the lake spirit every year has regained its meaning, which is to appease the resentment and anger of the evil spirit, and prevent her from harming innocent people and doing evil to the world.

"After six years of peace, I never thought that the resentment in the lake suddenly became strong last Friday night, and I realized that maybe this evil spirit was finally coming out after six years of dormancy. As I expected, a police car drove into the lake in the middle of the night, and the next day the village got the news that a college student couple had drowned in the lake near Pingyue Bay. At that time, everyone thought it was just an ordinary accident, but only Sisi and I knew in our hearts that it was a ghost caused by Hu Ling. That night, I asked the village chief to take the villagers to the lake for a sacrifice, nominally for the drowning couple, but in fact their souls had long been ingested by the evil spirits in the lake, and became her spiritual power, and it was impossible to transcend the life again. In addition to being proficient in the ordinary ritual of sacrificing the lake spirit, our Shen family sacrifices in the past generations also had to learn a set of methods on how to exorcise this resentment when the lake spirit was driven to haunt it, but I never used this method once after learning it, and that night was the first time I integrated this method into the sacrifice. At that time, it really worked, and the resentment that had been thick on the surface of the lake dissipated. ”

At this time, Wu Yun interrupted him and said, "Wait a minute, Elder Shen, you just said that you used another set of methods for the first time last week, and you haven't used it once before?" Do you mean that before Uncle Chen and his daughter fell into the lake and died six years ago, there was no one living in the lake? ”

"Yes."

"What about the soul of the little poor girl? Isn't her soul always housed in this lake according to legends and folklore? ”

"Since the ritual of sacrificing to the lake spirit has always been passed down in our village, and our Shen family has always had that set of methods to expel resentment, it proves that the soul of the little poor girl did stay in the lake for a period of time. However, after hundreds of years, every year the village has held a sacrificial ceremony, and even the strongest resentment should be dissipated, and the most persistent soul should return to Elysium. Anyway, since I was born, I haven't felt the presence of spirits in the lake until six years ago. ”

"But last night's events proved that your ancestral method simply didn't work."

Shen Lao shook his head and said, "Since my ancestors will pass on this method to future generations, it shows that it is indeed effective. The reason why the evil spirit came out again in just one week may be that some details have been inadvertently omitted or misrepresented in the process of hundreds of years of word of mouth, or it may be that what the young couple who died last night did caused the lake spirit to reappear. ”

Wei Xiaofeng heard the point and repeated: "You mean that the fierce spirits in the lake are not killing couples indiscriminately, but because the two couples who were killed did something that would cause the lake spirits to show up in anger?" ”

Elder Shen gave a positive look: "Think about it, why did this fierce spirit linger in the lake for six years and never appeared, but it suddenly appeared last Friday without warning?" Even in the past five years, because this area has not been fully developed, there are few foreign tourists, but in the past year, the number of people playing in the lake has been millions, and these two couples have been unlucky enough to become the prey of the evil spirits. I can't think of a more plausible explanation for this than their own sin. ”

Hearing the last sentence, Xiao Feng frowned slightly. Anyway, the man of the first dead couple was the cousin of her college roommate Wang Miaomiao, and Shen Lao's words caused her a trace of unhappiness.

Wu Yun asked, "Then what exactly did they do?" ”

"I don't know, but ......," Shen said, staring at them, "that's exactly what I want to ask you to help me figure out what the evil spirit is doing." ”