Chapter 68: The One Who Didn't Wait
"Mr. Huang, that's what happened, what should I do now? Am I really not having that thing with me? Can you see those hands on top of my head?"
"Mr. Gu, don't be afraid, there is indeed nothing on your body to follow anymore, maybe it was its spirit body before, and after the distance, its ability could not follow, so it has disappeared.
However, you're staying in Youshan Town, so it might have a way to get you back.
Now that you've found me, I'll go there and settle this matter too."
"Rustling ......" (the sound of clothes rubbing)
"A few more questions."
"Okay."
"Later, did you still have the sutra charm given by the temple? And do you have any other amulets or anything like that?"
"I don't have those things on me, so I took them to Da Liu to stick to the wardrobe after the talisman."
"......" (silence)
"Mr. Huang, what do you mean by asking?"
"I mean, you don't have any items on you to protect yourself from evil spirits, nor do you have the scriptures in the temple, why does that thing in the wardrobe harm Da Liu and not you?
It stands to reason that it can kill Da Liu, and it shouldn't let you go, even if you don't take the initiative to provoke, but this kind of thing is generally not treated differently, how can it just kill you, instead of killing you?
If it wants to kill you, does it have to wait for you to go away? It's long overdue, and you don't need spirits to scare you, so it's a bit weird."
"You're saying that thing doesn't want to kill me?"
"It doesn't look like I'm trying to kill you at the moment, it's more like I want you to stay there."
"Mr. Huang, you must help me, I don't want to go back, I don't want to go to that place again."
"You put this away, don't get wet."
"This ...... What is this?"
"This is the Vajra Talisman, which guarantees that the evil spirits cannot get close.
You'd better not go anywhere these days, just stay home and wait for me to get back to you."
"Oh, is that okay?"
"Yes, please trust me. Okay, Mr. Gu, go back now, I have to get up too."
The tape was blank for a few seconds, and then the voice of the Soul Killer was heard.
"December 11, 1997
According to Mr. Gu's description, gray shadows were seen in and out of the dream, and it was preliminarily determined that the level of resentment was gray, and the level of danger was tentatively set as a second-level murderous spirit, whose name is unknown, and it cannot be arrested on the spot, but it is speculated that the body should be in the wardrobe."
Hearing this, Qin Ding pressed the pause button.
After listening to these incidents, Qin Ding could probably guess some rules about murderous souls and arrest from the mouth of the soul hunter.
The highest level of the murderous soul seems to be level five, which is determined according to the color, and there are four corresponding colors that he currently knows, namely second-level black, third-level yellow, fourth-level red and fifth-level black, and the first level has not appeared so far, and the color is unknown.
And the repeated statements of the soul hunters, "If you know its name, you can arrest it", and "If you don't know its name, go and arrest it", it seems to emphasize that knowing the name of the murderer will make it easier to arrest him.
Probably knowing the name, no matter where the body is, you can arrest it on the spot, and if you don't know, you need to find the body.
At the same time, Qin Ding thought about it again, and he had wondered why the Soul Hunter had to ask in such detail, so it was better to go directly to the location to arrest him.
Now he suddenly understood that part of the reason why the soul killers had to figure out the ins and outs of the incident must be that they had to find out where the ghost's body was, and they could only arrest it if they knew where the body was, so the more detailed the incident, the more helpful it was for them to know the name or location of the ghost.
These are some things he reasoned about, but the specific situation still needs to be asked and confirmed, Qin Ding decided that he would know more about it when he met the soul hunter next time.
He exhaled and continued to listen.
"There are many suspicious points in this incident, and the time is urgent, so it needs to be investigated on the spot
Check, I'm going overnight."
The tape went blank for a few seconds, and then the voice of the Soul Hunter was heard.
"Arrived at Youshan Town on December 12, 1997."
"Squeak... Squeak, squeak, bang...... Bang" (the sound of walking on the snow, and the sound of stomping feet)
"Hello. Is Shopkeeper Kang there?"
"Which Kang shopkeeper?"
"Kang Lize, Kang shopkeeper."
"Well, my eldest brother died."
"Huh? How long will it be?"
"Some time ago, I was working as a guide for the mountaineering team, and I was accidentally killed."
"Shhhh
"What are you looking for him?"
"Some time ago, he asked me to come to you, saying that I was asked to deal with the contents of a room on the second floor."
"Second floor? What is it?"
"Don't you know? Your eldest brother said there was a wardrobe on the second floor, and there was something wrong with it."
"Huh? You, you are the master of evil spirits?"
"Well, he said there was dirt in that closet on your second floor. The shopkeeper is gone, do I still need to deal with this matter?"
"Oh, yes, yes. What's your last name?"
"My surname is Huang."
"Mr. Huang, if you can really solve it, how can my eldest brother promise you, we can also give it."
"I'm not in a hurry with this, but if I want to deal with it, I need to understand what happened to this wardrobe first? You must know something, I need you to elaborate on it, so that it will help me deal with it smoothly."
"Okay, no problem, Mr. Huang, this matter has actually bothered us for fourteen or fifteen years, and we can't even deal with the khenpo of Zongyu Lama Temple.
And the other day, my nephew let two people from the magazine move in without knowing about it, and then I learned that one of them fell off a cliff and died.
I knew it was doing it, and it came out to hurt people again. Alas, those two must have touched the cabinet.
I didn't dare to go to that house, so I had to go to the temple and ask for some sutras and paste the whole door.
But it's not a thing, it's the off-season, the guests don't pay attention to it, and when they wait more, someone will definitely see those things posted on the door, and they will be scared when the time comes, and it will affect our business.
And if you can fix it, I guess it can be liberated as well, so that's the best."
"Okay, so let's talk about it first, what's going on?"
"Come, you come and sit down, I'll pour you some brick tea first, warm up."
(There is the sound of walking and pouring water from a cup.) )
"Alas! When we open our doors to do business, we are most afraid of this kind of thing, but this matter, when you talk about it in detail, is also quite miserable.
Our inn has been around since the fifties, when foreigners often came here, mainly for adventure climbers.
One of the mountaineering teams, all Soviets, had nowhere to stay every time they came, so they financed our family to build a two-story building on our plot of land for them to stay in when they came.
At that time, the two-story building was amazing, but it was not realistic to open an inn in our place.
The mountaineering team didn't come every month, and there was no tourism at that time, and our town was very remote, so it was impossible to maintain a life by opening an inn here, so our inn was empty.
Later, six or three years later, when Sino-Soviet relations broke down, and this mountaineering team disappeared and never came again, we rented the second floor to the government and became the town's supply and marketing cooperative.
About 16 years ago, almost in the early 80s, the country built a small power station near us, and people outside slowly knew about it, and then we had a better natural ecology here, and the scenery was also beautiful, and suddenly there were more people who came here, both at home and abroad, and this change promoted a series of transformations to build roads and electrification, and we became famous here.
At this time, the lease of our family's second floor was just up, and the eldest brother wanted the house back
came, and reopened the inn.
In this way, the business is okay, our inn is also very famous in the local area, and it has also been interviewed by various magazines or TV stations.
Two years passed in this way, and in mid-December 1982, something happened that is still fresh in my memory.
I remember it clearly, it was the winter solstice. My eldest brother and my sister-in-law and I were having dinner when suddenly a young girl came.
This girl is alone, very beautiful, and dressed like a city person.
When we were here in December, because the weather was cold, and it was always snowing, business was deserted, and there were very few people coming, so when this girl came, and she was alone, my eldest brother and I were a little strange.
But when she came, she was a guest, and my eldest brother arranged for her to live in a single room on the first floor, but she didn't agree.
She insisted on a double room, she said someone would come someday, and she asked to go and see the room before deciding if she wanted to stay here."
"Excuse me, wait a minute, my plane is ringing."
"Smack~" The fourth tape is over. Qin Ding put in the fifth tape.
"Alright, you move on."
"I thought at the time, it's going to be the New Year in a while, and there will be people coming, are the two of you going to spend the New Year here?
And this girl has to pick a room to decide whether she can't live, you know, at that time, there was an inn in the town, and this girl was not satisfied and had no place to live.
Although I had doubts in my heart, it was inconvenient to ask too much, and there were not many guests anyway, so I took her to choose a room.
But she was not too satisfied with the choice of several rooms, I felt that something was not right, but I still didn't ask anything, anyway, there would be few guests, and she would always be satisfied.
I took her to almost every room, but I didn't take her to the suite at the top of the second floor. It's not that a good room is not given to her, but on the contrary, the environment of that suite is not too good, and I don't want such a good-looking girl to live there.
But the girl saw the door, and she had to go in, and I thought she wouldn't like this kind of house, so I opened the door and let her in. As a result, after she went in, she actually came out satisfied and said that this was the room.
I wondered to myself that there were almost no windows in that suite, and when the Soviets were planning to build this building, they used it as a room for storing utensils, so they built it as far away from light as possible.
When our inn is usually open, especially in the peak season, there is really no way to rent it to guests, why that girl would choose this kind of room, I really can't understand it at the time.
She wanted to live, so I couldn't stop it, but I still persuaded her for a long time, but she still insisted on staying.
Later, after I went downstairs, I found out why she was like this, she paraphrased what I said before, that is, the environment was not good or something, and I went to negotiate with my eldest brother.
I thought to myself that this girl was so shrewd, but I didn't quite understand why she would bargain for that kind of room when she was dressed very well, and it seemed that her family was not bad, and the room price in our inn was not high in the off-season.
It wasn't until she paid a month's rent that I realized that she might have to live for a long time and not have enough money with her.
But why did she stay so long, who was she waiting for, to be able to stay here for a month.
After this girl moved in, I was afraid that she would not be able to live well, because the room was very damp, so I would burn the stove for her every day and send it over, and in the evening, I was afraid that she would be bored, so I would take the stove away and bring her a hot water bag, and she thanked me every time, but never said a word."