Su Mo leaned back on the couch and quietly stared at the blank ceiling.

His mind was also empty, a wonderful state, emptying his mind, thinking of nothing, doing nothing, detached from the heavy and complicated deliberation and execution, just wanting to steal half a moment of leisure.

It wasn't until Zhou Mingrui pushed open the door and a "Su Mo" broke the silence of the space that he rolled his eyes and gradually regained his consciousness from the previous blankness and trance.

Su Mo looked down at the multigrain pancakes that had been cooled on the coffee table, frowned slightly in confusion, and thought a little confused:

'Do I have to warm it up before eating?' ’

"Sumer? Sumer? ”

The spread palm waved back and forth in front of his retina, Su Mo covered his forehead with his right hand, and pushed away Zhou Mingrui's hand in front of him with his left hand.

He raised his eyes to last week's worried gaze at Mingrui, and said slowly: "I'm fine, maybe I didn't sleep well last night, just make up for sleep in the afternoon." ”

Zhou Mingrui exhaled, straightened up and shook the two bags in his hand: "I bought everything you said, Baidu checked the recipe of the crow, and bought some fresh beef." ”

Su Mo nodded, reached for the bag, and got up to head to the kitchen.

During this time, the afterglow of his eyes inadvertently caught a glimpse of the sleeping crow next to the pancake.

Nothing to worry about, he thought, just a little imp who covets warmth.

Su Mo took out an egg from the refrigerator, separated the egg white and yolk after knocking it, took out the egg yolk separately and put it into a bowl, then opened the bag, cut the bread worms and beef bought by Zhou Mingrui into small pieces and meat foam, mixed them together and stirred well, and then added an appropriate amount of probiotics.

Zhou Mingrui watched and learned his operation, and after finishing the feed into the feeding syringe, the two returned to the living room to wake up the sleeping little crow, and Su Mo demonstrated how to feed the weak chicks.

"If it's winter, if you want to feed newborn birds, you have to turn on the air conditioner all the time without an incubator, so as not to freeze to death by accident." "It's the end of summer, and the temperature is just right, so I'm missing an air-conditioning bill. ”

Zhou Mingrui also sighed: "The adult bird in that nest is estimated to have suffered an accident...... If it weren't for summer, the nest of eggs would probably not hatch. In this respect, this is also a lucky little crow. ”

Lucky...... Little crows?

Su Mo's expression was dazed for another moment, and he subconsciously blurted out: "Be careful of crows." ”

Zhou Mingrui: "What? ”

"No, nothing."

Su Mo clenched his hands into fists and thumped his head, trying to make himself appear sober.

"I've got to warm up the pancakes again and eat them......"

Hey, why do I say again?

After putting the half-eaten pancakes on the coffee table and the long-forgotten pancakes in the pot into the air fryer in turn, Su Mo and Zhou Mingrui finally had breakfast that they had been tossing for a long time.

Zhou Mingrui still cared very much about the words that Su Mo blurted out, or thought of something from his attitude.

Beware of crows?

Because of the crow's keen sense of smell and the ability to detect the smell of decay and death in advance, the crow, like the black cat, was often synonymous with bad luck and bad luck in ancient alchemic records, and it was believed that the crow's cry would take away people's lives and drain people's souls.

'Regarding the supernatural, about the ghosts, Su Mo didn't seem to want to go into the details of this matter......

I'll ask again when I get a chance. ’

Now, here's the opportunity?

Zhou Mingrui thought of this, and immediately decided: "Su Mo, what did you mean by 'be careful of crows' before?" ”

Su Mo asked rhetorically, "What do you think you mean?" ”

Zhou Mingrui described the symbolism of the crow that he had just associated.

"Death, fear, and bad luck ......" Su Mo chewed on these words in his mouth and shook his head, "In fact, before the Tang Dynasty, the crow was more of a sacred bird symbolizing auspicious signs and prophecy among the people. ”

"Is that so?" Zhou Mingrui was a little surprised, he really didn't know this kind of knowledge, "How do you say it?" ”

Su Mo said slowly:

"In ancient times, there was a legend of 'crow annunciation, there was Zhou Xing', before the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, there was a huge red black with seeds gathered in the house of King Wu of Zhou, this auspicious omen indicated the great prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty, so King Wu was happy, and all the doctors were happy.

"After the Tang Dynasty, the doctrine of the evil omen of the crow lord appeared...... But it has evolved so far, and it seems that it has replaced the image of the crow as a sacred bird, and it has become the consensus of most people. ”

Zhou Mingrui pondered: "In other words, the crow is actually a wrong statement? ”

"No, it cannot be said that it is completely wrong, and the origin of any doctrine will not be groundless." Su Mo said, "The crow is between good and evil, so that the yang does not do blessing, so that the yin does not make power, to a certain extent, it is a good carrier." ”

Zhou Mingrui asked: "What carrier?" ”

Su Mo was silent for a moment and replied, "The carrier that houses the soul." ”

Zhou Mingrui stared, is this a euphemism for ghosts?

Su Mo let out a long sigh, as if he saw Zhou Mingrui's true intention when talking about this topic.

"Actually, I only know a little bit about it." He said, "I just happened to be exposed to a few magic techniques." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Mingrui spontaneously felt a feeling of horror and curiosity, and he couldn't help asking, "So, are there really ghosts in this world?" ”

Su Mo looked at him expressionlessly, stretched out his finger and dipped it in the wolfberry water in front of him, then closed his eyes and applied the wolfberry water to the eyelids of his eyes.

Then he opened his eyes suddenly, raised his hand to pinch the seal, and finally put his index finger and middle finger together, wiped his eyebrows and shouted: "Bah! Sky, Eye, Open! ”

Su Mo looked up at Zhou Mingrui and said coldly: "There is a female ghost behind you." ”

Zhou Mingrui's back was cold.

Summer continued:

"Huh...... It's still a foreign female ghost.

"The light blonde hair is tied in a bun, and the eyes are blue, white like Sadako, and looks like Xiaoqian.

"Dressed in a long black dress, typical of Gothic style, wearing a matching black soft hat, like a delicate doll in a shop window......"

Zhou Mingrui didn't pay much attention to it originally, but when Su Mo described it in more and more detail, so detailed that he could even sketch in his mind such an image of a female ghost with "long hair in a light gold bun, blue eyes, pale face, delicate appearance, wearing a complicated black gothic dress, and a matching black soft hat", he was silent.

"Su Su Su Mo ......" Zhou Mingrui froze in place, not knowing for a moment whether he should be more happy or surprised, "What you said, should it be true?" ”

"Of course it's-" Su Mo smiled coldly and said angrily, "-I lied to you!" ”

Zhou Mingrui: "......"

Su Mo sneered mercilessly: "Do you still want a modern version of A Chinese Ghost Story? You're thinking about peaches! ”

Zhou Mingrui: "...... Brother, Brother Su, please don't mention it. ”

Su Mo sighed, leaned back against the sofa, raised his forearm to cover his eyes:

"People die as ghosts, but ghosts that really stay in the world are not as common as you think.

"For example, like the so-called earth-bound spirit, in addition to the accidental death, the conditions for the formation of the spirit must also be resentful and unable to be freed, the most important thing is that there must be a feng shui cave nearby, and the three conditions are indispensable in order to give birth to an ordinary ghost."

"Earthbound Spirit ......," Zhou Mingrui pondered, "I heard that Earthbound Spirits are undead who are bound in one place after their death, and they need the next substitute ghost to appear in this place in order to leave there and be free, is this true?" ”

"It's true." Su Mo's voice seemed to be a little colder, "But under normal circumstances, even if an ordinary imp gets out of trouble, it won't cause any harm. ”

Zhou Mingrui: "That...... Something is not normal? ”

Su Mo didn't answer directly, but asked another question: "Do you know how ghosts eat?" ”

"I heard it was touching." Zhou Mingrui recalled, "Just touch it, and directly absorb the essence in the food." ”

"Yes, that's the normal way ghosts eat." Su Mo said lightly, "When a ghost breaks through this limit, it's an abnormal situation. ”

"What do you mean......" Zhou Mingrui understood his words, and felt a little creepy because of this, "...... you eat directly?" ”

What to eat?

Nature will not be ordinary food.

He further asked, "Why is this happening?" ”

Su Mo raised his hand a little sorely, so he put it down:

"I'll continue to give an example, the same Earth Bound Spirits, and the Earth Bound Spirits who are trapped in different places often have different endings.

"For example, slaughterhouses where cattle, sheep and pigs are slaughtered, fish shops in vegetable markets, and live poultry are used to throwing inedible water on the ground.

"Once the little ghost tastes the meat, it is easy to indulge in it, and if you see human blood again, it will turn into a powerful ghost and be more difficult to control, and it will eventually grow into a scourge."

Zhou Mingrui: "Is there no way to avoid this situation?" ”

Su Mo said: "It's difficult, it's just the premise of the birth of ghosts, and the known conditions are also limited, not to mention the topic of how ghosts were born, its source, and its heels, are all just speculations at present." ”

"It's hard to avoid, so how do you kill the ghosts?" Zhou Mingrui's expression was a little complicated, "Since there are ghosts, there should also be a way to restrain ghosts...... That's why Fangshu was born? ”

Su Mo calmly replied:

"You've probably heard the saying, 'Don't look back when you walk at night'?

"There are three lamps in a person, two on the shoulder and one on the top of the head, and every time you turn around, you blow out one lamp, allowing unclean things to take advantage of the opportunity.

"These three lamps, in layman's terms, are the yang energy on the human body, and the principle of the ghost killing method is to mobilize and use one's own yang energy to consume the origin of ghosts.

"The little ghost sees blood, breaks through the limit and turns into a ghost, and among all the ghosts, the ghost who swords the blood relatives and tastes his heart and liver is the most ferocious, like this kind of ghost that has become a climate, it takes a great price to kill.

"Under normal circumstances, the yang energy that the magician loses by killing ghosts can be gradually recovered, but if it loses too much at one time, it will greatly reduce its physique——"

His voice stopped abruptly.

Zhou Mingrui's eyes widened, and some details that he had ignored or puzzled in the past quickly gathered together and pointed to a common answer.

He tentatively concluded:

"Great loss of physique......

"Chills outside, drink plenty of hot water?

"So you need to maintain your health and soak it in wolfberries?

"Clear soup somen noodles are easy to digest, so you-weak?"

"If you're weak, I won't be weak!" Su Mo sat up straight, glared at him and said angrily, "You have the ability to break your wrists, whoever loses is the son!" ”