Chapter 33: "Ask God"
Rewind the clock to 10 minutes ago.
Zou Xia and Yang Ke got out of the taxi and stood in front of Hongsheng's apartment.
Zou Xia turned his head sideways and instructed Yang Ke not to run around, and then strode into the green lawn around the apartment building.
As early as in the car, he cleared his mind and knew that he had to do something as soon as he returned to the apartment.
As previously speculated, he could not guarantee that Li Huirong had no accomplices by his side.
But he even knew that if there was really an accomplice around Li Huirong, it would definitely be the restaurant owner.
But the point is that he doesn't know much about the restaurant owner, only that he should be a resident of the apartment, but he doesn't know exactly which floor and which household he lives in.
In the middle of the night, it's not good to knock on doors.
It's one thing whether the owner of the house will open the door or not, but in the case of Hongsheng Apartment, it is difficult to say whether it is someone who opens the door.
These things can keep to themselves and not run out to harm people, they are already smoking from the ancestral tomb, is it difficult to send them to the door by themselves?
But if you don't know the house number of the noodle shop owner, it is impossible to monitor him in real time, let alone know where he lit the fire in the apartment.
If Zou Xia's previous reasoning was correct, and the 'please god' ritual was really completed, once this fire was lit, it would immediately turn into a raging fire, and then quickly spread to the entire apartment.
There is simply no chance of extinguishing at all.
But if you think about it, there are two key elements that need to happen in this fire, the person who lit the fire and the so-called 'please God'.
So if you can't control the person who lit the fire, then destroying the 'please God' is also a good way.
'Please God' is not uncrackable.
When the person who asks the god asks the god, he needs to set up the casting table, and then start a communication ritual with the 'god'.
So theoretically, as long as the key props are destroyed in the process of 'inviting God', there is no doubt that this 'asking God' will end in failure.
Therefore, the reason why Zou Xia walked around the apartment twice was to find the casting table of the 'please god' and destroy it.
The casting table set up by Li Huirong is very secret and simple.
Walk into the green belt and look carefully to see it.
In the greenery, there are rolled up sack pieces, which look like littered garbage.
But when you open the sack sheets, you will find four uncommon objects inside.
Mini incense burner (a little ash), three sticks of incense (2/3 burned), paper figure (half a human height, no facial features depicted), posthumous photo (the whitened posthumous photo seems to be quite old, blurred enough that you can only see the general outline of the person)
The above is all the decoration of Li Huirong's casting platform.
Maybe it's because it's simple, so Zou Xia can see at a glance what is important among these four props.
He came up and took out a kitchen knife first, cutting a wind-breaking hole in the paper man's neck.
Then he picked up the photo and said things like 'sorry' and 'sorry'.
Many people think that 'please gods', but they invite those 'immortals' who live in heaven in mythology.
Actually, no,
Many people don't know that 'please God' often invites not God, but some particularly powerful ghosts in the vicinity.
These ghosts are often resentful ghosts or evil ghosts.
Although the ritual is invalid, it does not mean that they cannot appear in the apartment through their own power.
So if you respectfully please, you have to send it respectfully.
However, because the ceremony was only halfway through and was not completed, and they did not come down to do things for the 'God Inviter'......
Therefore, when it is sent, there is no need for solemn ceremonies, as long as the attitude is set, they can understand.
In the folk world, especially from the Republic of China to the 20th century, the ritual process of 'inviting the gods' actually has a very rich and diverse process.
Among the many types, many rituals have more than a single casting table, so after successfully destroying the casting table, Zou Xia did not give up, but continued to circle around the apartment twice.
Make sure that no casters are missed by yourself.
As it turned out, caution was right, and the casting table set up by Li Huirong was indeed not a single one, but three, which were distributed in a triangle around the apartment.
Concocted the same method and destroyed all the spellcasting tables, Zou Xia turned around and looked at Yang Ke, who had been following him.
Yang Ke was cautious all the way, tracking secretly.
It's just that Zou Xia has always known that she is behind her.
The so-called mysterious smile was also deliberately to scare her, and Zou Xia liked to see Yang Ke frightened and with a pale expression.
It's funny.
......
Time comes back to the present.
Zou Xia has never told Yang Ke that he has quietly solved tonight's crisis, and the fire in the apartment will probably not happen tonight.
He happily cooked some meat porridge himself,
Leaving Yang alone to sit on the sofa and make it difficult.
Yang Ke is in a very embarrassing situation now, sitting there, time flies too slowly, and he is prone to crankiness, but the battery of his mobile phone will immediately return to zero.
Let's turn on the TV......
Have the experience of burrowing monsters out of the mirror last night.
I always feel like 'Sadako' or something.,Crawl out of the TV every minute.。
Although, if those things really exist in the apartment, they can't stop them from crawling out if they can't turn on the TV.
"My craft is okay, it tastes good, you really don't drink it?" Zou Xia held a bowl of porridge, sat next to Yang Ke, and drank it suckingly.
In the porridge, he only put a little salt to taste, but the taste was already very fragrant.
Yang Ke was hungry for a day, but in fact, when Zou Xia was cooking porridge, she smelled the taste, and she had no appetite, but she had already diluted a little.
Now I see Zou Xia holding a bowl and drinking it in front of him, even if the feeling of not wanting to eat has not completely disappeared, but a lot of sour water has been secreted in the stomach.
"How much did you cook?" Yang Ke couldn't help but ask.
"If you keep yours, go to Sheng yourself!" Zou Xia didn't raise his head.
After quickly picking up the salted meat porridge in the bowl, he felt a lot more comfortable in his stomach, and Zou Xia lay lazily on the sofa.
looked at Yang Ke, who was moving a small stool, sitting in front of the coffee table, and drinking porridge little by little with a spoon.
There was a look of appreciation in his eyes.
In such an environment, watching a beautiful woman eat elegantly in front of her seems to be a beautiful difference.
Yang Ke had a strong sense of Zou Xia's gaze, but Zou Xia looked at her gaze without any desire, just a faint appreciation.
How to say it, in fact, there is a kind of meaning that she can't speak.
It's like how she feels when she's at home, feeding the 'prince'.
The 'prince' is a dog,
It's not that Zou Xia looks at her like he's looking at a dog, but he looks at his own gaze as if he's looking at some species lower than himself, with natural contempt.
This feeling made Yang Ke very uncomfortable.
She couldn't help it, and raised her head bravely under Zou Xia's gaze: "You said earlier that Li Huirong may have accomplices, so if not, survive the apartment tonight, will our main quest be over?" ”
"If there is no ......"
"That's another possibility......"