Chapter One Hundred and Eight. Ash array
Master asked Dr. Huang, is the doctor's office on this floor also locked down these days? Dr. Huang said yes, since the old man in the ward had an accident, he asked those doctors to temporarily work on the nurse's side during this time. The reason given is to overhaul. Master asked again, "In other words, if I want to look up a patient's information, I can find it in the doctor's office, right?"
Dr. Huang said that this is the case in theory, but it is difficult to determine when the ghost died before the death of the patient, and it may take a lot of time to find it. Master said that there was no need to worry, rumors of haunting began to appear in the hospital almost a month ago, that is, this person died a month ago. Then there had been no haunted events at all before, which proved that the day when this ghost appeared should have been shortly before, most likely around forty-nine days, so looking for this day and finding people who met the conditions and lived in this ward 209 was even smaller, so it was not difficult in fact.
Then Master told me to stay in the nurse's station and take a good rest, while he himself went with Dr. Huang to open the door of the doctor's office on the second floor and look for relevant information. The nurses on duty at the nurses' station have been looking at me with a strange look, they must have guessed something, I was worried that someone would be curious to ask this and that, so I simply closed my eyes and began to pretend to be asleep.
I don't remember exactly how long it was, but Master and Dr. Huang came over with a few records of the patient's treatment, and Master pointed to the names on them and said that these people were all people who died in this hospital at that time, and what they all had in common was that they had all lived in Ward 209, and they were also elderly women.
Master handed me the information and asked me to compare it to see if it was closer to the ghost I had been fighting earlier. However, there was no photo on the treatment sheet, only a name, and although it was written about height and weight, it seemed that the elderly people of this age were about the same. So I told Master that I couldn't tell the difference, and Master thought about it, and then left the nurse's station again, and it wasn't long before he walked back with a stick of incense in his hand. Only then did I know that he had gone to that room to order the incense of the soldiers and horses, and asked the soldiers and horses to help find it. Master asked me to lay those pages on the table, and as soon as I finished laying them, the soldiers and horses went straight to one of the pages.
Master picked up the page, looked at it, and handed it to me. This is an old lady surnamed Du, born in 1919, and died exactly forty-nine days before the first haunting. The error rate of the soldiers and horses to find people is very low, but I don't know where the master found the clues for the soldiers and horses to lead the way, the master told me, you just fought so hard in that room, that room is full of traces of ghosts, and it is easy to find the clues, now the name, birthday, death taboo, the three most critical things are all ready, let's next, we just need to draw this ghost out again.
The so-called art masters are bold, probably talking about people like Master. Generally speaking, we normal people can't hide when they encounter ghosts, but he just wants to lure them out. So I asked Master, are you going to summon spirits? The master shook his head and said, "Now the conjuring spirit is ironclad and cannot be recruited, because it has suffered losses and will not cooperate so obediently." We'll have to think of something else, but before we do, we'll have to make a trap for it to get in and out.
Master said that judging from past events, the location where it appeared was only the staircase between Ward 209 and the second and third floors, and the people who possessed it were also weak people. There is a certain amount of chance and randomness with this possession, but we can't ignore this possibility, so I want to find someone to be the bait, a weak person, so that it will be given the opportunity to possess. I asked Master, I'm afraid that the whole floor is talking about this now, who will voluntarily stand up and cooperate with you to possess the ghost?
After finishing speaking, everyone was quiet, and Dr. Huang and Master looked at me with their eyes, and the meaning of those eyes seemed to say, aren't you just a ready-made person. I thought to myself, no, I just suffered a big loss, and now you want me to go? But I think this is probably the only way, at the moment, the master can summon and cooperate, and the body is relatively weak, looking at it, I'm afraid I'm the only one.
Master said, don't worry, I just need you to be a bait, I won't really let it possess you, as soon as it enters the range of the trap, you can escape immediately, and the trap can't hold you back. I asked Master what you were going to do, and Master said, "You don't seem to be in any big deal, otherwise you can go with me to set up the formation."
So I got up and followed Master and walked in the direction of 209, but Master did not enter the ward, but took me directly down the stairs to the third floor, and the key I got from Dr. Huang locked the door on the third floor, and then Master spread a layer of incense ash under the first step of the stairs up the third floor and the door of the corridor door on the third floor.
In Master's bag, he carried some incense ash, rice, salt and other things with him, because these things have a blocking effect on ghost marriages and can be used to set up arrays. Then the Master took out a stick of incense and did not light it, but stood it on the ashes. Because the incense ash was only a thin layer, there was no way to insert it, so I leaned diagonally on the stairs and the door. Then Master went downstairs and sprinkled incense ashes at the staircase from the second floor to the first floor, and put an incense stick as usual. Then he walked towards the second floor, this time starting from entering the entrance of the corridor, drawing a small arc on the ground with incense ash, like the edge line of the runway, connecting the corridor door on the second floor with the door of ward 209, and then he walked to the ward, and on the edge of the open window, he concocted a layer in the same way, but this time he deliberately left an opening that was not closed, I know, it was to leave an entrance for the ghost, so that it could enter the array under the cloth.
In this way, from the window of 209 to the area between the third floor, there is a large circle surrounded by incense ash, and as long as the ghost reappears, within this range, it will definitely be able to catch it. Master told me that the reason why I wanted to include the scope of the staircase was because the ghost had appeared in that place before, and there had been two sightings, so I couldn't let go of this clue, and at the same time, after the scope became larger, it also left room for the ghost to escape, so that it would not fight to the death after being cornered.
Immediately afterwards, Master placed seven candles in the center of the ward to form the shape of the Big Dipper, and lit the candles, which are seven-star lamps that have a wide range of uses, one of which is to guide the ghosts and attract them to come. The master pointed to the bed in the inner side of the ward, that is, the bed that had possessed the old man at the beginning, and said to me, "You will sit on the bed later, and as soon as you see me closing the formation with incense ash, you will immediately open the door and run in the direction of the outside of the formation."
I nodded in agreement, but I didn't understand, although I knew all these things, how could Master attract this ghost? Master smiled and said, "Do you remember that when we first started our investigation, you performed the Water Bowl Round Light Technique once, remember?" I said yes, but the apparition was not the old lady's, not even like a woman, but a man. Master took out the treatment record with this ghost and said to me, "Look at the family column below, this name looks like a man's name or a woman's."
I took a closer look, and there were three words written on it: Hu Shengli.
Obviously, it's a man's name. Since it is a family member, then this Hu Shengli is probably not his husband, but his son. The old lady was born in 1919, and from that year onwards, China was devastated by war. The real victory took place in 1945, when the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended. People in this era will like to name people with words that reflect the current situation, that is, this Hu Shengli should not be its husband, but its child. In 1945, this ghost was already 26 years old, and women in the old society generally gave birth early, and 26 years old was already relatively old. And there is only one name in the family column, which means that this is his only son.
Master said that with your level of Circular Light Technique, what you can find out is often the root cause of this matter, and this root cause is very likely to be the main reason for the retention of ghosts. If we say that the state of mind is calm, then it is okay, we only need to solve the problem, but like this ghost today, it is full of anger and violence, and it is not difficult to guess that when it died, it was extremely resentful. If the man in your Yuanguang technique is this Hu Shengli, if he is the condition that caused the existence of this ghost and caused its rudeness, it means that the relationship between this ghost and Hu Shengli is actually very bad.
Master said again, so he made a bold guess that when it was dying, its only relative did something to hurt it, which should be the main reason for it to become a demon. The way ghosts appear is with crying, and the reason why they cry is because they are sad and sad, so I basically conclude that this Hu Shengli is the person this ghost cares about the most, but he is not a filial son!
I nodded secretly, Master's ability to calculate has always been beyond my reach. If I were a terminally ill and dying man, and my only son didn't care about it before he died, or even gave me a dead end, I think I would be full of resentment. It's just that this injustice has a debtor, even if it wants revenge, it should find its son, why did it attack me inexplicably?
Master said that the few times it appeared before, it didn't really hurt people, and she probably wanted to attract attention and make people aware of her presence. And we came to take it away, which makes it feel a sense of crisis, and that's probably how it attacked you.
I nodded, and then asked Master what to do now? Master spread out his palm to me and said, "You give me back the Luban ruler I gave you before, I'm going to play the talisman."