Chapter 18: Water Ghosts
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Ao Yan immediately figured out a series of things.
The villagers live nothing more than live comfortably by themselves, and then get rich and leave something for their children and grandchildren, but they don't raise fish, pearls, lotus roots, and rhombs, and they can barely survive and eat by relying on the barren world at the foot of the mountain.
If you want to do this thing, you can eradicate the water ghosts yourself, firstly, you can obtain complete governance rights, and secondly, you can also allow the villagers to restore a series of industries that live on water, and become rich, and then your temple will naturally be enshrined.
It's just that he is also familiar with Xiangliu Lake, but why didn't he find any water ghosts, and he didn't even react to his own Fu Zhao.
Ao Yan frowned and said, "What do you think of the water ghost?"
Changming paused for a while, until he thought of something, and then began to write on Ao Yan's back: "My lord, no matter whether it is a ghost, there is a cultivator, and a low cultivator naturally can't find a high cultivator, which is also normal, besides, one of the ghosts is in the dark, and the adults are in the light, and it is very simple to hide, and second, adults may not know that there are two kinds of water ghosts." ”
"Oh, oh! I see. Ao Yan nodded approvingly.
Seeing his appearance, Changming was obviously surprised, so he wrote down four words and asked, "What do you understand?"
"Well, one of these water ghosts is male, and the other is naturally female, Changming, is what Lord Ben said right?" Ao Yan turned his head and said.
Changming looked at Ao Yan, and it seemed that his forehead was covered with black lines.
"Hehe, just kidding, you go on. ”
Chang Ming's stiff face suddenly moved, a rare smile appeared, he shook his head like an adult, and began to write on Ao Yan's back again.
The first kind of water ghost is that after drowning, the soul is affected by the yin qi in the water and stays in it, and the corpse is nowhere to be found, and once it leaves, it will dissipate, so it cannot be reincarnated, unless someone else is drowned, and he leaves with the help of the body of the drowned person, before he can be reincarnated, which is commonly known as "substitute".
The second type says that ghosts are not ghosts, and there is an old saying called "water monkey", which is a kind of monster that is extremely difficult to deal with.
After Ao Yan listened, he sighed, his tenth ** had encountered this second type.
Water monkeys, in some places called "otters".
Judging from Changming's description, this is not a ghost, but a natural water spirit, with an appearance like a black ball covered with green velvet, with two opposite red holes, one is an eye and the other is a dung door.
This thing has the ability to hallucinate, and can cause people with weak minds in the vicinity to hallucinate.
Once a person goes into the water to fish, it often looks at only a little distance, but it can't be fished until it goes deeper and deeper, and then it is entangled by countless "green silk algae" that suddenly appears, and the tighter and tighter it is, until death is dragged into the depths of the reeds or in the dense places of aquatic plants and eaten.
The exact situation is not clear, and he has only heard about it.
However, this thing has a characteristic, that is, once it is out of water, it is powerless, and once it has water power, it is better than ten adults.
It can "latent" camouflage in the water, its body is extremely flexible, and its filamentous hairs have paralyzing toxins.
Once provoked, it will bulge like a pufferfish and turn into a ball of thorns, with fur as sharp as a steel needle, and will be pricked to death if not entangled.
This thing is not a ghost, so it is not afraid of the sun.
Usually timid, it won't hurt people, but once you are very hungry and happen to eat people, you will become addicted, the more people you eat, the stronger its ability, the higher its intelligence, but the heavier the anger accumulated on the body.
Ao Yan's understanding is that it is very easy to go violent, and once it goes berserk, it will be out of control.
"Whew...... If this thing is really the problem, then the incident of sixty or seventy years ago will make complete sense, but we are in trouble, this thing is not easy to do, but what I can't figure out is that this thing has been in the village for so long, and I haven't heard about the water ghost in the village, Changming, could it be that we guessed wrong?" Ao Yan pinched the bridge of his nose and said, feeling a little tricky.
I heard from the old people in the village that someone dies in Xiangliu Lake every few years, and I also went to the village cemetery to see the name of the person they said, and it is true. One of the characteristics I found was that although those who died did not enter Xiangliu Lake, they died on rainy days without exception......"
Ao Yan felt a chill on his back, and Changming seemed to want to speak and stopped, so he said, "What did you think of?"
"Do you remember Yang Li and his son, Gou'er?"
"What?" Ao Yan felt strange, these two people were weak-willed because they had no support for orphans and widows, and later they were saved by themselves from drowning and became their most loyal believers.
The two of them can provide the power of five incense sticks every day, and they have never stopped, and they can be said to be extremely trusting......
As soon as "drowning ......" was mentioned as a sensitive word, Ao Yan immediately understood what it meant: "You mean-"
I felt that Changming wrote on his back: "When I went back to the temple to guard today, I heard Yang Li reprimand his son, the content was that the dog should not go to Xiangliu Lake and the like, the dog explained that he was looking for Yang Li that day, but when he passed by the lake, he seemed to hear his mother shouting, so he passed, and suddenly he woke up when he couldn't breathe, and found that his lower body was tied up by something and couldn't move - the dog can swim, it's not that there is no water, and the reason why I was saved I think it wasn't that you used your magical powers, but that the water monkey felt your breath and was scared away." ”
When Ao Yan heard this, he took a sharp breath of cool air, his face full of shock!
According to what Changming said, this thing can be far from confusing people, and it can only be on a rainy day, but in this summer, the weather is dry, and it can also be like this, or is it under its own nose, and it is unaware of it?!
This problem is serious, it seems that the mana of this water monkey who has eaten a lot of people is not weak.
Not to mention whether you can use this to gather the power of incense, consolidate your Hubo god position, and whether you can kill the water monkey is a difficult matter.
For a moment, both fell silent.
Just as Ao Yan's brows tightened, and he suddenly felt a chill on his back, Changming began to talk to him again, but this time it was the method of curing ghosts that he was talking about.
After a while, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he said in a deep voice: "Can this be done? There have been two months of drought in the village since the beginning of summer, and the water level of Xiangliu Lake has dropped, so it is a good time to catch water monkeys." You let me rain, although I have relieved the difficulty of the field, but this rain will not fulfill the wish of the water monkey? What if someone is eaten again?"
Chang Ming's delicate face showed smugness, and he wrote on Ao Yan's back: "Please listen to me slowly." ”
"Huh?" Ao Yan looked at Changming carefully, he didn't believe that this guy who was much younger than him could come up with any good way, and raised his eyebrows: "Don't sell it in front of your Lord Hubo, let it go if you have a fart." ”
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and didn't see Changming roll his eyes.
A quarter of an hour later, Ao Yan looked at Chang Ming with a shocked face, he couldn't believe that such a well-thought-out plan could be said casually by a seven-year-old child.
Compared with Ao Yan's shock, Changming was complacent.
"A child, how can you know so much?" Suddenly, Ao Yan had doubts about Changming's life experience for the first time.
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