The Mysterious Recovery of the Forgotten World

Chapter 452 Past plans

Leave the short stick.

Hearing this sentence, Li Leping's eyes moved, and then he stared at the old man sitting motionless on the chair: "You also know how difficult the road ahead is, in this case you want me to keep the short stick Come down, do you think it's appropriate?"

However, the old man neither agreed nor objected and said: "It's up to you to decide. I don't have much time to stay awake, and the limit is approaching. In the end, I can only tattoo these few patterns. And it’s only for a few hours.”

Obviously, he intends to let Li Leping weigh the pros and cons by himself.

Not leaving the short stick means that he will have an extra means of fighting against the ghosts in the next journey, but it also means that he will miss an opportunity to strengthen the short stick.

Hearing this sentence, Li Leping was silent for a while.

Then he asked, "What price do I have to pay?"

He never believed that there is a free lunch in the world.

However, the old man shook his head: "You don't need to pay anything, just treat me as an old guy who is dying, and his words are good, and I will help you, a young man, in the end."

Hearing this, Li Leping didn't say any more, just took off the short stick behind his back, and put it on the table in front of the old man.

The color of the short stick's surface seemed to be stained with blood that had been exposed to the air for too long, and it was as black as dirt, exuding a ghostly and unique cold aura.

"I'll come back for it."

After leaving these words, Li Leping glanced at Shen Tian next to him, and then walked towards the exiting door first.

Shen Tian also hurriedly got up at this time and followed.

The old man looked at the back of the two leaving, and said no words of farewell.

After all, there is no point in saying goodbye at a time like this.

This side is the last time we meet.

And just after the two left.

Inside the house, the old man stared at the closed door, and after a moment of silence, he finally said in a slightly suspicious tone: "A person who cannot be remembered, an alien between humans and ghosts, so the plan failed after all. , or was it successful, or is it still just the beginning of the plan?"

"Huh? Master, what are you talking about?"

Jiang Hao on the side obviously hasn't reached the age of old eyesight, and he couldn't help showing surprise at the old man's voice that didn't hide his meaning at all.

The old man's words exposed too much information, and Jiang Hao couldn't digest it for a while.

"It's all in the past. I just heard some news a long time ago. I heard it from a place called Lingyi Paper Mill in the ghost alley. At that time, the owner of the paper mill hadn't died yet, and that guy was A ghost master born in the late Qing Dynasty, who is much older than me, is a person who really participated in the suppression of ghosts in that era."

The old man's old face moved slightly, recalling those ghost masters who were older than him.

The Republic of China began in 1912. Although the old man was old, he could not be one of the top ghost masters of that era no matter what.

To put it bluntly, this old man who looks so old now that he is almost buried in the earth was even just born in the early Republic of China.

A little doll who is still wearing a bellyband and running around with his bare buttocks, what can he use to fight against ghosts?

Therefore, if we take the spirit of the Republic of China as the starting point, there should be four time periods for the recovery of spirit.

The first time period should be in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. This time period is equivalent to the current period of spiritual explosion. All kinds of spiritual events sprung up like mushrooms. The real top ghost masters of that era are just like the captains of this era. , came out of the collision of countless supernatural events.

Elder Qin was also an outlier artificially created during this period.

The next period of time belongs to the era of those truly top ghost masters.

This period is not long, but it is an extremely important time period.

Many ghost masters from all over the world who control different supernatural powers came together because of supernatural powers, and finally joined hands to quell most of the supernatural powers of that era, and suppressed many ghosts in some special places.

And the time span after that is a bit longer, probably from the end of the Republic of China to the modern period.

This period of time is equivalent to a quiet period, because the predecessors have already imprisoned most of the ghosts, and the rest are trivial matters. Some ghosts with low levels of terror are either unable to make any big waves, or they are hidden dangers. Before being exposed, he would be directly imprisoned by the top ghost master who was still alive at that time.

It's just that these supernatural events, which are not a threat to top ghost masters, are still extremely harmful to ordinary people, and in the process, many ordinary people have suffered catastrophe and become ghost masters. ghost.

And the ghost masters born in this time period are often not very strong. From the current point of view, some old ghost masters who have lived for 80 or [-] years may not be able to fight against the captain-level masters who have become ghost masters for less than a few years. ghost.

This is an inevitable result of the growth environment. After all, ghost masters who grow up in a controllable environment cannot be forced to a real desperation. The difference in the growth environment also leads to differences in the upper limit of growth.

And the fourth time period is the present era.

"Can you tell me in detail?" At this moment, Jiang Hao couldn't help asking curiously.

Although he has a lot of secrets, most of them are learned from the previous owner of the old temple.

And this world is really too big, and there are countless secrets, which can never be completely known by others.

The old man picked up the short stick that Li Leping left on the table with a touch of emotion: "As I said, every ghost master will think about solving the problem of spiritual recovery once he reaches the age where he cannot make progress. , because no one would want their offspring to live in a world with ghosts."

"The top ghost masters in the period of the Republic of China also tried many different paths in order to completely end the supernatural, trying to walk out of a different road of ghost masters."

"But a long time ago, I heard the boss of the paper mill mention a plan, because they found a very special ghost by chance on the way to deal with the ghost."

Jiang Hao listened carefully, with a focused expression, and even held his breath.

"A special ghost?" He couldn't help but ask.

Vaguely, he felt that the temperatureless blood in his almost deadly cold body was heating up at this moment.

"Correct."

The old man didn't express dissatisfaction with Jiang Hao's interrupting his behavior, but nodded.

He continued: "This is a ghost that they have never encountered before. It is very dangerous, but it is very special, because we all know that ghosts follow the law of killing. As long as the law of killing a ghost is triggered, it will definitely be killed. The ghost is watching."

"But that ghost is different."

Speaking of this, the old man paused, and his eyes became serious.

"The special thing about that ghost is that it has no rules for killing people."

"This is impossible."

Immediately, Jiang Hao couldn't help but blurted out, directly refuting the old man's statement.

Ghosts don't have rules for killing people?
Is that still a ghost?
"Listen to me."

The old man waved his hand, seeing Jiang Hao's astonished expression, he recalled himself back then.

When I first heard this statement, why wasn't I so astonished.

Even, he retorted even more fiercely than Jiang Hao did back then.

After all, I have been fighting ghosts for half my life, and you suddenly told me today that there is no law of killing ghosts.

Isn't this equivalent to turning the experience he summed up in the first half of his life into a piece of waste paper?
"Strictly speaking, there is still a question mark as to whether that ghost has a law of killing people."

"Because that ghost's ability is so special that it forgets its own rules of killing." The old man explained.

If you forget your own law of killing, naturally there will be no law of killing.

Suddenly.

Jiang Hao frowned when he heard these two words, and his body shook involuntarily, as if he had thought of something.

His eyes turned to the direction where Li Leping left.

"You mean..." Jiang Hao said seriously.

"That young man named Li Leping controls a part of that ghost." The old man said.

"Part of it?" Jiang Hao asked doubtfully.

"Of course there is only a part of it. You must know that I am not the one who said that the ghost is dangerous, but a ghost master who is much older than me. The degree of control is much better than mine, and even he thinks that the fierce ghost, do you think it will be bad?"

Speaking of this, the old man suddenly smiled. He didn't know whether he was laughing at Jiang Hao or being too young, or at the forgotten ghost controlled by Li Leping.

"But even so, what does such a ghost have to do with that so-called plan?" After a brief shock, Jiang Hao turned his attention and continued to ask.

"Of course it does. What is the reason why people are corrupted by spirits?" the old man asked.

"Because the instinct of a ghost will affect the instinct of a person, people's consciousness will gradually get lost in the instinct of a ghost, and finally become a monster who can't tell whether he is a human or a ghost." Jiang Hao replied immediately.

Ghost walkers know this process all too well.

It's just that most ghost masters don't need to think about such long-term things, because most ghost masters may die if they can't hold on for even a year.

"But what if there is a ghost between the two to influence the ghost controlled by the ghost master, making the ghost forget the instinct to influence the ghost master, or make the ghost master forget the fact that he was influenced by the ghost?" Suddenly , the old man asked back.

"This……"

Hearing such a thought, Jiang Hao was startled.

Let ghosts influence ghosts.

"But this is unrealistic, and it is too difficult to achieve. It is actually the same as a balance between ghosts. When one of the ghosts gains the upper hand, the balance will be broken, and the ghost that has the upper hand will still affect the power of the ghosts. ghost."

After Jiang Hao thought for a while, he still shook his head.

The plan looks good, but there are many contradictions.

In the final analysis, we still cannot escape the problem of treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

"Yeah, that's what I thought at the beginning, and I told that old guy the same way."

The old man did not deny it, and even stood on the same front as Jiang Hao.

But in the next second, he changed the subject: "But he just smiled at me at that time. At that time, I just regarded him as a helpless smile. After all, in order to implement this plan, he was also dead. A lot of friends ended up with a bamboo basket to fetch water in vain, and when we talked about it again after many years, couldn’t we just smile helplessly?”

"That should have been a past event, a past event that has long since ended."

"But today, a young man who controlled a part of the Forgotten Ghost appeared in front of me, Xiao Jiang, tell me why?"

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Hao was stunned.

Yes.

why?
Why, after many years, the forgotten ghost who should have been imprisoned and only existed in the old man's narrative reappeared?

And outside.

Li Leping and Shen Tian came back to the courtyard covered with human skins.

The surroundings were still dim without much light, and the sides of the stone road under his feet were still covered with human skin. The thin and withered human skin was much quieter this time, without any signs of restlessness.

"It seems that the trouble caused by the human skin just now is just a test for the old man."

Li Leping looked thoughtfully at the human skins that had been peeled off from Li Gui's body.

"Captain Li, you just handed over that stick to that old man? Are you not afraid of being blackmailed?"

Suddenly, Shen Tian, ​​who had been following closely behind Li Leping, completely ignored the gloomy atmosphere around Li Leping, approached directly, and asked in a low voice.

"It's very easy for you to speak ill of people behind their backs like this, so it's easy to make people unhappy. Be careful of being killed. Although strictly speaking, this place is in Daha City, it's someone else's territory." Li Leping said without turning his head.

In an instant, hearing these words, Shen Tian felt his whole body go cold, shivered suddenly, turned his head subconsciously, and looked at the three-story building hidden in the darkness.

He seemed to really feel that a pair of eyes were staying on him.

"Don't scare yourself. If that old man really behaves like this, then I have nothing to say, but the premise of eating black is that you have the ability to eat black, and be careful to support yourself to death." Li Leping said as he continued to move forward.

"Well, it's like this." Shen Tian hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Then, he said with a regretful face: "It's just that such a handy guy is missing, will the road ahead be..."

Suddenly, Li Leping stopped, and glanced at Shen Tian expressionlessly: "I have my own considerations. If something is too scary, it may not be able to deal with it even with a short stick. Take a step back and say, External force is only external force after all, I am not worthy to be the captain without that stick?"

After speaking, Li Leping walked forward again, leaving only Shen Tian who was stunned in place after hearing the words.

"correct."

Staring at Li Leping who was always leading the battle in the uniform of the person in charge, Shen Tian also figured it out.

Why should he bother?

Li Leping didn't use that short stick with unknown abilities when he calmed down the restlessness in the courtyard.

And at this moment.

Li Leping has already returned to the back of the gate of the tattoo parlor.

As long as the door is opened, he will come back to the ghost alley.

And now the time has come to [-]:[-].

In other words, the ghost land connected by the ghost alley is fixed for the next 59 minutes.

(End of this chapter)