Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 134 The Levitating Red Lantern
I just watched the raging fire burn again, engulfing the hanged ghost in a short while. The strange thing is that the house didn't catch fire, as if the fire was fake.The hanged ghost was rolling all over the ground at this moment, so it was not a spirit body at all, but a person who was really burned.

What a cruel scene!But I got used to it, I put the bronze knife back in my pocket, and put my hands on my chest to watch the fun, thinking that the root cause of Sangu's disease would be cured soon.A ghost like this must never have the heart of the Virgin. The longer it stays in the world, the more capable it will be and the more it will do harm to people. I guess it has already lost its consciousness when it was alive, and it only relies on the resentment before death to repeat instinctively. Fulfillment of wishes, such as marrying a wife.

Goddess Zhang once told me that people should not commit suicide no matter what, otherwise they will keep repeating their suicide behavior after death.For example, if someone dies by jumping off a building, then this person will jump off the building repeatedly after death, and for countless years, he will continue to endure the pain of falling to death.Just like this, I repeatedly jumped to my death, resurrected and jumped off the building, and then resurrected again, and the cycle continued.If you ask why this is so, I can only explain that it is instinct. The thing he wants to do the most before death is to jump off a building. Then after becoming a ghost, jumping from a building becomes its instinctive behavior, because this is what it wants to do most at the last moment of its life. thing.

Of course, this is not limited to suicide. Another example is homicide. The deceased must be very unwilling, and it most wants revenge.Therefore, a murderous spirit is usually born at the scene of a murder. As long as the time is right, it will take revenge on anyone, because revenge has become its instinct.

Just when I thought that the hanged ghost would definitely not be able to escape the burning fire, a strange thing happened!I saw a red light suddenly lit up in the old blue brick house in the distance, as if someone inside suddenly pressed the switch of ten hundred-watt red light bulbs.

Just when the old house was lit up with red lights, even more strange things happened one after another. The Yin fire on the hanged ghost who was covered in fire went out in one go.Then there seemed to be an invisible line, pulling the hanged ghost into the old blue brick house, the speed was so fast that Tongtong and I couldn't catch up at all.

When the hanged ghost was pulled back to the old blue brick house, the red light went out, and Tongtong and I chased the distance less than 200 meters.

At this moment, I put my hands on my knees and panted heavily, and asked Tongtong what the red light was, and I actually sucked the hanged ghost back into the old house.

Tongtong shook her head and said she hadn't seen it either!Hurry up to the house to have a look, so Tongtong and I ran again.When we ran to the gate of the old house, we stopped involuntarily, as if we couldn't enter the gate of the old house. Why?

Because I saw a red lantern suspended in the air two meters above the courtyard of the old brick house at this moment. The light of this red lantern was already very weak, so weak that it seemed to be a match that was about to go out.

Tong Tong and I looked at each other in blank dismay, the red light just now must have come from this lantern!What exactly is this thing, why can it be suspended out of thin air, when and where did it appear.

Tongtong and I stood at the door, staring at the lantern without blinking. It became darker and darker, and disappeared out of thin air the moment it was extinguished. Tongtong and I were speechless.

This lantern reminds me of the soul-destroying lamps in the valleys of western Hunan. The soul-destroying lamps are formed by igniting the miasma and hostility in the deep mountains and wild forests.What would this red lantern be?How is it formed?Who arranged it here?What is the secret of this old house?Had the hanged man returned to that room?
All of this has become complicated. I thought it was just an incident haunted by ghosts, but now it seems that it is far more than that simple.There seems to be some big secret hidden behind this, I can't figure it out and can't find it, which makes me, who is smart, confused at the moment.

Tongtong asked me if I wanted to go in and have a look, but I hesitated because I didn't know what would happen after I went in, because the lantern just scared me.At the same time, it was also because I was worried about Tongtong, afraid that there would be an invisible thread that would pull Tongtong away like the hanged ghost, and then I would never be able to find her again.

"No, come back at dawn tomorrow!" After thinking for three seconds, I made this decision.

Tongtong raised his head and said to me: "Brother Tiaohe, you have become smarter, and you will not blindly and recklessly do uncertain things."

I patted Tongtong's head, let her go back into the bead, and then returned to Sangu's village.It was already past one o'clock at night, and every household had turned off the lights to go to sleep, except Sangu's house was still on.

When I returned to Sangu's house, apart from Xiao Jianzaki and Little Tudou, Ye Feiji, Sangu and Xuefei's sister were still awake.They all knew that I went to hunt ghosts, so they endured dozing off and waited for my return, hoping that I would bring good news, even if I didn't catch the hanged ghost, they would still see me come back safely.

Ye Feiji knows my skills, and Sister Xuefei and Sangu also know that I have learned from Goddess Zhang, so they won't make a fuss about it.

As soon as I entered the house, sister Xuefei told Sangu that Brother Tiaohe had returned. The first thing Sangu asked was if he was injured, and then he asked if he had caught the hanged ghost.

I shook my head, took a bowl and drank a bowl of water, and then said that it was close, but the hanged ghost has been burned by Yinhuo, and it is estimated that he will not come out to harm anyone for at least several years.

Ye Feiji stretched his waist and went back to the kitchen to boil a bucket of hot water for me. After I took a shower, I went back to bed and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. My mind was full of the shadow of the red lantern, and I was still awake until dawn.

I got up at dawn, went to Qiu Laosan's house and saw Qiu Laosan still wearing that rotten underwear brushing his teeth at the door, and greeted me immediately when he saw me.

I asked Qiu Laosan: "Did Aunt Seven come back to your house last night?"

Qiu Laosan spit out toothpaste foam and said, "I didn't come back, didn't Aunt Seven go to invite ghosts with you last night?"

I said to Qiu Laosan: "She left halfway last night and didn't go back to my aunt's house or yours. She must have gone back to your cousin's house, right?"

Qiu Laosan nodded and said, "It's possible. What's the rush for you to find Aunt Seven early in the morning! Did you kill that ghost?"

I said with a displeased face: "No! The hanged ghost was almost burned to death, and I don't know why it ran away again."

I didn't tell Qiu Laosan about the red lantern in the old house, only said that the hanged ghost ran away suddenly, lest he spread these things that ordinary people shouldn't know, even Seventh Aunt I couldn't tell her.

As soon as Qiu Laosan heard me say that the hanged ghost had escaped, he was so frightened that the foam in his mouth choked into his throat, and he suddenly coughed violently, which made his face flush.After the cough stopped, he asked me: "Escaped! Then you have to catch it! Otherwise, such a vicious ghost will make life in the village very difficult. Who will dare to go out at night from now on!"

I ignored Qiu Laosan again, turned around and left without seeing Aunt Seven, planning to come back at noon, to tell her that the hanged ghost ran away, and see what Aunt Seven could do to make it come out again.

Back at Sangu's house, Concubine Xue's younger sister has already woken up to cook porridge. She didn't sleep long last night. She is really a hardworking and sensible child.Little Tudou is not bad either. Sister Xuefei said that he went to the mountain to pick mushrooms with his friends from the village early in the morning.Ye Feiji, on the other hand, didn't get up until after ten o'clock every day, and Xiao Jianqi also followed her example, lying on the bed with his eyes open when he woke up, and didn't get up until Ye Feiji woke up and brought her up.But Xiao Jianzaki is only four years old after all, he can't do any work, and it doesn't matter if he sleeps a lot. Ye Feiji was hired by me with a salary, so he is so lazy.

I went back to the room and sat on the bed. Although I didn't close my eyes last night, I still don't feel sleepy now, so I dug out the "Witch and Gu Art" to read.But I am really illiterate, I can only read seven or eight characters on a whole page, but when I turned to a page at random, there were six enlarged characters on it that attracted me.

I can recognize two of these six characters that are one size larger than the others. I can recognize the two characters "XX out of body XX", and I think of the scene of Sun Wukong's soul leaving his body in Journey to the West.

I quickly woke up Ye Feiji, pointed to the six big characters on the book and asked her what it was, read it to me quickly.

Ye Feiji rubbed her eyes, snatched the book in my hand to read, and then told me that the six words were called "The Art of Out-of-body Soul." After she finished speaking, she threw the book away and fell asleep on the bed again.

Hearing Ye Feiji read these six words, I analyzed in my head, this soul out of body technique should be similar to Monkey King's primordial spirit out of body!It's just that it's not that magical, it's about the same as growing out of the body with Wang Yi in the secret path of Dao County.

This book handed down by the priest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is really a treasure. I don’t know who the priest got it from. It would be great if I learned all the witchcraft and voodoo in the book.

I put away this "Witch Gu Art", and I have a plan in my mind, that is, from tomorrow, let Ye Feiji teach me to recognize five characters every day.

I fell on the bed and thought wildly, thinking about the red lanterns in the old house for a while, and thinking about the "Witch and Gu Art" for a while, and fell asleep without knowing it.

When I woke up, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. After I got up and had a quick bite of food, I came to Qiu Laosan's house in the next-door village.But Qiu Laosan and his wife are not at home, only the seven little kids are there. When I asked, Qiu Laosan went to the land, but I don’t know where Qiu Laosan’s land is, and I can’t find him if I want to find him. My aunt didn't see anyone either.

I went to Qiu Laosan to ask him to help me find some people. I wanted to go to the room of the hanged ghost and dig down the ground to have a look.I went to Seventh Aunt to tell her that the hanged ghost ran away last night, to see if she could lure it out again, but they couldn't see anyone.

I walked around the village and came to the big banyan tree. Qiu Taigong was sitting under the root of the tree, smoking a long pipe in his hand.

Mr. Qiu's eyes are very good. He saw me again and called me to him. Before he could speak, I said Mr. Qiu that I didn't bring cigarettes today.

Qiu Taigong grinned openly, the wrinkles on his face were crowded together, more like bark than the bark of the banyan tree behind him.

He took a strong puff of the cigarette, then sprayed it all on my face, and then said to me pretending to be mysterious: "Young man, guess what I saw last night?"

(End of this chapter)