Chapter 011: Phantom
"You should take it, you should take it!" Gao Xiang immediately put the banknotes away carefully, and Sun Muyu followed suit.
The three of them came out of the community, and Xu Lai asked, "There should be another one, right?"
"Yes, there is also someone with the surname Zhao, he should be nearby." Gao Xiang said hurriedly.
"Then let's go quickly." Xu said.
Gao Xiang looked at the address and it was about a few hundred meters away from here, so the three of them didn't take a taxi and just walked there.
On the way, Gao Xiang sent a WeChat message to Sun Muyu: "This guy is an expert. We'd better not go against him."
Sun Muyu replied with a string of ellipsis marks. He was unwilling to accept this. He had agreed to avenge him, but he didn't expect that after just a short while, even his good brother would betray him.
"Okay, you're wrong at the beginning. You were the one who provoked him first. This guy is very capable. Let's make friends with him. It will be good for the future." Gao Xiang advised.
"Okay, okay." Sun Muyu made a tearful expression.
"That's it."
After Gao Xiang finished his reply, he went to chat with Xu Lai: "Dude, that hand you used just now was pointing at Samsung, right? It was so cool!"
"One finger three stars? You mean the seal gate?" Xu Lai didn't react for a moment. This saying of one finger three stars was a recent popular saying, and he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Yes, yes, that's the key to seal the acupoints!" Gao Xiang said hurriedly: "Then buddy, can you point to the seven stars?"
The so-called One Finger Seven Stars means that one finger can seal seven major acupoints in an instant. This is of course much more difficult than One Finger Three Stars.
Then Xu said, "Given Wang Dading's situation just now, it's not necessary to seal seven places. Three places are enough."
Did you hear that? It’s not that people don’t know how to do it, but that there’s no need to.
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu looked at each other. Who on earth was this person? When it came to the technique of Seven Stars with One Finger, even their master, Master Yuan Tianlin, couldn't master it.
As they were talking, the three of them had already found the Zhao family's residence, which was right next to the Wang family's community. The two communities were next to each other, built in the same era, and had similar styles.
I found out which building it was and went up the stairs. When I reached the sixth floor, I saw a girl about ten years old sitting in the corridor.
Gao Xiang looked at the door number and said, "This should be it."
When the little girl heard this, she jumped up and asked, "Are you masters here to exorcise evil spirits?" Her voice was clear and crisp.
"Yes, little sister, do you know this family?" Gao Xiang asked with a smile.
Then the little girl said in a crisp voice: "My name is Zhao Xiaomin, and I came here to find you."
"It's you?" Xu Lai and the other two were quite surprised.
"Yes, I felt that something was wrong with my mother. It just so happened that Uncle Wang's family in the next community was looking for someone to exorcise the evil spirits, so I asked my aunt to help me find one." Zhao Xiaomin said.
Xu Lai and the other two were a little surprised when they heard this. This little girl was really capable.
"Then let's go in and see your mother first." Gao Xiang said with a smile.
"No, let's not go in yet. Sit down and listen to me." Zhao Xiaomin stopped them.
Xu Lai and the other two were at a loss for words, so they just sat down in the corridor.
"Then tell me what happened."
Zhao Xiaomin's eyes were full of black. She looked at the three people and said, "I think my mother is possessed by evil spirits. The person in the room now is not my mother at all."
"Why do you say that?" Sun Muyu asked with a smile. This little girl even knew that she was possessed. He now seriously suspected that this little girl was acting weird because she had watched too many TV dramas.
"I am my mother's daughter. Of course I can feel that something is wrong with her. For example, she usually doesn't eat coriander, but now she suddenly eats it." Zhao Xiaomin said seriously.
Gao Xiang smiled when he heard this. He had a similar idea as Sun Muyu. He thought that this trip was in vain. It was simply because the girl watched too much TV and was daydreaming.
Then I heard Xu Lai ask: "When did your mother change?"
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu were surprised, wondering if this master buddy really believed it?
"It's been three days." Zhao Xiaomin said: "I first noticed it three days ago. The food she cooked was different from my mom's. I could tell right away when I ate it. Then I paid more attention to it and felt that something was getting more and more wrong."
"Did anything special happen before that?" Xu Lai asked.
"I don't know about that." Zhao Xiaomin shook her head. "My mother has been feeling unwell recently. She hasn't been to work for a month. She has been recuperating at home and hasn't been going anywhere."
"What about your dad?" Sun Muyu interrupted.
"My father passed away a long time ago," said Zhao Xiaomin.
Xu Lai and the other two were silent for a while. No wonder this little girl acted like a little adult.
"Don't worry, we are here." Xu Lai smiled and touched the little girl's head, "When you go in, just tell us that we are your friends."
Zhao Xiaomin agreed obediently, got up, took the key, opened the door and went in, followed by Xu Lai and the other two.
"Mom, our cousin is here to see us." The little girl shouted towards the inner room.
Xu Lai and the other two couldn't help but laugh after hearing this. This little girl was really clever.
"You guys go sit on the sofa first." Zhao Xiaomin whispered to the three of them, then ran to one of the rooms and shouted inside: "Mom, come quickly."
Xu Lai and his friends sat on the sofa, looking at the layout of the living room, and then they heard a woman inside say, "I'm here."
After a while, Zhao Xiaomin came out arm in arm with a woman. She had fair skin and delicate features. Although she was old, it was obvious that she was also a beauty when she was young.
The little girl Zhao Xiaomin has red lips and white teeth, like a porcelain doll. She has obviously inherited her mother's good genes.
"You three are here. Come and watch TV first. I'll go cook for you." Xiao Min's mother smiled and was about to go to the kitchen.
But Zhao Xiaomin stopped him and said in a crisp voice: "Mom, my cousins haven't been here for a long time, do you still recognize them?"
Xiao Min's mother smiled and said, "Of course you don't remember. We all played this game when we were kids. Okay, you play with your brothers first. I'll go cook." Then she went into the kitchen.
Zhao Xiaomin came over and sat next to Xu Lai, and asked the three of them quietly: "How is it?"
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu frowned. Xiao Min's mother just treated the three of them as nephews, which was obviously a problem.
"But... this doesn't seem to be possessed by an evil spirit, right?" Gao Xiang couldn't figure it out. If Xiao Min's mother was possessed by an evil spirit, it was impossible to tell from her appearance. Her tone of voice was so natural that there was no sign .
Speaking of the appearance of being possessed by evil spirits, Wang Dading from the Wang family is a typical example. He either has a violent temper and immense strength, or at worst has a dull expression and moves strangely.
On the other hand, Xiao Minmin's mother's behavior was as normal as it could be, except that she mistook them for her nephews.
"I don't think so either. Could it be that he has some other disease?" Sun Muyu also agreed with Gao Xiang's judgment.
But Xu said, "It's true that he was possessed by evil spirits."
"If he's possessed, that seems too natural, doesn't it?" Gao Xiang felt that something was not right, but he didn't dare to say anything definite.
"It's an illusion." Xu said.
"What? Illusion..." Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu were startled and almost screamed, and quickly covered their mouths.
Being possessed by evil spirits is a common term, while people in the industry call it being attracted by evil spirits.
Evil spirits can be divided into three categories: the first is possession by human souls, the second is possession by monsters and spirits, and the third is possession by mountains and rivers.
Among these three types, possession by human souls and possession by spirits and monsters are the most common, while cases of possession by mountains or rivers are extremely rare.
When a human soul possesses a body or a spirit borrows a body, the vast majority of the time it is for the purpose of cultivating in the body. Depending on the level of cultivation, this can be divided into three categories: possessed, phantom, and real.
The vast majority of evil spirits in this world belong to the category of possession, which has the mildest symptoms and is also relatively easy to subdue. Basically, any wizard with some skills can see it through observation.
When it comes to the stage of phantom body, it is another realm. The reason why it is called phantom body is that after reaching this level, it is both real and illusory, and looks no different from ordinary people. Even the experienced magicians cannot see through it at a glance.
As for its true form, it has already surpassed the realm of ordinary evil spirits. Even if a master magician comes, he has to consider the issue of escape first.
"Is it really... is it really an illusion?"
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu both looked pale. They had been Yuan Tianlin's disciples for many years, and although they had never really encountered an illusory body, they definitely knew the name of this thing.
If this is really the thing, even if his master Yuan Tianlin came, he probably wouldn't be able to get away with it, let alone them.
"Brother, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" Gao Xiang couldn't help but ask again.
"That's right." Xu Lai answered very affirmatively.
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu took a deep breath, sweat on their foreheads. Xiao Min's mother's appearance did indeed agree with the description of the legendary phantom body.
"If it really is an illusion, we...we might really..." Gao Xiang looked at Xu Lai and wanted to say that we might really not be able to do this, but the little girl Zhao Xiaomin was sitting next to them, so he really couldn't say it.
"We need to discuss this matter further." Sun Muyu said.
He was also a man who cared about his reputation, and he really didn't want to give in unless it was absolutely necessary. But this was an illusion, and this thing was definitely not a joke. If he really went up and forced it, not only would the three of them be dead here, but he might also implicate the little girl and the neighbors.
Both of them felt bitter in their hearts. They had originally come here with high spirits to exorcise evil spirits, but they didn't expect that instead of getting rid of the evil spirits, they were scared and ran away.
But what can we do? The strength is there, and we can’t force it.
Gao Xiang was just thinking about how to explain it to the little girl when he heard Xu say, "With your two levels, the phantom body isn't that hard to deal with."
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu were both stunned. What did this mean?
