Chapter 62 Puppet Eleven
Ji Huiming saw that the actor was flying backwards out of thin air, and he was crawling on the ground in a strong and skillful manner. "Tan Xiao, where are you? Remember to tell the teacher later..."
He thought to himself that he should invite his colleagues to play together in the future, which would definitely be exciting and stress -relieving. Young people really know how to find a good place.
"Okay, okay, teacher, I won't say any more. Let's continue to escape." As for how to edit it later, that's a matter for the future. Tan Xiao still remembered waving at Ji Huiming and gave Kong Xuan a shot. Kong Xuan also waved stiffly before pressing it off and said to the ghost figurine, "Wow, don't crawl anymore. You can't escape."
Ghost figurine: “…”
Barry had already chased out: "Hey, stop it, there are mages outside."
Wouldn't you suffer even more if you ran away?
The mages in the living room gathered together and stood above the ghost figurine to look at it.
The ghost figurine looked at the crowd above, and he really didn't have the energy or the will to escape. He turned over on the ground, moved his mouth, and his eyes fell on Tan Xiao's face. Suddenly he spoke in human language, and said in a greasy voice: "The wizard looks familiar, have we met before?"
"Don't try to get close to me." Tan Xiao thought to himself, why did you try to get close to me? Did you try to trick me because I was the youngest? He held the Taiyin slingshot in his hand and aimed the Mu Zhenzhu at the ghost figurine to show his determination.
The ghost figurine buried its head again.
Barry got busy, tied him up with red ropes stained with chicken blood, and went to look at Zhao Qishan. He looked at Zhao Qishan, and Mu Fei also looked at him, "Teacher Ba, are you okay?" This was about to leak electricity.
"I cut it myself." Barry said, it's normal for him to discharge electricity when others perform sacrifices and bleed.
Zhao Qishan was bewitched by the ghost figurine in the house and lost all his courage. At this moment, he looked at Barry with his eyes wide open.
"Look carefully, we are all here to help you. You have been bewitched by the ghost figurine." Barry waved his hand in front of his eyes and asked Mu Fei to press him to sit down. He took a porcelain bowl and dissolved some water. The Duangong ritual is also called Tiao Duangong. He had just beaten the drum, sang and danced in the room. Now he was going to demonstrate other basic skills, that is, the holy water.
Barry stepped on the Bagua and cast a spell around Zhao Qishan. He burned a talisman and added a few drops of rooster's comb blood, dissolved it in water, and told him to drink it.
Zhao Qishan was trembling, but he didn't dare not drink. As he drank, he felt Barry still shaking the sheepskin drum, "The sky is round and the earth is square, there are nine laws and regulations, after the filth is removed, great fortune and prosperity will come!"
The nine rings collided with each other, making a series of crisp metallic sounds, as if cleansing his brain.
This was clearly a bowl of mineral water, but when Zhao Qishan drank it, he felt like a warm current flowing down to his internal organs and hands and feet, warming up his cold limbs, and his heart was no longer as frightened as before. And now, he suddenly felt relieved - truly relaxed, only then could he realize that he had always felt heavy, but at that time he often "swimmed at night", so he naturally thought it was because he had not rested well.
Zhao Qishan calmed down and was able to think naturally: Oh, just now Duan Gong said that I was bewitched by the ghost figurine , no wonder I saw that he didn't look like a human just now, this is a trick to sow discord!
I've read so many ghost stories, why didn't I react?
Zhao Qishan put down the bowl of water and looked at Barry again with a calm mood. Just as he was about to thank him, he saw the wounds on his body and almost fell off the stool. Fortunately, Mu Fei supported him.
"Ah! Am I obsessed again? Why do I look at you, at you..."
Zhao Qishan said with his eyes wide open.
"It's true. I'm not a human being." Barry said as if it was normal. "Don't worry. I have already joined the country."
Zhao Qishan: “…”
Zhao Qishan felt that his brain was no longer enough and held his forehead.
"Take a break." Mu Fei let him go and turned to look at the ghost figurine. She took him into the room and interrogated him on the spot, "Do you understand the rules?"
The ghost figurine squatted down and held his head with his hands, "Kui 11, Yin, male, native to Mount Que, 731 years old, of a fine race, of a strong ethnic group..."
Everyone: “……?”
"What the hell, you're still a minority? Who identified you as such?" Barry interrupted him.
Kui Shiyi stiffened his neck and said, "I was a Zhuang people in Mount Que who asked a craftsman to carve it for me to bring up the mountain. Why can't I follow his people?"
"...It's up to you." Mu Fei was too lazy to give him an appraisal, "Go on and explain the crime."
"Oh." Kui Shiyi said honestly, "I came to this city through buying and selling about three months ago, and I didn't declare it. I admit that I was lucky. It was mainly because of my attributes that it was troublesome to enter the city. I was afraid of trouble and my awareness was too low. I'm sorry, leader."
It sounded like he was a seasoned veteran, and everyone was speechless.
"Just get to the point." Mu Fei said.
"That's all," Kui Shiyi said innocently, "I didn't do anything intentional. It's just that I live here, and the Yin energy is heavy, which may easily cause rheumatism in the owner. I'm also afraid that I'll be discovered and sent back or buried. I'm very careful. I go out to play at night and try not to stay home."
But the words of the ghost figurine made everyone confused. Tan Xiao pointed at Kong Xuan and said, "Don't you know that this is the Peacock God? If you do this, I will make him shine."
When Kong Xuan heard Tan Xiao using himself to scare the other party, he took a step forward with reservation.
How could he not know the son of Yuan Feng when he was in Chu? Kui Shiyi said in panic: "I did hear in the underworld in Southern Chu that the Peacock God might appear here. I don't know if the God is here. If you have anything to say, please tell me. Don't scare me!"
Tan Xiao saw that he seemed really confused, and exchanged a glance with Mu Fei, "Wait, you...didn't you carry Zhao Qishan to Qiyun Ridge?"
"I'm not that bored..." Kui Shiyi raised his hand, "I've seen Nanchu's promotional video a long time ago, and I've been looking forward to coming here to play. To be honest, unless I want to go back, I will deliberately do something bad to let him find me."
As the saying goes, sending away evil and burying evil, if we send it back now, it will not have finished playing with Nanchu yet.
"You're taking a trip, right?" Barry complained, then said with a depressed look, "But how can you say that? If it wasn't you who moved it, who was it? And you resisted so vigorously just now..."
Kui Shiyi realized that they seemed to have caught the wrong person, and stood up excitedly: "This is really not me, I am over 700 years old, I am not so ignorant! I resisted because you came to arrest me, and seeing so many people and such a big scene, I thought there was a special rectification against us recently! I said we are not fox spirits, how did we get into the situation of special rectification? We will be arrested if we enter the city without reporting."
He was afraid of being caught as an example, so he ran as fast as he could. In his experience, some minor violations were beyond the control of others, so he could be fine if he was careful.
Tan Xiao noticed something: "…What? Are there any special crackdowns on vixens?"
"Yes, after all, they are easy to become powerful and have more extreme personalities, unlike me." Kui Shiyi reiterated, and took the opportunity to clear himself, "I haven't violated any serious regulations. I have been moved out of my hometown for many years and returned. I have traveled to many places and worked for various magicians and heavenly masters. I have been called as a mercenary. I know the rules!"
"Okay, squat down." Mu Fei looked at him carefully and felt that it was unlikely that he would lie in this situation. He also had rich social experience. "Now it's interesting. Who moved Zhao Qishan to Qiyunling?"
Tan Xiao nodded slowly. He didn't look like Kui Eleven, but this was weird because they found Kui Eleven based on the hexagram. His hexagram was also divined together with Kong Xuan, so it couldn't be inaccurate. "The hexagram should be in the inner hexagram, which means the offender is in this house. This is definitely correct, but it's not Kui Eleven, who is it?"
"You live here, and you don't know who it is?" Barry asked Kui Shiyi, "Also, have you been to Qiyunling when you were in Nanchu? Did you see a Yorkshire Terrier?"
"Oh, is that demon-devouring devil in Nanchu?!" Kui Shiyi seemed to have heard the warning issued by 404, beware of the evil spirits, and panicked immediately, "Then send me back to my hometown quickly, it's safer for me to go back to my hometown - oh, I haven't been to Qiyunling, I'm here for tourism, I haven't seen enough mountains, of course I want to go to a lively place."
"You talk too much." Barry said what everyone was thinking with a bit of a headache.
Puppet Eleven: "Hey, someone said so."
His eyes rolled, and he was no longer in a hurry to excuse himself. Since the demon-devouring devil was suspected to be in Nanchu, it would be safer for him to follow the people of Office 404. Whether they wanted to lock him up or repatriate him, it would be better than living in fear outside. "Leader, I'm telling the truth. I just treated this place as a hotel. I really don't know what happened!"
"I see." Barry said to Tan Xiao, "Master Tan, now..."
Tan Xiao still felt that the divination that Kong Xuan had helped him with couldn't be wrong. It could only be that, "Did I interpret the divination wrongly?"
"As long as the place is right, we'll know what it is once we try it." Kong Xuan said indifferently.
That’s right. Originally, the purpose of the fortune-telling was to gain the trust of Zhao Qishan, but now it seems that he has taken a detour. So let’s not worry about interpreting the fortune for now, and just catch the real perpetrator.
As for how to catch him, that’s easy. Zhao Qishen was always carried away on weekends, and the perpetrator might come again tonight.
…
"Mr. Zhao..."
A group of people filed out of the room, calling out Zhao Qishan.
Zhao Qishan's mood had almost calmed down, and he even made tea for them outside. "Oh, everyone, you've worked hard. Have some tea. Is it resolved? Can I call my wife and children back? Oh, it's so late, I'd better go find them... I don't dare to sleep here alone tonight."
"Sorry, you may have to sleep here tonight." Barry hesitated.
"Ah?" Zhao Qishan was stunned.
"Because we found that the ghost figurine might not be the one causing trouble. We still have to continue looking for the murderer who moved you to Qiyunling in your house. He may come to look for you tonight, right?"
"..." Zhao Qishan was devastated. "How weird is my house?! Should I move?"
How come there are other things besides the ghost figurines?
Barry consoled her, "Don't be like that. Maybe it's not the house's problem, it's your own fate."
Zhao Qishan: “…”
Zhao Qishan clasped his hands together and said, "But I beg you, I really can't stand being scared anymore."
"It might be a bit unbearable to be frightened twice in one night." Mu Fei thought for a moment, "Let's use a substitute. But the victim can't be too far away. So, I'll let Mr. Xu sleep with you in the guest room."
They did it right away. After some preparation, they took Zhao Qishan's hair and wrapped it around a bramble, stuffed it into a pillow as a substitute, and then placed Zhao Qishan in the guest room.
"Don't be afraid." Mr. Xu sat beside the bed, hiding Zhao Qishan. "I'm hiding you now, so the evil spirits can't see you." Then he also lay down on the bed, sleeping on the outside to prevent Zhao Qishan from being scared.
"Can you close the door?" Zhao Qishan said weakly. In his house, the bedrooms were all together, and he would have to pass through the guest room to go to the master bedroom.
"If your door is not normally closed, then it cannot be closed." Mr. Xu said simply.
In the master bedroom next door, Tan Xiao and the others were also making arrangements. Kui Shiyi was stuffed under the bed first, and Barry transformed directly into his original form and stayed at the head of the bed. Mu Fei lay on the bed, pretending to be Zhao Qishan's wife.
Kong Xuan and Tan Xiao both hid in the closet. There weren't many clothes in that compartment, just a few down jackets hanging there. The two pushed the down jackets aside and sat in the closet. The space wasn't too crowded, but it was difficult to avoid touching hands and feet.
Tan Xiao took out Mu Zhenzhu and used her as a light. Kong Xuan saw this and was about to turn on the light, but Tan Xiao, who knew this in advance, stopped him and said, "Don't turn on the light!"
Kong Xuan: “…”
Tan Xiao: "When your light shines, the neighbors next door will wake up and complain. How can the criminals dare to come here?"
Kong Xuan sat back angrily.
In the dim space, the faint light of the pearl was only enough for Tan Xiao to vaguely see Kong Xuan's face. Although he could not remember Kong Xuan's facial features, he could now discern the subtle sense of loss on Kong Xuan's face.
Tan Xiao suddenly took Kong Xuan's hand.
Kong Xuan was so frightened that he almost kicked open the cabinet door.
"Shh." Tan Xiao made a gesture, "I don't know when it will come, I'll take a nap." Normally, he has a very regular schedule, so he should be sleepy at this time.
Tan Xiao leaned sideways against Kong Xuan and dozed off with his eyes closed.
The dim light illuminated Tan Xiao's soft features. Kong Xuan secretly lowered his head to take a look. Tan Xiao fell asleep immediately. He remembered that when they were on the bus to Qiyunling, Tan Xiao also let him lean on her. Now that Tan Xiao needed him, he would naturally repay her.
The more Kong Xuan thought about it, the more it made sense. His straight body relaxed a little, and he reached out his hand to carefully hug Tan Xiao. His cool skin touched Tan Xiao's hand, causing the other party to shrink.
"......!" Kong Xuan retracted his palm, paused for a second, put his hand into his sleeve, and then stroked Tan Xiao's body through his clothes.
…
Zhao Qishan closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. According to what Mr. Xu had said, as long as he took a nap, he would find that the problem had been solved when he woke up.
But with so many things happening today, how could he sleep?
The face of Kui Shiyi in the past suddenly popped up in his mind, and he recalled waking up in Qiyunling before. He couldn't help but recall whether he had any consciousness in the middle of the night. Was he taken away by something? What on earth did he provoke... I don't think he has done anything bad in normal times. Could it be that there is something wrong with his fate? Damn, it can't be that I have encountered this before, but I didn't take it seriously like sleepwalking.
Maybe he was too tense during the day, and now he was lying in bed, with such a chaotic thought, Zhao Qishan fell asleep unconsciously. In his dream, there was a group of ghost soldiers, each with the face of Kui Shiyi, carrying him towards Qiyun Ridge like a hundred ghosts parading at night. He yelled in the air, but he couldn't get up no matter how hard he struggled...
“Boom.”
“Boom.”
Zhao Qishan woke up in a cold sweat, and vaguely heard the slight sound of the wooden floor in his home. His mouth was dry and his limbs were weak, as if he had used up all his strength in the dream. He was stunned for three seconds before he suddenly realized that the thudding sound was not in the dream, but his wooden floor was really making noises!
Zhao Qishan's neck was like an old door panel that had lost its lubrication, turning slowly and creaking as he looked towards the door.
It seemed that a car passed by outside the house, and the headlights shone into the room. A huge figure appeared on the wall, followed by another one. It was a row of people!
They were jumping forward, making rhythmic, light footsteps on the wooden floor, and their shadows swayed on the walls.
Zombies? A bunch of zombies?!
His heart almost jumped out of his throat. Zhao Qishan felt that Mr. Xu next to him still had his eyes closed, but his hand was already stretched out.
Covering his mouth tightly. At the same time, Mr. Xu turned over to block his view, and moved his mouth, saying: Go to sleep.
In the master bedroom.
Tan Xiao was awakened by the sound and the creepy feeling, and found that he had fallen into Kong Xuan's arms instead of leaning on his shoulder. He quickly stood up, clenched the slingshot, moved his wrist, and leaned against the cabinet door.
The car lights flashed by, and the jumping shadow was also projected onto the master bedroom.
Mu Fei opened her eyes slightly and looked...
Tan Xiao also looked out through the gap in the cabinet door.
But they didn't see any figures for a while, and while they were confused, the banging sound had already entered the master bedroom. Mu Fei couldn't see it from her angle, but Tan Xiao could see it clearly. A group of little people jumped in from the ground. They were projected to be huge by the light, but in fact they were only a tiny bit big.
Tan Xiao’s eyes widened. What the hell is that?
The group of little people jumped in with a thump, and their footsteps on the wooden floor made uniform but small sounds. After entering the bedroom, they made chattering sounds, as if they were discussing something. Then they climbed onto the bed in two groups. One group pulled the pillow that served as a substitute, while the other group pushed the pillow, and they worked together to get it off the bed. After they succeeded, they cheered and ran out.
“Beep, beep.”
The sound of the pager suddenly woke up the dazed Tan Xiao. He raised his hand, opened the cupboard door and rushed out. At the same time, Mu Fei turned on the bedroom light, and the light came in.
Tan Xiao held up the Taiyin slingshot, Kong Xuan's five-colored divine light was ready to move, Mu Fei's runes were also ready to go, and Barry also rolled off the bed and landed gracefully with a knife in his hand...
The little people holding the pillows were translucent red all over, covered with fine crystal powder, and their bodies were soft and elastic. I was startled when I saw them and started to panic.
Looking closely at these little monsters, Tan Xiao recalled the hexagram he had drawn. The hexagram indicated that the opposite party might be related to children, the color red, or the mountains and forests. So it was not the northwest, but the southeast. The opposite party might also be related to children? What is the southeast?
Tan Xiao glanced outside and saw rows of things on the shelves, preparations, toothpaste, snacks... Eh? Tan Xiao suddenly realized.
At the same time, Kui Shiyi, who was craning his neck to peek under the bed, also shouted, "Isn't this the gummy candy we sell? I'm in big trouble for this little thing!"
And strictly speaking, these don't seem to be in the shape of "little men", but actually rough bear shapes.
At this time, the little sweeteners had reached a consensus in panic. They raised their fists at them and shouted threateningly, indicating that they would fight to the end.
Tan Xiao and his entourage: "..."
Mu Fei put down his hand and looked at Tan Xiao. Isn’t this like using a cannon to kill ants?
These little things are completely different from Kui Eleven. Although she must subdue them according to the rules of the martial arts world, she feels that it is not a good idea to do it herself. Although Tan Xiao is powerful, he is young, so it sounds better to say it out loud...
Tan Xiao was also a little embarrassed. He glanced at Mu Zhenzhu, but he was worried that with the force of his attack, would the saccharin melt directly? How could he ask questions then?
These little saccharines had to work together to move someone, and they didn't even notice anything unusual on the shelves when they came into the house, which also showed that their aura was too weak.
Seeing that these monsters dared to bark at him, Kong Xuan's sleeves moved without wind and his hair fluttered in the air. He sneered and was about to brush them away with the five-colored divine light!
Others: “!!”
Tan Xiao grabbed Kong Xuan and said, "Wait."
Kong Xuan: “?”
Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan whispered a few words to each other. Kong Xuan nodded in confusion and took something out of his sleeve and gave it to Tan Xiao.
Tan Xiao took the thing and walked up to the little sweet lovers.
Mu Fei and the others also looked at Tan Xiao curiously. They didn't know what magic weapon he took out after stopping the great god. It was a small round stick with silver and black colors.
Asking the great god Kong Xuan to catch the saccharin was a bit of an overkill, but the magic weapon from Kong Xuan, even if it was inferior to the five-color divine light, was probably also very impressive. Especially since Kui Eleven was so excited that he was trembling all over. This was not unfair, and he would have something to show off in the future.
Tan Xiao squatted in front of the saccharins, aimed at the angle, and pressed the mechanism in his hand. The magic wand that Ji Huiming gave him instantly popped out and stretched out, smashing all the saccharins away with one stick. The saccharins on the edge that were not hit were also dragged and fell to the ground like bowling balls. The worst ones were directly thrown and stuck to the wall...
Everyone: “…………”
