Chapter 99 Pressure
Damn, thirty thousand for exorcising an evil spirit? They worked so hard with the gods, risking their lives, and only received twenty thousand, and that was a reward.
This guy is going to get 30,000 so easily? What kind of ascetic sect is this?
"Brother, this is not how you should be a mage, right? Isn't it too dark?" Gao Xiang couldn't help but speak.
Uncle Li quickly explained: "This is what we agreed on before. As long as the master can save my daughter-in-law, the thirty thousand yuan is nothing."
What a fucking lion's mouth!
Sun Muyu couldn't help but sneer: "Aren't you from the Ascetic Sect? Why do you need so much money?"
The scruffy man glared at them and said, "Practice is one thing, but my skills are only worth this much!"
The two sides beside Uncle Li started arguing again, so he hurried to try to stop them.
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu kept their mouths shut to give face to the host. The sloppy man waved the bottle towards Uncle Li and said that the bottle was evil and not suitable to be kept at home. Otherwise, he could sell it to him and offer a price.
When Uncle Li heard this, he was not willing to take the money at all, and hurriedly said that if the master liked it, he could take it.
As expected, the sloppy man didn't hesitate to put the bottle into his torn bag, then walked out in a swagger.
Seeing that the matter was settled, Xu Lai and the other two said goodbye and left.
On the way, Gao Xiang was still feeling indignant: "How can this birdman be called a magician? He is simply bringing shame to us!"
"That's right! Why do you still want to practice so hard? You're just a money-grubber who won't even let go of a broken bottle!" Sun Muyu echoed.
Then Xu Lai laughed and said, "Actually, there's something fishy about that bottle."
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu were stunned when they heard this and asked what was going on.
Xu said: "This bottle should be a magical tool made by our ancestors, like a soul-sealing jar."
"What the hell!" After all, the two men have been in the industry for several years and are not newbies who know nothing.
If this broken ceramic bottle is a magic weapon, it may not be a big deal for ordinary people, but for a magician, its value is hard to say.
"This guy is so fucking cunning!" Gao Xiang commented viciously.
"It's better to let him take it away. It will always be a trouble if the thing is left in ordinary people's homes." Xu Lai said with a smile.
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu couldn't help but feel discouraged. This was a magic weapon, but how come the great god treated it like a piece of cabbage?
In fact, they both wanted it very much, but it was a pity that the master didn't tell them at that time...
The three of them chatted all the way and followed each other to the next place. From the mobile phone map, the two sides were not far away. However, when they arrived at the place, the three of them were a little lost, because this area belonged to the old city, and there were too many alleys and it was complicated. For a while, they were a little confused.
Gao Xiang happened to see a little girl about ten years old passing by the alley in front, and he quickly called her.
"Old Xu, two brothers , it's you!" The little girl ran over when she heard the voice, and when she saw it was them, she immediately called out sweetly.
Xu Lai and the other two were stunned. They didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that they met an acquaintance.
The little girl was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and cropped pants. She had long black hair tied into two braids. She looked very fresh. It was Zhao Xiaomin.
"Minmin, why are you here?" Xu Lai asked with a smile.
"Yes, it's such a coincidence to meet you again." Gao Xiang was also happy. He had a deep impression of this beautiful girl.
However, Sun Muyu couldn't help but think of her sister when she saw Zhao Xiaomin. She felt a little sad and remained silent for a while.
"I came here to give two books to my classmates and was about to go back. Where are you going?" Zhao Xiaomin said in a crisp voice, blinking her big dark eyes.
"Are you familiar with this place?" Gao Xiang asked hurriedly upon hearing this.
"Yes, I am familiar with this area. If you don't believe me, ask Old Xu." Zhao Xiaomin said complacently.
Gao Xiang didn't know when the girl started calling the great god Lao Xu, but when he heard her say that he was familiar with him, he couldn't help but feel happy and said, "Then do us a favor and take us there." Then he gave the girl an address.
"No problem." Zhao Xiaomin said, and led the way, jumping and leading the three of them to the alley.
Xu Lai followed behind and couldn't help feeling relieved to see that the little girl was lively and cheerful, and seemed to have come out of her sister's shadow.
With the help of Zhao Xiaomin, an old hand, leading the way, they found the place very quickly.
This family lived on the first floor, and Zhao Xiaomin went up and knocked on the door.
After a while, the door creaked open. The person who opened the door was a haggard middle-aged woman with dark circles under her eyes and a tired look, as if she had not had a good rest for a long time.
When he opened the door and saw it was Zhao Xiaomin, he smiled and said, "It's Xiaomin. Lulu has gone to live with her grandfather. You..."
She had just said half of her words when Zhao Xiaomin said in a crisp voice, "Aunt Zhang, I'm not looking for Lulu. Did your family hire a magician ?"
The woman surnamed Zhang was stunned for a moment, and noticed Xu Lai and the other two following behind Zhao Xiaomin, and asked in confusion: "Who are you..."
"Are you Ms. Zhang? We are the visiting mages." Gao Xiang immediately introduced with a smile.
"Please come in, please come in." Upon hearing this, Ms. Zhang quickly invited the three people in, while apologizing repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I thought it was my daughter's classmate who came to my house."
Gao Xiang hurriedly said that it was nothing, exchanged a few polite words, and then got straight to the point, asking what had happened at home.
When this was mentioned, Ms. Zhang's face became worried. She sighed and led everyone inside into a bedroom.
"Yes... who is coming?" The curtains in the room were drawn and the light was quite dim. There was a person lying on the bed. He probably heard the sound and asked weakly.
"It's the magician we invited." Ms. Zhang agreed, and then said to Xu Lai and the others, "This is my husband. Go and see what's wrong with him."
At the end of her speech, Ms. Zhang's eyes were red and her voice was choked with sobs.
Xu Lai and the other two walked forward and saw that the man was tall and thin. Although he was lying on the bed, his posture was very strange. He was not lying on his back or side as usual, but lying prone on the bed.
But this lying position does not mean lying flat on the ground, but supporting the body with both arms on the bed and two pillows under the chest and stomach.
"Ms. Zhang, what's Mr. Gao doing here?" Gao Xiang asked puzzledly.
"It's like this." Ms. Zhang calmed herself down and recounted the whole story in general.
It turned out that her husband was a baking master. After working for a few years, he opened his own bakery. He was in good health on weekdays and had no illness. He had just gone to the hospital for a physical check-up not long ago, and all indicators were normal.
But five days ago, one evening after dinner, her husband was in the study thinking about new bread styles when he suddenly shouted that he felt sick.
Ms. Zhang was cleaning up the dishes in the kitchen at the time. When she heard the noise, she ran over and saw her husband hunched over on the ground, gasping for breath and sweating profusely.
Ms. Zhang was extremely anxious and asked him where he felt uncomfortable.
Her husband just complained that his back hurt a lot, and it hurt a lot, like being pricked by needles.
Ms. Zhang hurriedly called the emergency number and tried to help her husband up while waiting for rescue. However, as soon as she moved, her husband started screaming, saying that his body felt very heavy, as if something was pressing on him, and he couldn't straighten his back.
Not long after, her husband fell to the ground, gasping for breath, and even had difficulty speaking incoherently.
He just said that his chest felt stuffy and uncomfortable.
Ms. Zhang was so anxious that she was at a loss as to what to do. She could only pull him hard, trying to turn him over so that he could breathe better. But she pulled him hard and failed.
Although she was a woman with less strength, her husband was not fat, so she should have been able to pull him over. But she tried her best but still failed to turn her husband over.
At first she thought there was something wrong with her, but then the paramedics came and two of them tried to lift her husband. But at first they not only failed to lift him up, but they almost fell down themselves.
Later, the two of them took great pains to lift the person into the car. They were amazed and said that they had never lifted such a heavy person before, and that the person was even heavier than two people.
After that, I went to the hospital. The doctor examined me over and over again but could not come to a conclusion. He said that all the indicators were normal.
But her husband suffered from unbearable back pain, and the pain became more severe over time.
This was not the most difficult thing. The most uncomfortable thing was that her husband's body was extremely heavy. Whether he was lying flat or lying on his stomach, his chest would be pressed so hard that he couldn't breathe. In the end, he could only support himself with his arms and then put some soft pillows underneath, so that he could still hold on a little.
After four consecutive days, the hospital conducted various tests, but to no avail.
Seeing her husband getting weaker and weaker, Ms. Zhang was extremely anxious. She ran around and asked around. Later, a distant relative came to visit and quietly pulled her aside, saying that Xiao Gao might have been possessed by an evil spirit and had an evil disease, and that the hospital would be useless.
At first Ms. Zhang refused to believe it, but seeing her husband getting thinner day by day and the hospital being helpless, she gritted her teeth, ignored the hospital's advice, and went through the discharge procedures, taking her husband home with a few relatives and friends.
Later, she asked that distant relative to find a way to invite the magician to her home.
After Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu heard this, they both felt it was strange. They only heard the great god ask, "Do you mind if we undress Mr. Gao?"
"It's okay, it's okay, please do whatever you want." Ms. Zhang said hurriedly. Now she had thought of all the solutions she could think of, and could only rely on Xu Lai and the other three as a lifeline.
Xu Lai asked for a pair of scissors and cut open the clothes on Mr. Gao's back, exposing his back.
"Aunt Zhang, the master brother is very powerful, don't worry too much." Zhao Xiaomin held Ms. Zhang's hand and comforted her in a crisp voice, her two pairs of dark eyeballs rolling around and moving forward curiously.
However, it seems that there is nothing wrong with Mr. Gao's back, he is just a little thin.
"The doctor also checked it and found no problems," Ms. Zhang interrupted.
Gao Xiang and Sun Muyu nodded after hearing this. It really seemed like there was nothing special about it. Just as they were thinking about it, they heard Xu say, "Which of you has the Yang Gathering Talisman?"
"I have it." They both said at the same time. Gao Xiang had used the Yang Gathering Talisman on Cai Fei before when they were at the Pei family, so they both carried it with them this time.
"Use rice wine to make a yang-gathering talisman." Xu said.
The two were stunned for a moment, but they reacted immediately.
"I'll go." Gao Xiang said, and went to the kitchen with Ms. Zhang to find rice wine. He poured it into a bowl, and took out a Yang Gathering Talisman from the talisman bag. He shook his fingers, and the Yang Gathering Talisman ignited without wind, and when it was almost burned out, it dissolved into the wine.
