First Chapter 6: A Night of Terror
After buying the incense, candles and paper money, Qin Yiheng started to work without letting me help. I just watched him light the incense and burn the paper money, and he kept muttering to himself for a long time. When everything was done, he smiled at me and said that he had read it wrong before. He was not very good at using the tortoise shell to begin with, and he accidentally predicted the hexagram in the wrong direction. There is actually nothing in this house now, but because it has been empty for too long and there is no one, the dirty things that pass by occasionally like to settle here. As long as they find a strong young man to stay for one night, everything will be fine.
I felt scared after hearing what he said. It was obvious that he wanted me to stay. Although he said it was okay, I still felt very depressed if I stayed in this house for a night. Fortunately, I am now living in a haunted house. Nothing has happened in these days. It is just a matter of overcoming psychological fear. People die for money and birds die for food. I can only fight. Qin Yiheng helped me clean up the house, moved the bed I had moved out before back, bought me a quilt, and put the bed in the center of the living room.
Now the whole house has no other furniture except this bed, which is a bit scary in broad daylight. I thought that if I took two sleeping pills at night, it would be easy to get through the night.
When it was getting dark, Qin Yiheng said he couldn't accompany me anymore. Before leaving, he gave me a plastic-framed mirror that looked like it was bought from a roadside stall. There was a photo of a heavily made-up beauty on the back. He tied it with a string and asked me to hang it around my neck. He told me to make sure the mirror was facing me, to lie flat when sleeping, and not to turn over to prevent the mirror from turning over. I was confused, but I couldn't say no.
After Qin Yiheng left, I immediately lay down on the bed and covered myself with the quilt. It was getting dark soon, and I opened a small gap in the quilt to look, and the whole room was swallowed by darkness.
Because he told me not to turn over, my plan to take sleeping pills was ruined. If I didn't behave well after falling asleep, I was afraid that it would ruin everything. I could only lie flat in the quilt in an uncomfortable position and play games on my phone to kill time. After about two or three hours, I looked at the watch and it was just after 10 o'clock in the evening . I was really stuffy. I thought that it would be too uncomfortable to stay like this all night, so I simply lifted the quilt and stretched my body. Qin Yiheng had already said that there was nothing wrong with this room. At most, there would be one or two little ghosts passing by, and I guess they wouldn't cause any harm to people.
I relaxed my vigilance when I thought about it, and I fell asleep unconsciously. As soon as I closed my eyes, I instinctively shivered. This shiver came without any warning. I was about to fall asleep, but I was awake again. I wanted to open my eyes, but suddenly I found that I couldn't move at all. I thought to myself: "Oh no, I am sleep paralyzed. I have experienced sleep paralysis several times before, so I didn't panic too much. I just thought about the ways to break the sleep paralysis I saw on TV, such as cursing in my heart and trying to move my toes, but none of them worked. "
I didn't know how long I was pressed down like that. Just when I decided to give up, the cell phone next to my pillow suddenly rang loudly, and the force pressing on my body disappeared in an instant.
I was finally able to move, and when I touched my forehead, it was all sweaty. I didn't bother to wipe the sweat off, and picked up my phone to see that it was Qin Yiheng calling.
I picked up the phone and Qin Yiheng asked me, "Do you feel someone blowing into your ear?"
This question stunned me, and I answered no.
He said, "Okay, you must not fall asleep now, stay alert, hold your mirror well, and if you feel someone blowing into your ear, point the mirror in that direction."
I said, "Didn't you say there was nothing wrong with the house? I burned a lot of paper money and incense. It seems you were trying to trick me."
Qin Yiheng answered confidently, "Who told you to touch the turtle shell? If I don't do that, would you dare to move in tonight? Just do as I say, otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to leave this house tomorrow."
His words really scared me, and cold sweat immediately ran down my back. My voice was shaking a little , "Damn, I really don't feel safe when he's not around." I begged him to come and give me courage or something. But Qin Yiheng said, "If he comes, I can hide tonight, but he will be away someday in the future, and I will have to endure this sooner or later." After saying that, he hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, I was really dejected. When people are nervous, they tend to be afraid of everything. I sat on the bed, and I felt not only in my ears, but also all over my body as if someone was blowing air at me. I took a random look in the mirror, but nothing happened. Time passed slowly, and I really wanted to die. In fact, the scary thing is not what happened, but sometimes it is that you know it will happen but it hasn't happened yet. As the saying goes, the calm before the storm is scarier than the storm. I think this is what it feels like.
In fact, I always wanted to smoke, but I didn't dare to smoke. I was afraid that when the lighter was lit, I would see something standing in a corner of the room. That would be too scary. I don't know how long it took, but the tension I had before gradually calmed down.
Because of my limited vision, my other senses seemed to become more sensitive. I began to carefully feel whether there was air flowing around my ears. After a long time, I seemed to feel someone blowing air into my left ear. I didn't dare to look sideways, so I could only try my best to look away. But it was in vain, I couldn't see anything.
I thought about it, but I didn't care about that. Anyway, I wouldn't suffer any loss if I used the mirror. So I quickly pointed the mirror to the left. When my body moved, my senses were focused on controlling the movement of my limbs. So after I finished, I felt that the feeling of blowing had really disappeared.
Frankly speaking, I still suspect that it was just my psychological effect at the time, but after that, I definitely never felt the air flow around my ears again. I sat there tense until dawn, and Qin Yiheng came to find me in a hurry. The first thing he did was to check my mirror. I looked and it was fine. I didn't know when the mirror had cracked.
He wiped it for a long time with a red cloth, let out a long sigh, and asked me, "Did you see what it is?"
How dare I watch? I'm lucky I can still speak!
When he heard me say that I didn’t see it, he shook his head and said, “What a pity.”
I asked, "Am I safe now?" Qin Yiheng pondered for a moment and nodded. I felt as if I had been pardoned, and I was so happy. It turned out that when Qin Yiheng was doing divination, the tortoise shell was still wet, but the water droplets only existed for a moment and then disappeared.
He concluded that the new thing in the house could completely contain the things that were already in the house, so he deliberately chose the noon when the Yang energy was at its peak. He didn't expect that thing to have such great power. I touched the tortoise shell, which was equivalent to having real physical contact with the thing. Qin Yiheng was afraid that I would be possessed by a ghost. And I, who had touched this thing, was probably equivalent to being "GPS-located". Even if I was not possessed, my fortune would be reduced. Therefore, he asked me to live in this house at midnight, the darkest time of the year. First, I used a mirror to calm my soul to prevent my soul from being led out, and then wait until the thing couldn't wait any longer and use a mirror to shine on it. Mirrors have been used to ward off evil spirits since ancient times, and many families still retain the habit of hanging mirrors on windows to the outside. To put it in easy-to-understand terms, I used the mirror to hurt the thing that night.
According to Qin Yiheng, I have successfully saved myself. But there are two disadvantages. According to him, people who have really touched dirty things cannot have children within a few years, because the children will be born with disabilities. I don't care about this. Getting married and having children is still a very distant thing for me. The second is that my luck will definitely be very bad for a period of time. I can accept this, at least it is much better than losing my life. But the most helpless thing is that this house may not be habitable anymore, and it can only remain empty and wait for demolition. Fortunately, the price is very cheap, so it is not a loss.
Qin Yiheng later found someone to discuss it, and the two people finally concluded that the two cats must have become demons and occupied the bodies of the old man and the old woman. It’s just that the two cats had some kind of feud with each other, and one of them ran back, and a college student died inside, so it’s unknown whether it was the cat or the college student who wanted to possess me. In short, it is said that cats will grow an extra tail every ten years, just like fox demons. When the tails grow to a certain number, cats will speak human language. This is also what I heard Qin Yiheng say casually, and I don’t know if it’s true. Later, there was still no news about the two old men and women I paid attention to this matter for a while at first, but over time I let it go.
After this incident, I was really unlucky for a while, and I was in a lot of trouble. But with Qin Yiheng by my side, my fortune was not affected too much, and I even got a big bargain.
There was a house that the owner believed to be haunted because anyone who lived in the house would be woken up by loud noises in the middle of the night. When they opened the door to check, the sound would disappear again. Over time, the rumors became more and more bizarre, and no one dared to live there anymore.
Later, Yuan Zhen introduced Qin Yiheng and me to the place. After taking a look, Lao Qin found that there was no dirt inside at all, but that the family had invited two gods for some unknown reason, so the family fortune was always unstable and full of twists and turns. It was a bit like a younger brother joining a gang, but recognizing the big brothers of two gangs. It sounded very fresh and quite informative. And this house, both in terms of layout and location, was very good. Except that the price was not very low, everything else was very satisfactory. After all, this was not a haunted house, and I didn't want to be a profiteer. But this business still excited me for several days, because I was sure of the "money prospects" and good prospects of this business. After that, I waited at home every day for Yuan Zhen to contact me, but I got a call from an old friend first.
