Volume 1 Chapter 29 Levi's Explanation
No one taught me these rituals, I learned them all by myself from that ancient Taoist book. However, some magic can't be performed on yourself, just like a doctor, no matter how skilled he is, can he perform surgery on himself? If it weren't for the old man's enlightenment, I would have always thought I could do it myself.
Fortunately, I met Tan Qing today, otherwise I would have to go back to the management office at midnight tonight. I bowed my head to Tan Qing with sweat dripping down my face, thanking him, and simply asked him to help us preside over the ritual.
He did not refuse and said, "For Officer Shen's sake, I will pay for the things and the ritual will be free." After that , he stared at the things I wanted to use, raised his head and asked with a squinting look, "You want so many things, it seems that you are not only using them to lose souls, but also to set up a 'rebound bureau', right?"
The term "rebound" is also a term used in our industry. What does it mean? When someone else sets up a magic circle to drive away ghosts, and someone else helps the ghosts break the circle, it is called a "rebound".
Everything in the world is mutually reinforcing and restraining, even Taoist instruments are not immune. For example, the yellow talisman and the nectar bowl collide. There is no need to explain the yellow talisman. The nectar bowl is used to hold the dharma water in the Taoist temple. The dharma water is called nectar. The paper talisman is most afraid of water. Water is yin and the talisman is fire. The two must not be contaminated by each other.
So when the things I use are put together, anyone with a discerning eye can see that I am planning a counter-attack.
I gave Tan Qing a thumbs up and smiled, "Old man, you have a good eye. I can't tell you what this backlash bureau is going to do for now, but I will never help ghosts do evil. Am I doing good?"
"You are immoral. What have you done to go against your conscience?" What we just said were all professional terms, and Shen Bing didn't understand. But she understood the last sentence, which said that I was immoral.
I touched my nose and said with a wry smile: "You will find out tonight."
Tan Qing said he knew the person in charge of the crematorium and that he could do this kind of ritual in the morgue. Usually, who would dare to go to that place in the middle of the night? It was much quieter than the funeral home. The crematorium was just behind the funeral home, and the two were in the same unit. We agreed to meet at the crematorium at 11 o'clock in the evening, and then I went out with a lot of things I bought.
These things have been paid for, and some of them need to be done before midnight, so they must be taken away. Besides, people’s hearts are hidden, and who knows whether Tan Qing is willing to come in the middle of the night, so, I took the Soul-piercing Bead with me.
As soon as I went out, I ran into a car parked outside the door, and Le Wei got out of it. When I saw him, I couldn't help but get angry and wanted to pull out the green steel sword I just bought and stab him to death. The green steel sword and the peach wood sword are both called magic swords, but the two things collide. The green steel sword belongs to gold, and the peach wood sword belongs to wood. Gold and wood are mutually exclusive, so the two things must not be used together. I bought this thing specifically.
Le Wei saw me and Shen Bing, and ran over to me, grabbing me and walking away. I knew he was grabbing Shen Bing. If he knew I was a fake, wouldn't he have kicked me? Shen Bing followed me in a hurry, and I waved my hand at her, indicating what this kid wanted to say to me.
He pulled me far away, and when he looked back and saw that "I" hadn't followed him, he stopped and said with a bitter face: "I have been possessed by evil spirits these past two days. The day before yesterday I drank so much that I was hospitalized for an IV drip. Yesterday I was possessed by a ghost again, and I kicked out the soul-reviving lantern without knowing what was going on. I swear to God, it was definitely not intentional."
I looked up at him. Since I couldn't say anything, I just stared at him with a stern look, meaning, keep making it up!
He looked back at "me" over there, pulled me behind a big tree, slapped himself in the face, and said, "I know you definitely don't believe me, but I'm not lying. Last night, I woke up confused and saw you dead, so I hated Xi Feng so much that I wanted to shoot him to death. If Xi Feng hadn't summoned a little ghost later, I'm afraid I would have been confused."
I thought to myself that you are a boaster and you can't do without me. I might as well kill you.
He went on to say, "Later, our team leader and Master Yan came. Master Yan went in and killed a female ghost. Do you know what she came out with? A big fetal sac. I was scared at first, but Master Yan glared at me again, and suddenly I felt confused and hated Xifeng for no reason. I thought that he had gone to the underworld, so I wanted him not to come back. So I did a stupid thing and kicked the candle away." As he spoke, he hung his head in shame like a child who had done something wrong.
After I heard him finish, I couldn't help but feel moved. He didn't seem to be lying. Judging from what he was doing now, he was trying to win Shen Bing's forgiveness for his mistakes. If he had intended to kill her at that time, why would he do this today? Combined with his strange resurrection last night, it was a mystery in itself. Coupled with his unreasonable behavior, he dared to go crazy in front of the team leader, which meant that he was really crazy.
My mind gradually became clear, and the person who was playing tricks also revealed his face! Yan Xiang, ah Yan Xiang, since you deliberately covered up the reason why I couldn't speak last night, I have suspected that you are a magician! There is no such saying that people who have just come back to life can't speak. When you say this, you sound like a second-rate charlatan. But judging from your ability to kill the female ghost and take out the egg corpse, even first-rate charlatans are not as handsome as you! Hehe, tonight I will show you my true colors!
At this moment, Le Wei lowered his head, and I happened to see a piece of white gauze on the top of his head, which looked like he was injured. I didn't think anything of it at first, but the more I looked at it, the more I felt it was strange. The middle of the gauze was arched upwards, as if there was something hard inside supporting it. I reached out and touched it, and he shrank back in pain.
"Don't touch here. I bumped my head when I entered the old house last night. Master Yan bandaged it for me. It hurts so much now that I can't let it touch me."
I nodded, and understood something. I put the things in my hand on the ground and wrote on the ground with my fingers: "I forgive you, I can't talk now, what are you going to do? "
When this kid saw that "Shen Bing" had forgiven him, he was so happy that he almost jumped up. He scratched his head and told me that the team leader asked him to invite Yan Xiang to the police station. Because Yan Xiang went to the funeral home early in the morning to help Director Ling perform a ritual, and at noon the police found a rotten corpse downstairs of Shen Bing's building. Until now, Yan Xiang has not gone there, so he was sent to invite him again. If he is not available , he can also invite Tan Qing back.
After he said this, he asked what was going on with the rotting corpse downstairs. I wrote on the ground and told him to hurry up and leave. I had something else to do and we could talk about it when we had dinner together in the evening. He immediately ran back to his car happily.
I returned to the car, and Shen Bing couldn't wait to ask what Le Wei had said to me. I repeated the original words, analyzing that Le Wei was bewitched by some kind of witchcraft and did not intend to kill us. Shen Bing also nodded and said that this child is kind by nature, but a little narrow-minded, so she doesn't like him.
Seeing that it was almost six o'clock and the sky was gradually getting dark, I said we should find a place to eat first and then go to the funeral home. However, this place was quite remote and there was not even a snack bar. Only near the funeral home, there was a restaurant.
Before getting off the bus, I took the soul-piercing bead in my hand. It was about the size of a glass ball that children play with, and it was easy to roll into a corner and lose track. I wanted to put it on myself, but after feeling around, I realized that women were really troublesome, and their clothes didn't even have pockets. I followed Shen Bing into the hotel and saw her taking off the "ghost" mahogany plaque from her neck.
I grabbed her hand and whispered that she couldn't pick it because it was a family heirloom. She glared at me and asked, "Is it true?"
Before I could answer, a man rushed in carrying goods from outside and bumped into Shen Bing's back. She cried out, and the mahogany card in her hand flew out of the hotel door. I didn't care about her anymore, and hurriedly chased after her, stretching out my hands to catch it, but I didn't expect that the soul-piercing bead fell to the ground as soon as I let go.
When I caught the peach wood plate and looked at the beads, they were stepped on by a short and thin old man. I thought to myself, bad thing! The beads were not made of glass, but special materials used in Taoist medicine. They would be flattened if stepped on. What's the use of them if they are flattened?
