Volume 3 Chapter 9 Qu Mo's Story
The sound of footsteps was very clear in the wind and rain. I wondered if it was a tourist who got lost and ran here. I thought, no matter who it was, I should finish the ritual first.
After reciting the Samadhi Fire Mantra, the yellow talisman flew out of his hand, burning with a flash of blue flames. It fluttered in the wind and rain, but was not affected by the rain. The flames shot up even more fiercely. In fact, Samadhi Fire is a high-level spell. For an intermediate or advanced master like me, who is between the first- and second-rate Heavenly Masters, I can use it in a decent way. It is okay as a condiment with other spells, but it is not enough to rely on it to kill ghosts.
Then I chanted the Purple Gas Spell again. With a hissing sound, a stream of purple smoke emerged from the blue flames and spread in wisps.
It worked. The purple qi talisman was working. The talisman was lit just now, but it did not produce the power of purple qi. It was like a damp firecracker. Although the fuse was burned out, the firecracker did not go off.
Although the sky didn't change much and I couldn't see anything in the dark night, it gave me a feeling that everything was fresh in the rain and the air was unusually fresh. I shone a small flashlight around and found that Wang Zijun and Shen Bing were like two zombies, staggering one in front and the other behind, climbing up the hillside to the north, about thirty meters away from me.
This should be correct. No matter how powerful the demon is, it is impossible for it to create two people at once. I packed my bag and put it on my shoulder, and chased after them. I grabbed the hands of the two people and squeezed their palms hard, and the two people stopped immediately.
The footsteps became louder again. It felt like they were right in front of us, but we couldn't see anything. I shone the flashlight forward and found that we were on a hill, not very high. There were countless small , but you never knew there would be deep valleys under the hills. If you weren't careful, you would be crushed to pieces.
I dragged two people up the hill a few steps and stood at the highest point. I shone the flashlight on the back of the hill and saw a person climbing up the hill with difficulty. Her long hair fluttered in the wind. It was a woman. She seemed to be carrying another person on her back and looked very tired. My first reaction was that some tourists got lost and someone was injured, and their companions were carrying him out of the mountain.
After I pinched the palms of Shen Bing and Wang Zijun's hands, the ghost energy in their bodies temporarily stagnated, and they stood there like two idiots, biting their fingers and not moving. I let them go, went down to meet the woman, and shouted to her: "Is anyone injured? I'll help you."
"It's Master Xi, come quickly, I can't hold on any longer." It's Qu Mo!
I heard her voice was almost exhausted, so I quickly ran down and changed the person on her back to my back. It turned out to be a girl. I took Qu Mo's hand again and walked up the hill.
The rain has stopped now, the mountain breeze is very weak, and the mountains are silent and seem particularly peaceful.
I put the girl on the ground, looked at Qu Mo who was covered in mud and soaked all over, and asked her: "Why did you come here? What happened just now?"
Before I could finish my words, she fell to the ground, panting heavily. She looked very tired and couldn't even speak. I shone the flashlight on the girl's face and was stunned. Isn't this the girl from the couple? Suddenly, I vaguely thought of something and turned to ask Qu Mo: "Did you come to Huangshan to save her?"
Qu Mo was still gasping for air and couldn't speak at all, but she nodded. There was something strange about her, making it hard to understand.
I let her go and didn't ask any more questions. I looked at the girl carefully again. She had her eyes tightly closed and her face was pale without any blood. There was a thick black gas gathered in her forehead. She looked no different from a dead body. Fortunately, she was still breathing, but it was very weak. I saw a talisman on her chest. It must have been done by Qu Mo. I guess if it weren't for this talisman, the girl would probably be dead.
I was going to give Shen Bing and Wang Zijun some magic water to wake them up, but then I thought, Qu Mo sneaked out in the middle of the night, and I don't know what evil magic he used, so he must have some secrets that he can't tell Shen Bing and Wang Zijun. I'd better let them be stupid for a while, and I'll tell them after I interrogate them.
After Qu Mo recovered her breath, I asked her the same question again. Qu Mo bit her lip for a long time without saying anything. It seemed that she really had a secret that she couldn't tell anyone.
I couldn't force her to do anything if she didn't say anything. Besides, she was doing good things and didn't use her evil magic to do evil, which was acceptable. I said, "Let's go. There's a hotel over there. Don't let your bodies get frozen." I took out two cleansing talismans and was about to chant a spell to burn them to help Shen Bing and Wang Zijun regain consciousness.
"Master Xi, I will tell you the truth. Can you promise me not to tell anyone?" Qu Mo finally spoke.
I looked at her complicated expression, nodded and said, "Go ahead, Wang Zijun, I won't tell him either."
She lowered her head again, as if she was organizing her thoughts. After a while, she looked up and said, "I was a normal child before I was thirteen. But when I was thirteen, I participated in the school summer camp and went to the wild. One night, I was sleeping and suddenly heard the cry of an animal outside the tent. Although I was very timid, I thought it might be a small animal that was injured, and I felt sorry for it, so I plucked up the courage to come out."
"I walked in the direction of the sound for a long time before I saw drops of blood on the ground, and then they disappeared into a bush. I thought there might be an injured animal in there, so I squatted down and pushed aside the bushes without thinking much."
She suddenly stopped talking here. I was listening intently. Wasn't she trying to whet my appetite? I hurriedly asked, "What did you see in the bushes?"
Qu Mo bit his lip and said after a long while: "I don't know. I just saw a flash of white light in front of my eyes and then I fainted immediately. The next day my classmates found me lying outside and slept all night and woke me up. I didn't feel anything when I woke up. After the summer camp ended, on the third night when I returned home, after midnight, I suddenly found that several big tails had grown on my back..." At this point, Qu Mo lowered his head and kept silent. This kid, how could he learn from TV dramas and stop at the critical moment? It makes me itchy.
But after hearing this, I got a rough idea. She must be possessed by an evil spirit. I won't rush her this time. I'll wait and see if you continue.
Qu Mo lowered her head and didn't speak for a long time. She might have felt that she was a monster because she had several big tails behind her. She was quite self-conscious. After a while, she started talking again. After the tails grew behind her , she felt like a different person. She had infinite strength and could jump three meters high easily. But she was terribly scared. How could she go out to meet people with several tails? Wouldn't they take her to the research institute as a biological specimen for dissection?
She wanted to die at that time, so she opened the window and jumped out. She lived on the fifth floor and lost consciousness after falling. She thought she was dead. But she woke up the next morning and found herself lying in bed, but her tail was gone. She didn't know whether she was dreaming or it was real, and she went to school in a daze. But after midnight, she would become like this again. She tried many ways to commit suicide, such as hitting the wall, electric shock, cutting wrists, and hanging. It can be said that she has tasted all kinds of suicide, but she couldn't die and would come back to life.
I was horrified when I heard that. A teenage girl was so cruel. I couldn't bear to treat myself so cruelly.
Qu Mo got used to it and stopped committing suicide. She would just grow a few tails at night, feel a little stronger, and have no other symptoms. In the morning, everything would be normal again. After a few years, she grew up and went to college. She also learned some tricks. When she went to bed, whether it was winter or summer, she would cover herself tightly with the quilt, so that her roommates would not see the tails growing. Strangely enough, in such hot summer weather, she never felt hot with the quilt covering her.
When I was a junior, the dormitory building was suddenly haunted because a girl committed suicide a few days ago. Every night, the girl's ghost cried in the building, and everyone in the dormitory could hear it clearly. The students were scared and dared not sleep all night.
Everyone else was scared, but she was not afraid at all after midnight. She thought that she couldn't stand the constant nagging of the female ghost, so she ran out of the dormitory with a quilt, found the female ghost on the third floor, and fought with her. Unexpectedly, the female ghost couldn't beat her, and she slapped her out of the window, and she never dared to show up again.
From then on, she felt that it was not bad to have such power, at least she could do good things, so she was more calm about the changes in her body. After graduation, when she returned home, her grandmother happened to be seriously ill, and her mother invited Master Mao to cure her. Master Mao saw that she was abnormal at a glance, and wanted to expel the evil spirits from her body, but he was beaten out as soon as he touched her body. Master Mao said that this evil spirit was too powerful and had to be slowly resolved by Taoism, so she should learn Taoism from him. Then she worshipped Master Mao as her teacher and learned Taoism.
I felt very ashamed when I heard this. I was not as good as Master Mao. The old witch could see that there was evil in her, but I didn't notice it at all. It seems that I have to work hard and practice well after I go home.
But Qu Mo's next words made me feel relieved. She said that under the influence of Taoism, the evil spirit in her body gradually subsided, and she could control the tail growing at night. If she felt angry and wanted to fight for something, her tail would grow out, and she was exactly like a normal person at other times.
Oh, so that's why I didn't see it. It's not my fault. You've become a spirit. When she mentioned that Master Mao was very grateful, I couldn't understand why she was the only one who said yes to such a wicked woman.
Last night, she was lying in bed, thinking of the girl with a black forehead, she couldn't fall asleep, so she secretly grew a tail at night and jumped off the building to Huangshan. The story ends here, and the day has dawned. I thought that if I don't rescue Shen Bing and Wang Zijun, I'm afraid they will have sequelae after a long time. As for what happened when she came to Huangshan, let her tell Wang Zijun and Shen Bing together later. After all, the two of them also want to know the answer. It depends on how Qu Mo deceives them about the evil spirit in her body.
While I was burning the talisman, I asked her, "What shape is your tail? Or what kind of animal is it from?"
Her face suddenly turned red, and she whispered, "I won't tell you."
Ah, why did she suddenly act like a little girl, which made me feel very charming.
