Daoism catches ghosts [Rebirth]

When Lin Xingzhou was entangled in that hair, he felt that something was wrong.

At the same time, he was thinking in his heart—what the hell is this? Last time Jiang Fen was touched by a mark and couldn't even crawl up, but this one was not injured, but knew that he had a mark on his body. It came back in just a few seconds.

His doubts flashed in a flash, and then he was forcibly dragged into the water. Because he was defenseless and had no time to hold his breath, he obediently choked on a mouthful of water.

The buddy next to him subconsciously yanked him. This man was so strong that he almost pulled his arm out of its socket, and he wouldn't let go of it.

One of Lin Xingzhou's feet was entangled in his hair. He really wanted to go into the water and touch his foot again, but his arm was dragged by the warm-hearted brother again, and he was almost "divided into pieces" by two horses for a while, and he was almost unable to move. , without embarrassment or embarrassment, there is not much air left in the lungs, and he is about to become the next "drowning person".

Fortunately, the depth of the water is only two meters at most, and there are tall people standing there, and it will not be too deep, so he kicked the other foot on the ground, forced himself out of the water, and shouted at the other party: " let go!"

As soon as the word "hand" was out of his mouth, he felt his ankles sink again, so he took the time to take a breath. The elder brother hesitated for a moment, but chose to let go.

Lin Xingzhou dived down again, quickly touched the hair that was entangled with him, grabbed it tightly, and pressed his left wrist tightly to it, touching it for as long as possible.

This time, the hair seemed to have finally suffered from the pain, and it frantically threw him away, and he retreated without a trace. At the same time, he felt someone hugging his waist from behind, and threw him to the shore involuntarily.

"You're fucking crazy!" Mr. Lu, who always maintains an elite image, swears, "So many people, it's your turn! I don't think it's enough to kill myself!"

Lin Xingzhou had no time to explain to him. He knelt on the ground and coughed for a long time. He managed to catch his breath, but was pushed down by the other party: "If you want to die, just say it!"

Lin Xingzhou's poor blood had bottomed out, and he really didn't have the energy to argue with him anymore, so he simply lay on the ground and couldn't get up.At this time, someone finally found scissors from nowhere, and with the assistance of the lifeguard, cut off another strand of the monster's hair.

The last drowning person was relatively close to the escalator, and he was a man. He hugged the escalator and did not let go. His tears and nose flowed together, and he was dragged up from the water by several companions.

The three of them managed to escape from death. The girl who drowned in the first place was completely frightened, she was paralyzed on the ground and gasped, while other people in the swimming pool also went ashore during the rescue time, and no one dared to stay in the water any longer. .

The surface of the water returned to calm amidst the cries of a group of girls. Lin Xingzhou stood up and saw that the water in the swimming pool was clear, and he could see to the end at a glance, and there was nothing dirty.

Only a few tufts of hair that had been cut off were washed towards the edge of the pool by the current. He bent down to pick it up and looked at it carefully. The eyes of all the people behind him were all focused on him, and someone began to whisper:

"What is it, it's disgusting..."

"Yes, is she a forbidden woman? I read it in the novel..."

"Pull it down, how can something in a novel appear in reality, is that hair?"

"How can the hair move by itself, it is obviously a living thing..."

Lin Xingzhou turned his head and glanced at them. The girls fell silent for a moment, and took a step back with horror on their faces.At this time, the management personnel of the swimming pool finally arrived, and many timid men and women had already started to leave the pool.

Lu Jie leaned into his ear and asked, "Are you going? You're still poking here, really want to get a medal for your bravery?"

"No," Lin Xingzhou looked back at him, hesitant to speak, "Forget it, I can't explain to you clearly, if you want to leave, go first, I have something to ask."

Without waiting for the other party to refute, he had already walked up to the manager—a fat middle-aged man—and after a short conversation, he said straight to the point: "I want to know, has anyone died in your swimming pool?"

As soon as he said that, the other party's face immediately changed, and then he pretended to be calm: "What are you talking about, we are a regular venue, how could someone die?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's formal or not. The cars outside are all produced by regular manufacturers, and the roads are also paved by regular departments. There are still car accidents every day." Lin Xingzhou stared at him intently, and lowered his voice, "You tell me the truth , and do you think that today’s matter can be concealed? So many people have already left, and once the news goes out, they will not be recovered. If this matter is not handled properly, do you still want to continue to open the swimming pool?”

The man's forehead began to sweat: "Do you have a solution?"

"Tell me first if anyone has died here."

The other party was finally stared at by him until his psychological defense was defeated, and he pulled him aside in a hurry: "It's really not our fault, let me tell you the truth, this stadium was contracted by us, and it has only been in business for more than a year. , and the management has always been very standardized, and the lifeguards have never been vacant. It was an accident last time, and those children killed themselves. We also lost money and apologized. How are we doing?"

Lin Xingzhou looked at him suspiciously and said, "What happened last time? What happened?"

The man waved his hand like a smashed pot: "You can search the Internet yourself, we managed to suppress the limelight, and today's... It's really bad luck."

Lin Xingzhou looked at him helplessly: "Did you bring your mobile phone into the swimming pool?"

The man sighed: "Okay, it's not a secret anyway, just two months ago, a college student and a girl died here, but we really don't blame us, our lifeguards are on duty on the shore, it's one of them Helped the child to play a prank, pushed the girl’s head into the water, no one called for help, no struggle was seen, and when she found out, she was already out of breath. We immediately took first aid measures, and 120 also came, but it was a pity that she couldn’t be rescued .”

Lin Xingzhou frowned, and the man spread his hands again and said, "Can you blame the lifeguards for this situation? There are so many people who come to swim every day, and there are many disobedient children. They don't listen when they say no to fighting, and there is only one lifeguard." People, how could everyone take care of them."

"So that girl..."

"Her family didn't make things difficult for us. The matter was resolved peacefully. Just now I saw a lot of dark shadows in the swimming pool on the surveillance. They said it was hair." The man's face turned livid suddenly, "Is there a ghost? A ghost? Not that dead..."

Lin Xingzhou waved his hand at him: "Does the drowned girl have long hair?"

The man thought for a while: "Long, to the waist... oh no, to the butt, I remember she was wearing a white swimming skirt on the day she died, and it's scary to think about it."

"Female college student..." Lin Xingzhou turned around and looked at the unlucky ones who escaped death, "College student?"

There were one man and two women who drowned. They all looked young, so he said to the management staff, "Can you ask me their ages?"

The middle-aged man asked suspiciously: "You..."

"Oh, if it's a supernatural event, I happen to know something about it," Lin Xingzhou explained, "so I want to find out the details."

The man suddenly realized that he might have been fooled by his certainty of guessing that someone had died just now, and he was convinced: "No problem, master, you sit first, and I'll ask right away."

As he spoke, he immediately called a few people to inquire about the situation. At this time, Lu Jie finally had a chance to intervene: "What the hell, master? You didn't draw your paintings well, and you also started working as a magic stick part-time?"

Lin Xingzhou smiled without saying a word, and pulled him to sit down on the bench. He felt uncomfortably choked by the water in his throat, and couldn't help coughing a few more times.

Lu Jie looked at the swimming pool: "Where did all those hairs go? When I went to pick you up, I saw such thick hairs, why did they disappear in a blink of an eye?"

"The water inlet and outlet," Lin Xingzhou said, "it's hair after all, so it can pass through any place with holes or cracks. It can be said to come and go freely."

The two hadn't chatted for 2 minutes, and the middle-aged man had already returned: "I've made it clear, there are three people, one is 21 and the other is 20. They are all college students."

"Then I can count." Lin Xingzhou nodded, and expressed his guess, "It is estimated that the girl who died was unwilling, and she was killed by her companions, so she specially targeted college students to vent her anger others to vent their personal anger."

The man swallowed in horror when he heard the words: "Then...doesn't that mean that there are really wronged souls? You, don't talk nonsense, I'm afraid of this."

"No, no," Lu Jie suddenly waved his hand between the two of them, "Who said it was aimed at college students? Are you a college student? Am I? That hair doesn't just entangle those few people."

"It's true that we are not," Lin Xingzhou said, "but we have just graduated for a year, so we are not much different from college students in terms of appearance alone. And at the beginning, two hairs were only symbolically hung on your body. It seems that it is more like a...test, she is identifying whether you are one of the targets she wants to target."

He said and looked at the hair in the palm of his hand: "As for me, I probably angered her by snatching someone from her hand. Anyway, I can't tell whether I am a college student or not, so I simply dragged them into the water together. I would rather be mistaken." Even kill him."

"I still don't believe it," Lu Jie folded his arms, "There are no ghosts in this world."

Lin Xingzhou didn't answer his questions, and walked to the pool on his own: "The key issue now is how to catch her back. If I can't catch her, I can't proceed to the next step."

"Yeah," the man echoed, "If we don't clean up the dirty things this day, we won't be able to open the door for a day. You say this summer..."

Lu Jie stroked his chin: "Why don't you drain the water?"

"A pool of water costs a lot..."

"It's useless to let it dry," Lin Xingzhou said. "These pipelines are too complicated. You can't tell where she got into, and you can't disassemble all possible places."

"Then what do you think we should do?" Lu Jie shrugged, "You might as well just leave it alone, do you think you can save the world? Just go home and stay."

The middle-aged man became anxious when he heard the words, and Lu Jie stepped forward to stop Lin Xingzhou before he could stop him: "Brother, please let him go, my friend is out of his mind, he can brag, actually He doesn't have any real skills, you see he said so much, it's all nonsense, to fool you, if he really had a way, wouldn't he have shown it long ago?"

Lin Xingzhou: "..."

"That's why you're still high-handed, so hurry up and invite someone else." Lu Jie stretched out his hand and pushed him in the opposite direction, while putting his other hand on Lin Xingzhou's shoulder, and pulled him over, "I just got the VIP card. , still waiting to swim again, you have to solve it quickly, don't let us down."

Lin Xingzhou: "..."

Lin Da's "good-for-nothing" was forcibly dragged out of the arena by him, and he almost took a hot shower with his head on his head. While wiping his head in the locker room, he said helplessly: "What are you doing? I won't do anything that is not good for me." Do it, I have a purpose in taking care of it, okay?"

"What's the good, almost a gameover is good?" Lu Jie had already put on his clothes, and threw Lin Xingzhou's to him, "Don't worry about it, I wouldn't have brought you here if I had known about this kind of thing."

Lin Xingzhou consciously couldn't explain to him that he wanted to "catch ghosts and continue his life", so he didn't bother to defend himself. He took his mobile phone back from the cabinet and saw a system message.

[You have triggered <Sub-quest: The Drowned Ghost>

Task Difficulty: ★★★★

Task prompt: none

Task Reward: Ming Coin × 40w

Is it accepted?

whether]

Lin Xingzhou's eyes sank—four stars?

No wonder it's so rampant.

He has not received a mission of three stars or higher since he became a ghost hunter. Suddenly, a four-star mission came. Ride back home.

As soon as he entered the house, before he had time to change his clothes, his phone rang frantically. He thought it was Lu Jie who forgot to say something to him, but he felt it—"Wei Zhi".

Boss Wei took the initiative to call someone, Lin Xingzhou was flattered, and quickly picked up, but before he could say hello, the other party's voice cut in forcefully: "What happened to you just now?"

Lin Xingzhou was taken aback, and wondered how he knew, could there be a connection between him and that seal?

He was inexplicably guilty, coughed and confessed leniently: "I just had a little accident in the swimming pool. I ran into a water ghost, a four-star one. I didn't catch her and let her run away."

Wei Zhi was silent for three seconds: "It's true that accidents can happen wherever you go."

Lin Xingzhou: "..."

"Water ghosts are very strong, so don't take it lightly," Wei Zhi said again, "If you feel that you are not up to the task, then give up the task. Don't just try to be brave, you won't be able to finish it in the end."

"I haven't accepted the task yet." Lin Xingzhou sat down on the sofa and poured himself a glass of water. "I just want to ask you, how can this kind of ghost that has escaped be caught?"

"It depends," Wei Zhi said. "Generally speaking, the scope of activities of little ghosts is limited. They can only appear in a specific area. You can choose to wait and see. If the level is higher, or it is impossible to determine the time of their appearance." , and bait can also be used.”

"Bait?"

"Every kind of ghost has something to 'like', choose something that is fatally attractive to them, and don't worry about them not appearing - any animal, even people. Things that ghosts like There are all kinds of strange things, so you have to figure out their characters and habits, and deduce what can be used as bait."

Hearing this, Lin Xingzhou suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and asked casually, "Then what is 'bait' to you?"

There was silence on the phone for a while, and then a low laugh came: "Are you talking to me? It's okay to tell you——I like 'people'."

... What kind of answer is this?

Lin Xingzhou still didn't give up, and asked again: "Men and women?"

"It's fine if you are a human being."

"...Then you are really not picky."

After Lin Xingzhou teased him, he returned to the subject: "What kind of bait do you think should be used to deal with water ghosts?"

This time Wei Zhi was silent for a long time before he said: "Once the water ghost appears, it is likely to kill people, so we can only lure them with living people."

"How is that possible?" Lin Xingzhou retorted without thinking, "I almost killed someone, and if I use someone as a bait, in case something happens, who will bear the responsibility? ——Is there any other way?"

Wei Zhi sighed lightly: "There is one, but I have to do it myself for this method."

Lin Xingzhou didn't ask him what the method was, but felt that he really shouldn't bother him again, and said a little discouraged: "Forget it, I won't take this task. If I don't take it, will someone else take it?"

"The side mission is triggered by yourself, and no one else can see it."

"Doesn't that mean that if I don't care, no one else will care?"

"That's what it means."

Lin Xingzhou fell silent, and Wei Zhi said again: "There are thousands of supernatural events in the world, and we can't handle every one of them, just do our best, don't force yourself."

He paused: "If you really want to take care of it, I can help you too."

"I'll think about it again."

Lin Xingzhou hung up the phone, nestled on the sofa in a daze, and fell asleep after a while.His mind uncontrollably replayed everything he had just experienced, and he felt like he fell into the water again, almost suffocating.

He woke up coughing, his throat hurt badly, he drank a couple of sips from the water cup on the coffee table in a daze, but it didn't help, his hands and feet were a little weak, and his whole body was not right.

The scene in the swimming pool kept flashing in front of his eyes. He picked up the phone and wanted to check the time, but somehow he clicked on the text message, and sent Wei Zhi a message by accident: "I need your help."

The other side replied quickly: "Okay."

So Lin Xingzhou seemed to have taken a reassurance, all distracting thoughts automatically withdrew from his mind, turned over and fell asleep again.

It wasn't until the next morning that he realized what "bad thing" he had done the day before.

He sat on the spot with his head propped up and thought for 5 minutes. He felt that no matter what posture he took, it was impossible to get back what he said, so he had to face the reality with a sad face, and gave Wei Zhi another one Text message: "Two o'clock in the afternoon?"

The other party's reply is still "good".

When Lin Xingzhou left the swimming pool the day before, he asked the fat middle-aged man for his contact information. Although Lu Jie finally said a lot of "slandering" words about him, in just one day, the swimming pool obviously hadn't invited him yet. When it came to "Gao Ming", even though he was a rookie, he still greeted him respectfully.

The swimming pool was closed for renovation that day, and there was no living thing in the huge venue, only a pool of water was still crystal clear.Wei Zhi is worthy of being the founder of Ghost Hunting, he pretended to be a magic stick, and he fooled the fat man away with a few words.

For a moment, there were only the two of them left on the scene, Lin Xingzhou spread his hands and said, "It's useless for you to drive them away. There are surveillance cameras here, and what you do will still be photographed."

Wei Zhi was noncommittal, and only stretched out his hand to move towards the camera: "Okay."

Lin Xingzhou: "..."

It's really easy to destroy things violently.

"So what method are you going to use?" He said as he took out the talisman paper, "Where there is water, my talisman doesn't work well. It seems that I need to prepare a few more weapons in the future."

Wei Zhi untied the handle of the knife from his waist: "I remember that day you asked me what the hell I am."

"Ah?" Lin Xingzhou was taken aback for a moment, not understanding why the topic suddenly jumped here, thinking that he had missed something, "Yes... yes, what's wrong?"

"Normally, I won't tell newcomers my real identity until the probationary period has passed," Wei Zhi said, "However, there are too many variables in you, far exceeding my expectations, so it's not a bad idea to let you know earlier. .”

Lin Xingzhou was baffled. He felt that no matter what he said, it would take him several minutes to digest it, but the other party didn't give him a chance to think, and continued with his own voice: "No matter what happens next, please don't be surprised."

He said holding the knife in his right hand, while his left hand stopped in front of the knife grid, and then he waved lightly. After the light of the knife flashed, a not deep and not shallow cut was cut in his palm.

Lin Xingzhou was startled: "No, what are you doing?"

"The second method I told you." Wei Zhi clenched his fists and squeezed the wound as if he couldn't feel the pain. "It will work against all ghosts except me."

Blood flowed from his palm—it might not be called "blood" at all, but a black, smoky thing that seemed to be heavier than air, dripping like ink into water, and then slowly dispersed , like poured liquid nitrogen.

Lin Xingzhou was dumbfounded, but at this moment the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated desperately and issued a sharp siren: "Warning! Warning! Yin Qi level [-] warning! Please evacuate the scene quickly, please evacuate the scene quickly!"

Lin Xingzhou swallowed a mouthful of saliva—the yin qi test has a total of ten levels, and the higher the value, the more dangerous it is. The person surnamed Wei just cut a small cut in his hand, and the alarm has soared to the limit.

Wei Zhi turned his head, and said "tsk" impatiently: "Ling, tell your handset to shut up."

"Good boss."

Lin Xingzhou's phone went quiet instantly. Not only did the system stop, but the phone was completely turned off, and he didn't even dare to fart.

He turned his neck stiffly, and looked at the source of the sound he hadn't heard just now——

In Wei Zhi's hand... the handle of the knife?