Urban Tales of Demons and Spirits

I opened my mouth, too surprised to speak, but Wen Jiubai continued.

"And, do you still remember what the pattern of square bricks in the corridor of your teaching building looks like?"

I froze for a moment, trying desperately to remember but couldn't remember.Sometimes people are so strange, they obviously see something every day, but they can't remember it when they ask it so suddenly.

"It's like this." Wen Jiubai suddenly took my hand, flattened my fingers, drew a circle in the center of my palm, and drew an arc in the circle, "It's a diagram of the Eight Diagrams."

Only then did I suddenly understand and nodded, "Yes, it is indeed a gossip pattern."

Wen Jiubai smiled, and then let go of my hand, "However, it's very interesting. It's really interesting. Gu Yu, don't you think so?"

"What's interesting?"

"You." Wen Jiubai folded his arms and looked at me, the corners of his mouth raised an arc of interest, "It seems that everything revolves around you, and all the strange things happen around you, don't you think it's very interesting ?"

I was about to say something to answer Wen Jiubai when I was interrupted by Bai's voice.

"Mr. Wen!"

Bai ran in front of us from the small forest with four flexible short legs.

"How is it?" Wen Jiubai looked at Bai, "Is it here?"

Bai nodded, "That's right, this is the place with the most gloomy atmosphere on the entire campus. The cemetery must be under these trees."

"Well, you did a good job." Wen Jiubai bent down and patted Bai's little head.That guy Bai still had an expression of enjoyment.

As expected of a weasel, it was tamed so easily, and I expressed my dislike to Bai Bai in the depths of my heart.

"Hold your shovel, let's go down." Wen Jiubai left this sentence, and walked towards the small forest first.

I hurriedly followed, "Wait, we really have to dig a grave!"

Without hesitation, Wen Jiubai dug down the seemingly flat ground with a shovel.

I had no choice but to pick up the shovel and start working like Wen Jiubai.Needless to say, this grave-digging job is not ordinary laborious. Both of us dug a hole as high as a person, but we still saw nothing.

"Is there really something under here?" I said out of breath, "We have been digging for so long, and we haven't... ah!"

At this moment, I felt the shovel under my hand vibrate, obviously hitting something.

"Yes." Wen Jiubai immediately put down the shovel and pushed aside the surrounding soil with his hands, revealing the cover of a coffin, "Come and help me."

"Ah? What, what are you doing?" I was a little confused.

"Pry open the coffin, or break it open." Wen Jiubai did what he said, picked up the shovel and began to search for a gap along the coffin cover, "These coffins are very old, and the wood is almost rotten, it should be It's easy to pry off."

"Wait, wait, but why do we have to pry open these coffins." I felt a little nervous, "What do you want to find in here?"

"You'll know soon." As Wen Jiubai's hands exerted force, the rotten coffin creaked and was lifted up, and a pungent smell immediately entered my nose.I frowned, held my breath, and watched Wen Jiubai forcefully throw the coffin board aside, and the board was smashed into pieces.

Wen Jiubai glanced into the coffin, then smiled, and murmured, "Sure enough, it's exactly as I expected."

I looked into the coffin suspiciously and curiously, but unexpectedly, this look almost scared my soul out.

Curled up in the coffin was a black thing with sharp fangs, rotting skin with uneven spots like a toad, and its hands and feet were very long in proportion to its body. Anyway, no matter how you looked at it, Those things are definitely not human corpses.

"What, what is this!" I couldn't control my voice and cried out, "Is this not a human being?"

"Of course not, this is the corpse of a monster." Panting lightly, Wen Jiubai walked around the coffin and stood beside me.

"The monster's corpse?" No expression can express my surprise now, I stared at the strange corpse, feeling that the scalp-tingling monster could jump out of the coffin at any time, "Just kidding , where did the corpse of the monster come from?"

"It's true!" Bai didn't know when he jumped onto the coffin board, with a surprised expression on his face, "Is this a monster like a water ghost?"

"It may also be a roadside ghost." Wen Jiubai said.

"Wait, what kind of water ghost or roadside ghost." I interrupted the two people, still feeling very unbelievable, "How could this be the corpse of a monster? No, take a step back, even if there is a monster die, but why would the monster leave a corpse?"

"Good question." Wen Jiubai didn't intend to answer me, instead he threw the shovel towards me, "I'll explain to you later, now let's dig another coffin to have a look."

I was baffled, so I had to follow Wen Jiubai's order temporarily, and dug again near the dug-out coffin. This time, I soon saw another coffin. When I pried it open, it was also a monster with blue face and long fangs. It looked very terrifying. .

"In this way, we can basically be sure." Wen Jiubai said thoughtfully, put the shovel aside, and said to me, "I am afraid that the corpses of monsters are not buried in this cemetery."

"If you want to say it, you can explain it clearly, why is there a corpse of a monster? What's going on?" I asked eagerly.

"This is a method used by many local villagers to get rid of demons a long time ago." Wen Jiubai said eloquently, "To put it simply, whenever a ghost is haunted, a Taoist priest is invited to do it. The haunted person's house will give a pig or a sheep , asked the mage to possess the invisible evil spirits on the livestock, so that the evil spirits could not escape. Then the family buried the animals possessed by the ghosts alive, and attached spells to the coffins. They thought that in this way, the monsters would can be completely killed."

"So, does this work?" I asked curiously.

"From a certain point of view, it is still useful." Wen Jiubai said with folded arms, "For the weak roadside ghosts, it is not difficult to trap them in the bodies of domestic animals. Many low-level Taoist priests can do it. Buried alive Afterwards, it is indeed possible to prevent the monsters from continuing to make trouble in the village, but... the monsters are different from humans. Even if the possessed skin dies, the monsters themselves will not die. After these poor little monsters are buried alive, they become earthbound spirits , unable to leave this land. Therefore, this place has become a place where extremely dark monsters wander."