Hit the yin and yang road

Chen Yang raised his head: "Wu Lingjiu?"

The old professor looked at Chen Yang and Du Shuo, and said, "Do you know that young man named Meng Xi? His real name is Wu Lingjiu?"

Chen Yang: "Yes. Did you guess it?"

"I didn't think it was weird at first, but now that I almost died in this weird uninhabited village, I probably knew I was cheated." The old professor waved his hand, preventing Zhao Yao and Zhao Gang from helping him: "I can run faster than you, if it weren't for I couldn’t see the road and hit a tree just now, so you don’t have to carry it on your back.”

Chen Yang picked up the white bones on the ground and put them into the ghost pupae, and asked, "Why did he lie to you?"

Seeing the ghost chrysalis, the old professor took a step forward and paused, and asked hesitantly, "It won't suddenly jump out of the ghost chrysalis and bite me?"

"No. It's just a white bone, but the ghost chrysalis broke through and the moonlight came in. After another three to five years, after absorbing enough moonlight essence, it will come out to harm people. If it is stained with blood, it will be a ghost. Only then will it harm people. "Chen Yang said, subconsciously glanced at Du Shuo beside him.

Du Shuo was standing with his hands behind his back. When he met Chen Yang's eyes, he simply put his hands on his shoulders.Standing close to him, Chen Yang naturally raised his hand to squeeze the big hand on his shoulder.The natural couple atmosphere between the two will not make people feel out of harmony.

The old professor and Zhao Yao glanced at the atmosphere between them, and accepted it calmly.On the contrary, Zhao Gang's expression of surprise was fully displayed on his face, and Zhao Yao pushed him when he saw this, "No, you, you can always pick up on my jokes. Why are you making such a fuss now?"

Zhao Gang was speechless, and choked out a sentence for a long time: "Isn't that never practiced?"

"Hey, do you still want to practice?" Zhao Yao smiled meanly, and pushed Zhao Gang with her shoulder: "But at most, you can't be suppressed like this."

Zhao Gang is tall and thin, but his face is feminine. Hearing this, he was very upset: "I have great strength, Zhao Yao, let me tell you not to talk nonsense. I only like girls."

Zhao Yao rolled her eyes at him: "Who started this joke first?" After scoffing twice, Zhao Yao didn't bother to pay attention to Zhao Gang, walked up to the old professor and Chen Yang and said, "Chen Tianshi, when shall we go back to find your companion? My wound Will the corpse poison in it explode suddenly?"

Chen Yang answered her: "Not that fast." Then he looked at the old professor who was trying to touch the ghost pupae. The old professor noticed Chen Yang's gaze and smiled sarcastically: "I'm doing normal research and investigation to see what will be put in the ghost pupae. I think, Meng Xi, the Wu Lingjiu you call him, lied to me because I specialize in folk culture, especially funeral rites."

Chen Yang: "Then do you have a certain understanding of the two funeral ceremonies in No Man's Village?" Seeing that the old professor was very interested in ghost pupae, he said, "This corpse should have been buried for more than three years. As long as you don't do anything to offend it, Records can be observed."

Hearing this, the old professor hurriedly called two students to observe and take notes.While observing and recording without damaging the ghost pupae, he replied to Chen Yang: "There are many funeral ceremonies in our country, and different ethnic groups have different funeral ceremonies. Many funeral ceremonies look weird and scary, but they actually have something to do with their religious beliefs." Relationship. The original intention is to place good expectations on the deceased, but most people are afraid of corpses and death. Therefore, some weird funeral ceremonies are not acceptable, especially water burial and tree burial. By the way, you, you are heaven division?"

Chen Yang: "Yes."

The old professor glanced at the two of them and continued to record: "If you are celestial masters, you should also know about funeral rites."

"I do have some understanding, but not in-depth." Funeral ceremonies represent the religious beliefs, customs and cultural development of the local people, and they will not know these without special research.Chen Yang only has a superficial understanding of some funeral ceremonies, but he doesn't know anything deeper.

The old professor: "You don't need to know too much. It's actually not very easy to understand. After all, it involves the dead, and some evil things have to be believed. If there is no respect, there is no need to understand this business. You all know about water burial and tree burial. Some people think that the fish is the incarnation of the river god, and the river god will send the soul of the dead to reincarnation. Some people think that the tree is the shelter of the dead, so the dead are buried on the tree. But few people know about the follow-up.”

The old professor recorded what he wanted to know, and ordered the two students to observe carefully.Then he took a step back and pointed to a certain corner in the dark forest, where there were countless hidden tree branches, hiding countless ghost chrysalis.He said: "The tree body is the shelter of the dead. The dead souls can have a place to live when they come back when they miss their relatives. But they have to reincarnate, and the soul has to leave. The tree body is not only the place where the soul lives, but also the place where the soul is locked. Place. In order to reincarnate the dead, a second burial has to be carried out. Second burials have existed in many places since ancient times. However, many people now believe that the custom of picking up bones for the second burial originated in southern Fujian and Hakka. In fact, there are many places in Guangdong. Everyone has this custom. When you were in the uninhabited village, did you see a half-person-high jar at the entrance of those watchtowers? It contained the bones of the second burial."

I don’t know if it’s because the old professor who usually lectures the students and loves long speeches only gets out of the way at the end. As usual, he spread the word about the second burial custom before talking to them about the key points: “Water burials and tree burials don’t happen in the same village. Absolutely not. These are two different theological beliefs and cannot coexist in the same closed place. Water burial is a fish that throws body parts into the river. In fact, in primitive religious beliefs, it is to worship the river god and bless the local weather. Don't have a severe drought."

"This is the reason why I am interested in No Man's Village. What is it that makes No Man's Village, a small closed village, tolerate two different funeral ceremonies? Later, I checked the information and found that No Man's Village was first Tree burials, and water burials appeared later. However, Eguiling used to be a place where there were years of severe drought and corpses littered the fields, so I suspect that villagers in No Man's Village used water burials to worship the river god and bless the no man's village with good weather."

Chen Yang's eyebrows twitched: "There is an ancestral hall in the uninhabited village, and hundreds of anonymous tablets are enshrined in the ancestral hall. There is a well in the middle of the courtyard of the ancestral hall. We found that someone was performing a funeral ceremony by the well last night. If you worship the river God, now that there are no people living in the uninhabited village, why are there still people doing water burials?"

The old professor said: "That's why I came to the uninhabited village to investigate in person... No, I don't know about the ancestral hall you mentioned and the water burial last night, what I mean is that maybe what I have investigated I can answer your questions. The villagers of No Man's Village moved out one after another, but before that, No Man's Village was a prosperous and prosperous village. Although it was because of inconvenient transportation, it led to decline. I checked, and the government was planning to fund road construction at that time , the road can connect the uninhabited village and K City. But the villagers still insist on moving out, and after moving out, they all died one after another. The causes of death were accidents, and they all died violently."

"It's not over yet. The child didn't die. When he grew up, he forgot about the uninhabited village, got married and had children. After giving birth, they all suffered accidents and died in accidents. They left their children and continued a new round of reincarnation." The old man The professor asked them: "What does it sound like? Cursing, revenge, endlessly pestering the villagers of the uninhabited village."

Du Shuo whispered in Chen Yang's ear, "It's a ghost's grievance."

Chen Yang: "Huh?" The old professor also showed a puzzled expression.

Du Shuo: "The ceremony of water burial in an uninhabited village is dedicated to the river god, and the body parts are chopped up and thrown to the fish in the river... In fact, the body parts are thrown to the fish in the well. The ancestral hall is erected with a tablet of the nameless person, and they are trapped. In the ancestral hall, bless the uninhabited village with good weather. They cannot be reincarnated even if they leave their hometowns, and we still don’t know whether those people who were buried in water died normally or died of “man-made” accidents. The souls are trapped in the ancestral hall day after day, full of resentment, Lost the offering, possessed the body of the fish that ate the body, and became a ghost."

Ghost grievances are curses, murders, and hatred. Give up the chance of reincarnation and turn yourself into a curse, repaying the vengeful person from generation to generation.Very evil and weird.

The old professor: "I remembered that there is a tradition among villagers in No Man's Village. They will let their children drink fish soup and eat fish meat at their 15-year-old coming-of-age ceremony. It means peace and health, no disease and no disaster. This is my After getting the information, I deliberately searched for a few households in the uninhabited village to inquire about it, but when I asked about the uninhabited village, they seemed to be secretive."

Chen Yang looked up at Du Shuo, trying to get clues from him.Du Shuo raised his hand on Chen Yang's shoulder suddenly, and gently patted his cheek to remind him: "Everything happens for a reason, and there must be an effect if there is a cause. The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is not good."

Chen Yang: "You're getting more and more obsessive." I used to like to say half a sentence, but now I can't even guess what I said.

Du Shuo rubbed Chen Yang's head with a smile: "Yang Yang is smart and understands me, so he can guess." After saying that, he looked up at Zhao Yao and Zhao Gang.Zhao Yao was seriously recording, but Zhao Gang accidentally saw their intimacy when he turned his head, with a weird and awkward expression on his face.

There was a smile in Du Shuo's voice, but his eyes were indifferent, piercing Zhao Gang.When Zhao Gang saw this, his heart skipped a beat, he quickly smiled stiffly, turned around and squeezed together with Zhao Yao.Zhao Yao glanced at him and said in a low voice, "Are you frightened?"

Zhao Gang glanced at Zhao Yao's face, dazed for two seconds and then said: "It's just that I didn't realize it for a while, I'm not afraid of a furious professor, but a fool?"

Zhao Yao: "Hi!"

Zhao Gang: "Okay, okay, I was wrong. I just don't get used to it, just ignore me and talk to me when I get used to it."

Zhao Yao shook her head, she really didn't talk to the restless Zhao Gang anymore.I was full of slander in my heart, I didn't expect that Zhao Gang, who was usually able to pick up any topic and was particularly dirty, turned out to be not very good in his heart and mind.

Du Shuo withdrew his gaze, and asked the old professor quietly: "Do you know the purpose of Wu Lingjiu luring you to the uninhabited village?"

"I don't know. What's the use of my old arms and legs?" The old professor walked around the crooked neck tree twice, saw that Zhao Gang had written less than a page in his notebook, and slapped him to teach him a lesson: "Do you think it's enough to just write a few figures for your measurements?" Zhao Gang was trained to apologize repeatedly, and the old professor let him go.

The old professor said: "I really don't know why the young people you said lied to me. I only study Chinese folk culture, and I have made some achievements in my own field. The published articles are not bad. Could it be that he wants me to find out The truth about the uninhabited village and then announce the truth? If so, then he might be an angry villain."

The old professor is over fifty years old, but his thinking is very trendy.He added: "If it's true, I'm sorry that he made a mistake. I'm not a stubborn old man, and some things can be published. The consequences of some things need to be considered and borne, so we can't publish them rashly."

Chen Yang smiled, and together with Du Shuo, accompanied the old professor and his two students, and took them back to the uninhabited village after the other party finished their investigation and records.While the old professor was inspecting the ghost pupa, Chen Yang whispered: "Could it be that Wu Lingjiu really intends to let the old professor find out the truth about the uninhabited village and publish it?"

What is the purpose of publishing?

"The professor has made a lot of achievements in related fields, so there should be more than that. If it is published, it will cause a sensation and attract many people's attention. If the uninhabited village incident is exposed, will the hungry ghosts, ghost chrysalis, and ghost grievances in the uninhabited village also be exposed? "

I would rather believe it than believe it. Most people will never see ghosts in their lifetime.I have never seen it in my life, and I always have doubts in my heart.If the ghosts are completely displayed in front of people and let them see it with their own eyes, they will naturally no longer doubt it.

Du Shuo: "What do you think is the most needed and lacking thing for Wu Lingjiu to restore a ghost country?"

After a moment of silence, Chen Yang said: "The people." Without the people, the so-called country is a joke. "Wu Lingjiu is attracting believers, recruiting people, luring the old professor into the uninhabited village to find out the truth, and publishing articles after he goes out. With the old professor's reputation, the articles he publishes can attract social sensations, especially funerals. It can arouse people's curiosity. This is the first step, to attract people's attention. The second step is to make people believe in the existence of ghosts. So there is a follow-up, such as video recordings with conclusive evidence."

The old professor and his two students walked deep into the forest and saw another ghost chrysalis.The ghost chrysalis looks very new, as if the people inside are newly mourned.However, the uninhabited village has been uninhabited as early as a few years ago, so how can there be new funerals in the surrounding forests?The old professor ordered the two students to take notes quickly.

Chen Yang and Du Shuo followed behind and watched the whole process.Chen Yang said: "The old professor and his students are ordinary people. Since he was tricked into the uninhabited village and still be used, his safety must be guaranteed."

The old professor over there just opened the ghost pupa carefully, and reached out to touch the mummy.The mummy suddenly grabbed the old professor's hand and dragged him into the ghost pupa. Zhao Yao reacted quickly and grabbed the old professor.The mummy was so powerful, Zhao Yao blushed and shouted: "Zhao Gang, come and help me."

Zhao Gang tore off the talisman from the wound on Zhao Yao's wrist and stuck it on the mummy's forehead, and the mummy froze for a moment.The two of them worked together to pull the old professor out, and the next moment the mummy tore off the talisman on his forehead, and angrily crawled out of the ghost chrysalis.With limbs like reptiles, it crawled down from the tree trunk.Seeing this, Zhao Gang skillfully picked up the old professor and ran away.Seeing Chen Yang and the two from a distance, Zhao Yao quickly waved and shouted: "Tianshi! Help!"

Chen Yang stepped forward and kicked the mummy flying, untied the red rope wrapped around the mummy's neck and violently dragged it away, folded his hands and feet and dragged it into the ghost pupa to seal it again.Two talismans were also pasted on the outside of the ghost pupa, and the mummy inside the ghost pupa struggled to get it out, but could not destroy the ghost pupa.

Zhao Yao was out of breath: "Oh my god, it's too dangerous, Chen Tianshi, didn't you say you can't offend the corpse?"

Chen Yang: "Mummy is not a corpse." How can something that has become a spirit be considered a corpse?However, there are too many mummified corpses in the ghost pupae in the forest, which is somewhat abnormal.

Du Shuo said: "It's getting dark, let's go back first."

Chen Yang nodded in agreement, and motioned for the three old professors to go back with them.The old professor wanted to record again, but it was really late, so he agreed to go back.After all, it's so dangerous in broad daylight, wouldn't a group of demons dance around at night?

A group of five people ran for a long time in the forest but couldn't see the exit. Du Shuo grabbed Chen Yang and said, "Pass here." He pointed to a tree with a crooked neck that passed by just now: "We're going around in circles."

Chen Yang took out the compass and found that the pointer of the compass was out of order and broken.The old professor asked: "Did you encounter a ghost hitting the wall? I remember the folk saying, when you encounter a ghost hitting the wall, just stand still."

Chen Yang: "The premise is that the thing that traps you here will not take the opportunity to kill you." Whether it is in the forest or the uninhabited village, it is very dangerous. There are ghost pupae and hungry ghosts everywhere. With three ordinary people.

Du Shuo held Chen Yang's wrist tightly: "I will lead the way, follow me."

The sky darkened quickly, as if in an instant black cloth covered the light, dark clouds covered the sun, and the forest was instantly submerged in darkness.The three old professors came prepared, took out two flashlights from their backpacks, and handed one to Chen Yang.

Chen Yang lights up for Du Shuo, and Du Shuo is responsible for leading the way.At this time, the woods became more and more quiet, only the sound of their hurried footsteps and breathing remained.Suddenly there was a clear 'crack' sound from behind, and Zhao Yao asked tremblingly: "What, what sound?"

Chen Yang: "Don't look back, keep going."

The sound of 'cracking' cracking became more and more dense.The sounds of those stiff limbs twisting gradually became clearer, denser, and closer, with a weird and terrifying feeling close at hand.Zhao Yao couldn't help but look back, her pupils dilated in fear.He hurriedly covered his mouth to suppress the scream that almost broke through his throat, and hurried back on his way, his face was pale, and cold sweat was seeping on his forehead.

Zhao Gang glanced and turned his head and asked, "What did you see?"

Zhao Yao quickly grabbed him: "Don't look back!" It was too late, Zhao Gang looked back, stiffened his neck and shook his teeth: "What the hell is that shit!"

Zhao Gang was so frightened that he let out a loud voice to attract groups of mummies that crawled out of the ghost pupae behind him, and the mummies rushed from all directions to surround them.Du Shuo's displeased eyes fell on Zhao Gang, who trembled and hid behind Zhao Yao.Zhao Yao also hated iron for being weak: "I've never seen you so unreliable."

Holding the red rope in both hands, Chen Yang turned his back to Du Shuo and said, "Brother Du, take them away first."

As soon as the words fell, Du Shuo stretched out his big hand to grab the red rope in his hand and said, "With me here, do you still want to fight alone?" Then he lifted Chen Yang's neck with half of the seal of Emperor Fengdu on it. Red rope: "Fayin is powerful, in the face of a siege, you have to learn how to use the seal."

In front of the seal of Emperor Fengdu, all ghosts dare not refuse, and the heavenly soldiers and ghosts will come to help.Chen Yang imprinted half of the seal of Emperor Fengdu on the talisman, and felt that it was still halfway, so he turned his head and looked eagerly at Du Shuo: "Brother Du, lend me the other half."

Du Shuo patted Chen Yang's forehead: "Don't be coquettish, put your heart on it. If I'm not by your side, where would you find your other half in this situation?"

Chen Yang pursed his lips, concentrating on condensing his heart seal.The so-called seal of the heart does not rely on words and deeds, but uses the heart as the seal.Every celestial master can condense the heart seal, and everyone's heart seal is different.When condensing the heart seal, there are two, one is your own heart seal, and the other is the heart seal of the ghost general who is about to borrow divine power.Chen Yang needs to condense his own heart seal and the heart seal of Emperor Fengdu, and the two heart seals communicate with each other in order to leverage their strength.

The heart seal of Emperor Fengdu is to kill ghosts, exorcise evil spirits, and subdue demons, not to be kind, to transform, and to save, but the main purpose is to kill and suppress.Pure evil cannot be transformed and cannot be saved, it can only be suppressed and exterminated.Indifference, cruelty and inhumanity, the goal of saving the world and converting innocent people is achieved through suppression, killing and other means.Fair and just, sinners are punished, good people enter reincarnation, and evil people are unforgivable.The order of the world can be operated, good and evil are rewarded, and karma reincarnates.

Chen Yang opened his eyes, and a pale golden light flashed in his eyes.He clasped his fingertips with both hands, just like the Emperor Fengdu in the portrait holding a jade pendant with both hands, and opened his mouth slightly: "Chi!"

The invisible seal of Emperor Fengdu's heart is imprinted on the talisman, and it is perfectly integrated with the other half of Emperor Fengdu's seal.The talisman rose to the sky above the forest, and the golden light shrouded the forest within ten meters. The mummy under the forest was illuminated by the golden light, and instantly turned into black ash and melted into the ground.Sensing the danger, the half-opened ghost chrysalis closed one after another, as quiet as a chicken.

The heart seal and golden light on the talisman are invisible to those who have not opened their sky eyes, but Zhao Yao saw it, and opened her mouth slightly to watch the whole scene in shock.The old professor squinted his eyes and asked Zhao Yao, "What did you see?"

Zhao Yao: "Gold, golden light, blind my dog's eyes."

The old professor twitched his face and asked her to choose to shut up so as not to be ashamed.Zhao Gang kept staring at Du Shuo and Chen Yang, and said, "You can actually see it? I didn't see anything, I only heard Chen Tianshi say about the Dharma seal and the heart seal, and then the mummy turned into ashes."

Zhao Yao was proud: "Hey hey hey, does this mean that I have some hidden talent?"

No one answered her, and when the woods returned to calm, they continued on their way.This time no ghost hit the wall, but the others still couldn't get out.Because they didn't know the way, Dushuo still led the way.After walking for more than ten minutes, I left the woods and returned to the uninhabited village. The uninhabited village shrouded in darkness was extremely terrifying.There seems to be a lot of dirty things hidden behind the cascading green plants to watch them all the way. The old things in the alleyway at the door are standing still, and occasionally the wind blows and makes a sound that can scare people.

A row of half-person-high water urns are placed at the door of every household. According to the old professor's popular science, they are filled with the bones of the second burial.Mentioning this, the old professor was very excited, and wanted to open the water urn to observe and take notes.His two students were not so bold, and firmly disagreed with the old professor's passing.

The old professor had no choice but to ask Chen Yang for support, and Chen Yang told him with a smile: "There are hungry ghosts in the room, do you know hungry ghosts? Hungry ghosts imprisoned in hell for insatiable hunger are full of hunger."

So the old professor gave up the idea of ​​observing the remains of the water urn in the past, and a group of people shuttled through the narrow alleyway, feeling countless eyes on themselves without talking all the way.At this time, the old professor finally knew that Chen Yang didn't scare them. There were indeed countless hungry ghosts hiding in every household in the uninhabited village.

But they seem to be afraid or even afraid of something, just waiting for them to be alone.The two students also noticed this, and accompanied the old professor to follow Chen Yang and Du Shuo.Zhao Gang's serious eyes fell on Du Shuo, and he said in a low voice: "We will meet a master, nothing will happen."

It wasn't until they entered the ancestral hall that those terrifying eyes were blocked.The backs of the three of them were all soaked in sweat, and after a sigh of relief, they continued to follow.When meeting other people, after Chen Yang gave a brief introduction to both parties, Yi Wuchang applied herbal medicine on Zhao Yao's wound.

Just after treating the wound, the big fat man who ran into the woods and disappeared without a trace came back. As soon as he came back, he bowed his body and grinned at Zhao Yao with an extremely fierce look.

Facing the confusion of others, Zhao Yao smiled helplessly: "I have never been liked by cats since I was a child, and I don't know why."

Hearing this, Fatty became even more irritable, with a threatening growl from his throat.Then he walked back and forth, threatening Zhao Yao from time to time.Zhao Yao was slightly stunned, touched her nose and said strangely: "Even if I don't attract cats to like me, it's not enough to...hate me, right?"

Fatty's hair exploded all over his body, and when he was extremely angry, he let out a hoarse and vicissitudes roar: "Xu Ani!"