Relocation Brigade

The two-story building stands quietly behind the bamboo forest. Under the moonlight, the shadow of the bamboo forest shrouds it. From a distance, the closed doors are dark and scary.

Wu Weiwei took advantage of his Brother Chen's strength to jump around on one leg, and asked in doubt: "You say that kid is a ghost?"

"Well, Aunt Cuifen ran into that ghost before." Chen Ling stepped on a stone step and reminded, "Slow down."

"Oh." Wu Weiwei squinted his eyes, "According to what you mean, that ghost is a soldier of the Death Qi Monster, how did the Death Qi Monster appear?"

For the dead energy to form, it takes a very large amount of dead energy to gather together for a long time.

"So tomorrow morning, we have to go into the water to have a look." Chen Ling looked solemn, "And I suspect that there is magic energy in the water."

"Demon?" Wu Weiwei was dumbfounded.

"Those who can break through people's hearts and create illusions are definitely not ordinary evil spirits." Chen Ling frowned, feeling a little anxious in his heart.

"But such things as demons..." Wu Weiwei paused and hesitated, "I don't think I've ever heard of it, let alone seen it."

"People die as ghosts, ghosts die as ghosts, ghosts die as hope, and hope dies as barbarians. Death is invisible." Chen Ling said, "As for what the invisible refers to, there are two theories. Become a demon."

"And among them, Xi refers to the absence of form, and Yi refers to the absence of sound. Formless and colorless, it matches the demon, especially the demon of the heart."

In the past, Chen Ling's understanding of inner demons was limited to the literal meaning. It was just the most persistent thoughts deep in the human heart. Now, it seems that they are devils that can harm people, and they are more terrifying than evil spirits with forms.

To be more precise, the inner demon can suck human life through the illusion created.

Old Madam Yuan, affected by the yin qi of the blue lake water, her yang qi, which was gradually weakening due to age, was getting lower and lower, and fell into a near-death state.And because she missed her son before she was about to die, the inner demon stepped in and painted the picture she most wanted to see for her.

According to Mrs. Yuan's feelings for Yuan Yongxiang, she must be confused by the picture of the family harmony and stay willingly.

The heart demon's goal was achieved, and it sucked away the remaining life of Old Madam Yuan, and Old Madam Yuan died with a smile because the illusion was too beautiful.

Another example is the old couple who regard wealth as their destiny.

The devilish energy contained in the blue lake aroused the obsession deep in their hearts before they died, so they dreamed that they had won the lottery prize.While they rushed towards the bundles of banknotes in ecstasy, they also fell into the trap of the demon.

As for these two old people, even the old man of Shen Dazhuang's family and the ghost wandering by the lake, why didn't they leave after death...

Chen Ling thought about it carefully, Yin Qi and death Qi are associated. Those people drank the blue lake water intentionally or unintentionally. It is close to the breath of a ghost.

The underworld preliminarily judged that they were not souls without complaints and regrets, so naturally they would not open the road to the nether world to them.

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen?" Wu Weiwei yelled twice in a row, and then he saw Brother Chen looking at him blankly.

Chen Ling raised his hand and knocked on the head, "I'm sorry, I was distracted, did you just say something?"

Wu Weiwei shook his head and pointed to the ground helplessly: "We're already home."

Only then did Chen Ling realize that the three of them were already standing in the courtyard of Shen Dazhuang's house. He scratched his head in embarrassment, "I'll take you back to your room first."

Wu Weiwei nodded, and asked, "Brother Chen, you mentioned the inner demon... Did you encounter it on Fengling Mountain before?"

Chen Ling frowned, "Strictly speaking, it's not an encounter, but someone wants to arouse my demons."

People live in this world and have to experience many things, and among them, every first time must occupy a relatively distinct position in the complicated memory.

For example, seeing a ghost for the first time, drowning for the first time.

In Fengling Mountain, they brought out the senior sister who died in the mountain, probably because they wanted to arouse the fear in his heart, but at that time, he had long been familiar with ghosts, so he didn't know the way, and didn't give the demons to take advantage of. opportunity.

And then the nightmare in Qingxuanguan.

The dream perfectly restored the scene where he was dragged down by the water ghost and almost drowned in the sea.

If Jiang Yu hadn't appeared at that time and woke him up, perhaps the inner demon had quietly hidden in his body, waiting for a better opportunity to break through.

By the way, Zhou Yuanxin's suicide at the beginning was also very strange, but only now did he realize that it was the demon bewitching him... Chen Ling's expression turned extremely ugly. It turned out that they had fought against the demon long ago.

"So, what happened this time was also the work of the people behind Fengling Mountain?" Wu Weiwei scolded, "What the hell is that idiot trying to do?"

"The water in the lake is full of lifeless energy. I'm afraid it's the same place as Fengling Mountain and Rongshen Middle School." Chen Ling pushed him onto the stool and sat down. .”

Wu Weiwei was overwhelmed by the flattery, as he was the younger brother, how could He De let his elder brother take care of him, he hurriedly said: "No, no, I'll go by myself, my ankle is sprained but my hands are still very flexible."

"If you want to stay, just stay." Chen Ling thought of something, reached out and picked up Wu Weiwei's backpack from the stool next to him, and threw it into his arms, "If you're really bored, you can continue to do small crafts."

Wu Weiwei was holding his schoolbag, smiling all over his face. It felt so good to be cared for.

Chen Ling went to the kitchen, and was about to open the door to go in, when a blue flame shot out from the crack of the door, almost burning his hair!

"Jiang Yu!" He pushed the door vigorously and rushed in, seeing the old ancestor playing with fire.

The corner of Chen Ling's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help sighing, even if a person with strong ability is pulled, the prison fire can also be used to replace the stove fire to boil water, but it is a bit overkill.

The hellfire in Jiang Yu's hand was not put away until the kettle made a whining sound after it was completely boiling.

Seeing that the young man was preoccupied, he reached out and stroked his hair, "What's wrong?"

"The dead spirit tonight is enough to show that there should be a lot of corpses hidden at the bottom of the lake. I'm thinking, this is probably another dark place." Chen Ling wrote and drew on the ground covered with carbon ash with his fingers, " You see, this is the location of Rongshen Middle School, this is Fengling Mountain, and this is our current location."

"If you look at it according to the north arrow on the map, these locations happen to be due east, due north, and due west."

Chen Ling raised his head, his eyes became darker and brighter under the light, "There is still a lack of due south."

He pointed his finger in the south direction of the picture, "This is exactly where Pingshan is."

Jiang Yu seemed to have expected it, and did not show a surprised expression, but asked, "What did you think of?"

Chen Ling shook his head. Even he himself didn't know what he wanted to express. He just felt that this was a game from beginning to end. It's just that they saw the edge of this game, but they couldn't penetrate its inside.

"I don't know what that person wants to do. And..." he swallowed, and said dryly, "I think we are always led by the nose. For example, this trip to the Blue Lagoon, since the other party is so powerful , as long as he is willing to intervene, it is impossible for Mr. Yuan to find us to deal with his mother's affairs."

If he hadn't spotted anything unusual about the Blue Lake, even if Li Hongyu said that he was going to come here to perform a mission, Chen Ling, as a member of the non-special dispatch department, naturally couldn't have rushed here just to join in the fun.

Thinking about it this way, even Senior Fat Brother makes people feel suspicious.

Chen Ling remembered that after hearing that the brothers and sisters of the Shen family gave the old lady a drink of blue lake water, he was the one who took the initiative to mention that the urgent task Li Hongyu had received was to rush to the blue lake town.

"Brother Jiang, what do you think of Fat Senior Brother?"

Jiang Yu didn't feel how abrupt the turn of the topic was, but asked instead: "Are you doubting him?"

Chen Ling pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I thought he and Brother Shou were a little strange in Fengling Mountain before. Besides, don't you think it's strange that two civilian workers are forced to perform field work?"

The special dispatch department is full of talents, even if it is really short of manpower, it is unknown how many monks in the Taoist temple want to join.

But they just wanted to send these two clerks who were not proficient in skills to carry out the task.

To put it bluntly, aren't they afraid that these two people will cause trouble and become a burden to the team?

The more Chen Ling thought about it, the more weird he felt, but he still hoped that he was blaming the wrong person, "I hope I was thinking too much."

Early the next morning, Li Hongyu went to the second floor of Shen Dazhuang's house to wait.

Wu Weiwei got up early as usual, he stretched his waist and kicked open the door, his raised hand was frozen in the air, and he looked at the people in the yard in astonishment, "Why are you here?"

"Discuss something with Chen Ling." Li Hongyu glanced at the young man's ankle, "Okay?"

"That's right." Wu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh with no pain or itching in his ankle, and he could move freely, "I'm a very resilient person, really."

Li Hongyu nodded indifferently, "Yeah."

Wu Weiwei curled his lips quietly, you are so cold, you have a paralyzed face, I really can't figure out how a boring person like Li Hongyu spent his childhood, maybe he copied scriptures every day.

Thinking of it this way, I felt a little more pity in my heart.

Wu Weiwei turned around and took out the toothbrush and towel, and went over Li Hongyu to wash under the faucet on the east side of the yard. After finishing the operation quickly, he wiped the water off his face, "By the way, have you had breakfast yet?"

Li Hongyu crossed his arms and stood straight on the spot, "Eat it, the village head sent it."

Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, a figure emerged from the bottom of the stairs.

The village chief put a few big steamed buns in a dustpan, and carried a thermos bucket in the other hand, and stepped into the yard with a smile, "Brother Wu is awake, come and pick it up, this is the breakfast I asked your Auntie Cuifen to prepare." .”

Just as Wu Weiwei was about to leave, Li Hongyu took the things over first.

The young man who didn't like to laugh squinted at Wu Weiwei's feet, "Let's pay more attention."

Wu Weiwei scoffed, and bumped him with his shoulder meanly, "You're quite careful."

Li Hongyu's face tensed up, and he moved two inches to the side, "You are sweating."

There was not even a cattail fan in the small building on the second floor, and it was hot 24 hours a day. What could Wu Weiwei do? He glared at Li Hongyu, grabbed his breakfast, and walked quickly to the kitchen.

Looking at the valiant figure from behind, Li Hongyu raised his eyebrows.

Wu Weiwei couldn't hold back as soon as he entered the kitchen, grinning his teeth. Although his ankle wasn't swollen, it hurt when he exerted a little force. According to this posture, he had to rest for a few days to recover.

Upstairs, Chen Ling just woke up from the man's arms.

He turned over, because the bed was really not big, and his back just fit into the man's arms. Jiang Yu opened his eyes, and his eyes were clear without any sleepiness.

Kiss the young man on the cheek, "Get up."

Chen Ling hesitated, waited until the other party got up, rushed downstairs into the shower room, and took a cold shower.

When he came out again, the heat on his body had completely faded away, and his whole body felt cool. He met Jiang Yu's meaningful eyes, and he quickly turned his face away, saying hello to Li Hongyu.

Li Hongyu approached and said bluntly: "We plan to enter the water when the diving equipment is delivered."

"I thought so too." Chen Ling was very relieved of Li Hongyu, but he was worried about other people in the special investigation department. How many corpses, I want to go down and have a look, if it is the best to resolve the wronged souls, if not, I can only take stronger methods."

In the water, apart from the vanished ghosts and the condensed evil spirits, there were also children and other things that had drowned in it before.

Not drinking the lake water can only temporarily get rid of the negative energy of the lake water, but cannot solve the essential problem.If things go on like this, the dead energy in the lake will gather again, even bigger and more terrifying than before.

At that time, not only Blue Lake Village will suffer, but the surrounding villages and even the entire town will be affected.

Yesterday, I heard from Jiang Yu that we would discuss it the next day. Li Hongyu thought that he would get other information when he came this morning, but he didn’t expect this. He frowned, "You were just fascinated by the illusion yesterday, are you sure you can go into the water today?"

"No problem." Yesterday's illusion did consume a lot of mental energy, at most he was physically exhausted, so that his activities would not be restricted.

Li Hongyu stared at the young man for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Did you have something to say?"

Chen Ling had entered the illusion, but he didn't say a word about the illusion after he came out. This is not his style.

Chen Ling looked distressed, and looked at Li Hongyu's gentlemanly face for a long time. He reached out and wanted to hook Li Hongyu's shoulder, but he heard a thud.

Jiang Yu put the bowl of porridge on the table in the main room.

At any rate, he is a person who is about to have a family and has to take care of his wife's feelings. Chen Ling withdrew his hand that was almost on his shoulder, leaned on Li Hongyu with his shoulder, and whispered, "I suspect it's a demon at work."

Li Hongyu frowned so much that he could kill a fly.

Chen Ling: "Believe it or not, I was almost induced to commit suicide in the illusion yesterday."

He Xiangxi is the illusion of the heart demon, and it is also a portrayal of Chen Ling, and Chen Ling can be sure that the heart demon knows him very well, and he also knows that He Xiangxi's suicide did cause Chen Ling a lot of trouble. fluctuation.

Chen Ling didn't think that the other party could invade his heart silently, otherwise he wouldn't have pulled the senior sister out to try to ignite his initial fear of ghosts.

Therefore, the demon must have investigated him secretly, even sneaked into his home, and seen that photo.

Under normal circumstances, no one would keep photos with ghost images, but Chen Ling subtracted the ghost images and saved them.

In addition to feeling that He Xiangxi didn't really want to harm others, but also because deep down in his heart, he really felt that there were similarities between the former self and He Xiangxi.

The heart demon obviously saw this, so he deliberately turned into He Xiangxi's appearance in the illusion.

After listening to his explanation, Li Hongyu was stunned for a long time. Words such as "elimination of demons" and "exorcism" were indeed mentioned in some Taoist spells, but no one had actually encountered them. Only the handed down scriptures mentioned Been to the devil.

Perhaps it is precisely because no one has seen it with their own eyes, but some people are willing to believe in the existence of demons, so there is an inference that "Yi Shi Wu Wu Xing" is a demon.

Li Hongyu closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked, "So, do you believe in the inference that the invisible is the devil?"

"I don't know." Chen Ling said, "But it can invade people's hearts in a silent and invisible manner. I can't think of anything other than the demons."

"What did Mr. Jiang say?" Li Hongyu asked.

Chen Ling suddenly remembered the scene after lying in bed last night.

His mind was in a mess at the time, and he was looking through the ancient books he had scanned with his mobile phone. There were ten kinds of demons mentioned in it, as well as the Great Demon King of Eight Directions, the Five Heavens Gods and Demons, and even some others.

But there are no records about demons in real life.

He was a little impatient at the time, and he kicked his legs on the bed to vent. In the end, Jiang Yu held him down and asked him what was wrong.

Chen Ling said at the time: "Have you ever seen a demon?"

Jiang Yu was silent for a long time, and said: "Every level of hell has a red river, and the red river is full of dark red and smelly ghost blood. They will meet in the deepest part of hell. And the place where they meet is called the sea of ​​blood. The huge brutal Qi and the sea of ​​blood merged to give birth to a 'child'."

"The 'child' was silent at first and looked like smoke, but because it was transformed from hostility and blood, it could easily lure hell ghosts to break free from the greedy heart of hell."

"Emperor Dongyue said that the child is only a stone's throw away from the devil..."

According to the laws of modern short stories, the protagonist in the story is likely to be closely related to the person who tells the story.

Chen Ling turned over and sat up, leaned on the man and stared at him for a long time, then asked, "And then?"

"The emperor is merciful, lead the child into the ghost way." Jiang Yu touched the young man's warm face, his eyes were deep, "Although there are no traces of demons today, I can tell you that they are real, especially It's a demon."

Obsession, pain, regret, fear... any thought that lingers in the heart and refuses to dissipate will superimpose day and night, and gradually become a shackle that binds the heart.

If the shackles are loose, it will make people uncomfortable at best; if the shackles are tightened, it will kill people alive.

Inner demons exist in everyone's heart, some will never appear in their lifetime, and some will be lost once they are aroused.

Chen Ling remembered that at that time, he only felt terrified. His opponent was invisible and could hide on anyone's body.

Jiang Yu rubbed his hair gently, and kissed him on the forehead: "If you can't see it, it doesn't mean you can't deal with him. Wait patiently, the snake will not be able to hold back sooner or later."

"What's the matter with you?" Li Hongyu was unavoidably anxious when he saw that no one answered.

Chen Ling unconsciously said "um", and apologized embarrassedly, "I was just thinking about the conversation with Jiang Yu last night, and he said that demons exist."

He paused for a while, and his tone became more and more solemn, "Li Hongyu, the inner demons may be hidden in each of us. I hope that you can hold on to what we said today and don't tell anyone."