ghost stories

He Wei's words lingered in Lu Yuan's mind for several days, but Lu Yuan didn't get any more information from him, because He Wei only heard about it, and added a lot of his own Thoughts, what he knows about eating spirits and binding spirits is only superficial.

Lu Yuan spent the past two days looking up information in the library, but he didn't find much useful content.I just found some related content in a small book called "Soul Talk". The name of the food spirit is called the spirit, which sounds better than the food spirit, but it is basically like what He Wei said, that is Certain souls with special powers maintain their entities by eating, or ingesting, other souls.

What is this special power and what kind of ability does it have, but there is no further explanation.

Lu Yuan easily connected Su Mo with this matter, because Su Mo didn't seem to intend to hide anything from him. He had already told him when we first met that the so-called tea is the soul, but at that time he thought that Su Mo It's bullshit.

Su Mo didn't have vital signs, but he still looked like a living person. Maybe it was because he was ingesting other people's souls that he was able to maintain his body.

But the spirit food recorded in the book is not simply taking out the soul and eating it, but "there must be a gap in the soul".Lu Yuan looked at it for a long time, but didn't understand what the gap meant, so he had to temporarily understand it as flies not biting seamless eggs...

Then he took a closer look, and he gradually figured out that the soul has two sides, neither is it completely bright, nor is it completely dark.Once this balance is broken, it is possible to be eaten.He remembered that Meng Fanyu said that there is a devil living in everyone's heart. If you combine his words, it will be easier to understand. Once evil thoughts are aroused in people's hearts, there will be "gap" and will be taken advantage of by the spirit eaters And enter, lose the soul.

The inner demon is the demon, and once the inner darkness and desire gain the upper hand, the soul will be sent out.

Lu Yuan sighed, everyone will have desires, and no one dares to say that their hearts are truly upright. In this way, as long as these negative emotions and desires can be drawn out and magnified, they may lose their souls.

When Peng Anbang's call came in, Lu Yuan was sitting on the floor in front of the innermost row of bookshelves in the library in a daze, and the books piled around him were almost turned over.

"Where are you?" Peng Anbang asked eagerly.

"Library, what did you find?"

"I'll take you to meet someone tomorrow." Peng Anbang's voice was a little smug, probably because he found some useful information.

"Do you have a day off tomorrow?"

"If you ask for it, you have it. Didn't you have not made up your leave last month? Now the case has nothing to do with us."

"Who are you seeing?"

"Do you still remember the broken stage I told you before? I got in touch and I'll go see it tomorrow. The old man is a man with a lot of money in his stomach, so he might be able to ask you something."

"I thought you already had a score..." Lu Yuan was a little disappointed, he was not interested in breaking the stage at all, which was obviously Peng Anbang's style when he went to the countryside to gather folk songs.

"No way, who would tell you, he didn't want to see us at first, but I mentioned your pendant, so he agreed to meet once, I think he might know something."

"Okay." Lu Yuan agreed, and if he could really get involved with Zhuizi, even if it was just a few words, he would be willing to make a trip.

Peng Anbang's enthusiasm for this matter almost surpassed that of the person involved, Lu Yuan. He drove around on Zhongshan Road early in the morning. son's way?"

"In the south of the road, there is a lighting city at the intersection..." Lu Yuan thought for a while, "Forget it, wait for me next to the bus stop, you can find the bus stop."

"Of course the bus stop can be found. I'm right next to the bus stop."

Lu Yuan hung up the phone, a little strange, the bus station is actually less than 100 meters away from the intersection of Qijiayuanzi, Peng Anbang can't find the place to come in?

After leaving the house, he glanced at Su Mo's room, and the door was open.Lu Yuan felt that this kind of thing was a bit difficult to talk about, but he still walked over and stretched out his hand to look into the room. Su Mo leaned against the window and looked out.

"Su Mo."

"Huh?" Su Mo turned his head, the expression on his face was a little unpredictable in the reflection of the window glass.

"I'm going out today. I don't know when I can come back. Can you take a photo of June [-] for me... okay?"

"Okay." Su Mo smiled.

"Thank you, my door is unlocked," Lu Yuan glanced at Su Mo, "And...you know..."

Lu Yuan hesitated a little. Would it be inappropriate for him to ask Su Mo directly about eating spirits?But he intuitively thought that Su Mo would tell him, just like he once confessed what the tea he was drinking was.

"Do you know what's going on with eating spirits?"

"Food Spirit?" Su Mo raised his eyebrows and walked over slowly, "Don't you watch it every day?"

Lu Yuan was silent. That's right, he could see Su Mo drinking tea every day. The scene was not necessarily elegant, but it had a special flavor. If he didn't see it someday, he would still feel a little uncomfortable.Now it is still a bit unacceptable to suddenly overlap such a scene with something that sounds a bit hairy like eating spirits.

"how did you do that?"

"Is there anything you want? Something you want but can't get, something you want to do but can't achieve."

"...No." Lu Yuan thought for a while and answered seriously.

"If I knew you were such a person..." Su Mo stared at him for a while, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. This smile seemed a little lonely and helpless to Lu Yuan, "Many people have thoughts What you want, what you want to do, not everyone can achieve it.”

"and then?"

"Resentment, anger, jealousy, possessiveness...there are too many," Su Mo tapped his fingers on the railing, "as long as one of them changes your heart, I can... take your soul. "

This is the gap.

"Su Mo, if you don't have these souls," Lu Yuan felt that he had roughly understood what it was like to eat spirits, so he turned and walked towards the stairs, "what would you do?"

"You won't see me."

"disappear?"

"No, I'm always here."

When Lu Yuan walked out of No. 19, the sun had already risen and was already a little bright. He couldn't help frowning and raised his hand to cover it. It was too bright, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Lu Yuan didn't fully understand Su Mo's last sentence, he will be here forever, but he can't see it. It means that there is no entity, but does the soul still exist?

"Lu Yuan! Lu Yuan!" There was a dusty car parked by the side of the road, almost unrecognizable, and Peng Anbang was sticking out his head and yelling at him.

"Your...is this a car that is going to be scrapped?" Lu Yuan looked at the car, it was so dirty, the sound of the engine sounded like it was coughing all the time, he was worried that the car would be ruined halfway through the drive.

"That's not bad. I can't borrow a car if I'm in a hurry. Come up!"

Lu Yuan subconsciously thought of Han Xu. If nothing happened to Han Xu, he must be waiting here in a car at this time. For such a thing, he would definitely go... Lu Yuan shook his head and forced himself to get rid of the situation. With a thought that made his heart throb with pain, he got into the car.

The old man Peng Anbang contacted, whose surname is Qi, is actually not too old, in his fifties, because he looks old, and it is said that his experience is not comparable to that of ordinary people, so he is called Uncle Qi.

Along the way, Peng Anbang was introducing Uncle Qi to Lu Yuan. In fact, he didn't know Uncle Qi directly, and he made two or three turns in the middle.This Uncle Qi brought a troupe, and his whereabouts were a bit erratic. Lu Yuan sounded like a grass troupe.Now there are no people in the city to set up a stage to sing operas, so the opera troupes are all active in the countryside, but the custom of inviting an opera for weddings and funerals has gradually faded in the countryside. , it is estimated that Uncle Qi's life will not be much easier.

"To be honest, I don't know whether this old man is really capable or pretends to be capable. Anyway, it's a good idea to catch one now. If you don't find out why after a trip, then you can treat it as a showdown with me... It is said that this broken stage is not for people to see, it is a great face for us..."

Lu Yuan looked out of the window, and responded with um, ah, ah, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, and his emotions were not as high as Peng Anbang's. If he told the whole story of this matter, he didn't know what kind of reaction he would have.

It was afternoon when we arrived at the place, and it was past lunch time. The plan to invite Uncle Qi to lunch had to be cancelled. Lu Yuan and Peng Anbang ate something casually in the town. Peng Anbang called Uncle Qi and asked After finding out the specific location, he rushed over immediately.

The place where Uncle Qi’s troupe set up the stage is called Macun. It’s not far from the town, and it didn’t take long. Wearing a straw hat of a local farmer, smoking a cigarette in the shade.

"Uncle Qi?" Peng Anbang stopped the car, jumped out of the car and walked over, asking respectfully.

The man nodded, glanced at Peng Anbang's face, and then turned his gaze to Lu Yuan who had just got off the car.Lu Yuan felt that the way this man looked at him was a bit uncomfortable, with a kind of undisguised aggressiveness, and he followed him: "Hello, Uncle Qi, I'm sorry to trouble you to come here and wait."

Uncle Qi didn't answer, he stared at Lu Yuan for a while, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and then said slowly: "It's okay, come with me."

After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the village, Lu Yuan and Peng Anbang hurriedly followed behind.

"Do you think this person is reliable?" Peng Anbang leaned into Lu Yuan's ear and asked, his voice so soft that Lu Yuan could hardly hear him clearly.

"I don't know..." Lu Yuan was still embarrassed by Uncle Qi's previous stare. He didn't know if he was a little arrogant because of his real ability, or he was just too good at pretending.

Macun is a village with a bit of money. In the past two years, there have been too many people who invited singing and dancing, and they all found it boring, so they started to play retro, and then turned back to invite theater troupes.The village magic troupe is arranged in a guest house at the south entrance of the village. It is said that they will sing here for seven days. Usually, the guest house has no guests at all, but now basically only ten or twenty members of the troupe live there.

As soon as I entered the courtyard of the guest house, I saw several people standing in the courtyard. Seeing Uncle Qi coming in, they all turned around and bowed. They moved neatly and said in unison, "Uncle Qi."

Peng Anbang felt that Uncle Qi was in a big fight, so he gently pushed Lu Yuan with his arm, which meant that it might be a little bit more reliable.

But Lu Yuan's feeling was completely different from Peng Anbang's. As soon as he entered the yard, he felt uncomfortable, but he couldn't tell exactly where it was uncomfortable.

The few people standing in the courtyard didn't show any expression when they saw a stranger, and they didn't even have a polite smile on their faces. It is said that this kind of troupe treats people very carefully, but the people in this troupe all look like As if wearing a mask, he looked a little too dull.

Uncle Qi didn't stop, and went directly into the guest house, and Lu Yuan followed him in without thinking about it.

Uncle Qi's room is on the second floor. Peng Anbang followed Uncle Qi into the room. When Lu Yuan was about to go in, Uncle Qi turned around and stopped Lu Yuan. Knowing what he was going to do, he had already taken out his hand and waved at Lu Yuan.

A burst of white dust sprinkled on Lu Yuan's face, Lu Yuan was startled, and stepped back a few steps, his face was still stained a lot.

"Uncle Qi, this is..." Peng Anbang shouted and was stunned.

"This guest is not going to stop recently!" Uncle Qi said as he watched Bai Hui slowly fall to the ground.