It's not easy being a master

Finally got to the point.

"When did the apartment building opposite begin to be haunted?" Seeing that there was a way, Shi Yi'an asked along this line.

"I heard that it was because the landlord drove away an old Taoist who lived in his house. The old Taoist didn't know what he did to the house. Later, the house failed and was not quiet."

"It's an old way, how did I hear that he is a monk."

"You are all wrong. It is said that there was a crematorium before the house was built. The crematorium was taken away, and the current apartment was built there."

"Is that so, how did I hear that it was because the landlord offended someone and was lowered?"

"Head down, speaking of it, didn't a friend of my relative's travel to country T before, and he died not long after returning. It is said that the time of death was terrible. Afterwards, a master was invited to see it, and he said yes ..."

So, the topic of the haunted house at the beginning turned sharply along the line of lowering the head, and turned into a few old ladies talking about the supernatural events encountered by their seven aunts and eight aunts.Shi Yi'an rubbed his forehead. If he really wanted to hear these stories, his third uncle, who often hunts and exterminates demons at the foot of the mountain, could tell him a whole bunch of them.

But the old ladies were clearly chatting high and couldn't stop at all. Shi Yi'an tried twice but couldn't bring the topic back to the point, so he had to give up.

However, after listening to it, it is not that there is no gain at all. Judging from the current situation of the apartment building, it is very likely that it is the right way.According to common sense, if a person wants to use some small spells on a building, it should not be difficult. Just put some filth in the house or nearby, and all the people living in the house will be able to There is no peace, but now Shi Yi'an is facing a building with at least one hundred tenants. It is really hard to say where this filth is hidden.

Shi Yi'an squatted at the door of the apartment building, watching the residents coming in and out of the apartment, feeling their breath.Except for a handsome little brother who is a little more yin, the others seem to have no problems.

The floor tiles at the gate are all made of cement. Judging from the degree of wear and tear, it is impossible to know that it has been renovated in recent years. Shi Yi'an scratched his hair, feeling really clueless.

Calculated at this speed, three days is simply not enough.

Forget it, I'm hungry, Shi Yi'an feels that there are big things in front of him, and he still needs to eat, if he doesn't fill his stomach, he won't have the strength to catch ghosts.

After walking around the neighborhood for a few times, Shi Yi'an finally decided to go back to the restaurant from yesterday. No matter how you say it, the restaurant at least looks clean on the surface.

It was the peak time at noon, and the store was bustling with people carrying plates. Shi Yi'an searched for a long time but couldn't find an empty table. Since there were many people, he asked someone to share the table.Shi Yi'an likes the sun, so his eyes naturally turned to the window. He saw an old gentleman sitting near the window. The old gentleman had gray hair, wore a clean white shirt, and behaved elegantly. He was sitting alone.

"Mr., is there anyone else in the seat opposite you?" Shi Yi'an asked politely.

The old gentleman smiled and made a gesture of please sit down: "There is no one, you can sit here."

Eating together at the table like this would be more or less embarrassing. In order to avoid such unnecessary things from happening, Shi Yi'an lowered his head and stuffed it into his mouth.The old gentleman sitting across from him finished his plate slowly, and looked at Shi Yi'an with a smile on his teacup.

"Young man, what is your occupation?" the old man asked suddenly.

"I graduated from university and haven't started working yet." Shi Yi'an replied.

"Oh." The old man replied thoughtfully, stood up, tapped the glass with his fingertips, and said to himself: "That gray apartment building is very interesting."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Gray apartment buildings?Shi Yi'an swallowed his mouth with a grunt, and quickly lay down on the glass to look out. There were no windows on the side of the apartment's gray building, and the gray rectangular building was covered with green creepers. The direction of the creepers was very It is regular, and can almost reach the degree of left-right symmetry. From the perspective of laymen, this is a work of art created by a gardener on a whim.But Shi Yi'an could tell at a glance that it was not a work of art, but a piece of malice-filled talisman.

This Taoist is really shrewd. Originally, Shi Yi'an had always suspected that he hid the filth in a corner of the apartment, but he didn't expect that not only did he not hide it, but he hung it on the wall openly.

Although Shi Yi'an has learned how to draw talismans with his uncle for more than a year, but the talisman paper cannot be mastered overnight, and this giant "tale paper" is not a standard style, Shi Yi'an made the whole wall The picture was taken, and I found a piece of talisman paper and drew it several times according to the content on it, but I didn't see why.

According to what Shi Yixing said, these tests are usually not too difficult. Basically, if you stay overnight and clean up the ghosts in the house, you can pass the test.But it is obvious that the difficulty of this case has far exceeded the level of Shi Yi'an, a half-baked guy.But my uncle also said that the celestial master is not a simple and rude profession. Just draw a piece of talisman paper and paste it on the ghost, and the ghost will be wiped out. In many cases, this profession may be to speak for some groups that cannot speak of.

Shi Yi'an sighed, found a piece of paper, and drew the things on the photo. Part of this talisman paper is for soul-suppressing, which may be the main reason for the lingering ghosts in the building. In addition, other parts, Shi Yi'an is not sure yet, but every symbol on the talisman paper has its own unique meaning.This talisman paper can have such a great effect, it means that the person who cast the curse must be an expert, and it is even more impossible for an expert to draw meaningless symbols on it.

When the book is used, there will be less hatred, Shi Yi'an still has a few symbols that he didn't understand at the end,

After eating the remaining half of the cold lunch, Shi Yian returned to the apartment, he wanted to wait until dark to ask those ghosts what happened here.Maybe he wasn't the only one who could hear the ghosts, but he must be the only one willing to listen to them.

Shi Yi'an used his mobile phone to search for the meaning of related symbols on the Internet, but there was no progress. After all, most of the metaphysics books disappeared in the process of cultural cleansing again and again, and only people like Shi's family Only the family of heavenly masters in the mountains and forests can keep so many such books.

Shi Yi'an sighed, and tidied up the house briefly. He knew that there would be guests to visit tonight.

The last rays of the sun had just faded away when the doorbell of the cottage rang.Shi Yi'an walked over to open the door, although he was already prepared, he was still a little scared by the momentum.There were more than 30 ghosts standing in the corridor. These ghosts were old and young. They looked at Shi Yi'an, and Shi Yi'an read expectations from their eyes.

"Master, we know that you are powerful, please help us." The leader was a male ghost who seemed to be in his 30s, with a gray sweater showing a white shirt at the collar.He is full of bookishness, presumably he should have been doing writing related work during his lifetime.

"Then, please come in."

Not all of those ghosts came in, but only a few representatives were sent into the house.The other ghosts stood outside and waited. If someone came back from the 12b floor at this time, they would definitely feel cold all over.

"Master, Xiaoran ran back last night and told us that when we met someone who could see her, we knew that the apartment must be a master. But we don't know whether the master is here to destroy us or to help us." the man in gray asked.

Shi Yi'an sat in front of the table, motioned everyone to sit down, and took the time to say: "Actually, I'm not an expert, I'm just a half-hearted celestial master, and I haven't graduated yet. , but the resentment is not as serious as imagined, I guess you are not evil spirits, so I want to clarify this matter."

Several representatives exchanged glances, and finally it was the one in the gray sweater who spoke first: "Actually, it's like this. I used to be a Chinese teacher in a nearby middle school and lived here. It was a bit noisy, but as a school teacher, I am a firm atheist, but later in the building, I met a thief stealing here, and I went to stop it, but the thief pushed me down the stairs and hit my head On the steps, I found out later that I was dead, but my soul was trapped in this building."

"Then what is the central idea of ​​this passage?" Shi Yi'an asked.

After hearing this, the Chinese teacher smiled wryly and said, "The master was joking. What I want to say is that there are 34 souls trapped here besides me. Of course, they may also be ghosts."

"Have you ever harmed anyone?" Shi Yi'an suddenly asked in a serious tone.

"No." The Chinese teacher replied with a serious expression and a firm tone.Then his expression darkened and he continued: "All of us died of illness, old age, or accidents. Before death, we were all pure and good people. The children can't bear the loneliness, and they just make some trivial jokes. This is what everyone calls a haunted house, so the deaths that happen here will be covered with a layer of horror, but it really has nothing to do with us."

As expected of a Chinese teacher, he can use rhetoric to answer every question.Shi Yi'an waved his hand to signal the other party to stop and continued to ask: "I heard that the house I live in has hanged three tenants in a row before."

"Impossible. The boy who lived in this room before went to school after being admitted to graduate school. How could he be hanged here?" The young woman in white sitting next to him suddenly retorted with a strong tone.

Shi Yi'an raised his eyebrows and looked at the woman, and said, "Why, you seem to be very clear about it."

"That is, I wanted to kill him at the time and let him stay with me forever, but Teacher Zheng said, since I am already in such pain, don't let the person I love suffer with me."

It seems that although Mr. Zheng is very sour, he has done a good job in ideological work. He has led such a large group of ghosts, and he can guarantee that these ghosts will not do outrageous things for so many years.

"Okay, I'll just trust you for now, how can I help you, or should I burn that creeper with a fire talisman?" Shi Yi'an asked.

Hearing what Shi Yi'an said, Teacher Zheng was taken aback for a moment, and immediately retorted: "No, no, if you really burn that, all of us ghosts will be wiped out."

"Then what should I do." Shi Yi'an shrugged, this was the only way he could think of, after all, with that talisman paper in his hand, even if he went to the temple to find a great monk to save him, it might not work of.

Teacher Zheng froze all of a sudden, and said in a low voice, "We don't know what to do either."

Seeing the few people sitting opposite looking at him expectantly, he really didn't know what to do, he thought for a while and said: "Well, anyway, you have been trapped in the building for so many years, and you don't care One more day, let me think of a way, and I will give you a positive reply before tomorrow night."

After all, Shi Yi'an was the only one who had the right to speak. Although the ghosts were impatient, they also understood that this kind of thing could not be forced, so they thanked each other and left one after another.Shi Yi'an also went to bed immediately, and he had to get up early tomorrow morning, and he still had things to do.

Although those ghosts said that they had never done anything harmful to nature, ghosts are good at lying. After all, as the female ghost said, they have been wandering here for so many years, and they might want to kill someone to accompany them one day. Nor is it impossible.

In the early morning of the next day, Shi Yi'an visited many nearby neighbors to understand and investigate the death of this apartment building in recent years, and the conclusion he reached was roughly the same as what those ghosts said. The information about this building is mostly rumors from outside, which are completely unreliable. I really don't know what they are doing.

Seeing that the time was approaching, Shi Yi'an stood in front of the building feeling extremely conflicted.

If he takes a piece of talisman now and burns those creepers clean with a torch, he has completed his mission and can become a real celestial master, but those innocent souls in the apartment building who are looking forward to being reincarnated have to... Since then, my soul has been scattered.But at his level, he really couldn't think of a better way to solve it, which meant that if he didn't burn it, his test would definitely fail.