This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

The danger you cannot see is the greatest danger.

Yan Buzhou failed to detect any strange aura from the jade pillow.

However, the possibility of Mr. Shi lying was ruled out. Shi Jian was really sucked into the jade pillow alive. The danger of this thing is self-evident, so it cannot be kept in the historian.

After obtaining the consent of the old couple of historians, Yuzhen was taken to Kaifeng Mansion.

At this moment, Yan Buzhou was talking to Gongsun Ce about the carvings on the jade pillow, these figures are a bit weird.

"The six-sided pattern of a pillow is generally similar in shape, but there are some differences in strokes on each side. If you look at this pattern separately, the two triangular ones look like animal ears, and the long strip looks like a tail. However, Taken together, they look like pre-Qin characters."

"It may be some kind of rare ancient text. In the early years, the text was picturesque, like the shape of an object, and it was abstract at will."

The more Gongsun Ce looked at it, the more he felt that this kind of writing was somewhat familiar, similar to Taoist symbols, making people feel half-understood and half-understood.Immediately, he sent Ma Han to the Temple of the City God, and asked a priest who was good at drawing symbols to identify them.

The person who came was Lin Yuan, a fat Taoist priest whom he hadn't seen for some time.

When Lin Yuan saw the pattern on the jade pillow, he blurted out two words, "Ghost book!"

Ghost Book is also known as Exorcism.

In the land of Miaojiang, there are ghost masters of the Shui tribe who use this kind of writing.It is not difficult to guess that this kind of writing is not written for living people, but is used when people communicate with ghosts and gods.

The ancestors of the Shui nationality are said to have originated from the Yin and Shang Dynasties.The Shang Dynasty favored witchcraft, and it is not difficult to understand why this special text has been handed down.

"This thing doesn't just appear in the secret books of the aquarium. Ah Yan, do you still remember those classics you sent to the Taoist temple? Half of the books Sun Changxi collected are interpreting ghost texts."

What Lin Yuan was talking about was a batch of books that Yan Buzhou received from Sun Changxi's home after the incident of the mercury monster Bai Yi two years ago.Those books were esoteric and difficult to understand, and the Taoist priests of the Town God's Temple studied slowly to understand one or two of them.

This article about ghost books mentions the mutual translation between Shuwen and Chinese characters.

"If I didn't make a mistake in my judgment, the pattern on the five sides of the jade pillow is engraved with the character 'rat'."

Lin Yuan said while pointing to several patterns on the jade pillow, the triangles were mouse ears, and the curves were mouse tails. "However, the side that is in contact with the human head turned into a raccoon. Five rats and one raccoon, what this combination means is unknown."

The words are divided into two parts.

Goatee never dreamed that he would encounter the mysterious disappearance of the buyer, so he did not dare to delay explaining where to get the jade pillow.

This item was purchased in Shangqiu, and the previous owner was Zhu Ming, an old seller of antiques. He would walk the streets and alleys to collect rare things.The previous owner of the jade pillow is said to be a well-dressed aunt who sold the jade pillow to Zhu Ming at a low price in desperate need of cash.

With the detailed address provided by Goatee, Zhan Zhao rushed to Shangqiu hoping to find Zhu Ming and find out what happened to Yuzhen's former owner.

"Aunt Lu passed away." Zhu Ming also showed doubts when he mentioned this matter, "From the accent, that person came from the south, and she rented a house in the suburbs of Guide. I came to collect the jade pillow, and asked her first The neighbors around the house inquired about the situation, and heard that her son also lived here, maybe this is going to Beijing to prepare for the exam."

Neighbors of the Lu family said that the mother and son of the Lu family settled in a rented house in Guide in mid-June. Judging from the clothes they both wore, they were all of good quality.I usually met on the road and listened to the Lu family's mother and son talking like "I am rich, you are not envious".

Strangely, the mother and son of the Lu family, who looked like rich people, did not hire helpers.

I don't know if Lu Langjun is busy reviewing his homework, as time goes by, I always feel that his complexion is a little worse when I see him by chance.At the beginning of August, no one in this area saw Lu Langjun again.

Zhan Zhao checked the rental contract of Lu's mother and son in Guide Mansion, and the contract stated that Lu Song would rent for half a year.Right now, the rented house has not been lived in for three months, one of the mother and son of the Lu family died, and the other disappeared.

He first checked the rental place of the two of them, and made sure of one thing—there was a pillow in Aunt Lu's bedroom, but there was one missing on Lu Song's bed, which meant that the jade pillow was supposed to be used by Lu Song.

"Lu Song did not register with the Imperial Academy before the first day of September."

Zhan Zhao confirmed the situation to the yamen of Guide Mansion. After discovering Aunt Lu's body on the fourth day of August, the yamen tried to contact her family to collect the body, but they couldn't wait for Lu Song's response.

After further investigation, the Imperial Academy did not have Lu Song to confirm the record of participating in Enke. Lu Song did not come to Bianjing for scientific research as people speculate according to common sense.

Since Lu Song has the status of a Juren, at this time he came from the south to the north, eight out of ten he came to participate in Enke.

What was the reason for the one or two accidents that caused Lu Song not to report on time, missed the Enke this time, and even disappeared like a disappearance.

"Zhang Long and Zhao Hu took people to thoroughly investigate the major inns in Bianjing to investigate whether there was news of Lu Song's stay. The Guide Mansion also began to investigate whether Lu Song had feuds with anyone in the local area to confirm whether he had no reason. Missing."

Zhan Zhao first transported Aunt Lu's body back to Kaifeng Mansion.

Previously, the reason why the Guide Mansion did not rush to find Lu Song to identify the body was because they believed that Aunt Lu died of accidental natural causes.Since it has nothing to do with the homicide, it is impossible to talk about finding the murderer, so it is a routine procedure to wait for the family members to show up.

Aunt Lu's body did not show any symptoms of suicide, no trauma, no toxicological reaction, and no abnormal movements were heard by the surrounding neighbors.

According to Wu's appraisal, Aunt Lu died of a sudden brain disease.

According to the results of the autopsy, Gongsun Ce conducted a further autopsy, which confirmed the correctness of the previous deduction.

Aunt Lu died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and her other parts of the body had no disease.On the contrary, compared with her age, this physical condition should be considered healthy.

"There is always something strange there. The two previous owners of the jade pillow have disappeared. Aunt Lu sold the jade pillow in a hurry. Could it be that she thought it was ominous and was eager to sell it?"

Assuming that Mrs. Lu witnessed her son being sucked into the pillow like Uncle Shi, according to normal logic, the parents would not choose to sell the jade pillow, but would turn to the eminent monk to rescue the child.

Aunt Lu chose to sell the jade pillow in a hurry, and it is more likely that she discovered that her son became weird after touching the jade pillow.On the third day of August, Aunt Lu found out that her son was not at home, so how could she have imagined the bizarre situation of pillow cannibalism.She took the opportunity to take out the jade pillow and sold it to Zhu Ming in a hurry, but died suddenly of a brain disease the next day.

Gongsun Ce said the above speculation, and waited for Yan Buzhou to conduct another test and judgment on Aunt Lu's body, "Ah Yan, did you find any abnormalities?"

Yan Buzhou nodded slowly, "There is only one part of Lu's body that has residual evil spirit, and it is her brain, and the back of the head has the most evil spirit."

Aunt Lu died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and now it is confirmed that there is still a demon in her head, which denies the possibility of a natural death.

There is a strange jade pillow inscribed with five rats and a raccoon in front of it, and the user is haunted by dreams and disappears strangely. These two points collide, making Yan Buzhou suspect that the source of the evil spirit in Aunt Lu's brain is not simple.

Why can't the abnormality of the jade pillow be found under normal circumstances?

It is very likely that the jade pillow is just a medium bridge, and the evil spirit will only appear under certain conditions-during dreaming.

Yan Buzhou remembered the scientific research on dreaming in later generations. Although there is no conclusive conclusion to determine the cause of dreams, the research shows that dreams are inseparable from brain movement.

In particular, there is an active area in the back of the brain, which controls people's spatial reasoning and attention.

If it is said that scientific research is still far from enough to thoroughly analyze dreams, many legends about dreams and ghosts have already opened their minds.

Sleeping like a fool, is the dream linked to another world? When a person is dreaming, his consciousness goes to those absurd and bizarre places, which are places that cannot be easily touched by a mortal body after waking up.

Related to it, there is naturally a special pillow legend.

"In legend, there is a thing called Xianyou Pillow. Sleeping on it can go to another world, or easily reach remote places in the world."

Yan Buzhou thought about the disappearance of Shi Jian and Lu Song. According to the legend of Xianyou pillow, people can't control where they go. It may satisfy them, or it may put them in endless hell.

"Xianyou pillow can lead to both fairyland and hell, but I have never heard that there are engraved patterns of mice on it. In ancient times, mice were not auspicious in the public sense. Using this kind of pillow with inscriptions, it can pass through I am afraid that the other side of the dream is not a good place."

But where does the jade pillow lead to?

Perhaps, only by falling into a dream can we find out what happened.

This matter must be cautious.

Yan Buzhou proposed this operation plan, but she didn't want to lie down and dream rashly.

Due to the balance of heaven and earth in the world, the abilities of all kinds of demons and ghosts are greatly restricted, and once you go to another world through the jade pillow, the situation there is unpredictable.

What's more, once you fall into a dream, what enters the dream is the soul consciousness, or the whole body is trapped in it, and you can't dream impulsively without first understanding it.

'Master Bao, please take care of the jade pillow.Adults should never try it alone. '

Before leaving Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao made a point of exhorting.This thing seems harmless, but its danger is too uncontrollable. No matter who lies on it, he will worry that it will be difficult for that person to wake up after being trapped in a dream.

The scope of this other person is very wide, and anyone who wants to solve the case is a possibility. Among them, Gongsun Ce, a courageous blunt and experimental madman, is the main one.

"Am I that stupid?" Yan Buzhou looked sideways at Zhan Zhao, and the stubborn cat insisted that she was not the right person to keep the jade pillow. Could it be that there was a line written on her forehead that people are stupid and fast to find death?

Zhan Zhao nodded very frankly, but his words were a bit tactful, "It's not that I don't believe you, but I'm afraid that if you don't look for trouble, it will come to you. The jade pillow stays in the Kaifeng mansion, Mr. Bao has a first-class ability to store things, No one can steal it."

is it?

Yan Buzhou reluctantly accepted this statement, even though she was very clear that it was Zhan Zhao's art of using language.There is no need to delve into this point, there is not much that can be done right now, the first thing is to find out where the Lu family mother and son got the jade pillow, and the second is to find out the meaning of the five rats and one raccoon.

"I really want to see the rumors of mice and dreams in some book, but I can't remember all of them for a while. Let's go to the Town God's Temple to look through the books first."

Yan Buzhou intends to bother Lin Yuan. There are almost all kinds of ghost books hidden in the Town God's Temple. She vaguely remembers that the story comes from a certain book in the Tang Dynasty. It should be rewarding to read it.

"Is it "Guang Yi Ji"? There is a story about a thousand-year-old mouse nightmare."

Under Yan Buzhou's slightly surprised eyes, Zhan Zhao briefly recounted the short story.

In short, in Handan County in the early years of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, people fell into strange comas one after another at night, and they all had nightmares and could not wake up again.

There are three knight soldiers passing by here. They often come to Handan when they go out to do missions. When they find such abnormalities, they stay to investigate the source of the abnormalities.

That night, the three caught a big human-shaped mouse in green clothes.This guy was stubborn and refused to explain at first, until the knight soldier threatened to fry it, the mouse spirit finally confessed honestly.

It is a thousand-year-old mouse spirit, if it can make three thousand people have nightmares, it can turn into a raccoon.

However, nightmares do no actual harm to people, they just sleep a few days more and have more dreams.The mouse spirit begged the knight soldiers to let it live.

"That's right, it's "Tianbao Shiqi"."

Yan Buzhou had read this book before, but he couldn't remember some of the stories after a long time.On the contrary, she was surprised that Zhan Zhao would read such stories, when did Dumbcat become interested in them?

If it were any other story, Zhan Zhao didn't have such a deep impression on him, whoever said this was talking about a mouse spirit.

As for why I read such idle books, the reason is very simple.He occasionally reads one or two books, just wanting to have a common topic with Yan Buzhou, love the house and the black.

But when the words came to his lips, Zhan Zhao was somewhat embarrassed to express his heart directly, and changed his words in a daze, "I don't think I am very interested in ghost books, but I have encountered monsters a few times, and I should read one or two stories about monsters. It should be appropriate. Ah Yan, don’t need to be nervous, I never thought of delving into this way to steal your business.”

Yan Buzhou took a deep breath, he never realized that a certain cat's face was so big.

What to do, her hands were itchy suddenly, and she really couldn't help but wanted to pinch the cat's face crazily.