The gossamers were intertwined one by one. After intertwining for a while, the gossamers formed a net, tightly enclosing the coffin.
At this time, Yi Ba stopped chanting sutras, closed his posture and stood up.
"What kind of fun are you doing?" I stared at the seven coffins and asked Yi Ba curiously.
"I was afraid something might happen to these coffins, so I locked them first." Yi Badao said.
I just said how Yi Ba turned the green smoke from the burning talismans into nets and draped them over the coffin. It turned out that he wanted to lock the coffin after the quarrel for a long time!
It was almost midnight. In order to avoid another fatality tonight, Yi Ba asked Wu Song to call all the villagers out and gather them in the yard. In this way, all the villagers are under the noses of Yi Ba and I. If that thing comes out and kills people, we will be able to see it.
The villagers are basically here. The reason why I say basically, not all, is because there is still one person who has not arrived. That person was none other than the crazy woman Xie Sifen.
"What's going on with Xie Sifen? Why didn't you come over?" Although she is a crazy bitch, she still has a human life after all! Seeing that Xie Sifen didn't come, I asked Wu Song this question.
“I went to call her, but she was so crazy that I couldn’t call her!” Wu Song said.
"If she doesn't come, don't come!" Yi Ba took the words and said, "Xie Sifen is determined, and ghosts will not trouble her."
"How do you know she has a hard life?" I asked.
"I am also a Taoist priest after all! You can't tell whether a person's life is hard enough or not. How dare I say that I am a Taoist priest?" After Yi Ba finished replying to my words, he went to greet those people. The villagers went.
Yi Ba arranged a formation for the villagers and asked them to take their positions one by one. After arranging the villagers, Yi Ba took out a candle, lit it, and stood on the lid of the coffin in the middle.
"What is this candle used for?" I was a little curious, so I asked Yi Ba.
“When ghost energy comes, the candle flame goes out.” Yi Ba took the words and said: “You and I can detect ghost energy, but ghost energy is very concealed, and we both You can’t be so vigilant every minute. If you light a candle here, the candle will flicker if there is any ghost energy, and we will be able to detect it naturally.”
The array has been set up and the candles have been lit. The next thing we need to do is naturally wait!
The waiting is always long. When it was past one o'clock in the morning, there was no movement at all, and the villagers became a little unable to sit still.
"Can you, a Taoist priest, do it? You are not allowed to sleep at night, so we are asked to stand here and wait with you. Is it interesting?"
"Yes." Another one The villagers took the words and said: "This Taoist priest is probably a liar. Let's go back to our homes and sleep in our own places!"
After sitting there for so many hours, there was no movement at all. The villagers They are a little impatient, and that's normal.
Naturally, Wu Song can only do the job of persuading the villagers! But what is regrettable is that there are a few guys who are really intolerant. Wu Song failed to persuade them and they returned to their homes.
That’s how people are, once someone leaves, someone will immediately follow them.
Those guys took the initiative, and the other villagers naturally became less obedient to the greetings, and they all left one after another. In the end, there were only three of us left in the courtyard at the entrance of the ancestral hall, plus seven coffins.
"Daoist Master Yi, what should I do?" Wu Song asked Yi Ba worriedly.
"This is fate." Yi Ba sighed and said, "If they want to leave, we can't stop them. With my little ability, the most I can do is take care of the yard in front of me. Other places, I can’t control it.”
"What if another life happens tonight?" Wu Song asked.
"It's not just in case, it's for sure." Yi Ba took the words and said: "This is their own choice, and I can't help it. People are like this many times, they always have to eat something. Thanks, I learned to have a long memory.”
“Isn’t the price of losing your life a little too high?” Wu Song asked reluctantly.
"If you have a way, you can persuade them to come back." Yi Ba said.
"I'll try." Wu Song left. It seemed that he was really ready to persuade the villagers to come back.
"Can he succeed?" I asked Yi Ba.
“What do you think?” Yi Ba asked me.
“No.” I paused and said, “People are only late-conscious about danger. The villagers may be thinking that even if a powerful ghost comes to kill them, it will not harm them. After all, there are hundreds of villagers here in Yinmagou. The evil ghost only takes one life in a night, which can be said to be one in a hundred. "
Just when I was saying this, Yi Ba. The candle that was lit was suddenly extinguished.
There was no wind blowing just now, the wind was not blowing, but the candle was extinguished. What does this mean? It naturally means that something ghost is coming!
"Is that thing here?" I asked Yi Ba.
"There is only ghost energy, no ghost shadow." Yi Ba frowned and replied to me.
"Ahh...ahhh..."
There was a scream coming from over there, something must have happened.
"Should we go over and have a look?" I asked Yi Ba.
Yi Ba nodded, and then trotted towards the direction of the sound.
When we arrived, it was already too late. Another villager died. His death was the same as the seven before. His body was also skinned.
The man who died was named Yang Feng. According to his wife, who was still in shock, Yang Feng got up to go to the toilet and then let out a scream. When she came out, she saw that Yang Feng, who was fine a few minutes ago, had become This is what it looks like now.
It killed a person in just a few minutes and even peeled off the skin. That harmful thing is not ordinary powerful!
Yi Ba took the Dinglong Plate and looked around, but found nothing.
"Where's the human skin? Where's Yang Feng's human skin?" I looked at Yi Ba with some confusion and said, "That thing has harmed eight people so far, and he has taken off the human skin of these eight people. No matter what Yang Feng today is still the same seven people as before. We haven't been able to find their human skins. Does this mean that the eight human skins that were stripped off were taken away by that thing?"
"Could it be that the thing killed people just to take them? Human skin?" Yi Ba put forward his hypothesis.
"What is the use of human skin?" Yi Ba is a Taoist priest after all. In this regard, he must know far more than me, so I was a little curious and asked him this question.
“In the hands of good people, human skin is of little use.” Yi Ba paused and said, “But in the hands of bad people, human skin has many uses.”
"What are the uses?" I asked.
"For example, making human skin puppets to harm people or something." Yi Ba frowned and suddenly realized: "It's useless for ghosts to take human skin, so this thing must not be done by ghosts."
“It wasn’t done by ghosts ?" I looked at Yi Ba with surprised eyes and asked, "You mean this was done by people, right?"
"Huh!" Yi Ba nodded. , said: "It should have been done by humans."
"That's right." I took over the words and said: "We have seen a lot of ghosts. Generally speaking, even if ghosts are meant to kill people, they will not cause harm. In order to achieve their own goals , only humans can do this kind of thing, killing innocent people. "
" Even if ghosts have thoughts, they are relatively single-minded. After revenge, the evil spirit in the heart will disappear, and the ghost will naturally disappear. ! "Yi Badao.
"If we want to solve the Yinmagou issue, we have to find the person behind it." I said.
"Yes!" Yi Ba responded and said: "We have to find the person. If we can't find the person, we can't save the person even if we take care of the ghost who ran out to kill him. Will a new ghost come out? "
After hurting people, the ghost disappeared immediately, leaving not even a trace of ghost energy. Doesn't this mean that the ghost didn't run away on his own, but was captured by others? Only by being taken in by others can the ghost not leave even a trace of ghost energy behind. Except for Yi Ba and I, no outsiders will come in tonight at Yinmagou.