Ji Huiming saw that the actor, not knowing if he had a rope tied to his body or something, flew backwards into the air, and his posture of crawling on the dark ground was even more strong and skilled. "Tan Xiao, you must remember to tell the teacher where this is later..."
He thought to himself that he must call his colleagues to go play together in the future, it must be very exciting and stress-relieving. Young people really know how to find good places.
"Okay, okay, teacher, let's end here, we're going to continue to escape." As for how to make up a story later, that's a matter for later. Tan Xiao still remembered to wave at Ji Huiming and give Kong Xuan a shot. Kong Xuan also stiffly waved his hand, and then pressed it down, saying to the ghost figurine, "Wow, don't crawl, you can't escape."
Ghost figurine: "..."
Barry had also chased out: "Hey, give it up, there are masters outside."
If you run out, won't you suffer more.
The masters in the living room gathered around and stood above the ghost figurine, looking at it.
The ghost figurine looked at the people crowding above, and really had no strength or mood to escape. It flipped over on the spot, moved its mouth, and its eyes fell on Tan Xiao's face. Suddenly it spoke in human language, oily and greasy: "The shaman looks a bit familiar, have we met before?"
"Don't try to get close to me." Tan Xiao thought, why are you trying to get close to me, is it because I look the youngest and you want to fool me. He held the Taiyin slingshot in his hand and aimed it at the ghost figurine with Mu Zhenzhu, showing his determination.
The ghost figurine buried its head down again.
Barry got busy, tying a few strands of red rope soaked in chicken blood on its body, and then went to check on Zhao Qishan. He looked at Zhao Qishan, and Mu Fei also looked at him, "Master Ba, are you okay?" This is about to short-circuit.
"I cut this myself." Barry said, it's normal for others to bleed during sacrifices while he discharges electricity.
Zhao Qishan was dazed by the ghost figurine in the room and lost his courage. At this time, he still looked at Barry with a bit of a blank stare.
"Watch carefully, we are all here to help you, you were bewitched by the ghost figurine." Barry waved his hand in front of his eyes, let Mu Fei hold him down to sit, took a porcelain bowl and dissolved a bowl of water. Just now in the room, he had drummed, sang and danced, and now he was going to show some other basic skills, that is, holy water.
Barry stepped on the Eight Trigrams and cast spells around Zhao Qishan, burning a talisman with a few drops of rooster comb blood, dissolving it in water, and telling him to drink it.
Zhao Qishan was shaking and didn't dare not to drink. As he drank, he felt that Barry was still shaking the sheepskin drum, "The sky is round and the earth is square, the laws and regulations are in nine chapters, after removing the filth, there will be great luck and prosperity!"
The nine interlocking rings collided with each other, making a series of crisp metallic sounds, as if washing his brain.
This was clearly a bowl of mineral water with dissolved talismans, but when Zhao Qishan drank it, he felt like a warm current flowing through his five internal organs and limbs. His originally cold limbs became warm, and his heart was no longer as fearful as before.
And now, he suddenly felt a sense of relief - truly relieved. Only by comparison could he realize that his body had always been heavy before, but at that time he often "sleepwalked" and naturally thought it was because he hadn't rested well.
Zhao Qishan calmed down and naturally was able to think: Oh, just now the Master said I was bewitched by the ghost figurine, no wonder I saw him as not human before. This is a tactic of sowing discord!
Having watched so many ghost stories, how come I didn't react.
Zhao Qishan put down the water bowl, and with a calm mind, he looked at Barry again. Just as he was about to thank him, he saw the wounds on his body. He leaned back and almost fell off the stool, fortunately Mu Fei held him.
"Ah! Am I bewitched again? Why do I see your body, your body..."
Zhao Qishan said with wide eyes.
"This is real, I'm not human to begin with." Barry said as a matter of course, "Don't worry, I've long pledged allegiance to the country."
Zhao Qishan: "..."
Zhao Qishan felt that his brain was not enough to use, and held his forehead.
"You rest for a bit." Mu Fei let go of him and instead went to look at the ghost figurine, bringing it into the room for on-the-spot interrogation. "Do you understand the rules?"
The ghost figurine squatted down with both hands holding its head, "Kui Eleven, Yin, male, ancestral home Mount Qiong, 731 years old, race spirit, ethnicity Zhuang..."
Everyone: "...?"
"What the hell, you're even an ethnic minority? Who certified you?" Barry interrupted him.
Kui Eleven stiffened his neck and said, "I was carved and offered up the mountain by the Zhuang people in Mount Qiong at that time, how can I not follow their ethnicity."
"...Whatever you say." Mu Fei was too lazy to identify him, "Continue to confess the crime process."
"Oh." Kui Eleven said honestly, "I came to this city about three months ago through buying and selling, and didn't make a declaration. I admit that I was careless, mainly because with my attributes, it's more troublesome to enter the urban area. I was just afraid of trouble and my awareness was too low, sorry leaders."
This sounds like an old hand, everyone was speechless.
"Get to the point." Mu Fei said.
"There's nothing else," Kui Eleven looked innocent, "I didn't intentionally harm anyone, it's just that maybe because I live here, the yin energy is heavier, which can easily cause the homeowner's rheumatism. I was also afraid of being discovered and then being sent back or buried, so I was very careful and went out to play at night, trying not to stay at home."
But the ghost figurine's words made everyone very confused. Tan Xiao pointed at Kong Xuan, "Don't you know this is the Great God Peacock? If you do this, I'll let him shine."
Hearing Tan Xiao use himself to scare the other party, Kong Xuan took a step forward in a reserved manner.
Being in the Chu land, how could one not know the son of the Primordial Phoenix bird. Kui Eleven said in a panic, "I have indeed heard in the yin realm in Nanchu that the Great God Peacock may be wandering here. I didn't know it was the Great God in person. If you have any orders, please tell me, don't scare me!"
Tan Xiao saw that he really seemed very confused, and exchanged a glance with Mu Fei, "Wait, you... didn't carry Zhao Qishan to Qiyun Ridge?"
"I'm not that bored..." Kui Eleven raised his hand, "I've long watched the promotional videos of Nanchu, and I just look forward to coming to play. To be honest, unless I want to go back, I wouldn't deliberately make trouble to let him discover me."
The so-called sending the filth and burying the evil, if it was sent back now, it hadn't finished playing in Nanchu yet.
"You treat this as tourism, right." Barry first made a sarcastic remark, then said with a face full of depression, "But how do you explain this, if it wasn't you who moved him, then who was it? And you were so energetic in resisting just now..."
Kui Eleven suddenly realized that they seemed to have caught the wrong person.
He stood up excitedly, "It really wasn't me! I'm over 700 years old, not that immature! I resisted because you came to arrest me, seeing so many people with such a big scene, I thought there was a special crackdown on us recently! I was saying, we're not fox spirits, how could we be mixed up in a special crackdown, even entering the city without reporting would get us arrested."
He was afraid of being caught, so of course he ran for his life. With his experience, some minor violations couldn't be enforced, as long as he was careful, it would be fine.
Tan Xiao noticed something, "...What, there's a special crackdown on fox spirits?"
"Yes, after all, they can easily become influential and have more extreme personalities, unlike me." Kui Eleven reiterated, and took the opportunity to exonerate himself, "I haven't violated any serious rules. I've been moved out of my hometown for years and returned, traveled to many places, worked for various Taoist priests and exorcists, and been summoned as a mercenary. I know the rules!"
"Alright, squat down." Mu Fei examined him, also feeling that he was unlikely to be lying in this situation, and seeing that he had rich social experience. "Now this is interesting, who moved Zhao Qishan to Qiyun Ridge then?"
Tan Xiao slowly nodded beside them. It also didn't look like Kui Eleven's doing, but this was bizarre, because they found Kui Eleven based on divination, and his hexagram was cast together with Kong Xuan, it couldn't be inaccurate.
"The hexagram should be in the inner trigram, indicating the culprit is in this residence. This part is definitely not misinterpreted, but it's not Kui Eleven, then who is it?"
"You live here, you don't know who it is?" Barry asked Kui Eleven. "Also, when you were in Nanchu, did you go to Qiyun Ridge? Did you see a Yorkshire Terrier?"
"Oh no, is that devouring demon in Nanchu?!" Kui Eleven seemed to have also heard the warning issued by 404, to be careful of misfortune. He panicked instantly, "Then quickly send me back to my hometown, I'll be safer there - oh, I haven't been to Qiyun Ridge. I came here as a tourist, haven't I seen enough mountains? Of course I went to lively places."
"You talk too much." Barry said what everyone was thinking, with a bit of a headache.
Kui Eleven: "Hehe, some people say that."
His eyes darted around, suddenly no longer in a hurry to exonerate himself. Since the devouring demon was suspected to be in Nanchu, of course it was safer to follow the people from 404. Regardless of whether they wanted to detain him or send him back, it was better than being fearful outside.
"Boss, what I said is all true. I just treat this place as a hotel, I really don't know what happened!"
"I can see that." Barry said to Tan Xiao, "Spirit Master Tan, now..."
Tan Xiao still felt that the hexagram he cast together with Kong Xuan couldn't be wrong, so the only possibility was, "Did I misinterpret the hexagram somewhere?"
"As long as the location is correct, we'll know what it is with one test." Kong Xuan said indifferently.
That's right, originally casting the hexagram for the culprit was to gain Zhao Qishan's trust. Now it seemed they took a detour, so there was no need to dwell on the interpretation, just catch the real culprit.
As for how to catch them, that was easy. Zhao Qishan was moved every weekend, so the culprit might still come tonight.
......
"Mr. Zhao..."
The group filed out of the room, calling for Zhao Qishan.
Zhao Qishan's mood had mostly calmed down. He even made tea for them outside. "Oh, you've all worked hard. Have some tea. It's resolved, right? Can I call my wife and child back now? Oh, it's too late, I'd better go find them... I don't dare to sleep here alone tonight either."
"Sorry, you might still have to sleep here tonight." Barry hesitated.
"Huh?" Zhao Qishan was stunned.
"Because we discovered that the clay figurine might not be the culprit. The one who moved you to Qiyun Ridge, we still need to look for them in your house. They're very likely to come for you again tonight, right?"
"..." Zhao Qishan looked devastated. "Just how haunted is my house?! Should I move?"
How could there be something else besides the clay figurine.
Barry comforted, "Don't be like that. Maybe it's not the house, but your own birth chart."
Zhao Qishan: "..."
Zhao Qishan put his palms together, "But I beg you, I really can't take any more scares."
"Getting scared twice in one night might indeed be a bit too much to bear." Mu Fei pondered for a moment. "Let's use a body double then. But the client still can't be too far away. How about this, I'll have Mr. Xu sleep with you in the guest room."
No sooner said than done, the group made some arrangements, wrapping Zhao Qishan's hair around a twig and stuffing it in a pillow as a body double, then settling Zhao Qishan in the guest room.
"Don't be afraid." Mr. Xu sat on the bed, concealing Zhao Qishan. "I'm hiding you now, so evil spirits won't see your presence." Then he also lay on the bed, sleeping on the outer side, so Zhao Qishan wouldn't be scared.
"Can we close the bedroom door..." Zhao Qishan weakly said. With his house's layout, the bedrooms were all together, so going to the master bedroom would definitely pass by the guest room.
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