I didn't sleep all night after I got back, because I was so worried about the actors.
The next day, I opened the door of the tattoo shop with two dark circles under my eyes, and immediately saw an old man in slovenly clothes wandering in front of my door, and peeking into my shop from time to time.
I thought he was a beggar and didn't care.
But when it was almost noon, the old man still hadn't left.
I frowned, walked over to the old man and asked, "Hey, uncle, why are you always hanging around in front of my door?"
I took out some change and prepared to send him away, and then went to see Lao Hu. I broke into the formation last night and he suffered backlash. The actor also ran away. I don't know how he is doing now.
Unexpectedly, the old man actually waved his hands in embarrassment, showing his yellow teeth.
"I, I'm not a beggar, I just want you to do me a favor."
I stared at the old man for a few seconds and took the money back.
"Uncle, what's the matter with you?"
"I, I hit a ghost, Li Gui, can you help me?"
I understand, this old man wants to get a tattoo from me to ward off evil spirits. He is my guest. I quickly let him into the room and let him speak slowly.
But he waved his hands again and again: "The ghost I hit is really powerful. Can you do it? If not, I won't go in."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
"Hey, wait a minute, what do you mean if I can do it? If you don't say anything, how do I know if I can do it?"
I pointed at the sign in front of my door and said, "Old man, you see clearly, what is written on my sign? It brings wealth and luck, drives away evil spirits and avoids evil. There is no doubt that my tattoo can do anything."
The old man still hesitated.
"You don't want a lot of money, do you? I've already promised you to do something for me first. I won't pay you if the thing isn't done."
I'm speechless. You don't look like you're rich. Are you afraid that I'll trick you?
But looking at the old man's squirming look, I think he's a bit cute and has a hearty smile.
"Uncle, come in first, we can talk about money easily."
The old man then walked in hesitantly.
I asked him to sit down and poured him a glass of water.
The old man didn't drink. Instead, he leaned towards me and lowered his voice and said, "My matter is really serious. If we don't solve it, I will die. Well, everyone in our apartment will die."
"Apartment? You live in an apartment?"
He nodded.
"Do you know the Yunhua Apartment on Yunhua Road?"
I shook my head, I don't know.
The old man became a little anxious, smacking his lips and said: "Yunhua Apartment, it has been haunted for many years. How could you not know about the famous haunted apartment?"
I asked him to stop talking and tell me the matter quickly.
The old man said: "More than ten years ago, there was a girl with paralyzed legs in our apartment. Her parents had always taken care of her. Suddenly one day her parents died in a car accident, leaving her alone. The neighbors
Seeing how pitiful she was, I took turns taking care of her, and I have been taking care of her for five years."
"But one day, I don't know what happened, this girl suddenly went crazy and killed more than 20 people in the apartment in one breath, and then committed suicide by jumping off the building."
"This was a big case at the time and caused a lot of fuss, but in the end it was dropped because the murderer, the girl, was already dead."
"Since then, the apartment has been haunted. You can often hear the girl's screams, cries, and singing. It's scary."
"The remaining people in the apartment want to move out, but the strange thing is that if anyone leaves the apartment, their whole body will hurt and they will be in excruciating pain, as if they have some strange disease, and they will be healed as soon as they return to the apartment."
"Everyone understands that there is a curse in this apartment, which has trapped everyone here. No one can leave. Some young people did not believe in evil and wanted to move out by force. As a result... they all died in accidents.
"
When the old man said this, my interest aroused.
curse?
"Originally, that apartment building is quite old and should have been demolished a long time ago, but because everyone is stuck there and can't leave, it has never been demolished."
"We once found a Mr. Yin and Yang. He said that it was because of the murder that year that the ghosts of the dead were still lingering, especially the ghost of the girl. The grievances were very strong. We all pooled our money and begged the Mr. to solve the problem. As a result, the ritual
Halfway through, the gentleman suddenly vomited blood. Knowing that he couldn't solve the problem, he took the money and ran away."
I frowned and thought about it.
"So that apartment has been haunted for more than ten years. Apart from trapping you there, nothing big happened."
"It was fine before. Although everyone was scared, the ghost didn't kill anyone, and gradually everyone got used to it. But now, the ghost is getting more and more fierce. Just like me, I can't move my legs at night.
It's like being paralyzed."
"I suspected that the girl possessed me, because her legs were paralyzed before she was alive. When she possessed me, my legs naturally couldn't move, and then I heard a constant sound of clicking sounds in the room.
The sound was like the sound of clothes being torn."
"Then there was the girl's cry, which was so pitiful that it made one's scalp numb."
"Other people in the apartment also encountered various strange things. An old man and an old woman who lived downstairs from me hanged themselves because they couldn't stand the fear and torture."
"Some people say that over the past ten years, the girl's resentment has become more and more intense. If this continues, everyone in our apartment will die."
When the old man said this, he picked up the tea on the table and drank it.
"I don't want to die, none of us want to die."
After hearing what he said, I understood that it was indeed a ghost that caused trouble.
It’s not just a ghost, there’s nothing difficult to deal with. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a resentful ghost or a vicious ghost, just a tattoo can fix it.
"Uncle, let me get you a tattoo. I guarantee it will be solved."
The old man looked at me blankly.
"Tattoo? You don't draw symbols? You don't need to perform rituals?"
I said: "My exorcism here is different from other people's, it's just tattooing."
"What tattoo?"
"Didn't you encounter a ghost? I just need to tattoo a mythical beast on your body that avoids ghosts, such as a Bo'er elephant, a ghost-eating tiger that specializes in eating ghosts, or I can simply tattoo a Zhong Kui on you."
The old man didn't believe it.
"Can you just draw something on your body to drive away ghosts? Don't fool me."
I explained patiently: "After you get the tattoo, you have to summon the ghosts of these mythical beasts and insert them into the tattoo. In this way, the tattoo has a soul and can exorcise ghosts."
The old man seemed to understand.
"Can you still summon the soul?" His eyes widened in shock.
"If you give me a Zhong Kui tattoo, will you be able to summon Zhong Kui's soul?"
I nodded and said yes.
The old man was thoughtful, and after being stunned for a while, he suddenly took out a very old-fashioned mobile phone from his pocket.
He opened his phone, pulled out a photo and handed it to me.
"I don't want Zhong Kui, and I don't want that elephant. Can you give me this tattoo?"
When I took a look, the photo showed a shrine with a statue of a god in it.
This statue is a female, wearing a blue-gray costume, swinging long water sleeves with peonies embroidered on the sleeves, but the facial features on the face are blurred and cannot be seen clearly.