When Mr. Shen woke up, the first thing he saw was a pile of bones piled in front of him.
He lay on his side on the ground, meditating silently for a few seconds, and then sat up calmly.
"Okay, Mr. Shen," a familiar voice suddenly came from behind, "You're not afraid."
Mr. Shen was not frightened by the skeleton, but was frightened by the sound.
He turned around with a start, opened his mouth, and looked at the two people squatting beside him.
"What's wrong?" Baomu was confused by his reaction, "Are you having a nightmare?"
"Ah, no..." Mr. Shen raised his eyes and looked around, "Oh... we are still in the mountains..."
"Where do you think we went?"
"I thought..." Mr. Shen lowered his head and laughed suddenly, "I thought we had already reached the underworld."
"Hahaha, why do you think so?"
"Because of that...ah!"
Mr. Shen suddenly remembered that there was a pile of skeletons beside him. He suddenly jumped up from the ground and jumped directly behind the fool.
"What's going on with that pile of bones?!"
"You won't recognize me so soon." The fool stood up and said, "This is the woman in white clothes just now."
"She...she..."
"You don't have to be afraid, she has been dead a long time ago," Baomu patted the dust on his body, "Just like you, we are all dead."
Mr. Shen nodded, and his memory before coma gradually recovered, "I remember that she pinched you, and then you hit her with something..."
As Mr. Shen spoke, he looked at the skull on the ground. The two holes for the eyes of the skull were facing them, and there was a black and red mark between the eyebrows.
"Ah, that," the fool smiled awkwardly, "that...that is actually a charm."
"Spell?"
There are more things I don’t understand.
"It's something left to us by our companions," Baomu explained, "it can help us drive away evil spirits."
"Ah..." Mr. Shen blinked blankly.
Drive away evil spirits.
So……
"That's why I fainted, right?" Mr. Shen finally came to his senses, "Because I'm also...a ghost too..."
"It may be for this reason, but don't worry, this charm can only deal with possessed ghosts and protect us from being possessed by malicious souls. You are a good person and will be fine...at most you will faint. , there will be no other impact.”
"I...I don't understand," Shen Fu looked at Fool and Baomu, "Aren't you also dead? Why are you okay? Why are you still possessed?"
Fool and Baomu looked at each other and decided to tell the truth.
"Actually, we are living people." The fool lowered his voice.
Mr. Shen's body swayed a bit.
Baomu hurried over to support him, "I'm sorry, we didn't hide it from you on purpose, but at first... it was hard for you to understand such a thing, so we didn't say anything. Now, I guess you should..."
"Nothing, nothing, I vaguely guessed it," Mr. Shen wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeves, "I just can't bear it. It turns out that I am the only one who died..."
This is indeed a sad thing. I thought the three dead brothers were happy, but in the end, I was the only one who died.
The fool thought for a moment and said, "Dai Lili's boyfriend is also dead. This is absolutely true."
Mr. Shen glanced at him resentfully like a fool, as if to say: Thank you, I don't feel any better at all.
But then I thought about it. When they first met, I really couldn't understand this kind of thing. But now, after experiencing so many things that I have never encountered in more than twenty years of life, I can naturally think of it. the truth.
From this point of view, Fool and Baomu chose the right time.
"So that woman...is she going to possess you?" Mr. Shen asked the fool.
"Probably," Baomu nodded, "Did you see that she vomited some orange gas?"
"I saw it," Mr. Shen decided to regain his composure and stood up straight. "That's her... uh, soul?"
"You can understand it this way," the fool said, "We usually call it Lingxi."
"Lingxi?"
"Yes," the fool continued, "you also have spirits in your body, they are what make you who you are now."
"Do you have any on you too?"
"The spirit in a living person is called Lingtide, and after death it becomes Lingtide." Baomu patted Mr. Shen on the shoulder, "In the final analysis, Lingtide and Lingtide are actually the same thing, but they have different smells, just like living things." Humans and dead people, you see you are dead now, but do you feel any difference?"
Mr. Shen looked at himself, then shook his arms, "I have no hands."
"It's not that different. There are many living people without hands in this world. I mean, your feeling and state."
Mr. Shen really thought about it for a long time and finally shook his head.
"So," Baomu said eloquently, "Actually, death is just a different way of living."
Life.
Mr. Shen's pupils dilated slightly.
"The essence of life is still the same," he muttered.
"That's right!" The fool clapped his hands in agreement, "As expected of an artist, his understanding is high. This is what life and death are all about. People who were persistent in life will remain persistent after death. Those who did evil in life will most likely still be persistent after death. Doing evil is a rule, but of course, this is a special situation in the mountains."
"Because there is some kind of control power in the mountains, right?" Mr. Shen even learned to draw inferences from one example.
Fool and Baomu praised him continuously.
Dai Lili's boyfriend, the skeleton on the ground, and even Mr. Shen's detached hands were all possessed by that force and acted strangely.
Mr. Shen had completely understood everything in front of him, and the truth was clearly presented in his mind like a familiar musical score.
"You are here to investigate that power, right?"
Silly Man and Baomu stared at Mr. Shen's increasingly clear pupils and nodded seriously.
Shen Fu pursed his lips and turned to look at the pile of bones, "Can I help?"
***
Luo Jiutian closed the shaky back door of the ancestral hall, turned around, and looked at the wavering light source in the Taoist Master's hand.
"Is it going to die out?"
The Taoist priest shook the Ever Bright Talisman and said, "It should still light up for a while. I don't know why it turned out like this. It doesn't matter, we..."
Before the Taoist Master finished speaking, there was a pop and the light on the Changming Talisman suddenly went out. The two fell into darkness and looked at each other in confusion.
Fortunately, they were already outside. After their eyes adjusted to the faint moonlight, the Taoist Master carefully observed the Ever Bright Talisman that suddenly failed.
Luo Jiutian walked towards the big "chimney" in front of them alone.