The reason is very simple, but only Po Chen and Village Chief Yang know this reason.
According to Chen Po, she admits that she has the ability to perform rituals, and is also relatively confident that she can successfully summon the soul of the deceased, but...
Zhao Huanzhen's situation is somewhat special, and the special thing is that Zhao Huanzhen is not an ordinary soul!
That's right. First of all, you must understand that in the past, the souls that Mrs. Chen summoned for the villagers were all the same souls, and they were often relatives of the villagers. The soul power was low and their own influence was limited. In addition, everyone was a fellow villager. Generally speaking,
,this
These summoned souls are very honest. After communicating with their relatives, they will leave on their own without making a sound. However, Zhao Huanzhen is different, only she is different, because the woman's soul is no longer a soul in the ordinary sense.
And it turned out to be a Ligustrum!
Although Li Qi is a spiritual body like the soul, please don't forget that Li Qi has always been crazy and mostly irrational. What's even more terrifying is that Li Qi has great supernatural powers and is fully capable of killing people!
Although it is not necessarily impossible to communicate with Li Qi, who dares to take risks? Who dares to gamble?
There is no doubt that summoning Li Qi is a great risk for the summoner. Once Li Qi is summoned, the outcome is really unpredictable.
It is precisely because of the above concerns that Granny Chen dared not hold a soul-calling ceremony. Although the divination had no results, she wanted to learn the location of the body from Zhao Huanzhen's soul, but Granny Chen was also a human being, and everyone was afraid of death, so this is why
The real reason why Mrs. Chen has not dared to perform soul-calling rituals until now!
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At present, I have many more clues than when I first entered the village. At the most basic level, I have clarified the key issues. In addition to knowing the identity of the female locust before she died, I also learned that the other party is a water locust, and one can use water to kill people.
The evidence for the life-threatening water oyster comes from my own personal experience.
Experience, a near-death experience that still scares me to this day. Yes, if I hadn’t noticed the abnormality of my backpack falling into the water at that time, maybe I would have died. I was tricked into the pond and into a trap by the female lynx using hallucinations. In the end, I was the same as those earlier
The missing villagers also disappeared from the world.
In addition, I also discovered another truth, that is...
After Zhao Huanzhen's death, her body sank to the bottom of the water. Due to the harsh and extremely cold environment, her soul was transformed into a snake in the long-term harsh environmental torture. What's even more surprising is that the body of the female snake was not in the village well, but in the village.
In the outer river.
It is conceivable that in the face of a long and wide river, even if everyone knows that fishing out the body can stop the killing of female hoppers, the question is how to find it? It is no less difficult to find a body in such a wide river.
Looking for a needle in the deep sea!
There is nothing wrong with the truth, but there are no absolutes in anything. At least Granny Chen has retained one method, a method that she has not dared to try because it was too dangerous.
spiritualism.
People in the village knew that Mrs. Chen could summon souls. At first, many villagers who could not find Zhao Huanzhen's body strongly requested Mrs. Chen to summon souls for Zhao Huanzhen, but Mrs. Chen excused herself because she could no longer summon her.
It wasn't until more and more people disappeared in the village, until one day Village Chief Yang came to ask her in person why she couldn't be summoned, and when no one else was present, Mrs. Chen told the old man her unspeakable secret alone.
After hearing the explanation, Village Chief Yang suddenly realized it and chose to keep it a secret for Mrs. Chen, but...
As time went by, and the number of missing villagers continued to increase, and even when the whole village was about to be destroyed, Mrs. Chen, who had a premonition that she would most likely not be spared, could not sit still.
In order not to destroy the whole village, but also for the sake of her own life, Chen Po, who concluded that Zhao Huanzhen must be killed, panicked. In panic, she came to the village head's house and asked the village leader to take the initiative to discuss the matter of soul summoning.
After some discussion, Mrs. Chen made a decision.
In the past two days, she will continue to think of ways to search for Zhao Huanzhen's body. If she really can't find it, no matter whether she is willing or not, she will have no choice but to risk the soul-calling ceremony. Yes, there is no reason for Chen Po not to take the risk.
The whole village was to be massacred, and how could Po Chen, who was also trapped in the village by the bloody man and unable to escape, be spared? Even if it was just for herself, she would eventually take the risk.
Coincidentally, just yesterday, when Mrs. Chen was about to say goodbye after finishing her discussion with Village Chief Yang, He Fei and Zhao Chengbing also chased Xiaoxia into the courtyard after going out to fetch water.
"...The above is everything the old man knows. You two were also present at the time. What Mrs. Chen said was referring to the soul-calling."
At this point, seeing He Fei and Zhao Chengbing not saying a word and maintaining complicated expressions, Village Chief Yang subconsciously looked out the window. Through the glass, he could see thunder, lightning, and rain pouring outside the window. He listened to the sound of rain and the banging of bangs.
Village Chief Yang couldn't help but murmur to himself: "The preparations are almost completed. As the old man expected, the soul summoning should be tonight."
The above remarks are not random guesses by Village Chief Yang, but as early as yesterday, Mrs. Chen had clearly told him that the soul summoning ceremony would be held within two days, and today is the second day. Unless Mrs. Chen lied, Mrs. Chen would definitely do it today.
In the evening, she performed the soul-calling ritual that she had hesitated for a long time.
There is another thing that must be mentioned, that is, although Village Chief Yang has learned from He Fei that Zhao Huanzhen died in the water, and thus guessed that the body of the female locust is most likely at the bottom of the river, it is a pity that he does not know the specific location of the body.
, that is to say, Chen Po’s soul-calling ceremony is still of great significance. As long as the soul-calling is successful, the precise location of Zhao Huanzhen’s body will be known to everyone. At that time, he, Yang Cunshan, can leave the village and go to the river in person according to the accurate location.
Salvage Zhao Huanzhen’s body!
That's right, Village Chief Yang has never given up the idea of going down to the river to recover the corpse. The reason why he was dissuaded by He Fei just now is actually only temporary. The old man himself has already made up his mind and plans to leave for Mrs. Chen's house early tomorrow morning. First,
After learning the precise location of the female locust's body from Granny Chen, he would venture out of the village and head to the river!
What kind of blood man outside the village, what kind of female in the village, as long as the granddaughter can survive, there is no harm in throwing away this old body!?
After staring at the window for a long time, Village Chief Yang moved away and stopped looking. At this moment, the main room fell into silence, and it fell into unprecedented silence. Xiaoxia, who was simple-minded, did not think much. The girl just held on to her grandfather and did not dare to let go. Although Zhao Chengbing
Curious about summoning spirits,
However, compared to his own safety, nothing else is important, and he has already made up his mind not to go out because he is extremely afraid of female locusts. He will not come into contact with any water source in any case. As He Fei analyzed before, as long as he does not come into contact with water,
It shouldn't be a big problem if you wait until the end of the mission.
As for He Fei...
The college student also remained silent. Not only did he not say a word, but on the surface his expression was as nervous and rough as Zhao Chengbing's, but...
If you look carefully, you will find that although the young man is nervous on the surface, his eyes are always locked on Village Chief Yang, and his eyebrows change during the gaze, as if he has guessed what the other person is thinking.
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Blah blah blah, blah blah.
Time passed by quietly, and the heavy rain kept pouring all the time, with no sign of weakening from beginning to end. No, it should be said that it was quite the opposite. Not only did the rain not stop, it even got worse and worse. In just a few hours,
It turns everything on the earth into a world of water, an ocean of water.
If the world can no longer distinguish between day and night under the combined interference of dark clouds and heavy rain, then the only thing that is not affected is time. Time is still passing slowly as before. Unknowingly, time enters the evening, and finally
From the short evening to the dark night.
The long night, coupled with the unprecedented heavy rain that has not happened in decades, how can the few remaining villagers in the village sleep peacefully?
Of course, sleeping or not is not the point. The point is that there is one thing that the last few dozen remaining villagers don't know, and that is...
Rain is dangerous and can be fatal.
bedroom.
Glancing at the clock that clearly showed 23:27, and looking at his wife and daughter who were leaning together nervously on the bed, Liu Ben's already ugly face began to twitch involuntarily.
Looking up at the roof, I saw that the north corner of the roof beam was wet, and a string of water droplets was dripping frequently into the basin below.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
Unfortunately, because the rain was so heavy, his house leaked. Maybe it was the so-called house leaking when it rained all night.
The sound of water dripping was very rhythmic, and it was dripping into the basin below at a leisurely pace. At this moment, with the help of the nearly half-burned candle on the cupboard, I could see that the basin was full of rainwater at some point, and the water was pouring out.
The rainwater continued to flow to the ground and gradually gathered into a small puddle.
On the bed, the seven-year-old daughter subconsciously tightened the quilt. At the same time, she raised her head and whispered to the woman beside her: "Mom, the water is full."
After being reminded by her daughter, the woman, who was just as dull as her husband, was brought back to reality and found that the basin was full. The woman then woke up and hurriedly urged her husband, who was standing by the bed: "Liu Cheng, what are you still doing? Not yet?"
Go and dump the water quickly?"
"Uh, ah! You two, stay well while I go and pour out the water."
Liu Cheng woke up in a hurry. He looked down and saw that the basin was really full. He didn't want the water to overflow, so he subconsciously answered and hurriedly picked up the basin and ran out of the bedroom. It was obvious that Liu Cheng wanted to pour out the water again, and
The reason why the word 're' is added in front is because this is the third time he has gone out to pour water since he discovered the leak in the house.
However, this time, going out to pour water seemed ordinary, but it became unusual for Liu Cheng, or for him and even his wife, daughter and family.
Liu Cheng had just walked out of the bedroom. The small puddle of water on the ground beside the bed, which was only larger than the washbasin, had changed. There had been some strange change that was difficult to detect without looking closely.
Under the candlelight, a human face appeared vaguely in the water, a white face with distorted facial features...