Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Eight: Bitterness and Enmity
There is a lake to the north of Sifang City, called Luoshui Lake.
The lake is several feet deep, covers an area of more than ten miles, and has several lake islands. The headquarters of the Ghost Controllers Alliance of Sifang County is here.
"Many ghosts don't like water. Living on lake islands can avoid harassment from many ghosts."
"Now, there are forty-three ghost masters on the island, and there are also three thousand ordinary people under our protection."
"Because the island is not suitable for farmers, we only planted some fruit trees and made a living by fishing."
"The fish and shrimps you catch can be taken to other villages and towns in exchange for food. One fish can be exchanged for two kilograms of cornmeal, so life is not too difficult."
Zhang Heng and Sha Liang took a boat and followed Gu Qingqing to the lake island.
At first glance, it looks like a small paradise. The islanders built wooden houses, barns, private schools, wine shops, grocery stores, and small markets on the island.
The monetary system consists of iron coins and gold and silver. Iron is a universal metal and can be used to make iron hairpins, iron basins, iron pots, iron knives and iron armor. It has practical value and can be easily used in daily life.
Gold and silver are precious metals. As the saying goes, people need clothes, and Buddha needs gold.
Gold and silver utensils are more dignified than copper and iron utensils. Even the underworld ghosts are happy to paint their ghost statues with gold paint. If there are many people who like it, it will naturally have its value.
"The Ghost Controller Headquarters in Sifang County only has forty or fifty Ghost Controllers at all costs. Based on this, there are probably only a few hundred Ghost Controllers in one state."
Zhang Heng knew that there were very few ghost masters.
He has been to the villages and towns below. It is considered good to have two or three ghost masters in a small town, but some villages do not even have one ghost master.
Taken together, it can be said that there is only one person in a thousand who can control ghosts. Even among a thousand people, there may not be one ghost master.
"Lack of salt and cloth!"
Zhang Heng will look again.
The residents on the lake island are all wearing rags. Many children are seven or eight years old and still have no clothes to wear.
Moreover, many people suffer from edema and large neck disease, which are caused by lack of iodized salt.
It's no wonder that trade is currently inconvenient. There is no salt farm near Sifang County, and it is not suitable for planting mulberry and raising silkworms. It is strange that there is no shortage of salt and cloth.
"President, the bone man may not be able to survive."
Not long after we set foot on the island, before we could take a closer look, a ghost master came to look for Gu Qingqing.
Zhang Heng followed and took a look.
In a small wooden building, there lay a skinny young man with his eyes closed.
His body couldn't stop shaking, as if something was burrowing under his skin, trying to break free from the restraints of his flesh.
"This is a bone man. He has been following me for a long time. He is driving a bone ghost."
"After controlling this ghost, the bones in the Bone Man's body began to be assimilated by the Bone Ghost. Now his entire skeleton belongs to the Bone Ghost."
"Only by controlling the bone ghost can he control himself."
"If the Bone Ghost revives and tries to break away from his body, losing the Bone Ghost means losing all the bones in his body. The Bone Man will probably die suddenly in an instant."
Gu Qingqing briefly introduced the situation of the bone man to Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng frowned slightly and asked, "Why wasn't he allowed to control the second ghost?"
Gu Qingqing shook his head: "We haven't found a suitable ghost. To control a ghost, we can't control it randomly. There must be a connection."
"For example, Bone Man, he can control Painted Skin Ghosts, Shadow Ghosts, ghosts that are related to Bone Ghosts and have complementary advantages, but he cannot control water ghosts, sick ghosts and other unrelated ghosts."
"I tattooed him before and used my tattooed ghost to help him suppress the resurrection of the bone ghost."
"But treating the symptoms does not cure the root cause. Now my tattoo ghost can't help him."
Zhang Heng looked at the bone man.
The image of the bone ghost pushing open the bone man's flesh and breaking out of his body appeared in his mind.
"let me try."
Zhang Heng asked Gu Qingqing to invite everyone out.
After everyone dispersed, he took out the Bagua mirror and placed it on the bedside, facing the bone man's face.
After doing all this, he took out a wind and thunder flag, paid homage to the thunder flag again and again, and murmured: "Generals of the Lei Department, incarnations of wind and fire, swear to uphold the Tao and Dharma, and thunder to suppress the demon body!"
After reciting, he placed the wind and thunder flag in the skeleton man's arms and asked him to wrap his arms around it.
Holding the wind and thunder flag, the bone man calmed down instantly, the bone ghost in his body was no longer active, and the pain on his face also eased a bit.
"Can not be done!"
Although the method was effective, Zhang Heng was not happy.
His method can take care of it for a while, but it cannot cure the root cause. The bone ghost is still in the bone man's body, and it will revive as soon as the wind and thunder flag is gone. It is fine now, but the bone ghost in the body has been temporarily suppressed by the power of wind and thunder.
Zhang Heng came to Hu Island as a doctor, and after thinking about it, he added: "However, my method can only keep him safe for a while. If I want to cure him, I have to control a second ghost for him.
"
Gu Qingqing smiled bitterly and said: "We have been looking for a second ghost that the bone man can control, but we have never found one. There is a blood-clothed ghost in the Blood-clothed Forest, but we are not its opponent at all. Last time, even President Xiao Fan
I took action personally, but was forced back by the blood-clothed ghost."
Zhang Heng knew what Gu Qingqing meant.
She wanted to take action, help deal with this blood-clothed ghost, and bring it back to the bone man to control it.
But Zhang Heng refused without hesitation: "I made rules to allow ghosts to integrate into human society as city gods. The blood-clothed ghost did not do any evil. I killed it to save the skeleton man. It is no different from killing one person to save another. This is
It's not okay to break the rules I set."
Today I can kill the ghost in blood to save the bone man, but tomorrow I can kill the ghost in white to save the pig man.
Is this fair?
no.
If he did this today, everyone in the Chiyou ghosts would be in danger, fearing that one day he would be killed for this reason. In this case, the little god would be nothing more than a joke.
"Don't feel disappointed. On the contrary, if I promise you, you should be careful."
"Because if I agree to you, it means that I am a confused person with no overall perspective."
"This kind of person can be a friend, but it's not enough to make a big deal happen."
Zhang Heng's face was cold: "I am the hope of the Huangtu world, and I carry more than just your dream."
Gu Qingqing seemed to understand but not quite.
The next day, Gu Qingqing led the rest of the Ghost Controllers Alliance in a mighty attack on the Blood-clothed Forest, encircling the Blood-clothed Ghosts.
Returned defeated.
Two people were killed and five or six were injured.
Gu Qingqing was injured all over and encouraged everyone: "Although we did not bring back the blood-clothed ghost, we did what we said at the beginning and did not give up anyone."
silence.
Zhang Heng saw everything with his eyes.
In his eyes, Gu Qingqing is a leader whose heart is not cruel enough and whose fists are not strong enough.
With such a president, what is the blessing or misfortune for the Sifang County Ghost Controllers Alliance?
Zhang Heng doesn't know.
He only knew that if he were a member of the Ghost Master Alliance, he would probably sneak away because he was afraid that he would be killed.
The third day.
At the Bone Man's begging, Zhang Heng removed the Wind and Thunder Flag.
Without the suppression of wind and thunder, the bone ghost quickly revived. A bloody skeleton broke through the flesh and blood, and stood up from the body of the bone man.
"Five hundred catties of salt, a thousand bolts of cloth, plus ten catties of cinnabar, in exchange for this bone ghost."
"Two more roosters, ten hens, and three hundred eggs!"
"make a deal!"
After it's done.
Zhang Heng gave the bone ghost to Sha Liang.
Sha Liang was very happy. With the blessing of the Bone Ghost, he became stronger and could jump more than ten meters high.
Looking at Si Liang, who was holding a handy shovel and coming and going like the wind, just like a humanoid Gundam, Zhang Heng whispered: "Every time you control another ghost, your strength will increase rapidly. The system of controlling ghosts is simply miserable.
Good news for hateful protagonists.”
What is Hedong in thirty years and Hexi in thirty years?
Three years, just three years.
If you don't kill yourself, you can kill others.
With such a rapid increase in strength, no one will believe you if you say you don't have a blood feud.
"Sideways!"
Zhang Heng nodded thoughtfully and whispered: "There are also merits, are you right?"