Li Leping saw something strange about the old man, and the old man also clearly noticed something strange about Li Leping himself.
"My name is Li Leping, the captain of the headquarters. The reason why I came here today is because a friend of mine disappeared here, and Jiang Hao told me that there is such a place here, so I took this trip myself. I wanted to
I want to know from you why supernatural events suddenly broke out in Daha City."
Li Leping glanced at Jiang Hao, who was standing next to the old man, and then told the old man his identity and purpose of coming.
"Captain of the headquarters, I heard Jiang Hao mention this name just now, but I didn't expect that among the ghost masters of this era, an alien like you would appear so soon."
"My tattoo parlor has been open for so many years. You are the most powerful among the young people in these years. Although you are young, your achievements have already been extraordinary. If you are given a few more years to grow up, maybe this era will be decided by you.
Come and hand in an answer sheet."
The old man smiled silently and commented on Li Leping.
But Li Leping obviously didn't come here to hear an old guy praise him. His emotions were almost gone, and he no longer cared about these graceful flatteries.
"There is no need to say more polite words. You are from the older generation and you should know what is most important to me now." Li Leping stared at the old man and said.
"Young man, don't be too impatient. You can't eat hot tofu in an impatient manner. Come in and sit down first."
However, the old man still looked calm and waved his hand, signaling Li Leping and Shen Tian to come in.
The layout of the house is not cumbersome, and the decoration is even a little too simple.
There is an ordinary bed with a layer of quilt on it, and then there is a simple table with a few chairs, as well as some daily necessities such as kettles placed on the table.
The most eye-catching place is the corner of the hall.
The lights in the room were dim, but there was a cabinet placed in an inconspicuous corner. The cabinet seemed to be used as a workbench. It was filled with various tools for tattooing, but these tools all looked older.
, except for the small jar containing ink, there are only some tattoo needles left.
It is not difficult to imagine that the tattoo technique here still uses the old traditional technique, which is to use a needle to penetrate and then use ink to dye various weird patterns, and finally complete the tattoo.
I didn't know how painful this process would be.
There is also a bed next to the cabinet, but the style of that bed is more like a modern folding bed, with the top sloping slightly upward.
Such narrow beds are generally not used for sleeping at home, but are more common in places such as beauty salons.
The old man had no objection to Li Leping's behavior of looking around, as if his place was really a tattoo shop, so he would not prohibit customers from walking around at will, let alone look around.
"sit down."
The old man sat on the chair and reached out to signal to the other people in the room.
Before sitting down, Li Leping deliberately reached out and touched the folding chair.
The style of this chair is very similar to the folding chairs used in restaurants in the past, but this chair seems to have experienced a long time, the surface has been patinated, and it looks smooth and shiny.
"The reception was poor and I didn't have time to make you a pot of tea. I hope you don't mind."
The tattooed old man's lips moved slightly. As his mouth opened and closed, the tattoos on his face were squirming like living creatures. Coupled with the shriveled skin, it looked particularly weird.
"I don't mind, I don't mind."
The one who spoke was Shen Tian. Seeing that Li Leping had not spoken, he was afraid that the old man would be displeased, so he hurriedly responded.
But at this moment, Jiang Hao next to her gently touched her with his elbow.
Looking over, he saw Jiang Hao shaking his head slightly at himself, as if to indicate that they had no place to talk here.
They are just the people in charge of a city. They may be able to show off their power and have absolute say in their own city.
But when facing this kind of older generation of ghost masters, the only one who truly represents the official attitude is the captain.
"Now, you should explain to us the situation here. It is no longer the Republic of China, but many things you left behind have problems in this era, just like this place."
At this time, Li Leping spoke.
"I don't want to talk to you here about how precious life is, and you won't believe it if I say it. But there is something going on right now, and people I know are involved in it. Now I'll give you a face, and I'm willing to sit down and talk.
, so don’t waste my time here.”
The old man in front of me is obviously a living ghost controller from the Republic of China period.
As for whether he was the top being at that time, Li Leping didn't care.
Because all the ghost masters during the Republic of China were withering away, from the old woman in 301 to the old man in the ancient house. Although the ghosts they controlled during their lifetimes were extremely terrifying, they could not escape the end of death.
And the old man in front of me is no exception.
He is also a dying man.
"It seems like there's still something wrong with this place."
I don't know whether it was because of Li Leping's serious attitude, or because the old man himself didn't want to pretend to be amiable anymore, but in short, the old man was finally willing to get to the point.
And he was not surprised by the supernatural events that broke out in Dahar City.
"Fortunately, you came at the right time. If it had been later, no one would be able to tell you about this ghost alley."
The old man looked at Li Leping and sighed slightly, as if he was lamenting that he was already declining, or that the place where he had lived for many years could not escape the end of being out of control.
"It looks like you're the only one left in this place."
Li Leping looked at the old man carefully, and it was not difficult to analyze some information from his words.
This place was called a ghost alley by the old man, and since the old man would say that no one would be able to tell him about the ghost alley if he came later, it means that the old man was not the only one who owned this place in the past.
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"Many years ago, this place was also a gathering place for ghost masters. The so-called ghost alley is an alley connecting various supernatural places. When you came to my place, the alley you walked through was just this.
A certain branch of the ghost alley, just because I am still alive, the location of this branch is still fixed in reality, and you can go directly to the tattoo parlor through the real location."
"Many people have come to my place before, some by accident, and some specifically coming here. But for everyone who can come to the third floor, I will give them a tattoo, whether they want it or not."
Regardless of whether they are willing or not, a tattoo will be forcibly left on a person's body.
This kind of behavior can be regarded as an evil act in everyone's eyes.
You know, this method is weird. The tattoo on the old man who has countless tattoos all over his body is not an ordinary pattern, but a tattoo with a ghost.
If a normal person is forcibly given such a ghost tattoo, their life span will be greatly shortened, and they may not be able to survive even one year.
However, this old man who looked bleak still had a smile on his face, as if he didn't care about his previous behavior.
Li Leping's face moved slightly, and there was a hint of vigilance in his eyes: "It's not very polite for you to buy and sell by force."
At the same time, he reached back and grasped the short stick he had just put away.
He didn't want to settle old scores with a dying man here, especially since this old score had nothing to do with him.
He was just afraid that the old man in front of him would suddenly go crazy and want to get a tattoo on his body.
This is not impossible.
These ghost masters who have lived for too long may be under the subtle influence of the ghost instinct, and their brains have become abnormal, and they will inadvertently make some actions that they think are reasonable and reasonable, but are simply incomprehensible to outsiders.
"Young man, don't be too nervous. That's all in the past. Besides, what I did was done out of human thoughts and was not caused by ghosts affecting my consciousness." The old man explained calmly.
Li Leping slowly said: "Let me guess, you will put on a great and upright look, and then explain to me how those ghost tattoos you got allow those people to survive in this supernatural world.
?”
"Yes, having ghosts on them will make them die faster, but danger often comes with opportunities. At least they can have a way to resist a little when they encounter ghosts."
The old man did not refute and continued: "In my opinion, it is not a bad thing to create more ghost controllers. It is just like the seeds sown will eventually grow into towering trees. I will give each of them a tattoo."
The next tattoo is equivalent to sowing a seed for them, allowing them to try to find an unprecedented path on the road to controlling evil ghosts."
"Perhaps one day in the future, one day after my death, a ghost master tattooed by me will rely on the ghost tattoos on his body to find a successful path."
Hearing these words, Shen Tian couldn't help but want to say something, but as soon as he straightened up, Jiang Hao next to him held down his shoulders.
Don't be impulsive.
Jiang Hao shook his head at him, the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.
Shen Tian's face was a little gloomy, but he still shrank back with a dark face, pretending that nothing happened.
Although this is Dahar City, it is also an unknown supernatural place. It is someone else's territory and is not suitable for causing trouble.
"What you are doing is too extreme. Forcing tattoos on a group of people who have no understanding of supernatural beings will most likely not lead to the successful people in your fantasy. Instead, it will only increase the number of poor people who are resurrected by evil ghosts. And these
The poor thing resurrected by the evil ghost will trigger a series of supernatural events, eventually making the outside become more and more chaotic."
Li Leping spoke at this time. He had no scruples and directly expressed his dissatisfaction, but his words were not so harsh.
But at this moment, the old man stubbornly shook his head: "No, you are wrong."
"It should be said that you are still too young to understand the despair of those of us who have reached the end and then find that there is no way forward, the pain and helplessness of the ghost in the body who has no possibility of moving forward and will eventually die.
You can’t understand it now.”
"Maybe in your opinion, my method is too cruel, but at my age, I no longer care about many things. For me, hope is the most important thing. I want to create more ways to control different ghosts.
The ghost controller, under the collision of layers, may be able to give birth to a special existence."
The old man sighed, but when he mentioned the word hope, his eyes dimmed, as if the eyes of a dead person suddenly lit up.
Like countless older generation ghost masters, he is eager to see the person who represents hope appear. Even if many innocent people are sacrificed along the way, it is nothing to him.
However, Li Leping said coldly at this moment: "I have not only heard such rhetoric from you, but many older generation of ghost controllers also often talk about this sentence and keep talking about their hopes.
With the emergence of pioneers, I hope that a ghost controller can undergo some kind of unpredictable special change in the collision of supernatural events, and finally give birth to a perfect ghost controller, one who will not be able to revive evil ghosts or be trapped.
In terms of the lifespan of the body, it is a special existence that will not be eroded by supernatural beings."
"But, is what you are doing really correct?"
"Stubbornly erasing the traces of the past, saying that they don't want to leave behind the methods of controlling ghosts in order not to interfere with subsequent ghost controllers, I hope that the new generation of ghost controllers will explore new paths and create something from them.
Make an exception."
"But it turns out that after so many years, the answers handed in in each era are no different from the previous era. The top group of ghost controllers can only live with this era for a century, and they have never been able to go further. They have been
Chasing that elusive special case that has never appeared before."
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Is there really no point in dwelling on the past?
It is said not to be limited to the past, but in fact, every generation of ghost controllers is repeating the same mistakes. After many people have died, the path they take is no different from the previous generation.
Just like Li Leping never believed that a ghost controller like himself who could influence ghosts with his consciousness would be the only special case.
In the previous era, or even in earlier eras, there must have been ghost masters who walked a similar path.
But so far, they have all failed.
Maybe one day in the future, I will fail.
But, what’s next?
Before his death, he was like the older generation of ghost masters, using supernatural means to erase traces of their past existence?
This can be said to be a piece of cake for Li Leping.
Let the Forgotten Ghost erase the memory of ghosts in this world. As long as he has enough time, he can do it.
But the question is, does this really make sense?
"There is no such so-called special case among ghost controllers of your generation, or even older ones, so shouldn't you reflect on this, temporarily quelling the supernatural incidents, and then clean up the traces of suppressing the ghosts in the past?
Aren’t we following the same path as our predecessors?”
"Human civilization can be measured in thousands of years, but it takes half a day. This so-called reincarnation has been repeated countless times."
"It was temporarily stable for half a century, and safe for a century at most, and then there was a supernatural revival, and then a large number of people died in an unprepared era. After these people died, it was a group of top ghost controllers who pacified it.
This era then erased all traces of its existence, and started over and over again, just like reincarnation, forever repeating the same tragic things, killing innocent people one after another, and all this was just to pursue that so-called 'special existence'
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"That doesn't make any sense to me."
Li Leping's voice was cold. Rather than recounting the past history, Li Leping was questioning whether the behavior of the older generation of ghost masters was correct.