Li Leping's eyes moved after hearing this, and then he stared at the old man sitting motionless on the chair: "You also know how difficult the road ahead is. In this case, you want me to leave the stick behind."
Come down, do you think it’s appropriate?”
However, the old man neither agreed nor objected and said: "It's up to you to make your own decision. I don't have much time to stay awake, and the limit is coming soon. In the end, I can only tattoo a few patterns.
And the time is limited to these few hours.”
Obviously, he intended to let Li Leping weigh the pros and cons by himself.
Not leaving the short stick behind means that he will have an extra means to fight against the evil ghosts on the way down the road, but it also means that he will miss an opportunity to strengthen the short stick.
After hearing this, Li Leping was silent for a moment.
Then he asked: "What price do I have to pay?"
He never believed there was a free lunch.
However, the old man shook his head: "You don't need to pay anything, just think of me as an old guy who is good to me even when he is about to die, and I will finally help you, a young man."
When Li Leping heard this, he didn't say anything more. He just took off the stick from his back and put it on the table in front of the old man.
The color on the surface of the stick is like blood stains that have been exposed to the air for too long. It turns black like dirt and exudes a unique and cold aura.
"I'll come back for it."
After leaving these words, Li Leping glanced at Shen Tian next to him, and then walked towards the exit door first.
Shen Tian also quickly stood up at this time and followed him.
The old man looked at the two people leaving without saying a word of farewell.
After all, there is no point in saying goodbye at this time.
This is the last time we meet.
And just after the two left.
Inside the house, the old man stared at the closed door. After a moment of silence, he finally said in a slightly suspicious tone: "A person who cannot be remembered, an alien between human and ghost, so that plan failed after all."
, is it still successful, or is it still just in progress as planned?"
"Huh? Uncle, what are you talking about?"
Jiang Hao on the side was obviously not yet old enough for his eyes to dim. He couldn't help but express surprise at the old man's voice which had no hidden meaning at all.
The old man's words revealed so much information that Jiang Hao couldn't digest it for a while.
"It's all in the past. I only heard some news a long time ago. I heard it from a place called the Supernatural Paper Mill in the ghost alley. At that time, the owner of the paper mill was not dead yet, and that guy was
A ghost controller born in the late Qing Dynasty, much older than me, he was a person who really participated in pacifying the supernatural of that era."
The old man's old face moved slightly, recalling those ghost masters who were more senior than him.
The Republic of China began in 1912. Although the old man was old, he could never be one of the truly top ghost masters of that era.
To put it bluntly, this old man who looks so old now that he is about to die was even just born in the early years of the Republic of China.
What can a little kid wearing a bellyband and running around naked do to fight against evil spirits?
Therefore, if we take the supernatural phenomena of the Republic of China as the starting point, the revival of supernatural phenomena should have four time periods.
The initial time period should be at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. This time period is equivalent to the current supernatural outbreak period. All kinds of supernatural events sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The real top ghost controllers of that era were just like the captains of this era.
, came out of the collision of countless supernatural events.
Mr. Qin was also an anomaly created artificially during this period.
The next period of time is the era that belongs to those truly top ghost masters.
This period is not long, but it is an extremely important period of time.
Many ghost masters from all over the world who controlled different supernatural beings came together because of the supernatural. They finally joined forces to quell most of the supernatural beings of that era and suppressed many evil ghosts in certain special places.
The subsequent time span is a bit wider, probably from the late Republic of China to modern times.
This period of time is equivalent to a calm period, because the predecessors have already imprisoned most of the evil spirits, and the rest are just trivial matters. Some evil spirits that are not very scary either cannot make any big waves or are in hidden dangers.
Before being exposed, he will be directly imprisoned by the top ghost master who was still alive at that time.
However, these supernatural events that are not a threat to top ghost controllers are still extremely harmful to ordinary people. In the process, many ordinary people have suffered catastrophic disasters and become ghost controllers.
Ghost.
And the ghost controllers born during this period are often not very strong. Looking at it now, some old ghost controllers who have lived for seventy or eighty years may not be able to compete with the captain-level ghost controllers who have become ghost controllers for less than a few years.
The ghost master.
This is inevitable due to the growth environment. After all, a ghost controller who grows up in a controllable environment cannot be forced into a real desperate situation. Different growth environments also lead to differences in the upper limit of growth.
The fourth time period is now.
"Can you tell me in detail?" At this time, Jiang Hao couldn't help but asked curiously.
Although he has a lot of secrets, most of them were learned from the previous owner of the old temple.
And this world is really too big, and there are countless secrets, and it will never be possible for anyone to know them all.
The old man picked up the short stick left on the table by Li Leping with a touch of emotion: "As I said, every ghost controller will want to completely solve the problem of supernatural recovery when he reaches an age where he cannot make progress.
, because no one wants their descendants to live in a world with ghosts."
"In order to completely put an end to supernatural phenomena, the top ghost masters during the Republic of China also tried many different paths, trying to find a different path as a ghost master."
"But a long time ago, I heard the boss of the paper mill mention a plan, because they discovered a very special ghost by chance while dealing with the ghosts."
Jiang Hao listened carefully, his expression focused, and he even held his breath.
"Special ghost?" He couldn't help but ask.
Vaguely, he felt that the temperatureless blood in his almost deathly cold body was heating up at this moment.
"right."
The old man did not express dissatisfaction with Jiang Hao's interruption, but nodded.
He continued: "This is a ghost they have never encountered before. It is very dangerous, but very special, because we all know that ghosts follow the rules of killing. As long as the murder rules of ghosts are triggered, they will definitely be killed.
The devil is watching."
"But that ghost is different."
Having said this, the old man paused and his eyes became serious.
"The special thing about that ghost is that it has no rules for killing people."
"This is impossible."
Immediately, Jiang Hao couldn't help but blurt out, directly refuting the old man's statement.
Ghosts have no rules for killing?
Is that still a ghost?
"Listen to me."
The old man waved his hand. Seeing Jiang Hao's stunned look, he recalled himself.
When I first heard this statement, I was so shocked.
In fact, he retorted more fiercely than Jiang Hao did at the beginning.
After all, I have been fighting ghosts for half my life, and today you suddenly told me that there are no rules for killing people when there are ghosts.
Doesn't this mean that the experience he summarized in the first half of his life has been turned into a piece of waste paper?
"Strictly speaking, there is still a question mark as to whether that ghost has any killing patterns."
"Because that ghost's ability is so special that it has forgotten its own killing rules." The old man explained.
If you forget your own rules for killing, you will naturally have no rules for killing.
Suddenly.
When Jiang Hao heard these two sentences, his brows jumped and his body shook involuntarily, as if he had thought of something.
He cast his gaze in the direction Li Leping left.
"What do you mean..." Jiang Hao said seriously.
"That young man named Li Leping controls part of that ghost." The old man said.
"Part of it?" Jiang Hao asked doubtfully.
"Of course it's only part of it. You have to know that the person who said that ghost is dangerous is not me, but a ghost controller who is much older than me. Although he is in a coffin now, but even so, he is not interested in supernatural beings.
His level of control is much better than mine, and even he thinks it’s a dangerous ghost. Do you think it’s inferior?”
Speaking of this, the old man suddenly smiled. I don't know if he was laughing at Jiang Hao because he was too young, or at the forgotten ghost controlled by Li Leping.
"But even so, what does such a ghost have to do with the so-called plan?" After a brief shock, Jiang Hao turned his attention back and continued to ask.
"Of course it does matter. What is the reason why people are corroded by the supernatural?" the old man asked.
"Because ghost instinct will affect human instinct, and people's consciousness will gradually get lost in ghost instinct, and eventually they will become a monster who can't tell whether he is a human or a ghost." Jiang Hao replied immediately.
The ghost master knows this process very well.
It's just that most ghost masters don't need to think about things in the long term, because most ghost masters may not be able to hold on for even a year and die.
"But what if there is a ghost between the two that affects the ghost controlled by the ghost controller, making the ghost forget the instinct of affecting the ghost controller, or making the ghost controller forget the fact that he is affected by the ghost?" Hu De
, the old man asked rhetorically.
"this……"
Jiang Hao was shocked when he heard such an idea.
Let the ghosts influence the ghosts.
"But this is unrealistic and too difficult to achieve. This is actually the same as achieving a balance between ghosts. When one of them gains the upper hand, the balance will be broken. The ghost with the upper hand will still affect the control.
Ghost."
After Jiang Hao thought for a while, he shook his head.
The plan seems good, but there are many contradictions.
In the final analysis, we still cannot escape the problem of treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
"Yes, that's what I thought at the beginning, and that's what I told that old guy."
The old man did not deny it and even stood on the same side as Jiang Hao.
But the next second, he changed the topic: "But he just smiled at me at that time. At that time, I just thought it was a helpless smile. After all, in order to implement this plan, he was also dead.
We made many friends, but in the end they ended up in vain. When we talk about them again after many years, can't we just smile helplessly?"
"That should have been a past event, a past event that has ended long ago."
"But today, a young man who has controlled part of the Forgotten Ghost appeared in front of me. Xiao Jiang, tell me, why is this?"
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Hao himself was stunned.
yes.
Why?
Why did the forgotten ghost who should have been imprisoned long ago and only existed in the old man's narrative reappear after so many years?
And outside the house.
Li Leping and Shen Tian returned to the courtyard full of human skins.
The surroundings were still dim with not much light, and both sides of the stone road underfoot were still covered with human skins. The thin and shriveled human skins were much quieter this time, without any signs of restlessness.
"It seems that the trouble caused by the human skin just now was just a test for the old man."
Li Leping looked thoughtfully at the human skins peeled off from the ghosts.
"Captain Li, you just handed that stick to that old man like this? Aren't you afraid that someone will take advantage of you?"
Suddenly, Shen Tian, who had been following Li Leping closely, ignored the cold atmosphere surrounding Li Leping and approached him directly, lowering his voice and asking.
"It's easy for you to speak ill of people behind their backs and make people unhappy. Be careful of being killed. Although this is technically Dahar City, it is someone else's territory." Li Leping said without looking back.
Instantly, after hearing these words, Shen Tian felt a chill all over his body and shuddered violently. He subconsciously turned around and looked at the three-story building hidden in the darkness.
He seemed to really feel that a pair of eyes were resting on him.
"Don't scare yourself. If that old man is really so mean, then I have nothing to say. The only prerequisite for eating black is that you are able to eat it, and be careful to stretch yourself to death." Li Leping said as he continued to move forward.
"Well, that's right." Shen Tian nodded quickly and agreed.
Then, he said with a pity on his face: "It's just that without such a handy guy, will the next road be..."
Suddenly, Li Leping stopped and glanced at Shen Tian expressionlessly: "I have my own considerations. If what I encounter is too terrifying, even a short stick may not be able to handle it. To say the least,
External force is just external force after all, without that stick I wouldn’t be worthy of being the captain?”
After saying that, Li Leping walked forward again, leaving only Shen Tian who couldn't help but froze in place after hearing the words.
"yes."
Staring at Li Leping, who was wearing the uniform of the person in charge and taking the lead, Shen Tian also figured it out.
Why should he worry about this?
When Li Leping calmed down the unrest in the courtyard before, he didn't use that short stick with unknown capabilities.
And at this moment.
Li Leping has arrived behind the door of the tattoo parlor again.
As long as he opens this door, he will be in the ghost alley again.
And now the time has come to five o'clock.
In other words, the supernatural place connected by ghost alleys is fixed for the next fifty-nine minutes.