Hearing that his grandfather wanted to take him to visit relatives and friends, Gu Yun was naturally willing.
He liked this supernatural world very much and wanted to visit more.
However, the old man did not take him immediately. Instead, he waited at Iijima's old house all afternoon. It was not until 11 o'clock in the evening that he called him to his side.
"Out-of-body experience?"
"Um."
Grandpa smiled and said: "Those friends of mine have been dead for many years, but they still live in Huangquan and have not embarked on the road to the afterlife."
The place Grandpa will take Gu Yun to tonight is nowhere else but the place where all living beings return after death - the other side of the Yellow Spring.
"The underworld is in another dimension, and there is no material world there."
They can use spiritual vision to enhance their existence and come into contact with the spirit of the underworld, but that is too troublesome.
"Hu~hu~~"
As the old man spoke, he stretched out his hand and recited a mantra, as if he was summoning something.
"Okay, let's get started."
"So you need to have ample knowledge of ghost stories."
At this time, if someone with intentions discovers and destroys it, the spirit body will be judged as 'dead'.
They died violently, and their grievances are still lingering in their hearts, and they will not let go of their hatred in the world and go to the underworld.
But Grandpa felt a little embarrassed for troublesome people again and again.
If he becomes a teenager in the future, he can freeze his youth form. When he gets old, he can still choose to freeze his body to keep his spirit body youthful.
Gu Yun is now a warlock apprentice with his grandfather, and he obeys his instructions in everything.
As we all know, any urban ghost story is basically a "person" who encounters various supernatural events and then never returns.
"But the reason why the hearse can be summoned by ghosts lies in the hearse-like ghost story itself."
"But a hearse is a hearse after all," Grandpa said: "Sometimes if you don't pay attention, you may be taken to the virtual world and ghosts by them."
Note that ‘living person’ is specifically stated here.
Because ghosts cannot enter the doors and walls of inhabited houses.
The ghosts seemed to know that the two of them were not easy to mess with, and had no intention of actively scaring or provoking them.
The hearse itself has little combat effectiveness.
To put it simply, it is to artificially imprint a spirit body for easy use when you grow old in the future.
"Not all urban legends will become strange stories," Grandpa said, "This requires enough prayer power."
"Are there many hearses like this?"
Gu Yun asked: "Is it okay?"
The posture of the soul and the physical body are definitely gone, but the huge spiritual power will not change.
A certain bald man said: Do you think all warlocks can have their souls leave the body as easily as you?!
Grandpa ignored the driver whose face was covered with blood in the driver's seat and calmly handed the two coins to the conductor.
"I see."
"Is it so dangerous?"
Therefore, Gu Yun looked at the old man expectantly, hoping that he would teach him how to change his age at will while in the spirit state.
Then, the entire underworld will directly regard you as a 'dead person'.
"The state of the soul is indeed very convenient."
"Most hearses are not dangerous. The probability of ordinary people encountering them is about the same as winning the lottery."
Only this kind of "wandering soul" can retain human emotions during life and continue to provide nourishment for ghost stories.
The best way is to leave the body and then go to the afterlife like ordinary dead people according to the rules.
Among ghost stories, the stronger the existence, the longer the resurrection cycle.
How is it possible that there is such a weird saying that a ghost is waiting for the bus at night?
When many people hear ghost stories about hearses, they always say, "Someone got into the car and found many pale people in the car."
Grandpa said: "But our souls just left the body and are not considered dead. The laws of hell cannot control us."
Human beings will age, and their bodies as they age have various disadvantages, such as lack of agility, poor athletic ability, etc.
It is much easier for a young spirit body to fight than a decayed body of seventy or eighty years old.
As for these ghosts in the hearse.
The relationship between humans, ghost stories and ghosts is very complicated.
"The drivers, passengers, and conductors here are all lonely ghosts who do not want to go to hell for various reasons."
However, my grandfather knew many powerful gods. In the past, before going to the underworld, he would make an appointment with them in advance or borrow some artifacts so that he could travel back and forth between life and death.
Grandpa said helplessly: "I will teach you the spell later, but given your age, Gu Yun, you probably won't be able to use this spell for the time being, right?"
Divine travel is an ancient magic technique passed down from the East. It is divided into two types: day travel and night travel, collectively referred to as the art of divine travel.
Grandpa said and stopped.
And warlocks like grandpa occasionally ride on them to facilitate travel.
Gu Yun asked: "Should we save him?"
But in fact, this idea is wrong.
"If there is no shikigami and no divine chariot, how can an ordinary warlock go to the underworld in a spiritual state?"
I saw him jump up and found that he didn't feel as light as a swallow.
"You brat, don't you even look at whose territory this is?!"
"Prajna, Xiaobai."
If one day in the future, Gu Yun's body is injured.
I saw that the person standing in front of Gu Yun at this time was not an old man, but a young man wearing an old kimono.
"What I want to do now is how ordinary people can come to various places in the spiritual state."
"I tried it just now and it doesn't seem to work."
Grandpa and Gu Yun found a seat and sat down, and then began to communicate as if there was no one else around.
Every building has its own 'feng shui aura', which is an invisible barrier that blocks spiritual bodies.
"Sometimes you encounter monsters that are very good at physical arts. They are very fast and like to bypass shikigami and attack warlocks directly."
Gu Yun just used his spiritual vision to see his grandfather's youthful state. He definitely didn't use blindness or illusion, but really made his soul become younger.
The grandfather and grandson came to the bedroom, where there were two quilts, one large and one small.
Grandpa really doesn’t understand, but it’s not like he doesn’t even know about the strange stories near his home, right?
"That's right, haha."
"The reason why ghost stories continue to torture their dead souls after devouring living people."
The underworld has its own rules. The dead cannot come back, and the guidance of gods is of no use.
Grandpa laughed softly, then changed into a young man's posture, and opened his arms for Gu Yun to observe carefully.
"Is that far?"
"What ghost stories really need is the various emotions in living people."
"Xiao Kong..."
Now, through his out-of-body experience, Grandpa can shape his spirit body into what it looked like when he was young.
Grandpa: "However, it is difficult for ghosts to produce strong emotional fluctuations. For ghost stories, they are waste that is neither delicious nor useless to eat."
Grandpa looked at the ghost bus parked in front of him. There were already some people sitting in it. Their eyes were dull and their faces were pale, which was very strange.
After saying that, Gu Yun also started to use his spiritual power, wanting to become an adult.
"To be precise, this hearse ghost story is only true of this bus."
"not all."
Gu Yun's physical body is still a child.
"According to Grandpa, we are spiritual beings now, almost like ghosts."
"Is this an out-of-body experience?"
"The conventional method?"
Grandpa looked at Gu Yun's actions and laughed loudly: "Little Gu Yun, do you want to become an adult?"
Kong Huan is different, she is Gu Yun's fox, and it is only natural to help Gu Yun travel to and from the underworld.
After leaving the old house in Iijima, the grandfather and grandson were different from ghosts. They were not floating in the air, but down to earth, which made Gu Yun feel a little strange.
After all, you said that the protagonist is a ghost in the horror stories dreamed up by humans. Does this still have a sense of substitution?
What you want to scare is the living, not the dead!
The former refers to a method similar to psychic vision, which can travel through the world, similar to drilling loopholes in the rules of the world, so as to escape opportunistically.
When Gu Yun heard this, his eyes widened and he asked, "You, are you grandpa?"
Ghost Bus is obviously one of them.
Gu Yun summoned two shikigami: "After my grandfather and I went to Huangquan, I asked you to take care of my body."
They are in a spiritual state now, so it stands to reason that Kaitan would not be attracted to the dead.
"Then what's going on with them?"
Grandpa said: "You have to understand the origin of these hearses and the reason why they were born."
"Are they bound by this hearse ghost story?"
Soon, Gu Yun saw two clusters of bright car lights approaching from far away at the end of the originally dark road.
"Can't come back."
The speed is not particularly fast, but it is not slow either. Anyway, it is definitely more convenient than a car.
"Leave it to us, Master."
This has nothing to do with the strength of the warlock, it mainly depends on spells and connections.
If he happened to be in Huangquan again at that time, he would not leave.
With Prajna and Xiaobai here, and the several higher-level demon-level shikigami prepared by grandpa, no one can touch their bodies unless the big demon comes in person.
"sure!"
"Furthermore, one of the prerequisites for the strange story about this bus is that there is a living person riding on it late at night."
"If you want to fly, you can go and watch "The Art of Divine Movement" when you come back."
However, because Grandpa's collection of spells was too large and the uses of mind travel were too few, Gu Yun had not had time to read this book.
As the young man spoke, his body shape changed and he took on the appearance of an old man again: "Just now was my appearance when I was young. Is this the first time Gu Yun has seen me?"
Gu Yun knew the purpose of this spell.
Gu Yun thought of the magic books he saw in his grandfather's collection, which contained the method of traveling day and night.
Well, the conductor is also a pale female ghost.
"I'll summon Xiao Kong's divine chariot."
Gu Yun lay down and then recited the mantra silently in his heart.
The ordinary warlock that grandpa said would probably not be able to make Mr. Daomo cry and faint in the toilet.
But because of the characteristics of hearses, they can travel across places quickly, which is very convenient.
Grandpa has lived on this land for sixty or seventy years, and he knows very well what supernatural happenings there are nearby.
Friends are just friends after all, and the gods are willing to help grandpa.
"Is it the one in the study?"
"But really getting bigger," Grandpa shook his head and said, "I can't do it."
"Oh, wait a minute."
However, this imprinting technique is unique.
Only with the owner's permission can you ignore this obstacle and come and go at will.
In this way, even if his physical body becomes old, grandpa can still fight the enemy with his spiritual body and regain the fighting ability and reaction speed he once had.
"Forehead…"
"Maybe there are other spells that can do this kind of thing, but grandpa really doesn't know how to do that kind of spell."
Ghosts will use these hearses to travel between places.
"It doesn't matter Xiaokong, she is one of our own!"
The most troublesome thing is people like Tamura who don't know they are dead.
"Its effect is probably to make people who get on the bus fall asleep and find themselves in another city when they wake up."
Grandpa was not used to his youthful state, so he returned to his old appearance: "In this case, an old body is easily targeted."
Grandpa's spiritual vision is not advanced enough, and he cannot travel through various worlds at will like Mr. Kogoro.
In the end, this ghost bus won’t kill anyone.
"Warlocks can fly in the sky through out-of-body experiences and fugue travel."
In Japan, there are many urban legends such as drifting hearses, ghost buses heading to hell, and taxis that kill people in the middle of the night.
Therefore, Gu Yun and Grandpa can go to the underworld, and then return to the human world with the help of gods or using spiritual vision.
"Um."
Ghost stories devour humans and torture their souls.
Of course, the soul here refers to people who have not died.
"Are these all weird stories?"
It’s not like grandpa never thought about the weird idea of withdrawal from treatment.
It's a pity that no matter what he does, Gu Yun is still the same as he is now.
And to encounter it, there are many prerequisites.
But now, ghosts and ghost buses exist at the same time...
"The most difficult thing about going to Huangquan is not how to get there, but how to come back after going there."
"Okay, let's go."
Gu Yun smiled and scratched his head, and quickly followed his grandfather's footsteps and boarded the ghost bus with him.
No matter how idle a warlock is, he won't be so bored.
"With Gu Yun's talent, you can probably learn it in no time."
Many people think that by becoming a spirit, they can walk through walls at will and go wherever they want.
Then when he encounters something, he may need to fight the enemy in an out-of-body form.
And things like Ghost Bus.
"Over time, this type of hearse has acquired the ability to carry spirits."
"Well, if it's a deception, it does exist."
But if the person has died and turned into a ghost, then they are not afraid of ghost stories.
"Um…"
Conceptually speaking, grandpa is of the "no too much contact" group. He had mentioned to Gu Yun before not to go too deep into another world.
However, although the strength of the hearse itself is weak, its regeneration speed is frighteningly fast.
This is why Kaitan regards living people as food, but will not touch dead ghosts and ghosts.
When Gu Yun asked this question, Grandpa explained: "We don't really die, so we are still bound by the laws of this world."
The two told Yaeko's mother-in-law and Iijima Juanjuan that they would rest in the same room tonight.
This made him, as if trapped in a fantasy, keep repeating the evening when he encountered the cracked woman.
Anyway, Gu Yun had never heard of a horror story where the protagonist was a ghost and encountered a ghost.
Gu Yun and Grandpa are powerful warlocks, so they can ignore this weak barrier. However, the straight line distance from Iijima's old house to Kamakura makes it impossible for the two of them to rush directly.
"Um."
They have simple personalities, and helping grandpa is like making friends with him. They wish he would come and play with them more often.
Gu Yun asked: "But grandpa, didn't you say that you don't understand ghost stories?"
Gu Yun found that he could not grow bigger, which made him a little confused.
"So grandpa was like this when he was young!"
"good."
Even if ghosts are involved, it must be that they encountered strange stories while alive and were still tortured after death.
"Is there a spell that can make a spirit body grow older?"
Network means whether you know the gods.
He had seen the Slit Girl before, and had seen many poor souls trapped in ghosts by ghost stories.
"No," Grandpa said, "Besides, they're not tied to the hearse."
Gu Yun asked: "As for ghosts, aren't you afraid of being swallowed up by ghost stories?"
"Ah."
Gu Yun asked: "Could it be said that in the spirit state, we can change our appearance at will?"
These urban legends will continue to produce various hearses.
After the soul leaves the body, the body will enter a deep sleep state.
Just like this ghost bus summoned by grandpa, its driving range is very large, far beyond the road near Iijima's old house.
In other words, you can only freeze one form, and you can change it, but you can only engrave one form at a time, and it must be the state you are in at that time.
This point will still exist even if it becomes a spirit body.
Grandpa smiled and said, "With Master Tianhu, it will be much more convenient for you, Gu Yun, to travel between the two places than it is for me, Grandpa."
Gu Yun looked around and found that the two of them had passed through the woods outside the old house and came to a road beside a field.
"In addition, the resurrection speed of hearse-type ghost stories is much faster than other ghost stories."
Even with the help of gods, you can't come back.
"My spell is the medium of summons."
"Um…"
"Kamakura."
Grandpa stopped him and said, "This time, let's go through it in the usual way."
"This is the soul engraving technique."
"Why?"
Gu Yun saw the spell that his grandfather recited before, so if he actively summons it, can the ghost call the hearse?
In other words, you can't come back.
Theoretically, if a person can understand that he has died after being swallowed by ghost stories, then he will be led by the power of the underworld and be liberated.
"Um?"
If you destroy it today, a new one will appear tomorrow night.
"First, it is to extract their surplus value," Grandpa said, "Second, it is also because these victims do not know that they are dead."
Gu Yun is now in a spiritual state, so he can clearly see the strange aura emitting around this strange bus: "Is this a strange story, grandpa?"
Not long after, a person who looked exactly like Gu Yun appeared from his body like smoke.
"where are we going?"
Gu Yun said speechlessly: "In addition to being beautiful, this spell also has..."
"You can't come back if you die?"
He wears round glasses, looks handsome and gentle, just like a Japanese scholar from the previous era.
The status of the gods is higher than the spirits of the underworld, so they can bring some souls back to the living world.
Gu Yun glanced at himself lying down and felt very strange.
In fact, many powerful female sorcerers will keep their spiritual bodies in the most youthful and beautiful state.
"Then why did we encounter this car?"
This is not to say that ghosts will also be tired, but it is a special psychological suggestion that binds the soul and perception of the spirit body.
But if you want to grow bigger now, it's impossible.
"We have a god in our family," Grandpa said with a smile, "It really makes people feel at ease."
In other words, hearse ghost stories are usually accompanied by ghosts and ghosts.
"This is…"
Not all ghost stories are like the cracked girl, there are also all kinds of weird stories.
"its not right!"
"Why can't you even fly when your soul is out of body?"
"When you encounter weird stories like this in the future," Grandpa suggested, "As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, just ignore it."
"Um."
Gu Yun is not the kind of person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes.
The existence of ghost stories is closely related to human speech. You cannot eradicate it from the source, so it will be meaningless no matter how many times it is eradicated.