Lin Yue was dumbfounded by the fat man's face-to-face confrontation, and immediately lost her voice. She hummed for a while, and then hesitantly said: "After all, now that people in the village believe Liu Banxian's words, it's as if he really You act like a living god, and something weird happened in the village a while ago, and your father..."
Lin Yue suddenly paused. She probably knew that it would be inappropriate to directly say that my father was the real culprit of skinning and killing people. It would probably make me furious, so he vaguely brought it over and continued:
"This bunch of weird things came to an end after the villagers listened to Liu Banxian's words and slowly left our daily life. So he asked me to take this wooden sign with me. I really don't dare to lose it. ah."
When Lin Yue said this, I finally understood what she meant, and it was human nature. After all, in the eyes of the villagers, I was basically the same as a "disaster", a "murderer", and a "son of a haunting spirit". "Impressions like " are hooked.
As for Liu Banxian, he rescued them from the dire straits, so that the number of victims in the village gradually stopped, and everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. It can be said that before this time, he was still a living god in the eyes of everyone. Mostly he was a barefoot magic stick who was doubtful about whether he was really reliable, but now he really has a bit of an immortal spirit, and he feels like a semi-immortal who has no clues.
This is a kind of unreasonable trust that is driven by the situation witnessed on the outside and comes from the heart. Although Lin Yue chose to act with me, she was probably quite affected by Liu Banxian’s rhetoric in her heart. Even if I told her this The wooden sign was of no use at all, but she still unconsciously thought that since it was given to her by Liu Banxian, he must have his reasons, and she didn't want to disobey him.
I sighed helplessly. I didn't want to add any psychological burden to Lin Yue, but I still said honestly: "Actually, you also know that Granny Ghost said that there is a powerful evil spirit following us all the way. When we encounter The female ghost creature and even the overturning of the train are all related to the deliberate mischief of that evil spirit, so we have always suspected that this evil spirit relies on one of us to exist."
"You mean, I was the one who brought that evil spirit..." Lin Yue took two steps back in horror and disbelief, and murmured, "How is it possible...it can't be me..."
I saw her lost look, and I secretly regretted that what she said was too direct and incompetent. I was just pointing my nose at her and calling her a disaster, so I quickly explained: "Don't think too much about it now. We are still not sure what the truth is, but it’s just because on the day you came, the evil spirits of the old lady happened to be agitated and went berserk, so I guess someone had tampered with you, most likely without your knowledge. Or without realizing it.”
Lin Yue calmed down a little. She thought about it silently for a while, shook her head and said: "From the time I knew you had left early, to the time I made my own decision to follow you, few people knew what I was thinking, and I didn't say it anywhere. I haven’t come into contact with anyone special. I must say that the only ones who showed up uninvited were Liu Banxian and this wooden sign.”
I hurriedly said, "Yes, we also feel strange about his intention of giving you this wooden sign, but now that it is confirmed that it is a complete waste, it makes no difference whether he keeps it or not, just in case he really does Some unknown and cleverly hidden tricks have been used by us, so I thought it would be better to destroy it just to be on the safe side."
"But why? There is no need for Liu Banxian to harm me, right?" Lin Yue looked at me with an innocent and harmless expression and said, "Aren't he and you traveling together to slay demons and eliminate evil spirits? And didn't he also protect you?
A village..."
I can't help but feel a little headache, because it involves a lot of things that even I can't explain myself, about the ancient well, about ghost relics, etc., and a large part of my precautions and suspicions about Liu Banxian is my subjective opinion.
Inferences and intuitions, as well as some visions that are like dreams and hallucinations, if I really have to explain them clearly, even I can't explain them.
After a while, I had to calm down and simply summarized: "In short, Liu Banxian is not as chivalrous and righteous as you think. He also has his own thoughts, so he is plotting against me. I will tell you the details in the future."
But his things are indeed very risky to me."
Seeing that Lin Yue's expression was still a little confused and hesitant, I simply said: "You just have to choose whether you believe me or him more. If you believe me, let me get rid of this wooden sign."
Finally, these words seemed to shock her a lot. She could also tell that I was giving an ultimatum, and the implication was very clear. If you believe in Liu Banxian more than you believe in me, then why go all the way with me?
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After a moment, she licked her lips and finally said hesitantly, "If you say that, then I must believe you. Anyway, I have been prepared to follow you no matter what happens. You are going to destroy me."
Just do it with this sign, I won’t stop you.”
I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and I finally explained it to this girl. Fortunately, she was determined to follow me, so when it comes to this kind of principle issue, my will must be the main axis, even if it is semi-forced.
I felt a little embarrassed, feeling that I was taking advantage of her feelings, especially when I saw her pitiful look.
But I didn't dare to stop the movement of my hand, and immediately threw the talisman to the fat man, for fear that he would regret it, whether it was her or me.
"I don't think it's better to see too much than to do too little. The nights are long and the dreams are many. Let's burn this rotten wood right now." The fat man raised the wooden sign and looked up and down, but still didn't see any special clues. "What kind of wood is this? It looks like this."
Dilapidated, elm? sycamore? pine? Anyway, it looks very old. Could it be that the furniture was directly dismantled and rebuilt?"
"If that's true, Liu Banxian is quite petty. Well, it fits his temperament quite well." I couldn't help but laugh. Although my subjective emotions were involved, my impression of Liu Banxian has always been the same.
With a broom on his butt to act like a wolf with a big tail, Liu Yishou sometimes looks unreliable, but at critical moments he looks more like a real outsider.
"Forget it, I don't care what kind of wood it is, just burn it to ashes." As the fat man said, he took out a true fire talisman from his pocket, pasted it on the wooden sign, formed a seal of fire with his hands, and said in his mouth
Say silently:
"Nan Ming Bing Ding, there are fifteen lights, hiding the flames in vain, borrowing the remaining samadhi, the Lord of Fire and Virtue, is as urgent as the law!"