It was almost dusk now, and the setting sun outside cast a dim glow, lengthening the shadows of Liu Banxian and me.
Liu Banxian's shadow was right next to my shadow. At this time, Liu Banxian's shadow started to twist strangely, and then he rushed towards my shadow like a hungry tiger pouncing on food. It seemed that he wanted to kill me. The shadow eats it.
"ah……"
After seeing this scene, I screamed subconsciously. I was really frightened by this weird scene.
My behavior naturally attracted Liu Banxian's attention. He looked around him curiously. At this time, his shadow had returned to normal, and he couldn't see anything abnormal at all.
"Yang Fan, what's wrong with you? Are you shocked?" Liu Banxian looked at me curiously, not understanding why I screamed before.
I did not reply to Liu Banxian's words for the time being, but looked at the shadows of me and Liu Banxian with a lingering fear. Some unknown changes must have happened to Liu Banxian, otherwise his shadow would not have turned into this. Virtue, I even have a weird idea.
Is it possible that there is a fierce ghost living in Liu Banxian's shadow? Otherwise, I really can't explain the previous changes in his shadow.
I'm a little scared now. If I hadn't screamed earlier and scared the shadow so that it didn't dare to mess around for a while, if his shadow really pounced on my shadow, would it really kill me? The shadow was swallowed up, just like the scene I encountered in my dream before.
And if my shadow is swallowed up, have I lost my shadow?
"Liu Banxian, let me ask you a question. You said that people become ghosts after death, so why are there no shadows?" I didn't answer Liu Banxian's question, but asked a question that didn't answer the question.
Liu Banxian obviously didn't expect that I would ask this suddenly. He frowned and looked at his own shadow, and fell into silence for a while. He didn't know if he had discovered something from my inquiry. Anyway, at this moment he was giving me I felt very depressed, and my mood suddenly became very lost.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Liu Banxian shook his head and told me that he just suddenly thought of something that had nothing to do with me. Then he began to answer my question: "Human shadow, I believe there is a scientific explanation, so I don't need to tell you." , it’s impossible for you, a college student, not to know this.”
I nodded. Scientifically speaking, shadows are caused by the linear propagation of light. When light shines on an opaque object, the object blocks the propagation of light, so there is a contour behind the object. The same shadow, this is the shadow.
But at this time Liu Banxian told me that in some folk legends, the shadow of a person is actually the illusion of the human soul. In the legend, some evil ghosts like to eat human souls, but in fact they want to dig out the three souls and six souls hidden in the human body. Ghosts are actually a bit troublesome, so some evil ghosts choose to attach themselves to people's shadows.
Through the connection between the shadow and the human soul, the shadow is completely assimilated. During the assimilation process, the human soul will continue to be sucked by the shadow.
"So, when people become souls, there is no shadow, because the shadow is originally a part of them. Of course, some people will lose their shadow. These people usually have their souls eaten by ghosts. Such people generally cannot survive.
Too long." Liu Banxian explained patiently.
His words immediately made me fall into silence. If Liu Banxian's current explanation is followed, then it is very likely that there really is a powerful ghost living in his shadow.
Now I'm starting to wonder whether to tell Liu Banxian about this.
I frowned and looked embarrassed. Liu Banxian sat next to me and looked at me curiously and asked: "Yang Fan, is there something you want to tell me? Why do I feel that after you come back this time?
It’s like he’s become a different person? If you have anything to say, just say it.”
"Just now I..." Seeing Liu Banxian's concerned look on his face, I almost subconsciously wanted to say the words that were already on my lips.
But when I said this, I suddenly trembled and something suddenly came to my mind.
This Liu Banxian was already dead. I have seen Liu Banxian's body in the coffin underground more than once. So what does Liu Banxian belong to now? Is it a walking corpse or a soul? If it is a soul, he should not have one.
Shadow is right, and if it is a walking corpse, then his body is here, what is it under the well?
Thinking of this, I felt scared. I haven't figured out what Liu Banxian is yet. I'd better not tell him about the shadow for now, just in case everything Liu Banxian is doing is just deceiving me.
, if I tell him about the shadow, wouldn’t that be just a warning?
"What happened to you just now?" Liu Banxian asked nervously.
I don't know why, but when I look at Liu Banxian now, I always feel that he is very nervous and seems to be worried about something in his heart.
"I just suddenly remembered what happened in my dream. Li Zhuzhu said that I was responsible for their deaths. Do you really think it was me who caused them?" In order to divert Liu Banxian's attention, I quickly told the man I met earlier in the well that
He told Liu Banxian about the female ghost, and also told Liu Banxian about the figure of the woman he saw next to the old locust tree after he got out of the old well.
"Do you think it's because I came into contact with that female ghost that brought disaster to this village?" I asked worriedly, and then looked at Liu Banxian cautiously.
Liu Banxian nodded noncommittally, "It's really hard to explain this matter to you. Didn't that woman have any other reminder besides the words she sang?"
After seeing me shaking his head, Liu Banxian suddenly stood up, "You are born and I am not born? We might as well make a guess. If this female ghost is actually a person from our village, then who is it? How can we find out?
Where is this person?"
Listening to Liu Banxian's words, my mind instantly came to a realization, "Village Chronicles."
Our village is relatively conservative and traditional. Each village chief will have a village journal in his hand to keep track of all the big and small things that happened in the village. Just like the previous deaths, they will be recorded by the current village chief.
Write it into the village chronicle that belongs to him.
The village chronicles of village chiefs have always been kept in the hands of the current village chief.