Chapter 79
On the way home, I was thinking about how to deal with the headless ghost. It was extremely cunning. I even suspect that Wang Hao's mother jumped off the bridge and died because it took advantage of her unstable mood.
The series of events that followed the bridge may have been related to it.
But Master Zhang and I didn't discover it at the time, which means it was hidden very deeply.
As soon as I got home, the old village chief was waiting at my door. He clapped his hands and stamped his feet, looking like he had something urgent to do.
When he saw me coming back, he hurried over and said, "Go check on Luo Zonglu quickly. He looks like he's in bad shape."
"The patient is dying, please send him to the hospital immediately. I can't treat any illness," I said.
"Just come with me and you'll know." The old village chief pulled me towards Luo Zonglu's house.
At the entrance of their alley, I heard an old man shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Where's my head? Where's my head?"
I immediately understood what the old village chief meant. It seemed that he was possessed by a ghost.
When I arrived at Luo Zonglu's house, I found out that his granddaughter Luo Yan was my elementary school classmate. At that time, they didn't want to play with me, and the situation only eased when I was about to graduate from elementary school.
Now she was a little embarrassed when she saw me, but I ignored it and looked at Luo Zonglu.
He was clearly showing symptoms of being possessed by a ghost. I attached energy to his eyes, thinking that I could see the possessed ghost, but the reality was beyond my expectation. His three souls and seven spirits were intact, and there was no ghost possessing him.
I have never seen such a strange thing. If a person is not possessed by an evil spirit or his soul is not damaged, he will not have the symptom of talking nonsense.
But this happened to Luo Zonglu.
Not only is he unconscious now, his face is sallow, his skin is dull, his eye sockets are sunken, his eye bags are dark, and his cheeks are deeply sunken.
The whole person looks very thin.
Luo Yan told me that her grandfather was fine yesterday. The villagers were threshing wheat these past two days, and the threshed wheat was placed in the threshing yard. He just stayed there overnight. Today, when she went to deliver food, she saw her grandfather in this state.
And from his family, I also learned that Luo Zonglu was not so thin yesterday and looked like a normal old man. In other words, he lost weight rapidly for unknown reasons overnight.
Since the naked eye couldn't see anything unusual, I could only place my palm on Luo Zonglu's forehead. As soon as I did so, I immediately realized something was wrong.
I let go of my hand and looked at Luo Zonglu's three souls and seven spirits again. From the appearance, I found that he was stronger than ordinary people. I secretly sighed at the cunning of the headless ghost.
He absorbs the souls of ordinary people, and then uses his own ghost energy to imitate the power of the souls. In this way, people with less Taoism or who are not particularly familiar with souls in the Xuanmen sect will not be able to detect the abnormality.
The headless ghost is very good at disguise!
I placed my hand on Luo Zonglu's forehead again, and in an instant, I used my own energy to gently wrap up his three souls and seven spirits completely, evaporating the ghost energy.
At this moment, Luo Zonglu began to struggle wildly, trying to push me away.
"Hold him down!" I said.
Although his family didn't know what was going on, they still held down his hands and feet. However, it was not easy and it took four or five people to hold them down.
As I used energy to purify his soul, his struggles became less and less, his skin began to turn pale, and finally he lay there groaning unconsciously.
The entire evolution process lasted for an hour. Now his soul is like a drop of ink dropped into a glass of clear water, and the entire water body is polluted. I need to purify all of his soul. If it weren't for my self-generated energy, I would definitely not be able to persist for so long.
Even so, after the purification was completed, I was sweating profusely and had no strength left in my body.
Just as I was about to withdraw my hand, a sinister and evil spirit suddenly came from Luo Zonglu's body and rushed into my body.
It turned out that this trace of ghost energy had been hidden in his flesh and blood, which was also the reason why Luo Zonglu became thinner overnight.
I didn't expect it to get inside me, trying to pollute my soul while I was weak.
I laughed inwardly.
It's simply walking into a trap.
Sure enough, the ghost saw that my soul was extremely powerful, and the black flames wrapped around my whole body, leaving it with no way to escape.
I directed the flames towards it, and in the blink of an eye it was completely burned to nothingness.
"Let's wait and see if it gets better tomorrow," I said.
Luo Zonglu now looks better, as if he has just recovered from a serious illness.
His family was very grateful to me and asked me to have dinner before leaving. Luo Zonglu's son, Luo Xian, handed me a red envelope. This is the custom. No matter how much, it represents the host's thoughts.
I didn't refuse, took the red envelope and nodded to him.
As for dinner, I didn't stay for it because I had to go back and think carefully about how to deal with the headless ghost.
Although this village rejected me when I was little, I was born here, and every blade of grass and tree here holds my childhood memories. I initially disliked the old village chief, but now I have a different opinion of him.
People are not static, and the same goes for interpersonal relationships.
I can't let the headless ghost harm the villagers.
The most important thing now is how to make it reveal its true form. The revealing talisman I used that day only revealed its appearance, but I didn't see its true form. This shows that it is very difficult to deal with, far more difficult than ordinary evil spirits.
What should we do?
I pondered over it.
Since it likes to suck people's souls so much, although I don't understand what it is doing, can I use this characteristic to lure it out?
First, find a person with a weak soul, put a ghost-attracting talisman on him, and let him walk on the Chunhe Bridge at midnight to see if it works.
I smiled inwardly because I already had a candidate.
That’s right, it’s Mao Jianming. He has been timid and has a weak soul since he was a child. Even if he doesn’t put up the ghost-attracting talisman, he may be followed by ghosts. What’s more, he has a higher IQ and a purer soul. I’m sure the headless ghost must like him.
I did what I said and asked Mao Jianming to come to me directly when he came back.
It was around seven or eight in the evening when he came back from Xiagou. I told him my idea. Although he hesitated for a moment, he still agreed.
It was not only because he was willing to help me, but also because his family and relatives were all active in this area. Who could have predicted whether he would be followed by the headless ghost? In order to prevent future troubles, he did not refuse, but in the end he still told me to protect his safety.
Sometimes he is very brave. For example, when he went to Eshan, he was not afraid of such powerful monsters. But when facing this ghost, he was scared to death. It may be because he was scared to death by Xie Baoyi when he was a child.
I told him to rest assured that I would definitely not let anything happen to him.
He called home and said he would not be going back that night. When Aunt Chen heard that he was with me, she was so happy that she agreed immediately.
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