Chapter 1173 The Returnee's Notes 247
Like Ouija boards, mirror spirits are ghosts, but for a ghost to become a mirror spirit that exists by attaching itself to reflective materials like mirrors, it requires a series of coincidences.
Neither the spirit in that university in Shanghai nor the one in front of us was formed naturally, but was man-made.
Upon hearing Xie Ning's question, the mirror spirit inside clutched its head in pain, its expression changing once more.
Seeing this, Xie Ning ran out and brought over the small oil lamp.
The oil on it is quite special. Lighting this small oil lamp can bring the soul back. In addition to the effect of the incantation, it also has an effect on the soul.
It's about appeasement.
The spirit can feel inner peace when it stays by the oil lamp, as if it is in a place where the soul returns.
Xie Ning herself had never experienced it; it was all described in the book, which is why she tried using it.
Whether it was what the old lady taught her or what she learned from that book, there was a lot of practical experience she didn't actually have.
I should write down some of today's small successes in my notebook.
The spirit seemed to have calmed down. It reached out its hand towards the mirror, trying to escape, but Xie Ning had already drawn a cage, and it could only remain trapped.
However, just in case, Xie Ning could not release it directly.
After trying a few times, the Mirror Spirit gave up. Instead of answering Xie Ning's question, it tilted its head and looked at Xie Ning, asking, "Where is this?"
"The Lu family."
"Lu...Lu, Lu Jianhua?"
The spirit moved even closer, as if her face had been magnified.
"You mean Lu Jianhua, the youngest uncle in the Lu family?" Do these two know each other?
"Hmm... Is he alright?" The Mirror Spirit spoke slowly, almost mechanically, her eyes fixed intently on Xie Ning.
"He's fine." Xie Ning didn't say anything more, because she didn't know the relationship between the two and was afraid that it might cause some bad consequences.
"That's good."
The Mirror Spirit's lips twitched, as if she wanted to laugh, yet it was tinged with sadness; she remembered so many things.
Lu Jianhua is doing well; she is happy, but she is also afraid that she will be forgotten.
Even though I tell myself I shouldn't think like this, because forgetting her is the only way to start a better path.
But she still felt sad. She still hoped that someone could remember her even if it was just a small memory of her.
After a long silence, she remembered the question Xie Ning had just asked her and couldn't help but look at the girl standing straight across from her again.
I didn't expect her to be so patient.
"I am Yi Mingdu's older sister... Yi Mingzhu..." Yi Mingzhu spoke slowly, and Xie Ning did not urge her.
Yi Mingzhu subconsciously moved closer. She was now not only Yi Mingdu's older sister, but also a ghost spirit kept by Yi Mingdu.
Her ancestors were people of the unorthodox path, but at that time, they did not master the technique of refining mirror spirits to serve them, but instead used other methods to profit themselves.
For example, controlling ghosts to harm people, and then reappearing to subdue the ghosts, and so on, are numerous.
Later, an ancestor somehow learned how to cultivate a mirror spirit. At first, all attempts ended in failure, but later, someone succeeded by chance.
The ancestor combined that person's experience and continued refining, and actually succeeded.
The ancestor used the corpse of one of his relatives, who, before dying, used runes to preserve his soul.
Because of the karmic ties between relatives, ghosts can be better controlled by humans.
In the beginning, one of the husband and wife was used as the ghost to serve as the mirror spirit.
Of course, this involves many untold sordid affairs, after all, very few people would willingly be used as imperial servants even after death. At this point, Yi Mingzhu paused. She was a member of the Yi family, but she and Yi Mingdu were half-siblings, sharing the same mother but different fathers.
Her father died long before she was born.
However, even after she grew up, she still saw the figure of her biological father, who was trapped in her mother's mirror.
Her mother made her... also refine Lu Jianhua into a mirror spirit.
Even though Lu Jianhua was in very good health at the time, it is still easy for someone to die quietly.
Yi Mingzhu couldn't do it, and she knew it was wrong, so she went to the police station to report it.
"But... no one paid any attention to me, and in the end my mother came to take me back."
And she remained forever in that dark night.
My mother said she was a traitor.
Her brother said that her death would be worthwhile.
And this value is to become the spirit of Yimingdu.
The bond between lovers allows them to successfully refine the Mirror Spirit, while the karmic bond between blood relatives not only makes the refining process smoother.
Moreover, it allows him to control the spirits and use them for his own purposes even when he is still young.
Of course, mirror spirits also vary in strength. If you want to make the mirror spirit in your hand stronger, you need to consume life souls.
The so-called "living soul" refers to the spirit that is drawn out before a person has truly died.
Under Yi Mingdu's control, she had consumed the souls of many people, but while consuming the souls, she also left some of them behind.
That's why she had so many faces just now.
They are not completely dead...
"So, the next living soul that Yi Mingdu wants you to eliminate, or rather consume, is Lu Qi? Why?"
Lu Qi once said that she and Yi Mingdu grew up in the same compound and were even classmates in elementary and middle school.
If Yi Mingdu wanted to get rid of Lu Qi, why wait until now? After all, there were so many opportunities.
Yi Mingzhu knew about this, "My mother wanted to match him with Lu Qi, and he did a good job, but Xiao Qi didn't like him."
Of course, Yimingdu isn't something I really like either.
It's all for profit.
When Yi's mother had Yi Mingzhu turn Lu Jianhua into a spirit, Lu Jianguo was just a junior clerk.
Now that the Lu family has risen to a high position, if Lu Qi can marry Yi Mingdu, it will help Yi's father reach even greater heights.
Given his already negative feelings towards Lu Qi, and the fact that he had been consistently neglected, Yi Mingdu was suddenly confronted with a backlash of his previously suppressed emotions when his mother told him that he no longer needed to appease Lu Qi...
When Yi Mingzhu mentioned the "Strange Path," Xie Ning had already contacted the relevant departments.
After all, she had encountered many issues that required the relevant departments to handle, so Xie Ning kept their contact information.
As soon as the message was sent, Xie Ning suddenly realized that she seemed to have spent too much time. What if Yi Mingzhu was controlled by Yi Mingdu to take Lu Qi's soul?
With Yi Mingzhu's strength, she wouldn't need to spend that much time.
Yi Mingzhu hasn't gone back yet, which probably means she's already alerted the enemy.
Xie Ning quickly ran to the window and opened the curtains. Sure enough, the candlelight there had been extinguished, but she could still vaguely see that the lights in the villa were still on.
She overheard Aunt Hu talking for a bit, saying that the nanny from the neighboring villa had taken leave to go home, so if there was anyone in the Yi family's villa, it should only be Yi Mingdu.
In just a short while, the lights over there went out.
Then the lights in the yard came on, and then a car drove out.
Xie Ning let out a breath, slung her bag over her shoulder, and ran back to the bathroom, where Yi Mingzhu was still locked in the mirror.
"He escaped."
Even if they sensed something was amiss, they shouldn't have run away so quickly. The other party was far too vigilant, and they abandoned Yi Mingzhu, the spirit, far too quickly.
Yi Mingzhu moved a little closer and touched the mirror with her hand. "I can find him."
He paused, then continued, "There's a mirror in the bathroom on the second floor. That was the medium through which I was brought into the Lu family."
But when Xie Ning ran up to the second floor, the small mirror was already broken.
Yi Mingzhu only needed to think for a moment to understand her brother's purpose in doing so: "He was afraid that I would lose control and go back through this mirror."
She had also learned from her mother, so she naturally understood some of the rules.
The reason she asked Xie Ning to bring her to find this mirror was indeed to quickly return to Yi Mingdu's side. How could she possibly... let go of the younger brother who had controlled her for so many years?
Yi Mingzhu's eyes shifted slightly. The other remnant souls within her body were difficult to control, but she couldn't afford to lose control now.
Xie Ning opened the Soul Umbrella, intending to take Yi Mingzhu inside, but after glancing in the direction of the Yi family villa, he closed the umbrella.
Then she took out her watch.
The watch crystal is also reflective. "If you come in here, will you be able to control yourself?"
I'll try my best.
Even if Yi Mingzhu gave a definite answer, Xie Ning wouldn't believe it completely. So after Yi Mingzhu went in, she took out a talisman. With a short incantation, the flames instantly burned the talisman, and the remaining ashes fell onto the watch.
Yi Mingzhu inside felt a sense of constraint, but she did not resist.
Xie Ning turned around and knocked on Lu Qi's door, "Xiao Qi, are you asleep?"
Influenced by a strange atmosphere, Lu Qi couldn't sleep at all, so he just sat on the bed with the light on and looked at the documents.
Seeing Xie Ning carrying a bag, Lu Qi asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
"My friend needs to contact me urgently, Xiao Qi, can I borrow your car?"
Lu Qi didn't think too much at the moment and directly pulled Xie Ning to run to the garage, because she sometimes learned to drive and the car keys were with her.
"My family only has two vehicles right now, one is a car driven by my uncle, and the other is a motorcycle driven by my older brother. Which one do you want?"
After she finished speaking, Lu Qi vaguely remembered that she had forgotten to ask Xie Ning if she could drive.
Since Xie Ning said he wanted to borrow the car, then he must... know how to drive, right?
Xie Ning originally wanted to choose the car, but after seeing the motorcycle, she raised an eyebrow and said, "This one."
Lu Qi's worries vanished the moment Xie Ning got into the car with a flourish, "Helmet! Helmet!"
Xie Ning didn't know how to ride such a motorcycle, but she always liked to try new things to improve her skills, so she would still make time to learn.
The wind howled past, and Xie Ning headed directly in the direction indicated by Yi Mingzhu.
Of course, Yi Mingzhu only gave a direction, but there was no straight road on the ground, so Xie Ning had to take a detour.
Yi Mingdu didn't notice Xie Ning chasing after him, since the two were still quite a distance apart. At that moment, he was driving and talking on the phone with his mother.
After discovering that the Mirror Spirit was out of control, Yi Mingdu called his mother because he didn't know what was wrong.
What he fears most is that the Mirror Spirit will lose control and turn back to kill him.
So he immediately listened to his mother's advice and broke the small mirror. After doing this, he originally wanted to wait until tomorrow to find out what was going on, but his mother told him to leave and booked the earliest flight.
Let him go abroad directly.
People like them can also calculate. Yi Mingdu is facing a calamity here. If he survives it, he will be worry-free for the rest of his life. Yi's mother only realized it was today after receiving a call from Yi Mingdu.
But the weather turned bad; a light drizzle began to fall, hitting the windshield and gradually blurring the neon lights.
It's raining.
I don't know if the flight will be delayed.
Xie Ning, who was chasing after someone, was speeding along a road with few people and vehicles when suddenly someone rushed out in front of him, forcing Xie Ning to stop.
She was already driving very fast, and the person who rushed out was also reckless.
If Xie Ning's skills were slightly inferior, he would have really crashed into it, after all, the road was very dark and it was raining now.
Seeing Xie Ning stop the car, the person who had stopped the car quickly ran over, "Please, my car is broken down, can you take me to the city hospital? Please."
Fine rain dampened her hair, and raindrops clung to her eyelashes, making it hard for her to open her eyes.
Even through the damp smell of the rain, Xie Ning could still smell the blood; this woman must be injured.
Moving my gaze downwards, I saw a long scratch on the arm of the woman who was holding my hand, as if it had been scraped by a piece of metal.
Xie Ning roughly calculated the distance from here to the hospital, and then took out a bandage from his backpack to quickly stop the woman's bleeding.
The woman felt her vision blurring. She was panicked and kept pleading. She flagged down many cars, but only Xie Ning stopped. Perhaps she was desperate.
"Please, take me to the hospital..."
She was really in a hurry; she was afraid that if she was even a little slow, it would be too late...
"Get in the car!"
Yi Mingzhu asked anxiously, "What about Yi Mingdu?"
Xie Ning didn't say anything, just focused on driving. The wind and rain were heavy, and she might be better at driving a car, but that car couldn't keep up with the speed of this modified motorcycle.
The woman behind Xie Ning clung tightly to his waist, and the increased speed made her subconsciously bury her face in Xie Ning's back.
All he could hear was the whistling wind; everything else was cold except for the area near Xie Ning, which was slightly warm.
When the car stopped, she was still in a daze, staring at the hospital not far away. We'd arrived.
"I'm leaving now." Xie Ning turned a corner and continued chasing after the person.
"Thank you, my name is..."
Before the woman could finish speaking, only a trail of exhaust fumes remained where Xie Ning had been standing. Feeling somewhat embarrassed, she lowered her hand, caught her breath, and then ran towards the hospital with trembling legs.
Raindrops pattered against her face, as if she were back on the day she brought her aunt home.
It was the same late night, with lightning flashing and torrential rain pouring down. Her aunt huddled in a corner, her eyes vacant like a puppet.
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