Chapter 220: The Youth of the Past
[Have you forgotten our previous encounter? well】
[Although I have forgotten our encounter, I am still as helpful as last time]
[I wonder if Gugu can help them in any way]
Qi Gu took a step forward and walked to the side of the ship. He was only a few dozen centimeters away from the kind-hearted ghosts' fishing boat. The fishing boat was much taller than the speedboat. Qi Gu stood up straight, but his head could not reach the deck of the cabin, so he could only speak with his head tilted back.
"Is this your nth time going to Haigong Temple?" Qi Gu said solemnly.
The kind-hearted ghost thought he was just curious, thought for a moment, and said, "We have to go fishing every year at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, but in the past not all of us brothers went together. After all, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, there are many things to do and we are busy. So sending one or two representatives here counts as having been here."
Qi Gu originally wanted to use words to remind them that they were dead and end this eternal cycle, but he unexpectedly asked for a new clue. The year and month of birth often have unusual meanings in metaphysics. For example, most monsters and ghosts want to rely on pure yang people or extremely yin people to do something.
This undoubtedly provided Qi Gu with a new perspective. His eyes swept across the pale faces of several people on the fishing boat. The light was bright now. Although the fishermen looked pale, Qi Gu could see the clues from the black and red silk threads wrapped around them. Then he pointed to the young man standing at the back. He looked immature, with a broad frame and a thin body. He had a regular appearance, but there was a bit of enchanting red between his eyebrows and said, "He has never been here before, right?"
The kind-hearted ghost was stunned for a few seconds, then asked in surprise, "How do you know? My little brother has a weak constitution and is easily attracted by evil spirits. Our local fortune teller has told us not to take him to evil places before he reaches adulthood, otherwise he may lose his soul or even his life. He has been curious about the Haigong Temple since he was a child, and he always wants to come with us every time we go out to sea. It was only this year that he finally became an adult, and his parents finally agreed to let him come along."
Therefore, Hai Gong is not a moron who kills his own believers wantonly. Instead, he selects those believers whose birth dates and horoscopes meet his requirements and then takes action.
As for the rest of the people on the fishing boat, they were just incidental.
After all, to Hai Gong, it's just the lives of a few ants.
After figuring this out, Qi Gu also understood why the previous crew ghosts would attack the members of the "Evil" crew at will, because their birthdays did not match, and the only value was to expand the influence of the incident, so that more people would know about the existence of Hai Gong and make a wish.
Making a wish to Hai Gong is a very important medium. The moment of making a wish is equivalent to a netizen with little security awareness entering a website without security protection. At that moment, all the information of the netizen is completely open to the website.
Hai Gong uses this procedure to screen whether believers meet his standards.
Lin Hanzhi also wanted to understand this, and followed Qi Gu's gaze to look at the young man. Suddenly, his expression froze, and his eyes stared at the bright red color between his brows for a long time - that bright red color was a mark of one of the Lin family's magic. The only function of this magic was to protect the soul from leaving the body at will, and it was mostly used on young and weak children or old people suffering from nightmares... Of course, the death of the person who was cast the magic was not within the scope of protection of this magic.
Decades ago, no one knew which elder of the Lin family left this mark on the young man's forehead.
But Lin Hanzhi couldn't help but be a little distracted by this.
It was the first time that Qi Gu noticed something was wrong with Lin Hanzhi. After all, in the past, Lin Hanzhi would always come forward to speak for him, and he would watch Lin Hanzhi slacking off with an approving look.
But today, Lin Hanzhi seemed quiet and depressed.
When I turned around, I saw Lin Hanzhi's drooping eyelashes, hiding the extra emotions in his eyes.
"Do you recognize that mark?" Qi Gu raised his eyes and clearly noticed that Lin Hanzhi was in a bad mood.
"That red mark is a mark from my family's magic, and it can solidify the soul." Lin Hanzhi's voice was steady, as if he didn't feel it was sad to meet the mark left by a deceased relative after so many years. He just looked at the kind-hearted ghost and asked, "Who left the mark between your brother's eyebrows?"
Could this be related to the incident at Haigong Temple?
Qi Gu paused for a moment, took a step back stiffly, and held Lin Hanzhi's bracelet-wearing wrist with his fingertips. His movements were silent but powerful.
[Is Zhizhi’s family a very good family of ghost catchers? No wonder he is so rich.
[Gugu really married into a wealthy family]
[In the future, the whole family can exchange ghost catching techniques with each other, which is a great relationship]
[But why does Zhizhi not look very happy? Is there something wrong with that elder? 】
[I don't think so. He even asked which elder it was. If he knew who did it, he wouldn't have to ask that.]
[Gugu suddenly stepped back and held Zhizhi's hand... I hope it's not what I think, alas]
【What's the meaning? 】
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The kind-hearted ghost thought for a moment and said, "That happened seven or eight years ago. At that time, my brother's soul accidentally left his body, so my family took him to a witch's house to call back his soul. But we met a half-grown boy at the witch's house. The boy looked lazy and about the same age as my brother, but he directly took action and left this mark between my brother's eyebrows. Since then, my brother has never suffered from soul-leaving syndrome again."
On the side, the kindhearted ghost's second brother carefully observed Lin Hanzhi's eyebrows and eyes, and suddenly interrupted: "Come to think of it, your eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to those of the boy back then, but yours is more delicate, and he is more heroic."
Lin Hanzhi vaguely guessed who that person was back then.
If nothing unexpected happened, more than thirty years ago, when he was about ten years old...that man should be his father. It turns out that my father had been here when he was a child. What did he come here for?
Lin Hanzhi seemed to want to smile in response to the compliment, but he was unable to control the muscles on his face, so he just pulled the corners of his mouth and then turned the matter back to the main business: "Do you know what he came to Mindi for?"
I didn't hold much hope for this question. After all, my father and these brothers were just casual acquaintances, so it was normal that he didn't know anything.
Sure enough, the fishermen all shook their heads.
Lin Hanzhi held on to a slim hope and asked for the address of the witch. However, it has been more than 20 years since the fishermen brothers passed away. The witch was already quite old at that time, and it is unknown whether she would still be alive today.
But... Lin Hanzhi felt that he had found a clue about the Lin family's murder case, a clue that seemed to be there and not there, normal but with some unusual aspects.
The USB flash drive he found in Wang Shi’s cemetery did record a lot of information that Wang Shi had traced back, but that information was still not enough to piece together the truth of that year.
Those clues always lack a few of the most critical central pieces of the puzzle, so even though there are quite a few clues, they are still scattered.
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