Chapter 106 Catching Ghosts
Qin Mengmeng has long known that the things related to Old Man Ma's Tiandi Station should be different from those related to her New Town High School.
Yu Jiuye once took out a talisman, which had been authenticated by the Blood and Flesh Monk. It should be the real thing, but it was useless to the dormitory head and the little ghost.
...That means there is another kind of ghost in the world.
Different from the little ghosts and dormitory heads.
The more traditional kind.
This is quite normal, or rather, it would be strange if there was none.
Qin Mengmeng narrowed her eyes and asked Old Man Ma, "You look very capable. You won't fail when you go to catch ghosts, right?"
Old Man Ma said, "Do you think I can live to this age? Do I look like someone who has had a car accident?"
Theoretically speaking, in the ghost hunting business, if something goes wrong once, someone will die.
But it’s hard to say.
There are too many fakes in today's society. Even Qin Mengmeng herself can be called a fake. She hesitated, thought again and again, and reiterated again and again: "I don't have any fighting ability at all. Not only do you want to catch ghosts, but you also have to bring me along as a burden. Big Boss, are you really okay with this?"
Old Man Ma: “…”
"Why didn't I realize you were such a nagging person before?"
If it weren't for the fact that she was his big client and they had a long-term and stable business relationship, he really wanted to just ignore her.
"Nothing can go wrong!"
Qin Mengmeng asked: "What can I do to help you? I can't help you with the fight at all."
She ran pretty fast.
But Old Man Ma is so old, if he really encounters danger, it doesn’t seem appropriate to leave him alone to resist the lightning.
Old Man Ma said, "Oh, my dear, it's just a small matter. If you don't want to go, you can just stay and watch the door for me."
Having said this, he had already forgotten why he had brought up the trivial matter of catching ghosts with Qin Mengmeng in the first place.
Qin Mengmeng raised her hands and shouted, "No! Take me with you."
She wanted to go and see.
Old Man Ma went to the ghostwriter who sold tablets next door and entrusted the shop to him to take care of. The ghostwriter huddled behind a chair listening to the storytelling. He just nodded when he heard the instructions, but he was quite polite when he saw Qin Mengmeng, and raised his hand to say hello.
Qin Mengmeng thought that Old Man Ma was really too confident that he had everything under control.
Even the paper-making shop was not closed.
That is to say, whenever a customer comes to the store and waits for him for a few minutes, he is sure to get away and go back to deal with the customer.
Qin Mengmeng took two steps back and looked at Old Man Ma's back.
The little old man had white hair that was dry and frizzy, with a little scalp showing. He had a hunched back and was shorter than Qin Mengmeng. At first glance, he was just an ordinary old man, but he looked quite energetic and not very lifeless. It seemed that he was living a good life and still had hope for the world.
Old Man Ma moved his legs slowly but steadily, passed the hospital security check and walked towards the inpatient department.
Qin Mengmeng is more familiar with Xincheng Second People's Hospital than her hometown.
Ever since Qin Dashan and Meng Meili moved from the village to the new urban area when she was in elementary school, basically no matter which relative was sick or what disease they had, they would go here for treatment.
This is the largest and best hospital in Xincheng.
Yang Kaixuan was also sent here for emergency treatment before, but she has now been taken home. Judging from the several short videos she posted, she is still in good health.
If nothing unexpected happens.
Qin Mengmeng will stay in the new city for a long time in the future. If she has any illnesses, big or small, in the second half of her life, she will probably come here often to see a doctor.
Old man Ma climbed the stairs to three floors without blushing or breathing hard, and stopped at the cardiology department floor.
There was a nurse standing at the nurses' station of the cardiology department. In theory, they were supposed to register people coming and going for safety reasons, but Old Man Ma and Qin Mengmeng walked straight in with their heads down, and no one paid any attention to them.
There are too many wards here, too many patients, and too many family members to count. The nurses are already too busy with their essential work, and the registration book is just a decoration.
Qin Mengmeng paid close attention to Old Man Ma's movements.
Others couldn't tell anything about Old Man Ma's actions; he moved as smoothly as flowing water, heading straight for the destination, like an old horse that knew the way.
But in the eyes of Qin Mengmeng, who knew the inside story, it seemed a bit weird.
Every time he reached a turn, he would pause slightly at the corner, then raise his eyes, twitch his nose, and then continue forward.
It was as if... he actually didn't know where to go, but there was an inexplicable smell guiding him.
Qin Mengmeng remained silent, not saying a word, and just followed him quietly.
She knows how to be an apprentice.
When she graduated from college, she knew nothing.
Students trained in civil engineering are not actually used to do plumbing, carpentry, wall building and floor tile laying.
When they were in school, they actually learned things like mechanics, engineering cost, and related laws and regulations. When they got to the construction site and had to work, they couldn't say they knew nothing... Anyway, there was a big disconnect between the curriculum and practice.
Later, Qin Mengmeng learned a lot of things on her own.
They are all half-baked and try to fool laymen. Eventually, they have reached the point where they can no longer make ends meet and can only earn a living by taking on home decoration jobs.
Nowadays, for many things, it’s not that no one is willing to teach, but mainly that no one is willing to learn.
She just needs to be humble, cautious, make rapid progress, listen more, ask more questions, think more, be polite, and most importantly, find the right teacher.
Good skills, good character, and no major problems - to be honest, such people are everywhere.
In the end, she spent more than two years hanging around on the construction site and learned more than she did in four years of college.
Let me put it this way, right after getting her college diploma, she almost thought she couldn't survive. She was sure she would run into obstacles everywhere in society and it would be hard for her to even find a job. There was no guarantee that anyone would hire her to tie steel bars.
He definitely wouldn't be able to earn a penny, so he could only go back to inherit his mother Meng Meili's bun shop and sell buns.
But two years later, she had regained confidence and felt that even if she was thrown into Africa, she would be able to survive with her own abilities and would not necessarily die there.
It was during this change of mentality that she finally became an anchor.
What a wonderful life experience.
Qin Mengmeng stared at the trembling white hair on the back of Old Man Ma's head and thought to herself, you can catch ghosts, I can build houses, we are all part of the society with different division of labor, we are all workers, no one is worse than anyone else, and no one should look down on anyone else.
While I was thinking about these messy things, I saw Old Man Ma finally stopped.
Following the gaze of Old Man Ma, the vision suddenly darkened, and I saw a small, dark corner in a ward on the backlit side deep in the corridor.
There was no one there, it was an empty ward, so the curtains were not drawn and the lights were not on.
Standing in the corridor and looking against the light, I could not see anything.
But Qin Mengmeng couldn't help but frown.
She felt a sudden chill.
Recalling the many novels and horror stories I have read.
She understood immediately.
It's a ghost.
But she was still hesitating whether to run away immediately or give Old Man Ma more trust. When she stood still, she suddenly felt hot again.
The warm warmth like sunlight immediately diluted the coldness like the deep water in the cold pond, making her feel comfortable and refreshed all over.
Did old man Ma come to the rescue?
Qin Mengmeng glanced sideways and saw that Old Man Ma had just taken out a piece of yellow paper from his arms, held it between two fingers, and stretched it into the sunlight-less ward.
It doesn't look like it's him.
The speed of alternating between hot and cold was so fast, even faster than Qin Mengmeng's decision to fight or flee, and it didn't seem like Old Man Ma would be able to react and lend a helping hand.
So why is this?
Qin Mengmeng planned to postpone the question, as it was obviously not the right time as Old Man Ma’s fight was about to break out.
Then Old Man Ma withdrew his hand, folded the yellow paper, stuffed it into his arms, turned around and walked back.
Qin Mengmeng was stunned: "Is this... the end?"
Old Man Ma gave her a strange look and said, "Of course, it's just a wandering soul that just died. It's nothing."
So fast!
So easy!
No wonder Old Man Ma didn't even close the shop, it was just like going out for a walk.
Qin Mengmeng hissed, took two quick steps to catch up, and asked, "Is it that simple? What kind of talisman paper did you take out? Is the talisman paper powerful or are you powerful?"
Old Man Ma shook his head and said, "It's just a Soul Binding Order. It's not a very powerful thing."
He pondered for a moment and explained to Qin Mengmeng: "It's not that I don't want to tell you about the things behind this, but you won't understand even if I tell you. It's like your thing that looks exactly like a pony. Even if you tell me, I still don't understand it."
"Everyone is in charge of their own business. I am in charge of the dead, and you are in charge of... I don't understand, but in short, we are all doing good deeds." Old Man Ma said: "Anyway, you just need to know that there are such things that remain in the world after death, so just come to me."
Old Man Ma patted his chest and said proudly, "I have been working in the funeral industry all my life. I collect corpses and keep them beautifully. I will never let the damned ones live!"
Qin Mengmeng: “…”
She tried to understand.
With her extraordinary ability to understand, she seemed to understand something.
She thought about it and lowered her head to take out her cell phone.
There were too many screen recordings, and even if she remembered the timeline clearly, it would take her a long time to look through them. Fortunately, this was a hospital and there were people around her, so it didn't matter even if she walked without looking at the road and looking at her phone.
On the way back, she finally found that memory with great difficulty.
The advantage of being a host is that every memory has ironclad video evidence, and it won’t be blurred or confused.
The scene stops at the part where she is confronting Yu Jiuye and Teacher Wang, trying to exorcise evil spirits with a talisman in her hand, and then she kneels down and becomes cowardly in a split second because the talisman is useless.
Then he took a screenshot of the talisman in Jiuye's hand.
All evils will retreat and all dharmas will not invade.
She handed the picture to Old Man Ma and asked, "Look at this spell. Is it from the same system as yours?"
Old Man Ma sighed and said, "Ziyun Temple..."
He said with contempt, "I am not rich enough to buy such a powerful and time-consuming Exorcism Order. I just used it to catch a wandering soul. I am just a poor old man who sells paper ingots."
Qin Mengmeng: “…”
"This is also for catching ghosts, right?"
Old Man Ma said disdainfully, "Of course they can be caught, but what the people at Ziyun Temple did was... It's like they had to give someone a golden sandalwood coffin board when they were farming at home. There's no need for that, you know."
Qin Mengmeng was silent.
It seemed that Yu Jiuye did spend a lot of money to buy that talisman paper.
Was I being ripped off? I just wanted to cure a cold but ended up getting a new lung?
"You haven't used it yet." Old Man Ma stretched his neck to take a look and said, "Did you buy it? Hurry up and ask those unscrupulous merchants in Ziyun Temple to return all the money they took from you. Even if it's easy for you to earn merit, you can't spend it that easily."
Qin Mengmeng was surprised: "My friend bought it with cash."
Old Man Ma frowned and said, "If your friend is telling the truth, then it must be that Ziyun Temple is not telling the truth. This thing cannot be used without consuming merit."
Qin Mengmeng thought to herself, no wonder everyone says Ziyun Temple is a profiteer.
Originally, everyone in the live broadcast room, including herself and Teacher Wang, felt that Yu Jiuye was being ripped off when they heard that he bought a piece of talisman paper for 197,000 yuan.
Unexpectedly, the most deceptive thing is the hidden consumption.
Money has a price tag, but merit is something you can't see or touch...
Qin Mengmeng hummed and said, "It's okay. I just asked. This thing is useless to the things on my side. If it is useful to the things on your side, it won't be considered that he was cheated too badly."
She has figured out the trick.
Dead.
alive.
Neither dead nor alive.
The first two things should have existed in the world for a long time. Each has its own rules and its own territory. After a long period of development, they are all stable and no trouble will occur.
Even if something happens, there are people to take care of it.
For example, when people die, there are people like Old Man Ma who come to clean them up and maintain social stability and basic order.
But recently, for some reason, a group of undead appeared...
Like the dormitory head and the little kids.
This intermediate creature, like a hybrid, usually has two directions.
Combining the strengths of both families.
Or it may have the shortcomings of both families.
It is not known whether it combines the strengths of both schools or the weaknesses of both schools. In short, this group of creatures in an intermediate state between death and life are not susceptible to the physical means of controlling the living, nor are they susceptible to the metaphysical means of controlling the dead.
So there was an app.
Qin Mengmeng already understood everything.
In fact, if she were smarter... Well, she is smart enough now!
After all, today was the first time I saw a truly dead ghost and a ghost messenger!
"So, you are the ghost messenger?"
Old Man Ma rolled his eyes and said, "It's just a random job to earn some merit. It's a part-time job. You can do it part-time, too."
Qin Mengmeng asked: "How to work part-time?"
Old Man Ma looked at her speechlessly, thought for a while, and considering that they would have to deal with each other for a long time in the future, he still gave her some advice: "With your current great merit and golden light, you just need to know where the ghost is, then sleep on the floor for one night, and you will naturally convert it."
So, the warm current just now was merit... uh, hidden virtue?
Qin Mengmeng frowned: "Then how can I know where the ghost is?"
Anyway, that thing is definitely useless against those intermediate-state ghosts in the underworld that are neither dead nor alive.
She was asking about dead ghosts like the one just now.
Old Man Ma said, "Well... ghosts like this are very rare. You can only encounter them by chance, but not by seeking them out. Generally speaking, whoever finds them first will own them."
Qin Mengmeng looked at Old Man Ma calmly and said, "Okay, I knew you were this kind of person a long time ago."
His meaning was clear.
He would never teach Qin Mengmeng how to find ghosts and let her steal his part-time job!
This old man is not an honest person.
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