Chapter 18: Summoning the Immortals to Continue the Destiny in This Life
The nurse put the unconscious Yu Xiaoyan back on the bed and tied the straitjacket again.
"hiss--"
Lin Zhuyue sat on the chair with the help of Shi Can.
"I think my foot is a little twisted."
Shi Chan asked, “Does it hurt?”
Chu Hongyu also asked with concern: "Do you need to take a look at the film?"
Lin Zhuyue shook his head and replied:
"It's just a little stinging, nothing serious, it should be fine."
Shi Can turned to look at Yu Xiaoyan who was still sleeping:
"Does she often go crazy like this?"
"There are moments of clarity, but more often than not, I'm crazy."
The nurse pointed to the scratched wall and said,
"She would often scratch the wall, even when her hands were covered in blood, and she would yell things like 'Go to hell' and 'Let me die' while scratching. We put her in a straitjacket and tied her to the bed, but she always managed to break free. She was so strong that she didn't even look like a little girl."
"The tranquilizers didn't work for her, and neither did increasing the dosage, so we're not giving her any of them now."
Shi Can nodded and made a judgment:
"This pen fairy is very powerful."
Just then, Shican's phone rang.
"It's Ye Yangjia." Shi Can answered the phone, "Hello?"
Ye Yangjia's voice came from the other end of the microphone:
"The soul has been found, but two souls are missing. I don't know if they have dispersed or been captured. How are you doing? Have you found the Pen Fairy?"
Shi Chan said nothing.
After all, they were childhood friends. Even through the microphone, Ye Yangjia could tell what had just happened from Shi Can's silence. He said in shock:
"You missed?"
Wen Miyan's voice also came out vaguely:
"You can't even catch a pen fairy?"
Shi Chan's voice was filled with deep dissatisfaction:
"This pen fairy is really weird. He started provoking us as soon as we arrived at the hospital. He's so brave, I thought we were going to have a head-on confrontation. Who knew he would run away?"
"Come over here in a taxi. If Fan Taotao's soul is trapped, it must be the work of the Pen Fairy. Catch him and take back the two souls. Otherwise, Fan Taotao will be missing two souls and will probably be a fool when she wakes up."
Shi Chan hangs up the phone.
Lin Zhuyue asked worriedly, "Can we still catch him?"
Chu Hongyu was also a little worried: "If he runs away as soon as he sees the spiritual master, won't it be difficult to catch him?"
"There are always many ghosts who run away when they see a spiritual master."
Shi Can snapped his fingers, his eyes already filled with anger, and said,
"If we fail to capture him like this, the Spiritual Master's House's mission completion rate will drop by at least 40%. To maintain the reputation of the Spiritual Master's House, even if this Pen Fairy Master escapes to the ends of the earth, he must return to my Bagua bag and bank card, and also subsidize my partner's medical expenses."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "How do we catch it?"
Shi Can did not answer, but put a red rope around Yu Xiaoyan's ankle. There was a pure silver pendant on the rope. The pendant was full of cinnabar. The smooth outer shell was also engraved with dense spells. I don't know what the specific content is, but it should be used to ward off ghosts.
Shi Chan said to the medical staff:
"You don't need to tie her up anymore. She won't go crazy anymore."
The medical staff looked at Shi Can with disbelief, and no one untied the sleeves that were tightly bound around Yu Xiaoyan. They planned to wait until Xiaoyan woke up to see what was happening. If she really wasn't going crazy, they would untie the restraints, or even take them off completely.
"I need to talk to Yu Xiaoyan after she wakes up."
Shi Chan crossed his arms and told about his plan.
"But I don't really want to wait in the ward. So, let's go out for a cup of coffee and meet up with our classmates to reorganize our thinking for this mission."
"Deputy Minister Chu, please stay here and notify me if Yu Xiaoyan wakes up or if there are any special circumstances. Okay?"
Chu Hongyu looked at the medical staff and, after judging their intentions from their eyes, agreed to Shi Can's request:
"Of course, Mr. Shi, Ms. Lin."
Shi Chan nodded.
Since Chu Hongyu agreed, he came according to his own arrangements.
He extended his hand to Lin Zhuyue and asked, "Would you like a raw coconut latte or cappuccino? Can I help you downstairs? I think there's a place on the first floor where you can rent a wheelchair."
Lin Zhuyue slapped his hand away:
"I told you it's not serious! Not serious! You don't need help, and you don't need a wheelchair!"
She even stood up, walked a few steps, and jumped twice to show that there was nothing serious wrong with her legs.
Shi Can didn't know what to say anymore, so he could only nod:
"Okay, let's go to the cafe, let's go."
The two of them left the ward together, went downstairs, walked from the inpatient building to the hospital entrance, and found a coffee shop nearby that had good reviews, called Marshmallow Coffee Shop.
This is a small coffee shop, with only three people running it, including the owner. But they have a wide variety of coffees, other drinks, and desserts like small cakes, cookies, ice cream, and even freshly baked muffins.
"Hello, where would you like to eat?"
The waiter had just served coffee to a customer and was holding a round wooden tray in his hand. Before he could put it down, he started to serve Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can who walked in.
“You can sit in any empty seat in the store now.”
Shi Chan asked, “Is there a private room?”
The clerk replied gently and reminded:
"There are two private rooms, both of which are empty now. But private rooms require an additional charge, 368 yuan per room, which can be used for two and a half hours, and renewal is required after the time limit."
What the clerk meant was that the private room was not cost-effective, so forget it.
Lin Zhuyue goes against the wind:
"Then we'll have a private room."
It's just 368 yuan, not pounds. She won't feel bad about spending the money.
Moreover, Ye Yangjia and Wen Miyan arrived soon, and everyone wanted to discuss the matter of catching the Pen Fairy together. Considering the secrecy of the spiritual master and the task, it would be more convenient to talk in a private room.
The clerk took Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can to the private room, and as they walked, he kindly told them the password of the store's wireless network.
Shi Can took out his cell phone and sent Ye Yangjia his location.
After entering the private room, Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can sat down face to face, scanned the QR code on the corner of the table with their mobile phones, and ordered the drinks and food they wanted.
Lin Zhuyue ordered an orange cinnamon latte and a blueberry chocolate muffin, while Shi Can chose Blue Mountain coffee and mango gelato.
Before the coffee was served, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia had already arrived.
They were both carrying two yellow cloth bags.
"Is this the Bagua bag used to collect souls?"
Lin Zhuyue was a little confused and asked,
"Why do you have to carry two? Can't one bag hold them all?"
"The place where we are looking for Fan Taotao's soul still has some souls that cannot be reborn, so we just collect them. However, the living souls and the dead souls cannot be together, so Fan Taotao's soul and those dead souls need to be separated into two Bagua bags."
Wen Miyan showed the two bags to Lin Zhuyue.
"The eight trigrams above can be rotated and adjusted. The Qian position is for living souls, and the Kun position is for ghost souls."
It’s amazing…
Wen Miyan put away the Bagua bag and asked:
"Speaking of which, how did you fail?"
Lin Zhuyue spoke before Shi Can:
"This is my fault. This is what happened..."
Lin Zhuyue told Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia everything that happened after entering the mental health center.
When Wen Miyan heard Yu Xiaoyan scratching the wall with her hands, she subconsciously looked at her well-maintained nails and felt inexplicably painful.
After listening to the whole story, Ye Yangjia comforted him:
"It's not your fault. You've done a great job."
"How do we catch this pen fairy?"
Lin Zhuyue was a little sad.
"Shi Chan said he could still be caught... Is there really a way to catch him?"
Lin Zhuyue doesn't know much about ghosts.
But she can replace this pen fairy with a fugitive among the living. The fugitive evades the police and plunges into the vast crowd. If there is no help from monitoring equipment and information database, when will this fugitive be caught?
"Unlike souls that wander around unconsciously, conscious souls usually have a place they stay in regularly. Search carefully for any suspicious locations. If you still can't find them, ask the ancestors for directions."
Shi Can paused and said,
"But this is a stupid method, and I don't recommend it."
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Is there any smart way?"
"Yes, there are."
Shi Chan picked up the ringing phone.
"Hello, Deputy Minister Chu. Is Yu Xiaoyan awake? She's not going crazy anymore, is she? Could you please send her from the inpatient department to my place? I need to talk to her."
The person on the other end of the phone was obviously embarrassed:
"Mr. Shi, she seems quite conscious now, but we can't just take her out of the inpatient department..."
Shi Can's attitude was a little tough:
"If you don't bring her out now, you'll have to bring her out later. This matter can't be solved without her. I need her help."
Chu Hongyu finally compromised.
Not long after, Chu Hongyu brought Yu Xiaoyan to the private room of the Marshmallow Cafe.
The girl was no longer wearing the straitjacket she wore in the mental hospital, but had changed into her everyday clothes. She lowered her head, her face still a little haggard, tears welling in her almond-shaped eyes, and her hands, both tied with gauze, resting on her legs, looked extremely pitiful.
Lin Zhuyue handed her a tissue.
But Shi Can, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia did not show much sympathy for the girl - it was her own fault that she ended up in her current situation.
"You can't just summon the Pen Fairy if you want to."
Shi Can took a sip of the coffee that had just been delivered and asked,
"How did you and your friend Fan Taotao do it specifically?"
Yu Xiaoyan had just wiped away her tears, but when Shi Can asked her this, her tears started falling again.
"After school was over, Taotao and I stayed in the classroom. We placed a piece of paper on the table with the words 'yes' and 'no' written on it, the 26 letters of the Chinese zodiac, and the numbers 0 to 9..."
Yu Xiaoyan sobbed and said,
"We sat on opposite sides of the table, held the same pen in our hands, and chanted the incantation to summon the Pen Fairy... I was the one who suggested playing with the Pen Fairy, but I was too scared, so I let Taotao be the main hand. Otherwise, I would have been the one hit by the car. It's all my fault..."
"What mantra did you recite?"
Yu Xiaoyan still clearly remembers the incantation that made her suffer a fate worse than death. She recited:
"Pen Fairy, Pen Fairy, you are my past life, and I am your present life. If you want to continue your relationship with me, please draw a circle on the paper."
Lin Zhuyue put down the muffin and said:
"In the urban legends I've heard, everyone silently chanted 'Pen Fairy, please come quickly!' At my old school, the students who lived in the dormitory played it in the dormitory, but they played it many times but never invited the fairy to come."
Shi Can asked Yu Xiaoyan: "What about you? How long did it take to invite you after you started reciting the mantra?"
Yu Xiaoyan was not sure:
"It should be less than three minutes. I'm not sure, but it definitely won't take long."
Shi Can turned to look at Lin Zhuyue:
"Do you know why your classmates can't come?"
Lin Zhuyue tentatively answered, "Because the dormitory has good feng shui and there are no ghosts?"
"Do you know the difference between you and tofu pudding?"
Shi Chan's eyes became compassionate and loving.
"Tofu pudding has brains, but you don't—"
Lin Zhuyue quickly interrupted his harsh words:
"Just kidding. It's because the dead are very concerned about words like 'past life' and 'present life', right?"
Shi Can put away his expression of pity for the mentally retarded person:
"That's a funny joke, don't make it next time."
Lin Zhuyue asked the same question again:
"Then how do I catch this pen fairy?"
Shi Can said in a relaxed tone:
"You can use some strong means to summon the ghost and then capture it. As long as you have something related to the ghost, the probability of successfully summoning the ghost is almost 100%."
Lin Zhuyue asked uncertainly:
"Anything related to this ghost?"
She and Shican have always been together, so when did Shican have this thing in his hands? How come she didn't know?
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