Chapter 9: The mantra chanter here may have more ghosts than the onlookers...
The hand grabbed the back collar of Lin Zhuyue's clean white shirt, dragged her backwards, and then lifted her up, causing her to stagger, and dragged her out of the dark scene.
"Just listen to gossip and don't take it personally."
Shi Can let go of his hand and said to Lin Zhuyue,
"With such strong inspiration, you have to learn to protect yourself by not being too serious. Resonating with others carelessly can kill you."
resonance……?
Ye Yangjia handed the pancake to Shi Can:
"Are you done with the call?"
Shi Can nodded: "Yes, the police have started to clear the area, and people from the Urban Management will also come to help. I guess the crowd will disperse soon."
The goods in Nanjiang City are of good quality and low price. Four pancakes cost a total of 25.5 yuan, and my aunt even gave me 50 cents.
Four people were standing or squatting, eating pancakes at the street corner. The urban management car had arrived. The urban management officers thought that the four of them were also there to check in and join in the fun, so they came over to chase them away.
Shi Can took out a special certificate from his pocket, opened it and handed it to the urban management officer:
"We are special forces from the National Security Branch. We have been assigned the task of rescuing missing persons. After the crowd disperses, we will go in and carry out the mission."
After the urban management confirmed the authenticity of the documents, they did not ask to see the documents of the other three people and went to disperse the other onlookers.
Lin Zhuyue asked curiously, "There's also a special certificate?"
Wen Miyan nodded and said, "Yes, there are. After all, the Spiritual Master Mansion is an official department. And if you don't have an ID, you will easily be regarded as a suspicious person."
"There's someone in the next class who can interrogate corpses."
Shi Chan's words were filled with frivolous sarcasm.
"I was out on a mission, trying to make a corpse speak. I used a shovel to dig up someone's grave, but I forgot my special forces ID. So, I was mistaken for a grave robber, beaten up, and then taken to the police station."
"And now they've all been cremated. If they dig up the body, there's only an urn. Stupid."
"The biggest joke that happened in the Senior Department of the Spiritual Master Academy has caused them to be laughed at by the junior and senior students in the Enlightenment and Elementary Departments for two years. I think this joke can be laughed at for at least another five years."
Ye Yangjia took a bite of the pancake and said vaguely,
"The National Security Bureau was pretty quick in producing and mailing the documents, but no one expected you to be sent out on a mission just half a day after arriving in Tiancheng. Your special forces certificate will be delivered to the Spiritual Master Academy by tomorrow noon at the latest."
Five minutes later, the four of them finished eating the pancakes.
The four of them walked into the outpatient building together, went down the stairs to the second underground floor, and found the Mercedes-Benz S680 they had driven.
Shi Chan opened the trunk, and the four of them picked up their travel bags, took out their walkie-talkies, tuned them to the same channel, and tried to confirm that there was no problem with the walkie-talkies.
Ye Yangjia took two pairs of rings, one red and one blue. He handed the red pair to Shi Can, put one of the blue rings on his wrist, and gave the other to Wen Miyan.
Shi Can also put one bracelet on his hand and handed the other to Lin Zhuyue.
Lin Zhuyue put the bracelet on her wrist and asked, "What's the use of this?"
"You haven't opened your eyes?"
Shi Chan took out bamboo leaves and a silver bottle from the box in the corner of the trunk. The bottle made a sound when it was picked up, and it must be filled with water.
"How strange! With such a strong spiritual power, you should be able to see it naturally. Not only can you not see it, but you haven't even awakened it until your age."
Shi Can handed the bamboo leaves and water bottle to Lin Zhuyue:
"Dip bamboo leaves in water and wipe your eyes."
Lin Zhuyue took the bamboo leaves and the water bottle and said:
"I've heard the urban legend that rubbing your eyes with bamboo leaves dipped in water can open them."
"Fake."
Shi Chan mercilessly exposed it.
"Ordinary water won't work. It needs to be rootless water, and it needs to have been offered to the gods and ancestors, blessed and consecrated. Opening the eyes is sometimes like opening an orifice in the body, allowing people to communicate with ghosts and gods. Without protection, communicating with ghosts and gods is no different from seeking death."
Lin Zhuyue wiped his eyes with bamboo leaf water.
She blinked and found that the world in front of her was a little different from before.
Lin Zhuyue waved his hands in the air:
“It feels foggy, but it doesn’t seem to be…”
Shi Can nodded and said:
"That's right, it's foggy. It's Yin energy. It's normal for the underground of the hospital to have a lot of Yin energy. Look at the bracelet carefully again and concentrate."
Lin Zhuyue did as she was told. She saw a red thread emerging from the red bracelet on her wrist. The thread emitted a faint glow and floated lightly in the air. The other end was connected to the red bracelet on Shi Can's hand.
Lin Zhuyue looked at the bracelets of Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia again, and she saw a blue thread of the same color as the bracelets.
"Even teammates sometimes have to act separately. To prevent teammates from losing each other's tracks, a senior from the Spiritual Master's Mansion created a bracelet like this."
Wen Miyan explained the purpose of the bracelet,
"That residential building has three entrances, and it's quite large. For the sake of efficiency, Ye Yangjia and I will act separately."
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue:
"We two have to act together. You're the new guy, and you're my teammate, so I have to take you with me."
He added:
"It's really troublesome. I'm more used to fighting alone."
Ye Yangjia couldn't help but complain:
"You can fight alone, but don't just attack and not defend. If you do that, you'll end up on the ground sooner or later."
Shi Can shot back, "Repetitive words, disgusting."
They both rolled their eyes and turned their heads away.
Lin Zhuyue looked at Shi Can, then at Ye Yangjia, and always felt that these two people were like elementary school students.
"Are you all ready?"
Wen Miyan bit her lip to suppress her laughter and said,
"If it's ready, let's go to the scene. The ghost hunting team that disappeared in the building is still waiting for us to rescue them."
Shi Can and Ye Yangjia then became serious.
Shi Chan closed the trunk of the Mercedes-Benz S680, and the four of them went up to the ground together, carrying their own travel bags.
The crowd of onlookers surrounding the scene of the incident diagonally opposite the hospital had been dispersed, leaving only police, urban management officers and two layers of cordon.
Shi Can, Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia presented their special certificates. When it was Lin Zhuyue's turn, Shi Can took out an electronic version of the certificate.
After verifying the authenticity, the police raised the cordon and allowed Lin Zhuyue and his group to enter the residential building.
After wiping his eyelids with bamboo leaf water, Lin Zhuyue could see that the residential building was foggy and gloomy, giving him an extremely terrifying and creepy feeling.
"The main gate is located opposite the hospital, and there are east and south gates at the ends of the two wings of the residential building."
Shi Can glanced at the topographic map in his hand and arranged,
"Lin Zhuyue and I will go through the east gate, Wen Miyan will go through the main gate, and Ye Yangjia will go through the south gate. We will search the entire building. If we encounter anyone we cannot defeat, we will use the intercom to call for help."
Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia had no objection to Shi Can's arrangement. They picked out a few things they needed from their travel bags, and one entered the main gate while the other walked towards the south gate.
Lin Zhuyue followed Shi Can to the east gate.
Lin Zhuyue said, "Can I ask a question?"
"ask."
Lin Zhuyue pondered for a moment and asked:
"The photos we received showed traces of a female ghost on the seventh floor of the east wing of the building. We all know where she is. Can't we just go find her directly? Why split up and search the entire building? If that were the case, the police would have found her long ago, right?"
Shi Can walked in front and laughed:
"You're a bit naive, teammate."
Lin Zhuyue frowned slightly and wanted to ask why.
Shi Can also knew her doubts and said:
"The story of a woman working the night shift at a dance hall in an old residential building in Nanjiang City hanging herself shocked the nation. The story of her transformation into a ferocious earthbound spirit has become an urban legend. Her presence is the most conspicuous, but that doesn't mean she's the only evil spirit in the building."
"This building has bad feng shui. It breeds evil spirits. Places with too much evil spirits will attract ghosts. Even ghosts that have never died here may be attracted here and linger in the building all year round. Maybe there are more ghosts in the building than the onlookers just now."
Shi Chan dragged out his tone and said:
"It's not certain which ghost caused the ghost-hunting team to disappear."
Lin Zhuyue had more doubts in his heart:
"Then how do we find the ghost-hunting team?"
Shi Can raised a somewhat arrogant smile on his face. His right hand, which was not holding the travel bag, was clenched, as if he was holding something. His tone was quite confident:
"Catch all the ghosts here and interrogate them one by one."
Lin Zhuyue: "..."
Countless ghosts, a reckless ghost-hunting team, powerful yet conceited teammates, and myself as a layman—
Before entering the building, Lin Zhuyue already felt the difficulty of this mission.
Lin Zhuyue asked, "Will Wen Miyan and Ye Yangjia do the same?"
"Yes."
Shi Chan replied,
"I know you think we're crazy, but this has always been Class 1's style. We have strong individual abilities and strive for efficiency. This is why the other, more tepid classes are left far behind."
Shi Can paused and reminded:
"Lin Zhuyue, you are one of our team. You must show the integrity and courage of our team. Don't become one with ordinary people."
Lin Zhuyue felt the cool night breeze, feeling confused.
Is this a spiritual master academy or a mental hospital?
I always feel that this so-called Class 1 is actually a comprehensive critical care psychiatric department, and you are not qualified to come in unless you are seriously ill.
Shi Can slung his travel bag across his body, took out a palm-sized compass, and entered the main door of the residential building.
In Lin Zhuyue's eyes, the residential building was filled with black fog, and when Shi Can entered, he seemed to be completely swallowed up by the darkness.
She quickly trotted a few steps to catch up.
"The yin energy is really strong."
Shi Can sighed and looked at the compass in his hand.
The compass needle seemed to be disturbed by the abnormal magnetic field, turning around and around with no clear direction at all.
Shi Can lowered his head, as if trying to figure out something from the chaotic compass in his hand, only to see the compass needle jumping more and more violently, as if it was about to jump out.
Lin Zhuyue suddenly looked to the left as if he had sensed something. A black shadow condensed from the gray and gloomy energy and pounced towards them with its fangs and claws bared.
Lin Zhuyue took out the evil-suppressing talisman from his travel bag.
But before she could use the talisman paper, a bolt of lightning struck down, illuminating the entire first floor for a moment. The black shadow twitched and struggled in the lightning, and fell to the ground after the lightning disappeared, but soon showed signs of trying to get up again.
Shi Can stood there calmly. He raised his left hand and hooked his middle finger. Another bolt of lightning struck the still-moving black shadow.
"Do you know what a mantra-holder is?"
Shi Can fished out a ghost-collecting bag from his travel bag and slowly approached the extremely weak black shadow, which was already emitting black smoke and dissipating. He opened the bag, chanted a spell, and took the black shadow in.
Shi Can shook the Bagua bag, which was struggling slightly, and said arrogantly in a calm tone:
"For an evil spirit of your level, if you encounter a mantra-caster like me, especially one who casts the Small Five Thunder Curse, you will have no choice but to run away and die."
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