Chen Ling looked at the woman on the ground and called out, "Senior."
The woman sat up slowly, suddenly raised her head and moved her face closer, all the breath from her nose hit the young man's face, and then she slowly opened her lips with a strange arc.
The mouth was opened wide, with the corners of the lips stretched to the ears, revealing the bloody facial muscles on the cheeks.
Chen Ling saw that her mouth was empty and so dark that his teeth and tongue could not be seen. He was not afraid at all because he knew that the senior sister had died.
How could the evil spirit that was burned by the hellfire in Jiang Yu's hands still have some soul left
What he saw was either an illusion or he was dreaming.
Chen Ling ignored the things on the floor. He lay back on his back, pinched the skin on the back of his hand with two fingers, and was about to apply force when he was suddenly patted lightly on the face.
The force was not painful at all, as if he was afraid that he would be smashed to pieces.
Immediately afterwards, he heard someone calling his name in his ear, over and over again, tirelessly and with a little anxiety.
Chen Ling realized it was Jiang Yu calling him, and quickly closed his eyes, thinking that if he opened them again he might have woken up from the dream or the environment.
But the expected thing did not happen. He found that his consciousness was out of control and he sank suddenly, as if he had sunk into the water and someone was dragging him down by his feet.
Chen Ling suddenly realized that he seemed to be really in the water.
As soon as this realization came to his mind, the surroundings became cold, and the water seemed to have a consciousness of its own, desperately rushing into his mouth, pouring into his throat, and firmly suppressing the breath he had just taken.
Feeling suffocated, Chen Ling struggled harder, but his limbs seemed to be trapped and he could not move.
Looking down, he found that his foot was actually being firmly grasped by a pale hand through the not-so-clear water. The hand was slightly swollen, with veins hidden under the swollen epidermis, and the nails had fallen off due to long-term immersion.
Chen Ling only felt that this scene was familiar, but the situation at the moment did not allow him to think about it too much.
Breathing became increasingly difficult, and strings of bubbles came out of his mouth, floating upwards with the current.
Gradually, he felt increasingly powerless, and his body began to sink uncontrollably along with the hand... Just when he thought he was going to drown in his dream, a pair of hands suddenly reached down from above and pulled him up.
His lips were blocked, and the fishy-sweet taste passed through his lips and teeth, instantly filling his cold body with warmth.
Chen Ling opened his eyes and met a pair of light-colored pupils.
Those eyes were very beautiful, dotted by the pale moonlight outside the window, like the purest amber.
He raised his weak hands and gently pushed the other person's chest. Jiang Yu then stood up and wiped the young man's wet lips with his thumb.
"You are haunted by a nightmare." Jiang Yu's voice was low and hoarse, his gaze stopped on the young man's eyes, trying to spy something from them.
Chen Ling felt sticky all over. If there hadn't been a living person in front of him, if he hadn't touched the solid bed board beneath him, he would have thought he had just waded through water.
I was indeed dreaming just now.
It’s just that in the dream, everything seems too real, as if I were there.
He frowned, trying to recall the details of what had just happened, then sat up straight. He reached out and grabbed Jiang Yu's arm, saying quickly, "I just had a dream. First, I dreamed of my senior sister, and then I dreamed of when I was nineteen and went swimming at the beach and was caught by a water ghost and almost dragged down."
Chen Ling is a carefree person. He would never bring up the past unless he deliberately recalls it.
If the dream about the senior sister was due to what happened in the evening, then what about the dream about encountering a water ghost
Jiang Yu placed his warm palm on the young man's forehead, and gently wiped away the cold sweat on his dry skin. "When I came, you were in a dream, and no matter how I called you, you wouldn't wake up. Just now, I made you swallow the blood on the tip of my tongue to pull you out of the nightmare."
The man spoke softly, his eyelids lowered, hiding most of the hostility in his eyes: "There is no evil spirit in the room. Someone used other methods to make you fall into a nightmare without anyone noticing."
Chen Ling found it incredible. "It's not a decent magic to make people fall into nightmares. How can there be no evil spirit?"
Jiang Yu looked around. There were only a few simple furnishings in the room. It was obvious at a glance that there was not even a trace of bad luck, let alone evil spirits.
No one or any ghost could do it so stealthily right under his nose.
Unless this was not done by humans or ghosts at all.
Maybe the instigator himself is a nightmare.
"Are you still sleeping?" Jiang Yu gathered his thoughts, and lay on the bed like he was coaxing a child. He held the person in his arms with his big hands, and patted her with his palms.
"I can't sleep for the time being." Chen Ling said and yawned.
Jiang Yu raised his hand to wipe the moisture from the corners of his eyes, "Then lie down for a while, chat, and go to sleep when you feel like sleeping."
"Yeah." Chen Ling put his arms around the man's waist, raised his head, and rested his chin on the hard chest below, "Why did you come here suddenly?"
Jiang Yu froze and said nothing.
Chen Ling deliberately tightened his arms and strangled him, "Huh?"
"I can't sleep without you." Jiang Yu lowered his head and sniffed the scent of the young man. Although the scent of the shower gel on his body was slightly different from usual, he could still accurately separate out the unique scent of the young man.
Chen Ling smiled, tucked his chin in, and rubbed his forehead against the man's chest.
He sighed comfortably and felt a strange warmth in his heart, which made him feel at ease and secure. He really wanted to hold her like this forever.
"Oh, right." Thinking of tomorrow's schedule, he said, "I have to go to the Special Investigation Department with Li Hongyu early tomorrow morning."
Jiang Yu placed a hand on the young man's head and ruffled his black hair. "What are you going to do?"
"Go ask Qing Tanzi's soul why he made a special trip to bring my senior sister to Fengling Mountain." Chen Ling thought it was more and more strange. He met his senior sister in the evening, and someone deliberately tricked him into dreaming about her again at night.
The most incredible thing is that this happened in a Taoist temple.
He opened his eyes wide, looked around vigilantly, and grabbed the man's shirt that was spread out on his chest with his fingers and pulled it twice: "Tell me, is there anyone in the temple who wants to harm me? Or is there someone behind the scenes who sneaked in without anyone noticing?"
"It's possible." Speaking of Guanli, Jiang Yu thought of Li Daoxuan. He frowned slightly, "Have you seen Li Daoxuan since leaving Fengling Mountain?"
Chen Ling shook his head: "Meijian, I didn't seem to see him when I came back with Li Hongyu at night." Thinking of the man's sudden vigilance against Li Daoxuan before, he sat up hurriedly and asked seriously, "Why didn't you let me tell you about the Three Corpse Gu at that time?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw something moving in the man's sleeve.
Chen Ling: “… What the hell!”
Jiang Yu: "Three Corpse Gu."
This thing is an extremely high-risk species. Jiang Yu would never release it or give it to anyone else. After Chen Ling gave him the Three Corpses Gu before leaving, he kept it in his sleeve.
The Sanshi Gu heard someone calling it twice in succession and poked its head out.
Maybe after looking at it a few more times, Chen Ling felt that this thing was not that disgusting. It was just a small snake with a completely black body, and it could understand human language.
Before Chen Ling could make a move, the Three Corpse Gu crawled out of the man's sleeves, crawled along the bed to Chen Ling's knees, raised its body, and tilted its head to look at him.
As it watched, the snake's tongue popped out.
Chen Ling: “…”
Jiang Yu picked it up and threw it on the table.
Chen Ling was silent for a moment and asked, "What should we do with this thing?"
Jiang Yu said: "It's up to you."
Chen Ling thought of Yuhe Mountain, a Wong Tai Sin, and in the future there would be two parrots and a German Shepherd. Oh, and there was a five-zhu coin hanging on the door of his room.
He asked, "Has it ever done anything bad before?"
Jiang Yu glanced at the Three Corpses Gu and said with certainty: "No, there is almost no blood on it. It must have been raised not long ago. If you don't like it, I will kill it..."
"Forget it." Chen Ling heard a hint of coldness in the last few words and knew that the ancestor really had no mercy on the Three Corpse Gu.
He thought, since the Sanshi Gu looked like a snake, would its habits be similar to those of a snake
"Does it dig burrows in the ground?" Chen Ling asked.
Jiang Yu: “You ask it.”
“…” Chen Ling actually turned around and asked.
The Three Corpse Gu quickly crawled along the table legs to the ground, and its triangular head that looked like a rice ball immediately fell to the ground. Before I could see how it was done, the Three Corpse Gu was gone, leaving only a small pile of soil and a small round hole.
Chen Ling: "… Then let's keep him in Yuhe Mountain for a while, and let him play the role of an earthworm and help loosen the soil."
Three Corpse Gu: “…”
Jiang Yu smiled and patted the young man's head. No matter how rude the request was, he would always get the same answer: "Okay."
The issue of whether to keep or remove the Three Corpses Gu has been temporarily decided, and now let’s get back to the topic.
Chen Ling: "Do you have any problem with Li Daoxuan?"
The old ancestor rarely showed his likes and dislikes for a person, and Li Daoxuan was the first one. Every time he saw Li Daoxuan, the old ancestor would be somewhat cold, especially when talking, his alienated attitude was very obvious, and there was also a hint of sharpness and vigilance that was difficult to detect.
"No objection." Jiang Yu's face was slightly tense, and his eyes darkened a little. "Li Daoxuan is not a simple person. I feel a murderous aura from him."
This evil spirit is not strong, but if it is placed on a practitioner with a gentle temper, it will seem a bit abrupt and strange.
Chen Ling: "It is said that evil spirits are evil and foul spirits."
"Li Daoxuan shouldn't have these things on him." Jiang Yu's fingertips slid across the young man's face. His movements were casual, but his tone was very serious. "In short, it's better to be careful."
Chen Ling's face felt a little itchy from being touched. He pushed the man's hand away and asked in confusion, "How could someone with evil spirits become the head of the Special Investigation Department?"
People who have evil spirits on their bodies may show extraordinary bravery when fighting in battle, but they are also easily invaded by evil spirits, which can find their weaknesses and take over their bodies.
Jiang Yu: "I'll send someone to check it out."
Chen Ling: "What are you checking?"
Jiang Yu: "The Book of Life and Death."
"You want to see if he's being controlled by something else?" Chen Ling's focus suddenly changed. "You can just look at the Book of Life and Death if you want to?"
He rolled his eyes and put on an expression of disbelief: "I don't believe it, so you can just brag."
Jiang Yu moved his tall body down and put his forehead against the young man's forehead: "Provocation?"
Chen Ling curled his lips and said no.
Jiang Yu touched his face, and his tone was unusually proud: "It's just the Book of Life and Death. If you want, I can also take you to see the Samsara Pond."
Chen Ling grabbed the man's collar, narrowed his eyes, and said in a threatening tone: "Tell me the truth, who are you?"
Jiang Yu remained calm and wrapped his hand around the young man's fist: "Your sweetheart."
Chen Ling: “…”
What a fatal answer.
But it is undeniable that cheesy love words are just cheesy, and it is still a bit embarrassing to hear them with your own ears.
"Where did you learn these things?" Chen Ling looked at him with his eyes open. His heart was sweeter than eating honey. Recalling the old ancestor's serious and shocking words just now, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
Jiang Yu would not tell him that this was instilled in him by the old and dishonest Jiang Shengxing, "self-taught."
"Okay, okay, you're awesome. You have a max talent for love." Chen Ling buried his head in the man's arms, smelling his scent, and couldn't help yawning again.
Jiang Yu chuckled above his head and patted the young man's back gently again. After a few pats, he felt the person in his arms go limp and burrow into him as if he had no bones.
He bent down and kissed the young man's hair, and took advantage of the fact that he couldn't hear him, and said, "Good night, my wife."
It was probably the first time that Jiang Yu said such a cheesy thing. He couldn't help but pursed his lips after he finished speaking. The red tips of his ears weakened the sharpness around him.
Just like a dragon that had taken possession of a treasure, he gently pulled the person into his arms again, hugging her tightly.
The morning at Qingxuan Temple is different from that in the city or Yuhe Mountain.
Before I opened my eyes, I could already hear the Taoist priests in the temple performing morning prayers.
Chen Ling raised a hand to cover his eyes and turned over. The person next to him was still warm, but he was gone.
I sat up from the bed, stretched, and was about to get up to wash up when there was a knock on the door.
Li Hongyu brought breakfast over and was a little surprised to see that Chen Ling had just gotten up. He couldn't go forward or backward with the things in his hand.
Chen Ling held the door and scratched his head embarrassedly: "Wait a minute, I'll be there soon." After that, he went to the public toilet in the yard with his toiletries.
Li Hongyu put breakfast on the table, put his hands on his apart knees, and waited quietly, his eyes looking around aimlessly, finally stopping on Chen Ling's backpack.
The backpack was casually thrown at the foot of the bed, with the zipper open, revealing a slingshot handle.
Chen Ling happened to walk in at this time. He pointed at the slingshot and asked, "Did you make it yourself?"
Chen Ling took out the slingshot to show off, pulled the leather bag, and made an aiming gesture: "No, it was made by Wu Weiwei. How about it? It looks good, right? It feels good. For long-range evil spirits, this is definitely the best attack weapon. It is small, light, and easy to use. As long as the accuracy is good, it can hit the target in one go."
Li Hongyu was a little surprised: "He also knows how to use magic tools?"
After hearing what he said, Chen Ling finally realized that, if one had to say, these little handicrafts made by Wu Weiwei could indeed be called magical instruments.
He thought that if Wu Weiwei was interested in developing in this direction, he could find more books related to magic weapons or mechanical techniques for him after returning.
Chen Ling came back to his senses and continued Li Hongyu's previous question, his tone inevitably boasting: "Of course, our Wu Weiwei is very powerful, with very skillful hands. He used to weave a net with ink line, and when he encountered a not-so-powerful ghost, he caught it in one go."
Li Hongyu took the slingshot from Chen Ling and tried it out. It was indeed suitable for him. He put it back on the table and said with a smile, "I saw him making so much noise at ordinary times, but I didn't expect him to be able to calm down and do these things."
Chen Ling: "Don't judge a person by his appearance. Wu Weiwei also has a calm side."
Li Hongyu nodded repeatedly, and his fingertips couldn't help but touch the slingshot handle a few more times, pushing it towards Chen Ling.
He stood up from the stool and raised his chin. "You eat first, and then we'll leave."
Chen Ling was so absorbed in bragging about his brothers that he almost forgot about his business. He slapped his head and quickly sat down to eat breakfast.
Li Hongyu was worried that he would make others uncomfortable just standing there and watching, so he simply left the house and went to the yard.
The yard is surrounded by bamboo forests, which rustle in the breeze.
He twirled his thumbs, feeling a little itchy.
Li Hongyu believed that he had rarely had the desire to seek anything since he was a child, but when he saw the slingshot today, he wanted it a little, just a little bit.
He lowered his head, took out his cell phone, found Wu Weiwei's circle of friends and opened it.
This was something he rarely touched.
In his opinion, Moments are nothing more than people posting updates about their lives and work, which is meaningless.
After seeing Wu Weiwei's circle of friends, he felt that his idea was wrong. Wu Weiwei's circle of friends was either hahahaha or hehehe. Although they were also about eating, drinking and having fun, they were full of human touch.
Li Hongyu felt strange. Why did the same thing become boring when it was given to his senior brothers
He shook his head, exited the Moments, and saw a red dot in the "Discover" column.
When I clicked in again, there was a new update in the circle of friends.
Wu Weiwei: Thunder-struck peach wood + Huangshen Yuezhang + pure cowhide leather + high elastic rope, the exorcism slingshot 2.0 is about to be launched!
There is a photo below, which shows blocks of mahogany, squares of cowhide, and a roll of high elastic rope.
Li Hongyu thought about it and silently gave a thumbs up.
"Let's go." Chen Ling came out of the house with his backpack hanging on his shoulder.
Li Hongyu then put his phone away and led the way: "If there is a commuter bus, go directly there. We just need to wait outside the mountain gate."
The commuter bus is an air-conditioned bus. In addition to people who go to work from Qingxuan Temple to the Special Investigation Department, the bus also carries people from other Taoist temples and Buddhist temples.
After Chen Ling got on the bus, he found that he didn't recognize anyone. Li Hongyu introduced them in a low voice behind him, saying that this person is the future abbot of such-and-such temple, and this person is the hall master of such-and-such temple.
"Are you familiar with them?" Chen Ling found a seat in the last row and asked in a low voice.
Li Hongyu shook his head: "No, in fact, in the several departments of the Special Investigation Department, everyone has almost no private dealings, all of them are official contacts."
Chen Ling nodded and said with a smile: "What about your junior uncle? Is he and the leaders of other departments like you?"
Li Hongyu was stunned, and after thinking carefully, he said, "As the team leader, Junior Master is actually quite busy. He has to attend meetings, coordinate the relationships between the various teams, and occasionally help us clean up the mess."
"Speaking of which, the Special Investigation Department suffered a heavy loss this time..." Chen Ling said cautiously, "Will Junior Master be held accountable by the higher-ups?"
Under the circumstances at the time, if Li Daoxuan had not led people up the mountain, but had instead guarded the area below... the evil spirits that had lost their restraints due to Qing Tanzi's death would probably not have been able to break free so easily.
Naturally, there would be no subsequent sacrifice and bloodshed.
Strictly speaking, this was considered improper command by Li Daoxuan.