"What? Ghost soldiers passing through the corridor?" As Yi Xinxing's words fell, Cui Zuofei's voice came from the bedroom in the inner room.
In an instant, Cui Zuofei ran out in his pajamas, and as soon as he came out, he said to Li Shigao: "Old Li, go out and buy some things first, and come back later."
Li Shigao was also quite sensible. After hearing what Cui Zuofei said, he immediately stood up and said, "In that case, I'll go out for a walk and you guys can chat." After that, he went out humming a little tune.
Seeing Li Shigao go out, Cui Zuofei immediately ran to the door and pulled down the shutter, then walked over and asked: "Old Yi, tell me what's going on."
"I had the same dream just now. I dreamed of those evil soldiers. It was so scary. I just woke up and ran here to tell you." Yi Xinxing seemed to be still frightened by the dream. He was sweating as he spoke. It seemed that he was really scared.
"Oh my god, brother, it was just a dream. Is there any need to be so scared?" When I heard that it was just a dream, I immediately felt like I was being cheated.
"No, Xiaojiu, I wonder how long it has been since you last had a dream?" Cui Zuofei heard what I said and asked me instead.
When I heard this, I thought about it and said, "It seems like I haven't had a dream in a long time. Every time I fall asleep, it's dawn as soon as I close my eyes. Speaking of which, the last dream was quite suspenseful."
The dream I was talking about was naturally the dream of being in a palace with a group of people. After hearing this, Cui Zuofei said to me, "Let me tell you this. We who eat food from the underworld are different from ordinary people. We don't usually dream, and once we do dream, it is a kind of premonition, or a kind of precognition. Anyway, Lao Yi's dream is not simple. When did you dream about those ghost soldiers?"
"Five days later, I saw it in a forest south of Harbin." Yi Xinxing replied.
As soon as I heard it, I felt something was wrong and immediately said, "Why, Lao Cui, you don't want to go and see this ghost soldier borrowing the road, do you? I heard that thing is very evil, and if you don't handle it well, people will die."
The phenomenon of "ghost soldiers borrowing the road" has occurred in many places in China, the most famous of which is the Forbidden City. After 5 o'clock, there are often palace maids and eunuchs flashing by, and even people crying and shouting, which makes people shudder. Therefore, tourists are not allowed to stay in the Forbidden City before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. This phenomenon also often occurs in the deep mountains of Shaanxi and Gansu. The locals call it mountain sound. Because of the frequent occurrence of this phenomenon in Luliang County, Yunnan, passing mules and horses were frightened and dared not pass by, and it was also named "Jingma Trough". There are rumors that after the Tangshan earthquake, a large-scale "ghost soldiers borrowing the road" occurred in the area.
The passing of ghost soldiers is a real thing. It usually happens after a major disaster. I heard from my elders that it happened once after the Tangshan earthquake, in 1998 when the south suffered a flood that had not happened in a century, and again after the Sichuan earthquake. The casualties were countless. The passing of ghost soldiers has also appeared many times in different places.
In fact, the ghost soldiers borrowing the passage basically occur after a large-scale disaster, or when a lot of people die in one place, the ghost soldiers may borrow the passage.
The ghost soldiers who borrowed the passage were actually escorting ghosts to reincarnation. If a disaster occurred in a place and too many people died at once, would the two of them, Black and White Impermanence, be sent to collect the souls? That would tire the two brothers to death, so at this time the underworld would send ghost soldiers to collect the souls.
Cui Zuofei nodded and said, "That's right. Now that you have this job, you have to take care of it. We haven't received any news about a large number of deaths in Harbin recently. It seems that it hasn't happened yet. Lao Yi, for safety reasons, call the Public Security Bureau later and ask them to pay attention recently to see if there will be any human bombs going to the square to self-destruct or something."
"This is all we can do. Next we can only wait five days and go together to find out what the purpose of these ghost soldiers is." After saying this, Cui Zuofei thought about it again and felt that there seemed to be no problem, so he turned around and went back to prepare his weapons.
Cui Zuofei has a lot of good guys under his command. He has two boxes of talismans alone, but they are all talismans that I don’t recognize. I have said before that talismans and incantations are the same, and there must be incantations for talismans, just like the talisman is a bomb and the incantation is the detonator.
Moreover, the incantation for each talisman is different. Even though I say 'Ji Ji Ru Lv Ling' no matter which talisman I use, this can only be achieved after you become proficient in using the talisman. When you first use a new talisman, you have to use its specific incantation.
So looking at the two boxes of talismans in front of me, but not being able to use them made me itchy, while Cui Zuofei happily started to organize them, which made me really envious and jealous.
Five days passed very quickly. Although I made some preparations at the beginning, afterwards it was still the same as before. I just lived my life as usual. I also paid attention to the news in Harbin these days, but I didn't find any large-scale deaths anywhere.
On the evening of the fifth day, we all went to hide in the woods that Yi Xinxing mentioned.
There is a road running through the middle of the forest, with dense forests on both sides. Cui Zuofei, Yi Xinxing and I hid here.
"Lao Cui, if the evil soldiers really appear later, why should we fight them?" I asked puzzledly.
"Damn it! You don't know how powerful the ghost soldiers are. In fact, I came here just to watch the fun. I've seen one ghost soldier before, but never a group of them. It's going to be exciting later." Cui Zuofei said excitedly.
"Then why did you bring so many talismans here if you are not going to work?" I looked at the large box of talismans at the back and asked Cui Zuofei puzzledly.
"Your question explains so much time. It's better to be prepared, understand? Anyway, if something does happen later, remember to run away immediately. Don't fight hard. Those ghost soldiers have their own missions and won't chase you for too long."
When I heard what Cui Zuofei said, I felt like I was playing with my life, and there was no benefit to it. This was exactly the opposite of my principles.
"Brother Cui, there's no benefit in you taking a look. How about we just not watch it?" I said to Cui Zuofei.
"That won't work. Some people may never see the ghost soldiers passing through the aisle once in their lifetime, so you should just be content." Cui Zuofei said to me.
I felt something was wrong at this time. Cui Zuofei's principles are similar to mine. We are both people who do nothing unless given benefits. There must be something wrong with anything abnormal. Since Cui Zuofei said he wanted to come, there must be benefits.
Thinking of this, I didn't think much about it. I leaned against a small tree next to me and closed my eyes to rest. Old Yi Xinxing stared at the sky in a daze, and Cui Zuofei took out a novel and started reading. Time passed little by little, and we waited for the arrival of those ghost soldiers.