Driving out of the county town, Yuanyuan introduced us to her hometown, Lin Nacang, in the car.
Around 1970, Lin Nacang established a coal mining branch, and coal mining continued until 2016. There was nothing in the first ten years, but as time passed, residents living nearby began to find cracks in their houses. At first, the residents did not associate this matter with coal mining. It was not until more than ten years later that the ground in the area around the Linnanchang Coal Mine began to collapse on a large scale and the houses began to crack on a large scale, and the villagers began to realize that coal mining caused collapse.
We are not concerned here with how to compensate the villagers for their losses. We will just talk about our current destination, which is the so-called subsidence area.
According to Yuanyuan, this place was still a large coal station twenty years ago, in the 1990s. Later, it was abandoned due to severe mining collapse. As for this collapse, I still have some impressions. I remember when I was young, I went out with my father. When I passed by here, I felt that the wall of this open space looked so low, and the cracks were undulating. It looked very strange.
Yuanyuan told us that all the houses and walls on this land were collapsing almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the coal station was still there, they would collapse a considerable distance almost every year. There is no drainage system in the large pit that collapsed. The rains that fell every summer were deposited here. In addition, the place continues to collapse downwards, so that now only a row of walls and the roof of the guardhouse can be seen. .
By now, this so-called coal station has been transformed beyond recognition and has become a big puddle. I don’t know if someone deliberately put fish fry in it or it was formed naturally. Over time, there were fish in this big pit, so on weekdays, there would always be people setting up a fishing pole and sitting on the wall to fish. The middle-aged man whose leg was pulled by the water ghost this time should be one of them.
Hearing what Yuanyuan said was not as direct as actually seeing it. When we arrived at the subsidence area, it was already close to eight o'clock in the evening, and the cold wind was howling. When I turned on the flashlight and shone a light, I saw a large pit and a series of small pits in front of me. It was obvious that it had been turned into a fish pond for raising fish. I looked at the boundless pond, and there was nothing strange in my spiritual eyes. I turned around and looked at Yuanyuan, who nodded towards me, indicating that this was where I was.
I said to myself that if this is the case, then let’s do it! Thinking about it, I took out the gourd and shook it by my ear. There was a very slight noise in the gourd, and the black energy collected in the evening was really weak. If I hadn't had the eagle spirit, wolf spirit, and cat spirit, Dahei, I wouldn't have been sure.
I opened the gourd and released the eagle spirit, only to hear a long cry. The eagle spirit soared up, circled in the night sky, and then flew straight in a direction to the north. Lin Feng looked into the air, and then he smiled and said: "Hey, the time has come to test your driving skills, Brother Lin. Let you see what Lin Feng can do in Qiu Mingshan!" I thought to myself, what are you bragging about? My girlfriend is here You are no longer you.
Lin Feng turned the steering wheel and turned off the highway onto a dirt road. This dirt road should have been paved based on the road before the collapse. The road is full of potholes and very narrow. There are ponds on both sides of the dirt road and there are no guardrails. Our car bumped along the dirt road, and the two girls screamed in fright. Fortunately, Lin Feng's driving skills were pretty good and he was already driving quite steadily. If he had been as impatient as me, he would have probably fallen into the water together with the car and everyone if he didn't pay attention.
In the distance, we saw an eagle spirit hovering over a pond. This was a signal to us that we were here!
Lin Feng parked the car not far from the pond and said to us: "We can't get through in front of us. It seems we have to walk for a while." With a "crash", he took out his three darts from somewhere and folded them. Between the fingers of his fist, it was like magic. I thought to myself, would you die if you didn’t play harp
The five of us got out of the car and walked in the direction of the Eagle Spirit in the cold wind. We looked up at the sky and saw a round moon hanging in the sky. Due to industrial development, the haze in the Jingdong area is very serious, regardless of day or night. Although it is night, the haze is still very serious, so that the moon is quite blurry when viewed from our direction. This kind of moonlight reflected on the water does not have the feeling of glittering water, but seems to be covered with a layer of gauze, which is very strange. Coupled with the cold wind that cuts the face, it really makes people not want to stay for a moment longer. .
The five of us struggled to get close to the Eagle Spirit. At this time, everyone was already freezing. I quickly took out the gourd and retrieved the Eagle Spirit. However, then I didn't cover the gourd, but offered the gourd toward the sky above the pond, and at the same time, I said the mantra is here! At this moment, a string of bubbles suddenly appeared on the water surface, followed by a "swish" sound as the water moved forward, and a black figure was sucked into the gourd with a "swish" sound.
I was stunned by this scene and immediately said "huh?" Lin Feng asked me next to him: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" I frowned, not knowing what to say. At this time, Chong Xi said from the side: "Brother Lin, haven't you noticed? Is this how spirit gourds used to collect ghost souls in the past?" Lin Feng suddenly slapped his forehead: "That's right! We don't see Shi Yan usually using gourds to collect souls. Yes, I can at most hear some faint sounds, but it’s impossible to be like today, watching that thing being sucked in!"
Yuanyuan and Yuan Yuan were confused and trembling as they asked: "Lin Feng, what's going on? What's wrong?" I shook my head and said, "In the past, when absorbing souls, the corpses fell down, and some even struggled for two seconds. Next, this is the first time I have encountered a situation like today where I won the whole capital and profit." As I said that, I picked up the gourd with some uncertainty, shook it, and heard a few words coming from the gourd. After groaning, he felt relieved and put away the gourd.
Seeing that the thing had been collected, and although it was a little different, nothing went wrong, Chongxi was already impatient with waiting, and urged us to get back to the car while making a fuss. I didn't have time to think about it, so I turned around and walked towards the car.
When they were in the car, Chong Xi and Lin Feng said that they originally thought there would be a battle tonight, but they didn't expect it to go so smoothly. What the two people said is exactly what I thought. Under normal circumstances, this is impossible. You must know that no matter what kind of evil spirit it is, it can catch people and leave fingerprints. A century-old monster. If that's the case, how could it not resist at all and be like a dead thing waiting for us to collect it
After returning to the Metaphysics Hall, I asked Lin Feng to send Yuanyuan away. After all, we need to see the true face of this monster. They will inevitably be in danger here, not to mention the things collected by this gourd. It's not a good thing. It would be bad if it leaves a shadow on others.
After Yuanyuan and I left, I closed the rolling shutter door and closed the window. You know, the back of my rolling shutter door and the window frame were all processed by my father. No matter what kind of evil spirit it is, without more than a thousand years of Taoism, it is impossible to escape.
Opening the gourd, I silently recited the formula. A black shadow was released with a whoosh. As soon as this thing came out, Lin Feng, Chong Xi and Xiao Baihua and I were all stunned. I thought to myself, what the hell is this? I have never seen it before, saying that humans don’t look like humans, and that monkeys don’t look like monkeys. It has a monkey face, two fangs sticking out of its mouth, its body is blue and black, hairless, its limbs are long and narrow, like an orangutan, its thin ribs are like washboards, and its four claws are sharp and sharp, like a crab's claws. His body exuded a fishy mud smell.
After the demon saw the four of us, he didn't get angry or glare. Instead, he knelt down with a "plop"! I saw the monster trembling all over, very frightened, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing, and shouting for mercy from the gods!