Wei Fuyuan didn't understand Beiquan's whisper, but Tian Jiaxian understood it roughly.
The little doll widened a pair of slightly drooping bright eyes, staring at Beiquan in surprise:
"… The ghost isn't there? How is this possible?"
Beiquan nodded, reached out and scratched Guanhu's chin twice.
"It was Suying who told me."
He said:
"Su Ying said that the yin qi in this village is very heavy, but it can't feel the aura of evil spirits."
"Shouldn't it be?"
Tian Jiaxing made a contemplative expression on his cheeks, and the little meat claws pouted his face:
"If the fragmentation space was created by a ghost, then it should wait outside like a spider just guarding the web, and then trap all the prey in it..."
The child wrinkled his nose in confusion:
"No matter what method it uses, it shouldn't run away?"
Wei Fuyuan, the ignorant, is fearless and boldly guesses:
"Isn't the ghost going to possess the host? If the object of its possession is someone among those teachers and students, will it also go in with it?"
Beiquan looked at Wei Fuyuan, did not dislike his random speculation, but nodded with a smile:
"Although the possibility is relatively small, at present, it may indeed be the case."
He explained:
"Generally speaking, if the fragmented space is artificial, the maker will choose to intercept a space-time that he is familiar with. And in order to maintain the stability of the space, the caster will generally stay outside as much as possible...unless..."
Wei Fuyuan: "Unless?"
Beiquan smiled:
"Unless it has a reason to have to go in."
Wei Fuyuan patted his thigh unconsciously:
"Then it goes without saying, there must be a reason for the ghost to follow up! Otherwise, how can it continue to confuse the host!"
Beiquan just smiled, not noncommittal.
He had thought things would be easy.
All they have to do is find the ghost in the ruins of the deserted village, kill it, and release the trapped people in the debris space - whether they are still alive or have unfortunately died, the problem is solved.
However, until now, he could only speculate from the call from the person who called himself "A Yun" yesterday, that the missing teachers and students are likely to be caught in a constant loop of time and space.
—So, does this fragmented space really exist, and where exactly is it
Beiquan's right index finger knuckles rubbed his temple unconsciously.
"Anyway, before it gets dark, let's look for it!"
He turned his head and snapped his fingers at Wei Fuyuan and Tian Raisean, "Let's take a look at the environment of this Xuanmen Village first."
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Of course, Beiquan has an equal-scale floor plan of Xuanmen Village, accurate to the latitude and longitude of each house.
But he has always adhered to the principle of "everything is shallow on paper", and every time he goes to an unfamiliar environment, he must go around and take a look.
At half past five in the afternoon, the sun gradually slanted westward.
Beiquan took Wei Fuyuan and Tian Gao to walk from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, and walked around the cemetery where the deceased for nearly a hundred years was buried, and finally turned back to the two houses where the teachers and students stayed at the beginning.
"… I see."
He stood in front of the hillside where the two courtyards were located, condescendingly, and looked into the distance.
Wei Fuyuan came over:
"What did you find?"
Beiquan replied: "The feng shui of Xuanmen Village is special."
Wei Fuyuan: "??"
He didn't know anything about it at all. He accompanied Beiquan back and forth just now, and the only thought was that "this village is really dilapidated and desolate".
"Although it is disturbed by the formation, the compass cannot be displayed, but..."
Beiquan pointed in the direction they had just walked:
"The end of the village faces due north, and it is also the main entrance of most buildings - also the direction of the ghost gate."
Wei Fuyuan made a sound of "um".
He had heard Beiquan say this on the way.
"Also, look to the right."
Beiquan raised his hand and pointed down the hillside: "Do you see what happened?"
Wei Fuyuan looked to the right according to Beiquan's instructions, and only saw an open area that was similar to an oblong shape, with residential houses scattered on it messily, and scattered rocks and bushes and weeds in the distance.
Judging from the location, Young Master Wei only knew that it should be the east, other than that, he really didn't see any difference from the nearby barren mountains.
"Twenty or thirty years ago, there should have been a river in the east of the village."
Beiquan explained with a smile:
"It's just that the groundwater level in the mountainous area in this area dropped, coupled with years of drought, and the river was completely dried up and turned into a barren beach."
Wei Fuyuan snorted "um", still not understanding what it meant.
"Oh, it's hard to explain to a layman!"
Tian Raise, who was listening in, was already impatient.
He simply squatted down, picked up a branch, and drew a diagram on the muddy ground:
"Let me explain it to you, sir!"
Since Beiquan's vest was lifted, this Tian Qi doll has completely released itself, exposed its nature, and no longer deliberately pretended to be a cute and pitiful child in front of Wei Fuyuan.
He quickly drew the outline of Xuanmen Village, marked the upper direction, and drew several arcs in the west, south, and north of the village to represent "hills", and a few curved lines in the east to represent "river."
"Xuanmen Village is located in a valley, surrounded by steep slopes on three sides, and its shape is long and narrow, so most of it is located in the shade of the hillside."
Tian Raise's little wooden stick poked on the ground:
"In this way, the Yin Qi flows down the mountain and pours into Xuanmen Village."
Wei Fuyuan: "Oh..."
"And I don't know if it was intentional or for some other reason around the village. A large number of locust trees and boxwoods were planted. These trees provide shade and gather shade, and they are continuous. The yin qi that entered the village 'pretends' so that they cannot flow out through the gaps between the mountain roads or the hills."
Saying that, Tian Raising drew a small arrow on the map.
"So these yin qi can only go in one direction, that is, to the east."
Wei Fuyuan: "Yes."
This time he understood.
If the so-called "yin qi" is understood as the existence of cold air, then since the three sides of the south, west and north are blocked by hills and woods, it can only go to a lower place, that is, the river beach in the east.
"But there was a river here back then."
Tian Jiaxing emphasized the curve of the "river" with a small wooden stick.
"Water belongs to yin, and it just flows through the east of the village, almost completely blocking the last exit of yin, so Xuanmen Village becomes a long big plate, trapping all the yin in the mountains. locked here."
Wei Fuyuan: "This sounds like an endless loop."
During the month and a half of dealing with the ghost, Young Master Wei has also experienced many times how terrifying the so-called "yin qi" is.
Although he could enjoy Beiquan's bathing service every time he fought against the ghost, it didn't mean that the chill that was so cold to his bones when he was attacked by yin qi wouldn't be uncomfortable.
"Then how did the villagers of Xuanmen Village live in such a ghostly place where Feng Shui is so bad?"
This time Tian raises his salary and does not speak.
He looked up at Beiquan, as if he wanted to wait for the other party's explanation.
"Well, I guess, because of that."
Beiquan also squatted down, took the small wooden stick from the child's hand, and made a circle on the floor plan he drew.
The place where he wrote is the hook of the "J" - the mass grave where all the villagers who have died for a hundred years are buried.
Beiquan is worthy of being a person who uses a brush as a natal instrument, and with just a tick, he drew the exact shape and size of the cemetery.
"A large number of corpses are buried in the yin gathering ground, and the corpses can remain uncorrupted for decades or even hundreds of years. For evil spirits."
Wei Fuyuan: "!!?"
He blurted out:
"Doesn't this make the problem worse?!"
"You're right."
Beiquan nodded:
"So, I guess the villagers of Xuanmen Village should have some way to defuse the evil spirits."
Wei Fuyuan noticed that Beiquan narrowed his eyes slightly when he said this, and a pair of maroon eyes seemed to have some kind of dim light that flashed away.
"...Unfortunately, now time does not allow me to study slowly."
Beiquan's fingers tapped twice on his knees:
"Looks like I can only take a little risk..."
Wei Fuyuan keenly caught the word "adventure" and immediately raised his eyebrows:
"What do you want to do?"
Beiquan looked up at the sky.
"Not yet, we have to wait until it gets dark."
He said:
"I want to dive into the debris space and take a look."
Wei Fuyuan didn't understand what Beiquan meant, but Tian Jiaxian, who was next to him, suddenly changed his face.
"What do you want to do, Beiquan!?"
Tian Jiaxing's milky baby voice suddenly increased an octave:
"You haven't even found the entrance to the space, and you don't know how to get in and out, right?"
He raised the volume:
"So you're going to use 'that trick'?"
Beiquan praised half-truths: "Congratulations, you got it right."
"Fuck!!"
Tian Jiaxing jumped up like a cat whose tail was trampled, and threw himself on Beiquan:
"What if you can't get out if you go in!!"
Beiquan stretched out his hand to grab the child's shoulder, and snorted twice on the back of his head with a smile.
"There's no better way now, is there? Always figure out what's going on inside."
He said, turning his head to look at Wei Fuyuan:
"Besides, isn't Xiao Wei here? With him protecting the law for me, it should be fine."
"No problem at all!!"
Tian Jiaxing was not comforted at all, and screamed in a shrill voice:
"Xiao Wei doesn't understand anything at all!!"
Although Wei Fuyuan didn't know what the two were talking about, he was immediately unhappy when he heard Tian Raise's evaluation of himself.
"I can learn!"
He retorted loudly:
"No matter what it is, as long as you teach me, I can learn it!"