Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Celestial Master

"Bu Yang, is that Luo Lang by your side?"

Holding the receiver, Qi Buyang looked around carefully, but found no trace of Luo Lang, and then reported to the phone: "Grandpa, he's not here."

"Where did you arrange him to live?"

"Your previous room."

"Well, that's right, don't let him get too close to you. Has he done anything strange recently?"

"Strange thing?" Qi Buyang thought about it seriously, "Apart from acting and speaking strangely, it seems that he didn't do anything."

The other end of the phone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said again: "You should try to satisfy him whatever he wants to eat and do, and don't make him angry."

"Yes." After a pause, Qi Buyang couldn't help asking: "Grandpa, is this Mr. Luo... the master you mentioned?"

The other end was silent for a while, and slowly said: "His ability is unfathomable, even I am not his opponent."

"But..." He only sleeps and eats, Qi Buyang thought to himself, or he is here to harass him...

"Anyway, keep an eye on him, and let me know if you find anything weird, and, remember, keep a distance from him." Old Freak Qi urged in a serious tone, "Okay, give your Uncle Qi the phone number, I'll Talk to him a few words."

Qi Buyang agreed, and obediently handed the receiver to Butler Qi next to him.I don't know what grandpa said, but I only heard Butler Qi nodded in agreement, and hung up the phone quickly.

"Uncle Qi, tell me the address of the execution ground you invited us to before, and I'll go there now."

Butler Qi handed over a note.

Qi Buyang folded the address and put it away, then asked: "Where is Mr. Luo?"

"I saw him in the study just now, and he is probably still there now."

Qi Buyang remembered his grandfather's instructions, and whispered to Steward Qi: "Don't tell him where I went."

"Yes." Butler Qi nodded.

This was Qi Buyang's first time hiding from people, he always felt guilty, and his expression was a little uncomfortable, knowing that Luo Lang couldn't hear him, he still tiptoed out the door.

The execution ground was in the suburbs, about half an hour away from Qi's house. It was the place where executions were executed before, but it was abandoned later.But because there were too many people who died there, many resentful spirits gathered, and the evil aura was so heavy that no one dared to approach it at ordinary times.Now the land was sold to a company for development and construction. The person who took over was afraid that the project would not go well, so he asked the Celestial Master to take a look.

As soon as he arrived at the place, Qi Buyang felt the yin qi rushing towards his face, his hands and feet felt cold for a while, and even his back felt a chill.The surrounding area is desolate, and the wind is blowing, rolling up things that ordinary people cannot see and floating around. The execution platform is a rectangular high platform made of cement, with a large slope on the side. It is said that after shooting, the prisoner will be placed head down. Only people who let the blood flow out will die, and that slope is the place to do this.

Qi Buyang asked the person who led the way to go back first, the evil spirit here is extraordinary, and ordinary people are easily bumped.The man trembled as soon as he got here, and he wanted to go back a long time ago, but he was amnestied by his words, and he turned around and left after a few casual words.

Qi Buyang walked up to the execution platform alone. Standing on it, the wind suddenly became stronger, and the whistling sound was like the wailing of the undead. He closed his eyes, as if he saw the crowd gathered around the execution platform to watch the shooting scene——

Like visiting a celebration performance in a festival, people surrounded the high concrete platform with great interest, and there were even children who didn't know the world in the crowd.The inner circle is guarded by criminal police, and the condemned prisoner is brought to the stage. The forensic doctor finds the location of the heart on his back and marks it with a pen. …

With a gunshot of "Boom--", the prisoner fell down, but he was still alive. Two other criminal policemen stepped forward and put him head down on the slope. , his body temperature also lost a little bit with the blood that came out, and finally stopped breathing...

"Hey! What are you doing here!"

A sudden cry pulled Qi Buyang out of the illusion, he opened his eyes quickly, and saw a person rushing from not far away, waving at him, "Come down quickly! Come down quickly! Those who can't just go up there !"

While speaking, the other party had already run to the front of the execution platform. It was a middle-aged man with gray hair, tall and heroic, and looked very energetic. He was frowning in disapproval at this moment: "What are young people doing here? Death here There are a lot of people, so don’t just run up there.”

Qi Buyang explained to him: "I am a celestial master, and the place needs to be demolished and rebuilt. The owner of this land invited me to do the ritual."

"Tianshi? Is that the kind of Taoist who catches demons and ghosts?"

Qi Buyang nodded, "It's about the same." Afraid that he wouldn't believe it, he quickly emphasized: "Our Qi family is not that kind of fake Taoist priest who cheats money!"

The man thought for a while, "Qi's family...I seem to have heard someone say it, but so many people died here, can you, a young man, be able to control it?"

"I, I'm the head of the Qi family, so it's okay to deal with these." He was anxious to convince the other party to believe him, so he quickly revealed his identity, so that he stuttered a little.

Seeing him like this, the man couldn't help but chuckled, and said jokingly, "Don't worry, I won't drive you away. You are the head of the family at such a young age, and a hero is a boy."

Qi Buyang blushed, and said embarrassedly: "No, grandpa retired early, I am not capable enough now..."

"Haha~" the man laughed again, "I'm sorry, I scared you just now, I thought it was those kids who had nothing to do and came here to play, fearing that something would happen to them."

"It doesn't matter." Qi Buyang shook his head and asked him, "Are you the person in charge of the execution platform?"

"The execution platform?" The man shook his head and said, "No one in the vicinity dares to come here, so there is no need to guard it! I used to be a policeman and was in charge of guarding the execution ground, but I stopped doing it later, and now I'm retired, so I come here from time to time. "

Qi Buyang heard that there seemed to be a story hidden in his tone, and couldn't help asking: "Why didn't you do it later?"

"Oh, it's embarrassing to say it, and I'm not afraid of your jokes." The man took out a cigarette, "Help me block it." Qi Buyang quickly sat on the edge of the high platform, leaned over and cupped his hands to shield him from the wind and light the fire.

The cigarette was lit, and he leaned against the platform and took a deep breath, the smoke ring that he exhaled was quickly blown away by the strong wind.

"More than ten years ago, I was a young policeman, a criminal police officer, and most of the death row prisoners were caught by us. You should have heard of it? You can order whatever you want for the last meal on the morning of the shooting."

Qi Buyang nodded.

"We are responsible for buying what the prisoners want to eat. Those people have everything they want, and sometimes we have to run around to buy what they want, but we think, that's the last meal. , and try to help as much as possible.” At this point, he changed the subject: “But once, the prisoner was a young man who was married and had a three-year-old daughter. I asked him what he wanted for the last meal, and he He asked for two apples, the most expensive imported apples at that time, red and big. He ate one, but put the other in his pocket and refused to eat it.”

"Why don't you eat it?" Qi Buyang asked impatiently like a child listening to a story.

"I was also surprised, so I asked him. I didn't expect him to tell me that the rest should be saved for my daughter. The child has never eaten such a good thing."

"But……"

Knowing what Qi Buyang wanted to say, the man waved his hand and said for him: "Do you think that he will be shot soon, and it is impossible for that apple to be delivered to my daughter?"

Qi Buyang nodded

"I know that."

"Then... why don't you let him eat the rest of the apple too."

The man smiled bitterly, "This kind of thing... I can say it, and I think he knows it too, just to keep something for himself."

After a pause, he continued: "Later, I sent him to the execution ground, which is here." He looked up at the empty high platform, "I was watching the whole time in the field, and his first shot missed. , took another shot, and then my colleague put him on the slope. I watched his blood flow out from the hole in his heart as usual. Everything was normal, but I didn’t expect to see a red Everything rolled down from him, and for a moment I thought his heart had been shot out! Although I knew it was impossible, I was shocked at that time, and then I realized that it was actually That apple... I don’t know why, since he was executed by shooting, I didn’t want to watch the infield anymore, I changed jobs with my colleagues, and since then I have been maintaining order in the outfield, or I don’t come to the execution ground at all.”

Qi Buyang didn't know how he felt when he heard this, he was silent for a while, and then asked: "What crime did he commit?"

"Gang rape, he was the leader. At that time, the law and order was very chaotic, and it was the period when criminals were severely cracked down. In troubled times, heavy cauldrons were used, so he was sentenced to be shot." The man smiled at Qi Buyang, "It's strange, right? That young man looks good. Handsome, the wife at home is not ugly, the couple have a good relationship, and they have children, how can they not think about doing that kind of thing..." He also sighed regretfully, "Man, sometimes ghosts are obsessed, He himself knew that he was sorry for his family. His wife brought the children to visit him in prison, but he didn’t dare to see him. The night before the execution, he said that he regretted it, but there are many things in this world, and there is no chance to regret it.”

After saying this, just finished smoking a cigarette, the old policeman extinguished the end of the cigarette, and said to Qi Buyang: "I'm going back, you should finish your work soon and go back, the living here won't stay here."

Qi Buyang nodded in agreement, watching his tall and straight back gradually walk away.

After calming down, he squatted down and carefully inspected the tiny cracks on the slope. In those lines, he could still vaguely see the dried and blackened blood that had seeped into the cement. The dust was rolled away at his fingertips, and he frowned.

In fact, from the moment he set foot on this land, he had already seen countless resentful souls floating in the wind.The souls of these condemned prisoners are more or less violent, but they collide with each other and cause mutual damage. Coupled with the strong wind that lingers here day and night, it is almost impossible to find a complete soul, and the rest are fragmented. residue.

Using the talisman water he brought with him, he drew a circular formation on the execution platform, and found a few big stones to press the talisman paper on the foot of the formation. Qi Buyang stood in front of the formation with a solemn expression.Following the magic formula he uttered, the formation was activated, and the remnants scattered in this wilderness suddenly gathered together and were pulled into the formation, as if being pulled by an invisible thread.

When all the lonely and remnant souls had gathered together, Qi Buyang immediately changed his gestures, and the condensed soul body began to be squeezed inward by the tumbling air around him. At this time, those remnant souls seemed to suddenly realize the danger, and the accumulated hostility suddenly burst out. The fire broke out and rushed outwards with all its strength, and even the wind around it began to become restless.The shape of the soul body became more and more distorted. Qi Buyang's forehead had already seen a thin layer of sweat, and was blown dry by the frenzied wind. It must end before dark, or the night will give them more power.He took a deep breath, frowned and tried to suppress the soul body that was desperately trying to break free.

Seeing that the soul body was getting smaller and smaller, and when it was about to succeed, the wind suddenly surged, overturning a stone that was holding the formation, and the talisman papers immediately scattered in all directions.When the formation was chaotic, the confinement force was lost, and the soul hanging in the middle immediately rushed towards Qi Buyang, and the fierce hostility hit his chest, pushing him off the edge of the platform.

Qi Buyang felt chills in his heart, knowing that he would definitely be injured if he fell like this, so he just covered his head and closed his eyes and waited for the landing. Unexpectedly, the expected pain did not come, he felt himself falling into someone's arms, opened his eyes and saw But it was Luo Lang who caught him.

At this time, the other party was sneering at the corner of his mouth, lowered his head and asked him: "Yangyang, are you so anxious to die?"