Chapter 4

Seeing Chu Tianshu made a quick decision, threw the dustpan, turned around, and found a wooden handle of a mop.

The wooden stick was straight, his eyes stared at the tip of the stick, his shoulders were flat, and his posture was upright.

With his long inhalation, the muscles on his arms bulged one after another, from shoulders to palms, the movements were full of violent feelings, but the focus in his eyes was like when he was giving someone acupuncture.

The wooden stick in his hand was a big needle.

"Open!!"

This stick, with a puff, pierced downward from the bottom of the pit, piercing the remaining soil layer, and a muffled sound of crack came from underground.

That was the lid of a thin-skinned coffin that had already decayed a bit, which was pierced by the tip of the stick.

A skeleton lay in the coffin, and black smoke occupied the position of the skull.

"No, don't..."

The smoke shook violently, but saw the wooden stick pull back quickly.

From the hole above, a glass nail containing cinnabar fell down.

The skull just barely raised its bone-yellow hands, and the glass nail had already entered the coffin, exploding into a cluster of bright red sand on the spot.

Bang!!!

Seeing Chu Tianshu stared at the pit at his feet. After that muffled sound, the yin energy below gradually faded.

The smoke drifting out from the hole changed from black-gray to a blue-gray like cigarette smoke.

He didn't stop, again and again, stabbing the stick in his hand straight into the coffin.

"Rough fists and big feet, mountain barbarian bandit?"

"A rotten ghost like you can be materialized, pouncing like the wind, can't a Daoist practice boxing?"

"Also, I never said I was a Daoist!"

Thud!!

When the stick was pulled out again, there was no more yin energy coming out of the hole.

Seeing Chu Tianshu still stared for a while, then breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand to smooth the sweaty hair on his forehead to the top of his head, revealing refreshing brows and eyes.

He looked up and saw the fog rolling and turning light, and the blue stainless steel tiles on the factory building had already appeared in the hazy field of vision.

Looking back, the silk-like fog in the forest was also fading, and the horn sound of the large truck in the distance came faintly.

The generation conditions of the overflow zone have not been found, but the dissipation conditions of the overflow zone have been summarized by predecessors.

Either the ghost has harmed the person, or the person has killed the ghost. If one of the two is missing, this special environment where the Spirit Realm and reality overlap will dissipate.

Seeing Chu Tianshu leaned on the wooden stick with his right hand, pulled out the three needles on his body with his left hand, and looked at the dissipating thick fog. The fatigue began to roll over his body and mind, only feeling stuffy and feverish, and tore open two or three buttons on his shirt collar.

Facing the wind, he was greedy for coolness, and did not find that the pendant on his chest changed quietly, the texture of the metal faded, becoming like turbid and flocculent jade.

"Hey! Seeing Chu Tianshu!"

Mr. Qiao shouted loudly on the other side of the forest, raising his hand and waving. "What happened just now, are you okay?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't want to move yet, just replied: "It's okay."

Mr. Qiao looked at the sunlight shining on the open space, and ran over with big strides.

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at him and asked again: "Was there any problem with Boss Li just now?"

The evil spirit in Boss Li's body had not been cleared. Now his state was similar to sleepwalking. Being so close to the overflow zone, he might be affected and have some abnormal performance.

"Just when the fog rose, he suddenly struggled, as if he wanted to run into the fog."

Mr. Qiao raised the electric baton in his hand, crackling.

"I couldn't hold him down, so I took advantage of him not breaking free from the seat belt and gave him one with this. He became honest after one hit. This thing is still easy to use."

Seeing Chu Tianshu gave him a thumbs up.

Electric batons are very easy to use for people, and they also have a certain effect on dirty things.

Mr. Qiao, as an experienced assistant to a spirit communicator, usually carries this kind of equipment with him when traveling, attending class, or getting off work.

As long as it is not in an environment like an overflow zone, he relies on equipment to deal with some emergencies, and he is still quite capable.

Mr. Qiao looked around: "Good heavens, the tablet was knocked down. Hey, what is that? Was there a clump of grass there before?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at the corner.

There were several abandoned plastic buckets and some water stains over there. It was not strange to grow a weed, but that grass was really not like an ordinary weed, looking a bit crystal clear.

Seeing Chu Tianshu walked a few steps over there and observed carefully.

This grass was about a foot high, and there were no branches spreading to both sides except for a main stem in the middle of the leaves, and the tone of the front and back sides was consistent, unlike normal grass with deep and shallow differences.

The small flower growing in the middle was a light black, shining with oily luster in the sun.

"Seems to have seen it in a book."

Seeing Chu Tianshu recalled carefully, his eyes lit up, "This is Ghost Tooth Grass!"

Ghost Tooth: Losing the normal heart in silence, swallowing teeth into the stomach when falling, those who endure humiliation to become ghosts, if they do not think of revenge, but help the tyrant, the Spirit Realm responds, and this thing accompanies it.

This grass should be a remnant of the overflow zone.

If the ghost has harmed the person, causing the overflow zone to dissipate, the aura of the Spirit Realm will shrink back with the ghost, and nothing will be left except blood on the ground.

But if the person has killed the ghost, the dissipation of the overflow zone is called "breaking".

Things from the Spirit Realm must be intercepted by reality.

Among spirit communicators, some schools will raise ghosts and drive them to do things.

Ghost Tooth Grass is very valuable to this kind of school. Its characteristic of helping the tyrant, if prepared into an ointment, can make this kind of spirit communicator more handy when driving ghosts.

Seeing Chu Tianshu himself cannot use this kind of grass, but he can sell it.

Another considerable income!

More than ten minutes later, Seeing Chu Tianshu wrapped the Ghost Tooth Grass with his jacket, together with the roots and soil, and returned to the car.

Boss Li in the passenger seat sat paralyzed, the needle on his head straightened.

"The one who made trouble has been removed by me. It is not difficult to wake him up. After arriving at my house, take a small cup of the medicinal wine in the corner, first wipe it on his philtrum, and then dilute it with a bottle of mineral water and let him drink it all..."

Seeing Chu Tianshu watched the scenery outside the window flying by, a bit dizzy, closed his eyes and chatted with Mr. Qiao, his voice gradually lowering.

When he opened his eyes again, the sunlight outside the car window was a bit dazzling.

The sky was bright, as if it was already noon.

He slept unconsciously, opened the car door, squinted at the outside, and then stretched his legs to get out of the car.

This car had already stopped in the courtyard outside his house.

Boss Li's family and Mr. Qiao were all sitting at the door. Hearing the movement, they stood up and walked over.

"Master Chu, you are awake!"

The first to speak was Boss Li, walking over quickly, his voice still a bit hoarse, his face very enthusiastic.

"I know everything, thank you so much, Master, you saved our whole family."

Seeing Chu Tianshu's hand was held by Boss Li, shaking repeatedly.

Boss Li still had a mobile phone in his hand and forgot to put it down. Looking at the picture on the screen, it was exactly the knocked-down stone tablet.

That was taken by Mr. Qiao at the time, the knocked-down stone tablet, the bitten broom, the footprints stamped on the ground.

Seeing Chu Tianshu had also seen that album before, and there was even a small video of Boss Li struggling in the passenger seat.

Li Mother also pushed Li Xu: "Xu Xu, quickly kowtow to the Master."

Seeing Chu Tianshu hurriedly said: "Don't!"

Prevented Li Xu, but didn't prevent Boss Li.

"Then I'll kowtow to the Master!"

He was about to kneel on the spot. Seeing Chu Tianshu hurriedly reached out to help him. Old Li's knees were still covered with a large piece of dust.

Although he did save their family, did these people really understand the danger of meeting the ghost scholar in a practical sense?

A boss, kneeling and kowtowing like this, is still a bit too much.

Seeing Chu Tianshu instead had some suspicion: Could this family be in financial trouble, performing exaggeratedly, wanting to default on the bill?

Just thinking about it, Boss Li had already taken out a card and put it in Seeing Chu Tianshu's hand.

"Master, there are 100,000 yuan in here, the password is on the back of the card."

Boss Li said, "Of course, the grace of saving a life cannot be repaid, this 100,000 is definitely not much, I will definitely keep in touch in the future, and I will not forget the Master during festivals, and the money for acupuncture and medicine that Xu Xu and I need later will be calculated separately..."

100,000 yuan is not small, it is estimated that he knew a little bit about the market from Mr. Qiao.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's suspicion disappeared, and a smile appeared on his face.

As for the performance just now, maybe Boss Li himself is such a straightforward person who is particularly grateful when he is not possessed.

He didn't know that Boss Li had a deep understanding of the harm of that ghost scholar.

It's not that he had much impression of the experience of being possessed.

Mainly because of this incident, Boss Li recalled that many things he had messed up in the past six months might be related to the influence of this ghost scholar.

In the past, although Boss Li had high expectations for his son, he wouldn't have let Li Xu go to any damn calligraphy tutoring class or guqin tutoring class during such an important stage of high school, and he wouldn't have gone everywhere to participate in any math competitions.

And because of those tutoring classes, he was furious at Li Xu, and his bad temper extended directly to the business field.

In the past six months, his factory had been quite depressed.

Clearly, before talking about business, he could think of preparing a card to send gifts to the personnel of large companies.

When he really talked, he would lose his temper after a sentence or two, being sarcastic, making it seem like he was some kind of great professor who could command the situation and point out the country.

It would be strange if this could talk about business.

This situation is exactly what Boss Li fears most. If it drags on for another month or two, even if he is not played to death by the ghost, he will offend all the local clients.

If he goes bankrupt and rolls back to the poor mountain village, that is really more terrible than anything else.

"You don't need acupuncture later. I will prescribe a set of prescriptions for you. Li Xu has another set of prescriptions. In addition, Li Xu cannot be too tired recently. You should let him rest as much as possible, and don't bother him with miscellaneous things."

Seeing Chu Tianshu carried his jacket into the living room, sat back in his own chair, and felt comfortable.

"Boss Li, although the one who harmed you is no longer a good thing, that stone tablet is also too trampling. After you go back, ask someone to smash the stone tablet and transport it to another place to throw it away."

Boss Li nodded repeatedly.

Seeing Chu Tianshu felt the pulse of the father and son again, and Li Mother joined in the fun, so he simply looked at all three of them and prescribed a prescription for each.

Li Mother's one was just for health conditioning.

"You can buy these medicinal materials at a regular pharmacy. Take them for a course of treatment first, and then come back for a follow-up visit."

Boss Li and his wife thanked him again and were about to turn and leave.

"Wait a minute."

Seeing Chu Tianshu shouted, pointed to the candy spread on the table, and said, "Li Xu, come, pick one."

Li Xu could feel his parents looking at him, unwilling to look back at them, just hesitating to walk over and reach for a piece of chocolate.

Seeing Chu Tianshu smiled slowly: "Okay, see you again."

"Thank you!"

Li Xu lowered his head and thanked him, turned his head and left quickly, and said "Teacher, see you again" after stepping out of the door.

Mr. Qiao watched the two cars leave and walked over: "This kid's mentality is finally better."

Seeing Chu Tianshu tilted his head to look at him, holding the card between his fingers: "Wait for me to take it out and then share it with you?"

"Underestimated me, I am an old hand, I have already received cash."

Mr. Qiao took out a stack of red banknotes to show, and stuffed them into his pocket, sighing, "I didn't help much, and I took so much, and I still feel a bit guilty."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said: "It was you who risked the danger of getting into trouble and brought their son over. Otherwise, their family would have broken up. I think their gratitude to you is still small."

Mr. Qiao said "Hey": "As a teacher, although there is no saying that a teacher is like a father in ancient times, there must be some teacher ethics. I just said that I didn't help you much."

Seeing Chu Tianshu shook his neck: "Then treat me to a meal."

Mr. Qiao was about to agree, but Seeing Chu Tianshu smiled again: "But not today, I have no appetite today. Wait until I have recovered, and I will find you for a big meal, and eat your guilt into heartache."

Mr. Qiao said heartily: "Okay, then I won't bother you, rest well, see you."

He put on his helmet when he went out, straddled his motorcycle, the engine sounded, and he turned across the bridge.

He left, and today's matter was finally over.

Seeing Chu Tianshu put away the card, stretched, closed the gate, heated a large box of milk and poured it into his stomach, swallowed the medicine, and fell asleep.

The color of the sky outside the window turned from bright white to orange-red like the sunset, time passed, until the afterglow also dimmed.

A panicked gasp came from the room.

After a while, the bedside lamp was turned on.

Seeing Chu Tianshu sat by the bed, his eyes a bit straight.

He took the medicine and slept, but he had a nightmare again.

The feeling of being unable to resist in the dream, only able to run away, was still tightly entangled in his chest for a while, dull to the extreme, but also abnormally empty, wanting to vomit.

Recalling the "Ghost Gate Counter-Catalytic Needle", the feeling of full body strength and surging energy, and then comparing it with the present, the huge gap made him even more uncomfortable.

When Seeing Chu Tianshu raised his hand, the chaotic beating of his heart seemed to be pulling the tiny tendons of his whole body, bringing uncontrollable slight tremors.

The tremor echo of his temples made him even more dizzy, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, his palms groping to hold the pendant, and he recited the incantation.

It was pitch black outside the window, and the street lamps on the utility poles along the cement road were lit one after another.

Seeing Chu Tianshu exhaled slowly, the feeling of heart palpitations and trembling had faded, his hands let go of the pendant, and he sat by the bed silently.

After a long time, he came back to his senses.

"Right, Ghost Tooth Grass."

He went downstairs to find a large cola can, cut it into two halves, and planted the Ghost Tooth Grass in it.

The upper half of the cola can, the bottle mouth tightened, just right as a cup, filled with tap water.

While watering, Seeing Chu Tianshu groped for his mobile phone, but it was a black screen no matter how he pressed it, and it was indeed broken.

The mobile phone is very fragile, let alone encountering exorcism events, sometimes Seeing Chu Tianshu sits in meditation and cultivates, and if his mental power fluctuates, he will accidentally make the mobile phone malfunction.

So he has spares at home.

After watering, Seeing Chu Tianshu went to find a spare mobile phone, removed the SIM card and replaced it, read the address book, swiped, and dialed a number.

Beep beep beep——

A dull calling sound came from the receiver.

"Hello, Tianshu."

After the phone was connected, a low and gentle male voice sounded, "What's wrong, has the medicine effect decreased again?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu sat on the sofa, relaxed a bit, and deliberately wanted to bring a joking tone, saying: "Brother Bai Sui, you mention this every time you call. If people don't know, they will think you are a medicine peddler."

Lin Brother Bai Sui, Chu's grandfather's disciple, is Seeing Chu Tianshu's junior uncle by generation, but the two are not more than ten years apart.

He doesn't like being called uncle, and has led Seeing Chu Tianshu to call him brother since he was a child. Later, Seeing Chu Tianshu got used to calling him that.

Now he works at the "Special Capture Division" in the Jianghuai region, which is officially responsible for handling abnormal events.

The initial channel for special medicine was found with his help.

"My medicine effect is fine, don't worry too much."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "However, I called you today, and I really want to talk about selling medicine. I got a Ghost Tooth Grass, over a hundred years old, and I am preparing to hang it on your trading website."

"Look, what price do you think is appropriate?"

Lin Brother Bai Sui was a bit surprised: "Ghost Tooth Grass over a hundred years old, you... shouldn't have encountered an overflow zone, right?"

Ghost Tooth Grass doesn't have to be in an overflow zone, how can the association be so accurate.

Seeing Chu Tianshu was also surprised: "I did encounter one, the problem is not big, I have already solved it. Isn't the overflow zone said to be random and very rare? How did you think of this all of a sudden?"

Lin Brother Bai Sui was silent for a while, saying: "Some things are no longer secrets, it doesn't matter if I tell you."

"Entering the 21st century, the frequency of overflow zone events across the country and even the world has been rising in recent years."

"Jianghuai is in the southeast of the Divine Land, with prosperous Yang energy, and you are in the Yangtze River Delta, surrounded by water. The governance of the Yangtze River in recent years has been effective, and the geomancy is lively. It is probably for these reasons that there have been no such things in your area before."

Lin Brother Bai Sui sighed, his voice full of helplessness.

"Now that it has appeared in your place, I have a premonition that our Jianghuai Special Capture Division will soon start working overtime."

Seeing Chu Tianshu frowned: "Then you should be careful."

"It's not that dangerous. There are few spirit communicators here, and many who practice martial arts. Every time I go out, there are always several people in the group helping."

Lin Brother Bai Sui didn't mention those things anymore, gave Seeing Chu Tianshu a price range for Ghost Tooth Grass, and the two chatted about recent situations before hanging up.

Seeing Chu Tianshu put down the phone, stared at the screen, and was thoughtful.

In the past, Lin Brother Bai Sui was invited to join the Special Capture Division and came to talk to his grandfather. The treatment and benefits were good.

His grandfather didn't go, and also urged Seeing Chu Tianshu not to join.

One is that spirit communicators are relatively free among the people, and the second is that the Special Capture Division is more likely to encounter danger.

If it weren't for Lin Brother Bai Sui's own insistence on joining, and later relying on the relationship there to get special medicine, Chu's grandfather even wanted him not to go.

But if there is a general trend of frequent overflow zones, will the scattered folk practitioners really be safer?

Seeing Chu Tianshu lowered his head and stared at the phone, without thinking of a result, suddenly noticed the pendant on his chest.

When did this small token become the texture of jade?!

Seeing Chu Tianshu pinched the token, opened the spirit communication perspective, couldn't help but shake his body, and straightened his waist.

The red light in this token seems to be full.

Originally, it was like a can of Red Bull, and it was still a little short at the top. Now this little vacancy has been filled.

At least from Seeing Chu Tianshu's perspective, he could no longer see any gaps.

The spiritual light is full, and you can get a great opportunity!

In the past two years, Seeing Chu Tianshu has increasingly pinned his hopes on this pendant, hoping to rely on this to eradicate his illness.

But when the red light was really full, he couldn't help but have a trace of vigilance in his heart.

This pendant suddenly filled up today, which is a bit abnormal, plus what the so-called great opportunity is, it is all unknown.

Profound Nation, Jianghuai Great Region, Special Capture Division Headquarters.

Lin Brother Bai Sui hung up the phone, walked into the office, typed quickly, wrote a report, and reported the overflow zone event in Hailing.

There was also a national map in the computer, with red dots marked in many places. Originally, this piece in the southeast was the sparsest, and there was not one in the Yangtze River Delta.

Now, Lin Brother Bai Sui's mouse stopped on that piece of pure land, and there were several vertical lines between his brows.

The selection and training of the Special Capture Division, plus the manpower recruited, were originally not small, but in recent years, there have been many things in other regions, and it is inevitable to transfer some people to assist.

Now there is also a severe sign in Jianghuai, I don't know if this report can cause the decision above as soon as possible.

Not to mention how many people to transfer back, it would be good to allocate more funds to facilitate the recruitment of folk figures to assist.

Not long after, the phone on the table vibrated.

Lin Brother Bai Sui released the mouse and answered immediately. It was the group leader's call.

"Did you just report an overflow zone event? In the summary of the last quarter newly made today, in the Yangtze River Delta, plus this one of yours, there are actually three similar events."

The group leader's voice was solemn. "Before, the above always wanted our Jianghuai Special Capture Division to be able to communicate directly with the patrol departments in various places, share case intelligence, and simplify procedures, but there were still some obstacles."

"Now it should be a reason. You also go to the auditorium, we are going to attend the general meeting."

Hailing, Seeing Chu Tianshu's home.

He had already taken the pendant off his neck, placed it on the tea table in front of him, leaned forward, supported his knees with his elbows, folded his hands to support his chin, his face complex.

Let's not talk about unknown risks, how is this opportunity triggered?

The red light is full, and it hasn't shown any changes automatically.

The book didn't mark any special secret method. Simply injecting mental power should be useless.

Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't know that the pendant was full before, holding this thing and reciting incantations, he had already injected mental power, and now there is still residue, which is no different from the feedback experience in the past.

Suddenly, a wisp of white smoke flashed from the pendant.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's spirit communication perspective was inexplicably interrupted, and he saw the pendant with his normal naked eye.

The pendant that was like turbid jade just now, at this moment, had no flocculent patterns, and was as transparent as ice.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's mind swayed, suddenly felt empty beside him, and fell into the grass.

(End of chapter)