Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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They had to do the ritual at night and perform a spell that was similar to that of worshiping orphans. Why was it similar? Because in addition to worshiping lonely ghosts, there was also an additional step, which was to purify, so that there would be no lonely ghosts in this place in the future resulting in ghost harassment.
Fortifications in the mountains indeed required such rituals. Before construction began, several talismans would first need to be buried underground.
Xie Lingya first wrote all the talismans needed for the night. If it were an ordinary Taoist priest, it would take at least ten days and a half to prepare so many talismans. He finished the drawing after dinner as a leisure time and set it aside to dry.
——Although they were in the mountains, the meals were all delivered by hotels in the city. After a good meal, Tang Qi enthusiastically asked them to “soak in the hot springs.”
There were hot springs underground. Although they had not yet been developed, the workers preparing the land here had already collected some water. They usually used authentic hot spring water for bathing.
Tang Qi had wanted to stay on the mountain tonight, and on a whim, he even had a bathtub brought up.
These days, the hot spring water in many hot spring pools was just boiling water. The temperature in the mountains was cooler at night, so Xie Lingya was quite interested.
Not long after he finished drawing the talisman, Xie Lingya took Shi Changxuan to the first floor. Tang Qi put the bathtubs on the first floor. It was just a wooden house on the second floor for fear of instability.
Before going down, Shi Changxuan thought for a while, took off the Phytophthora God and put it in the room.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!” The Reporting God cried and howled for a while, but Shi Changxuan had already walked away.
Tang Qi was watching people put water in the tubs. When he saw Xie Lingya coming over with a handkerchief, he jokingly said, “Little teacher Xie is very white. How are you so white?”
“Yes, I can’t tan.” Xie Lingya also said, grinning.
“…” Shi Changxuan couldn’t help but think of what his broken Reporting God would say at this time and was a little speechless.
Although the Phytophthora God was not here, its presence was inexplicably heightened. Shi Changxuan seemed to be able to hear its thin voice shouting word by word: Xie Lingya is so white.
At this time, Lao Wang suddenly ran over and saw Tang Qi outside the window. He stopped and said to the inside: “Mr. Tang, that, that…”
His face looked strange, and there was a little fear in his eyes.
“What’s wrong?” Tang Qi walked to the window and pushed the half-open window open.
Lao Wang swallowed his saliva, glanced at Shi Changxuan and the other two people behind him, and said, “I was going to have people collect the bones that were dug out earlier. So that we didn’t need to bother about it later. Then I found that two of the skulls were gone.”
Xie Lingya and the others knew about the corpses that had been found in the ground, and they made an appointment at that time to choose a place to bury them after the funeral. It was for this reason that Lao Wang went to pick up the bones. The bones were very leaky, so they were not placed in the wooden house, but in a corner of the construction site.
Tang Qi couldn’t help but get goosebumps, and said with a dark face: “They are all gone? Have you looked around carefully? How did you clean up before?”
Old Wang said weakly: “There were originally five skulls, but there are now only three. Two skulls are gone. I asked, and it turned out that they were packed in a basket and covered with a tarpaulin.”
“Who would steal this thing?” Tang Qi was furious and angry.
Lao Wang asked: “Could it be that ‘they’ didn’t want to leave, so…”
“Took away their skull?” Tang Qi thought it was ridiculous, “How is that possible! Go and ask, in these two days, did some villager kid from nearby come and take it away?”
He knew that children were the timidest yet also the most daring ones, and they could do anything if they got angry.
“Okay…” Lao Wang had no choice but to go back and ask again, feeling very depressed. If the bones couldn’t be found, tonight’s religious ceremony won’t be possible.
At this time, the water had already been filled, but Tang Qi was not in the mood to take a bath anymore. He was always an impatient person. After spinning around in circles for a few times, he couldn’t help but ask: “Teacher Xie, it can’t really be ‘them’ not wanting to leave, right? But when we were preparing the land here, ‘they’ didn’t show any objection like taking away their skull.”
“Yes, yes, I think someone is still doing it.” Tang Qi thought for a while, “No, I’m going to look into it. Don’t worry about it. If so, I will also pay for the delay,” he said and hurried out.
“Is everything going to be okay? I gave him a talisman, and I don’t think there is any evil spirit in this place.” Xie Lingya said. The experience of going down the mine with Shi Changxuan last time told him that you couldn’t think about gods and monsters first in everything, otherwise it was easy to be embarrassed!
Shi Changxuan also thought it was okay. Although some bones were found, the feng shui of this place was good. It was not a mass grave before, so there should be no evil lonely ghosts.
“Never mind. I’m sweating from hiking during the day. I’ll take a bath first.” Xie Lingya said. He had just showered in the room. There was a little moisture on the ends of his hair. It could be said that he was ready.
Xie Lingya took off his clothes and sat in the tub in a few moments, so fast that Shi Changxuan couldn’t even react.
There were two tubs next to his, naturally for Shi Changxuan and Tang Qi. Tang Qi went out, but Shi Changxuan remained in place without moving for a while.
“Damn, it’s really hot. Come in quickly.” Xie Lingya burst into tears, thinking that he couldn’t do it alone, so he called to Shi Changxuan.
He was lying on the edge, with his shoulders, back and arms exposed. In the mist of water vapor, his fair skin had turned slightly red from the steam, and the tracks of water droplets sliding down it were so clear.
Shi Changxuan’s thoughts suddenly started to wander, thinking that it was a good thing he didn’t bring the Phytophthora God down, otherwise it would have broken its throat again…
“Cough.” Shi Changxuan’s throat itched, and he turned sideways to take off his clothes. He sat in the bathtub silently, his cheeks flushed by the heat, and he didn’t look as cold as usual.
But he usually didn’t like to talk, so Xie Lingya didn’t think anything was wrong.
“It’s still quite comfortable, but it was a bit hot when I first came here.” Xie Lingya wiped away the physiological tears and said, “After the construction here is completed, I will bring people from all over to come and soak… Hey, you say, would they mind if there is a temple here? It’s probably okay, it’s just in the same scenic spot.”
Shi Changxuan was just over a meter away from him. He stared at his moist eyes for a while, and finally looked at him unnaturally. Looking away, he felt that the hot spring water seemed to be warming even the bottom of his heart, until it was almost boiling.
….
“I’m back.” Tang Qi trotted in, took off his clothes and got into his bathtub, “Oh, aigoo, it’s so hot, my pen*s is about to be burned!”
Xie Lingya: “… “
Shi Changxuan: “…”
Tang Qi glanced at them and said humbly: “You young people are in good health and can really bear it.”
Xie Lingya couldn’t laugh or cry, “We all have different heat tolerances…”
It was too embarrassing to talk about this topic with unfamiliar people, so Tang Qi stayed silent, and even Xie Lingya couldn’t talk any more.
As soon as Shi Changxuan saw Tang Qi, he completely woke up from the charming atmosphere and said indifferently: “What’s the matter?”
“Oh, I seem to have seen children from nearby mountain villages coming to play here. I asked someone to go to the village to ask. We have to wait for them to come back.” Tang Qi hated the feeling of having his plans disrupted and said unhappily.
Because it was relatively hot, he put his face closer to the open window. They were all men anyway, and there were no homosexuals at the construction site at the moment.
Xie Lingya nodded, “Then it’s best for them to come back tonight, so as to not delay doing things.”
“That’s what I think, otherwise we will have to wait longer.” Tang Qi shook his head, “Hey, it’s really not good.”
Tang Qi curled his lips and stared outside.
“Their children are too bold, comparable to when I was a child.” Xie Lingya couldn’t help but sigh.
Shi Changxuan: “…”
Tang Qi said nothing.
Xie Lingya asked again: “Hey, Mr. Tang, do you want some water?” The mineral water was placed on one side. He planned to grab a bottle and asked casually.
Tang Qi still didn’t speak.
Xie Lingya felt something was wrong. He was next to Tang Qi. At first glance, Tang Qi’s eyes seemed to be frozen. Moreover, while sitting in the boiling hot spring water, his face had turned green and white, and his teeth were clenched.
“Mr. Tang??” Xie Lingya put on his bath towel and stood up.
Tang Qi didn’t dare to turn his head, his breathing slowed down, his lips opened and closed slightly, and he whispered in a trembling voice: “You, come and see, is that the one…”
That? Maybe there is a ghost? Xie Lingya stepped out of the tub and walked to the window to take a look outside.
There were many trees behind the prefabricated house, and the terrain was higher, forming a low cliff. The moonlight shone all over the area, and Xie Lingya saw a strange scene among the grass and trees on the short cliff.
Three khaki wild foxes squatted on the stone, with their front paws clasped on their chests, and they all faced the direction of the moon, as if praying. More importantly, each of them had a big white skull on their head. The skull was like wearing a hat.
Although they were separated by a certain distance, looking at the shape and size, they were clearly the skulls they had been looking for, for a long time.
Deep mountains, wild foxes, white bones.
In the night, this scene was simply eerie and strange.
Xie Lingya stood next to Tang Qi and could clearly hear the sound of his back teeth chattering.
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