Chapter 143
A Ghostly Perception
Chapter 143 A Ghostly Perception
The new content provided Chen Miao with a lot of information.
In the book, Chen Miao finally got to the bottom of things, just as the real Chen Miao had wished.
Therefore, I obtained a lot of information from that old man.
The old man's account was much more detailed than what Zhong Cai told Chen Miao.
From the old man's words, Chen Miao saw many points worth exploring.
For example, the body is not buried after death, but kept at home.
Why does this custom exist, and how do the people of Fengmen Village handle the preservation of corpses?
For example, after the young people returned to preside over the funeral, why did they not stay overnight and leave Fengmen Village directly?
Is it just a custom, or are they afraid of something?
For example, why are widowed elderly people the only ones left behind in the village?
If every inhabited house has only one elderly person nearing the end of their life, then the person cooking in the book earlier was... the old man's wife?
After the old man's wife died, did she get up at night to cook for him?
The dead cook for the living?
How is this done?
These are the customs of Fengmen Village.
While calling it a custom, Chen Miao felt it was more of a taboo.
Last time, Chen Miao broke the taboo against going out at night, which led to him encountering a zombie cooking.
As for what he and Qi Ning encountered...
If he wasn't mistaken, the old man who told them about the customs might have forgotten some key points.
For example: "A house with a bell hanging at the door and no threshold is uninhabited."
There might be a second half to this custom.
That means no one lives there, and no one should live there!
The old man only remembered the first half, omitting the second half, "uninhabitable".
If we consider this perspective, the customs mentioned in the books could be further supplemented.
"Outsiders are not allowed to enter the kitchen of any house in Fengmen Village where people live, nor can they touch anything inside." ...If they touch anything carelessly, something bad will happen.
"A house with people shouldn't have its threshold removed."... If the threshold is removed, something bad will happen.
"Whenever there are narrow turns or other narrow places in the village, you should give way to each other." ... If you don't, something bad will happen.
These taboos became the key to Chen Miao and Qi Ning's survival after entering Fengmen Village.
Besides that, there was something else that Chen Miao hadn't expected.
In Fengmen Village, there are not only a group of zombies, but also a group of ghosts!
Based on previous conversations, Chen Miao subconsciously concluded that the problem in Fengmen Village was zombies!
Until this time.
But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the ghosts and zombies in Fengmen Village appear in groups!
Among the zombies, there might be flying zombies. Among these ghosts and spirits, are there any malevolent spirits?
Chen Miao was unaware that he even had a fleeting thought of backing down, but he had no way out.
All he could do was use the information he had to save himself.
But how can we save ourselves?
Chen Miao fell into deep thought once again.
After driving for a long time, Qi Ning finally couldn't help but speak up and started chatting with Chen Miao.
"What are you thinking?"
"We're wondering what happened to Zhong Cai, whether he's still alive, and whether we can rescue him once we get there."
Hearing Chen Miao's series of questions, Qi Ning smiled.
"I recently heard something interesting, would you like to hear it?"
"About what?"
"About anxiety."
"Well, tell me."
Chen Miao turned her gaze from the car window to Qi Ning.
"To say you're anxious is like eating shit, but to be anxious in advance is like taking out a loan to eat shit... Hahaha!"
"..."
Looking at Qi Ning's smile, Chen Miao thought for a moment and couldn't help but laugh along.
After the laughter subsided, the atmosphere in the car finally relaxed a bit.
Thinking of the incident in the book where the two were wiped out by a ghost, Chen Miao asked about the situation.
"Brother Qi, how do your investigators handle situations where they encounter someone whose vision is obscured by a ghost?" "Oh? Do you mean how to resolve it, or how to determine if your vision is being obscured?"
Chen Miao's eyes lit up.
Everyone wants to know.
Qi Ning thought for a moment and said, "Actually, in most cases of ghost incidents, it is rare for the ghost to be blinded by its own eyes. When this happens, it is either because the ghost is very weak and can only use the ghost to be blinded by its own eyes to kill people, or because the ghost is very strong and uses the ghost to be blinded by its own eyes to toy with people."
"The stronger the evil spirit, the harder it is to break through its illusion."
"You've probably seen the points mall in the Administration Bureau; the Devil May Cry spray has some effect."
"Devil May Cry Spray itself has a certain degree of harm to ghosts and is also a common way for us to deal with ghosts. If you feel something is wrong, spray it into your eyes and you can roughly see if your eyes are covered."
Hearing this, Chen Miao thought of the hands that had covered him and suddenly asked, "A ghost covering my eyes, does that mean a ghost was lying behind me and covered my eyes with its hands?"
Qi Ning shook his head: "I'm not too sure about that either, but it's definitely not what you're saying. Hmm... you can think of it as something like the ghostly resentment in the case of that female evil cultivator we encountered last time."
Qi Ning continued, "Besides the Ghost Cry Spray, there are also talismans. Under the authority of a Class C investigator, one can also purchase a type of glasses in the mall."
"These glasses will detect whether your behavior is normal. If it is not normal, two thin needles will stick out from the frame of the glasses, making you feel a physiological pain stimulus."
"The 'ghostly blindness' obscures vision and a certain degree of sensory perception, but it cannot completely block out strong physiological stimuli. Therefore, once the glasses give a warning, you can try using sprays or talismans to solve the problem."
"If you don't have glasses, spray, or talismans, there is another way to determine if you are being blinded by a ghost."
"That is to bite the tip of your tongue and spit out a mouthful of blood mist."
"If you can see the blood mist, it's probably normal. But if you can't see the blood mist, or you only see it intermittently, then there's definitely a problem."
"This method works best for people with abundant Yang energy!"
"Whether in our Yang cultivation system or your Yin cultivation system, blood from the tip of the tongue, blood from the tip of the finger, and blood from between the eyebrows are all extremely Yang substances."
"After the blood spurts from the tip of the tongue, the ghosts will subconsciously try to cover the blood mist, but they have a hard time doing so."
"The stronger a person's yang energy is, the less likely the blood mist they expel will be to be completely concealed."
"Either your yang energy is insufficient, and the blood mist you spew out is obscured, so you can't see it; or your yang energy is sufficient, and the ghost doesn't completely obscure it, so you can see the blood appearing and disappearing; or the ghost is very strong, and after obscuring it, it conjures up fake blood for you, at which point it's impossible to judge."
"Furthermore, when a person with abundant yang energy sprays out a blood mist, it can even directly scare away ghosts and break through the ghost's veil!"
Hearing Qi Ning's statement, Chen Miao felt certain.
It would be great if there is a way.
But then Chen Miao added, "These are things I should do when I know the situation is wrong, but how do I know the current situation is wrong?"
Upon hearing this, Qi Ning shook his head.
"I can't answer that. I'm just a Level D investigator who hasn't even entered the ranks of true Yang cultivators yet."
"I'll tell you if there are any other ways once I've truly become a Yang cultivator."
"Until then, you only have one way to make a judgment."
Chen Miao asked curiously, "What?"
"Feel!"
Chen Miao's face darkened.
"Wouldn't that be just guessing blindly?"
"Haha, there's nothing wrong with calling it a guess, but sometimes a person's intuition is quite accurate, isn't it?"
Chen Miao remained silent.
Suddenly, Chen Miao thought of something.
"What if I close my eyes? Will the illusion of being possessed by a ghost still work?"
Qi Ning laughed and said, "How can you be so sure that your eyes are really closed? And if your eyes are closed, how do you see where you're going?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Miao said nothing more.
An ordinary person might not be able to walk with their eyes closed, but he could.
[State - Closed-eye Perception]
If the ghost's blindness only obscures vision, then can he use his closed eyes to perceive and break free from the ghost's control?
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(End of this chapter)