Thriller Night Talk

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Wei Fuyuan didn’t understand what Bei Quan was murmuring about, but Tian Jia Xin seemed to get the general idea.

The little doll opened a pair of slightly drooping bright eyes and stared at Bei Quan in surprise, “… the ghost is not there? How is this possible? ”

Bei Quan nodded and scratched Guan Hu Su Ying’s chin twice.

“Guan Hu Su Ying told me.”

He said, “Guan Hu Su Ying says that the Yin of the village is heavy, but it couldn’t feel the breath of the ghost.”

“That’s not how it should be, right?”

Tian Jia Xin put his chin on his palm and said with a thoughtful expression, “If the fragmented space is made by a ghost, it should wait outside like a spider guarding its web from the side, waiting to trap and pull all its prey in…”

The child wrinkled his nose in confusion, “Regardless of the methods it uses, it shouldn’t be far away?”

The ignorant Young Master Wei dared to be fearless and made bold guesses, “Isn’t the ghost attached to the host? If it was attached to one of those teachers and students, wouldn’t it be with them? ”

Bei Quan looked at Wei Fuyuan, and instead of casting aside his random speculation, he smiled and nodded, “Although the possibility is relatively small, at present, it might be the case.”

He explained, “Generally speaking, if the fragmented space is artificially created, the maker will choose to intercept a period of time and space that he is familiar with. And, in order to maintain the stability of the space, the caster will typically stay outside as much as possible… unless… ”

Wei Fuyuan, “unless?”

Bei Quan smiled, “Unless it has a reason to go in.”

Wei Fuyuan unconsciously patted his thigh, “that’s still to say, ghosts must have reason to follow in ah!! Otherwise, how can it continue to bewitch the host!”

Bei Quan just smiled and didn’t comment.

He originally thought it would be simple.

As long as they find the ghost in the ruins of the deserted village, kill it and release the people trapped in fragmented space— whether found alive or, unfortunately, dead, the problem would be solved.

However, currently, he could only speculate from the phone call of the person who claimed to be “Ayun” yesterday, that the missing teachers and students were likely to be trapped in a constant loop of time and space.

——So, if this fragmented space really did exist, where was it?

Bei Quan subconsciously rubbed his temple with the knuckles on his right index finger.

“Anyway, let’s look for it first, before it gets dark!” He turned back and snapped his fingers at Wei Fuyuan and Tian Jia Xin, “Let’s take a look at the environment of Xuanmen village.”

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Of course, Bei Quan had an architecturally scaled map of Xuanmen village, that was accurate to the longitude and latitude of each room, to help search for the place.

However, he had always adhered to the principle of “What you get on paper is shallow”. Whenever he went to an unfamiliar environment, he felt inclined to go take a look in person.

At 5:30 p.m, the sun began gradually tilting westward.

Bei Quan took Wei Fuyuan and Tian Jia Xin from the head of the village to the end of the village. Then, they walked around the cemetery where the deceased had been buried for nearly a hundred years, before finally returning to the two private houses where the teachers and students had stayed in the beginning.

“…So that’s the case.”

He stood in front of the hillside where the two small courtyards were, and condescendingly, looked into the distance.

Wei Fuyuan came over:

“What did you find?”

Bei Quan replied, “The Feng Shui of Xuanmen village is special.”

Wei Fuyuan: “???”

He knew nothing about it. Just now, he was merely accompanying Bei Quan around. His only impression of this place was that “this village is really broken and desolate.”

Although the compass did not work here due to the array’s interference…

Bei Quan pointed in the direction they had just come from, “The end of the village faces the north, which is also the main gate of most buildings— and also the direction of the ghost gate.”

Wei Fuyuan said “um.”

He had heard Bei Quan say this on the way.

“Also, look to the right.”

Bei Quan pointed down the hillside, “Do you see anything?”

Wei Fuyuan looked to the right according to Bei Quan’s instructions. He only saw an open area resembling a long oval, as well as the houses scattered on it, and many scattered rocks in the distance. There were also clumps of shrubs and weeds.

According to the location, Young Master Wei only knew that it should be the East. In addition, he didn’t see how it was different from the nearby barren mountains.

“Twenty or thirty years ago, there should have been a river in the east of the village.”

Bei Quan explained with a smile, “It was only later that the groundwater level in this mountainous area fell, coupled with years of drought, that the river completely dried up and became a wasteland.”

Wei Fuyuan said “um” and still didn’t understand what this meant.

“Oh, explaining to a layman is hard work!”

Tian Jia Xian, who was in the audience, was feeling impatient.

He simply squatted down, picked up a branch, and drew a diagram in the mud.

“Let me explain it to you!”

Since Bei Quan lifted his vest, the little Tianqi doll had completely released himself and exposed his nature. He no longer deliberately pretended to be a soft, cute and poor child in front of Wei Fuyuan.

He quickly drew the outline of Xuanmen village, marked the direction, drew several arcs in the west, south and north of the village to symbolize “hills,” and drew several curves in the east to represent “rivers.”

“Xuanmen village is located in the valley. It is surrounded by steep slopes on three sides, and its shape is narrow and long, so most of it is located in the shade of the hillside.”

Tian Jia Xin’s stick poked on the ground, “In this way, Yin Qi flowed down the mountain and poured into Xuanmen village.”

Wei Fuyuan: “Oh…”

“In addition, I’m not sure if it was deliberate or not, but a huge number of locust trees and boxwood were planted around the village. These trees are supposed to provide shade from the sun and are rooted in a single row. Like a river embankment, they ‘disguised’ Yin Qi flowing into the village from the mountains, so that they could not flow out of the gap between the mountain roads or the hills.”

With that, Tian Jia Xin drew a small arrow on the map.

“Therefore, these Yin Qi can only go in one direction, that is, to the East.”

Wei Fuyuan, “Right.”

This time he understood.

If the so-called “Yin Qi” was similar to the existence of cold air, then since the three sides in the west, south, and north are blocked by hills and trees, they could, naturally, only go to a lower place; that is, the riverbank in the east.

“But there was a river here.”

Tian Jia Xin traced the curve of the “river” with a small stick.

“Water is Yin Qi, and it flows through the east of the village, almost completely blocking the last exit of Yin Qi. In this way, Xuanmen village has become a long, big platter, trapping all the Yin Qi in the mountains.”

Wei Fuyuan, “This sounds like an endless loop.”

During the one and a half months of dealing with the ghost, Young Master Wei was also aware of how terrible the so-called “Yin Qi” was many times.

Although he could enjoy Bei Quan’s bath service after every hand-to-hand fight with the ghost, it didn’t mean that he didn’t feel uncomfortable when he was attacked by Yin Qi and felt a chill that penetrated his bones.

“How on earth did the villagers of Xuanmen village live in such a ghostly place with this terrible Feng Shui?”

This time, Tian Jia Xin stopped talking.

He looked at Bei Quan as if waiting for the other party’s explanation.

“Well, I guess it’s because of this.”

Bei Quan also squatted down, took the stick from the child’s hand, and drew a circle on the floor map drawn by Tian Jia Xin.

The place where he circled was the hook of the letter “J” — where there was a mass graveyard that all the villagers who had died in the past hundred years had been buried in.

Bei Quan was worthy of being a person who uses a Chinese brush as his magic weapon. With just one hook, he was able to draw the cemetery to scale.

“A large number of corpses are buried in the land of the gathering of the dead, and the bodies can remain undecayed for decades or even centuries, meaning, the three souls and seven spirits of the dead will struggle to reincarnate.”

Wei Fuyuan: “!?”

He blurted out, “Doesn’t this make the problem worse?”

“You’re right.”

Bei Quan nodded, “So, I guess the villagers of Xuanmen village should have had some way to deal with evil spirits.”

Wei Fuyuan noticed that when Bei Quan said this, he narrowed his eyes slightly, and there seemed to be some kind of dim light in his pair of chestnut orbs.

“… Unfortunately, our time constraints will not allow me to study it carefully now.”

Bei Quan’s fingers tapped twice on his knees, “It seems that I can only take some risks…”

Wei Fuyuan keenly caught the word “risk” and immediately raised his eyebrows:

“What do you want to do?”

Bei Quan looked at the sky.

“Nothing yet. We have to wait until dark.”

He said, “I want to dive into the fragmented space and have a look.”

Wei Fuyuan didn’t understand Bei Quan’s words, but Tian Jia Xin beside him reacted.

“What do you want to do, Bei Quan!?”

Tian Jia Xin’s milk baby voice suddenly increased by an octave, “You haven’t even found the entrance to the space. You don’t even know how to get in and out?”

He raised the volume, “Are you planning to use ‘that trick’?”

Bei Quan praised him mockingly, “Congratulations, you’re right.”

“What the fuck!!”

Tian Jia Xin jumped up like a cat who’s had its tail trampled on and jumped on Bei Quan, “What if you can’t get out once you go in!!”

Bei Quan reached for the child’s shoulder and wheezed twice on the back of his head with a smile.

“There’s no better way now, is there? Anyway we have to find out what the situation is.”

He said, turning to look at Wei Fuyuan, “Besides, isn’t Xiao Wei here? It should be no problem for him to protect me.”

“No problem?!”

Tian Jia Xin was not convinced in the slightest and screamed, “Xiao Wei, he doesn’t understand anything at all!!” 𝙗𝙚𝙙𝒏𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡．𝙣𝒆𝙩

Wei Fuyuan didn’t know what they were talking about, but when he heard Tian Jia Xin’s comments about himself, he was immediately unhappy.

“I can learn!” He retorted loudly, “No matter what it is, as long as you teach me, I can learn it!”