94 | The Wishful Thinking 2

Xie Ren said, “Maybe, it was eaten.”

The rich merchant shivered, “Being, being eaten?!”

Xie Ren nodded. The rich merchant said, “Then, Daoist Master, what should we do now? I have a Mrs. Ru who is also pregnant, what should I do if that demon comes back?”

This man actually has a pregnant woman in his house!

Xie Ren raised his hand and said, “At ease, let me ask again, does your wife remember where she met this child in her dream?”

The rich merchant said, “She said she vaguely remembers a big house, but she definitely doesn’t remember much more. A dream only, who would remember so clearly?” He also gritted his teeth and said, “I …… have only expected a son after more than forty years, I am so bitter wow! Taoist priest, can you catch this monster to kill? I can’t let it harm my family anymore!”

Xie Ren said, “Don’t panic, don’t panic. I’ll do my best.”

The rich merchant was overjoyed and rubbed his hands together, “Well, well, well, what does the Taoist Master need? The reward is not a problem!”

Xie Ren said, “No need for a reward, as long as you help me with a few things. First, please find me a set of unused women’s clothes, they must be loose enough for a man to wear, and, I’m afraid I’ll also need a strand of your Lady Ru’s hair for the spell.”

The rich merchant commanded his servant, “Mark it down mark it down!”

Xie Ren added: “Secondly, please advise your pregnant Mrs. Ru to sleep in a different room, but no matter where or when she hears an unfamiliar child’s voice calling out to her as ‘mother’, don’t say yes. Don’t say yes, don’t even open your mouth is the best. Although people often don’t realize they are dreaming when they are deluded and out of their minds, it may still be effective if you repeat it in her ear, so that it sticks in her mind.”

The rich merchant also answered, and Xie Ren said, “Thirdly, I’ve brought two little children out, so please take care of them for me and arrange a good meal.”

The rich merchant said, “This kind of small matter, not to mention two pieces, even a hundred pieces I can do it for you!”

Finally arriving at the most important last one, Xie Ren said, “Fourth.”

He took out from his sleeve an amulet that had been enlightened by the Bodhisattvas’ Guan, handed it over with both hands, and said solemnly, “Please say aloud to this amulet, ‘Your Highness the Crown Prince, please protect me!’ –so that this one can be credited to my Guan.”

“……”

It was night, and Xie Ren once again changed into a woman’s clothing.

Although he seems to be familiar with wearing women’s clothing, but dressing up as a pregnant woman is still the first time, combing his makeup in the mirror, did not spend half a column of incense, at the end of the stuffed a pillow into his stomach, and then a strand of hair taken from the pregnant woman to hide in this pillow, Xie Ren then lay down on the bed. Calm down, slow down your breathing, and in a short while, you will drift off to sleep.

I don’t know how long it took, but Xie Ren leisurely opened her eyes, and what came into her eyes was no longer that rich merchant’s concubine’s house, but a gorgeous pavilion.

Xie Ren’s first reaction was to feel if Fang Xin was at his side, and only after he felt it did he feel relieved. After all, Fang Xin is a sword, and he is tightly tied together. Afterwards, he slowly sat up, suddenly the bottom of his hand sticky, raised to see, he was lying on a bed, and the bed large large blood stains extremely appalling, not yet dried, stained half of his body also red, shocking.

Xie Ren saw the strange, out of bed, walked two steps, suddenly felt what fell off the body, looked down, actually is that pillow, hurriedly picked up and re stuffed. Walk two more steps, the stomach fell again, Xie Ren had to keep both hands on it, looking around.

Since childhood in the palace, the influence of immersion, for the beauty and unattractive, Xie Ren has a set of opinions. This small building, in his opinion, although gorgeous, but full of powder gas, to his guess, feel like a restaurant, or place of pleasure. Moreover, compared to today’s architecture of the prevailing wind, this style is really some old, like a few hundred years ago, I do not know what place.

In that case, it would be unlikely that it was the fetus spirit of the aborted daughter of the rich merchant that was at work. This was because the illusions constructed by evil spirits were based on their own perceptions. Obviously, this kind of ancient house from hundreds of years ago would only exist in the perceptions of an evil spirit that was a few hundred years old. After walking around and being empty, Xie Ren went back to the house where he first laid down.

This was a woman’s bedroom, featuring a dressing table and a cabinet that could be opened, which contained some children’s clothes, as well as dolls, rattles and other toys. Xie Ren examined them one by one and found that they were all brand new, so it was obvious that the lady of the house loved these objects. In other words, for the “child”, this woman is full of love and compassion.

After rummaging through it again, Xie Ren was suddenly shocked that there was an amulet clipped in that little child’s clothing. And this amulet, surprisingly, was his amulet!

Astonished, Xie Ren had no choice but to confirm it again and again. Yes, this is indeed his amulet. Moreover, it is not the simple amulet that he picks herbs on the mountain, weaves by himself, draws the amulet by himself, and buys the red thread to tie it up by himself, but it is the kind of amulet that circulated in the whole country almost manually eight hundred years ago when Prince Xianle was the most popular, the material used and the pattern are all extremely exquisite, and where it comes from and whether it is enlightened or not are all clearly known.

Is it possible that the mistress of this house was once a devotee of his?

At this very moment, in a dead silence, Xie Ren suddenly heard a series of cackling laughter.

That is a child’s laughter, very sudden, empty and scattered, do not know where it came from. Xie Ren did not move, but in his heart he was wondering: this sound is somewhat familiar, it seems to have been heard somewhere. Where exactly is it?

Suddenly, a series of childish toddler voices rang in his head: “New Bride. New bride, new bride on the red sedan chair.

“Tearful, over the hill, under the cover don’t raise your laugh ……”

With Junshan, on the sedan chair, the voice of that child spirit he heard then!

When Xie Ren awoke with a jolt, that Tong Ling’s laughter also came to an abrupt end. He abruptly turned around and was nowhere to be seen.

After the incident with Junshan, he had also inquired about this Child Spirit within the Psychic Formation, but at that time, all the others had told him that they hadn’t found any Child Spirit on the mountain, and that he was the only one who had heard the voice of this Child Spirit. And now, this child spirit had appeared in front of him for the second time, was it a coincidence, or was it intentional?

The boy spirit stopped laughing and said, “Mother.”

This “mother”, close at hand, but do not know exactly where it came from. Xie Ren did not say a word, held his breath and listened carefully.

After a long silence, the toddler’s voice added, “Mother. Hug me.”

This time, Xie Ren finally realized – that sound, it was coming from his stomach!

Xie Ren hands originally has been end of the false stomach, at this time only to realize that, I do not know when, hand end of the pillow is actually become heavy. He slapped his palm down, “snap” sound, the clothes rolled out a mass of things, vaguely see seems to be a miserable white miserable white child, from the mouth spit out a few masses of things, rolled into the darkness, disappeared in an instant. Xie Ren snatched up to take a look, the things it spat out were a few balls of cotton wool and a strand of black hair. I think, is his blindfold method worked, this little ghost would like to eat the last pregnant woman’s child like eat Xie Ren’s “child”, but ate Xie Ren put in front of the abdomen of the cotton double. Immediately afterward, Xie Ren heard the thing cry out mournfully, “Mother!”

No matter how much it opened its mouth and how mournfully it screamed, Xie Ren always remained composed and did not even open his mouth. He concluded that this child spirit was a fetus spirit, and that this room, was the place where he or her mother had lived. Because it didn’t have an exact form, if it died when it was a few years old, when it haunted the house, it would appear in the form of a few years old, but most of the time it was a cloud of black smoke, or a blurry white shadow, indicating that it itself wasn’t sure what it was supposed to look like. Moreover, the small clothes in those cabinets were obviously not worn by anyone, coupled with the large amount of lurid blood stains on the bed, Xie Ren deduced that the mistress of this house should have had a miscarriage, and her yet-to-be-born child had already taken shape with a little bit of its own consciousness, and after transforming into a fetus spirit and wanting to return to his mother’s womb, he sought out the rich merchant’s wife.

It called out “Mother” in the woman’s dream, and the woman’s bad point was that she said yes. We must know, “mother” and “child” this bond is extraordinary, this promise, is a give and take “license”. She then opened her mouth, just to give the opportunity to take advantage of the evil, this little ghost will be drilled from her mouth, slipped into her stomach, the original fetus in the abdomen to eat, hemlock occupied magpie’s nest. Even though Xie Ren was a man, he couldn’t be sure that if he opened his mouth and answered the question, whether this child spirit would also take the opportunity to drill into his stomach, but just in case, it was better to shut up.

So, he kept his mouth shut while holding the Fangxin Sword, looking for that little kid’s traces everywhere. For danger, Xie Ren has always had a strong intuition, which has been refined from countless actual battles, there is no need to look closely, suspect where it is and stab it with the sword, and eight out of ten of them are right. Although in the illusion set up by the child spirit, Xie Ren’s damage to it will be weakened by several percent, but it has been stabbed by Xie Ren several times, probably enough. After a while, Xie Ren suddenly felt a stabbing pain under her feet, actually stepped on something sharp and extreme, slightly lurched.

When that child spirit saw that he had been struck, it was as if he let out a short, sinister laugh. Although this voice was tender, it shouldn’t have come from a child at all, instead it was like a vicious adult, the contrast was so great that it was creepy. Who knows, Xie Ren did not change his face, one step without stopping, backhanded another sword stab. Stabbed again!

The child spirit “ow” sound, ate a big bitter, far away to avoid. Only then did Xie Ren look down at the bottom of her boots, and it turned out that she had stepped on a small pointed needle that was standing upside down. It must have been deliberately placed by that Tong Ling, and it seemed that it did want Xie Ren to scream in pain. However, it miscalculated, Xie Ren was extremely capable of enduring pain, not to mention stepping on a needle, even if he was caught by a few feet of animal traps, he could still endure without uttering a word if necessary.

The needle is a small one, stuck very deep, Xie Ren would like to pick it out first, however, the child spirit after the defeat leaped out, Xie Ren is afraid that it took the opportunity to escape to harm others, it stepped on the needle chased out of the house, in a short while will not feel the pain, as fast as a flying step. In the small building to find a circle also did not see the child spirit, Xie Ren is in the heart of the question: “Is it to me to fight afraid?” At this moment, not far away from a window without wind to open.

Xie Ren immediately ran, went up to see, but froze. Only see outside the window there is no street, no mountain scenery, no pedestrians, only a bottomless deep pool.

On the opposite side of this deep pool, there was a house, in which two children, Lang Ying and Gu Zi, were sitting, gathering around a table to eat. However, what they were oblivious to was that above them, there was also a dense black mist hovering, which was emitting giggling and giggling playful noises, crisply shouting, “Mother! Mother!”

Xie Ren’s heart was violently lifted, his hands placed on the window pane, subconsciously wanting to sound a warning, but remembering that he must not open his mouth, he forcibly closed his voice.

Although, this is just the illusion of that child spirit, but he does not know whether Lang Ying and Gu Zi were also pulled in, if so, the harm they suffered here will be added to the reality of them. He wanted to look around to find a vase to throw over the warning, but could not find anything to throw, the table and chairs can not be thrown out, between the two rooms is a big lake, is he going to swim over?

At that moment, the valley was listless, yawning, and the cloud of black smoke suddenly gathered and seemed about to slip through his mouth.

The layer of defense of a child’s body is very weak, even if you don’t get permission, maybe this thing can also encroach into it, there is no time for Xie Ren to think slowly and swim slowly again, on the spur of the moment, Xie Ren drank, “Shut up! Run!”

As soon as the words were uttered, Lang Ying and Gu Zi really woke up, so scared that they both shut up and leapt up, while that Tong Ling swiftly disappeared into thin air, and the next moment, a cloud of black smoke exploded in front of Xie Ren!

Although Xie Ren stopped his mouth after drinking it, he already felt a cold air pouring into his mouth, black smoke entering his stomach, and his internal organs seemed to be frozen in an instant. He clenched his teeth and quickly dismantled a few amulets, taking out the vanilla and talisman paper inside and chewing them hard, swallowing them. Not long after, his throat itched, and this mass of black smoke was violently spat out by him again!

Xie Ren a sleeve to cover his mouth, coughing more than, choking out tears, quickly thinking about how to deal with it. After he spat out the cloud of black smoke still enveloped his upper body entangled, so Xie Ren hand on the window pane, a press, jumped, jumped into the lake outside the window.

“With a thud, Xie Ren plunged deeply into the lake. He held his breath, coiled his feet, clasped his hands, and assumed a meditative posture, letting his body slowly sink in the cold lake water. After his heartbeat calmed down, he looked up and could vaguely see the black mist hovering above, locking the entire water surface. As long as he was out of the water, he was bound to take a sharp breath, and as long as he took that breath, he would surely suck the entirety of that child spirit into his stomach. If a man had a big belly for a good reason, this would not look good at all.

However, jumping into the water was just to seek a period of free time where he could think, and in a short while, Xie Ren came up with a way to deal with it, thinking, “So what if I swallow it in, I’ll just swallow Fang Xin as well.” He had also learned the craft of sword swallowing when he was selling on the streets, although swallowing it would probably hurt his body, but it didn’t matter, it would just be enough to capture this child spirit anyway.

Having made up his mind, he let go of his hand and swam aside. But then he heard a dull thud of water above him, and suddenly, his eyes were occupied by a large, blazing, eye-catching red color.

Dark, luscious strands of hair filled his entire vision, and the splashing of water and bubbles gurgled so densely that it was impossible to see anything. Xie Ren blinked and fought to dislodge the tangled wisps and crystal-like bubbles, then he felt a pair of strong hands. One hand wrapped around his waist and the other cupped his jaw.

The next moment, something cold and soft blocked his lips.