Chapter 90 Are you crazy?(1/2)
Speaking of the production process of this blessing card, it is indeed much easier than finding a doll.
The "travelers" have been directly informed of several material locations. They only need to avoid the evil ghosts on the way, and after arriving at the designated location, they will learn the production with the "handmade masters" who are waiting for them early in the process.
There are no evil ghosts in those places. They just need to pass some non-fatal tests - such as soaking their own blood into the wooden sign, dyeing the wooden sign red, and when making lanyard tassels, you need to talk to a female ghost in the mirror, get a strand of her long hair, and use her long hair as braided material.
It is even simpler to write the content of prayer in ink. You only need to write the words well and look more carefully. However, only a true wish can leave ink marks on the blood-colored wooden signs. Otherwise, no trace will be left if the thicker ink is poured on.
After I have been to all three places, I will finish the blessing sign. I just need to wait until 8 o'clock in the evening to hang the sign on the sacred tree. I can arrange the rest of the time myself.
Therefore, those who chose the blessing card returned to Baibao Street early, searched for information from various merchants, and tried to receive side tasks from the merchants to obtain points.
However, the night fell, the closer it was to eight o'clock, the more uneasy these people were.
The sixth sense of the deducer rarely makes mistakes. Their game is completed so easily - this "easy" is compared to the first day - I am afraid that when you hang the lucky card, you will expose hidden dangers.
Zhang Yu thought so too, so when he saw Yu Xing's figure on Baibao Street, he immediately rushed forward and told Yu Xing in detail about his experience today, including the feeling that the later he became more and more uneasy.
So Yu Xingcai and he sat down at the tea stall in advance to observe the sacred tree.
Then, during the day, the sacred tree, which was still watched by many speculators, quietly turned into such an evil look at night.
The curse power of the snake girl's twisted energy mixed in the tree surrounds the sacred tree. Others can't see it, but Yu Xing can tell it at a glance.
This tree has both curses and twisted powers, which are very impure. Even the black fog in his body cannot have the interest to swallow it.
For the Curse of the Ghost Tree, the other tree is nothing more than its own nutrients or limbs that have not yet been connected. If it encounters it, it will either devour or assimilate. Not to mention that the black fog will surging, even the black lines will not help but emerge from under the skin.
But the sacred tree in front of me is like a delicious dish with rotten pus. No matter how much it can arouse appetite, the moment the pus is poured on, it is a waste that can only make people disgusted.
"Captain...so what kind of curse will we experience?" Zhang Yu was panicked.
This panic was not because of his personal timidity, but naturally arose with the passage of time, as if some kind of law was giving them a warning before they were about to hang a blessing sign.
Yu Xing suddenly sighed.
Lan Wuye's heart tightened: "What, what's wrong?"
Yu Xing said: "It's nothing, I just feel that your cognition has been affected unknowingly."
The two juniors who were classmates slept in the hotel last night and had never experienced the cognitive distortions of the townspeople's homes, so they were not sensitive enough to today's blessing card game.
Otherwise, Zhang Yu would not have described this game as simple or easy when he first reported his experience.
Although Yu Xing mentioned that they were affected, the tone seemed not very serious. Zhang Yu quietly exclaimed: "Captain, I should not have been affected too much, right?"
He himself didn't even feel that it was different from before.
"Your words are always quite a lot, and they are so stupid." Yu Xing glanced at him and then shook Zhang Yu's heart.
Considering that the cognitive distortion of the snake girl is irresistible to Zhang Yu... and Lan Wu, Yu Xing did not make things difficult for them to think about it himself and said:
"Where is your prayer card?"
The two of them took out the prepared signs from their pockets and put them on the table, but they all faced down, pressing the side with ink underneath.
Yu Xing glanced at him and Zhang Yu explained: "Although there is no danger in writing your wishes, the craftsman added a rule to us."
"Until the blessing sign is hung on the sacred tree, no one can know the wish we wrote, otherwise it will be backfired and run contrary to the wish."
So they trusted Yu Xing and said they could take it out as soon as they were taken out, but they still didn't dare to let Yu Xing look at the front of the blessing card.
Yu Xing lowered his eyes and smiled in an unknown way: "That's it."
He reached out and picked up Lan Wu's piece. He did not look at the hidden wish, but rubbed his thumb on the back of the card for a while, and fiddled with Liusu twice.
The smooth and flexible touch passed through his fingertips. He put down the sign and looked dull: "If it weren't for the distortion of cognition, would you really think that the things made of the female ghost's hair and your blood can be used?"
"Blood is the best medium for many curses. Female ghosts belong to Yin, and their hair is also Yin. If it were other deduction copies, you would never contribute your own blood, and you would not let the female ghosts have a bond with their own blood."
This is equivalent to knowing that the ghost is going to kill you, you will still send the weapon to the ghost's hands quickly.
His speech was not heavy, but the blood flashed through the tip of his tongue, and it suddenly pierced the balloon that was shrouded in Zhang Yu and Lan Wu's consciousness.
A bang seemed to sound in my mind.
Zhang Yu's pupils shrank, and then he woke up like a dream, his mind was clear. When he looked at the blessing card again, he felt cold sweat coming out behind him.
Yes, how could he not realize that it was inappropriate to do this?
Even if making blessing cards is a task that must be completed, he has no ability to confuse the public and replace his blood with other blood. However, he shouldn't have been unaware of it after doing these things, thinking that making blessing cards is "simple"!
"At that time... it was the craftsman who kept talking in my ears." Lan Wu shook his head and got goose bumps. His careful recollection attracted Yu Xing's attention.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "At that time, every time I went to a place, I would meet different craftsmen. The one who taught us that weaved the wooden signs with blood was a middle-aged man, the one who weaved the lanyard and tassels was a woman, and the one who wrote the ink wish was an old man."
"They only teach one-on-one. When someone is studying in the room, others can only wait outside the house and cannot hear any sound in the house."
Lan Wu pressed his temples: "When I went in, no matter which craftsman I was, I was very close to me. I was guarding against them. I didn't know why I gradually became completely unaware of the precautions, and let them teach me how to do it almost in my ears."
"And then, no matter what they say, you think it's natural, it's not a big deal?" Yu Xing tilted his head.
"...Well." Lan Wu nodded, "Actually, I know that this is wrong, but I can't raise the interest in resisting. It seems that a voice is saying, "If it is wrong, it is not a big deal."
A hint of humiliation flashed across Zhang Yu's face: "I feel like the kind of fool in the mystery novel who is hypnotized by a few words by a villain, and then becomes the time bomb of the protagonist's team."
Lan Wu: "..."Thank you, then I'm also a fool.
"Let's talk about the female ghost in the mirror. I heard you say before that the craftsman has a mirror. You must ask the female ghost in the mirror for a strand of her hair before you can start making lanyard tassels." Yu Xing clicked the table, "The female ghost has a weird temper and is always angry, happy, and sad for no reason, but she will always be a good talker. She will always give you her hair after a while."
"Now you tell me, what is she trying to do?"
Lan Wuran.
"A female ghost doesn't even attack. Even if she is angry, she just doesn't want to give her hair. Haha, that's really a great good ghost." Yu Xing laughed, "There is another even more outrageous factor, Zhang Yu."
The person named shivered.
"What is the most wrong thing about female ghosts?"
Zhang Yu quickly recalled the entire content of his communication with the female ghost.
The female ghost was only enough to reveal one head and a piece of neck in the mirror. Her face was covered with a big black and shiny braid, and she braided it on her chin, and the end of her hair was placed back on her shoulders to reveal her neck.
The female ghost asked him where he came from, and he only said he was from afar.
The female ghost asked him what he wanted, and he honestly replied begging her for a strand of hair.
The female ghost asked him what he had wishes. He said many unimportant little wishes, such as making dumplings with Ran Ran next time; buying a whole set of collectible books on the Yuan Dynasty; and urging Ran Ran to wear maid outfits this year...
Then the female ghost was angry and sad, saying why she had to listen to people talking about love when she died, and questioned him, didn't he have any more important or bigger wish?
Zhang Yu's final answer is that a bigger wish is
Marry Ranran.
The female ghost was speechless, and even the strange feeling brought by the thick black and shiny braid seemed to have dissipated a lot. Then she was impatient and said, "I've given you hair, get out of here, I'd hate it if I say something more to you."
When communicating with the female ghost, the surroundings became white, and the presence of the room where they were originally in completely faded, leaving only the mirror and the wooden chair sitting under their butt.
After the female ghost told him to get out, everything returned to its original state. The craftsman stood beside the mirror, and a long strand of hair appeared in front of the mirror, leaving only his own figure in the mirror.
"I understand." Zhang Yu's inspiration flashed, "The most wrong thing is the existence of the female ghost itself!"
Lan Wu was surprised, and Zhang Yu continued:
"Since we entered Nanshui Town, the ghosts we encountered were either monsters in the townsmen, strange things like ceramic waiters, shadows in the afterimage of old things, or ceremonial dresses and flesh-and-blood ghosts that were inexplicably connected to our lives."
"Never have a physical female ghost!"
"Not to mention the ghost in the mirror that uses the mirror as the medium. Her existence is too abrupt and is not next to anything." After Zhang Yu said that, hesitantly looked at Yu Xing, "Captain, do I... have I answered correctly?"
Yu Xing smiled and said, "Okay, there is still a little left in my mind."
"Put the issue of female ghosts aside first and look at the part of writing your wishes."
"When you know that you have provided blood and have been connected with the ghost hair of a female ghost, you must write your true wish again."
"Do you know what will happen?"
"Curded." Zhang Yu dug the answer that Yu Xing had already announced.
Yu Xing laughed, OK, this kid is quite good at taking advantage of loopholes.
He curled his lips: "...First of all, you made the blessing cards from beginning to end, which means that you are 'voluntarily' offering of blood to seek the fulfillment of your wish from the sacred tree."
"This action is not a simple prayer, but is similar to self-sacrifice. The more difficult the wish is to be fulfilled, the more you need to sacrifice. As long as you hang a blessing card, the curse will take effect."
"Plus with this cognitive distortion power..."
"I think that when you are alone at night, the divine tree will deceive your cognition and make your brain think that your wish has come true and add a memory out of thin air to you."
"Of course you will feel something is wrong. In fact, it is very simple to find a loophole in a memory that is stuffed in. Perhaps this lie will only take you half an hour to expose it."
"But within half an hour before this exposing it, your consciousness is achieved by default. The divine tree can use the rules of curse to absorb your life as its nutrients."
"It will take less than half an hour to suck a person dry."
Whether it was Zhang Yu, Lan Wu, or the witch who was listening to the next table at some point, they were all creepy by the last sentence.
If this is true, the real test of choosing a blessing card is whether the deducer can realize the memory of wish fulfillment as quickly as possible. As long as the brain thinks of "the wish has not been fulfilled", it can prevent the sacred tree from absorbing their vitality in the name of getting rewards.
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Moreover, sucking dry means sucking dry. Even if you are not directly sucked to death by the sacred tree, you will be more or less taken away part of your vitality in the time you are wasted. It is difficult to say whether you can stand up and stay awake and not fall into a coma.
To be continued...