Chapter 40: Imaginary

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"The trail is long, this is it."

The old lady took Xia Fan to her house.

Xia Fan took a look at Ruqiu, who was hiding behind the old lady Tian, with

the light of the oil lamp in the house. His face was indeed scared and weak.

"Don't enter until you have been notified." He ordered, then walked into the

house and plugged the door latch.

This house is considered to be the most common residential style in the

county. The largest is the hall, which is about ten square meters, with a door

on the left and right, with a kitchen on one side and a bedroom on the other.

There is also a small narrow door in the kitchen, which leads directly to the

latrine and the backyard.

Xia Fan took a minute to walk around the house and opened the bedroom window

after confirming that there was no one else.

Li, who was already in place, quietly turned into the house.

At this time, she was like a person from the rivers and lakes, although she

was wearing ordinary cloth, but under the blessing of hats and rain, she

looked full of chivalry. If she wears a long sword at her waist, she is an

authentic martial swordsman. The wind is up.

As for the characteristics of the fox demon, it is completely concealed by

clothing, and its behavior is basically the same as a human being.

"How, do you still fit?"

"The chest is a little tight, but it doesn't affect the action." Li replied.

Clothes that perfectly match your body shape...it will be harder to find. Xia

Fan cleared his throat, "What should we do next?"

"Wait." She walked to the bed and sat down, "Only by seeing the vision with my

own eyes can we make an accurate judgment."

"No need to turn off the lights?"

"No," Li's eyes looked like a fool, "How can you observe them when it's turned

off?"

"I thought... ghosts would be afraid of light." Xia Fan replied awkwardly,

accustomed to harm...

"If they are afraid of light, then they don't need an alchemist to deal with

evil." The fox demon let out a sneer. "Even the charm that is most affected by

light will not run away from the light, let alone other things. And, I don't.

Think that the old lady encountered a ghost."

"Why?"

"Ghosts are the most difficult kind of evil. They mostly appear in the form of

corpses. It is not their style to hide their heads and show their tails. And

once they appear, they will probably set off a ** storm. It is unlikely that

the two people in the house will be allowed to live until now."

Xia Fan found that she had a vague understanding of the fox monster's temper-

although she did not let go of every opportunity to laugh at humans, she would

still do what she promised, even if it was an explanation, she could not tire

of speaking from the basics. Not in a nutshell.

"How are these evil creatures classified?"

"According to my master, it should have been passed down by word of mouth for

thousands of years. The Privy Council just further subdivided it, adding the

four types of demons, demons, and demons before monsters and demons—the two

correspond to each other, but the former is used to refer to A weaker evil. Of

course, the folks call it a lot of strange things, and it's normal to use any

name."

"That's why you said that there is no essential difference between the charm

and the demon in the night..." Xia Fan suddenly.

"But this classification is not without loopholes," Li snorted. "First of all,

it is totally unreasonable to classify the demon into evil. It is purely the

selfish desire of human beings. If you really want to divide it into

categories, you should belong to it. There is no way to get rid of all the

anomalous things, such as certain spirits..."

At this point, she suddenly stopped and looked up at the roof.

"what's happenin?"

"Hush—" She made a silent gesture, "Listen."

Xia Fan couldn't help holding his breath, and followed her gaze to look up-

under the light of the oil lamp, only one side of the overhead beam gave off

dim reflections, and the rest was hidden in the dark, plus a large shadow on

the tiled roof , The details he can see are extremely limited.

Just in this silence, he heard a slight "da, da" sound.

At the beginning, Xia Fan still needed to listen attentively, but after

hearing it, the voice gradually became clearer, as if it was a while away and

a while near, sometimes it seemed to come from around.

He realized that what Mrs. Tian said was true. It was neither a psychological

effect nor an illusion. There was indeed something in the room!

It sometimes walks along the roof beams and sometimes passes over the closet,

as evidenced by the small and clear footsteps.

Even after the baptism of Dahuang Shaye, Xia Fan still felt the pimple behind

him.

Because no matter how he looks, he can't find the source of the sound.

It's no wonder that Tian's wife can be tossed to sleep all night-facing such a

strange situation, she can still fall asleep peacefully, and her psychological

quality is by no means normal.

But if it is only invisible, he might not be able to deal with it!

Xia Fan took off the wooden sword behind him and held it firmly in his hand.

He was waiting for the moment when this evil thing was exposed.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the oil lamp suddenly shook, and a wooden cup

on the low bedside table was knocked down with a "clang" and fell straight to

the ground——

Almost at the same time, Xia Fan shot.

With concentration, the five senses strengthened by Qi clearly captured every

detail of the cup pouring. It first tilted to the left and then was pushed

outwards. If there is something there, it must be behind the wooden cup, and

the path of travel is from right to left!

Xia Fan swung his sword towards the pre-determined position—according to the

frequency of the click, it was impossible to escape this blow!

"Snapped!"

The strong impact made him almost unable to hold the hilt, and the wooden

sword fell on the table almost without obstacles, and its recoil made Xia

Fan's palm numb. Except for leaving a dent on the low table, nothing was

gained this time.

The sound of da and da continued, and it sounded like laughing at him.

"Hahahaha..." Someone was laughing this time.

Li held his belly and laughed for a long time, until the smile turned into an

uncomfortable look-obviously the laughter had involved the wound.

"Leader, are you, how are you?" A suspicious question came from outside the

house.

"It's okay...I'm catching ghosts!" Xia Fan shook his numb hand and glared at

Li angrily, "Is it so funny once I missed it?"

Li nodded solemnly, "It's really interesting to see how you concentrate on

cutting the air."

"Air? It clearly knocked over the cup--" Halfway through, Xia Fan frowned,

"Wait, do you know the specific location of that thing?"

"Yes, nor is it."

"what does that mean?"

"It means that as long as you don't see it, you will never know where it is."

I don’t know if I don’t see it. The problem is that I don’t even know the

location. Where do I start when I see it? Xia Fan looked puzzled.

"The trick is to find a way to see each other," Li raised his mouth, "I

already know what we are looking for."

"Well, what is it?"

"Weird, or...a sprite." The fox demon replied, "This is also the most branched

category of evil spirits. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of strange

things. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a false sprite. It is the same

zodiac sign as me."

Xia Fan immediately took this knowledge into his heart, even if he couldn't

understand its meaning for the time being, "It takes magic to see what you are

talking about... Void?"

"I don't know. Some alchemy may be possible, but the master hasn't taught me."

Li paused, "But before there was an alchemist, people also figured out a way

to see the illusion."

"What kind of method?"

"You will know right away-but before then, I need a large stack of window

paper, the more the better."

……

It is not easy to gather a lot of window paper at 9 or 10 in the evening. It

took a lot of work for Xia Fan and Mrs. Tian to borrow or buy five or six

rolls of oil paper from the neighbor.

Li quickly connected them end to end and glued them into three "paper tapes".

These paper tapes were affixed to both ends of the wall horizontally, dividing

the room into several areas. After that, she lit more than ten candles, which

were also all the reserves of the old lady's house, and placed them in every

corner of the house.

"So... it's fine." After finishing these preparations, Li clapped his hands.

"Are you sure?" Xia Fan asked suspiciously, "I feel like there are just a few

more banners made of window paper hanging in the room."

"For the vision, the more complex it is, the more effective it is." The fox

demon took off the hat and sat cross-legged in front of the paper. "The ghost

is a concrete manifestation of Qi. The reason you can't see it is because you

pay too much attention to your eyes."

"But didn't you say that turning off the lights is more unfavorable for

observation?"

"Indeed, because darkness not only won't make you give up using your eyes, it

will increase your focus on vision, and the effect is naturally worse."

Xia Fan thought for a while, and found that the other party also made sense,

"Then what is the purpose of these papers?"

"What you see through the window paper will be more blurred, and it will

weaken the scene in your eyes in disguise. This will force you to realize that

your eyes are no longer reliable, but can perceive things that are usually

difficult to observe directly. This is the reason why the fictitious and the

fictitious are real. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com"

The problem is that only one's brain is deceived by this... Could it be that

it can also affect the foreign objects? Just as he was skeptical, a dark

figure suddenly jumped onto the paper.

And besides him and the fox demon, there should be nothing else in this room!

Through the oil paper, Xia Fan can see the shadow of the bed frame reflected

by the dim candlelight and light, while the walls, windows and other things a

little farther away completely disappear behind the paper, as if it is an

infinitely wide space. At the top of the outline of the bed frame, the black

shadow twisted his body and moved forward slowly-everything was like a rough

shadow play, and the shadow was its stage.

"I saw it." Xia Fan said softly.

"I haven't really seen it yet. The virtual sprites can appear in any possible

position before they are perceived, and even the world they are in is

different from ours. The moment it knocks over the cup, the body is not

necessarily in Near the cup, in my master’s words, we can’t understand the

movement of Xuanyi because we are bound by the rules of heaven and earth.”

Bound by rules? Xia Fan couldn't help but read it silently in her heart, "Can

the sprite go beyond the rules?"

"The closer to the chaos, the more difficult it is to use common sense. Isn't

the performance of the vision like this?" Li Tanshou said, "And as long as

this phantom is perceived by people, it will be restrained by the heavens and

the earth again and become a The entity in contact. It's time to see what it

really looks like."

"How to do it?"

"Just walk over."

Xia Fan nodded, walked around the oil paper banner slowly, and looked at

Tian's wife's bed frame——

I saw an extra cat on it, a tabby cat that was so ordinary that it could no

longer be ordinary. It probably noticed something. It turned its head and

opened its mouth towards Xia Fan, and gave a soft cry.

"Meow-woo."