111: One hundred and eleven.
Breaking the Formation 111: One hundred and eleven.
Breaking the Formation [Toward countless next stops, draw a long straight line——]
The screen lit up, displaying a call from Old Taoist Lu.
Halting his thoughts, Lu Li answered the phone.
“I’ve broken the Soul Attracting Formation, hurry out!
I can’t hold on much longer!”
As soon as the call connected, the old Taoist’s explosive shouting caused a ruckus.
“Broken?” Lu Li calmly walked into the piano room.
Old Taoist Lu was sitting crossed-legged on the floor, his backpack filled with ghost-hunting tools beside him, and a mysterious array drawn with cinnabar powder next to him.
Facing away from the door, he cursed into the phone, “Stop dawdling, co back to the piano here, you don’t have much…
ti…”
The old Taoist strangely found his voice coming from beside him, turned his head in shock, and jumped.
“When did you…
How did you get out!?”
“The spirits let out,” Lu Li replied.
“What…?” Old Taoist Lu was puzzled and confused.
Lu Li hung up the phone, walked to the piano, picked up a cold coffee, and drank it in one gulp: “It couldn’t beat , just found an opportunity and chased out.”
“Are they very weak?” Old Taoist Lu asked, rembering he was still clutching a magic decision, he shook and threw it from his hand, getting up from the ground.
“I only faced one of them; the family of three didn’t target .”
“You’re really lucky, to enter the Soul Attracting Formation and co out unscathed,” Old Taoist Lu exclaid, not targeting Lu Li anymore.
“Wait, I’ll break the formation now.
Hmm…
the array is too big, I can’t find the array’s key point, if we are lucky, it will be quick, if not…
it might take a few hours.”
“It doesn’t need to be so troubleso, I have a way,” Lu Li looked towards the door.
Old Taoist Lu realized, having entered the Soul Attracting Formation, that Lu Li knowing where the key point was not surprising.
Lu Li left the room, Old Taoist Lu packed up the tools on the ground, and followed with his backpack.
Following Lu Li to the second floor, they entered the study; he went to the bookshelf and picked up a book, flipping through it casually.
Could the key point be a book?
This overturned Old Taoist Lu’s attempts, but since the Soul Attracting Formation covered the entire house, a book as a key point seed not so surprising after all.
Lost in thoughts, Old Taoist Lu saw Lu Li holding the book to the desk, picking up a lighter, and setting it on fire.
Old Taoist Lu nodded slightly; if the book was the key point, burning it was indeed easier and more convenient than tearing it.
The corner of this National Geographic magazine caught fire, Lu Li held it back to the bookshelf, and put it back in its place.
The rising fla gradually lit up Lu Li’s face.
The flickering light and shadow danced, his complexion was grim and fluctuating, but his eyes remained calm throughout.
In a mont of sudden enlightennt, Old Taoist Lu realized,
“You’re actually thinking of setting a fire!?”
Lu Li turned his head, his expression calm, “Then you can break the arrays one room at a ti until you find the key point.”
The entire book burst into fla, the fire reaching several tens of centiters high and spreading to the nearby books, moving to other areas.
With each house spaced over thirty ters apart, and surrounded by three-ter-high walls, the fire was unlikely to spread to the next, at most only blackening the exterior walls.
Old Taoist Lu had no words to reply; this was indeed the most ti-efficient and effortless thod.
However, Lu Li’s solution really made him…
“Lucky you chose this line of work; who knows what you would’ve done otherwise.”
Squinting sarcastically, Old Taoist Lu looked towards the fire spreading to the surrounding bookcases, sighed, and said, “Now we’re in a real ss, whether it looks like crap or not.
Being with you feels like I’ve encountered a run of bad luck.”
Lu Li no longer cared about the burning bookcase and turned to leave the study.
He went from room to room repeating the process, lighting curtains, firewood, clothing, and other flammables, retreating with Old Taoist Lu back to the courtyard.
By then the fire was fierce enough; flas rose from both floors, with thick smoke billowing into the sky.
“Soone will call the fire departnt, let’s go,”
Lu Li looked up at the house, withdrew his gaze, and walked towards the gate.
Behind him, the flas quietly devoured everything.
The Soul Attracting Array, traces of Lu Li and Old Taoist Lu, along with three bodies huddled together.
…
Before leaving, Old Taoist Lu still secretly made a call to the fire departnt.
He had shown his face at Song Hu’s house, and once the police investigated afterward, they could easily connect the fire to Old Taoist Lu.
Lu Li had also appeared, but he was fearless.
So villagers, wrapped in clothes, were already standing in the street to watch the excitent.
Old Taoist Lu and Song Hu’s parents explained the situation and stealthily slipped into Lu Li’s car before the fire brigade arrived.
The car started and quietly left the roadside, heading towards Lingling City.
As they drove on the highway, faint voices could be heard inside the car.
“This isn’t the way back to Tiger Head Mountain.”
“I know.”
“You’re going to kill to silence !?”
“I’m going ho.”
“Drop off, don’t be so stingy, man.
Ever heard of respecting the elderly and loving the young?”
“Oh.”
“…Man, you scare .
What will it take to convince you to take back to Tiger Head Mountain!”
“I have so questions.”
“Don’t know!”
“I encountered a girl in ancient attire holding an umbrella in Ziyue Garden.
She didn’t have ghostly aura, but her presence was very dangerous.
She had previously killed a normal person and might have spared because I was obedient.
Do you know what she is?”
“Hiss…I can’t decide if you’re unlucky or lucky.
Whether it’s that door, the umbrella girl, or the Soul Attracting Formation, all are deadly things to ss with, yet here you still stand in front of talking.
That’s really strange.”
“So you know?”
“Can’t really say I know, just aware that there is such a thing wandering around Lingling City.
That thing of course doesn’t have ghostly aura because she is not a ghost, she is a monster.”
“Spirits and monsters, aren’t monsters supposed to exist only beyond the door?”
“Don’t ask , I don’t know, and I don’t dare to say.”
“Did she co from behind the door?”
“Probably…can we change the subject?
Old Taoist Lu here still wants to live a few more years.”
“Does she have a boyfriend?”
Old Taoist Lu looked in shock towards Lu Li in the driver’s seat.
Lu Li calmly t his gaze.
He didn’t mind employing a honey trap—if it could help him obtain more information and was to his advantage.
“Are you crazy?
You’d go after that?”
“She’s pretty good-looking.”
“I…
I’m actually at a loss for words.
Truly, the new waves push the old ones; each new wave more formidable than the last.”
“Second question, does taphysics have a way to find people?”
“Who are you looking for?”
“My girlfriend, she has been missing for five years.”
“Hmm…Old Taoist Lu could give it a try.”
“Can you find her?”
“How would I know!
You think finding people is as easy as hunting ghosts?
Even for ghost hunting, I have to write a few talismans!
Turn left up ahead on the mountain, hey this is a shortcut.”
After the ghost house incident, the two, now much friendlier, made their way up to Tiger Head Mountain Taoist Temple and sneaked into Old Taoist Lu’s bedroom.
“I’ll now help you look for your lady, all you need to do is recall every little detail about her in your mind.”
Old Taoist Lu tossed a ditation cushion to Lu Li, then used cinnabar powder to draw an array around him, placing a copper basin in front of Lu Li.
Lu Li frowned slightly: “I might not rember clearly.”
“Then think of a past event, the clearer the better, don’t tell you’ve forgotten everything—”
“Let’s start.”
Lu Li sat down on the ditation cushion and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
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