Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 11 The Lost Woods
Running wildly all the way evaporated a lot of the alcohol in his body, and he also sobered up a lot.

Now it is nightfall, and there is a forest in front of me. The forest is gray, which makes people feel very depressed.

Li Canghai took a few breaths, and then chased forward.

As soon as he lifted his foot, he realized that he had lost his way.

There is no road in this forest, and he didn't pay attention to the route when he ran in before, but now the surroundings are gray, making it even more difficult to discern the direction.

Just as Li Canghai was thinking about which direction to go, countless fireballs rose from the forest.

Those fireballs were the size of fists, emitting green fire light, which looked extremely strange in this gloomy night.

Li Canghai pondered for a moment, but decided to take a look inside, maybe he could find Di Qing's whereabouts.

He walked cautiously in the dark, and soon came near those fireballs.

With the dark green light of those fireballs, Li Canghai found that there seemed to be many small bumps in the forest.

This made him very strange, this forest is not on the mountain range, how can there be so many bumps of different heights?

He took out the fire folder and blew it vigorously.

It has to be said that Huozhezi was a great invention in ancient China. In this age without matches, it was very convenient for Li Canghai to light a fire.

With the help of the faint light of the fire, he finally saw the towering mound in front of him clearly, it was an earthen grave!
And those green flames are actually will-o'-the-wisps!

Li Canghai's scalp was a little numb, he was not a coward, and he didn't pay attention to one or two graves.

But when he found himself surrounded by grave mounds, this feeling was different.

Looking around, there are densely packed graves and countless ghost lights. Even if there are no ghosts, this weird atmosphere is enough to scare people to death.

Naturally, Li Canghai didn't believe in ghosts and gods. Fortunately, he knew the cause of those will-o'-the-wisps, which relieved his psychological pressure a lot.

"This ghostly place is actually a mass grave, I'd better leave as soon as possible."

Li Canghai found a few dead branches, tore off a piece of his clothes, and made a torch. With the weak light of the fire, he walked forward according to his feeling.

Along the way, Li Canghai saw nothing but mounds and mounds, and he didn't know how many graves there were, and he hadn't reached the end after walking for half an hour.

Li Canghai was tired from walking, and just about to take a break, he suddenly found some burning dead branches on the ground, which made him dumbfounded at the time.

These dead branches were used to ignite the fire when he made the torch, why did they appear here?

He looked around carefully again, and confirmed that this place was indeed where he had been before.

Li Canghai was still drunk at this time, although he felt strange in his heart, he just felt that he had lost his way and went back to the distance.

So, he sat for a while, and after he sobered up, he decided on a direction and walked straight down.

This time, Li Canghai carefully wrote down the route he took.

However, when he stopped again, he found that he had returned to the original point again.

Only then did Li Canghai realize that he might have encountered a 'ghost hitting the wall'.

The ghost hitting the wall is not really encountering a ghost, but an illusion produced by the psychological influence of the environment, which Li Canghai knows very well.

There are many solutions to this weird thing, the simplest is to ask someone for directions.

However, let alone people in this wilderness, there is not even a ghost.

Li Canghai looked up at the sky, wanting to find out the position of the Polaris, as long as he determined a direction, he could walk out of the grave.

However, the forest was shrouded in thick fog, and the stars could not be seen at all.

Li Canghai thought for a long time, and felt that he could only use the 'earth methods' he heard in his previous life.

So, he got a bamboo tube and pissed a full bamboo tube.

According to the method he heard, every time he reached an intersection, he poured out some urine, and then walked to the left.

Li Canghai secretly drummed in his heart, he didn't know if this method would work, but fortunately he was still a boy, since boy urine can be used to ward off evil spirits, it shouldn't be a problem to break a ghost and hit a wall.

After walking like this for another half an hour, Li Canghai returned to the bonfire he had lit again.

Li Canghai was completely dumbfounded, and wondered in his heart, could there really be ghosts in this world?
These ghosts don't let him go out, maybe they want him to chat with them?I don't know if there are any female ghosts here, but if they are more beautiful, I will recognize them.

Li Canghai thought wildly, the night was dark and windy, and he was in a cemetery, and this was the only way to relieve his nervousness.

Just as he was thinking about whether he would meet a beautiful female ghost, a real-life version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", a white figure suddenly landed on the opposite grave.

"Hey, ghosts and ghosts, look at Grandpa's 'Pure Yang Liquid'!"

Li Canghai's whole body tensed up, he jumped up abruptly, gave a loud roar to embolden himself, and then raised the bamboo tube to hold the urine and was about to throw it over.

"Li Canghai, look clearly, it's me!"

The figure spoke hastily, and it turned out to be Di Qing's voice.

Di Qing jumped down from the grave, and by the light of the fire, Li Canghai saw clearly that it was really her.

"What smell? It stinks!" Di Qing leaned towards the fire and said disgustedly.

Li Canghai smiled embarrassingly, threw the bamboo tube aside hastily, and said, "This is a mass grave, it may be the smell of rotting corpses."

Di Qing leaned against Li Canghai and asked, "Why are you here?"

"It's because I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to deal with that ghost by yourself, so I followed." Li Canghai added a few dead branches to the fire, rolled his eyes and said, "Who knew you could run so fast, I'll give you the trouble." Stuck here."

"By the way, you went after that ghost, did you catch it?" Li Canghai asked curiously.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see a trace of fear in Di Qing's eyes.

Li Canghai shook his head vigorously, thinking to himself that he might be hallucinating, would this violent woman be afraid?Unscientific!
Di Qing shook her head. She looked at the fire and said, "The shadow was extremely fast. I tried my best, but I couldn't catch up, and I was trapped in this forest. Fortunately, I found the fire, so I followed the fire. Find it."

"You can't even catch up? Is that shadow really a ghost?"

Li Canghai and Di Qing talked nonsense about their respective experiences, and based on their experiences, Li Canghai made a judgment, that is, there really is a ghost!
"Is there really... a ghost?"

Li Canghai was eloquently discussing his thoughts, and suddenly found that Di Qing's body was trembling, and her eyes were full of fear.

"Are you afraid of ghosts?" Li Canghai asked curiously.

Di Qing's pretty face turned blue and white, she bit her lip and nodded vigorously, as if she was really frightened.

Li Canghai touched his nose and thought, so you also have something to be afraid of!
"Then why did you chase that ghost before?" Li Canghai asked in surprise.

Di Qing moved to Li Canghai's side, pursed her lips and said, "I thought it was a snitch, but I didn't expect it to be...a ghost."

With the light of the fire, Li Canghai suddenly noticed that Di Qing's face was filled with a pity and tenderness.

Thinking about it, Di Qing is just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl after all, no matter how skilled she is, she still has fear in the face of the unknown.

"Don't be afraid, there are no ghosts in this world. Even if there are, we are not afraid. As long as he dares to come out, I will let him taste the power of 'Pure Yang Liquid'!"

Li Canghai subconsciously hugged Di Qing in his arms. He did this out of instinctive care, but for the first time, Di Qing didn't beat him, but lay down in his arms.

"What is 'Pure Yang Liquid'?" Di Qing asked in a daze.

"Um, Pure Yang Liquid is a kind of divine water that can drive away ghosts and demons, so you can sleep peacefully!"

Li Canghai scratched his head in embarrassment, and casually said a reason that would reassure Di Qing.

(End of this chapter)