Panguan

Zhang Lan was stunned for a moment, then remembered that according to Lu Wenjuan, Zhou Xu was taken to the mountain god by someone, so there should be a village chief next to him.

So without saying anything, she threw out another tracking charm. This time, the target was changed to village elder Wu.

Unexpectedly, the little red dot on the screen only lasted less than three seconds before disappearing again.

Now everyone was stunned: "Is this also on the ground?"

"Are you chasing a human being or a spirit?" Wen Shi asked.

Zhang Lan: "...I just got a little anxious and confused, but I wouldn't make such a mentally retarded mistake. Of course I'm chasing the ghost after the village chief. In a village piled with tombs, why should I chase a living person?"

As she spoke, she threw the talisman out as if she didn't want money. After tracking the village chief three times without success, he simply changed the target and chased everyone in the village, including Lu Wenjuan.

As a result, all the talismans fell to the ground.

When I heard about it, I couldn't hold it back and asked, "Is there really nothing wrong with your talisman?"

Zhang Lan: "Nonsense, of course not."

After two seconds, she hesitantly said "Yeah" again.

At that moment, Aunt Zhang was a little doubtful about life.

To prove that her talismans were fine, she put out a few more patrol talismans. Since we mentioned that we were going up a mountain, this deserted village was only that big in total. If we looked through them all, we would always be able to find some clues.

But after a long time, the released patrol talismans were recovered one after another, and the result was very strange - there was no trace of Zhou Xu in the entire village.

What's even weirder is that not only he, but also the village chief and villagers have no trace.

"What happened? Did you enter a fake cage?" Zhang Lan was confused.

Not to mention her, she was a little confused even when she heard it.

The rain at this time was much lighter than before, and the long-standing water flowed along the side of the house. I could only hear the sound, but I didn't know where it went.

After listening to it for a long time, it will give people a feeling of emptiness, as if only a few of them exist in the entire cage.

When I heard it, I heard Xie Wen suddenly say softly: "It's okay."

He turned his head: "What's better?"

Xie Wen leaned on the railing of the corridor and glanced at several fixed points, which seemed to be where Zhang Lan's tracking talismans had just fallen, with a thoughtful expression. He asked when he was heard, and then turned back and glanced at the other people: "Fortunately, there are quite a lot of people here."

He didn't react when he heard it: "What's wrong with the crowd?"

"If someone breaks in alone -" Xie Wen scratched his slender index finger, "In such a situation, a dazed person might suspect that there is nothing else in the cage at all, and it's all just his imagination. , I am the cage owner, but I didn’t realize it before.”

When I heard it, I suddenly understood what he meant.

They have always helped people to free themselves from cages, and they don't know what it feels like to become cage owners themselves. But if you think about it carefully, the moment of enlightenment is probably the most terrifying and painful and sad process in the world.

Fortunately, the cage owners were all awakened. When he woke up, at least there was a judge beside him to see him off.

Several other people felt chills running down their backs at Xie Wen's words. They didn't dare to think too much and changed the topic one after another.

Zhang Lan took out another stack of talisman papers and planned to take Zhang Yalin and turn the village upside down, at least to find out where all the people had gone.

He didn't leave the corridor when he heard it.

He noticed the focus of Xie Wen's gaze before, thought about it, and vaguely touched a thread——

When Zhang Lan threw out the tracking talisman before, the talisman tracking Zhou Xu disappeared in similar directions, as if they were all at the same point.

But in his impression, Zhang Lan always flicked it casually, not just in that direction.

So that placement was a coincidence? wind direction? Or is there another reason?

In order to verify this, Wen Shi also took a piece of yellow form paper. He was not good at drawing talismans, so he folded a paper bird, which was similar to the one that helped him track the traces of ghosts before, except this time it was Zhou Xu.

The paper bird was released from the corridor, flapped its wings and turned, and sure enough, it went in the direction where the talisman disappeared before. Two seconds later, there was a flash of fire.

He broke off a second one and chased the village elder Wu instead.

As expected, the paper bird still landed in the same place after flying out.

Xie Wen leaned on the railing and watched him folding paper the whole time, as if it was a highly ornamental thing. In fact, it’s just a few finger movements.

When I heard that the third paper bird was chasing Lu Wenjuan, this time the paper bird changed direction and landed at another point.

He just frowned when he heard Xie Wen say: "Don't frown in a hurry, the talisman that chased her before was also left over there."

"So they still overlap?" Wen Shi asked.

Xie Wen nodded and said, "Yes."

Wen Shi tried some of them and found that although the targets being tracked were very different, there were only seven or eight places where the paper charms and paper birds landed. It's just that it's a bit unclear from their perspective. It's best to borrow the picture on Aunt Zhang's cell phone.

Zhang Lan very generously contributed the map and some talisman paper, so they quickly marked all the points.

The angle of looking down is very intuitive. When I heard it, I moved my finger between several points, and something strange immediately appeared.

"Like a formation." Zhang Lan twisted his neck and looked around, "But I only have a superficial understanding of formations, so I can't tell what kind of formation it is."

Several people present heard that Shi and Zhang Yalin were learning puppetry, and Zhang Lan was practicing spells. If you want to master the formation... then there is only one person left.