jdhmnovel Chapter 367 The Soul Catcher is Here
Chapter 367 The Soul Catcher is Here
"The fire on your head is the Heavenly Spirit Fire, symbolizing your vitality, while the fire on your shoulders is the Shoulder Protector Fire, protecting your body from external evil spirits.
These three fires are the three yang lamps on your body. Now, the yang lamps on your shoulders have been extinguished, leaving only the yang lamp on your head, emitting a faint light.
When the ray of yang fire above your head burns out, your life will be over.
Mingran, has anyone been paying special attention to your date of birth recently?
Hearing Bai Ningyu's question, Ming Ran tilted her head and thought for a moment, but still shook her head and said, "No one has asked me these questions recently."
However, Bai Ningyu said firmly: "Think about it carefully. Perhaps your date of birth has recently been known to someone you don't know without you noticing."
After hearing this, Ming Ran's frown suddenly relaxed, and she said in sudden realization, "I recently found a job as a cashier at a 24-hour convenience store.
The owner of this small shop is an old man. When I first came to apply for the job, he was reluctant to hire me and said he wanted to find a young man.
When I was about to leave, my ID card fell out of my pocket, but when he saw my ID card, he looked very surprised.
He said that his son and I were born on the same day and month, which was a kind of fate, so he kept me. Since I lived far away from home, the old man even lent me one of his houses for free.
[It sounds like the old man is not bad.]
[Come on, it's obvious that the whole thing is weird.
This old man decided to keep Mingran because of her date of birth, and even gave her the house for free. It was obvious that he was planning something.
[The person above, are you overthinking it? Could it be that he's just being kind to someone who shares his son's birthday, and that's why he's treating Mingran with special care?]
"Does this old man often ask you about the time or date?" Bai Ningyu continued to ask.
Ming Ran nodded and replied, "Yes, the old man asked me a few days ago how many days were left until Qingming Festival. Host, the Yang Fire on my shoulder disappeared. Could it be related to him?"
Ming Ran asked uncertainly.
Bai Ningyu said with a serious expression: "If my guess is correct, that old man is asking you to borrow his life and let you be a scapegoat for his son.
His son must be seriously ill and doesn't have much time left.
One way to borrow someone's life is to find someone who was born on the same day and month as the person who needs life.
Let this person live in the house of the person who needs to borrow his life, and then take this person's hair, wrap it with the hair of the person who needs to borrow his life in red paper, and put it on the body as a bridge to exchange fate.
Then, every day at midnight, I will come to where you live, burn three incense sticks, and pray for your longevity.
Finally, they will ask you the time or date. The time you answer represents the number of days of your life that have been borrowed, and the number of days you answer represents the number of years of your life that have been borrowed.
Judging from the life fire in your body, I'm afraid that decades of your life have been stolen.
This is why you often see ghost messengers holding chains and staring at you fiercely in the middle of the night."
This is fucking wicked! Stealing a few years of life would be fine, but he stole it for decades. How insatiable!
[Heh, let alone years, even a single minute or a single second doesn't belong to them. Just hearing that makes me angry. Doing something so against the will of heaven will only bring retribution sooner or later!]
[You're right. When they meet the anchor, their retribution comes.]
"No wonder, I clearly saw that the old man was wearing a watch, but he still asked me the time. So this is what he was planning." Ming Ran clenched his fists and said angrily when he heard this.
Then she looked at Bai Ningyu, tears welling up in her eyes, and begged anxiously and angrily, "Host, please, save me. I don't want to die yet."
As she spoke, Ming Ran lowered her head and sobbed. She never thought that she would encounter such a murderous thing when she was just looking for a job.
Seeing this, Bai Ningyu immediately spoke to comfort him, "Don't worry, you won't die as long as I'm here. Since someone dares to use evil magic to take someone's life, I will definitely make him know the price of using evil magic!"
However, at this moment, Ming Ran suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, and then she shivered involuntarily, as if the temperature around her had dropped a few degrees.
Just as Ming Ran huddled in the quilt, the faint life fire above her head began to shake violently as if blown by the wind.
The faint flame of life was about to be extinguished.
At the same time, two ghosts from the underworld suddenly appeared in front of everyone. One of them held a rope to catch souls, and the other held handcuffs and shackles.
The two ghost officials stared at Ming Ran, ready to draw her soul out of her body when her life lamp burned out.