Eternal madness

Chapter 25 A Different World for Each Person (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Li Yunsheng treated Zhang Laifu's illness, and this time the treatment was a particularly grand affair. He wielded an axe with great skill, and those in the know could tell that he was using real kung fu!

After the first part of the incantation was recited, the onlookers, standing at a distance, were full of admiration:

"That incantation doctor is performing another ritual!"

What is he doing with that axe?

"Is he insane? Let's get away from him, or he'll hack us to pieces!"

After the second part of the incantation was recited, the onlookers approached and cheered.

"Great! What a powerful spirit!"

"This doctor is really skilled; he'll definitely be able to cure her this time!"

After the third part of the incantation was recited, the onlookers clenched their fists and helped Li Yunsheng exert force.

"Fuck him! Damn it! Let's fight him!"

"In broad daylight, why should we fear these evil spirits? Today, we'll annihilate them completely!"

Li Yunsheng chanted the incantation over and over again, and Zhang Laifu's veins bulged and his pupils turned bloodshot.

The talisman he held in his right hand seemed to have transformed into a battle axe, and at this moment he was riding a warhorse, fighting a bloody battle among thousands of enemy troops.

Chop the hell out of him! Chop that old devil on the head! We refuse to believe we can't kill him!
Zhang Laifu roared, his whole body drenched in sweat.

Sweat clung to his body and evaporated rapidly due to his soaring body temperature. From a distance, Zhang Laifu looked like a kebab at a barbecue stand, his whole body steaming!
The onlookers cheered them on, their blood boiling with excitement.

After catching his breath for a while, Zhang Laifu felt warm again.

Li Yunsheng wiped his sweat, looked at Zhang Laifu, and smiled, "Friend, you're cured."

The people around him cheered, and Zhang Laifu carefully felt the changes in his body.

The chill I felt earlier is definitely gone.

He took out three silver dollars and placed them on the table: "This is the consultation fee."

Li Yunsheng waved his hand: "We're friends, I won't accept this money."

“I trust friendship, but this is your business, so you have to accept the money.” Zhang Laifu stuffed the money into Li Yunsheng’s hand, and Li Yunsheng accepted it.

"Brother Li, about that business deal we were just talking about..."

Li Yunsheng gestured to Zhang Laifu not to say anything more. After the onlookers dispersed, he lit three incense sticks and let the smoke envelop the stall.

"With these three incense sticks, others won't notice us. They can hear what we say, but they won't understand it clearly."

Zhang Laifu looked at the three incense sticks in the incense burner: "Is this a magic weapon?"

Li Yunsheng shook his head and said, "This isn't a magic weapon; it's called a trap, or a maze. It's far inferior to a magic weapon."
"Friend, don't worry about that vengeful spirit at the Lin family mansion. And don't take this job either."

You can give up the job, but you can't give up the title!
Zhang Laifu said, "Brother Li, I still have something that has fallen into the hands of that wronged spirit, and I must get it back."

Li Yunsheng shook his head and said, "If you take my advice, then don't want this thing. But if you really want it back, there's nothing I can do to help you."

Zhang Laifu thought for a moment: "Is it because the spirits in that old house are too difficult to deal with?"

Li Yunsheng nodded: "That ghost is indeed difficult to deal with. You should find a good helper, but that good helper is not me."

"If you want to exorcise ghosts, keep this money and go find a Taoist priest. They do this for a living, so don't make things difficult for me." Business is about mutual consent, and since Li Yunsheng didn't want to do this deal, Zhang Laifu didn't press the issue: "Let's not talk about anything else. Could you sell me a few talismans?"

Li Yunsheng held the talisman and thought for a moment; “Brother Laifu, I really want to give you a few of these talismans, but if I do, it will harm you. You are not one of us, you don’t know how to use these talismans, and even if you did, you wouldn’t be able to use them.”

If he says he doesn't know how to use it, fine. This is a talisman for exorcising ghosts. Why do you say it's useless?
"I don't need the talisman anymore, but could you teach me a few incantations?"

Li Yunsheng said with a wry smile, "The incantation is even more useless!"

Zhang Laifu couldn't hold back any longer. These were clearly good things for dealing with the spirits of the dead, so why was he saying they were useless?

"Brother Yunsheng, how could the incantation be useless? Even if I can't use the spell, I can at least recite a couple of lines to scare him!"

Li Yunsheng sighed and said helplessly, "You can't scare him. He's a ghost. Even if you recite the incantation, he won't understand what you're saying. What can you use to scare him?"

"How could you not understand?"

"Can the ghost you encountered understand you?"

"Sure!" Zhang Laifu answered confidently.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Laifu's tone softened: "He should be able to understand..."

Upon their first meeting at the ancestral hall, Zhang Laifu confirmed that the old helmsman could hear them, and their communication proceeded smoothly.

The second time they met, at the entrance of the west courtyard, their conversation was a bit strange. No matter what Zhang Laifu said, the old helmsman would just reply, "Go to sleep quickly."

The third meeting took place in the inner room of the west courtyard. This time, the situation was even more unusual, as the two seemed to be talking to themselves.

After carefully recalling each word, Zhang Laifu gave a relatively accurate answer: "Sometimes I can understand it, sometimes I can't."

“Sometimes you can understand it? That doesn’t make sense. Humans and ghosts are not beings of the same dimension,” Li Yunsheng pondered for a moment and made a deduction: “This ghost must have used a powerful weapon.”

What is a sharp weapon?

Li Yunsheng explained, "A sharp weapon is also called a magic weapon. Scholars call it a precious blade, upright people call it a hall-guarding weapon, and seasoned veterans call it a powerful weapon. The top-tier sharp weapons are also called blood weapons. The magic treasure you just mentioned is also another name for a sharp weapon. Do you understand now?"

Zhang Laifu nodded and said, "I understand that, but why does he need to use a sharp instrument to hear sounds? Is it because the ghost I encountered is deaf?"

“He’s not deaf, but what he hears is different.” Li Yunsheng explained in the simplest terms possible, “The soul of the deceased has left the body. Without eyes, ears, or other sensory organs, their way of perceiving has changed in a dimension.”

To them, mountains, rivers, flowers, and birds might be a cloud of mist or a pile of mud; orchestral ensembles and the cacophony of gunfire might sound the same to them.

Using the theory of Wanshengzhou to explain this, it is called "humans and ghosts are on different paths," and all their perceptions are different.

Using the theory from outside the state, consciousness, after leaving the body, triggers the orderly collapse of spacetime, leading to spacetime folding and the formation of a miniature black hole.

This black hole is the manifestation of the dead in the three-dimensional world. The fundamental characteristics of a black hole have exceeded the normal concepts of physics. You are from out of state and have received higher education; you should understand now.

Zhang Laifu didn't understand the part about the collapse and the black hole, but for the sake of the dignity of higher education, he nodded vigorously.

Li Yunsheng said, "I'm telling you all this because I want to tell you that the other party is a very powerful ghost, and he has a powerful weapon. How could you be so foolish as to insist on fighting him? Can you take my advice and just let this matter go?"

Zhang Laifu was still hesitating when a sudden gust of cold wind blew, snapping a stick of incense in the stove.

Li Yunsheng quickly refilled the incense sticks, and his expression grew increasingly serious as he looked in the direction where the incense had broken.

"Brother Laifu, you have to go now, there are some uninvited guests here."

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(End of this chapter)