When I saw Tong Tong's eight characters on the yellow paper, I panicked. I had a bad premonition.
Professor Deng placed an incense burner on the table and lit three joss sticks. He was about to perform the soul summoning ceremony. I couldn't help but call him, "Professor Deng!"
Professor Deng turned around and narrowed his eyes. He looked at me with a sinister expression before asking, "What is it?"
I didn't care about anything else. I braced myself and pointed at the yellow paper on the bottle. "Did you write the wrong date of birth?"
Professor Deng slowly turned his head and looked at it. He said calmly, "Oh, I did write the wrong one. This is the eight characters of the baby girl in the toilet that you mentioned last time."
Although he said that, Professor Deng didn't want to take off the yellow paper. He slowly prepared the last thing for the soul summoning ceremony.
I didn't know what Professor Deng meant, but I still had a bad premonition. I asked him, "Professor Deng, don't we need to change the eight characters?"
Professor Deng didn't pay attention to me. After he had prepared everything needed for the Soul Summoning Ritual, he calmly turned to me and said, "I forgot to tell you. A few days ago, I went to your school and found a bit of the baby girl's remains in the women's washroom.
The bone powder was one of the things I added to the bottle just now.
According to you, the baby girl disappeared. I'm afraid she found a place to hide.
To prevent the baby girl from harming people again, I plan to use her bone powder to summon the soul back.
I planned to summon the child's soul first, then the baby girl's. However, since I got the wrong eight characters, I'll summon the baby girl's soul first. "
His words made my heart jump. The last time I told him about it, I was very careful. I wanted to hide the fact that Tong Tong was a natural fetus.
However, Dai Nanzhou, Xu Ziyu, and the others had all seen Tong Tong's appearance at that time. As long as Professor Deng analyzed the situation before and after, it would be very easy for him to discover this matter.
After investigating, he didn't find anything, so he left. I thought he had forgotten about it. I didn't expect that he would go and find Tong Tong's remains.
I was even more panicked. Tong Tong had been dead for many years, and he didn't even have his bones left. The bones that Professor Deng had found were probably the last thing he had left.
Just like the corpse oil, the bone powder in Professor Deng's hand was definitely the best material for Tong Tong to possess.
Back then, it was also because of the jade bracelet left behind by the red shadow. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to take Tong Tong away without finding his remains.
But now that Professor Deng had bone powder in his hands, if he really performed a soul-recalling ritual on Tongtong, she would definitely be summoned from the jade bracelet.
There was also a problem with the degree of fusion for the little ghost's host. The most suitable would naturally be the corpse oil, bone powder, hair, and other things from the corpse itself. At the very least, it would be the clothes that the little ghost had worn when it was alive.
Although the jade bracelet left by the red shadow could help the little ghost possess it, compared to Tong Tong's remains, I didn't have any confidence in the jade bracelet.
If Tong Tong was found, how could Professor Deng let her go?
Tong Tong was always by my side, and I treated her like my little sister. I never forced her to do anything.
However, if Professor Deng summoned her, he would turn her into a little ghost that could swallow other ghosts. With Tong Tong's personality, it would be worse than letting her soul vanish.
While I was at a loss, Professor Deng suddenly said, "Last time, you summoned the ghost of the baby girl's mother. You should know how to summon the soul of this baby girl. You should summon the soul of this baby girl."
Then, he leaned to one side and gave me the table. His eyes were still squinting as he looked at me.
I didn't know what he meant, but I felt that he was hiding something. Instinctively, I found an excuse to reject him.
"The soul-summoning technique requires different materials. I can't use the materials I have right now."
According to the schools of Feng Shui masters, there were many types of soul-summoning techniques, and they all required different materials.
Professor Deng gave up. He returned to the incense burner table and read the soul-summoning spell.
His soul-summoning spell was different from the one recorded in the Death Scripture. I didn't understand the specific content. It didn't seem to be the language we used, and it sounded mysterious and hard to understand.
Along with his voice, a small whirlwind slowly rose from the incense burner with the three joss sticks. At the same time, I felt the jade bracelet on my chest getting colder.
I was so anxious that I kept praying to Tong Tong not to come out.
After a long time, Feng Shui masters could form a tacit understanding with ghosts, and they could even communicate with each other.
Although Tong Tong and I didn't have this kind of tacit understanding, I could only pray in my heart.
Perhaps it heard my prayer, but the cold feeling on the jade bracelet disappeared, and it became calm again.
Although I didn't know what had happened, I felt that Tong Tong wouldn't come out.
At this moment, Professor Deng's soul-summoning spell ended, and the whirlwind in the incense burner disappeared.
Professor Deng frowned and looked at the incense burner. Then, he turned to me and stared at me. His stare made me feel uncomfortable.
A long moment later, he said, "I didn't expect that I wouldn't be able to summon the soul of the baby girl's mother. And now, I can't even summon the baby girl. The mother and daughter's souls have become spirits."
He even went to Chen Tingting's corpse to summon her soul!
However, I had subdued Chen Tingting's soul in the locust wood box. It would be strange if he could summon it.
However, his words gave me goosebumps. It seemed he had a deeper meaning behind them.
Professor Deng didn't give me time to think. He reached out his hand and tore off the '8' character on the small bottle. He put away the bottle containing the corpse oil and Tong Tong's bone powder. Then, he took off his surgical gown. It seemed he wanted to leave this place.
I was bewildered. Didn't he say that he wanted to summon the child's soul?
Why did he suddenly put it away?
After asking, Professor Deng absent-mindedly said, "My soul summoning technique failed once. I'm afraid I won't be able to summon the child's soul again. I'll wait until tomorrow."
Then, he got up and left. I followed him, but Professor Deng was nowhere to be seen. I didn't know where he had gone.
His previous actions had made me very anxious. I didn't have the mood to look for him anymore. I hurried to return to the campus.
When I arrived at the campus, I found a quiet place and held the jade bracelet. I called Tong Tong's name.
After a few calls, a shadow flashed in front of me. Tong Tong appeared in front of me.
I heaved a sigh of relief. Although Professor Deng had said that he had failed to summon the child's soul, I couldn't see through him today. I had to see Tong Tong to calm down.
I asked Tong Tong, "Did you feel anything strange?"
Tong Tong immediately nodded and said with some lingering fear, "I was in a daze just now. I heard someone calling my name, so I slowly followed the voice and almost came out of the jade bracelet. Later, Big Sister … Big Brother called me, so I woke up and quickly hid in it."
I was bewildered. Did I just call her name?
Tong Tong could hear what I said in my heart?
I hurried to ask Tong Tong, "Does she know what I want to say to her right now?"
Then, to verify it, I murmured in my heart, "Tong Tong, kiss me. Kiss me."
Tong Tong tilted her head and thought for a while. Then, she blinked her big eyes and said, "I don't think so."
I was a little discouraged. It seemed we still had a long way to go before we could connect our minds.
However, since Tong Tong could hear my voice, I guessed she wasn't far from being able to connect our minds.
Just as I was about to tell Tong Tong to go back, Tong Tong put on a stern face and said in a critical tone, "Gege, you promised me that day that you wouldn't contact that old man anymore. Why are you with him today?
If I hadn't woken up, that old man would have called me away. "
I hurried to apologize to Tong Tong.
At first, I thought that Tong Tong didn't like Professor Deng because of his identity as a Feng Shui master. But now that I thought about it, Professor Deng was coveting Tong. He wanted to find Tong Tong. Tong was right to dislike him. In the future, I would have to keep a distance from this sinister old man.
After assuring me several times, Tong Tong snorted and accepted my apology. She didn't talk to me anymore and returned to the jade bracelet.
The next few days were peaceful. Although I had decided to keep a distance from Professor Deng, I was still concerned about the progress of the previous case. Moreover, Xu Ziyu's problem hadn't been solved yet. No matter what, I had to maintain a good relationship with Professor Deng.
Moreover, as a geomancer, it was normal for Professor Deng to covet Tong Tong, an extremely rare fetus. Although it made me uncomfortable, Professor Deng's behavior wasn't too bad. I didn't blame him.
However, in the next two weeks, there was no news from Professor Deng. I called him, but he didn't pick up.
This made me worried. Xu Ziyu had been pregnant for more than nine months. I was afraid she could give birth at any time. If I couldn't contact Professor Deng by then, all my previous efforts would be in vain.
While I was worried, the Yi Study Society was still studying the previous case. One day, Dai Nanzhou called me over. When we were discussing the case, I mentioned the red dudou and the silver necklace that the child was wearing. Dai Nanzhou, who was quick-witted, asked, "If Professor Jiao and his wife didn't buy the red dudou and the silver necklace, could it be that the geomancer sent the little ghost to his house?"
His question enlightened me. I had been thinking about the connection between the two items and the soul capturing ritual, but I had never thought about how they had ended up in Professor Jiao's house.
Dai Nanzhou's suggestion of sending the little ghost to his house wasn't true. Tong Tong was a rare fetus, and he had to practice the Godhood technique to be able to put on clothes.
The little ghost's strength was really weak. The red dudou was easy to explain, but the little ghost couldn't have sent the silver necklace to Professor Jiao's house.
The silver necklace wasn't heavy, but it was very dense. The little ghost wouldn't be able to carry it.
Thus, someone must have sent the two items to Professor Jiao's house!
After I found this clue, I told the students in the Yi Study Society. Everyone was excited, and they immediately split up to investigate.
Since many of the students in the Yi Study Society were in the Student Council, it was easy to find the surveillance videos in the school.
In just one afternoon, Dai Nanzhou and the others had gathered all the surveillance footage from the teacher's apartment on the day of the incident.
We checked the videos together. Soon after, I saw a familiar figure in the video.
Professor Deng!