Chapter 14
Lian Xi was still weighing the White Impermanence Certificate in his hand, but his short roommate stared straight at him first: “No way, are you all so casual in hell? You just give it to me like this, and this is the White Impermanence?” He muttered in a low voice: “Then if I just grab an impermanence certificate, can I also eat an iron rice bowl (secure job; life-time employment)?”
Lian Xi glanced at him, thinking about the short roommate’s half-assed seemingly not as good as his own level: “Hurry up if you’re dreaming!”
Su Jiao: “Hey!”
Lian Xi looked down at this thin Wu Chang certificate.
Simple and plain cover, everywhere you can see the Song font “Wu Chang certificate” three big words.
Flipping the booklet open, the first few pages were “Instructions for the Uncommon”, while the back was blank. At first glance, it looks a bit like the Japanese manga “Death Note”, which was a big hit more than ten years ago, but the difference is that people will die after writing their names on the Death Note, while the impermanence certificate is that the name is written automatically after death.
Lian Xi casually flipped to the last page, he was just casually flipping through it, but suddenly he saw a sentence printed on the last page—
『Life from ancient times who has no death』
Lian Xi:”…. “
Is this sentence Lian Xi: Is this phrase used in this way?
Did you guys give Wen Tianxiang [(1236-1283), Song dynasty politician and poet, folk hero in resisting Mongol invasion in Jiangxi in 1275]’s royalties for using it like this?
Lian Xi closed the certificate of impermanence with a speechless face.
Lian Xi: “If you need it, I can help you find the local White Impermanence in Su City.” After a pause, he added, “I’m an anchor, broadcasting regularly and on time every day, and I’m quite idle the rest of the time.”
Lie Chen: “No need.”
Lian Xi: “What?”
Lie Chen: “Isn’t it you?”
Lian Xi: “….”
You guys are really not picky at all!
Speechless, looking at the black-clothed man’s body entwined, the golden light almost blinding people’s eyes and then think of their own every day in the past few days to eat worms, cold bath, Lian Xi clenched his teeth: “If you insist on wanting me to be Bai Wu Chang, it is not not possible, anyway, I’m quite idle…. “
Su Jiao:“？？？When will you be idle?”
You are obviously too lazy to go out every day, staying at home is a die-hard otaku (sb who hardly ever emerges from their home, where they play games, watch movies etc)!
The black mole between his eyebrows wobbles slightly because of the raised eyebrow tines, Lie chen lowers his eyes, his tone is calm: “I said, it’s you.”
Lian Xi: “Okay, it’s me then.”
Lie Chen: “It’s really you.”
Lian Xi: “Uh-huh, whatever you say.” You are the golden light big brother, you are bullish.
Lie Chen smiled, “It’s really you.”
At this point, Lian Xi finally tasted a hint of something wrong. He raised his head and locked eyes with the man.
This man had a smile at the corner of his mouth, seemingly careless and very casual, but there wasn’t a hint of joking or dumping in his eyes. He lowered his eyes to look at Lian Xi, noticing that the youth’s expression went from perfunctory at first to solemn later on, and he seemed to have found something interesting, leaning down slightly, coming closer, and almost repeating in Lian Xi’s ear, “I said… it’s you.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Without moving, he took half a step backward, Lian Xi flipped through Wu Chang certificate again, he raised his head, his tone calm: “Is there any evidence?”
The man nodded thoughtfully, “It seems that you have lost your memory as well.”
Lian Xi: “???”
What?
I was just forced to lose my memory?
Next, Lian Xi heard a very peculiar doctrine of memory loss from this man.
According to Su City’s former Hei Wu Chang, Yin and Yang are separated from each other, human and ghosts are on different paths, and any ghost or god who wants to return to the Yang world from the nether world always has to pay a price. Even for a ghostly messenger who ate public food and traveled the official path, there was a certain chance that he would pay a price when he went to the yang world to take up his post. Heavy is a big drop in strength, before seeing the sun on earth will have to go down to reincarnation, light is a small injury, recuperate for two days on the line.
Although the former Black Impermanence had never seen such a thing, he had heard of it.
He even guessed that the Su City White Impermanence had been absent from work for so many years for no reason, either because he was shameless, or because he had accidentally lost his memory.
After Lian Xi heard this crooked argument of his, he seriously said, “Although what you said may seem a bit reasonable, I remember everything from my childhood very clearly.”
Lie Chen: “Oh, then there is another possibility.”
Lian Xi was surprised, “There’s more?”
Lie Chen: “When the previous White Impermanence went down to hell to reincarnate, Black Impermanence was not there. White Impermanence was suddenly encountered by an evil spirit and died undefeated, a violent death of sorts. According to Black Impermanence, White Impermanence might have passed on his position to someone else when he left, in which case the hell would treat it as if a new Impermanence had been sent up, and wouldn’t care anymore. Of course, that person was slow to take office.”
Lian Xi: “…. “
I was only thirteen years old, ten years ago, you, hell employ child labor, this is serious!
Lian Xi felt that these Hei Wu Chang in Su City were not being careful and narrow minded, this was extremely cerebral, and also like a heavenly steed, soaring across the skies
However, Lian Xi didn’t take it seriously and just regarded them as nonsense, but the short roommate beside him stroked his chin and poked him with a serious face, “Lian Xi, will it really be passed on to you?”
Lian Xi: “….”
A big pot fell from the sky!
I don’t know whether I have lost my memory or not?
Lian Xi was speechless to the utmost point.
Just when he wanted to give a perfunctory explanation and admit this pot for the golden light’s sake, the man’s low, hoarse and gentle voice rang out, “Moreover, I have another evidence.”
Lian Xi froze, “What?”
The slender and thin fingers moved slightly, and in the next moment, only a small book with a golden cover and leaping purple light appeared in the man’s hand.
In an instant, Lian Xi and Su Jiao’s gazes were abruptly attracted to this tiny booklet.
It was a palm-sized, delicately crafted booklet. Splendid golden light wrapped around the cover, and in the center were six small black seal script characters. In the darkness of the night, the golden light seemed to move with the wind, purple electric arcs of light, leaping above the ancient and majestic pages, which had a treacherous and powerful magic, causing people to stare into it.
Lian Xi and friend, a moment of inattention, then lips slightly open, look lost.
It wasn’t until the man’s fingers flipped and the pages of the booklet made a clattering sound that the two of them instantly snapped back to their senses.
Lian Xi raised his head warily and looked at the other.
Lie Chen’s voice was calm, “This is the magic weapon that I brought from hell, and every ghost official will have a unique magic weapon.”
The booklet was indeed frightening, but Lian Xi didn’t understand what it had to do with him.
However, the next moment.
Only to see the man’s long, thin fingers gently pinch the tome and slowly open it like plucking an accordion.
“Wow-“
“Ding~!”
Lian Xi: “???”
Su Jiao: “???”
The two of them brushed their heads down, looking together at the bronze bell on Lian Xi’s left wrist.
Lie chen hooked his lips as he opened the booklet again.
“Crash!”
The bronze bell was cheerful and incomparable, “Ding!”
Gold-colored booklet: “Clatter!”
Bronze bells: “Tink!”
“Clatter!!!”
“ting ting ting ting ting ting!!!”
…… You guys, damn, why still sing so well ah?!
Lie Chen smiled, “Is that enough?”
Su Jiao’s face was complicated, and he directly rebelled, “Lian Xi, are you really losing your memory? You don’t know it?”
Lian Xi: “…..”
I almost believed you guys!
While the words were said, Lian Xi’s brain was spinning rapidly.
Su Jiao pondered, “More than ten years ago, did you ever come across anyone who suddenly died. Just now, people’s Lord Black Impermanence said that a Ghostbuster can be more than just a ghost, people, elves, and monsters can all be, so maybe whatever is next to you is White Impermanence! Eh I remember, two days ago when we had dinner did you say that your father was drunk driving away, more than ten years ago?”
Lian Xi said quietly, “… You said that the former Black and White Impermanence of Su City was gay.”
Lie Chen gave him a look: ooh?
Su Jiao: “Yeah, all of China knows that!”
Lian Xi: “That’s my father, can be gay?”
Su Jiao subconsciously was about to blurt out, “That’s not necessarily true”, but under Lian Xi’s icy cold murderous gaze, he swallowed and closed his mouth, “I’m sorry.”
Lian Xi withdrew his line of sight.
He looked to the east, and the junction between the sky and the earth was flooded with a layer of light blue and light white blended together.
Lian Xi: “Go home first.”
His voice paused, and he looked at the man in black standing in the wind, “Mr. Lie…. together?”
His eyes lingered on the youth’s elegant and graceful face for a moment, and the man flipped his hand to retrieve the small golden-purple pages of the booklet, “Good.”
***
Two people and one Wu Chang return home, it’s already daybreak.
After a night of sleeplessness, as soon as they arrived home, Su Jiao directly entered the house and locked the door, and fell asleep.
Lian Xi brought the man to his room, “During the day I’ll look for the landlord to rent another room, if you don’t mind, you can first settle in my room.”
Lie Chen lowered his eyes to look at him and gently raised his eyebrows, “Uh-huh.”
Shutting the door behind him, Lian Xi walked directly to the door of his short roommate’s room.
Knock knock knock!
“What for?!”
“Open the door and squeeze.”
The short roommate hugged the quilt and lay on the bed, sleepy and fast asleep while still muttering, “When did you become so kind?”
Lian Xi faintly said, “Learn the spirit of Lei Feng (Lei Feng spirit; spirit of serving the people wholeheartedly) be kind, what do you know?”
But the roommate has fallen asleep: “Wheezing sound….”
Fortune favors fools, Su Jiao thoughtlessly falls asleep in a second. Lian Xi on the other hand, but tossed and turned, always difficult to sleep.
The rising sun shines through the window of the rental house without curtains, shining into the house, illuminating Lian Xi’s tightly knitted eyebrows. He raised his left hand, looked at the tiny bronze bell on his wrist with a complicated gaze, and then shook it.
There was no sound.
No matter how he shook it, this little bell just didn’t make any sound at all.
Lian Xi knew that the bell would not ring unless he centered his mind and gazed at it and rattled it with his finger, and something would happen every time it rang.
But …
Today, it rang.
Without warning, it was just so natural.
It rang.
Why?
When refuting Su Jiao, Lian Xi was justified and could not be refuted. But his own heart began to falter.
Because he remembered that many years ago, when his father was still alive from time to time, he would touch his head, look at this little bell on his wrist with a strange gaze, and then say, “When Xi Xi grows up, dad will tell you a secret.”
“Daddy, what secret?!”
“You’ll know when you grow up!”
However, Dad didn’t wait until he grew up, he crashed into a road pier and died.
So, what is the secret?
Could it really be related to the local White Impermanence in Su City? Could his dad really be… White Impermanence?
Suddenly, there was a flash of light in his brain.
Right! Father once said that this bell was given to him by an old nurse who delivered him in the operating room when he was born! Then wouldn’t it be great if we could just find this old nurse and ask her about it?
Without delay, Lian Xi was instantly motivated and lifted the covers to get out of bed.
The short roommate muttered, “What are you doing…?”
“Going out to run errands!”
Lian Xi pressed no time to ignore him, put on his shoes, changed his clothes, and took big steps directly towards the door.
Soon, a slamming door sounded.
Su Jiao’s legs clamped onto the quilt, rolled over, and huffed and puffed.
In Lian Xi’s room, the man in black squatted in front of his shelf, curiously reaching out to poke at a King of Glory Da Qiao’s hand (model figure) sitting on the shelf. Lian Xi slammed the door, he froze slightly, and poked a little harder in his hand, and all of a sudden, he poked Da Qiao’s staff.
Lie Chen: “….”
Da Qiao, who was holding half a staff: “….”
Without a single fluctuation on his cold and handsome face, the man stood up matter-of-factly, his thin lips pursed slightly, and after thinking about it, he still squatted down to pick up the half staff that had fallen to the ground, and then… pressed it back down.
“Snapped–“
Dropped again.
Press it down again.
Dropped again!
Nonsense, no glue, how can it be pressed back?!
Eyebrows slightly knitted, dark deep eyes flashed with cold and oozing color. A layer of weak black light emerged between his fingers, and in the next second, the broken staff was suddenly “glued” back together.
The man, slightly stunned, raised his fingers, looking at the little black light remaining between his fingers.
… This also belongs to the ability of Hei Wu Chang?
All China Hei Wu Chang: “….”
We are not, don’t talk nonsense!
We don’t have this kind of ability to connect the broken Forgetful River back!
***
Lian Xi hurriedly ran out the door, and he had just pressed the elevator when a door opening sound came from behind him.
He looked back.
It was the young guy from the group rental across the street, and the one who came out was the one who opened the door for him that day.
When this young guy saw Lian Xi, he also grinned his teeth and smiled, “What a coincidence, are you going out to buy breakfast too?”