Chapter 21:
The east is white, the morning sun is dense.
A black Didi Apps car parked on the side of the road and picked up the two Wu Chang.
Perhaps because he had been running the whole night, he went home to rest, Lian Xi and Lie Chen entered the car, the driver will observe them from the rear-view mirror. As soon as the car started, the driver sitting in the front row smiled and said, “You’re so early, did you just go out or didn’t come back all night?”
Of course, Hei Wu Chang didn’t pay any attention to him, and Lian Xi wasn’t good at words either.
However, after a few seconds, Lian Xi summoned up his courage and said, “I just came home.”
Master nodded and looked at both of them, “You, these young people, you have a rich nightlife.”This is when they just went to the nightclub to play all night, just came home.
Lian Xi stammered to cope with the past.
Seeing this driver master to nag again, Lian Xi’s scalp numb, only felt more difficult than dealing with small children. Suddenly, his pocket mobile phone rang, he opened it to take a look.
It was a WeChat message.
Xu Lang: Lian Cheng, I looked at your live broadcast data these days, better than before, last night was not bad.
Taking this opportunity, Lian Xi hurriedly lowered his head to reply, no longer taking care of the driver master: [Hn…]
Xu Lang replied instantly, a little surprised: [You are not sleeping, or you just woke up?
[Not sleep.]
[Is this inconvenient for you to answer the phone?]
Just as Lian Xi wanted : [Yes]
The next second, the driver master in the front row could only shut his mouth.
Xu Lang: “Oh, your live data hit a new high last night, not bad, Lian Cheng.”
Lian Xi laughed hollowly twice.
From dozens of viewers to over a hundred viewers, it was indeed considered as a new record.
Xu Lang: “I’ve arranged a good recommended position for you tonight, so prepare yourself and do something about the live streaming effect.”
Hearing this, Lian Xi remembered, “There’s no need to waste a recommendation post for me.”
Xu Lang laughed instead, “How do you call it a waste? I am very optimistic about you. Tonight is the best homepage recommendation position in the whole Douya, you don’t waste this opportunity, work well.I remember three years ago when Hydrogen first got on this recommended position, it went up 300,000 fans a night and collected tens of thousands of gifts.”
Lian Xi’s lips opened and closed, and in the end, he didn’t say much.
……Tens of thousands of RMB a night.
I really want it ah.
***
Be a person, you always need to have a dream.
When Lian Xi was in kindergarten, he wanted to be the conductor of the choir in the park, because everyone liked to be friends with the conductor’s kid and talk to him. But unfortunately, Lian Xi had been practising his singing repertoire at home for a week, and on the day when the teacher chose the conductor, she didn’t even let the kids run for the position, but just shouted to one kid to go up.
That child’s father was the vice president of the Su City Park Hospital.
Wait until later, even Lian Xi wanted to be a scientist, wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to be a millionaire…
People always have to have dreams, you see, he is not relying on demolition, yet become a millionaire right?
So now, Lian Xi is still very dreamy.
What if, by accident, he receives a gift of tens of thousands of RMB tonight as well?
With an excited and nervous mood, at eight o’clock in the evening, the mute live broadcast room officially opened.
In front of the computer table, the handsome and beautiful youth slightly calmed his breathing as he carefully clicked on the live broadcast room. The next second, they saw the number of live audience from 100, instantly soared to a thousand! Then before giving anyone a chance to react, whiz, whoosh,whoosh, the number of fans brushed, rose to ten thousand!
Lian Xi: “!”
Su Jiao: “!”
Lie Chen stood on the side with his hands on his arms.
Tsk, can’t understand what these two humans are excited about.
Su Jiao: “I dunno, this is too impressive, you’re going to be a big anchor!”
Lian Xi was also excited, but his cold and indifferent white face remained very calm, no fluctuations could be seen, “It’s still very early…”
Under the gaze of more than 10,000 viewers, the live broadcast officially began.
[Who is this anchor, Lian Cheng? Haven’t heard of it ah.]
[Recommended on the front page, playing pesticides (farm chemical). What is the anchor playing?]
[Wow tonight the anchor on the home page recommended ah. Cool! Do I also want to raise a big anchor? I watched him when he only had 300 followers!]
[This anchor is playing Ma Chao (176-222), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Sun Shangxiang, and is a national champion.]
[Lian Xi silently added in his heart: thank you, and Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun.]
The live broadcast room was buzzing with activity, however, Lian Xi rarely spoke, and in a game, he might utter a couple of words at most. Slowly, there were fewer and fewer people in the live broadcast room. Even if there was a new viewer who clicked in from the homepage recommendation slot, after watching the mute live broadcast for a few minutes, they felt bored and would run away again.
Slowly, only a few thousand people were left in the live broadcast room.
[Anchor you say something ah, you…don’t tell me it is really a mute live room right?]
[Or else, the anchor sings one song ba.]
[And the old audience: Is that your roommate you were talking to last night? Why don’t you sing a song with him? You two sing together, I’ll give you a plane.]
Aeroplane?
One hundred yuan!
Lian Xi’s eyes lit up.
But he quietly looked back at Hei Wu Chang, who was sitting on the sofa, and who was rarely out of the office today…
Forget it, he couldn’t afford to earn this hundred.
Lian Xi: “He doesn’t like to sing.”
[Wow, the voice of the anchor is very good, you talk more].
[Sounds good, gave the anchor the attention! Your roommate doesn’t like to sing, anchor, you can sing one by yourself.]
Lian Xi was about to say that he doesn’t like to sing either, when he saw the viewer say: [If you really don’t want to sing, you can tell a story, Anchor. Anyway, you’re so strong in the game, you’re so abusive, so tell us a story. Tell us a story, and I’ll give you a plane.]
Lian Xi instantly came into the spirit, he recalled in his mind for a moment and slowly opened his mouth.
“Then… let me tell you a story.”
[Tell,tell,tell!]
[Give the anchor a blood vial! Speak it up!”]
Lian Xi fell silent, manipulating his character to play the game while telling the story in a calm voice.
“I heard this story from a college roommate. This roommate of mine, he’s from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, and his high school is Yancheng High School. Their school was big and had many campuses. Among them, the one for the junior high school is located in the Yancheng city district, and it is an old campus, founded in the last century, with a long history of 93 years.”
[Wow, YanCheng people reporting!]
[Sense of understanding the story, coming, coming!]
Outside the door of the room, Shorty’s roommate passed by after taking a shower, and hearing that Lian Xi was actually telling a story, he curiously sat over.
Hei Wu Chang also lifted his eyes from his Wu Chang, he looked towards Lian Xi, and from his perspective, he could just see the youth’s smooth jawline.
Lian Xi quietly spoke, “Yan City is the revolutionary base of the New Fourth Army, led by the Chinese Communist Party during the War of Resistance Against Japan, 1937-1945. There is a ZhengBei Building in the old campus of Yancheng, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, Yan Cheng Middle School, a small two-storey building. Many famous generals lived there when they fought in the war, such as General Chen Yi [Chen Yi (1901-1972), communist general and politician, Marshal of PLA from 1955, Mayor of Shanghai in 1950s, PRC foreign minister 1958-1972.]. So this building is also known as Chen Yi Building by the locals.”
“The old campus has a lot of flowers and plants, and a lot of trees, the kind that are so big in the sky. In summer even if the sun is exuberant, you unless the sun hangs over your head in the middle of the day, otherwise walking on campus, many places simply can’t get the sun, all blocked by dozens of metres of large trees.”
[Real name recognition, the anchor does not seem to be making up stories. Salt in the flowers and plants is extremely lush, salt in the big mosquitoes, do not want to recall it.]
[Alumni recognition! Do not want to recall +1!
Slowly, the people in the live broadcast room grew once again.
Lian Xi glanced at the pop-ups. Ending the game, he didn’t open a new game, but put down his phone and earnestly told the story.
“Every school has many horror legends, the simplest and most widely spread one is that every school is built on a graveyard. For one thing, you can keep the evil spirits at bay with the earnest righteousness of the students, and for another, cemetery land is cheap, and the schools don’t care about that.”
“My roommate said that when he was in junior high school, a horror legend was going around the school,”
“He said that the grove…. behind the main north building had ghosts.”
[WTF, A ghost story?]
[My trousers are off, you actually tell me a ghost story?]
“At that time, my roommate had just started his first year, and he was a lodger. There were eight people in the dormitory, six freshmen and two sophomores. The two second-years secretly told them that the windows on the ground floor of the dormitory building were actually broken, and that the bars would bend if you broke them slightly with your hand. People who are a little bit thinner can drill out, and they often drill out like this at night to play.
“He said so, six first-year are very excited, just want to drill out to play. That night, after lights out, they snuck down to the ground floor together. Like the two 1st year junior high schoolers said, the window bars were broken, but after they broke them hard, they only bent them a little.”
“In the end, there was only enough room for the two sophomores (2nd year in junior middle school), my roommate, and a skinny guy with glasses. Four of them, to drill their way out.”
“There were security guards patrolling at night, but there were too many trees and plants in Salt Middle School, and it was September, summer, just after school started, and it was very hot. The security guards aren’t happy to go into places with lots of flowers and plants, many mosquitoes and bugs. They just hid in these tall grasses and trees, quietly ran to the main north building, all the way to the grove.”
[Is there a grove behind the Zheng Bei Building? Old female schoolmate who graduated ten years ago said they forgot all about it.]
[Anchor, stroke more, stroke more!]
“Four kids, just running and running, and after they got into the groove, my roommate and another first-year suddenly started to get scared.
‘Will the teacher find out?’
‘Are there really ghosts here?’
‘How about we leave first?’
“Two second year junior high schoolers told them that it was very simple to see a ghost, find the thickest tree in the grove, cover your face against the tree, and silently count down one hundred seconds in your mind. After a hundred seconds, if the ghost appears, it will tap you on the shoulder. At this time you must not turn around, you can ask the ghost a question and the ghost must answer you honestly. And after he answers, he will ask you to look back at him. But no matter how much he coerces (threat and promise) you, you must not turn back.
“Then they found the thickest tree, covered their faces …. and started counting down.”
[…. In the middle of the night, anchor, let’s play the game ba.]
[Brush the plane for the anchor! Continue to speak, I love to listen!”]
[Anchor voice is so nice, ghost stories are not scary anymore.]
In the room, Su Jiao hugged Lian Xi’s pillow tightly and swallowed his saliva.
Black Impermanence calmly leaned against the sofa, one leg cocked up, leaning against the back of the sofa, single eyelid slightly hiked up, a look of carelessness listening to the story.
Lian Xi: “100, 99, 98 …”
“Finally, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …”
“My roommate shouted, did someone tap you guys on the shoulder?
“The other three people shook their heads in unison, each covering their faces and not daring to remove their hands, all saying no one tapped their shoulders.”
“The four kids just waited for a few minutes in fear and trepidation, and there was still no movement, just the wind whistling behind them.
“My roommate and his friend were getting scared when all of a sudden, the two junior high schoolers laughed out loud.”
‘No way! You guys actually took it seriously?’
‘Laughing my arse off, freshers are so stupid.’
“My roommate was angry inside, they were scared to death in the middle of the night, and the two first years were making it look like it was real, and the whole way here they said a lot of things about old students seeing ghosts, but it turned out to be fake. The other first year who was wearing glasses was also angry, he let go of his hand and was about to leave.
”You guys are so boring! Chen Kai, let’s go and ignore them.’
“The two first-years junior high schoolers made up their minds to never bother with these two second-years again, and were about to go back to the dormitory together. As a result, they turned around …. suddenly, the two ghastly faces violently appeared in front of their eyes, and the white eyeballs were almost pasted onto their eyelids!
Only to see those two junior heads slowly twist down two, caricatured smiles looking at them and asking ….
‘Hee hee hee hee, didn’t I tell you guys… not to turn around?'”
Inside the studio for live streaming.
[……]
[……]
[……]
[Done Unfollow.]
[Scary anchor unfollow.]
[Anchor 88888.]
Lian Xi: “……”
You guys are the ones who told me to tell the story ah!
Seeing that more and more people are taking it off, and the viewer who promised to send a plane at the beginning is also gone, Lian Xi’s heart also felt sorry and he hurriedly rescue: ”Fake story, it’s obvious that it’s all a lie and it’s not scary at all ah. My roommate said it was all a dream, he woke up and found that their dormitory has a total of six people, the two juniors are his own made up, there are no second year junior high schoolers.”
[Anchor sings a song then I won’t unfollow.]
[Sing, Sing!]
Lian Xi: “……”
How is it so hard to be an anchor!?
After getting off the air, Lian Xi was drenched in sweat and panting, only feeling that he had experienced a great calamity.
The short roommate still had some fears: “The story you told was quite true, it was a bit scary. So… it was just a dream.”
Lian Xi gave him a look, “It was indeed just a dream. It’s just that my roommate talked about the dream with the other five people in the same dormitory the next day, and all four of them thought it was funny, only the skinny roommate with glasses didn’t say anything. By lunchtime, that glasses roommate quietly pulled my roommate down and told him….
“He had the exact same dream.”
Su Jiao: “….”
Fuck!
Su Jiao: “Boring! Go, go! Go to sleep!”
The quiet room was suddenly left with only Lian Xi and Chief Lie.
For some reason, this evening’s Lie Zong did not dutifully go out to catch ghosts and cast them to reincarnate and very strangely, Lian Xi did not ask.
After getting off the air, Lian Xi closed the live broadcast room, and soon, his WeChat lit up.
Click on it to take a look.
[List boss – fried squid: how is it anchor? My national service Zhu Geliang list played well, August is about to end, next month I can have the national standard or not?
Lian Xi lowered his head, silently looking at the flashing messages on his mobile phone screen.
[LianCheng: Well, it’s done.]
[Sheet Boss-Fried Squid: OK, then after I get the national standard at the beginning of next month, I’ll call you for the rest of the final payment. Hey, but don’t make any effort at the end of the month, save money as one of our brothers. Eh right, anchor, that ghost story you tell tonight is quite interesting, you are really the one who made it up ah? I am from Yancheng, listening to your story, there is also a sense of generation.]
[Liancheng: Well, it’s fake, not very interesting].
[List Boss – Fried Squid: Not bad, quite interesting, in the future you can tell more ghost stories live, next time I will give you gift (plane gift in an application such as Dou Ying or here, the author changed it into Dou Ya.]
[Liancheng: Do you think it’s interesting?]
[List Boss – Fried Squid: It’s quite fun.]
[Liancheng: Then why don’t you turn back now.]
[List Boss – Fried Squid: ….]
[List Boss – Fried Squid: Hahaha, do you still want to scare me [doge]]
[List Boss – Fried Squid: I’m telling you, I grew up being scared, I’m not afraid of anything! I’ll make a video for you to see if there are any ghosts behind me.]
Jiang Su YanCheng, a six-storey residential building.
Inside the small, narrow room, a flat-headed young man sits in front of a computer, the ghostly blue light reflecting his dry, thin face. He grinned his teeth, looking at the words of this king anchor in WeChat that intentionally scared him. Laughing with carelessness, he opened the camera of his mobile phone, intending to take a video to show this little anchor how bold he was, and then a little bit…
He turned his head.
Creak.
Creak.
Inside the dimly lit room, the sound of a pin dropping was audible,spinning around. The flat-headed youth’s smile suddenly froze on his face.
He saw a pair of feet…
He raised his head, and his sight stopped violently when he saw the man in black behind him.
Under the dark light, the man’s profoundly handsome features were like axe-cutting knives, and he hooked the corners of his lips in a soft smile.
“It’s time for you to reincarnate.”
The flat-headed youth’s eyes were wide open, his lips were wide open, and before he could regain his senses, he turned into a wisp of white light and dissipated into the air.
At the same time, Su City, which was hundreds of miles away.
Lord Black Impermanence, who had been sitting on the sofa and in a daze for a few hours, slowly closed his Wu Chang Certificate in his hand at this moment, his slender legs falling to the floor as he stood up.
Lie Chen lowered his eyes to his colleague and raised his eyebrows, “Let’s go, go out. Work.”
Lian Xi obediently got up and changed.
As the two went out, Lian Xi thought for a moment, “You look happy?”
Lie Chen: “Really?”
Lian Xi nodded, “Yes.”
This fried squid looked for Lian Xi to play the national service Zhuge Liang’s list last month, so he added WeChat friends, and has been appearing in Lian Xi’s live broadcasting room in the last few days. This morning Lian Xi finished playing his list and contacted him on WeChat. It was his mother who replied to his message. It was only then that Lian Xi learnt that the original fried squid had died of sudden death from overwork three days ago.
Although it is true that opening a live broadcast, guarding a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom :waiting idly for opportunities), and catching a ghost who forgot he was dead and didn’t go to reincarnation is considered a track record.
But Chief Lie had waited for hours for this ghost!
With that amount of time, Lie Zong could have gone out and caught three ghosts.
But he looked like he was quite happy….
Walking up the street, the cool evening breeze greeted him.
Lian Xi: “You’re happy because you collected a ghost?”
The man in black with a cold face had his hands in his pockets, and when he heard this, he laughed in a low voice: “Oh, that’s indeed quite happy.”
Lian Xi didn’t quite understand: “Why?”
“Why?”The man looked back at him, a dark teasing light flickering in his deep eyes, “Because, this is not a ghost that belongs to Su Cheng.”
Lian Xi froze, and only reacted after a few seconds, then, “….”
It is said that a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good a thief!
Dare I say that you are extremely excited right now because you stole the performance of Yan Cheng (Salt City) Ghost Officer?
Quietly surveying the Black Impermanence beside him, Lian Xi thought: if this has a date in the future, wouldn’t he still go out and have an affair every day?
Black Impermanence’s low voice rang out, “Are you cursing me?”
Lian Xi: “?!”
The youth looked calm and raised his head, “No.”
Black Impermanence smiled, “Oh, remember, communication is not only by words, by words…. be attentive.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Hei Wu Chang is so handsome.
Hei Wu Chang is so powerful.
Hei Wu Chang’s magic power is boundless, and it is more than a heavenly immortal!
…. Hear that?
Lie Chen looked meaningfully at Lian Xi, who also looked at him.
The two looked at each other and smiled at each other.
Meanwhile, after Lian Xi and Lie Chen left home to go out to work, a bedroom door slowly opened in the topmost corner of the house’s corridor. The short roommate with the mask on stood inside the door, and he raised his hands, smoothing out the folds on the mask while looking at the front door of the house. After a while, he snorted coldly, “I think you’re just blinded by lard, lackey!”
“This place is impossible to live in.”
The short roommate deflated his mouth, and while cursing Lian Xi for being weird or unreasonable and dogged, he took out his own suitcase and began to pack his things.
“I’m moving back to school! Not living here anymore! Can’t live here anymore!”
Author has something to say:
CC: At first glance, he’s a scumbag, a playboy, and likes to steal!
Lie Zong raised his eyebrows: Steal from you? So excited.
Much much later.
Lie Zong:….
CC: He He!