Chapter 29
Lian Xi’s life, since graduating from college, is filled with two words——
salt fish.
Since he was a child, because he could see ghosts, he couldn’t talk to children of his age, and everyone treated him as a freak. Later, when people around him passed away one by one, everyone slowly distanced themselves from him. When he got to the orphanage, he didn’t make any new friends, and instead, he turned himself into a self-absorbed and lonely goose.
At one time, Lian Xi thought that when he died and went to the underworld, the judge would open the book of life and death, and there would be a bloody “Misery” engraved on it. But then, he went to university and he had to live in a dormitory, and had to work and thrift to earn money for tuition and living expenses, so he had no choice but to make a few friends. His life also changed from a capital “miserable” to a fresh and full of life salted fish.
Being a salted fish is really good.
Every day, I just swipe my mobile phone, play games, and at eight o’clock in the evening, I broadcast live on time, and earn a little bit of game coaching fee every month.
Even Lian Xi stepped into retirement, drinking cola bubble chinese wolfberries, learning from the old man disc walnut, life is incomparably beautiful.
Unfortunately, it would be better if he could buy a suite.
Salted fish is not cool?
Eat, drink and be merry?
If it wasn’t for that greedy Lie Zong and the golden light, who would be happy to go out every night to catch ghosts?
That’s right, Lian Xi’s only motivation to go out every night to catch ghosts and make them reincarnate is the golden light!
Whenever Hei Wu Chang comes back from an errand with him, he is always in a good mood. At that time, Black Impermanence would always look at the certificate of Impermanence with satisfaction, and Lian Xi would get a grain of golden light. The tacit understanding was seamless, and the cooperation was pleasant. However, since the number of golden lights reached the standard, completely offsetting the red light crisis brought by Liu Lang and the ‘cat hair sauce’ incident, Lian Xi slacked off again and became a salted fish again.
This month he was very inactive as far as catching ghosts was concerned, casually fooling around with Lie Zong every day, not putting Lie Zong in his heart.
Just kidding, who is the normal person who catches ghosts?
And now ….
why he has become a game anchor, but also has performance appraisal or check up ah!
Do not do it, even die I would not do it!
Looking at the black impermanence card that disliked his face, and the above shining ghost officials performance ranking, Lian Xi’s mouth twitching, his heart chaotic, his eyes closed, twisted his head to look at Su Jiao, changed the topic with difficulty: “Have you bought dinner?”
Su Jiao: “Ah?”
My roommate is a stupid one, with no secret agreement!
Lian Xi’s heart raged with impotent rage, and he hated that he couldn’t hurry to find a place to play dead and pretend that he didn’t know about this inexplicable performance ranking.
He moved his face to the left, dodging Wu Chang that was handed over by Lie Chen.
Lie Chen raised his eyebrow lightly and moved his hand to the left.
Lian Xi moved his face to the right.
Lie Chen moved his hand to the right again.
Only to see that in the spacious and bright living room, one of the two people moved his head and the other moved his hand.
Swish, swish, swish.
To the left! To the right! To the left! To the right!
Su Jiao on the side looked halfway, “Are you guys playing with the emoticon?”
Lie Chen lowered his head and could only see the back of the youth’s hairy head. The fine hair blocked Lian Xi’s face, he was determined to play dead.
Looking at this scene, the man’s gaze darkened.
Lian Xi was reciting in his heart, “Don’t take me with you when you become a corporate drone, don’t take me with you when you become a corporate drone.” when in the next second, suddenly, a pair of cold, cool hands touched his cheeks. Lian Xi’s body lurched as the warm skin of his cheeks touched the extremely cold fingers, causing all the cold hairs on his back to stand up in an instant. The owner of these hands just held his face, forcing him to raise his head and look at himself.
The youth’s clear, beautiful eyes fell into a pair of deep, dark eyes.
Lie Chen’s eyes always had little emotion, and a glance at them only revealed a barren indifference that could not be seen to the bottom. Su Jiao always spat in private, black ghosts poorly grew a pair of ugly dead fish eyes, Xiao Liu is blind to see him.
However, with four eyes facing each other, the man bent down to level with Lian Xi.
The extremely close distance made it seem like the two could feel each other’s warm exhale.
….Those eyes are really good looking.
Lian Xi’s lips opened and closed without opening his mouth.
What he didn’t expect was that Lie Chen held his face so that he had to raise his head. After the two of them looked at each other, Lie Chen unexpectedly didn’t speak either.
The short gaze was as long as a century.
Lian Xi: “….Is there something wrong?”
The unfamiliar heat coming from his fingertips was so hot that it made him a little numb, and the knot in his throat moved gently as he looked at the bright-eyed youth in front of him.
The next moment, Lie Chen: “Not enthusiam in catching ghosts.”
Lian Xi: “???”
Lie Chen: “Have problems with thinking.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Chief Lie stroked Lian Xi’s cheek, painfully but expressionlessly said, “I even feel we are ashamed!”
Lian Xi: “….”
You don’t, you lose your…, don’t lose face for my credit.
Seemingly realizing that his new Bai Wu Chang really doesn’t seem to have much motivation, Lie Chen let go of his hand, and Lian Xi was finally set free.
Lian Xi, who had regained his life and thought he had succeeded in pretending to be dead, did not notice that Lord Black Impermanence suddenly turned his head and looked towards Su Jiao, who was watching the show from the sidelines.
Su Jiao’s body immediately tightened.
Danger!
If White Impermanence doesn’t work hard, then wouldn’t it be better to replace it with another White Impermanence?
Lie Zong was thinking in his heart, he knew that he should now reach out to Lian Xi and ask for the White Impermanence Certificate back, and tuck it away to Su Jiao, but he lowered his head and looked towards Lian Xi, and coincidentally, Lian Xi also looked up at him.
Under the gorgeous evening sun, the black-haired young man froze, swallowed, and asked, “Anything else?” In his heart, he thought, “Don’t drag me along to be a corporate drone (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 社畜 “shachiku” or karyawan yang dianggap tidak bersemangat, kurang inisiatif, dan hanya mengikuti perintah tanpa berpikir kritis atau kreativitas), don’t drag me along to be a corporate drone!
Lie Chen：”…..”
You hand over the White Impermanence Certificate.
It seemed like I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth.
Chief Lie (Lie Zong)’s eyes swept back and forth over Lian Xi and Su Jiao.
Lian Xi and Su Jiao: “???”
Meow, Meow Meow, something’s wrong?
It dawned on Chief Lie.
“Forget it, he’s too ugly.”
Lian Xi: “?” Who’s too ugly?
Su Jiao: “?” Who’s ugly? It can’t be me who is ugly anyway.
Lie Zong looked deeply at Lian Xi, turned around and walked towards his own room, leaving behind the bewildered Lian Xi and Su Jiao.
Yes, the reason why he didn’t want to ask for the White Impermanence Certificate from Lian Xi was because Su Jiao was too ugly! Going out to catch ghosts with Su Jiao every day polluted his eyes and affected his mood. If there is a Xuanmen practitioner who looks good to him in the future, then he can ask Lian Xi for the Wu Chang Certificate.
Lie Zong always comes out abruptly, and goes back in an unbelievably free and at ease manner.
Lian Xi thought he had escaped, and decided to go to the kitchen to get a bottle of coke to calm his nerves. However, he had just reached the halfway point when he suddenly saw in the air, a faint red light fluttering and wobbling, and under Lian Xi’s shocked gaze, it plunged headlong into his body.
Lian Xi: “!”
F*ck, he actually forgot about that inexplicable red light bad luck of Gao Zong across the street!
Lian Xi rushed forward and called out to Black Impermanence, “That, Lord Black Impermanence, when are we going out to catch ghosts tonight.”
Lord Black Impermanence, who was extremely disappointed with his colleague, turned around and gave him a cold look, “Whatever.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Lian Xi laughed, “Or twelve o’clock?”
Lie Chen: “Oh.”
Lian Xi: “….”
After a moment,
Lian Xi: “Are you angry?”
Lie Chen: “Hn?”
Lian Xi: “….are you angry?”
Lie Chen: “No.”
Lian Xi: “….”
And what the hell are these golden lights that are picking at your clothes, as if they are afraid to fly one more millimetre towards me?!
According to the strength of this pick-pulling, it means that even if I go out with you to catch ghosts for a month, these golden lights won’t answer me for a bit!
Being a salted fish.
Easy.
But what he wanted to be wasn’t a salted fish that ate bugs for takeout, stepped on dog shit on the way out, and a salt fish who bumped into an actor in a row!
Lian Xi clenched his teeth, “It’s too embarrassing!”
Su Jiao in the living room:”???”
Black Impermanence whose eyes suddenly lit up: “Hn?”
Lian Xi took a deep breath, filled with righteous indignation and deep hatred, “Twenty-five cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, ranked twenty-five! This 25th, is slapping your face, is slapping my face! Shameful! Humiliating! Unbearable!”
Lie Chen looked at Lian Xi’s twisted and struggling expression, his gaze moved slightly, and the corner of his mouth hooked into an imperceptible arc. He made a deep and meaningful oh: “So?”
Lian Xi was firm and determined, “Can’t keep going on like this.” He quickly took out his White Impermanence Certificate and flipped to the leaderboards, “Let’s set a small goal for ourselves first.” As he said that, he looked up at Lie Chen.
Lie Chen also looked at him.
The two of them suddenly felt that both sides were in agreement at this moment.
Lian Xi: “Finish off Wuxi! (Wuxi, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu).”
Lie Chen: “Finish off Yan City!”
“…..”
“…..”
Lian Xi pointed at the leaderboard and kindly reminded, “Hei Wu Chang, the Wuxi Ghost official, is currently ranked 24th in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, which is just one place higher than us, with 2000 more points. Look at Yan City….” he clattered his fingers dramatically upwards, “Second in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, first in the Soviet Province, between us and others in Yan City, there is a difference of ten Wuxi.”
Lie Chen: “Catching up with the penultimate?”
Lian Xi: “Yes.”
Lie Chen: “And then become the second last?”
Lian Xi: “….that’s right.” At least it’s not second to last!
Lie Chen laughed, “Short-sighted and shallow in ambition! You, as a hellish ghost messenger, the titular Bai Wu Chang of Su City, are only thinking about not becoming the second-to-last, just for that little bit of dignity of not being the first-to-last? Did you become a ghost messenger because of this leaderboard?”
Lian Xi froze with his mouth open, looking at Lord Black Messenger of Death with a cold face but a righteous look.
Don’t tell me that you’re going to catch ghosts because you lose face?
Moreover…. I became a ghost official because of you ah.
Lie Chen’s tone was solemn: “You should rob the rich to help the poor.”
Lian Xi: “……”
Turning Chen: “Don’t bully the weak.”
Lian Xi: “….”
We are the weak now!
Lie Chen: “Let’s go, let’s go out and catch ghosts.”
Lian Xi was stunned: “The sun hasn’t set yet.”
“But there are still ghosts.”
“My live broadcast, I still have to make money…”
Lie Chen paused, “Did you see the small-print note below this leaderboard?”
Lian Xi’s heart suddenly fluttered as an incredible idea surged to the forefront of his mind. He held his breath, looking down at the Wu Chang Certificate with anticipation and apprehension, and his eyes slowly moved down to the bottom of the Ghost Messenger’s performance chart for the month, only to see…
*Remarks: The first ranked region of the month, Hei Wu Chang and Bai Wu Chang can get ten bowls of Meng Po Soup, ten flag to attract departed spirits, one Soul Striker, and one hundred taels of gold, which can be exchanged for the equivalent amount of yang world currency.
In the second place of the month, Hei Wu Chang and Bai Wu Chang can get Meng Po Soup… Eighty taels of gold …
In the third place of the month … Sixty taels of gold…
……
In the 24th ranked region in the same month,
Hei Wu Chang and Bai Wu Chang can obtain one drop of Water of Forgetfulness and two coins of gold.
The 25th ranked region of the month, the (Chinese folk religion) Heibai Wuchang: two deities, one dressed in black and the other in white, responsible for escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld can obtain one drop of water of forgetfulness and one cent of gold.
Lian Xi felt his blood, which had been dormant for many years, suddenly boiling up and rushing straight to the top of his head.
It is known that one tael, equal to 50 grams; one coin, equal to 5 grams.
And one gram of gold ……
Lian Xi opened his mobile phone and searched for today’s gold price.
555 soft sister coins!
Lian Xi: “!!!”
Under the setting sun, the handsome and fair youth jerked his head up and looked calmly at Lie Chen: “I’m already ready.”
Lie Chen was slightly stunned, “Hn?”
In the next second, Lian Xi had already walked to the entrance hall and started to change his shoes. He lifted his head to look at Hei Wu Chang who was still standing there in the dining room and said in surprise, “Didn’t you say you were going out to catch ghosts?”
Lie Chen froze for a long time, his eyes pausing for a long time on the youth’s serious and earnest face.
With a raised handsome eyebrow, Lie Chen smiled, “Oh.”
Su Jiao was still sitting on the sofa nibbling on the sugar cane, not knowing what had happened. The peaks and troughs, ups and downs of this journey,an opportunity has come unexpectedly, the plot developed so fast that he actually couldn’t make sense of it!
Su Jiao couldn’t help but pull Lian Xi: “Eh Lian Xi, what are you doing? It’s not even dark yet and you’re going to catch ghosts? Don’t you live broadcast at night?”
Lian Xi: “I’ve already sent the message to Liu Lang, I’m taking the day off from broadcasting.”
Su Jiao: “?”
F*ck, when did you post it to Weibo?
Su Jiao: “No, you are possessed with what…?”
Upon hearing this, Lian Xi righteously scolded, “Possessed (by evil spirits)? If it is your performance ranking down one, you don’t feel ashamed? Don’t you feel embarrassed to see others?” Lian Xi with bitter hatred,”The people of Su City have worked diligently and conscientiously, and with great difficulty, they have brought Su City’s GDP to the top ten in the country and the first in Su Province. The people working so hard, but what are we ghost messengers of the nether world doing? Counting down, number one! Hold an office and enjoy all the privileges without doing a stroke of work! Not thinking about progress! Wallow in degeneration! Shameful and hateful!”
Su Jiao: “Fuck!”
Lian Xi: “I’m going to catch a ghost, no need to leave the door open.”
As soon as the words fell, only a bang was heard and the door closed.
In the empty room, in an instant, only Su Jiao was left staring dryly at the door panel, still not understanding what had happened, desolate to the extreme.
Standing in front of the lift, Lian Xi carefully looked at the White Impermanence Certificate in his hand, carefully, word for word, studying every word, including the 24 regional ghostbusters and their points that lined up above his head.
These are the class enemies who blocked my money and prevented me from buying a house.
Keep it in a small notebook.
Hundred taels of gold, a million dollars a month or whatever doesn’t matter, the main thing is to be self motivated and hard working, wanting to do their part for the hell, and dedicate themselves to building a harmonious society in the world of Suzhou.
But ….
Lian Xi looked at the black impermanence beside him, “Lie Chen, didn’t you receive the reward for the ghost officer’s performance ranking last month?”
The penultimate one also had a gold penny on it, worth 2500 soft sister coins.
But Lian Xi had never seen Hei Wu Chang with money in his hand.
In a good mood today, you actually dare to call my name? Lord Black Impermanence faintly said, “The reward for being the penultimate (second last), shame on you.”
The implication: this Wu Chang doesn’t care to claim it, and doesn’t recognise the fact of being the most bottom one. As long as I don’t claim it, I’m not the lowest (number 1 in reverse).
Lian Xi: “…..”
Defeat! Family! Son!
You pay your rent first okay!
Author’s Note:
CC: Su City is my home, catching ghosts depends on everyone. It’s the responsibility of the Ghostbusters to build a ghost-free city. Don’t try to steal it from me, it’s my responsibility, it’s my duty. Love the ghostbusters, love hell, start with me, thank you.
Now.
Lie Zong: Don’t disturb the ghost catchers, take shame as the number one in reverse.
Later.
Lie Zong:….have a love relationship?
CC: Are you satisfied with getting first in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai? Have you got the first in East China (comprising Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai Municipality, and (disputedly) Taiwan)? You got the first in the whole country? What’s the point of being in love? Being in love affects my speed in catching ghosts!