Chapter 11
The female ghost’s soul was like starlight, dispersing into the dark night.
Lian Xi clapped his hands and stood up.
He turned his head to look at Su Jiao, who had long been scared silly, his voice calm.
“Going home? I still have to broadcast live.”
Su Jiao：“.…”
God, damn it! He still wants to do a live broadcast!
The female ghost that was just killed by you, she doesn’t want to lose face, is she?
After a few seconds, Su Jiao only came back to his senses and followed him, “Eh, I didn’t expect you to be so ruthless, that’s still a girl ah ….”
Lian Xi looked down at him and asked strangely, “Do you still have any sympathy for evil ghosts that kill people? “
Su Jiao didn’t say anything else.
Lian Xi’s tone was bland: “Don’t underestimate any murderous evil (Fierce) ghost, even if it’s a child…” The voice suddenly paused, and after a moment, Lian Xi continued, “A child can also be an executioner. ”
Su Jiao: “Hn, what you said is right.”
After a moment,
Su Jiao: “But you didn’t completely beat her to death just now.”
Lian Xi stops in his tracks, ‘F*ck?!’
Su Jiao was shocked, “You still know how to swear?”
Lian Xi: “…..”
Su Jiao touched his head, “I thought you knew, you just strangled the girl’s two souls and six souls, there is still one soul left, just now it seems to be reincarnated, didn’t you notice? How can a normal person kill an evil ghost with his bare hands, if you just let that bell to fight, I feel it should be able to completely beat that girl’s ghost into a scattered soul, but you’re on your own …. seems to be really not very good.”
Lian Xi：”.…”
***
Then why didn’t you say it earlier?
Lian Xi raised his wrist: You also don’t remind me a little?
Bronze bell shook: Hump, told you not to let me beat her to death ~ slightly, briefly, shortly!
***
Xu Lang was discharged from the hospital.
Coming out of the hospital lobby filled with air-conditioned cool air, he was greeted by a roaring heat wave.
But Xu Lang didn’t feel the heat, he looked up at the sunny blue sky and took a deep breath of fresh air.
——It was as if it were a lifetime ago.
The injuries Xu Lang sustained were not serious, except for the wound on his forehead that needed to be treated. He was only hospitalized for one night and was discharged. In the morning, the police took his statement. Xu Lang calmly answered the police’s questions, and now, he had finally regained his freedom.
Looking at the vast and boundless sky, after a while, Xu Lang looked towards the shopping mall diagonally opposite the hospital.
He walked in with big strides.
One hour later.
Lian Xi was cleaning at home.
“Hey Lian Xi, can I not clean the toilet?!”
Lian Xi calmly said, “You lost the guessing game.”
Su Jiao: “…. You, fuck! I lost the guessing game of rock, paper, and scissors the day before yesterday. Is it appropriate for you to use it now! Do you dare to play with me again?!”
Lian Xi looked down at the clusters of red light wrapped around his fingers, his tone was calm: ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow.’
Su Jiao: ‘Gan (淦)!’
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
Thinking it was the takeaway he ordered just now, Su Jiao shouted loudly, “Hurry up and open the door, I’m hungry!”
Glancing at his short roommate who was washing the toilet, the handsome and elegant youth put down the hoover and walked to the door. However, as soon as the door was pulled open and he saw the person standing outside the door, Lian Xi was slightly stunned and stood still for a long time.
Su Jiao walked out from the toilet, “What, where is the takeaway…. eh? Crap?!”
Only to see someone standing outside the door, it’s exactly Liu Lang!
A light-coloured suit of Liu Lang stood outside the door, a piece of white gauze tied to his forehead. He looked at Lian Xi, and then looked at Su Jiao standing inside the room. After a while, he revealed a hard and bitter smile and asked, “May I ask… If I could go in?”
The brilliant summer sunlight shone into the house along the spacious glass of the living room.
Liu Lang took the hot water that Lian Xi poured for him, “Thank you. It’s sort of been a long time, let’s formally introduce ourselves. My name is Xu Lang, my ID is Liu Lang..”
Lian Xi sat down across from him and softly hmmed.
Xu Lang smiled at him and said, “I came here because I want to tell a story.”
At those words, Su Jiao shivered and quietly looked at Lian Xi.
He hadn’t forgotten that the last one who tried to tell a story to Lian Xi was almost beaten to death.
However, nothing changed for Lian Xi as he calmly sipped his water, “Oh?”
Xu Lang took a deep breath and continued, “I had a long, long dream. I dreamt that I came here, I dreamt about a lot of multicolored and strange things, I dreamt about a lot of things that I never thought of. But when I woke up from the dream, I forgot almost everything, I don’t remember anything anymore. But I only remember one thing…”
He raised his head, looked seriously at the calm and unhurried youth in front of him, and said word by word, “I remember, you seem to have saved my life.”
Lian Xi smiled, “Mr. Xu, do you take everything you dream about seriously?”
Xu Lang stared fixedly at him, “Was that really a dream?”
Lian Xi curiously asked back, “What else? What dream did you have, why don’t you tell us about it.”
Xu Lang: “…. I forgot.”
Lian Xi: “Since it was a dream, don’t think too much.”
Xu Lang still refused to give up, he stared at Lian Xi without blinking, just wanting to see the cracks in him. But Lian Xi was not the least bit moved by this, still drinking tea in a calm and collected manner.
After a long time, Xu Lang gave up. He flipped open the folder he brought with him, took out a document, and placed it on the coffee table: ”This time I came, besides that dream, I also brought a contract. Lian Cheng, don’t be in a hurry to reject it first! You can first look at the contents of this contract. This contract was signed between myself and you, in fact, I am one of the founders of the Gemstone Guild and the biggest investor. For the new contract, I’ll offer you a base salary of 10,000 a month, while you’ll be absolutely satisfied with the gift share and whatnot. Most importantly, I won’t interfere with any of your live content, nor will I make any harsh demands on you.”
Lian Xi was just about to refuse, when he heard this, he raised his head and said in surprise, “Mr Xu ….”
Xu Lang helplessly laughed, “These are all small amounts of money, compared to my life, not to mention 10,000, a million, 10 million, it’s nothing. Since that was just a dream, let me use this small amount of money to thank you for letting me escape from my nightmare.” He hooked up the corners of his mouth, revealing a mature and confident smile, “No one would ever cross money … don’t you think so, Lian Cheng?”
This time, Lian Xi accepted Xu Lang’s signing contract.
He took a closer look at it, and his short roommate helped as a adviser, and in the end, the two of them reached a unanimous opinion ——
This Xu Lang was really here to give away money!
If money falls from the sky, don’t pick up the son of a bitch!
Sign!
Lian Xi signed the contract in duplicate, and each of them took a copy.
Before leaving, Xu Lang laughed: “By the way, when I was discharged from the hospital, I went to the shopping mall next door and bought a gift. What a coincidence, I bought two copies, it seems like I dreamt that you don’t live alone, Mr Lian.”
Lian Xi looked at the bag of apple mobile phones that Xu Lang handed over and did not reach out to take it.
Xu Lang: “It’s nothing, from now on, you’ll be our guild’s contracted anchor, this is considered a hardware salary, take it. Otherwise, I’ll lose it.”
Seeing that Lian Xi had no intention of reaching out to take it, Xu Lang smiled, placed the two Apple phones in front of his door, and went straight into the lift to go downstairs.
When he left, Su Jiao excitedly picked the phones back up.
“F*ck, saving people this time is also too profitable!”
Lian Xi didn’t say anything, following Su Jiao as he unwrapped the mobile phone Xu Lang had given him.
Oooh, the latest model of Apple.
It’s really fucking rich.
Yes, no one would have a problem with money.
Since Xu Lang had to give it to him, Lian Xi didn’t refuse anymore.
What’s the point of being pretentious!
The two of them dismantled the latest Apple mobile phone and used it. Lian Xi was still installing the system when the doorbell rang. This time he went to open the door, it was really a delivery boy.
Lian Xi: ‘Are you having roast pork over meat-veggie-rice combo (rice served with meat and vegetables on top) or tomato over meat-veggie-rice combo again?’
Su Jiao was preoccupied with his new mobile phone, “Barbecue pork with rice!”
Lian Xi: “Oh.”
The two of them started eating while playing with their mobile phones. However, halfway through the meal ….
On the bare spoon, the remaining half of the cyprinid corpse was making a final nervous struggle to wriggle, and it cocked its head, aiming at Lian Xi: “Hello!
Lian Xi: “….. “
Su Jiao: “Hey, Lian Xi, what are you doing, not eating?”
‘Vomit!!!’
……
Su Jiao: “F*ck, is this still human? This shop is still the highest praise, but there are worms? Compensate money, but also spiritual compensation!”
Lian Xi: “…. Forget it.”
Su Jiao: “Huh? Just forget it?”
Lian Xi had a lifeless face and could only be speechless.
…. What the fuck do you know!
Lian Xi: ‘I’m going to take a shower.’
Five minutes later.
Lian Xi: “Su Jiao? Su Jiao? Where’s the water? Why is the water gone?!”
Su Jiao: “Eh, Lian Xi, just now, the property owner sent a text message, saying that the nearby road repair burst the water pipe, and it’s being repaired.”
Lian Xi: “..…”
Wiping his head full of foam clean, Lian Xi laid down on the bed and decided to be a dead salted fish with peace of mind.
I won’t do anything now, just lie down, then it’s fine right?!
Half an hour later.
Lian Xi walked out of the bedroom expressionlessly, “The air conditioner in my room seems to be broken.”
Su Jiao, who was packing up his things and preparing to go to class: ‘Eh, it seems like the power is out, it’s being repaired.’
Lian Xi: “….”
You, damn! Still give people a way to live or not?!
Su Jiao pondered again and again, carefully asking: “That…Lian Xi, did you realize that…. you seem to be particularly unlucky today?’
Lian Xi looked at him faintly: “Is there?”
Su Jiao: “There is ah!”
Shorty’s roommate’s eyes rolled, ha ha smiled, and reached out his right hand, “Why don’t we try guessing game again?”
Lian Xi ：“..…”
You be a person ba!
***
For several days in a row, Lian Xi lived a miserable and unlucky life.
Brushing his teeth, the water went out.
He is playing the game, suddenly 460!
This is all still good, the most tragic is ……
It has been three consecutive days and 41 consecutive games that he ran into hanging [leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a game in one’s stead etc)] teammates!
Not knowing if it’s because Xu Lang signed Lian Xi and gave him some good advertising referrals, or if he’s just unlucky enough to get some benefits once in a while. Now, Lian Xi’s live room has gained some popularity, and the number of live people has broken through three digits.
[I’ve heard that the anchor has had three consecutive days, 41 games, and a hanging teammate in every game. I’ll take a look!
[Reverse Koi! I would like to use ten pounds of fat to ask the anchor to bless my love rival to fail his final exams and get a red light at every door!
[Hahaha, it’s 42 innings, and this time the fielder is a hangdog again!]
[Reasonable suspicion that the anchor is the director, bought a group of actors to play themselves (dog head)]
Lian Xi: “…..”
Human words?
Finally, extreme adversity is the beginning of good luck, in the 43rd game, his teammates finally had no actors.
Lian Xi wept with joy and pulled out his national costume Zhuge Liang.
This is the moment of truth!
Seeing that Lian Xi didn’t run into any more hanging dogs, the fans in the live broadcast room exclaimed that they were bored and started chatting about other things.
[Have you heard, it turns out that that Cat Hair Sauce didn’t commit suicide because of cyber violence at all! Before she committed suicide, she sent a lot of messages to Hydrogen, hoping that Hydrogen would save her, but as a result, Hydrogen was too busy playing games that day to pay any attention to her!]
[I saw that search. It’s horrible, I didn’t expect Hydrogen to be such a person!]
Lian Xi was playing the game while watching the bullet screen [function which allows viewers to post on-screen comments in videos, movies etc in real time].
He swayed slightly.
[Youdefeat！]
F*ck?!
I die just once and you rookie teammates are all dead?
You guys might as well hang up!!!
……
An upscale neighbourhood in Nanjing
The young man with dyed yellow hair was sweating in a hurry, he had already bought a ticket to Suzhou City. He couldn’t wait, he wanted to see Xu Lang, he wanted to ask what the hell was going on!
Wasn’t everything already in the past?
Those were all misunderstandings, he didn’t even pinch Xu Lang!
The police had released him, and even Xu Lang himself had gone to the police station to bail him out, so how could he have just returned to Nanjing and become like this again?
Called dozens of times, suddenly connected.
Hydrogen’s eyes reddened with anxiety: ”Brother Lang! What’s going on, why are you suddenly like this! Aren’t things already in the past, aren’t already better? Why, why is this all happening ah! Why are you doing this to me?!”
On the phone, Xu Lang smiled faintly and asked slowly, “What happened?”
Hydrogen was stunned, “Didn’t you make it happen? Brother Lang, the internet suddenly started breaking the news that Cat Hair Sauce committed suicide because of me, those suicide tweets she sent me that I only showed to you alone are now all over the internet!”
“Oh, that ah, I’m the one who sent it out.”
“Lang Ge?!”
“Hydrogen, these past few days, I had a dream.”
“What?”
“I dreamt that Cat Hair Sauce came to me. She blamed me, for breaking you guys up in the first place, for not letting you fall in love with her. She wants to kill me, and she wants to be with you forever. Do you think I did something wrong? Why must she come to me? The person she really should be looking for, isn’t it you …?”
Holding the mobile phone, the yellow-haired teenager suddenly had a chill down his back, and he trembled his voice: “Brother Lang, what are you talking about ….”
Xu Lang sighed long and hard: “But no one will refuse the money?”
“Brother Lang?’
“He..he, make good money, my money tree.”
***
The next day, Lian Xi was on time, the live room was still hot and bustling, and there were more than fifty live people in. Who knows that it was only after nine o’clock, suddenly someone howled ——
[F*ck! It’s reversed again! Go and watch!]
With a bang, everyone ran away.
After getting off the air, Lian Xi opened Weibo and saw the long tweet sent by Hydrogen, and saw more WeChat chats between him and Cat Hair Sauce.
A hysterical girl.
A girl who threatened that if you break up with me, I’ll kill myself, I’ll die with you, I’ll kill your whole family.
A pair of greedy parents who took money from a shady economic company and casually claimed their daughter died from cyber violence.
A pathetic anchor who did his best to take care of his ex-girlfriend’s family and deal with her aftermath after she died.
Hydrogen’s been involved with Cat Hair Sauce his entire life!
He also vowed in a long tweet that no matter what the truth of the matter was, Cat Hair Sauce was already gone.
He would take care of Catsup’s mum and dad for the rest of his life, and he would raise Catsup’s mum and dad as if they were his own.
Everything was his fault!
This time, it wasn’t just the fans who were on his side, even the passersby felt sorry for this young anchor who had since dragged himself down for the rest of his life.
The guild company represented by Liu Lang was scolded into torrent of abuse, but …
Hydrogen was really popular!
Su Jiao walked out of the bathroom and saw Lian Xi: ”Eh, you finished broadcasting? I just brushed through Wei bo to see one of your Dou Ya’s anchors. The man is too unlucky, right? Being dragged by a woman like this, people die, but also have to take care of her parents for the rest of their lives, the old unlucky guy. This anchor is called Hydrogen, right? I’ll go follow him later.”
Lian Xi: “Don’t you think the name Cat Hair Sauce is a bit familiar.”
Su Jiao froze, after a while, “F*ck? That female ghost?!”
Lian Xi let out a light laugh calmly.
This human blood bun thing, from beginning to end, Xu Lang never gave up.
He ate it with his mouth full of oil.
Bubbling and bright red, it flowed downwards.
Yes ah, in this world, how could anyone refuse money?
……
“Su Jiao!!!”
“Huh? The water is out again? Hey hey, Lian Xi, you’re also too unlucky!”
Lian Xi: “..…”
This day really can’t be passed on anymore!
Coming out from the bathroom, Lian Xi is wearing pajamas, expressionless: “Accompany me out later.”
Su Jiao looked at the clock on the wall pointing to one o’clock: “Say that again?”
“There are many ghosts in the middle of the night.”
“What?”
Lian Xi: “Go out and do something good, understand?”
Su Jiao：“..…”
Lian Xi thought: “Can you be kind?”
Su Jiao: “.…”
You’re sick ah ( You have a problem ah)!!!!
***
Su Jiao did not understand why he idly stayed up most of the night and accompanied Lian Xi out to hang out!
In the middle of the night, at the crossroads.
Lian Xi: “Granny, let me help you cross the road.”
Old Granny: “I’m not! I’m waiting for my grandson!”
Lian Xi: “In the middle of the night, your obedient grandson is asleep, let me help you cross the street.”
Old Granny: “No, my grandson will come.”
Lian Xi: “Will you let me help you?’
Granny: ‘No!’
“I beg you.”
“Still no.”
“Please.”
“No!”
Lian Xi: “…..”
Lian Xi: “You…go!”
The old granny yelled, “Save the ghosts, someone is forcing the ghosts!’
Su Jiao, who had been watching the action for half a day: “…..”
He poked Lian Xi’s arm: “What are you doing? You have to help this old woman cross the road?”
Lian Xi gave a slight start, pointing at the old woman’s head, “Can’t you see?”
Su Jiao held his arm and looked at it for half a day, “See what?”
Lian Xi turned back to look at the faint bit of golden light on this old woman’s head, he turned his head to look at Su Jiao, and said calmly: “Nothing. I just think, learn from Lei Feng, to do a good deed every day, help the old granny cross the road.”
[Lei Feng (1940-1962), made into a model of altruism and dedication to the Party by propaganda from 1963 onwards.]
Su Jiao looked at the old granny ghost who was crying in pain and muttered, “Are you sure you call this a daily act of kindness?”
Lian Xi glanced at him.
What do you know?
From childhood until now, Lian Xi had seen countless ghosts.
In the beginning, he would often help these ghosts fulfil their wishes, and he would not refuse, because most of the ghosts were not evil, they just had unfulfilled wishes, so they stayed on earth. As long as they fulfilled their obsessions, they could be reincarnated.
However, gradually, Lian Xi realized that every time he finished helping a ghost, the ghost’s body would flicker with golden or red light.
Golden light will get heavenly merit and virtue.
Red light pointed out sins that will lead to retribution, haunting the body!
Last time he helped Chen Jianjun’s ghost and found the murderer of the fan factory murder case for him, a large amount of merit fell from the sky, allowing him to become a second generation of demolition; and this time he killed Cat Hair Sauce’s ghost, and immediately the red light wrapped around his body! It’s been three days now, eating bugs in the takeaway every day, who can stand this?
However, helping ghosts is not a matter of getting golden light for doing good deeds, nor is it a matter of getting red light for doing bad deeds.
It’s too vague (unreal)!
Except for a very few cases, most ghosts can only know whether they get the golden light or the red light after helping them.
But….
As of now, Su Jiao seems to have no such worries at all. He wasn’t affected by the red light and golden light at all, and he couldn’t see them either.
Lian Xi turned his head to look at this old woman who had been dead for an unknown number of years again, stared at the little bit of faint golden light on her head, and clenched his teeth, “Today, you have to cross but you have to cross it even if you don’t! I’ll help you cross the road!”
Granny: “…..”
I may not be human, but you’re a real dog!
Nonsense, of course Lian Xi could not let go of this old woman ghost.
He and Su Jiao had wandered around the entire Su City Park and only found such a ghost with a golden light flashing on her body in advance.
Could he let her go?
Lian Xi tugged both of the old woman’s arms with both hands, “You come with me ba!’
The old woman cried with pearly blossoms, “Oooh, oooh, save the ghost, save the ghost! Eh, that handsome man in front, save me ah, make things difficult ah!”
Su Jiao laughed: “You’re so old, you still know how to look at a handsome man? Where is it? I’ll take a look.”
Lian Xi was so preoccupied with forcing the ghost to cross the road that he didn’t even bother to look up, “You’ll just obey me!”
Old woman ghost: “Help, handsome!”
Lian Xi frowned slightly and was about to speak, when suddenly, a flash of golden light flashed in his afterglow.
His body shook and he slowly raised his head.
Three o’clock in the morning, Su City Park, Times Square,
The slightly cool night wind was welcoming, the empty intersection, the handsome and beautiful youth slowly opened his mouth and looked at the…..
Golden light that comes toward him.
In this life, even Lian Xi can’t forget this scene in front of him.
Beside him was the old woman who was crying.
In front of him was the golden light that walked slowly without words or sound.
The splendour of the light was unparalleled, competing with the sun for glory.
The heartbeat became calm and serene in this moment, the sound of the whistling wind in my ears, and the pounding,thump, slow and steady heartbeat.
For the first time, so blazing.
…… It’s not the wind that moves.
It’s the heartbeat.
Old woman: “Help ah handsome!”
Lian Xi brushes off the two hands holding the old woman, and the old woman barfed and fell to the ground.
Old woman ghost: “???”
Su Jiao: “Lian Xi???”
Looking at the bright, blinding golden light in front of him, the clear-eyed youth’s gaze sizzled and his breathing accelerated. He gently exhaled, calming his mind, then smiled gently, his eyebrows curving into a beautiful crescent shape, “That …”
“Excuse me, are you trying to cross the road?”
Author’s Note:
Granny Ghost: ？？？？Is it suitable? Does it fit? Is it appropriate for you to just throw me away and I’ll barf a little?
CC: Golden light! What a big golden light! This is mine, I have to be mine!!!!
Chief Lie: …… [I didn’t even show my face?
# On what experience it’s like to have your face covered in golden light #