Chapter 17
“Don’t be impulsive, you can’t beat him!”
Lian Xi just came out of the elevator, before he could see his house number, he heard a burst of chattering and clamor. He looked up in surprise, Su Jiao look back, just in time to see him, suddenly opened his eyes wide, like seeing a savior: “Come over to help me stop the fight ah, Lian Xi!”
Lian Xi: “….”
It was said to stop the fight, but it was actually the tall and thin young guy across the street who unilaterally wanted to violently beat up Chief Lie. His arms and legs were all over the place, and Su Jiao was pulling him like an octopus to keep him from going to his death. Chief Lie dressed in black, had one hand in his pocket, his eyes calmly scanning them, and when he saw Lian Xi coming back, Chief Lie still had time to lightly glance back at him.
Inside the dimly lit hallway, only two young men were seen picking at each other, while the man in black on the side indifferently lowered his eyes and watched coldly.
……
What’s going on here!?
Lian Xi walked up and pulled them apart, “What’s going on?”
The young guy sneered and said to Lian Xi, “What’s wrong? I’ve long heard people in the village say that you city people are different, you don’t hang out or greet each other. But there’s no need for you guys to curse the moment you meet, right? Your roommate,” he pointed at Lie Chen, “the first time we met, he told me to reincarnate? Listen to this, is this way of speaking like a human being? What does he mean by this,you tell me clearly?!”
Lian Xi’s head was suddenly two sizes too big, he apologized repeatedly, then turned his head to ask Su Jiao, “What’s wrong?”
Su Jiao pull a long face, “You said ne?”
Then, Lian Xi heard the cause and effect from Su Jiao.
Lian Xi’s eyelids fluttered as he calmed down his stormy neighbor and walked over to Chief Lie.
Extremely cold eyebrows gently hiked together, Chief Lie looked calmly at the youth who walked up to him, not waiting for Lian Xi to open his mouth, he spoke first, succinctly, “He’s not a human being.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Su Jiao: “….”
Opposite neighbor little guy: “You’re the one who’s not human, your whole family is not human!!!”
“Oh?”The corner of Lie Chen’s mouth twitched and he laughed softly. He raised his eyes and swept them towards the cranky and angry youngster, his dark eyes leaping with cold light, and with a flip of his left hand, a thin golden violet booklet page appeared in his palm. The opposite guy saw this scene, dumbfounded and subconsciously said, “You …”
At this moment, the air in the building was cool, suddenly cooled down, a chill from the depths of hell climbed up, such as maggots in the hock, climbed up the back, quickly upward, making people feel scalp numbness!
Lights flicker and dim, and seem to have a sharp whistling sound.
Leaping purple light of the golden pages, slightly floating in the air. Powerful and terrifying majestic momentum rumbled down, the pressure of everyone could not help but want to bow their heads.
“Heaven and Earth have attained the Tao (Way), hell has no door….”
“Collect (Take it)!”
Thin, slender fingers pressed gently, settling on the golden pages of the book.
One finger (indicates) to set the tone!
It was as if a great move was opened, and in an instant, the sky was filled with golden light that filled the narrow hallway with a majestic and irresistible aura!
The youngster’s eyes widened in horror, so Lian Xi and Su Jiao’s expression also deepened.
Only to see the golden light, there is a ray of noble and calm purple light, abruptly rushed to the opposite door of the young man’s heavenly spirit. The crowd held their breath, and the guy at the opposite door was shocked to open his eyes wide, horrified to the point that his eyes were wide open! Then ….
Lie Chen: “….”
Lian Xi: “….”
Su Jiao and the opposite door guy: “….”
The golden light dispersed.
Everything returns to its original state.
A long silence.
Lian Xi looked at Lie Chen, “Did something go wrong somewhere?”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at the booklet in his hand.
Real Gold Jade Light Purple Character, “….”
None of my business!
Opposite door guy: “Crap! Who are you guys, what is this?! What is this, I want to call the police, I want to call the police!”
Lian Xi immediately stepped forward and smiled, “Nothing nothing, it’s all a misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding? Holy shit! A book that flew up, it flew up! You see it’s still flying now, it’s still flying! And that light, hula hula gold and purple light. What is this? I’m calling the police, I’m calling the police now!” He said while taking his cell phone from his pocket.
Lian Xi pressed his hand: “Have you ever seen magic?”
The guy on the other side of the door: “…. ah?”
Lian Xi looked serious: “David Copperfield, the one who stuffed a person into a barrel, cut him in two with a saw, and he was still alive.”
The guy at the opposite door: “Ahhh?”
Lian Xi took a deep breath, face unchanged: “It’s all magic!”
Su Jiao hurriedly chimed in, “That’s right, yes, yes, it’s all magic.”
The guy at the other door had a look of “Do you take me for a fool?”.
Lian Xi: “….”
Looks like we need to come up with something tough.
The handsome youth flipped his wrist, revealing a bronze bell tied to his hand. Lian Xi untied the bronze bell and said to the guy at the door, “You look at it, it superficially a bell.”
The guy at the opposite door looked grave: “Then it is actually…”
“It is actually a magic prop.”
Lian Xi expressionlessly untied the red rope and rattled the bell. The bronze bell was breathlessly paralyzed, not wanting to move at all. Lian Xi’s gaze tightened and he rattled it again, only then did the bronze bell reluctantly and wobbly fly into the air.
Lian Xi pointed at the bell, “Look, the flying magic bell.”
Then he pointed at the golden booklet flying in front of Chief Lie’s eyes, “Look, the Flying Magic (Flying Apsara (Buddhist art)) Workbook.”
Chief Lie: “…”
Golden Truth Jade Light Purple Script “….”
Opposite Door Guy: “…… I think I need (静静) to be quiet, don’t ask me who Jing Jing (静静) is.”
The crowd was relieved to see the opposite door guy open the door and enter the house in a trance, and to hear the slamming of the door.
Returned back to home.
Su Jiao: “Can’t serve anymore, I’m not serving anymore, I’m leaving, don’t miss me, I’m quitting!”
Lian Xi pulled him back, “You wait first.”
Lian Xi looked up at the man, “Lord Hei Wu Chang.”
Lie Chen looked down at him.
The two of them looked at each other, and after a long silence, Lie chen’s voice was calm: “He is not a human being.”
Su Jiao: “Where is he not human!? We often go out to see the opposite side, he is a human being ah.”
Lie Chen swept him a glance, from the nasal cavity issued a light laugh, he did not continue this topic, but lowered his head to look at Lian Xi’s abdomen.
Lian Xi: “….”
What are you looking at!
Lie Chen: “What are you putting there?”
Only then Lian Xi came back to his senses, responded as he took out a napkin from his pants pocket and opened it to reveal a tiny black bug.
“It’s like this, I made a trip to the hospital this morning and then ran into a strange old man….”
Lian Xi briefly recounted his encounter this morning, after listening to his words, Su Jiao strangely stroked his chin, “Then it seems that this black bug is that old man’s?”
Lian Xi: “It should be.” He looked up to Lie Chen, “Lord Hei Wu Chang, do you know what’s going on?”
Chief Lie justified himself and blurted out, “I don’t know.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Why do you still seem to be a little proud!?
There was one thing, though, that he was a little curious about. Lie Chen raised an eyebrow, “How did you know that woman was a corpse?”
Speaking of this matter, Lian Xi took out a thin Wu Chang certificate, “It told me.”
An hour ago.
Lian Xi had already pressed the button for the first floor, and the elevator ran smoothly upwards. Suddenly, he felt a warmth on his inner thigh. He reached out strangely and pulled out the book, which he had accidentally brought along with him, from his pants pocket.
Flipping it open, he took a look.
Only to see a line slowly printed on the tiny book …
『Fang Xiaolin, 1995-2020, died of illness』.
Lian Xi’s eyes narrowed.
He then pressed the button on the negative third floor to return to the morgue.
Su Jiao thought for a moment, “That old man should be a living person, but I’ve never heard of someone raising worms to eat their internal organs… What is he doing eating the internal organs. of a corpse? Strange and weird, I can’t figure it out.”
Lian Xi put away the small bug, “Okay, this thing will be put away for now. As for that thing at the opposite door …,” He turned his head to look at Lie chen, silent for a moment, “Do you really think he’s not human? Wu Chang Certificate doesn’t have any reaction to him, you just tried that Hei Wu Chang Binding tool ( or ritual implement (including musical instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass)) of yours, and it didn’t have any effect either.”
Su Jiao was watching from the sidelines, muttering in a low voice, “A person is alive, an adult one, suddenly being told to reincarnate, not to mention him, if it were me, I’d be in a hurry.”
Lian Xi didn’t bother with him, he quietly looked at the man in front of him, “What do you think?”
Lie Chen sneered, unimpressed, “He’s not a human being.”
Lian Xi: “Good, then I believe you.”
It seems that he didn’t expect this answer, his eyes had a momentary tremor, Lie chen slowly lowered his head and looked at the youth in front of him.
The handsome youth had a pair of slightly upturned and hooked eyes, with a clear gaze, calm and quiet. Obviously, just now, there was still some irritation in his heart, because he used a Hei Wu Chang magic weapon to recover the ghosts (spirit), but it didn’t work, which was beyond his cognizance. But looking at the youth’s trusting and firm eyes … Suddenly, somehow, that touch of low spirit (depressed) was swept away.
For a long time, Lie Chen’s voice was calm: “You believe me?”
Lian Xi nodded: “Because you are Lord Black Impermanence.”
Fingers slightly tightened, looking deeply at this youth, Lie chen turned around and walked towards the bedroom.
Until the moment before he walked into the house, the man felt deeply that the youth’s gaze was fixed dead on himself. There was a bewildering, unfamiliar heat in that gaze, and without blinking or moving, he just kept looking at himself.
Lie Chen abruptly turned back.
Lian Xi froze for a moment and nodded at him with a gentle smile.
Lie Chen’s footsteps lurched, and after a few seconds, he didn’t say a word after all, as he lifted his steps and walked into the bedroom.
…. What is he looking at?
The heart inexplicably began to ask questions.
Of course, Lie Chen does not know …
Lian Xi was looking at the golden light! Looking at the countless and endless golden light!
It was strange! Obviously when he just said that he believed in the golden light big brother, two grains of golden light faltered and were on the verge of coming towards him. Why did they suddenly stop coming?
Could it be that his false display of affection just now had been discovered by the Golden Light big brother?
No, he didn’t really have completely false feelings either.
Su Jiao’s ghostly voice rang out, “Lian Xi…”
Lian Xi turned his head to look at him, then: “Uh, what kind of expression?”
Su Jiao: “You have changed! You weren’t like this before, I don’t recognize you! How can you become so lackey or henchman? Are you so afraid of death?”
Lian Xi didn’t react for a moment, “What did you say?”
Su Jiao had a sad face, “Aren’t you afraid of death, so you curry favor with him, wanting him to open a back door for you after you die, to have a good birth in your next life or something.”
“Wu Chang can still help people choose to reincarnate?”
“I guessed! Otherwise why are you so lackey?!”
“What do kids know…?”
“I’m older than you!”
After speaking to his short roommate, Lian Xi said, “I’ll go back to my room and change my clothes. It’s normal for me to believe in the words of Lord Hei Wu Chang because he is Hei Wu Chang and when he says that the person on the opposite side of the room is not a human being, he must have his reasoning, “I don’t know whether it was unintentional or not, Lian Xi’s voice was not too loud and not too small, just enough to be carried into the bedroom, only to hear him say word by word, sincerely and truly, “So, I believe him.”
Su Jiao: “….”
I believe in your ghost!
Lian Xi waved his hand and walked towards the bedroom, feeling like he couldn’t communicate with this person.
He would believe that Lord Black Impermanence just because of the golden light?
Is he that kind of shallow person?
He trusted Lie Chen because he was so sure of himself, because when everyone didn’t trust him, even when the facts were right in front of him, he still stood his ground… It reminded Lian Xi of many years ago.
Because many years ago, there was a child who pointed to the corner and kept saying, “There’s someone there”.
No one believed him.
Because many years ago, there was a child who, when he took the apple in the orphanage, said “only one friend” a half, the other children were horrified at him, and called him crazy.
No one believed him.
No one told the child which was human and which was a ghost.
They only cursed, they only beat, they only abandoned in disgust.
Some people look like ghosts, some ghosts look like people.
People and ghosts, ghosts and people (have different ways).
Children can’t tell the difference, then can adults really tell the difference?
To this day, twenty-three years later, Lian Xi still can’t tell the difference between people and ghosts.
Sometimes he saw a ghost, but he felt that the ghost seemed to be a person. Sometimes he saw a person, but he felt that the person was not as good as a ghost.
Calmly walking into the bedroom, Lian Xi wanted to ask Lord Black Impermanence which room he would like to live in, but just as he entered the bedroom door, before he could say “Which room would you like to live in?”
Lian Xi’s eyes suddenly widened, staring at the game model figure that were placed on the bookshelf next to the door…
“Ah ah ah?!!!”
With a flying leap, Lian Xi rushed up.
Golden light big man: “….?”
Lian Xi’s hands trembled as he cupped the staff-carrying Big ‘Qiao’ and he turned his head back to look at Chief Lie.
A rare blush appeared on his handsome face after Lie Chen saw what was in his hand, he coughed, “Help you stick it back, there should be no traces.”
Lian Xi: “….”
Indeed there are no traces, but …
“Have you ever seen the anti-gravity staff Da Qiao!!!”
Only to see that in Lian Xi’s hand, the hand puppet of Big Qiao with a big braided twin ponytail and a short dress of phantom veil was indeed well glued at the moment, showing no traces. However, at the end of her staff, the precious pearl that should have been vertically downward, at this moment, it flew upward, pointing straight upward!
Lian Xi was grief-stricken.
Newton’s coffin board couldn’t even be pressed okay!
It was only then that Lie Chen reacted, and he slightly froze, “This was originally supposed to be hanging down? It’s not impossible.”
Lian Xi didn’t understand what he meant, “What are you trying to do?”
“Isn’t this fine?”
The next moment, the man stretched out his hand and with a ……
Ka cha!
Once again, he broke the staff of the hand puppet.
Lian Xi: “???!!!”
Black light leapt in the man’s hand, and the staff was once again glued back together, intact and beautiful. Lie Chen let go of his hand and raised an eyebrow at Lian Xi: Still feel satisfied?
Lian Xi: “….”
Is Hei Wu Chang that great?
Hei Wu Chang can casually let Newton sit up in the coffin!
Hei Wu Chang…..
“Thank you.”The handsome youth smiled slightly, his gaze gentle, “Was that Black Impermanence’s spell just now?”
Lie Chen nodded, “Well, it should be something that every Black Impermanence has.”
Lian Xi sincerely said, “That was awesome.”
The youth’s rainbow farts of praise (over-the-top praise) admiration caused the man to meaningfully curl his lips, followed by two points of golden light that flew onto Lian Xi’s body with great satisfaction and melted in.
Lian Xi: “….”
…… really you have your method.
Author has something to say:
CC: Is having a lot of golden light a big deal? Can you do whatever you want just because you have a lot of golden light? A golden light…
General Lie: Huh? [biubiubiu ~ launches golden light]
CC: You’re awesome~~
Lie Chen: This old guy keeps looking at me…