Chapter 23
After Su Jiao left, Lian Xi was quite sad. He did not know what’s wrong with the short roommate? Suddenly quarrel.
In order to miss the roommate, Lian Xi, in the evening ordered Su Jiao’s favourite fish-flavoured shredded pork over with the rice, he tasted a mouthful of it: “Hmmm? It’s really quite delicious.”
Finished eating a bowl of rice with shredded pork and fish, Lian Xi wiped his mouth with satisfaction, went back to his room and helped his roommate to lock the door in passing.
His fate to be friends with that short roommate was too short.
Su Jiao: “….”
I’m not dead yet! You can not detain me!
Sleeping during the day, doing live streaming at night, going out in the middle of the night to catch ghosts.
Days where there are Su Jiao and no Su Jiao, there is really no difference.
After the first day Su Jiao left, did not miss him at all.
Su Jiao left after the second day, still not missing him.
Su Jiao left after the third day…
Wait, who is Su Jiao?
Day by day passed, to the middle of September. The hot midsummer’s sun in one day suddenly has no energy, autumn wind, sky high clouds clear. Last night, I caught three ghosts who were reluctant to leave the mortal world, and I was busy until five in the morning. Lian Xi went home and fell asleep, and slept until one in the afternoon.
Waking up to eat, Lian Xi opened the food takeaway APP: “Before this, Su Jiao said which family’s fried rice is very good to order…?”
The sound ended abruptly.
After a while, Lian Xi looked up to the locked room at the end of the corridor.
The short roommate has been gone for ten days.
With a long sigh, Lian Xi casually ordered fried rice. Half an hour later, the fried rice was delivered to the door. In the empty house, Su Jiao was gone, and Lord Black Impermanence hid by day in his room and came out at night all year round. Lian Xi sat alone at the dining table, quietly unwrapped his chopsticks, lowered his head, and ate in silence.
In the empty house, only the sound of his own lonely breathing could be heard.
Lian Xi was silent for a long time, found a mobile phone holder, opened the B station, and casually found a funny ghost animal video.
On the screen of the mobile phone, the pop-up screen crazily brushed the screen, and noisy music came from the sound hole.
However, the youth sat at the dining table, eating his meal silently in one bite as he watched the video without a single expression on his face.
Life seemed like it was supposed to be so boring, as it had been for the past ten years or so, with no family and few friends. Whoever you were with, you had to be afraid of causing other people to die. Because not only mum and dad, not only grandpa, but also the female classmate in primary schools, the class president in high school who was eager to help….
This is how his world is supposed to be.
The fried rice bottomed out little by little, and Lien Xi turned off the annoying ghost animal video.
If life could be a little less not boring, how good would that be?
Even if it’s just a little bit different, just a little bit different… amount of ….
Lian Xi: “….”
Looking at the housefly on all fours at the bottom of the boxed lunch, which died a sudden supernatural death, the little bit of sadness in Lian Xi’s heart that had not been able to burst out, a little bit of literary sentiment, at this moment, collapsed with a loud crash (bang).
Three seconds later.
A figure rushed towards the kitchen with an arrow.
“Ou (vomit sound)!!!”
Who the hell wants this kind of difference ah!
***
“This is not scientific!”
After Lian Xi threw the boxed lunch into the rubbish bin, he flipped through the takeaway app and found the merchant. He didn’t come to the door to criticize violently but carefully flipped through the shop’s reviews.
The rating was 4.7, with a monthly sales volume of 3000+.
This score is definitely not low!
Then look at the few dozens of bad reviews, there is a remark about the slow delivery time, the buyer wants chilli which merchants forgot to put, there are a lot of reviews, anything, except no one said they ate bugs in this shop.
Heart thumped, Lian Xi slowly lowered his head and looked at both of his hands.
Only to see the bright sunlight, a pair of thin and slender hands flooded with jade-like glow. The nails were trimmed and full, and the bones were slightly raised. The brilliant daylight shone on them, as if reflecting a faint golden edge.
White was the skin, pink was the nails, and gold was the colour of the sun.
There was just no red colour.
Not believing in heresy; Lian Xi gritted his teeth and stared carefully for another three minutes. Suddenly, only a speck of red light, barely perceptible to the naked eye, flew over from his bedroom, slowly. Seeming like an old man, this red light flew to Lian Xi’s finger with a big swing, circled twice, and finally flew into the cracks of his fingernails, hiding invisibly.
Lian Xi: “….”
Fuck!
You’ve even learnt to counter-surveil!
Without delay, Lian Xi lifted his leg and ran to the bedroom.
Over the past few days, Lian Xi had followed Lord Black Impermanence to go out to work every night, and had collected no less than thirty wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them in total. But none of them had helped fulfil their last wishes.
First of all, not every ghost has a last wish, most of the ghosts that are wandering around the earth without going to reincarnation are stupid ghosts with no self-consciousness.
Secondly, even if a ghost has a last wish, it is basically some trivial and strange little wishes. For example, to eat KFC, or to take a hot bath.
When people are alive, they always think that their dreams are very big, want to earn a lot of money, want to buy a big house, want to get into a good school.
However, it is only at the moment of death that you suddenly realize that perhaps after so many years of stumbling around in the world, you are simply a common salted fish. How happy you are to have a mouthful of hot porridge and a deep fried breadstick and then you can properly get on the right way.
As for this kind of irrelevant last wish obsession, Lie Zong scoffs and doesn’t even bother to move his eyelids.
Satisfying your last wish? That’s too good to be true!
Anyway, there aren’t many wandering ghosts like the old woman at the crossroads who have been waiting for forty years to fulfil their last wishes and are likely to turn into evil spirits. Chief Lie directly sends these little ghosts to reincarnation, they don’t dare to say a word more.
So in these ten days or so, Lian Xi didn’t help a single ghost fulfil his last wish at all.
“Could it be that by not fulfilling the last wish, but simply sending them to reincarnation, they can also be tainted with the golden and red light?”
Lian Xi’s head felt as if his head could explode.
As he was thinking, suddenly, he only saw another bit of red light drifting out from the corner of the room.
Lian Xi’s eyes lit up and he hurriedly ran towards the place where the red light overflowed. After finding the place where the red light originated, Lian Xi froze slightly for a few seconds, he picked up the business card that he had casually stuffed on the bookshelf, and saw the name on it clearly ….
『Gao Jiaxun CEO of Jiaxun Capital』
Lian Xi: “….”
This day no way can be live anymore!
…..
Gao Jiaxun, the guy across the street, is now Chief Gao (Gao Zong).
Last month, Lian Xi was kind enough to help him resolve his obsession, so that Gao Zong didn’t have to feel so guilty. However, he never thought that this could even be tainted with sin that will lead to retribution!
“That’s not right, Chief Gao isn’t a ghost, so why is there a red light?”
“Moreover Chief Gao is still a good person, ah, a great person who sees what is right and has the courage to do it.”
Lian Xi was puzzled, he sat in the living room, looked at the thin business card in his hand and fell into deep thought.
Although the golden light and red light thing has never been based on how good or bad a ghost is.
Good ghosts, good things may give red light, bad ghosts, bad things may give golden light.
But the problem is….
Gao Zong, he is not even a ghost ah!
Lian Xi was just thinking, when the door of the room opened with a creak, and the handsome and tall man walked out from the room. Lian Xi subconsciously turned his head towards the other party as the man walked straight towards the kitchen. As he passed by the living room, Lie Zong stopped and saw the business card held in Lian Xi’s hand.
Oooh.
Lie Zong raised one eyebrow lightly, let out a cold smile, and raised his steps into the kitchen.
Lian Xi: “???”
Coming out of the kitchen, Lie Chen said faintly, “You still have the paper that humans gave you?”
Lian Xi reacted, “You mean this business card?” Suddenly, somehow, Lian Xi’s mind flashed and asked, “That … Hei Wu Chang, if you were to look at it, if Gao Zong, that is, this person on the business card, dies, what will happen to him when he goes down to hell? What kind of birth will he have in his next life? Can he get good karma?”
Lie Chen: “Hn?”
Lian Xi smiled gently, “Curious, I am just asking.”
Lie Zong smiled back, “How many layers of hell are there in hell?”
“Huh?” Lian Xi froze, “Eh, about eighteen layers?”
Chief Lie: “Oh, then don’t reincarnate, just get fried in the frying pan first.”
Lian Xi: “……”
Don’t think I don’t know that you’re using public office to avenge private wrongs because people called you sick!
Lian Xi thought about it, if Gao’s death is approaching in the future, he must advise Gao not to die in Su City. He must advise Mr Gao not to die in Suzhou. He must find a good place to die, if he offended the black impermanence of Suzhou, he will only let you go to the frying pan to fry until you are golden brown and crispy, and only then he will let the matter drop!
In his heart, Lian Xi kept roasting, but there was no change on the surface
Although Hei Wu Chang has a very small heart and likes to be calculating, at this moment, if you want to have your next meal without eating flies, you have to set up the other party.
Lian Xi was in daze for half a day and looked up at this only roommate he had left, he was just about to open his mouth when suddenly, the phone rang.
Lian Xi picked up his mobile phone and looked at it.
“….”
These days, scammer calls can imitate 110?
Pick up the phone.
Lian Xi: “Hello, hi.”
On the other side of the phone, “Hello hello, may I ask if you are Lian Xi, ID number 3205861997…. this is the Su City Public Security Bureau.”
0Instantly awake, Lian Xi sat up straight, “Yes, I am. May I ask what’s the matter?”
“Oh it’s like this, you have a friend called Su Jiao, he is now in our criminal police detachment. It seems that he left his ID card at home and didn’t take it, although our side can directly find his identity information from the internet, but there are some things about him that this side would like you to come over and receive some questioning. At the same time, you can bring his ID card over in passing”
Lian Xi’s gaze tightened, “Is Su Jiao alright?”
“Hehe, come over here first, please cooperate with the investigation.”
As the words fell, the other party hung up the phone, a beeping busy tone coming from the phone’s sound hole.
Lian Xi wrinkled his eyebrows in confusion and looked up at his only remaining roommate.
The two of them looked at each other in all directions.
After a few moments.
Lie Chen: “Who is Su Jiao?”
Lian Xi: “….”
You don’t have to do this, Su Jiao really will cry.
***
Su City Public Security Bureau, Criminal Police Detachment.
Waking up from sleep, Su Jiao, still confused, did not open his eyes yet however two police officers burst into the dormitory, stuffed the person into the police car or van and sent him into the interrogation room.
The big black iron door slammed shut, the whole room shook three times, Su Jiao’s drowsiness was also shaken by this shock and completely shook awake.
“What’s wrong? What happened? Where is this?”
Wearing pyjama trousers, Su Jiao’s eyes opened wide in shock, scanning around. He is not stupid, of course he knows that he was arrested at the police station.
But why ah?!
Su Jiao was trembling with fear, at this time while the door opened, an old policeman in police uniform with a rookie apprentice, walked in.
The old policeman sat in front of Su Jiao and smiled, “Su Jiao, long time no see, do you still remember me?”
Su Jiao looked at him blankly and did not reply.
Bang!
The rookie criminal police officer on the side slammed the table, the high wattage searchlight brushed on Su Jiao’s face, piercing his scalp, his eyes squinted so hard that he couldn’t open them.
The rookie criminal police wear the white mask of the villain—play the villain and said viciously, “Wu team is talking to you, do you hear me?”
Su Jiao, only then reacted, he helplessly opened his mouth and slowly said, “You… looks like we met before at the police station?”
Team Wu smiled, “Yes, we once met at the Wu Men police station a month ago. At that time, in the middle of the night, you and your friend suddenly ran in, saying that there is a netizen who wants to commit suicide, so that we can help to find it, do you still remember?”
Su Jiao: “Remember, remember.”
Team Wu: “Oh, it’s good that you remember. Today to find you here, is there one thing I wanna ask you.”
Su Jiao: “What is it?”
The small criminal police officer glared, “Be serious, don’t be playful!”
Su Jiao retracted his neck again.
Team Wu gave a wink towards the rookie apprentice, who immediately took out a piece of information from the folder and put it in front of Su Jiao. Su Jiao lowered his head and looked at the photo of the girl on the information.
Team Wu: “Sun Yan, you know her, right?”
Su Jiao honestly, nodded his head as if pounding garlic: “Recognise, recognise her.”
Team Wu: “She disappeared three days ago,do you know?”
Su Jiao: “Ah?”
Staying still for a few seconds, Su Jiao instantly reacted, his heart cold, like falling into the ice cellar, hastening to redress the grievances: “No, police uncle, this is not my business ah. I am a graduate student, she is an undergraduate, we are not in the class together, not familiar ah! I didn’t know she was missing. You guys are just telling me now, so only right now I just found out, and there’s no way her disappearance has anything to do with me.”
The rookie detective slapped the table, “What are you so excited about? Did you say you did it? Be a little honest!”
Su Jiao instantly wilted.
Team Wu stared straight at him, after a few seconds, he slowly laughed: “You say it has nothing to do with you?”
Su Jiao: “That’s right!”
Team Wu: “Oh, then did you know that right after you moved back to the dormitory building of the University of Suzhou City, Sun Yan suddenly called often and mysteriously, and also went out on a date with someone…. Her roommate said that she said she was in love. With a graduate student from Su City University. Guess who that graduate student is?”
Su Jiao was chilled to the bone and opened his mouth, only feeling that it was difficult to defend himself.
Team Wu laughed, “That person, she said, is called Su Jiao.”
Author has something to say:
Su Jiao: QAQ Lian Xi, help me, woo woo woo. Help me, Lian Xi. I’m wronged ah, wooooooooooooo!!!