Chapter 30
When Lian Xi and Lie Chen went downstairs, it was sunset, and the sunset glow was all over the sky.
As the sky darkened, the street lights were lit up one by one.
Lian Xi looked down at Bai Wu Chang certificate in his hand, not knowing whether it was a hallucination or not, but after Bei Wu Chang glued back the torn out pages of that month’s Ghost Dispatcher’s performance ranking list, he inexplicably felt that the three big characters of “Wu Chang certificate” on the cover in Song font had become a lot more vivid, and the entire Wu Chang taskbook had instantly gained a layer of faint pretentious style——
It previously sold for 50 cents, but now the price has risen to one.
It is simply an epoch-making progress.
The two Hei Bai Wu Chang in Suzhou City always went out to catch ghosts at twelve o’clock in the morning, not because the ghosts only appear at night, but because Lian Xi broadcasts live at eight o’clock in the evening and off at twelve o’clock.
But today, he took a leave of absence.
Not for any other reason, but to be a good ghost officer.
Lian Xi seriously looked at Lie Chen, “Hei Wu Chang, so where should we go to catch ghosts now?” Lian Xi thought a little, put forward a very reliable suggestion: “Yesterday we went to the high-tech zone, the day before yesterday we went to Wu City, why don’t we go to a few counties below SuZhoup to see today?”
Gold …… cough, not ghosts, and not reach the goal in one step.
Every place, every day there are dead people, but not many ghosts linger in the world, they did not automatically reincarnate.
Everything is struve for sustainable development. This month, Lian Xi and Hei Wu Chang have strolled all over Su City, large and small places. To find it again, they probably have to go to the following county-level city.
However, they saw Lord Black Impermanence gently shaking his head, “No need.”
Lian Xi: “?”
Lie Chen flipped open his Hei Wu Chang Certificate, and gently pointed his finger towards the performance ranking.
“There is a way to heaven and earth, and there is no door to hell!”
“Present!”
In the next second, a thin beam of golden light pierced through the pages and leapt into the air. The thin golden light was only about the thickness of a human hair, even if the sky was now dark, it could not be found at all without a closer look. The thin line pointed straight to the south, Lie Chen nodded his head in satisfaction and said, “Let’s go, follow it, where it’s pointing, there are ghosts”
Lian Xi looked dumbfounded.
The two walked for a while.
Lian Xi: “Lord Black Impermanence, Wu Chang Certificate still has this function? Why didn’t I know that before.”
Lie Chen: “Your Wu Chang Certificate was incomplete before.”
Lian Xi: “….Then why didn’t you use this function last month when we were catching and finding ghosts.”
Lie Chen: “I used it already.”
Lian Xi: “?” Then why didn’t I see it!?
Lie Chen swept him a glance, “You’re still on probation.”
The implication: absenteeism for more than ten years, who knows what you are, a lazy strike Bai Wu Chang, hidden first not to let you know, and so on after the probationary period then we’ll talk about it again.
Lian Xi was speechless.
However, after a few moments, Lian Xi suddenly remembered something: “That time, a month ago, when we ran into each other on the street, you said you caught five ghosts and I caught two?”
Lie Zong calmly retracted his gaze and took a big step forward.
Lian Xi: “….”
I told you, how you could find so many ‘wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them’ in a few hours, are you still human? Cheating!
And even if you cheated, you still show off! You even despise me!
Shameful!
After spitting in his heart, when Lord Black Impermanence indifferently shouted “Hey”, Lian Xi suddenly stopped cursing.
The two of them looked at each other.
Lie Chen raised his eyebrows: scolding me again?
Lian Xi smiled: Hei Wu Chang’s power is boundless, surpassing that of a celestial immortal.
With the map navigation of the genuine Wu Chang Certificate, half an hour later, the two managed to collect a ghost.
Because the two of them collected the ghost together, the name of the ghost surfaced on both of Wu Chang Certificates, but the performance could only be counted as one.
Lian Xi flipped through the performance chart and he frowned, “This ghost, it’s only worth fifty points.”
The first lone ghost collected today was a programmer who had jumped to his death. Obviously, he had already jumped to his death, he still didn’t know the fact that he was dead, with a head of thin hair and glasses, he kept repeating the process of running up the stairs, jumping down the stairs, running up the stairs again, and jumping down the stairs again, with his mouth muttering non-stop,
The content was not understood by Lian Xi, it was probably some messy code.
Lian Xi looked towards Lie Chen, “Hei Wu Chang , I never paid attention to the issue of points for each ghost before.” Catching ghosts was just to mix Black Impermanence’s goodwill and freeload him a little bit of golden light, who cares about points or not, besides at that time, Lian Xi’s performance ranking was torn up, so the devil knows how much golden light went up every time he collected ghosts. He thought for a moment and asked, “Every time you collect a ghost, no matter what the situation is, is it only up fifty points?”
Lie Chen’s gaze deepened and slowly put away.
There are circumstances? Lian Xi asked again, “Does it mean that every ghost gives different points?”
Lie Chen’s voice was calm, “That’s a problem.”
Lian Xi: “Hn?”
Lie Chen: “You can explore it yourself.”
Lian Xi: “?”
Lie Chen: “It’s different, but there’s no regular pattern. Sometimes more, sometimes less.” After a pause, Lord Black Impermanence purposely added seemingly casually, “I don’t see it like that, so I’m not quite sure.”
Huh? Aren’t you holding the Wu Chang Certificate 24 hours a day and turning it over every day?
Previously, Lian Xi didn’t understand what Hei Wu Chang was doing by looking at the Wu Chang Certificate every day? To get to the top, to get flowers? Now he understood, Hei Wu Chang is actually looking at the Wu Chang certificate ah,looking at the performance ranking on it!
However, he didn’t think more on this topic, Lian Xi came to a sudden realization: I see, just like the two little goblins of Golden Light and Red Light, doing good deeds may not necessarily have Golden Light, and doing bad deeds may not necessarily come to Golden Light.
However, after pondering for a moment, Lian Xi said, “There must be some sort of regular pattern to these points.”
Lie Chen’s eyes swept over, unable to hide his astonishment: You immediately know this?
The handsome and elegant black-haired young man rubbed his chin with his hand and analyzed, “First of all, there are a total of twenty-five cities on the performance rankings, and with the exception of Shanghai City, which is a municipality directly under the central government. The rest of them are all divided strictly according to prefecture-level city standards. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions, twenty-five cities, although they are certainly different, but the gap must not be too big, not that the economic gap, but the number of people passing away every day, perhaps HuCheng has a large population, and the number of people passing away every day will be more. That’s why the ghostbusters of Shanghai City are ranked third.”
Lian Xi quietly said, “The most unfair thing in this world is a person’s birth, and the most fair thing is probably a person’s death. As long as the sample is enlarged and zoomed out to a city with a population of several million, unless there is a natural or man-made disaster, the difference in the number of deaths they have every day is definitely not that big. However,” Lian Xi flipped open his Wu Chang Certificate and pointed at the Wenzhou Ghostbuster who ranked first, “32,752 points. And we, “his fingers clattered down, “1,943 points. A difference of a full fifteen Wuxi!”
Lie Chen narrowed his eyes, “What do you mean is…”
Lian Xi put away his Wu Chang Certificate, “They must have cheated, or at least, had some special performance saving technique.”
Just kidding, gold, ahem no, performance is not doing business.
Wenzhou people are known nationwide for doing good business, but it doesn’t make sense that even Wenzhou ghosts official have more performance!
Lian Xi and Lie Chen, two people who start work early and knock off late, diligently go out to catch ghosts, can be said that not a day they fail but hard work for most of the month, only to save up to 1,943 points. This, still very happy, the result of it as he look up to see the other party——
Bang, thirty thousand!
Lian Xi: “Even now my White Impermanence Certificate can guide the Golden Light, and you and I will split up to catch ghosts. Then the two of us should be able to perform 1-2 times more than we are now, reaching six or seven thousand, but how can this not reach thirty thousand?”
Six or seven thousand and thirty thousand, this was a qualitative difference.
Why is it that the number of people who die every day is more or less the same, and the number of ghosts that can be sent to reincarnation every day is more or less the same, and the performance of the ghost guards in Wenzhou (Wenzhou (a city in Zhejiang Province) is four or five times that of other people’s?
You can’t say that Wenzhou’s daily deaths are four or five times more than those in Suzhou, then the world will still be in chaos, and you won’t be able to hide it.
“There’s something fishy, there’s definitely something fishy.” Lian Xi thought angrily, if he doesn’t solve this ‘something fishy’, he won’t be able to earn a million dollars a month for the rest of his life!
Lie Chen: “It might be related to the guiding golden light.”
Lian Xi bristled and looked up at him.
Lie Chen: “This golden light, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, every time when it’s thicker, more points are gained. When it’s thin, it gets less.”
Aren’t you the one who never observes points? Lian Xi wondered in his heart and continued, “Then how many threads can be used at once?”
Lie Chen: “Two?”
Without delay, the two of them each flipped open their Wu Chang certificates.
“There is a way to heaven and earth, and there is no door to hell!”
“Present!”
In the next second, two golden lights whooshed out of the Wu Chang Certificate, one south and one north, flying to both sides.
Logically, it was time to split the army in two, with each of the two chasing after a beam of golden light. But under the bright street light, Lian Xi and Lie Chen were silenced in unison, and Hei Bai Wu Chang of Su City coincidentally widened their eyes, staring in shock at the golden light that flew out of Lian Xi’s Bai Wu Chang Certificate.
This golden light …
was actually as thick as a baby’s arm!
The thread of golden light from the Hei Wúcháng Certificate was simply overrated compared to this!
What’s the point of choosing?
Lian Xi: “Let’s go together?”
Lie Chen: “Go.”
The two didn’t hesitate, directly called a car and set off after the golden light’s footsteps.
Lian Xi had thought that the Wenzhou Ghostbusters, including the Salt City Ghostbusters, were cheating and had found some special performance-saving technique, but now it seemed that there might be another possibility: people were born as Euromasters, and casually drew such a thick SSR-ranked Guidance Golden Light every time.
However ….
Lian Xi looked down to observe the Wu Chang Certificate.
This Guidance Golden Light, was it really just completely random?
***
The taxi drove quickly on the airport highway.
The direction they were travelling in was none other than the large Airport, which was located in the northern part of Su City.
Shuofang Airport was the largest civilian airport in the southern part of the Su Province, fully known as the Southern Su Shuofang Airport, located in the town of Shuofang in the southern part of Wuxi. However, this airport was very close to the city of Su, only twenty kilometres or so.
Lian Xi had thought that the golden light was only pointing in the direction of Shuofang Airport, and did not really cross the border between Su City and Wuxi. However, he did not expect that the car drove further and further north, and Lian Xi opened his mobile phone map and kept navigating, so he watched the golden light go straight through the border between the two cities, and then … came to the Wuxi territory!
Lian Xi: “….”
Of course, Lie Zong did not know what Lian Xi was thinking at the moment, and it was also not clear that he had already left Su City and arrived in Wuxi.
Just as they entered the Wuxi Boundary, the golden light abruptly dissipated, but luckily it didn’t leave them with two eyes, before the golden light disappeared, it pointed to the junction of the two cities.
It was a small village located at the border of Wuxi.
The driver said in authentic Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas): “Drive towards this? We’re about to enter the village.”
Lian Xi: “It’s fine, just drop us off at the village entrance.”
Driver: “Okay.”
Soon, the car stopped at the intersection of the village at the end of the golden light guide.
Lian Xi cs got out of the car, the master collected the money, turned around, and drove back to Su City.
The cold and upright man got out of the car and looked at the small village in front of him, his brows slightly wrinkled.
The golden light is gone, how to find it?
It was the first time that Lie Zong had encountered a situation where the golden light did not find the ghost, but first disappeared straight away.
Lie Chen casually walked forwards, suddenly, he turned back and slightly raised one eyebrow, “En?”
Only to see Lian Xi still standing in the same place.
After a moment of silence, Lian Xi: “I think I probably know why the golden light is suddenly gone …”
Lie Chen: “Why?”
Lian Xi: “Because we are now stepping on the land of Wuxi.”
Lie Chen: “So?”
Lian Xi took a deep breath, “So…. this should be considered the performance of the Wuxi Ghost Messenger?”
Hei Wu Chang then responded.
Lian Xi reminded, “Or, just let’s forget about it.” Lian Xi remembered how Hei Wu Chang sternly reprimanded himself earlier. Don’t bully the weak, what’s the point of exceeding the second last? Mouse can see only an inch.—see only what is under one’s nose; be short-sighted! The goal should be put farther away, put the first to death.
But this golden light is really thick ah ….
In the next second, Hei Wu Chang hummed lightly, not a single expression floating on his handsome face, “How do you know that this is the next door ghostbuster’s territory?”
Lian Xi: “Huh? Oh, I saw it with my mobile phone navigation, there is a map on it. Erm, this month when you receive your performance salary, I’ll buy you a mobile phone too.”
Hei Wu Chang looked at Lian Xi’s mobile phone, “It’s black.”
Lian Xi looked down, “It automatically locked the screen.”
As he said that, before Lian Xi had the chance to turn on the lock screen, he only heard Lord Black Impermanence’s cold and firm voice coming softly along the cool night breeze, “It’s broken.”
Lian Xi’s movements paused.
Between the vast dark green fields, Hei Bai Wu Chang of Su City looked at each other.
Lian Xi smiled, “You’re right, it’s broken.”
Snapping, the mobile phone switched off and threw it into his pocket.
Wuxi?
What Wuxi *a city name*?
You don’t talk nonsense!
The dim light of night was dark, and the firmament was dark, covering all four directions.
A burst of late-summer frogs chirped from the fields, and the cool breeze of the early autumn night rustled the corners of Hei Wu Chang’s coat and the hair on Hei Wu Chang’s forehead.
The night in the countryside is entirely different from the city, all black in large swaths, with only rows of farmhouses flickering with lights.
Wanting to find a lone soul that had not been reincarnated in such a place, Lian Xi had thought that it would be difficult, but he did not expect to hear a deafening sound of mournful funeral music only after walking through the rows of farmhouses.
With a chill in his heart, he looked in the direction where that music came from.
In front of a farmhouse, stand tall and upright one by one huge white wreath, and in the centre of the floral wreath was the shocking black word “奠” (pay respect to the dead).
The sound of ear-splitting mournful funeral music was playing on the stereo, and friends and relatives were sitting together in the hall, crying continuously.
“Dad, you’re gone like this. What are we going to do?”
Author’s Note:
Chief Lie (Lie Zong): Meh, does it make sense to exceed the second last ?
Lie Zong: What’s the point of being second to last?I, Lie Batian, am the second-to-last every day, and I’m being laughed at by everyone. I won’t go bullying the weak!
CC [looming in distance]: this golden light, it’s really thick ah ….
Lie Zong: It’s really fragrant!
Wuxi ghost messenger: anger shakes cold! disappointed as tears flowed down …