Chapter 1

"Recently, a resident of our city's Jiangkou District discovered a male corpse in an abandoned factory. Police investigation revealed this was likely a premeditated murder. The deceased's body was covered in..."

"Xiong Da, wait for me..."

"Melatonin is a good thing, it helps me sleep better..."

Luo Zeping sat on the sofa, holding the remote control and constantly changing TV channels. Xu Xiaoxia was cooking in the kitchen, and the crackling sound spread from the kitchen to the room.

"Excuse me, wait a few seconds, I'll go close the door."

Luo Yu finished speaking and stood up, closing the door tightly. Only then did the room quiet down a bit. He was in the middle of an online interview with a company, and Xu Xiaoxia's battle-like movements mid-conversation caused both the faces on and off the screen to frown.

Luo Yu sat back in front of the computer, and the interviewer's voice sounded again: "What do you know about our company?"

Luo Yu coughed and quickly reviewed the lines he had prepared in his mind: "Well, I've been paying attention to your company since my sophomore year. Your company is extremely outstanding in this industry, with many talented people. In the past five years, your products have achieved great success in the market... Your company focuses on quality, and the user experience is good... The company's development trend is getting better and better..."

Luo Yu's three-minute speech without a single breath made the interviewer's neck sore. In the end, the interviewer asked him to wait for further notice.

Luo said goodbye to Wei Xiao and turned off the computer.

After turning off the computer, he breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the bed.

Luo Yu graduated from college this year and today is his first interview. He did not tell his parents about the interview because he wanted to give it a try first.

In preparation for today's interview, he spent half a month searching online for topics to face the interviewer, but seeing that the interviewer just nodded and didn't ask him any other questions, he probably didn't succeed.

He turned over in bed, feeling miserable.

"Luo Yu, come out for a moment." Luo Zeping shouted in the living room.

Luo Yu stood up, calmed down his bad mood, and went out again.

Luo Yu has been like this since he was a child, well-behaved and sensible. No matter what happens, as long as his life is not in danger, he will never show any strange emotions to his parents.

Luo's father and mother were both junior high school teachers. Every night they would complain to each other about how naughty and disobedient the students in their class were. Once, Luo's mother was so angry that she fainted.

Luo Yu would hear these topics every night. Every time he felt a little wronged, he would bear it by himself because he really didn't want to add more burden to his parents.

And he also got a title in middle school: People's Angel.

This nickname was given to him by a gangster in his class when he was in the third grade of junior high school. This gangster was the student who made Luo Mu faint from anger. It was obvious that this nickname was a mockery of him.

But Luo Yu did not take it seriously. Instead, he took responsibility for the title. He would explain questions that his classmates did not understand, and he would beat up his classmates when they were bullied by students from other schools. Wherever his classmates needed him, he would do it without hesitation as long as he could do it.

As time went by, Luo Yu's behavior spread throughout the campus.

The principal personally praised Luo Yu in front of the student union and praised the scoundrel for his ability to come up with names. The scoundrel was so angry that his teeth were almost broken.

As a gangster, he hates being praised by the principal, the person he hates the most, and in front of all the teachers and students. For the gangster, this is like spitting on him.

After Luo Yu came out of the room, Luo Zeping quickly handed him the remote control, looking anxious: "Where's that anti-Japanese movie I saw last night about heroes saving people? I can't find it. Can you help me find it? It's a good movie, full of history..."

Luo Yu took the remote control, went to the TV and started looking for last night's viewing records.

Luo Zeping is 58 years old this year and is a bishop of biology. Maybe it is because of his age, he just can't be familiar with these electronic products. If the mobile phone is too smooth, he will be startled, just like a person who came out of the mountain village and saw Lujiazui for the first time, and was extremely shocked, afraid that it would suddenly collapse.

Xu Xiaoxia had no choice but to buy him a second-hand phone. It was normal for Luo Zeping to have a lagging phone. He also earned the nickname "country bumpkin" because of this.

"Hey, country bumpkin, you are a teacher after all. In the future, your son will go out to work, get married and have children. I can't let you change him at will every day." Xu Xiaoxia poked her head out of the kitchen door with a shovel and shouted a few words.

Luo Zeping pretended not to hear and continued to watch Luo Yu operating the TV.

After searching for a while, Luo Yu couldn't find the TV series. He put down the remote control and said, "I guess it's not on today. I'll look for it for you on the computer."

"No." Luo Zeping raised his hand to stop him. "If there's nothing, then forget it. I'm going to..."

"If you can't watch it anymore, go mop the floor in your room! All day long, you don't have to go to class and just watch TV. It's my job to do all the housework, right?" Ms. Xu Xiaoxia's yelling voice was heard again in the living room.

Luo Zeping shook himself and went to mop the floor obediently.

Luo Yu didn't know what was wrong today. It was a hot day with a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, and the air conditioner at home was only set to 26 degrees Celsius, but he always felt cold all over. He didn't feel uncomfortable anywhere in his body. This symptom was really strange.

He went to the kitchen and poured himself a cup of hot water.

Xu Xiaoxia was shoveling shrimp onto the plate when she saw Luo Yu pouring some hot water to drink. She paused and said, "Luo Yu, don't you never drink hot water in the summer? Why did you think of drinking it today?"

Luo Yu drank a cup of 40-degree hot water, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, "I feel a little cold today, but I don't feel unwell."

Xu Xiaoxia panicked when she heard this. She put down the shovel in her hand, not caring about the oil stains on her hands, and directly pressed her palms against Luo Yu's forehead, cheeks, neck, and spine. Then her face changed from worry to confusion. She said:

"You don't have any signs of fever, how come you feel cold?"

Luo Yu also felt puzzled. He had always been in very good health. He had lived for 22 years, and the number of times he had had a fever could be counted on five fingers.

Suddenly feeling cold all over, this symptom either means there are unclean things around you or you are sick.

But at present, Luo Yu is more inclined to the former.

Luo Yu whispered in Xu Xiaoxia's ear, "Mom, our house should be very clean, right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Luo Yu's toes were crushed hard.

"Oh my god! I was just talking casually, there's no need to be so serious." Luo Yu felt pain.

Xu Xiaoxia pointed at his crown and gave him a lecture:

"Look at you, you've received higher education after all. Instead of thinking about what you ate wrong today or what bad things you did, you just keep on creating mysteries by inventing ghosts and gods. You think you're so awesome, don't you? If you can really see ghosts, then you shouldn't go to work. Become a Taoist priest. Go catch ghosts and eliminate harm for the people. I'll see if I starve you to death!"

Luo Yu carefully lowered the beautiful hand in front of him that was covered in oil stains, and then said with a playful smile: "Mom, you are really amazing. This conversation has taken away the vigor in me."

Xu Xiaoxia didn't fall for his flattery: "Hurry up and serve the dishes. And tell your dad that you can't eat until the floor is mopped."

Luo Yu nodded in agreement and began to carry the dishes from the counter to the living room table. He did feel the chill disappear, having dissipated during Xu Xiaoxia's outburst.

Luo Yu is not a materialist. In the past few years, some things happened to him that science could not solve.

During my sophomore year, the four roommates went hiking at night. During the hike, Luo Yu's face was always inexplicably... sucked, but there was no object or person next to him, so it couldn't be the wind.

In order to verify that this was not an illusion caused by being too tired from climbing, the four of them arrived at a resting place in the mountains to spend the night. He did not sleep at night, but waited to be sucked. While being sucked, he would silently recite several exorcism spells that he learned from the Internet.

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, and only rustling sounds could be heard around, something strange happened. But this time, it wasn't someone sucking on the face, but someone touching his legs!

Luo Yu suddenly got goosebumps all over his body, and the first thought that flashed through his mind was.

This is a pervert.

Then he began to panic, and he recited the spell he had memorized with trembling mouth. Sure enough, within a few seconds, the feeling on his leg disappeared.

He really met a ghost, and he was a pervert.

He had never told his parents about this incident until now, because he always had a vague feeling that it was a good ghost.

Just as people can be divided into good and bad, so naturally ghosts can be divided into good and bad as well.

Later, when he climbed to the top of the mountain and then came down, he no longer felt any strange sensations, but he always felt that the ghost was by his side during the two days of climbing the mountain.

And he no longer felt panic, as if he had known him before.

It was almost seven o'clock after dinner. Luo Yu cleaned up the leftovers on the table, while Luo Zeping and Xu Xiaoxia went downstairs for a walk.

After finishing his laundry, he went to the bathroom to shower. He had another job interview tomorrow, an offline interview with a small business he'd just started two years ago. He needed to get some rest tonight so he could be more energetic tomorrow.

After some research, he found that this company was quite crowded. After all, he graduated from a top university. If he couldn't even get a job at a small company like this, he could just marry into the family.

Don’t go to work anymore, find a rich woman to support you.

Relaxed and comfortable.

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The lights of thousands of houses gradually went out, and the only light in the city came from passing lights and the dazzling words on the top floors of tall buildings.

Luo Yu heard an extremely strange voice in his sleep, which sounded like a mechanical synthesis, or like the whisper of a devil. It made people tremble all over and their feet felt weak. The voice said to him:

"Your entire family will die in the coming days if you try to stop this."

"Tomorrow night at 12:12 am, come to the underworld."

"You will know how to enter the underworld when you wake up."

The sound disappeared.

What followed in the dream was two men and one woman lying naked on a lawn. Their pale upper bodies were covered with blood holes the size of fingernails and wriggling white maggots in the sunlight. It was so creepy to look at, and it made people feel nauseous and dizzy.

And looking up again, the faces of these two men and one woman were falling on the whole family!