Chapter 44 Chapter 44
◎Which one is scarier, the ghost or Lian Jiu? (Part 2)◎
The nearest salesperson was very perceptive and immediately praised, "Yes, this is a perfect fit! Our store models don't look as good in it as this gentleman! This gentleman has an amazing figure, right?"
After receiving recognition, Si Lan seemed to straighten his back even more, and his eyes seemed to say: See, I didn’t lie!
Lian Jiu was really touched by his cuteness. He didn't expect that Si Lan would still remember his unintentional words.
But to be honest, he is not fat. Compared to his sickly appearance at the beginning, he looks very energetic now.
"They look great," Lian Jiu said sincerely. "Would you like to pick out a few more?"
Hearing that it looked good, Si Lan reluctantly gave up some of his snack money: "Fine, you choose."
"We have couples' outfits!" the salesperson said enthusiastically. "Would you two like to try them on? They'd look great on clothes hangers-on like you! Everybody would say you're a match made in heaven."
Si Lan followed the guide's lead and, before he could even see the clothes, he heard Lian Jiu deny it naturally, "You misunderstood. We're not a couple."
The shopping guide was a little embarrassed: "Sorry, sorry."
Si Lan also withdrew his gaze.
Jiang An, who had come out of the fitting room at some point, heard it. She didn't care about pretending. The clothes were the same, so she could wear them together with Jiujiu!
She walked over angrily and took down the dress: "I want this! Jiujiu, I'll buy it for you and we can wear it!"
Lien Jiu: "..."
Si Lan: “…”
The shopping guide stood between these three handsome men and beautiful women and had no idea what was going on.
Isn't this a little girl?
It’s fine if you buy couple outfits, but why do you have to wear them with another beautiful woman?
"I'll pick out a princess dress for you," Lian Jiu said. "This one doesn't suit you."
"Why?"
"Because you have to be eighteen to wear this," Lian Jiu said seriously, "and wear it with the person you like."
"I like yours." Jiang An thought there was nothing wrong with it. "Besides, I'm not eighteen anymore. This year..."
Before she could finish her words, she felt a chill behind her. Even though she had just woken up, it did not prevent Jiang An from sensing the danger. She slowly turned her head and saw Si Lan looking at her expressionlessly.
Jiang An readily changed the subject: "...Then let's buy a princess dress."
Pulling Lian Jiu away, Jiang An looked back in confusion and said, "Lord Si Lan wasn't this cruel to me before. Why did he change so much when I woke up this time?"
Lian Jiu had also heard that Si Lan was more patient with Bai Ze before, so he turned around and glanced at him, saying, "He wasn't mean to you either."
"Jiujiu doesn't understand." Jiang An shook his head. "I can feel it. This time he's even more repulsive to me than before. That day he actually took me away from you..."
Oops, I almost let it slip.
Not hearing the second half of the sentence, Lian Jiu was puzzled: "From me?"
"It's okay." Jiang An seemed to have discovered something, "It's okay, let's buy a skirt."
But I was horrified.
Yes! Every time I wanted to get close to Jiujiu, Si Lan would pull me away by the corner of my eye.
It wasn’t like this before.
In the past, he never got close to Jiujiu. Even if he was always by Jiujiu's side, he seemed not to notice him. But because of Jiujiu, he was somewhat friendlier to him than to other demon gods.
Now that he is with Jiujiu, he starts to treat everyone equally, right?
Jiang An, who had just learned new words from Pixiu, was indignant.
How could this 犼 be like this?! He's a successful fan and won't let other monsters do the same? He's the biggest fanboy!
After buying a bunch of clothes in the mall, Lian Jiu took the two demon gods out for a meal.
Sitting in the small restaurant, Jiang An looked through the menu curiously. Si Lan sat next to Lian Jiu and thought about it. He felt something was wrong: "I have a question."
"What?"
Si Lan asked seriously, "Why is it that when I go out with you, we always eat at street stalls, but when I go out with other people or monsters, we can always eat at small restaurants?"
“…”
How vindictive are you?
Lian Jiu paused and decided to say something nice: "Maybe it's because I'm more familiar with you, so I'm more casual."
Si Lan nodded: "I thought you would think I was easier to fool than others."
Lian Jiu shook his head like a rattle: "How could it be! Impossible!"
"Really?"
Lian Jiu pretended to be calm: "Of course it is. Look, I only left a snack for you, a monster."
Jiang An, who hadn't finished ordering yet, pricked up his ears immediately: "What are you talking about? What street food or snacks?"
Si Lan: "Nothing."
"I heard it clearly!" Jiang An immediately put down the menu, "No, I want to get to know Jiujiu too, and I want to eat at a roadside stall too!"
Lian Jiu was once again shocked by the train of thought of this little demon god.
Are you competing for this too?
Si Lan sneered: "If you say another word, you'll be left with nothing."
Jiang An pinched the corner of the menu, defending his fan rights and refusing to give in: "Why are you being so rude to me? It's not you who's paying."
Si Lan put down the water cup in his hand, and Jiang An immediately shrank to Lian Jiu's side like a quail.
Lian Jiu had a headache, feeling like he had brought another Yuan Qing with him. Why did each of these demon gods have such distinct personalities? "Okay, let's eat first."
There was a temporary truce. This time they were not sitting in a private room. There were not many waiters in the small restaurant. Lian Jiu took the marked menu and went to the front desk.
Jiang An and Si Lan sat facing each other. The latter raised his eyes calmly and said, "Didn't I tell you not to cause trouble?"
Jiang An said aggrievedly: "But, it was obviously Jiujiu and I who were closest before."
Si Lan frowned and said, "There is no such thing as who is closest to whom."
"But I came here for her."
Si Lan's fingers touching the cup moved and he said, "She is not your appendage, and you are not hers."
Jiang An shook his head, expressing doubt about this high-sounding reason, and asked in return: "Then why do you always stay with her?"
Si Lan calmly took a sip of water and said, "I'm her bodyguard, responsible for her safety. She hired me herself."
"You're not a human being, you really are." Jiang An slammed the table. "Jiujiu has worked so hard, and you still want her to pay you?"
Si Lan remembered what Lian Jiu had said before: It was bought with a box of self-heating hot pot.
Decided to hide this fact for the time being.
"But..." Jiang An looked around and said seriously, "As a bodyguard, don't you think today is strange?"
Si Lan hummed: "It's okay."
"You found out? Why didn't you tell me?"
Si Lan: "Don't alarm her if you can solve the problem."
Jiang An curled his lips, this monster really could sit still.
Soon, Lian Jiu came back.
The two demon gods who were sitting there acted as if nothing had happened, one of them still ate his food in a hug, while the other one finished all the dishes slowly and carefully.
At this time, outside the small restaurant, several sneaky people were hiding in the car: "How is it? What's going on?"
The man in the co-pilot seat, observing through a telescope, raised his voice: "We've paid the bill. We should be leaving."
The bearded man in the driver's seat quickly told the two people in the back seat to lie down: "Hurry, hurry, hide."
The four of them crouched low in the car, fearing that they would be seen.
Only after Lian Jiu and his companions left the car did they dare to come out and start the car.
One of the people in the back seat said, "Why did I feel like Si Lan and the girl next to him glanced at us just now?"
"Did they see us wrong? They haven't seen us before." The bearded man turned the car around. "Maybe they just took a quick glance. I've been following them for so long today and they haven't been spotted. Holy shit... they're actually taking the bus?"
Now that he is so famous, he has received so many live broadcast rewards, as well as advertising fees and sponsorship fees, and he is even a public official.
You actually take the bus when you go out?
"Why don't we just forget it?" The man in the back seat was a little timid. "You all saw it. They were from the Municipal Bureau before. What will we do if we catch them?"
"We're not going to do anything to them!" The bearded man driving the car cursed the rat's nerve. "There are so many people online curious about the location of this mountain. What's wrong with us looking for it? We can just say we saw it by chance. Do you still want your money?"
"That's right." The man holding the telescope also said, "Besides, don't forget who made it impossible for us to sell our vegetables."
These people are from the company that previously purchased vegetables from FamilyMart.
Originally, the contract was signed once a month, but this time, Mart said that it would not order vegetables for the time being, so they could prepare in advance and contact other merchants to sell the vegetables to other places, which would not interfere with each other.
But this vegetable company has been cooperating with Hejia for a long time and relies on Hejia's big orders for its survival. How could it look down on other small companies?
What should they do if they just say they don’t want it?
After a few people discussed it, they staked out the supermarket for a few days and finally found out that Hejia had signed a contract with people from other companies.
That person is Lian Jiu. Lian Jiu has been so popular on the Internet recently. You will know if you pay a little attention to him.
Not only that, they also discovered that Hejia had signed a contract with more than one supermarket, and the entire province had decided to use vegetables from the monster greenhouse. When they entered the supermarket, they found that the vegetables that were on trial sale were all sold out.
This made several people feel completely unable to swallow the anger of having their orders stolen.
"It's so mysterious." The bearded man sneered, "I don't believe any vegetable is so magical. Could it be that it was grown by gods? Isn't it just relying on its reputation that small bosses work there? They don't even let people know where they are. Isn't there something fishy going on?"
The man with the binoculars agreed, "Yeah, they say they're being praised, but in reality, they're just relying on their limited power in the city bureau to compete with ordinary people like us. They're just corrupt officials using the name of poverty alleviation to make money. Today, I'm going to expose their true colors."
The bearded man echoed him, "I think that kindergarten is probably fake. As long as we find evidence, we'll be the ones in trouble. At worst, we can just destroy their greenhouse. They've been praising her like she's so powerful, but she's just a powerless little girl. I wonder what Lian Jiu can do now!"
The two people sitting in the back seat looked at the paraquat under their feet in silence.
The bus slowly drove out of the city. There was almost no traffic around. The bearded man dared only follow closely and asked the people beside him: "Can you see it? Which bus is it? Where is it going?"
The man holding the telescope turned the lens to another place in confusion, then turned it back and took it down again.
Bearded man: “I’m asking you!”
"I can't see it clearly," the passenger said. "It's strange. I can see other things clearly, but I can't see the license plates and the words on these two buses."
"They must have done it on purpose! The characters might have been blurry to begin with." The bearded man became inexplicably excited. "I told you there's something wrong with them. How dare they cover up the license plate? Who would do that?"
As he was speaking, there was a new bend ahead.
In the blink of an eye, the bus that Lian Jiu and the others were riding disappeared.
The bearded man hurriedly stepped on the accelerator to catch up. After turning the same corner, he was stunned and slammed on the brakes. Everyone was pushed forward by inertia.
"Fuck, how do you drive!"
The bearded man's voice was a little weak: "Can you see it? Or am I blurring my eyes?"
I didn't know when I got so far away from the city. The asphalt road suddenly broke off here, and the road ahead was muddy and covered by layers of bushes. It was difficult for a car to pass through, let alone a bus as big as the one just now.
The others were also dumbfounded. The two people in the back seat squeezed forward and asked, "What's going on?!"
The bearded man slapped himself twice: "It turns out it wasn't my hallucination."
"Is this a ghost?" The man holding the telescope's hands trembled a little. "Can that car just now pass this way?"
In fact, let alone passing through, the shrubs blocking the road were so new and green, how could a car have just driven past!
The bearded man glanced back and saw the same bend behind him. He swallowed and asked, "Should we turn around and take a look?"
The others looked at each other in bewilderment, not daring to move at all in this scene.
But, such a big bus cannot suddenly disappear!
This is too weird!
The person behind asked uncertainly, "Are we really going to turn around?"
The bearded man said, "Li Laoer, go down and take a look."
Li Laoer, who was holding the telescope, refused to go: "If you want to go, go! I won't go!"
Wouldn't it be suicide if we go down now?!
Bearded man: "Third or fourth brother?"
We all come from the same village and grow vegetables together. We have a good relationship and everyone calls us that.
But now no one cared about feelings. The third and fourth brothers in the back kept shaking their heads: "Let's go together."
Very good, no one wants to go down.
The sky gradually darkened, and the surroundings were cold and deserted. From time to time, there were some strange animal calls. Several people were so scared that they huddled in the car and dared not make any noise.
The third and fourth brothers were about to cry: "I told you not to do anything that would make you feel guilty!"
The bearded man gripped the steering wheel tightly, but at the critical moment, he made a decisive decision: "Stop arguing, I'll go back and take a look."
The road is too narrow and we can't turn around. Since no one wants to get off, we can only reverse.
The car slowly backed up, the bend was getting closer and closer, and the people were getting more and more nervous.
Two minutes later, after turning the corner and seeing the situation clearly, the four of them broke out in cold sweats. The asphalt road they had come from had disappeared, replaced by the same muddy road they had seen before.
It seems like he never reversed back at all!
Looking back, the back was exactly the same.
The bearded man got goosebumps all over his body, and the third and fourth brothers behind him almost cried: "What a ghost wall! Are we in a ghost wall?"
Li Lao Er cursed: "It is said that if you encounter a ghost wall, you should curse. The fouler the curse, the more afraid the ghost will be."
As he spoke, he blurted out the Chinese quintessence.
Seeing this, the third and fourth brothers at the back also closed their eyes and started cursing.
The bearded man was so upset by the noise that he slapped Li Laoer on the head: "Are you idiots? Use your phone to locate it!"
After being reminded of this, others quickly took out their mobile phones, but not only could they not locate the location, there was no signal at all!
Bearded man: "Emergency call for help, emergency call for help!"
At this time, he didn't care whether the call could be connected or not. Li Laoer quickly called 120, 119, and 110.
Of course, the last call was 110.
They are here to do bad things. If you can get through the first two, then don't touch the third one.
Who would have thought that the first two would not be able to be dialed at all.
The third child was already crying out loud: "There might not even be a signal base station here."
"The light of righteousness!" The bearded man took out his cell phone. "Believe in our light!"
He took a deep breath and dialed 110.
After a few beeps, the four of them were shocked. They actually got through?!
Zhang Chi was in a meeting with Long Ying today, planning to report to his superiors about the South China Sea issue, so the call regarding the incident received by the Special Bureau was transferred elsewhere.
For example, Lian Jiu, who just arrived at the mountain gate.
She was a little confused when she saw the incoming call on her phone. Her number was linked to the Municipal Bureau, so normally no one would call her, especially since it was an unfamiliar number.
She stopped and picked up the phone: "Hello."
Then I heard a chaotic voice coming from the other end of the phone: "Is this 110?"
"Uncle police, uncle police! We've encountered a ghost!"
"Idiot! This is a policewoman!"
"Police mom! Help!"
Lien Jiu: "?"
This was the first time she received a call from the police. What was she doing? Was she seeing a ghost? Was she encountering a monster?
Lian Jiu suddenly became serious. He had just signed the examination contract with the Municipal Bureau today. As long as he passed, he could go out. If a monster destroyed the balance now, it would be a breach of contract.
But she knew very well that the monsters in Fuyu Mountain would not go out and cause trouble.
Could it be a monster I have never seen before?
"Tell me slowly," Lian Jiu said. "What happened? Where are you now?"
After a commotion over there, a man roared, successfully scolding the others, and then said to Lian Jiu: "I don't know where it is, but we just can't find the way home. There's no cell phone signal, and we've hit a wall!"
Lian Jiu was even more confused.
Can you still make a phone call when you are stuck in a maze?
Are ghost walls also under the jurisdiction of the Demon Bureau? Are there special offices for the underworld or something?
Lian Jiu covered the microphone and asked Si Lan beside him, "Is there any monster that will be trapped in a ghost wall if you encounter it?"
Si Lan was silent for a moment: "I."
Lien Jiu: "..."
She let go of the phone and asked the person on the other end, "Would you please tell me how you encountered this ghost wall?"
At this point, the bearded man dared not hide anything anymore. He wished he could get out and spilled the beans: "We were just following a car, and as we were walking, we got stuck!"
"With a car?"
"Yes! A bus! I couldn't see the license plate clearly, and I didn't know which way it was going. The bus turned the corner and disappeared! But when we drove over, there was no road ahead!" The bearded man said breathlessly, "There was no road behind us when we backed up, and there was no signal on our phones, so we couldn't locate the bus."
This familiar scene is just like the one when Wei Jingchen came to the mountains with his own locator and wanted to call the police.
Lian Jiu grasped the key point: "You said you followed the bus? Why did you follow the bus?"
The bearded man hesitated.
Lian Jiu said coldly: "If you don't tell us, we can't save you."
"I say!" The bearded man said anxiously, "We were curious about where a kindergarten we saw online was, so we wanted to follow the principal. They got on a bus, so we..."
Si Lan scoffed, "You're lying."
Lien Jiu: "..."
It seems that this god really did it.
But Lian Jiu still stood by him: "If you don't tell the truth, we can't save you."
How could this policeman know that I was lying through the phone?
The bearded man exchanged glances with the others. Li Laoer didn't care and snatched the phone away. "Hey! This kindergarten caused us to lose our vegetable supplier, so we're going to expose their address and reveal their true colors of colluding with officials and businessmen to defraud people and make money! We're going to kill all their greenhouse vegetables with paraquat."
Lian Jiu was amazed after hearing this.
It turns out they are competitors, but they just don’t have much brains.
Li Laoer: "Police mom, I'm done, I'm really done!"
At this point, the bearded man stopped struggling. Looking at the pitch-black darkness outside, he felt the urge to urinate. "I, we've already confessed everything. If there's anything else, can you please get us out first and then explain it to us at the police station?"
"Okay." Lian Jiu smiled, "Just wait, we'll come and rescue you."
The call was hung up, and the bearded man and his companions breathed a sigh of relief, but then they felt something was wrong: "They're coming to rescue us now? We didn't even tell them which way we came from."
"Do the police have some kind of positioning system? They just said so much just to locate us?"
"You're right. It truly is the light of righteousness. You've thought it through very carefully."
Out of fear, the four grown men huddled in the back seat, huddled together tightly, and kept chatting, fearing that the atmosphere would become dull and the darkness would invade them.
"By the way, do you think the voice of the police mother who answered the phone just now sound familiar?"
"You think so too?"
"What sounds familiar?"
"Maybe I've been obsessed with collecting information about the kindergarten lately. I actually think his voice sounds a bit like Lian Jiu's."
"Hahahaha you really know how to joke."
"Do you think that's funny?"
This time the atmosphere had to be awkward.
But Lian Jiu was in the countryside, not at the city police station, so how could he have received a call from the police? Impossible!
It is difficult to tell which one is more despairing, the ghost wall or the call to the police to Lian Jiu.
Meanwhile, Lian Jiu was already walking out of the mountain, asking as he went, "Did you do this?"
Si Lan beside him tutted his mouth lightly: "How can I still complain to you?"
He thought that at most Long Ying would have to work overtime.
Lian Jiu: "If something happens in our demon world, where else can they go if they don't report it to me? But they are in our demon world?"
"Yeah." Si Lan said calmly, "There will be more and more people curious about the demon world. This space is specially prepared for those people, and now it comes in handy in advance."
For Si Lan, who was able to isolate the demon world, creating a small space to trap others didn't seem like a big deal.
Lian Jiu asked curiously, "How did you get out?"
Si Lan: "It depends on my mood."
"So how are you feeling now?"
Thinking of the conversation he had heard in the car, Si Lan's mouth straightened: "Not good."
Lian Jiu paused for a moment: "Will they die in there?"
"It depends on my mood."
Lian Jiu stared at him silently.
Si Lan reluctantly changed his words: "Then I won't."
"Okay." Lian Jiu decided not to save him for now. "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Si Lan was stunned.
Lian Jiuyingying smiled and said, "If you do something wrong, you should be punished. What they did can only be considered attempted crime, and even the law can't charge them with a serious crime. Since they are targeting our demon world, then we should punish them in our demon world's way. Is it not too much to keep them there for one night?"
After looking into her eyes for a moment, Si Lan also smiled: "That makes sense."
Jiang An, who felt that he was being excluded, moved his mouth, imitating the singing of the man and the demon, feeling jealous.
She forced her way in to make herself feel a little more presentable. "Then it's not too much for me to scare them a bit, right? I guarantee no one will die."
Lian Jiu felt it wouldn't be easy when he heard it: "Human life?"
"Hmm..." Jiang An said reluctantly, "I won't scare you to death. I'll try to be gentle."
This time, Si Lan didn't say she was fooling around, but thought it was feasible: "I agree."
"Okay!"
Jiang An ran with her skirt in hand. Halfway through, she took out her new phone and made a call: "Little Dwarf Bifang! Don't sleep! It's time for a field mission!"
Lien Jiu: "..."
The two demon gods came together and asked, "Is it really okay?"
Si Lan murmured, "Want to see it?"
"think!"
Si Lan couldn't help laughing again.
Lian Jiu felt a little embarrassed, but she really wanted to see these people who tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice make a fool of themselves.
Bifang ran out after receiving the summons, while Si Lan flew behind with Lian Jiu sitting in a small car transformed from a painted horse. In order not to be exposed, there were no lights in the car, leaving only a faint light.
Then we saw the car trapped in a small space. Several people were huddled together, not daring to turn off the engine, with the lights on.
Lian Jiu was about to ask how scary it would be.
Bai Ze and Bifang flew out, and the two demon gods also changed their shapes, but they were not the same as when they first saw them.
But it is even more hideous and terrifying.
The lights of those people's cars suddenly went out, and then there were earth-shaking screams.
Lian Jiu's heart trembled at the shouting, but the appearance of Bifang and Bai Ze just now still emerged in his mind: "I remember their prototypes were not like this."
"Yeah." Si Lan's expression faded a little. "That's the Dharma image."
"Dharma image?"
"The appearance when it first appeared in the world." Si Lan looked into the darkness and said slowly, "The body of a ferocious beast."
"Then why has the current prototype changed?"
"Because the Dharma image is scary." Si Lan turned around and looked at her in the darkness. "Aren't you afraid?"
"It's okay." Lian Jiu said honestly, "I'm not afraid now that I know it's you guys."
"Then what is your Dharma image?" Lian Jiu was more curious than afraid. "A rabbit too? How fierce can a rabbit be?"
Si Lan chuckled and asked, "Maybe he'll be very fierce, even fiercer than them."
Lian Jiu became interested: "Then do you want to go down and try it too?"
Si Lan laughed out loud, as if he was very happy: "I'm not as naive as them."
"What a pity! If I had a Dharma image, I would also like to go down and scare them."
Si Lan hummed: "Even if you have it, it won't be the same as us."
"Um?"
"nothing."
The car above was filled with warmth and affection, but the car below was filled with an unpleasant smell. Several people's pants were wet, and they hugged each other tightly: "Wow, wow, wow, when will the police mother come!"
As soon as the voice fell, a face that was neither bird nor human suddenly appeared in the car window: "Wa ...
The four of them stayed in a trance until dawn, when they suddenly heard someone's voice in the distance, coming from the other side of the bushes, and there was light.
Saved!!!
Then I saw several familiar-looking people slowly walking out from the bushes. The girl in the lead was wearing a uniform and holding a flashlight in her hand. She walked towards me with a smile on her face.
The bearded men have lost their minds.
At this time, there was a knock on the car window, and I didn't know who rolled it down.
Outside the window, the beautiful woman they had considered the light of righteousness and the mother of a police officer the night before showed her work ID. Her voice was exactly the same as the one she had spoken to on the phone last night, seemingly gentle: "Hello, I'm Lian Jiu from the Municipal Bureau. I received your report last night and am here to handle it."
Which one is more despairing: encountering a ghost or encountering Lian Jiu?
Several people closed their eyes in despair.
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