Morning Sound Agency
The monthly regular meeting is a time for artists of all sizes in the company to gather together.
Several young people who had just entered the industry for less than a year gathered together. Looking down from the corridor on the second floor of the company, they saw artists coming from other crews and apartments, dressed in bright and beautiful clothes, heading to the conference hall one after another.
Although Chenyin is only a medium-sized agency in the circle and has not produced a top-tier star in nearly ten years, those second- and third-tier artists who have participated in TV series and popular variety shows are the envy of these newcomers who only appear in eighteen-tier online variety shows.
"Alas, when can we get through this?"
"You should be content as long as you still have activities to run. The last role I played didn't even have 10 lines, but they paid me 10,000 yuan. I can't even pay the rent now!"
"Among all of us who signed up with the company at the same time, Lin Hu is the luckiest, right? I heard that she went to shoot the cover of 'QUEEN' last week."
"Tsk, all her resources are obtained by taking advantage of others' blood..."
A girl pouted and was interrupted by her companion before she could finish her words. She turned around and saw a young girl walking down the stairs.
It was the Linhu they had just mentioned.
Immediately, a group of young people put on smiles, surrounded him and started to greet him.
"Sister Lin, you are going to be a big star soon. You didn't even reply to the dinner party messages in the group."
"Long time no see, Lin Hu. Your resources seem to be booming recently. Do you have any job recommendations for me?"
The entertainment industry is such a snobbish place.
They may smile and call you a brother in front of you, but they may stab you in the back. They can easily tear apart the friendship that you have built up over several years just for a resource.
Lin Hu glanced at the girl who was embarrassed after being caught saying bad things about him, and felt indifferent.
Suddenly someone complimented him, "I heard from the grapevine that you are going to be in Director Liu's play. Lin Hu, don't forget your friend when you become famous!"
Her already bad mood suddenly became even worse.
At this moment, the noise on the first floor suddenly became louder, and everyone looked downstairs in the direction of the sound.
A young woman in casual clothes walked in from outside. She had indifferent features, black hair, and fair skin. She was so delicate and beautiful that one could not take their eyes away.
Many staff members around raised their mobile phones to take pictures of her and exclaimed in amazement.
It is Gu Zhisang;
She just stood there, as if there was a wall between her and everyone around her.
Several young people followed her into the elevator, and then they came to their senses, "Oh my god, she is so beautiful. This is the first time I have seen a real person with such a small face..."
Before he could finish his words, he stopped abruptly under the slightly strange looks from others.
Lin Hu said, "It is indeed beautiful."
She has always known that she is the kind of egoist who is most suitable for the entertainment industry.
She knew clearly that the reason Qian Zheng wanted to change roles and snatch resources was not because he wanted to promote herself, but simply because he wanted to kill Gu Zhisang.
But she wants to be famous, and she is the beneficiary. If she doesn't take these resources, they will be given to others, and it will offend the narrow-minded Qian Zheng;
So even though she felt a little guilty, she just accepted it all silently and tried to protect herself.
After attending the regular meeting today, Lin Hu knew that Qian Zheng’s plan to replace the role that had been going on for a long time had failed.
At that moment, her mood was very complicated, with disappointment and unwillingness, but also a huge sense of relief.
Lin Hu thought that he was able to turn the situation around even when the whole network was blackening him. It was not unfair for him to lose to such a person.
Before entering the elevator, Gu Zhisang felt a rather complicated gaze staring at her, and she accurately caught sight of a girl in the crowd on the second floor.
After thinking for a moment, she asked in her mind, "Have I seen that person before?"
The system said angrily: "She is the Lin Hu who will snatch your resources, Sangsang!"
"Yeah……"
Gu Zhisang was a little surprised. She thought that the legendary Lin Hu would be an unreasonable person who hated her, just like the vicious female characters in those novels she read out of boredom.
She didn't take it to heart and came to the door of the conference room on the third floor.
After entering, Chen Yin's vice president and Qian Zheng, who had a gloomy and ugly expression, were sitting there.
Seeing her coming, the vice president immediately put on a smiling face and stood up to greet her, "Sangsang, long time no see, you seem to be getting better and better! Come and sit here."
Gu Zhisang did not refuse and sat directly on the stool, resting his chin on his fingertips with a casual expression: "What do you want me to do?"
Qian Zheng's face was distorted as he stared at Gu Zhisang, as if he wanted to stare a hole in her body.
The system muttered, "With that look, someone who didn't know would think you, Sister Sang, dug up his ancestral grave..."
This bit of hostility was nothing but scratching an itch for Gu Zhisang, who had seen the most vicious ghost.
She glanced at the thick gray and depressed look on Qian Zheng's face and said to the system:
"Using insidious means to harm others and taking shortcuts will inevitably backfire, not to mention that he is so suicidal that he places evil spirits in his own home for worship. His mind has long been affected and he must be unlucky during this period."
As she spoke, she glanced coldly at the purple baby ghost on Qian Zheng's shoulder.
The last time she saw this ghost in the hospital, she used some tricks to break the Buddha amulet that protected Qian Zheng.
Without the means to ward off evil, the evil thoughts and karma of the baby ghost began to erode the money and certificate.
Just as Gu Zhisang said, everything has been going wrong for him for the past half month.
First, the store he invested in was reported to have substandard hygiene and was ordered by the higher authorities to suspend business for rectification;
Then the stocks that he had bought with half of his fortune plummeted, and he lost a house in half a month. He had no resources to speak of in terms of business and was overtaken by other brokers.
I was so unlucky, but that damn Gu Zhisang actually made a comeback on a crappy variety show and was even thanked by the official.
The key point is that this program was arranged by myself for her!
This made Qian Zheng so uncomfortable that he couldn't even eat. He felt depressed whenever he saw Gu Zhisang's face.
I originally thought that I could ruin the resources for "Legend of the Floating Sea", but Director Liu had already agreed, but today he suddenly called the vice president and said that it was impossible to replace Gu Zhisang!
Seeing Gu Zhisang's reputation gradually improving and her popularity rising wildly, the higher-ups actually asked him to stop targeting her and apologize to her respectfully? !
Qian Zheng had a dark mind. He believed that Gu Zhisang either raised an evil creature or asked someone to change his luck. It was impossible for him to turn things around on his own.
Judging from her performance in "Spiritual Matters", it is obvious that someone taught her.
I have been taking care of this useless idiot for more than two years. If Gu Zhisang knew metaphysics, even a sow could climb a tree!
At this time, the vice president coughed lightly and began to play the emotional card, "Sangsang, you have been in our Chenyin for almost three years. When you were a newcomer, we discovered your potential and signed you into the company. Now your contract will expire in less than half a year. I have discussed with the company's top management to increase your salary and sign a better contract."
Gu Zhisang smiled, "Then the company's 'cultivation' over the past two years has given me the role resources. Should I be grateful for it?"
She knew from her original body's memory that Chen Yin was not someone who was so-called discovered and cultivated.
At that time, the original owner had just entered the entertainment industry and was deceived into participating in a talent show. She only wanted to become a big star and had no idea that she had signed the most demanding level of contract, commonly known as a "sale contract" in the circle.
The resources the company offers cannot be turned down, the personas it offers cannot be rejected, and if you want to leave you have to pay a sky-high penalty for breach of contract...
In the past two years, Chen Yin has completely disregarded his original reputation in the circle for the sake of traffic and popularity.
They didn't even give the original body time to recover from the injury on her forehead, and instead sent her to appear on a metaphysical variety show with a very bad reputation, in order to squeeze every last drop of blood out of her before the contract ended.
No one expected that she had a new soul inside her shell and could actually make a comeback on this show that was not favored by everyone in the circle.
Now, whenever the vice president goes out to socialize with others, they ask Gu Zhisang indirectly who wrote the script of "Spiritual Matters" in their company, and why it is so brilliant! ①
God knows the vice president also wants to ask this question!
Every time he could only perfunctorily avoid this question, and others thought he was hiding something and didn't want to reveal it.
Now Gu Zhisang's popularity has surpassed that of the most popular artist in the company. Many film and television scripts and variety show scripts have extended olive branches to her. It seems that she is about to become a big hit, but after that metaphysics variety show, her contract with the company will expire.
The boss ordered him to keep the person, so the vice president came with money and evidence to apologize to Gu Zhisang.
But from what she said, it was obvious that she was resentful towards the company.
The vice president pretended to be serious and said, "There were indeed some problems with our previous plan for you. We were very optimistic about your potential, but we didn't expect that some mistakes would be made when the people below were executing it. Qian Zheng, how can you be a manager? You can't even take care of the artists you manage. I think you don't want to do this anymore!"
Qian Zheng looked incredulous, "Vice President..."
"Why don't you apologize to Sangsang!"
His expression twisted and changed several times.
Make myself bow my head and apologize to this bitch?!
It was obvious that the company supported the decision when it was first made, but now they want to please this bitch and push themselves, the old subordinate, out!
Qian Zheng's heart was filled with resentment and anger, and he wished he could slap the deputy general manager hard twice right now.
But he had worked hard to climb to the position of the top agent in the company, he couldn't let his efforts go to waste, he had to endure.
他脖颈青筋暴起，半天才低下头一字一顿道：“对不起。”
在顾之桑眼里，这个内心扭曲的男人已经彻底被鬼婴给吞噬了，浑身都散发着负面的力量，已经成了怨念的傀儡。
副总带着笑：“桑桑你放心，公司马上就给你配新的助理，还有一辆保姆车，给你按一级合约的待遇布置。”
顾之桑忽然觉得这个看起来光鲜亮丽的圈子挺没意思的。
她站起身目光冷清，“这些就不要了，先把经纪人给我换了吧，看着碍眼。”
说完她走出了会议室。
会议厅里就只剩下副总和钱证两人。
副总沉下脸道：“你以后别带她了，钱证啊钱证，亏你带了那么多艺人这次竟然看走眼了。要是顾之桑肯留下续约还好，她要是跳槽了，你我都没好日子过了！”
恍恍惚惚走出会议室的钱证神情阴郁，只觉得身体疲惫、心力交瘁。
他脑海中疯狂思索着，到底怎样才能扭转局面，怎么才能报复副总和顾之桑，全然不知道自己的肩膀上趴着一只浑身青紫、双眼空洞漆黑的婴鬼；
一边嘻嘻笑着，一边大口大口吞噬着他身上的生气。
每吞噬一点，他的眼珠就浑浊暗淡一分。
忽然，那婴鬼似乎察觉到了什么，猛地扭头朝着后方看去，和拐角处一双沉静幽黑的双眸对上。
它笑嘻嘻的面孔陡然扭曲，肿胀的双腿夹着钱证的脖颈，上半身诡异转了半圈看向后头，冲那双眼睛的主人咧开满是利齿的嘴。
阵阵尖厉婴啼**开，这是它在威胁恐吓对方。
拐角处的女人抬起脸，精致的五官在阴影中看不真切。
她忽然抬起一条手臂，纤细修长的五指张开。
骤然一收，她明明是隔空抓了一团空气，可那挂在钱证脖颈上的婴鬼却被一股大力吸了过去，脖颈直接被那凝白手掌抓在掌中。
系统：！！
它还没做好心理准备，就看到婴鬼狰狞可怖、布满紫黑血管的脸放大在眼前，四目相对吓得魂儿都要飞了。
“桑、桑大佬，以后再有这种时候你提前告诉人家一声……让我先把眼睛闭上QAQ”
顾之桑：……
“小废物。”
那被抓在掌心中的婴鬼拼了命地挣扎，却怎么也挣不脱那只看似柔若无骨的手掌。
它从面前这个人类女人的身上，感受到了强大的压迫力，这让它十分恐惧。
它张口就想咬上顾之桑的手背。
顾之桑眉头一皱：“你要是敢把口涎弄到我的手上，我就把你的牙一颗一颗掰断。”
婴鬼大张着嘴，半晌：“嘤……”
说实在话，这鬼物长得实在磕碜。
相较于上次在医院初次见到的时候，它长胖了整整一大圈，比普通人类婴儿还要胖！
那是因为没有佛牌的压制，婴鬼不会被消耗，反而能不断吞噬钱证的生气，自然而然就‘长’大了。
如今满脸的横肉和血管都堆在一起，看得顾之桑一脸嫌弃直皱眉头。
她凤眼微眯，冷声道：
“冤有头债有主，我当时解除了你的禁锢，不是让你为非作歹的。我知道你现在有能力反抗钱证的束缚咒术，可以不再帮着他加害他人，如果你再敢侵吞他人的生气，我能让你获得自由，也能直接将你打散。”
就凭钱证一个人的生气，绝不可能把这婴鬼喂成这个样子，它肯定还吞了其他人的。
或许是吞噬的生气多了，它觉得自己能力强了，心也就野了。
顾之桑能理解经历悲惨的鬼魂心中有怨恨，也可以帮它们一把，但身为玄门之主，她绝不能容忍这些鬼魂扰乱阳间的秩序。
感受到她灵魂中泄出的两分威压，那婴鬼缩着脑袋瑟瑟发抖，一声不敢吭了，看起来很是乖巧。
顾之桑一松手，它就‘嗖’地一下飞快逃走，爬到了已经出了公司大门的钱证身上，死死缠住他的脖颈。
等它的身影消失不见，系统这才敢探出脑袋，小声问道：
“桑桑，既然你都能抓到它，为什么不直接解超度了它啊？”
“你不懂，它已经被制成了鬼物，不单单是鬼魂那么简单，如果不拿到禁锢它的刑具枷锁，超度是没法送它入轮回的。”
顾之桑道：“钱证能驱使婴鬼，必然是有它生前身体的一部分，制成了制约操控它的刑具。以前它害人是迫不得已，因为它没法违抗钱证，再加上它死的时候应该还是个没完全成型的胎儿，没有道德是非观念。就算我把它碾碎了，钱证也不会遭到反噬。”
“得再等一等想办法取得刑具，哪怕是一部分也可以。钱证已经疯魔了，他不会收手放弃害人，一定会留下点痕迹。我已经在婴鬼的身上留下了一枚内力种子，只要它被驱使我就会有感应。”
——
开完公司例会后，林湖一直很沉默。
她感觉现在的钱证就像是个炸药桶，处于极度狂躁和情绪不稳定的边缘，仿佛稍微碰一碰就会爆炸。
果不其然，钱证阴沉沉的浑浊目光转到了她的身上，忽然暴怒：
“你这个废物，我都给你塞了那么多资源，你还是比不过那个顾之桑，废物！”
林湖闭着眼呼出一口气，没有说话。
钱证就像个无能狂怒的失败者，在车里一会儿骂公司，一会儿骂顾之桑，转脸又把几个投资商合作方和柳谨导演都骂了一遍。
骂完之后他喘着粗气，忽然平静下来了。
林湖心里有种不详的预感，下一刻就听钱证阴森森道：
“你知道x式集团的老总一直和我们有商务合约吧，那是我们公司最大的合约商，现在公司里在拍偶像剧的那个小花，之前就是攀上了他拿到了资源。我知道你是个聪明人，有野心，只要你听我的，我保证你超过顾之桑那个贱人，大红大紫。”
一股寒气直冲她头皮，让她舌头都僵了。
林湖听公司里的老人聊八卦的时候说过，那集团的老总是个变态，男女不忌，之前还有无权无势的小艺人直接被他弄进了医院。
她一直以为觉得这种事离自己很遥远，只要不当出头鸟就能明哲保身，可她怎么也没想到，这种事真的会落在自己身上。
车内一片死寂，半晌林湖听到自己嗓音沙哑：
“钱哥，我不想去。”
钱证落在她身上的目光陡然冷了，那目光就像一条黏腻腻的毒蛇。
车内响起一声冷笑，钱证道：“行吧，你对自己倒是挺有底线的。”
林湖只觉得脸上火辣辣的，但心里悄悄松了口气。
回到公寓后她躺在**，脑子里一直在想今天白天发生的事情，直到晚上七点多天色暗了，城市的夜晚灯火通明。
她忽然接到了钱证的电话：“现在过来xx地点，临时有个应酬。”
犹豫了很久，林湖还是换了件衣服过去了。
因为她知道自己今天已经忤逆了一次钱证；
若是再推脱不去，钱证那还不如针尖大的心眼绝对会记恨自己，说不定自己就是下一个顾之桑。
林湖没有信心能像顾之桑那样，被连番打压名声跌入谷底后，还能抓住机会爬起来。
她忽然觉得很想哭，开始后悔自己当时同意和钱证签约。
等到了地方走进包厢，看到酒桌上坐着的肥头大耳的x式老总，林湖浑身发冷手脚冰凉。
钱证脸上带着笑，眼神却是冷冰冰的，“站着干什么，过来给x总倒酒啊，今天来是谈合作的。”
林湖全程提心吊胆，她看到钱证和那老总吃了什么东西，才象征性地动动筷子，别的都不敢吃。
她在那老总笑眯眯的打量下强笑着，全程愣是一杯酒水都不沾。
老总有些不高兴，“钱老弟，你手底下的艺人这就有点不给面子了吧。”
钱证脸色难看，“林湖，还不敬老总一杯。”
林湖神情苍白，指甲死死扣着手心肉，却还是咬牙道：“钱哥，我今天吃了过敏药，真的一点都不能喝。”
“哼！”老总气得把手里的酒杯往桌上一推，起身就走出了包厢，“老子是给你们脸了！”
这时钱证的脸已经阴沉得要滴墨，林湖浑身发冷，牙关都在打着颤，“抱歉钱哥，我真的不能喝，我先走了！”
她站起身，却觉得头脑一阵发昏，灵魂像是离开了身体，眼睁睁看着自己重重跌坐回凳子上，趴在了桌上。
林湖满脸惊恐，不明白这到底是怎么了。
她想要回到自己的身体里，却看到一个浑身青紫的婴儿从钱证的身后爬了出来，一把扑上来死死缠住她的脖颈。
x式老总不知什么时候回来了，一脸邪笑：“钱老弟还是你有手段，你到底怎么办到的，给老哥哥我传授点经验呗。”
钱证：“我要是把自己独家手段告诉了x总，那现在这张桌上还能有我的一席之地吗？”
“哈哈钱老弟真幽默，还得劳烦你把人送到我房里去。”
Lin Hu wanted to call for help and scream, but she couldn't make a sound and could only helplessly watch her body being carried away.
The horrible baby clung to her tightly, giggling and eating something from her body.
In just a dozen minutes, she felt that even her soul had become fragile.
She was filled with despair and didn't know what was going on. But her becoming like this and the ghost baby must be related to Qian Zheng. She didn't dare to look at Mr. X who was gradually approaching her body.
Just when Lin Hu had already decided to jump off the roof of the hotel if she was humiliated, a cold air stream sprayed out from behind her and swept across the back of her neck while her soul was floating in the air, causing her to shiver violently.
The purple-blue baby that was clutching her neck tightly seemed to have seen something scary. It screamed in her ear and actually let go and tried to run away.
However, a white hand suddenly stretched out, grabbed the baby ghost's hind legs against the side of Lin Hu's soul's face, and pulled the terrified baby ghost back.
"Why are you running?"
A cold female voice sounded behind him, and Lin Hu's tears burst out instantly, as if he had heard the voice of an angel.
She turned her head and saw the 'angel', her eyes widened in shock at the other person's identity.
“Gu, Gu…”
Behind Gu Zhisang, the gate of hell opened wide, and a dark corridor connected to the underworld.
The soul-shaking yin energy continued to flow out from behind her, and against her jade-colored face and dark pupils, she looked as if a ghost had descended.
Half of her body was still in the ghost gate, and one hand was pinching the baby ghost's neck: "Didn't I say during the day that if you can't control yourself and help Qian Zheng do things, I will break you up."
Even though there were no eyeballs in the baby ghost's dark eye sockets, one could still see how frightened it was.
This time it opened its mouth to bite the woman's wrist, trying to bite it off and escape, but the next second the other party raised her other hand and grabbed its head.
Gu Zhisang looked puzzled: "Are you in a hurry to die?"
She tightened her fingertips and almost sank into the baby ghost's skull.
The powerful pressure squeezed the black veins on the baby ghost's face so that it could not close its mouth at all.
Then Gu Zhisang grabbed its head with one hand and broke the baby ghost's hacksaw-like teeth one by one.
Under the screams and cries of the baby, and the brutal scene of her gnashing her teeth with a cold face, Lin Hu, who was still crying, was frightened and hiccuped, and dared not cry anymore...
The author has something to say:
In the next chapter, we will solve the money certificate and start a new episode of metaphysics live broadcast~
① I wrote it. I wrote it (chest up)