Chapter 39: The Second Item: Picking Up the Item - Old Sophora Tree
Qian Shi was shocked!
For three whole years, there has been only one person of the opposite sex in their team: Hayami.
And the eldest brother always treated her as a little girl.
In the past, he and Chu Yan both thought that the boss was not interested in women because he was only focused on his career.
It was not until now that they discovered that the boss was not interested in women because he wanted to be interested in men!
The boss' bedroom door was open. The three of them squeezed in front of the door and saw the boss and Shen Li cuddling intimately.
Qian Shitong was shocked and pulled down Zao Wu's black umbrella. The two hid under the umbrella and conspired in public.
"Pinch me now and tell me I'm not dreaming!"
Zao Wu pinched Qian Shi's cheek hard, and Qian Shi cried out in pain.
Not a dream!
Qian Shi was not sure, so he lifted the edge of the umbrella slightly and took another look.
The eldest brother knew that they were all here, but he did not shy away from it and was still concentrating on buttoning up Shen Li's shirt.
Qian Shi's eyes swept over Zao Wu and Chu Yan, confirming that they were both wearing clothes with buttons today.
Qian Shi continued to gossip in a low voice, "Has the boss ever helped you two button your clothes?"
Zao Wu and Chu Yan shook their heads in surprising unison.
Zao Wu thought about it for a moment, "Do you remember the last time we delivered a parcel and encountered the blood moon?"
That painful memory is still fresh in their minds, and they almost got wiped out.
Qian Shi was anxious to hear what was going on: "Remember, then what?"
"Both of my arms were torn off by the monster, and my shoelaces came undone when I was running away, and the boss didn't tie them for me."
Qian Shi: “…”
"If that's the case, you're a bit miserable."
At this point, the topic inexplicably took a turn for the worse.
Zao Wu and Chu Yan's faces were full of resentment at first, and then for some unknown reason they started comparing their misery.
Even Chu Yan, who usually spoke very little, rarely spoke.
"During the blood moon incident, my leg was broken, but the boss still asked me to run forward..."
Qian Shi: “…”
In that situation, if you don't run, you will die.
In the bedroom, Ye Minglang helped Chen Li button up his clothes, interrupting their casual chat which was shrouded in a tragic atmosphere.
"Why don't you bring the things over?"
Qian Shi quickly emerged from under the umbrella in the morning mist and tactfully handed over the blood-replenishing medicine.
Chen Li was neatly tidied up and was now sitting on the edge of the bed sipping medicine.
Ye Minglang closed the bedroom door and discussed with them in the living room how to deal with the old forces.
Qian Shi changed his joking tone and his expression became serious.
"We have found out the name of the person who started the Black Goat Head attack last time. His name is Chen Yi. His title within the company is Vice Supervisor, and he has some authority in the company."
After the boss came to power, although he deprived the old forces of their authority one by one, they always found some other ways to manipulate the company's data.
According to the old system of the Wuliang Express Company, every time a new [Tian] was promoted, the dynasty would change.
Chen Yi was unwilling to have his power divided, so in the past when he was distributing delivery tasks, once he found out that a higher-level courier was about to be promoted, he would deliberately give that courier a fatal delivery task.
"I found some clues from the previous database."
Qian Shi handed all the information to Ye Minglang.
"For example, the last order for several of us was a dead end that Chen Yi specially assigned to us."
No wonder the delivery mission was so difficult and lasted for half a year. If Chen Li had not accidentally entered that time, they would have been wiped out.
"And, Boss, I found a very strange file in the database. It's marked as top secret. I can't open it, and it will take some time to crack it. But what is certain is that the last mission assigned to us came from here."
If he guessed correctly, everything that needed to be delivered in this file was a death sentence.
Once they complete the delivery and survive the death situation, they will get a lot of points, so when they are promoted in the end, they always have overflowing points.
They discussed in the living room for a while, and Ye Minglang suddenly thought of Chen Li, so he suspended the meeting and opened the bedroom door.
The room was empty. There was an empty medicine bag on the bedside table. He glanced at the time. It was exactly half an hour.
He really is... very punctual.
With the experience of time travel before, Shen Li could be sure that the speed of time passing on both sides was the same, so he calculated the time and left.
The moment Chen Li returned to the locust tree forest, the tree roots that were searching everywhere instantly sensed Chen Li's presence.
Chen Li walked out of the small pond step by step, and was instantly tied up by the roots of the tree and brought in front of the young man under the locust tree.
"I found you." The boy under the locust tree was very excited.
"It's not that you found me, but I didn't want to hide anymore. Half an hour has passed, and I came out on my own."
Chen Li ruthlessly shattered his fantasy.
The locust tree boy had a gloomy expression on his face. "This is my territory, and I have the final say on the rules."
Chen Li seemed to have expected that he would deny it, and he advised him earnestly:
"If you don't keep your word, you'll become a terrible person when you grow up."
After saying this, Shen Li realized that the boy under the locust tree would no longer grow up, he was already a dead man.
Shen Li felt a little sad when he realized this.
The young man under the locust tree stared at Chen Li. What was his expression?
Compassion? Or sympathy?
"I don't need your pity!"
The young man under the locust tree suddenly tightened the roots, and Shen Li's body was like a weightless shadow, which shattered as soon as the roots were tightened.
It was a wriggling shadow, which fell to the ground and transformed into a heavy hat, approaching him step by step intact.
He seemed to see through his panic and continued to talk to himself:
"Why do you want to help the locust tree do evil? Why don't you want to leave? Is it because you are afraid of being alone?"
The young man under the locust tree controlled the roots and swung them towards Shen Li's head like a whip.
"Shut up!"
Shen Li's head was severed, and his body collapsed to the ground, transforming into a wriggling black shadow again.
The shadow reshaped itself into Shen Li's appearance and continued to approach him with a calm expression.
"The tree hole of the old locust tree can shelter you from the wind and rain, and the bonfire burning bones makes you feel warm, but this is not your home. Do you still remember what your family looked like before?"
"What do you know!"
The boy under the locust tree was pushed to the limit by Chen Li, his sanity collapsed and he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"This is my home! What was so good about my previous home? It was my former family who killed me! They were the ones who buried me under the locust tree. They were the ones who abandoned me first! They didn't want me anymore!"
Buried under a locust tree?
Shen Li grasped the key information.
When the locust tree boy was angry, even the bones buried under the locust tree were trembling.
Chen Li concealed his breath, squatted under the locust tree, stretched out his hand to touch the ground, closed his eyes and felt it quietly.
Here.
He had been buried here for so long that the other bones had been crushed and only a skull remained.
The tree roots penetrated from his left eye to his right eye, tightly entangling the skull and binding the boy's soul to the locust tree tightly.
Right in front of the old locust tree, Chen Li's shadow was still confronting the evil spirit.
"I told you I've already given you a chance to escape."
The shadow of the Shen Li had a sad voice.
Shadow no longer allowed it to torture him, and from now on, whenever a tree root swung, he would dodge.
The two evenly matched parties fought back and forth, and after a few minutes of stalemate, Shen Li's shadow suddenly reached out and grabbed something.
"Found it." he murmured.
What did you dig up?
Yin Ling stared at his hands, there was nothing there, in his eyes, Shen Li was just holding air.
"Here."
Same scene, same sound.
Shen Li, who was in front of him just now, appeared behind him like a ghost.
The ghost turned around suddenly and finally saw the real body of Shen Li behind him.
What he held in his hand was his skull.
So the person who had been entangled with him for so long just now was not Shen Li himself at all?
“That’s my shadow.”
Chen Li only glanced at the shadow Chen Li, and the other Chen Li turned into a black shadow and returned to his feet.
Only then did the ghost realize that he had been deceived.
When the evil spirit flew towards him with its fangs and claws bared, Shen Li crushed its skull without hesitation.
The skull turned into powder and drifted away in the wind in Shen Li's palm.
And the soul of the evil spirit also dissipated.
When a ghost dies, it will definitely disturb the locust tree.
Now is the most dangerous time.
The ground is shaking.
The old locust tree, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly revived, and by absorbing the blood of living people as nutrients, it instantly repaired the previous gaps on the bark.
To deal with the old locust tree, just the shadow is not enough.
Chen Li knew clearly that only the power of talismans could compete with it.
So now, what will he lose in order to use the talisman?
Smell, hearing, taste? Or...
"Hey, the one under the tree."
A voice suddenly came from the treetop above Shen Li's head.
Chen Li looked up in confusion, and just then the man jumped down lightly from the treetop.
Zao Wu was holding a black umbrella, wearing black silk gloves and a black velvet skirt.
It looked like he was going to someone's funeral.
She jumped lightly from the treetop and landed next to Shen Li.
When she got closer, Shen Li realized that she was holding a black crow in her arms.
The crow was as big as a cat, and its fur was shiny black with a blue-purple luster.
Zao Wu stroked the crow from time to time and said nonchalantly:
"The boss asked me to help you."
She doesn't like to laugh, and like Chu Yan, she has a rather dull personality.
Other girls like dolls and pretty dresses, but she doesn’t.
She only liked to wear black, a black veiled sunhat, and hang out with the birds in cemeteries.
Chen Li had no interactions with Zao Wu before, let alone spoken to each other, but he knew that the person in front of him was Ye Minglang's "family".
Zao Wu handed the Corvidae boss in his arms to Chen Li, then looked at the time and muttered, "Quick battle, I need to go back and catch up on some sleep."
Chen Li and the Corvidae boss in his arms stared at each other.
He is most afraid of birds, and now he can neither hold them nor throw them away.
For the first time, a look of broken defense appeared on his usually calm face.
“Help…Help…”
Tears are about to come out.
The child was scared and cried!
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