Luo Xi slept until noon the next day. The house was quiet. Two ghost foxes huddled in a corner where the sun could not reach. The big one used its tail to hold the small one under it, and stared at the door with a vigilant look.
Seeing that Luo Xi finally got up, the big black fox relaxed slightly, opened its mouth and called a few times.
Luo Xi didn't understand what it was calling, so she stroked the fox's head to comfort it.
What she touched was not the fluffy head she imagined, but a slightly cool and eerie touch. She muttered softly: "Sure enough, there is no hair after death, and it feels bad."
The black fox froze, and its fluffy tail drooped down. It looked envious at the milk cats running around the house.
When it was alive, its fur was definitely more perfect than that of the kitten, shiny black, fluffy and soft, and everyone who saw it wanted to pet it. But now...
The black fox lowered his head sadly and licked the little fox, trying to ignore this sad fact.
Luo Xi thought that Lu Haozhi didn't come back last night. After she washed up and prepared to take snacks as a meal to fill her stomach, she found that her mountain of snacks had been put into the storage cabinet, and there was a note on it warning her, "Don't take snacks as meals, lunch is in the kitchen."
Luo Xi naturally pretended not to see it, reached out and took out a bag of potato chips, chewed them, licked her fingers after eating, and then strolled to the kitchen and took a look at the lunch left by Lu Haozhi.
What surprised her was that lunch was not instant noodles as expected, but an exquisite insulated food box. Seeing the familiar logo on the food box, Luo Xi's eyes lit up.
Mingyue Tower is also doing takeout! ?
As the leading high-end restaurant in the imperial capital, Mingyue Tower has a high-cold aura when many catering industries have opened the trend of takeout and delivery. There is only one option for customers to make an appointment to consume in the store.
And now, the three-layer insulated food box contains ten exquisite dishes and one soup. The portion is not large, and each dish is small. The variety is very rich and will not cause waste. Served with crystal clear and soft rice, it is so fragrant that it makes people drool.
There is an exquisite card on the outermost side of the food box. Luo Xi picked it up and took a look, and immediately felt the power of capital.
Obviously, the aloof Mingyuelou doesn't have the option of takeout.
This is a lunch specially provided for the sponsor, made by the chef of Mingyuelou, and every detail shows how much Mingyuelou values Lu Haozhi.
Luo Xi felt sorry
for Mingyuelou for a while. Lu Haozhi obviously didn't see the card, so he naturally didn't appreciate Mingyuelou's good intentions. For that guy who loves instant noodles so much, this exquisite meal might not be as good as a bucket of instant noodles with tomato and beef brisket flavor.
After finishing lunch, Luo Xi took the two ghost foxes to the Taoist Association.
The Chinese Taoist Association is located in the ancestral home of the Quanzhen Dragon Sect. When the two ghost foxes entered the door, their expressions were filled with human panic and fear.
After all, for the unprotected Yin creatures, entering the ancestral temple of the Quanzhen Dragon Sect is extremely stressful. If they hadn't followed Luo Xi, they wouldn't even dare to get close here.
But even if they followed Luo Xi, being stared at by a room full of Taoists, the two ghost foxes were shaking like sieves. The smaller one buried itself hard under the belly of the big fox, shivering and refusing to stick its head out.
The big fox barely exchanged a glance with the Taoists in the room, then withdrew its gaze in fear, lowered its head and began to shut itself up.
Master Li tried patiently to comfort the fox, but just as he reached out, the black fox screamed and shrank into the corner with the little fox in its mouth. Everyone
glanced at Master Li with sidelong glances. It was well known that this guy had no affinity with animals. Even among the small animals with intelligence, only the weasel he rescued himself was close to him, and the others always stayed away from him.
The current situation once again confirmed that Li Guanzhu did not like animals at all, even dead animals.
Li Guanzhu awkwardly withdrew his hand that wanted to stroke the fox, coughed lightly, and asked Ah Huang to communicate with the black fox to see if he could find out some useful information.
As a weasel who also loves to eat chicken, it is not afraid of the black fox, which is a sinister creature. It sneaked over and tried to communicate with the fox. As
a result, it was not known whether the fox was afraid of the Taoist priests in the room or was frightened by Li Guanzhu. It only opened its mouth and called a few times, then huddled around the little fox in fear and trembled.
The weasel half stood up and reported to Master Li in a low voice: "It said it has told Tang Luoxi everything it knows."
The Taoist priests in the room immediately looked at Luoxi.
Master Li asked with a smile: "My friend, what does the monster that you mentioned last night that can devour animal spirits look like? Can you draw it for everyone to see?" Luoxi
: "..."
Luoxi tried to recall what the black fox had demonstrated last night, and then picked up the pen to paint in the eyes of the Taoist priests in the room.
It looks a bit like Xiaoguai, with a green face and fangs, and a huge size...
After a while, when Luoxi put down the pen.
Master Li stared at the paper seriously for a long time, and murmured: "Could it be a pig monster? And it has teeth... a wild boar monster?"
Luoxi: "...This is a tiger with long teeth."
Master Li and others were shocked. A tiger with long teeth?
No matter how they looked at it, they felt that the picture on the paper was an extremely ugly, slightly out of shape pig demon who didn't know how to control his body shape!
"Is my drawing not good? It's very lifelike."
In the face of Luo Xi's dissatisfied eyes, Li Guanzhu subconsciously looked away.
Even if he liked this little girl very much, he couldn't praise this painting against his conscience.
It's rare to be able to draw a cat as a seriously distorted pig. The talisman is so perfect, how can the painting skills be negative?
Luo Xi looked at her own painting a little unhappy. Although it was not particularly good, all the features that should be pointed out were drawn, so how could it be unrecognizable.
She took out her mobile phone and took a photo of the painting, and then sent it to Lu Haozhi.
Lu Haozhi's reply was very quick -
[It looks like this pig needs to lose weight. ]
Luo Xi stared at the reply for a long time, feeling that he had been hit hard.
Because Luo Xi's painting was really unconvincing, everyone had to continue to conquer the black fox.
The black fox was surrounded by a circle of Taoists, stammering to describe the monster that devoured them.
Its vocabulary was very poor, and the things it described over and over again were actually similar to what Luo Xi guessed.
It was huge in size, had teeth, and the teeth were long and sharp, with eyes like copper bells, red and bleeding. With overwhelming pressure, the roar was like a tiger's roar, which made them feel terrified.
Some of the black fox's companions were so weak under such pressure that they couldn't even run properly and were swallowed up in the next second.
Li Guanzhu and others thought for a while and concluded that this was a ferocious beast, but it was not alive, but the dead soul of a ferocious beast.
Ferocious beasts of this form have been recorded in Chinese history, and there are as many as four or five similar ones. But in modern times, there is no trace of them.
Moreover, this beast soul seems to have lost its reason. It is probably sealed by the ancients with evil methods, and I don't know how it ran out again.
As for swallowing animal spirits, it is also easy to understand. Ferocious beasts are ferocious beasts after all. Even if they are dead, even if they have lost their reason, they still need to "eat" things. This eating is not because of hunger, but simply out of the need for strength.
The dead soul of this beast was either forced by someone to devour animal spirits to strengthen itself, or it was just hunting out of instinct, and the black foxes were unlucky to run into it.
Li Guanzhu tends to believe the first one.
If it was just hunting out of instinct, it would not stare at the black foxes and keep eating them. The time span for the black foxes' little companions to be devoured was a bit long. From the first one missing to now, it has been at least a month.
The soul of a beast without human control will not stay in the same place for so long.
Moreover, traces of someone refining a beast were found before, and now it seems that what was refined was not a living beast, but the soul of a dead beast!
Such dead beast souls are difficult to control. Beast souls have lost their rationality. When they devour animal spirits, the messenger behind them must be nearby.
Li Guanzhu was refreshed and finally had an idea. He carefully asked the black fox to see if he had missed any information about the person behind the scenes.
The black fox was only concerned about escaping, so it didn't pay attention to whether there were people hiding around. It didn't see anything. After its little companions were eaten one by one, it desperately carried the little fox and escaped, not daring to look back.
Just when Li Guanzhu and others were disappointed and thought that the clues would be broken here again, the little fox poked its head out from under the belly of the big fox and called a few times.
Li Guanzhu felt that the little fox was acting unusual, and immediately looked at Ah Huang.
The weasel acted as a translator, "It said it seemed to see an old man, well-dressed, good-looking, holding a statue in his hand."
"Statue? What statue?"
Li Guanzhu asked.
How could the little fox recognize what statue it was? He only remembered that the statue looked ferocious, and it seemed to have a, a... cat's head!
Luo Xi was still thinking about which statue in China had a cat's head, and the little golden dragon had already shouted: "Wei Xing Shen, it must be Wei Xing Shen!"
After being frightened by Nezha's disturbance in the sea, the little golden dragon worked hard to study Chinese mythology. Because the Azure Dragon in the Dragon Clan is one of the four gods, it also took a look at the four gods and twenty-eight constellations.
Among them, the God of Danger left a deep impression on it. Compared with the dragon whose tendons were pulled out by a child, the fierce and evil God of Danger looked much more majestic.
After being reminded by the little golden dragon, Li Guanzhu and others also matched it.
It was not a cat's head, but a tiger's head. They were both cats, so there were naturally similarities. It was normal for the little fox to make a mistake in panic.
The God of Danger, Wei Su, symbolizes killing and death, and is a fierce god.
The fierce god suppresses evil, and the beast soul that was driven was a fierce beast. Even if it died and lost its mind, it could not be easily controlled and used by others. Obviously, the person behind used this God of Danger to suppress the ferocity of the beast to prevent the beast soul from backlashing. The
most interesting thing is that the Weixing God has a tiger's head and a human body, and judging from the description, the beast seems to be related to the cat family. Using the Weixing God to suppress it will not only make it unable to resist, but also will not damage the beast's power.
This clever method is not common.
Li Guanzhu always felt that he seemed to have heard of this method somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Based on the existing clues, everyone deduced that the range of activities of the person behind the scenes has always been near the city center.
Specifically, it is near the apartment where Luo Xi lives.
This person has been active in this area, and it is obvious that he has an intention.
Luo Xi suddenly thought of Xiaoguai in the apartment and hesitated slightly.
Could it be that this person's target is Xiaoguai?
Thinking of this, Luo Xi got up and said goodbye to Li Guanzhu, feeling a little uneasy.
Luo Xi left the Dao Association and called Lu Haozhi. The other end seemed busy and no one answered the phone.
She hailed a taxi and walked towards the apartment, ready to go back to see Xiaoguai.
The taxi driver was a fat uncle. There was music playing in the car. The melody was particularly familiar. It was a song from her newly released album.
Luo Xi glanced at the uncle. It turned out that she had a fan of such an old age.
The fat uncle felt Luo Xi's gaze and thought that this stern little girl wanted to chat, so he immediately started chatting with a smile.
"This song is quite nice, it seems to be sung by a girl named Luo Luo."
Luo Xi silently corrected: "...It's Luo Xi, right?"
After being corrected, the uncle laughed and said, "Really? Haha, then I probably remembered it wrong. My son likes her very much. It seems that if you buy this album, you can randomly draw autographed posters and photos. My son bought a lot of them, and he gave me one as a gift. In the end, he bought so many and didn't win. What a bad boy who wasted his money."
Luo Xi Nodding, "Well, it's not good to waste."
The fat uncle was amused when he heard it, "There are not many children as sensible as you nowadays. That bad boy is really a headache when he chases stars. He finally got into college but he didn't study hard and went out to work. I thought he wanted to experience life, but he worked to buy albums and chase stars! Tell me, is this reasonable!"
Luo Xi: "..."
She took out her mobile phone and posted a message on the social account - [Buy albums rationally, please do what you can. ]
After this message was sent, there were all confused fans below.
Others can't wait to let their fans boost the charts and sales for them, why is this one so weird.
Luo Xi didn't pay attention to the social account after sending the message, because the fat uncle started to perform one-handed driving and answering the phone.
As someone who once sent Lu Haozhi to retake the first subject, Luo Xi knew very well that answering the phone with one hand while driving was illegal. She glanced at the camera not far ahead and warned him.
"There is a camera ahead. If you are caught on camera, you will lose points. It is also very dangerous."
The fat uncle was an experienced driver. The person on the other end of the phone was his son. Normally, this kid would not talk for more than a few minutes when he called him. So the uncle did not use the headset and answered the phone with one hand.
Now that Luo Xi reminded him, he smiled awkwardly, "Yes, yes, little girl, you are right to remind me, thank you."
"You're welcome."
The fat uncle switched the phone to earphone mode, but his fingers were too fat and he accidentally clicked the speakerphone. His son's voice burst out -
"Dad, who are you talking to over there? This voice sounds so familiar..."
"Yeah, it's a customer of La."
The fat uncle muttered in his heart whether his son was restless. Why did he say that he was familiar with a girl's voice? It was too cliché. He reached out to turn off the speakerphone, but was interrupted by his son's scream.
"Ahhhh, I remember why it sounds so familiar, this is the voice of my goddess!!!"
"Dad, Dad, is the customer you are attracting my goddess!?"
"Dad, please say something! Even if it's not the goddess, the voice is too similar!"
"Dad, ask your customer to say a few more words, the voice is so similar, I imagine it's the goddess talking to me."
Listening to his son's excited voice, the fat uncle hung up the phone crisply.
It's so embarrassing, what goddess...his son can actually say such shameful words!
After hanging up the phone, the fat uncle explained to Luo Xi awkwardly, "This kid is obsessed with chasing stars. If you ask me, Luo Luo only sings well. What else is good about her? I don't know what's wrong with this kid. He starts to chase stars at such a young age!"
Luo Xi hesitated slightly, "It's Luo Xi. Besides singing, she is also very beautiful, especially beautiful."
The fat uncle suddenly felt that he couldn't continue the conversation.
What's wrong with young people nowadays? Is it really okay to be so superficial and only look at the face! Can good looks be considered an advantage? Why do girls need to be so beautiful? Are they spirits?
He thought this little girl was a good kid who didn't chase stars, but he didn't expect that she seemed to be a fan who was hiding very deeply. She even knew that she was beautiful.
Just then the phone rang again, and the fat uncle naturally skipped this embarrassing topic.
It was his son who called again, repeating the same few sentences over and over again, wondering if his father was lucky enough to pick up his goddess. He vowed that as a die-hard fan, he couldn't have heard it wrong, and asked his father to turn on the video, so that he could see the goddess.
The fat uncle thought his son was crazy, and shouted angrily: "See what? If you fail again this semester, I will beat your ass!"
After shouting, the fat uncle hung up neatly.
No one spoke in the car for a while. Noticing Luo Xi's vague gaze, the fat uncle thought he had scared the girl and said embarrassedly: "My kid is too naughty. He won't listen to nice words and insists on being tough. Don't be surprised."
Luo Xi seriously suggested: "That's because the education is not strong enough. A good beating can change his temper. If it doesn't work once, beating him a few more times will definitely work."
The fat uncle: "..."
His eyes twitched, and he muttered to himself what's wrong with children nowadays. How can a girl who looks weak and gentle be so violent.
...
The awkward conversation couldn't continue, so the two of them simply stopped talking.
Halfway through the car, the fat uncle muttered in confusion, "When was this road built? I've never seen this fork in the road before."
Luo Xi looked up and saw that the road ahead was actually divided into two, like a Y-shaped fork in the road.
The fat uncle followed the route in his memory and drove to the right out of habit.
Luo Xi suddenly patted him and said, "Drive to the middle."
"Middle? There is no road in the middle!"
The fat uncle looked at her in surprise, "Little girl, don't give me orders, there is no road in the middle. You should turn right where you want to go. I didn't take a detour."
As he said, he turned his head and glanced at Luo Xi with a little dissatisfaction.
As a result, this glance scared him. The girl who was wrapped up very tightly in the co-pilot seat was actually writing and drawing on yellow paper.
She looked like a charlatan drawing talismans in a TV series! Do
young people nowadays not only like to chase stars, but also have the hobby of pretending to be gods?
Since his son fell in love with that Luo Luo, he got a statue of the god to worship, and kept recommending it to himself. His piety made him feel sick.
I paid for him to go to college. He was a good successor of socialism, but he started to engage in feudal superstition! All the books he had read for so many years were useless!
He thought his son was a special case, but he didn't expect that this girl had gone beyond worshipping gods and directly started to develop into a charlatan.