Chapter 10
When Zhou Du met Li Yang on his way down the mountain, he was beating a ghost.
Yang Yongde led the way and raided the wanted criminal's hiding place in Chengyun Mountain.
The old hand who taught them how to curry favor with the emperor was the leader of the den. When he saw Yang Yongde coming with the underworld messenger, he was quite indignant, thinking, “It was you who led the imperial army here?”
Li Yang started a fight with them, not letting any of them go, and pocketed all the profits.
Zhou Du appeared and happened to run into Li Yang who was dealing with the last little ghost.
He chased the fleeing ghost all the way to the stone steps on the mountain path, and finally caught it, knocking it down with two or three punches. At that moment, the corner of its clothes was blown by the wind caused by its punching, revealing a white and thin waist in the moonlight.
Zhou Du narrowed his eyes slightly.
Li Yang stepped on the wanted ghost, holding an old phone in his hand, with a youthful look between his eyebrows, "Are you still running?"
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I'm going back to the underworld..." The little devil put his face on the ground and weakly raised a little white flag.
When that yang energy came over, it felt like meat on a grill, sizzling and smoking. If it refused to go back, it would be burned to death.
Li Yang opened the entrance, threw the little ghost in, and glanced at the shivering Yang Yongde.
Yang Yongde immediately said, "I'll go in by myself!" As he stepped in, he reminded pitifully, "Sir, please remember to plead for me!"
Li Yang nodded at the passage before it disappeared.
The APP automatically refreshed the points and performance, and Li Yang felt relaxed. Catching wanted ghosts is easy, it can stretch your muscles and bones, and you won't be punished - the underworld tacitly approves the violent law enforcement against wanted criminals.
And the points are high. The ones Yang Yongde sold were all old fugitives.
Since Li Yang moved into the kindergarten, there has been no ghosts in the wilderness, and transportation is not convenient, so business has been much worse. Last month, it barely reached the passing line because the annual Zhongyuan Festival happened at the end of the month, and too many ghosts escaped. Some thought it was safe to hide in the suburbs, so they secretly opened a ghost market, which was 700 to 800 meters away from the kindergarten.
Unfortunately, when Li Yang went there, he made too much noise, and the ghosts screamed and fled in all directions. Soon more than half of them ran away, and in the end, he could only maintain the minimum points.
I earned half of last month’s money on the first day of September. I feel really good.
Li Yang stared at the wish list in the points mall, silently calculating how much he still needed. He turned around and saw Zhou Du standing next to a rock not far away.
As night fell, countless energy lamps lit up dimly on both sides of the stone steps. A piece of rock protruded from the mountain, and a slender and straight man stood below it. Half of his body was hidden in the shadow, and it was half light and half dark. Li Yang could not see his expression clearly.
Until he came out, his face was relaxed and normal, "Have you finished your walk?"
Zhou Du did not wait for Li Yang to come back from Ciyun Temple, so he called him. The young man answered hurriedly and said he was still taking a walk and would meet at the foot of the mountain, then hung up. After bidding farewell to Master Jingkong and going down the mountain, he met him on the road.
Having been caught, Li Yang didn't plan to hide it anymore. The whole kindergarten was not normal anyway.
He confessed: "Before I started working, I told you I had a part-time job, but it would not affect my normal work. What you just saw was my part-time job."
"Got it. Let's go." Zhou Du walked down the stone steps confidently.
Li Yang followed behind him and suddenly said, "You already knew it, it's in that old park."
He should have also felt the unusual fluctuations of Yin energy, but he had already dealt with it when he rushed over.
The man neither said yes nor denied it. He played dumb as usual, with a hint of frivolity hidden in the end of his calm tone: "Really?"
Back on the school bus, Li Yang pulled on the seat belt, and a large piece of candied haws straw stick was placed in front of him.
"Here you go."
Li Yang took it and casually put it aside.
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Because we had dinner at Ciyu Temple, it was already eight o'clock when the school bus returned to the kindergarten.
The teachers who had agreed to grade summer homework all night were now lying on the sofa watching comedy variety shows. The drinks and snacks on the coffee table were all unpacked. Seeing Zhou Du and Li Yang come in, Lu Xiaoguo, who had a plaster on his ankle, waved his hand holding potato chips and said, "You're back...ah! Why did you buy so many candied haws!"
Li Yang hummed, lowered his head to change his shoes, handed the straw stick in his hand to the excited Lu Xiaoguo, and went upstairs back to his room.
He first sent a WeChat message to Yu Shuang, his superior in the underworld, saying that Yang Yongde, who was arrested today, had made meritorious service while serving his sentence and had performed well, and asked her to add him to the file.
After sending the text, I threw my phone on the bed, grabbed a set of clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower. When I came out, there were more than ten new messages on WeChat.
[Done]
[What’s wrong with you today? Are you ambitious? Are you rushing to meet your KPI on the first day of the month?]
【Didn’t I end up at the bottom of the list last month?】
【（Crying cat head.JPG）】
[I was mocked by Groups 1, 2, 3, and 4]
There are five groups of mortal beings supervising Nanjiang City. Yu Shuang is the leader of the fifth group. She has been at the bottom of the list for ten thousand years and has been mocked by the other four groups more than once or twice.
Li Yang was the man Yu Shuang had met a month ago. At that time, he was still working in the mines. That night, when he was preparing to return to the town after transporting the goods, two miners came. One of them was seriously ill and had to go to the town hospital for treatment. Another worker accompanied him and took care of him.
The mine foreman asked Li Yang to take them to town.
The trucks were originally provided by the miners, so the foreman's orders were reasonable.
The journey down the mountain that night was as normal as usual for Li Yang, and the journey was smooth.
There were two other people in the car, one was sick and sleepy, and the other was nervous and silent.
When they reached the second half of the mountain road, the accompanying worker finally breathed a sigh of relief, started chatting with Li Yang, and offered him a cigarette to cheer him up.
Li Yang didn't take it. He didn't think cigarettes could refresh people. The "fatigue" that smokers relieved by smoking was actually the feeling of emptiness created by nicotine addiction. After smoking a cigarette, they felt satisfied and no longer uncomfortable, so they naturally felt refreshed.
But if you just don't smoke, nothing will happen.
His co-worker laughed at him in a thick dialect accent, then rolled down the window, took a few puffs of smoke, reached outside to flick off the ash, and when he brought his cigarette back, he found that it was almost burned out.
So he lit up another one, took two puffs and finished most of it, muttering in surprise, "How come I finished it so quickly again?"
Li Yang glanced over casually and saw scarlet sparks flickering and devouring the tobacco, as if someone was taking big gulps of it.
However, the cigarette butt was not in the worker's mouth at this moment, and the big brother was observing the cigarette in his hand, wondering why it was gone so quickly.
Li Yang's heart skipped a beat. At the same time, the red light burned out and suddenly went out, leaving only a circle of burnt black cigarette butts.
The worker didn't care and just thought it was blown by the wind. He threw the cigarette butt out, then took out another one and put it in his mouth unsatisfiedly.
Li Yang said, "Don't smoke."
The worker had already lit the fire. He took a deep breath and smiled. Gray smoke burst out of his mouth and nose. "Why are you so nervous?"
Li Yang's face turned cold, "Destroy it for me, immediately."
The worker took out the cigarette pack from his pocket, counted it, and sneered, "Why are you in such a hurry? There are still two left."
Li Yang cursed. The car stopped halfway. He walked around the patient in the middle seat, snatched the pack of cigarettes, grabbed the worker's arm, and looked at him coldly: "Get out of the car."
The worker's expression changed strangely several times, and suddenly he trembled all over, a cold wind blew through his body, and goose bumps began to appear.
Panic appeared on his face, and he didn't seem to understand the motivation of his actions: "What was I doing just now?"
Li Yang let go of him and just told him to close the car window.
He rolled up the window with trembling hands, but when it was halfway up, the sick worker seemed to have his hands and feet bound by something in his sleep, and was struggling in a twisted posture that was inhumane.
The worker pressed his back against the car door and dared not move.
There were many strange things happening in this mine, and the locals knew about it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so nervous at the beginning. Now they really encountered it.
He was so frightened that he became stupid. Li Yang scolded him coldly to wake him up, and told him to tie up the patient's limbs with his coat, accelerate, and send him to the hospital.
But almost, just a little bit.
The worker breathed his last at the hospital gate. The hospital diagnosed his death as sudden death caused by acute myocardial infarction and he was taken to the funeral home that night.
The mine manager would not arrive until the next day, so he asked Li Yang and the accompanying workers to handle the initial matters. The workers' legs were still weak, so Li Yang was the one running around.
As an outstanding employee of Nanjiang City Funeral Home, Yu Shuang was sent here in July to carry out exchange and mutual assistance work.
The deceased's death was strange. Yu Shuang went to ask the workers and found out that the deceased was attacked by an evil spirit before he died. The worker was also attacked twice. If Li Yang hadn't stopped him in time, he would have lost his soul and been taken advantage of by the evil spirit.
The mine manager and relatives who had received the notice arrived during the day to handle the funeral and discuss the pension. Yu Shuang found Li Yang privately. He was smoking outside with the co-worker. The co-worker was sitting on the steps, with cigarette butts all over the floor. The thin young man was leaning against a round brick column, with a cigarette between his fingers, but Yu Shuang knew he didn't smoke. The ash was very long, hanging there, and bent downwards.
"That mountain road has killed many people, but you never thought that something would happen right under your nose. Are you still thinking that if you had gone to the hospital sooner, maybe the person would be fine?"
When Li Yang looked at her, the cigarette ashes fell with the amplitude of his movement, and some of them fell on his clothes. He lowered his head and gently swept them away.
His eyes were indifferent: "What do you want to say?"
Yu Shuang walked over and showed him the screen of her phone. "This is his report. His body was worn down by years of hard work. He had been seriously ill for a long time, but he was reluctant to spend money on a checkup. The original death was set to be a failed rescue in the emergency room last night. The ending is irreversible, and there is no turning point even if it can be reversed, but you did your best at the time."
Li Yang looked at the three red words "Book of Life and Death" on the report without any reaction, as if he had long been aware that there was an existence beyond ordinary people's cognition.
Yu Shuang became even more certain that he could see ghosts and evil spirits, and that he had a natural ability to restrain them.
She asked him if he would consider changing jobs, "Work with me."
Li Yang said he would not consider it. Yu Shuang tore off a piece of paper and wrote down her cell phone number, telling him that she would be back in Nanjiang in three days, and that if he changed his mind during these three days, he could contact her at any time.
Li Yang took the note and put it in his pocket. The next day, he lost his job.
A Taoist priest came to the mine, claiming to be from the Taoist Association, and rushed to deal with the report from Taoist Master Liang Tang. Hearing that something happened the night before, the Taoist priest felt very guilty for not coming earlier, and worked even harder to solve the problem on the mountain road.
The mine, which had invited masters to perform rituals before but to no avail, has this time really relaxed the threshold for freight drivers. Not only has it cancelled the triple salary, but it also requires experienced drivers with a large truck driver's license and a vehicle with more than ten years of driving experience.
Li Yang, who was 19 years old and not even old enough to apply for a large vehicle, was the first to be fired.
Yu Shuang successfully developed downline.
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[I found a job last month, but the location is too remote.] Yin energy can only be found within a certain range, and he can't go out and wander around in the middle of the night every day to try his luck.
Yu Shuang didn't quite believe it: [Is there no one around? ]
Birth, aging, sickness and death are common occurrences. As long as there are people, even the most remote places will find their uses.
【Um. 】
Yu Shuang: […How is that possible! Even if you go to work in the deep mountains and old forests, you will encounter ghosts and not have no business, right? Tell me the truth, where did you go?]
【Working as a school bus driver in a kindergarten. 】
[Nonsense, it is impossible for a kindergarten to be in a remote area! ! ]
Li Yang sent the location over, and Yu Shuang clicked on it angrily. She saw only simple roads and green signs on the location map, and a small location arrow was marked on a "Yangjian Zhengdao Sapling Kindergarten".
Yu Shuang: ………………
So familiar.
[This kindergarten is pretty good. Do a good job.]
[As for finding business at night...you can tell the kindergarten and see if you can borrow a school bus.] After Yu Shuang finished speaking, she couldn't imagine the scene of driving a kindergarten school bus around the city to catch ghosts in the middle of the night.
Li Yang: [No need. I scanned a shared bike and went out to look for one the next night.]
Yu Shuang did not reply. Two minutes later, she shared two URLs.
[This is a forum for metaphysics enthusiasts. People will post supernatural events they have heard of or encountered, but most of them are asking for help. They are asking for feng shui problems at home or wanting to change their luck, but you don't know anything about this. There are also made-up stories, so you need to distinguish and filter them.]
[I recommend this more. This is a super topic of a superhero. His fans will share many places where strange things happen for him to live broadcast. And they are all fresh information. You can go there first and get accurate information. It is better than looking for it aimlessly.]
Li Yang: Is there such a good thing?
He opened the second URL, clicked to download as instructed, followed the host's super topic, and marked the most discussed supernatural locations recently.
With so many people discussing it, it’s likely to be true.
It was 9 o'clock in the evening, and it would be useless to go there too early. Li Yang set the alarm clock for 23:30 and decided to sleep for two hours.
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