Chapter 67 Chapter 67 The drunken fingertips tapped him...
"... As it should be, as it should be."
Perhaps it was the midday sun that entered the house. The warm light warmed Lu Da's hands and his body quickly became warm. He felt numb all over his body just now, but he just thought it was painful and didn't take it seriously.
Miss Bai is about to start asking for price.
Lu Da cooperated very well and immediately asked his secretary to come over and bring in the surveillance playback for them to watch.
The three of them sat in the tea room and watched the replay.
The screen was facing Lu Da.
He adjusted the progress himself, fast-forwarding to the part of pouring tea, then slowed down the video with a smile, and introduced it to the two people next to him: "Here it is, start brewing tea."
Ao Teng stood beside Bai Qingqing and moved behind her, away from Lu Da.
Normal people don’t usually pay much attention to the state of their lives.
The first playback of brewing tea was playing. Lu Da watched it carefully, but didn't notice anything wrong. He even stretched out his hand to gesture: "Uh... I think this is how I usually do it. I am not very good at seeing, so I can't seem to see anything different..."
Bai Qingqing put her hands behind her back and slapped away her uncle's hand that was grabbing her clothes: "Boss Lu, please look behind you."
Lu Da dragged the progress bar back and saw that he was pouring tea in the video. He dragged it back a little and the video started playing normally again.
He stared at the screen with a serious expression, but still couldn't see anything wrong.
Bai Qingqing didn't say anything, so he counted by himself: "This is the second time, let's see later..." Then he turned to the third time, the fourth time... adding water and tea.
Lu Da had a smile on his face and a gentle look in his eyes. He didn't feel anything wrong while watching the surveillance video and his eyes became more and more appreciative.
He had never appreciated his own tea art before, but he didn't expect that now he looked quite elegant.
After the surveillance video was played, Bai Qingqing leaned forward and looked at the surveillance background.
The surveillance camera that Ms. Lu bought was very good, and the backend system was quite intelligent. She selected several shots of pouring tea based on several time points in her memory and put them on a screen.
He poured tea five times in total and added water once. Then, when he poured tea for the sixth time, Ao Teng declined, so he added more tea for himself.
The six small windows are slowed down and played simultaneously on one screen.
The body postures and gestures of the six Lu Das when they stretched out their hands suddenly became different.
Ao Teng is the president of a film and television entertainment company. Although he cannot act, he has evaluated the body shape and performance of his actors together with professional teachers. When he watched Lu Da's video again, he keenly noticed that something was wrong.
Of course, every time a person performs the same action, the posture will not be exactly the same.
But it won't change the temperament and subtle expressions as well.
Ao Teng unconsciously looked at the smiling and silent Lu Da with a scrutinizing look.
Bai Qingqing pointed at the six brown figures on the screen and said, "The first time you poured me tea, it was a way of hospitality as the general manager of Dawen Electronics. This is you."
"The second time I added tea, you said there was something wrong with your supplier, but why did you look at the pattern on the teapot a few more times, as if you were seeing it for the first time?"
In the second video, Lu Da repeats the action of pouring tea at 0.5 times the speed. It can be clearly seen that he is looking at the pattern on the teapot with a raised eyebrow and a smile on his lips.
The rest are similar.
People have a purpose for everything they do. Even for the same action of pouring tea, Lu Da's starting point is almost always different.
Especially since they were still talking, Lu Da's attention should not be on pouring tea.
For Mr. Lu, who was surrounded by several auras, there was only one possibility -
Lu Damu had a wooden face, the tiny smile on the corner of his mouth had long disappeared, and for the first time, a look of panic appeared in his eyes. He clearly heard a buzzing sound in his ears, blocking his five senses.
In the past few days, the feeling of dissociation between emotional thinking and rationality has occurred frequently.
He always felt that he was the one who was anxious.
If Huazhi does not continue to cooperate, they will lose their largest customer. As the largest investor in Dawen Electronic Technology Research, Bai Group is not clear about its subsequent investment intentions in them.
If the funds and supply are interrupted, Dawen will be finished.
When people are in extreme anxiety, they often have a vague sense of separation from the current situation.
This is normal.
Over the years, Dawen Electronics has been in crisis more than once or twice. Lu Da is familiar with this vague feeling, but Miss Bai said that this is a sign that he is possessed by a ghost?
Lu Da felt it was ridiculous and stared at the screen. Looking at the fourth small window, he suddenly glanced at President Ao, lowered his head, pursed his lips and smiled, unable to say anything else.
He was still talking to Miss Bai the last second.
Why did she suddenly look at Ao Teng and give him a shy smile?
Why are you shy?
The buzzing sound in his ears grew louder, and the hazy layer of rice paper covering his self-awareness became extremely thin with each breath, and the barrier almost disappeared.
Now Lu Da was really panicked. Even the nerves on his cheeks felt numb. He could feel several nerves in his body beating obviously, rushing to his limbs and torso, and lingering in different places in his body.
He avoided looking at Ao Teng, clenched his fists nervously, and asked Bai Qingqing: "Ms. Bai... then what should I do now?"
Bai Qingqing asked in a clear voice: "Mr. Lu, do you know how many people are with you?"
The girl's voice was like the sound of a jade chime, clear and pure, splitting the chaos in his mind and revealing a ray of clarity. When Lu Da heard her steady voice, his heart inexplicably calmed down, and he pointed his hand and eyes at the screen:
"Lu's number... is it five?"
Yes, five.
But if we count Ma Hongfei, who has left Lu Da's body and his soul has been scattered, there are only four in his body.
"There are four. The first and sixth pictures are both of you, Mr. Lu." Bai Qingqing smiled and said, "Fifty per person. Mr. Lu, you have two million."
"Okay, okay, two million for four people." Lu Da nodded repeatedly. He would do whatever Bai Qingqing said.
Having only four ghosts in the body is definitely better than having five. One less is one less.
Lu Da breathed a sigh of relief, but thinking about the four ghosts in his body, he was still worried: "Can you ask Master Bai to go to my house again? I feel that the magnetic field in my house is not right. Can you help me perform a ritual to purify it?"
Even if the customer doesn't mention it, looking after the residential property is a supporting business.
But since the customer took the initiative to bring it up, then...
"I'll take a total of 2.5 million from you." Bai Qingqing said with a smile.
*
Entering Lu Da's house, it feels new but familiar.
Last time, he used a talisman to bring Shen Tang directly to the yard. This time, he came in from the main gate, followed Lu Da, and walked all the way to the place where he had been lying on the ground all night.
"I lay down here, in this place," Lu Da explained with great emotion, tapping the toes of his crocodile leather shoes on the ground. "It's in this position."
"I was walking along that road, and halfway through I suddenly turned in front of this pond. I seemed to see something in the surveillance video, but the camera didn't capture anything. I had no memory of what was happening before..."
After Lu Da introduced the two locations, he began to rehearse them for Bai Qingqing and Ao Teng to see. He walked along the road that suddenly turned in his surveillance video, with his hands still clenched, pretending to have taken the luggage bag.
He turned toward the pond and said, "We stopped here."
Lu Da stopped and looked up, seeing Bai Qingqing and Ao Teng standing in front of him. Facing Miss Bai's face, he felt a little dazed for a moment, and felt...
Seemingly familiar.
Lu Da stood there for a while, staring at Bai Qingqing's face. Ao Teng saw that he suddenly stopped moving and asked softly, "Boss Lu, what do you remember?"
The memory scene was interrupted and Lu Da came back to his senses.
Feeling that a scene seems familiar is also a normal physiological phenomenon, called déjà vu.
He calmed himself down and continued in an excited tone, "I ran all over the yard, but - it was strange! It seemed like someone was chasing me. This is what I've been dreaming about recently. There was a man who looked like a bandit, slashing me with a knife, and there was a fire all around me. I was running for my life."
"I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the surveillance video showed me jumping into the pond with a splash, and I lay there by the pond all night."
"Then let's burn it here." Bai Qingqing interrupted him.
It seemed that Lu Da still had a lot of emotions that he wanted to express. The police were investigating and asked him about the situation, but the police handled cases based on science and evidence.
He mentioned his nightmares, but the police confirmed that no one had hypnotized him and no benzodiazepines were detected in his system, so they completely ignored this direction of investigation.
Lu Da had a lot of strange experiences in his mind but no one to tell them about.
He had hoped to use Miss Bai to save face in front of Bai Shuting, but unexpectedly, he now expressed his ups and downs, touching experience, as well as his well-founded suspicions to Miss Bai.
Lu Da was speaking very excitedly, but was choked by Bai Qingqing's sudden words "burn here".
"Burning here? What to burn?" Lu Da calmed down and quickly realized that Miss Bai was going to perform a ritual. He responded, "You want to burn yellow paper, right? Wait a minute, I'll ask someone to prepare it now. Tell me what else you want."
"Don't bother. I just want to burn the clothes you were wearing when you bumped into the customer that day. Please give them up, Mr. Lu. I'll burn them here."
Lu Da reacted for a moment, nodded quickly, made a phone call, and asked someone to bring the clothes he wore that day to the yard.
After a few days, the dark yellow suit and shirt had obviously been washed and ironed.
Bai Qingqing followed the position that Lu Da pointed out where he had lain all night, and arranged his clothes, pants, and shoes on the ground in a human shape. He put his suit jacket over his shirt, but did not take his leather shoes. After returning them to Lu Da, he pretended to ask:
"Mr. Lu, are you sure you are lying in this place?"
“Ok, ok!”
If the surveillance video had not been taken away by the police and he had not had time to back it up, he would have shown the video directly to Miss Bai.
Bai Qingqing asked the two men to step back, took out a lighter from her pocket, and lit the two trouser legs of her suit pants. The blue-red flames climbed up along the fabric of the suit. In a few blinks of an eye, the blazing flames licked the entire suit, as if burning a living person on the spot!
The bright firelight was reflected in Lu Da's eyes.
He thought of his dream and his heart began to pound. His suit was made of pure wool and would not catch fire so quickly. But the fire that Miss Bai ignited was like oil was poured on it and a big fire broke out.
The heat of the flames and the smell of smoke forced him back.
Bai Qingqing squatted beside the fire, not afraid of being burned at all. She raised her hands that were hanging at her sides, made a strange gesture with her right hand, and made some patterns in the air with her left hand. She lowered her head so that no one could see her face clearly.
All we know is that her face was illuminated red by the close-up firelight. After a moment, she retracted her hands at the same time and slapped the ground with both palms!
The smoke and dust transformed from the suit fabric rose up in an instant, and was swept into the air by the sudden wind. The unburned fragments still had curled flames and were almost blown away by the wind.
Bai Qingqing took out a yellow talisman and lit it with the help of the flames passing through the air. The cloth, which had almost turned into ashes and scattered everywhere, seemed to have suddenly found a direction and flew in four clear directions.
Luda opened his eyes wide in shock.
Seeing Bai Qingqing standing opposite him, he no longer had any doubts in his mind. He stood there dumbfounded, his lips parted.
Fine particles of smoke, streaked with orange-red flames, danced between the two people.
Lu Da looked at Bai Qingqing's face.
"Boss Lu, nothing happens without a reason in this world. Even if your soul is gone and only an empty shell is left here, you shouldn't let these passing ghosts come and go and possess your body."
"But you are a healthy and alive person now. Logically, it is impossible for this to happen."
Lu Da's eyelids twitched ominously and his eyes became solemn. He felt that Miss Bai had something else to say.
But she was staring at him, her eyes clearly looking as if she was thinking. Lu Da was anxious, fearing that something bad might happen later, so he quickly spread out his hands and turned around for Bai Qingqing to see:
"Miss Bai, have we completed this exorcism? Is there any dirt on my body now?"
Bai Qingqing didn't answer, but just asked him: "Mr. Lu, have you come across anything underground recently?"
The scattered ashes flew out of the yard, and the remaining black and gray fragments formed a circle under the feet of the two people.
Lu Da's expression became even more puzzled, but his gaze unconsciously fell to the extremely standard circle on the ground.
He wished he hadn't lowered his head and seen this circle. He was even more panicked than before, and said with a gloomy face, "Miss Bai, just say what you want to say. I'm stupid. Please be more specific. What underground things are there? Give me an example!"
Ao Teng reminded: "In the tomb."
They are in the film and television entertainment industry, as well as businessmen. Many bosses have handled things from underground. They either robbed the tombs themselves or wanted to hire someone to open the door and take them home.
Lu Da is engaged in scientific research, but he is also doing business. Dawen Electronics is well-known throughout the country. He doesn't believe that Lu Da has never been exposed to it. Even if people around him have been exposed to it, he will know a little about it through osmosis.
The two of them looked at him with four eyes. Lu Da understood and shook his head vigorously: "No, I absolutely abide by the law and have never touched anything down there."
There were only three of them in the yard, and Lu Da said bluntly: "How dare you resell or steal national cultural relics!"
Ao Teng helped him to open up his mind: "Did someone give it to you? It looks like an old item?"
"No, no, I'm not interested in this. I don't even worship in a temple. At most, I kowtow to the machine..." Lu Da was so depressed that he was about to cry. He couldn't figure out where the problem lay.
If he had heard Miss Bai say this when he first met her this morning, he would have thought that Miss Bai was trying to scare him.
But now... this circle that cannot be explained by science is right in front of him. Lu Da is absolutely convinced that he must have touched something dirty at some point.
Lu Da tried desperately to recall: "No, no, at most someone invited me to a resort in the mountains in April or May last year. There was an old temple in that mountain. When we were going up the mountain, my friend took me past the temple and we took a look at the Buddha statue inside. That's all."
"It can't be because I didn't pray, right? My friend didn't pray either!"
"Besides, that was last year. It's not like he's only now getting dirty, right?"
Lu Da spoke with deep emotion.
Bai Qingqing did not see any cause and effect in him and returned her gaze to the circle of ashes in front of her.
"The ritual is complete. Mr. Lu's injuries will get better starting today. Just get more sun, drink more hot water, and don't go to weddings or funerals for the next month."
"Ah?" Lu Da's thoughts were interrupted, and he looked at Bai Qingqing blankly, "What?"
"This... is not about the things under the ground..."
"It doesn't matter if you can't remember. President Lu is safe now, and we can consider this matter over." Bai Qingqing said, scooping a handful of money from the circle and smiling at Lu Da.
Lu Da was still standing there in a daze. His previous eloquence had completely disappeared and he didn't know what to do next.
Bai Qingqing had seen many such customers before, and she knew what was going on when she saw Lu Da's expression. She said considerately, "You can sweep the dust on the floor and clean up the things. It's okay. You can eat, take a shower, and have sex as usual today, and you can go out at night.
What you need to pay attention to is what I just said, you need to avoid weddings and funerals in the next month, and contact me if you have any other questions. "
"We'll say goodbye today." She said and looked at Ao Teng.
Ao Teng also chuckled twice: "Boss Lu, we are leaving now, you just stay."
Lu Da came back to his senses in a daze, and the broken strings in his mind finally connected, and he realized that today was over.
He thought about the precautions that Miss Bai had just mentioned, and his face turned red. He quickly followed the two people, convinced in his heart, and tried to keep them company all the way: "Master Bai has been busy all afternoon, why don't I arrange a restaurant..."
Bai Qingqing looked at Ao Teng.
The ghost in Lu Da had been driven away, and Ao Teng felt much more relieved about Lu Da. He shook the hand he had extended to keep him, patted him on the back, and persuaded him to go back. Then he opened the car door for Bai Qingqing and they got into the back seat together.
Ao Teng let out a long sigh, feeling really tired after walking and standing for two or three hours today.
He smiled proudly, "Our Master Qingqing is really amazing. What he did in the courtyard was so cool!"
"Why did you just use a sticky note to write the talisman for me before? If you use yellow paper and cinnabar, will the talisman be more powerful?"
"I should be filming a modern urban metaphysical drama! Qingqing, I don't think anyone can play your style! Why don't you play the leading female role? I will tailor a script for you that is perfect for you!"
Bai Qingqing was sitting by the window on the other side of the car, and saw Ao Teng get excited and move over the seat towards her, with one hand on the middle of the soft leather seat.
She raised her eyes and said, "Uncle, you are pressing the living soul, move to the side."
Ao Teng: "...what?"
Bai Qingqing pointed at the empty space between the two of them, looked at Ao Teng, waved her finger at the window on his side, and smiled: "There's someone alive here, let's work overtime and send him back."
Ao Teng:!!!
…
As soon as Bai Qingqing left, Lu Da transferred another 3.5 million to her.
Previously, in Lu Da's office at Wen Electronics, they negotiated the price in front of the surveillance camera, and 2.5 million was settled on the spot. Now, Lu Da sent her a WeChat message about this money, saying that 2.5 million didn't sound good, so he would make up 6 million as a thank you.
When Lu Da invited Miss Bai, he had a psychological expectation in advance.
If Miss Bai asked for less, he would definitely give more. If Miss Bai asked for too much, he would try his best to grit his teeth and see if he could get her.
I didn't expect that this time the money was given sincerely.
Bai Qingqing asked Ao Teng to transfer the extra money back.
Although she let Ma Hongfei possess Lu Da's body to settle the karma of his ancestors of the Lu family, it must be said that Lu Da's subsequent possession by a wild ghost was more or less related to this evil spirit entering his body.
Ao Teng didn't ask the reason, he just turned when Qingqing asked him to.
The money was returned to Mr. Lu on the spot.
Lu Da sighed softly as he looked at the money that was returned to him in less than two minutes.
The Bai family's biological daughter, who was just found in the countryside, was generous enough to refuse more than three million yuan.
But no matter whether Miss Bai accepts the money today or not, he can't let Miss Bai ask Bai Shuting for it again.
He will have to find another way to deal with the Dawen Electronics issue.
*
The music on the dance floor was blasting.
The colorful neon lights were like flowing liquids, flashing continuously along with the rhythm of the music. The lights jumped rapidly in the air, illuminating the dancing bodies in the crowd in flickering lights.
The dazzling beam of light penetrated the smoke emanating from the corner of the stage, pushing the frenetic rhythm to a climax. Excited shouts came from the crowd. Everyone looked at the woman on the dance floor platform. With a neat move, she jumped off the stage, covered her ears with a smile, and squeezed out of the crowd.
"What's going on? It's private entertainment time now, OK?"
The music in the bar was too loud, and she couldn't hear what was being said on the other end of the phone. The woman walked over to her friends, high-fived them, took the glass of wine handed to her by her friend, drank it all in one gulp, and listened to the buzzing sound of the phone:
"Text me, I can't hear you at all."
Her friends approached her and hugged her: "We agreed to welcome you today. It's been five years since we last met. Lanlan, baby, you are not allowed to answer the phone or talk about work."
"Hang up, hung up." Gu Lan showed her the interface of the phone being hung up, turned off the phone in front of her, put it in her small handbag, and pinched her friend's face: "I'm going to the bathroom first."
"Come back quickly, I called the handsome boy!"
Gu Lan waved behind her, her seven-inch stiletto heels clicking on the smooth ground.
The lights from the dance floor shone from the ceiling to the dim and ambiguous booths, and swept across the golden snake that was connected head to tail on Gu Lan's neck, refracting the snake's scales into a fine and lively glow.
Bai Mincheng stood at the door of the bathroom.
He locked eyes with the woman approaching from the end of the corridor.
The sound of the music had weakened a lot when it reached the corridor, but the vibration of the drums still seemed to make my heart beat fast.
The sound of the stiletto heels hitting the ground should be inaudible.
But he clearly felt that the voice was getting bigger in his ears.
Until he passed the woman walking towards him, he suddenly felt a force behind him, which grabbed his hand, pulled him into the box next to him, and pushed him against the wall.
There was no light on in the dark room. Only the light from the corridor leaked in from outside the door, illuminating the face of the woman in front of him who was holding his arms.
She raised her head slightly, and the straight beam of light outlined a beautiful light and shadow on her delicate and tall nose. The hand that was holding his left arm slid up his arm, and her fingertips rested behind his ear.
Bai Mincheng held his breath, lowered his eyes and frowned.
The light that hit the bridge of the woman's nose in front of him dissipated downwards, and the afterglow faded when it swept to her neck. In the dim light, one could still see a pair of diamond-encrusted snake eyes, emitting a cold light.
——QuantumEdge Technologies, CTO, Gu Lan.
[I only remember that she was wearing a Bulgari snake watch.]
Gu Lan touched his earlobe with her drunken fingertips, a very satisfied smile on her face, and she easily let go of the man as he pushed her away.
When he was about to leave, he hooked his long legs and pulled the man in front of him back to him.
Bai Lincheng looked down at the tips of Gu Lan's high heels on the ground, then tilted his head and looked out the door. Bai Qingqing's voice, like a monologue, echoed in his ears.
[In an empty box next to the bar's restroom, hooking up...]
【He was detained.】
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