"So Wenqin made some modifications to you, making you stronger but more likely to lose control, and placed you in a densely populated area of the port city, making you a haunted spot?" Bai Wan asked curiously.
Huang Lingling swung her feet and nodded obediently.
At this time, one day had passed since the night when Chi Shen became a god.
Bai Wan, the Cabinet Ghost, and Ghost Face, or River Spirit, sat together on the terrace by Chi Shen, asking Huang Lingling questions. Next to them was Xiao Yuan, whose shoulders and legs were fixed, and who was staring at Yuan Yiping, who was drinking tea calmly.
Huang Lingling briefly talked about what she had encountered before. Before going to the hot spring hotel, she was captured by Bai Ximing's people. She gave some information about Chi Shen to protect herself, and then was sent to Wenqin, who transformed her. According to her, Wenqin had transformed many ghosts. Those multi-headed ghosts were all made by Wenqin in order to quickly create ghosts that could fight. He stitched up the ghosts and expanded their resentment. He also made every ghost made in this way his child, and those ghosts called him dad.
As for Huang Lingling, she was already strong enough because she had received the ghost energy from Chi Shen. That was why she was not stitched up. Instead, she was made even stronger by increasing her resentment, and directly turned into a fierce ghost that could materialize her own spiritual world.
He Ling also pretended to bring a cup of tea and looked at Huang Lingling: "And you used the last bit of your sanity to bring everyone who entered your ghostly aura into your world, so they were able to survive?"
Huang Lingling nodded again and added, "Chi Shen will definitely not take me to the amusement park, so I have to do something. Now he has agreed to take me there when he recovers a little."
The wind blew in from the terrace, and the plum tree that was shining with Buddha's light was half-open, and a fragrance drifted over. The ghosts that lived here before were a little afraid of the plum tree, but at this moment everyone was very calm, and no one paid attention to the tree anymore, but were all looking at Huang Lingling.
"But Chi Shen is so weak now, and I don't know when he will recover," Huang Lingling held her chin with her hands and looked at the living room, "But it doesn't matter, I won't dislike him!"
He Ling's eyes swept across the water tanks on the terrace, and he finally moved his gaze to the living room: "Why do they have a meeting for so long? I'm hungry."
Bai Wan looked back at the plum tree in surprise, because she found that she could smell fragrance, but ghosts should not be able to smell fragrance. She looked at her almost transparent body again and laughed: "Can spirits get hungry too?"
"I'll be spiritually hungry!" He Ling defended.
In the living room, Chi Shen was discussing what to do in the future with Ji Xingchen, Zhang Yao and Zhong Yi, and Zhou Xun was listening.
Before that, Chi Shen roughly explained the current situation, which was that there was nothing. They had to start from scratch and create their own way out of hell. They had to start all over again, including the cycle of yin and yang, and the judgment of good and evil.
Zhong Yi is a representative of the Special Security Bureau. Originally, the people who participated in the recollection should have been more senior people in the Special Security Bureau, but Chi Shen felt that those people were too troublesome and fussy, and Zhong Yi was simple, direct and easy to communicate with, so he chose Zhong Yi.
However, before discussing how to rebuild hell, everyone was still curious about what had happened before.
Zhou Xun asked first: "Brother Shen, how did you come up with the idea of using the Internet as a medium to contact your life retirement office? But isn't there an old hell? Why do you still want to set up a life retirement office?"
"The management method must keep pace with the times. I studied the previous methods of entering hell, such as ghost messengers, which are too troublesome and will miss a lot of things. I think reducing manpower and realizing automation is the best option. It just so happens that I am in this industry, so it is very convenient to find someone to model and then find a cloud server to upload it."
Chi Shen calmly answered Zhou Xun's questions. He looked listless, half leaning on the sofa, holding a cup of hot milk with his eyes downcast. Ji Xingchen also considerately covered him with a small blanket.
Ji Xingchen poured a cup of tea for everyone. Hot tea for the living and cold tea for the dead. As for Zhou Xun's cup, he chose hot tea himself.
"He created a retirement place for Ji Xingchen." Zhang Yao answered Zhou Xun's second question, "The future I saw was not very good. In order to find a future that I had not calculated, he created another world."
"Is it possible?" Zhou Xun scratched his hair. "I thought your predictions were invincible. I didn't expect you also have weaknesses!"
Zhang Yao smiled and said, "Do you want to try it?"
Zhou Xun looked at Chi Shen's depressed look and quickly shook his head: "I can't do it. I can't do it."
Zhang Yao also looked at Chi Shen and asked him, "How do you feel now?"
"I can't tell you, but I can try." Chi Shen raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Yao. He said softly: "Zhang Yao, I grant you the ability to know the past and the power to judge good and evil."
At that moment, everyone present seemed to hear a loud bell sound. The bell sound seemed to span eternity, transcend time, and come straight from the beginning of time. It rang in everyone's ears and made everyone tremble.
Zhang Yao was even more shocked. She blinked and looked at Ji Xingchen, then at Zhou Xun.
No one said anything, just looked at her.
After almost a minute, Zhang Yao murmured, "I... I can see many things again. Although I knew your past a long time ago, it's different now. Everything you do is marked on you in the form of good and evil. This... This is not calculation, this is the ability to 'see'."
Zhou Xun listened in a daze. He turned around and looked at Chi Shen in disbelief: "Is this your new ability? I can't sense any ghost energy from you. I really thought you were hollowed out. How can you be so powerful now?!"
Chi Shen sat up slightly and touched his chin: "I don't think this should be called ability, this should be called my authority. It is the legacy from the previous ghost king after I inherited hell. To put it simply, this is the power of God."
Zhou Xun's jaw dropped as he listened. He then asked, "Then why are you still acting like you've been drained?"
Chi Shen raised his eyes and glanced at Zhou Xun.
Zhou Xun immediately shrank back and changed his words: "Uh... you look very weak."
Ji Xingchen calmly explained beside him: "He is still sad that he wants to be 007."
"Is that so?" Zhou Xun nodded after thinking about it, and then asked, "Since I also came from that place, do we both have the qualifications to become the Lord of Hell?"
Zhang Yao said: "In theory, yes."
Zhou Xun showed a lewd smile: "Well, since you don't want to do it, how about just let me do it, hehehe..."
Zhong Yi, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up at this moment to show his presence: "On behalf of the Special Security Bureau, I refuse. We only trust Chi Shen."
Zhou Xun was discouraged: "We can't do this..."
After Zhong Yi finished speaking, he also asked his own question: "You actually have the ability to reshape hell, why didn't you reshape it from the beginning?"
Hearing this question, Chi Shen's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a seemingly happy smile, and he asked: "Is this good for me?"
"You can become the god of hell and possess the power of a god..." Zhong Yi's voice suddenly became a little softer. He suddenly remembered that Chi Shen didn't seem to care about this. He changed his tone and said, "If hell is reopened, there will be fewer ghosts in the world, and yin and yang will recycle. The number of ghosts harming people can be greatly reduced."
Chi Shen tilted his head: "Is this good for me?"
Zhong Yi was stuck. This didn't seem to be a good thing for Chi Shen, but he had learned to ask back: "Then why did you choose to reshape hell in the end? I guess the people of Gangcheng being devoured by ghosts has nothing to do with you."
Chi Shen smiled, his brows and eyes were gentle: "This is good for me."
Ji Xingchen refilled Zhong Yi's tea. Zhong Yi watched the tea leaves floating in the cup, then looked up at Ji Xingchen and suddenly understood something.
His brows were originally furrowed, but suddenly they relaxed. He shook his head in self-mockery: "I don't think I can say anything."
"If there are no other questions, I suggest we talk business first." Ji Xingchen said on the side, "Zhang Yao accepted the ability given by Chi Shen, so are you willing to serve in the court of the Life Retirement Department? The salary and benefits can be discussed later."
Zhang Yao was silent. She took a few sips of the cold tea and said, "I know it. Okay, I'll do it."
Ji Xingchen looked at Zhong Yi again: "Right now, the Retirement Department is in urgent need of civil servants. Although some people from the Special Security Bureau died in the Gangcheng incident and can be used to fill the vacancies, the vacancies are still very serious. I hope you can ask the Special Security Bureau if there is anyone willing to come and do a part-time job. We can improve his posthumous treatment, and he can go back to reunite with his family during holidays, so that he can have a stable job both before and after his death."
Zhong Yi was also silent. He took a sip of hot tea and then said, "I'll go back and discuss this with the elders. Can you come up with something more pleasant to say?"
"Sure," Ji Xingchen pushed up his glasses, "We very much welcome the staff of the Special Security Bureau to join Hell."
Zhong Yi choked on the tea, coughed twice, and waved his hands: "Forget it, forget it."
Chi Shen held the hot milk in his arms, listened to their meeting and nodded: "That's it, is there anything else you want to say? If not, then we'll adjourn the meeting."
"I have something to say," Zhong Yi raised his hand and threw a thick stack of documents on the table, "This is the material that the Special Security Bureau asked me to bring. I hope you——"
"Two sentences." Chi Shen interrupted him without even raising his eyelids.
Zhong Yi spoke quickly: "I hope you can leave a way to contact Hell, so that we can have someone to turn to when something happens, and notify us of any actions taken by Hell."
Chi Shen nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll hire two more operators for the retirement consultation hotline."
"Wait." Zhou Xun pointed at himself, "What about me? What's the point of me coming to this meeting?"
Chi Shen thought for a moment and said, "Listen in."
Zhou Xun: “Ah?”
Chi Shen: "If you want to hear that I haven't found a reason to kick you out, that's fine."
Zhou Xun: “…”
Chi Shen: "Wait until you graduate from college. We don't recruit people with high school diplomas."
Zhou Xun: “…”
Chi Shen: "But we have internship positions here, looking for college students to work part-time. There is no salary, but we will issue internship certificates."
Zhou Xun's eyes suddenly lit up: "Is there really an internship certificate?"
Chi Shen nodded straightly: "Really, what are you here for?"
Zhou Xun: “Fuck!”
"Then I will take you to play in Gangcheng in a couple of days. Now you can go visit hell and get familiar with the process. Okay, I'll open the gate of hell for you. Good night." Chi Shen staggered and walked to the terrace.
Zhou Xun looked at the security door that suddenly appeared and fell into deep thought.
Ji Xingchen turned into a black shadow and followed Chi Shen.
"I can revive you right now, and let you become the Ji Xingchen who is so outstanding in the eyes of others, and realize your ideals when you were alive," Chi Shen suddenly said after walking out of the terrace door. He tilted his head to look at his own shadow and asked, "Do you want to be resurrected?"
"This is a decision you can make." Ji Xingchen's voice came from the shadows.
Chi Shen laughed.
"Ji Xingchen, you will always be by my side, until hell collapses, until you and I are annihilated."
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