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Published at 27th of September 2021 06:29:55 PM


Chapter 17

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Chapter 17 – Some people look like ghosts, and some ghosts look like people.

 

“Don’t be impulsive, you can’t beat him!”

As soon as Lian Xi got out of the elevator, he heard the noises before he even saw his front door. He looked up in surprise and Su Jiao looked back just in time to see him. His housemate opened his eyes wide as if he had seen his savior: “Come and help stop them from fighting, Lian Xi!”

Lian Xi: “…”

He said it was to stop “them” from fighting but actually it was only the tall and skinny guy that lived opposite them that unilaterally wanted to fight with President Lie. His arms and legs were flailing and he angrily wanted to rush over but Su Jiao was desperately trying to hold him down like an octopus, not wanting him to rush to his death. President Lie, dressed all in black, had one hand in his pocket and was gazing at them calmly. Seeing Lian Xi come back, President Lie even had time to glance over at him. 

In the dimly lit corridor, only two young men were clawing at each other and the man in black on the side looked down at them indifferently, watching with cold eyes.

What was going on?

Lian Xi walked up and pulled them apart: “What’s happened?” 

The young guy sneered and said to Lian Xi: “What’s happened? From ages ago, I’ve heard people in the village say that the people from the city are different. They don’t visit each other and don’t even say hello to each other. But still, you don’t have to scold someone as soon as you meet, right? Your housemate,” he pointed to President Lie, “The first time we meet, he tells me to reincarnate?! Listen, is this human talk? What the hell does he mean, tell him to make it clear to me!”

Lian Xi’s head felt big. He apologized again and again, and then turned to ask Su Jiao: “What happened?”

Su Jiao cried and said, “What do you mean?”

Then Lian Xi heard the sequence of events from Su Jiao.

Lian Xi’s eyelids twitched, he calmed down his thunderous neighbor and walked over President Lie.

The extremely cold eyebrows were gently furrowed and Lie Chen looked at the young man who walked in front of him with a calm expression. But before Lian Xi could speak, he spoke first, very concisely: “He’s not human.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Su Jiao:”……”

The guy who lived opposite: “You’re not human, your whole family isn’t human!”

“Oh?” Lie Chen curled his mouth and smiled softly. He raised his eyes and scanned the violent and angry young guy and his dark eyes pulsed with cold light. When he flipped his left hand, a thin golden purple album appeared in his palm. The guy opposite them saw this scene and was stunned. Subconsciously, he said: “You…” 

At this moment, the cool air in the corridor suddenly plummeted in temperature. A chill came that seemed to have climbed up from the depths of hell that chilled the bones, the upper back and made the scalp go numb!

The lights flickered and dimmed, and the wind seemed to howl.

The golden album leaping in purple light floated slightly in the air. The mighty and terrifying majestic momentum descended and everyone couldn’t help but want to bow their heads.

“The world of the living has its pathway, and the world of the dead has no doorway…”

“Return!” The thin and slender fingers pressed lightly and fixedly on the golden album.

Suddenly the narrow corridor filled with golden light. It rose up into the sky, majestic and unstoppable!

The young guy opened his eyes wide in horror and even Lian Xi and Su Jiao’s gazes sunk.

A ray of noble and steady purple light appeared amidst the golden light, rushing like a sky spirit towards the guy that lived opposite them. Everyone held their breath and the guy standing at his door opened his eyes in shock and horror, and then…

Lie Chen: “…”

Lian Xi: “…”

Su Jiao and the guy who lived across from them: “…”

The golden light dissipated. 

Everything went back to normal.

There was a long silence.

Lie Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at the album in his hand.

Jin Zhen Yu Guang Zi Wen: “…” {Name of Lie Chen’s book, it literally : “True Gold Jade Light Purple Words”}

It’s got nothing to do with me!

The guy that lived opposite them: “Fuck! Who are you? What is this! What the hell, I’m going to call the police! I’m going to call the police!” 

Lian Xi immediately stepped forward and smiled: “It’s nothing, it’s all just a  misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding my ass! A book flew up, it flew up! You see it’s still flying now, it’s still flying! There is also that light, the golden light and purple light. What the hell is this, I’m going to call the police, I’m going to call the police right now!” As he spoke, he took his phone out of his pocket.

Lian Xi held down his hand: “Have you seen a magic show before?” 

The guy opposite them: “…Huh?”

Lian Xi looked serious: “Like David Copperfield, that’s the one who stuffed people into a box and sawed them in half. Even though there was a clear break, the people were still alive and kicking.” 

The guy opposite them: “Huh?” 

He took a deep breath and said, without changing his face: “It’s all magic?!”

Su Jiao hurriedly said: “Yes, yes, it’s all magic.”

The guy standing next to his door had an expression of “Do you guys think I’m a fool?”

Lian Xi: “…”

It seemed like something stronger was needed to convince him.

The handsome young man flipped his wrist, revealing a bronze bell tied to his hand. Lian Xi untied the bronze bell and said to the guy opposite: “See how it looks like a bell on the surface?”

The guy opposite them had a solemn expression: “What is it actually then…”

“It’s actually a magic item.” Lian Xi untied the red rope blankly and shook the bell. The bronze bell was silent and immobile, expressing it didn’t want to move at all. Lian Xi’s gaze narrowed. He flicked it again and the bronze bell flew into the air reluctantly, swaying back and forth.   

Lian Xi pointed to the bell: “Look, it’s a flying magic bell.”

Then he pointed to the golden album flying in front of Lie Chen’s eyes: “Look, it’s a flying magic workbook .” 

Lie Chen: “…”

JinZhen YuGuang ZiWen: ” …” 

The guy who lived opposite them: “…I think I need to go somewhere quiet, go somewhere quiet to reflect.”

The guy who lived opposite them opened his door in a daze, entered the house and banged the door shut behind him. Everyone felt relieved.

Back home.

Su Jiao: “I can’t serve him anymore, I won’t serve him anymore. I’m leaving, don’t think about me, I quit!”

Lian Xi held him: “You wait.”

Lian Xi looked up at the man: “Lord Black Reaper.”

Lie Chen looked at him with deep eyes.

The two looked at each other. After a long period of silence, Lie Chen’s voice calmly repeated: “He’s not human.”

Su Jiao: “How is he not human! We often see him and he is definitely human!”

Lie Chen glanced at him briefly and chuckled. He didn’t continue the topic but instead looked down at Lian Xi’s abdomen.

Lian Xi: “…”

What are you looking at!

Lie Chen: “What have you got there?”

Lian Xi only then remembered. He took out a napkin from his trouser pocket and opened it, revealing a small black bug.

“It’s this. I went to the hospital this morning and I ran into a strange old man…”

Lian Xi briefly recounted what happened to him this morning. After hearing his words, Su Jiao touched his chin strangely. “It seems that this black bug belongs to the old man?”

Lian Xi: “It should be.” He raised his head to look at Lie Chen. “Lord Black Reaper, do you know what’s going on?”

President Lie said decisively: “I don’t know.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Why do you seem to be a little proud!

But Lie Chen was curious about one thing. He raised his eyebrows: “How did you know that the woman was a corpse?”

Speaking of this, Lian Xi took out the thin Reaper Record: “It told me.”

An hour ago.

Lian Xi had already pressed the button to go to the first floor and the elevator moved up smoothly. Suddenly, he felt a warmth on the inner thigh. Feeling strange, he stretched out his hand and took out the thing he had accidentally brought with him from his trouser pocket.

He opened it and took a look.

He saw a line of words slowly printed on the small notebook…

[Fang XiaoLin, 1995-2020, died of illness.]

His eyes narrowed.

So he pressed the button for the third basement level and returned to the morgue.

Su Jiao thought: “That old man should be alive but I have never heard of anyone raising insects that eat the internal organs of the body ……  why would he want to eat intestines and offal? That’s so weird, I don’t get it.”

Lian Xi picked up the little bug: “Okay, let’s put this thing down first. As for the guy opposite…” He turned his head to look at Lie Chen and was silent for a moment: “Do you really think he’s not human? The Reaper Record didn’t react to him and you just tried your Black Reaper binding magic weapon and it also had no effect.”

Su Jiao watched this exchange eagerly from the sidelines and whispered in a low voice, “A living man suddenly heard the words “you should go reincarnate”. Don’t mention him, even if it was me I’d lose it too.”

Lian Xi ignored him and instead he quietly looked at the man in front of him: “What do you think?”

Lie Chen laughed coldly, not caring: “He is not human. “

Lian Xi: “Okay, then I believe you.”

It seemed that Lie Chen did not expect this answer. There was a momentary tremor in his eyes and he slowly lowered his head and looked at the young man in front of him.

The beautiful young man has a pair of slightly raised eyes. His gaze was clear, calm and quiet. Obviously, Lie Chen was feeling a little irritable just now because he used the Black Reaper magic weapon to take back the ghost but it failed. This was beyond his cognition. But looking at the young man’s trusting and firm eyes… Suddenly, somehow, the irritable feelings disappeared.

A little while later Lie Chen said calmly: “You believe me?”

Lian Xi nodded, “Because you are the Lord Black Reaper.” 

Lie Chen tightened his fingers slightly and took a deep look at the young man. Then he turned and walked towards the bedroom.

Until the moment he walked into the room, the man deeply felt that the youth’s eyes were fixed on him. There was a bewildering, unfamiliar glow in his eyes, and Lian Xi kept looking at him without blinking or moving.

Lie Chen turned around suddenly.

Lian Xi was stunned for a moment, then nodded at him, showing a gentle smile.

Lie Chen paused and after a few seconds, without saying a word, he stepped into the bedroom.

…What is he looking at?

Inexplicably, this question popped up inside his heart.

Of course Lie Chen didn’t know that…

Lian Xi was watching the golden light! Looking at the countless and inexhaustible golden light!

Weird! Obviously, just now when he said he believed in the golden big boss, two golden lights were shaken off and were about to come over into his body. However suddenly it didn’t and went back?

Had his hypocrisy just been discovered by the big golden boss?

No, he wasn’t being completely dishonest.

Su Jiao’s faint voice sounded: “Lian Xi…”

Lian Xi turned his head to look at him and then: “What’s with that look in your eyes?”

Su Jiao: “You’ve changed! You weren’t like this before, I don’t know you now! How can you become such a suck up, are you that afraid of death!”

Lian Xi did not respond for a moment: “What are you talking about?”

Su Jiao looked sad and indignant: “Isn’t it because you’re afraid of death so that’s why you want to please him? Because you think that after you die, he will open a back door for you and then you can have a good life in your next reincarnation?”

“Reapers can help people choose where to reincarnate?”

“I don’t know, maybe! Why are you being such an ass kisser!”

“What do you kids know… “

“I’m older than you!”

Lian Xi exchanged a few words with his housemate and then said: “I’m going back to my room to change my clothes. I believe it is normal to believe the Lord Black Reaper because he is the Black Reaper. If he said that the person that lives opposite us is not a person, then there must be some logic to it. ” Lian Xi’s voice was neither soft nor loud but it happened to pass through the walls and enter the bedroom. He said word by word, very sincerely, “So, I believe him. “

Sue Jiao:” …… “

Believe him my ass!

Lian Xi waved his hands and walked into his bedroom, feeling that he could not communicate with this person.

Would he believe in the Black Reaper purely because of his golden light?

Was he that kind of superficial person?

He trusted Lie Chen because the other party was so sure, because when everyone didn’t trust him, even the facts were in front of him, he still insisted on his own opinion. He reminded Lian Xi of himself many years ago.

Because many years ago, he was a child who had pointed to the corner and kept saying, “There’s someone there”.

No one believed him.

Because many years ago, he was a child at an orphanage who took an apple, split it in half, and said he would share it with his “only friend”, only for the other children to stare at him in horror and call him a lunatic.

No one believed him.

No one told that child who was human and who was a ghost.

They can only curse at him and fight him. They could only hate him and abandon him. 

Some people look like ghosts, and some ghosts look like people.

People and ghosts, ghosts and people.

Children couldn’t tell, so could adults really tell?

Today, 23 years later, Lian Xi still can’t tell the difference between humans and ghosts.

Sometimes he saw a ghost but he felt that the ghost was a person. Sometimes he saw a person, but he thought that person was even worse than a ghost.

He walked into his bedroom calmly. Lian Xi wanted to ask Lord Black Reaper which room he wanted to live in but as soon as he entered the bedroom door and before he could ask: “Which room do you want to live in?”, he suddenly widened his eyes. He gazed at the figurine on the shelf opposite him. 

“Ahhh?!!!”

With a swoop, Lian Xi rushed over.

Golden light big boss: “…..?”

Lian Xi held up the Da Qiao who was carrying a staff with trembling hands. He turned his head and looked at Lie Chen.

When President Lie saw what he was holding, there wasn’t any trace of contriteness of his handsome face. He coughed: “I helped you stick it back so there should be no trace of a crack left.

Lian Xi: “…” 

There is indeed no trace of a crack, but…

“Have you seen Da Qiao with an anti-gravity staff!!!”

In Lian Xi’s hands, Da Qiao who had double ponytail braids and a phantom yarn skirt was indeed glued well with not a single trace of breakage. But at the end of her staff, the orb that was supposed to go down vertically was at this moment, pointing straight up!

Lian Xi was distraught.

Even Newton’s coffin couldn’t hold it down, okay! {Ie, it’s against the laws of physics.}

Only then did President Lie react. He was stunned for a moment: “This is supposed to hang down? I see, that’s good too.”

Lian Xi didn’t understand what he meant: “What do you want to do?”

“Is it okay like this?”

At the next moment, the man stretched out his hand, and…

Crack!

The staff on the figurine broke again.

Lian Xi: “?????!!!” 

A black light pulsed in the man’s hand, and the next moment the staff was again intact and beautifully glued back. Lie Chen lowered his hand and raised his eyebrows towards Lian Xi: Are you still satisfied?

Lian Xi: “…”

Black Reaper is great!

Black Reaper can even casually make Newton sit up in his coffin!

Black Reaper… 

“Thank you.” The handsome young man smiled slightly, with a gentle expression: “Is that the magic of the Black Reaper just now?”

Lie Chen nodded, “It should be. Every Black Reaper should be able to do it.”

Lian Xi said sincerely: “It’s amazing.”

The rainbow fart {somewhat disingenuous) that was the youth’s admiration and praise made the corners of the man’s lips raise somewhat. Then, two golden lights flew to Lian Xi with great satisfaction and melted into him.

Lian Xi: “…”

… You truly are great.

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