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


Chapter 20

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Chapter 20

After he got home from class in the evening, Su Jiao told Lian Xi about the scene he saw on the road today.

Lian Xi was a little surprised: “He still went to buy breakfast?”

Su Jiao: “****, I knew it, you know something! Please tell me what the hell is going on. Isn’t the guy across from us a ghost or not? Didn’t you send him to reincarnation last night? Why did he show up again? And who is that middle-aged man?”

Lian Xi was silent for a moment, “He is not a ghost, and there is no ghost across from us.”

Lian Xi then told the strange truth to Su Jiao.

Apartment 903, Building 13, Huating Community. 19 years ago, there were eight guys who came to find work in Suzhou City. These eight guys won a bravery award for their actions during the Su City Gas Explosion Incident. Unfortunately, seven of them were killed during the second explosion. Only one survived.

That person is the young guy who once helped Lian Xi, now President Gao. Gao JiaXun.

Nineteen years later, Gao JiaXun, who has become a president of a company, has never been able to forget the explosion that year. He bought the house across from them but at the same time he also suffered from survivor syndrome.

Su Jiao: “So seven of the eight people have already gone for reincarnation long ago, and only Mr. Gao is still alive. Then he obsessed too much and blamed himself too much, and so he imagined the scene of the eight of them still living together in that house?”

Lian Xi: “En. Of those ‘eight people’, none of them are ghosts. Mr. Gao is still alive, and those seven people were only transformed by his obsession. Now that he has moved on from his obsession, those ‘eight people’ naturally don’t exist anymore.”

“It turned out to be like this.” Su Jiao said with emotion.

The faint sound of footsteps sounded, and Lian Xi turned his head to look just in time to see a Lord Black Reaper with his hands in his pockets, calmly walking out from his room.

Yes, since out of the eight “fellows” across from them, none of them were ghosts, naturally none of them needed to be reincarnated.

So last night, President Lie did not follow Lian Xi to eat across the hall and let him go alone.

Because there is no job to be done there!

Lie Chen: “It’s time to go out.”

Lian Xi was thinking and when he heard this, he was taken aback: “What?” 

The man raised an eyebrow: “Go out to work.”

Lian Xi didn’t know how to respond, “What kind of work?” 

Lie Chen: “…oh.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Why do you have the look of: “No wonder you have been absent from work for so many years”!

Lian Xi said seriously: “I really haven’t been wagging work, it’s really not me.”

Lie Chen: “Oh.” It’s not important.

Lian Xi: “…”

Listen to my explanation! ! !

Although Lian Xi wanted to explain, he really couldn’t clean himself of the matter even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

However, there is another very important thing…

Lian Xi is very calm: “I have a broadcast to do.”

Lie Chen: “Huh?”

Lian Xi: “Live broadcast, my job.”

Ten minutes later, Lian Xi’s room .

The cold and indifferent Lord Black Reaper lowered his eyes, watching Lian Xi sitting at the computer desk. Lian Xi opened the live broadcast software, opened the game King of Glory, and then…

He started the live broadcast.

There was no sound and no communication. He just had his head lowered, playing the game. Occasionally he’d look up to see if there were audience members in the live broadcast room, or to see what they were talking about.

[The anchor Ma Chao is really amazing. The anchor is the real Ma Chao, and I’m the king of rice transplanting.] {I googled what this means and it seems that the character Ma Chao’s attack move has this nickname, because it looks like this action. By the way I just realized this is a real mobile game lol, and I’ve been translating it wrong previously. It’s not King’s Glory, but King of Glory. I’ll include a picture of Ma Chao rice planting at the end lol.}

[Does the host perform a three-finger operation or a two-finger operation?]

He had just finished one game. Looking at this barrage, Lian Xi pursed his lips and said: “Two fingers operation.”

[Wow, the host’s voice actually sounds pretty good.]

[I love it, it sounds good, not greasy! The anchor should say a few more words.]

[The anchor should sing a song! Your live broadcast room is too boring.]

He didn’t know if it was intentional or not but since Lian Xi signed onto the Gem Guild, he’s always been given a very good promotional slot. But since Lian Xi’s live broadcast results were poor, there wasn’t really a huge effect. However he still continued to be promoted. Most likely Xu Lang needed to be credited for this behind the scenes.

Lian Xi naturally saw the barrage asking him to sing but he simply ignored it and didn’t intend to reply at all.

However, a low and cold voice suddenly asked from behind him: “Why is he asking you to sing?” 

Lian Xi froze.

There was also a few seconds of silence in the live broadcast room.

And then.

[Ahhhhhhhhhhh this voice is too nice!]

[Who is this, is this the host’s friend? It’s different from the host’s voice! ]

[Can you say a few more words? I want to listen to the anchor chatting with his friend!]

There was a lot of barrage in the usually mute room but Lian Xi turned off the microphone. He turned his head and looked at the man behind him: “You can understand what they are talking about?”

Lie Chen asked, “Why wouldn’t I understand?”

Lian Xi: “Uh, I mean you just came up from the underworld after all… I thought it might have been so many years that..”

Su Jiao passed by the door and helped him add in a low voice: “Died so many years ago and went to the underworld, and is illiterate!”

That is: illiterate to contemporary words!

There was no expression on Lie Chen’s face. He glanced lightly at the short housemate, making his back go cold. He quickly ran back to his room, closed the door and locked it.

Lie Chen: “I really don’t recognize these strange characters.”

Lian Xi was stunned: “Then how do you know what they are talking about?”

Lie Chen: “In this world, you don’t just need to just use eyes and words to communicate with people. “

Lian Xi: “…Huh?” What else is there then?

Lie Chen: “Use your heart.”

After his voice fell, the man folded his arms, turned and left. He only left one floating sentence, “You’re not allowed to continue to wag work”. After a few seconds, Lian Xi heard the clear sound of the door slamming.

The short housemate quietly opened his door a crack: “The black ghost official is gone?”

Lian Xi glanced at him: “Black ghost official?”

Su Jiao: “You know, Su City’s Black Reaper. For no good reason, you’ve brought him home to my house. I haven’t had time to scold you yet, what do you think you’re doing, it’s scary! That’s a ghost official ah, he’s climbed up from the underworld. I think he must have been a ghost before but now that he has got official status, he thinks he’s the boss! His strength should be quite strong, can you feel it?” 

Lian Xi was silent for a moment then he nodded.

The mysterious and unpredictable Su City’s new Black Reaper was so powerful that there was no need to verify it, the other two people in the house could simply feel it.

Lian Xi has never seen a ghost official before but he can instinctively feel that this Lord Black Reaper is probably a lot stronger than other ordinary ghost officials.

Lian Xi thought: “Are the ghost officials in Su City all stronger than ghost officials elsewhere?”

Su Jiao: “I don’t know, I have only seen ghosts official in QuFu where I’m from. Our Black Reaper is an old pine tree spirit from Ni Mountain. Our White Reaper is an old blacksmith who died in the war of resistance in the last century. Both of them are pretty easy to talk to. The old blacksmith, he was wrongly accused of stealing railway lines by foreigners. The foreigners used a funnel to pour water into his mouth. After his stomach was bulging, they took a rolling pin to roll his belly. Just like that over and over again until finally his eyes, nose, mouth, ears were leaking water everywhere. So now every time he drinks with my uncle, every time he takes a sip, it will drip out from his ears and nose. I heard from my uncle that he has accumulated enough merit to return to the Underworld this year and that next reincarnation he will definitely be able to become a rich man and live a good life.”

Lian Xi: “You and that ghost official are quite familiar?”

Su Jiao felt a little proud: “Of course. My uncle is a well-known XuanXiu in Qufu. Every two or three days there will be someone asking him to come to their house to slay evil creatures, you know.”

Lian Xi glanced at his triumphant looking housemate. In his heart he thought; Then what about you?

Lian Xi didn’t press the issue further and instead asked: “So of the two ghost officials, one is a tree demon? The other is an old ghost?”

Su Jiao: “Yes.”

Then which type was Lie Chen?

Lian Xi instinctively felt that he was neither a demon nor a ghost. However he wasn’t a person either.

But it’s not these, then what else could it be?

 ……

The live broadcast was finished but President Lie hadn’t returned home yet.

The White Reaper, who was forced to assume the title of having “wagged work for ten years”, sighed and put on his coat.

Su Jiao’s eyes widened: “Are you really going out to be a Reaper?”

Lian Xi bent over to change his shoes: “Yeah.”

Su Jiao was speechless: “You’re really taking your role seriously.”

 Lian Xi didn’t say a word, just changed his shoes, opened the door and left.

At one o’clock in the morning, everything was silent. The streets were empty, in sharp contrast with the busy traffic during the day.

As September approached, the evening breeze was still somewhat cool. Lian Xi rubbed the goose bumps on his arm. He thought for a while, then found a direction casually and started wandering around aimlessly, trying his luck around to see if he could run into any ghosts who hadn’t been reborn.

That night, Lian Xi really found two.

One was killed in a car accident and was stranded at the scene of the accident. This young guy had no obsessions or unfulfilled wishes. He just squatted on the ground, drawing circles in a silly manner. He was just a foolish, stupid ghost.

It was the easiest to deal with this kind of ghost. Without needing to help him fulfill his last wishes, Lian Xi directly took out the Reaper Record given to him by the other ghost official. He recalled to mind the appearance of the other person using the magic weapon and imitated him, opening the Reaper Record with a click and with dazzling eyes began to read: “The world of the living has its pathway, and the world of the dead has no doorway…”

“Return!”

Three seconds later.

Lian Xi: “…” 

The silly male ghost squatting on the ground in circles: “Hehe.” 

With a calm expression, Lian Xi put away the Reaper Record. Then he raised his left hand and rang the bell.

In the dark night, a deep and simple bell rang.

Omm!

“Aiyo!” The silly ghost screamed, turned into a white light and dissipated into the air.

Lian Xi opened his own Reaper Record.

[Chen Ji, 1994-2020, died in an accident.] 

The first ghost was collected without any suspense but the second ghost was a bit more difficult.

This second ghost has a little consciousness and he still had a last wish. His last wish was.. to eat KFC.

“Brother, brother, I want to eat a Mexican chicken burrito!”

Lian Xi knelt down and looked at the little boy with a bloody hole on his head. He tried to speak as slowly as possible: “The chicken burrito hasn’t been on the menu for a long time, there’s nowhere to buy it.”

The little boy threw himself to the ground and began to roll around: “I want to eat Mexican chicken burrito! Chicken burrito, chicken burrito!”

Lian Xi: “…”

Om!

He flicked the bell and the little boy ghost said “Aiyo!” before turning into a white light and dissipating in the air.

Lian Xi opened the Reaper Record.

[“Zhou ZiXuan, 2011-2020, tripped over a stone while walking and fell to his death.”]

Lian Xi: “…” If you don’t help the ghost fulfill their last wish, you won’t be affected by the golden light or the red light.

Today he worked hard all day.

Su City’s White Reaper packed up his things and prepared to go home.

Just when Lian Xi took out his mobile phone to make a late-night call to DiDi, he suddenly stopped and raised his head to look at the man across the road.

Their eyes met mid-air.

The man came over: “Wagging work again?”

Lian Xi: “…” The young man took out his Reaper Record and opened it!

Lie Chen smiled: “Oh, there’s two.” After speaking, he took out his Reaper Record and opened it.

Lian Xi: “…?!”

Why do you have five!

How can there be so many lonely ghosts in Su City!

In the cool night breeze, the two stood side by side. The soft hair on his forehead moved with the wind, blocking his vision so Lian Xi stretched out his hand to push it away. His eyes were slightly slanted and he caught a glimpse of the man next to him who had one hand in his pocket, the other was holding a Black Reaper Record and he was looking down at it.

In the shining golden light, the slightly pursed lips and the tall bridge of the nose formed a beautiful curve.

For some reason, Lian Xi stared at him blankly for a while until the phone rang suddenly.

“Yeah, here in Times Square, the positioning is accurate, if you drive over you’ll see us.”

Lian Xi held his cell phone and communicated with the driver.

He didn’t notice that after he looked away, the man next to him also turned his head slightly and stared at him quietly.

When Lian Xi hung up the phone, Lie Chen also retracted his gaze.

As they waited for the taxi, Lian Xi remembered one thing: “By the way, something is very strange. Before I saw you used the Reaper’s magical artifact and you said a spell when you used the golden album. I wanted to use this spell today with my Reaper Record but it didn’t work. Are all the Reaper’s magical artifacts and records different?”

Lie Chen raised his eyebrow: “What spell did you say?”

Lian Xi:”Isn’t it: ‘The world of the living has its pathway, and the world of the dead has no doorway…’”

The handsome man casually raised his lips. He gently said “Oh” and then a little fluctuation in his eyes said, “I just randomly made that up.”

Lian Xi “……”

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