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Published at 27th of September 2021 06:29:56 PM


Chapter 29

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Chapter 29

Since graduating from university, Lian Xi’s life has been filled with two words-

Salted fish. {People with no intention of doing anything, idlers.}

Since he was young, he couldn’t talk to children of the same age because he could see ghosts. Everyone regarded him as a freak. Later on, the people around him died one by one and everyone gradually alienated him. When he got to the orphanage, he couldn’t make a single friend and instead became an introverted orphan.

Lian Xi once thought that after he died and went to the underworld and the judge opened the book of his life and death, there should be a bloody world “miserable” engraved on it. But after he went to university, he had to live in a dorm and work to earn living expenses, so he eventually made a few friends. His life changed from “Miserable” with a capital M, to becoming a fresh salted fish.

It was good to be salted fish.

He swiped his phone every day and played games. Every day at 8 o’clock on the dot in the evening, he would live broadcast and earn some leveling fees every month.

Lian Xi stepped into a retirement life early. He drank cola soaked with wolfberries and ate walnuts like an old man. Life was very beautiful.

Of course, it would be better if he could buy a big house.

But was the salted fish upset?

Wasn’t eating, drinking and having fun a good life?

If it weren’t for President Lie’s golden light, who would be willing to go out to catch ghosts every night!

That’s right, the only motivation for Lian Xi to go out every night to catch ghosts and reincarnate them is golden light!

Every time he accompanied the Black Reaper on errands, he would be in a good mood when he came back. At the time he would always look at the reaper record with satisfaction and Lian Xi would gain some golden light. They had tacit understanding and happy cooperation. However, once the golden light reached a certain level and completely offset the red light crisis brought on by Wanderer and Cat Fur Sauce’s incident, Lian Xi relaxed again and went back to being salted fish,

 This month he was very inactive in catching ghosts. He just nonchalantly put Lie Chen off every day and didn’t worry about him at all.

Seriously, who cared about catching ghosts?

 And now…

How come he was a live streaming host and still had to have KPI (performance appraisals)?!

He didn’t want to do it, didn’t want to do it anymore!

 Looking at the Black Reaper record in his face with its shining ghost performance rankings on it, the corners of Lian Xi’s mouth twitched. He closed off his heart, turned to look at Su Jiao and changed the subject abruptly: “Did you buy dinner?”

Su Jiao: “Huh?”

 My roommate is stupid and completely had zero tacit understanding!

Lian Xi was furious. He wished to quickly find a place to pretend to be dead and pretend he didn’t know about this inexplicable performance ranking.

He moved his face to the left, avoiding the reaper record handed to him by Lie Chen.

Lie Chen raised an eyebrow lightly and moved his hand to the left.

Lian Xi’s face moved to the right.

Lie Chen moved his hand to the right.

In the spacious and bright living room, the two moved their heads and the other their hands.

Whoosh whoosh.

Go left! Go right! Go left! Go right!

Su Jiao on the side watched for a long time: “Are you guys acting out a meme?”

Lie Chen lowered his eyes only to see the young man’s soft forehead. The hair on Lian Xi’s forehead blocked his face and he was determined to pretend to be dead.

Looking at this scene, the man’s eyes darkened.

Lian Xi was silently muttering in his heart, “Got nothing to do with me, got nothing to do with me.” The next second, suddenly a pair of cold hands touched his cheek. Lian Xi froze. The warm skin of his cheek was touched by extremely cold finger pads, causing all the cold hair on his back to stand up in an instant. The owner of these hands held his face like this, forcing him to look up and look at him.

The youth’s clear and beautiful eyes fell into a pair of deep and lonely eyes.

Lie Chen’s eyes were always emotionless, and at a glance there was only an indifferent loneliness. Su Jiao always complained in private that the black ghost had a pair of ugly eyes and Xiao Liu was blind to be interested in him.

However, with their eyes facing each other, the man leaned down to meet Lian Xi’s gaze.

The extremely close distance made the two seem to be able to feel each other’s warm exhalation.

…These eyes were really beautiful.

Lian Xi’s lips moved without opening.

What he didn’t expect was that Lie Chen held his face so that he had to look up. Afterwards the two of them looked at each other but Lie Chen didn’t say anything.

The short gaze is as long as a century.

Lian Xi: “…What’s the matter?” 

An  unfamiliar heat came from Lie Chen’s fingertips, and burnt him until he felt numb. He looked at the bright-eyed young man in front of him and his Adam’s apple moved slightly.

The next moment, Lie Chen: “Not enough points catching ghosts.”

Lian Xi: “???”

Lie Chen: “Has strange thoughts.”

Lian Xi: “……”

Lie Chen stroked Lian Xi’s cheek and said with unaccountable bitterness although his face didn’t change expression: “Even I feel that we should be ashamed!”

Lian Xi said: “…”

Go be ashamed by yourself, don’t involve me.

As if realizing that the new White Reaper he found was really unmotivated, Lie Chen let go and Lian Xi regained his freedom.

Lian Xi, who had regained his freedom and thought he was successful in pretending to be dead, didn’t notice that Lie Chen suddenly turned his head and looked at Su Jiao who was eating melons and watching the show.

 Su Jiao suddenly froze.

 Danger!

 If the White Reaper doesn’t work hard, why not change to a different White Reaper?

President Lie knew that what he should do now was to ask Lian Xi for the White Reaper record back and give it to Su Jiao. However he lowered his head again and looked at Lian Xi again. By coincidence, Lian Xi was looking at him too.

Under the gorgeous sunset, the black-haired young man was taken aback. He swallowed his saliva and asked, “Is there anything else?” In his heart, he added silently: Don’t involve me, don’t involve me!

Lie Chen: “…”

You hand over the White Reaper record.

For some reason he couldn’t say it out loud.

President Lie’s eyes swept between Lian Xi and Su Jiao.

Lian Xi and Su Jiao: “???”

Meow meow meow, what’s going on?

Suddenly, President Lie came to a realization.

“Forget it, he is too ugly.”

Lian Xi: “?” Who is too ugly?

Su Jiao: “?” Who is too ugly? It definitely can’t be me right?

President Lie took a deep look at Lian Xi then turned around and walked to his room, leaving Lian Xi and Su Jiao confused.

Yes, the reason why he didn’t want to ask for the white reaper record from Lian Xi was because Su Jiao was too ugly! Going out with Su Jiao every day to catch ghosts would pollute your eyes and affect your mood. In the future, if another XuanMen cultivator who was pleasing to the eye appeared, it wouldn’t be too late to ask Lian Xi for the reaper record back.

President Lie came out of his room and headed back equally abruptly.

Lian Xi who realized he had just gotten past a trial, decided to go back to the kitchen to get a bottle of Coke. However, he had just walked halfway when he suddenly saw a faint red light drifting in the air, swaying, and then falling into his body under his shocked gaze.

Lian Xi: “!”

Fuck, he actually forgot the inexplicable red light and bad luck because of President Gao!

Lian Xi hurried forward and called out to the Black Reaper: “Um, Lord Black reaper, when will we go out to catch ghosts tonight?”

Lord Black Reaper, who was extremely disappointed with his colleague, turned around and gave him a cold look: “Whenever.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Lian Xi smiled and said, “Twelve o’clock again?”

Lie Chen: “Oh.”

Lian Xi: “…”

A moment later.

Lian Xi: “Are you angry?”

Lie Chen: “En?”

Lian Xi: “… You are angry?”

Lie Chen: “No.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Then how come those golden lights are clinging tightly to your clothes and not even flying one millimeter towards me!

According to this type of clinging force, it means that even if I go out with you to catch ghosts for a month, these golden lights will not pay attention to me!

It made the life of being a salted fish look easily.

But he didn’t want to be a salted fish that eats bugs, goes out to step on shit, and ranks the lowest on King of Glory!

Lian Xi gritted his teeth: “It is shameful!”

Su Jiao in the living room: “???”

The Black Reaper’s eyes lit up: “En?”

Lian Xi took a deep breath, filled with righteous indignation, and said: “JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai. There’s twenty five cities and we came 25th! That’s hitting you and I in the face! Shame! Humiliation! I can’t bear it!”

Lie Chen looked at Lian Xi’s twisted and struggling expression, his eyes moved slightly and the corners of his mouth lifted in a minute arc that was difficult to detect. He said meaningfully: “So?”

Lian Xi firmly decided: “I can’t go on like this.” He quickly took out his white reaper record, turned to the rankings, “First I’ll set a small goal for myself.” He turned his head and looked at Lie Chen.

Lie Chen also looked at him.

The two suddenly felt that they had reached an agreement at this moment.

Lian Xi: “Kill WuXi!”

Lie Chen : “Kill Yan City!”

“…”

“…”

Lian Xi pointed to the ranking list and kindly reminded him: “Lord Black Reaper, WuXi’s ghost official is currently ranked 24th in JiangSu, ZheJiang and ShangHai. They’re only 2000 points above us. Looking at Yan City…” His fingers went up sharply, “Second in all three provinces, and first in JiangSu province. There is a huge difference between us.”

Lie Chen: “You want to catch up with the second to last?”

Lian Xi: “Yes.”

Lie Chen: “Then become the second to last?”

Lian Xi: “…Yes.” At least it is not the very last!

Lie Chen laughed: “Such short-sightedness and shallow ambition! As an underworld ghost, the dignified White Reaper of SuZhou City, you just want to not become the second-to-last, just for the dignity of not being the very last? Is it because of the performance rankings that you became a ghost official?”

He opened his mouth in a daze, looking at Lord Black Reaper who had a cold face but a righteous look.

Isn’t it because I don’t want to be humiliated that I catch ghosts?

Also… I’m only a ghost official because of you.

Lie Chen solemnly said: “We should rob the rich and help the poor.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Lie Chen: “Not bully the weak.”

Lian Xi: “…”

Right now, we’re the weak ones okay!

Lie Chen: “Let’s go out and catch ghosts.”

Lian Xi was stunned: “The sun hasn’t set yet.”

“But there are still ghosts around.”

“What about my live broadcast, I still have to make money…”

Lie Chen paused: “Did you see the small print under the rankings?”

Lian Xi suddenly moved in his heart and an incredible thought came to his mind. He held his breath, looking down at the reaper record in anticipation, his gaze slowly moved down and he looked down at the bottom of the ghost performance rankings for the months and saw…

*Take note: Every month the first ranking district’s Black and White reaper will receive ten bowls of meng po soup, ten ghost hunting orders, one soul-seeking banner and one hundred taels of gold which can be exchanged for the equivalent value of yang currency,

For the number two ranked district, the Black and White reaper can get meng po soup…. 80 taels of gold… 

3rd place of the month… 60 taels of old…

24th place of the month, the Black and White reaper can receive one drop of water from the River of Forgetfulness and two gold coins.

25th place of the month, the Black and White reaper can receive one drop of water from the River of Forgetfulness and one gold coin.

Lian Xi felt that his blood that had been silent for many years suddenly boil and rushed directly to the top of his head.

He knew that one tael was equal to 50 grams of gold and one coin was equal to 5 grams of gold.

And one gram of gold…

Lian Xi turned on his phone and searched for today’s gold price.

555RMB! {The price of 1g.}

Lian Xi: “!!!” 

In the setting sun, the handsome and fair-skinned youth suddenly raised his head and looked calmly at Lie Chen. “I’m ready.”

Lie Chen was startled slightly: “En?” 

The next second, Lian Xi had already walked to the hallway and started to change his shoes. He raised his head to look at the Black Reaper who was still standing in the restaurant and asked: “Didn’t you say you want to go out to catch ghosts?”

Lie Chen was stunned for a while, his sight was on the serious face of the young man . It paused there for a long time.

Lian Xi raised his eyebrows, and Lie Chen smiled: En.”

Su Jiao was still sitting on the sofa gnawing sugar cane, not knowing what had just happened. This road went up and down and the plot developed so fast that he couldn’t understand it!

Su Jiao couldn’t help questioning Lian Xi: “Hey Lian Xi, what are you doing, are you going to catch ghosts before it gets dark? You don’t want to broadcast tonight?”

Lian Xi said, “I have already sent a WeChat message to Xu Lang to ask for leave tonight.”

Su Jiao: “?”

Fuck, when did you you have time to send WeChat? !

Su Jiao: “Are you being possessed…”

Upon hearing this, Lian Xi responded straightforwardly: “Possessed? If that was your performance ranking, wouldn’t you feel ashamed? Wouldn’t you feel ashamed to show your face to people?” Lian Xi spoke as though he were heartbroken. “The people in the living world of SuZhou City are diligent and conscientious, they managed to bring SuZhou’s GDP to the top ten in the country and it’s the first in JiangSu Province. The people of the living world have worked so hard but what are the ghost officials of our underworld doing? We are dead last, it shows sheer and laziness. It’s shameful and hateful!”

Su Jiao:”****!”

Lian Xi:.” I’m going to catch ghosts, don’t wait up.”

With a bang, the door closed.

In the empty room, Su Jiao stared  blankly at the door. He still couldn’t understand what was going on and felt very lost..

Standing in front of the elevator, Lian Xi carefully looked at the white reaper record in his hand. He earnestly studied every word without fail, including the ghosts officials and their points in the 24 districts. He memorized everything in his head.

They were all now enemies who were blocking him from his fortune and preventing him from buying a house.

He made a record for them in his heart.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if you earn one hundred taels of gold or one million a month, it is mainly about self-improvement, hard work, and wanting to make a contribution to the prefecture and build a harmonious society between SuZhou City’s world of the living and dead.

But……

Lian Xi looked at the Black Reaper beside him: “Lie Chen, did you not receive the reward of the ghost performance ranking list last month?”

Even one gold coin should be worth 2500 rmb.

But Lian Xi had never seen the Black Reaper with money in his hands.

You must be in a good mood, you actually dared to call me by my name? Out loud, the Lord Black Reaper said indifferently: “The reward for being last is too humiliating.” The implication being: I disdained to take it as I didn’t want to admit that I came last. As long as I don’t receive it, I am not the last one.

Lian Xi: “…”

You! Profligate!

Why don’t you pay your rent first!

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